The Sun. — 1869-04-03 (London, England)

THE NORWICH MURDER. —The magistrate clerk at Norwich has received a letter from Brighton put' porting to have been written at the dictation of Martha Sheward, Sheward's first wife, of whose murder he 10 been convicted. The letter is either a silly hoax or a veri important communication.  A Liverpool paper of Friday says that at one of th° largest spinning and weaving establishments in the tovegis nearly one-half of the whole number of 72,000 spindles, bave been got to work at the reductkn of 10 per cent., togetheg with upwards of 800 looms out of the whole number of 1,420, and the hands are returning to work every day. We are glad to learn (says the Standard) that Morgan Howard, Esq., has been invited to a public banquet on Wednesday, the 14th April, at the hail of the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, as a slight aeknolv ledgment of the gallant and single-handed contest 10 fought so admirably in behalf of the Conservative cause At the last Lambeth election. The list of stewards is not lob' numerous but influential, thus evidencing the general interest that was taken in the late election for the borougb of Lambeth.  The Liverpool Government emigration official° issue monthly returns of the emigration from the Mersof The latest quarterly return shows during the quarter the number of emigrants who left the Mersey exceeded 5,310 the number who sailed during tho same period O' 1868. A great majority of the passengers who left Liver" pool were English, the facilities afforded by the variouelinco of steamers at Queenstown for Irish emigrants have greatly reduced the numbers which at one time left via Liverpool. Cardinal Cullen, in a pastoral issued in Dublin 00 Friday, announces that all Roman Catholics who attend the Masonic ball, to be given to his Royal Highness Princh Arthur, in Dublin, shall be excommunicated. The Cardinal, passing into another subject, designates those Protestants who oppose Mr. Gladstone's Irish Church BiN, and wh° speak of kicking the Queen's Crown into the! Boyne, 0, fanatics. He does not, however, appear sanguine thst the bill will pass, because he says in referen43 to it 00 the best-considered undertakings of man are 'frequently. defeated.  MR. • DICKENS AND THE THEATRICAL PitoYES' sioN.—The actors and actresses engaged on the London stage, desirous of having an opportunity of hearing one of Mr. Dickens's readings, but being prevented by the nature of their avocations from attending any entertail-' ments in the evening, addressed a letter to Mr. Dickens' requesting him to give what in their own parlance would be called a morning performance. 'L'o this appeal Alf' Dickens has replied in the following terms :—" To the Ladies and Gentlemen, my correspondents, througli Mr. Clarke. Ladies and Gentlemen,—l beg to assure you that I am much gratified by the dcsire you do me the honour to express in your letter handed to me by Mr. John Clarke. Before that letter reached me I had heard of your wish, and had mentioned to Messrs. Chappell that it would be highly agreeable to me to anticipate it, if possible. They readily responded, and we agreed upon having three morning readings in London. As they are not yet puljliclY, announced, I add a note of the days and subjects; Saturday, May I.—` Boots at the Holly Tree Inn,' 'Sikes and Nancy' from Oliver Twist.' Saturday, May The Christmas Carol.' Saturday, May 22.—`Sikes and Nancy' from Oliver Twist,' and The Trial' froo !Pickwick.' With the warmest interest in your art, anti in its claims upon the general gratitude and respect, be' Ueve me, always, faithfully your friend, CHABLO DioxEN4' Gad's-bill-place, HigioaliZ bnileOter, *O4 1862.1/