The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-26 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

The steamer Bombay arrived at Trieste on the
25th inst. at 7 a.m., in 110 hours from Alex? ndr?t
The Indian mail has arrived in Alexandria Wlt
dates from Calcutta to the 20th August ; Bomb*
to the 30th of August.
Famine still prevails in Rangoon, and cholera is
raging in many places.
Much sickness prevailed among the British troolS
there.

General Godwin has returned to Calcutta, and
the second Burmese war may be considered at all
end.

The reports of the indigo crop are not satisfac"
tory.

The English mail of the 24th of June last leas
been lost.

The Governor-General is at Calcutta, on his Pas-
sage to Pegu
Ten Chinese, who were on board the tIX
Apear clipper, have murdered the captain and the
whole of the crew.

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The Chinese rebels continue their advance °II
Pekin.

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Abbas Pasha had issued an order prohibiting,- t 4
exportation of grain from Egypt, from the 28th
"
September ; but, on the representation of the Con-
suls, the prohibition may be delayed tultil the '7"
of November.

DRUBY-LAIVE THEATRE.

The tragedy of Virginius was played on Saturdey
night by the company now assembled under Mr. Smith
auspices. The character of the Roman Father could
hardly be excluded from the present list of Mr. G. v
Brooke's performances, for his admirers rank it awe"
the best of his personations ; and, if we remember
rightly, it was one which he repeated several times dur-
ing his former career at the Olympic. We have nothing
to add to the opinions already expressed respecting this
gentleman, whose merits have been elaborately discussed,
and whose precise position as an actor may now be cow
sidered to be fully determined. His delineation of the
Roman centurion on Saturday night was conceived
in the same physical spirit as all his other deline3'
tions, and the passages which produced the most nf'
feet were those upon which he expended the greaset
violence, or resorted to those sepulchral transitions '3l
voice for which it would be hard to assign any natant
motive. As a melodramatic actor Mr. Brooke satisfies
all desires, and the audiences he most specially addressee
are those the most easily influenced by the " E4llllO and
drang" results which belong to this peculiar 801100::
That he has a large auditory cannot be denied, but it
belongs principally to the pit and gallery. No histrionic
success could be more apparently real than the applause
which followed the fall of the curtain upon the third
act of Virginius, after the interview with Lucius. The
spectators were in the stormiest state of ecstacy, and the
popular actor was summoned before the drop-scene to
receive a round of extraordinary glorification. The
vigour with which he represented this great Benue
was assuredly not unlikely to invite this vast burst of
public favour, but it had little really to recommend it as
an effort of art. The scene in the forum was chars°.
terised by the same leading principle, though the
delivery of an occasional passage in the low tremulone
tones of deep and absorbing grief betrayed the lurking
presence of true emotion, and urged the belief that Mr.
Brooke, under other circumstances of education and
experience, might have done himself and the art superior
justice. Few stage voices that we meet with are so well
adapted for the display of passion and feeling as his. In
a calm piece of declamation its full, sonorous tones are
beautiful; but it has been allured from its better uses
by the verdict of vulgar audiences, who recognise only
an elaborate "point," and are blind to the artifices upon
which it is built.

A greater contrast to Mr. G. V. Brooke could not be
Found than in Mr. George Bennett, whose slow, pro-
longed, and mysterious style of elocution becomes a°
monotonous as that of the other is bold and startling•
Phis gentleman is the Appius Claudius of the present
cast of the tragedy. He reads the text with the closest
observance of its meaning, but he doles it out with
methodical protraction that is justified neither by
propriety nor effect. Miss Anderton, who emulates the
earnest sentimentality of the late Laura Addison, makes
an interesting Virginia; and Mr. Davenport is a marl',
and impassioned Icilius. The remainder of the character°
are filled in a common, provincial manner, and earn n°
complimentary remark.