The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-23 00:00:00

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 23.
The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Cork'
from Halifax on the 13th inst., arrived hero SC
5.45 a.m. to-day with $5,255 in specie, and haviliS
landed mails and plssengers she proceeded in3l33°'
diately for Liverpool. All well.

DRURY LANE THEATRE.

The pantomime having been withdrawn, the
dramatic company have again taken possession t!„
the stage, and last night the tragedy of g Macbeth
drew a very crowded audience. The great curiosi
of the performance was the " doubling" the parts Il
Lady Macbeth and Hecate by Mrs. Howard 11311i:0
Without for a moment desiring to depreciate
abilities of the lady, we are boar' I to say the Per'
formance was that which we expected, a curiosity'
and nothing more. Mrs. Paul has done a great
many things well, and it has afforded us pleasere
to compliment her, but on the present occasion v_
can only say that, although her performance 3,ito
not decidedly bad, it was very far from good. l'eo
version of the ambitious wife of the 11-1313 t
of Glamis was, in many parts, entirely new, bud
it requires a greater actress than Mrs. r 3
to recreate the part of Lady Micbeth. There are
many nice bits about her performance, but, ego,
whole,' it lacks 'dignity, subtlety, and e OP,
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sure. Her rendering of the part of Hecate 1/,
also peculiar—a very shadowy and superLio3f
tural kind of dress, an enormous pair ,O
gauze wings shooting from her:shouldev, towervile
high above her head, and reaching almost to tv.'d
ground, were its most striking characteristics.
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cannot think that even this part of the perforbuS
was of first-rate exo,allence, and with respect to tl:t
music the lady might just as well attempt h
of Polyphemus. That Mrs. Paul is a very cle0:1
actress, we most willingly admit ; but her List 3113
most ambitious attempt will not tend to incre3st
her reputation. Like most artistes she has bet
specialities, and when embodying a part wit",l,o
her reach nothing can be better, but the attoot,
to attain to the highest point of dramatic
ar
without the preliminary practice, is a Ito
far beyond even her acknowledged ability.
Macbeth of Mr. Phelps is so well known and
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preciated that we are called upon to say neti):
more than that it preserved all its old beauti—;
and elicited the loudest applause. At the ser
eb
ruination of the tragedy Mrs. Paul received t,
honour of a call, which she most gracefully acke°o
ledged. The home was crowded in every par''

THE LOSS OF LIFE AT SEA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 1,00
SlR,—Your articles on " Our maritime marine "
attracted my attention, especially that of the 22d rust
wherein you say, that " wherever there is an error tpv-i
should be found a willingness to improve, but let us
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fold our hands while property is beine. sacrificed, 0'1;10
national character for maritime efficiency remains at u"
count."
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There was a time when "our mercantile marine,
looked upon by the country as something more tha-o
mere vehicle for making money, when Englishmen e°goll
point to it with pride as the nursery for our seam° -AI
the source whence they could at all times look for streooo/
and support for its defence of the country in the 11°11r
need.
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A suicidal policy has brought about the existing 'at
of things, and now the general public take little We'
in the matter beyond thor own safety and protection. ant
We (the public) say—we care little about your nieret,l3o
shipping acts—we applaud your enterprise, and we, ,—,ot
no objection that our lives should bo assessed at
ton, if it is for the protection of British commerce• v
far as we are concerned—you may build as YOU l
—insure as you like (for the insurer is but a Partlie-,04
the venture) and do as you like—all that we are coneetra-ge
in is, that if we take your money for wages, or Pti A.- to
ours for passage- money, in both cases you are bona' 11
give us save deliverance. We want no new laws, butc°tl3he
that measures shall be adopted by which the law
land shall, when necessary, be brought into o °ration. I,
Probably the time is net yet ripe for the Fntroductif
of a public prosecutor in this copuntry but the 1°941;0
life at sea has became so excessive and alarming that;,i- e
time is ripe for a maritime prosecutor— we say a n'ar-fe-
prosecutor, for an Admiralty prosecutor would be tot:P
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stricted, and the law as propounded and accepted at
court-martials (H.M.S. Amazon and H.M.S. Crocod"s;
has shown that in questions of loss of life, the
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well as the army, ought to be amenable to the civil p°'"
instead of which the civil power was a dead letter.
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We will ask Parliament that such an officer be aPP-13,1,0t
independent of the Board of Trade and Admiralty,
evidence of the death shall supply the place of the -c0
delicte, and that whether the capital which the ship rePar 0
sents belongs to shipowners or insurers, in all cases i,
shall be one registered proprietor or managing owiler.ater•
In Scotland such an officer exists in the fro v 3
Fiscal, who carried an indictment to the Court of 6°91
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and when the Merchant Shipping Act was Pleased id,
assembled judges said, " No, we have nothing to d° Woe
that, for you have rendered yourselves amenable to
law of the land, and by such you must be tried." 19
On that occasion the captain was sentenced to
judgmentoo
months' imprisonment, and the mate to savers Ygtst-
transportation, the elaborate and written judgment
ing " that should it bo found, on any future °
sion, that life was lost from any device bell the
sorted to for the purposes of economy, either °L
boats themselves or the vessels to which they bel°Pri to
grave criminal responsibility would arise, as
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the captain, who neglected to use all appliances 1
;otor,
power to keep them in proper order—or to the pro
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who should fail to have supplied sufficient boats iutileo
fin,t instance, or refused proper allowance to have
maintained." rn°
The intelligence and respectability of our sbil),,
would sanction such a course, for it has been trni;
that "Justice is a much more potent lib-saving 30
tue than even a life-boat". -Yours obediently, 01',1;
WILLIAM STIRLING LA'
London, 23d February, 18G9.

RUR OVER AND KILLED BY A 11AN3031
On Saturday night, while Joseph Hill'g a od 50, warn erby
e
ing the High-street, Through, he was knocked fort'
Hansom cab which was hour, driven along the rolll-ail
ously. The wheels of the vehicle passed over his
tall
and killed him. The corpse was carriid to Guy'd g°,„inot
where it awaits an inquest. The driver of the cab L's"
boen arrested by the police.