The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

SUN,

THE

Hzi1.721,1-111KIT THEATRE.

T. Adtilphi company, which vacated this theatre
on Saturday, has been immediately succeeded by its
more legitimate occupants, under the management of
Mr. Webster, who announces the present P s his fare-
w,ll season g.t the Haymarket. Lilt night was the
first of the season, and the principal piece selected
for the occasion WAS Sir E. Bulwer Lytton's IN ell-
kno wn and favourite comedy Money, in which Mr.
Barry Sullivan sustained with great propriety, tact,
and feeling the character of Evelyn. The cast in
other respects also was excellent, Mr. Buckstone,
Mr. Webster, and Mr. Leigh Murray appearing
in the parts of Mr. Ben. Stoat, M.P., Graves,
and Sir Frederick Blount respectively, while
Mrs.Fitzwilliarn, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Mrs.
Stirling represented Lady Franklin, Geogiana Vesey,
and Clara Douglas. We must not forget to notice
also the of eetive mariner in which Mr. Lambert
played Sir John Vesey and the pathos and dignity
which Mrs. Stirling infused into the character of
Clara Douglas. At the close of the piece, the mem-
bers of the company whom we have named were
called to the front of the curtain to receive the hearty
plauArs of the house ; Mr. Webster especially, who
had also bean warmly greeted on his first entrance at
an earlier period of the evening, and Mr. Barry Sul-
livan, receiving a more marked expression of ap-
plause. The National Anthem was then played by
the orchestra. The forty-second representation of
Keeley Worried by Buchstone followed, and the even-
ing closed with Maddisora Morton's farce of Your
Life's in Danger. The house was full.

LON DON,

to receive the unanimous congratulations of the au-
dience. The el fterpi, ce was a transatlantic ballet comique
by M. Leclercq—Theßoatrnen of the Ohio. Mrs.
and Miss Louise Leciercq danced some very pretty
characteristic solos to popular American melodies,
arranged expressly for this ballet by Miss Louise Le-
clercq, which brought down upon them thunders of
applause. Sara Slick, a clock maker, Dandy Jem,
and Julius Cwz4r, a piecanini slave, found capital re-
presentatives in M. Leclercq, M. Leclercq, jun., and
Master Arthur Leclercq. Oa Tuesday was played
a legendary draws entitled the Fayre Lasse of Ply-
mouth. Michael Erle • (Mr. T. C. King), the maniac
lover, is driven to despair and madness by the loss of
his sweetheart, who is carried off by Lord D'Arville
(Mr. Warde), and for many years the unfortunate
Michael wanders about a bouseless and incurable mad-
man ; till at length be meets with D'Arville, the cause
of all his injuries,
Mies
rage
and upon
supported
m
h e takes
of revenge. Mary Ms
the " Fair Maid of Plymouth."
The after pieces were The Boatmen of the
Ohio and The Broken Sword. On Wednesday, The
Peasant Boy was performed. Mr. King played as
well as need be the part of Baron Montaldi, whose
cunning and treachery were, well depicted by the I
actor.

COURT UtUCULAR.
BALMORAL, OCT. 3.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
drove yesterday to see the Burn of the Vat.
Sir Edwin Landseer arrived at Balmoral yesterday,
and remains on a visit to her Majesty.

A deputation of the Local Board of Health for
Woolwich, consisting of Mr. Edwin Arthur Bernays,
Mr. Joseph Tuckett, Mr. George Hall Graham, Mr.
George Hudson, and Mr. Edward Sargent Clerk, had
an interview with the General Board yesterday, at
their office, Whitehall, for advice on the drainage
works r6quired for that suburban district.
Lprd Lovaine had an interview with Mr. Secretary
Walpole yesterday at the Home-office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of Van Diemen's Land,
Gibraltar, and Malta.

THE COURSE OF STORMS.
The accounts of the storm that swept along the
Atlantic coast in August show some of the remark-
able features of that kind of atmospheric disturbance.
Its beginning we have traced to the Gulf of Mexico,
at a point south-east from Key West, wbere it raged
eleven days before. In its regular course it reached
Halifax, in Nova Scotia; how much further it went
in that direction we have no accounts. It is the kind
of storm that Mr. W. 0. Redfield, of this city, first
proved to be a great whirlwind. This he did by
showing that, at the same instant, in different places,
the wind actually blows in a circle, of course the
circle being very large, measuring some 500 miles
in diameter, and, while whirling around, progressing
forward like other smaller whirlwinds. We here give
a number of dates which we have taken from the
public journals to mark its rates of progress.
On the 21st August the American barque Jasper,
bound from Havannah to New York, was caught in
the gale blowing from the south-east, and, while
" lying to," was driven on the reefs the next day, ten
miles east of Key West. Many other valuable ves-
sels and cargoes went in like manner ashore.
On the 22d, at Key West, early on Sunday morn-
ing, it commenced,to blow a hurricane, the baro-
meter rapidly falling. Its greatest violence was at
sundown, and by one o'clock on Monday morning,
23d, it had entirely ceased. The direction of the
wind was from the south-east. It was the hardest
storm there since 1846.
On the 24th, Tuesday, it began at Pensacola; its
greatest force was on Wednesday and Thursday, the
25th and 26th. The wind was at first easterly, and
gradually shifted round southerly, and then westerly.
The rain fell in great quantities, and the storm was
the most severe that had raged there for many years.
All the bathing-houses and more than two-thirds of
the main reef were carried away. •
On the 25th and 26th, also, it was violent at Mo-
bile, doing damage to the amount of half a million of
dollars. The dwelling of the light-keeper at Choctaw
Point was carried away, and five persons were lost.
It extended west to Lake Pontchartrain.
On the 26th and 27th, it spread over the State of
Georgia. The Ocmulgee River, at Macon, rose to a
great height, carrying away the railroad bridge.
At Augusta, the Savannah River rose to such a
height on Friday, the 27th, as to sweep off the
railroad bridges, and stop all travel. The water rose
four feet in the streets; one or two houses were
washed away, and several lives lost. The cars on
the railways could not approach within a mile of the
city. The telegraph accounts of the damage done to
that city was 9,000,000 dollars, probably an exagge-
ration.

In South Carolina, near Columbia, several bridges
were swept away from Broad River, and in the
Congeree, as far up as that city, the freshest was
three feet higher than ever known before, and 32
feet above the ordinary level. The rain was heavy
at Charleston.

In Virginia we hear of the severity of the storm,
and of the overflowing of the James River at Rich-
mond, submerging a number of cellars and houses in
the lower part of the city. The Rappahannock rose
to an extraordinary height at Fredericksburg, carry-
ing away the Chatham-bridge and injnring the canal.
A waggon and four horses were swept down by the
current.

On the 28th, Saturday, the storm raged at Balti-
more. Its violence in wind and rain on that day was
remarkable in southern New Jersey. The same day
it began in New York. Its first rain was about
noon ; at five o'clock the wind and rain were severe ;
at seven the storm was violent, and so continued
until noon on Sunday, though the rain ceased early
on Sunday morning. The wind was at first from the
east, then from the north-east, and ultimately it
veered around by the north to the west. The da-
mages were large in the blowing down of unfinished
houses in New York, Brooklyn, Williamsburg, and
Jersey city.
At Boston it began on Saturday evening, the 28th,
and kept on until Monday morning, the 30th. At
Newburyport the rain amounted to 3f inches during
that time.

.-.... ..._._.
On the 31st, Tuesday, the storm was so heavy to
the eastward of Portland, Me., that the news by the
steamer America, which arrived at Halifax at six,
P.M., could not be telegraphed.
We thus see that eleven days were required for the
storm to progress from a little beyond .ley West to
Ilailfax. A wind blowing in a direct line along its
track with the violence of that storm would have
reached that distance in twenty-four or thirty hours
at farthest. All along its path the wind was
constantly veering. For instance, at Pensacola,
the accounts say, " the wind was at first easterly,
and gradually shifted round southerly, thin
westerly." This shows that the centre of the storm
passed west of that place. At New York it began
easterly, turned towards the north, and Shen to the
west and southwest. This shows that the centre of
the storm passed east of this city. Its track WBB
remarkably curved. 13,ginning near Havana, ac-
cording to our limited notices, it progressed towards
the north-west until about Mobile. There it turned
towards the north-east, and followed the line of the
coast, probably leaving the line of the coast more and
more to the north.
It is highly desirable that editors should state
more precisely the times of the beginning and ending
of the storms, how the wind begins, which way it
veers, and where it ends. This is necessary in order
to exhibit the proof'sof the circular motion of
the wind; for, it must be remembered, that some
highly respectable scientific men do not believe in Mr.
Redfield's discovery. Governo' Reid, of the Bermuda
Islands, was among the first who adopted the Redfield
tileory, and he has written two or three octavo vo-
lumes, giving the course and history of several great
storms. In the East Indies, Messrs. Piddington and
Thom, in the employment of the East India
Company, have each published several volumes,
showing, from very careful data, that in the Indian
Ocean and China Sea, the storms are also circu-
lar,Ley whirl around
and that, south of the equator, 1,
in the opposite direction, that is, south of the
equator they move round in the game way as the
hands of a watch. Mr. Piddington very properly
calls them cyclones, from the cycloidal course of
the wind.

Here ou our own coast they can be studied more
easily than in any other part of the world, for they
sweep so far along the land, and over the hundreds of
vessels on our coasts, and hence many observations
can be made. It is remarkable that, while the dis-
covery is entirely and indisputably American, the
British have invebtigated it the must largely, and
written on it most voluminously. Mr. Redtield's
papers were scattered about in several scientific peri-
odicals, and have never been collected in a single vo-
lume. The separate volumes of Reid, Piddington,
Thom on cyclone storms aro numerous.—New
York Courier.

ADVANCE ON WELCII InoN.—The recent itrprove-
iilent in the demand for iron hes led, a 3 was anticipated, to
an advance in price, and the makers have succeeded in esta-
blishing a rise of 30s. per ton. The whole of the iron-works
are in lull employ, and large orders are on. hand, and several
of the Cull
are about to blow more furnaces into blast.
This will give employment to a large number of men, and be
productive of great benefit to many families. The Llynti
Iron Company purpo3e the erection of a new forge, which it
is intended to be tar larger than the one at present in opera-
tion, and likewise new blast furnaces will be added to those
at present in use. The workmen will also participate in this
iroproved sate of affairs, as the rate of wage's will be in-
creased. At the Cyfarthta Ironworks tile remuneration paid
to the men has been raised 5 per cent.

cmiltntrf,,ial accounts by the Oc,,rland
are not unsatisfactory. At Calcutta prices showed a ten-
dencyand at Bombay they Were steadily
ra there was less business than usual.
deanienytationeidm, puriotiioth