The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-17 00:00:00

SURREY THEATRE.

Monday the performance commenced with Bellini's
beautiful opera of La Sonnambula, supported by Miss
Romer, Miss Betts, Miss Pearson, together with Messrs.
Leffler, D. W. King (his first appearance in London),
and E. L. Hine. We believe, with the exception of Mr.
King, there is-little of novelty in the cast, but this ex-
ception we are inclined to look upon as an addition likely
to prove of some value to the enterprising manager.
The opera was received throughout with applause. The
performance was Ciitidluded with (for the 13th time) the
new melo-aramatic and aquatic spectacle, entitled The
MOuntain Cataract,

LORD WODEROUSE AND MR.-

WODEHOUSE.

The family of Wodehouse is, we believe, an ancient and
honourable one in the county of Norfolk. We appreciate this
distinction, and are willing to give it its full weight and
importance. At the same time we are afraid—and we hope
the remark will not be thought invidious—we are afraid.
from some recent circumstances, that their appearance in
Parliament is not quite equal to their figure in the peerage.
Without the least wish to say anything against the Noble
Lord who sits in the Upper House, or the Hon. Member who
represents the county of Norfolk' in the Lower, we cannot
help remarking, that what is called temper does not appear
to be the distinguishing characteristic of the Wodehouse
family. Lord Wodehouse and Mr. Wodehouse are honour-
able men, in aristocratic language ; very goOd sort of men
in the ordinary way of speaking. Lord Wodehouse toa
made so handsome an apology to our correspondent the other
day for his animadversions upon him in the House, that
we should be: really going against our feelings
to make a single ill-natured observation upon the
mere slip ..of the tongue that. hisd.ordship was betrayer)
into on that occasion. Still, in all good-will, and in perfect good
humour, we will tender a respectful piece of advice. It is,
we say, unlucky that Lord Wodehouse and Mr. Wodehouse
should both, within so very short a space of time, have made
in their respective places in their respective Houses such ex-
traordinary slips of the tongue as they have done. It is a
curious coincidence, and an unfortunate coincidence, that
both in one week should have got into two exactly similar
scrapes. There was nothing out of the way in the mistake
that. Lord Wodehouse made with respect to our correspon-
dent ; it was a mistake, and there was an end of it ; and Lord
Wodehouse acknowledged it. But that Mr. Wodehouse
should, just a week after, make an onset upon the character
of a Member of the House, and should have to apologise for
it, elevates the business into the rank of decided oddness;
and the affair takes the authorised position and place of- a
singular coincidence. Lord Wodehouse and Mr. Wodeheuse,
and Mr. Wodehouse and Lord Wodehouse, being so-very-
little heard of generally, and then firing off in succession so
soon one after the other, is a curious circumstance. They
say it never rains but it pours. The curtain draws ap,
and enter Lord Wodehouse and Mr. Wodehouse, each
reproaching and each apologising with great volubility. But
Mr. Wodehouse's is much the more unfortunate mistake of
the two. The Hon. Member might so easily have known on
the slightest inquiry what kind of report the one affecting
Mr. Wakley's character was; that it was an utterly un•
founded one, and that it was regularly decided to be such by
a tribunal which should be considered an impartial one—an
English court of justice. A single question asked about the
matter referred to would have put Mr. Wodehouse in posses-
sion of this fact ; in which case it would have been impossi-
ble that he could have made the insinuation he did. We will
do Mr. Wodehouse, at any rate, the justice to think this. He,
we believe, only made the mistake of levelling an insinuation
on a subject about which he knew nothing, and had
never asked a single question to discover what the
truth was. He was in what is vulgarly called a rage ;
he was determined to say something cutting about
Mr. Wakley ; an old trumpery report came into his head,
which he thought would serve this purpose, and out with it
accordingly. Such heedlessness and puerility, of course, tell
much more against the Hon. Member who makes such an in-
sinuation, than against the person who is the object of it. It
is a most fatal mistake for the person who makes the charge.
What is the immediate effect? He has to apologise directly,
forthwith, on the very spot, for the attack. The assertion he
makes dies still-born; it vanishes as soon as it is made. He
has to eat his own words before the whole House, and to
confess that he ought not to have said them, and to
admit that what he has said or insinuated was utterly
wrong and false. He is instantly in a most humiliating
position, and appears as a criminal at the bar,
instead of an accuser. All this takes place on the
spot, and the only good he gets by it afterwards,
is to be remembered as having once done a very silly thing,
and being supposed therefore, prospectively, capable of doing
silly things again. This is all a man gets by giving way to
a momentary fit of ill-humour, and making an insinuation for
which he has no authority. Mr. Wodehouse is not a man
who aims at any great Parliamentary eminence, or who has
any statesmanlike career before him. We do not know that
this mistake, or twenty others besides, would do him very-
much harm in this point of view. Nobody, however, likes
to be thought a blunderer; and we suppose the Hon. Mem-
ber for Norfolk does not ; and; therefore, we will advise the
Hon. Member to be more careful before he makes such
attacks in future. It is a great pity when men who are
honourable and unobjectionable on the whole, will give way
to temper, and say whatever comes into their heads : and
with this observation we will take our leave for the present
of Lord Wodehouse and Mr. Wodehouse.—Times.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE in SALFORD.
SALFORD, MONDAY.—An exceedingly destructive fire, in-
volving the loss of property to the amount of several thou-
sand pounds, broke out a little before four o'clock yesterday
morning, upon the premises of Messrs. George Wilson and
Co., engineers, millwrights, and screw-bolt-manufacturers,
Garden-lane, Salford, which, together with the extensive
sizing works of Messrs. J. G. Lavino and Co. adjoining, were
quickly destroyed. Of Messrs. Wilson's premises only part
of the walls and chimney are left standing, but the greater
part of Messrs. Lavino's works are levelled to the ground. It
appears that the premises were locked up safe on Saturday
night, and about four o'clock yesterday morning one of the
neighbours saw smoke and flames issuing from one of the
windows on the second story of Messrs. Wilson's works,
The wind at the time was blowing a brisk gale, and the
flames spread with a rapidity equally amazing and alarm-
ing. Information was quickly sent to the Salford and Man.
chester Fire-brigade, and four engines were promptly sent
to the spot. Mr. Darling, the superintendent of the Sal.
ford brigade, took the precaution of sending several water-
carts to supply the engines, and very fortunate it was
that he did so, for no water could be obtained from
the mains belonging to the Manchester and Salford.
Water-works Company for about three-quarters of an
hour. Nearly the whole of Messrs. Wilson's premises were
in a blaze when the engines arrived, although they were on
the spot in less than a quarter of an hour after the alarm
was given. It was soon found that it was useless to attempt
to save either Messrs. Wilson's works or those of Messrs.
Lavino, the wind carrying the flames with such fury that the
latter building was speedily enveloped in the fire. The cot •
tages on three sides of the building were in a state of great
,danger, and the roofs and windows were frequently on fire.
It was therefore determined to save the dwelling-houses, and
the efforts of the firemen were directed to that object. The
people were running out of their bed-roou into.the streets
in their night-clothes, and the screams of the women and
children were dreadful. The flirniture was removed from '
the houses as quickly as possible, and at length a supply of
water having been p,ocured, the buildings were saved, though
many of them were much damaged.
Messrs. Wilson are insured to the amount of 3,5004 in
the Globe Assurance-office., and Messrs. Lavino to the
amount of 4,2404 in the Imperial and Atlas offices. There
was a communication between the two buildings by a wooden
passage, Messrs. Lavino's premises having been fbrmerly oc-
cupied by i4essrs. Wilson, jointly with the other building.
The buildings, which have a frontage of about 70 yards into,
Ciarclin-lane, presented a terribly grand appearance, as the .
flam N were issuing from all the windows at the me
The high state of the wind rendeee4 -•
a/ considerable quagtityof proparev Asible to save
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DR. BALMER. - --
The last duties to the remains' 'of Dr. t almer were
performed on Tuesday. Before one o'cloc- t the body
wry removed from his house into the chapel, Golden-
square, and, at that hour, the members of,the congre-
gation and others, assembled for the purpose of joining
in devotional exercises, and improving The melancholy
event which had brOught them together. Every part
Of the chapel was crowded, and many were unable to
obtain admission. The services were commenced by
the Rev. Mr. Brown, of Dalkeith, who dispinsed the
Comm Union to the congregation on the preceding
Sabbath. After the first four verses of Psalm 61st
had-been sung, ,Mr. Brown read the 9.)th 'Psalm, and
Ist Thess: ch.- iv. from the thirteenth verse to the end.
Hethen offered up a most Impressive prayer, amid the
tears of many in the chapel, and • gave out the first two
verses of the 53d Paraphrase, which were also sung.
The Rev. Dr. Henderson, of Galashiels, one of Dr,
Balmer's earliest college. companions with whom he
maintained the warmest friendship through life, then
delivered a most solemn address ict the congregation, in
which he feelingly and skillfully sketched the character
of his departed brother, and impressed on the audience
the duty ofrbeing followers of him as he also was " a
follower of *Christ."' Verse 4-6 of the -fifth-third
Paraphrase were next sung,-when the Rev. Mr. Lee, of
Horndean also offered up a very impressive prayer,
and, Shortly after two o'clock, the services were eon-
eluded by singing the last two verses of the Para-
phrase and pronouncing the apostolical benediction.
It had been arranged that the funeral procession
should move in the following order ;—The pall-
, bearers; consisting- of the clergymen- of the
town ; the relatives of the deceased ; the elders of
the congregation ; the . members .of the Cold-
stream Presbytery • and other clerical friends who
were:present ; the trustees and managers of the con-
gregation ; the male members ; the female members ;
and last, those belonging to other Christie' bodies—.
all walking four a=breast. This arrangement, how-
ever, was known to those only who had been in the
chapel, 'and,. so • large was the multitude without
who had come to attend the funeral, that to
observe it was impossible. The whole line
along -which., the procession moved presented
a dense mass of human beings, all anxious to
testify their respect, to him who, in life, was universally
esteemed, and whose less they deplored. A funeral, so
numerously attended, has certainly not taken placehere
within the memory, of the oldest inhabitant. The
windows of the houses along the line of the procession
were crowded with spectators, nOt a few of whom were
in mourning and shedding tears of sorrow ;. and, though
death has removed him from those by whom he was
loved and esteemed, and they can see his face or hear
his voice no more—his memory will be hallowed in
their recollection. The Rev. kr. Peden of Church-
street Chapel, and the Rev. Dr. Brown of Broughton-
place, Edinburgh, are to officiate on Sabbath in the
pulpit which he so long occupied.—Berwick Advertiser.

BUTTER AND CIiEESE.—A Bill to repeal the follow-
ing Acts for regulating the trade in butter and cheese
has .been brought into the House of Commons:—An
Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of King
William ,the Third and Queen Mary, intituled, "An
Act to prevent Abuses committed by the Traders in
Butter and Cheese :" An Act passed in the thirty-sixth
year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled,
" An Act to prevent Abuses and Frauds in the
Packing, Weight, and Sale of Butter' and to re-
peal "certain Acts relating thereto :" An Act passed
in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of King
GeOrge the Third, intituled, "An Act for amending and
rendering, more effectual an. Act made in the Thirty-
_
sixth year of the Reign of his present Majesty, mtituled
An Act to prevent Abuses and Frauds in the Packing
and Sale of Butter, and to repeal certain Acts relating
thereto.' "

CONFESSION OF AN INCENDIARY..—Thomas Rust,
who has undergone several examinations at Halstead,
charged with setting fire to Mr. Nott's premises at Peb-
marsh on the 6th of April, and Mr. Ball's premises, in the
same parish, on the 6th of June, by which property t a
considerable amount was destroyed, was on Tuesday
finally examined. A number of witnesses were examined,
but the tes imony of J. Estall, a vagrant, who had been in
the station-house with the prisoner Rust, was the mostim-
portant. They bad occupied cells adjoining each other,
and were enabled to hold a conversation. Estall had
asked him for what he was in custody ? He replied,
" On suspicion of setting fire to a house or barn."
He next asked him whether he did it ? He re-
plied,' " I don't know that I did it." After a fur-
ther conversation, in the course of which Rust ad-
mitted that he had been transported once already, but
had got off after a short imprisonment, and said he sup.
posed he should be transported now, and sent to Wool.
wich or Chatham, Estall again asked him whether he
had done it or not, to which his answer was, ,t That he
ditlixtet rightly know whether he hnci or not." At the
closemiliof the examination the prisoner, in ausWer to the
Charges, said that he was guilty, add he ,as fully com.
matt& for trial at the'emuing fiskizs pa both cases of
arson, as well as on three cliarges'uf larceny.
HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS.,-:A concert was .given
here, on Monday, by Messrs. Sivori; Sainton, Hill, and Rous .
selot, with a view to perform a series of chamber instru-
mental pieces—two of the posthumous quartets of Beethoven
being the special features of the undertaking. The quartets,
alluded to were faithfully played by the four artists, and the
scherzo in the one numbered " 13"—a movement full of
quaint goblin vagaries—was enthusiastically encored. These
posthumous compositions are altogether most singular in
character; they are essentially Beethovenish—wild, freakish,
%veiling, grand—scraps of delicious melody ever and anon
appearing amid the mysterious and grotesque element"
around. They are, from first to last, extremely difficult;
requiring the greatest precision on the part of the perforthers„
united with a perfect comprehension of the fantastical spirit
which prevails, as well as intense executive feeling. Messrs.
Sivori and Sainton assumed the office of first violin in turns.
Sivori was brilliant and resolute.--Sainton quiet and unobtru-
sive. Besides the two posthumous quartets, fa quartet of
Haydn, and a trio by Osborne (an English composer, lonik
resident in France), were given.
LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.---Mr. Win. E. Ryan,
brother of Alderman E. F. Ryan, of this city, fell over the
taffrail of the steamer at Lough Derail, near Killaloe on
Wednesday evening, and was drowned. The deceased, whets
a mere lad, was blown up in his bek at the awful gunpowder
explosion at George's-street, in this city, on the night of the
1 3d of January, 1837, and most providentially escaped, though
in the very focus of death and 'desolation. He was second,
son of the late Michael Ryan, Esq., of the old and respectable
firm of Edmund Ryan and Sons, provision merchants.--
I Limerick Chronicle.

GALE OF WIND, THUNDER-STORM, AND II XIL•
STORM.--LIVERPOOL, MONDAY' Monsemo.--During nearly
the whole of Saturday last the rain fell in torrenSss, flooding
the lower part of the town. In the evening it became fair,
but the barometer fell to nearly 29, and at eleven the wind
began to blow, furiously increasing in intensity till between
two and three o'clock, when it blew, as sailors say, " great
guns." Great apprehensions were entertained for the safety
of the shipping, several vessels having gone to sea the day
before. A. fine large packet ship, the Russell, Glover, laden
with a costly cargo, was driven back into Bootle-bay, where
it was expected she would have gone on shore, but two steam
tug-boats having been sent to her assistance, she was brought
into the river on Sunday, at noon, without having received
any damage. The tide in -the river rose several feet higher
than it otherwise would have done, and the dead body of a
man was washed ashore by the violence of the waves. 0*
Sunday morning the barometer gradually rose, and the gala
decreased till towards evening, when it became cluSte calm
and sunshine. This morning, a little after eiesit o'clock'
there was a thunder-storm, preceded and followsea by pelting
downfalls of rain, and in some districts hailstsines fell thiek
and large. The storm lasted only about he'sf an hour, and
now the atmosphere is bright and clear, al!shough the we*.
ther does not stypear at all settled,
FOREIGN -Yorkroas.---There has been 'a very largo
importation of new potatoes this season from Holland, one.
salesman alone in Spltalfields Market having received as
many as 2,103 baskets during the present month. Yesterday'
three boxes of sweet potatoes from the Bahamas were sold
with a collection of pines in the City, and realised modes
rate prices of It per box. They are the shape and size of
a beet-root, indigenous to those islands, and very produes
tive, and should the edible qualities be approved Where, will,
in all probability, form a new item of West Indian produce
for exportation.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDF,.—On Monday
morning, about three o'clock, the attesition of the polio.
constable on duty near Short's-gardesis, Drury-lane, Whel•
attracted by aloud shriek, which was immediately folio wed
by the fall of something weighty upon the ground, where
he perceived a female lying ispon the pavement bleeding
profusely. from the head, arld apparently dying. No time
'was lost in conveying her co Charing-cross Hospital, whet*.
she was attended by ;dr. Charles Golding, one of the:
house surgeons, who discovered that his patient was
labouring under the fracture of both legs, an injury of
the spine and heed, as also the fracture of several ribs,.
The unhappy `.omen, who is a widow, nausea Mary
Ryan, forty years of age, has, it appears, been an itine-
rant vendor of fruit, and it is stated that distress had.
caused her to attempt self-destruction by precipitating
herself from the attic window of the house, No. lOs
Short's-gardens, Drury-lane, where she resided.
Tisk EXHIBITION OF FRESCOS, &C., IN WESTatIN.
STER HALL.—Monday, this exhibition was opened
gratuitously to the public, and will continue open to
them, with the exception of Saturday, when one shilling
will be charged for admission, for six weeks. The man.*
ber of persons who visited IS was not very great duriegt
. the day, and between twelve and one o'clock there wee*
not more than from 100 to 200 persons present. Be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 persons visited the exhibition_
during the day.
WEST INDIA Pmas.—On Monday a novel Sale et
nearly 3,000 of this fruit took place at the sale-roosas of
Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, 2, Ainnumentlard. They
were all in excellent condition, and, landed and a:Tired
in London within a month • a their shipment rmsa
Eleuthera and Nassau, 'ln the Bahama Islands.
They were of those esteemed varieties, the Bird's
Eye and Providence, and were but little inferior
in taste to the best quality or English produce
lion. In these islands they form a very large staple
culture ; and judging from the results of the sale yes.-
terday, their importation is likely to be of some b.eatefit
to the islands, and supply our tables at a reasonkble
rate with this esteemed fruit. The price at which ther
sold were from 2s. to 58; each ; and there was a brisk
competition from fruit salesmen from all parts of the
metropolis. Arrangements have been made for a peri-
odical annual supply from these islands, and three or
four shipments are expected during the present e‘aliCer.
They are carefully preserved by the leaves ; and, by the,
new tariff, there is but an import duty of five per Ont.
FIVE GENERATION.--On Sunday last there We
present at the baptism of ass infant child,. at Woodehestes
Church. his mother, grandmother' Treat-grandmother, and
great-great-grandmother, that is, his grandmother's grand-
mother, which last had walked no :it:lan distance twice to
church on that day;-hale and strong, and lutd attended thus
Lord'a WA.—Gloucester Cloveskk.