The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-20 00:00:00

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RA.ILWAY SIIARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Ocr. 18.
STOCK 1 rACTIANGI.—We have had a very sluggish market
to-day, and prices receded. The transactions were as follow :
Bristol and Exeter, 791,4—Great Western, 81—Midland, 47%
—Taff Ir.ale, New, 14, p.
LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 18.
STOCK EXCHANOP.—The share market has been very
quiet to-day, with a downward tendency in prices. The
transactions were as follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 51
—Ditto, 201. Shares, 1% dis.— Liverpool, Crosby, and South-
port, 2% dis.—London and North-Western, 113V,—Ditto,
New Quarters, 21% p.—Midland, 47—North Union (A), 241.
—Blanchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (No. 1),.71.6 per
cent. till 1Q53, 103/—South-Eastern and Dover, 181,y—Great
Southern and Western, 34%.
MANCHESTER, Ocr. 18.

STOOK EXCIIMIGE.—The business done in our share
market Co-day has been good for a Saturday, but prices are
weaker. The transactions were as follow :—Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire Junction, dis.—Chester and Bir-
kenhead, 17—Eastern Counties, 6 —Great Northern, New 5
per cent, Preference, Scrip, 3-16 pdi.—Lancashire and York-
shire, 54,,A—Ditto, Fifth, 8% s.—London and North-
Western, 1123/4—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
2534-111idland, 4634—North Staffordshire, 8 11-16 dis.
BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 18.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market continues :de-
pressed. The closing prices to-day were as follow :
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, buyers 414, sellers, 4
dis.—Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, buyers
91, sellers 91, —London and North-Western, buyers 113.', ,
sellers, 1141 A —Ditto, Quarters, buyers 21,f3, sellers, 214 p.
—Midland, buyers 46N. sellers 47'4—Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham (A), buyers sellers 6'4 Ditto (13), buyers
41. 3s. Od., sellers 41. 6s. 3d.—Shropshire Union, buyers 3%,
sellers 3% dis.—South Staffordshire, buyers 31. ls. 3d.,
sellers 21. 18s. 9d. dis.

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mvErtpooL, SUNDAY 2/1011tiniG.
By the arrival in the Mersey of the British and
North American Royal mail steam-chip Africa, A.
Ryri commander. we have receivad advises and
letters from New York to the Bth ity,t.
The Africa seikd from New Yori; at noon on the
arrived elf the Rock Lighthousu at 2.45
this morning, having made the run in 10 days 10
Inurs mean time. She hroupht 7G passengers. and
122774
.sterling, end 437,71'2 dollars in ?peck: on
fru 4; ht. •

The Ro:y-al. mail steam-ship Canada, Harrizon, corn•
mander, with the mails of the 20th ult., arrived nt
80.3t0n at 6 r.m. on the Ist in3t.

The screw steath-ship City of Me,nclloqer, Catr.p.'•
bell, coratoandar, arrived at Philadelphia flona Liver 7•
pool, on the 3d irirt.

The Africa passed the Humboldt, Lines, com-
mander (which failed from Havre on the 24th ult.),
on the Bth :inst., three hours' sail from New York;
and on the 9th inst., at
.5.50 a.m.,
.phased the Royal
mail steam-ship Asia, -Judkins, commander, which
sailed from, Liverpool on the 27th ult.
The steam-ship Empire City had arrived at New
York, from: Herenn.ale with advices to the 21 inst.;
and 350,000 dolls. in specie on freight. 42 Ameri-
cans were sent to Spain in the brig Rips the daybe6
• fore the Empire City sailed. There were 13 remaiaa
ieg in the hospital, being all that remained on the isa
I.lel of Cuba of the Lopez expedition. Exchange
hed improved. Freights remained very low. Mo-
lasses and sugars in limited demand, and lower prices
- would be accepted to make large sales.
I'Ve have advices from Jamaica to the 29th ult.,
which state that the cholera was prevailing in that
island ; 11 -deaths had occurred during the week
ending the 29th.. A smart shock of earthquake had
been telt in Port of Spain, but no damage was done:
Antigua, -St. 'Vincent, Grenada, and Dominica papers
furnish no news 'of interest.
From Canada we have accounts to the 6th inst. The
Ministry had resigned, and Lord Elgin had been en-
deavouring to form a new Cabinet, hut had not sue-
ceeded up to the date of our latest advices. The Go-
vernor-Genera!, who was staying at Drummonds-
vile, had sent for Mr. Morin, Speaker of the Legis-
'
lative Assembly, to form a Cabinet. In a speech
made by Lord Elgin at Montreal, on his way
from Boston, he referred to the possibility of his soon
being released from the cares of the Governor-Gene-
relship of British North America. His reception in
the city from which his Government was driven by
violence in 1849 is reported to have been on the
whole respectful ; though accounts published in the
Upper Canada papers this morning state that he was
greeted with hisses and groans on coming out of the
cathedral on Sunday. Mr. Archibald, an English
contractor, has addressed a letter to Lord Elgin,
offering to construct the Halifax and Quebec Rail-
road on condition of receiving the amount formerly
offered by these provinces-80,000 dolls. a-year from
Nova Scotia, a 'like such from New Brunswick, and
120,000'dalts. a year from Canada. He also offers to
construct the European and North American line on
the debentures offered by New Brunswick, taking the
risk of selling the balance of the shares. 34,030
emigrants had arrived at Quebec this season on the
20th instant, being an increcse of 6,464 over • last
year's emigration to- a corresponding date. To the •
same date 917 vessels bad arrived at Quebec, with an
aggregate tonnage of 384,256 tons; being an increase
of 73 vessels and a tonnage of 31,474 tons over the .
arrivals of last year to the same date.
The steam thin Prometheus, Captain Churchill,
arrived at New York on the 4th inst., with advices •
from Calif:ornia,on the 6th ult., three weeks later than •
last received. She brings intelligence of the burning,
of the screw steam ship Lafayette, Captain Stoddart,
at Chagres, on the 11th ult. • The Lafayette was' a
new ship, having only made one voyage between
Philadelphia and Liverpool. The Prometheus brought.
123,000 dolls. in gold dust.
:The 'newts from California does not possess much
interest. The election seems to have absorbed every-
thing. Law and order were . entirely disregarded;
two men convicted of highway robbery had been
taken by force from the authorities and executed.
The particulars of the affair are as follovv:
_

" da the 22d of August, in ceynformity with the sen-
tence passed upon them by the law, Thompson, Robin-
sot!, end Hamilton were hanged in Sacramento for high-
way robbery. On the morning of the execution
Robinson was reprieved by the Governor MeDougal,
notwithstanding which the populace took the prieorer
and executed him. On the Tuesday provions to the
above (which lock place on Friday) the Governor,
with his aids, went in the middle of the night and
re,cued, without opposition, the two prisoners, Whitta-
ker end IVlKenzie, who were placed in the custody of
the 'Vigilance Committee. This caused a tremendous
excitement, but on account of the forbearance or the
committee under the circumstances quiet was restored,
and everything was thought to be at rest until Sunday
morning, the 24th inst., when a portion of the members
of the Vigilance Committee broke into the county gaol,
took the prisoners, drove them in a °erring° to the
committee-rooms, and in 17 minutes from the time the
men were first taker, from the gaol, they were hanging
in front of the committee-rooms on Battery-street, in
the presence of 20,000 people, all of whom approved of
the act."

The accounts from the mines continued to be very
satisfactory. One vein in Mirsposa, worked by a
steam-machine, .
diae, was
ily.Acompany realisingfrom
of
f.our 600 do
men,
working
to
n ga
quartz mine at Mount Opl4, were taking out on tin
average 3,000 dolls. a fortnight; and the Canon Creek
Mining Company were realising upwards of 5,000
dolls. per day. A very large and destructive fire had
occurred at Marysville, California, supposed to be the
work of an incendiary, by which upwards of 80 build-
ings had been destroyed. The loss is estimated at up-
wards of 500,000 dollg.
Tile steam-ship Pacific, Captain Bally, arrived at
San Juan del Sad on September 20, with 220 pas-
sengers, and 100,000 dolls. in gold dust on freight,
having left San Francisco on the 6th of September.
The steam-ship North America left San Juan del
Sad on the 20th ult., with 250 passengers, for San
Francisco. The steam-ship Gold Hunter left San
Juan del Sud on the 21st for San Francisco. The
steam-ship Monumental City left on the 21st for
Realejo, thence to Panama.
The clipper ship Flying Cloud had made the run
from New York to San Francisco in eighty-nine
days, the quickest ever accomplished.
Intelligcnce from the city of Mexico to the Ist
inst. states that disturbances bad broken out in several
parts of northern Mexico, and that Government had
sent 3,000 men to defend Tehuantepec. Don Fe-
rnando Ramnez had accepted the appointment of
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and was charged with
the formation of a new Cabinet.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
The state of monetary affairs during the 2d, 3d, and
4th inst., at New York and Boston, may be described
as one of panic, which, however, had greatly subsided
at the date of the steamer leaving. There was a great
and unnecessary run on the banks, which, however,
stood firm.
Some failures aro recorded; amongst others, Dexter,
Herrington, and Co.; I'. R. Southwick and Co.; J. S.
Gould; J. Earle, jun., all of Boston; and David Pin-
gree, of Salcru. Tile latter was quite uuexpectvd.. At
one ►ime the stringency at Boston was so great as to be
equalled only by the pressure of 1837. The arrivals of
specie from California would serve to counteract the
effects of the exportation of specie to this country.

NEW YORK, TUESDAY EVENING.

Exchange.—Foreiu'n—The Market is heavy. We
quote as follow:—On London, 1091 to 1104; Paris 60
day bills, sf. 15c.; and short sight, sf. 10c.; on Am-
sterdam, 414 to 41k; on Hamburgh, 3624- to 36i; Bremen,
781 to 78i.
Flour, ttc.—ln western and state flour there is but
little doing, and the market for common descriptions is
heavy; prices, however, are without material change.
3 dolls. 684 c. to 3 dolls. 75c. for common to straight
state; 3 dolls. 75c. to 4 dolls. for New Michigan and
Indiana; and 4 dolls. 12ic. to 4 dolls. 250. for pure
Gennesse.
There is but little Canadian flour offering, and the
market is very firm at 4 dolls. for good common super-
fine. Southern flour is unchanged, and the sales are
quite moderate, at 3 dolls. 87ic. to 4 dolls. for old, and
4 dolls. 121 e. tO4 dolls. 25c. for new mixed to good brand.
Grain—l 4 the wheat market there is more doing, but
holders have boon compelled to accept a shade easier
prices in order to realise. For corn thorn is less in-
quiry, and the market favours the purchaser. There
are no contract lots offering; sales of 10,000 bushels
were made at 55 a 58c. for unsound to good merchant-
able. Oats Ere unchanged, and moderate sales are making
at 39 a 40e. for State, and 34 a :360. for Jersey.
Uot:on—The market for this staple is quiet, and
drooping. No sales of any magnitude are reported this
morning, end yesterday only 500 bales were disposed of.

ENCLOSURE OF HAINAULT FOREST.—On Friday
the Commissioners appointed under the recent Act of Parlia-
ment for the clearance and cultivation of Hainanit Forest
commenced their operations for its disreforestment. At
eleven o'clock the Commissioners assembled at the Riding-
bridge, Ilford, where they were met by the verderers and
other forest officials, and from thence proceeded to ascertain
the limits of the forest, placing boundary marks at fixed dis-
tance:. The enclosure will also include that portion called
the King's Forest or Wood. Immediately on the boundary
line being settled, the felling and removal of the trees will
commence; and on the ground being cleared, it will be por.
tiQued cut in allotments, and placed under cultivation,

AL PRINCE:BB7s TEIEATRE.
Teis'adrnirably conducted, and in every sense legi-
timate theatre, closed for a ehort interval of repose on
Friday evening.
The season has beef one of unusual
duration, extending over-41 period: exceeding twelve
months, nod embracing
1-14 n e tlia three hundred act-
inp; nights. Except on the occasions
prescribed by
law, there has been no interval. It seldom happens
that the membere °finer inarilatio eatablishment can'
cengratuleite ..themselvee Stith .iminterrupted em-
ployment. The lire of the- actors one of continual
toil, and his rest is sweet ; but he enjoys it at the
expense of his pocket, which he canseldom afford.
The recess suspends salary while it relaxes labour,
and the gratification is F little too bitter to be psiat-
able. Some of the featiA4 which' have !narked the
4501) just concluded, *O6 insnleted and peculiar.
They can scarcely be ap/pealtr to with safety es
generale deta. on which eto build calculations for
the fatnire. Tony 'neuebe sceorated and judged
distinctly ,to estimate their pioportionste effects.
-
The, late ur-11:51Sai exeiteillent agcy be followed by
a temporary re-action; both will pass away,
and befOre long the cureent of
.vents will resume
its ordinary'
course: I would be idle to deny
that the attraction. of the. Crystal Palace, and the
crowds of visitors, foreign' and indigenous, which for
ts
the last five inenths have n daily pouring into Lon-
don, have not -been . the -iVniertry. causes of keeping
open the metropolitan theeifies durieg the time when
they are usually sclosed.'""Without the extraneous"
gathering such an experim4l.7 ept would have savoured of
insanity. The managers decided with sound policy,
and have reaped their full share of the golden harvest,
although et first, particularly during the month of
May, unmistakable symptoms indicated that their por-
tion was likely to dwindle into a scanty gleaning.
One or two took endden;frigiati slackened sail, and
gem inwhile the maintity, who steered gallantly
on, despite of impending breakers, have brought their
argosies into port, with rich and goodly lading. Some
had Veen so severely crippled before the favouring
breeze set in, that they could (16 little more to carry
on the nautical metaphor) then pull.up theirlee-way.
But the Princess's Theatre had never been in this pre.
dieamente A good snug profit .was borne on the
hooks before the Exhibition mania. commenced, and
consequently there was no lee-way to pull up. Dur-
ing the long period we have named a steady, regular,
fiewingtide of success had attended the exertions of
the authorities, guided' by. the juaginent with which
Mr. C. 1i 'an so happily blench the ,talent of an ac-
complished
:actor with the tact ,anti 'experience of an
able director.
A theatre may be taken as akiegclom in epitome,
which requires a clear, quick, eXceative head, to keep
in order -and harmony a host of ..Conflicting elements.
The public see only the effect,, and not being behind
the scenes or initiated into any knowledge of the in-
tricate machineiy, have no ideanfthe incessant labour
both of mind and body through-Which the effect they
see is produced. All appears so simple and easy that
they cannot imagine where theta can be any difficuly.
We are not among the self-glorifying critics who
write onrselves down as infallible, and fancy, ex officio,
that we understand every man;eetrade by inspiration
better than he. does himself by long practice. As
most people think they can poke a fire more cleverly
than their neighbours, so is it a common delusion
among many that they can manage a theatre better
than the manager, Aceordingetothese philanthropic
meddlers nothing can be more' transparent than his
business if he would only understund it, or take
advice. 'But he is obstinately wedded to his in-
capacity, and resolved to be- Ms own executioner. If
some of these .liberal counsellors would try conclu-
sions by actual experiment, a month, perhaps, might
alter their opinions, and they, would bi &deo com-
pound for an exchange from... the manager's chair of
uneasy dignity to the bed ofPrecrustes, or the gentle
pastime of the tread-mill. We are not of Mr. Kean's
cabinet council, and oftone*-cannot pretend to speak
from an official scrutiny of 'figuies, but we have heard
on good authority, and conttainlete him accordingly,
that the result of his first year of inanagenient has far
exceeded his most sanguine expectations. To wind
up a long season with a gbod substantial balance of
ssveral.:thoneands on the Mist' side, is to accomplish
a feat as difficult as untying the Gordian knot, and
almost of as rare occurrence as the blossoming of the
aloe. Let all due honour then be accorded to the
skill and perseverance which have realised this pro-
digy, and to the general commending, who has car-
ried through a hazardous campaign with such con-
summate ability.
For a long time it has been proclaimed at every
market cross, with bell; book, . and candle, that the
national stage of Great Britain is in a rapid decline,
that its days are numbered, and that it is stricken
with a mortal disease evhieladefies cure. For months
and years we have been told:daily in emphatic phrase,
and have read in most undeniable print, that the legi-
timate drams is dying, dead,
some even say, buried,
with a tomb to its memory,- and utterly foigotten by
all except a few weeping mourners who fondly await
its resurrection ; as the' monks and other old ladies in
Portugal believe still in the return of Don Sebastian,
and the Brahmins in India -expect hourly the avatar
of Vishnoo. Aceording toe'these light-hearted, en-
couraging theorists, we,liaere neither actors to act,
nor a public to appreciatSe genuine acting, if the
opportunity was vouchsafed: to them. But in the
face of all this, night
.after. night we have gone to
the Princess's Theatre, es-heee we have witnessed
some . of. the brightest Areatione. of Shakspere's
genius, Hamlet, Henry the Fourth, The Itierchant
of Venice, Twelfths Night, As You Like It, performed
in constant repetition, to the evident delight of
crowded and fastidious audiences. Henry the Fourth,
as then revived, had a le,ngei run, and produced more
remunerative receipts than had ever attended that play
during the time which is usually referred to with
groans of lamentation as the most flourishing epoch
of the British stage. Twelfth Night has been acted
forty-one nights, with a cast in weich there was no
blemish, including in the foremost rank the Viola of
Mrs. C. Kean, tie Sir Andrew Agmeheek of Keeley,
and the Clown of Harley, which have never been
sus passed. The Wife's Secret continues to be re-
ceived with undimineshed popularity ; The aanzester,
and the old comedy of Town and Country, have been
revived with admirable effect, while the gorgeous
spectacular play of The Templar, and the English
version of Mdlle. de Belle Isle, The Duke's Wager,
with Bourcicnult's sparkling comedy of Love in a
Maze, may be enumerated among novelties of un-
ueual success, in an age when, to meet the characte-
ristic impatience, novelties are required to succeed
each other as rapidly as the shifting forms of the sum-
mer clouds. The Christmas' pantomime proved, as
usual, a sheet-anchor; and the Easter spectacle of
the Alhambra, with the little interlude of Apartments
to Let, supported by the inimitable acting of Mr. and
Mrs. Keeley, have occupied their places in the bills
for more than six months.
While reverting to the varied list of performances
at this theatre, we cannot forget the breathless atten-
tion with which the audience • was rivetted down to
the harrowing incidents of Pauline—the intense
energy and truthfulness with which Mrs. Kean in-
vested the character of the heroine, and the power of
original conception displayed by Mr. Kean in the
part of Horace de Beaupre—a delinention which
compelled the spectators to lose their disgust at har-
dened villany in astonish
• ment at the power of the
actor, working as a magician
's spell,and bearing be.
fore It all the rules of ordinary reasoning.
In the various dramas we have enumerated above
there has been admirable acting in the principal elm,
racters, the most minute attention end support in the
subordinates, the text carefully delivered, scenery new
and classically . appropriate, according to the age or
country, with a studied correctness of costume and
he most minute detail= ,which
stage furniture, down to:t ,w
our fathers never cared for, and. the managers of the
olden times were incapable of producing with the
same perfection, even
if the public had required at
I
their bands such expensive an andandbr es e a orate acceof this
ssories.
When welook at the comp y
resources
single theatre, as a selected example of the manner i
the in
which our best plays are brought upon stage in these
so-called degenerate times—when we can see nightly
in one play Mr. and Mrs. KEean,i.h acknowledged as the
leading performers on the
.ng
.stage ; Mr. and
Mrs. Keeley, unrivalled __T.
;n their peculiar walk ;Bartley
Harley, Meadows, Addison, 1.1, igan, Ryder, Miss
Phillips, Mrs. Winstanley, &c. when we observe, as
we imagine We do, the impression they produce on us,
and the full houses attracted by their combined exer-
tions, and at the same time are continually told there
are neither actors nor audiences left, we are almost
hesical existence and
compelled to doubt our own p
perceptive faculties; we begin, to suspect
that every-
thing must be a delusion, and ,
that Bishop Berkeley
was the soundest of philosophers when he proclaimed
the nornexietence of .a material world.
But facts are
stubborn evidences, and never fail in the long run to
vindicate themselves when weighed against flimsy
'theories. We believe the palpable evidence of our
senses in preference to vague assertions. We are sa-
tisfied that the drama is neither dead, nor dying, nor
in danger of dissolution. If thereis disease it is tempo-
rary, and the consequences,though debilitating, are not
fatal. The obscurity of a passing eclipse renders the
-brightness that follows the more conspicuous. Good
actors are to be found, although not under every hedge,
as Stephen Kemble informed Liston when he offended
him. There are managers who know how to distin-
guish Wants and place them in their appropriate