The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-17 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

A new version of Scribe's Giralda was produced
here last evening; it is from the pen of Mr. Bourci-
cault, who has made the dialogue moat sparkling
and effective. The part of the Miller, the hus-
band of Giralda, was sustained by 'Wright, who
has been admirably fitted by Mr. BJurcicault, and,
as might have been expected whenever he was on
the stage, the house was in a roar. His make-up
was most grotesque. Paul Bedford was very
unctious as the Chamberlain Don Japhet, and Mr.
Boyce made a very fair Don Manuel, while the
Don Philip of Mr. H. Hughes was excellent.
Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam looked and acted the
miller's pretty wife to the life, never have we seen a
more exquisitely naive piece of acting than the
Giralda of Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam. She intro-
duced a very pretty canzonet, composed for her by
Mr. Alfred Mellon, and sung it with such exquisite
sweetness as to secure for it an unanimous encore.
The part of the Duchess of Arragon was sustained
by Miss Emma Harding in a manner which cannot
but add greatly to her reputation as an artiste. She
seemed " a queen, aye 1 every inch a queen," in the
earlier scenes, in which with insjestic dignity she
issues her commands to her vassals, among whom it is
evident she includes her husband ; and in the later
scenes, in which the queen gradually softens into the
woman, her acting was full of pathos. The Duchess
of Arragon of this young lady is one of the best
things she has yet done. The mise en scene was ad-
mirable and the success of the piece was complete.
The house was very well attended.

OLYMPIC THEATRE,
An English version of Le Pere Turlututu was
produced here last evening, for the purpose a enabling
Mr. W. Farren to appear in Bouffe's celebrated cha-
racter of that name, and, as in the case of Grandfather
Whitehead (a somewhat cognate character), our
great English artiste has surpassed, greatly surpassed,
his original. As in the cae of Grandfather White-
head, the scene of the plot is transferred to England;
the title is changed to The Oldest Inhabitant, the
said oldest inhabitant being " Old Daddy," whosa
age is upwards of a century. This is one of those
characters in which Farren is unapproachable,
and bis " Old Daddy" is quite equal to his
Grandfather Whitehead, or his Old Parr; con-
sidered in an artistic point of view, it is one of
the most faultless impersonations that the stage has
or can ever produce. Farren was admirably sup-
ported by Compton, H ho, as a pompous
beadle, made great fun. The piece was most
successful, and at the fall of the curtain there were
loud calls for Farren, who, sustaining his character to
the last, tottered across the stage to receive the ap-•
plause. The house was crowded.

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THE Exmosiox AT SEAFOED.—The grand cliff
explosion is fixed to take place on Thursday next, the 19th
inst., at two o'clock r.sr., at low water, when 27,0001 b. weight
of powder will be simultaneously exploded by the Royal
Sappers and Miners, by means of the galvanic battery. A
great number of officers and distinguished persons are ex-
pected, and the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
Company will run trains on that day at single fares to New-
haven station.

THE LATE MAJOR BALFOUR, 32D REGIMENT.--
On the 10th of July last this officer died at Govindg hur,
north-western province of India. Ile entered the service in
the year 1829:as an ensign in the 7d Highlanders, with
which regiment he served at the Cape -
Good
ofHope, and
in the Kafir war of 1834 and 1835 was aide-de-camp to Sir
Harry Smith. Subsequently he exchanged to the 32d Re-
giment, with which he was present at
the first and second
sieges of Mooltan ( dangerously wounded) in 1843; also at
the surrender of the fort and garrison of Cheniote; and for
his services at the decisive battle of Goojerat, Captain Balfour
Was promoted to the rank of brevet-major.
GENERAL COURT MARTIAL.—CHATHAM, SEPT. 16.
—On Saturday Colonel R. Rumley, of the 12th Regiment,
president, and fourteen other officers, comprising a General
Court-martial, assembled at this garrison for the trial of
George Baker, a private of the 10th Hussars. Captain J. S.
Wood, the Brigade-Major of this garrison, officiated as de-
puty-judge advocate, and read two charges against the priso-
ner, who was in the garb of an agricultural labourer. The
first was that of desertion, and second for having made away
with part of his regimental necessaries. The prisoner pleaded
guilty to both. The prisoner's character was bad. His
service is one year and nine months, and his age twenty-
one years and nine months. The sentence will not be known
until it is confirmed by the Commander-in-Chief.

The Castle Hotel, Richmond, was burglariously
entered on Sunday night, and a large quantity of valuable
property carried otf.

• Esther Pringle, the woman charged with cutting
the throat of her daughter, a child four years of age, was
committed for trial by Mr. Mashiter, one of the magistrates
of Romford.

Dr. llaton, who was so severely wounded by his
wife at Gatehouse, has been pronounced convalescent. The
unhappy wormiai.s still in liilkeuclbright prison,

APPALLING MURDER AND
SUICIDE.

CATAN, SEPT. 10.—This town and neighbourhood
were thrown into the highest state of excitement and
alarm at an early hour yesterday, by the arrival of
several persons from the vicinity off Ballinah, who
rushed into Cavan with the frightful intelligence that
Dr. Creighton, lately come to reside near Ballinah,
had just murdered one of the ladies of his house, and
immediately after put an end to his own existence.
This information was but too true. Dr. Creighton
was a native of this county ; he resided near Cavan
up to the period of his entering Trinity College,
where he graduated and took out the degree of Ba-
chelor of Medicine. He commenced his professional
career in Townsend-street, Dublin, where he prac-
tised with considerable success ; he subsequently
changed his residence to either No. 24 or 25, Great
Brunswick•street.
Some short time ago his manner became very ec-
centric ; his mind was evidently weakened and
warped, and he became full of the idea that a con-
spiracy was on foot to destroy him, and that the
members of his own household were deeply
engaged in this plot. This deranged state of intellect
became so palpable, that his friends were advised to
withdraw him from practice altogether, and remcve
him to the country. Accordingly, he and his family
returned to this locality about two months ago, where
it was hoped, that by turning his attention to agricul-
tural pursuits, his mind might be diverted from those
miserable hallucinations by which it had been preyed
on ; arrangements were made for that purpose, and
he was settled on a farm of some extent, Heath
Lodge, the estate of William Humphreys, Esq., of
Ballyhaise, on which an excellent house and suitable
offices have lately been erected.
Dr. Creighton 's monomania was a conviction that
his friends were endeavouring to poison him in his
food, and accordingly he refused food for several days.
He would frequently lie down on the lawn, or in the
fields, and eat grass, in order, as he said, to prevent
the execution of the plans of those around him. On
all other subjects he was perfectly clear and collected,
and conversed in the most rational manner. He was
not placed under restraint, and walked about the
grounds and roads at pleasure. His family consisted
of an aunt, Miss Creighton, advanced in life, and in-
firm, a young lady, named Faris, a near relative of his
own, and a servant man. On the morning of yester-
day (Tuesday), at about nine o'clock, Dr. Creighton
went to his aunt's room, and told her that the servant
was waiting to shave him, and begged of her to give
him his razors for that purpose—they had been pur-
posely kept out of his reach ; but seeing how calm and
collected he was, and bearing from him that the ser-
vant was in attendance, she did not hesitate to
give them to him. Miss Creighton, it appears, was
still in bed, for he said to her in leaving the
room, " Aunt, you need not get up, I'll send
your breakfast up when it is ready." He
then went down stairs, and nothing further
was heard or seen of him until about a quarter of
an hour after, when Miss Creighton, on going down
to the parlour, and finding it empty, proceeded to the
kitchen. Her horror may be imagined, on reaching
this spot, to find Miss Faris lying dead on the floor,
a pool of blood around her, and her head nearly
severed from her body. A broad mark of blood com-
mencing near the dead body, next attracted her at-
tention. She surmised, and that correctly, that it
was the blood of her unfortunate nephew, who, she
thought had wounded himself, and then fled from the
house into the plantations adjacent to it. She tracked
this second stream of blood to the closed door of a
pantry adjoining the kitchen but not opening into it.
On pushing open this door, which was merely closed
to, but not fastened, she found him bathed in blood
and just expiring. He never spoke and died in a few
minutes. She immediately fled to the house of a
mabistrate residing in the neighbourhood, William
Smith, Esq., and gave the alarm.
An inquest was held on the bodies of these un-
fortunates by William Pollock, Esq., coroner, and a
highly respectable jury, and a verdict returned in ac-
cordance with the too •well-know n state of mind of
this unhappy gentleman.
Dr. Creighton was not much over 30 years of age ;
his victim was several years younger. She was an
agreeable well-educated person, and had just arrived
on a visit to her aunt, as she was preparing to emi-
grate to America,where her friends are now residing.
Nothing is known of the proceedings of Dr. Creighton
after his leaving his aunt's room, beyond what the po-
sition of the bodies indicated. There was no witness
to it, the servant man having gone for milk for break-
fast. From the situation and position of Miss Paris's
body, it is supposed that when the murderer entered
the kitchen she was in the act of stooping to take up
the teapot that stood before the fire; that he seized
her by the hair, and dragged her head forcibly back-
ward, and then inflicted the wound that all but sepa-
rated the head from the trunk. The second stream
of blood indicates that he inflicted the fatal wound on
bis own throat while standing beside her body, and
then walked out of the kitchen into the pantry, where
his body was found.
They will both be buried in the one grave at an
early hour to-morrow morning.—Correspondent of
the Dublin Mail.

NEW PRACTICE RANGE AT WOOLWICH MARSHES.
—The inconvenience experienced and the repeated stoppages
of practice in the present state of the Artillery practice-
ground at Woolwich, owing to the constant passage of ves-
sels on the river, has induced the authorities to decide on
having a new practice- ground on the Woolwich and Plum-
stead marshes, which will not be liable to any interruption.
The direction of the new range will be to the eastward, and
will extend to about three miles, with an average breadth of
half a mile enclosed, so as to prevent the chance of accidents
during the practice. It is also intended to construct a mound
at 1,500 yards range, against which objects will be placed
when making experiments. and for the usual target practice
of the Royal Artillery.—Morning Paper•—[We wonder this
has not been done long ago.—ED. Sun]
WHOLESALE INCENDIARISM IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE.—
On Saturday farming stock and produce, to the amount of
1,5001., was destroyed by fire on the farm of Mr. William.
Bonnett, of Comberton. No doubt is entertained of the con-
flagration being the work of an incendiary. The Earl of
liardwicke, at the head of a sturdy brigade of labourers, did
inestimable service in staying the progress of the lames—
the village church and a number of cottages being in immi-
nent danger for some time. On Sunday night more stacks
were fired in the same village, but the damage was slight, as
a discovery of the danger was made early and assistance was
at hand. On Saturday night the farm homestead of the
Rev.
.Thomas Brereton, at Steeple Morden, was fired, and
all destroyed, except the newly-erected brick house. The
loss is estimated at 3,0001., but the premises and crops were
insured. On Sunday evening the homestead of Mr. Bird,
of Wrebtlingworth, met a similar fate. The house was saved.
Damage 3,000/.

FATAL ACCIDENT OFF SANDGATE.--011 Friday
last two young gentlemen, of about the ages of 11 and 12
years, who had recently come with their mother as visitors
to Sandgate, engaged two boatmen to take them,on the sea,
which was at the time much rougher than it had been for
some time past. Shortly after they had left, the boat on
tacking capsized, and all the four were drowned. The two
boys are said to have been the last of a large family. One
of the boatmen has left a family of five children. One body
was shortly afterwards washed on shore, but it was quite
lifeless.

WEYMOUTH, SATURDAY.--A fearful accident has
occurred this morning, at the convict establishment at Port-
land A large number of the convicts have been for some
time past engaged in working the stone quarries for supply-
ing material for the construction of the breakwater at Port-
land Roads. A powerful crane of a peculiar construction is
employed at the works; the machinery 'of this was not pro-
perly attended to, and the whole frame-work of this ponder-
ous machine fell, by which three of the convicts were killed
on the spot, and fourteen others seriously wounded; of the
latter, three or four are not expected to live. The number of
convicts at present in the establishment is 825.

ALIRIIIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Sir
Thomas R. Gage, Bart., and Miss Drummond, daughter of
Mr. Drummond, M.P., and Lady Harriet Drummond, took
place yesterday. The marital solemnity was first performed
according to the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church, at the
Spanish Chapel, and subsequently at St. Peter's Church,
Eaton-square. The marriage of Viscount Eastnor,
eldest son of the Earl of Somers, and Miss Prinsep, which
was to have been solemnized to-day, has been postponed for
a few days. The nuptials of Miss Vernon, daughter of the
Right Ilon. R. Vernon Smith, M.P., and Mr. Woodhouse
Currie, eldest son of Mr. Raikes Currie, M. P., is to take place
in the course of the present month, at the Right Hon. R.
Vernon Smith's seat in Northamptonshire.
SUPPOSED llunnEa.—On Saturday morning, about
four o'clock, a respectably dressed middle-aged man was
found by a policeman on duty in the neighbourhood in a
state of insensibility at the foot of Pimlico-bridge. He was
immediately carried to St. George's Hospital, when it was
discovered that he had sustained several injuries about the
head, apparently the result of violence, and he died in a few
hours. No property was found upon him, nor anything to
denote his name or residence. It is conjectured that he was
waylaid and assaulted by some desperate characters. The
name of the deceased has not yet been discovered.

WESTMINSTER FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.—yes•
terday the members of this society took possession of their
newly-acquired estate at Kent Town, East Moulsey, in the
western division of the county of Surrey. A special train
conveyed the members to the Hampton-court station of the
South-Western Railway, whence they walked in procession
to Kent Town: about a mile distant, preceded by a band.
The estate consists of 30 acres, which is to be divided into
230 allotments, each of which, it is expected, will realise
between 2/. and 31. per annum in the shape of ground rent.
Each allotment will cost the purchaser between 251. and 30/.
After inspecting the newly-acquired property, the members
sat down to a dinner in a marquee, Mr. G. Thompson, M.P.,
presiding. The chairman, after disposing of the loyal toasts,
said he was anxious to propose the health of Mr. James
Taylcr, the founder of freehold land societies, and mrdoing
so took occasion to enter somewhat at length into the merits
of the scheme. Mr. Taylor, in acknowledging the compli-
meat, dwelt upon the social benefits of freehold land socie-
ties, and of their great national importance. Mr. Norton,
late chief justice of Newfoundland, Mr. G. Huggett, Mr.
Geesin, and other gentlemen, having addressed the meeting,
Mr. Thompson and Mr. Taylor proceeded to Uxbridge for
the purpose of assisting at the ceremony of taking possession
of another estate which the society has recently purchased
near that town. The remainder of the company returned to
town by special train.

The body of the young lady found in the Serpen-
tine on Sunday morning has been identified. She was the
daughter of a respectable merchant in Bristol, named Pigeon,
and was on a visit to a cousin in Brompton-road. An affaire
de exur is said to have been the cause of the rash act.
The vicarage of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, has
been conferred upon the Rev. W. C. Lukis, ISLA, incumbent
of East gram), iu the Alinlo County!

THE WAR IN SCHLESWIG.
(From the Times)

ADVANCE OF THE HOLSTEIN TROOPS ON
ECKERNFORDE ; REPULSE OF THEIR AT-
TACK ON THE BRIDGE OF MISSUNDE.
RENDBURG, SEPT. 13.—The severest engagement
that has taken place between the two armies since the
battle of Idstedt occurred yesterday, the Schleswig-
Holstein troops having made a reconnaissance to-
wards Eckernforde and Missunde in a strong force,
and attacked the bridge across the Schlei at the latter
point, but without success; after cannonading the
defences of the bridge on the north bank of
the Schlei for more than an hour, the artillery
was recalled, and the troops supporting it retired
along the line of country by which they had ad-
vanced during the day, bivouacing to the north of
their original positions. After the cannonade ceased,
and as the troops sent forward with the batteries
were retiring, the Danes, who had drawn in the
bridge, threw it across the creek again, issued
from the entrenchments with several field-pieces,
and for some time annoyed the Holsteiners,
who were on the chaussie to Eckernforde,
and immediately south of it considerably; but
they were in too great force to be pursued, and as
soon as the Danes discovered the strength of the bat-
talions which had not been engaged, they ceased the
pursuit and regained their fortified position. The at-
tack had the result of proving that the Danes have
constructed such entrenchments that, without a very
superior force, they cannot be taken, and then only
with the certainty of sustaining a great loss; and this
is true of every point of their position south of the
Schlei, from Missunde to the town of Schleswig itself.
It was known on the evening of the 11th that a
movement somewhat more important than usual was
contemplated. A large number of waggons, put in
requisition for the baggage, the knapsacks of the
infantry, &c., left Rendsburg during the night; the
head-quarters of the advanced guard, under Colonel
Gerhard and Major von Stutterheim, were at Holz •
bunge, a little hamlet between the two lakes Wit-
tensee and Bistensee. In a farm-house here
the Colonel and his adjutants were finishing a
Teniers-looking breakfast when I arrived, and de•
tachments of troops were already moving forward
between Rendsburg and this point. I passed them
concentrating on the line of road northward, from
several directions, by Budelsdorf. The waggons
that had gone in the night were already packed
with the knapsacks of the infantry and chasseurs,
wlV.ch are thus taken on without compelling the men
ta march under an oppressive weight. Further on
two pontoons were mounted on waggons, with others
carrying the materials for bridging over a stream,
but they were never used, and this part of the
train did nothing but encumber the narrow
roads, both during the advance and the retreat, if the
word may be used, and if in using it I do not " mis-
call retire." The first purpose of the movement was
to clear all the country north from the head of the
'Wittensee Lake to Eckernforde, Missunde, and as far
west of it towards Schleswig as might be possible, of
the Danish troops encamped in the intervening space,
but not entrenched. A force quite strong enough to
effect itiwas taken • the whole of the advanced guard
of Colonel Gerhard's brigade moved up through Da-
mendorf to Osterbye; the 4th and4l2th battalions of
infantry formed the right wing of the advanced guard,
and took a parallel route, but more to the east, upon
Kochendorf; a corps of Jagers, still more to the
right, advanced on Westerthal and Eckernforde itself.
I took the same road as the 4th battalion of Infantry
to Osterbye, since one route must needs be chosen,
and cannot speak of what occurred on the left
and centre, except from report. For some time our
route lay along the shore of the Wittensee, close
to the water's edge; it was a lovely morning, cool,
with a brilliant sun—one of those days which make
the early autumn one of the pleasantest seasons
of the year. The lake shone like a sheet of
silver, and the wooded banks were reflected
clear and sharp in it to every minute detail
in its depth. Beyond the village cf Great Wittensee
we turned off the Eckernforde road to the left, and
by various indirect and crooked ways—which the
maps themselves do not give very accurately, for
more than one mistake had to be rectified by return-
ing—we got on the ground till lately within the
Danish lines. It was anticipated that the Danish
outposts would be found somewhere about Osterbye,
and the calculation proved pretty correct. About
half-past twelve o'clock an irregular fire of small
arms to our right indicated that the Jagers advancing
in that direction on Westerthal had come upon them,
and it was equally as evident that the Danes were re-
tiring; the same process was going on on the left,
and we had nothing to do but to listen and speculate.
We bad got beyond Osterbye and were approaching
Kochendorf before anything was visible, but there we
saw the last of a Danish company being driven from
a wood to the right of the latter village. The Danes
retired so readily, and were dislodged from point to
point with so little difficulty, that they plainly acted
on orders to fall back if attacked in any force
without exposing themselves to loss, and retire
within the fortified position behind them ; thus the
advance was little more than a march ; by
three o'clock the whole staff were in Kochendorf,
and the extensive camp constructed by the Danes
to the north of the village abandoned. But the
country between Kochendorf and Missunde was
not quite cleared of them ; a few field-pieces were
still keeping up a fire on them as the 2d and 4th bat-
talions of the Holsteiners were coming up from the
rear and forming a little in advance of the village
itself. It was four o'clock before the artillery intended
for the attack on the bridge at Missunde was sent
forward, accompanied by the above-named bat-
talions. As two or three thousand men and a long
train of heavy guns, with all their attendant am-
munition and reserve waggons, are not to be moved
over a given space of ground in the twinkling of an
eye, and I had had some previous experience of
how long such a process requires, I gave them an
hour to get into position, and sat down quietly on the
top of a hill near the village to calculate chances ;
the first problem being whether the Holsteiners
would take the bridge or not, and the second
which of the neighbouring localities looked the
most promising as to refreshments. On the slope
of a hill in front of me was the empty camp of the
Danes, and as where soldiers congregate something
in the shape of a " public" is never far off, I fol-
lowed the moving column towards it; and found,
just where it might have been expected, a little
Wirthshaus ; three girls were flirting audaciously
with the artillerymen as they passed by, leaving all
the work of the crisis to an old woman who was
hoisting water from a well. A still older man, in a state
of stupefaction, was looking at the soldiers, and won•
dering, in platt Deutsch, " Where, in God's name,
do all the people come from ?" He caught me by
the collar with the hook of his stick, and appealed
to me as a Landsmann to solve the difficulty. I
told him simply " Rendsburg and the camp," but he
shook his head doubtfully, and I fear has not settled
the matter to his satisfaction yet. There was a
bucket of cold water at the door, which the soldiers
were drinking greedily, and a remote prospect of cof-
fee inside if I looked strictly to the grinding and boiling
myself. A beginning was made, and till the end should
be reached, I, like the old man, watched what was
passing. A cannoneer was walking up and down the
entrance, stamping and swearing for pain, his hand
having been severely burned by a grenade. Some
waggons with wounded drove up, for the can-
nonade that had driven the Danes from their
last position had not been quite harmless; the
wounds were mostly severe; one poor man had
his leg completely shattered ; another, who had been
struck in the stomach, was already in the agonies of
death, and more were arriving. The immense mass
of suffering on such occasions soon destroys even
the wish of rendering assistance from the utter
hopelessness of the effort, and the spectator be-
comes fearfully indifferent. In the middle of
such a scene we were obliged for self-preservation
to take something ; our going without would have
bean no use to others ; and as the time was nearly up
I followed the course of the battalion, which led di-
rectly past the deserted camp. It was a long square of
thatched sheds, very neatly constructed, with single
huts in the centre. I went into some of them with a
few of the Holsteiners, who were left as guards over it.
The interiors were quite snug, the seats provided
with plaited straw matting, and in some the
floor. The Danes had had time to remove all their

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baggage, and not a single article had been left
behind ; but the tables were still marked with
the chalked scores of the last game of cards. The
Holsteiners confessed that " their people" had never
succeeded in building such a camp, and could not
enough admire the "finish" that had been given
to everything. They allowed they might learn
something from the Danske. I thought of selecting
one crib for the night, but fate had otherwise ordered
it. A cannonade in front indicated that the attack
on the bridge had begun. The 2d and 4th battalions
were stationed to the south of the Eckernforde
chumee ; the artillery was on the rising ground over-
looking the Schlei, beyond Cifoel supported by a body
of Jagers, I do not know of what corps, and some
infantry and cavalry ; but throughout the day
the greater part of the line was not in action
at all. The Danes had abandoned the tete du pont
on the south bank, had withdrawn the bridge, and
returned the fire of the Holstein field pieces from
the strong fortifications on the north bank ; the
Schlei at this point is very narrow, not more than 200
paces across. To the wesl; of the bridge were two
Danish gunboats, which also took part in the
action. It lasted from half-past four till nearly
six, when, as no impression had been made on the
works, the firing on the :Holstein side was stopped,
and the guns brought back to the Eckernforde
chaussee, towards the main body of the force. The
whole were preparing to retire to their positions
in the rear, when it appeared that the Danes had,
with almost incredible celerity, again thrown the
bridge across, and had sent out a force with field-