The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-02 00:00:00

LYCEUM THEATRE.

Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam, daughter of the cele-
brated actress, made a most successful debiit last night in
a farce called Peggy Green. The character she sus-
tained was that of a young girl, who, tired of a life in
town, where she has followed the calling of a milliner,
has returned to live with her aunt in the country, and
plagues her lover, a gay young man, who accidently finds
her in her retreat, by feigning to be another person and
assuming a coun'ry dialect, while she arouses his jea-
lousy by coquetting with his friend. All this was ex-
ceedingly well done by Miss Fitzwilliam. She has a
most pleasing person ; her manner is artless and unas-
suming, and she has her mother's good quality of giving
point to all she utters without exaggeration. In a
word, the character in her hands was a nice, complete,
little picture. Two or three songs were introduced,
which she sang very prettily and much in her mother's
style.
The piece is the merest trifle in the world, and can
only be considered as a work of the moment, written to
bring out the interesting young actress. Mr. Mathews
is the bustling town lover ; Harley, as a rural swain,
who has fallen in love with Peggy, plays with much
humour a part (unusual with him) in which the chief
peculiarity is a country dialect. Then Mr. Granby is a
pompous elderly beau, and there are half a di.z n milli-
ners out on a holyday to enliven the scene, and there is
a cottage with landscape very well painted by Mr. 1.3,-
verley. The whole is less a drama than a tableau, the
central position in which is very prettily occupied by
Miss Fitzwilliatn.

QUEEN'S THEATRE, Hum..—On Tuesday evening
this establishment closed for the season, the entertain-
ments being unner the patronage of Alderman Jones,
Esq., and the tradesmen of Hull, and for the benefit of
the Spirited lesee, Mr. Egerton. The house was really
a bumper, and the performances of the first order. The
play was the Lady of Lyons, by Bulwer, the part of
Claude Melnotte by Mr. G. V. Brooke, from Liverpool,
an actor who, on this, as o❑ many occasions, fully en-
titles himself to rank as a first-rate provincialist.
Pauline was sustained by Mrs. Carlton, in a very effec-
tive manner, and highly creditable to this lady's supe-
rior talents. Maria, the Child of the Regiment, closed the
evening's performance, in which Mr. Emery appeared
as Sergeant Austerlitz, and Mrs. Carlton, as Maria,
both of which were acted in a highly creditable manner.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAT.-The John It. Skiddy
Captain Luce, arrived last night from New York, after a
remarkably short passage of 15 days. She sailed on the
16th ult., and has brought 41,4001. in specie.
ARRIVAL or SPECIE.—The vessel Chilian, arrived
in the Docks from Iquique and Arica, has brought from
the latter place, in addition to a general cargo, 35 bars,
1 seron, 8 boxes, and 3 other packages of specie, con-
signed to several of the leading houses in the metropolis.
The vessel Phoebe, arrived in the Docks from Port
Adelaide, South Australia, and the Cape of Good Hope,
has also brought from the former place several boxes
and other packages of specie, consigned to a mercantile
house and one of the colonial banks respectively.
MONET MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 12 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.45 ; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.671, it follows that gold is 0.88 per
cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By adyices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 438} per mark, which at
the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10id. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 ; and the ex-
change at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 134,
it follows that gold is 0.68 per cent. dearer in Lon-
don than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange
at New York. on London is 110 per cent. ;
and the par of exchange between England and
America being 109 '23-40 per cent., it follows
that the exchange is 0.43 per cent. in favour of England.
But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills
at 60 days' sight, the interest must be added to the
above difference.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL —By a return given
a meeting of the committee of management of the above
excellent charity, it appears that since the Ist of January,
1847, upwards of 15,000 patients participated in the
benefits of the out-door treatment, while during the same
period the resident patients numbered 1,121, being a very
considerable excess over those of any year since the
establishment of the hospital.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION AT A. PERCUSSION CAP
MANUFACTORY.—About noon on Saturday last an ex-
plosion of a most destructive and alarming nature oc-
curred on the extensive premises of Mr. Richard
Walker, percussion cap manufacturer, Graham-street,
in this town. The explosion took place in a building
consisting of three stories of workshops, and originated
in the middle range, spreading above, below, and on all
sides, and igniting the fulminating materials at which
the workmen were employed. The ceiling and floors
were shattered, and scarcely a single square of glass
was left whole throughout the entire building. For-
tunately, however, the workmen escaped with com-
paratively slight injuries, although some of the ma-
chinery at which they were at work was broken into
pieces, and forced to some distance.—Birmingham
Journal.
THE REPRESENTATION OF STOCSPORT.—As it isi
now, we believe, a settled fact that Mr. willCobden
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Alderman Kershaw to become a candidate for the repre-
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sentation of the borough, and this call has been made in
a requisition signed by upwards of 600 electors. Mr.
Kershaw last night attended a public meeting at the
Lyceum, at which he experienced a most hearty recep-
tion, and formally accepted the flattering invitation.
The meeting, which was convened by circular, was com-
posed of about 650 persons, nearly all, if not all, of
whom were electors, and amongst whom were the lead-
ing members of the Liberal and free-trade party in the
town. The assemblage was a unanimous and most en-
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Kershawan d thenwi manly, temperate,
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of cordial approbation.—Manchester Kraminer.
DEATH BY DROWNING OF JOf UN 'CLASPER.—JOIIII
Clasper, a younger
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day The Chi a dison we last week no
trious wherrymen, wilily, it seems, are indus-
trious evening.
from their work
and 'Per
anda brother of his, were returning
nine
o.ciock,
John, on the night in question, about
within a short
the younger to Derwenthaugh, and had reached
distance of home, when the pole with
which
g Clasper was pushing forward the
boat slipped from under him and he was thrown into
the river. He never rose to :the surface, so far as his
brother could perceive, and his body was not recovered
till four o'clock on the following morning.