The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-09 00:00:00

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

Mr. Charles Mathews and Madame Vestris, after a
lengthened ab:ience from London, made their first ap-
pearance on this stage on Saturday. Madame ap-
peared in a new vaudeville entitled A Speaking Likeness,
and sustained the part of Manette, a country milkmaid,
Eying somewhere in Brittany, in the neighbourhood of
the chateau of the old Baron de Ransy (Mr. Granby), a
lover of pretty women, and a patron of the arts. Alfred
(Mr. J. Vining), a Parisian artist, is on a visit at the-
chateau, and he is struck by the likeness, the speaking
likeness, which Man, tte nears to her whom he had ones
loved, but had ma:rivd to another, a dissipated roue, who,
having broken his eife's heart and dissipated her for-
tune, had gone to India to seek his fortune. He makes
love to Manette, who, with a delightful mixture of arch-
ness and simplicity, keeps the poor painter in a state of
perpetual toneent, by h. r rustic coquetting. He at last
persuades her to attire herself en grande dame, and set
for her portrait, in order that he may paint and possess
the likeness of her he had once loved. She takes her
seat imjestieally; and, in order to fix her at-
tention so tint he may the better catch her features,
he hands her a newspaper. Scarcely has she
locked at it, whi n she screams and faints. It is scarcely
necessary to 2,3,1 the denouement. Manette is no other
Veen the lady love Alfrid, who, to escape from the
persecution of her husband, had fiP4!to Brittany to seek
Ye protection of her nurse, and t'!e uswspaprr eimta'ag
an w...count of that I,.um'nard's dcath, so that there is
no longer any obstue!e to the h.ppitn.s•- of A Ift cd. Comp-
ten. acted the part of a stupid rustic, was most ar-
tistically stolid, and at the conclusion shared with
Madatne Vestris the honours of a call. Dkarles Math.w.,
who was as F ffery scut as e.,r, apptared in h'a own
two fa-yes, He would be au o' Coe n
Cie .Iforni,g, and Hai ri:VelVeti ieh an enthusiastic wel-
come. Th,hoase wa,; well attf,nd;.d.

LOSS OF THE GREAT LIVER

POOL.

On Saturday intelligence reayhed town Of 711(. total less
of the Great Liverpoal steamer. which to..k piste on the
24th of February, off Cape Fitiisterre, by getting on
shoals, at tour in the morning. Thg. catastrophe ap-
pears to have been wholly the result of accident. It is
said that no blame whatever attaches to Captain
the commander. Or.!y three lives were I,,st, 5,10-:ough
it is stated there were about one hundred and fifty souls
on hoard. Mrs. Archer, from Bombay, a Miss Morris,
aged seven, and an Indian female servant, were the three
that perished by the swamping of the boat, while at-
tempting
to escape. Seventy•nine of the passengers
and twenty-one of the crew have arrived at Southampton
I by the Pacha. which also had a narrow escape of being
wrecked, having run on shore off Oporto. In the letter
which follows, addressed by the captain to Mr. Allan,
secretary of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga-
tion Company, there will be found a full account of the
circumstances under which the catastrophe took plane.
Among the passengers saved are—Captain Wright,
Captain Arrow F. anon Bowen, Messrs. Homorton,
Pugh, and Laforque; Mesdames Dunbard, Bradford,
Prole, Laforque, Fearon, Edmonds, Dick, 13 children,
and 14 female servants.
" LOSS OF THE GREAT LIVERPOOL.
" Vice• Consulate•ofl'ice, District of Corcubion,
Feb. 2S, 1846
" JAMES ALLAN, ESQ., SECRETARY TO THE PENINSULAR