The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-29 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S.

The admirable play "The Isle of St. Tropez," which
WAS so successful last season, was reproduced hero last night
with very great success. Mr. Wigan's acting as Henri Desart
was the theme of general admiration and elicited the greatest
applause. Certainly we know of no actor of the present
day who can approach him in the embodiment of parts
similar to that he enacted last night. It was marked by all
that reality for which he is so conspicuous, and the exhibi-
tion of the tortures produced by poison was the very height
of the actor's art. It is almost needless to say it evoked the
most rapturous applause. Mr. G. Yining's Antoine was in
some parts good, but in others it was hard and unnatural.
Miss Herbert was exceedingly effective as Amelie, so was
Miss Kate Terry as Estelle.
The house was very fashionably attended.

SCHOOLDAYS OF SIR JAMES GRAHAM.—At an
early age Sir James was sent to Westminster School, where
he was contemporary with his friend Earl Russell, and
several noblemen and gentlemen who have since become
eminent in all the walks of life. As a school-boy, the
young heir of Netherby was highly popular among his con-
temporaries, and was as remarkable for his quickness and
intelligence as for his proficiency in all manly exercises.
No youth of his day could feather an oar with more skill
and precision, or steer a " trim-built wherry" more adroitly.
From Westminster, in 1808, he proceeded to Cambridge.
At this period young Graham was remarkable for the manly
beauty of his person, and for a frankness and generosity of
of disposition which endeared him to all his associates.
Though-foremost in all the manly sports and pastimes of
the undergraduates, and engaged at every social and fed-
tive party, he was nevertheless a diligent student, and even
thus early was marked for the variety and extent of his
attainments.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—At Blondin's performance
yesterday a momentary terror was caused by the sudden
snapping of the balance-pole, which fell in two parts into
the organ. The loss, however, seemed to have no effect
upon the performer, for he at once made his way to the end
of the rope, when a new pole was brought, and the remain-
der of the programme proceeded with. Blondin's engage-
ment terminates with his 33d ascent on Thursday next. By
special permission he will en this occasion repeat his benefit
performances, and give two ascents—one on the interior,
the other on the exterior rope, at 3 and 6 o'clock. The latter
will afford the opportunity for repeating the extraordinary
display of fireworks by Blondin during his passage along
the rope, similar to those prepared for his benefit on the 7th
instant, the effect of which was marred by the severe fog
which then set in. 32d Ascent of M. Blondin.—One Shil-
lin g Day, Monday. Oct. 28.—Admissions on payment, 3,454;
do. by season tickets, 1,006 ; total visitors, 4,460.
SUSPECTED MURDER IN THE REGENT'S CANAL.
—Yesterday morning, at an early hour, the body of a young
woman unknown, apparently about 20 years of age, de-
cently attired, was discovered by a labouring man floating
in the water of the Regent's Canal, Rosemary Branch-
bridge, near North-road, Hoxton. The body had been in
the water several days, and presented a sickening:spectacle,
the head being battered in and the eyes removed from their
sockets. The arms and legs were bruised, and the body in
various parts was contused, and the skin abraded from ex-
ternal violence. A messenger was despatched for Mr. E.
Walter, the coroner's officer, who proceeded to the spot, and
had the body removed in a shell to the workhouse of St.
Leonard's, Shoreditch, where Dr. Clark, the parochial
medical officer, made a minute examination of the body,
which was that of a fine young woman. The skull was ex-
tensively fractured, and the brain lacerated. The injuries
were no doubt the cause of death. A full description of the
deceased was at once forwarded to the whole of the metro-
politan police stations, and at noon yesterday Mr. Walter
received information which leads him to believe that the
name of the deceased is Emma Jones, and that her friends
reside in the neighbourhood of the Curtain-road, Shore-
ditch, from which place she has been missing for nearly a
fortnight. Search had been made for her by her father and
mother, but at present the cause of the deceased's death is
involved in great obscurity.
THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.—The masons are now
the only branch of the building operatives standing out
against the hour system, and about 240 men are on the
strike books of the society. Last week the whole of the
men remaining on the strike books of the bricklayers' society
were cleared off, having obtained employment, either under
the compromise, or on the old terms of the trade, at ss. 6d.

per day of ten hours, and the committee have ceased for
the present any further active opposition to the system, and
withdraw their pickets from all the yards and jobs where
they have been kept on for the last seven months, and are
now devoting themselves to the perfecting the new organi-
sation and amalgamation of their trade throughout the
country, with the purpose of uniting in combined action with
the other branches of the building trade, in opposition to
the system, at the commencement of the building season in
the spring. In the meantime, in common with the car-
penters, painters, and plasterers, who are working on the
hour system under protest, they have decided on throwing
their pecuniary support into the masons.
THE LATE SIR JAMES GRAIIAM.—For the last
eighteen months the late Sir James Graham had been suf-
fering from attacks of acute pain in the heart on the least
mental or physical exertion. On Thursday week, having i
dined with his family as usual on the previous day, he was
seized wiql pain of more than usual severity in the heart.
Remedies were applied ; the attack yielded to their influ-
ence, and he gradually improved. Last Thursday he was
so much better told his medical attendant he thought he
should shortly be able to dispense with his services, and
after having had dinner in his bedroom, ho retired about
six o'clock, saying he felt all the better for having sat up
longer than usual. Soon after that he had another attack
of acute pain, which did not yield to the remedies applied.
He expressed a strong conviction that it was useless to try
any more remedies, as he was quite sure, from the long con-
tinuance of spasms and from his general feeling, that his
end was at hand. He then gradually sank during the
night, and died at a quarter before 12 on Friday. His
faculties were bright and unimpaired to the last, and he
died expressing the utmost resignation.
The Friend of India says :—" The ex-King of
Belhi, Bahadur Shah, is dying in his comfortable wooden
house at Rangoon. He is not expected to survive this
cold season. He has received every comfort which 10
rupees a-month could purchase, and has been allowed, in
common with his family to wander at will, on his parole,
within the limits of cantonments, a privilege he has seldom
been able to 4tvail himself of. His son, Jumma Bukht,
and the two brothers, are fast becoming accomplished
English scholars. We wonder Bahadur Shah has tiArvived
the events of 1857 so lonu. His wife is still hAle and well.'I