The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-09 00:00:00

TUESDA

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) I

SOUTH WARK.

ATTEMPT TO PICK POCKETS AT THE SUREEY
THEATRE.—Williarn, Lee, a well•dressed young fellow,
was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with attempting
to pick the pocket of Sarah Brown. at the pit of tho
Surrey Theatre.

The prosecutor, the wife of a tradesmen, residing at
14, Francis-street, Waterloo-road, stated that about
half-past six o'clock on the previous evening she was at
the pit-office of the Surrey Theatre, alai just as she had
paid her entrance money she felt some one at her dress
pocket, and, on locking down, she saw his hands inside.
She immediately called out, " You vagabond, I have
caught you this time ; you have got nothing for your
trouble." He then forced himself away from her, but a
constable came up and took him into custoly. For-
tunately, she had nothing in her pcket but hey hand-
kerchief, as she bad not returned her purse to bei:locket,
consequently the prisoner would have been much dis-
appointed.

The prisoner here said that he was a respectable man,
and would not be guilty of such an act. the lady must
be mistaken as to his identity.

Mrs. Brown positively swore to his being the man,
as she actually caught hold of his hand while it was in
her pocket.

Henry Peckhem, the constable of the Surrey Theatre,
said he was on duty near the entranc 3 of the pit, shortly
after six o'clock, when he heard the last witness call
out "Police." He proceeded to the pit office and
took the prisoner into custody as he was attempting
to get away. He searched him, and ho had nothing
upon him but a pawnbroker's duplicate and an old
handkerchief. He knew the prisoner well as a com-
panion of notorious thieves, and how he evaded his
observation by getting inside the doors he could not
tell, as he always kept a sharp look out for such fellows.
Mr. Combe asked the prisoner after that evidence
would he go for trial or be tried by him
He replied that he would be tried by his worship, and
he must plead guilty.

Mr. Combe sentenced the prisoner to three months'
hard labour under the New Criminal Justice Act.

THE SELF-REGISTERING MERCURIAL

TIIERIIIOIfETER.

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►SJRREY THEATRE.

Messrs. Creswick and Sheppard commenced their
winter season last night, with a new melo-drarna cf in-
tense interest, called the "Half Caste." The piece
consists of four acts, and the plot is as follows :—A cer-
tain rich planter, M. do Courville, one day in showing
some visitors round his plantation, insults the wife of
one of his slaves—Maximus Mr.rol, and then on the
husband resenting the insult, he is instantly branded,
his wife is ordered to be flogged, ;nd his mother and
brother to be sold. The wife of Maximus dies three
days after the infliction, and the half caste determines
to devote his life to obtain revenge. Time wears on,
and M. de Courville thinking Maximus has forgotten
his wrongs, educates him, and makes him his overseer.
The planter is called away from his estates, and imme-
diately after his departure Maximus turns all the pro-
perty into cash, and decamps. The consequence is, the
planter is ruined, and Maximus becomes a rich man. The
half caste, as he is journeying to Paris, meets an English
nobleman, and, to gratify a whim, they exchange names,
and Maximus departs for Paris as Lord Trafford, after
lie has contrived, as he supposed, the death of the owner
of the title. Arrived in Paris, he fails in love with a
certain Lady Angeline, but his suit is rejected in favour
of another. He intreats Angeline to reconsider her
determination, and at this moment the ruined planter
enters, and recognises the supposed lord as his overseer.
Angeline turns out to be a lost daughter of M. de Cour-
ville, and she determines to revenge her father's wrongs.
She allows Maximus to believe she loves him, and her
lover Eugene enters into the plot. Finally, the mask
is thrown off, the real Lord Trafford arrives, and in
Eugene Maximus discovers his lost brother. As he
cannot live to see Angeline married to another, he dies
by poison. The part of Maximus was sustained by Mr.
Creswick with great ability, and the Angeline of Miss
Marriott a very beautiful performance. At the termi-
nation of the drama Mr. Creswick and Miss Marriott
were called for, and on their appearance were greeted
with loud applause. The present season at this favourite
place of amusement promises to be both an attractive
and profitable one, The house was crowded to excess.

CORONATIOIf OF THE EMPEROR
ALEXANDER.

(From the Times.)

In Western Europe pageantry may be said to be pas-
sing out of date, for neither is it felt nor is it required.
We have to travel two thousand miles towards the rising
ann, to penetrate frontiers almost sealed to the traveller,
to plunge into barbarous tribes, and find ourselves in
the heart of an ancient serfdom, in order to see in full
force the old language of human magnificence. The
cavalcade which ten days ago conducted the Emperor
of All the Russias into his ancient palace is a fit successor
of the old Roman triumph. In this country none ever
saw its like ' • none ever will ; and were the States of old
Europe to become even greater and wealthier they
would neither have the materials nor the sentiment for
such a display. No doubt they who gazed on that
rushing stream of silver and gold and jewels, of the
finest horses and men, the most singular races, and the
quaintest costumes in the world, extending five miles
in length, and who also knew that in all that multitude
of observed and observers there was probably not
one who was not ready to die for his youthful Em-
peror could hardly but feel him to be the greatest
Sovereign in the world. We shall not question it. For
such titles there is no contention in these days. The
subjects of Queen Victoria count three to one for those
of the Caw ; their wealth, their freedom, their arts, the
grandeur of their traditions, their historical ant;quity,
are even greater in the scale of comparison. Neverthe-
less we need not dispute that there is no such potentate,
so autocratic, so exalted, so magnificent, as Alexander
Nieolaievitch ; and that he is the only one of the sons
of men whose position entitles him to such a procession
as that described in our columns this day. No one but
he combines with Asiatic magnificence European policy,
organisation,and wealth. No one but he holds the greater
part of two continents, and occupies the shores of two
oceans, and two great inland seas. No one but he is
absolute lord of sixty millions of men, still retaining the
hardihood and prowess of ancient barbarism. Nations
are fused into the ranks of his army, and history
may explore the roll of his procession. When he
enters the famous Kremlin, it is a portion of the human
race that conducts him ; and the roll of names reminds
one of those which heralded the earliest conquerors of
mankind.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.
SADLEIRISM.

The Carlow Sentinel states that the directors of
the Bank of Ireland have taken legal proceedings
against several persons in that town whose bills
were given as security by the Tipperary Bank for
advances to that unfortunate concern by the Bank
of Ireland, and, by way of the beginning of the
end, it is added that the effects of an extensive
farmer residing near Ballyellen were seized under
execution for 7001. due to the bank. It appears
that the farmer was security for a trader iu the
town, and of course is held responsible for the
amount. The Carlow paper thus moralises upon
the effects of banking upon a political system,
carried on for so many years by Sadleir and his
confederates in fraud :

"The Sadleirs aimed at ascendancy. They risked all
to gain it and a position suddenly from humble life.
They bribed and laboured with indefatigable industry to
attain the object of their ambition, awl we do regret to
find so many victims of their vulgar ambition. They
found Carlow, comparatively speaking, prosperous in the
department of shopkeeping, and after an unexampled
career of strife to secure their political power, we leave
it to the fancy of our readers to depict the state in whin%
they left their friends, after the exercise of the greatest
kindness and leniency towards them both by the Bank of
Ireland and the official manager of the Tipperary Bank."
With respect to the whereabouts of James Sad-
leir, the Carlow paper says that the police are on
the wrong scent, and that there is every reason to
believe that the fugitive is now far ou his way to
South America, " where there appears to be little
doubt that he will be afforded the opportunity of
embracing his brother John." With regard to this
latter prospect, it may be mentioned, as an instance
of that second-sight said to be the peculiar property
of our northern fellow-subjects, that a respectable
professional man, recently returned to Dublin from
New Orleans, is ready to aver on oath, if called
upon, that during his residence at the latter place
he had seen John Sadleir bodily striding through
the streets of New Orleans. There could be, he
insists, no mistake, as he had been for many years
familiar with the marked features of that never-to-
be-forgotten countenance.

THE IRISH CORN TRADE.
The imports into Dublin of wheat and flour from
Great Britain during the past month have been
much heavier than at the same period of last year
—4,586 quarters of wheat and 8,582 cwt. of flour
having arrived in August, 1856, against 242 qrs.
of wheat and 593 cwt. of flour in August, 1855.
Of Indian corn, on the contrary, there wore last
year 3,142 qrs. imported, while this year none has
been received. Of malt 3,520 qrs. were imported
and 799 qrs. exported last month, against an ex-
port of 428 qrs., and no import, in August, 1855.
The arrivals from foreign ports •of grain vessels
during this week comprise one from Ancona with a
cargo of wheat, and one from Saxkiobing with a
cargo of barley.