The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-01 00:00:00

UNITED SERVICE, JOURNAL

This periodical, as we have often had occasion to
observe, is excellent club reading, for it is not taken
up with mere literary matters, but discourses of things
that are of general interest, especially to officers of the
army and navy. The Number before us is one of the
best we have seen, containing two articles---a " Ram-
ble in Persia," and a " Run to the North Coast of
France," which are just the sort of reading for club
loungers.

Mr. T. Cooke is musical director to Covent Garden
next season, and his pupil Miss Rainforth will be prima donna.
ACCIDENTS ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.-On Sunday night a train of empty carriages was dispatched from
Paddington to Maidenhead, to bring up passengers on Monday morning.
Between Hanwell and West Drayton, this train came into collision
train; the carriage was broken to pieces and the engine
io serious injury was done to any individual On
with a ballast carriage, the conductors of which were not aware of the
mcoumcihngdaonif
athgeed:but t
Monday morning, near the same spot, one of the steam pipes burst,
when the engineer fearing an explosion, threw himself from the en-
gine and was much hurt. The accident delayed the train two hours
and a half. On the same evening, one of the Company's porters, in at-
tempting to get on one of the carriages, was thrown under the wheels,
arid his legs so shockingly crushed, that it is feared he cannot survive,
unless amputation of both legs take place. On Monday morning the
nine o'clock train, from Maidenhead, was approaching weembault
Scrubs, when the usual signal—the shrill whistle—being given to
that they immediately bolted off and ran upon the
were in an instant knocked down by the train—the
bs°meed workmen
therkinie employed on the railway, had such an effect, corn_
innoise of the engine, on two horses in charge of a boy
rnaeial rw
at
yl i
.e rTa ill, we
ya y,
boy fell under one of the horses, but escaped most miraculously ; the
horses, however, were killed, the train literally cutting them to
pieces. This is not the first accident that has happened to cattle
upon this i h.„e• Surely the Directors should see that proper fences be
put up, to prevent similar recurrences.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)—A young Cler-
gyman of the diocese of Hereford has resolved, under the auspices of
the author of "
len," and some elder poets of the highest fame, to pub.
lists a dramatic
poem of a religious character, the entire profits of its
sale to be forwarded to the Committee for erecting a column to the gal-
lant Nelson. Its title will probably be " Montanti, or the Abbot's
Dream," and an interesting conversion to the views of Malanctlion, the
y patronised by his Grace the Duke of Buccleueli.
mild Reformer, will form its main attraction. It Is understood that it
appears by a Return ordered by the
House of Commons that the declared value of bones of cattle and other
animals, and of fish (except whale tins), whether burnt or not, or as
williti3eosNtroEnsg.l__lt
animal charcoal, imported into the United Kingdom in the year 1835
amounted to 155,279/. 9s. 11d.; anyd, in 1836 to 171,8061. 7s. 10.1. '
manufactured goods has become more languid, an.' there has
beeriik be tu for
STATEtlitor the last few days cur
marl
little business OF TRADE.—For
doing in any fabric of cloth for either borne or
foreign consumption ; there has, however, been a moderate amount of
sales effected in yarns far exportation, although at very depressed rates;
for other descriptions the demand continues very limited, and at rather
drooping prices.—Preston Observer.

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HA YM AIIK ET TH EA T R E.—The Jealous Wife
was admirably performed on Monday night, with the spirit and eff ct
of genuine comedy, and producing a more continuous enjayment on the
part of th: audience than is often witnessed. Mrs. Warner was the
wife, and she pourtrayed precisely the jealousy of such a woman as Mts.
Oakley, that of irritated temper, and not of wounded feeling. There
was no aberration into affectionate emotion, except where the author
has compelled it, in the last scene, in order to patch up the conclusion
of his play. And there Mrs Warner did the best that could be done
for him, having the bearing rather of a subdued spirit than of erring af.
f!cti,n convinced and corrected. Women of the Mrs. Oakley eLss, as
they want nothing of love but the exclusive servility that belongs to the
meanest feeling by which the name is usurped, only experience, for
jealousy, the petty spitefulness of intolerarce and irritation. The im-
plied character was aptly indicated in the interview with Lady Free-
love (Mrs. W. Clifford) ; and the suggestions of the one and the suspi-
cions of the other, with the assumptions of frankness and of respect in
their demeanour, made this scene an exquipite piece of acting. The
very devil seemed in both the women, though it pleased him to matilfcst
his presence in dill'orctit ways, that the world might have vailety of
plagues. hi Mr. Oakley the complete mastery of Mr. Macready over
the lightsomeness of comedy is, perhaps, rendered more apparent to an
audience generally than in anything else he does. He plays the part,
and he plays with the vat It is like a juggler's ball in his hands, al-
ways caught before it comes to the ground. Lord Trinket and bir
Harry Beaglewere
one of Strickland's best old men ; and no pat t or scene in the lily could
well supported by Webster and Buckstone ; Russet is
be called a failure, unless it was that of Charles Oakley's drunkenness.
The play was announced for repetition on Thursday w.th universal
applause.

•
Yesterdav morning the lash was again put in ope-
ration at the Marine Barracks, Woolwich. The offender, whose
name is E:ijah Hopkins, is a very bad character, and has been tried
before by a court_martial, although he has been but two months in the re.
giment. The off lice of which he has been found guilty on this occasion
was for throwing a cub at Sergeant Morris, while at drill, ror which h
was sentenc,d to re:Tive 100 lashes. At an early hour Hopkins was
tied up to the halberds, and svceivcd his sentence without a mmmur.
On being taken (tow,. he c,:lled out to the con-Imam:in facer that " it
was a good br,aifast." He was then removed to the infirmary.
THE LATE NI)WrERIOIJS :AFFAIR AT ST. PA N-
cais —CaProrte cr Myea,..—On Tuesday last Myers arrived at Bou.
logne in the Magnet steam.vessel. While on board some one who was
aware of the verdict returned against Myers recognised him, and the
information having
born communicated to Captain Stock, the master,
and also to the steward, f the Magnet, they gave him into the custody
of the gendarmes on his arrival on the quay, and he was conveyed to
the French prison in the town of Boulogne. On Saturday evening
Myers was sent back to London in the Hailequin steamer, and is now in
safe custody in New,;ate.