The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-24 00:00:00

LYCEUM THEATRE.

The success of Mr. Falconer's new comedy,
" Extremes ; or, Men of the Day," has been fully
confirmed by its continued and steady attraction
from its first production, and is now a great and
undeniable fact. It has undergone some conside-
rable loppings, which have lightened it of much
superfluous and ineffective matter, and it now pro-
ceeds briskly along to the marked content of the
audisiice. Another circumstance in its favour is,
that its cast has undergone two very impor-
tant and advantageous changes—one only last
night, by the . substitution of Nr. Leigh Murray
for the author of the comedy in the principal male
part, and the other that of Miss Woolgar (now
Mrs. Mellon) for Mrs. Charles Young, who has
resigned the character of Lucy Vavasour, to return
to Sadler's Wells.

hero of Ms comedy by playing the character So little justice did Mr. Falconer do to the
him-
self, that it has hitherto presented a very near ap-
proach to that proverbial example of defectiveness—
" Hamlet," with the part of Hamlet omitted. In
the hands of Mr. Leigh Murray, Frank Hawthorn
loses all the dreary prosiness which had militated
so strongly against the interest he is designed to
appropriate, and from an impossible and rather
disagreeable abstraction, becomes a warm-blooded,
manly piece of reality. The subdued, graceful, and
gentlemanly tone with which the verbal encounters
between the self-educated son of the Lancashire
artisan and his aristocratic rival are conducted,
abates a great deal from their startling improba-
bility, and contributes powerfully to maintain the
interest of the situations. Mr. Leigh Murray's
greeting on his first appearance was of the most
flattering description, and after rousinghis audience
to repeated bursts of applause by the impressive
and delicately-defined significance of his acting, he
was recalled, at the fall of the curtain, to receive
an especial demonstration of their approval. Mr.
Falconer is to be congratulated on the accession to
the company of an actress of such ripe and versatile
talent as Miss Woolgar, whose merits have so long
placed her in the full light of public favour.

TEE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY EVENING.

The Tagus steamer, Capt. Christian, has arrived
with the Peninsular mails, in charge f Lieutenant
Charlton, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are—
Gibraltar, Sept. 15 ; Cadiz, 16 ; Lisbon, 19 ; and
Oporto and Vigo, 20. She brings £1,615 in specie,
646 boxes of raisins, 125 cases of figs, 25 cases of
tomatoe, 214 half boxes of lemons, 1,030 boxes of
grapes, 62 cases of preserved pears, 14 cases of car-
toons, 219 boxes and 126 serons of almonds, 50
boxes of onions,- 19 boxes of eggs, five quarter casks
of wine, and 24 packages of sundries.
The' Tagus had a fresh, south-westerly gale across
the Bay of Biscay.
The Jura steam transport sailed from Gibraltar
on the 15th with the 48th Regiment for Alexandria.
The Sardinian frigate Victor Emmanuel and the
sloop of war Aquila arrived at Gibraltar on the
15th.

The British merchant steamer General Codring-
ton. from London for Genoa, Leghorn, &c., arrived
at Gibraltar on the 15th and proceeded.
There were no British ships of war at Lisbon.
The French steamer Ps ittin and the usual Por-
tuguese fleet Were in the Tagus. The tariff com-
mission at Lisbon was reported to have decided in
favour of a general reduction in the import duties
on manufactured goods;. but its suggestions were
expected to be on a limited scale, and, if adopted
by the Government, cannot be put in force till
next year, as they must pass the Cortes, which are
not likely to meet until November.
Lisbon exchanges for this packet for bills at three
months were quoted on London at 53,5-, to 1, and
cloSed with money over at the latter rate. Paris,'
631; Amsterdam, 421 ; Hamburg, 47'1, ; Genoa,
528. Transactions in stocks limited, with a slight
improvement, the Three per Cent. Registered leav-
ing off at 471 to ; Coupons, 461 to ; Deferred,
301 to 4 ; Bank of Portugal shares, 64- to 7 per cent.
prem. ; •porto Bank shares, 24 to 25 per cent.
prem. ex div.
The steamship Valetta, with the outward mails,
arrived at Vigo on the 20th.