The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-13 00:00:00

Adelphi Theatre.

Last night another of Mr. Owen's pieces, viz.,
" The Toodles," was produced, but it was decidedly
worse than Solon Shingle, and therefore it may be
dismissed in very few words. " The Toodles" is "0.
farce," and the characters represented are a miser-
able farmer, a revengeful brother, a marriageable
daughter, a jolly sailor, a certain Mr. Toodles, a hen-
pecked husband and his better half, Mrs. Toodles,
who delights in attending auctions and purchasing
bargains, much to the annoyance of Mr. T., who
cannot be made to see that a lot of 48 wheel-har-
rows and 50 watch-boxes is the sort of purchase a
lady ought to make. The piece is ridiculously bad
and quite unworthy the talent of Mr. Owens.
Perhaps when Mr. Owens has exhausted his own
stock of American plays he may try others familiar
to the metropolis, but if he has nothing better than
the specimens he has already produced it would be
wise to discard them at once. He is decidedly an
actor of great ability, and it seems a thousand
pities that he should risk his reputation in London
by acting in such worthless rubbish as " Sohn
Shingle " and " The Toodles."

INTERESTING EVENT.—At the Zoological Gardens,
Regent's-park, on Thursday last, Burchell's zebra (Asinus
Burchelli, of Gray) presented her owners with a fine foal,
which is just now the object of great attention to the visi-
tors. The little animal has the awkward long-legged ap-
pearance of an ordinary foal, the stripes are well marked,
but the hair is rough and shaggy, especially about the hind
quarters. This is not the first zebra born at the Gardens,
a pair might often be seen drawing a light chaise cart,
tandem fashion, about London some years ago. The late
Lord Derby was successful in rearing these pretty animals
at his seat, Knowsley-park.

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COPPER ORE SALE.—At the Swansea ticketing on
Tuesday the folio wirng sales were effected :—Cuba, 574
tons ; Yanganooka, 85 tons ; Berehaven, 604 tons ; Cobre,
456 tons ; Ballycummisk, 99 tons ; Piedmontese, 40 tons ;
Tuscan, 17 tons; Victor Emmanuel, 32 tons; Var, 52 tons;
Lisbon, 43 tons ; Cassell, 29 tons ; Slag, 15 tons ; Califor-
nian, 6 tons ; miscellaneous, 26 tons ; making a total of
2,078 tons. The following were the averages on the whole
sale :—Average produce, 14i ; average price per ton of
21 cwt., dry weight, £lO 18s. 10d. ; average standard,
£9l 4s. At the previous ticketing the standard was £93 60.
The total sale included 723 tons foreign, and 1,355 tons
British ore.

MEMORIAL OF " BULL RUN."—We learn that the
monument just erected on the Bull Rim battlefield has
been already destroyed. The temper of the people in that
part of Virginia is not a whit more loyal than it was siX
months ago. General Gamble's men, who built the monu-
ment, threaten to leave no vestiges of civilisation for 20
square miles.—New York Times.

THE DUBLIN LIBEL CASE.—The libel case, in
which the Rev. Charles Jones is plaintiff and Lord
Lifford defendant, was resumed on Tuesday morning in the
Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, before Chief Justice
Monahan. The libel was alleged to be contained in a me-
morial sent to the Bishop of Derry by the defendant, charg-
ing the plaintiff with preaching erroneous doctrines, and
thereby causing St. James's chapel of ease, of which he was
curate, to be deserted. Lord Lifford was examined, and
deposed that in 1862, on his return to Ireland, after a short
absence, he found that several parishioners who objected
to the plaintiff's teaching, more especially with reference to
the Sabbath, which he said was to be a visiting or "dining
out" day, had ceased to attend Meenglass Church. A
memorial had been sent to the bishop as to the plaintiff's
character and in his favour; but several persons who signed
it came to the defendant and told him that they had not
done so for the purpose of having the plaintiff retained in
the parish, he having been dismissed by the rector for
writing intemperate letters. The second memorial con-
taining the alleged libel was then forwarded, the object of
the defendant being "to show the bishop the expediency
of removing Mr. Jones to another curacy." Ho further
stated that there was an understanding between the bishop
and himself that the plaintiff was not to be removed until
he got as good a curacy or left of his own accord. Mr.
Dowse, Q.C., having addressed the jury for the defendant
in an able speech, Mr. Butt, Q.C., replied generally. A fter
a lengthened charge by the Chief Justice, the jury, after a
quarter of an hour's consideration, returned a verdict of
£lOO damages and Gd. costs against Lord Lifford.
FRENCH on Inisti ?--The story is confirmed as to
the encounter of Prince Napoleon in his last visit to Ire-
land with a mayor who spoke French, but whom the Prince
in his simplicity supposed to be talking the Irish tongue.
The affair happened iu Cork. " All I know," said the
Prince to his secretary, " was that the gentleman was not
talking French." The point of the epigram is, that this
gentleman had always rather "lorded" it over the other
Corcagians on account of what he called his French. It
was not, either, the first reproof to which our friend had
been compelled to submit. " Bother your dead languages!"
said another Corker to him one day when he gave him 3
bit of his best Parisian.—Daily

The Armagh Guardian states! that at Kildartan
on Sunday last, the Rev. John Rol-prt Greer, incumbent,
refused to enter the church or conduct service because,
contrary to his instructions, and without his permission,
an orange and purple flag had been erected on the tower•
There was no service morning or evening.