The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-12 00:00:00

MATINEE DRAMATIQUE.

On more than one occasion we have c:,-1 formed the
pleasing duty of drawing attention to the excellence of
the system of education, and the general treatment of
youth, in force at the Collegiate School at Hanwell.
On Thur-day last we had another and a better oppor-
tunity of judging of the general results of his great care
and judicious training. The young gentlemen performed
Julius Ccesar in a style worthy of professional actors of
high pretensions. The piece was gut up, in all its en-
tirety, with the most rigid attention to costume, proper-
ties, and scenery, and the language of the immortal
bard was delivered with a clearness, a precision, and a
nice apprehension of the author's intent, which evinced
patient study and rare intelligence. The parts of Brutus
and Cassius by Masters Frederick and William Strat-
ford ; of Mark Antony, by Master Lyon ; Cmsar, by
Master Kelland ; Casca, by Master Williams ; Portia,
by Master news ; and Calphurnis, by. Master J.
Boom, were admirably filled ; while equal attention
was bestowed upon their several characters by Mas-
ters G. Boom, J. Grantham, Reid, and Robertson,
as Lucius, Octavius, First Citizen, and Soothsayer.
All the plebeians played with " radical" earnest-
ness, and the processions gave evidence of careful dril-
ling. There was not a hitch throughout. After the
performance, the audience, which was very numerous
and fasnionable, adjourned to the beautiful grounds of
Dr. Emt rton, where cricket, music, and promenading,
whiled away the time until the evening. An adjourn-
ment then took place to the refectory, fitted up as a ball-
room; and a merry dance, in which the young amateurs
most heartily nod gracefully joined, concluded the day's
diversions.

We cannot conclude this brief notice of a very inte-
resting event without a compliment to the excellent
judgment of the worthy principal of the establishment in
thus nourishing a taste for the finest poetry in the world,
and imparting practical lessons in elocution. We could
not help contrasting the effect of this sort of teaching
with that in practice at Westminster, where a Latin play,
replete with passages of questionable morality, is spouted
year after year, as if there were nobody but Terence
worthy of the.trouhle of representation..

WESTMINSTER FREEHOLD
LAND SOCIETY.
A public meeting was held at the Town-hall, Wool-
wich, on Monday evening. 10th instant, for the purpose
of explaining the principles and objects of the society;
Dr. Carlile in the chair. Messrs. J. Duncan, g, Nes-
bett, G. E. Dennes, and G. Huggett, attended as a de-
putation.
Mr. G. HUGGETT explained fully the objects and ad-
vantages of the freehold land movement, after which
JONATHAN DuNcArt, Esq , at some length, and with
great force, exhibited the. great -and beneficial results
which society has every reason to. xpect—politictslly,
socially, mentally, and morally—will be effected by the
operations of these societies; not forgetting,
to impress
upon the audience their value to the individual as an
excellent investment of capital as one of the best kinds of
savings' banks, and as a creator of motives of prudence
and forethought amongst the industrious classes.
Mr. RUEGG moved and Mr. DIEBBETT seconded the
following resolution, which Will unanimously adopted:—
" That the freehold land movement is deserving of
the warmest support of all who desire an extension of
the suffrage, tending as it does to improve the social and
moral condition of the industrious and unenfranchised
classes; and this meeting is of opinion that the princi-
ples of the Westminster Freehold Land Society, of No.
4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, as explained this evening,
are well calculated to eff:ct that object; and inasmueh
as it purposes to enable its members to obtain votes in
Kent and other crainties, this meeting pledges itself, in-
dividually and collectively, to give that society its best
suppc.rt.'
A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and, a
number of shales having been taken, the meeting
separated.

PiDVERTTAEMENTJ—An astounding. Cure of 35
Wounds by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Extract of a
letter from Mr. Jeremiah. Reed, of filolong, near Sydney,
dated 25th Sept., 1845, " To- Professor Holloway. Sir, 1
owe a debt of gratitude to you for my almost miraculous cure
by the use of your Ointment and Pills, after seven years in-
tense suffering, caused by exposure to wet and cold. When I
commenced using your remedies 1 had already expended up-
wards of 2001. in other medicine and advice, without any be-
nefit, and had ;E's ulcers on my body, a dreadful headache, and
fe r
t ohn e
pains all over me ; bat
.your Ointment and Pills have cured
me, and lam now enjoying excellent health." Sold by alt
Druggists, and at Professor Hollcway's Establishment, 244,
,ts cußpa, ces.
and
REnnygarlavainuknst
Strand, London
[ADVERTISEMEN T.]—Bell's Life z•n
Battle London,
Sunday next, June 16, Ascocutlelen
Heath
of the Emperor's Vase, the i
Cup. Observations by " Pegasus." The
Championship ; After Thoughts and Incidents. Price of
Bell's Life, Sixpence. Office, 170, Strand. Average..sale of
Bell's Life, 28,000.
DIE TEL TRADE, JUNI 10.—The deliveries of tag
in 144.01 a list wok were not quite SO Ilrge,bei:gswoith.
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THE NICARAGUAN TREATY'.
The following is the text of the Convention be•
tween the United States of America and her Britan-
nic Majesty, concluded at Washington the 19th day
of April

The United States of America and her Britannic Ma-
jesty, being desirous of consolidating the relations of
amity which so happily subsist between them, by setting
forth and fixing in a convEntion their views and inten-
tions with reference to any means of communication by,
ship canal, which may be constructed between the At-
lantic and Pacific Oceans by the River San Juan de
Nicaragua or .Mantagua, to any part or place on the
Pacific Ocean;—the President of the United States has
conferred full powers on John M. Clayton, Secretary of
State of the United States; and her Britannic itajesty
on the Right Hon. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, a member
of her Majesty's Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
and Envoy Extraordinary and Mintster Plenipotentiary
of her Britannic Majesty to the United States, fur the
aforesaid purpose; and the said Plenipotentiariei having
exchanged their full powers, %siiiich were found to be in
the proper form, have agreed to the following articles:—
Art. 1. The Governments of the United States and
Great Britain hereby declare that neither the one nor
the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself an exclu-
sive control over the said ship canal ; agreeing that
neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications
commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or oc-
cupy or colonize, or assume or exercise, any dominion
over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Musquito coast, or any
part of Central America ; nor will either make use of
any protection which either affords, or may afford, or
any alliance which either has, or may have, to or with
any state-or people, for the purpose of maintaining or
erecting any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortify-
ing, or cul,nizing, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Muquito
coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or
exercising dominion over the same ; nor will the
United States of Great Britain take advantage of any
intimacy, or use any alliance, connexion, or influence
that either may possess with any state or Government
through whose territory the said canal may pass, for
the purpose of acquiring or holding, directly, or indi-
rectly, for the citizens or the subjects of the one,
any rights or advantages in regard to commerce or
navigation through the said canal, which shall not be
offered on the same terms to the citizens or subjects of
the other.

Art. 2. Vessels of the United States or Great Britain
traversing the said canal shall, in case of a war bAween
the contracting parties, be exempted from blockade, de-
tention, or capture by either of the belligerents; and this
provision shall extend to such a distance from the two
ends of said canal as it may hereafter be found expedient
to establish.

Art. 3. In order to secure the construction of the said
canal the contracting parties engage, that if any such
canal shall he undertaken upon any fair and equitable
terms by any parties having the authority Of any local
Government or Governments, through whose territory
the same may pass, then the persons employed in making
the said canal, and their property used or to be used for
that object, shall be protected from the commencement
of the said canal to its completion by the Governments
of the United States and Great Britain from unjust de-
tention, confiscation, seizure, or any violence whatsoever.
Art. 4. The contracting parties will use whatever in-
fluence they respectively exercise with any state, states,
or Governments possessing or claiming to possess, any
jurisdiction or right over the territory which the said
canal shall traverse, and which shall be near the waters
applicable thereto, in order to induce such states or Go-
vernments to facilitate the construction of the said canal
by every means in their power. And furthermore, the
United States and Great Britain agree to use their good
effices whatever or however it may be expedient so to do,
in order to procure the establishment of two free ports,
one at each end of the said canal.

Art. 5. The contracting parties further engage, that
when the said canal shall have been completed, they will
protect it from interruption, seisure, or unjust confisca-
tion; and that they will guarantee the neutrality thereof,
so that the said canal may be ever open and free, and
the capital invested therein secure. Nevertheless, the
Governments of the United States and Great Britain, in
according their protection to the construction of the said
canal, and guaranteeing its neutrality and security when
completed, always understand that this protection and
guarantee are granted conditionally, that if both Govern-
ments or either Government should deem that the per-
sons undertaking or managing the came adopt or es-
tablish such regulations concerning the traffic thereupon
as are contrary to the spirit and intention of this con-
vention, either by making unfair discriminations in
favour of either of the commerce of the contracting par-
ties over the commerce cf the other, or by opposing op.
pressive exactions or unreasonable tolls upon passengers,
vessels, goods, wares, merchandizes, or other articles,
then it shall be open to either Government to seek re-
dress in such manner as they may deem advisable.
Neither party, however, shall withdraw the aforesaid
protection and guarantee, without giving six months'
notice to the other.

Art. 6. The contracting parties in this convention en-
gage to invite any state with which both or either
have friendly intercourse, to enter into stipulations
with them similar to those they have entered into with
each ether, to the end that aid the states may share in
the honour and advantage of having contributed to a
work of such general interest and importance as the
canal herein contemplated. And the contracting parties
likewise agree that each shall enter into such treaty sti-
pulations with such of the Central American states as
they may deem advisable for the purpose of more effec-
uaily carrying out the design of this convention,
namely, that of constructing and maintaining the said
canal as a ship communication between the two oceans
for the benefit of mankind on equal terms to all, and of
protecting the same. And any also agree that the
good offices of either shall bet mployed when request(d
by the other in aiding► and aNsistiog the negotiations of
such treaty stipulations. And stnuld any diff-rences
arise as to right or property over the said territory
through which Vie said canal shall pass between the
states or Governments of Central America, and such dif-
ferences should in any way impede or obstruct the exe-
cution of said canal, the Governments of the United
States and Great Britain will use their good offices to
settle such differences in the manner best suited to pro-
mar the interests of the said canal, and to strengthen
the bonds of friendship and alliance which exist between
the contracting parties.

Art. 7. It l elng desirable that no time should be un-
necessarily lost in commencing and constructing the
bald cMnnl, the Governments of the United States and
Great Britain determine to give tl,eir support avid en-
couragement to suet) per.una or company as may first
offer to commence the same with the necessary capital,
with the consent of the local authorities, and on such
principles as accord with the spirit and intention of this
convention; and, if any persons or company should
already have with any state through which the proposed
canal may pass, a contract for the construction of suck
a canal as that specified in this convention, to the stipu-
lations of which contract neither of the parties in this
convention have any just cause to object, and the said
persons or company shall have made preparations, sad
expended time, money, and trouble, on the faith of such
contract, it is hereby agreed that such persons shall
have a priority of claim over every other person or com-
pany to the protection of the United States and Great
Britain, and be allowed a year from the date of the
exchange of the ratifications of this convention for con-
cluding their arrangements and presenting evidence of
sufficient capital subscribed to accomplish the un•
dertaking; it being understood that if, at the expira-
tion of the aforesaid period such persons or company
shall not be able to commence and carry on the pro-
jected enterprise, then the Governments of the United
States and Great Britain 'shall be free to afford their
protection to any persons- or company that shall be pre-
Fred to commence and prcceed with the construction
of the Bill in question. _

Art. 8. The Governments of the United States and
Great Britain having not only desired in entering into
this convention to accomplish a particular objets but
also to establish a general principle, they hersoy agree
to extend their protection by treaty stipulation to any
other practicable communications, whether by canal or
railway, across the isthmus which connects North and
South America, and especially to the interoceanic com-
munications, should the same prove to be practicable,
whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed
to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
In granting, however, their protection to any such canals
or railways as are by this article specified, it is always
understood by the United States and Great Britain that
the parties constructing or owning the same shall im-
pose no other charges or conditions of traffic thereupon
than the aforesaid Governments shall approve of as just
and equitable; and that the said canals or railways being
open to the citizens and subjects of the United States
and Great Britain on equal terms shall also be open on
like terms to the citizens and subjects of every other
state which is willing to grant thereto such pro-
tectio❑ as the United States and Great Britain engage
to afford.

Art. 9. The ratification of this convention shall be
exchanged at Watihington within six months from this
day, or sooner if possible. In faith whereof we the re-
spective Plenipotentiaries have signed this convention,
kind have hereunto affixed our seals.
Done at Washington the 19th day of April, Anne
Domini, 1850.

JOHN M. CLAYTON (Lc)
HENRY LYTTON BMWS& (L. 5.)

NMot:Zigr,lSAnTit:32ll"lll
AND SUICIDE
ATTEMPT
00:
consequence of the following tragicel
AY.--
Considerable excitement prevailed here during yesterday and
occurrence :—lt appears that a man named John Reynolds,
who bad separated some time since tram his wife, by acme
the preceding day, in
means ( which have not yet been explained), met her at
THAn FitaNiEnT.—O
North Deanes, between seven and eight o'clock on Thursday
evening. They conversed together for a few minutes, when
they both sat down near the North Mill. Whilst there the
man began to abuse his wife, and he eventually pulled a long
clasp knife out of his pocket, and swore that he would " cook
her goose." He then rushed at her with the open knife, and
tried to cut her throat. The woman resisted as well as she
was able, but the wretch inflicted one wound in the neck,
and several over the arms and hands of the poor creature,
who at last succeeded in running away. She took abetter
from her husband's brutality in a confectioner's shop, where
a surgeon attended and dressed her wounds. The husband,
in the meantime, stuck the knife he intended to murder his
wife with into his chin, the point of which extended to his
throat, and then jumped into the sea. The body was soon
picked up, but life was extinct. Last night a coroner's in-
quest was held on the body of the deceased at the workhouse,
Norwich. The jury having heard several witnesses, returned
a verdict of polo de se, and the body was forthwith buried by
torchlight.
NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—The Kelso branch of
this line, from Newtown to within about one mile of Kelso!I
is now ready for opening. The works for connecting the
North British line with the Kelso branch of the Newcastle
and Berwick Railway at Mellendean Burn are proceeding
rapidly, and it is
_expected the whole will be completed in
October.

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