The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-27 00:00:00

A DIFFICULT CASE.

A case of considerable interest to mercantile men
came before the Cour Royale of Paris on Wednesday.
The questions involved are-Ist. Whether the impru-
dence of the captain of a vessel constitutes baratry on
the part of the owner, and deprives him of the benefit of
his insurance ? 2d. Does a captain, who continues to
navigate when a fire has broken out in the vessel and a
port is near which he could reach, commit a fault which
releases the insurance-office from all responsibility ?
The facts of the case, as stated by M. Billault, the
Deputy, counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Kent, an English
merchant, residing at Boulogne• sur-Mer, are as follow:
—The brig Sylvain, of 124 tons, the property of
Mr. Kent, commanded by Captain J. Baclin, and with
a crew of seven men, after having taken on board at
Boulogne a cargo of coals, left the port for Cette on
the 26th of August, 1842. On the 3d of September
the captain had the pumps examined, and, having dis-
covered that the vessel was making more water than
usual, placed a man in charge of the pumps, with in-
structions to report any increase in the leak. On the
10th the vessel passed the Straits of Gibraltar, and on
the 12th the man in charge of the pumps reported that
the water had increased. On the 18th, at twelve miles
distance from the Point of Roquette, he stated that the
water had become warm, and upon this report the captain
ordered a general examination to be made as to the
cause. Ono of the crew having gone down into the hold
was nearly overpowered by the heat, and then, for the
first time, it was suspected that the water from the
leak had caused fermentation and produced fire in
the cargo. This suspicion was confirmed on the 19th,
and two of the crew, whilst endeavouring to trace the
precise locality of the fire, were suffocated by the smoke.
On the 21st the smoke poured forth in volumes,
and the crew got ready their clothes and a quantity of
provisions, preparatory to their escape. On the 22d,
the captain steered for the Bay of Rosas, about eighteen
miles distant ; but he was unable to reach it, and on
the same day the fire made a vent, and burst forth in
flames. The captain and crew, finding all the efforts to
check the fire useless,. resolved to abandon the vessel, as
the only means sf saving their lives, and launched their
boat in a heavy sea. The crew got into it, but the cap-
tain,
unwilling to desert his vessel whilst even the most
slender hope existed of saving it, remained on board
until the fire had gained such a height, that to have
stayed an instant longer would have been
death. He then got into the boat, and, having reached
the shore, reported the casualty to the adjutant
of marine of the village of Lastardit, by
whom, as well as by the captain, the facts were
laid before the Vice-Consul of France at Rosas. On
the 21st of November Mr. Kent, who had insured the
vessel for 40,000 f. with the Companies of the Assur-
ances Generales, Orleanaises, Lloyd Francaises, the
Union des Ports, and the Avenir, reported the loss
and demanded payment. This was resisted on the
ground that the captain had not exercised due judg-
ment, and that his conduct: constituted an act of bara-
try, which deprived the owner of all right to compensa-
tion. Mr. Kent, under the advice of counsel, com-
menced a suit against the -insurers before the Tribunal
of Commerce of Paris, who, giving to the articles 353
and 216 of the _Code of Commerce an interpretation
unfavourable to the plaintiff, delivered judgment for the
defendants. Against this judgment Mr. Kent has ap-
pealed, and the Cour Royale has to decide on the ques-
tions stated above, and which are of great importance,
for if the decision of the Tribunal de Commerce should
be confirmed, the owner of a vessel will not only be held
responsible for his servants, as far as regards the neces-
sity of their using every effort to prevent the loss of his
vessel, but also for their judgment as to the means to be
employed, a doctrine which has never before been set
up. M. Billault, having stated the case, was proceeding
to show that the decision of the Tribunal de Commerce
was contrary to law and equity, when the President ob-
served that there was another cause on the list which
had priority, and postponed the further hearing until
Wednesday next.

FANCY FAIR UNDER THE THAMES.--On Monday
being the anniversary of the opening of the Thames Tunnel,
a fancy fair was held in the Tunnel, to commemorate the
completion of this extraordinary triumph of science, energy,
and perseverance. The centre arches that divide the two
parallel lines of road through_ the Tunnel, were adorned
with holly and other evergreens, and were nearly all, occu-
pied with stalls displaying fancy goods of various kinds,
amongst which may be mentioned medals and engravings of
the Tunnel, printed " on the !.pot."
THE MARCHIONESS OF LANSDOWNE'S ASSEMBLY.—
On Monday a splendid entertainment was given by the Mar •
chioness of Lansdowne, at Lansdowne House, to about 300
of the leading members of the beau monde at present in town.
Three saloons were opened on the occasion, with the connect-
ing ante-rooms. Among the company were the following:—
His Excellency the French Ambassador and Countess de St.
Aulaire, his Excellency M. Dodd, his Excellency Baron
Nieumann, his Excellency Count Pollon, his Excellency Mr.
Everett, Baron Lebzeltern, his Excellency the Belgian Mi-
nister and Madame Van der Weyer, M. and Madame Hum-
melaeur, the Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Elizabeth
Burgh, Marchioness of Sligo and Lady Catherine Browne,
Earl and Countess of Rosebery and Ladies Primrose, Vis-
countess Palmerston, Lady Ashley, Lord Campbell and Lady
Stratheden and Hon. Miss Campbell, Lord Brougham, Mr.
Harcourt, Viscount Ebrington, Baroness Langsdorff, Baron
and Baroness de Rothschild, Viscount and Viscountess Joce-
lyn, Countess of Radnor and Lady Mary Bouverie,

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
STANDARD.—We will not affect to disguise the
regret with which we refer to the proceedings of the two
Houses of Parliament last night. In the House of Lords,
Lord Brougham presented a petition from a number of
persons, women and girls, we believe, complaining
that the law had deprived them of their occupation in
collieries, and the Noble and Learned Lord took the op-
portunity of delivering very strong opinions against
any restraint upon the hours of labour, maintain-
ing, us we understood his Lordship, that toil is
the lot of humanity, and that the tendency of
civilisation is to aggravate that toil. His Lordship
also warmly protested against the policy of inter-
ference • between employer and employed. He
can have little modesty who sets his own judgment
hastily against the judgment of Lord Brougham
—but, in a matter so . thoroughly winnowed
as the question of excessive labour has been,
we cannot surrender our own conviction, to any
authority, how highly soever we may respect
it. The very case brought forward by Lord
Brougham is indeed one of the strongest arguments
that we have met with against his Lordship's apparent
conclusion—the case of women and girls condemned
to the alternative of the disgusting, cruel, and de-
moralising labour of the mine, drawing others of their
sex into the same painful and loathsome con-
dition on one side—or starvation on the other.
'Must not the system be odious and criminal
which creates such an alternative ? and is it
not right to put au end to such an execrable
system ? Goldsmith, we think it is, who tells
of a Chinese or a Tartar tyrant, who was
in the habit of burying obnoxious or suspected per-
sons in dungeons " deep, deep under ground." His
successor, a man of humanity, broke up these living
tombs, when one surviving tenant of them alone was
disinterred ; and he, when brought to the surface,
found the light painful, discovered that he had out-
lived all his kindred and acquaintance, and the
strength by which in youth and manhood he had
been able to earn a subsistence; he therefore
prayed to be restored to the grave from which he
had been dragged, and to the society of the toad and the
spider, his only familiar friends. Whether he was rein-
terred is not told ; but though Goldsmith cites the story,
as a proof of the power of habit, nobody that we have ever
heard of has used such an instance as an argument, ex-
cept to prove the barbarity of imposing habits and cir-
cumstances that unfit human beings for the support or
the enjoyment of life—habits really equivalent to the
mutilations formerly practised in the Netherlands,
to disable persons from pursuing particular trades. Toil
is the lot of man: no doubt in the sweat of his brow
must he eat his -bread; but, according to the Divine ap-
pointment, in the sweat of his brow he may eat his
bread ; without adding the sacrifice of health, and
life, and liberty, and morals : toil, not excessive or
premature, or unnatural toil, is the lot of man.
We can imagine the burning scorn with which
Lord
,Brougham would have swept away the
arguments of any one who should have attempted to
justify negro slavery on the ground that " toil is the lot
of man." Is it true, again we ask, that the tendency of
civilisation is to render necessary severer and more
painful labour—labour breaking in upon the order
of our natural associations ? We think too reverently
of the dispositions of the Great Author of Nature
to believe this possible. We see perfect harmony
in all his other works, and we will not believe that
in his dealings with man he appoints society to civilise
and elevate his creatures on one side, and to degrade and
corrupt them on the other; and if any moral truth was
ever demonstrated, it is this—that of excessive, pre-
mature, and• unnatural toil, degradation'and-corruption
are the necessary consequences. We know, indeed, but
too well that the tendency of civilisation is to
tempt to the abuse of its opportunity; and. of
what other blessing may not this be said? Civilisation
brings Wealth, and wealth gives power, and power un
restrained will be always exercised in selfishness and in
injustice; but if civilisation brings wealth, it also brings
wisdom; and one of the earliest tasks of wisdom is to
impose restraints upon all irresponsible power, the
power of wealth in the first place. This is the
point at which we have now arrived, and we respect.
fully submit it to Lord Brougham as a scholar
and a philosc pher, that upon the decision now
made will depend the fate of the British empire;
we speak of the decision in principle, not the decision in
the matter of detail, though we own that we cannot
oaaily mparuta thorn. lb in 'urn cleuraled that the hi-
fluence of wealth may not be in any degree restrained ;
but that one rich man choosing to exact too much,
or too early, or unnatural, labour from his
fellow-creatures, shall be at liberty to do so, and
to ruin all Who will not imitate his example
(for the first tyranny is exercised upon compe-
titors), if this decision be come to, then we refer the
Noble and Learned Lord to his own favourite author,
particularly to " The Oration on the Classes," for a
picture Of the consequences. ' Once more we repeat it,
that the civilisation which grows only in wealth, and
not in wisdom and humanity, is "a civilisation that leads
to perdition, and leads more rapidly the more rapid the
increase of' wealth. It is an abuse of a Divine blessing,
and let those guilty of such abuse beware.
GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel last evening moved for a
Select Committee of the House of Commons, to inquire
whether any—and if any, what—improvements are
required in the present law for the trial of contro-
verted Parliamentary elections. The present law
was an experiment ; and was, in the first instance,
enacted for a limited period, which expires with the
present session. Previously to its being enacted,
as a permanent measure, it is only reasonable that its
mode of operation should be ascertained. Its defects,
if any, will be thin pointed out, in order to their being
supplied in the new Bill ; and its powers extended, if
necessary, that it may be efficient for the purposes to
which it is to be applied. We are therefore induced to
hope that the Committee will suggest various improve-
ments in the existing law. Though an improvement
upon the old system of ballot—which rendered the
result of a petition against a return a mere lottery—the
present system is far from securing a decision in accord-
ance with truth and justice. When the present law was
under discussion we ventured to suggest that the most
effectual way to secure satisfactory results from inquiries
into controverted elections, and thus prevent the corrupt
practices which had prevailed at Parliamentary elections,
on the one hand ; and, on the other, to protect successful
candidates from frivolous and vexatious petitions on the
other; would be to remove the jurisdiction from the House
of Commons to another and indifferent tribunal. While
the House of Commons continues to be what
it is—and ceasing to be what it is, an arena of party
conflict, its very constitution must be changed, and
thus its value would be destroyed—party spirit must
pervade its_rostidiers. That spirit will rule, more or
less, in its election committees, and influence the de-
cisions at which they arrive. Sir Robert Peel, it will
be seen, carefully abstained from meeting this very
essential point in the inquiries he has referred to the
Select Committee.. The Right Hon. Baronet shrinks
with instinctive dread from attempting so serious an
invasion of the prerogatives of the House of Commons.
Mr. Gisborne, in the course of some practical re-
marks of considerable value upon the working of the
existing law, shewed, from the party character of the
decisions of election committees appointed under it, the
necessity of providing for the exclusion of party spirit,
which yet biassed election committees, and rendered their
.decisions justly suspected of being tainted by its influence.
The constitution of these committees renders them
liable to the suspicion which their decisions tend to con-
firm. The committee is still a party tribunal. Three
Members are selected from one side of the House and
three from the other ; and, by turns, a chairman is taken
from one side of the House to one committee, and from
the other side to the next. This mode of forming a
tribunal is most extraordinary, if the design of the
inquiry be 'a decision in conformity with evidence. To
our minds, it wears the appearance of an expedient,
and that not a wise one. It gives' to each party, alter-
nately, a chairman who has the power to rule
every decision of the committee of which he is the
head, by his single vote. In numerous instances—as the
published reports of the proceedings of election com-
mittees under this law incontestably prove—the mem-
bers of the committee have been equally divided ac-
cording to their party politics ; and the chairman has
decided the point, for or against the petitioners, in con-
felnity with his party views. • Then, on the question
of costs—which, if the inquiry were to be conducted
according to, and the decision governed by, the practice
of every other court, would depend on the result of the in-
quiry—there is a- kind of compromise. A mutual
understanding seems to exist, whatever may be the
merits of the case—however palpably frivolous and
vexatious the petition, or however corrupt the practices
proved against the sitting Member—there shall be no
decision by which costs will be imposed on the losing
party. " We will say nothing about costs ; that may ap-
pear to be severe. The petition was, indeed, wholly un-
supported; and there does not appear to have been any
grounds for the inquiry." On the other hand,
" The bribery by the recognised agents of the
sitting member, was clearly proved: the intimida-
tion was terrible: the treating was on the largest
scale, and 'the member's committee scarcely took any
pains to conceal their participation in the illegal acts.
But, then, such proceedings are so common ! Every one
who has had anything to do with a severely contested
election, knows that these things are-of common occur-
rence." Thus, in the one case the vexatious petitions is
dismissed, and the member against whom it was pre-
sented is made to pay one or two thousand pounds to de-
fend his seat ; which would never have been attacked had
there not been a probability of getting a party chairman ;
nor then, the practice of the Courts been
adopted, and costs followed a failure of the attempt.
In the other case, the seat would, probably, never
have been defended, had the member who had ob-
tained his seat by illegal practices not hoped, in the first
place, that the committee would be presided over by a
chairman taken from his own sido of the House, and
therefore disposed to serve him where the case pressed

twelve hours ; and Lord Howick announced that
he would resist the motion for leave to withdraw the Bill.
That motion will be made on Friday next.. Meanwhile the
situation of the Government is most extraordinary. It has
taken its stand on a position of decided hostility to a majority
of the House of Commons. The House has repeatedly de-
clared that the labour of women and young persons in fac-
tories ought to be regulated, and that the hours of work
should be less than twelve. In the face of these determina-
tions Ministers announce that they have resolved to abstain
from any farther attempt to regulate the hours of labour, and
to resist to the utmost any proposal for the reduction of
those hours. This attitude of the Government, with regard
to the House of Commons, is significant enough. It is a
declaration to the majority that a question, already decided
upon its merits, shall be reconsidered under a sort of Parlia-
mentary duress. " Twice you have decided," says Sir James
Graham, -to the House of Commons, " upon principle, that
the Government is wrong. Repeat that decision- on Friday,
and Ministers will resign." It is not difficult to foresee the
result. The whip will be applied with better effect than it
was last week. Sir Thomas Fremantle's threat of resignation
will be believed by those who only laughed when he talked
of danger to the corn-laws. Ministers will have their majo-
rity, and Lord Ashley's clause go back for renewed and fiercer
agitation to the towns. As respects the important question
at issue, it could not be disposed of in a more unsatisfactory
way. The success of Sir James Graham's motion will be
the success merely of the Minister, and not of the principle
upon which he stakes his Ministerial existence. This posi-
tion of Ministers, however, deeply humiliating as it is, is a
striking example of that moral retribution which, sooner or
later, overtakes unprincipled politicians: The political power,
which was acquired by factious means, deserts them when
they intend to act honestly: They stimulated and encou-
raged a bigoted opposition to every liberal principle of edu-
cation, and the feeling so excited amongst their supporters
disabled them from framing the only kind of education
scheme suited to the wants of the time. They obtained
office by an agitation in support of monopoly, and the neces-
sity of not offending the adherents of the corn-laws is now the
barrier to a real settlement of the factory question. Thus,
Ministers are wholly powerless in a matter which they re-
garded as vitally important. They are deeply convinced that
the hours of labour for women and children ought to be re-
gulated and limited, but they are, by their own avowal, too
weak to propose what they think right. Such a position is
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occupy. It is a derangement of our constitutional system
which ought to be corrected.
TIMES.—" The effect of these various divisions," said the
Home Secretary last night, " as the Bill now stands, has been
to involve the measure in inextricable confusion." Seldom
have we heard a confession so naive and so true. The speaker
had himself, of his own motion and suggestion, attempted
to force the House of Commons to affirm in one week two
contradictory propositions. On Monday the House had vir-
tually resolved, as was admitted by Sir James himself, that
women and young persons should not be allowed to work in
factories more than ten hours a day. After the brief interval
of four days, it found itself required to eat its own words, and
vote that twelve hours' daily labour was allowable. This was
rather sharp practice. The operations of facing about and
wheeling round are easy enough on parade ; they may be seen
accomplished very expeditiously at the Horse-Guards, but five
minutes' walk to the House of Commons brings one to a very
different and far more intractable region. Decency alone re-
quires there a longer delay. The result was that, though the
Ministerial word of command did tell extensively, and
though just round the person of the commander-in-chief there
was tolerable order and discipline, yet mutiny and confusion
prevailed throughout the field. The house was "demo-
ralised." It was called on to pronounce its judgment and
renounce its judgment, to act independently and subserviently
in one and the same act, to be the House of Commons and
Sir James Graham, to pour forth sweet and bitter, blow hot
and cold, say yea and nay, to go backwards and forwards, all
at the same time. This it could not do, or, at least, did not
do. What it did do is not so clear, as the only result was, as
Sir James confesses, inextricable confusion. the House Will
be readily excused by all considerate persons, on the ground
of the novelty and strangeness of the circumstances in which
it was placed. We have only heard of one instance at all
parallel, and that is the case of the unfortunate man
in the " Diary of a Physician," who woke one morning
under the singular persuasion that a violent gust of wind
(Palace-yard is a particularly windy locality) had twisted
his head backwards. His attempts to carry out this unplea-
sant hypothesis involved him in great difficulties and some-
very false positions. It was at breakfast, if we remember
right, that the physician first saw the poor creature under this
delusion. He was then sitting with his back to the table,
twisting round occasionally with the most excruciating
efforts to the tea and muffins. The tails of his coat adorned

his knees, and the lappels his shoulder blades. The nape of
his neck was graced by a very neat tie, which, it appeared,
had been by far the greatest difficulty entailed by his disaster.
As soon as the door was opened he backed out of his chair,
and retrograded up to the physician, with whom he shook
hands a tergo, as the Parthians used to shoot their arrows.
There was a good deal more, which will readily suggest itself,
if not to our reader.s:4n.,avral,, at least to any Member
of the House of Conynons p7.,ient at the two divisions last
Friday. Deeply are iv.e concerried at the perplexity of the
House. It is impossible not to smile, but serious considera-
tions present themselveS. This rotatory movement of opinion
is both undignified and dangerous. The House won't bear
such twisting. The confessed author of all this confusion,
whose own whip had set the House a•spinning, did his best
to fight his own way out of the eddy. In both narrative and
argument he ,was last night most laboriously explicit. He '
opened with a history of all the ins and outs, evidently the •
result of a strong mental effort; and as much required for
the clearing of his own understanding as for that of the
House. The finale of this. history was, as above mentioned,
" inextricable confusion"—all of the Right Hon. Baronet'S own
making. He then divided into three heads the field of opera•
tions open to the Ministry. The first alternative was a com-
promise, say eleven hours a day. This he rejected for two
very good and sufficient reasons ; first, that he would not.
agree to it himself ; secondly, that Lord Asl.ley would not
The second course was to throw up the Bill altogether, and
leave Lord Ashley to bring in another if he liked. This -
would not do. There was every probability that Lord Ash-
ley would like to bring in a Bill, in which case all the trou- •
ble would come over again ; and it was evident that Minis-
ters had already left too much to Lord Ashley, so that they.
would not mend matters by leaving to him the whole Bill.
The third course, and that actually adopted, is a very sim ;
ple one, and might have been stated without any reference -.
to other alternatives ; it is, to make another push for the 12
hours' clause under the technical form of a new Bill, which
is to be done next Friday.

EXTRAORDINABIriLAND-SLlP.—Thiring the night of
Friday last an unusual and remarkable occurrence took place
on Claston estate, in the parish of Dormington, the property
of Edward Foley, Esq., of Stoke Edith-park. A large piece :
of land, consisting of more than three acres of rock and
earth, with forty oak trees, slipped down Dadnor's-hill,:
a distance of 200 yards, into the valley beneath, and. •
now presents a very curious appearance, the projected
masses of rock forming fantastic shapes of caverns, &c.,
and some of the trees remaining upright, as if growing. The'
whole scene is well worthy of inspection. From the ground
cracking, &c., there had been previous indication of the ,
coming " slip," and no doubt the wet weather hastened the
result. The damage occasioned by the occurrence is esti-
mated at 150/. The event has given rise to a variety of
alarming reports about an "earthquake," &c., but we have to
state the real nature of the incident as:above.—Hereford Times.

MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT—Two LIVEIt-
LOST.—On Sundsy last, between twelve and one o'clock, the;
following fatal accident occurred on the river Thames, between ,
Tilbury Fort and Gravesend. The ferry-boat belonging to
Mr. Creed, of the World's End Ferry, Tilbury Fort, left the,
jetty at the latter place in the charge of two men, named.;
Bailey and Howard, having two passengers. The sail was,
made fast, and a sudden squall upset the boat about three- .
quarters of a mile from shore. The accident was observed on'
shore, and the boatmen of Gravesend vied with each-
other in their efforts to reach the spot, but before any assist-
ance could be afforded,. Bailey and Howard, who were:
dressed in fishermen's heavy boots and linen petticoat-trou--
sers, were seen to relax their hold of the boat and sink, The,
passengers were, however, taken up, but in an exhausted
state, and conveyed to the Three Daws public-house, at
Gravesend, where every attention was paid them, but only.
faint hopes are entertained of their recovery. The tide was
running up strong at the time of the accident. Both the men
drowned were inhabitants of Gravesend and married, Bailey
leaving a wife at present in her confinement, and three chil,
dren wholly unprovided for. The bodies of the drowned men
were not recovered last evening.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING. MARCH 27,
Will be performed the Opera of GUILLAUME TELL. Arno'd,
M. Duprez ; Gessler, Mr. G. Horncastle; illiam Tell, Mr.
Stret on ; Lutern, Mdlle. Albertazzi ; Matilda, Miss Romer;
Martha, bliss Betels

After which,
Will be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY
OF OHENF. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert ; BeneJict, M.
Hog.uet Vectris; Beatrix, Wile. Fleury ; Agnes, Mdile Clara
Webster; Julia, iladarae Petit Stephan; Diana, Mdlle. O'Bryan.
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. lid. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55.,
Second Price 3s. ; Pit 3s , Second Price ; Middle Gallery 25..
Second Price ls. ; Upper Gallery ls., Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mit. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSER
'1 HIS EVENING, MARCH 27,
Will be repeated Shakspeare's Comedy of The TAMING OF THE
SHREW. Petrucio. Mr. Webster; Orumio, Mr. Buckstose ;
Katharina, Mrs. Nisbett
After the Comedy, Mr. JOHN PARRY will give his Operatic
Scene, " Norma."
To be followed by a New Drama, called LOLAH ; or, The Wreck
Light. Commodore Tempest, Mr. Strickland; Custard, Mr. Buck-
stone; Lol ah, Madame Celeste.
After which, the Farce of OUT OF PLACE. Sophia Sollikins,
Mr Fit zwiillam.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, Si. ; Pit, Ps. ; Gallery, 28.; Upper
Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
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Tickets and Places to be had of Mr 1. T. Archer, at the Box-
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PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 27,
Will be performed an Eng'ish version of OTELLO. Otello,
Dlr. Allen; Elmiro, Mr. Weiss; Roderigo, Mr. Gardner; lago,
Mr. Burdini; Deademona, Madame Eugenia Garcia; Emilia, Miss
E. 1, onner.
After which, A MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT.
To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE. Natz Tieck, Mr
Keeley; Lisette, Mrs. Keeley.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE
THIS EVENING. MARCH 27,
Will be performed VENICE PRESERVED. Pierre, Mr. H.
Hughes; Jaffier, Mr. E. F. Slville ; Belvidere, Mrs. R. Honner
After which, the Ballet of THE SOLDIER'S DREAM ; or,
A Conscript's Jealousy.
To conclude with ABELARD AND HELOISE, revived with
New Scenery and Dresses.
Places and Pnvate Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
office, from Eleven to Four.

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 26.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42 ; Highest, 54 ; Noon, 55.
BAROMETER, 29.8 —WIND, N.W.
NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 42 minutes after 6 I Evening .. 8 minutes; aver 7.

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