The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-11 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

Harriet Potter, the proprietress of extensive premises
at 24, Lower Marsh, Lambeth, which are fitted up as a
private theatre, capable of holding 250 persons, with
Ann Buller, Henry Dunbar, Isaac Cartels, William
Clark, John Galvin, William Page, Robert Prowls,
Charles Cooper, Joseph Scales, William Ginnett, John
Barnett, F. C. Perry, William Lees, John Row, and
William Row, who were described as performers, were
charged before Mr. Norton, with being found in an un-
licensed theatre.

The prisoners were apprehended on the preceding
night by Mr. Rutt, the superintendent, and a number of
his constables, on the premises before described, upon a
written authority from the Police Commissioners, under
the 46th sec. of 2 and 3 of Vic., cap. 47.
Mr. Anthony Rutt, the superintendent of the L divi-
sion of police, deposed that he went on the night before,
at about a quarter to nine o'clock, to the house, No. 24,
Lower Marsh, Lambeth, with several constables, and
found the defendant, Harriet Potter, in a box for taking
money at the entrance, but outside the door. He passed
her, and went into a place fitted up like a theatre, with a
stage, and scenery, and a small orchestra. Some per-
sons were on the stage, and on seeing him and the con-
tables, they attempted to make their escape. He (Mr.
Rutt) saw two men on the stage. One of them was the
prisoner Galvin, whose face was painted, and who wore
a small hat, and the other Clark, who had on a coal-
heaver's hat. They appeared to be sustaining some
character. The defendants are connected in one way or
other, with the establishment, souse being money takers,
some check takers and door keepers.

Another witness proved that the entertainments con-
sisted of detached songs, not connected by any continuous
plot or story.
Mr. James Biddies, the proprietor of the Bower
Saloon, who holds a license under the Lord Chamberlain
for music and dancing, was sworn, and was about to
give evidence of a performance at the theatre of Mrs.
Potter on a former night, when he was stopped by a
solicitor who attended on behalf of one of the prisoners,
who requested that the complaint then before his Wor-
ship might be disposed of before a fresh one was entered
upon. lie (the solicitor) also directed the magistrate's
attention to the case of Russell v. Smith.

Mr. NORTON, after carefully examining the decision of
Lord Denman in the case referred to, which was an
action brought against Mr. Smith by Mr. Russell, the
musical composer, for singing the song of " The Ship on
Fire," at Crosby-hall, and the statutes on the subject,
was of opinion that the evidence before him did not
show that the performances amounted to a " stage play"
or a " dramatic piece," and were not therefore a viola-
tion of the statute. He was, however, of opinio❑ that
the owner of the place was liable to a proceeding and
penalty under the 25th Geo. 11., cap. 36, for permitting
music and dancing without a license.
The prisoners were then discharged, to the great joy
of their friends, who crowded the court.

•
..Mr. Biddies gave evidence of a representation given
at the theatre on Saturday night, amounting to a viola-
tion of the statute, and Mr. Norton offered to grant a
summons for the proprietress, but it was ultimately set-
tled that Mr. Butt should wait on Mrs. Potter and
caution her that if the performances were not discon-
tinued she would be proceeded against for a violation of
the law.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF FRIDAY.

WHITEHALL, Nov. 3, 1848.
The Right Lion. Sir Thomas Wilde, Kit., Lord Chief
Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at West-
minster, has appointed Henry Whitmarsh, Gent., of Rye,
in the county of Sussex. to be one of the Perpetual
Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds
to he executed by married women, under the Act passed
for the abolition of fines aria recoveries and for the sub-
stitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for
the county of Sussex.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 7.
The Queen has bee❑ pleased to approve of Mr. George
Dunlop, as Consul at Southampton for the Republic of
the Equator.
FOREIGN-OF ?ICE, Nov. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James
H. Wolff, as Consul at Southampton for the Republic
of Chili.

WHITEHALL, Nov. 8.
The Queen has been pleased to nominate, consititute,
and appoint Henry Halford Vaughan, Esq., M.A., Bar-
rister-at-Law, to be Professor of Modern History in the
University of Oxford, in the room of the Rev. Doctor
John Anthony Cramer, deceased.
WEST RIDING ELECTIONS.
In pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in
the 24th year of the reign of his late Majesty King
George 111., entitled, " An Act to repeal so much of
two Acts, made in the 10th and 15th years of the reign
of his present Majesty, as authorises the Speaker of the
House of Commons to issue his warrant to the Clerk of
the Crown for making out writs for the election of Mem-
bers to servo in Parliament, in the manner therein men-
tioned, and for substituting other provisions for the like
purposes ;
I do hereby give notice, that it bath been certified to
me in writing, under the hands of two members serving
in this present Parliament, that the Right Hon. George
William Frederick Howard, commonly called Viscount
Morpeth, late a Member serving in this present Parlia-
ment for the West Riding of the county of York, is be-
come a Peer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, and to whom a writ of summons bath been
issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom to
summon him to Parliament ; and that I shall issue my
warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new
writ for the electing of a member to serve in this pre-
sent Parliament for the said West Riding of the county
of York, in the room of the said Right Hon. George
William Frederick Howard, commonly called Viscount
Morpeth, now a Peer of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, and to whom a writ of
summons hath been issued as aforesaid, at the end of
14 days after the insertion of this notice in the London
Gazette.—Given under my hand the 9th day of Nev.,
1848.

CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker.

WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 10.

Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Lieutenant William
Brampton Burne, from half-pay 15th Light Dragoons,
to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, vice Dodwell, de-
ceased; St. George Caulfield, Gent., to be Cornet and
-üb-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Burne, who retires,
Nov. 10.

3d Dragoon Guards—Lieut. Peter Broughton to be
Captain, by purchase, Vice Garratt, who retires; Cornet
Henry Heywood Lonsdale to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Broughton ; Ensign Charles Denison Podder, from
59th Foot, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Lousdale,
Nov. 10.
3d Light Dragoons—Cornet Frank Chaplin to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Casement, who retires;
Gordon Brassey, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Chaplin, Nov. 10.
11th Light Dragoons Cornet Walter Stephens
Brinkley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Morant,
who retires; James Miller, Gent., to be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice Brinkley, Nov. 10.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain Cle-
ment William Strong, from 48th Foot, to be Lieutenant
and Captain, vice Sir J. E. Harington, Bart., who ex-
changes, Nov. 10.
Lieutenant,l 7t h Foot—Ensign
y purchase,
vice Lca
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retires;lwot
hhh nuo rEs td retires;wt coa
Edward
bode
went Henry John Htigham, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Colthurst, Nov. 10.
_Lieutenant Henry Macdonald Burns,ime tfrom
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Daubeny, who ex-
46th Foot—Ensign Charles Somerville M :xclehsatnegretse,
be
48
th Foot—Lieutenant Lieutenant,
the and vi co
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tsSpilling,
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Edward Meurant, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
ex-
changes, gt lel sI Nov. 10.
Harington,MAlester Nov. 10.
Foot Guards, to be Captain, vice Strong, who nof
Nov. 10.

59th Foot—James Alfred Caulfield, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Pedder, appointed to the 3d Dra-
goon Guards, Nov. 10.

-
60th Foot—Henry Cockburn, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Herbert Henry
Vaughan, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court
Martial, Nov. 10.

62d Foot—Lieutenant James Daubeny, from the 24th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Burns, who exchanges,
Nov. 10.

66th Foot—Lieutenant James Verling Ellis, from
half-pay 26th Foot. to be Lieutenant, vice Bray, ap-
pointed to the 96th Foot, Nov. 10.
69th Foot—Brevet-Colonel Sir Augustus Frederick
D'Este, from half-pay unattached, to be Lieut.-Colonel,
vice Eaton Monica, who exchanges ; Major Charles
James Coote to be Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase. vice Sir
A. F. D'Este, who retires; Captain James W. Llewellyn,
Paxton, to be Major, by purchase, vice Coote ; Lieu-
tenant Charles John Carmichael to be Captain
by purchase, vice Paxton; Ensign Richard Fitz Gerald
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Carmichael; Wil-
liam Leonard Barnard Straton, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Fitz Gerald, Nov. 10.
85th Foot—Captain Alexander G. Grant to be Major.
by purchase, vice Tennant, who retires; Lieutenant
Conway Frederick Charles Seymour to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Grant; Ensign George Warde to'be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Seymour; John Armitage,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Warde, Nov. 10.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Second Lieutenant Charles
Stanhope Smelt to bo First Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Kingsmill, deceased, Aug. 4; John Alexan-
der Campbell, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice
Smelt, Nov. 10.
BREVET. Lieutenant George Bourchier, of the
Bengal Artillery, doing dtsty at the East India Com-
pany's Depot at Warley, vice Spurgin, to have the local
and.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant Francis Cassidy, from the temporary rank of Lieutenant, while so employed,
Nov,
16th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, Nov. 10.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire.
Lancashire 11ussars—Lionel Chalks Standish, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant,_Nov.,l:

—DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
John Thorman, wholesale tea dealer, Grosvenur•street,
Camberwell.
BANKRUPTS.

Thomas John Croggon, commission agent, Ingram-
court, Fenchurch•street, to surrender Nov. 22, at half-
pas, t one, and Dec. 22, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. \Vhitrnore, official assignee, Bssingliall street;
Tippetts, Pancras•lane.

William Butler, builder, «'eithourne•grove North,
Paddington, Nov. 15, at two, and Dec. 22, at half. past
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official
assignee, Birchin lane; Cross, Surrey street, Strand.