The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-28 00:00:00

SHIPPING---THIS DAY.

LONDON, Aug. 28.—Wind this day at noon—North;
moderate breeze, and fine weather.
CARDIFF, Aug. 26.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Ocean
Wave, from Quebec.

SALCO3fBE, Aug. 27.—Wind N.E.—Sailed--Amy, for
the West Indies.
PILL, Aug. 27.—Sailed—Greffe Berg, for New York;
Clara, for St. John's, N .B.
CLYDE, Aug. 27.—Wind E.—Sailed—Hermione, fo-
Mauritius ; Cuban, for Montreal; Meteor, for Newfound-
land.

LONDONDERRY, Aug. 26.—Wind W.—Arrived—ThGr,
from Montreal.
HULL, Aug. 27.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Ellergill, for
Quebec,

TiY ELECTRIC TELWRAPH.
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.
Arrived—Havre, steamer, from Havre ; Shannon,
steamer, from St Thomas.
Sailed—Atalanta, steamer, for Jersey.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND. Thursday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 27—Norden, from Bejerin; Granville,
from Dantzic.
Arrived, Aug. 28—Augusta, from Stockholm.
Sailed Nornen, for Hernosand ; Konigsberg, for
Hudikswall ; Anna Mathilda, for Bjorkoda ; Gustaf, for
Sundswall; Meggie, for Madras; I'rebolgar, for Port
Phillip ; Seine, steamer, for Boulogne; Chandelier, for
Stettin.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Azorin, from London, for Canaries,

MISS O'NEILL'S FIRST STAGE SUCCESS

There are many yet living who remember the time when
Frederick Jones was the theatrical lessee of Crow. street
Theatre in Dublin, which, en passant, it may be said, is now
the medical school of the Catholic University. Fred. was a
clever fellow in his way, but far too fond of self-indulgence
to bo a punctual paymaster. He had his hams boiled in
Madeira, but very often forgot to pay his actors and actresses
their salary. Amongst his stock company a Miss Smith
was the leading heroine in tragedy and comedy, and on a
certain occasion, when the play of the night was to be
" Romeo and Juliet," the actress "struck," declaring to the
stage manager (Williams) that she would not recite another
line until part of the arrears due to her were paid up. When
the stage manager made her resolve known to his principal,
the declaration was received with a volley of oaths, and a
counter declaration that the offender should not receive a
penny. But what was to be done ? The actress was inflexi-
ble, the lessee equally so, and the public to be propitiated
and amused. In this dilemma Williams suggested to Fred.
that recently he had an application for an engagement from
a provincial actress, which he had not as yet answered.
"Seek her out at once," said Fred., "and ask her can she
play Juliet ? If so, engage her at once for a month." Fred.
was a dictator, and his word was law. To the classic region,
therefore, of Stoneybatter did Williams betake himself, and
there, at an obscure inn, he was introduced to a very lovely
girl, looking, in Barry Cornwall's phrase,

As if she had looked in Paradise, and caught
Its early beauty.
Taken with her appearance, the good-natured Bob Williams
told his mission, and asked her could she undertake su large
a part on so small a wardng. "Yes she could; she had
played it often, and would like to open in it if the chance
were given her." This was satisfactory. "Be with us
at one for rehearsal, and you shall have a fair start,
for your Romeo is Conway, a good actor," said Bob,
hurrying away to tell his pleasant story to Fred. That
night is a memorable one in the annals of the Irish stage,
for then the celebrated Miss O'Neill made her first curtsey
to the Dublin audience, who thenceforth never faltered
in their allegiance to her sterling genius and inestimable
private worth. An Irish audience is seldom mistaken in
their appreciation of artistic talent, and in her case
their fiat proved the pathway to fame. She be-
loonged to the stock company for some years, and
was then drafted to Covent-garden, where she became
the legitimate successor to Mrs. Siddons, and was held to be
her superior in all but the finer feminine parts, such as
" Lady Macbeth," " Constance," and so on. In " Isa-
bella," however, a Belvidere," " Jane Shore," and
" Evadne," the greatest actress was left far behind. Dur-
ing Miss O'Neill's engagement in Dublin her male "great
creature" was Conway, a very tall man, and " the pet of
the petticoats," who on her success applied for a situation
in London, obtained it—and failed. Ultimately, after some
trials, he sailed for America, and jumped overboard in a fit
of despair.—Saunders.

A CANADIAN ICE-BOAT.--A special class of craft
are those ice-boats, peculiar to Upper Canada, and their
navigation requires an amount of skill and courage not every
day to be found combined. They are barges or pinnaces,
cutter-rigged for the most part, and built of the toughest
timber the colony produces. Below the keel, is a raised
runner of polished iron, sharp as a skate at the edges, and
designed—not to plough the waters, but to skim across the
ice of the great lakes. These craft are propelled by sails,
and steered by helm, exactly like sea-going vessels; it is
hardly necessary to add that with a favouring breeze they
can attain a speed never equalled by a ship that has to cleave
through water, and not much inferior to that of an express
train. But they have the drawback of danger. So many
accidents have occurred from the breaking in of the ice
from sudden squalls, collisions, and so forth, that these win-
ter yachts have never attained the popularity of the safe and
convenient sleigh,—Dickens's "4(. the Year Bond,"