The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-19 00:00:00

knitto 41N.:16.4.11r

One of the largest meetings which eTer took place in
Brighton was held on Monday evening, by adjournment
from that day week, the adjournment being fur the pur-
pose of giving the inhabitants time to read and digest a
report presented by a Committee appointed at a previous
meeting, and which recommended the inhabitants to pe-
tition the Queen in Council for a charter of incorpora-
tion. The meeting did not break up till one o'clock on
Tuesday morning, when the proposal to incorporate the
town was negatived by a large majority.
The repeal rent for the last week amounted to 179/.

An action was tried in the Irish Court of Exchequer,
on Friday and Saturday last, in which the defendant
was a Mr. Benedict Arthur Yates, a gentleman of pro•
perty, and a magistrate of the county Kildare, and the
plaintiff a very poor woman, named Smith. It was an
action for the seduction of the plaintiff's daughter, a girl
of about eighteen. The jury found for the plaintiff, with
300/. damages.
The Gazette of Tuesday contains an Order in Council
defining the boundaries of the divisions assigned to the
different metropolitan police• offices, which will be found
in another part of the paper.

The-Right Rev. Dr. Kennedy and his clergy met last
week at Meath, and have fulminated the following
anathema against any bishop, priest, or layman, who
will take a part in carrying the Charitable Bequests Act
into effect :—"Resolved—Thist any Roman Catholic, lay
or clerical, taking a place on the commission to carry
into effect this odious Act, deserves the heavy censure
of the Church, and the indignant scorn of the people of
Ireland."

SALE OF THE WEST LONDON RAILWAY.—It having
been announced that this railway, which has proved such
an unfortunate speculation to the shareholders in it, was
to be sold by auction on Tuesday, piecemeal, several capi-
talists and contractors attended at the Kensington station
of the railway at Knightsbridge. No sale, however,
took place, as it was announced that, since the adver-
tisement had appeared, announcing the sale, proposals
had been received from the London and Birmingham
Company for the purchase of the line, which proposals,
it was hoped, would meet with the approbation of the
shareholders. The sale was, therefore, indefinitely post-
poned.
DRAYTON BEAUCHAMP.—The Queen Dowager has
caused a donation of 201. to be transmitted to the rector
of Drayton Beauchamp, towards the expenses of build-
ing a national school and a teacher's residence, which
have just been erected here.
If report may be credited, and we hope, in this
case, it will be found correct, the two daughters-in-law
of a Noble Duke, whose name England most wishes to
preserve, are in a state which bids fair to gratify this
desire. This intelligence will, we are sure, give universal
satisfaetion.—Court Journal.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. —The unfavourable stated
the weather has prevented the Queen and the Rorl
Family from leaving the Castle to-day.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horseback this morning, attended by Alajor-Genera
Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry in Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Albert inspected the fini4ll
engraving of his Royal Highness Albert Prince
Wales, after Winterhalter, which was submitted by
•
Mr. Moon to her. Majesty and his Royal Highness.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal High—
ness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Glow'
cester House. His Royal Highness afterwards re-,o*:
turned to his residence at Kew.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening frelli
the Colonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar.
The Lords Committee of the privy Council for the
affairs of Guernsey and Jersey sat yesterday, and re'
sumed the consideration of two petitions from the
Royal Court of Guernsey, touching the conduct of,
the Lieutenant-Governor of the island. The Lord!,
present were the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary 01
State for the Home Department, 111 r. Baron Parke,
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the
Judge of the Admiralty Court.
Mr. Burge, Q.C., was heard in reply, and had lot
concluded his address at four o'clock, when their
Lordships rose, adjourning the case for further hear'
ing until Friday next.

ADELPHI TIIEATRE.
The Adelphi, under the new management, well"
tains its old character' of being the first in the field
with novelties. It has fairly distanced its competitors
in the production of Charles Dickens's Chimes. The
Adelphi chimes rang for the first time last evenin, ,g 1
and a bumper house was collected to see a beauti*
series of tableauvsvivans, illustrative of the goblin story
of some bells that rang an old year out and a n.,_evi
year in. Mark Lemon and Gilbert A'Beckett are spy,
dramatisers of the story and the illustrative sketches 011
Maelise, Stanfield, Leech, and Doyle, have been admin.
bly transferred to canvass by Messrs. T. Pitt and John,
stone. A beautiful copy of Maclise's exquisite Wu!:
trated title-page to the work is used as the drop•snel:
between the four quarters into which the pie° J"
divided. After a prologue spoken, by Miss E. Chap
ras a spirit of the chimes, we are introduct
atty Vock (Mr. 0. Smith) and his daughter, Dm
(Miss Fortescue), and see Trotty's memorable UV
dinner in front of the house of Alderman Cute (11;
Wright). We are next introduced to Sir Josef
Bowley (Mr. Paul Bedford), the poor man's friend,
who plays at skittles once a year with his by
bourers, that is to say, with those who ps, I
their rent, and tyrannises over his toga,"
Secretary Fish, and sends poachers to Prisl,,,P'
and to his philanthropic lady (Miss E.Harding),
subscribes to charities which give more than 11
votes for five guineas. We then meet with W'l
Fern (Mr. Hudson), the English labourer—not theb
English labourer of former days, but the Englit,
labourer whom neglect and penury have driven i've
Misery, and misery to crime; and then we }ill‘
Trotty's dream of the chimes, and see Meg, a 113,1,,.•
serable sempstress, driven to suicide by want;
gloomy parts of the picture being enlivened by f:
kindheartedness of Mrs. Chickenstalker
Mathews), and her quarrels with the hard-hear
well to do, Mr. Tugby (Mr. Wilkinson), umquhile b 5131
porter to Sir Joseph Bowley, but now the husband °I
the ci-devant Mrs. Chickenstalker, and the landlord r
poor Meg. In the last scene Trotty awakes from 11
dream, determining, henceforth, to eschew tripe, itA
all ends happily with the marriage of Meg and Riche's
(Mr. Selby). 0. Smith's Trotty Veck is one of j_s°'
most artistical pieces of acting we have ever witnes'6'
It is quite equal to his old Scrooge. Miss ForteselL
who has, we are glad to see, returned to the theeft
where she first made for herself her fame, -supPnir
him admirably, and made a most interesting chareci;
of Meggy Veck. Wright, as the dogmatical Alder
man, who is " up to everything" and is detertnin.th
to put down "everything," convulsed the audiesce wl,,
laughter by his quaint and ignorant self-suffinieni
The sketch is evidently one from nature, and Wrigio
had the good taste not to " make up" the charactertio
as to bear any personal resemblance to the original; 0,
satire, therefore, does not degenerate into bur.,
Hudson's Will Fern was full of power, and the (J'iii;
truths which he uttered were taken up by the .I'lllAO
ence and applauded to the echo. Paul Bedford
the most of the " poor man's friend," and als,
Harding, as his lady, was an admirable represent! ,o,„
of the fashionable female philanthropist, while
kinson, as the fat, red-faced hall porter, was the vetys
beau ideal of the class of men who ask "
taxes ?" The piece has been put upon the stage ;tii,
the greatest care and attention, and, with a Littlepiiie
cious curtailment, will run pleasantly through eel
Christmas season. The house was crammed to el"
long before the rising of the curtain.

' SPORTING INTELLIGENCIS;
ASHDOWN-PARK COURSING MEETIN"'
TUESDAY. by
THE GOLD CUP.—Mr. Flesher's Empress 11111 6 s'
' (Mr. J. Parkinson's dog absent) • Mr. J. Mstthewl,
Brilliant beat Mr. E. Jones's Jim-along-Josey ; 111'w.
Palmer's Perseverance beat Mr. Etwell's Empress ; 0 I
F. Parkinson's Pirate beat M. Meyrick's Cruiskeear.
Mr. Fowles's Feathers beat Mr. Rake's Regent ; has
11. Miller's Polly ran a bye (Mr. Dunsford's
absent) ; Mr. Etwall's The Winner ran a bye_ ,_(CsPbeol
Wyndham's dog absent) ; Mr. Lawrence's .I.sa*
Mr. Bowles's Blacksmith's Daughter.
Elastic
THE CRAVEN PUPPY STAKES.—Mr. Etwall's
beat Mr. F. Palmer's Picknick ; Mr. Gordon's eff,fir'
beat Dr. Sweeny's Gem; Mr. Fowles's Frighten
ran a bye.
Coursing put a stop to by the fog.
MANCHESTER —TUESDAY.
DERBY .
10 to 1 agst Alarm—off 33 •to 1 agat colt ogti°l
18 to 1 agst Ides Calypso's dam—offer
20 to 1 agst Cobweb colt 33 to 1 agst Rebecca c• A
20 to 1 agat Kedger
25 to 1 agst Pam—t 33 to 1 agst Old ,Englll,‘7l
33 to 1 agat Vireatber',',;r•
25 to 1 agst Y. Eclipse—offd, 6to 1 agst Scotts Av
30 to 1 agst Newsmonger offers to take
CHESTER CUP.
40 to 1 agst Portobello—t 40 to 1 agst Ratan
40 to 1 agt Extempore 40 to 1 agst Morpeth•
Ale done.

Very liti

A deputation from the North Devon Railway he
rect from the Tiverton-road station to Ilfracombe. ilifisl•
Bristol Channel, had au interview with the Earl of the
housie and the Railway Committee on Tuesday,ll'of
Board of Trade. This line goes through Tiver
South Molton, and Barnstaple. Tiverton vra5.,,,r103
sented by Lord Palmerston, Mr. Heathcote, 31." sod
Mr. Tripp ; Barnstaple by Mr. Tarnlyn, barrister, le,
Mr. Lionel Bencraft, town-clerk ; South Molton by /0-
Bawden and Mr. Rickard. The deputation were veil_og
vourably received. This line comprehends the four to
we have mentioned, having a population of nearly 4(l3't, in
inhabitants, and several populous villages, and Will 011
length from the Tiverton -road station to Barnstaple')
34 miles, and to Ilfracombe about 45 miles. to
We have had occasion more (than once of Itiwto
refer to the indisposition of the Hon. C. A. 31111. three
Master of the Household, who has been for the last.cci
months suffering from the consequences of a severe it
dent, but is now nearly convalescent. Neverthelefic'ep,
being doubtful whether the Hon. Gentleman could to
ture, without risk of retarding his complete r•c°v,e,rl;oo'
resume his present official functions, which requa hand
stant activity, attendance, and exertion, we under. eO,
that the Queen has, with her usual considerate kindDSr.
desired the Earl of Aberdeen to ascertain whether,
rihe
Murray would prefer the less arduous duties of !:„ler's
matic employment, and, in the event of that 31'niet.
receiving an affirmative reply, to otTer him an APP`The
ment on the occurrence of the first eligible TACESCP
Gazette may probably bear witness ere long to the
rectness of our intelligence.—Times.
l Pr'
Till LATE EARL OP LIMERIICSI,—The morti
mains of the late Earl of Limerick lay in state on "met
day last, at South-hill Park, where the universaireebron
and esteem in which the lamented Lord had log thfif
held attracted a vast concourse of persons to pal
last tribute of regard. The hall and two of the Priur-old
apartments were prepared for this solemn occasion' l#
ingress was freely given to all who presented thee/0c op
between the hours of two and four o'clock. In the felioas
of the saloon, which was carpeted with black elotbsvollf
placed, on a platform povered with a black Telve
and displaying the armorial bearings of the farailt
coffin, covered with black velvet, on the lid of whi(-rd,
plate bearing the style and titles of the deceased
and at the head of which was placed, resting ef $0
cushion of crimson velvet and gold, the coronet °or'
Earl. Six colossal silver candelabra, containing t re•
lights, stood round the biers and two of the neared too
lotions sat as mourners at the head of the coffin, *lirnia*
members of the establishment attired in deep 1:13°I11,—e Jid
sat at the feet. Behind the mourners was placed t"cor
of feathers, and at the upper extremity of the rbear
hung a large esetucheon, displaying the armorial were
ings of the deceased Nobleman. The apartment-5 Al>
lighted b wax-lights placed at intervals round the wiiik
At ten o'clock yesterday morning the mournful „t
cad, left South-hill Park for Ireland, and will army
Limerick House on Saturday, where the body will
lie in state on Sunday next; and on Monday, t'sitetl
inst., the remains of the lamented Lord will be dell 00
with those of his ancestors in the butial-plac• °t o,
family under the Pery Chapel, in Limerick Cathecirto I
On Monday morning a fine fat ox, belongingbeir%
butcher, in Wells-street, Oxford-street, while VG
driven, with several others, through Brooks the
Holborn, suddenly left the herd, and walked IT ope,
private entrance of a house, occupied by Mr. 1' I the
tailor, &c., Dornington-street, and after walking liPsoge
passage, became firmly fixed at the end. Thep 11„050;
was so peculiarly constructed that it was n°6 raineo
ble to get it out alive, and after the animal had ref T 1
in the same position from Monday untii
morningway
day night, it was found necessary to kill it, whch had
not done without considerable difficulty. So swollen , re-
the beast become from its cramped position that of
quired the united exertions of two horses and upward
twenty men to extricate it. t 1 raid
Tn
ted brevet writ take ply doe
commencement of the new year. This has been loncllf
the EXPECTED
lon-e
that BRYVET.--It is confide®i the
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to the army, and we are sure that it will be g
nat
received.--Herald.

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