The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-26 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

In consequence of the unexpected absence of Mr. KEAN
last night, Mr. BONN, the stage-manager, came forward,
and expressed his regret that he was compelled to appear
RS an apologist. Mr. KEAN, he observed, was to have
sustained the character of Othello, but the management
had been informed, but not in time to post notices outside
of the house, that that gentleman was unable to attend.—
(Much outcry.) Instead of Mr. KEAN, his Secretary had
arrived, and from him they had learned that Mr. KEAN,
on entering his coach, for the purpose of coming to town,
was seized with so violent a paroxysm of gout as rendered
it impossible for him to pursue his journey.—(A voice
from the gallery—" Will you return as our money ?")
Mr. BuNN—" Most certainly."—(Applause.) Mr. BONN
proceeded to say, " Ladies and Gentlemen, if you wish to
see the tragedy of Othello performed, Mr. MACREADY re-
taining the part of logo, and Mr. COOPER, on the spur of
the occasion, assuming that of Othello, the business shall
proceed.—(Much applause, and cries of " Yes, yes.") But
if, Ladies and Gentlemen, you disapprove of this arrange-
ment, your money shall be cheerfully returned."—(Cries
of "Go on, go on.") The tragedy then proceeded. Mr.
MACREADY played with more than ordinary excellence.
Mr. COOPER undertook the Moor at a marvellously short
notice; and, that point being admitted, acquitted himself
in a manner which called for a higher praise than that of
mere respectability. MisaPfilturs's Desdemona always
commands our sympathies ; in this instance she eminently
did so. The tragedy, though shorn of its greatest supporter,
went off extremely well. Mr. KEAN, we understand, is
dangerously ill. His absence was occasioned by bona fide
pain and weakness.

THE SKATEP.S IN THE REGENT'S PARK
:Wednesday, owing to the severity of the frost on the
preceding night, the ice on the Serpentine lake was ad
inirable. Many of the members of the Club were there
among whom Captain Trotter took the lead in all the
many rounds of figure-movements. We ought not to
omit that the following gentlemen were among those who
excelled ; indeed they rerirrided us of the days of the Duke f
Argyll (when Marquis of Lorn,) the Earl of Jersey, the
Hon, Arthur Upton, and Capt. Caulfield :—The Marquis
Clanricarde, Mr. Shepheord, Mr. Beaumont, Mr. Fre-
derick Fielding, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Henry Troward, Mr.
George and Mr. Henry Chilton, and the Hon. Frederick
Byng. The day was brilliantly fine. An invention of
great novelty was introduced. It is a skate with grooves
of iron at the side, through which the sole of the boot
slides (the latter being made to fit the skate,) and wilt
the support of a single strap the evolutionist glides over
the glassy surface as light as air. We hear that a patent
is preparing for this " march of mind !"
SHOCKING ACClDENT.—Yesterday an In•
quest was held at the Three Compasses, White Hart-yard,
Drury-lane, on the body of Mr. Wat. 13xowri, landlord
Hof that house. On Tuesday evening the deceased left
home on business, about 12 o'clock a hackney-coach
drove to the door, the driver of which told Mrs. BROWN
t'mt he had brought home a lodger of here ;rho had met
.vith an accident. On the coach door being opened, she saw her husband lying coiled up at the bottom of the I
coach. He said to her " Mary, I have been run tmr ;
this will part you and me." He, at a subsequent time,
when more collected, told her that he was crossing the
road near the Surrey Theatre, and was knocked down by
the horses of a gentleman's carriage, and the wheels passed
over him; that he felt the fore wheel pass over him, and
dreaded the passing of the second. The coachman did not
stop, and deceased was assisted into the hackney-coach.
He expired on Thursday afternoon. On his body being
opned, an hemorrhage was found proceeding from a
rupture of the spleen, and a portion of the lower intes-
tines, which had filled the body with blood.... Verdict,
Accidental death.