The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-12 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDON THEATRE.

The tragedy of Othello was represented here last
evening, for the purpose of introducing a gentleman, his
first appearance on any stage, in the character of the
Moor. If it be his first appearance on any stage, it
certainly is a most promising one. In person he is
rather under the middle size, but very well formed, and
his features are good, and possess great power of ex-
pression. His voice is well modulated, and albeit he
occasionally spoke in too low a tone, that is a defect
which an experience of three nights on the stage will
enable him to remedy. His reading of the part was
beautiful, and his acting was elaborately careful—in some
parts so careful, that he scarcely gave himself fair play.
His acting in the jealousy scene was very fine; and it
would have been first-rate had he not been afraid to
give way to his natural impulse, and the conse-
quence was, he underacted rather than overacted
the part ; and this can scarcely be reckoned as a
fault in a young actor, or, if it be, it is, at all
events, a fault full of promise of future excellencies.
A very little practice will make this gentleman feel quite
at home on the stage, and there is " stuff" enough in
him to make a good actor. Mr. Ryder, as lag°, was
somewhat coarse, but Mrs. R. Honner was the gentlest
of Desdernonas. The farce of lily Wife's Dentist fol-
lowed, in which J. Webster assumed poor Wrench's
character of Dick Hazard, and acted it with much spirit
and gaiety. We could not but admire the espzegle
manner in which Miss M. A. Egan acted the part of

Rhoda, the lady's maid. This young lady bids fair to
become one of the most admirable soubrettes on the
stage. The house was very well attended.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY EvErallo.—The Court is
expected to return to the Castle, from the Isle of Wight, on
Saturday. Her Majesty will alight at the Farnborough
station, and proceed from thence direct to Windsor. His
Royal Highness Prince Albert having promised to honour
the Smithfield Club Cattle Show with a visit, will coins
through to town, and return to the Castle the same after-
noon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will arrive
at Frogrnore House to-morrow afternoon, from a visit to her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Witley Court. The infant
Prince Alfred was taken out for an airing this morning, on
his Shetland pony, in the Home Park. His Royal Highness
was also taken for a carriage drive this afternoon, attended
by the Dowager Lady Littelton.
ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—On Tuesday the
meeting for December was held at the premises in Seel-street,
and was numerously attended. Several gentlemen were ad-
mitted members by ballot, and others nominated as candi-
dates for admission next month. The name of Lieutenant-
Colonel Sir Walter Scott, son of the Bard of Abbotsford, was
among the latter. The Hon. Secretary read a letter from his
Grace the Duke of Rutland (Resolution schooner yacht), ten-
dering his warmest thanks to the members for the handsome
manner in which they had elected him a member, and hoped
sonic day to acknowledge the compliment personally. The
committee of stewards for the intended club ball reported to
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LINCOLN'S INN.—The old avenue, leading from
Portugal-street into the great square of Lincoln's-inn, has
been closed, and the space occupied by it and the shops con-
tained in it, are being converted into chambers.
FRENCH PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCIL—A new
French Protestant Episcopal Church of the Savoy has just
completed,usdaand-,
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ship will preach a sirmon in aid of the funds. The new edi
five is situate in Bloomsbury-street, St. Giles's, and is an
elogant structure. The style of building is that of the 14th
century. It contains accommodation for upwards of 200 per-
sons. Adjoining the church is a school room, both of which
have been erecte at a cost of 2,8001.
THORNTON--INCENDIARISM AND PLUNDER.—OH
Sunday evening last, some savage wretch wilfully set fire to
the stack-yard on Wester Pitteuchsr, the property of Mr.
Gibb, but fortunately the flames were prevented from reach-
ing beyond the stack which was fired, In consequence of
the alarming appearance of the flaures the whole inmates
had left the house to lend assistants in extinguishing the
swelling flames, but found on their return that the house
had been entered and robbed of 401. A diligent search is
making into the affair, which, we have reason to expert, will
soon be unveiled, and the depredators duly punished.—Edin-
burgh Advertiser.
A letter from Clonmel, received this morning,
says :—" Alderman Hearn was this day found drowned in a
water-vat in his brewery in this town."—Dublin Evening
Post.

HEROD OUTHERODED.
(From the Morning Post )
The Peel Ministry is at an end. We are not among
those who feel any regret at making this announcement.
On the contrary, we say with the most perfect sincerity,
that we are right glad of it. In our opinion—and it is
not the first time we have said so—Sir Robert Peel has
most shamefully :deceived all who trusted him. His
whole career since 1842 has been one of insanity or
treachery. We have done all in our power to expose
him. He has not (since 1842) deceived us. We regard
him as the most loathsome of public men. His abilities
(which are unquestionable) only add to his odiousness.
He prostitutes to the meanest purposes the talents which
God has given him. We hope there can now be
no doubt of his joining the Whigs. That the Tories
should ever again have anything to do with him, we
cannot suppose. He has done them enough of mis-
chief. Upon every point he has betrayed them : the
Test and Corporation Acts Repeal, the Roman Ca•
tholic Emancipation Act, the odious Poor-law, and now,
forsooth, the total repeal of all protection to British
agriculture! We do not say that none of these things
should have been dune, but they should not have been
so done as to bring down disgrace and dishonour upon
the Tory party. This was the method, however, of Sir
Robert Peel. First, he contrived to attach to the Tory
party all the odium of bigotry, by his offensive manner
of maintaining their cause, and then he brought upon
them the disgrace of weakness and want of spirit by his
pusillanimous abandonment of his own professed opi-
nions. But we trust we have now done with him for
ever in the character of a Conservative. Never again
may it be our ill fortune to see him in any other position
than that of an open Whig partisan! We wonder what
office Lord John Russell will offer him. We shall be
very anxious to learn hereafter whether it be true, as
some people said yesterday, that a messenger was sent to
summon Lord John Russell on Saturday last, four days
before the late Cabinet was out of office. The Noble Lord
passed through London yesterday morning on his way
to Osborne House. Sir Robert Peel has always (since
he became Minister) been very accommodating to
gentlemen opposite. It is now confidently asserted
in the clubs and the streets, that the Whigs had known
for more than a week what was likely to happen. Hence
the simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, pronounce-
ments by ex• Cabinet Ministers in favour of free trade.
No doubt many exaggerated statements are flying
about, but no inconsistency that could be mentioned—
no treachery that a busy imagination could devise—
seems too improbable to be credited respecting such a
man as Sir Robert Peel. The man who, in June last,
told the Parliament that he would not vote for repeal of
the corn-laws, because such a measure would totally
alter the character of the country, and be accompanied
by social evils which no mercantile advantage could
compensate, and who, before the month of January, en-
deavours to persuade the whole Cabinet to consent to
that very measure—the man who could do this may be
suspected of anything. But the bold features of his
career during the last four years are not points of sus-
picion, but of palpable fact. The mischief be has done has
been enormous ; only, indeed, to be equalled by the large-
ness of opportunity for doing good, which, in his folly, or
his treachery, he has thrown away. In September, 1841,
he found himself at the head of an overwhelming ma-
jority in the Commons, pledged to the protection of
British industry against undue foreign competition. The
Lords were also in his favour by no less a majority. The
only pressing difficulty before him was the state of the
revenue. From that he was relieved, not by an ingenious
expedient of finance, but by a method which any banker's
clerk could have suggested as well as he—a tax
upon income. The Whigs could not have availed them-
selves of that, for they had not the influence to carry
such a measure. The powerful party, hewever, that had
made Sir Robert Peel Minister gave him without any
hesitation the revenue he required. His way then was
plain and even easy, if he had been faithful and honest.
The protection of British industry—the advancement of
agriculture, and of every species of profitable pro-
duction within the British islands—the generous, yet
not extravagant consideration of the poor—the culti-
vation of good old English feeling towards the Church
and the Throne—these were the obvious duties of any
honest and honourable man, circumstanced as Sir
Robert Peel was, and brought into office as he
had been. His course was exactly the opposite. In-
stead of being animated by a desire to act up to the prin-
ciples of the party that gave him power, his great aim,
as soon as he had power, seemed to be to concede Tory
principles to the " liberal views" of those whom for ten
previous years he had opposed. In fear, or in treachery,
for as yet one cannot certainly pronounce which it was,
he began, as soon as he bad supplanted the Whigs, to do
the work of the Whigs, and in this alone he has been
consistent. By his miserable misconduct he divided,
disheartened, and to a certain extent disgraced the party
which had placed him at its bead, and now, at last, he
has finished by breaking up the Cabinet in a monstrous
attempt to accomplish the very thing which he was called
to power in order to prevent ! Can any public career
be more loathsome than this ? Again we say, we
rejoice that we have done with him. Anything
is better than a double-dealer—one whose word
you cannot depend upon from month to month,
except by calculating that what he now most
strenuously supports, he will by-and-by most pu-
sillanimously abandon. It is incredible, however, that
Lord John Russell should have much success as a Minis-
ter. He may have Sir Robert Peel and a few more rats
to help him in the House of Commons, but we suspect
lie will find no majority there in favour of total repeal of
the corn-laws. On the contrary, we believe that the
Conservative party in the House, when relieved from
the wet blat.ket of Peel, will soon teach Lord John
Russell that with the present Parliament he has no
chance. But he will appeal to the country. By all
means—the sooner the better. The country will give
him his answer, as it did in 1841. And then—and then
the Conservatives will come back to power, relieved of
the hideous encumbrance of plausible Peel. There is no
doubt, we believe, that a majority of the present Cabinet
have voted steadily against the last poisonous potion
which Peel offered them to drink. They will be ready
to form a new Government—a Government which we
have no doubt will command the respect and confidence
of the country, and all the more certainly from being
without any kind or degree of dangerous support from
so characterless a public man as Sir Robert Peel.

EDMONTON PETTY SESSIONS.
(Before Dr. Robinson (Chairman) and Mr. Mores.)
MURDER OF AN INFANT BY ITS MOTllEL—Elizabeth
Huntsman, twenty-one years of age, a single woman,
and of most respectable connexions, was brought bofore
the Bench, charged, on her own confession, with the
wilful murder of her illegitimate female child, which was
about nine months old, by drowning it in a brook in the
parish of Edmonton. A great number of inhabitants of
Edmonton were present during the inquiry, who mani-
fested deep sympathy with the accused, her father being
long resident in the parish, in which he carries on the
business of a groeer. The prisoner, who is a young
woman of considerable personal attractions, was pro-
vided with a chair, and she was supported by her mother,
who sat by her side, and who was much afflicted through-
out the proceedings.
The evidence was conclusive; but the inquiry was
adjourned for medical evidence. It appears that about
two months ago the prisoner attended at Edmonton
Sessions, for the purpose of compelling the putative
father to contribute to the support of her child; but, as she
had not sufficiently corroborative evidence to support the
affiliation, the summons was dismissed. Since then, after
having had a wet-nurse's situation, which she was obliged
to give up, in consequence of ill-health, she received
assistance from her mother and friends, not beingallowed
to return home.