The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-14 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

The revival of the " Love Chase" last night afforded
Miss Amy Sedgwick an opportunity of presenting her-
self to the London public in a new character totally
differmit from that in which she first courted metropoli-
tan applause. As Neighbour Constance she more than
fulfilled the promise implied by her performance of
Pauline, gaily flinging oft those fetters that seemed to
check her in her more serious impersonation, and
allowing full scope to a fund of native spirit and vivacity
the existence of which was rather to be guessed than
demonstrated before the exhibition of last night. If the
laugh with which she entered upon the stage bad not the
musical ring of Mrs. Niebett, it was hearty, free and
uncontrolled, and was, moreover, an earnest of the
vigour with which she delineated throughout the most
vigorous of stage beauties. Through the whole zapre-
sentation there was nothing done by halves. She was
thoroughly jocund, thoroughly vexed as occasion served,
laughed with all her might and cried with all her might ;
in short, was just the person to terrify a father into
getting rid of her, and frightening a lover into making
her his partner ior life. That Miss Sedgwick was a
completely discliplined artist was shown by her Pauline.
Tae question whether there was genuine spirit and feel-
ing at the foundation of the training is now answered in
the affirmative.

Although Miss Sedgwick was the moat interesting
object of the evening, the revival must not be classel
with those huddled-up exhibitions that frequently take
place for the sake of a single "star," the general oast
showing a determination to produce as efficient a repre-
sentation of the lively comedy as the state of histrionic
art will allow. Mrs. Marston, an excellent actress,
little known at the West-end, had apparently been
engaged for the Express purpose of playing the Widow
Green, and depicted that buxom dame with a degree of
unction and evergreen luxuriousness that has not been
seen since the days of the late inimitable Mrs. Glover,
and she had a suitable loner in the hearty, self-satisfied
Sir William Fondlove, personated by Mr. Chippendale.
The responsibilities of Wildrake were well met by Mr.
Howe, who with a greatdeal of humour rendered espe-
cially prominent the sulky surprise consequent on the ,
abortive attempts of the vould-be town gallant to dazile
the vivacious and clear-sighted Constance. The stout
young squire felt that he had done his best to be agree-
able, and that it was all )f no avail ; so he hal a perfect.
right to be as Sulky amd stupid as he pleased. The
serious interest, which is the weakest in the piece, was
sustained by Mr. W. Farren and Miss Caroline White,
who did their beat with the unthankful characters of
Master Waller and Lydia.
The audience, which was very numerous, evinced the
highest satisfaction at the comedy, which, performe4 as
it was, came out with exceeding freshness. A call for
' everybody concerned, and a special bouquet for Miss
Sedgwielc, were the final algae of approval.

TILE' MAYORS OYSTERYEAST AT COLCIIESTER. - -Th e

annual Corporation banquet, at which real " natives '
form the staple article of consumption, is likely to be on
an even more hospitable seale than has celebrated the
c:ose of the former tnayora ties of Henry Wolton, Esq.,
as his worship intends sending out between 300 and 400
invitations to the corporation and his friends, t.) attend
his feast at the Town•hail on the 20th instant.—
Essex herald.

Snow made its first appearance last week on the
mountains near Geneva, the crest of the Jura almost as
high as the Col de la Faum •being covered with a
slight coating of white, wlich, however, again disap-
peared before night. The mountains of Fziburg are at
present covered with snow.
NEW AND TERRIBLE WAR ENGINE.—We are in pos-
session of information that a more destructive shell than
any ever before known, has been invented by Mr.
Martin, of West Ham, in Essex. It has had four
Government trials at Woolwbb, and each was fearful y
satisfactory. Nothing can survive the fire it kindles,
and no amount of water, it vas proved, can put them
out. Delhi could not stand a day against it, neither
could Sebastopol. It was known then, but nevertheless
not adopted. There were routine, red tape, and circum
locution offices in its way. Our brave countrymen may
perish by thousands, and their wives and children like-
wiso, rather than any change, without patronage, shall
take place. Martin is only a man of genius, and men
of genius are seldom men of influence. The cry still is
—"Tako care of Dowb."—Curdif Times.
The fox-hunting world has lost one of its principal
masters in Earl Fitzwilliam, whose stud and kennel
have hal no superior for many years past. The former
was fall of the blood of Amadie, Don Quixote, and
Cervantes ' • and for a mare by the last-named horse his
lor.lship refused 1,000 guineae in the hunting-field. The
earl latterly went very seldom into his kennel, and, in
fact, during his twenty-four seasons as master, he has
left everything to his celebrated huntsman, Tom
Sebright, who is just enteringinto at Milton, and isGeorgethirty-sixth season
whipped
Carter, and a grandson of Dick Christian. It is
on
hisy
rumoured that Milton and the Northamptonshire pro-
perty are left to the Hon. George Fitzwilliam, who i
wit`, no doubt, in that case become the master of the
hounds.

THE EAST INDIA ROUSE.—A statement just
circu-
lated that the India-house are in want of more money,
and that the Bank have notified to the Government their
inability to furnish it, is wholly erroneous. The India
Company at this moment would be willing to lend
money, the greater part of the recent credit opened at
the Bank being unemployed. Fur future wants they
still hold a large reserve of st-ick and Exchequer-bills,
and there is no reason to doubt tbat the expectation held
out of their financial position being such as to enable
them to provide for all wants until tke meeting of
Parliament will be fully realized. Of course, if the
1 cal Government were to announce the necessity of,a
large cum of specie beingsent to Calcutta, an emergency
would then be presented which would call for special
action; but it is believed 'that no such intimation baa
yet been received, and that in the absence of exceptional
circumstances of this kind there wiil be nothing to
disturb the calculations originally made.--Tirnes.
COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR BLACSBURN.—COMMIT-
TAL or THE UNDERLOOKER.—An inquest was held on
Monday at Oawaldtwistle, near Blackburn, on the
bodies of two boys who were killed by an explosion of
fire damp, which took place on Thursday in a pit of one
of Messrs. Simpson and Young's Collieries, Duckworth-
hall. The pit had been worked for about three years,
and the men had been in the habit of using naked candles.
Up to last week there had bei=n no sign of fire-damp.
A. day or tNo before the accident a seam in the roof
was pointed out to the underlooker, whose duty it was
to report this to the manager. This was not done.
The jury were of opinion that the underlooker,
William Holden, had been gu lty of neglect, and returned
a verdict of manslaughter against him.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 5 per male premium, and the short exchange on
London is 25.25 per 1/ sterling. On comparing tiles-)
rates with the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per
ounce for standard geld it appears that gnu 1 is nearly
2-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By
advicas from Hamburg the price of
gold is 4246 per
%
mark, and the short exchange on Loudon is 13. per
1/. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price
is therefore about 5 10the per cent. dearer in Hamburg
than in London. Tae e:mrse of exchange at New York
on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 1061 per
cent.,which, when compared with the Mint par between
thewo countries, shows that the exchange is against
Eogland, and would admit of gold being sent from Eng-
land without IOR'. •

VALUABLE LIVINGS IN TUE CHURCH VACANT.—
The demise a few days since, in the 79th year of hie age,
of the Rev. Matthew Irving, 1).1),, one of the chaplains
in ordinary to the Queen, vacates the vicarage of Stur-
minster. Marshall, near Witnborne, in the county of
Dorset and diocese of Salisbury, with the cbapelries of
Lytchett Minster, Corfe Mullen, and Hainworthy an-
nexed, to which he was instituted in 1822. The living
is worth about 1,0001. par annum, and is in the patroc-
ago of the Provost aud Fellow& of Eton College, Wind-
sor. The rev. gentleman has been a canon residentiarj
of Rochester Cathedral since.lB24, and has also held the
perpetual criracy of Chatham, Kent (of the annual value
of nearly GOOl, and in the gift of the Dean and Chapter
of it.icheuter Cathedral) for a period of 29 years.

LATEyr NEWS,

THE INDIAN MAILS.

MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Valetta has come in with the Calcutta
mails.

The French steamer with Bombay Atli! is ex-
pected momentarily.
There is no China mail.
No news beyond that already known.
There was no improvement in the markets up
to the 26th of August.
The stock of indigo was cleared out.
Of silk there was an increasing stock of piece
goods, but nothing doing.
The same may be said of cotton. The prices
of saltpetre and rum had risen.
Exchange,

The Bengal Bank has refused to discount Com-
pany's 5 per cent. paper at 12 per cent., and the
4 per cent. at 24 per cont., owing to want of
specie and confidence.
The general tone of the mass of news is more
satisfactory.

HEALTH OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, TUESDAY.
The reports of the health of the King received
from Potsdam continue favourable.

The Kreuz Zeitung says that since yesterday the
physicians entertain hopes of a re-establishment of
the royal health, though the danger is not yet
entirely passed.

The latest intelligence of the health of the
King of Prussia, received by telegraph, is as fol-
lows

"BERLIN, OCT. 13.

" The King had sleep at intervals during the
day ; the sleep was short, but tranquil. The
attacks of congestion of the brain have not re-
occurred this morning."

Th© subjoined is from Le Nerd of yesterday:—
COLOGNE, MONDAY, 2 p.m.

A slight amelioration took place yesterday in
the King's state, but it is not of a nature to en-
courage hopes of his recovery. According to the
opinion of his physicians, his Majesty may linger
for some time, but the fatal issue of the attack
does not, unhappily, appear to them doubtful.
Another despatch says :
The received opinion among our medical men is
that his Majesty is suffering under incipient
softening of the brain, and that the fatal issue of
the attack is certain, though it is difficulk to tall
how long the physicians may support life.
It is reported that the Council of Ministers,
foreseeing this, have already been discussing mat-
ters that will be contingent on a regency.
A letter from Berlin, of the 9th, in the Patric,
gives some account of the origin of the present
illness of the King :
His Majesty, wno was to have accompanied the Em-
peror of Russia in his journey to Stuttgart, left Pots-
dam with him, accompanied by several princes of the
royal family. During the journey from Potsdam to
Berlin the mperor and two of the princes, in order to
pass the time, smoked, according to Russian custom,
some very strong tobacco, the narcotic qualities of which
appear to have produced a very great effect on the
King. His Majesty fell asleep, and to the great
astonishment of his travelling companions did not
awake when the train stopped at the station at
Berlin. M. SoLcenlein, the first physician to the king
was immediately sent for, and he declared that
his Majesty could not continue his journey. On being
conveyed back to Potsdam the King remained for 24
hours in a heavy lethargic sleep. Bleeding was resorted
to, but it produced but little effect. Without aban-
doning the hope that his Majesty's life may be saved,
the public, and particularly the persons who are more
directly interested, occupy themselves beforehand
with the eventuality of a change in. the occupant of the
throne. AR the King has no children, his brother, ac•
cording to the constitution, is the heir presumptive to
the throne. The Prince of Prussia is the same who
went to compliment the Emperor Napoleon during his
passage lately through the Prussian territory. The
Prince of Prussia, who married the Princess Augusta of
Saxe-Weimar, is sixty years of age. He has two chil-
dren, the elder of whom, Prince Frederick William, has
just been affianced to the Princess Victoria of England,
and the other, the Princess Louisa, was last year mar-
ried to the Grand Duke of Baden.

The following letter from Berlin, in the Ether-
feld Gazette, distinctly contradicts the reported
visit of the Emperor Napoleon 111. to that capital :
—" According to the most authentic information,
we can state positively that the Court of Berlin
has not received any intimation of the visit of the
Emperor Napoleon, nor was any mention of such
an event made either in the conversation between
the Emperor and the Prince of Prussia, or in the
autograph letter brought from the Emperor to the
King by Prince Murat."

A letter from Vienna, in the Bourse Gazette of
Berlin,
says :—" The conference which has lately
taken place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs be-
tween the Baron de Bourqueney and Count
Werner had for object the Sardinian question, and
we learn that the resumption of diplomatic rela-
tions between the courts of Turin and Vienna
may be shortly expected."

The following very singular statement appears
in a letter from Constantinople of the 3d, ad-
dressed to the Trieste Gazette :—" The English
and Austrian ambassadors have thought proper
to demand from the Turkish Government the
annulment of the second elections in the Prin-
cipalities, in the same manner that the forcer
ones had been annulled. This proceeding has
produced a considerable sensation, although it
has not yet been oflb.lially made known."

FRANCE.
• PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Emperor yesterday received the letter by
which the Emperor of Austria announced to his Ma-
jesty the marriage of the Archduke Ferdinand, his
brother, to the Princl tus Charlotte of Belgium ;
also the letter which --acCrediteT the Duke de
Rivas as ambassador extraordinary and ple-
nipotentiary of they Duchess Regent of
Parma ; the reply of the Grand Duke
of Tuscany to the lettur4 of recall of the Prince de
la Tour d'Auvergne,. wno lately filled the post of
French Minister at Flo pence, and the reply of the
Elector of He se to the. letters of recall of M. de
Montherot, lately envQoir extraordinary at Cassel.
All the French diplomatic agents who are at
present on leave of absc ince have been ordered to
return to their posts liy the end of the present
month.

The council-general of the Bank of France, at
its sitting of yesterday, ciccided that from to-day
(Tuesday) the ree of discount on commercial bills,
and the interest o❑ adv.%) ices on public securities,
shall be raised to 64 per *cent.
BOURSE, Oct. 13.—T .t) e following were the last
quotations

Cash. fr. End of month.
4i per Cents
8 per Cents 66 701 66 70
Bank Shares 2,855 Credit Fonder —
Credit Mobilier 750 -- Homan -
Do. Account 752 SC, Austrian
Behtian 4i — --- Spanish Throes —
riedmontese (5) 9Ol, - Homo Debt
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