The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

MIDDLEsLX SLSSIONS.

['HIS DAY.)
(Before the AssxsTANT-JUDGIi. )
The June General Sessions were opened this moving at
the Court House, Clerkenweli-green. There are fifty pri-
,ners for trial.
Henry Hutchinson, aged 22, a smith, was indicted for
stealing four coppers from different houses in Hoxton. He
was met by a policeman; in Old-street-road, at six o'clock one
morning last, week, carrying a bag, which seemed to the
constable, from the sharp bulging in different parts, to con-
tain large pieces of broken metal of some kind. He ques-
tioned the prisoner, who said be did n.d know what was in
the bag, but a man bad just given him a shilling to carry
the sack as far as St. Luke's Church.
The several coppers were identifie t by the owners of the
houses, 6,7, 8, and 9, Park- street, Hoxton, in which street
the prisoner lived, his mother being a housekeeper.
An iron-moulder, working in the same employment with
the prisoner, and lodging in his mother's house, gave the
psis ner as excellent character, and swore that to the best
of his belief be was in bed the whole et the night, when the
coppers were stolen, and did not go out before six in the
morning.

Tne jury found the prisoner Guilty, and be was sentenced
:o nine months imprisonment and hard labour.

ST. JAMES'S TH AIRE.
FRENCH PLAYS.

Mademoiselle Rea le! made her cleirfit for the season last
evening, in the cite! acter of Phedre. She seems to have
completely recovered her health (it will be remembered that
last season, during al's ost the whole period she was with us,
she wac suffering from indisposition), and never did she deli-
neate more impassionedly the woes• of the fated Phedre than
she did let evening. She completely realises the idea of a
fated being, hurried on by some mysterious yet
overwhelming agency to the commission of crimes
which The loathes and abhors. Every apt ea,
every look, every gesture was perfect, and her delineation
of the excess of mental and physical suffering was so true to
nature as to be almost painful to witness. The avowal of
her love to Ai)one was given with a feeling of deep emotion
that was exceedingly beautiful ; grandly, sublimely impas-
sioned was her declaration of love to Hvppolite, and agonis-
ing was her anguish when she finds her love rejected;
never was the crushing s-nse of sudden humiliation so ex-
quisitely portrayed. The grand soliloquy was sublim Jy
given ; indeed, as a whole, Rachel herself has never acted
Phedre better than she did last evening. She was called on
repeatedly during the course of the performance, and again
at the cone u-ion, when her reception was most enthusiastic.
Her brother, M. Raphael. was the Hyppolite. He has made
great advances in his art, and is now au excellent actor. The
theatre was well and fashionably attended.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
The management of this theatre still maintains the laud-
able custom introduced by Messrs. Kean and Keeley of
giving a Skaksp-•re night on an average at least once a week.
Last night the Merchant of 17tnice was performed, with Mr.
Charles Kean as Shylock, and Mrs. Charles Lan as Portia.
Shylock is one of Mr. Charles Kean's best Shaksperiau
characters, and be last night acted it with au energy and
a power which left nothing to be desired ; his
reading of the character is admitable, and the terrific
flashes of intensely impsssioned teeling, which ever and anon
bur: t forth, brought down rounds of applause. The Portia
of Mr. Charles Kean is the very perfection of polished and
artisdcal acting. The mercy speech was declaimed exqui-
sitely. The play was we I cast, and well put on the stage;
and the principal artistes were called on at the conclusion.
Apartments, &c., followed; and the Alhambra concluded the
evening's amusements. The house was crowded.