The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-17 00:00:00

MARLBRO'-S CREET-(1' HISDA Y.)
A, CONFIRME D VAGRANT.—Ann Brady, ri teiscrable
lookiutz wotc:in, who has b:-co convicted at least fifty
tires from this court for vagrancy, wai brought hi fare
Mr. Hardwick charged with beintr drunk and begging:,
and also assaulting Webb, one Cf the Mendioity cou-
stablts.

Webb stated that on the previous evening, about half-
Past six o'clock, he was proceeding along Bond-street,
when he saw the prisoner, whom he knew to be a noto-
rious vagrant, and who was exceedingly drunk, go up
. l
several gentlemen, and heard her in terms
more coarse than polite demand alms. The gentlemen
ItePulsed her, when she went into Albemarle-street
and accosted several more gentlmico, who refused to
lklve her money, whereupon she commencedabusieg
u€ra in the most filthy terms. Witness then took her
!al
1?to custody, and on the way to the station she struck
ai, several times in the face.
4. prisoner denied the charge, and said the Men-
leltY officers were always taking- her into custody for
nothing at all.
liorsford proved more than fifty former c,nvictions
"pima the prisoner, and also that she had been tried a
Ilidellesex Sessions and committed for six menthe..
Mr.liAnnwicK sentenced her to one month's rin
Plummaent iu the House of Correction.
D

--RUBY-LAVE THEATRE.
Sun's an's new comedy, The Old Lose and the
"'Yew, was produced here last evening, and achieved an
unmistakeable success, testified by the enthusiqstie
LlA.PPlause and hearty laughter of the audience. 1:4-,e
Tikwing is the plot :—Captain Sidney Courton (Mr.
Oder ;on), the nephew of Sir Algernon Courton
r• Cooper) has fallen in love with the charming
az lively Haythorn (Mrs. Nisbett), the
it:ghter of the rough, worldly, old country Squire
ythorn (Mr. Barratt) ; but as Sidney is entirely
titelPendent on his uncle, he suggests to Camilla
i
old sh° should ingratiate herself with the
Baronet before he ventures to mention
o`u.seir attachment to him. Her father and herself are
_ a visit at the Baronet's residence, and she does so
ntectually
in the Baronet's good opinion that he
11411561 f falls in lore with her, and makes her an offer,
which •
- is, to the
e,„;rettioniously great chagrin of old Haythorn, un-
rejected. In an interview with Miss
1-,(.bnmer (Mrs. Ternan), a blunt, but kind-hearted
111 maid, he learns that Camilla has been in the habit
ill:fleeting a Young officer, whom he suspects to be
zevnneltw, and on whom he is determined to be
teen- of LbY discarding him. The lovers get
Sir Ale: tub' plan, and determine to circumvent
ettspierenert by substituting as the object cf his
Martino Major Stock (Mr. Emery), a rough. old
and c Sidney Courton. The Major arrives,
widower soon induces the old fellow, who is a.
would -hr' fur the second time to believe that she
The 13 '4" no objection to become Mrs. Major Stock.
sr
justi °nett feeling he has done his nephew an in-
ee' 86ttles all his estates upon him, and now
,Jor Stock .
suitor eand Sydney accepted as the
is
cast
off
In the mean-
tine it. Yen by old Haythorn himself.
'former-es Trimmer, the old maid, turns out to be a
n;h „ flame of Sir Algernon's, who had
ti°llds"eyed her dead, and cherished her memory,
ye at her intercession he consents to the union of the
the Abovele, and all ends happily. In addition to
the characters, we have Stubbt, the agent to
Cher:runet, quaintly acted by Mr. Artatid, and
Pers,,-Y Bounce, his housekeeper, admirably im-
Tho -natect
Mrs. Walter acy, who, al-
-nbi,tigh so lame from an accident as to be
with to use a crutch, yet went through the part
kr, ~,,r.eat spirit. The burden of the piece falls upon
vivar4 isbett, and the way ward,volatile, witty, rattling,
rael°ll',Setwarm-heartedCamilla,couldnothave had
kp c're fitting representative. Never did Mrs. Nisbett
ePear
more fascinating than last evening, never did
newlet better. Mrs. Ternan appeared in, to her, a
told line of character, in the part of Miss Trimmer,
to aline
a which she may make her own, as we have
"e on the stage now who could act it nearly
pr„well as she can. Mrs. Ternan is at the
tw4,llt moment what Mrs. Glover was five and-
tords Years ago, and in the Lady Almeiria Mt
Unit alui the Mrs. General Dartmouths would be
41'4Pproechable. Mr. Barrett proved himself an ex-
-4'84 actor by his performance of old Haythorn ; he
Atn,t a broad and hearty style, and a rich and
.
Ma °llB humour which point him out as the legitt-
)l4: successor of poor Strickland. The testy Major
Nici excellently performed by Emery, while Cooper
soh ettblie most sententious of Baronets, and Ander-
ls *e most gallant of lovers. The comedy
e
ioter:arkably well built, and carefully written ; th
0410 st is agreeably kept up throughout, and the
tlaerigue' always neat, terse, and perspicuous, is fre-
had 3' brilliant and sparkling. Mr. Sullivan has
it. aT great success, and he has fairly earned
stage he comedy is admirably put upon the
,t.:e the
tuao
bare
tasteful
scene is quite equald
drawing-room scenes . we
ausee_
e Covent-garden under the Vestris ma.n g.
nt' and tun exterior of Sir Algernon's mansion is
eoqy beauti,u,.
; 1 All the artistes were called on at the
fortieltis'(4l of the play, and then came loud ,calls
frolic lle author, who bowed his acknowledgments
attvo ,ealprivate box. The theatre was very well

fa- `IRLIAMENTARY BANQUETS.—Lord John Russell
ferial'irst Lord of the Treasury), as leader of the Ministerial
~ ii
I the House of Commons, has had invitations issued
resideland Parliamentary full-dress banquet, at his officiale..
1.41 nee in Downing-street, on the 3d proximo, to the sev
in otiembers of the Administration and Court, having seats Lord
Pr •Ilat assembly. The Marquis of Lansdowne (the , .
iittiii4ot of the Council) will give a grand full-dress I al-
to airtarY dinner r n the 3d proximo, at Landsowne House,
strivear.ge Party of Peers. Lord Stanley (who is expected to
1140 iri town on the Ist of next month) wilt give a sump-
eirelt3 banquet to the Duke of Richmond and a numerous
q , of Protectst Peers on the 3cl of the ensuing month,
nig mansion in St. James's-square.
A, tti •
,t€ esting of the Middlesex Magistrates was held
DertstdaY at the Court-house on Clerkenwell-green. Re-
%nun 'were the
from the governors of the different
rauti Y prisons and county lunatic asylums, and the
iusuca..l
elated ceuntY business was disposed of. Mr. Powna 1o li
as chairmn.
3Rts
—This
tom: ToL, EIGHT O'CLOCK P.M., JAN. 16
..
lwi"ntng the weather came in with a sharp biting wind,
elo ~ g a tendency to frost. About eleven o clock A.M. da k
'westitut,begali to rise, with heavy squalls from the southa:
hied' the wind increasing with extreme violence, accompas
been AY deluges of rain. It is feared mach damage h.
u'eloei.ine by the violence of the storm. It is now nine
10. , and the elements are some less boisterous.
4.1 au , -,„
abt. ii Iti-'NY ESCAPE OF THE HON. W. PORTMANAND
eldest I. ARKka.—On Saturday as the Hon. Win._ Portman,ono
nearBl34l of Lord Portman, and Mr. Henry Bankes,
az,Bllkes, Esq., M.P., were rtyurning frornil,3ladnsdford,
Irian, tri cart, to hunt at Bryanstone, the seat of r oirinPotrte-
spin', boar se became unmanageable, and derriooristmi h
demolishing
for-
Ivard i:4 1)Y a kick of the leg, threw
in the,lla 18 head under the cart, Mr. Bankes being ejected
horseback 148 manner by a kick on the allele. The groom on
,ern th.
---n Procurd assistance, and the gentlemen were
though to 1-1,...
—faxistone. It is satisfactory to add that, .
i"_"ega they
ere considerably bruised and wounded, no
-vu a were broken.
The
%lied Marchioness of Hastings has been suddenly
11141, awaY from her seat at Efford, near Lyminton, in
of h„Psbire, to Dublin, in consequence of the alarming illness
0,17 eldest son the Marquis of Hastings. The .Marquis had
attacked arriVa at Dubai; 1-11
ith his regiment when he was
the reside.e- with a low fever.nw He was immediately taken to
Be4t nce of the Duke of Leinster, and an express was
The Nit f°r the Marchioness to proceed at once to Dublin.
ti4dbedarveiltoursesBasvma,smagbout to receive a number of distin-
whom were Lord and Lady Hor,
pity and Lady Brou ham &cm. Lord Howe is the guardian e tlarchiCiness'sgchild;en- •
1 nws,
awrrt,,,,,,- n) GENERAL LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
tijth
.- ' 'ON, SUSSEX-HALL, LEADENHALL-STILET..— r.he
Was ee'rulversary of the opening of this valuable institution
Willis, ebrated last evening by a ball, which took place at
it4len7ll"as) St. James's-street. This institution offers to
and wetara and subscribers the advantages of an extensive
end dii... gelected library, reading-rooms, and evening classes,
larnneCug the session lectures are delivered on the various
has herb% art, science,
institur and polite literature. Anew featurehtlie
een added to the benefits already imparted
every 1!,.(34; Free lectures are given to the humbler classes
tae
tween 6,,,,"y evening, and they have been attended by be-
Ivas of '''' and 700 persons. The gathering of last
thepaig.
trona _rft, very brilliant description, including many of ...
tioiti u the institution, and numbered nearly 400 ladies and
Axel:l:len. Dancing as continued until a late hour.
...4.01"
/4044 , SECESSIONS FROM THE CHURCH OF ENG-
tii„-It was made matter of boasting by Sir Jobo liar:
reNVlnd and by the Rev. Mr. Bennett himself; in their choad
gotta etlee with the Bishop of London, that nobody
- over f •
the Chur rota either of Mr. Bennett's two congregations to
his friend,el" of Rome. Neither the rev. gentleman nor
gentlein tile baronet, can boast of this any longer. Two
and both type of" of
them an architect of distinction--
ill'''sntmabeli,,,''litnent and St. Barnabas' Church, have quitted the
" become reconciled to the Church of
tenni; shay were formally received into the Romish corn-
-Beeensin on Sunday last. We are enabled to add, that other
liy. ons of persons filling a prominent place in the public
IQteadnidatluelyetn....bers of the same church, are expected to follow
-advertiser.
AtIUL
ilisniiation of 3
alt. . TERATION OF COFFEE.—A microscopic ex-
-4 different qualities of coffee sold in London
LionsatelY been made, which showed that with three excep-
3the Whole were adulterated. Chicory was present in
lastletana anees, with the frequent addition of roasted corn,
1,,. r Potatoes, and in soine cases the quantity of coffee
-4 not more than a fifth of the whole article.
T..
'the
.1 SOUTHAMPTON BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—
t,rd ad' inquest was resumed for the fourth time yes-
ti.,B], at the Guildhall, Southampton, When the jury yes-
eau °" a verdict that the deceased "Died from natural
4 .Bes. and that the guardians of the poor are censurable for
°' and
her relief in the last stage of her disease."
4 ICAllaely ESCAPE.—On Friday a man named
, jail Whittaker, when crossing the railway on his way
•a•triendti: union-house to Writtle, at midnight, to procure the
thin ice of a surgeon for a sick inmate, observed some-
408r;eneRstwoolipicinlaghe supposed to be a parcel lying across the rails.
to pick it up he discovered it to be a man
~ P. He immediately awoke him front his bed of danger,
fouren he stated his name to be Turner, from Roxwell. But
wstliiide timely intimation of his dangerous position his life
there is little doubt, have been sacrificed, several lug-
gage trains passing over the spot during the night. Such ,‘ o,ris should remember that the trains pass over all the
Ipars" upon the line. —Essex Herald.
vriiiir SISTER OF BURNS.—We really wonder that,
of , her Majesty's advisers prompt her to bestow pensions
1.,,1,°0/• per annum each upon Madame Belzoni, and Mr.
-nu_ols, the author of Paul Pry, they should pass over Mrs.
cleg,fia, the 'urviving sister of our great national poet of
;.'0,14 lad, Robert Burns. Now that her Majesty has become
Qte,3eearnily vaisiwtoorrtthoythe north, such a ()Taut could not but be
compliment to her Scuttidi subjects.—
"I.PHIP coristitutione,

INDIA AND CHINA.

INDIA.

A summary of the political and military intelli-
gence has been already published in a telegraphic
message from Trieste. We add, however, the follow-
ing particulars :
'The Governor-General, accompanied by Lady Dal-
housie, arrived at Lahore on the 28th of November,
and the North-Western papers are lull of the illumi-
nations and fetes with which the Viceregal advent
has been welcomed. Lord Dalhousie will remain
eight or nine days at Lahore, and is expected about
the 15th of December at Wuzeerabacl, where the in-
terview with Ghoolab Singh is to take place. Mr. J.
Lawrence will accompany the Governor-General to
Peshawur, Sir H. Lawrence going only as far as
Wuz-erabad, to be present at the interview with the
Mlliaraja. of Cashmere. The health of the troops
in the L'unj,mb and Upper Provinces is but little
improved. According to the nuhli,hed returns
for th:, week ending the 21st of November, there
were 1,204 men in hospital out of the 7,448
comFsing the garrison of Lahore; nearly half of one
regiment (the let European Fusiliers) were on the
; and in the 4th Punjault Intaivry 406 out
of 894 were in hospital. On the 19th of November
the Wuzeeree Hill tribes attempted their long-
threatened attack on our outposts on the Bunnoo
frontier. On the 18da they had asstmibled in large
masses on the lioorum river, with the declared inten-
tion of invading our frontier. 'They came down at
night into the Goomutce pass, and towards morning
sent forward a detachment, which advancing from
the pass overran and set fire to three of our 'villages.
They were, however, unable to make head against
the fire kept up by the guards, who, in anticipation
of the attack, had been placed in the towers of these
villages, and were driven back with considerable loss
after teen minutes' firing. The main body finding
their advanced detachment so roughly handled, and '
haling learnt that our outposts were well supported,
immediately dispersed, and the frontier is now quiet
again.
The Seikh State prisoners, Chutter Singh, Sere
Sing b,and Aotar Singh, are to be immediately removed
from Allahabad to Calcutta. The transfer is likely
to save a good deal of anxiety as to their safe cus-
tody. Sir W. Gomm arrived at Calcutta and as-
sumed command of the Indian army on the 6th of
December. The following notification was issued on
the occasion :

" The Hon. the Court of Directors having in a dis-
patch, dated the 2d of October, 1850, announced to the
Government of India that they had appointed General
Sir William Maynard Gomm, Knight Commander of
the Most Hon. Military Order of the Bath, to be
Commander-in-Chief of the Eat India Company's
Forces in India, and an Extraordinary Member of the
Council of India, and having forwarded copies of the
commissions for these appointments to the Government of
India, and the said commissions prescribing that the said
General Sir William Maynard Gomm is to take upon
him the said Command-in-Chief and office of Extraor-
dinary Member of the Council of India upon and from
his assumption of the command of her Majesty's
Forces in the East Indies,' and the said General 6ir
William Maynard Gomm having informed the Hon. the
President of the Council of India in Council that he
assumed the command of her Majesty's Forces i❑ the
East Indies on this date, it is hereby notified that Gene-
ral Sir William Maynard Gomm has assumed the office
of Commander-in-Chief of the Forces of the Esst India
Company in India, and that he has this day taken his
seat and the laths as an Extraordinary Member of the
Council of India, under the usual salute from the ram-
parts of Fort William.
" By order of the Hon. the President in Council,
" FRED. JAS HALLIDAY,
" Secretary to the Government of India."
Sir Charles Napier was at Loodi,ma on the 30th
of November, and is expected at Bombay about the
end of the year. During Sir Charles Napier's 18
months' administration 45 officers of the Bengal
army have been brought to trial, of whom 14 have
been cashiered, 6 dismissed, 7 lost rank, 5 suspended,
and 10 reprimanded ; only two have been honourably
acquitted, one acquitted, and four pardoned or their
sentence commuted. . _ .

Vv
A considerable sensation has been excited by the
discovery of fraudulent entries to a very serious
amount in the bodes of the North-Western Bank of
India ; these frauds were, it appears, committed in
1848, and only detected very recently, the accounts
of the bank having been passed as correct, and pub-
lished every half-year during the interim ! During
this period the actual deficiency in the assets has
been fraudulently concealed by false entries. The
present apparent deficiency is generally, attributed,
not to any misappropriation of funds, but rather to
an " ingenious" and hitherto successful endeavour to
work the bank through a crisis, by concealing its ac-
tual losses and the real state of its affairs from the
body of constitueots and shareholders.
The general feeling which was excited against
the judicial courts of the East India Company by
the recent attempt to subject Europeans to their
jurisdiction has been materially strengthened by
their proceedings with reference to /Alla Jotee
Persaud and his colleagues. It will be remem-
bered that when bail to the amount of 2,000/. was
taken at Calcutta (half on his part, and half on that
of his legal advisers) for his appearance at Agra by
the 19th of November, Jotee Persaud meniorializ2d
Government, to the effect that the time allowed was
insufficient for the performance of so long a journey,
according to the native rates and modes ef travelling,
or a ith due regard to his health and comfort. He diet
not arrive at his journey's end till the 24th, and on
rendering himself up on the following day the Court
at Agra decided on escheating half the amount of his
recogaizences, against which his counsel, Mr. Lang,
in vain protested. The defendant paid his share as a
matter of course ; but Mr. Lang refusing to comply
with the order of the Court, chose rather to have his
property seized, which was promptly done. On the
following day, when Mr. Lang appeared in behalf of
Jotee Persaud, and was about to address the Court
on the part of his client, he was stopped by an order
to say all he had to say in Hindoostanee, which was
the only language recognized by the Court. " Thus,"
says the Delhi Gazette, " ended the first essay of
the first English barrister who has sought to exer-
cise his vocation in the Courts of the Mofuesil." Un-
der the circumstances of the case no impartial person
in India would consider the fact of Jotee being even-
tually found guilty by one of the East India Com-
pany's Courts any proof of his actual guilt, every
one at all acquainted with native character being well
aware that when a party under ban of the Govern-
ment is tried in a Government court, false witnesses
will rise up against him in numbers sufficient to in-
sure his conviction, without any actual subornation
of perjury or corrupt practice on the part of the
judge.
Tile operations of the Bengal Railway Company
have been much impeded by the delay of Government
in providing the necessary legislative authority to
take the ground for the line ; thus the progress of
the works is confined to such portions of ground
along the course of the line as belong to parties with
whom the contractors have been able to negotiate
private arrangements. The interruptions from this
source have not, however, been so serious es they
have been represented to be, or as English precedent
would lead one to anticipate. Land in India is
infinitely less valuable than in England, and
the public spirit of the Hindoos generally in-
duces them to give it up readily for any public work
executed under Government auspices. In this case
a peculiar inducement (and in this country a very
effective one) has been afforded by the promise that
the names of those who give up their ground volunta-
rily are to be perpetuated by being inscribed on some
one of the bridges or other works to be constructed
thereon. The electric telegraph is progressing ra-
pidly, and the entire line will be laid down as far as
Diamond-harbour by Christmas. The progress of
laying down the wires (which are covered with resin
and protected by earthenware pipes) is at the rate of
about three miles a day. An almost fatal accident
has happened to Mr. Knight, the aeronaut. lie made
his second balloon ascent from Calcutta on the 25th
of November, and was passing at a great height over
Calcutta towards Dum Dow, when the balloon was
observed by many persons watching it through teles-
copes suddenly to collapse, and descend with great
rapidity, and violent oscillations. It fortunately fell
in a rice swamp. Mr. Knight was taken up sense-
less, and for some days was not expected to survive
the shock he had sustained. Ile is, however, now re-
covering.
Tne .Nizam's affairs continue in state quo, and he
is still his own Minister. The contributions hitherto
levied ou his subjects have, owing to his laxity in en-
forcing payment, produced sums in driblets so small
as hardly to amount to one-sixth of the assessment ;
meanwhile it is stated that the Resident, acting under
instructions from Calcutta, has intimated to the
Nizam that unless the sum due to the Company's
Government be paid on the given day (December 31,
1850), all official intercourse between this representa-
tive and his highness must cease straightway. If this
menace is seriously meant, it is presumed that the
Supreme Government has resolved on acting in the
event of default. The Commander-in-Chief of the
Madras army, Sir George Berkeley; arrived at Hy-
derabad on the 7th of December, and it is surmised
that his visit has reference to the present crisis of the
iv izarn's affairs.
Sir C. Napier has written to Bombay to secure a
passage by the mail-steamer that leaves there on the
31 of January, but it is considered doubtful whether
he will be able to reach Bombay by so early a date.
Sir Willoughby Cotton will also leave India by the
mail of the 3d of January. A public entertainment
is to be given to him in the Town-hall on the 31st of
December, at which his successor is also expected to
be present. Sir 'Willoughby's adrainiAration will
long be gratefully remembered by the Bombay
army ; in his intercourse with those under his come
mend, and in the dispensation of his patronage, be has
been uniformly remarkable,for impartiality, firmness,
and kindness.