The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-10 00:00:00

ADELPHI THEATRE.

After Jack Sheppard, a new one act farce, entitled
H. 8., was produced at this theatre last. evening with
complete success. It is a very pleasing trifle, the die-
lezue is well written. and the hits are good. Mr.
Henry Belasquez (Yates), a broken down dandy;
and. Mr. Humphrey Bohus, a provincial printer,
are lodging together at the house of Captain Funnel
(P. Bedford), the commander of a Greenwich
steamer, and with a view of improving- their
condition the ene advertizes for a wife and
the other for a partner. The: miserr.-iage of the •
answers to these advertisements gives rise to a .sttries,
of ridiCuleUs mistakes, which after s while
explained; and with their -explanation- endY-The
Mrs. Keeley, as Betty Nangle, the maid of all-work, at
the lodging-house, was perfect,-stre,clid -out .PYRViress or
overact the part. She was -.not, a lady, zralsgrues
rading as a srrvant, but the real nymph of
the . scrubbing brush. Wright, as Mr. Lc-timing-tors
Spnoner, a gez:tlrinan in search of H. B.; the • caiicata-
rist, exhibited a —rlch Vein of comic litrriymr. This
gentleman is one of the most rising couantliatis,of,t.he,day,
end materially contributed to the success of the piece.
Yates, Wilkinson, and Bedford, were -all that c.oulditie
desired, and as, far_ as acting went .tlie uutlior could not
have I)9i better served. It the piece. bs curtailed it.
will most li,Ave a run. • Tee spectaCit 'or lie,
Knight and 4he _Dragon foliowA, to. the satisfaatiuntsaf
etay.ded house.

ST. 3 AEIIES'S TiIEA.TRE,

The Beggar's Oiera, that firstl' satir.es, •Wa
pre;deced last night at this ant), ivru
off with great eclat. The prineip4l ellaracti..!r, Polk
was sustained by Miss Cooper, and we zre bap':
to find that the favourable judgtnent 'we expreEsed e
this your.g lady's performances in Amina.. and otherfir: It
rate characters, was amply justified oil this occasion t.
Ste warbled the beautiful airs very sy.-eeily—especiall
" Cease y.our funning," and " Oh ponder well," h
were much P.pplandedi as were also the duets with M
and Mrs. Fran;ks (the principal of the other vocalist
'Moreover, her acting was clever, and marked with to
charming naivete and spirit. Tilbury " did ":Peacinom
tolerably. The rest is--silence."

T 1-IL' LATL GALE.-DISTI-tESSINCIr

SHIPWRECKS.

• On Friday and Saturday we experienced in tl:Cs
quarter a dreadful gale from the south-east, attend, id
with -extensive devastation to the shipping all along ti
cast coast. So sever,' was the gale that upwards of °I ie
hundred sail of vessels were compelled to seek shelter
the Frith of Forth, and among these a good deal ofd i-
mage has been sustained, besides the loss of those wt ro.
were unable to reach ports of safety. Amongst tit°
put into the Frith with damage we have heard of th 43
following:—
The Fairy, Hodgson, with loss of bulwarks, frailly.
Newczstle, bound to London ; the Augustus, Heat .an.
from Sundcrl!nd, bound to Chatham ; the Elizabeth,
Man, from Shields for London, with loss e 1 bulwark" ;
the Betsey, Heron, from Shields far London, with 100 s
of bulwarks, companion, and wheel ; Ocean, Fell, fna
.Shields for London, with loss of. bulwarks. Mai y
others leaky, names unknown from the thick weather

DUNBAE, DEC. 2.—On Saturday the sloop Doroth sa,
of Copenhagun, J. J. Throne, Master, from Faro, in
:ballast, to Newcastle, was cast ashore on the Wild: ire
Rocks, off Sceugall ; and on Sunday the schooner He to,
Brewer,. Master, of and from Yarmouth to NewcastLe,
with a cargo of wheat and barley, was cast ashore on lr
the seam place. Both vessels are much damaged, at ,d
the cargo of the latter lost ; crews raved.
Pieces of wreck have also been drifted on shore fr um
Cr ail to Aastruthcr, supposed to have belonged t o a
vessel laden with hemp or flax, suc.l3 of these he ing
found on the timbers. This ship-Ai-eel:, must. be rec( tnt,
from the circumstance of a straw mattress coating on
shore scarcely wet through.
Front the circumstance of a quantity of wreck being
washed ashore about three miles to the we:Award of
Montrose, chiefly spurs and deck planks, with two 'boats,
bearing the name " Hart, of Glepgow," it is but too
probable that this vessel has shared (ho fate of the
Petrel. She was a regular trader between Glasgow
and Hamburg,, and was commanded by Alexander
Carfrac, a townsman of our own, who, though a young
man, was an intelligent and skilful seaman. There is
a hope that the 'ulster and crew may base been res-
cued by some passing vessel.—Caledonian .Mcrcury.

MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.—On Sunday
evening last, M-. Western, pupil to Mr. Jrckson, land
surveyor, was in company, at the White Hart Inn, at
March, with a youth of the name of Drage, of Sutton,
and some others. Western on a suttlen drew a pistol,
presented it at Drage, and said, " I'll shoot you." He
pulled the trigger, the ball passed into Drage's licac!„
and killed him. Western and one of his compan'.ons
started for London ; pursuit has been made, b'4 we
have not heard that they have been apprehend'a Va-
rious rumours arc afloat as to the cause of thiS strange
and dreadful transaction. Some attribute it to accident ;
some to jealousy ; but though lv. have heard much, we,
do not think it right, in the present stage of the matter,
to say more. On Monday morning, at eleven o'clock, an
inquest was held at the Griffin Inn, before W. Pratt,
Esq., and a respectable Jury, on the body of the un-
fortunate youth, which sat until two in the afternoon
when it was adjourned to Thursday morning at eleven
o'clock ; and, after sitting until evening, returned a
verdict of Manslaughter against Western, who, we are
informed, is a nephew of Lord Western's. A p•osi
ntortem examination took place on Tuesday, by, Mr.
Church and Mr. Calvert, who opened the herd and
took out the ball. Young Western absconded, on Sun-
day evening after the accident, accomrarlieti by one ,f
tice party nt.rned Gray Woodward. 'SVe..tern bus not
returned, but G. Woodward *has. We hear that
Western slept at the Hooit Hotel, at Cambridge, on
Sunday night, and proceeded to London by the Star
on Monday morning.—Cambridge Independent Press.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A MEMBER 0 F
LLOYD'S.-At nine o'cloCk on Saturday evening, an
inquest was held before Mr. Payne and an extremely
numerous ned respectable Jury, at the Three Tuns,
High-street, Borough, on the body of John Burke, Esq.,
a member of Llovuss. It appeared from the evidence/
that deceased, Trim a few minutes 'before was in robust
health and high spirits, took his piece on Friday own-
ing, in a Greenwich stage, to dice with a friend at New
Cross, and that when the coach arrived opposite to the
Talbot Inn, Borough, the conductor set him down. He
was then seen to • walk across the street, and lean his
head upon a port, A passer-by, judging him ill, led
him into a neighbouring chemist's shop, and Mr. Dash_
wood, a surgeon,
.residing at No. 51, High-street, was
sent for. Ho instantly attended, and applied the re-
medies usual in such sudden attacks, but deceased died
in five minutes afterwards. The surgeon-stated that
the unfortumite gentleman died of collapse, without the
slightest 'determination of blood to the head. Ihe.roorn
was crowded-with 'gentlemen friends of the deceased.
Verdict—Natural Death.

. .
COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—On Saturday a
commission of lunacy was opened before Chief
.COm-
rnissioner Phi!lancirc and other Cominiscioners, to in-
quire into the state of 'mind of Miss
Caroline Ann
'rwecdale, a young lady, 26- years of age;-poi.sesited of
an ::.nnual iaeome of about 700/... the....danghtei of
cqtaiti T.veedale, of Belgrave-square, and, is?ho !for
the last few mouths has been residing' apart from !her
family on Maize-hill, Greenwich Fronl !the
evidence it appearttd that the unfOrtunae object of the
ifer
inquiry, was the victim of nu iii‘ortlinoe,tridc,:and bad
laboured for 'i.Olue time zztft nn
'theelnsion ttiat she
was Duchtii -of Austria; CiiiiPeiSt. Of and
Lady Byron. Upon any oceasitin -when she was ad-
dressed as Miss. Tweedale see became exceedingly
'violent, and in strong terms inaisted that shp 'lwas
amined, the ti,oltappY 1.14
oor or other of the' disraikuisliedpersonage:s she f.4ii,al
herself. Drs. SutheAsnd mid 'Arnott teen. ex-
being interro,ated ju-a.ctken:intradrieed:
Qn
6 ,
about h-r titles, ands when
rapidly and- ineohercnilyj, A
manlgitc-lier own affairs
if she wits Vapiibi& .„
by 111O,P0111Ok4nana. rs
she admitted that.
she was intApAl)4.. ex..
from the year IS3P.

ll AitDlr.—The Board of guardians .o 4 the
‘,VIb
r t
rstT)ch 1
have very wisely rescinded a standing
cr
year agb,
the instance of.'one of th,: As-sistant, Comir.issioners,
icik‘vi tinit°lri cy mule. rotn two or three
',lief ,40eld be given to•a- wOrnan who had a
s'e3and b.stard child, except in the workhouse.'
The Moniteur contains the-,:dicial. nomination of
tionalii, Bishop of Pity, to be Archbishop of
Lsoos ; of. K. de la Croia ci'Azaztte, Bishop of Gap,
to no -Archbishop of inch ; and M. A/fro,
Canop of
Notre Dave de Paris, to be Bishop Coadjutor and
tuceessor to the ashop of Strasburg. •

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