The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-20 00:00:00

HE 'SUN, 'ON rRIDAY EVENING,' OCTOIII R 2O, 1.185'4.,

al DELPHI THEATRE.

Last evening a new four act drama from the pen of
T. Parry, Esq., was produced at this theatre. The title
of the piece is the Summer Storm ; but the author, who
is a well-practised hand in choosing materials for Adelphi
dramas, has in this instance not been quite so fortunate ;
but, with a judicious curtailment, we have no doubt but
that it will have a " run." The leading incidents are as
follow :—Clara is a daughter of an unknown father, who
deserted her recently deceased mother in a foreign land;
and she is herself involved in a love affair with a young
gentleman whose whereabouts is uncertain, and whose
fidelity is more than doubtful. Her friend, Rachel
Westbo urn, on the other hand, has a father whose
existence is mystery itself. The two girls, while
together one fine morning in the fields, see a horse-
man run away with by his steed. Clara,
noticing that his course is directed towards a deep
chalk-pit, runs forward, meets and turns the headlong
animal, and falls insensible, having saved--although she
did not recognise him—the young gentleman who had
been herlover in a distant part of the country, but was now
on his way to wed another in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the spot where he was so nearly killed. Clara
is borne to the house of a Miss Bessy Busyby, whither
also are driven by " a thunder storm" her faithless lover
Walter Atherstone, a ruined spendthrift, his " friend"
Fitzwilmont, and Mabel Vascourt to whom Walter is
engaged. Thither also comes the father of Rachel in
search of his daughter. This personage is, indeed, a
finished hero of melodrama. Originally a gentleman,
and the father of a happy family, he has yielded to the
temptation of gambling, and falling step by step, is now
a forger of bank-notes. If ho offends the law,
however, he does it romantically. The process is
carried on in a carefully guarded chamber of a
lone house ; and Ronald Westbourne supports a double
character. In the neighbourhood he appears a quiet,
student-like man of science ; but when abroad on expe-
ditions connected with the passing of the forged notes,
he wears the garb and manner of a rugged countryman.
It is in the latter character that he visits Miss Busyby's
farm, where, notwithstanding his disguise, he is recog-
nised by Fitzwilmont, his former companion and tempter.
Clara also, while herself unseen, recognises her former
lover in the lover of Mabel Vascourt. Fitzwilmont
having obtained some clue to Westbourne's criminal
pursuits, seeks an interview with him, and threatens
to denounce him if he does not pay him a largo bum of
money. Westbourne promises compliance, in order to
obtain an opportunity of quietly murdering one
whose existence seems incompatible with his safety. To
this end he appoints him a meeting at his own house.
Before Fitzwilmont arrives, however, another has be-
come the victim of the snare laid for his destruction.
Walter Atherstone, deceived by Rachel's wearing the
kat of his former lover (Clara), had followed her at a dis-
tance to the house—had passed in—had mounted the
stairs--had entered a room, the door of which was im-
mediately afterwards shut upon him by a secret spring.
By means of a mechanical contrivance the floor is with-
drawn from underneath him, and after holding on con-
vulsively tie a projection in the wall for a short time, he
is precipitated into the abyss beneath. Westbourne takes
the body, nod deposits it in the old chalk-pit, where it is
found by Clara and Rachel. Shortly afterwards both
are apprehended on a charge of attempted murder, for
of course Wah‘er is not quite dead after all. The two
prisoners are taken to the house of a magistrate for
examination. -Ale is convinced by Clai a's answers that
she is innocent, and moreover discovers that he is him-
self her father. Rachel is saved by her father, who
comes forward, surrenders himself, and then, while
trying to escape by a balcony which overhangs the
chalk pit, falls with it, and is dashed to pieces. Before,
however, he make.; his attempt at escape, he finds that
he has slain the wrong man—Fitzwihnont, who has
been apprehended by Miss Busyby on suspision of
being the murderer, having been brought into the ma-
gistrate's room in custody. Westbourne's sacrifice is
in vain ; the daughter whom lie so fondly loved in
the midst a all his crimes has received a fatal shock_;
she survives her father but a few minutes. Before
the curtain drops we are informed that Walter
is progressing favourably towards recovery, so that
no doubt the lovers are eventually made happy.
Mr. L. Munro. asWalter Atherstone, and MissWoolgar
as his daughter Rachel, were each admirable in their
respective parts. Mrs. Keeley as Bessy was capital ;
our readers can better imagine than wo can describe this
lady acting the part of a farm-yard queen, running about
everywhere, ordering everybody, always employed about
something with the greatest energy, but never confused;
telling the plainest truths to every one in the sharpest
manner ; and yet, when an occasion called for it, always
exhibiting proofs. of a kindly nature. Keeley has a
small part in the drama, it is that of a bird-catcher.
Nothin6s could be more diverting than his tipsy soliloquy,
in which be argues with himself the right to the posses.
sion of the' money, and foreshadows in his mind's eye the
"publio-hotive" and " shay" in store for him. The re-
maining parts were all excellently sustained. The piece
was given out, by Mr. L. Murray for representation every
evening till further notice. The house was crowded.

SUPPOSED MURDER ON THE NORTH-
BAzy.TERIv RAILWAY.

LIM, Wednesday ,\fternoon.—But a few weeks ago
a very serious accident h rappelled on the Leeds Northern
branch of the North-East ern Railway by the falling in
of the Bramhope-tunnel ; and now the attention of the
public has been aroused h y a mysterious and tragioal
event which has occurred the same line and within
a short distance of the south end of the same tunnel.
The circumstances of the even• t, so far as they have yet
been developed, are as follows --
On Tuesday evening last, al mut 8 o'clock, a young
woman named Isabella Lawn %.nce took a
Hl ass
ticket at the Wellington-station, Leeds, for the Hors-
forth-station, on the North-East' ern line, about five
miles from Leeds. Soon after she in td taken her seat in
the carriage—in which there Wit% no lamp—a man
named Thomas Law, who was ra t.her the worse for
liquor, entered the carriage in whito was this young
woman alone. He had no ticket, that .e not being time
to procure one after his arrival at the station. Upon
the train arriving at the Horsforth eta %%ion, the guard,
Matthew Wilkinson, opened the door of the carriage
which Law had entered, for the purpose of demanding
his fare. To the guard's utter a‘tonislin sent he found
the carriage empty, both the woman and. the man hav-
ing in some manner disappeared.
No alarm appears to have been made Oat night, but
on the following morning, between five ant i six o'clock,
the driver of a goods train from Leeds to 0 e north ob-
served sonnething lying upon the up-line 01' rails. He
stopped the train and repaired to the spot, a,wompanied
by the stoker and guard of the train, when they disco-
vered the body if a woman lying between the , quite
dead, with her bead frightfully crushed and wangled.
The body was nubsequently recognised as that a Isabella
Lawrence, a fins, well-formed, and rather h.mideome
young woman, employed as a " burler" in a \ voollen
cloth manufactory at llorsforth. Her fellow-pasoenger
(Law), however, could n,ot be found till later in the day,
when he was apprehended by Ottiwell Kell, of the Leeds
police force. Law was apprehended at the manufactur-
ing village of Armley, about two miles from Leeds.
When take' into custody, he declared that he left the
train clandestinely on Tuesday night be.(ore itbad reached
the point where the body of the nr, fortunate young
woman was found, and had got away unt observed by the
railway officials,
An inquest is now holding on the body.° f the deceased
at the Cardigan Arms Inn, Kirkstall-r.)md, in this
borough, before Mr. J. M. Barret, deputy-c' woner. Law
is in custody. The inquiry will not be coot:laded till
late this evening ; indeed it seems far from in (probable
that it will be adjourned.

_ HEE MAJESTY'S NEW YACEIT.--The month of
January next has now been fixed as the p \Then the
splendid new steam yacht, the Windsor Castle, now
building at Pembroke fur the Queen, is to b a finished
and launched. The greatest exertions are belng made
is order to hasten her progress. A large bod of the
con-
best men are constantly at work upon he,-,
verted timber has regularly been brought round "omitf, he
other yards in order to expedite her build. She-. ' i "
far advanced that an excellent idea may be form, 'd of
her ; and there is no doubt that she will prove a "del
of beauty both in finish and mould. Her lines In ‘ve
evidently been laid with care and judgment, and proms 50
great speed, while her immense length, more than 16 '0
yards, and proportionate beam, will secure ample ac •
commodation, not only to Royalty, but also to the officers
and crew—a comfort in which the Victoria and Albert
is sadly deficient. The Windsor Castle is built of
mahogany chiefly, with sound British oak. The
diagonal planking has been laid.
WHY MDLLE. CRUVELLI RAN AWAT.—Some glimmer.
ing of light begins to be thrown upon the causes of the
sudden disappearance of Mdllo. Sophie Cruvelli. It is
not true, as has been asserted, that she bad taken to
flight because her name did not appear on the bills en
vidette ; neither is it true that she has sacrificed her
lucrative engagement in Paris for a still more lucrative
engagement in America. She has bolted for other and
far more feminine reasons—for nothing. less than an
affair of the heart. It appears that at the same time
with Rldlle. Cruvelii, and to all appearance at the same
moment, has also disappeared the young Baron Vigier,
a well-known Parisian, and it is said that the happy
couple are now safely ensconced in that terrestrial para-
dise—Brussels. The wonder is why they should have
thought it worth while to run away from Paris, that
being the place which ever-ardent lovers generally run
to. The reason alleged is this :—The lady, who is as
deeply enamoured as the gentleman, insisted that mar-
riage should crown their mutual happiness ; and as the
lover is a mere youth—considerably younger, indeed,
than the lady—it appears that they have gone to Brus-
sels for the pm pose of making their union indissoluble.
The young man has an immense fortune.
LIVERPOOL VESSELS LOADING FOR AUSTRALIA.--
The entries of the week number five, with an aggre-
gate register of 5,170 tons. Since our last publication
three vessels have departed, with an aggregate register
of 2,518 tons. One of them is a smaller steamer of 212
tons, which has been sent out to Sydney under the care
of Captain Wiseman, a gentleman who has on previous
occasions taken out steamers for the Australian coasting
trade, and which have been disposed of so profitably
that our builders are tempted to keep up the supply.—
Lireepoo/ Times.
AN M.P. IN A CART.—On Monday night, Mr. Geo
Hudson, M.P., arrived at the flourishing borough of
Middlesborough-on-Tees, on au unexpected visit to ale
mayor. On his arrival at the railway station no evil-
veyanco could be had by which to reach Marton 13 all,
the residence of the mayor. The town cannot boast of
a single cab, and as a last resort the hon. member for
Sunderland mounted a milkman's cart, which was on
its way to Marton, and thus the great Railway King
jogged on to Mr. Bolckow's hospitable mansion.