The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-27 00:00:00

SURREY THEATRE:

Last night a new and original domestic play, en-
titled Annie Tyrrell; or Attree Copse, by Mr. Serle,
the author of many productions which ore well
known to the public, was brought out here with de-
cided success. The scene is laid in an English vil-
lage, and the characters consist of farmers, poachers,
gamekeepers, cockney sportsmer, a drunken post-
man, an innkeeper and his daughter, and the various
other members of an ordinary rustic circle. The hero
is a young farmer, who has fallen in love with a vil-
lage maiden, and who, being discovered poaching,
kills a gamekeeper in a struggle for his own life. The
incidents leading-to the murder, and the consequences
arising from it, forms the leading features of the play,
and the plot is filled up with a succession of comic
scenes. Miss Aitken, Mr. Cresvvick. Mr. Meade,
Mr. Shepherd, and Mr. .1.1. Widdicomb performed
the principal characters, and the piece was put effec-
tively upon the stage.

HUNGERFORD HALL, STRAND.
After having been closed for some days to make
a few alterations, this popular place of entertainment
was again, last night, thrown open to the public.
The arrangement now is certainly much more
satisfactory than formerly, inasmuch tas both the
clever feats of legerdemain by Mons. Langlois and
Mons. Lassaigne 's experiments in animal inftgnetisin,
can be seen in the same theatre, and what is perhaps
of greater importance to many, for one price. Of
having ere now spoken of then]
the performances,
most favourably, little more need be said. There is
one beautiful contrivance, however, introduced for the
first time ,the invention of Mons. Lassaigne, which
is certainly worthy of notice. It is a chime of crys-
tal bells suspended on a cord stretched across the
proscenium of the theatre. Any tune which any
member of the audience wishes will be immediately
played by them without any visible motive power.
Wheiher wires concealed in the cord or electricity be
the cause of the effect, we are at a loss to say, but in
whatever manner it is managed its speaks volumes
for Mons. Lassagne's ingenuity, and ought to be
seen by all those who are curious in such matters.
Those crystal chime?, and the beautiful little au-
tomaton rope-dancers, are quite enough to draw
_bumper houses, bat when those "illusions" are fol-
ful, lowed by experiments on ma netism no less wonder-
thestuhcocuegshs n_o_ Ht_ illusory, there can'be no doubt of
ungerford

SOUTHEASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, Week ending Jan. 24,
" •.. £10,062 1 2
Ditto, Jan. 25, 18319,248 9 9

Increase in 1852
..„
London Terminus. Jan. 26, 1852.
GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWA.Y. Traffic for
,he week ending January 24, 1852 :
passengers (15,646), goods and
parcels, horses and carriages.. £3,521 11 7
G. ,356 0
Glasgow,
Jenuary -u
Corresponding week in last year 3
7

••• £Bl3 11 5

A GASOMETER BLOWN DOWN.—During the gale
on Saturday night a gasometer, recently erected at the gas
works in Southampton, which contains 5 ),000 cubic feet o f
gas, was blown down. The eicape of the gas caused serious
annoyance in the neighb)urhood.
THE ENGINEERS' STEIL:F.—The Operative Engi-
neers held another meeting last night in St. Martin's Hall,
at which resolutions of a similar character to those passed at
former meetings were agreed to. There does not appear to
be the least probability of a speedy settlement of the differ-
ences between the masters and the men.
MEETING OF THE LEADERS OF THE COUNTRY
PARTY.—Sever I a of- the leaders of the Country party were
entertained at alrghley souse, Stamford, during the past
week, by the Marquis of Exeter, previous to the commence-
ment of the Parliamentary
were the Earl of Derby, thseess Duke of Montrose the Earl of
Malrmsburv, the Marquis of Salisbury,' '
session. Amongst those present
lie Lord Burleigh, Mr.
Disraeli, PAr, Herries, Major
Captain Vyse, and
.Sir Charles Knrielford, Mr. Xewdegate,
Derby and Lady Burleigh were
the visitors at
Burgh!ey. The party assembled on nSst
attleY• The Countess of
Thursday, and separated
yesterday.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH:W
Carter held an ESTE,RN AND
WINDSOR RAlLWAY.—Yesterday Mr. W.
commercial
the body
in-
quest at the Railway Tavern, Wandsworth,
of Mr. Salem W.,ltcr Cross, aged 29, a co
atraveller,
who was killed at the Wandsworth Station on Frlcli
tAii3lidgieonTrtna
log last whilst attempting to enter a train in in::
evidence embodied the facts already published in thesehe
columns, and the jury returned a verdict of
death," exonerating the railway servants from Ulnae.
- -

One thousand six hundred and fifty-two vessels
entered the port of Gloucester during the year 1851.

LONDON,

THE LATE ALFRED AUGUSTUS FRY, ESQ.

([From the Morning Post.)

The name which we have placed at the head of
this notice (lid riot belong to one who inherited or
aciii,irved that altitude of place or of rink which com-
mands the homage of public observation. T) many
of our readers it is probably unknown ; end he who
bore it might have passed away, wept and honoured
by those only who were so happy as to possess his
personal acquaintance. Nor do we seek by these re-
marks
to call upon the close of a life that general
attention which its ciAirse seemed studiously to avoid.
Our object is not to woo for the dead the idle breath
of applause, but to encourage the living by a noble
example, in the practice of those virtues which give
life in every sphere its real value, and which deprive
death, under all circumstances, of its sharpest sting.
Of the threescore years and four which told his
moral term, Mr. Fry spent all that followed his
school days in the pursuits of commerce. To that
unswerving integrity which is the highest character-
istic of the British merchant, he added the nice sense
of honour and the lofty generoSity which are the true
marks of the Christian gentleman.
Amidst all the cares and anxieties of business, he
never omitted to prosecute his favourite studies of
letters and philosophy.
" He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one."

His learning was not confined to an acquaintance
with the philology of ancient and modern tongues,
it embraced also the vast treasures of thought and ob-
servation of which the master spirits of our race have
made them the depositories. And those rich stores
of wisdom were all hallowed by the pervading spirit of
a fervent but unostentatious piety.
The great amount of knowledge which Mr. Fry
had thus collected from books was largely augmented
by observation. No incident of daily life was suf-
fered to pass without contributing its lesson ; and a
keen—almost intuitive—insight into character,
enabled him to select his associates from those who
were the best calculated both to appreciate and to add
to his amazing stores of intellectual wealth.
Mr. Fry's powers of communication were fully
equal to his capacity for acquisition. He was the
most instructive as well as the most delightful of com-
panions. No one who has ever listened to his con-
versation can forget the force or the fluency of its
eloquence. The clearness and justice of his cone
ceptions were made apparent in language the
most apt and expressive. His illustrations were
almost always original and uniformly cha-
racterised by a singular felicity and power.
He was often compared in this respect, and by
no means unjustly, to Dr. Johnson, whom he resem-
bled in another and still more important characteris-
tic—namely, his devoted love of truth. This last
expression is by no means sufficient to convey to our
readers the quality to which we allude. It was not
manifested merely in a close and unvarying adherence
to what was exact and just—for that may be pre-
dicated by every honest man—but it showed itself in
a scrupulous and often self-sacrificing maintenance
of all that belonged to or followed from the proposi-
tion which had been asserted, or the fact which had
occurred. It invariably brought to light all that
belonged properly to the matter in hand—no matter
whether telling in favour, or against, himself.
In every other respect his character was remark-
able for singular unselfishness. No matter what was
the sacrifice which his devotion involved, he shrank
from nothing which could benefit his friends, or even
his acquaintances.
To those in the humbler walks of life, his
" hand was open as day to melting charity."
Nor was his benevolence confined to acts of bounty—
the large number of workmen employed by the
highly-respectable firm of which he was a partner (the
house
of De La Rue end Co.) have testified their
deep gratitude for the time which he devoted to their
instruction and improvement, and their profound re-
gret for his loss, in a touching letter which they have
addressed to Isis family. As a man, a scholar, a phi-

losopher, and a Christian—" 'Take him for all in all,
we shall not look upon his like again !"
[ln this just and touching tribute of our cotempo-
rary to the late Mr. Fry, this discriminating recog-
nition of his merits as a man, of his high social
virtues, his great talents, and his uprightness of cha-
racter, we fully concur, and we cordially sympathise
with his family and the large circle of his friends who
are now lamenting the loss of one who in every sense
was a " man indeed !" But Mr. Fry's name is not only
deserving of honour for the reasons so well assigned
by our cotemporary ; his memory is to be regarded
with respect for his noble qualities as a citizen and a
politician. Although he never assumed a place in public
life, as one of the prominent notabilities of the day, he
is well known to a large circle of men who have been
used in the political movements of the last forty
years, us one of that band of intrepid and truly honest
men who have contributed so effectually in their
present enlightened and re
utile
blic mind. To use the emphatic
expression
Lord
Chancellor, a few months age,
ni spheren g
e o
produce
o t
h thee
he was " a reformer long before reform was fashion-
able ;" and .we add, he was one of the men who did
much, and at a great cost to himself, to make reform
" fashionable." As he began in youth, so he con-
tinued through a pre-eminently energetic manhood,
and so he remained at the close of a career, which,
although he was approaching his term of three score
years and ten, we cannot but feel was too prema-
turely closed. His private maxim was that of the
noble Roman poet— litam inzpendere Vero—and to
th

lat self-sacrificing principle of action throughout his
career he invariably, at every cost, adhered. Ho-
noured be his memory ! He belonged to a race of
earnest men—true political heroes—deep thinkers
and energetic actors; and we hold forth his example
as a guide to the rising generation of politicians in
the stirring time so distinctly at hand.
Mr. Fry left a family of eight children—four
daughters and four sons—the eldest of whom is a
member of the bar, who bears his name.—En. Sun.]