The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

PEN INSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MOII24ING•
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's steam-ship Tagus, Captain Russell, has
arrived here, with dates from Constantinople, July
19th; Smyrna, 21st; Malta, 25th; and Gibraltar,
30th. She brings 35 passengers and a cargo of Asiatic
produce.
Accounts from Gibraltar, of the 29th ult., quote
the rate of exchange on London, 611; Spanish
pillared dollars, 1i per cent. premium.
The Board of Health of Gibraltar has imposed a
quarantine of fifteen days upon all vessels arriving
from Oran, in consequence of the cholera having
broken out in that place.
The screw-steamer Grecian passed the Straits of
Gibraltar on the 29th, from Liverpool, bound to
Malta, and the screw-steamer Genova was to leave
on the evening of that day for Liverpool.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
M. Bouffe made bis second appearance last night,
when he personated Joseph in the Gamin de Paris,
one of his most celebrated parts, and one well known
to his admirers in this country. His renovated health
on Friday last led us to expect a fine piece of acting
upon the occasion. Nor were we disappointed. This
admirable artist played with but little diminution of
his former excellence, and the traits of nonchalance
and rudeness which characterise the Parisian
gamin were illustrated to the life, while the situations
in the second act, in which the chivalric feelings of
the boy are aroused in defence of his sister's honour
were with equal skill, amid all their gaucherie, truly
and pathetically portrayed. The audience were
charmed as they were wont to be ; and it could not
but be a source of delight to meet again with one of
the most natural actors of the present age playing,
after a long and critical illness, a part in which he
was years ago pronounced unrivalled, and without
the slightest sign of depreciation. We may add that
the General Mourin of Lafont was a personation of
hardly less merit than the Gamin of Bouffe. The
house was well attended.

STRAND THEATRE.
A "dramatic bubble!" entitled The Shot Tower, was
produced here last evening. This bubble is blown by Mr.
Angus 13. Reach, and a more laughable affair has
seldom been produced. Mr. John Reeve, Mr. Rogers,
and Miss Marshall, are the personators of this bubble.
The first, a gentleman in striped trousers and
alarming neck-tie, practises the trombone on the top
of the Lambeth Shot Tower, in which lacerating occu-
pation be is interrupted by a second personage,
a farmer in fustian coat and leathers, who, driven
by the Exhibitio❑ to seek a lodging in the same elevated
locality, throws the trombone into the street in a paroxysm
of irritation at the noise which it emits; whereupon he is
made to believe by the ingenuity of his companion that
he has killed a passer-by. Miss Marshall, the third on the
list, wends her way to the top of the aforesaid tower, be-
cause she is disgusted with the world, and most particu-
larly with the crochet and Berlin work, by which she
exists in it. Sighing for " excitement," she endeavours to
aid the escape of the farmer by dressing him up as a
woman, and her enjoyment is intense, receiving its
olhui; rhea the amateur ou the trombone, who turn

out to be her sweetheart, accuses her of inconstancy.
The farmer is finally informed that he has been irm-
posd upon, and he is but too happy to give his consent
to the nuptials of the couple, which he has the legal
title to do, seeing that the girl is a lest niece for whom
he has been advertising. The acting was admirable.
The audience were in a continual roar from tha rising
to tie falling of the curtain. The Shot Tower is I
&oiled hit.