The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-03 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market. —This Day.

The market opens strong. Sales probably 20,000
bales.

There has been an extraordinary catch of pilchards
in Mount's Bay during the last few days. A large
" school" was discovered on Saturday stretching from St.
Michael's Mount to Penzance Pier. The owners of one
net realised five hundred hogsheads, which would make a
million and a quarter fish. On Saturday Mounts Bay
presented a very busy scene, the continual arrival of
large boats laden with fish, the shovelling them out into
baskets, and the carrying of these off to the cellars where
the fish are cured, kept a largo number of people in a state
of activity and excitement. The bulk of the fish is sent
to the Mediterranean, Wesleyan Cornwall supplying
"Rome with its chief diet.—Westirn Morning News
HOP-PICKING IN KENT.—Hop-picking is so far
completed in the district surrounding Maidstone that the
South-Eastern Railway Company have commenced run-
ning their special trains for the conveyance of pickers back
to London. On Saturday about 2,000 were despatched,
and on Sunday 2,200. On Monday only 500 were sent
from Maidstone, but each day the numbers will increase
as the work is completed. A gentleman in the neighbour-
hood has visited 29 districts, and he gives the average
growth of hops at 61 cwt. per acre, and states the quality
to be excellent. The health of the district has again im-
proved, there having been but two deitths from cholera
during the week. There have been 23 new attacks and
28 recoveries. Several vendors of stale fish were on Mon-
day brought before the county magistrates. The offenders
had made themselves liable to a penalty of £2O, under the
Diseases Prevention Act, for each fish offered for sale.
The magistrates sentenced each defendant to a month's
imprisonment.
HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL—The new Holborn

Theatre, the youngest and by no means one of the largest
of our metropolitan temples of the drama, may certainly
be considered one of the best arranged and most comfort-
able. In this respect its youth is in its favour, the great
improvements achieved during the last few years in the
science of ventilation having been brought to bear with
admirable effect. As a general rule, oven the handsomest
and best ventilated theatres are anything but pleasing to
the sense of smell ; a fact easily understood when we bear in
mind that such is the entire absence of windows in the
great majority, that even at midday rehearsals the scanty
gleam of daylight has to be freely eked out with gas before
the performers can see their way in safety about the stage.
Mr. Sefton Parry, the enterprising proprietor of the new
theatre, has at all events steered clear of this error, and
his stage in the daytimeds as light as any ordinary draw-
ing-room, whilst a full number of windows, supple-
mented by an ample provision of other means of ven-
tilation, affords so abundant a supply of fresh air, that we
may fairly expect the theatre to continue throughout its
career as fresh and sweet as at the present moment. Great
attention has also been paid to the comfort of its visitors
in other respects. The stalls are softly-cushioned arm-
chairs of really luxurious dimensions—the most comfort-
able, in fact, of any theatre in London ; and all other parts
of the house are in their degree equally well provided.
The fittings also have all been completed in the most
complete and thorough style, and with a total dis-
regard of cost ; therein affording a strong con-
trast to the prevailing style of theatrical work-
manship, wherein such parts as are to be in any way hidden
from public view are usually run up with a single eye to
the most extreme economy. In arrangement this theatre
follows to some extent the French method, the dress circle
projecting, as at the Adelphi, in a balcony. The "slips"
also are, as will be seen from the sketch oposite, divided
off into private boxes. Among the principal members of the
company may be noticed Mr. Parry himself, a first-rate
artist in eccentric comedy ; Mr. Belmore, the rising young
actor who achieved such a startling success in the charac-
ter of Softy in "Aurora Floyd;" and Messrs. Vollaire,
Garden, and G. F. Neville. Among the ladies, Miss Char-
lottes
Saunders, a well-known and favourite actress;o
Jane Burke, an American celebrity from Wallat,h.kn'stheatrenand
New York; Mrs. Raymond; and Miss F. Johnston
Bessie Foote.—Autumn Edition of the "Brownr g
a very
bye anidarnkier t:bnlo°
MUNDKN'SDromio was no doubt
performance. To this actor, although
part,
it will
mention of his appearance in this
farce," ho writes,
be remembered that Lamb has
unaccompanied as
' essays. "In the
"Munden stands out as sing
ourd described him as the
Sergeant Talf
high farce what Kern-
Hogarth. Mr.
s being in
devoted particular
ono of his " Elie
The lines of the two artists, he
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ble was in high tragoclY-
tly distinct ; but he discovered the
grotesque °f
most classical of actgorras:da
admitted, were suffieion
; the same directness of purpose, the
same elements inofbosatohirrld,
the same concentration of power,
same singleness
f inflexible manner, the same s casing tatue-
sterling, almost adamantine, in.
the same iron
f
gesture, movement, and attitude.
of his grotesque characters. . .
the
fibx:sil hliss:twneotonhuird.er-working face be any of its most Whenamaz-
inglie
varieties, it looks as if the picture were carved out
from a rock by nature in a sportive vein, and might last
for ever. . . . His most fantastical gestures are the
grand ideal of farce. . His expressions of feeling
and bursts of enthusiasm are among the most genuine
which we have ever felt. Munden was a pupil of Shuter ;
but he surpassed his preceptor in variety. His Old Dorn-
ton, in " The Road to Ruin," of which character he was
the original representative, exhibited a pathetic power rare
among comic actors. Though often wildly extravagant in
farce, his performances in high comedy were accounted
natural and artistic, while marked with a forcible indivi-
duality.—Onee a Week.

The vine harvest is expected to be a bad one all
over Italy. The production has been small, and
the oidium has committed ravages among the grapes
\ylliai ale coming tQ maturity,