The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-22 00:00:00

Haymarket Theatre.

Last night Chevalier Ira Aldridge made his re-
appearance in London, at this theatre, as Othello,
Mr.W.Montgomery, of course, sustaining the part of
lago. The performance of the chevalier was greatest
in the love passages, but in some of the great speeches
he failed to produce that effect which is generally the
case with other artists. However, it was a most
meritorious display of ability on the part of Mr.
Aldridge, and one deserving all the applause it has
gained, both at home and abroad. Mr. Walter
Montgomery's lago was not equal to many of his
other performances, as in many portions of the cha-
racter he seemed altogether to lose sight of the
real motives and feeling of lago. Miss Atkinson
powerfully sustained the part of Emilia, and the
gentle Desdemona *as very nicely acted by Miss
Robertson.

The burlesque of " Ixion" is progressing on its
second career of prosperity most satisfactorily as to
give the utmost satisfaction to a very numerous and
discriminating audience.

DISTRIBUTION OF LUCKNOW PRIZE MONEY.—
Yesterday a second distribution of prize money for
the capture of Lucknow commenced at the military depart-
ment of the India Office, Victoria-street. The corps of
her Majesty's late Indian forces who are entitled to a share
are the following :—The 3d Bengal European Fusiliers,
the Ist, 2d, and 3d troops of the Bengal Horse Artillery,
with other branches of the same service, Nos. 1 and 3 of
the Light Field Battery of the Oude Irregular Force, the
European Invalid Battalion, and the Siege Train Estab-
lishment. Many of the men who fought at Lucknow at-
tended to receive their prize money, which will doubtless
prove useful to them after seven years' delay. The dis-
tribution will continue during the week, with the excep-
tion of Saturday. _

THE LATE DUKE OF RICHMOND.—The late Duke
of Richmond used to tell with great glee how, when
other officers indulged in gaudy papers, he lined his tent
at Aldershot with tartan during his stay there with the
Sussex militia, and how he proved himself the canny Scot
by untacking it and carrying it back to Goodwood with
him, to " serve in the next campaign." Shortly before the
late duke's death, in 1860, a new outlet was made to the
Spey, but it did not just chime in with the temper of this
most rapid and unmanageable of Scottish rivers, and,
taking a turn eastward, it all but cut away the fishing sta-
tion at Tugnet. Watching the progress of the works to
defend the village of Garmouth, and its adjacent port of
Kingston, gave his grace almost a daily object for a four-
mile drive during his last summer at Gordon Castle. When
he had seen Tugnet, he would often go and visit a small
steading which he was putting up near the railway station,
The tenant only paid £8 a year; but lie was au old Penin-
sular man, and there was the great tie. Many and long
were his cracks about old times and comrades with Captain
Fife, who has also exchanged his sword for a ploughshare.
His grace quite astonished another old " cannon-ball " of
the district, who did not know him by sight, when he asked
him to fetch his Sunday waistcoast with the medal on it.
The old man could not tell for his life "how the gentlemen
keened I wur theer, and that I wur hit gan down the brae
at Orthes ; it's true enough. Did you ever hear the like ?"
It was the duke's earnest care that his tenants should do
well, and he latterly loved far more to be among his farm
improvements and Southdowns than he did to go to Glen-
fidditch, where he had once been wont to spend nearly
half of his three months' stay.—" Field and Fern," by " The
Druid."

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ACCIDENTS IN COAL MINES.—From a public
document just published it appears that last year there
were 777 fatal accidents in coal mines, showing an increase
of 20 on the preceding year. There were 867 lives lost by
the Accideuta.