The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-15 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

A respectably-attired man, who spoke with the ac-
cent of au Irishman, was charged under the following
circumstances:—

Police-constable F 16 stated, that yesterday afters on
he met the prisoner in Crown-street. Holborn, carrying
a child, about nine years of age. The prisoner was in-
toxicated, and th• child appeared to be insensible from
drink. He sent the prisoner in custody of another con-
stable to the station, while he himself took the child to
the hospital, where it was found to be in a dangerous
state, but its stomach was relieved of its foul contents,
and now the child was only suffering from the langour
produced by the drink it had taken.
The father of the child, who appeared to be a me-
chanic, stated that all he knew of the prisoner was
simply this .—Some time ago he introduced a lodger to his
house. Yesterday he called to see this lodger, and toot:
that opportunity of getting possession (,f the child, by
inducing the wife to let it go to a neighbouring pawn-
shop to redeem a scarf for him. Nothing was heard of
the child till the police-constable came with the informa-
tion that it was in the hospital.
The prisoner admitted this statement to be correct,
and told the magistrate that before he got to the pawn
shop he met a friend, who invited him to have some
drink, and this person gave the child two glasses of ruin.
Mr. HENRY asked if the child was a male or a female?
—The father replied that the child was a female. The
child was not sufficiently recovered to admit of her being
removed from the hospital.
Mr. HENRY, therefore, remanded the case until she
could attend to give evidence in the case,

SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.
PERFORMANCE IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF

GRAND EXHIBITION OF 1850.
All honour to Messrs. Grk enwcod and Phelps for
having set an example which, we trust, will be followed
not only by all metropolitan managers, but by all pro-
vincial managers also. They, to-morrow, give a per-
formance at the Theatre Royal Sadler's Wells, the entire
receipts accruing from which will be given in aid of the
funds of the Grated Exhibition of 1851. the expenses of the
evening being defrayed by the management. This liberality
on the part of Messrs. Greenwood and Phelps is almost
unparalleled in the history of theatricals, and accordingly
we are rejoiced to find that their conduct has been so
highly appreciated that H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge
has consented that the performances shall be under his
most gracious patronage, and that his Royal Highness
bas taken a box, and signified his intention to honour
them with his presence; that the Duchess of Sutherland,
and several others of the nobility have taken boxes and will
also be present, and that the following gentlemen have
consented to act as a committee :—Charles Dickens,
Esq , Leigh Hunt, Esq., Charles Kemble, Esq., D ,uglas
Jerrold, Esq., John Forster, Esq., Charles Knight,
Esq. John Oxenford, Esq, D. Maclise, Esq, R.A.,
H. F. Chorley, Esq., J A. Heraud, Esq., F. G. Tom-
lins, Esq., G. Daniel, Esq., Clarkson Stanfield, Esq.,
lt. A. The peforrnance will commence with an
Address written by R. H. Horne, Esq., which will be
spoken by Mr. Phelps, after which the National Anthem
will be sung. This will be followed by four acts of
Shakepere'a Henry VIII., atter which Mr. R. H. Horne
will appear as Shy lock, in the trial scene of the Merchant
of Venice. This will be succeeded by a grand coucert,lin
which Miss Dolby, Miss Lucombe, Miss Lanz4,Miss Lizzie
Tedder Mr. G. F. Kiallmark, Mr Sedgwick, Herr
Stuart, Herr Ernst, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Travers, Mr. G.
Esq., Sheridan Knowles, Esq., B. H. Horne, Esq.,
J. W. Marston, E• q., I'. K. Hervey, Esq ,
Charles Cowden Clark, Esq., Lord Nugent, M.P.,
Lord Dudley C. Stuart, M. P., Richard Monck-
ton Manes, Esq., M. P., W. M, Thackeray,
Mengis, and other eminent performers, who have kindiy
given their valuable assistance, will sppt ar. The whole
w 11 conclude with the farce of the Silent Woman. Again,
we say, all honour to Messrs. Greenwood and Phelps for
the liberal manner in which they have come forward in
support of a great national object, and may the excel-
lent example which they have been the first to set be
followed by every other manager in the kingdem.

" SACRIFICE" TRADESMEN.—OnO of these
generous, disinterested, sacrificing gentlemen had stuck
upon every other pane of glass, "Selling off • no reasonable
offer refused—must close on Saturday." This man once
offered himself as bail, or security, in some case which was
brought before a magistrate. The magistrate asked him if
he was worth 2001. ; he said "Yes." "But you are about
to remove, are vou not ?" "No." " Why you wrote up
`Selling off.'" ."
Yes ; every shopkeeper is selling of."
" You say, 'No reasonable offer will be refused.' " "Why,
I should be very unreasonable if I did refuse such offers."
"But you say you ' Must •close on Saturday.'" "To be
sure ; you wt,uld not have me open on Sunday, would you ?"
—Liverpool Paper.
The Earl of Lincoln's Divorce Bill was yesterday
read a first time in the House of Lords, and Wk Ordered to be
reed OCGO.GI ti w, 9IA UMW', 2841