The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-04 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S IHEATRE.

On Saturday a three-act adaptation of M. Sar-
don's play " Seraphine," by Mr. Dion Boucicault,
was produced here. There seems to have been
some unpleasantness between the management and
his highness, the adaptor, as the following very
singular announcement was made :—" Notice—
Mr. Boucicault has requested the management to
withdraw his name from the bills, as he does not
desire to assume the responsibility of certain altera-
tions and additions made by the performers in the
piece in his absence from all rehearsals. The alte-
rations considered necessary in the course of
the rehearsals have been retained with the full
approval of the manage:neut.—E. J. YOUNG."
Tne piece under any circumstances belongs to a
class that does not greatly please the metropolitan
play-goers, and although it is attracting all Paris
to the Gymnase, it will not have the same effect in
London. Bigamy has already been over-done on
the metropolitan stage, and although " Seraphine"
has many other good points about it, the play i 3
one that will hardy pay the expense and labour of
its production. The plot in the present instance
turns upon the embarrassment of a lady, who,
thinking her first husband dead, marries again,
and iust as her daughter, by the second m trriage,
is verging into womanhood the first husband, an
admiral, turns up, and then the desire of the
despairing mother is to conceal the terrible
knowledge of her second m mine from her first
husband, and to prevail upon her daughter to b--
come a nun, in whi,th task she fails. Miss llet bat
and Mr. Ilermac.n Vezia supported the principal
parts in the play, and acted splendidly. Miss li.
Hodson, a great favourite here, also played remark-
ably well ; so did M. Emery and Mr. C. Wyndham.
But the tone of the drama did not suit the audience,
and therefore its success was but very partial.
There were, however, portions of the play which
called forth loud applause, and although the man-
agement has placed it on the stage in the must
complete and liberal manner, its run does not pro-
mise to be a long one.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT —(7hil Day).

OLD COURT.

Francis Burke, an Min tailor, was indicted for
unlawfully and maliciously assaulting Cornelius
Handley and inflicting grievious bodily harm.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner
and prosecutor were tailors, and that a short time
ago they met in the neighbourhood of Smith-
field, a quarrel ensued, and a fight took place.
On the friends of the two men interfering,
the prisoner, it was asserted, hekt the prosecutor
very tightly, and when he was separated from
Burke it was found that his lip had been bitten off.
The surgeon, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital said
marks of some persons teeth were plainly visible in
the wound. A city police-constable was called as
a witness, but his evidence went to show
that the prosecutor was not free from blame,
as he had previously seen him in company with the
prisoner, and heard him use very bad language to-
wards him. He did not think, when the men were
separated, any very severe injury had been in-
flicted.

For the prisoner it was contended that he did not
inflict the injury, but that it had been done by a
fall.

'lhe jury found the prisonar guilty, and the Re-
corder sentenced him to four months' imprisonment
with hard labour.

NEW COURT.

The court was occupied the whole of the clay
with a case of embezzlement.

The prosecution of the defendants, the manager
and proprietors of the " Deptford Spec," has been
fixed for Thursday.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7his Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

WANTON CitUELTY•—Henry,• Jonner, a drayman, ap-
peared to answer a complaint of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with wantonly ill-using
a horse.

The defendant was sees by a constable in Davies-street
with a horse attached to a van. He was holding the horse
with his left hand and thrashing it severely for some time,
and he afterwards jobbed the horse several times on the
hose with the butt-end of his whip—his only reason for
doing so being that, through his own carelessness, the
horse had run against another.

Mr. Tyrwbit; in fining the defendant 405., said the de-
fendant was a paltry fellow; who because he could not put
his spite on some one he ill-used the horse.

THAMES.
INCORRIGIBLE POT STEALER.—Sarah Murphy, an
Irishwoman, was charged with stealing a quart pot value
4a., the property of Sir. Henry Page, landlord of the Coach
and Horses public-house, in High-street, Shadwell. The
prisoner went into the house with a baby she was suck-
ling. She called for half a pint of beer, and after she had
drank it quietly left the house unobserved. A quart pot
was missed directly afterwards, and she was followed and
overtaken. A quart pot was found under her shawl, and
she declared some ono had put it there, and that she
know nothing at all about it. She now protested
that she was innocent, and that she was a respectalle
hard-working woman. Unfortunately for her assertion a
police-constable, No. 408 K, said she had been repeatedly
convicted of pot stealing, and on the last occasion she was
sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour.
The Prisoner—l was innocent. Every time they swore
falsely against me. This blessed baby is as inLocent us
myself.
Mr. Benson—The baby is not charged with robbery.
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