The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-21 00:00:00

ADELPHI THEATRE.

An original drama, called Two Loves and a Life, was
produced at this theatre last night. It was not only a
sterling Adelphi success, but one of which the authors,
Messrs. Taylor and Reade, have reason to be proud in a
literary point of view. They have selected the year
1745 as their date, and for some reason have chosen the
month of October as the precise period of the play.
Prestonpans was fought on the 21st September, and
thenceforth the triumphant Charles Edward was occupied
in celebrating, instead of improving, his victory, with balls
at Holyrood, and other festivities, until the last day of
the month, when he left Holyrood en route for Culloden.
At the opening of the play Sir Gervase Rokewode
(Leigh Murray), and Father Radcliffe (Webster), are re-
siding under fictitious names at Myers-tone, the former
adopting the dress and manner of a fisherman, the latter
those of a Quaker. Sir Gervase is a handsome and fas-
cinating young gentleman, and the " two loves " are
speedily accounted for. He has secured the heart of
Anne Musgrave (Miss Woolgar), daughter of the rich,
wicked, and crafty postmaster of the place ; and of Ruth
Ravenscar (Madame Celeste), an orphan girl, who has
been saved when a child from a wreck, and who con-
veys the letters from the next town. It is due to Sir
Gervase to say that he loves Anne only, and has no idea
of the havoc he has wrought with the more fiery, but
not more loving heart of the other young lady. The
Duke of Cumberland (Selby) conies to Ulverstone
with a portion of his army. The sands are dan-
gerous, and imperil the royal leader and his men,
but he is conducted safely by Ruth. The Duke gives
her a ring, which is to insure her protection at any
future time. Anne's father is a scoundrel, who
reads—or rather being unable, from defective educa-
tion, to peruse correspondence for himself, makes his
(laughter read the letters which pass through his hands.
He receives an epistle which implicates Sir Gervase,
and which informs him of a Jacobite rendezvous. He,
of course, determines, for the sake of the reward which
is offered, to bring the troops upon the rebels ;
but as Anne simultaneously becomes aware of the
scent, the plot acquires double action, which is
also complicated by the agency of Ruth, who
climbs windows and does various daring things to save
Sir Gervase. The two women mutually discover their
situation as regards Rokewode, and the struggle between
them is which shall serve him best, and this lutte is capi-
tally got up. Ruth risks her life, and Anne her fair
fame, but in the end Gervase gets to the Tower. Then
Ruth uses her influence with the duke, and fairly bullies
him into discharging the debt of gratitude he owes,
while Anne, who has been suffering from fever, visits
him, and at his prayer becomes his wife. He escapes,
after the fashion of Lord Derwentwater, in another
dress, and she is led to Tower-hill in his place, but he
follows, unable to remain in doubt as to. her fate,
rescues her, and is himself seized and about to be
executed, when Ruth dashes in with his pardon, to
find him Anne's husband. Ruth, however, turns out
to be Father Radcliffe's lost child, and under his
sacerdotal counsel forgives Anne and Sir Gervase, and
all ends in grave but assured happiness. The acting
of Messrs. Selby, Murray, Webster, Keeley, and 0.
Smith, and of Madame Celeste and Miss Woolgar was
deserving of the very highest meed of praise—and the
scenery, dresses, and effects were new and well devised.
The applause began after the first act, increased at each
fall of the drop, and was uproarious at the close, when
the actors, and afterwards the authors, were " called."
The piece was announced by Mr. Webster for every
evening, and will have, and richly deserves, a capital

run.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS;

THE WAR IN THE EAST.

THE BALTIC.

A telegraphic despatch, dated Copenhagen,
March 16, says that the Baltic fleet, under the
command of Sir Charles Napier, was expected to
arrive there on the following day.
There was a report, however, that it will be
safer for the Duke of Wellington and the vessels of
the first class to pass through the Great Belt by
Ny borg, where the water is deeper, though the
navigation is more intricate, instead of through the
Sound, where there is only 25 or 26 feet of water
in some parts of the channel.

Probably, therefore, the frigates and vessels of
the second class will enter the Baltic by the
Sound, and the larger vessels by the Great Belt.
The appearance of the British fleet in these
waters has greatly strengthened the popular and
constitutional party in Denmark, and, on the other
hand, afflicted the friends of Russia with propor-
tionate disgust.
A later despatch states that the fleet arrived in
Wingo Sound on the 15th, all well.
A letter from Copenhagen, of March 13, says
that " the Swedish fortresses Kungsholmen and
Drottningskar are to receive a garrison of 600 men.
Transports have been taken up at Calmar to carry
the reinforcements to Gothland. The Government
has at last made the long-demanded concession to
the Swedish shipowners. Vesssels purchased
abroad are no . to be admitted on paying a duty of
5 per cent. if of 100 tons and over, and 10 per cent.
if below that capacity. Major-Gen. Nordin, Swedo-
Norwegian ambassador in Russia, has arrived in St.
Petersburg. The Swedish and Norwegian papers de-
mand his recall, as being a partial and reactionary
Minister. He is married to a rich Russian lady,
and cannot act independently. The young Prince
the Duke of Sodermauland, son of the Crown
Prince, is dangerously ill. The commercial fleet of
Helsingfors at this moment consists of 8 ships, 8
brigs, and 12 schooners ; total, 6,000 tens : that of
Abo, 22 ships, 10 brigs, 12 schooners, 3 galeases,
2 yachts, and 3 steamers ; total, 15,000 tons. A
vessel has reached Elsinore with coals for the Baltic
fleet. Others are daily expected. To-day the ad-
dress to the King, of want of confidence in the pre-
sent Cabinet, was read a first time in the Upper
House, by a majority of 36 to 8. It will be read a
second and last time to-morrow. This evening the
same addresS will be read a second and last time in
the Lower House. Yesterday there was to have
been a meeting of the Privy Council, but his Ma-
jesty sent orders for it to be postponed."
The Hamburg Correspondent contains a letter
from. Stockholm, of which the following is an ex-
tract :—" Our fleet is in a good condition. Work-
men are employed actively in fitting out gun-boats.
The squadron recently fitted out, and composed of
seven ships-of-the-line, with 2,000 men on board,
would suffice to make au imposing demonstration.
As to our armaments by land nothing is neglected.
As the assemblage of Russian troops in the Baltic
is considerable, prudence seems to require that all
half-measures should be avoided. It is that feel-
ing which accounts for the increase of the garrison
in the island of Gothland. There are shortly to be
sent to the island 4,000 Norwegians, making up,
with 9,090 militia, a corps of 16,000 men."

The following is from Berlin, dated yesterday
(Monday) :
„ _. ____ _. _

" The English Government applied to engage 60
Prussian pilots at Swinemunde, the port of Stettin.
They have requested leave of absence from the Go-
vernment here. Count Groeben and the Prince of
Hohenzollern have returned.

" The export of gold from Russia is reported to be
prohibited.

" The commander of the troops at Revel had pro-
claimed that probably the town would be bombarded
by the English and French, and women had been
required to leave it.

"On the 15th the Miranda left, bound for Kiel."
We learn from the Austrian capital that on Sun-
day Baron Meyendorff had an audience of the Em-
peror, which lasted two hours.

It was reported that on the explanation of the
intentions of Austria will depend the stay of the
Russian Minister in the capital.

CONSTANTINOPLE.

The following is from Constantinople under date
of March 9
The Russians are said to be preparing chains to
stretch across the mouths of the Danube.
Conferences were going on between the Turkish
Cabinet, the Sheik-ul-Islam, and the Foreign Mi-
nisters relative to the Christians in Turkey.
The Russian subjects in Turkey, England, and
France, are about to be summoned to roturn home.
Since the prohibition of the export of corn from
Odessa, the price has fallen from 9 to 3 silver
roubles. Numerous failures are expected at
Odessa.
We learn by letters from Constantinople of the
Gth and 7th inst., that the resolution adopted by
the British Cabinet of sending out 20,000 men,
and that of France to forward twice that number
immediately, for the support of the Sultan, was
greeted with pleasure by the population of that
vast city. The time, it was said, had arrived when
energetic steps should be resorted to. Winter was
fast passing away, and spring would no doubt usher
in war on a large scale. The last accounts from
the Danube announced that the Russians had re-
tired from the neighbourheod. of Kalafat. In Asia
snow and ice had put a stop to warfare for the
present.
On the sth Count Metaxa, the Greek ambas-
sador to the Ottoman Porte, had a long interview
with Reschid Pacha, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs. The ambassador of Greece endeavoured
to explain the non-participation of his Govern-
ment in the insurrectionary movements. It does
not, however, appear, that the excuses tendered
made any impression on the Suitan's Minister, as
he plainly alluded to the contemplated recall of the
Turkish Minister from Athens, if the revolt was
not quelled, and the concession not only of all
diplomatic relations with the kingdom of Greece,
but also the interruption of all and every connec-
tion, not excluding commercial intercourse. The
latter would be a hard blow to Greek commerce,
and bring ruin to their extensive merchant navy.
On the 4th Fuad. Effendi left for Volo, on board the
Turkish war steamer Taif—the same that escaped
from the disasterat Sinope. He was accompanied by 2
adjutants, his first secretary Rienzi Effendi, actually
in the province of Salonica ; Gelal Bey, his secon d
secretary ; and M. Costaki Adocides, interpreter.
Fuad Effendi had been named commissary-extra-
ordinary, and is invested with full powers for the
suppression of the insurrection. From Volo he
will immediately proceed to Janina, where he will
fix his residence. It was said that Sir Henry
Ward, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, would send a person to meet Fuad Effendi ;
and that the representative of France at Athens
would do the same. Greece was to send a pleni-
potentiary to Prevesa, where a species of Congress
is to be held as to the best mode of calming down
the insurrection. The last accounts from the
Epirus announced that the Turks suffered a slight
defeat at Dimorio on the 23d, losing GO men.
They withdrew to the citadel of Arta. Suleyman
Bey, however, advanced with 300 Albanians ; and
the town of Arta, which was in possession of
the insurgents was stormed, and taken. Ka-
raiskaki and Grivas, who commanded the
Greeks, were completely defeated, the former
receiving a wound in the arm. The insurrec-
tion has spread very considerably. Suli and
seven or eight of the surrounding villages was up
in arms. Paramitia had also rebelled. The old
governor of Janina, Sali Pacha, formed a body of
150 cavalry. They, however, disbanded, as he
could not produce sufficient money to pay them.
The garrison of Lanina numbers 500 men. Her
Britannic Majesty's steamer Sheerwater had pro-
ceeded from Corfu to Prevesa, with troops on board.
She was lying there, but had not landed any force.
The Turkish Government was actively engaged in
sending troops to the provinces of Thessaly and
Epirus. The Chaaki-Chadi, Cheh-Per, and Pour-
soud left last Thursday, with 3,000 troops, bound
for Volo. Constantinople was perfectly quiet. M.
Canaris, son of the celebrated Greek naval hero,
who had been at Constantinople for the last week,
had just fallen a victim to the knife of an assassin.
On the 3d, at Kourou-Tchesme, a village on the
Bosphorus, he was stabbed on the right side. He
lingered for three days, and expired after great
suffering. He made no revelation with regard to
the assassin, who has not been found. Sir John
Lakeman, who has been on an excursion to Schumla,
left on the Ist for France and England by the Nyl
steamer. The same boat brought out Major Dixon
and Captain Blakely. Captain Symmons, R.E., has
just returned from inspecting the fortifications 01
Sinope, in the Black Sea. The British and French
steamers Furious and Vauban had returned from the
Black Sea and had cast anchor in the Bosphorus.

The latter went toSebastopol, andreported that the
entrance to that harbour was shut, a boom and

chain having been thrown across. The entrance to
Sebastopol was refused both to the Vauban and
Furious, the latter having proceeded there from
Varna. The whole of the Russian fleet was at an_

chor within the harbour.
Lieutenant-General Sir John Burgoyne has just
returned from a short excursion to Buyuk-Tchek-
medge (great bridge) to inspect that part of the
country, which is the military position commanding
the approach to Constantinople;.
Sultan has amnestied all the Softas (reli-
gious students) who were banished to the island Of

I Crete, in consequence of the attempt at revolt me. do
here last December.

Fears were entertained that the revolutionari
movement which had broken out in Thessaly and:then
Epirus, and which has mainly proceeded from the
kingdom of Greece, would spread to Bosnia, Albania
Montenegro, and Servia,. With a British and French
army under weigh for Turkey, aid about to occupy
a portion of that empire, it was not to be Pre-
suned that Austria would feel inclined to remain
an indifferent spectator, but eagerly look out for
the opportunity of occupying some of those pr°:.
vinces, to counterbalance the presence of Frenci'
and British armies in Bulgaria or Roumelia. do
insurrectional movement, which is by no means
difficult to encourage, would be the signal for the
march of an Austrian army into Servia, Bosnia,
and Montenegro. The French ambassador has re-
ceived instructions to hasten the arram•ements for
the encampment of the expected troops as much
possible, and to act with the greatest energy ; an
that the representative of her Britannic MajestY
was pursuing a similar course. The preliminary
works for an encampment for the French forces
were already being commenced at Ste. Stefano, 011
the coast of the Sea of Marmora, about two rail°
south of Constantinople. Wooden barracks are
being erected at the Dardanelles, with other works,
under the superintendence of the British engineer
oflioers.

Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, who has been incl.'
sant in his efforts' on behalf of the Christian nil;
jects of the Porte, and whose name is associated
with all the real refOrms introduced into the enr
pire, had just obtained an Imperial firman, este'
blislling the rights of Christian witnesses In °'
Turkish court of justice as equal with those of °
Mahomedan. A person who is not well versed 11
the affairs of the East can scarcely form an idea '9'
the importance of this concession, which may b. 6
said to form an era in the progress of civilisation in
the East. This concession is regarded by the ge"
homedan as at variance with the ,orecepts of the
Koran. The firman, it was expected, would be
published shortly.

The Breslau, Gazette says the Austrian Ambe's'
i
sador has received instructions to use all his ty
fluence to suppress the revolutionary movement,
and to make the Greek Government understan"
that any encouragement given to the insurrection
might give rise to serious difficulties in the neg°;
tiations for peace. The Austrian Int.ernuncio 3
Constantinople will receive a copy of th ese instruc"
tions in order to lay them before the Sublime Porte.
Baron de Bruck has, it is said, received orders W
remove all fears which might :be entertained et
Constantinople at the concenti-ation of Ans'
trian troops in the provinces bordering °II
Turkey, and to demand the assent of the Port!
to an intervention in Servia if it shotil4r
become necessary. It is understood that eCabinet,Canet, in the event of a negative reply, will 019,
consider itself bound by the declaration of tn.:
Porte, but will undertake that important step 4;73
its own responsibility should circumstances requirs,
it. According to a report in circulation, the PI
sians will assume the offensive in April-"
Intelligence from Montenegro to the Bth, state:
that tranquillity had not been troubled. The
Turkish troops are at a suitable dist ante from tiu
frontier. The Montenegrins had fortiled their (le;
files and make no more excursions. Presents 0'
money had been distributed to the. poor Mr,
munes, in the name of the Emperor of Russia;'
wheat had also been bought and distribt ited at Pio
expense. Prince Danilo left for Cettitiji on
3d, on a tour along the frontier.
The Palatinate 'gazette states that before his cl
parture for Munich, the Emperor of Austria, of
speaking to one of his Ministers on the question,
the day, expressed himself in the following terio:ci
—" It is impossible for me to explain what a I°o,
has been taken of my mind since a decisive reLsa a
lution has been come to. Latterly, I have pot
neither rest nor sleep ; thank God, the sad moue
is now over."
The Prussian Correspondence of 23er lin saYe_at
it The Russian Government having de Blared tnsia
it was satisfied with the neutrality mrhi ch Prnsea
proposed to observe, the Cabinet ha ,s abandon
the mission of Count de Dohna at S. P 'etersbilZ
the object of that mission being ath 11.ned.
Cabinet having taken the resolution o f remain.
neutral is decided to cause this neutrality to prav""
by force of arms. Such is the object o f the prejt
rations which have recently been ma de. 01.0_1
have been sent to the commanders of the Ist 114
sth (Prussia and Posen) and to the Pi 'th and evee
(Rhenan provinces and Westphalia) corPs "r;ile
to hold themselves ready for mobilisa:tion. ,f
government has besides resolved to rais, e a lone
30,000,000 thalers. A bill on the su bje ct will 1:4
communicated in a few days to the Ch. an fibers."
it was on Saturday that the French Cri3Verntaen
received from Berlin a telegraphic die spatch anY
nouncing the answer of the Czar Nichol as to the
summons addressed to him byEngland an d France:
That answer is conceived in short, dry, ttnd la°e;
disdainful terms. As soon as the Engli sh
at Berlin was made acquainted with t 1 answer,
he despatched a courier forthwith with the nel
by way of the Prussian ports of the Bal tic, to 101-
miral Napier, in order that he may be 1 i.reparedt°
act upon his instructions.
Letters have been received from St. Pe, tersburgli
which represent the public in that city as in a state
of great irritation against the Western Powers'
The Russians declare that they will not hi :al. of any
further negotiations with those Powers, and that
they will only negotiate with Turkey al'one,
then only on the understanding that she is to
accept all the terms proposed by Pri n.ce Mole'
chikoff.
The Russian Government has commu: oicated t°
the Cabinet of Berlin intelligence respec ting P1,..4°‘4
said to be hatching in Poland. The Ru s sian (-1,;
vernment does this, no doubt, from ntereste"
motives.
It is asserted that despatches have been a .ddressed
from Rome to the Four Great Powers, claiming
from them the assurance to the Pope of hi s due 11';
fluence in the settlement of the religious I tffairs
Turkey.