The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-23 00:00:00

ADELPHI THEATRE.

Last night, Colman and Garrick's comedy, " The
Jealous Wife," compressed into three acts, was per-
formed at this theatre with very great success. The
great novelty of the entertainment was the circum-
stance of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan sustaining
the respective parts of Mr. and Mrs. Oakley,
and certainly a more natural, artistic, or pet-
feet
_niece of acting has not been seen for a very
long time. As Mr. Oakley (Mr. Wigan) brought
out all the minute points of the part with consum-
mate skill, and even when nearly distracted by the
false suspic ion of Mrs. Oakley as to his
conduct, we had still the kind, forgiving,
polished gentleman before us. The words "Mr.
Oakley's rout! and all the world will come," was
given with immense effect. Mrs. Wigan's em-
bodiment of the jealous wife, Mrs. Oakley, was
highly appreciated, and elicited universal approba-
tion. At the fall of the curtain, in obedience to
the unanimous applause of a very brilliant and
fashionable audience, Mr. and Mrs. Wigan had to
appear and bow their acknowledgments. The
talented artists afterwards appeared in the cele-
brated farce, " The Bengal Tiger."
The admirers of genuine English comedy must
not omit a visit to the Adelphi during the remain-
ing nights of Mr. and Mrs. Wigan's engagement.

QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICES

ABOLITION BILL.

HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MAncif 22.
DIVISION.

Moved, That the Bill be now read a second time (the Lord
Teynham). Objected to; and an Amendment moved, To
leave out f 'now" and insert " this day six months" (the
Lord Chelmsford). On Question, That " now" stand
part of tho motion ? Contents, 21 ; Not Contents, 44.
CONTENTS.
Campbell (Lord Loons. LORDS.
Chancellor) Belper Stanley of Alderley
Dui:Es. Cranworth Strafford (V. En-
Newcastle Dartrey (L. Cre- field)
Somerset morne) Sundridgo (D. Ar-
Rums Lyveden ,2:Y11)
Camperdown . Methuen Truro
De Grey Ponsonby(E.Bess- Wodehouse
Saint Germans borough) • Tellers.
ViseouNT. Sumerhill(lll.Clan- Foley, Lord
Sydney ricarde) Teynham, Lord

NOT CONTENTS.
DUKE. EARL. LORDS.
Marlborough Winchilsea and Dig;by
MARQUISES. Nottingham Dynevor
Bristol ViscounTs. Egerton
Salisbury Canterbury Faversham
Westmeath Dungannon Kingsdown
EARLS. Hardinge Northwick
Amherst Hood Redesdalo
Carnarvon Bis uors. Saltoun
Cathcart Bangor Sheffield (E. Shef-
Dclawarr Chichester field)
Derby Lonos. Stewart of Stewart's
Ellenborough Brodrick(V.Midle- Court (M. • Lon-
Erne ton) dondorry)
.
Hardwick° Chelmsford Tenterden
Home Churston Wensleydale
Lucan Colchester

Portarlington De L'lsle and
Romney Dudley
Stanhope Denman

Tellers.
Bath, Marquis
Wynford, Lord

Lord Ashley was prevented by illness from at-
tending the house on Wednesday, to support the second
reading of the Bleachers and Dyers Short Time Bill.
The particulars are advertised of a number of
Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Bonds which have
been redeemed and cancelled.
According to a statement published last year the
public debt of Brazil was £12,409,068, or less than three
years' revenue. Of this amount £6,415,978 was internal
debt and £5,403,100 foreign,
A recent telegram from India mentions that the
cotton crop in the North-Western provinces will this year
be favourabl2. The Tussah silk crop, which !s grown in
the lower part of Bengal, will, it is alleged, bo a partial
failure.

A meeting of the Grand Surrey Docks and Canal
Company was held yesterday to consider a bill now before
Parliament to enable the construction of additional docks,
and to raise a further amount of capital. After some expla-
nations a resolution was carried formally approving the
measure.

A meeting is to be held qn Saturday in the
Stock-Exchange to consider the propriety of revising the
existing scale of brokers' commissions, and of enforcing the
observance of regular charges. Some measure of the kind
has long been necessary.
The North British Mail says :—" There is a
rumour current, which is stated to be correct, that the two
youngest sons of the Duke of Buceleuch have followed their
maternal relative (we presume the writer means their
mother), and gone over to the Church of Rome."
THE LATE COLONEL NEILL.—A marble tablet
has been erected on one 'of the walls of the Old Church,
Ayr, by Mrs. Neill, of Swinridgemuir, and her daughters,
in memory of the late Colonel Neill and his three sons, the
latter of whom all died in the service of their country.—
Glasgow Herald.
QUEEN'S PRINTERS' PATENT.-011 Wednesday,
in the, House of Commons, Mr. Baines brought up the re-
port of the select committee which has sat for two sessions
on the Queen's Printers' patent for printing the Bible. The
report recommends that the patent be not renewed, and
that no exclusive privilege of printing the Scriptures be
allowed henceforth to exist.
THE CARLISLE COFFIN MYSTERY.—The Paisley
.Herald says:—";ln reference to the death of the child
whose body was discovered some time since in a coffin en-
closed in a box at Carlisle, addressed to Mrs. Loudon, and
which has since been traced to Greenock, we understand
that, on an analysis of a portion of the stomach, poison ha's
been found."
ELECTION EXPENSES.—The expenses incurred by
Viscount Bury when he solicited re-election for Norwich
in June last on his appointment as Treasurer of the Royal
Household have just been officially returned by the election
auditor at, £731 10s. 2d. During the last few days a com-
mittee of the House of Commons has decided that the noble
lord was ineligible for nomination in consequence of corruy-
tion subsequently proved to have been practised at his re-
turn for Norwich in the previous March. Probably by this
time his lordship has had enough of Norwich politics.
DEATII OF A PARLIAMENTARY VETERAN.—The
late Mr. Charles Ross, one of the Commissioners of the
Audit Board, who died yesterday, at his residence, Port-
land-place, at the age of 60, was a gentleman who had played
a 10130., if 'not a distinguished, part in political and Minis-
teriarlife. He was th only son of that gallant officer, the
late General Alexander Ross, by Isabella, daughter of the
late Sir Robert Gunning, Bart., and was born in 1799. He
had scarcely attained his majority when he entered Parlia-
ment on a casual vacancy, as M.P. for the since disfran-
chised borough of Orford, which he represented from 1822
to 1826. In the next Parliament he sat for the borough of
St. Germans, and continued to represent that constituency
in the Conservative interest until extinguished by the Re-
form Act. He was thou elected an M.P. for Northampton,
and was rechosen in 1835, both times after a severe con-
test, but was defeated by Mr. R. Currie at the general
election of 1837. He held the post of a Lord of the Ad-
miralty for a , short time in 1830, and was a Lord of the
Treasury under the short-lived Administration of Sir R.
Peel in 1831-35. Mr. Ross married, in 1825, the Lady
Mary Cornwallis, daughter of the late Marquis Cornwallis,
by whom he has surviving issue. Mr. Ross lost one of his
sons, a most promising tfficer, before Sebastopol, in 1855.
By Mr. Ross's death, the families of Cornwallis, Bray-
breoke, &c., are placed in mourning,