The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-29 00:00:00

XR. DREW, THE IRISH CaJLEDIAN.

Judging from the observations of the leading Dublin
journals, we have reason to congratulate the theatrical
world on the appearance of a most worthy remplacaht of
the late and much lamented Tyrone Power, in the person
of Mr. John Drew, who is playing at the Theatre Royal,
Dublin, where he has met with extraordinary success in
several of poor Power's favourite characters. In quoting
the following from the Irish Times of Saturday we
cannot help observing that Mr. John Drew would
be a very great acquisition to the London stage :
—THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN.—Last evening Mr. Drew
made his fourth appearance before a well-filled
house, when he considerably augmented the suc-
cess which attended his debut. We admired 'him
more last night than we did on Moiday
evening. He was more at home. He seemed to be on better
terms with his audience, and he was perfectly free from

,055 little embarrassments and that nervousness which in-
variably attend a data, but which become almost oppressive
when accompanied by the consciousness of making a " first
eppearanco" in one's native city. If in his representation of
the Irish Ambassador—the most difficult Irish character on
the stago—porsons ix search of faults, and given to hyper-
critical observations, consider he fell short of poor Power's
realisation, lie, nevertheless, exhibited a correct appreciation
of the part, and rendered many of its more salient and deli-
cate points with a richness and a humour which provoked
the most side-splitting laughter, and made us oblivious of
captious criticism.
_ln "Handy Andy" we may say he is ini-
mitable, incomparably comic. From the moment he enters the
stage to the fall of the " drop" he never relaxes the hold
he has on the house. The character is, of course, an :ex-
ceptional one—a humorous exaggeration as
drawn by
Lover; but making proper allowances for the i
dth-
culties of narrative, Andy is the representative of a
class not yet extinct in the country, and looking at Mr.
Drew's representation of this type we must say
it was. per-
fect—perfect in all its faults and iroper.fections. But it was
not a burlesque. While it was. ludicrous, an. d perhaps
coarse, it was free from caricaturing ; and, while. we were
convulsed with the most boisterous laughter at absur-
ditiesits. we w!r.e compelled to admit their
and peculiarities,
truth and the consummate ability of the actor. We have
no doubt that, after a very shortacquaintance, Mr. Drew
will become a decided favourite with his fellow-citisen, of
Dublin

TO
4:4lCtrFeT, orrEtelle:Fourthly
GLOIRE.--Of the prin-
ciplestooTfhtihrdel
HOW endeavoured to set forth there can hardly be
combustible
First : iron vessels without any
doubt.
combustible compounds of the foe. Secondly : the
maternal aterial to be affected by the furnace
gs-lhfires
laced at such an
Thirdly
increase engines,
their
great
armour plates, P f
thean
:closed
port-holes. Fifthly :
speed buttresses—as
high iron means of defence. Sixthly : heavy
strengthor t he
tIo have
de
manoeuvre. elude
non-recoiling guns of great weight. Seventhly : spherical
muzzles, moving on sockets in the vessels side. Eighthly :
breech-loaders without complication. Ninthly : smooth
bores without rifles. Tenthly : very heavy shot. Ele-
venthly : elevating water-ram, cheap and powerful—as
means of offence. This is the class of vessels which will
outmatch La Gloire.—Once a Week.
Two NIGHTS IN A CHALK PIT.—A singular
accident lately occurred at Clapton, near Hungerford. A
man was gathering nuts about mid-day on Monday in a
hedge row on the farm of Mr. Thomas Owen, and fell into
a chalk pit eighteen feet deep, which was overgrown with
brambles, and therefore not easily discovered. The pit
Was only a short distance from the road, and the man, who
states that he heard people passing, and called as loudly
as he could, was not discovered until mid-day on Wed-
nesday, when a little boy who was nutting, ran to Mr.
Owen's farm, and gave an alarm. The poor fellow was got
ont by the aid of a ladder, and having been kindly attended
to by Mr. Owen's family was soon enabled to walk home.
He had a piece of bread and a handful of nuts in his pocket
when he fell into the pit, but could not eat either. Ire
states that he slept well the first night, but passed 111
whole of the second night in prayer, and had worked y
tops of his fingers raw in endeavouring to climb nil t_,e
.
sides of the pit. The pit was a common chalk pit,a s 897
-with a shaft, and was fenced round about f0ur.y9.1:., ;;.
—ll7,usbo /
but the fencing had income much decayed.
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