The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-08 00:00:00

ONET--"TUADE-C 021/ZIVIERCE.

The condition of the labwuring classes in Nottingham
is becoming daily worse ; employment, in most cases,
consists of their living upon a sholl pittance of work
given out to them by the manufacturers, to keep them
from absolute starvation. Their furniture and other
comforts are fast disappearing from their houses, and
their clothing is speedily converting into rags.
At the half-yearly Meeting of the Directors and Pro-
prietors of the London and Brighton Railway, which took
place on Friday, at the London Tavern, it was stated by
the Report that the average weekly receipts on the line
amounted to upwards of 4,0001. ; the traffic during the
last six mouths has produced 63,3261. 78. 2d. ; aud, after
all deductions, an amount of 27,6451. 12s. lies at the dis-
posal of the Shareholders.

NAVAL AND MILITALRY.
The military Lieutenaut-Governor of Sheerness, Col.
Walker, who, with the exception of the Earl of Loos-
dale, was the oldest officer of his rank in the service,
died at Holland Lodge, near Edinburgh, last week, at an
advanced age.
LAW AND POLICE.

James Pratt, a gardener, was charged at Union-
hall with absconding with Jane Illman, the wife of a pub-
lican at Reigate, and stealing fifty-six sovereigns, be-
sides a quantity of wearing apparel and other property.
A woman, named Mary Ann Nigh, relative of the female
who absconded, was also charged as being concerned in
the robbery. The prisoners were remanded till Wed-
nesday.
Josiah Overton was indicted at the Warwick Assizes,
on Thursday last, for the offence of corrupt and wilful
perjury, having deposed, by false oaths, as to the pay-
merit and receipt of a sum of money, which was found by
the watermark on the latter to disprove his statement,
and show that it had been anteemed. The Jury re-
turned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced
transportation for life.
The Messrs. Finden, the well-known engravers, of
Southampton-place, New-road, passed their examination
on Friday in the Bankruptcy Court. The 'Tableaux,
known by their names, comprising the splendid gallery
of art, upon which thousands had been expended, and
little or nothing realised, were sold for 3,0001.
On Friday Wm. Lenney, carrying on the joint trades
of beer-seller and green-grocer, in Bexley-street, Cam-
berwell, was charged at Union-hall with the murd .r of
his wife Norah, on the preceding afternoon. From the
evidence given, it appeared to be the result of a quarrel.
The prisoner stands remanded.
SPORTING.
The cricket match between Kent and England, which
terminated on Thursday, brought in England the winner,
with nine wickets to go down.
THEATRICAL.

The new amphitheatre at nov in a state of
great forwardness : the decorative part and operations
in the interior are suspended till October, when the new
timber duties will come into force, by which the director,
Mr. Batty, will save about 500/.
COURT-FASHIONABLE.

The Duke and Duchess of Bedford have returned to
Belgrave-square, from a visit to the Dowager Countess
of Sefton, at Stoke Farm, near Windsor.
The Earl and Countess Brownlow have arrived at
Belton House for the autumn.

Lady Portman has arrived at Bournemouth, near
Poole, from Branston House, Dorset.
The Earl of Wilton sailed from Cowes on Thursday
in his schooner yacht, the Xarifa, on a cruise to Cher-
bourg, Guernsey, &c.
Lord and Lady Albemarle left Berkeley-square on
Monday for Newmarket.
Lord Henry Bentinck has undertaken the superinten-
dence of the Lincoln Hunt, vice Sir Richard Sutton, re-
moved to Cottesmore.
lIZSCZZLANEOLTS.
Mdlle. Caroline, from the Olympic Circus, in the
Champs Elysoes, Paris, appeared for the first time at
Vauxhall on Friday night : instead of wearing a spangled
frock she appears in a plain riding habit, and performs
her equestrian feats with great grace and management.
Since the contradiction of the report of the bursting of
the caisson at the Goodwin Sands, that machine has been
considerably advanced through the sand, and there is
every reason to conjecture that it is approaching a chalky
stratum.
More than an usual number of Irish labourers are now
on their way through Stamford, to assist in the work of
harvest in the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambri:igeshire
this year. Hundreds are nightly lodged in the barns
and outhouses in the suburbs.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—.Mozart's opera of
Cosi fan Tutti was revived on Thursday night at the Italian
Opera, for the benefit of Signor Costa. Lablache per-
sonated Don Alphonso, which could not boast of a su-
perior representative. Persiani and Moltini enacted the
parts of Fiordiligi and Dorabella. Rubini and F. La-
blache acted the two indulgent lovers, Ferrando and
Guiglielmo. The acting of last night brought pleasing
reminiscences of the days when Fodor was Fiordiligi ;
Garcia, Gaigliehno, and Pasta, not then arrived at the
zenith ofher glory, Despina. Since that period it has been
played in an English form at the Lyceum, under the name
of it for Tat, but that is now some time since. Among
the gems of the evening, " Un aura atnorosa" was sung
by liubini with the most exquisite feeling ; it was rap-
turously encored, as was also the celebrated sestetto,
" Sento oh Dio." There was a general call fur Signor
Costa when the curtain dropped over the opera, and a
just tribute was then paid him. Cerito, in her Gitana,
attracted last night as many plaudits as ever. The house
.was filled dn all parts ; and in one of the front boxes sat
Grisi, whose absence from the opera, this season, has
been so much regretted.