The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-20 00:00:00

LIBERIA.

A conflict has taken place in the harbour of
Monrovia between the Liberian Government
schooner Quail and a Spanish vessel of war. The
following are the facts of the case, as stated in the
Message of the President of the Republic of Liberia,
dated Dec. 7, 1861. The President having been
informed by Prince Mannah, Chief of Gallinas (a
district about 70 miles N.W. of Monrovia), that a
Spanish slaver was at Gallinas Bar, sent the Quail
to overhaul:her, and by that vessel she was seized.
Soon afterwards her Britannic Majesty's ship
Torch, Captain Smith, arrived at Gallinas in search
of the same slaver, and she was burned by his
orders on the 14th of June. The captain of the
Quail remonstrated against this act, as the Libe-
rian flag was flying on board the prize, and she was
in possession of a Liberian prize crew when she was
boarded by uaptain Smith's lieutenant. The Presi-
dent states that " the commander of the Torch ex-
pressed his disapproval of the act of his lieutenant
in taking possession of the prize after ascertaining
that she was a prize to the Liberian Government
schooner Quail. Though the act was, as he stated,
done without his knowledge and approval, yet it
having been committed, he concluded to direct her
to be destroyed as aforesaid. The motive by which
he was to an extent actuated in deciding upon the
latter course he hoped the Government of Liberia
would appreciate, as it was intended thereby to
relieve the Government of Liberia from any un-
pleasant misunderstanding with the Spanish Go-
vernment, he in the name of his Government
assuming the responsibility of the matter." These
events occurred in June last, and on the 11th of the
following September the Spanish war steamer Ceres
entered the harbour of Monrovia, and fired upon
the Quail, but was beaten off by that vessel and by
the guns of the fort. The last news in relation to
this affair is given as follows by the Liberia Herald,
of Nov. 20 :

" A rumour having reached Sierra Leone of
several Spanish war vessels being at this port for
bombardment, her Majesty's steamer Torch was
immediately despatched by his excellency Governor
Hill of Sierra Leone, with a message to President
Benson, the purport of which we are not at liberty to
give. The Torch left on the evening of Oct. 18th for
Sierra Leone, bearing a message from the President
of Liberia to Governor Hill. We have only to say
at present that the object of the visit was gratify-
ing to the Government and people of Liberia.
By the English mail steamer, which arrived
about the middle of last month at Cape Palmas,
intelligence was received from one of its officers
that the Governor-General at Fernando Po was so
incensed at the failure of the Ceres and her ignoble
retreat from the harbour, that he was fitting up
three vessels of war to capture or sink the Quail.
Nothing has been seen or heard of Spanish inten-
tions since.

FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

MAILS DUE.

via Marseilles Feb. 13
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Feb. 3.
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China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Jan. 18.
via Marseilles Jan. 27.
Falkland Islands .........
packet Jan. 19.
Feb. 3.!
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 18.
via Marseilles Jan. 27.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Jan. 25,
via Marseilles
LisbonMa, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. )9.
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Newfoundland • Feb. 22,
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, Ly brit. packet Jan. 22,
by U.S. packet
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Feb. 10.
Bahamas, via New York ............ Frb. 13.
Mexico ..... .. ........................... .... Jan. 28.
All par
California, and West British Columbia Chili,
... ......
Peru' j Jan. 28.
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SHOCKING AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH
STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.—On Friday afternoon an acci-
dent of a most shocking nature occurred on the South Staf-
fordshire branch of the London and North-Western Rail-
way, by which a man was killed on the spot. The 2.15 p.m.
passenger train from Lichfield was proceeding to Walsall
at about the usual time, and arrived at the sttrion hero
before it was known to the engine driver that anything
extraordinary had happened. It was then, however, ob-
served that there was blood upon the wheels, and imme-
diately afterwards information came that a man had been
smashed to pieces on the line at Ilammerwich Forge cross-
ing. This is a crossing level with the road, and it is sup-
posed that deceased was in the act of making his way
across, and that he fell down on the line before the train
came up. Assistance was immediately procured, and the
body was carried to the Fitters' Arms Inn, llatherton-
street. Further information is to the effect that a young
woman who lives in a cottage near the crossing saw de-
ceased at tho moment the engine came up, end her state-
ment is that it appeared as if the unfortunate man went
up t the engine.—Lirminghain Post.
THE WILL OP THE LATE JOHN ANDREW, OF
CARBON.—We (Falkirk, Herald) hear it rumoured that the
late John Andrew, who had amassed—though but a work -
man—a fortune of upwards of £lO,OOO, has bequeathed his
money as follow::—To his immediate relatives betwcrn
.£l,OOO and £2,000 ; to the Synod of the United Presbyterian
Church, for the furtherance of its foreign mission, £b00;
to the Scottish Society for the Conversion of Israel, £5OO ;
t.) the Falkirk Charity and Begged Schools and Female
Lenevolent Society, Cl3OO, for equal division ; the reversion,
alter paying stamp and other dues, amounting to between
£5,000 and £7,000, goes to the Edinburgh Bible Society,
instituted 1809. Deceased was one of the most exact Bible
critics in the district. He made the Bible a peculiar study,
and was a formidable debater on theology. He seems to
have had a special interest in the Bible Society, which re-
ceives the largest bequest. In August, 1860, he gave a
d since then no less than
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DRURY-LANE THEATRE ROYAL.
Le3see, Mr. E. T. SMITH.
• . CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
•
GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PAN-
• TOMIME every WEDNESDAY, at Two o'Clock.
ITHIS EVENING, a new Operetta, entitled ONCE
TOO OFTEN. Herr Reichardt, Herr Formes, Mdlle.
Jenny Bauer, and Miss E. Heywood.
After which will be produced, with that attention to com-
pleteness in every department by which the Christmas
Annuals of this Theatre have been so pie-eminently dis-
tinguished, the New Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN and the HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT;
or, Old Mother Hubbard and her R onderful !og.
If a man do build a dwelling upon common land fry ,m
sunset to sunrise, and encl.-se a piece of ground, wherein
there shall be a tree, a b-ast feeding, a fire kindled, a chim-
ney smoking, and provisions in the pot, such dwelling shall
be freely held by the builder, anything herein to the con-
trary nevertheless notwithstanding."—Old Forest Charter.
The Novel Effects and Splendid Scenery by
WILLIAM BEVERLEY.
Assisted by Messrs. C. Pitt, Craven, Brow, &e., &c.
Masks, Symbolic Devices, Personal Appointments, and
D.-signs for the Costumes, by the celebrated Dykwynkvn.
The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr.
J. 11. TULLY. The Machinery by Mr. Tucker and As-
sistants. The Tricks, Properties, Changes, and Transfor-
mations, by Mr. Needham, assisted by Messrs Glindon, H.
Adams, H. Langham, &c. The Costumes by Miss Dicki-
nson, Mr. Lauri, and Mr. Palmer. The Gas Appointments
by Mr. t incklev. The Choregra,.hic Arrangements by
Mr. Cormack. The Harlequinade and Comic Scenes by
Ne,srs. Cormack and B. Jones. The Perfume of the
Flowers supplied by Rimmel's process.
The Grotesque Burlesque Opening invented and written
by E. L. BLANCHARt).
And the whole arranged and produced under the imme-
diate superintendence of Mr. ROBERT ROXBY.

Synopsis of Scenery, Incidents, and Characters,
OLD MOTHER HUBBARD'S COTTAGE,

With Rural Landscape, and Rookwood Manor Hall in the
Distance (Daylight).

"Old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cupboard, to get
her poor Dog a bone; when she got there, the cupboard
was bare, and so the poor Dog had none."—Ancient Nur-
sery Legend.
Old Mother Hubbard, Mr. Atkins; Her Dog, Signor
Lorenzo ; Jack (the " Man all tattered and toil "), Miss
F. Hunt; the Squire, Mr, Tom Matthews; Dame Wiggins
of Lee, Mr. Dixon ; Dame Trot, Mr. Barsby ; Her Won-
derful Cat, M,ster Waggles ; the Great Goose, Master
Sag,eaninguns ; Constables, Messrs. Grib and Grab; Parish
Beadle Mr. Bumble • Villagers, Messrs. Yokel, Pumpkin,
WhaeLtraw, Chawbacon, &c., &c. ; Rosetta (the " Maiden
all Forlorn"), Miss Stuart. How Mother Hubbard has a
certain " party" to tea and turn out, and of the remarkable
pranks played by her comical Dog—The Head, the Hat,
and the Hose—The Dog's Tale and Mrs. ll.'s Narrative—
An ival of the Squire--Proclamation of Witch I3urning—
Threatened incremation of Mother Hubbard on her own
hearth, and her Mystic Flight upon a Broomstick.
-THE WITCHES' GLEN AND WATERFALL,
in the Valley of Perfumed Flowers, by Moonlight.
Will-o' -t he-Wisp

Ignes Fatui—Mdlles. Sidney, Travers, Barnes, A. Barnes,
Livermore ; Webb, Taylor, Braithwaite,Hammi'ton, Stap
ley, Harris Candy, Copeland, Archer. Hawkins, Delaney,
Wilson, Williams, Robinson, Wood, Watson, and Hamel-
ton.

Grand Ballet, Chagne-a-Lanterne, by the Misses GUN
NISS and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet.

The Invocation I The Incantation I I and the Evapora.

tion I I 1

THE VILLAGE GREEN AND ROADSIDE ALE

HOUSE,

Old Grype (the Steward), Mr. Glindon ; Old Scratche
(his Clerk), Mr. Tanner • Tenantry, Messrs. Cringe,
Scrape, Shuffle, Cut, Packoff, Moonraker, and Runaway;
Tailor, Mr. Snipshears ; Bootmaker, Mr. Tightfit ; Mum-
mies, Messrs. Grinner, Joker. Magger, Cracksides,
O'Reilly, M'Phun, &c. ; St. George, Mr. E. Roe ; the
Dragon, Mr. Scalyfellow ; Valentine, Mr. Febbyerry ;
Orson, Mr. Wildman; Still-Walker, lr. Longlegs; Bear-
Warden, Mr. Stnuggins ; the Bear, Mr. Huggins ; Land-
lord, Mr. Trebles ; Morris-Dancers, Messrs. Trip, Tap,
Flip, Flap, &c., &c. ; Jack Padding, Mr. Merryman.
How the Squire celebrates his birthday, and the Village
Revel that follows—Coming of Age in the Olden Time I
How the Tenantry treated in one way and how Jack is
rested in another—the Dog's instinct and Mother Hub -
bard's reason.