The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, March 22.---The market is very quiet in
respect of most securities. Threes, for the Account,
are now at 67f. 25c. The Italian Loan 64f. 60c.
Mobilier have been done at 870 f. Railway Shares
have an upward tendency, the Lyons to Mediter-
ranean maintaining their improvement. The mar-
ket was a little weaker towards the close. The fol-
lowing are the last quotations :-
4j per Cents 95 20 Italian Loan 64 GO
Do. end month Do. end month 64 70
3 per Cents. 67 15 Ditto Threes —
Do. end month 67 20 New Mexican
Credit Mobilier ... 866 25 Russian —
Do. end month 866 25 Austrian
Bank Shares 3500 Spanish Threes 46
Crsdit Fonder 1292 50 Home Debt —
Roman 74 Deferred
RAILWAYS.

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern lO2O ... 1020
Lyons and Mediterranean 972 50 ... 972 50
Southern 5Bl 25 ... 581 25
Western 543 75 ... 545
Eastern
Sardinian 303 75 ... 301 25
Austrian
Lombard 550 ... 550
North of Spain 3OO ... 301 25
Saragossa 375 ... 375
Ditto to Barcelona — -- ... ---

INDIA, CHINA AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, March 22.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Ripon, Captain Rogers, with the heavy portion of
the above mails, has arrived here.

She brings 109 passengers, 19 packages of specie
value £129,100, precious stones value 8,000 rupees,
642 boxes of dates, 29 boxes of oranges, 6 pack-
ages of valuables, 134 packages of sundries, and 638
bales of raw silk, value £50,000.

The Ripon experienced on her passage from Alex-
andria to Malta moderate breezes and cloudy
weather, from Malta to Gibraltar fresh gales and
heavy seas, from Gibraltar to St. Vincent moderate
weather and head winds, from St. Vincent to Finis-
terre variable winds and squally weather, across the
Bay fresh north-easterly gales and head sea, and up
the Channel hazy weather with easterly winds.
On the 10th she spoke the screw-steamer Nyanza,
onthe 13th the screw-ships Ellora and Vectis, and
on :the 17th the screw-steamer Euxine, all bound
for Alexandria.

At Malta were H.M.S. Victoria, Gibraltar,
Royal Oak, Resistance, Enterprise, Wanderer,
Pelican, and Hibernia.

GIBRALTAR, March 17.—ILM. ships Racoon and
Prom-is; the Turkish line-of-battle ship Paki Nusset,
and two frigates, also Turkish, are in the harbour.
The French screw frigate Imperueuse saluted the
fortress of Algesiras yesterday.
Her Majesty's screw frigate Liffey left for the west
on the 13th.

The following ships have arrived here since the
last mail left:—The steamer Melbourne, 7 days from
Cardiff ; the brigantine Manhoom, 19 days from
Newcastle ; the steamer Peninsula, 64 days from
London ; the barque Roderick, 12 days from Swan-
sea ; the schooner Courser, 14 days from Cardiff ;
the steamer Danube, 7 days from Liverpool ; the
brig Buccleuch, 8 days from Newport; and the
steamer Hector, 5 days from Cardiff.
Exchanges are quoted—London, 49 11-16; Paris,
sfr. 23c. ; Marseilles, 8 days' sight, sfr. 16c. ; Genoa,
do., sfr. 26c. ; Madrid, do., 1i dis. ; Cadiz, do., 3+
to 3! dis. ; Seville, do., 1 dis. ; Malaga, do. to
dis.

MRS. SIDDONS AS LADY AlAcsEnr.—ln the sleep-
walking scene, Mrs. Siddons won especial admira-

tion. Her appearance with the lighted taper, her majestic
figure clothed in shroud-like draperies, her strangely fixed
gaze, her somnambulistic movements, her solemn voice
sunk to a whisper, yet still articulate, powerfully impressed
the audience. It was that the artistic arrangement of her
dress was possibly due to the friendly aid of Sir Joshua
Reynolds. Mr. Boaden chronicles having seen the great
painter on the occasion of the first performance sitting in
the orchestra—" all gaze—all wonder." After this, the
part of Lady Macbeth seems to have been regarded as the
exclusive possession of Mrs. Siddons during the remainder
of her brilliant career.— Once a Week.

APPREHENSION OF A GLASGOW MEDICAL MAN.

—We understand that a medical gentleman of this
city was apprehended on Monday night by the police on
suspicion of being connected with a case of the most serious
character. All that we are enabled to state at present is
that his mother-in-law died some three weeks ago, and
that his wife died on Saturday last. A post-mortem exa-
mination of the body of the latter, which was conveyed to
Edinburgh for interment, will, we believe, take place. It
may be that the deaths of the ladies can be accounted for
by purely innocent and natural causes ; but that something
has occurred to excite very uneasy feelings in the minds of
the authorities is made plain by the fact that a medical
gentleman, who has been several years in practice here,
and who occupies a good position, has been taken into cus
todjr.—Glasgow Herald.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

ARRAH-NA-POGUE ; ox, THE WICKLOW
WEDDING.

Last evening Mr. Dion Boucicault's new drama,
" Arrah-na-Pogue," which has for sometime figured
conspicuously in the bills of the play of this house,
was produced, andreceived with a success as genuine
and spontaneous as it was deserved. The drama
has been placed upon the stage with all that minute
attention to detail which marked the production of
" The Colleen Bawn" and" The Streets of London;"
but for intense interest and scenic illusion it far sur-
passes either of them. The success that attended
the representation of this drama was more than as-
sured from the fact that " Arrah-na-Pogue," in
November last, was first played at the Theatre
Royal, Dublin, where it created the greatest delight
and wonder, and that, too, amongst those
44 native here
And to the manner born."
The plot is remarkably close and compact, yet
clear, simple, and intelligible, merits that of late
years have been the exception and not the rule in
dramas of the sensational school. Briefly, it is as
follows:—A young Irish gentleman, Beamish
M'Coul, for his participation in the rebellion of
'9B has been proscribed, and a reward of £5OO
offered for his apprehension. Beamish, however,
has escaped to France, yet, notwithstanding the
extreme danger of such a step, he returns to his
native land, for the purpose of marrying his lady
love, Fanny Power, and carrying her back to France.
The young M'Coul is received with the wildest joy
by his former friends and tenants, who one and
all, rich and poor, spurn the offered reward for his
capture ; and during his stay in Wicklow, M'Coul
accepts the shelter Arrah Meelish, his foster sister,
offers him, despite the severe proclamation against
those harbouring rebels. Desirous of rewarding
Arrah's love and fidelity and the devotion
of his peasant followers who surround and
protect him, he waylays Michael Feeny, the
Government collector of his own confiscated estates,
robs him of the money, and divides the plunder
between his people and Arrah, who is ignorant of
the source from which her.dowry has come, for on
that day she is to be married to Shaun-na-Post, a
carman of the neighbourhood. The money is traced
to her possession, and on her wedding-day, amidst
the merrymaking around the cabin fire of her new
husband, she is arrested for complicity in robbery
and rebellion. She is unable to account for the
possession of the money without betraying Beamish
M'Coul; and she has withheld all knowledge of her
foster brother's presence in Ireland from Shaun,
that he may not be equally involved in the capital
offence she has committed, by harbouring a rebel.
At this moment Shaun, perceiving that some secret
withholds her, but not suspecting what it may be,
and seeing her overwhelmed with the contempt and
disgrace of her position, interposes, and acknowledges
that he robbed Feeny and gave the notes to Arrah.
Shaun claims the coat Beamish has left behind
him as his own, and the pass of Feeny being found
in his pocket appears so conclusive against him that
on his wedding eve he is marched to prison as a
robber and a rebel. In the second act we find Shaun
in prison, awaiting his trial by court-martial. Arrah
visits him, and having confessed all to her husband,
he only takes her all the more closer to his heart for
having sheltered and protected the M'Coul. The
court-martial is held, and, notwithstanding the
exertions of the good-humoured and generous
Colonel O'Grady, he is found guilty and condemned
to be hanged. Michael Feeny visits Shaun in
prison, to taunt him with his joyful wedding, and
narrowly escapes with his life from the hands of the
loving yet desperate husband. Beamish M'Coul,
finding that his thoughtless conduct has involved
Arrah and Shaun in such grief, resolves to deliver
himself up to Government as the ringleader of a
proposed revolt, and having, as he imagines, lost
the love of Fanny Power, he carries out his inten-
tion, at the same time confessing that it was he who
stopped Michael Feeny ; also that he gave the notes
taken from him to Arrah as her wedding portion,
and thus he acquits Shaun from the charges laid
against him. Colonel O'Grady, however, during
the earlier portions of the drama, has been engaged
in the endeavour to procure Beamish's pardon, and
just at this particular moment it is achieved. This
makes Beamish and Mary Power happy, and in
their mutual congratulations poor Shaun for the
moment is forgotten. O'Grady, however, recollects
the poor fellow, and having procured an order for
his release, he puts spurs to his horse to reach
the jail before the execution takes place. Whilst a.

this is going on far from Wicklow, Shaun is in
confinement there, but thinking of nothing but his
darling Arrah. He receives intelligence that she is
sitting on the cliff abutting on the watch tower of
Ballybedagh Castle, whom he in his desperation de-

termines to see once again. He forces the bars from
his prison window, and by the aid of the ivy grow-
ing to the walls he attempts an ascent, although he
has a clear fall of 100 feet into the sea if the fragile
plant should fail him. Here we have the
sensation scene of the drama, which we pur-

posely abstain from describing, because it
would rob the visitor of half his pleasure if he
knew before hand exactly the effect produced.
We may, however, say it is highly effective and
worked out in the most artistic manner. The last
scene represents the summit of the Watch Tower
and the cliffs adjoining. Here Arrah is lamenting
the loss of her husband, when Feeny enters and
urges his suit, as she will soon be a widow. At this
moment he sees Shaun struggling up the ivy, and
Arrah indignantly spurning his protestations of
love, he seizes a stone to cast on Shaun, when for-
tunately the husband reaches the summit just time
enough to seize Feeny by the leg, and both
disappear down the awful chasm. Fortune favours
Shaun, for in his descent he again seizes the ivy,
and by that means he is enabled to re-ascend to the
point from which hehad but a moment before fallen.
The joy of Arrah is intense, and universal hap-
piness is produced by the O'Grady arriving with
Shaun's pardon. We have nothing but commendation
for the actors and actresses engaged in the perform-

ante. Mrs. Dion Boucicault's Arrah-na-Pogue is ano-
ther of those charming impersonations for which she
is unrivalled,and Mr.Boucicault's Shaun-na-Post is a
perfect admixture of impulsive feeling, blundering
wit, and good humour. Mr. John Brougham, as
the O'Grady, gave a genial representation of the

true Irish gentleman, and Mr. Dominick Murray, as

Michael Feeny, a low, sneaking process server, gave
another proof of his being an admirable and perfect

actor. Mr. Seyton had a small part to sustain, viz.,
the Sergeant, but trifling as it was he made it stand
out very prominently by the extreme ability with

which he acted it.

Mr. Vandenhoff as the

M'Coul was highly effective, and Mr. D.
Fisher gave sufficient importance to the red-tape

official, who seemed to hold the poWer of life and
death quite at his command. The " general uti-
lity" parts were all admirably sustained, so admir-
ably indeed that we should imagine they had been
" imported direct" for the occasion.
The scenery, in a word, is magnificent. The in-
terior of Arrah's cottage, with its merrymakers, was
reality itself. Then again the court-martial was a very
effective scene, but the last, or rather we should say, to
be guilty of a bull—the three last were perfect won-
ders in senic painting. First we have the stone wall
of the castle, with the ivy clinging to it ; then the
sunset ; and finally the lovely view of the ocean, by
moonlight, from the watch tower. The audience
were in extacies, and before the action of the drama
was allowed to proceed Mr. Lloyd had to acknow-
ledge the applause his talent, as an artist, had
elicited.

The principal actors were all called before the
curtain, and amidst the enthusiastic applause of a
house crowded from floor to ceiling, Mr. G. Vining
gave out the piece for repetition every evening until
further notice.

THE EXTENSIVE JEWELLERY ROBBERY AT LIVER-
POOL.--The man James, who has been known as
Selby and by other aliases, was again brought before Mr.
Raffles at Liverpool yesterday, and committed for trial at
the assizes, as one of the persons engaged in the robbery
of £l,OOO worth of jewellery from the shop of gr. Critch-
ley, London-road, Liverpool. It was proved that he had
lodged with Grey (another of the men charged), in Chapel-
street, Tottenham-court-road, last year ; and that since the
robbery he had disposed of a large amount of the missing
property. The total value which has been recovered is
about £BOO.