The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-28 00:00:00

LA TRAVIATA.

Violetta, Mdlle. Piccolomini ; Alfredo, Signor Calzolari ;
and Germont Giorgio, Signor Beneventano.
To conclude with the uew Ballet Divertissement,
LA MANOLA.

Madame A. Bellon, Mdlles. Clara, Lizereux, Katrine, Pierron,
and Rosa ; M. Venefra and M. landris.
TO-MORROW, May 29th, no performance.
On FRIDAY, May 30th, a GRAND EXTRA. NIGHT.
Madame ALBONI.
LA. SON N AMBU LA.

Arabia, Madame Alboni; Elvino, Signor Salviani; and
Count Rodolpho, Signor Beneventano.
And a favourite Ballet.
116" Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at
the Box-office of the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
ENGLISH OPERA.

THIS EVENING will be produced
THE YANKEE HOUSEKEEPER.

After which,
IL TROVATORE.

To conclude with
THE YOUNG ACTRESS.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone.

THIS EVENING,

LODGINGS FOR SINGLE GENTLEMEN.

After which,
THE EVIL GENIUS.

Followed by

THE RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF WOMAN.

To conclude with
THE DOCTOR IN LOVE.

lioYtu. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, DXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Casatas KEAN.
THIS EVENING,
THE VICTOR VANQUISHED.

After which,

TII w. WINTER'S TALE.
Principal characters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean;

ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI.
Propriator and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
PAUL PRY.
Followed by
A BOTTLE OF SMOKE.
To conclude with

GOOD NIGHT, SIGNOR PANTALON.

ROYAL OLY APIC TREATER.
Lessee and Manager. Mr. Alfred Wigan.

THIS EVENING
THE TRAGEDY QUEEN.

After which,
RETRIBU rioN.

To conclude with
STAY AT TlO3lll.

ROYAL SF.ZREY THEATRE.

Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.

ON FRIDAY EVENING,
Will be performed
MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT.

To be followel by
A THUMPING LEGACY.

To comlade with
TWICE KILLED.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wni. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
The highly successful Romantic Equestrian Spectacle. called
THE HORSE OE THE CAVERN, or the Mounted Brigands of the
Abruzzi, in which Mr. William Cooke's Horses, trained by him, will
exhibit a number of novel and extraordinary feats.
After which,
The transcendently beautiful ACTS of HORSEMANSHIP in the
CIRCLE.
To conclude with a TRIOMPHE EQUESTRE.
Box-ofilce open from E'evcn till Fo Ir. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Tars DAY—Morn. 12 min. aft. B—Evening 54 min. aft. 8
To-MORROW—Morn. 28 min. aft. 9—Evening 1 min. aft. 10

THE WEATHER--Strx OFFICE, MAY 28.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAD&
69—highest gime noon yesterday.
51—le-west this morning and daring the night.
66 —this day at noon.
Rkuogrrlin— 29.63-68.
WIND, W.—Light, with fine sunshiny weather and
heavy passing clouds. Heavy rain last night.
THREE O'CLOCK.—Heavy shower.

Cl", , 7s*

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAX 28, 1856.

One of the most extraordinary cases ever
brought before a criminal tribunal has just been
brought to a conclusion. The trial of WILLIAM
PALMER has terminated, after a patient investiga-
tion, which occupied the attention of the Court
and jury for twelve days, in the only verdict
which that jury could have returned consistently
with the oaths they had taken, and the important
and Onerous duty which they were called on to
aischarge• 'Well and faithfully they performed
their parts. They submitted to no ordinary pri-

vations and no ordinary difficulties in this com-
plicated transaction. For a clear fortnight—two
Sundays and twelve Working days—they were not.
only kept close prisoners, but even debarred from
the slightest communication with their families,
and the power of obtaining i
-nf'rulation or giving
instructions respecting their own private affairs,
however urgent. It was indeed a weighty tribute
which these gentlemen rendered to the Cause of
justice, but they will receive an ample reward in
the approval of the presiding Judges, of their
fellow-citizens, and, still more, of their own con-
sciences, which must regard with satisfaction the
manner in which they fulfilled so important, bu t
at the same time so very painful, a duty.

The case, as we have stated, was the most extra-
ordinary, and at the same time one of the most
difficult, ever presented before a criminal tribunal.
The prisoner, a professional man, manifestly pos-
sessing considerable toxicological knowledge, evi-
denced, among other things, by his note on the ope-
ration of strychnia, is in company with another
who dies -under very suspicious circumstances,
consistent with poisoning by strychnine, and, as
many eminext medical men declare, not consistent

with any other disease which they have ever wit-
nessed or read of. It is discovered on investiga_
tion that the deceased has had a large sum of
money in his possession which cannot be dis-
covered, while PALarER, who had previously been
involved in very serious pecuniary difficulties,
make,s several payments immediately after the