The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-03 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY

OLD COUR'''.
(ilp!ore hE REc3nDnn )
A lad, named .lolza Clark, who had been convicted of
s.lealina two shirts and other goods, the property of
Allred Gill, was sentenced to be transported for seven
ycsrs.
Two young men, named Cooper and Ellis, who had
been convicicit of larceny, were sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonwent, with hard labour.
The Coutt, at its rising, adjourned to the 16th inst.

MARLBR4Y-STREET.—(THISDAI.)
Two VERY RESPECTABLE MEN?—Edward Clark
and Juings Clark, two notorious thieves, were placed be-
fore Mr. Bingham, charg,d with being found loitering
about Jermyn street under circumstances of a suspicious
nature.
It appear, d from the evidence of Jeapes and Gummer,
two active officers of the C division, that about six o'clock
this morning they were on duty in Jerrnyn-street in
plai❑ clothes, when their attention was called to the
prisoners and another, man, not in custody, who were
lurking about in a very suspicious manner near a
silversmith's shop. The constables watched them
for a few minutes, when the prisoner James
Clark left his c mpanien and crossed over to
the opposite of the street, and examined the door
of a public house. He then came back to the other two,
and they all three walked towards Regent's-circus fol-
lowed by the constables. Directly the prisoners and the
other man caught sight of the constables they attempted
to run eff, but the two Clarks were immediately collared
by Jeapes and Gummer, and the other effected his
escape. The constables conveyed the former prisoners
to the station, and on the way there James Clark threw
away the two skeleton keys produced, which were
picked up by another constable. At the station the
prisoners were searched, and on James Clark was found
a dark lantern, two large black bags, and a box of inci-
ter matches. The keys were so contrived that they would
pick'alraost any street-door lock.
The prisoners, i❑ answer to the charge, said they were
two respectable men, and the reason they were in
Jerilyn-street at that early hour of the morning was,
that they had promised to meet a friend there and accom-
pany him to market. The bags found upon them were
for the purpose of putting their goods in, and the lan-
tern they carried to show them light. As to the keys,
they knew nothing at all about them.
In reply to Mr. BINGIIAM—Jeapes sad tte bags were
about a yard wide and two yards in depth, and were
such as were commonly used by thieves and burglars.
John Story. 414, City Police, said the prisoners be-
longed to a notorious gang of thieves and housebreakers,
and had been in custody several times.
Mr. BINGHAM remanded the prisoner for a week.
A DRUNKEN CoUNT.—Charles Count de Weist was
charged with being drunk and refusing to pay his cab
fare.
The noble defendant, last night, while in a state o
wine, got into a cab, and after having been driven about
tor some time, got our, and refused to pay 45., the amount
of the cabman's fare. The cabman, who was deter•
wined not to be bilked, drove the Count to the station.
The Count, who now expressed his willingness to pay
the cabman, was fined five shillings for being drunk.
HAY3IARKEI"THEATRE.

Shakspere's Richard 11. was revived here last
evening for the purpose of enabling Mr. Macready to
appear in the character of the King. This is the
first time Mr. Macready has ever appeared in this
character before a metropolitan audience, a circum-
stance at which we are somewhat surprised, as we
know that in the provinces the character of Richard
If. is one of his favourite characters, and is, moreover,
one admirably suited to his peculiar powers; it abounds in
contrasts, and affords abundant opportunity for the
exhibition of fiery energy alternating with the heart-
rending pathos of despair, in the delineation of which
Mr. Macready is unapproachable, and which last
night completely electrified the audience. In the
earlier scenes, the character of the King was deli-
neated by Mr. Macready with nice discrimination—
he was the reckless rather than the profligate
king ; even in his scenes with old Gaunt it
was evident that he was not altogether with-
out good feeling, and that however his heart
might have been corrupted with pleasure, he was not
absolutely heartless. The great scene in the third
act, in which the sudden revulsion from the pomp and
pride,
and self-will and self-reliance of a king, to the
abject despair of an utterly ruined man, over-
whelmed, and crushed beneath the weight of his too
great calamity, was magnificently given—full
of towering passion in the earlier portion,
and most touchingly pathetic in the latter ;
it was a perfect gem. In all the subsequent scenes
Mr. Macready was true to nature and true to Shaks.
pere ; finely did he dash the despairing submission and
humility, which is the groundwork of the character,
with flashes of ungovernable fury, with dashes of
bitter sarcasm, and with the peevish complaining
of agonised suffering, as he is alternately
moved to rage by the insolence of the nobles,
chafed by the brutality of Shrewsbury, or
annoyed by the petty indignities to which he is sub-
jected ; and in the last scene in which the o'erwrought
brain of the captive is struggling on the verge of
madness, the acting of Mr. Macready was exquisitely
pathetic and true to nature ; the despairing tone and
manner iu which he gave "I'll hammer it out," as
he strove to collect and retain those thoughts which
but for such an effort would have escaped him, was
heartrending. Altogether the Richly 11. of Mr. Ma-
cready fine, very fine, and ranks among the very
first of his Shakesperian impersonations. The Bo-
lingbroke of Mr. Davenport was admirable; he has
studied the character attentively, and has exactly
conceived the Shakesperian idea of it, hiding his
worst of thoughts beneath the best of words. Mr.
Davenport gave the part of Bolingbroke with an oily
suavity of manner and expression, a mock humility
hiding an overtowering ambition, which showed that
he had carefully studied and thoroughly understood
the character which he delineated so admirably.
The other characters were all well sustained, Red at the
conclusion Mr. Macready was called on. The house
was crowded.