The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-14 00:00:00

VICTORIA.

Easter Monday found this house, as usual, with a
supply of novelty, an admirable caste of characters, and
a crowd of spectators. Cheers and deep silence succes-
sively testified the applause and interest of the audience,
and there could have been but one opinion of the splen-
dour of the scenery, most of it new and always appro-
priate, got up with great taste and effect, and admirably
worked. The novelty of the evening was Laid up zn
Port, or Sharks: along Shore. The story is one of love
and daring, villainy and intrigue. The finale, of course,
rewards the gallant, and dismisses the villain to punish-
ment. The eurtain rose upon the house of Captain
Stockton, RN., who happens to be at sea. Here was
Old Squalls (Mr. Robert Tindell), who had been fated
to save the Captain's life, and, as he thought, lose Young
Squalls at the same moment, born, as it might seem, to
be the protector of the Stockfbas. And here was Feli-
city Stockton (Miss Vincent), a gay merry young girl,
with nothing to trouble her but the thought of a young
Commander in the navy who had won her affections. Some-
times a yarn from Old Squalls about the rescue of the
Captain would affect her to tears at the memory of his
boy, and the wants of an unfortunate family could get
her sympathy and her help ; but here, too, was the re-
puted friend of the family, Old Snakely, who had already
sold Felicity to a Mexican pirate, with a view to enrich
himself with her father's house and property. The
winds and good seamanship brought the Mexican craft
"along shore." Snakely s opportunity to gratify the
Pirate, a wishes and his own, promises that the returned
convict, as he really was, should soon become a gentle-
man. The plot succeeded so far as to make failure
more desperate, and detection doubly disgraceful. But
interwoven,
re th is occurred many were the incidents curiously
pirate which
andnewdefperding on love and long lost rela-
tions,well, bold, l out. Mr. Fredericks played the
in his villainy. daring,Miss Vincent
remorseless, and no hypocrite
and the shifting fortune sustained the character
truth. As the gay, light-hearted Felicity Stockton with great
indignant Vied earted girl in love, or the im-
passioned,aitindthdeissehodniffonelu:ino'inn the deck of the pirate,
twohdeenfydadnegaethr,,
hopelessness, drew her
circumstances,er she shows
an equally facile command ofgh art. Just as all was
getting dismal—when boldness in compactwith intrigue
was expecting success and triumph—Young Squalls,
long since reckoned with the dead, makesh
ance from the banks of the Ganges, unknoWaireaanrd-
knowing none, though with a memory that lies in wait
for the thousand coincidences which shall identify him
in connexion with the living. " Chance," as he is called,
is really a lucky fellow, for falling in with hard fortune.
As his fate would have it, h. e becomes cognisant of the
but, in his attempt to defend her,
the iron grasp of the Pirate ; fate,
plottiiid sahgiami against
himself also
Felicity,in
Chance, mistaken by the Pus.
I across the tack of
however, threw the crui.zert'es
for
reolmne
of intotoe his hand.
aanndd.
the " Alligator, sloop of war, now
.u. .
' lover. She was
contrary to command, hove the vesselrpressof canvas
canvas
soun raking the pirate fore an
in pursuit, under command of Fehdcitys
sprung on deck, and the .
11 sustained the
recognition and joy. Mr. E. F. Sal/. e
aft—the brave tars
finale was rescue aTndhevicptaorrty—of
character of Chance with great power.
Mrs Cumming was well played by Mrs. G. Lee ; and
Peregrine
h-
Stubbs (Miss aßdumrtiroanb)l,e. Thandle v
lortoeungsta
E. Pickles (Mr.
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the amusements of the evening, which were throughout
ter of the Regiment, and the Rats of Rats' Castle, cloed
very much to the gratification of the audience, and the
praise of the company and the lessee of the theatre.