The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

After the performance of Stirling Coyne's grace-
ful comedy of My Wife's Daughter, at this theatre
last evening, a most humorous, mirth-provoking, good
old fashioned broad farce was produced, entitled
Allow me to Apologise. This farce is of the good
old Liston school, and since the days of Liston we
have seen no such rich and unctious representation of
stolid self-satisfaction, of aptitude for perpetually
getting into scraper, of panic terror when in
them, and of utter inability to get out of
them, as that of Compton, as Goliah Goth,
in Mr. Wooller's new farce Allow me to Apologise.
The nature of the character may be imagined from
the name ; Goliah Goth, the original Goth, as he
boasts himself, imagines that he may do or say ,what he
likes provided he is ready to apologise. " I beg to
apologise" with him settles every score. At length,
however, Goliah is, as he expresses it, in " a fix" ; he
has been introduced to two young ladies, wards of Sir
Peter Pedigree, bas made love, and offend to both, in-
tending to marry the richest when he shall have dis-
covered which that is, and to apologise to the other ; but
the girls having compared notes agree both to accept
him before he shall have had time to make his inqui-
ries. Under these circumstances poor Goth has no-
thing left for it but to sham mad, which he does to
the great terror of Sir Peter Pedigree (capitally acted
by Mr. Cr. Cooke), who is always talking of his dead
relations, and to the great amusement of the young
ladies. At length an explanation follows, and Goth
is allowed to apologise, and thus escapes. since the
days of Liston we have seen nothing that is so near
an approach to him as the Goliah Goth of Compton ;
he kept,the house in a roar from the commencement to
the termination of the farce, and was called on at the
conclusion and cheered most heartily. The house was
very well attended.

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EXTRAORDINARY STEAM-BOAT
COLLISION IN THE FRITH OF CLYDE.

About twelve o'clock on Saturday forenoon last acol•
lision of a most alarming character, though happily
not attended with any loss of life, occurred between
the Duntroon Castle steamer, from the Isle of Skye,
and the Duke of Cornwall steamer, from Glasgow to
Campbelton. The particulars of the occurrence, so
far as we have ascertained, are these :—At the hour
stated the passengers in the Duntroon Castle were
alarmed by the close proximity of a steamer, which
afterwards proved to be the Duke of Cornwall, which
had just rounced Gourock-bay, and was proceeding in
the direction of the Clough• lighthouse. The captain
of the Duntroon at once rang his bell to warn those
in the Duke of Cornwall of their danger, but this
warning was either not heard or unheeded. At this
time both vessels were approaching each other at full
speed, and the Duke of Cornwall was evidently in-
tending to cross the bows of the Duntroon.
Seeing this the Captain of the Duntroon very
fortunately stopped his engine, and was proceed-
ing to back his vessel when the collision oc-
curred. The Duntroon came on to the Duke
with fearful violence, carrying away her starboard
paddle-box and wheel, disabling her engine, and
sticking fast amidships of the Duke. The bows of
the Duntroon were stove in almost close to the water's
edge. The passengers, we need scarcely say, were
in the most fearful state of alarm, which was only
allayed by other steamers (the Celt and Lady Kel-
burne) coming up. The Lady Kelburne hove to and
took off all the passengers of the Duntroon, as also
those of the Duke of Cornwall. A hawser was after-
wards attached to the Lady Kelburue and Celt from
the Duntroon, but although both vessels put on all
steam, it was nearly two hours before the Duntroon
and Duke were disengaged, so firmly were they
wedged together. Both vessels were heavily laden
with goods. The Duke was towed into Greenock by
the Celt, and the Duntroon, after having the greater
part of her cargo shifted to the stern,
steamed up to the Broomielaw. That there
was gross negligence in the steering of
either one or other of the steamers is perfectly
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a frith eight miles broad, without the grossest negli-
gence. Had the weather been rough, one or both
vessels would have been in danger of going down.

The letters from Rouen refer to the market for
manufactures as being calm. Quotations, however, were
nevertheless fairly maintained.
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF ST. HELENA.—Lieute..
nant-Colouel R. Clarke, Royal Artillery, has, in consequence
of the death of Sir Patrick Rosa, assumed the temporary
GronwrilLip the