The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

WESTERN DRAMATIC AMATEURS.

The third series of the private performances of this
admirable corps dramatique took place last evening,
at the Soho Theatre (late Miss Kelly's). The pieces
selected were Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's popular
comedy of Money, and the two-act drams, Honesty
the best Policy. We were not merely delighted, but
surprised at the effieiegii manner in the per-
formance of Money wankustained bytettrindividual
of the troupe. Old playgoers as we are, we sat it
through with unqualified enjoyment, and in so saying
there is no flattery, as we never had previously en-
joyed the pleasure of witnessing the efforts of any of
this clever and well-disciplined company. Without
making any invidious preference, it would be impos-
sible not to accord special mention to the delicious
impersonation of Graves, whose representative ex-
cited the repeated laughter and applause of the audi-
ence. The parts were cast as follows:
Lord Glossmore, Mr. Chas. Vere; Sir John Vessey,
Mr. Kingdon; Sir Frederick Blount, Mr. Spicer; Stout,
Mr. Godfrey; Graves, Mr. G. Harrison; Evelyn, Mr.
Edwards; Captain Dudley Smooth, Mr. Emery; Sharp,
Mr. Purdy; Old Member, Mr. Wilton. Lady
Franklin, Mrs. Newbery; Georgina, Miss Seymour;
Clara Douglas, Miss Emily Parrey.
The house was completely crowded, and the intel-
lectual treat thoroughly and universally enjoyed.

MADAME CELESTE.
HER FIRST APPEARANCE AT THE BROAD

WAY THEATRE.
Last evening Madame Celeste, a lady long and fa.
vourably known in this city, made her first appear-
ance for the last seven years before her old and
warm-hearted American friends at the Broadway
Theatre. The house presented a magnificent appear-
ance ; it was filled in every part, and was adorned by
a galaxy of fashionable and beautiful women. Amongst
the audience there were hundreds of Madame Celeste's
earliest patrons and friends—those who saw her first
essays as the pantomimist and the danseuse. How
were they now greatly gratified to witness her ar-
tistic and graceful representation of the affecting part
of the Indian girl of the valley of the Mississippi !
The Green Bushes was the melo-drama selected for
this event. On Madame Celeste's first entrance
she was received with th© warm welcome of old
friends, who had come to express their recollection of
her former triumphs, and with the encouraging
cheers of strangers to her talents, who had come to
witness that genius of which they had heard so much
by fame. The Green Bushes is a piece of startling
interest, as well as of genuine humour and fun. The
scene is alternately laid in Ireland and on the shores
of the Mississippi, the time that of the rebellion of
1745, and the incidents are founded on the strange
scenes which that unhappy insurrection gave rise to,
mingled most artistically with others drawn from the
shores of the Mississippi. Madame Celeste's imper-
sonation of Miami, who falls in love with an exiled
rebel, was a beautiful and a touching portraiture of
the affectionate, but, at the same time, the jealous and
revengeful Indian woman. In the natural and pas-
sionate portions of the character, she not only excited
the deepest attention, but the deepest emotion.
The quick and sudden promptings of her passion
were most exquisitely represented, and carne out
with all the spirit of an original conception. In such
characters as Miami she stands alone. The wild and
picturesque attitudes, the energetic eloquence, de-
voted love, and quick passions of the child of the
forest, were each exhibited with grace and skill. She
was warmly applauded throughout the drama in every
scene. At the conclusion of the drama, Madame
Celeste was loudly called for, and having been con-
ducted before the curtain by the manager, Mr. Barry,
she received a due proportion of floral tributes.
When the applause subsided a little, she said—
" Ladies and Gentlemen,—You cannot conceive the
extreme pleasure I feel, my kind, my first friends, in
hearing your generous greetings once more ring in
my ears. It comes upon me like the memory of happy
days.—(lmmense cheers.) I am proud, very proud,
ladies and gentlemen, that your flattering judgment of
my youthful efforts has been approved of in other coun-
tries, and in tno country has that judgment been so
warmly seconded and rewarded as by our elder brethren
the British public. The Theatres Royal Adelphi and
Haymarket (the former of which I have had the honour
of being the successful directress for seven years) have
specially won my sincere devotion to their interests, by
the steady, firm, and friendly encouragement the ma-
nager of these popular establishments has given to our
American dramatic talent—as the triumphs of Forrest,
Charlotte Cushman, Hill, Marble, Hackett, Davenport,
and last, though not least, Silsbee, can prove. My gra-
titude to you, my gratitude to those friends of my friends
is so deeply engraven on my heart, that I can scarcely
believe it will die with me. Ladies and gentlemen, once
more I thank you, and, with heartfelt gratitude, allow
me to bid you good night."
This simple but sincere address was delivered with
much feeling, and received with great applause,—
New York Herald, Oct. 14.

ARGYLL ROOMS.
A fortnight ago the managers of these agreeable
and popular assembly rooms brought their third an-
nual season to a successful termination, and within a
few days afterwards they not only obtained a renewal
of their licence, but were highly complimented by the
authorities upon the skill and enterprise which had
marked their previous career. Encouraged by this
substantial appreciation of their past labours, they
app ear determined to sustain the fame they have won
from the public, and in the brief space of time which
has elapsed since the closing, the rooms have been re-
fitted and decorated upon a scale of magnificence that
is, perhaps, unequalled, either in this or any other
metropolis. This may seem an exaggeration, but
those who saw the rooms last night, as they were
thrown open for the commencement of the fourth
season, will bear us out in the opinion we have just
expressed. Some idea may be formed of the. magni-
tude of the principal salle de dance, when we mention
that it is nearly one hundred and fifty feet long, forty-
five feet wide, and thirty-five feet high. It is lighted
by seven cut-glass chandeliers, and the walls are
painted with designs in flowers. At either end there
are immense squares of plate glass framedteisne
gold, and the reflexion of the dancers in h
adds much to the splendour of
the rooms,
while the ceiling and gallaries display an array of
harmonious colouring that both dazzles and enchants the eye. These improvements were suggested and
carried out under the immediate direction of Mr. G
F. Bryer, one of the managers, who may well be proud
of of the result of his labours, for it would be impossible
to find either in London or Paris a more finished piece
of artistic decoration. The seats in t e alleres are
lined with green velvet, while those in the g
body iof the
room are covered with crimson; and the touts
en•
suable of the interior is brilliant and imposing. The
orchestra, which has been considerably
augmented,
remains, as before, in the charge of M.
Laurent, jun.,
who waves his baton as gracefully as ever. Amongst
his solo performers are to be found Boulcourt (cornet-
Streather (flageolet), A. 'Wall (claronet),
Horton (oboe), Snelling (bassoon), and many other
names well known and appreciated at the two Operas.
It is therefor© almost needless, to add, that the music
is quite as finished as the rooms are beautiful.

GLASGOW, OCT. 25.—Cotton—The market for
cotton wool has been flat all the week, and prices may be
again quoted 1/Bd. per lb. lower, caused by the reliable news
of the promise of an abundant crop in the United States.
Goods and yarns are steady at former rates, but the amount
of business doing is small. The tendency is rather down-
ward, however, from the lower range of terms
on—Our
going for
ehmasPlb°eYeenrselulliarnda inac-
tive, wool. The strike among the spinners terminated on Mon-
day last, after the men had been out a week.
present circumstances of the trtandee
htuhseinoepsseradtoinv
eesh ahlsildbtehe the
quotations are, mixed numbers,
marketchance forin pig i contendingrond uri
during
with e 1 thes,
eweek
lltehrse; buyers at 3Ss. 6d. to 3Ss. 9d
and for the last few days
limited.39s. To-day3d., s
vwarrants,ery
No. 1 g.m.b., 395., and No. 1 Gartsh • • ;
bill of lading. erne, 41s. cash against
The award of prizes at the Great
published in the Edinburgh Gazette Exhibition was
occupied 110 pages.of Friday, of which it

THE LATE FATAL AFFRAY WITH
,Clllllotil ASY .-11;11Vie °aid‘jToulrinlVed°iTb q2u'elt v. as
EARPEt°lls4c4•
resumed this morniiir, at the house of Mr. Roberts,
before the county coroner, Mr. Falkland. Very
great excitement was manifested, and a strong feeling
pervades the district in favour of the poachers, %
in several of the neighbouring villages have formed
themselves into associations or clubs for the destruct•
tion of game, every member of which has to pay
fee upon his enrolment.
The substance of the evidence given is as follows
The poachers belong to the villages of Sutton-in.
Ashfield, Arnold, liucknall Torkard, Mansfield, and
Bullwell, all stocking-weaving districts. A numbs"
of them are captured, but nothing can be decided upset
until the result of the inquest is known. One of the
witnesses stated that the keepers and watchers
amounted to ten men in all ; that they bad no fire-arms
with them, with the exception of two pistols. Their
only weapons were what they term flails, made of two
pieces of wood, fastened together like a threshing
An unusual thing was, that they left their dogs behind
them. About ten o'clock, or a little after, on the
night of the affray, footsteps were heard on the Bilis,
thorpe-road, in the heart of Sherwood Forest. The
poachers halted when about a dozen yards from the
keepers, and in the immediate proximity of a heap of
large stones. A number of these boulders the poachers
placed in their pockets, end they then went in the
net for game
di-
to bethoen
them, but as silently as possible. A.
breecintigonm3tof, Bilsthorpe. The keepers quickly pursued
tkeepersh e t o
ok approached.
-out,
who A
soon
descriedp oach e ap-
peared
r the
watchers, and hurled a large stone at them. Witness
_intimated that it was high time to make a capture of
him, and on wards the whole party dashed. In a shun
time two of the poachers were overtaken and knocked
down by the keeper's flails. As soon as this was dor,a,
tfle keepers rushed after other of the poachers, one
pooaNcvhbeormgthaveey
aqusihckrillyi overtook ; he was also " felled"
by a flail. Upon striving to capture a fourth, the
turned round, and hurled
lence, which struck one of the great
ghoul-
eepers on the
discovered.der- Aft e r this,
Theythe wwth:slhetj
ae v,
body
ek stonees
amountedp e d
.ove r
throwing a hedge,la
large
of poachers was
sotaotnhess, must
that they would m
forty men. Tha keepers
keepersas,tsaythninedmg
rounded, and the poachers were
ed
us
instantly
One of the watchers contrived to get
commenced iumtwrmletehermd itoahrsteetetalotyg fearfula nysinuei a r
poachers, t andwith
several,i n advance
used
df thees
such success success that being followed by
4, felled" two or three. Upon the keepersthe going into
the field, for the purpose of securing that had
been knocked down, they were met by Robertsse
deceased), who complained of being' hurt ink•
ing he was seriously hurt, the keepers advised himm to
go to " the house," and upon their arriving there he
was insensible. The poachers had only
one dog with
them, a bull-terrier, which, however, they did not let
loose. Besides Roberts being injured, another keeper,
named Charlesworth, was hurt by a boulder.
Roberts died on the lith inst. The poachers were
armed with no other weapons except stones, and were
not told to surrender previous to their being knocked
down with the flails. The man who struck the de.
ceased could not be recognised.
At the time of our parcel being dispatched the in.
vestigation had nut terminated, and it is currently
believed that the jury will not agree as to their ver-
dict, whether murder or justifiable homicide. It is,
therefore, not improbable that another adjournment
will take place.

EXPLOSION OF A POWDER MAGAZINE.
VIENNA, OCT. 17.—Every topic of political in..
terest is thrown completely into the shade by this
accounts which arrived last night of a terrible catas-
trophe near Krems. On Wednesday morning the
large powder magazine at Gneixendorf blew up.
whether by accident or design is not known. Its
contents at the moment were only ten hundred weight
of powder, more than eight hundred weight having
been removed to Vienna on the previous day. The
loss of life has been trifling, owing to the few persons
about at the time. The sufferers whose bodies have
been found are a major, a lieutenant, and an auditor
of artillery, the inspector of the magazine, and the
two sentries on duty. A young girl, the daughter
of a subordinate labourer, is also missing. The
officers of artillery, who met their death in conse-
quence of the explosion, had only that instant reached
the entrance to the magazine in a carriage and pair,
having been ordered by the military authorities
to inspect and report upon the quantity and
condition of the powder in the magazine. Their
deaths must have been instantaneous, as the bodies
were found completely crushed by the enormous
masses of brickwork hurled from the building by the
force of the explosion. Strange to say, the carriage
horses escaped entirely unhurt ; the driver, however.
is said to have received mortal injuries. It appears
that the inspector of the magazine entered the powder-
rooms alone about an hour before the arrival of the
inspecting commission, that he shortly afterwards
sent the little girl mentioned above fur some wine, and
that nothing was seen or heard of him until the ex-
plosion took place. Several of the letters published
in the papers contain hints respecting the deceased
inspector, which can be only interpreted into an
accusation of peculation. An inquiry is of course
taking place. Of the magazine i;stlf not one stone
remains standing ; large portions of the brick-
work, tiles, and beams were hurled to a distance of
more than 2,000 yards. The Nineyards and fields in
the immediate neighbourhood have suffered conside-
rable damage. Two or three labourers in the fields
received severe contusions from the descending ruins.
One man will have to lose both his legs in consequence
of a double compound fracture. In Gneixendort not a
single window remains whole, and in Krems, which
is more than three•quarters of an hour's distance from
the magazine, much;damage has also been done. The
report of the explosion was heard in Vienna, but was
considered to emanate from one of the many military
reviews which expend powder daily in the neighbour-
hood of the metropolis. Immediately after the event,
the military stationed in Krems was ordered to
Gniexendorf to lend assistance, but not one of the
sufferers was dug out alive from the ruins. Krems
is situated in Upper Austria, on the banks of the
Danube, about five-and-thirty English miles from
Vienna.

WHOLESALE CHILD MURDER.
NOTTINGIIAM, MONDAY.—The greatest excitement
pervades this district at the present time in conse-
quence of the discovery of two more children in the
River Trent, a mile and a half from Nottingham,
yesterday (Sunday) afternoon.
In consequence of a child having been found last
week near the spot of the present tragedy, this fact,
coupled with the present case, has created a sensa-
tion rarely exhibited. The particulars of this latter
atrocity are as follow :
Some youths were walking on the margin of the
River Trent yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, when
they perceived something strp age in the water; their
attention being thus aroused, they immediately went
to the spot, where they discovered the bodies of two
children. The bodies were consigned to Wilford
Church, there to await the coroner's inquest. Various
bruises were found upon them.
It is a melancholy fact that within twelve months
no fewer than eight children have been found in and
near this locality. This state:of things has caused
the authorities to institute a searching investigation
twhaotlnesoalseucmceusrsdehrass.
hitherto
ratroe
attended
tao
tshay, how-
for the purpose of discovering the perpetrators of
theseever, h
The bodies had nothinr, upon theme wheeenffdorist:
of the police. b
covered, with the exception
of a cord, which was tied
round the waist of one of them.

D
ELOPEMENT Al D.
The Waterford News contains the following fromhae
correspondent at Dungarvan :—" On the evening
not
the
10th inst. a quiet and peaceable neighbourhood, miles from this town, was thrown into the deepest melan-
choly and sorrow on understanding that
.as
farmer turning the sear of life had made his sane
lovely fair one, aged
land of freedom with a young respectable
to
the
his loss, and perhaps to end:their days i
The following is a
bastiles uncared and unsought
for.he wife received on the
about 19 years, leaving awife anadr'idtwl.°o_vneehsilodnr3eenofbtehwealliiinsgh
verbatim copy of a letter wt,ich t
16th instant:—

passage of 48 hours,
', ' Liverpool, Oct. 13, 1851.
"' My dear Margaret—l have arrived in Liverpool
very
partvl al
violent
ibehind, ot
fandf
r Stormy
freedom.
dt° rmu : t P it t hope
safe, on board the Iron Duke, in company with Miss
8 s m y ae,
"better
tbeferotrate
you are not
1 angry with me, my dear Margaret;
, destined
as I have left you
make ample
provision for its own offspring. As for m_
y a t
p r , as soon
as I am united to my young fair one at the other side of
the Atlantic, I shall have a sweet
for the remainder of my days, paradise of my own
l and shall labour most
strenuously to endeavour to
p
assured, my dear Margaret ease and support her. Be
any-
thing I will not forget , when God sends me
love and best you and the children. Give my
to el
respects 1 inquiring friends, and tell
them that I will
away. always kindly remember them when far

" 'I remain, not yours, &c.,
I I,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
are the water-carts, especially on the
Surrey side of the river, laid up for the season ? Con-
siderable portions of the metropolis have been for the
last few days enveloped in clouds of dust, which, if
not allayed by either natural or artificial means,
threaten to suffocate the outdoor population.
Yours, &C.,
ANTI-PULVIS.

We understand that Father Gavazzi has been lid-
vised to enter an action for libel against some Isiewcasao
and Sunderland newspapers, which have published, as his'
portrait, impressions from old stock woodcuts, that they had
on hand, pi Archibald Bolam and Patrick
I'vrbes.—Shields
Gazette,