The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-01 00:00:00

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DECREASE OF CRIME IN LEEDS —From some
criminal returns just issued in Leeds it is shown that the
number of persons apprehended by the police of that borough
during 1849 was smaller than in any previous ear since
with the exception of the year 1824, and that the de-
crease since 1836 has been exceedingly great. During this
time, also, there has been a constant and large increase in the
population, which numbered in 1821 83,796 persons; in 1831,
123,393, and in 1841, 151,874. The Leeds Mercury points
90t ttrat,if the population of the borough should have in-
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as at the same rate to 1849, it would now be 179,146 ;
d if the number of prisoners had kept pace with the popu-
lation since 1823, it would have been 3,667 in 1849, whereas
the actual number was only 1,830, or just about half the pro-
portion of crime to population in 1823.
AN AMIABLE SeousE.— A. woman of the name of
Catherine k'Dowall, married to a carter of that name, who
resides in Dempster-street, being seized with a determination
'to do something deiperate to her husband, caught hold of a
Pan of boiling water from the fire, hurried into the apartment
where the unconscious wight was sleeping, carefully removed
from his side her young son, and then, without compunction.
find with unerring aim, threw the whole of the scalding fluid
fQii upon the unhappy sleeper. The poor fellow, thus sud-
denly and unceremoniously aroused by a feeling of intense
Pain, bawled out in such agony that the room was soon
tilled with neighbours, anxious to tender their services to the
iajured man. The police were soon called and the woman
apprehended. The unlxtunate husband is in a very dan-
gerous state.—North .11ritislt Mail.
CANAL PROPERTY IN WARWICK AND STAFFORD.--
At the meeting of the Coventry C.,nal Company, on Tues-
day, a dividend of 8/- per 1001. share was declared for the
half-year. The general halt-yearly meeting 8f the pro-
prietors of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal was held at
the Woolpack Inn, Warwick, on Tuesday, when a dividend
of .21. per cent. for the half-year was declared. The half-
Yearly meeting of the proprietors of the IVarwick and .Napton
Caul took- place on Wednesday, at the Woolpack Inn, War-
Nai k, when a dividend was declared for the half-year of 1/.
per colt—Binning/tam Gazette.

HER MAJESTY'S T
- The alterations in the interior of her 11I+sty's
theatre are progressing for the grand national con-
certs, while the exterior has been newly painted.
The decorations will be of geranium colou.t. The
concerts will o:mmence about the middle of October.
Mdlle. Angry, Signor Calz.dari, Monsieur and
Mr. Weiss will sing at the first concert. Mr. Sims
Reeves and Maclaine Biscaccianti will display their
vocal powers at the second. The hand, consisting of
ninety-eight performers, the elite of the orchestres of
her Majesty's Theatre and Covent-garden, sii;l be
under the able conductorship of Mr. 'Life, who has
composed a cavatina for the American prima donna,
a hunter's glee for the chorus, and anew overture.
The last two mentioned compositions will be pr-
formed on the opening night. The chorus, partly
German and partly English, will bs first-rate.

THEATRE ROYAL PRINCESS'S.
Hamlet was performed here last evening, and the
cast was as strong-, the rendering as careful, and mica
en scene as perfect, as that of Twelfth Night on
Saturday-. Hamlet was the character i❑ which Mr.
Charles Kean made his first great impression oh a
metropolitan audience. He fairly took the town by
storm in it, and has continued to be the Hamlet par
excellence ever since. His personation of. the Prince
of Demnark, last night, was exquisitely beautiful ;
every portion of the character was brought out, and
amidst the very whirlwind of his passion, even when
it was evident that "the mind was overthrown,"
yet it was equally evident that the mind thus over-
thrown was that of a ripe scholar and a polished gen-
tleman. Mrs. Charles Kean was the Ophelia, end
performed the part with a delicate appreciation of the
effects produced by occasional flashes of expiring
reason on the mind of " one distraught" with a most
pathetic truth to nature ; her expression in giving the
snatches of song was exquisitely touching. Miss
Philiipps as Gertrude was admirable. Harley and
Meadowes were the gravediggers—c'est tout dire en
un mot. The Polonius of Addison was excellent, and
the Osric of Alfred Wigan the very perfection of
foppery. The scenery was all new, and all appro-
priate, and worked excellently; the play, in particular,
is worthy of especial commendation. The theatre
was crowded in every part—quite as crowded as it
was on Saturday evening.

ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.
Last night Mazeppa was performed, according to
the announcement in the bills, for the 92d time this
season, and notwithstanding the frequency of its
repetition its attraction seems to continue with com-
paratively but little abatement. Last night the house
was very well filled, and the audience appeared to be
greatly interested in the petformance. A changeable
petite ballet on the double tight rope followed the
first piece. The new scenes in the circle succeeded,
introducing Mr. Henderson, the celebrated somersault
thrower, who appeared for the first time, and whose
feats were quite surprising. The displays of horse-
manship by Mr. John Bridges and the other members
of the troupe were enthusiastically applauded. In the
course of the evening Miss Annie Hardie sung a
Scotch ballad with much sweetness, which was
unanimously encored. The entertainments concluded '
with a favourite farce.