The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-18 00:00:00

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

The new tragedy of The Templar continues to
draw crowded houses here every evening. We saw
it again on Saturday, and are more than confirmed in
the favourable opinion which we had previously
formed of the high dramatic merit of this most inte-
resting play, of the admirably perfect manner in
which the principal characters are delineated by Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Kean, and of the splendour and
magnificence of the mise en scene. The house was
crowded to suffocation.

FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
The following are the last returns of the gross re-
ceipts of the principal French Railways :
NOETHERX.—From Nov. 5 to Nov. 11 : Passengers,
194,803 f.; goods, 265,804 f.; total, 460,607 f.
RouEN.—From Nov. 3 to Nov. 9: Passengers,
67,817 F.; goods, 81.7151.; total, 149,5321.
HAVRE.—From Nov. 3 to No►. 9 : Passengers,
25,7651.; goods. 33 6441. ; total 59,409 f.

ORLEINS.—From Nov. 4 to Nov. 10 : Passengers,
92,643 f: ; goods, 117,139 f.; total, 209,787 f.

13ORDEAUX.—From Nov. 4 to Nov. 10 •. Passengers,
43,202 f.; goods, 41,4861.; total, 84,6881.

VIERZON.—From Nov. 4 to Nov. 10 ; Passengers,
46,649 f.; goods, 39,688 f.; total, 86,387 f.
BOULOGNE.—From Nov. 4 to Nov. 10: Passengers,
16,749 f.; goods, 25,518 f.; total, 42,267 f.

DIEPPE.—From Nov. 3 to Nov. 9: Passengers, 3,956 f.;
goods, 8,547 f.; total, 12,503E_

NANTES.--From Nov. 2 to Nov.B : Passengers, 19,514 f.;
goods, 8.338 f.; total, 27,852 f.

STRASBURG —From Nov. 4 to Nov. 10: Passengers,
78,952 f.; goods, 64,3841.; total, 143.336 f.

BALE.—„ From Nov. 2 to Nov. 8: Passengers, 25,191 f.;
goods, 28,757 f.; total, 53,948 f.

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MONTERRAILL—From Oct. 29 to Nov. 4: Passengers,
9,433 f; goods, 13,412 f.; total, 22.845 f.

LyoNs. —From 0ct.27 to Nov. 2: Passengers, 125,779 f.;
goods, 44,889 f.; total, 170,C68f.

CHARTREB.—From Oct. 28 to Nov. 3: Passengers,
27,084 f.; goods, 9,921 E; total, 37,005 f.

CARDINAL WISEMAN.

At the conclusion of, the ordinary business of the
court at Guildhall, on Saturday, a gentleman appeared
before Alderman Challis, to ask his advice relative to a
point of general interest at the present time. He wished
to know whether the late innovation by the Pope of
Rome upon the rights of the Sovereign of this country
rendered his emissaries, or those executing his com-
mands, liable to any penalty? He had in his hand en
Act of Parliament, passed in 1846 (9 & 10 Vic., c. 59),
wherein it repealed certain Acts to enforce pains and
penalties upon individuals for holding religious opinions
contrary ta the forms cf the Ettlblikhed Church. One
of the clauses, however, though it took away the penalty
for " bringing in and putting in exc:cution of bulls, writ-
ings, or instruments, and other superstitious things, from
the see of Rome, enacted that the aruo should be cond.
dered an offence against the lave. Under this Act, was
the conduct of Cardinal Wiseman, in carrying out the
instructions of the Pope, an offence punishable by a
common information beicro a magistrate?
Alderman Challis said that the Act alluded to by the
pat h• before him certainly took away the penalties in-
sticuttd by the 13th of Elizabeth, cap. 52; but at the
same time any one might, he thought, constitute himself
a prosecutor and complain of Dr. Wiseman (or any one
else, acting in a similar manner, to forward :be views ot
his Holiness) before any justice of the peace of the dis-
trict in which the offence was committed. He had no
doubt that a little imprisonment would do the Cardinal
some goad; but he would not like to send him to prison.
However, he anticipated there would be no necessity to
take such a stop. as it was reported that the Cardinal
bad already received notice to quit London in forty-
eight hours.

TUB NATIONAL CONCERTS.—Tbe following were
among the audience at Her Majesty's Theatre during the past
week : —llis Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Wei-
mar, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Douro, the Marchioness of Aylesbury, the Duke and
Duchess of Montrose, the Duke and Duchess of Leinster,
the Earl and Countess of Jersey, the Marquis of Headfort
and Lady Olivia Taylour, the Dowager Marchioness of Ely
and the Ladies Loftus, the Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl of
Westmoreland, the Marchioness of Westmeath, Lord and
Lady Southampton, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord Temple-
more, the Earl of Ellesmere and the Ladies Egerton, the
Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, Lord GifTord, Lord Clarence
Paget, Lord and Lady Burghersh, Lord Ward and the Hon.
Dudley Ward, Viscount Canterbury, Lord Gerald Fitzgerald,
Lord Bateman, Lord Macdonald, and the Hon. James
Macdonald, the Earl of Compton, the Earl of Euston, Lord
Walpole, Lord Wynford, the Earl of Mountcharles, the Earl
and Countess of Glengall, Lord and Lady Naas, Lord and
Lady Blanche Dupplin, Lord and Lady Frances Gordon,
Viscount Malden, Captain and Lady Adela Ibbetson, Sir J.
Burgoyne and the Misses Burgoyne, Sir Edmund and Lady
Antrobus, Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere and the Misses Hope
Vera, Hon. 'Edmund Phipps, Lady Louisa Parker, lion.
Mrs. Leicester Stanhope, Colonel and Lady Emilia Seymour,
Hon. Mrs. Villiers, Sir Henry Webb, Sir George Dashwood,
Sir William Fraser, Colonel and Lady Sarah Lindsay, Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. Osborne, Mrs. Dodd, Mr. Montague Gore,
M.P., lion. Colonel Liddell, lion. Colonel Gordon (Grena-
dier Guards), Hon. General and Mrs. Meade, Mr. and Miss
de Horsey, Mr. and Mrs. Brereton Trewlawny, Mr. and
Mrs. Prideaux Brune, Mr. Hubert de Burgh and Miss de
Burgh, Mr. Davrson Darner, Hon. R. Bourke, be.
DESTRUCTION OF COCKERMOUTII CHURCH, CUM-
BERLAND, BY Frals.—We regret to state that the ancient
and beautiful church at Cockermouth, Cumberland, wag de-
stroyed by fire on Friday morning. Scarcely a portion, with
the exception of the walls and the tower, is left standing.
The fire must have broken out about two o'clock in the
morning. An individual who passed by about half-past one
o'clock, states that the church was then safe. A policeman,
however, named Chapman, observed flames issuing from the
edifice soon afterwards, and he gave an instant alarm. The
whole town was soon in commotion, and the utmost activity
was displayed in endeavouring to put a stop to the progress
of the fire. Only one engine, however, was available, and
' there being but a small supply of water, every exertion was
useless, and of this beautiful church scarcely anything is left
but a heap of ruins. We believe that most of the church
books and valuable records were preserved. It is, however,
melancholy to state that the valuable paintings in the
church, which were so much admired, were destroyed. The
church which is destroyed, or chapel of ease as it has some-
times been called, was dedicated to All Saints. It was a
magnificent building, and was situated on an eminence at the
head of Kirkgate, Cockermouth. The church was enlarged
and beautified in 1825. The Rev. Edward Fawcett, M.A.,
the present curate of the church, has held the living a great
many years. The occurrence has been a very severe blow
to him. It at present supposed that the fire was caused
by some pipes which had just been laid in the chancel to
warm it through the winter.

The Lord Chancellor, in the course cf an argument
on the working of an Act of Parliament, observed on Satur-
day, that he once heard a distinguished person describe the
distinction between the English and the Irish to consist in
this, "that the English contrived to make bad laws work
while the Irish contrived to make good laws fail."
EXETER BALL.—The Hail will be rele Messiah
on
Friday, the 29th instant, with a performance of
by the Sacred Hpnic Society.