The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-05 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

An adaptation of Scribe's drama Le Mariage de
Raison, was produced at this theatre last evening, under
the title of the Marriage of Reason. If we recollect
aright, a version of this same piece nas produced at
Covent-garden some years since, and met with the same
sort of equivocal success which attended the Marriage of
Reason last evening. The following is a sketch
of the plot. Edward (Mr. Holl), the son of
General Bremont (Mr. Stuart), is in love with
Suzette (Madame Celeste), a poor orphan, who has been
brought up in the General's family. Edward offers her
marriage, and the General interferes, and eventually
persuades Suzette to marry Bertrand (Webster), an old
moustache, who had followed him through all his cam-
paigns, and who is deeply in love with Suzette.
This is the marriage of reason, and Edward, who
has accidentally discovered that Bertrand had, two years
before, saved his life at Strasburg, voluntarily retires,
enjoining Suzette to love Bertrand. Suzette, full of
admiration for the noble character of Bertrand, trans-
fers her affection to him, and thus the Marriage of
Reason bids fair to become a marriage of happiness.
There are some excellent situations, and some striking
incidents, in this drama; but the dialogue is exceedingly
heavy, and the piece drags. By a free application
of the pruning knife the piece would be much im-
proved, and will probably have a run. The acting was
admirable. Stuart, ai the General, made a great deal
of a very up-hill part. There was a quiet intensity
about his acting which told exceedingly. Webster, as
Bertrand, was the beau ideal of a vieux moustache—that
strange mixture of pathos and fun, which can only be
found in the French soldier or the English sailor. The
Suzett of Madame Celeste was a beautiful piece of
melodramatic acting, and Buckstone as a henpecked
husband, and Mrs. Humby as his better half, were both
most laughter-moving. At the fall of the curtain there
was a vigorous display of opposition, met by as vigorous
a display of support—as to which had the majority it
would be impossible to say, without a division; although,
to quote the Speaker of the House of Commons on similar
doubtful occasions, we " think the Ayes had it."

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.
M. JULLIEN'S GRAND BAL MASQUE.
M. Jullien's Grand Bal Masque took place at this
theatre last evening, and it was one of the most brilliant
affairs of the sort that we have ever witnesfed. The
orchestra was placed nearly at the back of the stage,
while the pit was boarded-over, so that the whole area
of the theatre formed one vast salon de danse. In addi-
tion to the large chandelier in the centre of the theatre,
there were six magnificent cut glass chandeliers sus-
pended from the proscenium, while four smaller
ones, suspended from the ceiling by festoons of flowers,
gave light to that part of the saloon answering to
the pit, and a similar number suspended over the stage
gave light to the orchestra. The fittings up of the
theatre were exceedingly tasteful. Wreaths of flowers
were suspended along the front of the boxes from pillar
to pillar, and in front of each box panel was suspended
a tanner, emblazoned with armorial bearings. The
doors were opened at nine o'clock, and the boxes and
galleries were immediately crowded. No one was
admitted to the salo'on unless they were masked,
and this rule was strictly adhered to throughout
the evening. The dancing commenced at ten
o'clock,_ long before which hour the saloon was
crowded by persons attired in the costume of almost
every nation under the sun. Turks and Greeks, Rus-
sians and Circassians; Affghans and Sepoys, joined
most amicably in the dance ; while quiet
Quakers were seen joining in the revelry, and
waltzing with most demure looking gypsies. Antony and
Cleopatra made a vis a vis to Macbeth and Haidee, and
in the same set Jim Crow and Cordelia, with Hamlet and
Columbine, joined the side couples. The arrangements
of the Ball were admirable. There were six Masters of
the Ceremonies, and in consequence of their indefatigable
exertions the utmost order and regularity prevailed. By
eleven o'clock the theatre was crowded in every part,
and the coup d'eeil from the boxes was superb; the scene
altogether Was one of the most brilliant we have ever
beheld. At one o'clock the supper was served, which
consisted of every delicacy of the season, with wine in
abundance. The festivities were kept up until a very
early, or rather very late hour in the morning.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY.
COVENTRY TRIAL STAKES.
3 to 1 agst Ben-y-Ghlo
Even between Ben-y-Ghlo and Celeste agst the field.
Even betting between Queen of the Gipsies and Ben-y-
Ghlo.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
7 to 4 agst Mr. John Day's Ugly Buck —taken to 1001.
CHESTER CUP.
12 to 1 agst Mr. Milbank's Sir Robert
14 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Pagan—taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's Cattonite
16 to 1 agst Mr. Sharratt's The Prior—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord Eglintoun's Jamie Forest
20 to 1 agst Mr. Tuting's Tacita
28 to 1 agst Mr. Gough's Greenfinch—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Stanley's Vakeel—taken.
The betting agst Sir Robert showed an improvement on the
odds last quoted in town, but did not support the Liverpool
movement ; 12 to 1 was offered in two or three quarters
until late in the day, without a blow being struck ; at a point
more, however, 70 was laid out, to which succeeded two or
three bets in small sums at the odds previously refused.
Pagan opened at 16 to 1, and in the course of the afternoon
advanced a couple of points ; very little was said about Catto-
nite, and agst the Prior there was a majority of layers. No-
thing worthy of notice was said or done about the other
favourites.

DERBY.
6 to 1 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck
13 to 2 agst Mr. Crockford's Rattan
16 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Orlando
20 to 1 agst Mr. Lichtwald's Leander—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's T'Auld Squire—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Watts' Voltri
40 to 1 agst Mr. Quin ns. Foig-a-ballagh—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Quin's Loadstone—taken
40 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Campunero
40 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Apprentice
40 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Vat colt
50 to 1 agst Mr. J. Osborne's Mount Charles
1000 to 10 agst Mr. A. Hill's Beaumont—taken
1000 to 10 agst Mr. A. Cuthbert's Beanfront—taken
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Bradshaw's Sir Isaac—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. St. Paul's Telemachus—taken
1000 to 15 each, in one bet, agst King of the Gipsies,
Telemachus, and Lancet.
_ _ _

2000 to 10 agst Rogers's lot for the Two Thousand Guineas
Stakes, Newmarket Stakes, and. Derby ; and Foig-a-ballagh
the St. Leger.

A hedgi4 bet of 1,800 to 300, and others to about 1501. at
the same price, were laid agst the Ugly Buck, whose friends,
nevertheless, were far from numerous or "fond." 13 to 2
was the highest offer agst Rattan—any advance on, it would
have been taken. We have named the only odds mentioned
in connexion with Orlando ; no one seemed in the humour to
back him. 20 to 1 was laid two or three times against
Leander, and, we suspect, would have been laid again with-
out much pressing. T'Auld Squire was backed in one
quarter at 30 to 1, and in another at 25 to 1, Fbig-a-ballagh
at 40 to lin hundreds, Campunero at 33 and 40 tb I:(the
latter the real odds), Sir Isaac five or six times, Beaumont
and lleaufront at 1,000 to 10 each, Mount Charles at 1,000 to
20, and Telemachus at 1,000 to 15. Nothing said about
Cockainaroo, lonian, or Running Rein. The general betting,
however well it may look on paper, was not, by any means,
brisk.

OAKS.
10 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Bee
11 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Barricade
17 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Boarding School Miss
The odds agst each of the mares specified were taken to a
small amount. •
The Spalthorne Coursing Meeting terminated on Saturday,
when the Cup was won by Mr. W. Nash's bl d Captain,
beating in the run up Mr. Rate's Belinda.

HATTERS' TURN-OUT.—On Monday most of the
turn-out hat ruffers, in Oldham and its vicinity, resumed
their employment, an advance of 2d. per dozen having, it is
understood, been agreed upon.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Hertford,-March 2.
CIVIL SIDE.
(Before Lord Chief Justice DEZ.IMAN and a Special Jury.)

ARDEN V. WEEDON.
This cause was commenced on Friday, and did not conclude
until a very late hour on Saturday night. - rt was an; action
brought by the plaintiff, nominally, to recover damages for
an alleged trespass non his property, but the real object in
view was to establish a right to prevent the public from pass-
ing over his property. - '
Air. Thesiger, Mr. Sergeant Channel Ogle, , Mr. and Mr.
Peacock, were for the plaintiff (and Mr. 'Platt; Mr. Montagu
Chambers, Mr. Willes, and Mr. R. A. Price, Were for the de
fendant.

The plaintiff, Colonel Arden, is the owner and occupier of
Rickmersworth,Park and ..the residence attached to it, and
it has been in his posiession for some •years., It would appear
that there is a path which was near his house. that his beert
used forseveral years, by the inhabitants' of . the neighbour-
hood, and others, to go to some mills in the vicinity;, and it
would seem that this created some annoyancelo the plaintiff;
and, acting under advice that the path in question had not
been legally dedicated to the public, he resolved upon clos-
ing it, and preventing persons from making Urie of it as here-
tofore,. The inhabitants, however, feeling ~fliat they had a
right to this path as a public way, • resolved, at a vestry
meeting, to assert that right, and the .defendant and some
others broke down the hedge and other impediments that
had been placed to prevent the use of the path, and upon that
act the present .action was brought, to try the question of
right:
• . .

On the part of the plaintiff. it was contended, of course,
that there was no public footpath, and although it was ad-
mitted that persOns had for several years been in the habit
of making use of the path, it was only upon sufferance that
they did so, and that there was no legal right of way.,
On behalf of the defendant it was urged, that the path had
been, by long usage, dedicated to the public, and that not-
withstanding whatever might have been the original cir-
cumstances under which the path was . used, that by reason
of the long period it had been made use of by the public,
their right to pass over it could not now be disputed. To
support this case, a great number of aged 'persons were called
as witnesses, and they deposed to the fact of having made use
of the path in question for a great number of years without
any interrnption.
The jury, after the Learned Judge had addressed them, re-
turned a verdict for the defendant, thus establishing the
right of the public to the use of the footpath in question.
The commission for the county of Essex was opened to-
day at Chelmsford. As thOe was a winter gaol delivery in
this county there 'are very few prisoners for trial, but the
cause list is rather heavy. .

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

The following singular case was brought before the
Lord Mayor, who very closely investigated all the extra-
ordinary circumstances detailed. Sir John Pirie sat, in
conjunction with his Lordship.
A young man of respectable appearance and address
appeared in consequence of the issue of a summons,
calling upon him to answer the complaint of a widow
lady of the name of May.
Mr. Bozon briefly stated the heads of the complaint.
He said he appeared as solicitor on behalf of Mrs. May,
the widow of the late Captain James May, of the Diana,
in support of a charge against the defendant, who was
chief mate of that vessel. In the month of March,
1843, the Diana was homeward bound, and within sight
of the island of AScension, when suddenly, at a late
period of the evening, the report of 'a pistol was heard
on deck from the captain's cabin. The second mate im-
mediately preceeded thither to ascertain the cause of it,
and on the way met the defendant coming from his
cabin, which was next to that of the captain. They
went together to the captain's cabin, and found Captain
May lying dead, and a pistol by his head, the bullet
from which had evidently passed through his head.
Next day, by order of the defendant, the body of Capt.
May was buried in the sea, and the defendant then pro-
posed to. the crew to take the Diana to St. Helena,
although she was actually within sight and within
twelve or fourteen hours' sail of the island of Ascension.
The crew did not relish the proposition, but the defend-
ant gave a peremptory order to that effect, and the
vessel was accordingly steered 'towards St. Helena.,
where, upon her arrival, he disposed of all Captain
May's property. For that property, which was conside-
rab:e, the defendant had not accounted to the widow, whose
shock, upon hearing of the awful catastrophe, was extreme,
and left traces upon her mind and appearance which
marked her as an object of great commisseration. About
a fortnight after the ship had reached St. Helena a
further calamity occurred. sAn explosion took place in
the 'after-part of the ship, and the captain's cabin, and
the greater portion of the after-part of the vessel was
destroyed. That explosion 'also destroyed the life of
the unfortunate steward, who was at the time in the part
which was blown up. The defendant had just previouf,ly
gone ashore. Here was a case which, in the opinion of
Mr. Bozon, was one of no light or fantastic suspicion. He
considered that the defendant ought to have proceeded
on the home bound voyage instead of going back to
St. Helena ; and the intention in taking the vessol to
that place could not have been other than fraudu lent,
particularly as she was within being so short a distance
of the island of Ascension, to which it was the ditty of
the defendant to convey the remains of the captain. He
therefore charged the defendant, that by taking the ship
to St. Helena, in sight of the island of Ascension, where
he ought to have deposited the body of his capta;m, be
feloniously took possession of Captain May's pro perty,
and by disposing of that property at St. Helentt, and
afterwards producing to the widow false accounts, he
commmitted a larceny on the high seas.
John Christy said—l was a seaman on board the
Diana, Captain May, in March last. We were
making our passage for England, off Ascension Island,
when, one evening about half-past nine o'clock, the
second mate heard a noise in the cabin like the report of
a pistol. He asked the men who had the look out what
it was ? And he then went down, and he said he met the
defendant outside his own cabin, and he and the defend-
ant went into the captain's cabin, arid observed smoke
there, and saw the captain lying, shot through the head.
I went down, and sat him lying, with a•wound through
his temples. I saw the pistol there; I afterwards looked
through the sky-light and saw the defendantlying by the
side of the body. The second mate begged the defen-
dant not to lie alongside of the body. Next day, about
8 or 9 o'clock in the morning, we • were all called down
into the cabin by .the defendant, who said he should not
take charge of the ship in the state in which she then
was, and that we had better go back to St. Helena, and
he pointed out the track he should go. I saw Ascension
Island from the mast-head the same evening the captain
was shot. He told the crew they had ,better go back,
and the agents there would settle everything.' Two days
afterwards, two of the boat steerers and the cooper, and
the cooper's mate, said they had better go to Ascension,
and the defendant said 'he did not care about going to
St. Helena. The evening I was at the wheel, the
defendant asked me what I looked so pleasant
for? I said it was because I was in hopes of getting back
to my home. He held out a promise if we got a whale
he would give us a sovereign each; or, at least, on his
own responsibility, a half-sovereign, and then we went
back to St. Helena. The captain was buried the day
after. The conversation about going back to St. Helena
took place before the captain was buried. During the
voyage there were violent quarrels between the captain
and the defendant. On one occasion the defendant said
he would fight the captain a duel, either • gentleman
fashion or blackguard fashion. I can't'say what watch
the captain had when: at St. Helena. After we an-
chored the steward was stopping a leak, and the day
before we ought to have started an explosion took place,
and I and others were blown up and much injured. The
defendant was not on board at the One. There was a
survey on board after the accident.: The defendant told
me an evening or two after .the captaid's death She
reason why he wanted to go to St. Helena was because
the widow's property would fetch more there than in.
England. _ '

Abijah Lott, of No. 29, Princes-street, Rotherhitire,
said, I was in St. Helena in May last. I saw the de-
fendant there. I saw the Diana -before the explosion.
She might have gone home; but she was rather open at
her open ends forward. I went on board her before and
after the explosion. I purchased articles from Carroll, the
agent there. After the explosion I was on the survey of
the vessel, and found her blown up from the taffrail to
the mainmast. Not a beam was there thgt was net
broke, and the decks shook fore and aft. The coverings;
of her hatchways were started. The cause was from
the magazine. The powder was in copper.
Caroline Matilda May said, I have applied to the
defendant respecting •my husband's effects. This (pro-
ducing a paper) is one of the accounts he gave me.
When my husband ,went to sea he had Et gold watch,
chain, and key. I spoke to the defendant about that
watch. He gave me a brass chain, and 'said that was the
chain my husband wore. In one letter I had received
from my husband, he said he hP:d done very well in
trading.
The defendant said that he had acted all. through the
affair to the best of his skill and judgment, and upon the
opinion of the oldest and most experienced officers at St.
Helena. An inquest had been held upon the body of
the captain at St. Helena, and a verdict was at once re-
turned, after the examination of the crew, to the effect,
that the unfortunate man died by his own hand. Ile
repelled with indignation and scorn the insinuations
which had been made, and solemnly declared that in
every proceeding he had adopted he was influenced by
the most honourable feelings. .

The LORD MAYOR and—Sir JOHN. PrRIE said, that in
the present condition of the evidence there were cer-
tainly matters which were calculated to excite much
suspicion. They, therefore, declared that the defendant
must find bail to appear on another day, himself in the
sum of 2001., and two sureties in 1001. each'.
Two highly respectable men afterwards came forward
and bailed the• defendant, whom they described as a per-
ectly honourable man, against whom no imputation had
fvcr been cast.

A CHILD THROWN OVERBOARD AND DROWNED.--•
Yesterday afternoon, as two boys were grappling for wood
and rope in the lumber Dock, near Mytongate-bridge, they
brought up a full-grown child wrapped in a napkin and some
newspapers, and having a brick tied tight round it for the
purpose of sinking it. Whether the child was alive or dead
when thus inhumanly thrown ove'.•board is at present un-
known. An inquest will be he!.td upon the body.—. Hull
Advertiser.

TAR TREATMENT OF Tlrel JEWS IN RUSSIA.—Mr.
Moxhav, the liberal proprietor of the Hall of Commerce, has
written letters to some of the great mercantile louses in the
City, offering the use of his noble building for the purpose of
a meeting to express the public opinion on the conduct of
the Emperor of Russia towards the Jewish portions of his sub-
jects. Ris believed that the offer will be accepted.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER ON SUNDAY
MORNING.—At about half-past eleven o'clock 'on Sunday
morning, as the wind was blowing very fresh from the south-
west, with the tide running up,.. a couple of youths, named
Williams and Gregory, who were sailing a light, skiff, got
ee
dd
in into
regaining the strheir
thehold of ld
Williams,l a
athwart a tier of barges, nearly opposite to Mr. Stephen
Davies, of Somerset-wharf, the boat immediately capsized,and
both
lahasowweveerer, precipitatedsucc
drifting skiff, and was saved, but the poor youtli Gregory
was washed away, and his body has not yet been found.
Both youths werci the sons of respectableirgh
• parents in
street, Southwark.