The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-04 00:00:00

ADELPHI.

Last night, after the "Green Bushes," was produced
a comic drama, founded on a French piece, " Un Mar-
riage a l'Arquebuse," and called "A Border Marriage,"
in which Mr. Leigh Murray made his first appearance at
the Adelphi after 12 months' absence. The piece is of
the slightest construction : some half dozen cavaliers are
in hiding, after the battle of Worcester, at the ruined
castle of Sir Walter Raeburn. They are partaking of a
banquet, the materials for which have been gathered
from the duckpond and fowl•yard of a certain Mistress
Willoughby, a dashing young widow living in the neigh-
bourhood, when the lady herself enters, to complain of
the marauders. While there, the idea comes into the
head of the most roystering of these cavaliers, one Cap-
tain Cuxhaven, to draw up a contract of marriage, and
to obtain to it the signatures of Raeburn and the lady.
These two, fancying it a joke, sign readily enough, but
Cuxhaven then tells them that they are on Scottish
ground, and that the mere fact of the signatures renders
the marriage perfectly valid. Then the lady objects,
quarrels with her husband, fights him with a rapier and
wounds him, finally being brought to love him, and to
bring down the curtain on a reconciliation and a prospect
of happiness, by a few complimentary sentences, and a
pretended wound on the part of the gentleman.
Mr. Leigh Murray acted an uninteresting up-hill part
with more spirit than it deserved. Miss Wyndham
looked very handsome as the widow ; and Mr. Wright,
a cowardls and insolent cook, was, of course, the subject
of intense laughter whenever he appeared. The scene,
the ball in Raven's Hill Castle, is most admirably put
upon the stage, and has quite a Cattermole•ish effect.

THE " MONITEUR" AND THE ENGLISH PRESS.—MOSt
of our provincial contemporaries published on Saturday
and yesterday (including the representatives of public
opinion in Liverpool, Leeds, Yorkshire, and Lancashire)
devote long leading articles to a consideration of the re-
cent article in the Moniteur, and we are glad to per-
ceive that, without exception, they fully concur with the
Times in entering an indignant protest against the ill-
judged attempt of the Parisian journal to fetter the free-
dom ..f the English press. Never was a " move" on the
political chess board more wofoily unsuccessful.—Times.
DOVER, Nov. 3.—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince
of Wales and the Prince Alfred arrived here this even-
ing at 7 o'clock, by South-Eastern train, and were
e
eli.
con-
voyed in carriages to Birmieghain's Royal by Sir Fred.
Ship
Their Royal Highnesses were accompanied
Stearin, Col. Seymour, and Mr. Gibbs, and dined at the
Ship Hate!, where his Royal Highness
.the. Prince of
Wales, Col. Seymour, and Mr. Gibbs sleep. His
Royal Highness the Prince Alfred, with Sir F. Stovin
and Lieut. Cowell,
jeety'e packet Vivid'' iCllapptria:inceed to Ostend, in her Ma.
Allen, specially appointed.
His Royal Highness the iinee of Wales will return to
London tomorrow. Tile travelling public will be glad
to learn that Mr. Birmingham has recently become the
' went, proprietor of the Lord Warden Hotel, the old establish-
however, being still kept up.
THE CONVICT Roasoer's PROPERTY.—Yesterday a pub
lic auction, by Messrs. Davis and Johnstone, took place
at Tucker's Livery Stables, Hart-street, Covent-garden,
of the last remaining effects belonging to William Jas.
Robson, the Crystal Palace convict. The effects com-
prised a chestnut gelding, set of plated gig harness,
riding-saddles, bridles, stabling implements, a hand-
some brougham, dog-cart, &c. A large concourse of
spectators assembled at the stables long before the
commencement of the auction, evidently attracted by
the novelty and strange circumstances connected with
the possession of the property. The first lot was the
chestnut gelding, described in the catalogue as " clever,
with grand action and speed." He found many admirers,
and from the upset price-10 guineas—speedily went to
25 guineas, and was ultimately knocked down at 50
guineas. The brougham, by Nurse, well built and nearly
new, after a spirited competition, brought 8E guineas,
and a dog-cart nearly new, 19 guineas. The several lots
of gig-harness, riding-saddle and bridle, horse-cloths,
rollers, &c., fetched one-third higher prices than they
cost. Inded, these articles, according to the testimony
of harness manufacturers at the sale, were sold far above
their original value ; while the gelding and vehicles
realised such extravagant prices as could only have been
entertained in consideration of the individual who origi-
nally possessed the property having rendered himself
amenable to the laws of his country. t:
A WHALE ATTACKING A SHIP.—GREENOCK, Oct. 31.
—The ship Cuban, of this port, Captain Galloway,
which arrived here from Demerara on Wednesday, met
with a most extraordinary adventure on her homeward
voyage. About 9.20 p.m. of the 16th instant (nautical
time), when in lat. 43.49 N., lon. 29.50 W., the ship,
which was running before the wind at the rate of 9j
knots au hour, received such a severe shock that she
heeled over several drakes, and her way was completely
stopped, while the men who were sleeping on the star.
board berths of the topgallant forecastle were thrown out
upon their chests. Shortly after the shock an immense
whale rose at a short distance from the ship's quarter,
and after lying motionless for a short time, as if stunned
by the blow, swain towards the vessel as if with the in-
tention of repeating the attack. It was a moment of
intense anxiety on board, but fortunately, when close to
the stern, the monster wheeled round in the opposite
direction and dived, throring with his tail, as he did so,
a quantity of blood ana „water on board. It was a
moonlight night, and the bulk of the huge animal could
be seen distinctly towering to a considerable height
above the surface. When he dived his tail appeared
to those on board to be from thirty to forty feet
out of the water. The pumps were sounded, but the
ship was found to be making no water. From the force
of the blow, and the fact that the second mate thought
he heard a whale blowing a short time before the shock
occurred, it is supposed that the whale made a retigular
attack upon the ship, and was not come in contac with
while asleep. An estimate of its immense size and
power may be formed from the fact of its bringing to 4.
stand.still a deeply laden ship of 500 tons, sailing at
.the rate of nearly ten knots an hour.—Greenock Adver,
tierr.