The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-04 00:00:00

SURREY THEATRE.

Crowded and appreciating audiences have
thronged the Surrey Theatre since the com-
mencement of the engagement of Mr. Phelps. We
need not revert to the exertions of this genuine
artist to uphold the drama in its truest and grandest
form for many long 'rears in the far north of
metropolitan suburb : he is now supporting with
equal energy and success the glorious standard of
England's greatest genius in the south of our
modern Babylon. Hamlet was given on Monday
and last night, Othello was played on Tuesday,
Mr. Basil Potter is a vigorous second, Mr. Vollaire
experienced and comic, in the Shaksperian sense,
in Polonius and the lighter embodiments of the
great plays in progress; Mr. Shepherd's Cassio and
Mr. E. Price's Laertes are careful and well-studied

ToBACCO.—A paper published by M. de CO-
Caupannc on the subject of the cultivation of tobacco in
Algeria, and on the different qualities brought forward at
the late Exhibition, contains the following details :—" Eng'
land consumes 32,000,000 kilogrammes of tobacco, and pro•
duces none. The United States export 60,000,000 kilos.
Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland furnishing the greater
part. During the last two years. in consequence of the war,
the cultivation has been neglected, and the export ren Jere('
impossible, and a supply of the article from America is o.st
the point of being wanting as well as that of cotton. It le
at such an inopportune moment that the measures adopted
by the Administration of the Tobacco Establishment,
and the publicity of its decisions checked the Cul"
tivation in Algeria and depreciated the quality. Tila
exhibiticn of tobacco in Algeria and the importance
which its cultivation might assume, particularly attracted
the attention of English commerce at the moment when th°
war in America interrupts the export from that country";
When compared with the other tobaccos exhibited, that of
Algeria may, in 1862 as in 1855, stand the test with those
of all other countries. The three varieties cultivated--tha
Phillippine, the Palatinate, and the Chebli—possess, szteeeri".
re
'
ing to the soil and to the attention paid to them, very
markable qualities. The province of Constantina alres.dl
sigualibed in previous competitions for the superiora
of its tobaccos, has not remained in the background. 111°,:8
of MM. Geurgas and Grime, of Philippeville, and of
Patureau, at Gastonville, are remarkable for fineness eI3,
flavour. They may be compared with the finest from ci.
tria and Hungary, which have exhibited fine cigars, %
also with those from Java exhibited by Holland. Spa
has also a magnificent exhibition of raw and manufactu7
tobacco, remarkable for colour, aroma, and combustibill
Corsica has only flat haves of a disagreeable colour 0110
very rank. Guadeloupe has some leaves of remar/toobe
fineness, very aromatic, and very much resembling
Chebli tobacco. The other French colonies exhibit les/
of different shades, more particularly calculated fors ,
ing. The Zollverein and the Palatinate have with Otlis%
gary, the best specimens as regards fineness of leaves• to
do not speak of Manilla and Cuba, as we cannot corgeo
with what comes from those countries. The United Ste et
of America did not send any tobacco. Although We ilenTicle
this abstention, as it prevented a comparison beings,,,ot
between them and the Algerian, we think that it be
been injurious to Algeria, whose productions are very
-
lar to those of the United States. The absence of of
can tobacco rendered more sensible the presence of the,

Algeria. sea;
OUR SHIPS OF WAR.—Those accustomed to
ports and merchantmen only, are struck with thatnsPesillof
magnitude of all the details belonging to our g Wail° of
war. Milton, when he likens Satan's spear to the in
al3t 0
" some tall admiral," conveys by his similitude only a jal t
idea of their portentous size. Let us take the nied3-ta"
't lieag'
of the Duke of Wellington, for instance. Here 1 r
stretching its length for many a rivet : not a simple Oa '
/Or nu L. oc. 4,1..... 541..... ...a/tali: ....As... e1...,..i. 1.-....11, .•-• i lI;TA
sp ti seats;aeec ke pieces,
whichbutw it h aa ccsoammr
rpoyloeohxff sottahrrueocftuuamsr ee,so
nobefuaioliftk
autlhipowsoeofr
ktiosnl_nl uroratiietanTea;
to
a height of upwards of 200 feet, and surmounted on °al
topmast spar with a truck. We shudder when we see;
British tar occasionally stand upon this giddy heigilta°4
of bravado; but the feat loses somewhat of its merit,
De-i,
we find that this same truck, which looks like a mere I:,
at the mast-head, is in reality as big as a small teastabae'
Once a Week.
THE LOTTERY IN ROME.—The game is Plale4
.
thus :—On Satuday, at noon, in front of the Finglis.,°.-
co.--
office, under the eyes of the assembled people, a' of
mittee, presided • 'over by the representalll7° ace
the prelate minister of Finance, draws ,ty
numbers from a wheel which contains 90. A-103°g6 bee
eager gamblers who are present at the drawing, °II- erect
played at the " simple extract," that is, he hae•Wate of
against the government that such a number will be °'"' iS
3
the five drawn; if his number comes out he wins 1
both;
times his stake. Another will play at ambo,, twos or the
he chooses two numbers and wagers both will come fr°or
wheel. Another plays a terno, h'ving selected three °Toes
bers—he wins more than 5,000 times his stake. jacipere
who could guess beforehand three out of the five 1111-isar
that will be drawn next Saturday, could purchase a for
dred thousand francs, or four thousand pounds sterlingfo
one Napoleon. That settled, every one of our Wrj3so,
puzzles his brains to foresee what numbers will be spit
Up to twelve o'clock on Thursday night they 641
worry themselves with cabalistic combinations, take 04
Sole
of their friends, and seek inspiration from on high' s and
interrogate the drawing of preceding years : such
such numbers have the habit of appearing in e°141300;
they have not been seen for more than six I°°--)00
we shall soon have them again I Others search 0r4.0,701
on the city wall, where ready-made terns are to be 'op
written in charcoal by amateur prophets. Not a fevi ateit
a " novena," or nine days' devotion, to deterraille 1, to
numbers to come forth. Whoever has had the incliere
dream of a dog or a cat, consults a dreara-book, woe
every sort of vision has its correspondent numbe
r. boa,
grand, the sole, the inseparable idea of all Romans °f /of
sexes is the, hunt atter good numbers.-4/1 the
Bound .e . . For'
A REFLECTION •AT PORTSMOUTIL—As on coo
veys the treasures of the mast-house --sees the spars 0' the
old Victory, of the Duke of Wellington, the Qae/:otle
Prince Albert,and of the scores of other first-rates that°;iess
by side, stacked away with asmuch ease as though theYfirer
mere walking-sticks—one feels a certain melancholy non°
sion that they belong to the past. Never again 'eri:'s fleet
stately masts carry the bulging sail ; never again wil,air., re,
of three-deckers put out from our sea-ports. I hourui;ool
1 flestion which gives such an air of sadness to asfisjestk
arsenals. Th., old fighting ship which towered s°,4::f vela"
cally over all meaner craft, and which bore some sorivt ;ode, iti
tion, as regards size, to the mighty deep on whiellr a 110011
as much a thing of the past as the Cireat ilarrY' I's
galley. 'When Turner, 30 years ago,
picture of " The Fighting Temerai eelO°
truly fore'
berth" by the little fizzing tugboat, h but too . s uicit
shadowed the coming fate of the giant race of ship
_v.,eg.
seemed, like Ossian's heroes, to grow more vast and ;4, 0
tic as they finally disappeared from the scene. u
Week, OW
OUR ANCHORS.—When we gaze upon the ace
mutation of huge " best bowers," or ".sheetanchors 40..
" rack," looking like the whitened ribs of countlessvot,
phants, we are reminded of the curse that has alwarl to
painted
...n
to tc;ltiocrhiifil
tached to the Admiralty—the curse of sacrificing progre' it
fashioned
is that the British navy are supplied with the old- ~,,se
64 the system." The British public have often asked svilYeS
and most unscientifically constructed anchors, which P
Pitt'
been so often tested and found wanting, in comparison e
the patent anchors of Trotman, now used by all our laro,
ships of the mercantile marine ; and the answer is ell3sflo
teristsc enough of the department which makes it. 0
cannot adopt the new anchor, because the contracts le.'
zeis
old one are not yet out, and will not be
rguinncen;einiighs had made the same improvident and
yet for a a toy
years." What would the nation say if our artillerYon,
eight
poi
TiwtA, idtieh, r
sit h,?;;C:)Aaicri
crEeona imbecile r
tract in the case of guns, and had refused our trieactost
strongs and Whitworths, because they had a' c 1;0'.
weauer
.-000 ShiLling D'Y' " seas
do. by
lay, Dec. ,1..._1 missions on payment, 3.11'
company
-
tickets, 710 ; total visitoiS, 1,037. litst beel
for smoothbore
The village of Stilt's, in the Tyrol, ha.sel__ reduce
completely destroyed by fire, G 5 houses havh2o °4O psip:o
to ashes and 120 families rendered house
rot of Austria immediately sent a sum
of 1,50 '`•
less, ', 40401'
1, Oa'
meet their most urgent wants.
has arrived in Paris, and will, it is thought, p 5
dor, ea
credentials to the Emperor next week.
Baron de Budberg, the new Russian Artile1:0010
resolc
The difteters of the Cry Palace have
00 the
to recommend a dividend of 3 per cena.st
_ear,.
ordinary stock of the company for the p
.8
0)1004
This is the largest dividend ever paid ore ial
and is equal to Ayer S per cent. on its psent Ptic"