The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-27 00:00:00

VICTORIA THEATRE.

A drama was produced at this theatre on Monday even-
ing founded, we believe, on a tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall, en-
titled Katty 0' She'd, or the Fellrru'er• of the Family. The
piece opens with the cottage of Katty O'Shiel, which is
situated in an interesting village in the far west of Ire-
land, called Tully Garrett. To this cottage is driven,
for shelter, one Mileto tensor, an occulist, and who is,
furthermore, rich and benevolent, and who is on a
journey of pleasure to the " Far West." Whilst he is
there, Evelyn Dwyer, the heiress to the house of
O'Dwyer, but who has been deserted by her father, and
adopted by Katty, comes into the apartment where the
celekrated occulist is. The child, from some accident,
has lost its sight, and the benevolent oculist promises
that if Katty will bring Evelyn to Dublin, he will
cure her. Katty, with her charge on her back, sets out
for Dublin, and on her way thither has to pass the cot-
tage of her lover, Larry Twist, a kind of double of Rory
O'More, where a band of soldiers have taken up their
quarters, in order to prevent strangers from the " Far
West," where the fever is raging, passing, and
conveying the contagion to the capital. By a
stratagem of Larry's, however, which consists
in his disguising Katty as his grandmother, she escapes
the vigilance of the sentinels, and continues her visit to
Dublin, where she arrives, as she states, in a state of
" death and burial." On her arrival, however, it is dis-
covered that the good-natured occulist has gone to Bath,
but has left a letter of introduction to an eminent friend
in London, with a purse to convey Katty thither. These
dramatists will make their character so generous. Katty
learns, while she is in Dublin, that Mr. O'Dwyer, the
father of Evelyn, had just sailed for London, and she
resolves to make her journey serve two purposes, that of
finding a father for her Evelyn and a cure for her blind-
ness. The next scene shows Katty and her charge at
the house of a Lady Langham, who resides at Chel-
sea, but how they get there, or for what purpose, or what
connexion the said Lady Laugh= has with Ratty or
Evelyn, is left to the imagination of the audience. Suf-
fice it, there they are, and very lucky for them to be
there at all, without inquiring the why and the where-
fore. Lady Langham takes a most extraordinary fancy
to Evelyn, and determines to make her a lady, which
Katty declares impossible, as she "is a born leddy."
A party is given by the lady, at which Mr. O'Dwyer,
then a Colonel, attends, and the piece concludes by
Katty's forcing an entrance to the assembly, and
declaring Evelyn to be the daughter of the
Colonel. The piece is replete with Irish humour,
and the house was in a continued roar of laughter
throughout. Miss Vincent, as Katty, was admirable ;
she was an unsophisticated Irish girl to the very life.
Mr. Gardner, as Larry, was extremely droll, but the
character which tickled the fancy of the audience most
was that of Pompey Card, a negro servant of the
Colonel's, a kind of independent devil-may-care Jim
Crowish sort of gentleman, and in the hands of Mr.
Paul was most amusing. On his first arrival in Ireland
he is charmed with the whiskey and the women, and
declares both to be " Leautiful and dam good," and is in a
continued state of excitement as to whether he shall
charge his master or knock down the waiter. The house
was crowded in every part, and the piece concluded
amidst vehement applause.

MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN SIR
ASHLEY MAUDE.

The Hon. James Ashley Maude, whose death we an-
nounced on Mnnday, was the third son of Cornwallis,
second Viscount Hawarden, an Irish Peer, by his third
wife, Anne Elizabeth Stanley, sister to the first Viscount
Monck. His ancestor, Christopher Maude, a Member
of the Irish House of Commons, emigrated from York-
shire, and settled at llawarden, in the county of Tippe-
rary, about the year 1639.
Captain Maude was born Nov. 6, 1786 ; made a Lieu-
tenant 1805 ; and appointed to the Ville de Paris, of

110 guns, bearing the flag of Lord Collingwood, on the
Mediterranean station, in the spring of 1809.
His spirited conduct while serving as a volunteer at the
capture and destruction of a French convoy in the bay
of Hosas, on which occasion he was slightly wounded,
was highly spoken of by Lord Collingwood, the Com-
mander-in-Chief on the occasion. " Many officers in
the fleet," writes his Lordship to the Admiralty, " were
desirous of being volunteers in this service. I could not
resist the earnest request of Lieutenants Lord Viscount
Balgonie, the Hon. James Ashley Maude, and the Hon.
Wm. Waldegrave, of the Ville de Paris, to have the
command of the boats, in which they displayed that
spirit which is inherent in them."
Captain Maude.'s commission as a Commander bore date

Oct. 22, 1810 ; and he was appointed, on the 15th of
February 1812, to the Nemesis, 28, armee en flute, in
which ship we find him very actively employed on the
coast of America, until his promotion to Post rank,
March 11, 1814. He next obtained the command of the
Favourite, 20, and in her brought home the ratification,
by the President and Senate of the United States, of the
treaty of peace, concluded at Ghent, between Great Bri-
tain and America, with which he arrived at the Foreign-
office, March 13, 1815. Ile was subsequently employed
on the East India station.

Captain Maude's last appointment was in Feb. 9, 1825,
to the Glasgow, 50, in which frigate he conveyed Lord
Strcngford to Cronsta,dt, and afterwards proceeded to the
Mediterranean. The Glasgow was one of the British
squadron, at the battle of Navarino, Oct. 20, 1827.
In consequence of the bravery displayed by the sub-
ject of this memoir on the occasion, he was on his re-
turn home, which took place in Aug. 28, 1828, created
a Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of
the Bath. The insignias of the French and Russian
Orders also, investing him with the title of a Knight of
the French and Russian Orders of St. Louis and St. Anne,
were sent to him by those Powers shortly after.

MRS. ANSON'S PAINTINGS ON

SATIN.

We OLI Monday visited the establishment of Mr. Morant,
the upholsterer and house decorator in New Bond-street,
where we saw some exquisite specimens of flower paint-
ing on satin, from the pencil of Mrs. Anson. They con-
sist of a coverlid for an infant's cot, work bags, &c., and
as finished works of art are of a very high order. There
is a freshness and a vraisemblance about the flowers,
which give them the appearance of having been. just
plucked from the hot-house, and it is not merely as an
artist that Mrs. Anson is entitled to high praise—the
botanical character of the flowers is correctly preserved,
which proves that, in addition to taste atd great powers
of execution, the artist also possesses considerable
scientific acquirements. These novel specimens of flower
painting, which, but for what we must consider a too
rigid adherence on the part of the Court authorities to
the strict rules of etiquette, would have been presented
to her Majesty, have excited a great sensation in the
fashionable and artistical world, and will probably lead
to the more general use of paintings on satin as articles
of decorative furniture.