The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1840.

Among the Members were to be found the names of
MM. ROYER COLLARD, CASSIIIIR PERRIER, and
General FOY. M. BERRYER, the celebrated Royalist
lawyer aucl orator, next rose, and recalled the debate
to the question before the Chamber. He could di -
cover very little difference in the Cabinets which suc-
ceeded each other since the Revolution. There was no
change of policy ; there was merely an increase of un-
certainties. He condemned the foreign policy of M.
Tamils. The English alliance was injurious to
France, and ought to be abandoned. It was England
who put arms into the hands of the Moors and Arabs
in Africa to make war on France. England bore down
French influence in Spain, England circumvented
France in Turkey ; and England was hostile to the
true policy France in Egypt. M. THIERS rose to
reply to M. BERRYER, and was speaking when the
mails were made up for London.
With respect to the Journals of Wednesday, they
appear quite unprepared for any result. The Court
organs, however, make open war upon THIERS, whose
speech on Tuesday has greatly displeased the KING.
The Univers asserts that the Ministry is in no danger,
as SOULT and MOLE have come to no agreement, and
that neither DUCHATEL nor PASSY will consent to such
a coalition.

Advices from Spain mention that CABRERA. has suf-
fered a relapse, in consequence of the fatigue to which
he was exposed in travelling to Berga. In Catalonia,
the Carlists were greatly divided. The Junta of Berga,
which deposed Count D'ESPAGNE, has likewise passed
sentence of death on the Canon TRISTANY.
The Madrid Papers received are of the 18th inst.--
the date of the telegraphic despatch published on
Monday. M. IsTtutil has been elected President of
the Chamber of Deputies, and Monsieurs ARNIENDa-
BIN, RIVA HERRARA, the Duke de GDR, and M. ME-
DRA SSA, Vice-Presidents.
The accounts from the Theatre of War are of no
importance.
B 0 URSE.—PARIs) WEDNESDAY, MAgen 25.
f irst Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents ll3 10 ... 113 2U ... 113 5 ... 113 .`,.0
4 per Cents lO2 ... iU2 ... 102 ... 102
3 per Cents B3 25 83 25 ... 83 20 ... 83 'l5
Bank of France 3165 ...3165 ~,3165
...3165
Latfitte Bank I,ooof. 5h..., 106.250 ...1065 ...1062 50 ...1 65
5,000 f. Sh 5190 ...5195 ...5190 ...5190
Belgian Bank B9O ... 840 ~, 890
... 890
5 per Cents 1055(, ... 105% ... 105% ... 105%
New York BB 75 ... 88 75 ... 88 70 ... 83 70
Spanish Active 28% ... 2831 ... 20% ... k 8;
Passive 7% ... 7% ... 7% ... 752
Old Deferred S ... 8 ... 7% .„, 774,
Portuguese 3 per Cents 24 ... 24 ... 24 ... 24
Neapolitan
Roman lO4 ... 104 ... 104 ... 194

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain 652 50 ... 652 50 ... 632 50 ... 651 50
Versailles, R. B 550 ... 550 ... 550 ... 550
LB. 357 50 ... 362 50 ... 357 50 ... 357 50
Orleans .. 472 50 472 50 ... 472 50 ... 472 50
Strasburg to Bale 360 ... 360 ... 360 ... 560

It appears from the evidence given at the Coroner's
Inquest on the bodies lost in the Tyrian, that it is a
common occurrence for a wheel to get foul, and that
no prudence or foresight could prevent such an acci-
dent. This of course must acquit the Captain and
mate on this score ; but the circumstance only points
out the more strongly the necessity for the owners and
captains of steam-vessels to act with caution, especially
in rivers crowded with vessels. After the Jury returned
their verdict, the foreman addressed the reporters pre-
sent, and said, " they wished it to be publicly understood
that the practice of sending large steam-ships up and down
the river during the night, was, in the opinion of the
Jury, extremely reprehensible. The majority of the Jury
were well acquainted with the business of the river, and
had long regretted the mischiefs arising from that prac-
tice. Steam navigation in the river, at night, was ex-
tremely dangerous at all times ; and, it nothing else
could put a stop to it, the Legislature ought to interfere.
The owners of the Manchester were, however, no more
to blame in this respect than other steam-boat compa-
nies."—We cannot concur in this remark. There is in
general less danger at night than in the day time, be-
cause there are fewer vessels in motion, and to the
best of our belief' the greater umber of accidents
have happened in daylight. Besides if steam vessels
were prohibited from starting much valuable time
would be lost, without serving any useful pur-
pose. This accident points out most effectually the
necessity for Mr. Labouchere's Bill to regulate the
speed of steam-vessels at night in rivers—to appoint in.
spectors at every principal port, and to provide that no
vessel shall go to sea unless in a manageable and sea-
worthy condition. Had such a law been in force, in all
probability, this melancholy loss of life and property
would not have occurred.

CANTON.—Mr. Wyld has just published a chart of
the Canton River, with the entrance and islands, com-
piled from the latest surveys. It is on a large scale,
more than an inch to five miles, with all the soundings
and the numerous islands that lie between the Macao
Roads and Canton, a distance of 80 miles. It is beau-
tifully executed, and will be found extremely useful in
reading the accounts of transactions in that quarter.
TABLE OF MORTALITT.—The Weekly Return, pub-
lished by the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and
Marriagei, makes the total number of deaths in the
Metropolis, for the week ending the 21st of March,
amount to 946 ; of these 471 were males, and 475
females. The number who died under IS years of age
was 396, and of these 59 died of convulsions, 41 of
pneumonia, 23 of scarlatina, 19 of measles, and 17 of
hooping•cough. Consumption carried off the greatest
, number, 148, and of these 116 died between the ages
of 15 and GO. More deaths occurred below the age of
15 than between 15 and 60, the numbers being respec-
tively 396 and 348.

THE THEATRES.

COVEN7' GARDEN.

This theatre was crowded to excess last night at the
opening of the doors, from a natural desire on the part
of the play-going public to witness Charles Keinble's
Mercutio, who played this very difficult character with
all the grace, if not with all the buoyancy, of his earlier
years. His recitation, in particular, of the famous
speech " Oh, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with
you !" was delivered with an archness and delicacy of
humour every way worthy of it. There was nothing
strained—nothing overwrought in his manner—he spoke
simply and naturally, as though under the prompt-
ing of a spirit whose tendency to the fantastic and the
imaginative arises from its healthy exuberance of
gaiety. His mode of treading the stage—no slight
matter—was equally in keeping with the character.
Age seemed for a while to have let go its hold upon him.
and he moved about with nearly as much agility, and
certainly with as much grace, as when we last saw him
in this character. When we add, that he gave adequate
expression to the subtle and fanciful wit which Shak-
speare has lavishly bestowed upon Mercutio ; that he
was lively, but not boisterous ; and never, even in his
most mirthful sallies, lost sight of the high-toned and
urbane demeanour of the gentleman ;—we have said all
that need he said, to convey our. sense of the consum-
mate excellence of his acting. Miss Montague played
Juliet with feeling and delicacy. Her balcony scene,
more especially, had a depth of sentiment to recom-
mend it, that reminded us of Fanny Kemble. Nor
did she fail to give due effect to the more stormy
passions that rack the soul of Juliet, just before she
drinks the narcotic draught. Throughout, this young
lady was warmly applauded, and most deservedly so.
Anderson made an intelligent and spirited Romeo, but
a little less violence of manner would not have been
amiss. To be impassioned is one thing—to be noisy,
another. The more level portions of the character
were those which he played best. As a whole, how-
ever, we may venture to say that his Romeo is decidedly
the most efficient we now have on the stage. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert witnessed the performance ;
and the audience, with great good taste, which we nope
to see repeated on such occasions, allowed them to pre-
serve the incognito which the) seemed evidently desi-
rous to maintain.

HAYMARKET.
give
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Of perceive,
plot,eie,
strictly speaking, there is none ; but
there is a good deal of ill-contrived incident, and much
breadth of humour, which amuses, in spite of its manifest
absurdity. So far as we could understand the subject,
which is most gloriously perplexed and confusing through-
out, it turns upon the jealousy of three London grocers,
each of whom is married to a lady who has a strong spice
of coquetry in her composition. As a matter of course,
each wife contrives for awhile to blind her husband ; but
eventually they are all three detected in an empty house,
whither they have gone for the purpose of meeting an
amorous young apprentice, by name Valentine. While
they are waiting for this impassioned youngster, who has
contrived to persuade each that he is in love with her, and
her only, their husbands make their appearance, accom-
panied by two policemen, when a general explanation
takes place, and the adroit ladies manage, by some means
or other, which the audience are in a great degree left to
guess at, to reconcile themselves to their astonished and
indignant spouses. Such is a slight outline of this
grotesque production, which, however, contains one or two
good points ; and among them, a supper scene, the inci-
dents in which are so contrived as to cause considerable
laughter, notwithstanding their flagrant improbability. The
language of the play is exceedingly bald and common-
place, and some of the puns are, without exception, the