The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Mr. Benedict's concert took place yesterday, and was
crowded. The great suc,cess of the day was Thalberg's su-
perb playing on the pianoforte. The novelty was Miss
Durlacher, a pupil of Balfe's, who sang Mozart's "Dovo
sono " divinely, doing every justice to the composer and
her talented master. Bellette's Swedish songs were
gems, and Madame Dorm; Gras was encored iu an air
from Clapisson's Gibby le Corumeuse, which she gave
with matchless taste and brilliancy.

COAL MARKET
Bate's West Hartley 14s f
Davison's Westflartley 15s 0
East Adairs Main 12s Od
Hedley's llartley
Hasting's Hartley lss Od
Holywell Main
North Pontop lls 9d
North Percy Hartley l4s 6d
Original Tanfield 1•22 Od
Ord's Redheugh
Tanfield Moor
Townley l3s Od
Walker's Primrose lls 6d
Wylam ......... l3s .3d
West Wylam
Ships at mi

YESTERDAY.

Wall's End, Esc.
Framwell Gate ......... 14s Od
Eden Main .•. ...... 15s Od
Lambton Primrose ... 14s 9d
Braddyll's Hetton ...... 15s 6d
Russell's Hetton. ...... 15s 9d
Stewart's ............... 16s 3d
Caradoc ..... ...... 15s 3d
Kelloe
South Hartlepool
Adelaide
Seymour Tees
South Durham l4s 3d
Tees
I,Powell's Duffryn Stm 2os Od
arket...4B.

.URDER.—Much sensation has been caused at
Peterchurch (Hereford) by the discovery of a murder
committed by a woman named Thomas, on her illegiti-
mate infant, which she killed by burying it alive. The
fact of the woman being so lame as to be compelled to
use crutches, led to the discovery of the murder, the
marks made by the crutches in the moist earth being
traced from the door of the cottage where Thomas lived
to the spot where the child was buried. On the Coroner's
inquest a verdict of wilful murder against Thomas was
returned.

DREADFUL FIRE. --(THIS DAY.) --About two
o'clock this morning, a fire broke out in the house of
Mr. Wright, boot and shoe maker, Southampton-row,
Bloomsbury. The engines from the Brigade, West of
England, and County soon attended, with Mr. Colf, the
foreman of the former body, but the flames reached the
buildi▪
ngs adjoining, belonging to Mr. Brough, draper,
as also those of Mr. Dyer, tobacconist. Mr. Wright's
premi▪
ses, stock. &c., were all destroyed, and those of
the. other parties greatly damaged. None of Mr.
Wright's family were present, to explain the cause of
the fire. The parties are insured in the Sun, Hand-in-
Hand, and County Fire-offices.—Loss about 1,0001.
OUTLINE DRAWING, LIKE WRITING, A. BRANCH OP
ORDINARY EDUCATION.—We have long and earnestly,
as is well known, advocated the propriety and advantage
of making the elements of drawing as general and pri-
mitive a branch of established and ordinary education as
the elements of writing, to which drawing is much
akin. And we are well assured that most of
our habitual readers will rejoice with us to observe,
that our idea is at length on the likely way to a practical
realization. Every one .with the slightest acquaintance
amongst the Lilliputian generation, must be well aware
that an ambition, a positive itching, for pencil and paper,
or their equivalents in any shape, however mal appropos,
forbidden, or inconvenient, is a characteristic feature in
the intellectual constitution of nine-tenths of the whole
of that interesting little class of men, and that the
delineation of form, in the exercise of which they so
much delight, and in the seizing of all sorts of oppor-
tunities for the display of their pridein which, they
are so eager and unscrupulous, only requires the guid-
ing hand of experienoe to reduce it, in multitudes at
least, if not in all, to intelligibility, taste and elegance.
Here is the impetus, the steam, the locomotive, and
we only want the lines, the grooves, in which
it is desirable we should lead It onward to its
useful destination. In the joint poductions of Mr.
Richson and Mr. Wallis (" Lessons," &c.: Barton and
Co.. Holborn-hill), there are both tact and delicacy of
handling, well adapted to the tender faculties to be cul-
tivated ; and it is really interesting—we had almost said
amusing—to observe the simplicity through which the
young idea is fairly cajoled into the unconscious rudi-
ments and forms of all the stern profundities of geome-
tric lore.—The Builder.