The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-23 00:00:00

WEST KENT QUARTER SESSIONS.

(From the Maidstone Gazette.)
Mr. BotA.AND said he rose to make a motion,
which he said he had made for twelve succeeding
years with succes ; but he understood that on the
present occasion the motion was, for the first time,
to be opposed. It was an application on the part of
Mr. John Saville Faucit, for a license for a theatre at
Greenwich, and the application wt.s supported by
the recommendatory certificate of three Magistrates.
The certificate was here read : it was signed by
E. W Forman, Esq., I. Brandram, Esq., and R. P.
Pritchard, Esq.
Mr. LAW then put in a memorial from Messrs. J.
and T. Weakly, coachmakers, of Greenwich. It
set forth -that their premises adjoined the theatre,
and they had a stock worth 8,000/., which was
greatly endangered by the careless manner in which
the theatre was conducted, it having been on fire
three several times. In consequence the memo-
rialists had been obliged to increase their rate of in-
surance. The theatre was licensed in the name of
Mr. Faucit, but in fact he had nothing to do with it,
and the management was left entirely to a Mr. Mar-
shall. Representations had frequently been trade to
the latter respecting the manner in which the theatre
was conducted, but without effect. The memo-
rialists were kept in constant alarm by fire-works in
the theatre, and they were greatly annoyed by a
number of boys, prostitutes, and other disorderly
persons who attended the theatre. It was further
stated that several Magistrates had refused to sign
Mr. Faucit's certificate. It concluded with a de-
claration that this opposition was not made from
malicious motives.

The' Court asked how long Messrs. Weakly had
lived there? To which it ►vas replied, thirty-three
years.

Mr. LAW F.:a the theatre had been on fire within
the last year. The Learned. Gentleman observed
that his clients had been there 21! years before the
theatre was opened, and the ground for the present
application was briefly as follow :—The theatre was
badly managed, the person who was held out as le-
gally responsible had no power or control over it,
and it was the resort of persons of the most dis-
orderly description, so as to make it a nuisance to
the neighbourhood. Messrs. Weakly had also sus-
tained a positive loss by being compelled to pay
more for their insurance in consequence of the theatre
having been on fire. He thought that the Magis-
trates who had signed the certificate had not exer-
cised the best discretion in so doing.
Mr. BICKNELL, who had instructed Mr. Law in
this case, here disclaimed any intention to convey
the slightest censure on the Magistrates.

Mr.LAw said he was not instructed, nor did he
mean to throw censure on those gentlemen, but he
could not help saying, from his own view of the
circumstances, that he thought they had not exer-
cised the greatest, the largest discretion, in certi-
fying to the advantage of a thing which, from their
residing at a distance from it, must be unknown to
them.
The CHAIRMAN observed that neither of the Ma-
gistrates lived more than a mile from the theatre.
John Weakly deposed that he and his brother
carried on business adjoining the theatre. Their
premises had been exposed to danger from fire three
times; the last time was about 18 months ago. His
premises were formerly insured in the Atlas, but in
consequence of the fire, that office rejected the in-
surance. He paid the money and the office re-
turned it. He was then obliged to insure in another
office at double the former amount. A great num-
ber of idle and disorderly persons assembled out-
side of the theatre ; they consisted of boys, about 15
or 16 years old, and women of the town. Their
conduct was very disorderly, so much so as to be
nuisance. Comedies and operas were played at the
theatre, and also pieces in which fire-works were
used, such as the " Miller and his Men" and " Der
Freischutz."
The CHAIRMAN—Fire-works are used in the same
manner at Drury-lane, the Opera-houses, and other
theatres.

Examination continued—lt had increased the in-
surance from 2.5/ to 30/. a year. His own men had
assisted in putting out the are. Witness knew Mr.
Faueit ; he had not attended to the management of
the theatre for the last seven years.
By the COURT—The Theatre had been there 16
or 17 years.
Joshua Morris, an officer of the Sheriff, deposed
that he lived in a house adjoining the theatre. He
knew nothing about any riots there. He had lived
there 13 years. The theatre was a nuisance to him.
His pailings were pulled down by disorderly boys,
and he was much annoyed by the infamous expres-
sions of boys and girls of the town.
CHAIRMAN—Where were they ? Witness—Out-
side the theatre.

Mr. BOLLAND to Mr. Law—Have you no more
witnesses ? Mr. LAW—Oh, yes, I have more; but
it -would be useless to call them, as I find it would
have no effect.

The ( HAtumAN—Weil, Mr. Law, you will make
your own decision, and the Court wilt then make
theirs.
Mr. Law then sat down.

Mr. Bolland rose to reply.
The CitAirtmAN---Oh, Mr. Bolland, you may save
yourself the trouble of replying; the Court is un•
animous in granting the license as they have hitherto
granted it.
Mr. BOLLAND said, that, in justice to Mr. Faucit
and the certifying magistrates, he must state that
the 'else of the theatre had lately expired, and
the magistrates would not have certified if they
had not been satisfied with respect to the manner
in which the theatre was conducted.

Mr. LAW-I shall say no more. We must then
take the only remedy left us, and indict.
Mr. BOLLAND, with a smile---Why, we were
going to complain of the coachmaker's turpentine
and oil. The coach-maker and his men are more
dangerous than the " Miller and his Men."

MURDER IN THE COUNTY OF KILDARE.

NA AS, SATURDAY NIGHT.-1 have ascertained
the following particulars respecting the late horrible
and mysterious occurrence in the neighbourhood of
this town :--The parties implicated are Mrs. Coffey,
wife of the deceased, Mr. M'Loghlin, her son, and a
ntaid-servant. They are all at present lodged in the
gaol of Nuas. The inquest terminated at a late
hour last night, when a verdict of " Wilful Mur-
der" was returned against all the above parties.
Evidence was given that M'Loghlin lately swore
that he would be the destruction of the deceased.
The differences between them arose as to a farm,
half of which was held by M'Loghlin, who would
never give an account of it ; Coffey, adopting legal
advice which he took on the matter, served M'Logh-
lin, on Monday last, with a process for diet and
lodging for several years, with a- view to compel
him to settle the accounts between them. Mrs.
M'Loghlin, it appeared, had joined with her son
iu these disputes, and the difference between her
and her husband proceeded to such a length, that
they had not cohabited for some time past. Her 1
sleeping-roOm, however, adjoined his, and itwas
necessary to pass through it to arrive in Mr. Coffey s
bed-chamber. On Wednesday morning he was
found dead in his bed. A deep incited wound had
\thlte
l e
been inflicted at the back of the neck, and another
immediately over the temporal artery. The sheets
were covered with gore.
The hatchet was bloody,
and some hairs were found on it. From the evidence
of the surgeon who attended the inquest, it appeared
corresponded
incolour
its a withfe
feeble
who v
old man, aged upwards of 70. The prisoners were
conveyed.by a strong escort into Naas; they might
othsrwise have fallen victims to the popular indigsta-
ht that
othose t
the
headhair s
of
the
deceased,
tion as Mr. Coffey was extremely beloved in the
neighbourhood.

The area to the north of St. Martin's Church
is every day extending, by the removal of the houses hitherto
fortnipg that filthy nolglihourhod,

GAELIC DICTIONARY-MR. MAC-

LACHLAN.

The compilers of the newly-published Gaelic
Dictionary, it will readily be believed, encoun-
tered many difficulties in their undertaking—
especially in finding proper examples for the use
of words, from genuine compositions in the
Gaelic tongue. Few printed volumes exist in
that language, and with the exception of the
translation of the Scriptures, scarcely any of these
admit of being employed with propriety or advan-
tage. They chiefly consist of fugitive poetry of
a local description, which it would be ludicrous,
if not unavailing, to attempt to translate. As to
the amount age of
thet doubts the poetry
regardingoftliecottioie-
infer,
onrfe
Celts, the compilers decline discussion ; from
which we
authenticity of iVracplierson's Ossian are now
finally established—though we find constant
reference made, in the body of the work, to these
long contested poems. It was at first antici-
pated that the ancient Gaelic manuscripts be-
' longing to the Highland Society, would have
been of immediate and important service. Mr.
Ewen Maclachlan of Aberdeen was employed to
extensivethe investigation,
du enegytrehneerhab themle
ardourmised to conquer many of the obstacles the task
andhisin
presented ; but, unhappily, he died while his
labours were yet incomplete, and we are told that
the fruits of his industry were in a great measure
lost, by their not being so far advanced, at the
time of his death, as to be directly serviceable
in the farther compilation of the work. •
The compilers speak with great modesty of
their exertions. They admit their etymological
research to have been more limited than they
could have wished ; and they neither arrogate
to themselves perfectibility of plan, nor the com-
prehension of every term and word to be found in
the several districts of Scotland in which the
Gaelic language is spoken, in all of which there
are peculiar provincialisms. They have exerted
themselves with success to acquire a knowledge
of those provincialisms ; but of all the spoken
modern languages of Europe, the Gaelic perhaps
affords the greatest facilities in the formation of
compound terms and words—a native being
scarcely ever at a loss to form a compound term
fbr the expression of a rising idea—and hence
their labours have been rendered doubly difficult.
The second part of the work contains a full
vocabulary of the English language from Todd's
edition of Johnson's dictionary. The third part
consists of a Latin vocabulary translated into
Gaelic ; bnt it was considered inexpedient to ex-
haust the vocabulary of the Latin language—and
an apology is tendered to the admirers of it for
the system pursued, on the ground that literalism
is sometimes closely allied to barbarism. The
compendium of grammar prefixed to the work
is an abridged transcript•of the grammar pub-
lished by Dr. Stewart, a work of incontestable
merit. It was intended that an appendix should
be added to the Dictionary, explanatory of
names of Celtic origin, both in the Highlands of
Scotland and other parts of the kingdom ; but a
dread of rendering the work too bulky occasioned
the idea to be abandoned. It is satisfactory to
learn, however, that this curious investigation
will probably be made the subject of a separate
volume.

The general conduct of the work was intrust-
ed to the Rev. Dr. John Macleod, minister of
Dundonald, who was assisted in some of its
departments by the late. Ewen Maclachlan of
Aberdeen, the late Rev. Dr. Alexander Irvine
of Little Dunkeld, and the Rev. Alexander
Macdonald at Criefr. In its progress through
the press it was superintended and corrected by
the Rev. Mackintosh Mackay, now minister of
Lagan, to whose philological acuteness and learn-
ing It is admitted to be much indebted. A sus-
picion prevailed pretty generally in the north,
where Mr. Maelachlan's abilities were highly
appreciated, and not more highly than they de-
served, that there was an intention of keeping
his labours out of view, or in other words, of
appropriating them without a proper acknow-
ledgment. It is satisfactory to find that ample
justice has been done to him ; and that, though
the full extent of his services is not particularized
it is acknowledged that he was the compiler on
whom the Highland Society placed their chief
reliance. We remember to have seen a consi-
derable portion of the Dictionary in manuscript,
as compiled by Mr. Maclachlan, so far back as
1820-1. It was extremely rich in oriental
etymons ; and we think the proofs of extensive
research in the languages of the east are more
abundant at the beginning than at the end of the
Dictionary. This remark we make, however,
with great defketrie
ofon forwcinel:stitiaie
nt he w
.:Il andilsoitirii taeie humilityeenissi\oitl one
simplicity
of
o
mind,
aiociy ui
c‘rlettlattile
greatest dis-
tinguished'sr
assistance is honestly acknowledged, we see no
reason to cavil about the page to which it ex-
tended. t
ende
and
d linguists.l It
is
forth
the
learning
almost
j than f
i
habits with which it was associated. The en-
thusiasm with which he pursued his investiga-
tions was paralleled only by the ardent attach-
ment which he entertained, to the'day of his
death, for the picturesque costume and sterile
mountains of the Gael. He died in the Low-
lands ; but, with his last breath, he requested
that he might be buried amongst his native hills,
and his remains were accordingly carried from
Aberdeen across the country to Lochaber, where,
in a secluded Highland cemetery, the mountain_
pipe playing a coronach, and a thousand tar.
tatted mountaineers surrounding them---thtt,
were consigned tc the earth.—Edinburgh Obs.er).

in
of I et
re
A view of the Kisattuheforritinte'as
ffiouritisitoedniltnagtec,
towinies.

A serl•o"s - accident occurred on Saturday to
,the Rey. Sir T. FORSTER, But. Lady Ftitoi-
the lady or
who is on a visit at Beaulieu, the seat of the Rev. A.
Thlot'srPraomEity, way di.:__!ng
iyi in an opera carriage, acconi-
anied by Miss ItIONTGOAIERY, on the Terrnon-Fechin
road, when the horses took fri4ht, anti precipitated the ve-
hicle down a precipice, by which her bnlyship suffered a
fracture of the left shoulder, and several bruises in different
parts of the body. She was conveyed on a litter, in a state
of great suffering, to Beaulieu, and was soon after attended
by Surgeon PENTLAND. we regret to hear that her
Ladyship remains in a precarious state. Miss MONTGO-
MERY Was slightly hurt, as were also the servants.—
Drogheda Journal.

parPtl;iNn
Ei3NoxDb.ElNpairlisEh,ATH, KENT.—This spot is
for public meetings, from
the time of the Conquest down to the present. Here, in
1076, was the famous assemblage held by order of the
and partly in that of Maidstone.
It has been a Celebrated
Norman WILLIAM, to determine the truth of the allega-
tions brought l Archbishop LANFRANC, against the rapa-
cious Ono, Bishop of Baieux ; and at which, after ;./
solemn inquiry of three days continuance, the latter was
adjudged to refund a great portion of his spoils. LAm-
„RD, in Perambulations of Kent," page 17s,
edition 1576, gives a curious account of this famous tri,l:
On the North side of the Heath, in a very humble
‘hed, is held the County Court, monthly ; and, at elections
14 the county, here the Sheriff assembles the meeting, as he
does for the election of Coroners."—See " Beauties of Eng-
land and Wales, and Environs of London and Kent,"
page 39. P. T. W.