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. Series,
the author of many productions which are 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 sportsmen, 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 consequenoes
arising forms the leading features of the play,
and the from it,
plot s filled up with a succession of comic
scenes. Miss Aitken, Mr. Creswick, Mr. Meade,
Mr. Shepherd, •aud Mr. 11. 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 maize
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 as both Vac
clever feats of legerdemain by Mons. Langlois and
Mons. Lassaigne's experiments in animal magnetism,
can be seen in the same theatre, and what is perhaps
of greater importance to many, for one price. Of
the performances, having ere now spoken of th(un
most favourably, little more need be said. There is
one beautiful contrivance, however, introducedfor
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 arty
member of the audience wishes will be immediately
played by them without any visible motive power.
Whether 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 chimes, and the beautiful little au-
tomaton rope-dancers, are quite enough to draw
bumper house., but when those "illusions" are fol-
lowed by experiments on magnetism, no b
lesse doubt wonder-
ful, of r-
fal, though not illusory, there can be
the success of Hungerford Hall.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending Jan. 24,
1852 £10,062 1 2
Ditto, Jan. 25, 1851 ... 9,248 9 9

Increase in 1852 ... ... £Bl3 11 5
London Terminus, Jan. 26, 1852.
Giasciow AND SOUTII-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
the week ending January 24, 1852 :
Passengers (15,646), goods and
Corresponding
parcels, horses and carriages.. £3,521 11 7
week in last year 3,356 0 7
Glasgow, January 26.

contains A GASOMETER BLow D
recently erected at the gas
Operative
the gale
escape o he gas caused serious
t cub i c feeto
on Saturday night a gasomomer,
apeowf Di:
works in Southampton, which
gns, was blown down. The e
fao rt tianp' sp
annoyance in the neighbourhood.
doesMn
in
nr
to those passed at
appear to
THE ENGINEERS' STRIKE.
Engi-
neers held another meeting last night
at which resolutions of a similar character
former meetings were agreed to. There
be the least probability of a speedy settlement o the differ
f-
ences between the masters and the men.
MEETING OF THE LEADERS OF THE COUNTRY
PARTY.—Several of the leaders of the Country party Were
entertained at Burghley House, Stamford, during the past
week, by the Marquis of Exeter, previous to the commence-
ment of the Parliamentary session. Amongst those present
were the Earl of Derby, the Duke of Montrose, the Earl of
Malmesbury, the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Burleigh, Mr,
Disraeli, Mr. lierries, Major Beresford, Mr. Newdegate,
Captain Vy
se, and Sir Charles Keightley. The Countess of
Derby and Lady Burleigh were amongst the visitors at
Burghley. The party assembled on Thursday, and separated
yesterday.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN AND
WINDSOR, RA ILWAY.—Yesterclay Mr. W. Carter held an in-
quest at the Railway Tavern, Wandsworth, upon the body
of Mr. Salem Walter Cross, aged 29, a commercial traveller,
who was killed at the Wandsworth Station on Friday morn-
ing last whilst attempting to enter a train in motion. The
evidence embodied a the facts already pnblig)ed in these
14.1;(1 j:irv• • v€l-,),11. 4 Ac,c,:;..ittal
death," csouera,:iug the railway servants trom blame.

One thousand six hundred and fifty-two vessels
entered the port of Gloucester during the year AB5l.

LO N DON,

THE LATE ALFRED ACGUSTUS FRY, ESQ.

(Prom the Morning Post.)

The name which we have. placed at the head of
this notice did not belong to one who inherited or
achieved that altitude of pl ace or of rank which com-
mands the homage of public observation. To many
of our readers it is probably unknown ; and he who
bore it might have passed away, wept and honoured
by those only who were s o happy as to possess his
personal aoquaintance. Nor do we seek by these re-
marks to call upon the close of a life that general

attention which its course seemed studiously to avoid

Our object is not to woo far 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
raortsl 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 ger ierosity which are the true
marks of the Christian gentleman.
Amidst all the cares an.d anxieties of business, be
never omitted to prosecute his favourite studies of
letters and philosophy.
" Ho was a scholar, and a ripe and good one."

His learning was not confined to an acquaintance
with the philology of anci.ent and modern tongues,
it embraced also the vast trcasures of thought and ob-
servation of which the mast,w 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—in sight 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 intell actual wealth.
Mr. Fry's powers of communication were fully
equal to his capacity fur acTuisition. He was the
most instructive as well as the anost delightful of com-
panions. No one who has ever listened to his con-
versation can forget the forces or the fluency of its
eloquence. The clearness and justice of his con.
ceptions were made apparent in language the
most apt and expressive. Das illustrations were
almost always original Itnd uniformly cha-
racterised by a singular felicity and power.
He was often compared in this respect, and by
no means unjustly, to Dr. Job,nson, 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 sad 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 foil owed from the proposi-
tion which bad been asserted, or the fact which bad
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 bet refit his friends, or even
his acquaintances.
To those in the humbler 'maks of life, his
" hand was open as day to melting charity."
Nor was his benevolence confined to acts of bounty—
the large number of workm.ien employed by the
highly-respectable firm of which he was a partner (the
house of De La Rue and 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 his family. As a man, a scholar, a phi-
losopher, and a Christian—" Take him fur 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 m an, of his high social
virtues, his great talentta and his uprightness of cha-
racter, we fully concur, and we cordially sympathise
with his family and the large c ircle of his friends who
are now lamenting the loss of cane 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 in smory is to be regarded
with respect for his noble qua lities as a citizen and a
politician. Although he never assumed a place in public
life, as one of the prominent IT *abilities of the day, he
is well known to a large circle, of men who have been
used in the political movenaents of the last forty
years, as one of that band of intrepid and truly honest
men who have contributed so effectually in their
sphere to produce the present enlightened and re-
fining state of the public mind,. To use the emphatic
expression of the Lord Chancellor, a few months ago,
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 hi tnself, 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 cloae 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 an axim was that of the
noble Roman poet—Vitam impendere Vero—and to
that 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, wbo bears his name.—En. Sun.]