The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-24 00:00:00

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instead of submitting, ought not to bave listened t

it for a moment.
The French papers assert that, in consequence of
these objections, the English are to keep possession
of the citadel of Corfu, and that, if no terms of
accord can be arrived at, they must treat it, like
Sebastopol, and blow it up previous to departure.
We must confess that this strikes us as a most un-
gracious and disgre.celul mode of evacuating Cle
islands. If the act be not accompanied by an
engagement of King c3eorge, that neither he nor his
successors shall ever repair and raise up again these
battlements, these precautions will have proved
useless. We therefore cannot see what is to be
gained by this truckling to Austria and Turkey,
except that we shall wipe all gratitude from the
Greek mind for what we have done, and make King
George appear to have purchased his crown by the
servitude of his people.
It may be said that there is little use in these forti-
cations, at least for such a power as Greece ; and it
may be said, at the same time, that although the
objections raised by Turkey and Austria are anile,
that still it is wise and expedient to purchase their
assent and adhesion to the new kingdom by a con-
cession which is a mere form and a symbol. Sym-
bols and forms are, however, objects of worship,
especially with a rude people. And that of blow •
ing up the citadel of Corfu will be considered so
degrading an act of subservience to Turkish arro-
gance, that it will completely do away with all the
merit and all the graciousness of the cession.—
Examiner.

Charles Mathews at the Haymarket.

Mr. Mathews had been absent from the London
stage long enough to render his return an object of
curiosity. For some time before his Parisian engage-
ment, he had been before the public as an "enter-
tainer," and it seemed probable that he was about
to quit the histrionic profession, strictly so called,
and to enter into permanent competition with the
Reeds, the Parrys, and the Woodins. Bat with all
his talent, and the prestige derived from his father
as the founder of what are now termed "entertain-
ments," he scarcely raised himself to the head of the
class he had joined; and his ultimate return to the
profession of his youth seems to indicate that, in
the hybrid position proper to halls and galleries, he
felt something like a fish out of water. Once more
on the boards of the Haymarket, ho appeared as
pleased to see his old theatrical patrons as they were
to give him welcome. No doubt, to a regular actor
who, like Mr. Mathews, can hold audiences in his
grasp, can make them sympathise with all his
humours, and can even take pleasant liberties with
them on which a less firmly established favourite
would not venture, there must be something ex-
tremely weak and jejeune in the very warmest
applause that the most enthusiastic admirers of en-
tertainments can bestow. A battle fought by officers
only, however skilfully conducted, would be but a
dull affair, and the approval of a merely genteel audi-
ence, in which there is no mob-element, can never
amount to what in modern parlance is styled a
demonstration. By the artist who burns for public
favour, the roar of the pit and gallery is required as
a necessary indorsement the gratification expressed
by the smile and titter of the boxes and stalls ; and
the want of this must be more particularly felt
where there are no pit and gallery whatever, and
the seats arc occupied by persons all more or less
strict in their notions of propriety, and many of
them uneasily suspicious that they are grazing
the borders of sin while participating in any public
entertainment that does not resemble the solemn
buffooneries of Exeter Hall. The poet who only
pens sonnets, the musician who devotes himself
to chamber-music, the humourist who exclusively
retails such pleasantries as make young ladies
simper, may—nay, must—be contented with the
approval of the refined few ; but the genuine
actor, with the ambition proper to his calling, is
essentially a man of the people. He will not be
satisfied with a House of Representatives elected
by universal suffrage, but requires the actual
Demos to be brought bodily before him.
Mr, Mathews returns in excellent condition, and
those who before his retirement fancied that they
could detect the encroachment of time on the vigour
and vivacity of the most mercurial of actors, now
feel that the universal enemy has been triumFhantly
repelled, and that the Mathews who charmed them
,wenty years ago is the Mathews who exhilarates
,hem now.

Suspected Death from Poison,

Last night Mr. John Humphreys, the Middlesex
coroner, held an inquiry at the Grey Eagle Tavern,
Grey Eagle-street, Spitalfields, into the circum-
stances of the death of Eliza Marns, aged 34 years.
The case seemed to excite great interest in the
neighbourhood, and the court was crowded.
Jane Syms, 26, Gossett-street, Bethnal-green, said
that the deceased was the widow of Edward Marns,
a tailor. He died on the 29th of last May. The
deceased resided at No. 34, Grey Eagle-street. She
was a sober woman. She was taken ill at half-past
six o'clock on Thursday last. A Mr. Beecher, who
witness believed had been living with the deceased,
remained upstairs a short time. 'When he came
down the deceased followed him, and said to Mr.
Beecher, "My dear, my God; what have you been
giving me 9" He replied, " I have given you some
head and stomach pills." Mrs. Marns then seem4l,
to wish to go out. She went to the door. scleint
Beecher did not oppose her going out. Witnnessasked
with her to Dr. Gayton's. That gentlenraos
speak.
her what she had taken, but she coul,(3lf t t
he
Witness then then brought her home.
bours were sent for, and the deceased
was carried
bed, then fell
egeare.ie.ns•treet, said
upstairs to bed. She sat P
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illsoow opening
nheanamhit nehagr:
u-llioover, and stretched
back again. She trembled
her arms out. There was n°
her mouth. Some water was
attack the deceased seemed
throat. After the first
By the Coroner__when fir. Beecher said
a diffi
pouredCUlty
to go into a kind d sttiP" -
head and stomach
Witness
could
a kind of
had given the deceasednd was present.
named Wm. Edmund
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her. dashing her
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bead about in a dreadful manner, foaming at the
mouth, and appearing to fight hard for her breath.
She could not speak, but was conscious
' • the body
was straight but stiff, and she worked her arms
and hands about; her eyes looked as if they were
about to start out cf her head, and the mouth was
drawn on on© side. •
A. t times her eyes went round
like the works of a watch, and she suffered a suc-
cession of fits, lasting from 10 to 5 minutes each, at
which times her back
was bowed, the body resting
on the head and heels ; altogether she had 24 fits.
lhe usual remedies
were applied, and 1)r. Gayton
was called in. During the night Mr. Beecher came
UP twice, seeming much cut up, and at about 4
o'clock on Friday morning he proposed that medical
assistance should be procured. The death rattles
were then in her throat, and witness told him that
a doctor was then uselces.
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The Coroner said it was necessary that:\l L. eecher
shouldbe present, in order that he might ask the
think proper.
witnesses any questions that he might ,
of about
Mr. Beecher, a respect4bly-dressed
1:11tnor, resid-
-30 years of age, who was said to
bsepitalfields, then
ing at No. 34, Grey Ergle-strect(i
to cross-examine
entered the court, and proceeded
himself on two
tho witness as to his having gone
occasions for a doctor.
This was admitted.
After some furto
her unimportant evidence,
Gan deposed that the deceased
Dr. Wiliamy t
in Brick-lane between 7 and S
came to his shop
o'clock on Thursday night. She was at the time
very pales and in a few minutes lat the shop and