The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-20 00:00:00

ADELPHI THEATRE.

A new comic burletta was produced here last night. It
is contained in one act, and is entitled The Yellow Kids.
The plot is necessarily simple, but the humour is highly enter-
taining, and the acting of 0. Smith and Webster is excel-
lent. The trifle, which is founded on a French piece called
Les Gants Jaunes, was received in a manner that wiH se-
cure it a long run, and help to fill the benches of all the
parts of the theatre.

FIRE AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSEI LIVERPOOL.—
Friday morning last, as the woman who cleans out the
rooms at the Custom-house was proceeding to open the
light-house, she diseoverea, that it was filled with smoke.
On giving the alarm teveral men hastened to her assist-
ance, and succeedr_a in extinguishing the flames. The
rafters were or fire, as well as other parts of the room.
It is a T".iost extraordinary circumstance that the fire
should (have smouldered all night in such an old build-
" - Had a conflagration taken place, the loss must hare
'
been serious.

The Monitcur publishes tables of the produce of
the indirect duties in the three first quarters the pre-
sent year, amounting to 431,500,000 francs. In the three
corresponding quarters of last year, the produce of the
same duties amounted to only 420,388 x.,00. This increase
of 11,152,000 francs has been yielded by the Customs,
stamps, duties on salt, wine, and other liquids, public ve-
hicles, the Post-office, Lottery, and tobacco and gunpowder
monopolies.
BON MOT.—" And to make matters worse in the
vicious neighbourhood which surrounds my brother's parish
(said a Clergyman the other day to G. I.) they have now
established an immense brick-field." :" Why, that will surely
make them better (responded G. I.), for it certainly tends
to edification."—Literary Gazette.
BEES.—A hive of bees belonging to Mr. Fletcher
Greenip, of Portinscale, near Keswick, was taken some
time since, which weighed 100Ibs. ; the hive only weighed
621bs. when the raiser was taken off. Such was the situa-
tion of the hive, that but one raiser could be placed under
it, which compelled the bees to sit on the outside for more
than a month before it was taken. They swarmed on the
20th of June, and were, therefore, little more than 60 days
in the hive ; a most extraordinary short period for the pro-
duction of so large a quantity of honey was scarcely ever
known.

On Sunday evening last a singular circumstance
prevented Divine Service taking place in St. Mary's parish
Church, in this city. The clerk went, as usual, to unlock
the door some time previous to the hour appointed for the
evening service, but in attempting to unlock the door, he
found the key had got fastened by one of the wards, and
after several attempts to overcome the impediment, he gave
one violent wrench, which broke the key in the lock ; there
remained only one remedy, and that was to break open the
door ; but as this would not have been exactly decorous on
a Sabbath evening, even if a person could be found for the
purpose, that was declined, and consequently no service
took place. In Scotland, on such an emergency, the
preacher would have assembled his flock in the nearest
field, and perhaps rather rejoiced than otherwise at this
excuse for their favourite mode of worship.—Carlisle Patriot

It is high time that public attention should be for-
cibly directed to the factious proceedings of our Scots High
Churchmen. A display of violent party spirit in the mem-
bers of any public body is much to be deprecated, but when
it is exhibited by those who ought to be the single-minded.
advocates of Christian meekness, charity, and truth, it be-
comes in the highest degree disgusting.. Such, we are
sorry to say, is "too frequently the case in our Church
Courts. The ministers of religion are to be found con-
tending with all the fiery zeal of Parliamentary debaters,
and language is used, in speaking of the spiritual concerns
of the people, which would be out of place in the discussion
of political matters even of a highly exciting nature. There
have been lately numerous instances of loss of temper in
our legislative assemblies, and the recriminations there made
use of have been animadverted upon with great severity ;
but if the ill-natured disputes of political partizans are de-
serving of censure, what should be said, to the noisy quar-
rels of men who have at all times file name of our meek
and lowly Saviour in their mouths, and who profess to have
a single eye to God's glory and the eternal interests of its
creatures.—Aberdeen Herald.

UNIVERSITY REFORM.—The United Secession
Synod, representing the largest body of Dissenters in Scot-
land, and who, like the Established Church, require their
clergy to undergo a regular course of literary and philoso-
phical education in the Universities, have recently adopted
a resolution, in favour of those measures for the imKove-
ment of Education, passed last Session ; they also express
their satisfaction with the Bills for the improvement of
some of the Universities of Scotland. A Committee has
been formed to correspond with the Yiembers of Par-
liament, who have introduced the and with others
who have supported measures kr rendering more liberal
the system of education ; particularly to use means,
that by the removal of all sectarian tests by which ad-
mission, whether as teachers or pupils, into our great
schools of lituat"'le is fettered, the full advantages of these
national inst
Church. '4..,utions may be secured to members of our
common with their fellow-citizens."

THE °TON NELLOPHOBIA .—Thisfrightfiddisease
rages extensively among the Tories. The cases that lately
occurred were so numerous, that were we to report thorn
we should be obliged to give only a dry catalogue of the
names of the anti-Irish characters who were affected with
it. As a case, however, has occurred under our own eyes,
we must report it. When Mr. O'Connell. entered the
Court yesterday, where the Dublin Election Commission
sits, the Chairman was absent. Mr. Ardill announeed.
'that he received a certificate signed by the State Phy-
sician, Dr. Jackson, and verified by a second medical at-
tendant, in which it was stated that Mr. Haire was labour-
ing under that species of distemper known by the name of
the o"Connellophobia, and was not expected to be able to
preside in his Court until Saturday—on which day Mr.
O'Connell purposes leaving Dublin, as he dines in Limerick,
on Monday.--Freeman's (Dublin) Journal,