The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUG 11811 29, 1848.

the last fortnight, and it appeared in evidence this morn-
ing that the losses to Messrs. Dickenson by these de-
predations has been to the extent of nearly 1,2001
Frederick Edwards was convitced of receiving part
of the stolen cards, knowing them to be stolen, and was
also sentenced to seven years' transportation.
Robert Williams was also indicted with receiving up-
wards of 7,000 cards, the property of Messrs. Dicken-
son, well knowing them to be stolen.
The jury convicted the prisoner, and
The COMMON-SERGEANT sentenced him to twelve
months' imprisonment and hard labour.

MARLBRO'-STREET---(THIS DAY.)
Charlotte Binder, a good-looking young woman, was
placed before Mr. Bingham, charged with having con-
cealed the birth of her child.

Eliza Newman said she lodged on the ground floor
at No. 3, Archer-street, St. James's. On last Tuesday
week the prisoner came to her lodging, and said she
was a single woman and wanted part of a bed. Wit-
ness consented to let her have part of her bed, and pri-
soner then left the house, promising to come again the
same evening. About eleven o'clock she returned again,
and went to bed with witness. About six o'clock the
following morning witness awoke, and found the prisoner
out of bed. She complained of having been ill all night
with a pain in her inside. About twenty minutes after-
wards witness had occasion to go into the water• closet in the
yard, and from the appearances she there saw she
thought that the prisoner had met with some accident.
Witness had not the remotest idea at the time that the
prisoner had given birth to a child. The prisoner left
that morning, and went to her aunts. On Thursday last
the drain in the back yard became stopped up, and last
night when the water came in. witness tried to clean it
with a pole, in doing so she felt a substance which she
fancied ought not to be there. When she had cleared
it away with the water she saw it was the body of a
new-born infant. She immediately proceeded to the
Vine-street station, and gave information to the police,
who came, and took the body out of the cesspool. She
subsequently went with a constable to the prisoner's
aunts, where she saw the prisoner, and gave her in
charge.
Mary Francis, the prisoner's aunt, said she lived at
98, Princes-street, Soho, and the prisoner was her niece.
On Wednesday week the prisoner left her situation, and
came to stay with witness for a few days. She left on
the Friday night following to go and lodge with last
witness. Witness did not then observe anything parti-
cular about the prisoner's appearance to lead her to sus-
pect that she was encienta. On leavint, her house pri-
soner complained of being unwell, but did not say from
what cause her illness proceeded. Witness had not ex-
amined her boxes, and therefore could not say if any
preparation had been made for such an event as the birth
of a child.

Police-sergeant English, 4 C, said, about half-past
eight last night, from information he had received, he
proceeded to No. 3, Archer-street. He went into the
water-closet in the back yard, and at the bottom of it
he found the body of a male child quite dead. Witness
after a while succeeded in getting it out. On examining
the body he found that one of the arms had boen partly
torn off, and a piece of list was tied tight round its neck.
Witness took the body to the workhouse, where it now
lies.

Th© prisoner, who appeared in a very weak state,
said she was not aware that her time was so near. She
had no other defence to offer.
Mr. BINGHAM remanded her for a week.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

CLOSE OF THE SEASON.

After a season unexampled for its length and unpa-
ralleled for its prosperity, her Majesty's Theatre closed
on Thursday night with the performances of the
Sonnambula, Fiorita, and Alma. Jenny Lind was called
for four times at the conclusion of the opera, and again at
the conclusion of the National Anthem, the third verse
of which she sang plainly, nobly, truly, as a national
anthem should be sang, and which she was called on to
repeat. Her reception at each time of her appearance
was most enthusiastic. The queen of song was received
as queens should be received. No sooner did she appear
than, as poor Edmund Kean would have said, " the pit
rose at her," and the example of the pit was followed by
boxes and gallery. The whole audience rose en masse
to do homage to her unsurpassable genius as an artist
and to the Una-like purity of her character as a woman.
Such was the triumphant conclusion of the second
" Jenny Liud " season, in which the Swedish Nightin-
gale more, much more than sustained the great reputa-
tion which she had acquired during the season of 1647.
Those who heard her at the close of the last
season imagined that she had attained per-
fection, and in comparison with what we had
been accustomed to from other singers, undoubtedly she
had attained perfection, but with the enthusiasm cA
every true lover of art, Jenny Lind is not content to rest
on her laurels, she is always a student, and thus she goes
on, every year surpassing her efforts of the preceding
year. Her Amina, for instance, and her Maria were
this year superior to her Amina and her Maria of last
year, and her new impersonations, her Lucia and her
Elvira, were perfect, they were inspirations in the truest
sense of the word, sad, for the first time, gave
us the true readings of those characters. Ma-
demoiselle Jenny Liud leaves London for a short
tour in the provinces, and then, so says report, she
quits the stage, and retires from public lite. We would
Lain hope that such may not be the case. She has a
great mission, the which she has as yet but half accom-
plished. Her mission is to purify the stage, to restore
art and artists to their proper position, to show to those
well -meaning, virtuous, but prejudiced persons, who have
visited the sins of some few disorderly artists on art it-
self , that art is in its own nature pure and ennobling,
and at the same time to prove to artists that it is to their
interest as artists to maintain the dignity of their call-
ing, and to abstain from those vices in which too many
of them indulge. Jenny Lind undoubtedly made the
season, and she must necessarily at any theatre which
is happy enough to secure her services; hut Mr. Lumley
did not, trust to Jenny Lind alone. He had engaged a
most efficient corps operatigue, and in the course
of the season he introduced to us several
new singers of great merit. On the open-
ing night, for instance, the 19th of February,
Mademoiselle Sofia Cruvelli appeared in the opera of
Ernani, and achieved a success complete and undoubted,
a success that is seldom achieved on a first appearance
by artists of much greater experience than :Blade-
moiselle Cruvelli. This success she not only main-
tained but increased at each subsequent appearance;
and the day is not far distant when Mademoiselle Cru-
velli will be in the enjoyment of an European fame.
Mademoiselle Abaddia came to us from Italy with a
high fame, which, however, she by no means sustained
here. The probability is that her voice, like that of
Frezzolini, was utterly destroyed by our
"Cold and cloudy clime."
The success of Mademoiselle Schwarz, however, made
ample amends for the failure of Mademoiselle Abbadia.
The success of the German contralto, who made her
debut in the character of Orsini, in Lucrezia Borgia,
was complete, and her subsequent performances in
Linda and several other operas proved that such success
was well deserved and fairly earned. Mademoiselle
Vera, too, as a seconda donna, was a most
advantageous substitute for poor old worn-out useful addition to the company, and a most
adv
Ma-
dame 13nlini. This season also introduced us to Ma-
dame Tadolini, the prima donna of Italy par excellence.
Those who heard her in the character of Linda on the
night of her debit will not be surprised at the high
fame which she had acquired on the Continent. She
was then fresh from Italy, and her voice retained all its
purity and clearness; but she had scarcely been in Eng-
landthe English climate began to pro-
ducel effects upon the delicate organs
oft its
those
seletealli ere
uaasns who have not been from their youth
upwards used to the smoke of a sea-coal fire; and she
was no longer the Tadolini that we recollected hear-
ing at Milan, nor even the Tadolini that we had heard
on a certain Saturday night in April, singing at her Ma-
jesty's Theatre with Mr. Sims Reeves in the opera of
Linda di Chimouni. The company at her Majesty's
Theatre was exceedingly rich in basses and
baritones; in addition to Labache, senior, the
greatest male singer in the world, in every
sense of the word, we had Colletti, Bouchti, Lablache,
jun., and Beletti. Tho latter, a fresh importation, pos-
sesseyl of a clear, fine, flexible, baritone voice, an excel-
lent actor; witness his Priest in Nino, an admirable
Buffo, witness his Figaro, and an accomplished musician,
whose intonation is so pure that, marvellous for a bari-
tone, he was never heard to sing out of tune. Mr.
Lumley was unfortunate with regard to tenors, and
the whole weight of the season fell on Gardoni.
Cuzzani was a failure, and Labocetta, although
possessed of an exquisite drawing-room voice, which he
managed with skill and taste and science, was yet too
feeble in every sense of the word to perform the arduous
duties which must necessarily devolve on a priseo tenore
at her Majesty's Theatre, Sims Reeves, who was en-
gaged,for one night and achieving an
seceded from the establishment in
o
cpecfesi: lsome quarrel with the manage-
ment. Bale, as director of the orchestra, is
entitled to all praise, considering the difficulties
with which he has had to contend he has achieved won-
ders, and if his orchestra of 1849 is as superior to his
orchestra of 1848 as that was to 1847 (and the orchestra
of 1847 was excellent), he need not fear a comparison
with any orchestra in Europe. There has been oily
one new opera produced this season, Verdi's Attila. t
was brought out at the commencement of the inse.asfean,ed
compliance with a pledge previously given,
The non-production of new operas is, however, no fault
now
living Mr. Lumley's. The only Italian maestro of notechan oew
living is Verdi, and unless he altoget
should certainly
his manner of compositionbut it failed.
of the
his predecessors to the production ear-
splitting noisiness of " Verdi the violent." The
prefer the repetition of thewe chefs d'euvres of
ballet, as usual, flourished in all its pristine splen -
dour. We had Cerito, Carlotta Grisi, Caroline Rosati,
and Marie Taglioni
lioni, Louis D'Or, and,
though last not least in ouresteem," by Perrot, the
Quatre Satssons, Elemens,
Juyement de Paris, Pas de Quartre, and Pas de Deesses,
ehoerotrraphie 'poet, whose
as theld,:gesses of the season, sup-
ported by St. Leon, Paul
the remembrance of every lover of
will long live in
classical groupings-
.

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The Commissioners of Customs have ordered the
prosecution of Captain Fenwick, of the Ellison, arrived at
this port from Quebec, to recover the penalty of 2001. for his
having had contraband tea on board, and attempting to
bribe the officer of customs.—Neweasoe Journal.
DERRY ELECTION.—The writ for the election for
this borough was received on Saturday. On Friday the
nomination will take place, and the polling will be on the fol-
lowing day. Messrs. Bass and Heyworth are the Whig can-
didates ; Messrs. Freshfield and Lord the Tories. A strong
contest is expected.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL. NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO 7 HREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet,
with a good supply, and no change in prices. Sales,
6,000 bales, of which 2,000 were for export.—Shares
were very dull, but there was no particular alteration in
prices.
The foreign arrivals bring very little news, and gene-
rally this is of a political character.
The system of bounties upon the exportation of
French manufactures excites, as we expected would be
the case ere long, a good deal of attention in the manu-
facturing districts. The objectionable character of the
bounty system, and its certain ultimate failure, we have
before adverted to, and we have endeavoured to
show how unfavourable it is even for the
parties whom it is intended to benefit. The
woollen manufacturers of Bradford have had
some correspondence with the Board of Trade on the
subject of the present distress, and remonstrating upon
the free importation of French merinos. The Leeds
Mercury very ably disposes of the attempted onslaught
upon free-trade principles, coming, indeed, as it must,
with a bad grace, from a part of England which
had chosen Mr. Cobden to represent
,its views in
Parliament, and which, through that gentleman,
has very properly declared that, with an abundant
supply of food from abroad, they were willing
to submit to the same foreign competition as the farmer.
The journal above referred to observes that its statements
" went to show that the duty on the import of
wool into France necessarily raised the price of
French wools by the amount of the duty; that
the bounty allowed by the French Government
on the export of French merinos was exactly
commensurate to the amount of the duty paid, or the
enhanced price of the wool used by the French manu-
facturer ; that, in fact, the 10 per cent., or whatever
was the amount allowed by the French Government,
was drawback and not bounty. As a corollary from
the last statement, we maintained that there was no
ground of complaint on which the Board of Trade could
make any remonstrance to the French Government.
We also stated that the trade in British double-twill
merinos was always a limited one ; and that, such as
it was, it was annihilated before the duty of 15 per
cent. on French merinos was rescinded by the tariff
of 1846 ; and that, consequently, it was absurd to attri-
bute its extinction to a difference of 5 per cent. in the
cost, arising out of the different ratios of the tax on
wool, and the bounty on merinos, respectively charged
and allowed at the French Custom-house. But, ad-
mitting the views of Mr. Rand as to the effect of
the bounty, we maintained that the substitution of
French for English labour in the fabrication of 50,000
pieces of merinos, was inadequate to account for the dis-
tress of the Bradford operatives; and was, in fact, ut-
terly insignificant, in comparison with the amount an-
nually paid in wages and profit in the worsted manufac-
ture of the West Riding; and we further stated that the
great cause was to be found in the falling off in the ex-
ports of worsted goods and yarns, in the five months
of the year ending sth of July, to the extent of 940,8511."
There is a very dull market for the Public Securities,
and prices are without any buoyancy. Consols have
been 86 to 864 for present transfer, and 86k to 864 for
account. The doubt as to the means that will be em-
ployed to raise the two millions sterling which the
Chancellor of the Exchequer will require, but not pro-
bably for some little time yet, depressed both Stock and
Exchequer-bills; but a funding, now money is so easy,
would produce no very sensible effect upon the market.
Exchequer-bills have been quoted 28s. for those of March,
and 21s. to 245. for those of June. East India Stock is at
238. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been
864 to 86k, and the Three per Cents. 86k to 86k. East
India Bonds are 19s. to 225. premium.
The Foreign Securities have been quite neglected.
Brazilian have been quoted 73k, and Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. 44i. Nominally Spanish Five per
Cents. have been 124 to Portuguese Four per Cents.
20 to 21, and Mexican 16i to 17.
Railway Shares are again rather flat.
oNE CLOSING
t'RICFS CF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Anus B6l4Aliii% 86
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 864 86 86
New 31,4 per Cent. Anu5...... 8634 86%
LongAnns. to expire Jan.lß6o
India Stock 238 238
India Bonds, 1,0001.
Ditto under 1,0001. ...... 19 p 19 p
Consols for Account.... 86%34% 85
Exchequer Bills. 2/d. & 2d.
1,0001. March ... 2B p
1,000/. June
500/. March. 3O p
5001. June
Small, March.. 2B 32 p
Small, June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS

30 p
24 p
30 p
21 p
32 p
21?
CLOSING
PRICES.
73%
74

ONE
O'CLOCK.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ... 731/2
Brazilian Bonds
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent 22
Ditto, Small 22%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21/2 per Cent., 12 Guild 44' 4434
Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates 71 71%
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen 5O ......
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 334. IA
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2% —
Belfast & County Down 16
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction .... ... 20
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10
Birming.,Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 131. 145...
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire Junc 10
••• • ••• ......
Boston, St amfd & Birm. 5
Bristol and Exeter B5
Ditto, Thirds
uckinghamshire... 141. 4s.
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares ..
Do. New 10/. Pref..... 2% 234
Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50
Chester and Holyhead... 47% —
Ditto, Preference l5 ......
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Direct London & Ports-
mouth
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 30 ......
Dundalk & Enniskillen 20 ......
East Anglia,- 251., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25
Do., 181., E. & H.... 18 ......
Do., 31.105.
Eastern Counties 2O ...... 14!41/2
Do. New Guaranteed,
6 per Cent.
Ditto,Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 6/. 13s. 4d....
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d...
Do. North. & Eastern 50
Do., 5 per cent.
Do. Quarters
Do. New
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1
Ditto, Class B (I. &
and B.) 2O
Ditto, Class C, ditto... 17% --
Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 10 ............
Ditto, ditto
Ditto (C. & E.) guar.
5 per cent............ 2%
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters 614......
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 2 ;11 —
East Lincolnshire 23

23

22%
214

14%

......
141,4

Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 42
Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. ..
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%...
Edinburgh and Northern 25 —
Ditto, New 61% —
Ditto, Newport l3
Ditto, ditto, New
Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 254
Ditto, New
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle ....... ••• —Bl. 6s. 81...
Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ......
Ditto, New ... ...... ... 40
Do. Preference Consol. 15
Great Northern
10
Do., London and York 2%.
Great South. and West.

514

- -
(Ireland)
Great North of England.loo ......230
20 ...... -- 4 .. .
_,7%
Ditto, New, 401 l5
Ditto, New, 301......... 30
Ditto, New, 151 —
Great Western 9O ... .. 83 831,4
Ditto, % Shares SO
.............. 471,
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, Fifths
Ditto, New 171...
Huddersfield and Blanch 2B ..
Ditto, Thirds
Hull and Selby ..
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25
Ditto, 4 Shares 121, , '...
_ _

10

. _ -- - ----- -
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 'AI
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Ditto, ditto ............ 86 ..„,
Ditto, % Shares ...... 43 ...
Do. Quarter Shares... 17% .•—•
..
Do. Fifths... ......... ... 9 .... —....— ..... ....
Do. Sixteenths ....... .. 614 —
Do. Thirds (Keg.) l3 . ...
Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct
Ditto % (late Hud-
dersfield and Sheff.) 38 — .. ..
Do.(Wakefield,Ponte-
tract, and Goole) ... 50
Do.( W. Riding Union) ......... 6 ..... "
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
Do. % Shares (A)... 91% .... -
Leeds and Bradford....., 50
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 , .....
Do., Half Shares ...... 22 LA...—. ... —
Do., (blue) Scrip.... 2%... —.
Leeds and Thirsk
Ditto, New
.
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% ......
Liverpool, Crosby and
,
Southport . ...... ..... .. 3142
Liverp., Manchester, and
Newcastle Junaion... 2%.-
London &Blackwall...l3/. 6s. 8d 4 %..
Do. Extension ..... ... 22%...

2%

44

London, Brighton, and
South C0act......... 50
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9
Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 .. ...
Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50
Ditto, New 5/., guar.
6 per cent.
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