The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-30 00:00:00

SURREY THEATRE.

This theatre will be reopened to •morrow evening with an
entirely new series of performances. A tragedy, entitled
"The Bridal of Beatriz," is the most important play an-
nounced. The play is a new one, with new scenery,
dresses, and machinery, and Mr. Creswick is to undertake
the principal part. In addition to this, a troupe of native
American minstrels will give a variegated entertainment,
and the whole will conclude with a farce, also new—" The
Three Dummies."

The Duke of Hamilton will leave Brodick Castle,
Isle of Arran, in a few days, for Easton Hall, Suffolk, to
receive a select party for the pheasant shooting.
The Duchess of Argyll and her infant daughter,
according to letters received in town yesterday from Inve-
rary Castle, N. 8., arc progressing favourably.
The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury have,
during the last few weeks, been entertaining a succession
of distinguished friends at Achnacarry, his lordship's shoot-
ing box, near Fort William, N.B.
Lord Dunkellin left town on Tuesday for Wilton
House, near Salisbury, on a visit to the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert, during the
stay of her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Maria
of Russia.

Lady Frederick Bentinck is making a tour in
France. Her ladyship returns home at the doss of next

month.
Count de Jaucourt has loft the residence of the
French Embassy to join the distinguished circle visiting
the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert,
at Wilton House, near Salisbury.
Sir Henry and Lady Bold Hoghton and family
have arrived at Howchin's Hotel from Inverness.
Mrs. Carlos and Miss Louis Wood have left
Howchin's Hotel for Frostenden Grove, Suffolk.
Lieutenant Longley, Royal Engineers (son of
the Bishop of Durham), arrived on Wednesday morning
at Limmer's Hotol, from Shanghai, China, by overland
mail, via Marseilles. Lieutenant Longley's wound, re-
ceived at the recent attack on the Peiho forts on the 25th i
of June, is healed, but the ball is not yet extracted.
The Marco Polo has arrived from Melbourne with
58,040 ounces of gold, worth about £232,000. She left on
the 12th of July.
The Royal Charter had arrived in 59 days. The
elections were to commence on the 20th of August. There
was a great outcry against Ministers for not sending relief
to the Achimlla. The shipments of gold since the last mail
for England comprise the Dover Castle with 78,191 ounces;
Yorkshire, 29,471; British Trident, 32,767 ; Dirigo, 18,657;
and George Marshall, 29,813; making a total of abort
£755,000, exclusive of £lO,OOO previously advised by the
Waterloo.
About £120,000 in bar gold was taken to the
Bank yesterday. Of the 95,000 sovereigns by the Kent, a
great portion were Australian, and, together with a sum of
£30,000 in bars, were bought for the Continent. Those of
English coinage were sent into the Bank.
THE NATIONAL DEFENCE COMMISSION. The
gentlemen forming this commission have been the last few
days at Pembroke visiting the various sites for the effectual
protection of the arsenal as well as the haven generally.
Government have this week entered into a contract for
another powerful battery to be erected. It is to be con
strutted on Bulwell Point, a commanding situation, about
half-way between the dockyard and the mouth of the
harbour. _ _ .

FUNERAL OF DR. ALISON.—The remains of this
distinguished and much lamented professor received the
honour of a public funeral at Edinburgh on Wednesday.
Sir Archibald Alison, brother of the deceased, was the chief
mourner, and, in addition to a large company of private
mourners, the funeral was attended by the magistrates and
council in their official robes, the professors of the Univer-
sity, the members of the different medical corporations, the
Royal Society, &c. After service in St. John's Episcopal
Chapel, conducted by the Very Rev. Dean Ramsay and
other clergymen, the body was interred in the burying-
ground attached to the chapel in presence of a large as-
semblage of spectators.
DEATH OF MR. BALCHIN, THE BRIGHTON STA-
TION MASTER.—This efficient and highly-respected officer,
so well known to all travellers on the Brighton Rail-
way, expired on Sunday last. He had been suffering
slightly for some time, and went to Norfolk for a change
of air, returning apparently restored ; but a relapse came
on, bronchitis and inflammation set in, and he was coin-
pelled to take to his bed on Wednesday last, expiring on
Sunday, deeply lamented by his family and his friends, in
his 44th year. Mr. Balchin had been 21 years in the ser-
vice of the company, during which time he opened the
Shoreham, Worthing, and Chichester stations, and suc-
ceeded Mr. Pountain as station-master at Brighton. The
company have lost in him a most valuable servant. He
was buried yesterday, and Messrs. Hawkins, Craven,
Greaves, Farmer, and many of the company's officers, in-
cluding about 50 station-masters, followed his remains to
the grave as a last tribute of respect, and in the street
where the deceased resided, the inhabitants paid ,a similar
tribute by closing their shops. A " memorial fund" is to
be set on foot.for the benefit of the widow and child of the
deceased.— West Sussex Gazette.
METEORIC PHENOMENON.--A great meteoric
phenomenon has recently occurred in the State of New
York, about nine miles south of Albany. A loud explosion
was heard by several persons, and in about two minutes
after the stone fell, striking a waggon-house, and then roll-
ing into the grass. When picked up it was warm and had
a strong sulphurous odour. It is of the size of a pigeon's
egg, irregular in shape and angular. One portion of the
stone is of a steel-gray colour, with bright metallic spots
interspersed. The stone closely resembles the meteorite
which fell in Linn county, lowa, in 1847, and now in the
cabinet of Professor Shepherd, of New Haven.—.Philadel-
.phia Journal.