The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-02 00:00:00

ADEL PHI,

Mr. Alfred Wigan appeared on Monday night for the
first time in London since his recovery from the painful in-
disposition that, about a year and a-half ago, compelled
him to relinquish his management of the Olympic Theatre
in the midst of a prosperous career. In consequence of the
respect he has acquired both as a manager and as an actor
the progress of his convalescence has been watched with
considerable anxiety in theatrical circles, and the intelli-
gence a few weeks since that he had resumed his profes-
sional labours at the Brighton Theatre awakened an excite-
ment rarely caused in the metropolis by the events at pro-
vincial playhouses. For his appearance on Monday night,
Mr. Tom Taylor's excellent comedy, " Still Waters Run
Deep," was revived. This was well suited to the occasion,
inasmuch as it was not only one of the most successful
pieces produced by Mr. Wigan at the Olympic, but also the
one in which, perhaps, he most distinguished himself by
his performance of the principal character. The applause
that burst forth from all parts of the house when the rising
curtain discovered Mr. and Mrs. Wigan auspiciously inau-
gurated their new London engagement, and they played as
if no untimely interruption .had checked them in their
course as deserving favourites of the bet ter class of play-

goers.

ROYAL OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—Her Majesty
and the Prince Consort, attended by the Countess of Cale-
don, the Hon: Miss Kerr, the Hon. Miss Bulteel, Lord
Raglan, General Grey, and Colonel Seymour, visited this
elegant theatre last evening. The opera was " Maxitana,"
followed by the pantomime.
Mr. George Hunter Cary, of the Chancery bar,
has received from Sir Bulwer Lytton the appointment of
Attorney-General of the new colony of British Columbia.

_ ...
Mr. Cary was a pupil of the Solicitor-General (Sir Hugh
Cairns), and during the course of his practice he has given
promise of abilities which fully justify the selection which
the Colonial Secretary has made.

THE GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL.—We have
much pleasure in calling attention to the performance to be
given at St. Martin's Hall, on Tuesday, Bth March, in aid
of the funds of the Great Northern Hospital, under the
patronage of her Majesty. As our vast metropolis year by
year extends its suburbs into the country, there is created
a demand for increased hospital accommodation; and the
Great Northern Hospital has been established to supply
the urgent wants of the poor and crowded neighbourhoods
of Camden, Somers, and Agar Towns, and the other popu-
lous districts which have grown up on the northern side of
London. But the applications at the hospital are so
numerous that the funds at the command of the committee
have hitherto proved sadly inadequate. The performance
will be under the direction of Mr. Henry Leslie. The
principal artists engaged are Madame Viardot Garcia,
Madame Rudersdorff, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Montem
Smith, and Signor Belletti; and Miss Arabella Goddard
perform Weber's Concert Stuck in the second part of
the concert and there will be also performed in the course
of the evening various selections from Handel, Palestrina,
Mendelssohn, Henry Smart, and Mozart.

It is stated that the negotiations for the accele-
ration of the day mail between London and Paris, and for
its conveyance via Boulogne, are still in progress. Nothing
definitive, however, seems to have been concluded, although
the low-water landing pier at Boulogne is in course of con-
struction, and the short cut on the railway from St. Denis to
Creil is on the point of being completed. It is said the
French postal authorities and the parties under whose
superintendence the conveyance of the mails is carried out
are favourable to the change, and that the only difficulty
proceeds from our own postal authorities, who hesitate to
take the initiative in the matter. There seems no doubt
that the alteration would effect a great improvement in the
international mail service, and while the saving in distance
and time by the Boulogne route is incontestable, the late
accident at Calais is sufficient to prove, not that the Calais
route is unsafe or dangerous otherwise than under very ex-
ceptional circumstances, but that on some such occasions
it is so, even with westerly winds, and therefore does not
possess any special advantage to compensate the unques-
tioned superiority of the other route so far as the day mail
is concerned.

THE SHEEP POISONING CASE AT NEWCASTLE.—
This case was concluded at the Newcastle assizes on Mon-
day, after having occupied the court for nearly three days.
It will be remembered that the plaintiff, who was a farmer,
had bought from the defendant a certain composition to be
used for dipping sheep. After the sheep had been dipped a
great flood came on and washed the stuff out of their fleeces
i nto the grass, and from eating this the sheep, to the number
of 700, died. Mr. Justice Willes, in summing up, said
the verdict of the jury must be founded upon whether this
was a reasonable and tit composition to be used according
to the directions upon the packages. If they thought the
loss of the sheep could be reasonably attributed to no other
cause, then their verdict must be for the plaintiff ; but if the
plaintiff had not made out this, then their verdict must be
for the defendant. The jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff—damages, £1,400.
SUDDEN DEATH.—A melancholy case of sudden
death occurred here on Friday last, at about 11 a.m. It. B.
Berens, Esq., son of the late Joseph Berens, Esq., of
Kevington House, St. Mary Cray, went out for a ride rut
his estate on his pony, and shortly before 1 p.m. the pony
came across the park without him. The coachman and
groom immediately went off to look for their master, and
found him in the rabbit warren, about five minutes walk
from the house. Dr. Smith and his son attended, who pro-
nounced him to be quite dead, and stated the cause of death
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to be apoplexy. Mr. Berens had been under medical treat-
continued to gain flesh.
The opinion of those who found him is that he did not fall
from "his pony, but that, finding himself ill, he had dis-
mounted, and whilst resting against a tree slid down and
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died.—Nouth Easton Gazette.