The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-14 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

The melancholy death of Mrs. Fitzwilliam has ren-
dered neces,ary a change in the performances at this
theatre, and She Stoops to Conquer has been substituted
for The 01 i Chateau, Mr. Compton sustaining the part
of Tony in his usual admirable manner.

The Spanish dancers continue extremely attractive.
With reference to the great loss the theatre has sus-
tained it will scarcely be necessary to dwell upon Mrs.
Fitzwilliam's merits as an actress, as they are universally
known and appreciated ; but a short sketch of her
theatrical career may at the present moment be interest-
ing. She was the daughter of Mr. Robert Copeland,
manager of the Dover and other Kentish theatres, and
was born in 1802. At the early age of two years, Miss
Fanny Copeland may be said to have commenced her
theatrical life as one of the children in the play of The
Stranger. When five years old she played in Tom
Thumb, singing all the music ; and, at the age of twelve
she presided at the then fashionable promenade con-
ctrts at Margate. After devoting three years to her
musical studies, she returned to the stage, and appeared
at the Haymarket Theatre in the character of Lucy, in
The Review.

She afterwards played at the Sur;ey, under the man-
agement of Tom Dibdin, who brought her forward in a
variety of characters, particularly Effie Deans, in his
adaptation of the Heart of Mid-Lothian, which established
her success, and induced Mr. Elliston to engage her for
Drury-lane.
In December, 1822, ehe married Mr. Fitzwilliam, the
popular Irish actor, and for several years performed at
the various metropolitan theatres—her singing and
acting always rendering her a great attraction.
She twice visited America, where she was an immense
-favourite. For several years she has performed princi-
pally at the Adelphi and Haymarket Theatres, and ap-
peared at the latter for the last time on Saturday.
It is stated that Mrs. Fitzwilliam had been labouring
for some days from premonitory symptoms of cholera,
but they did not assume a serious character until
Monday morning—her death ensuing after twelve hours'
suffering.

Her son, Edward Fitzwiiliam, is known as a rising
young composer; and her daughter, Miss K. Fitzwilliam,
Ati a pleA*iLlg and elpr6oniro bingc.r.

THE LYCEUM THEATRE.

Mr. Henry Russell continues to attract nightly large
audiences at this elegant theatre, and most deservedly
so, for, without doubt, his entertainment is one of the
most varied and amusing, if not the most varied and
amusing, we ever attended. Mr. Russell never flags or
becomes dull for a single moment, and his different com-
positions are all applauded to the very echo. At one
minute we are with him at the mighty " which
he describes magnificently--at the next we are in a
yanke hotel, suffering from a fit of laughter caused by
one of his negro stories. Besides anecdotes without
number, he delights his audience with selections from his
most popular compositions, now and then demanding a
chorus. His songs are not only intimately connected
with our history, our morals, and our hearts, but we
may almost venture to add the politics of our country.
To a great extent we consider we are indebted to Mr.
Russell for restoring the taste for the impassioned music
and words so popular among the Greeks of old. " The
Dream of the Reveller," "I'm Afloat," "The Old Arm
Chair," and " Some Love to Roam," are among our
special favourites, and we don't think, taking into consi-
deration the many times we have had the pleasure of
hearing these compositions, we were ever more delighted
than we were last evening. The house was fully and
fashionably attended.

PRICES OF WHEAT, FLOUR, AND BREAD IN

LONDON AND PARIS.

Annexed is a comparison of the present prices of
wheat, flour, and bread in London and Paris :
"The highest quotation of wheat of the first quality
in Paris is 43f. per 11 hectolitre, which is equal to
nearly 665. 7d. per quarter ; and the highest price of
white wheat of the first quality in London being 625.
per quarter, it follows that wheat is nearly 7i per cent.
dearer in Paris than in London.

"The highest quotation of flour of the first quality
in Paris is 55f. 40c. the 100 kilogrammes, which is
equal to 565. 2d. per sack of 2801 b. English, and the
highest quotation of flour in the London market being
50s. per sack, it follows that flour is nearly 121 per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London.
" The pries of bread of the first quality in Paris is 40c.
per kilogramme, which is equal to nearly 7d. per 41b.
loaf, English weight ; and, the price of bread in Lon-
don at the full-priced shops being 9d. the 41b loaf, it
follows that bread is nearly 291 per cent. dearer in
London than in Paris. The second quality of bread in
Paris is quoted at 32c. per kilogramme, which is equiva-
lent to rather more than 51d. per 41b. loaf."

Her Majesty held a Privy Council yesterday, which
was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the
Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs ; Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the
Colonies ; the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for
the War Department ; and Sir James Graham, First
Lord of the Admiralty. The Earl of Clarendon officiated
at thp Council for Lord John Russell. Mr. C. Greville
was clerk of the Council in waiting.
ARRANGEMENTS OF THE ROYAL JOURNEY IN SCOT-
LAND.—Her Majesty and the Prince, accompanied by
six of the Royal family, will start from Holyrood Palace
at nine o'clock on Friday morning. They will travel
by the Edinburgh and Glasgow and the Scottish Central
Railway to Perth, thence by Scottish Midland to Forfar,
by Aberdeen Railway to Ferryhill-junction, near Aber-
deen, after which by the Deeside line to Banchory.
This latter place will be reached at a quarter to three
o'clock in the afternoon. Lunch will be served to the
august party in the railway station at Banchory. From
this latter station, at which railway communication ter-
minates, the royal travellers will be posted on to Bal-
moral, and her Majesty will reach her Highland home
about seven p.m. It is understood to be the desiro of
her Majesty to travel as private as possible. A party
of the depot of the 69th Regiment, now stationed at
Aberdeen, will go to Ballater as a guard of honour.
ARRIVALS OF SPECIE.—The arrivals of specie yesterday
wen. large, although the Australian ships still keep out.
The 11,-ctic has brought 226,0001., and the Great West-
ern, front South America, 31,7121. Some amount has
also been received from Lisbon.

A further instalment of ls. fid. in the pound, making
altogether 12s. 9d., was announced yesterday by Mr.
Coleman, the a ccountant under the estate of Messrs.
Collmann and Stoi.terfoht, who failed in January, 1853,
in consequence of th.e corn speculations and forgeries of
Ferdinand Pries. l'beir direct liabilities amounted to
153,8111., and the realisation of the assets has more than
confirmed the estimate originally put forward, irrespec-
tive of anything that ivay yet be recovered of the large
claims on Pries's estate.
Teen CRIMEA.—This fi'ne appendage to the :Russian
empire was conquered in 1785 for the Empress Cathe-
rine the Second, by the crowning act of General de
Lacy, an Irish Catholic in the Russian service. His
nephew, Cornet de Lacy Pierse„ of the Russian service,
also a young Irishman, served throughout the campaigns
on the Danube in 1828-9, and letter to his sister
appeared in the English journals of the day ; and it is
remarkable that now, in 1854, General de Lacy Evans,
another member of that military family, representing the
Protestant branch, is aiding to wrest those acquisitions
from tho Russians and on the side of the Turks.

THE FRENCH EMPEROR'S VISIT TO

BOULOGNE.

BOULOGNE, Sept. 13.—The Emperor went yes-
terday at noon to Ambleteuse, where the 10,000
men in camp defiled before him, as on the two pre-
eeeding days at Equihem and Honvault. With his
suite he travelled by carriage to the small village
of Wimelle, which lies a short distance inland from
the camp of Wimereux. There they all mounted
on horseback, and with a large body-guard of guides
and gendarmerie a cheval in attendance formed a
magnificent cavalcade. The camp of Ambleteuse
is the furthest north of the three which constitute
the right angle of the army collected in this district
in the shape of a triangle, having its apex at St.
Omer. Though like those of Honvault, Wime-
reux, and Equihem, it stands close upon the coast,
instead of running parallel to the line of the cliff,
the huts are ranged almost at a right angle
thereto, in following the inclination of some high
ground well adapted for the purpose of an encamp-
ment which here sweeps inland. The huts are
constructed in the same way as at the other camps,
but experiments to improve, if possible, upon them
seem to be in progress. Among these may be men-
tioned that of dispensing with side walls altogether,
placing the sloping roof of straw thatch upon the
ground, closing it up at one end with clay, except
an aperture for ventilation, and having a door at
the other end, and sleeping room for 12 men, half
on one side, and half on the other. The floors or
platforms intended for beds are arranged much in
the same way as in the huts now used, though it
will probably be found most convenient for the
men to sleep with their heads to the centre, in-
stead of, as at present, with their feet in that di-
rection. Considering that soldiers must be the
architects of their own winter cantonments, it
is obvious that these should be constructed of
materials likely to be found in abundance wher-
ever they go, and which can be not only cheaply
but easily applied by rude unaccustomed hands
to the purpose of providing shelter. Such a hut
as that described, composed entirely of straw
and wood, seems to satisfy these conditions to
the utmost extent. There would, however, be
some risk of having them burnt down, either
through carelessness or otherwise, from the highly
inflammable materials of which they are composed,
and, indeed, this is a danger from which the huts
now used are not entirely free. It cannot be con-
sidered as the least of the advantages derived
from the occupation of such camps, that armies
acquire thereby a confidence in their own
ability to meet one of the most formidable
of the thousand and one exigencies to which
war exposes them. The snail, indeed, carries
his house upon his back, but even the French
soldier cannot effectually do so ; for, though the
Arab tents are well adapted tosudden marches and
the bivouac in a warm climate, they do not dis-
pense with tqe necessity of carrying about ampler
provisions for shelter as a part of the baggage. Im-
pedimenta still remain in our day, as they were in
that.of the ancient Romans, the great obstacle to the
vigour and rapidity of military operations. Thus
. it is that soldiers are so heavily loaded to diminish
the difficulty ; and on this point it is rather re-
markable, though not generally known, that the
French infantry are more severely weighted than
the British, though the men possess less individual
strength. If it could be satisfactorily established
that, wherever they went, troops had the means of
rapidly providing themselves with such shelter as
suffices to meet the exigencies of climate and wea-
ther, a most important advantage would be gained.
The solution of this question may be considered as
in a fair way of being attained in the permanent
camps round Boulogne. In these camps the concen-
tration of men for active service, and the preliminary
hardening and training of them before engaging in
a campaign, go on simultaneously. From 65,000
to 70,000 soldiers are assembled within a limited
area, not only for the practice but for actual pre-
paration, with a groat war on hand, and only the
winter intervening to prevent them coming to
blows. One can readily imagine, therefore, the
stimulus of the prospect before them upon every-
thing they do. The empire, first founded, and then
revived by military power, now requires to be con-
solidated by great deeds, and it would indeed be
wonderful if the French army of the North did not
feel animated with a sense of what the future holds
forth for it to accomplish. All that one sees and
hears from officers and men justifies the conclusion,
that martial ardour never ran higher among troops,
that they are satisfied with their allies and with
their cause, and that they look forward with im-
patient confidence to the return of Spring. The
general appearance and arrangements of the camp
at Ambleteuse resemble closely those of Honvault,
Wimereux, and Equihem, the only remarkable
difference being that of the Honvault kitchens,
with their brick chimney stalks, which have not
Yet been constructed in any of the others.
All are placed on elevated dry sites with com-
manding prospects, in which the Channel and
tho chalk cliffs of the Engligh erist, figure promi-
nently. The huge piles of sand drift in front of
Ambleteuse, looking towards Boulogne, give it a
more desolate appearance than the rest of these
coast camps. Equihem, on the other hand, has the
advantage of a line country behind it, upon which
the visitor looks down with pleasure, its patches of
rich woodland, with chateaus and villages em-
bowered in them, contrasting favourably with the
generally sandy and bare character of the scenery
iu this part of France. On leaving the camp yes-
terday the Emperor made a slight detour to the
right, apparently to examine the present state of
some incomplete work for providing a harbour for
fishermen on that part of the coast. He returned
to his hotel between 3 and 4 o'clock.

This morning, at 8 o'clock, the Emperor left
Boulogne for the camp at Helfaut in order to make
the necessary dispositions for a series of military
manoeuvres on a grand scale, which will commence
to-morrow morning (Thursday) at an early hour,
at a village called Escuille s. A n invading army
will be supposed to advance- from St. Omer with
the view of attacking Boulog ne. They will be met
by a large force stationed be tween Escceuilles and
Desvres, and a series of military evolutions will
commence, which will end in the retirement
of the army of defence upon Boulogne. The
troops will encamp upon the field on Thursday
night, and on Friday the feigned engagement will
be resumed until the fate of the city of Boulogne
will be supposed to depend upon the issue of a
pitched battle. Every arm of the service will be
employed in this petite guerre, and it is stated that
a larger number, if not the whole, of the troops in
the camp of the North, will be engaged. It is not
yet known whether the Emperor will return this
evening to Boulogne from the camp at Helfaut, or
whether he will sleep at St. Omer. If he return
to Boulogne to-night, it is arranged that he is to
start for the scene of operations at eight o'clock
to-morrow morning, in order that the evolutions
may begin at an early hour. Public expectation
is highly excited by the announcement of these
grand military manoeuvres, and by the prepara-
tions which are being rapidly made in all the
camps to carry on the mimic war with completeness
and efficiency.

These evolutions will terminate for the present
the campaign of the army of the North. The Em-
peror is expected to leave Boulogne for Paris on
Saturday, and to return to the camp in about a
week. The journey to the Belgain frontier is post-
poned until his return.
Prince Albert, before his departure, left I,ooof.
to be distributed among the poor of the town. By
direction of his Royal Highness General the Hon.
C. Grey also wrote to M. Carnegy de Balinhni-d
Chairman of the British Free Schools ati"
enclosing 500 f. from the Prince. •

It is said that the Emperor has
Brighton Hotel, which has been l): Alajesty't• J-
siden co since his arrival at Bel'' ;Ile, for ;am
of 16,0001. The purchase = posed to indicate
the Emperor's intentior . frequently visiting
Boulogne, where he is e _emely popular.
The weather promic- to be unfavourable for the
review to-mor-•^w.

SOUTrr.:IPTO/.7 dnesday, Sept. 13—The United
State-. mail Kt' (lip Hermann, Captain Higgins,
sailad tbs aftf. for New York with the semi-weekly
,nerican ina4" about 260 passengers, and a full cargo
of Gerra'an, .ench, and continental merchandise. The
Egyptian frigate Feid Geehad is to leave for Alexandria
o l'hur..iay (this day.) Count de Lavradio, the Portu-
guese Minister, attended by Mr. Priaulx, the consul at
Southampton, visited the Feid Geehad on Monday. Mr.
Croskey, the United States Consul, and other official
gentlemen, have also visited this noble ship during the
last few days, and have been received by the commander
and officers with much distinction, the colours of their
respective Governments being hoisted at the fore
during the time of their stay on board.
NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—On Wednesday morn-
ing St. Andrew's Hall was crowded in galleries and' aisles,
and a better assemblage of the rank, fashion, and beauty
of the county has seluom been seen. At 12 o'clock the
performance of the Creation commenced, the solo parts
being sustained by Sims Reeves, Gardoni, Weiss, Miss
C. Novello, and Madame Castellan. On Tuesday even-
ing the galleries were not so well occupied as on former
occasions, but the body of the hall was quite filled—ele-
gantly dressed ladies forming the majority. The Duke
of Wellington, S. M. Peto, Esq., member for the city,
and many of the county gentry were present. The first
part of the concert included Handel's delightful serenata
" Acis and Galatea." All the vocalists sang their parts
with an apparent pleasing rivalry, each in turn eliciting
loud applause. Acis was represented by Mr. Sims
Reeves, Galatea by Madame Clara Novello, Damon by
Gardoni, and Polyphemus by Belletti. All the choruses
went with the utmost precision, and were exceedingly
effective, especially the last, " Galatea, dry thy tears."
On the whole, the performance was all that could be
desired,

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR.

%Ve have just received the following telegraphic
despatches
THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCES OFF
SEBASTOPOL.
VIENNA, WEDNESDA.T.

The combined fleets, which had left Varna on
the 3d, had appeared off Sebastopol on the Bth.
A. perfect cloud of transports, troop-ships, and
steamers of all sizes, covered the sea in the vicinity
of Balaklava.

Another despatch of the same date is as follows :
VIENNA, WEDNESDAY 3101INING.

No accident happened during the embarkation
of the expedition for the Crimea, and on the 3d the
greater part of the fleet had weighed anchor.
Sebastopol was generally supposed to be the
destined point of attack.

The whole army was in the highest spirits.

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 7•

Yesterday morning, at six o'clock, orders were
sent to Baltchik for the departure of the expedi •
tion against Sebastopol.

The Austrian steamer Custozza, which arrived
here to-day from Baltschik, states that 20 ships bad
already left that port. The remainder were still
there on the evening of the 6th.

ARRIVAL OF MARSHAL BARAGUAY
D'HILLIERS.

A Berlin letter of the 10th, in the Post Arreo
Gazette of Frankfort, says :—" Marshal BaraguaY
d'Hilliers, who has just arrived here from Dantzic,
received at that city the Marshal's baton, from the
hands of an aide-de-camp to the Emperor. M•
Moustier, the French Ambassador, has paid a long
visit to the Marshal, who is accompanied by Gen.
Giel, Colonels St. Loyal and de Rochehouet, In:
tendant Petit, and Captain Mehl], aide-de-camp.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
As the Austrian troops entered Bucharest, Omer
Pasha received them at the head of a Turkish
division and a detachment of the Wallachian
militia:, outside the gate of Padu Mogoschoy, where
the Catholic and Greek clergy, the members of the
Administration, some of the Boyards, and a dense
crowd of citizens were assembled. Count Coronini,
‘•
the commander of the Austrian corps of ocenPy
tion, and the Turkish Sirdar rode at the head of
the troops.
A correspondent of the F remden Bladtt, writing
on the 2d, from Bucharest, estimates the number
of deaths from cholera at above 80 per day. UP to
that date 100 waggon-loads of sick had arrival-
from Oreschti, Kalugareni, and Giurgevo.
aiens in the following quantities were to be deli''
vered at Bucharest, Neogeshti, and Kalarascb, by
the Bth inst., for the Turkish troops, viz., flour,- •
8,063,815 okas ; meat, 2,364,240 ; suet, 103)43" ;
barley and oats, 18,155,400 ; onions, 886,590 ;
wood, 1,625,015 ; hay, 32,745,600 okas.
It is reported that the Wallachian Government
will take upon itself the continuation of the Con-
stantinople and Belgrade line of telegraph to Kra-
Jowa, Bucharest, and Hermanstadt. The-e is nOW:
a very active trade going on between Bucharest
and Hermanstadt, Pestli, and Vienna.
A day or two back the Fremden Bladtt announced
that a number of Greeks and Armenians had been
apprehended at Galatz on suspicion of conspiring
against the lives of the leaders of the allied armies.