The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—His Royal Highness Prince
Albert hunted this morning, attended by Captain the
Hon. A. Gordon, his Equerry in Waiting.
Viscount Jocelyn );,s expected to arrive at the
Castle this evening on a visit to her Majesty.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include Viscount Jocelyn and Cplonel the Hon.
C. B. Phipps.
Her Majesty's private band will attend in the
Castle after dinner to perform a number of favourite
pieces.

Their Royal llighnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and tho Princess Mary, visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at
Gloucester House, and afterwards returned to their
residence at Kew.
Sir John Pelly had an interview with the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere yesterday at the office of the
Board of Trade.

TUE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.—The follow-
ing is a copy of the bulletin issued yesterday morning•
His Grace was not so well yesterday afternoon,
but, after some hours of tranquil sleep, is less exhausted
this morning. (Signed) Robert Ferguson, M.D., and
J. Collambell, Surgeon. Lambeth Palace, Friday, Feb.
4, 1848." The inquiries again yesterday morning were
exceedingly numerous, and we regret to add that this
distinguished prelate is considered to be in great danger.
ittViscountess Palmerston has issued cards for soirees
on Seturdeye during the present month.

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IRISH SPECIAL COMMISSION.

CLO`➢[EL, FED. 2.—When the dispatch was for-
warded yesterday the trial of four men for a White-
boy offence was being proceeded with, and we stated
that the frequent defence of an alibi had been at•
tempted. The jury, however, appeared to doubt the
veracity of the witnesses produced to sustain it, and
notwithstanding the firmness with which the wit-
nesses swore as to the prisoners being in another
place when the offence was committed, they found
them all Guilty.
As the attack was attended with personal violence
to the inmates of the dwelling-house,
The LORD CHIEF Justics sentenced the prisoners
to transportation for ten years.

These cases being concluded,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, addressing the Court,
said it was not the intention of the law officers of the
Crown to bring forward any further cases at present,
but he would suggest the propriety of the adjourn•
ment of the Commission, in case a necessity should
arise for resuming the proceedings, and he would
name the 20th day of February for that purpose.
The LORD CHIRP JUSTICE said he fully concurred
in the propriety of the suggestion of the Attorney-
General, and the Commission, therefore, stands ad-
journed until the 20th instant. It is not, however, at
all probable that the proceedings under the Commis-
sion will be resumed, and they are, in fact, generally
regarded as closed.
This morning the Learned Judges left for Dublin.
The town is again as still as if they had not been
here, but the scene of death which has yet to be en-
acted will tell of their presence in terms too terrible to
be soon forgotten.

OLYMPIC THEATRE

That sorry compound of bad melodrama and worse
farce, which, in Mr. Morton's days, people were con-
tent to applaud as a comedy—and which still usurps
the title—we mean the School of Reform—was played
last night, in order to introduce to the London stage
a new Tyke, in the person of Mr. Lysander S.
Thompson, an actor of high provincial repute.
To a really intelligent actor, and such, from his
performance last night, we believe Mr. Thompson to
be, the task of working up the whining sentimentality
and turgid clap-trap with which the character is
filled, into a really effective and powerful part, must
be anything but a pleasant one. Mr. Thompson, how-
ever, lovercame the difficulty. His make-up and
bearing on his entrance showed him at once an artist.
He played his first scene with :a breadth and power,
and at the same time with a great deal of quiet natural
truth. The interview with Lord Avondale, in which
Tyke recounts the history of his backsliding, Mr.
Thompson managed with a naive cleverness which
told well ; and in the succeeding passionate passages
he came out with a degree of power and artistic
energy which rose far above the level of ordinary
melodramatic acting. After the third act Mr. Thomp-
son fell off; but it was simply because the part fell off
too. The fault was Mr. Morton's, not his. A more
intolerably insipid gentleman than Tyke becomes after
he is well washed, and shaved, and reformed, and
purified, it is not easy to imagine. Talk of Mr.
Morton inculcating a good moral I Why, Tyke is
quite interesting so long as he is a scamp, but he
becomes perfectly unbearable as soon as he turns into
a respectable and virtuous personage. In the early
part of the play, however, Mr. Thompson gave us a
very sufficing taste of his quality. He is decidedly a
clever actor, intelligent in conception and skilful and
plastic in the execution of a part. He is perfectly
at home upon the stage, possesses a good face and
figure, and will altogether be a most decided acqui-
sition to our boards His success was complete.

POCLAMATION OF OUTLAWRY.—At the sitting of
the Sheriffs' Court on Thursday Mr. Hemp made the
usual proclamation, and called upon the following per-
sons to surrender or be outlawed :—Edward Russell,
commonly known as and styled Lord E. Russell ; the
Hon. William Frederick Byng (at the several suits of
Abraham Josephs and Leon Solomon); the Honourable
Henry Thomas Stanley (at the several suits of E. Levy
and Charles Lewis); James llasting, Jasper Byng Creag,
Robert Peel, W. Kingdon, Richard Norman, Walter
Shairp, Charles Henry Burgess, John Bird, Rev. W.
Cuthbert. clerk; William Platt, Henry Bromley, Stephen
Bradley, Henry Arundell, Eric Baker, Michael Greaves,
Edward William Cobb, Samuel Henry Page, George
Fitch Titt Rose, Henry Stanley, and Edward Kent
Bayard.
DEATH OF MAIOR GENERAL CARLO J. DOYLE.—
The above gallant efficer, who not long since returned
to this country from administering the Government of
one of the Leeward Islands, died on Thursday, at his
residence in Regent•street, in his 62d year. He was
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant• Colonel in 1837,
and was further advanced to the rank of Major-General.
Signor :Alarms, the popular vocalist, has arrived
in London for the season.

DEATH OF A SPORTING CHARACTER.--MT Tho-
mas Ferguson, whe gained some celebrity in this country
as owner of the celebrated race-horse Harkaway, ex-
pired on the 2d instant, at his residence, Rosstnore
Lodge, Curragh, of Kildare, Ireland, in the 54th year of
his age. The immediate cause of his death was, it ap-
pears, an attack of paralysis. Mr. Ferguson was for
ninny years a crack steeple chase rider, and during his
career possessed many valuable horses. He was of a
kind, benevolent disposition, and his house was ever
characterised by the most genuine hospitality.
DEATH OF ♦NOTHER ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST.
—We are sorry to learn that another clergyman has
fallen a victim to the discharge of his duties in minis-
tering to the sick and dying. The Rev. Edward Uns-
worth, of Granby-row Chapel, Manchester, died on
Wednesday last, of typhus fever. The deceased was in
Liverpool about a fortnight ago, apparently in good
health and spirits. The day after his return home hs
was taken ill, and soon confined to his bed, from which
he was never more to rise. He was a young men re-
cently ordained, and received his education at Vella-
dulid.—Liverpeol Mercury.
BOUNEO.—We regard as a compliment to the press
the appointment of Mr. Spenser St. John, one of the
numerous sons of Mr. James Augustus St. John, who
has long been connected with eastern politics, to be the
private secretary of Mr. Brook, of Sarawak, who now
proceeds to Asia as her Majesty's Commissioner to the
Indian Archipelago and Governor of Labnan.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY EVENING.—Her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent is somewhat indisposed at her
residence at Frogmore. An evening party had been
announced for this evening at Frogmore Lodge, which
party her Majesty and the Prince had signified their
intention of honouring with their presence, attended by
the principal members of the Court at Windsor Castle
but unfortunately the indiipoLition of the Royal Duchess
increased so much during the latter part of yesterday,
and also te,day, that the intended party has been post-
poned, without any other day being named. The pre-
parations for the removal of the Court to Buckingham
Palace, on Tuesday next, are still actively going on.
The first of the royal luggage vans left the Castle to-day
for Buckingham Palace ; it will be succeeded by ethers
to-morrow and Monday ; and, on Tuesday, after lun-
cheon, the royal family and suite will finally quit the
Castle for the London season.
WAIST WIT.—A poor corset-maker, out of work
and starving, thus vented her miserable complaint :
" Shame that I should be without bread—l that have
stayed the stomachs of thousands."
WOOLWICH. The apprehension of s gang of
burglars, well known to the police of the various divi-
sions, took place on Thursday, at Woolwich, under very
singular circumstances. Some three weeks since Mr.
Colvill, of the Albion Tavern, Woolwich, was robbed of
nearly 1701. by three men, who, under the pretence of
writing a private letter in one of the rooms up stairs,
contrived to break open the drawers, and escape with
the money, the whole of which, with the exception of
about 301., was in sovereigns, The police used every
exertion to detect the offenders, but up to yesterday not
the slightest clue was obtained that could lead to their
detection. Yesterday, however, it was communicated to
the police that the gang intended to rob the house of
Mr. Mould, of the Powerful, Warwick-street. Four
policemen were accordingly stationed in the house, and
on the arrival of the parties, who were recognised by
their suspicious practices, the whole party were taken
into custody, together with a man named Brunton, re-
siding in Woolwich, who was charged with inciting the
rest to commit the robbery. They gave the names of
John Flowers, William Johnson, and William Mayhew.
of Brighton. They were remanded for further in-
quiries.

THE NEW HOUSES or PARLIAMENT.—Returns of
the aggregate amount already paid, or agreed to be
paid, to contractors and other persons for the purchase
of lands and houses for the erection of the palace at
Westminster (or new houses of Parliament) were or-
dered by the House of Commons to be printed on the
90th of December. They were yesterday issued to the
public. It appears that the aggregate amount of all
sums paid by the Woods and Forests on account of the
new houses, including all allowances for house-rent, for
the use of the officers or offices of the two houses,
from 1834 to the present period, and of the sums paid
since the destruction of the houses of Parliament by fire,
for temporary buildings and repairs for the seconneo,„
dation of Parliament, is 1,066,5611. The amount of the
original estimate (1837) was 707,1041.
" POPPING THE QUESTION," AND " SHIFTING THE
QUESTION."—On one occasion Lord Eldon and the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury (Sutton), and many other lords
were with George 111., when his Majesty exclaimed--
"I dare say I am the first King whose Archbishop of
Canterbury, and whose Chancellor, had both run away
with their wives—was it not so Chancellor?" " May it
please your Majesty, will you ask the Archbishop that
question first?" answered his Lordship.—Puynder s Li-
terary Eztraetts (New Series).

BIRTHS.
On the 31st ult., at Ockley, Surrey, the lady of Lieutenant-
Colonel Walter Sinee, of the Bombay Army, of a daughter.
On the 3d inst., in Hamilton-place, Piccadilly, the Hon.
Mrs. Richard Boyle, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 3d inst., at St. John's Church, Waterloo-road, J. J.
Walliker, of Suffolk, to M. C. Walker, youngest daughter of
the late,J. Walker, bookseller, Paternoster-row.

DIED.
On the 28th of November last, in the East Indies, Arthur
John Fownes, Naval Cadet, on board her Majesty's ship
Melampus, aged 15.
On the 16111 ult., Mrs. Esther Cowdry, of the Strand.

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