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 very 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 very 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 OP 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
24 per cent. We are not at liberty 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 cf
the establishment.—Advertiser.
IRISH SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—WO 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 RAILWAY.—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 RAILWAY.—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
are taken for these purposes to re
SHEFFIELD se by new shares
760 ,000/. and Wakefield to be enlarged, and powersi
Yesterday the Committee on this Bill, for deviations
, ROTHERHAM, AND ,GOOLE RAILWAY.—
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 150,0001., with power to borrow 50,000/.; that
the amount of shares subscribed for is 118,5001,, and the
deposits paid thereon 11,8504; that eight shareholders
having a local interest in the line have subscribed
63,500/., and five others 55,000/. The line is 13 miles,
without engine&ring difficulties, as reported by Mr.
Bidder, the engineer. The Committee are satisfied with
the bonii fides of the subscription contract.
BANGOR AND CAERNARVON RAILWAY. Mr. Bernal
reports the preamble of this Bill, fur making a railway
from the Chester and Holyhead Railway,near Ban-
gor, to Port Dmorwic and Caernarvon, proved.

Mr. Fos Maule was prevented, owing to a severe
attack of gout, from voting in favour of the second reading of
the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
The birthday of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge was celebrated yesterday at Windsor and Kew,
by the ringing of the church bells, the firing of cannon, and
other rejoicings.
DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL PARKER, C. 8.,
ROYAL ARTILLERY.—This gallant officer, for many years
Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Military Academy at
Woolwich, where he resided, died on Tuesday, the 25th
inst., after,,an illness of six days. Major-General John
Botelor Parker entered the service as second lieutenant on the
let of April, 1802; was promoted to first lieutenat, Ist
September, 1803 ; captain, sth June, 1808 • brevet-major,
21st September, 1813; lieutenant-colonel, june 18, 1815;
colonel, 10th January, 1837; and major.general, 9th Novem-
ber, 1846. He had seen considerable service, having been
employed at Walcheren, and in the operations previous to -
and at the siege of Flushing. It is said in Hart's Army List
that he embarked in February, 1812, for Lisbon, and re- ARRIVAL OF THE CLIPPER SIIIP TYPHOON.—Ll-
tnained with the Duke of Wellington's army till the conelu- VERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—One of the most remarkable pas-
sion of the war in 1814. He was present at the battle of sages ever made across the Atlantic, under sail only, has
Vittoria, both sieges of St. Sebastian, battle of Orthes, affair just been accomplished by the rew American ship Typhoon.
et Tarbes, and battle of Toulouse, and lost his left leg at the She sailed from Portsmouth, Newhaven, United States, for
battle of Waterloo. He received the gold medal for the Liverpool, onl her trial trip, coining over in ballast only,
battle of Vittoria, and the silver medal with three clasps for and entered the Mersey to-day, completing the passage
St. Sebastian, Orthes, and Toulouse. in the extraordinary short time of fourteen days from port
Nobody takes reproof so kindly as he that deserves to port.
baost to be commended.—Eliza C'ook's Journal. A GLORIOUS BONFIRE.—Lord Lansdowne would
Lord Broughton gave a dinner to the Cabinet be happy to see the income-tax repealed, and then ahe
Ministers last evening, at his residence Berkeley-square. should be glad to move that ail the papers relating to it
should be burnt." The only mode, we take it, in which an
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. The Eastern
income-tax paper can appear light to anybody,—Punch.
Counties' 'shareholders have manfully surrendered their Is.
ILL EFFECTS OF NOT ADVERTISING.—A clerk in
dividend, and have elected a new chairman with great ap-
's antecedents are, per- one of our mercantile establishments writes to his friends at
parent confidence- Mr. Waddington home s—" I have a plaguy easy time of it D-a-slays—
uaPs, rather ambiguous, but his experience at any rate is
very little work to do our firm don't advertise."—American
beyond
dispute. We trust next week to see his reign inau-
gurated by a little better arrangement of trains and by a Paper.
aornewhat more reasonable provision for the conveyance LOVE SUBDUES PRINCE AS WELL AS PEASANT.
of the morning journals. Cambridgeshire ought not to —We learn by letters from Borne of the 10th instant, that
Wait till noon for the day's intelligence. It is surely Prince Paskevitsch has made a most determined attempt at
unwise, with the Great Northern so close at hand, to remind suicide by stabbing himself six times in the region of the
eopie by daily drawbacks of the advantages of competition- heart with,a knife. He is a young man, and
nephew to
the Great Exhibition of the summer is expected to do won- the Prince who is at the head of the family. His attach-
'tars for railway property in general. We are less sanguine ' ment tc a young Polish lady was disapproved of by his
of its effects in this particular respect, but we have no dcubt friends and the Emperor, and in order to break it off he was
'whatever that every year's experience will establish the sent with dispatches to the Russian Ambassador at Rome.
identity of interests between shareholders and the public, The disappointment appears to have affected his reason ; and
4ild prove that fair accommodation at fair prices is the best on Thursday night, after having called for his pistols, which
for
in these and in all other commercial undertakings were refused tun, he inflicted the wounds mentioned. His
or ultimate success.— Times. i life is considered to be in the greatest danger.