The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-08 00:00:00

THE WELSH CHURCH.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
" We do hear them speak in our tongues the won-
derful works of God.' What a glorious opening
scene, and how gloriously continued on. "Their
sound is gone out into all lands."—" There is neither
speech nor language but their voices are heard among
them."—Even the distant isolated Briton rejoiced in
the heavenly privilege, and his descendants have en-
joyed it as their rightful inheritance to the present
day. But, alas ! here we are forced to stop. A
change has come over their fortunes; and when those
Britons now stand forward to hear the joyful tidings
in their tongue wherein they were born, they meet
with an unqualified refusal. No," says the Church
of England, " you shall hear no such things unless
you learn English."
A short time ago we adverted to the practice in the
diocese of Llandaff, of denying the communion service
to the poor in their native tongue, and the many
other unchristian practices concurrent with that ;
and as such practices must be too notorious to escape
public animadversion,: it may be asked why the ag-
grieved parties do not remonstrate and memorialise
the Bishop on the subject. Memorialise the Bishop!
Why, he has been memorialised, expostulated with,
entreated, implored, supplicated upon the subject.
And what is said on the part of the Bishop ? Why,
that he is pastor pastorum, and not pastor populi;
and with these scraps of Latin the matter is dismissed.
The Bishop does his work by deputy, and the people
remain as they were. Deputyism and sinecurism
form the vital air of the Church of England. They
are the oxygen and hydrogen of its constant respira-
tion, only that to this combination is added another
ingredient of no less general diffusion, and that is
nepotism. This is the laughing gas of the Establish-
ment. It was this principle that operated so effica-
ciously in the recent arrangements in the parish of
Mamhilad, and produced the usual fruits there. In
this parish the people were accustomed to hear the
service of the Church in their native Welsh language;
but about the beginning of the present year the Welsh
clergyman having left, it was contrived that through
the exercise of some little reciprocities between influ-
ential persons in this diocese and others on the English
side of the Severn, without in the least consulting the
convenience of the parishioners, an English clergyman
was placed here totally ignorant of the Welsh lad-
guage, and who, of course, withheld from them their
customary service. Upon this the parishioners de-
termined upon addressing the Bishop, and accordingly
a petition was drawn up to the following effect, and
delivered to the Bishop :
"To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of
Llandaff.
" We, the undersigned inhabitants of the parish of
Mamhilad, in the county of Monmouth, and diocese
of Llandaff, humbly beg permission to state to your
Lordship," &c. And here they proceed to say that
they had been accustomed to have the service of their
parish church performed in their native Welsh lan-
guage, and that the congregation was often very con-
siderable, but that in consequence of the change al-
luded to, it was continually diminishing, and was
then reduced to seven individuals ; and then they added
that if such practice was persisted in, they had no
alternative but to absent themselves altogether from
their parish church, and seek some other place of wor-
ship, where they could hear the word of God in their
native tongue, and concluding with a prayer that the
Bishop would redress their grievances.
Would it not be natural to suppose that such an
appeal would be immediately attended to ? But no.
The pastor pastorum had nothing to do with this vox
populi. Week after week passed away, and nothing
was done ; and the last we heard of Mamhilad was,
that the seven tenacious churchmen had at last dwin-
dled into five. Whether those five have followed their
neighbours we know not ; but this we are assured of,
that there is a Dissenting chapel to be erected in the
parish, to which a popular and eloquent Welsh
preacher will be appointed ; and the swarm which has
left the old hive will be better housed, and if not more
wholesomely, at least more bountifully fed.
But one other fact, not less characteristic of the
system is, that this same English clergyman has been
also placed as minister to the new church in the ad-
jacent iron works, in the midst of a Welsh-speaking
population, under the patronage of the Pastoral Aid
Society. Little do the contributors to that charity
suspect how their money is applied.
It may be asked, where will all this end ? We do
not possess the faculty of second sight, but with such
active causes before us we will venture to predict a
few effects, and in so doing we shall announce a few
facts, probably new in certain quarters. There is
even now a decree gene forth from the Vatican that
will ere long visit this nefarious system with the re-
tribution it so righteously deserves : for there are at
this moment preparing for the ministry in a Roman
Catholic seminary a number of young 'Welshmen,
well acquainted with the language, talented, elo-
quent men, devoted to their creed, who, as soon as
arrangements are complete, will be sent out into the
principality as missionaries and parish priests ; and,
what is more, there is actually a Welsh Catholic
Bishop, consecrated for Wales ; yea! and he will fix
his residence in the ancient see of Llandaff; yea, his
lamnrnoretdhyouotf, and
that,
and
alat,
too,
in caatshvetal of
fare alreadyP
magnificence
importance of his charge, where, surrounded by his
suffragans and coadjutors, he will complete the or-
ganisation which his Church is so competent to design.
The Church of Rome was once expelled by the
Church of England for not ministering in a language
understood by the people. Three hundred years of
exile have taught her wisdom. We shall see her en-
gage her rival with the same weapons, and most pro-
bably not without effect. " See," she will say to the
injured and insulted people of Wales, pointing to the
Church of England, See how that false, heartless
cries. Come ye to me, and be ye comforted
stepmother of yours famishes your souls and mocks
your
and fed." And when this takes places, who is to
enter into battle in defence of the Protestant faith ?
Is it the crippled, crutched, and dotaged Church of
England ? Will she resist the march of mighty
Rome when she comes forth in the vigour of her re-
novated youth? Is it the fashion-ridden Anglicised
clergy of the Establishment, who preach to bare
walls, that will direct the popular feeling and stay the
progress of the enemy? No; if the encroachment is
to be resisted at all, it is not by the Church of Eng-
land that it will be done, but by her deadly enemies,
the Dissenters. And in that conflict, if the Dissenters
are defeated, the Church of England is gone; but if
the Dissenters prevail, that very success will establish
their own supremacy, and be equally fatal to the
Church. Lo, this is our prediction !

BILL MACERS.—It is a matter of great surprise
amongst men of business in the city, that, notwithe
standing the innumerable warnings which the public
have received, through the Press, against intrusting
securities for money to persons unknown, and
after the repeated convictions which have taken
place, in the cases of bill-stealers, and the
severe sentences which have been passed upon the delin-
quents, there should be exhibited daily evidence of the
credulity of persons, in other respects, possessed of
ordinary good sense. Tho practice of bill-stealing is
carried on to an enormous extent in the west end of the
town. There are numbers of persons about the fashion-
able part of the metropolis who are designated "Bill
maters," alias, bill agents. They form a kind of part-
nership, and play into each other's hands with much in-
genuity. The firm consists, in each locality, generally of
three individuals, each of whom has a different character
to perform. They are called " the bill macer," " the grab
macer," and " the buffing macer." The bill macer is the
head or representative of the pecuniary strength of the firm,
and is to be considered as the negotiator. The grab
macer is to be found constantly haunting coffee-houses
and taverns on thelook out for those who may be anxious
to get " bits of genuine stiff," or good bills, discounted,
in order to introduce them to the bill-macer, who is at
all times ready to misappropriate ; and the buffing-
macer is always in the way to be at the beck and call
of the other maters, in order to swear to the right of
possession on the part of the negotiator, and to the posi-
tive payment of the amount, with deduction of the inte-
rest to the unfortunate person, who calculates upon the
accommodation after he has Placed the security at the
mercy of this gang of thieves. It is well known that
robberies are every day perpetrated upon the system
above described ; and when a gentleman happens to fall
into the snare so ingeniously laid and acted upon, the
buffer is sure to beat him by a circumstantial detail in
which time and place and the number of sovereigns paid
(for the' negotiator always pays in gold) are sworn to,
except indeed he is prepared to act with more than
ordinary nerve in his own defence.
TRAVELLING IN SPAIN.—We read in a Madrid
journal—" Mail-coaches, with three places for pas-
sengers, like those of France, have been established upon
all our roads. It is difficult to give an idea of the multi-
plication of public carriages of all kinds in Spain. They
are running in every direction, and there is so much op-
position, that the fares are brought extremely low, and
travelling has become so greatly increased, that the inns
and other establishments for their accommodation
daroe
as greatly improved. If our highways are but)look
to
the brigands who infest them, foreigners f! . _
f __.
explore our country and its interesting curiosities,
hitherto almost unknown to the rest of Europe.
Galignani's Messenger.
Corr ELECTRICITY.--Although it is not quite
ma be Reran
new, it is not generally known tha t
na
oud
incaoffee. The manneyr
and truly electrified with newly gr
of doing so was exhibited
otow-tn.heAwrliter of this a few days
arge coffee-mi driven
ago at a shop in the New T
grinding coffee into a hull, b
by a steam-engine, was
In the barrel stood a copper sco!)p, directly. underg the fall
of the fresh-ground coffee. An iron rod being held within
an inch or so of the copper scoop, an instantaneous flash of
lightning, or stream of electric fluid, was attracted by the
iron. The same result followed when the finger was em-
ployed instead of the rod, and a slight shock, like the punc-
ture of a pin, was quite perceptible. By a rude contrivance,
a shock was also communicated from the ground coffee, to the
tail of cat, when off scampered the bewildered animal in a
state of the most earnest astonishment. Altogether the
• matter is curious, and not beneath the attention of the phi-
losopher. Can there be electricity in flour, oatmeal, or snuff?
These are exposed to friction as well as coffee ; and a test
' Iwhich proves the one to be genuine or the reverse, may be
useful with regard to the others too.—Correspondent of the
Scotsman.

IVONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM TES MORNING PAPERS OF TMIS DAY.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The meeting of the Bank Proprietors held
this morning to consider the propositions of Government
relative to the new charter,was less numerously attended
than might have been anticipated, probably owing to
the shortness of the notice, it only having appeared on
Saturday, and all country bankers, who form a large
class of parties interested in Bank stock, would be too
much engaged in their own coneerns -to have much time
to bestow upon this. The room was, however, tolerably
full. As most of those present had read the outline of
the project- as given in the Morning Papers, the chief
objects of curiosity with them evidently were to learn
whether the Directors approved of it, and whether in
the course of the negotiation they had been able to make
any successful stand against what wasoriginally proposed.
The correspondence read before the meeting was very
long, but it might be collected from it that the Directors
had attempted to reduce the annual allowance to be paid
to Government for their exclusive privileges lower than
120,000 j, the sum fixed and paid under the present
charter, but without success. -It appears also that Mr.
Goulburn originally intimated that he would expect a
lower rate of interest than 3 per cent. on the 11,000,0004
the capital of the Bank lent to the Government. This
was strongly objected to, and the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer gave way on that particular point. In the gene-
ral discussion of this morning there was very little to
notice, most of the Proprietors evidently reserving them-
selves for the adjourned meeting on Monday next, when
they will have fortified themselves by a careful perusal of
the correspondence, which is ordered to be printed and
distributed forthwith.
In general the feeling was sufficiently amicable. The
only blow aimed at the Board of Directors was a com-
plaint of the manner in which the elections to seats at
that Board take place, and also of the system of rota-
tion, by which each member arrives at the chair in suc-
cession. There was an evident desire on the part of the
Proprietors, that the new charter should contain provi-
sions to remedy these defects ; that the election of Di-
rectors should not be, as it is at present, a mere form ;
and that the Directors themselves should elect that
member of their body to the chair who should be found
best qualified, and should retain him there as long as
the interests of the corporation required. This
would assimilate it to the Bank of France, the constitu-
tion of which has been found to work so well.
As far as regards the quoted value of Bank Stock,
there is nothing to indicate whether the Proprietors
think themselves in a better position or not than they
were before the present communication. Yesterday it
left off at 1951 to 6, to-day at 195 to 7, the widened
margin showing the caution of the jobbers in protecting
themselves against heavy sales.
HERALD.—On the details of the proposed banking
arrangements opinion will, we believe, be found more
uniform than could have been expected from the variety
and power of the interests that will be affected by the
change. We have every reason to believe that the joint-
stock banks, and particularly those in London, will be
perfectly satisfied with the proposed alterations in the
law, and that they will in consequence offer no opposi-
tion to the progress of the measure through Parliament.
There will be some grumbling amongst the private banks
of issue, but even there it will by no means be general,
simply because they expected that their interest would
not have met with so much consideration in the Pre-
mier's plan. They will, therefore, remain quiescent be-
cause they expected that their situation would have
been worse.
One point will, we believe, be raised by the issuing
banks, namely, that it will not be fair to tie them down
to the average circulation of the last two years as a max-
imum, on the ground that it has been below the general
average in the ordinary state of trade. This objection,
and some others of a similar character, are, however, of
such minor consideration, that we need not dwell upon
them at present. As the special separate weekly re-
turns will show the precise situation of every individual
bank, it is calculated that the exposure will lead to the
extinction of many small concerns, or their amalgama-
tion with others, so that the general tendency of the
measure will be towards concentration.
The feeling in the commercial circles we may state,
without qualification, is decidedly favourable. When
the system is once in proper working order, it is ex-
pected to produce greater . stability in trade, and throw
impediments in the way of gambling speculation which
will not be easily surmounted.
The deputies from the joint-stock. banks meet to-
morrow, but we are given to understand that they will
call a general meeting of the whole body for some day
next week, without at present expressing any opinion of
their own.
As for the banking interest in Scotland, we may safely
predict that they are perfectly content to be let alone
for the present, and in this view we have as little doubt
that the great body of the people will concur. We cannot
however, say so much for Ireland, for there the general
feeling is, we believe, precisely the reverse, and from the
banking statistics which we exhibited in our last, it
cannot be said to be without very cogent reasons.
We have given what we believe to be a fair view of
the first impressions produced by the currency measure
of Ministers, and if they are altered on further con-
sideration, we shall notice the changes of opinion as
they occur.
SUN.—The Stock Market closed this afternoon firm in
appearance, Consols being 99f to ; Exchequer Bills
were 755. to 775. premium ; Bank Stock realised 196 to
197. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. receded a
little, being 102+ to
Spanish Bonds rose upon the intelligence of a new
Ministry being formed. The Five per Cents. were 23i j-,
and the Three per Cents. 341 to f. Portuguese Con-
verted improved to 45 and 46, owing to the surrender of
Almeida. Cuba Bonds were at 92 to 93 ; Russian ob-
tained 1174.
The Railways were rather quieter, and the alterations
since the morning are not material.
The Exchange on Hamburgh and Paris was steady.
On Antwerp and Trieste it was rather lower, and on
Amsterdam a shade higher.
The following is the official return of the exports of
bullion from the port of London for the week ending
Tuesday last :
Silver coin to Rotterdam
„ Bars ditto
Gold coin to Bombay
COURSE OF EXCHAI
Amsterdam CF. 12 5i
Ditto, at sight l2 3i
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6
Antwerp 25 95
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15
Altona l3 15
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine 122
Petersburgh, 3Us 361

Berlin — 7
Vienna, effee. 13 M 954
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 364
Cadiz
Bilbao 36
Barcelona O6

2,000
1,875

FGE.—(YESTERDAY
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 90
Milan
Venice 47
Naples 39
Palermo, per oz ll7
Lisbon s3f
Oporto 53
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, nut oz.
Foreign Gold, bars. .f. 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons.— 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9i
Silver in Bars 0 4 11j

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)

William Ilainie 28, a young man of very respectable
appearance was indicted for stealing a quantity of muslin
and other articles, value 12/., the property of George
Jordan, his master ; and Amelia Eliner, 22, and Eliza-
beth Ebner, 45, were indicted for feloniously receiving
the property, knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. 'Williams conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Ballantine defended the prisoners.
It appeared that the male prisoner had formerly been
in the service of the prosecutor, who is a linen draper at
Reading, as shopman, and he was discharged from that
service in April last, at that time there being no sus-
picion that he had plundered his employer. The
prisoner Amelia passed as his sister in Reding, and the
whole of the family, it appeared, came up to London.
The prosecutor having occasion to go to Woolwich,
found the prisoner Haime in custody, upon a charge of
robbing a linendraper at that place ; and a quantity
of property was then produced, which he identified
as having once formed part of his stock. Evidence was
adduced to show that this property had been taken from
a place at Islington, where all the prisoners lived to-
gether, the younger woman passing as Haime's wife.
The prosecutor could not distinctly identify the articles
produced, and the evidence did not appear sufficiently
conclusive to make out the charge.
The jury accordingly returned a verdict of "Not
Guilty."
The prisoner William Haime was then arraigned upon
another indictment charging him with stealing a quan-
tityo
of Irish linen, the property of his master, John
Goss Fleay.
sentencedUponthtios
binedtircatmnsepnotrttehdefporrissoenveenr w),:rcs.onvicted, and

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
RE E T.
constable of the N sEffsTATTA )
thea bar before Mr.
di-
vision, No. 56, was placed Yesterday, Sal m5l. u°e(RYlWh.feladtont
Bing-
ham, charged with robbing another constable of the
same division.
In consequence of a great number of articles being
missed by different officers during the last six months in
the station.-house in Hoxton, which had occasioned great
discomfort to the men, from the suspicion it created of
each other, the whole of them have been lately on the
gui aye, to discover, if possible, the perpetrator, but to
no purpose until Monday afternoon, when, as George
Massey, No. 409, who had been upon night duty, was
lying in bed, apparently asleep, in the same bed-room
with the prisoner and three other constables, one of
whom was named Michael Cotter, Massey saw the pri-
soner get up and partly dress himself, and, after looking
round the room, to see whether he was observed, go to
a table near the window, on which was placed Cotter's
clothes, and, after feeling about them for some time, he
saw him put his hand in one of the trowsers' pockets,
and take something out, which he unfolded, and then,
replacing something in the trowers, he conveyed some-
thing else into his own pockets. He then saw him open a
penknife, and do something to the trowsers; but thinking
they were his own clothes, he had no suspicion, and took
no notice of it. It at last struck him that it was Cotter's
clothing which had been so handled, and waking Cotter
up, be asked him if that was the case, and desired him
to look whether he had lost anything. Cotter got
up and did so, and then found that a bad half-crown and
4 sixpence, which constituted the "evidence against a
notorious "smasher," now in custody, named Wolfe, and
which coins Cotter had wrapped up in a pp
had been taken out of his pocket, and that
tr
the'togt he
half-
crown, being worthless, had beenretuthrneebdoltotoom of these,while
the good coin had been stolen, and
the
pocket ripped open with a knife, to give it appear-

ance of having dropped out. Sergeant Dubois was then
sent for, who, on his arrival, found the prisoner cooking
some steak by the kitchen fire. He asked laim.where he
got it, and the prisoner said at a butcher's in Hoxton he
mentioned, saving, to further questions, that he had paitt
fur it in halfpence ; but on being closely pressed, he
acknowledged that he had paid for it with a sixpence.
The butcher was then communicated with, and he at ounce
produced the sixpence, having only taken that one coin
of that description during the day, and which coin both
Sergeant Dubois and Cotter identified as that found
in the possession of Wolfe. Another constable also
proved that his knife, which he had left, on the window-
ledge before going to bed, had been removed, and the
pocket of the trowsers, which were produced, had evi-
dently been freshly and intentionally cut.
The prisoner, in defence, said all this statement was
While taking up his coat, which was by the
trowsers, he might certainly have touched the latter, but
that was all. lie declared he had not put his hand in
the pockets, and certainly stole nothing from them.
Mr. BINGHAM
_thought it necessary that the butcher,
who was not in • attendance, should be produced,
to prove the passage of the coin from the prise-
mer's hand to his, and ordered him to be remanded till
next week, for that purpose.
The prisoner was then removed in custody.
CLERKEIVWELL.

Margaret Kelly was charged with stabbing John Dm-
mock, a carman, residing .in 13, White Horse-court,
Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell, where the prisoner also
resides.

The prosecutor was unable to attend, and a certificate
from the house.surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
in which the wounded man lies, was produced, which
de-scribed the nature of the wound, and set forth that
Dymmock's life was in danger. -
Aline Dymmock deposed that between nine and ten
o'clock on the previous night, she was returning from
her day's work, when she met the prisoner at the door
of the house in which they live, but had met her in Sut-
ton-street a few minutes previously. The prisoner used
language of an irritating and offensive description to-
wards witness, and they had some words- on the stairs.
The prisoner was under the influence of liquor, and wit-
ness retired into her own room, in which her hus-
band was. In a few minutes after this Margaret Kelly
burst open the door,:and, like a manaic, rushed into the
room. Witness was greatly alarmed, but before she
could do anything, the prisoner seised a table knifb,-arid
plunged it into the head of her husband, who waxen the
bed. He bled profusely from the wound, which was on
the side of his face.

Mr. CoMBE—Why did she do this ? Witness—Oh,
she waa aotually marl, your Worship.
Mr. COMBE—But can you assign no reason ? Wit-
ness—She had a quarrel on Good Friday, and she har- -
boured a grudge against us ever since. Ile was con-
veyed to the hospital at half-past ten o'clock. I called
the police.— (The woman then produced the knife, the
blade and handle of which were stained with blood.)
Police-constable Joseph Parfitt, 38 G, deposed that
he was on duty on the previous night about ten o'clock,
in Turnmill-street, when the last witness came to him,
exclaiming that her husband had been stabbed. Be
hastened to the house, and saw the prosecutor sitting on
the side-of the bed, bleeding profusely from a deep gash
on the side of the head. There was a pool of blood on
the floor. The man must have bled at least a pint. The
prisoner was standing there looking at the man bleed-
ing. Witness took her into custody on the charge of
stabbing, when she cried out " Oh, it was a piece of a
broken basin I struck him with."

Prisoner—Aye, and so it was a piece of a basin.
Policeman—lt could not be so, for the man's cheek
was cut quite through, and the knife, covered with blood,
was lying beside the pool of blood on the ground.
Mr. COMBE (to the prisoner)—What have you to say
to the charge? Prisoner (with an air of the greatest
composure)—AU that I have to say is, that she called
me bad names. They struck me on the shoulder like-
wise, and here is the mark. (She exposed the upper
part of her person further than decency would permit,
and showed the mark of a bruise on her breast, but it
did not seem to have been recently inflicted.) -
The police-constable said there were several witnesses
present who saw her stab the prosecutor.
Prisoner (smiling)—Are there, indeed.
Mr. COMBE—The man's life is said to be in danger.
Prisoner (laughing)—Oh there's no fear of him.
The clerk—Perhaps you are laughing too soon; if the
man dies you will be tried for the murder.

Mr. Co;IBE remanded her until Monday next, and she
was removed to the cell apparently more unmoved than
any one present.

BOW-STREET.

Mrs. O'Toole preferred acharga against Mrs. AP Flynn,
for that she Mrs. M'Flynn had broken an umbrella
stick over the arms and shoulders of Mrs. O'Toole in her

The complainant after stating that she was " a widdy
wid two childer," said that the defendant had yesterday
come into her room, and because she (complainant)
would not lend her the price of a quartern of gin, she
fell upon her and " bate " her in the most unmerciful
manner.
Defendant—She strik me, yer Werchip.
Complainant—Look wer she bit me body!
Defendant—Dist look how she tore the life out iv my
arm.

Complainant--Yer Werchip, plase look at me ear.
Defendant—Look at the
"Silence I" shouted the corpulent usher, and the over-
whelming power of his voice drowned the shriller accenta
of Mesdames M'Flynn and O'Toole.
Mr. JARDINE—I see how it is, I shall bind you both
over to keep the peace.
Mrs. O'Toole—Suppose she should bate the life out iv
me. what 'ill I do then?
Mr. JARDINE—The case is decided.
The parties then left the Court separately.

DESTRUCTION OF THE MAN-
CHESTER THEATRE BY FIRE.

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY MORNING.—We regret to state
that the Theatre Royal in this town is now levelled with the
ground. At about ten minutes past six this morning a fire
broke out at the Theatre Royal, Fountain-street, in this
town, and in the course of an hour entirely destroyed that
immense building. It appears that the theatre was used en
the previous evening, and was closed about the usual time,
less fireworks and a smaller number of lights having been
used than is usual. Just after the police left their beats,
at a little before six, some persons going to their work ob-
served flames issuing from the window, and immediately gave
information to Mr. Rose, at the police yard. That active
officer immediately hurried to the spot with tae Niagara en-
gine, and was speedily followed by his son, Mr. Thomas Rose,
with eight other engines, being the entire effective force of
the Fire Brigade. Upon their arrival they found the build-
ing one large mass of flame, but they made strenuous at-
tempts to save the place. They were successful in their
attempts to save the dressing-rooms; and part of the ward-
robe was saved, but of course much damaged. The scenery
speedily fell a sacrifice to the devouring element.
Mr. Rose, finding it impossible to save the stage part of
the building, next made strenuous efforts to save the boxes
and galleries, and as the firemen were making this attempt
a large portion of the roof gave way, and fell upon Mr. Rose
and four or five of the men, one of whom was so much in-
jured that he was obliged to be carried to the infirmary,
where he now lies in a dangerous state.
At half-past seven the building was entirely gutted, and
nothing but a portion of the walls is now standing. A party
of military were sent from the barracks to assist in keeping
off the crowd, and were found exceedingly useful.
The building of the theatre was insured for 4,0001. in the
Imperial, and we understand that Mr. Roxby, the manager,
is insured to the extent of six or seven hundred pounds; but
these amounts are far below the real loss.

FREDERICK THE GREAT, HIS COURT, AND TIMES.
—The most glorious of the sovereigns, and perhaps the
most extraordinary man of the eighteenth century, was,
beyond dispute, Frederick the Great, of Prussia. It is
a singular fact that it has been reserved for a writer of our
own country to furnish a more complete and satisfactory
account of this monarch and his:times, than has hitherto
appeared in any language. This work, to f
editor, possesses
Camp-
bell the poet has performed the officee
which Camp-
indeed, the most diversified attractions: The portraiture
his qualities of
prominent relief before the !. r, rd
father of his country.
of the main subject, the-King hiloselfints placed in most
hero, statesman, legislator, an
freely canvassed, his
hie foibles not forgotten.
ellxicseellheanracciestedrida
The numerous anecdotes of hs kindliness, his affability,
y eccentricities, furnish a ready
his humanity, nay, !
duly
dmhairske and, opinions
very
enthusiasm for his person,
in. 6,n equal
which, perhaps no
of our readers as have not yet perused
narch ever excited
work, will
be pleased to learn that
dexegprlaene.atiosnucohf the,hinuto
this highly interesting
a new and much cheaper edition of it has just made its
appearance, complete in two small volumes, to which
Mr. Campbell has prefixed a copious introduction.
DIE LATE FIRING OF PRINCE ALBERT'S PLANTA-.
seows.—We gave an account in our paper of the firing of up-
wards of 700 acres, consisting of the plantations belonging to
his Royal Highness Prince Albert. in the immediate vicinity
of the Duchess of Gloucestez's park, at Bagshot. It appears
that the fire was first discocered between the Royal Military
College, at Sandhurst, aad a well-known spot, called Cs3sar's
Camp, on Wednesday morning, between eight and nine
o'clock ; and while persons were employed, although ineffec-
tually, to subdue the flames at this part of the plantations, a
second fire was diseovered to be raking, and of equal extent,
at about a mile dastanit,, between IN inchmore-cross and New
England. Such was the rapidity with which the flames ex-
tended, that before noon these two conflagrations had be-
come united, the wind blowing strong from the north-east,
and the flames at one time extended two miles in length, and
upwards of a mile in breadth. A considerable number of the
Royal Sappers and Miners, under the command of Major-
General Sir George Scovell, the Governor of the Military C,ol-
- at Sandhurst, immediately proceeded to the spot, o,lld.
rendered the most effectual aid in checking the progress I-
valuable property belonging to Prince Albert and t:
the flames, and preventing their communicating withe othere
are Ymense.
and pheasants, which have been destroyed,
Mar-
quis of Downshire. The quantities of game,
Hundreds of eggs of the latter have been con med. A
especially hares
plansatation thirdnday last; but, timely assistance being fire broke out in another part of the
same
and, it was fortu-
nately subdued, but not before it had entirely destroyed all
Notwithstanding every e
been obtained.
incendiaries, not the least traces of the guilty parties- have
The National, alluding to a speech of M. de
Tocqueville in the Chamber of Deputies on the Prison Re-
form Bill, in which he stated that the political prisoners at
Mont St. Michael had been treated with unnecessary rigour,
and that the effect of this rigour had been not only imury to
their bodily health, but also insanity, says;._«. wa will
now give a list of the victims of this rigour. Steuble cut his
throat with a razor; Bezenat hanged himself in his cell;
Jarasse twice attempted to poison himself; Austen went
mad ; Bordon, mad ; Charles, mad ; Boudin, mad. Other*
have not yet sunk, but the injury which they have received
will afflict them for the rest of life. The diseases which
they contracted in this frightful prison would have destroy°
them if they had not beentaken from it.: -Thus the Govern-
ment itself has been obliged to transfer Barbes to Nismes ;
Petremann, Vicoq, and Fomberteau to Doullene ; Dubour-
deaux to Bordeaux; Dufour to Paris; and Hubert, firs; to
the hospital, and then to St, Pelagic.' ,

THE NEW SWEDISH NOVEL.
Just published, 2 vols., post Svo., 215.,
THE ROSE OF TISTELON.
A TALE OF THE SWEDISH COAST.
By EMILIE CARLEN.
Translated from the original Swedish.
" A story of surpassing interest—a tale of exceeding pathos and
ower."—Atlas.
" Its Swedish scenery and manners have nearly as much novelty
as in The Neighbours.' "—Spectator.
" Such a work as Crabbe would have produced, had he written in
prose."—Court Journal.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Signor FORNASARI has the honour to inform the Nobility, Sub-
scribers to the Opera, his Friends, and the Public. that HIS
BENEFIT will take place TO-MORROW EVENING, May 9,
when will be performed Herold's Chef d'ceuvre,
Z A MPA.
Camilla, Madame Persiani ; Rita, Madame Bellini ; Zampa. Sig-
nor Fornasari (his lint appearance in this character) ; Alfonso,
Sismor Corelli ; Daniel Capuzzi, Signor k'. Lablache ; and Dan-
dole, Signor Lablache (his first appearance in this character).
After which, the Second Act or NORMA, by Madame Grist,
Mdlle. Favanti, Signor Lablache, and Signor Mario.
To conclude with the Grand Ballot, in Six Tableaux, by M.
Perrot, entitled
ONDI NE, ou, LA NAIADE.
The Scenery by Mr. W Grieve. The music composed by Signor
P u_g ni.
Principal characters by Mille. Cerito, Mille. Scheffkr, Mille. Fer-
dinand, Mille. Plunket, Mille. Barville, and Mille. Adelaide
Yrassi; M. Perrot, M. Montassu, and M. St. Leon.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and llckets to be made at the Box
(Mice, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven. The Opera will
commence at Half-past Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE
THIS EVENING, MAY 8,
Will be repeated A New Grand Opera, entitled THE BRIDES
07 VENICE. Count Alberto, Mr. W. Harrison ; Count Ono
Becanzo, Mr. &Trani ; Nalima, Mrs. Alfred Shaw; Geraldo, Mdlle.
Albertaezi ; Francesca, Miss Romer.
To eonclude with the revived Grand Fairy Ballet, entitled THE
REVOLT OF THE HAREM. Mahomet, Mr. Howell ; Ismael,
Silvain ; Myssouf, Mr. W. H. Payne, Zulma, Mdlle. Lucile
Grahn • Zelika, Mdlle. Clara Webster ; The Genius of the Harem,
Madame Giubilei.
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price Ss. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55.,
&anti Price as.; Pit as , Second Price Ss.; Middle Gallery 25.,
Almond Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSER
THIS EVENING, MAY 8,
Will be revived the Comedy of LONDON ASSURANCE, Sir
Harcourt Courtly, Mr. W. Farren ; Max Harkaway, Mr. Strick-
land; Dazzle, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mark Meddle, Mr. Webster;
Mr. Spanker, Mr. Buckstone ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ;
grace Harkaway, Miss Julia Bennett ; Pert, Mrs. Humby.
To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra-
',Noma, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or,
M Evening with Puff: Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews,
jir, J. Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and
Elise Lee.
lo conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN A SACK.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr L T. Archer, at the Box-
Ofilce, from Ten till Five.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, MAY 8,
Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, entitled CROWN
DIAMONDS. Count de Campo Mayor, Als. Weiss ; Don Hen-
riques de Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolledo, Mr. Paul Bedford ;
Catarina, Madame Anna Thillen • Diana, Miss'Grant.
After which, BOMB ASTES FURIOSO.
To conclude with the Grand Ballet, entitled LEOLA; or, the
(ay.day Bride. Patrick, Mr. T. Hill; Phelim, Mr. Gilbert;
allsona, NUM Charleton ; Leola, Miss Bailin.

i7HEATRE ROYAL LYCEHUMOUSE, LAIE ENGLISH OPERA.

Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
sA Open Sesame; or, a Night with the Ferty Thieves," continues to
be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and
fashionable audiences.

THIS EVENING, MAY 8,
Will be repeated an Original Comic Drama, entitled THE
THREE WIVES OF MADRID. Principal Characters by Messrs.
Keeley. Diddear," F. Matthews, Emery, Wigan. Craven, Turner,
Yarnold, Miss Woolgar, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Greve, Miss Turner,
_Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley.
To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle, called POLKAMANI A
Characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss
Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a Grand Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called
OPEN SESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha-
eactess by Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss
urner, Miss Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother,
end Mrs. Keeley, MeurL F. Mathews, Turner, Younge, Wigan,
Yarnold. and Chaplin.
PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Poxes, 45.; Upper
Sexes, Ss. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ;
Cpper Bytes, Is 6d ; Pit, IL Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier
(holding eight persons), Two Guineas Private Boxes on the Second
Tier (hoiding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private
Wier on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
Grand Attraction.
THIS EVENING, MAY 9,
AVIII be repeated the Historical Spectacle of the INVASION OF
ENZiLAND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR er, the Battle
cr Enalipp. With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death
of Hitrolg., age-
Entire Change of the Splendid Scenes of the Circle.
To conclude with the Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET
MINE; ors the H,ndeos of the Ruby Cliffs.
The doors will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances
commence at sem. Box-office opened daily from ten till four. The
private boxes have been reconstructed and decorated with care and
PPRIACIctIr.
Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

..----DAVIDGE'S ROYAL
THIS EVENING SURREY THEATRE.
MAY 8 ,
Transeendant Success of Miss Barnes' Tragedy of Octavia Bra.
galdi"—an entirely New Piece, and " Whitefriars" at half-price.
WW be repeated a New Tragedy, entitled OCTAVIA BR A-
iGALDI ; or, The Confession. Supported by the Entire Company,
glad Miss Charlotte Barnes, from New York.
After which, a New Piece for the Million, entitled LA POLKA.
To conclude with an entirely New Drama, embracing all the
ottong abets of the celebrated work, eutitled WHITEFRIARS,
In which the entire Company will perform.
Paces and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
office, from Eleven to Four.