The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-11 00:00:00

REVOLUTION IN BAHIA.

(From our Second Edition of last night.)
A revolution has again broken out in Bahia, which
threatens a total separation of that province from the Bra-
zilian empire. The Republicans, taking advantage of the
absence of all troops, and the arrival of very disastrous
news from Rio of serious reverses of the army in Rio
Grande, have risen, and having easily seized the forts, have
deposed the Government, and formed a Junta with a view
to declare their independence. As the Government had,
by the last accounts, much difficulty to raise money, the
funds having been down to last at 71, the Republicans
expected to maintain themselves and revolutionize the pro-
vince.—Exchange, 96.

TOLLING FOR THE DEAD.—WhO delight in this
barbarous relic of Popery, so annoying to the nervous, the
sick, and all those who really mourn ? The bell-ringer, the
grave-digger, the undertaker, the young widow who has
lost an old husband, and the young spendthrift, who, after
many impious aspirations, succeeds to a large property!
TIIE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL for December,
besides the usual quantity of valuable and interesting pro-
fessional matter, contains a variety of amusing, instructive,
and important papers, on subjects of general interest.
" The Progress of Duelling" recounts the various duels
of the present century ; and gives some curious statistics
on the subject and proceedings of Courts-martial. The
two papers, of which this is the second and concluding one
will be found to contain all the remarkable duels on record.
The article " On Nautical Inventions" is a most curious
history of the rise of the British navy from its earliest state.
" Burmah and the Burmese," " Decline of the Turkish
Empire," and the " Siege and Capture of Copauldroog,"
are historical papers of great interest. " The Disaster of
El llamet" is brought to a conclusion ; and an article
" On the Country and Naval Force of the Owhyisitssoians"
opens, with great promise of future entertainment, after the
manner of Gulliver's discoveries. Among the correspond-
ence is a plan, with sketches, by Lieut. Jerningham, for
converting the common lock for naval guns into a percus-
sion lock, various letters on the use of the bayonet, &c. &c.
MR. WARD'S " PICTURES OF THE WORLD."—
The only real philosophy of human life is that which is to
be gathered from the practical illustrations of it which the
every day world about us presents : and no writer has
ever more happily succeeded in gathering and setting forth
those illustrations than the accomplished author of " Tre-
maine" and "De Vere." The announcement, therefore,
of " Pictures of the 'World," from his highly popular pen,
will ex(4e ur4versal interest and enriosity.

MR. CHARLES MATHEWS' FARE-

WELL ADDRESS.

(From the New York Albion, Nov. 19.)

PARK THEATRE, NEW Youx, Nov. I3.—The last ap-
pearance of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews in America
took place on Tuesday night. The favourite pieces of
One Hour, lily Eleventh Day, and The Old and Young
Stager, kept the audience in continued laughter from be-
ginning to end. Mrs. Mathews was in better voice and
spirits than usual. The brilliant appearance of a house
crowded in every part, the boxes containing an overwhelm-
ing majority of ladies, and perhaps the feeling that the
period of her mortification and annoyance was at an end,
all combined to produce this happy effect. She was called
forth at the conclusion of the Eleventh Day, and received
the rapturous applause of the house. At the termination
of the evening's performance Mr. Mathews received the
same compliment. After the first cheers had subsided
the audience resumed their seats, and a dead silence
prevailed. Mr. Mathews then delivered with great energy
and vigour the following address, which we give as it has
been written out for us, with the sanction of Mr. Ma-
thews, and which was listened to with marked attention, and
cheered throughout with the most enthusiastic plaudits :
" Ladies and gentlemen, this is the first time I have
ever addressed an audience in my own character, and I cer-
tainly had not the slightest intention of doing so now ; but
being assured that on the last night of our engagement it
would be taken as a mark of disrespect were I to remain
wholly silent, I am determined that that imputation at least
shall not be cast upon me ; and, indeed, I should be most
ungrateful were Ito refuse a few words to those kind friends
who have given us such a bumper at parting:—(Applause.)
" In considere.tion of the lateness of the hour, I will be
as brief as possible in what I have to say ; though, as this,
ladies and gentlemen, is our last interview, and as in all
probability we may never meet again, I do hop you will
not deny me your patient attention for a few minutes. Our
story is soon told and easily understood, and if I have
hitherto refrained from troubling you with a single word
upon the several occasions when I have had the honour of
being called forward to receive your flattering applause, I
have so refrained purposely, from the fear that as my own
independent spirit would not allow me to offer unqualified
thanks for partial success, some unguarded expression might
be seized upon as conveying intentional offence to the
American public. I can now, however, speak without dan-
ger of being accused of interested motives, inasmuch as we
have appeared before you professionally for the last time,
and our immediate return to Europe is already determined
on.

" We set sail for this country, ladies and gentlemen, as
upon a trip of pleasure. Steam reduced the voyage to a
mere nothing, and though it is true we were obliged to
make many sacrifices in leaving home, friends, and un-
varying professional success, to risk a doubtful reception
among strangers, still we did so with light hearts and
perfect reliance on the well-known hospitality of the people
we were about to visit, backed by a thorough confidence
in our own good intentions, and the conviction that as we
set out with the determination to spare no effort to
please, our endeavours must be met, if not with brilliant
success, at all events with the usual indulgence and pro-
tection so notoriously extended to British actors. We set
foot then on these shores, resolved to be pleased with
everything ; and to the question of ' How do you like
our country ?' so universally asked by all persons here
upon a first introduction—(A slight murmur)—we readily
answered in terms of the highest praise, as fortunately we
were then honestly and conscientiously able to do.
" Two days alter our arrival at this city, the weather
being insufferably hot, we were advised to proceed at once
to the Catskill Mountains. We did so, with the intention
of passing there our few weeks of leisure in cool retirement ;
but after being jolted, at the hazard of our necks, up to that
cloud capt' hotel called the Mountain-house (where we
arrived between nine and ten o'clock at night), we found it
a gay, noisy, fashionable hotel, anything but adapted for
those who sought quiet and retirement ; and, therefore, at
an early hour next day, at the still greater hazard of our
necks, we were jolted down again.—(Laughter.) Our in-
tention was to return at once to New York, but that same
night chance lodged us at the Exchange-house at Pough-
keepsie, where we found all the quiet that we had been
taught to expect at the Mountain-house. There we at
once installed ourselves, and there we remained for three
weeks as retired as possible, literally confined to our apart-
ments, with the exception of our usual drive in the cool of
the evening.

" Little did we expect, ladies and gentlemen, while ap-
plauding ourselves for our politic conduct in retiring alto-
gether from the public eye, and thereby avoiding, as we
supposed, all possibility of offence, that at that very moment
we were insulting the whole American nation—that the
press was teeming, far and near, with comment on our atro-
cious behaviour, and that a fatal prejudice was rapidly gain-
ing ground against us.

"Of all this we remained in a state of happy ignorance
till our return to New York. I was then informed that
we had given serious offence at Saratoga Springs, on our
way to the Falls of Niagara—that we had refused to sit at
the public table, but at the same time had insisted that our
servants should he admitted there, and that the visitors at
the hotel, disgusted at the gross outrage, had been com-
pelled to rise and leave the table.
" I could only smile at this absurd accusation, and
deemed it one of the gossipping and ephemeral paragraphs
of a newspaper, the subject of an hour's chit-chat, and then
to be forgotten. I, therefore, replied jestingly, that there
were seventeen reasons why the alleged offence at Saratoga
could not have been committed ; the first was, that we had
never been there.—(Laughter.) I presumed that the other
sixteen reasons would not be required—(Great laughter)—
but I was mistaken. The report was not suffered to die
a natural death ; it was resuscitated day by day, nou-
rished and amplified hour by hour, till at last the con-
viction was forced upon me,' that what I had at first
looked upon as a harmless mistake was, on the contrary, a
regularly organized deliberate falsehood, systematically
planned and persevered in, for the purpose of creating a ran-
corous feeling against us in the public mind, and thus, at
once, irreparably injuring us on our first appearance at this
theatre. I asked advice as to the propriety of openly con-
tradicting these reports, but was assured that such a step
was quite uncalled for. I thought so myself, but I was
wrong again. The night of our first appearance arrived.
The theatre was crowded to the ceiling, chiefly with gen-
tlemen ; hundreds were turned away from the doors, but
very few ladies had dared to venture within them—in short,
it was clear that a riot was anticipated. When Mrs.
Mathews appeared upon the stage the cheers were enthu-
siastic, but the ominous sounds of disapprobation were also
to be beard. A deafening shout of applause, however,
from the more liberal portion of the audience, at once si-
lenced those sounds. On the symphony of her first song
being played, disapprobation again manifested itself, and was
again checked as before. I was thunderstruck, and made
up my mind that the torrent of ill-feeling was only stemmed
from motives of gallantry, until my appearance, which
would doubtless be the signal for a general tumult. Judge,
then, of my surprise, ladies and gentlemen, at meeting with
the most cordial welcome, without a single dissentient
voice. How was this ? Was I not the proper person
to have been attacked, rather than my wife ? Was I not
the person answerable for the misconduct alleged against
us ? No : hers was the talent they sought to disparage.
The secret was at once explained—the disapprobation had
as much to do with our conduct in America as it bad to do
with the late general election.—( Laughter and cheers.)
" I must not trespass too much upon your patience,
ladies and gentlemen, by entering more into detail. Suf-
fice it to say, that since the failure of this attempt to mar
our first appearance and drive us from your stage, no efforts
have been left untried to bring about the same end by
other means. The press (that is, a portion of it) has been
industriously employed in writing us down. Why, or by
whom instigated, I do not wish here to inquire ; but if it
be any triumph to them to know it, I beg to assure them
that they have fully succeeded. They have not only ut-
terly destroyed our professional prospects, but have under-
m'ned the health and spirits of the lady they have chosen
to make the object of their unmanly attack.
" Ladies and gentleman, I appeal to yourselves—can
you blame me for at once ending the injustice, by re-
moving my wife from a persecution she is so unaccustomed
to ?—(Cries of No, no ; certainly not' from the boxes.)
Look for one moment calmly at the circumstances. A ma-
licious report is invented and put in circulation, without
the least inquiry into its truth, throughout the United
States. I do not speak figuratively, but literally ; I have
received newspapers containing bitter invectives against us
from all parts of the Union—(who could have imagined
that we were of such consequence in the eyes of the New
World ?) And all about what ? Nothing but our con-
duct at Saratoga, where we have never been.—(Laughter
and much applause.)

" Now, in conclusion, gentlemen—l appeal to you as
gentlemen, I appeal to you as men of business—leaving all
feeling out of the question—let us view this affair in the
Fght of a commercial speculation--a matter of pounds,
shillings, and pence—of ' dollars.' Is it likely that we
should have behaved in the manner ascribed to us ? We
came to this country with one avowed object—to make a
certain sum of money in a given time. That sum was se-
cured to us in England before starting. Good houses or
bad houses, we were to be paid the same. There was only
one thing indispensable, viz.--to please. Now,
to have
acted as we are said to have done must have been either
the result of ignorance, in which case surely we ought to
have been held guiltless of evil intention, or the result of a
deliberate wish to insult the people of America, whose good
opinion it was so much to our interest to gain, and thereby
defeat the sole object of our voyage. I repeat,was such
conduct probable? These are the only two viewsthat
c?ulti be taken of the circumstance had it been true, and l,

hope it is unnecessary for me to pledge my honour that
there is not the slightest foundation for this base falsehood.
—(Deafening and repeated applause.)
" I have done. Your kindness, ladies and gentlemen,
let me assure you, will ever be deeply and gratefully re-
membered by us both ; and I trust, that notwithstanding
the unfavourable circumstances under which we have ap-
peared before you, you have not found us flag in our efforts
to please those who have generouslyendeavoured to support
us.—(Great applause.) We have fought up against the
attacks with all our strength, but the enemy has proved too
much for us, and, at length, after mature deliberation, we
are compelled to adopt the only alternative left us, that of
abandoning the field. In the name of Mrs. Matthews and
myself, allow me, ladies and gentlemen, to bid you, and
for_ ever, most respectfully, farewell."

Mr. Mathews then bowed and retired amidst the hearty
cheers and long-continued applause of the whole house.

Mr. and Mrs. Mathews may be expected in England in
the course of three weeks.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

The rebellion in Canada occupied on Sunday as much of
the attention of our Paris Contemporaries as on the pre-
ceding day. They contain a paragraph which purports to
be founded on letters from St. Petersburgh, which state
that " at the late celebration of the Emperor's birth-day at
New Archangel (the capital of the Russian Colonies in
North America), Admiral Count Kupreseman, the Com-
mander-in-Chiet of the Russian naval forces on that station,
gave a splendid banquet, at the close of which a collection
was made for the unfortunate Patriots of Canada. "
" This collection, which," as Le Commerce observes, " was
in some sort official, and to which everybody present, with-
out exception, eagerly contributed, produced nearly 2,800 f.
(112/. sterling), and was forwarded to its destination by
Admiral Kupreseman himself."
The day before the Leonidas steamer left Malta, a Bri-
tish frigate, sent out to meet the Dowager Queen of Eng-
land, had returned with the Secretary of that Princess, who
had arrived in Syracuse. Her Majesty was expected in
Malta in a few days.—Courricr Francais.
The price of wheat and corn in general continues to fall
in the markets of the department of the Aube. The price
of bread must consequently decline.—Courrier Francais.
It is said that copies of the pamphlet published by Lieu-
tenant Laity on the affair of Louis Bonaparte are now cir-
culating in the district of Briez, and that the authorities
have ordered a search for them in several houses.—Courrier
de la Moselle.

The steamer Chi,nere arrived on the 2d in Toulon from
Tunis, where she left on the 29th ult. the French ships of
the line Jupiter,fena, and Sanli Petri, the brig Palinure,
and the schooner Legere. The Fulton steamer arrived on
the same day from Algiers, having touched on her passage
at Stora. The French garrison of Rusicada was at that
time well lodged and furnished with abundant provisions,
and safe from any coup de main. M. Dupuch, the Bishop
of Algiers, sailed for Civita Vecchia on the 2d. After re-
ceiving his instructions from the Pope, he would immediately
set out for his see, in which he was to be installed on the
15th.—Toulonnais.