The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

IMPRISONMENT AND HARD LABOUR.

The undernarued were ordered to be confined in the
houses of correction for the counties in which their of-
fences w ere committed, and there kept to hard labour
for—

Two years.—J. Smith.
Eighteen months.—Josef Toney, J. Whaite, Hugh
Roberts, Richard Marshall.
Fifteen months.—J. Brown.
F.,r one) ear.—J. Philhps, alias Austin, J. Orchard,
R. S Smith, Louisa Turner, J. Catchpole, J. Slater, W.
Alf4:rd, James Anderson, H. Ford, F. Webb, Sarah

For nine months.—Ann Sneed, Ann Richards, J.
Finlayson. C. Barrel], J. Shepherd, D. Parsons, J.
Walker.

For eight months.—Mary Ann Brooks, G.W. Andrews.
For six months.—Margaret Donohue, Jamie Curtada,
alias James Carter, -G. Williamson, F. K. Beauchamp,
W. O'Brian,'" N. Burton, J. Jackson, J. Benjamin, D.
Carlton, H. Wrgan, Thomas Sneed, N. B.tker, W. Gray,
J. Judd, J. Brovvn, G. Smith.

For four months.—Ellen Morgan, J. H. Morgan, J.
Robertson, G. Cooper, William Harris, James Wall.
For three months—Matilda Hester, J. Fitzpatrick;
George Thompson, T. Peacock, Mary Hennesy, J. Harris,
Ellen Sweeney, Jane Smith, John Smith, Thomas Gore,
J. East, D. Carley, W. Bevis, T. Jones, E. Wilmot, J.
Upton, H. Hoar, G. Ray.
For two months.—Evelina Cheetham, Ellen Farley,
Elizabeth Williams, H. Carrol, J. Murphy, J. Miller, T.
Healey, J. Smith, W. Evans, H. Rowland, W. Payne, J.
M'Cann, R. Nash, R. Lear, 'l'. Roots.

The court adjourned to the 4th day of January next.
The grand jury ignored the bills preferred against the
undernamed persons, who were brought into court and
discharged by proclamation, viz. :—E. Baker, 11. Jones,
D. Bailey, Caroline Forest.
Acquittals.—The petit jury declared the undernamed
not guilty, and they were discharged forthwith, viz.:—
Sarah Freeman, Catherine Brian, Catharine Hoare,
Susan Bull, Susan Watts, Susan Austen, Ann Brown,
Mary Webb, Ellen Sweeney, T. Lally, W. Brand, C.
Cotton, R Stokes, W. Frost, J. Frost, W. Gibbs, C. Prutt,
T. Dove, T. Johnson, M. Hodgskiss R. Stevens, D.
Buckley, M. Dunovan, T. Sculley, J. Leverett, J. Pearce,
J. Briscoe, Luke Keefe, E. Williams, A. De Preece,
Ellen Flaherty, G. Brown, J. Smith, C. Cotton (18), W.
Burgin, jun.

MINOR SENTENCES AND ADJUDICATIONS IN NEWGATE
(WITHOUT LABoua).—lmprisoned for six weeks, 1 ; for
ono month, 11 ; for three weeks, 1 ; under fourteen
days, 10 ; confessed by pleading guilty, 21 ; called on
recognisance, 4 ; convicted and judgments respited, 3 ;
remanded to next session, 3 ; traversed to ditto, 3 ;
discharged by the court, 1 ; fined, 1 ; surrendered in
court, 9.

The court adjudicated upon 162 prisoners during this
session, who were committed from the following districts:
—London, 37, Middlesex 84, Surrey 38, Kent 1, Essex
2 ; total 162.

The following statemens show their comparative ages:
—Between 10 years and 20, 62 ; between 20 and 30, 79;
between 30 and 40, 19 ; between 40 and 50, 2 : total, 162.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT
THE SURREY THEATRE.-FRIGHTFUL. AC-
CIDENT.

The following extraordinary scene occurred during
last night and this morning at the Surrey Theatre,
Blackfriars-road. It appears that last night was an-
nounced to be a " grand supplemental night," being
the only day before the Christmas holidays, for the
benefit of one of the principal performers, and as an
extra attraction, numerous additions to the company,
from most of the principal theatres of London, were to
be made for that occasion only. The house at the usual
hour being filled, some very considerable delay occurred
before the rising of the curtain ; and at length the stage-
manager came forward to apologise for the absence of
the principal performer of the first piece, a Mr. Hudson
Kirby, who had promised to attend at the requisite hour.
Upon the question being put as to whether the audience
would wait, or have a substitution for the character
(Damon, in the tragedy of Damon and Pythias), a gene-
ral answer was given in favour of the former course,
which was adopted ; and after the lapse of some time,
the required personage made his appearance, apologised,
and went through his part. The second and third pieces
were also concluded without any interruption, after
which a delay of nearly an hour occurred.
At about half-past twelve o'clock this morning the stage-
manager again made his appearance (amid numerous
cries of " More apologies "—" What next," &c.) and
spoke as follows :—" Ladies and gentlemen---What am
I to do. It is now long past the hour of twelve, and up
to this moment I have not been able to learn the cause
' of the absence of Mr. John Douglas, who was to sustain
the principal character in the play of the Sai:or's Home.
I have this instant received a c(.lnrounication, an-
nouncing that an accident of a very frightful nature
~as the cause of Mr. Douglas's (of the Marylebone
iEeatre) non-appearance.. The certificate of the surgeon
by whom he was attended informs me that be was this
morning superintending the production of the forth-
coming pantomime when he tell a distance of upv. ards
'if forty feet, and thereby sustained some most frightful
it.juries. What am Ito do at this late hour ? There
is no hunhag in my stateincr.t. 11, re is the certificate,
and you will see the account of the accident in the
newspapers. I should greatly prefer the discontinuance
of the performance, but if you wish it, a gentleman con-
nected with the establishment will undertake the part
for Mr. Douglas.—(Cries of "Yes, yes," "Go on," &c.)
These disappointments of the audience were not
all they were doomed to sustain, for a minute
had scarcely elapsed before the manager again
addressed them in the following terms :—" Ladies
and gentlemen—l have yet further to ask your
indulgence. Mr. Cowle, who was to have enacted
the second principal character of the piece is also absent ;
but, with your permission, a gentleman who has never
appeared on any stage whatever, previous to this even-
ing, will sustain that part, and endeavour to entertain you
to the utmost of his power. Again repeating my most
heartfelt thanks for your kind indulgence, will you ac-
cept our best endeavours, or shall we discontinue for to-
day, for it is now morning." A general cry in favour
of tht it proceeding with the announced play having been
made, it was commenced, and was concluded a little be-
fore two o'clock this morning. The endeavours of the
debutant, and others sustaining the tragic parts, during
the time, affording to the audience good food for mer-
riment.

LINCOLN DIRECT RAILWAY.—(Tats DAY.)—A
general meeting of the shareholders of this company was
advertised to be held to-day, at one o'clock precisely, at
the London Tavern. A strong muster of reporters were.
present at the time appointed for the meeting, but after
waiting for a considerable time not a person entered the
room, and on our inquiry it was ascertained that not a
shareholder or director had entered the premises.
COMPARATIVE VALUE of TEA.—At a time like the
present, when meetings are being held in rapid succes-
sion in the chief seats of manufacturing industry, and
the general public are actively astir, to procure an
amendment, if not an entire remission, of the duties on
tea, it is curious to contrast the present price of that
much contemned article Bohea, now declared to be a
drug in the market at even 2d. or 4d. per pound, with
that it bore exactly 138 years since, when it appears to
have been the chief, if not sole quality, then in extensive
consumption, to the exclusion ofgunpowder, hyson, and
flowery pekoe, in name, if not in reality. In the " Post-
man and Historical Account," &c., of March 19, 1709,
published " for ye author by David Leach, in Elliott's-
court, in ye Little Old Bailey," is an advertisement of
one Richard Fary, druggist, at the Bell, in Grace-
church-street, offering good coffee at Gs. Bd. per lb.,
.and sound Bohee at 16s. 4d. per lb., " except the
Bohee tea by the ship Loyal Bliss, now on her passage,
which none is equal to," and is declared to" exceed most
that is sold at 205." This is succeeded by a second an-
nouncement from some renowned dealer " at the Star,
in Bedford-court, near the Covent-garden," offering
the finest Bohees in the kingdom at 145., 16s. Bd.,
" Bohee for milk" at 165., and the " finest Bohee" at
20., and which prices, too, must have been somewhat
heavier when the comparative value of money and
articles at that time and now is taken into consideration.
In the last person's advertisement also " Brazil snuff, that
needs no commendation," is offered at what is evidently
considered the low price of Ms. per pound, or 4s. per
ounce, the " best Portugal" at 10s. Bd., and Barcelona,
Hogomusty, and sundry other, with almost antediluvian
appellations at proportionate moderate charges ; but
then, wondrous and alarming• us this may sound to
modern inveterate snuff-taksrs, some crumbs of comfort
are afforded to the careful housewife by the benevolent
offer of William TazWell, living " at the further end of
Jerusalem-alley, in the Gracechurch-street," to supply
the best English barrel soap, " superior to crown, and
the cheapest ever made for cleaning linen, shaloons,
serges, and worsteds," in 321 b. half-firkins for 6s. or 2d.
per lb., not much more than a third of the price the ap-
parently same description of useful article now fetches.
The extensive difference in the consumption of each and.
all the articles, however, must be likewise taken into
consideration.

Before quitting Paris the Bey of Tunis presented
M. Guizot with a pair of Turkish slippers, enriched with
diamonds, for himself, and some splendid bracelets for
his daughters. Report says, but this is probably an
exaggeration, that these presents are worth 400,000 fr.
M. tieuie, the Chef du Cabinet of the Foreign-office,
received the order of Nichan, set in diamonds, and esti-
mated at 25,000 fr. The Bey also called on Count Mol6,
and presented him with a rich decoration, the Count
having been Minister of Foreign Affairs when the com-
mercial convention between France and Tunis was con-
cluded. Lieut.-Colonel Walsin Esterhazy, Director of
Arab Affairs in Algeria, has received from the Bey the
order of Nichan, in token of the satisfaction that he has
derived from the Colonel's work on the domination of
the Turks in Algeria.
From the " Book Calendar" of the races of 1846,
published on Monday last, we collect that out of 1,311
thorough-bred mares used for breeding in 1845, 485
produced colts, 461 produced fillies, 35 cast their foals,
and 330 were barren. These numbers are confined to
the returns received, hut though comprehensive is, no
doubt, considerably below the mark. The index shows
that nearly 1,400 horses ran during the season.