The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-18 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDON THEATRE.

Mrs. honey's engagement at this elegant little
theatre has proved most attractive. She performed
last week the character of Paul, in Buckstone's coin
opera, The Pet of the Petticoats, with the motst fas-
cinating naivete. If the real Paul at all resembled. his
charming representative, we are not at all surprise."
at his having been a pet. There is a style of- such
simplicity about Mrs. Honey's acting in this character.
which is quite irresiatible. Her rich contralto tones
told most effectively in the ballads with which
the part is interspersed, and which she gave
with excellent taste. The duet, " A pious Child,"
which she sang with Dunn, was received with roars of
laughter. It was a rich piece of humour. It was
evident that Mrs. Honey was acting the character
con amore, and we never saw her to greater advantage.
She was very efficiently supported by Miss Ellen
Daly as The bill of fare for thi's week is a
very promising one--Romeo and Juliet, with Miss
Emmeline Montague as Juliet : and Don Gioranni,
with Mrs. Honey as the Don, must draw crowded
houses, or there is no taste extant.

His Grace the Duke of Wellington rode into Dover
on Thursday, accompanied by Lord Mahon ; and after
looking at the New Wharf and the excavations of the
Pent mud, returned to Walmer Castle.—Dorer
Chronicle.

LICENSING DAY IN THE CIT V. —The following
notice was put up, on Sunday last, at all the different
parish churches throughout the City, signed by the
respective churchwardens :—" A Special Session, for
the purpose of granting licenses to persons about to
keep inns, ale-houses, and victualling-houses in. the
City of .London, to sell exciseable liquors by retail, to
he drunk or consumed on the premises therein speci-
fied, is appointed to be holden at the Guildhall of the
said City of London, on Saturday next, the 22d
instant, at nine o'clock in the forenoon of the said
day of October."
It will be recollected that a short time since Captain
Norton, the celebrated archer, sent a challenge to J.
llutchona, Esq., the present Captain of the St. George's
Club, and one of the best shooters in England, to con-
test for a silver cup, which the latter gentleman readily
accepted, and the match came off on the 5i.. George's
Club Ground, Hamilton-terrace, on Saturday after-
noon. Many of the first archers of the day, among
others, assembled to witness it. The distance was 60
yards, and 150 arrows, and on the score being taken,
Hutchons was declared the victor by a majority
of 140.

Posi-OFFICE.—The uniform system has not.' in
our opinion, had fair play, because it has been at-
tended by a great many limitations of the conveni-
ence previously enjoyed by the public. The restric-
tion upon the hours of posting in London, as well as
elsewhere, is at the head of these limitations. Why
should letters be dispatched from London to be re-
ceived at one o'clock in the morning in Bristol, and
one o'clock in Birmingham, and at four o'clock at
Liverpool and Manchester when they are not wanted
in any of those places before seven or eight? The
four hours lost in London is not merely a loss of con-
venience—it is a loss of revenue. It is altogether a
mistake to suppose that no letters but letters of neces-
sitynine-tenths of all letters written are perfectly
contribute to the Post-office revenue;robabl
writer has a
unne-
cessary letters, written often(which
tlm
generally hap-
pens
in the evening) ;
because ..
few spare moments to writde
tis the early hour of
What would be
pub-
lic, 3 serious loss to the revenue.
inconvenience to the
ix o clock P.M. to nine
thought of a notice that from s
gusting causes, besides thaen
modity ? let this notice is pracaity given in the
lanitsltrsa,waimui
o'clock A.M__,_. nobody shall use any. other txed.com-
e p
which with thet.he
tniTaitste.Lsoftanleitins. by the pr sc it Post-office regula-
Tit, KIRK AND THE GOVERNMENT.—W
- o nb!lennt r againu s i
under-
stand that the heads of a new Bill for settling the
Government is disposed to accede to. It is
Sir
George Sinclair's Bill in substance, but, with
some ee questionot' the have.N
al-
terations to please the Nons. It recognises
concurrence
the veto of
the male heads of families,and
permits the Presbyteries
to give effect to it or not, as they slto li
This discretionary power is inthink fit in each call.
reality more objection-
able than the absolute veto,
because it opens • a door
for jobbing and private partiality, and invests the
Church Courts with
they may employ an almost despotic power, which
at pleasure against the patrons, the
presentees, or the concrreo-ations. The same high legal
functionary who chargetooltt'of
the last fruitless ne-
gotiation, is said to have been the go-between , in this
instance.—Scotsman.
Pour gentlemen amongst whom was Sir. Richard
Sutton, killed 433 'head of game •at Buckenham, on
Saturday, Oct. 1, amongst which there were only
three rabbits ; the greater portion .were pheasants and.
partridges.—Norwich Mercury. ,
Mr. Higgs held an inques,t. on Friday at theitßising
Sun, Knightsbridge, on view of the body of Louisa
Morris, aged 24, who was found dead in the Serpentine
on Thursday morning last. James Jarvis, of Park-
court, Great Ilertford-street, sworn—On Thursday
morning about ten o'clock, I was near the Serpentine
withmy Newfoundland dog. He brought out a stick
that I had thrown in, and then returned to the water and
laid huid of something which I soon found was part of a
Ivoinan'sdress. Thedeg could .not drag the body out,
and I got assistance from the receiving-house, w:hen it
was brOught to the shore. James Morris, of No. 7,
Norfolk-place, sworn. The deceased was my sister.
I: saw her alive about six weeks since; she was then
residing with my father. Since that time she has kept
company with a young man whom I have heard has
recently deserted her. She was not in the habit of
staying out late at night, and I believe that she vnizsot
have destroyed herself through his giving her
up.
other evidence being forthcoming, the Jury returned.
a verdict Of " Found Drowned, but how she came 10.4
4
I the water there was noevidenc° t°131.6".'