The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-27 00:00:00

NEW STRAND THEATRE.

This little house—the " pill-box " theatre, as it has
not inaptly been called—has ♦ery recently been opened
by a Mr. Robert Heller, a new aspirant for cabalistic
fame. It has been said that " wonders will never
cease," and since we understand that the Wizard of the
North is shortly to open the St. James's Theatre, that
M. Robin is pursuing a course of uninterrupted success
at the top of the Haymarket, and now that Mr. Heller
has taken the Strand it would seem as if the old saying
were about to be verified. Mr. Heller's tricks do not
differ materially from those of his predecessors. He
certainly does introduce a few feats of legerdemain quite
new to us, and if, on looking over his bill of fare, we see
some tricks a little stale from their antiquity, they ne-
vertheless do not look amiss when put before the public
in a now dress, and when performed with a neatness and
dexterity equal, if not in some respects superior, to
his fellow-conjurors. The celebrated inexhaustible bottle
trick he manages ♦ery cleverly, and wines, rum, whisky,
brandy, gin, &c., are distributed in goodly quantities
among the audience, and it is but justice to them to say
that they patronize the said bottle with the greatest sa-
tisfaction and good-humour. Also the inexplicable illu-
sion of causing his son, while standing on a table with a
sort of extinguisher over him, to mysteriously disappear
from under it, he performs with great precision. To
take Mr. Heller's performance as a whole, it is quite as
clever, and well worthy of being seen as any others of
the same sort, and we have no doubt the little Strand
Theatre will soon be too small to contain his audience.
One great advantage he possesses which M. Robin does
not, i. e., although a Frenchman, he can talk English
with the greatest fluency, and from first to last keeps his
audience in good-humour.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
LEASING OF AN EASTERN LINE.—We stated a fort-
night ago, that a small line, hitherto entirely unproduc-
tive to the shareholders, in an eastern locality, was likely
to be taken up by a leviathan company. The negotia-
tions are now concluded. The terms are a guarantee of
211 per cent. We are not atliberty to name the line, but
we may mention that within the last few weeks the
shares have more than doubled their market value,
through the purchases of those who were aware of what
was coming off.
MR. HUDSON AND THE SHARE-MARKET,—We under-
stand that Mr. Hudson has been again netting a large
amount by successful speculations for the rise in the
railway market, and that he is still as bullishly disposed as
ever. He has, we are assured, four or five brokers in
constant occupation, and in one instance, we believe, he
has a monopoly of the services of one of the clerks of
the establishment.—Advertiser.
IRISH SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—We learn from
good authority, that very great reductions are about to
be made in the establishments connected with this line,
which will very materially improve the value of the con•
cern. The subject will be brought under the considera-
tion of the general meeting on Saturday.
SOUTH DEVON, RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the committee
on this company s Bill for facilitating the conversion of
loan into capital, and regulating priority of dividends,
Mr. Fitzroy in the chair, declared the preamble proved.
The capital is not to be increased by conversion of loan,
and in no case to exceed 478,4661., the sum authorised
to be borrowed. The Bill was opposed by Mr. Stevens,
a shareholder, on the general merits.
GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, the com-
mittee, Mr. Liddell in the chair, passed the preamble
of this company's Bill,. for enlarging the station at
King's-cross, and for improving the approaches, by
the diversion of the Old Pancras-road. The stations
at Knottingly and Wakefield to be enlarged, and powers
are taken for these purposes to raise by new shares
750 ,0001.
SHEFFIELD, ROTHERHAM, AND,GO?LE
Yesterday the Committee on this Bill, for deviations
between Sheffield and Barnsley, declared the preamble
proved.
HALESWORTH, BECCLES, AND HADDISCOE RAILWAY.
—Mr. Bernal reports from the Committee on this Bill
that the preamble is found proved; that the proposed
capital is 159,0001., with power to borrow 50,0001.; that
the amount of shares subscribed for is 118,5001., end the
deposits paid thereon 11,850/.; that eight shareholders
having a local interest in the line have subscribed
63,500 Li
, and five others 55,0001. The line is 13 miles,
without engineering difficulties, as reported by Mr.
Bidder, the engineer. The Committee are satisfied with
the bond fides of the subscription contract.
BANGOR AND CAERNARVON RAILWAY.--Mr. Bernal
reports the preamble of this Bill, for making a railway
from the Chester and Holyhead Railway, near Ban-
gor, to Port Dmorwic and Caernarvon, proved.

ARRIVAL OF THE CLIPPER SHIP TYPELOON.--LI-
VERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—One of the most remarkable pas-
sages ever made across the Atlantic, under sail only, has
just been accomplished by the new American ship Typhoon.
She sailed from Portsmouth, Newhaven, United States, for
Liverpool, onj her trial trip, coming over in ballast only,
and entered the Mersey to-day, completing the passage
in the extraordinary short time of fourteen days from port
to port.
A GLORIOUS BONFIRE.—Lord Lansdowne would
be happy to see the income-tax repealed, and then "he
should be glad to move that all the papers relating to it
should be burnt. The only mode, we take it, in which an
income-tax paper can appear light to anybody.—punch.
ILL EFFECTS OF NOT ADVERTISING.—A clerk in
one of our mercantile establishments writes to his friends at
home :—" I have a plaguy easy time of it now-a-days__
very little work to do—our firm don't advertise.”—American
Paper.

LOPE SUBDUES PRINCE AS WELL AS PEASANT.
--We learn by letters from Rome of the 10th instant, that
Prince Psskevitsch has made a most determined attempt at
suicide by stabbing himself six times in the region of the
heart with a knife. He is a young man, and nephew to
the Prince who is at the head of the family. His attach-
ment to a young Polish lady was disapproved of by his
friends and the Emperor, and in order to hrelc it off he was
sent with dispatches to the Russian Ambassador at Rome.
The disappointment appears to have affected his reason; and
on Thursday night, after having called for his pistols, which
were refused him, he inflicted the wounds mentioned. His
life is considered to be in the greatest danger.