The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-09 00:00:00

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SURREY THEATRE.

Messrs. Creswick and Sheppard commenced their
winter season last night, with a new melo-drama of in-
tense interest, called the "Half Caste." The piece
consists of four acts, and the plot is as follows :—A cer-
tain rich planter, M. de Courville, one day in showing
some visitors round his plantation, insults the wife of
one of his slaves—Maximus Moroi, and then on the
husband resenting the insult, he is instantly branded,
his wife is ordered to be flogged, ::nd his mother and
brother to be sold. The wife of Maximus dies three
days after the infliction, and the half caste determines
to devote his life to obtain revenge. Time wears on,
and M. de Courville thinking Maximus has forgotten
his wrongs, educates him, and makes him his overseer,
The planter is called away from his estates, and imme-,
diately after his departure Maximus turns all the pro-
perty into cash, and decamps. The consequence is, the
planter is ruined, and Maximus becomes a rich man. The
half caste, as he is journeying toParis, meets an English
nobleman, and, to gratify a whim, they exchange names,
and Maximus departs for Paris as Lord Trafford, after
Ise has contrived, as he supposed, the death of the owner
of the title. Arrived in Paris, he falls in love with a
certain Lady Angeline, but his suit is rejected in favour
of another. He intreats Angeline to reconsider her
determination, and at this moment the ruined planter
enters, and recognises the supposed lord as hie overseer.
Angeline turns out to be a lost daughter of M. de Cour-
ville, and she determines to revenge her father's wrongs.
She allows Maximus to believe she loves him, and her
lover Eugene enters into the plot. Finally, the mask
is thrown off, the real Lord Trafford arrives, and in
Eugene Maximus discovers his lost brother. As he
cannot live to see Angeline married to another, he dies
by poison. The part of Maximus was sustained by Mr.
Creswick with great, ability, and the Angeline of Miss
Marriott a very beautiful performance. At the termi-
nation of the drama Mr. Creswick and Miss Marriott
were called for, and on their appearance were greeted
with loud applause. The present season at this favourite
place of amusement promises to be both an attractive
and profitable one. The house was crowded to excess.

4 SEPTEMBER 9, 13 5(.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, nMOND&Y ATOLNI.NG.

SADLEIRIS! I.

The Carlow Sentinel state:; that the directors of
the Bank of Ireland have to ken legal proceedings
against several persons in that town whose bills
' were given as security by tl le Tipperary Bank for
advances to that unfortunat; 3 concern by the Bank
of Irelat:d, and, by way of the beginning of the
end, it is added that the effects of au extensive
farmer residing near Ballyelien were seized under
execution for 7001. due to tL;e bank. It appears
that the farLwr was security for a trader iu the
town, and of ',course is held responsible for the
amount. The .Carlow paper thus moralises upon
the effects of bz eking upon a political system,
carried on for so many years by Sadleir and his
confederates in fraud

"The Sadleirs aia,ed at ascendancy. They risked all
to gain it and a pa sition suddenly from humble life.
They bribed and labo ured with indefatigable industry to
attain the object of their ambition, and we do regret to
find so many victims of their vulgar ambition. They
found Carlow, crrnparat ively speaking, prosperous in the
department of shopkeeping, and after an unexampled
career of strife to secure their political power, we leave
it to the fancy of our readers to depict the state in which
they left their friends, after the exercise of the greatest
kindness and leniency towards them both by the Bank of
Ireland and the official manager of the Tipperary Bank."
With respect to the whereabouts of James Sad-
leir, the Carlow paper says that the police are on
the wrong scent, and that there is every reason to
believe that the fugitive is now far ou his way to
South America, " where there appears to be little
doubt that he will be afforded the opportunity of
embracing his brother John." With regard to this
latter prospect, it may be mentioned, as an instance
of that second-sight said to be the peculiar property
of our northern fellow-subjects, that a respectable
professional man, recently returned to Dublin from
New Orleans, is ready to aver on oath, if called
upon, that during his residence at the latter place
he had seen John Sadleir bodily striding through
the streets of New Orleans. There could be, he
insists, no mistake, as he had been for many years
familiar with the marked features of that never-to-
be-forgotten countenance.