The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-11 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

The comedy of She Stoops to Conquer was performed at
this house last night, with a very good cast of its parts,
and very successfully. A young lady, named Charles, from
the Dublin theatre, made her first appearance on these
boards in the character of Miss Hardcastle, and acquitted
herself in a highly creditable manner. Miss Charles is
quite familiar to the stage, and deserves to be considered
an accomplished actress in genteel comedy. A handsome
expressive countenance and a graceful figure set off her
other endowments to the best advantage. She was re-
ceived most favourably on her entrance, and, with equal
warmth, complimented by a numerous audience after her
trial was over. In a word, she may be considered a very
welcome acquisition to the Drury-lane boards. Mr. Balls
re-appeared on this occasion (after an absence of three years
from this theatre) in the part of Young Marloss. A place
was vacant for him, too. He is an agreeable beau, and
represented the bold and the bashful Marlow with much
tact and spirit. Compton's Tony Lumpkin at first seemed
a failure. In his sharp intelligent features it was impossible
to recognise the " broad thoughtless face" of the prince of
bumpkins, but he had mastered the spirit of the part, and
carried it through the piece, with genuine breadth of hu-
mour. Dowton and. Mrs, Jones, in Mr. and Mrs. Hard-
castle, were excellent, as usual. On the whole, this very
amusing comedy was well sustained, and highly relished, as
we have already intimated, by a full house.

Sir John Beresford anti family have arrived at Be-
dale, from a tour of visits in Scotland and Northumberland.

Earl Cowper has succeeded to the hereditary pen-
sion of 1,6001. per annum on the excise revenue, which was
enjoyed by his father, the late Earl. The pensions of the
Duke of Marlborough and the heirs of the Duke of Sehom-
berg are charged on the same fund.

Queen Adelaide has presented to the parish of
Teddington, which abuts on Bushy-park, 1001. towards
the erection of a parsonage house.
We hear of the death of a daughter of Lord Car-
rington. The event took place on Monday last. His
Lordship has in consequence arrived in town from Deal
Castle.

Count de Grammont will leave the French Embassy,
in Manchester-square, this morning, in consequence of being
appointed by his Court resident Minister at Stuttgart].
The French Ambassador commenced his dinner
parties yesterday at Manchester House.
Count Maurice Esterhazy, son to his Excellency
the Russian Ambassador, returned to town yesterday from
r, tour.

Mr. Erring,ton gave a dinner at the Clarendon Hotel,
in Bond-street, on Monday evening, to the Earl of Cherie-
vine, Lord Augustus Fitzelarence, Lord George Bentinck,
Viscount Jocelyn, the Earl of Belfast, Count D'Orsay, 111 r.
Drummond, Major Cosby, Hon. George Herbert, Hon.
111 r. Baring, and Mr. George Wombwell.
Gunton Park, Norfolk, the magnificent scat of
Lord Suffield, has been the scene of great gaiety during
the last fortnight. The mornings have been occupied by
the sports of the field, and the evenings with sumptuous
dinners,'concerts, or a dance. Among the company were
the Earl of Chesterfield, Lord George Bentinck, Emily
Dowager Lady Suffield, the Hungarian Count Hunyhadi,
Hon. Mr. Irby. Most of the company will return to New-
market for the second meeting.

The Marquis of Queensberry still remains at Kin-
mount House in a precarious state. His Lordship tra-
velled to the German Spa, but it was of no advantage to his
health.

The Russian Prince Nariskin, Lord High Steward
of the Household of the Emperor of Russia, with a nu-
merous suite, arrived at Paterson's Hotel, Lower Brook-
street, the day before yesterday, from Aix-la-Chapelle.
Count Zadoriski left Crawley's Hotel, Mbemarle-
street, last evening, for Hamburg, charged with despatches
for the Russian Government at St. Petersburg.

The venerable Lord St. Helens, formerly our Am-
bassador at St. Petersburg, has rallied surprisingly, hav-
ing some time ago suffered severely from an attack of
influenza. The Noble Lord resides in Grafton-street the
whole year round.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of
Saxony, Baron Gcrsdorff, and suite, dined with the Gover-
nor of the Bank of England on Monday evening. Yester-
day her Royal Highness and her noble attendants went
over the elegant gallery of paintings of Lord Francis Eger-
ton at Bridgwater House.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
during his brief sojourn at Dover, has endeared himself to
a large and numerous circle. His Grace the Duke of
Wellington dined with his Royal Highness on Sunday.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford and the young
Lords and Ladies Russell are expected to reach Woburn
Abbey on Saturday next. About the 20th inst., they will
conic up to Belgrave-square, and after remaining about a
week embark for Calais.

Countess Wanda de Choiseul-Gouffier, who was
Countess Niesistowska, was killed by a fall from her
horse on the 27th ult., at Kradrub, near Toplitz.
Letters were received on Monday from Count
Pozzo di Borgo. His Excellency will leave Paris on Mon-
day se'nnight, for London.

M. de Bourqueney, the First Secretary and Charge
d'Affaires to the Count Sebastiani, will depart this day
for Paris, on a four months' leave of absence.

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Lord Glenelg visited Lord Palmerston yesterday at
the Foreign Office.

The Marquis of Lansdowne is making a tour of
visits in Wales.

The Earl of Shelburne arrived at Lansdowne-house
yesterday from Leamington Spa. To-morrow his Lordship
goes to Bowood.

The Earland Countess of Durham and family are
now on a visit to Earl Grey, at Howick. They are ex-
pected to return to Lambton Castle the latter part of
next week.

The Earl of Uxbridge is to be appointed Lord of
the Bedchamber to her Majesty, in the place of the late
Lord Ternplemore. -
The repairs and alterations at Marlborough-house
are rapidly approaching completion. Nearly 300 workmen
are now employed to render it worthy the habitation of the
Queen Dowager.

Lord and Lady Frances Egerton arrived on Friday
last at Worsle*Hall, their scat in Lancashire, from a visit
to the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, at Dalkeith. His
Lordship and his Lady have also been on visits to the Duchess
Countess of Sutherland, Duke and Duchess of Iticlunond,
Earl and Countess of Mansfield, &c.

The Countess of Mulgrave and her Ladyship's
suite will leave Dublin to-morrow for tie Clarendon Hotel,
becn engaged for their
irieicle3potniodn-s.treet, apartments having
From the statements of Professor Henry, at the late

Liverpool meeting, it appears that there are now 1,500
miles of railroads in active operation in the United States,
and 2,000 miles of canals. Upwards of 3,000 miles more
of railway are in progress, although they have been greatly
interrupted by the late commercial convulsion.
It is in contemplation of the authorities connected
with the Duchy of Lancaster (of which her Majesty is the
Lady of the Manor), on the occasion of the approaching
Royal visit to dine with the citizens of London, to do due
honour to her Majesty by forming a guard of honour to
receive her on her first entry into the duchy, and see her
through her personal domains to where the Corporation of
London will meet her Majesty at Temple-bar. The juris-
diction of the duchy extends from Cecil-street, in the
Strand, at both sides, as far as Temple-bar. The residents
of the duchy are anxious on this occasion to join in any
mark of loyal respect ; and Mr. Halswcll, the High Bailiff,
has been in communication with the Chancellor, Lord Hol-
land, on the subject.
STAMPED COVERS FOR titTTERS.—Mr. Wal-
lace, M.P., in a letter to the Aberdeen Herald, says, " It
is not intended that the stamps shall yield any return to
the Exchequer ; and it is confidently believed that the
quantity of paper which will be taken from the few indi-
viduals to whom the manufactory necessarily must be en-
trusted, will be so large as to enable them to sell it at a very
small advance indeed, if any at all, on the usual price of
the same paper when unstamped. I have carefully studied
Mr. Hill's indisputable plan, and have anxiously looked at
the consequences of adopting the stamp-covers all over the
kingdom. The result is, my firm belief in the positive cer-
tainty of the success of both ; my belief is that, under the
operations of Mr. Hill's plan, by far the greater portion of
the revenue of the Post-office will be collected from stamped
paper sold in stationers' shops, and in every shop in which
a mixture of articles is sold all over Great Britain and
Ireland. Stamps are to be used on all sizes and kinds of
paper, from thin banker's post to pasteboard. It ie on
weight only that postage is to be charged ; and letter-
senders, or parcel-senders, will choose for themselves,
sheets of three feet square or three inches.
COMPASS TO SI/EW MAGNETIC VARIATION.—
Thelhanks of the Society of Arts were voted to Captain
Courtney for the above compass, of which the following is a
description :—The invention is for determining the variation
of the compass without the aid of amplitudes or other
tables, and without any calculations whatever, merely by
the shadow of a perpendicular, erected over the centre of
the card of the common compass. It is obvious that when
the sun is on the meridian, which may be determined by it
timekeeper, the shadow of anything erected perpendicular
to the plane of the earth must point to the true north of
the world. The present compass has a perpendicular wire
erected over the centre of the card ; the compass being
placed in the rays of the sun, the shadow produced by the
said wire, when the sun is on the meridian, will fall on the
compass-card, and at once point out the variation of the
needle at the place of observation. The opportunities of
determining the variation by this method more frequently
occur than by the amplitude compass, inasmuch as the sun
is oftener to be seen at noon than at any other time of the
day. It too frequently happens when the mariner is desirous
of ascertaining the variation of the compass at the place he
may happen to be, that he is disappointed in getting an am-
plitude, or the bearing of the sun at its rising and setting, as
that luminary is more frequently than otherwise obscured by
clouds immediately at its emersion from the horizon, or its
immersion into the same at rising and setting. The method
of determining the variation by the azimuth compass is a
tedious process, and recourse must be had to tables and cal-
culations ; besides the azimuth compass costing so much
money is seldom to be found on board any but large ships.
An excitement of a most painful description has
been caused at Chelsea, in consequence of the sudden and
mysterious disappearance of a youth named Joseph Pearson
Collins from a school in the above place. His parents,
who reside at No. 4, Moleworth-place, Camden-town, are
inconsolable on account of his loss, and it is much feared he
has been enticed away for some bad purpose. From a de-
scription of him, which was yesterday sent to the various
police stations, it appears that he is slightly formed, of fair
complexion, and blue eyes. He had on a brown jacket and
trousers, light waistcoat, and cloth cap. The police hare
also received information of several other children (mostly
under six years of age) having within the last few days
been missing from their parents' homes.

Monday, the wife of the Rev. T. Stevenson, of
Loughborough, Baptist minister, who had for some time
been in a low state of mind, showed such decided symp-
toms of mental derangement, that her husband consulted
with one of his sons as to the course to be pursued. To-
wards night she became somewhat better, and retired
quietly to rest. Mr. Stevenson rue in the morning at
six, and went to his study, and in about an hour after it
was found that the bed-room door was locked. One of
Mr. Stevenson's students broke open the door, and Mrs.
S. was discovered hanging by a silk stocking from a rail at
one end of the bedstead. She was instantly taken down,
but life was extinct. An inquest was held, and the jury
found " that she had destroyed herself in a fit of derange-
niz:nt." She was highly respected in Loughborough, being
ever foremost in works of active benevolence and charity.
Leicester Chronicle.

A singular but melancholy discovery has been made
this week in the village of Buttington, near Pool, Mont-
gomeryshire. In digging the foundation for a school-house,
near the Church, the workmen's labours were interrupted
by the discovery of immense quantities of human skulls
huddled together in holes, with other bones of the human
frame scattered around, to the amount of several cart loads.
Ninety skulls were taken from one hole, and upwards of
three hundred are ranged in grisly show in the Church.
In many the teeth are perfect, and most of them exhibit
symptoms of having belonged to men in the prime of life.
How they came there is a matter of inquiry ; but scenes
have been enacted at Buttington sufficiently horrible to
account for even more ample tokens of " man's inhumanity
to man." Nearly a thousand years ago, namely, in the
year 894, the English obtained a decisive victory over the
Danes at this spot, and the remains of the vanquished army
shut themselves up in some fastnesses in the neighbourhood,
where the horrors of famine overtook them, and in an
attempt to cut their way through the army of the victors
they were all destroyed. Still more recently, nearly the
last of the sanguinary struggles of the Welsh for national
independence was made on this spot ; and the grinning
skeletons now upraised from their huddled graves may be
the remains of men who thought even life too poor a sacri-
fice for independence ; and who died on the threshhold of
their native soil rather than permit the foot of a proud
oppressor to tread it. Even the withered bones of such
men demand a patriot's homage.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
The result of the registration i, most satisfactory,to
the Reformers of Hereford ; the gain on the Liberal aide
is much greater than the majority which beat. Mr. Biddulph
at the late election. Would that the battle was to ight
over again immediately. Be patience is a virtue, and we
have only to exercise it until the next. election, when thr
majority of the citizens of Hereford will, as the Constitu-
tion directs, be reprssented by two Members; and as that
majority is composed of Reformers, it follows that its Re-
presentatives must also be Reformers.—Hereford Times.
The Viceroy of Egypt was still in Candia, accord-
ing to the last accounts, but was expected to leave the
island the Ist or 2d of this month. The English brig Con-
Once has returned to Malta, with despatches from Lord
*Ponsonby. The officers state that the Gapudan Pacha has
been recalled from Tripoli, so that, of course, he will not
go to Tunis.