The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-14 00:00:00

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NEWNIARIET RACES.
(THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.)

BY THE EASTERN COUNTIES
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Match, 50 sovs. T.Y.C.
Mr. Greville's Killie Krankie
Mr. Shelley's Hawkesbury
Handicap of 20 sovs. each, 5 ft, &c. T.Y.C.
Mr. Lowther's Lyons
Sir J. Hawley's Fugitive
Lord Exeter's Sister to Pergularia

A dead heat for second.
Match, 100. T. Y. C.

Mr. W. S. Stanley's Paultons
Sir J. Hawley's Bishop of Romford's cob 2
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs, each, and 50 added. T.Y C.
Mr. Newton's Reminiscence
Lord G. Bentinck's .Blackcock
Colonel Peel's Isis
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. T.Y.C.
Lord Albemarle's Nell Cook 1
Mr, Watson's Libation 2

MR. BENTON'S BENEFIT.—We observe that the benefi t
of Mr. Benton, the sub-treasurer of Drury-lane, and the civil and
attentive superintendent of the Free List office, takes place to-
morrow. Mr. Benton's own merits, which are well known and
justly appreciated, would at any time secure him a good benefit,
and with such a bill of fare as he has provided for to-morrow, in-
cluding as it does, Benedict's chef-d'murre, The Crusaders, the
beautiful ballet of La Bayadfte, and the far-famed ballet d'ac'ion,
Perouse, with Wieland Its Chimpanze, we think we may venture to
prophecy that he will have a bumper. He well deserves it.

RENSINGTON.—TRIBUTE OF RLSPECT.—The nobility,
gentry, and other inhabhants of the parish of Kensington, have pre-
sented Mr. Chesterton a handsome service of plate on his retirement
from the office of churchwarden, which he had filled for the last six-
and-twenty years The following is the inscription on the salver:—
" Presented to Charles Chesterton, Esq., May 5, 1846, on his retire •
ment from the office of churchwarden of the parish of St. Mary Ab-
botts, Kensington, as a memorial of the high esteem and respect in
which he is held by his friends, and as an acknowledgment of the valu-
able services rendered by him to the parish during the long period of
twenty-six years, in which he has discharged. with diligence, dis-
cretion, and fidelity, the arduous duties he had to perform."

QUEEN ELIZABETH AND THE DRAMA.—A hitherto
unknown and highly curious document was laid before the Shakspere
Society at its last meeting, and it forms an important illustration
of our early stage history very shortly before our great dramatist is
supposed to have come to London. It is stated by several authori-
ties, that Queen Elizabeth formed a separate company of royal
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ceeded In order to secure the best actors to be found in any part of
the kingdom. She issued a most arbitrary commission under the
Great Seal, to Tilney, her Master of the Revels, authorising him to
take up, for the Queen's disport and amusements, any of the actors
belonging to the different noblemen or companies in London, or in
other parts of the kingdom. If they resisted his power, mad refused
to quit their present employment, he was to commit them to prison,
" 'without bail or mainprise," until they obeyed. The most singular
clause in this document is still to be noticed, for Tilney was not only
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display of arbitrary power by the Crown in 1584 which is
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