The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-07 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Bay.

Market quiet and firm. Slles, about 6,000 bales,
mports, 11,632 Previously, 3,082.

QUICK 'RAVELLING.—The General Steam Navi-
gation Company's steamship Berlin, Captain E. H. Frost,
left Hamburg on Saturday morning last at one o'clock, and
arrived at St. Katherine's wharf at half-past 12 noon the
following day, thus making the passage from port to port
in 351 hours.

SCOTCH MORALITY.—The Scotch papers arc in
effliction. They are in the deepest of holy horror
because the Queen did not attend church in public on
Sunday week, and yet went out driving in the afternoon.
What would the gloomy observers of the Sabfath have
said if they had been on the road to Itiohmond about three
o'clock last Sunday afternoon ? Indignation meetings
would have been hold from Bramar to " auld
The Prince and Princess of Wales had resolved to dine
at the 'White-lodge, and to entertain a small party
at their impromptu banquet, for it had only been thought
of the night before, after the Volunteer review. There
was no provender nor Italian cook at the White Lodge, so
that everything had to be sent out on Sunday. About
half-past two o'clock a private omnibus set out from Marl-
borough-house, crammed with cooks, kitchen-maids,
hampers, and canvas and carpet bags. The side windows
were all open ; and in the centre of the 'bus sat le chef cle
cuisine, arrayed in full official costume—white jacket, red
cap, &c. In his mouth was a short pipe, from which ascended
whiffs of tobacco not the most fragrant, as pipes were being
put out in the closing public-houses, and as West-end Lon-
don was obeying the calls of church bells telling from a
hundred steeples. Many a pious eye was raised in wonder
and despair ; and gloomy forebodings of a return to the days
of George IV. disturbed many a religious soul. The fact
is, German manners prevail at court ; and, though the
Prince and Princess never miss attending church on Sun-
day, like the Queen herself, they enjoy thomeelves in the
afternoon, and have no scruple about a drive in the parks
and a quiet dinner party in the evening. The private opinion
of the Scotch Church that they cannot be among the pre-
destined does not seem to affect cheir spirits. The recep-
tion given to the Princess in Cambridge has been enthusi-
astic beyond all precedent of receptions of royalty in that
seat of learning; and the cheers for the King of Denmark,
with the torrent of counter-groans for Earl itu2sell, arid
not a little significant as to the feeling of the manhood and
intellect of the country in respect of the Danish question,
and the conduct of our Foreign Minister in respect thereto,
A STRANGE VESSEL IN BELFAST.—Yesterday,
about eleven o'clock, a strange looking craft put into our
quays. She came from the Clyde on her trial trip, and made
the passage at the extraordinary speed of twenty miles an
hour. She is very rough-looking in exterior, having, ap-
parently, received only one coat of paint; still else is about
as smart-looking a vessel as ever entered the port. Her lines
are very gracefully drawn, and she is very low in the bows,
as if made to plough through the waves. She has three
funnels in front of the pacidle•box.es, two masts with no
rigging betwGen—in fact she has scarcely any rigging at
all. Although only 1,000 tons burthen, her engines are
1,400 horse power. After making all inquiries we could
about her future occupation, we believe we aro correct in
stating that she has been purchased by a Confederate firm
in London to run the blockade if possible, end that Mobile
is her destination. She has no name painted upon her, but
will, we ,believe, be known in future as " No, 27," Silt
left for the Clyde last night, Belfast

Last night a new three act drare.a, by Mr Slone,
author of "The Templar," was produced at this
theatre. The drama is entitled "Light and
shadow," but why or wherefore we cannot imagine'
for it is in no degree-appropriate to the piece itself'
which is framed on one of the incidents said to hill"°,
occurred in Paris during the regency of Phillip of
Orleans, memorable in history by the rise of John
Law's speculative mania known as the great Mistie
sippi scheme, during which great fortunes were
both lost and won in u few days, sometimes in a fel
hours. The incident taken by Mr. Slops is that
related of the hunchback of the Rue Quill"
campois, who, it is said, was enabled t°
achieve a colossal fortune by, in the first
instance, letting hie hump as a writing desk
during the night of the scheme, and, then, like
others, joining in the scheme, but, uniSke the mein`
rity, securing his fortune, 14 hich he had so hazard'
ously wor. The character of the hunchback OS
sustained by Mr. Dominick Murray, who a short
time ego made a very favourable debut at this
theatre. At the commencement of the play Pierre,
the hunchback, is secretary to the proud and An'
tiquated nobleman, and although aware of the
wildness of his passion, he secretly nourishes his
passion. The lady, of course, has a lover, and this
person nearly kills the poor fellow by knocking him
down while galloping his horse. • Whilst suffering

from his injuries, he hears that the Inarqui4
his master, is about to pall down
mother's cottage, in order to increase the
beauty of the pleasure grounds. The hunchback
pleads i❑ vaiu for time, as removal would be death

to his sick mother. The mother dies while the
house is being razed, and the hunchback, frantic at
the news, attacks the marquis, For this he is east
into the Bastille, where he is left forgotten for five
years. The old marquis's daughter procures hi/3
discharge, and then, sick and friendless, he goes to
the Rue Quincampoix, and then becomes mixed up
in the speculation mania, He becomes rich, the
marquis becomes poor; the lady's lover is reported
dead, and her brother is under sentence of death as
an attainted traitor. Pierre has become all power-
ful in icfluonce with the Regent, 4nd the marquis
and his daughter seek him to obtain par-
don for their relative. At first be
refuses,
but his love for the lady makes him re-
lent. Ho saves the young man's life, and then
Ciarisse consents to become the wife of the hunch-
back. Everything is arranged for the wedding)
but the former lover of the lady arrives, and 0101
Pierre magnanimously foregoes his claim on the
lady's hand, and the young couple are indebted
for the blissful happiness to the once despised
hunchback. Mr. Dominick Murray gave a yell
vivid representation of the part, and showed, by
the force and intensity of his conception, high
abilities as au actor. Mr. David Fisher has a
capital part—a rough French peasant--which ba
played remarkably well; and Mr. J. W. Ray sus'
tained the part of the old Marquis with great

judgment.
The play was a complete success ; and at the fall
of the curtai❑ the whole of the artistes were 0114
for to rcceivo the applawe of a very crowded holloe'