The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-23 00:00:00

INDAY, MARCH 23, 1835

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent entertained a distinguished party at
Dinner on Saturday.
The Landgravine of Hesse Homburg and the Princess
Augusta attended Divine Service yesterday morning, in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and their
Royal Highnesses' household, attended Divine Service yester-
day. The Dean of Chester officiated.
Alderman Brown and a deputation from the City had an in-
terview on Saturday with Sir Robert Peel.
M. de Moraes Sarmento, the Portuguese Minister, visited
the Duke of Wellington on Saturday at the Foreign Office.
Dispatches from Barbadoes dated the 11th of February, from
the Lieutenant Governor of St. Vincent, from the Lieute-
nant-Governor of St. Christopher, and from the Governor
of the Leeward Islands, were received yesterday at the Co-
lonial Office.
Mr. Grote, M. P., and a deputation from the City, hs 1 an
interview on Saturday with the Right Hon. Alexander Baring
at office of the Board of Tlade.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel gave a grand dinner on Saturday
at their residence in Whitehall-gardens. There were present
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, Princes Lich-
tenstein and Trautmannsdorff, Earl and Countess Denbigh,
Earl of Pembroke, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lord and
Lady Norreys, Lord and Lady K. Jermyn, Lords Fitzgerald,
Arthur Hill, and Grimston, Sir Roger and Lady Gresley, Mr.
and Mrs. Dawson Darner, Messrs. S. Dugdale, C. Forester,
John Lowther, E. Grimston, James S. Wortley, and Lucas.
Lady Peel had afterwards an evening party which was very
numerously attended. Among the company were their Royal
Highnesses the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg (attended by
Baroness Styne) and the Princess Augusta (attended by Miss
Wynyard), the Russian' Ambassador, the French Ambas-
sador and Countess Sebastiani, the Neapolitan Minister
and Countess Ludolf, the Danish Minister and Baroness
Biome, the Greek Minister and Madame Tricoupi, the
Sardinian, Prussian, Netherlands, Belgic, Mexican, Bra-
zilian, Portuguese, Spanish and Saxon Ministers • M.
de Flad, on a special and temporary mission from the King of
Bavaria; the Secretaries to different Foreign Embassies and
Legations ; the Dukes of Devonshire, Wellington, and North.
umberland ; Duchess of Northumberland, Marquesses of
Londonderry, Thomond, Exeter, Salisbury, Douro, Win-
chester, and Ailesbury ; Marchioness of Thomond, Lon-
donderry, Exeter, and Salisbury; Earls of Lincoln, Kin-
noul, Brownlow, and Beauchamp; Countesses of Euston,
Dowager Pembroke, Jersey, Kinnoul, Listowell, Beauchamp,
Brownlow, and Amherst ; Viscounts Sydney, Maynard,
and Morpeth ; Viscountesses Sydney and Maynard; Lords
Cowley, Henry Cholmondeley, Farnborough, Maryborough,
Prudhoe, Stuart de Rothesay, Granville Somerset, Kenyon,
Stormont, Burghersh, Fitzroy Somerset, Ernest Bruce, and
Ashley ; Ladies Ernest Bruce, Henry Cholmondeley, Coote,
Codrington, Canning, Cockburn, Cust, Mary Dundas, Dowa-
ger Ellenborough, Fuller, Charlotte Egerton, Farnborough,
Emily Foley, Gordon, Herbert (2), E. Palk, Rolle, Ribbles-
dale, Granville
.Somerset, Emily Hardinge, Knatchbull, Ker-
risen, Stormont, Wheatly, Macdonald (2), O'Bryan, K. Grim-
ston, Wrottesley, Beckett, Harriet Baring, Burghersh, Augusta
Baring, Dowager Brownlow, Anne Beresford, and Ashley ;
the Right Honourables Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir John Beckett,
George Dawson, J. Planta, and C. W. Wynn ; Hon. Mr. H.
Lowry Corry; Sirs Charles Stuart, Stratford Canning, James
Cockburn, Edward Cust, C. D'Albiac, Henry Fane, Joseph
Fuller, Henry Halford, Edward Knatchbull, Edward Kerrison,
John Macdonald, John Wrottesley, John Beresford, and R.
Wilson ; Colonel Conolly, M. P. ; Messieurs Edward Foley,
Dundas, Backhouse, Clive, Drummond, Egerton, Fleming,
Halford, John Peel, Lawrence Peel, Fitzroy, Wyndham Lewis,
Horace Twiss, Venables, F. Baring, and H. Baring.
Mistresses (George) Dawson, Fleming, Goulburn, Halford,
John Peel, Planta, Rothschild, Wyndham, Lewis, Miles,
(William) Miles, Venables, Wynn, and Backhouse; Misses
Drummond, D'Este, Fuller, Gordon, Goulburn, Palk, Ken-
you, Kerrison, (2) Bush, Miles, Maynard, Wynn, Wilson, and
D'Albiac, &c.

' written in the first year of his-reign, and in it he coniplaizA
his Parliament, and " the pack of Puritans that overrulv thc
Lower House."
The Commandant of Honduras, Colonel Coe),bur,,,
is
and
has resigned, or is about to do so, his appointment.
coming home in good health. The post is consider dto be
worth 2,0001. per annum, but the climate is unhealth e
ROYAL PATRONAGE.—We have mucli pleasure
in stating that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has
very kindly sent a handsome donation to that. 'most excellent
charity the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum, situate in the
tr Mile
ss of that Institution. End Road, and has also consented. 'to become the Pa-
REGENT'S PARK.—A correspondent suLgests that
according to present appearances, a not inconsiderable portion
of the Park, which was promised to be given up to the public!,
is now in the course of being permanently added to Sir Her_
best Taylor's mansion, and asks what Sir John Hobhouse will
say to this deviation from hi 3 promise made when he was Chief
Commissioner of Woods and Forests ?----Miwniny Paper.
THE LATE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN FRANCE.
—M. de Talleyrand, lately writing to a friend, observed—
" The question is not now whether the King reigns or governs ;
all we seek to know is whether he can do anything l"
It is said that Lord Lyndhurst, previously to deli-
vering his celebrated judgment in " Small and 'Attwood,"
which is now attempted to be impugned, shut himself up in a
cottage some few miles from town, to enable him to give his
undivided attention to the complicated detail of one of the
most intricate and. important cases which ever occurred in any
of our courts.

TEMPERANCE SOCIETY —Meetings for discussing
the evils of intemperance continue to be held, and excite
much attention. There are more than 700 members enrolled
in Nottingham, and 300 or upwards in the villages around,
while the number of members in Great Britain and Ireland is
about 200,000.
THE PARKS.—On Thursday we expressed a wish
that the old seats should be repaired, and that additional ones
should be placed where they are wanted. A Correspondent
has since called our attention to the penny chairs, from which,
he says, a considerable sum is derived by a King's messen-
ger, on whose lady George the Fourth conferred this patent-
penny-privilege.
The negociation between Madame Vestris and Mr.
Morris, for the Haymarket, is at an end. Madame, 'on the
closing of the Olympic, proceeds to Manchester and Liver-
pool, in each of which places she is engaged to perform for
eight successive night, at 40/. per night. She then visits Bir-
mingham for four nights; and will probably be, at least, three
months engaged in the provinces.
Workmen have commenced excavating the centre of
the Parliament-square, Edinburgh, preparatory to laying the
foundation of a new pedestal on which the equestrian statue of
King Charles is to be placed.
A boy once complained of his bed-fellow for taking
half the lied—" And why not?" said his mother, " he's entitled
to half, aint he?" " Yes, mother," said the boy ; " but how
should you like to have him take out all the soft for his half ?
He will have his half right out of the middle ; and I have to
sleep both sides of him."
The Rev. Mr. Armstrong, the clergyman who has
lately been dismissed from the Establishment for irregularity,
and who is now well known as the itinerant spouter of Irving-
ism, has in his peregrinations visited this city for the purposes
of forming a Church, and is every night addressinr, rather
large congregations in an old warehouse in the parish of St.
Lawrence. He has already so far succeeded as to be able to
point triumphantly to some individuals upon whom the "spirit
of prophecy and the gift of tongues" have descended in proof
of his ministry. At the meeting on Sunday night, a me-
chanic rose and exclaimed, " Hah ! bah I' a virgin
Church 1 A virgin Church ! hah ! hah ! hah 1 the Lord will
rise up a Church here—the Lord will build his Churct —hah I
hah ! hah I beautiful amongst women—ye are too much given
to women I" He then sat down, and on this rhapsody the
preacher dilated as he would on a mysterious passage in So-
lomon's Song, or any of the prophecies. Similar exhibitions
take place almost every evening.—Norwich Mercury.
KING'S COUNSEL.--It is understood to be the in-
tention of the law officers of the Crown to take measures for
remedying a grievance which has frequently been the subject
of bitter complaint. At present no King's Counsel can be
retained for a defendant in cases to which the Crown is either
a real or nominal party, without obtaining a license to that
effect. This amounts to a very considerable sum, and a client
must either bear that expense, or otherwise be deprived of the
services of an advocate in whom he is disposed to place the
greatest confidence. During the late- Administration Sir
Frederick Pollock, and several eminent members of the bar,
made an application on the subject to Lord Althorp, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and they received from his
Lordship an assurance that on his part no objection existed to
the redress of the grievance. Iu another quarter, however,
there was some difficulty, and the consideration of the matter
was consequently postponed. Upon the propriety of remov-
ing the necessity of applying for such licenses there is a
universal agreement among gentlemen of the long robe. The
first King's Counsel is said to have been Lord Bacon, and for
several years those who were called King's Counsel were
strictly Counsel for the Crown. Then there were only three
or four King's Counsel in each Court, but now there are up-
wards of 20, and the promotion is looked to as a matter of
right by all Barristers of a certain standing. Under such cir-
cumstances, the restraining them from pleading against the
Crown without special permission appears wholly unnecessary,
and only calculated to inflict in many cases considerable hard-
ship.—Observer.
The doctrine put forth by the Governor of the Bank
at the meeting of Proprietors held on Thursday, respecting
the effect on the Bank circulation from the issues of notes by
Joint-Stock Banks in the country, has been the subject since
of much discussion among the leading members of the monied
interest. They wholly deny his main position, that such issues
have, in fact, any influence on the town circulation, so as to
counteract the measures taken to reduce it, which was affirmed
by Mr. Pattison to be the case. The real truth is, that the
Bank Directors encourage, and are the chief cause of those
redundant issues in the country, by lending money at a lower
rate there than they do in town. There is something, there-
fore, peculiarly unreasonable in making public complaint, and
applying to Parliament for redress of an evil which they them-
selves have created. They have only to equalize the rate of
interest, so far as they are concerned, in Lancashire and in
London, to deprive the local issues of paper of all influence
upon their transactions. It has, also been noticed that the
Governor, in alluding to the failure of his attempts to reduce
the circulation, wholly passed over a cause much nearer home,
viz.--othe Bank deposits, which were invariably drawn out as
the circulation was diminished, and supplied the place of the
notes withdrawn, in spite of all that could be done to prevent
it. On the whole, this last expos 6 has-not much raised the
character of the Bank administration. Since the meeting on
Thursday, Bank Stock has fallen 3 per cent. : it was then
2254, and is now 224 for the Account.—Times.
On Saturday, at a vestry meeting of St. Paul's,
Deptford, held for the purpose of nominating a collector of
the assessed taxes, Mr. Goldfinch, the individual at present
filling that office, said, that owing to the difficulty of getting
payment, and the number of persons who had to be called on,
it occupied his time from Monday morning till Saturday night,
while the remuneration was only 241. per annum. Mr. Powle
—How often, Mr. Goldfinch, have you called on each person ?
Mr. Goldfinch—l called at your house three times.—(Laugh-
ter.) Mr. Goldfinch having resigned, no one else who could
afford the necessary securities could be found to accept the ap-
pointment. It was here suggested that the salary should be
raised to. 501., but the vestry could not agree on any specific
fund belonging to the parish from which the difference could
be taken. It was eventually resolved, that the fact of no per-
son being found to accept the situation, owing to the smallness
of the salary, should be communicated to the Commissioners of
Taxes, accompanied with the expression of a hope that they
would apply to Government to obtain a proper remuneration
for the person filling the situation.
COUNTY RATES.—MARYLEBONE VESTRY.--
On Saturaay.morning the above held a meeting at the Court-
house, Oxford-street. Captain Wardell was called to the chair.
Mr. Hume, M.P., rose to bring before the notice of the vestry
the amount of the county rate, and the mode of its assessment
and expenditure. His object was to suggest to the vestry to
put, themselves on their guard, and that they should possess
themselves of the actual state of the burdens in all the counties,
in order that they might be fully prepared for the question,
prior to its being brought under the notice of the Legislature.
—( Hear.) Of the county expenditure, 66,000/. annually, the
parish of Marylebone paid 9,6001., one seventh of the whole ;
and if they added five or six other metropolitan parishes, they
would take in about one-half of the county rates. Now, he
could wish the vestry to look at the individuals who now con-
trolled the rates.—(Hear.) If they turned to the parishes
towards Uxbridge to Staines, they would find fourteen magis-
trates living in districts (so we understood), that did not con-
tribute 300/. towards the rates.—( Hear, hear.) There was
Mr. Wood the father, Mr. Wood the son—(Laughter)—Mr.
Wood the grandson, Mr. Wood the nephew, Mr. Taylor, con-
nectsd with these, and Sir John Gibbon, the son-in-law.—
(Renewed laughter.) All these were a party who were con..
staid in their attendance, and who, with their connection, were
able to say what amount the expenditure should be ; while this
parish had but one or two magistrates who attended.—( Hear.)
The Hon. Member then referred to the labours of the Com-
mittee in St. George's parish upon the county rate. Mr. Ken-
sett moved that a Committee be appointed to inquire into the
operation of the county rate, and its bearing, with a view to
the same being placed under a wholesome controul, and whether
any and what suggestions can be offered towards the better
levying and disbursement of the same. The motion was car-
ried unanimously. The following Committee was then ap-
pointed :—Captain. Elliot, Dr. Fellowes, Mr. Hope, Mr. Pot-
ter, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Gibson, and Mr. Hudson ; three to be
a quorum

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. DEATII. BY
Drowning.—Mr. Alex. Ross, Innkeeper, Rosehall, was
drowned in the Kyle of Sutherland, on the evening of Wed-
nesday the 4th instant. It appears that Mr. Ross had assisted
in rowing a boat up the Kyle to Rosehall, laden with po-
tatoes. The night setting in very stormy, and the tide fast
receding, they put in for shelter opposite Inveran about nine
o'clock at night. Immediately Mr. Ross and a lad named
Urquhart, launched a coble in order to procure refreshments
from Mr. M`Ray's at Inveran, for the men who were much
exhausted from the cold and wet. On their return, whilst in
the middle of the Kyle, a sudden gust of wind caused the coble
to swamp, and Mr. Ross, though a good swimmer, almost in-
stantly disappeared. The lad Urquhart with great difficulty
swam ashore. The deceased was only 28 years of age, and
it would be impossible to describe the deep sensation that this
fatal event has created in the quarter where he was known and
universally respected. He has left a widow and family to la-
his untimely end.—lnverness Courier.

THEATRES.

TIIE ITALIAN OPERA.
This Theatre opened on Saturday night for the season, on
wijch occasion a very numerous audience was assembled.
The entertainments coirin-,enecd with a grand musical melange.
The overture to Semiramide went off magnificently ; and never
before did we hear the strength. brilliancy, and precision of the
band to finer effect. Next came an aria, "Ah the fosse,"
(Bonfichi), by Mrs. Seguin, very beautifully given, and well
supported by the horn accompaniment of Mr. Platt. Madame
Stockhausen followed in a sweet song from Robert le Diable,
" Idole de ma vie." The instrumental sestet si hich followed,
by Neukomm, was clever but elaborate, and rather too severe
or the general audience. The performers, moreover, with
one or two exceptions, seemed to play it at first sight. Ano-
ther song from Madame Stockhausen, and then came a grand
fantasia on the Pianoforte by Moscheles. This was in
truth a most finished performance, in which nothing snore
could be wished for in richness of tone, splendour and solidity
of style, and the most exquisite polish. With such compen-
sation the length of the composition could well be supported.
Some time after the curtain rose for the first act of Tancredi,
the most part of which was given with the duet " Frero in-
contra," of the second in addition. In consequence of the
sudden and severe illness of Madame Finklohr, the part of
Amenaide was sustained by Madame Galvani, who also seemed
to be very much indisposed. As an altera prima donna this
lady seems to be a fair acquisition. Her voice is a mezzo
soprano, of which the lower notes are the less objectionable),
or her higher ones were overstrained in a part that must have •
been too high for its natural capability. Mademoiselle Brarn-
billa's Tancredi was, all circumstances considered, a very
good performance. She is a fine commanding figure, and
looked very well in the male costume of the character. This
was as beautiful as it was judicious. Her voice is a very good
contralto, and of considerable compass. The famous "Di
Tanti palpiti" was very correctly given; but we know,not how
it was she seemed to go through it without feeling, and cer-
tainly without effect. Signor Curioni played the part of
Ergirio. Giubeici's fine voice told well in the only- thinglit
had to do—the finale. The ballet of Nina, which succeeded,:
was really beautiful in itself, and beautifully given. Pero
pirouettes and tours de force were really astonishing.,. - Made •
moiselle Clara's Nina was a very clever pantomimic- perform -;
ante, and her dancing very respectable. The off' artistes'_
Adele and Chavignv, are also entitled tr) It fair share if
approbation from all those who witnessed their very pretty •
movements.

DR UR Y- LA ArE. •
A numerous audience was col)-,cted here on Saturday night.
in Witness the first represents „ion of a new comedy in five acts,.
called Patrician and Ptzrvenzz ; or, Confusion worse Con-
founded, written by tke author of Paul Pry. We will attempt
to describe the Plot. Percy de Mowbray (Mr. Cooper), the
heir of Sir 00;aldiston de Mowbray, Bart., the Patrician
(Mr. Warde), in the character of tutor in the family of Sir
Timothy Stilton, Knight, a retired cheesemonger, the Parvenu
(Mr. W. Parren), has Iron the affections of Ellen Rivers
( Miss Lee), a distant relative of the wealthy Knight, and with
this young lady's beauty and virtues the heir of the noble house
of Mowbray has for some time been desperately enamoured.
At the same period Frank Neville (Mr. Vining), the son of a
ruined merchant, and Percy's college friend, has obtained
admission into the villa of Sir Timothy, with the hope of
persuading its ignorant and vulgar owner to allow him to
continue his addresses to the purse-proud citizen's lovely
daughter, Mary Stilton (Miss Taylor), who regards him with
the same attachment she had been allowed to profess when
fortune was more propitious to her lover. At a neighbouring
inn, kept by Ruby (Mr. Bartley), he had met with Dick
Moonshine (Mr. Harley), once an unworthy servant of his,
but now exercising his ingenuity in swindling the credulous
innkeeper, and imposing upon the equally deceived Aliss Sally
Sanders (Mrs. Glover),' another member of the cheesemon-
gees family, as Captain the _Honourable Augustus lit:-
Moonshine, who, after much solicitation, he re-engaged in his
service, and had taken with him to old Stilton's fine residence.
The rich tradesman, though he wishes to be thought genteel,
professes an especial contempt for all gentility unassociated avith wealth, and is on the point of dismissing his daughter's
mpoverished lover without ceremony, when she prevails
upon him to let Frank stay the day, which, as it will give
him an opportunity of showing off his grandeur, he after-
wards allows. Dick, having found occasion to convince his
romantic enamorata, who possesses, as he terms it, the attrac-
tion of being fat, fusby, and fifty, that he has disguised
himself the more easily to enjoy her society, thinking himself
secure of her three hundred a year, the particular object
which has induced him to follow her from Margate, and lay
siege to her heart, is inclined to forward his master's interests,
therefore gives the Knight reason to believe that Neville is as
rich as ever, and that the individual who represents his ser-
vant has the honour of being his distinguished friend.
Ruby, to whom Dick Moonshine, with the fear of a prison
before his eyes, had previously confessed that he was no-
thing more than the illegitimate son of a woman known to
the innkeeper as a questionable character, is that moment
announced, and Dick, guessing his errand, prejudices the
cheesemonger against his visitor, before he attempts to make
his own retreat. Ruby, with a wish to gain the favour of the
great man of his neighbourhood, has come, as Dick expected,
to inform Sir Timothy that there is a person in his house pos-
sessing a design to carry off Miss Sally Sanders, who is not
what he appears ; but his intelligence is laughed at by the
credulous Knight, who is now more thoroughly convinced
than ever that Frank Neville's servant is a person of qua-
lity; and though he marvels at the young gentleman's want of
taste, having no desire to spoil Sally's good fortune, he corn-
mands the astonished innkeeper to afford the person to whom
he has alluded every assistance, and he will be answerable for
the expense. Soon afterwards a letter arrives at the villa, which
its illiterate owner, not being able to decipher, gives to the
tutor to read to him. It is from Sir Osbaldiston de Mowbray
to Sir Timothy Stilton, acquainting the latter, in terms of
proud and dignified courtesy, that having'oeen informed that his
fson has
lie formed an intimacy with a female in Sir Timothy's
amily,intends by his immed;.ate arrival to ut an dto a connection so very objeetiovAle. This createsp great enconfu-
sion. Young Mowbray, well aware of his father's unalterable
opinions respecting P.n-bility of birth, hastily resolves to marry
his Ellen without delay; and the retired shopkeeper, although
somewhat conflised about the object of the letter, flattered at
the idea of receiving a visit from so great a man as the Ba-
ronet, prepares to give him a reception, such as he imagines
is becoming his rank. In the meantime Sir Osbaldiston ar-
rives at the neighbouring inn, and inquires of the landlord
whether he can give him any information concerning an indi-
vidual who, with an assumed name and character, has been
paving his addresses to a female residing in the house of Sir
Tinzothy Stilton. Ruby, who knows only of Dick's intrigue,
commences to acquaint his interrogator with the progress of
Dick's attachment to Sally Sanders, when, to his great sur-
prise, he is interrupted by the Baronet's !acknowledgment
that the infatuated youth is his son, followed by the announce-
ment of his determination to put a stop to the affair at any
sacrifice. After an interview with Percy, whom he vainly en-
deavours to dissuade from his intention, he visits Sir Timothy
with the hope of persuading him to use his interest to pre-
vent the match. The cheesemonger, satisfied that Moonshine
and Sally Sanders are the parties to whom the Baronet alludes,
wishing to conciliate his distinguished visitor, introduces to
him his romantic relative, who, finding her lover a greater per-
sonage than she had at first imagined, is not at all inclined to
meet the wishes of his supposed father. Sir Osbaldiston, dis-
gusted with her vulgarity, offers in her absence ten thousand
pounds to prevent her union with his son, and the Knight pro-
mises to find a mar, who for that sum will become her husband.
Dick Moonshine, having been told b) Ruby of 'the sudden ar-
rival of his father, a parent of whom he had previously never
heard, and of Isis great intentions in his favour, looks contemp-
tuously at Miss Sally Sanders and her three hundred a year,
and readily agrees to do every thing his supposed father, the
Baronet, runes. In this mood he is met by Sir Timothy, and
prepared for an interview with his distinguished parent. Ne-
ville, who having confessed his poverty, has been sent about his
business, is now hastily recalled by the anxious citizen for the
purpose of being enriched with ten thousand pounds and Sally
Sanders. The denouement very quickly takes place. Ellen
Rivers is discovered to be the daughter of a lady to whom the
Baronet in his early years was deeply attached, and bis con..
sent to his son's union is now no longer delayed. The ten
thousand pounds is given to Frank Neville to enable him to
marry Mary Stilton, entirely to her father's satisfaction, and
Sally Sanders scorns Captain the lign. Augustus Fitz-
Moonshine as soon as she becomes aware of his true charac-
ter and of his sinister design upon her three hundred a year.
Farren's personation of Sir Timothy was almost too like
reality ; it was inconceivably droll. Mr. Warde's acting in
the part of Sir Osbaldiston de Mowbray deserves to be con-
sidered as one of the finest specimens of real comedy witnessed
for many years upon the stage. The scenes between these
two admirable actors were enjoyed by the audience with a de-
light to which in a theatre they must have long been strangers.
Mrs. Glover and Mr. Harley were sufficiently laughable wits.
out rendering the vulgarity of their characters offensive. As
the other ladies had little „else to do besides looking pretty,
they were seen to marvellous advantage. Although Patrician
and Parvenu was received throughout with great applause,
and at the conclusion givers out for repetition without a dissen-
tient voice, we should recommend considerable curtailment.
We were glad to perceive the theatre so well attended.

One of the Sheriff's javelin men, while ushering the
Judges into Salisbury at the late Assizes, was seized with
paralysis, and soon after expired.
This year the township of Spotland has only had
one poor rate, which makes an annual saving of 2,5001. The
reformers are in office and have been for the last two years,
and have saved upwards of 4,0007., besides paying a debt of
1,8001. which the Tories had contracted.
On Saturday last, an inquest was held at Trow-
bridge, on the body of Mr. Joseph Stoakes, who had destroyed
himself that morning by means of a blunderbuss. It appeared
in evidence that, a little before six o'clock, he had gone into
the Swan public house and had obtained twopennyworth of
gin ; that, upon having drank it, he exclaimed, " What a pain
I have in my side !" He then withdrew to another part of the
premises, after having been asked by Mr. Chadwick, the
landlord, if he would have a light. This he refused. In half
a minute afterwards, a loud explosion drew Mr. C to the spot,
where a most shocking spectacle presented itself. It appear-
ed that the blunderbuss had been loaded with ten marbles;
that it had been placed in contact with the right ear of the un-
fortunate deceased ; and that the crown of his head had been
separated by the explosion ; while the place in which be was
sitting was covered with blood and brains ! The deceased had
for several years been employed as assistant overseer; and as
the time drew nigh when his accounts were to undergo inves-
tigation, and a great many persons were about to be sum-
moned as defaulters, it was supposed that the business pressed
heavily upon his mind. Verdict—Temporary Insanity.—Sa-
lisbury Herald.