The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-19 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

We observed that the Malcontent, which has been
played at this theatre every evening since the opening,
was on Friday night cast out of the bill, for the pur-
pose of introducing to the public a Mr. Grantham, as
an Irish comedian. This gentleman, we are informed,
is highly connected, and has had considerable oppor-
tunity of observing the peculiarities of the better
class of Irish society, having been for some time a
denizen of the sister kingdom. It is from that class
that Mac Shane, in Bayle Bernard's farce of the
Nervous Man, is taken, who, though reduced to ter-
rible shifts, is in reality a gentleman, with all the
whim, good humour, and mperturbable assurance in
the greatest difficulties that so eminently distinguish
the well-educated natives of that country. Mr.
Grantham sustained the part with considerable talent
awl received much applause. Mrs. Brougham, Messrs.
Griffiths, Rogerson, and Lee contributed by their
exertions to the amusement of the audience.

SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
The magnificent diuramic picture of the passage of
Napoleon over the Alps still continues to attract
crowds every evening to these delightful gardens. It
is the chef d'ccnvre of Denson, and is perhaps the
most perfect dioramic picture ever painted. The dis-
play of fireworks at dusk surpasses even all Southby's
former pyrotechnic displays, magnificent as they ever
have been. The band, under the able direc•
tion of Mr. Godfrey, performs a series of
popular airs during the course of the evening,
and the air resounds with martial music during the
advance of Napoleon and his troops up the gorges
of the Alps. The menagerie has been recently en-
riched by the addition of a splendid elephant, and
these combined attractions draw cruvvds here every
evening, and will no doubt continue to do so while
the present delightful weather lasts.

- CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
We have received files of papers from the Cepa to
:he 3 of June inclusive. They bring no news of
interest.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN, MIDLAND, AND
GREAT NOETIIERN RAILWAYS,—It is understood that these
companies have come to an axicable arrangement to carry
at the satire rates between the same points.
FALLING FROM THE CLIFF AT HASTINGS. -- On
the 29th ult , a young female, named Augusta Mooney, fell
from the cliff to the beach, by which she received more than
one fracture and other injuries, but is recovering. The
local papers publish her own account of the manner in which
the accident occurred, in which she says :—" I placed my
hand on the stone, to look over—it gave way. Finding my-
self falling, I turned on my side and slid down until 1 came
to a mound of either stone or earth, covered with grass; this
turned me over, and I lost my recollection."
APPOINTMENTS.—The General Board of Health
have appointed Mr. Charles Macaulay, formerly clinical
clerk to Sir Benjamin Brodie, and Lecturer on Medical Ju-
risprudence at St. George's Hospital, to be Assistant-Secre-
tary to the oard. Mr. Robert James Macintosh, Lieutenant-
Governor of the Island of St. Christopher, is promoted to be
Governor and Commander-in:Chiei of the Leeward Islands,
in the room of Governor Iligginson, appointed to the Mauri-
tius. Mr. E. H. Drummond Hay, t'resident and senior
member of Council of the Virgin Islands; is promoted to be
Lieutenant-Governor of the island of St. Christopher in the
room of Mr. Macintosh. Mr. Arthur Rollox Hollingsworth
is appointed Assistant-Receiver-General for British Guiana.
EXECUTION, AT YOBS, OF WILLIAM ROSS.—On
Saturday, at twelve o'clock, the sentence of death passed
upon William Ross, at the late Yorkshire Assizes, for the
murder of his wife, at the township of Quick, by poison, was
carried into effect at the usual place of ex, cation adj ining
York Castle. Immediately before proceeding to the scaffold,
the convict, in answer to a question put to him by the chap-
lain, solemnly declared his innocence, and said that he had
made his peace with God.
PORTLAND HARBOUR AND BREAKWATER.—This
Bill received the Royal Assent on Thursday.
DEPARTURE OF THE AMERICA.—This fine steamer
left the Mersey on Saturday afternoon for Halifax and New
York, carrying the mails and about 100 passengers. Miss
Cushman, the celebrated actress, was one of the number.
SOUTHAMPTON, RUG. 17.—The Royal Mail Com-
pany's steam-ship Thames, Captain Abbott, with the West
India mail, forty passengers, and full general cargo, left this
afternoon. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Montrose, Captain Bowen, with the mails for Spain,
Portugal, and Gibraltar, left this day, having a large num-
ber of passengers, full cargo, and specie to the amount of
13,0..0/. The Ocean Steam Navigation Company's steam-
ship Washington will leave for New York on the 20th inst.;
she will take out a full cargo and large number of passen-
gers. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-`ship
Pacha, with the homeward Peninsular mails, will, it is ex-
pected,' be here about the 24th inst.; also the Euxine from
Constantinople. The Melway, it is expected, will bring
home the next West India mails; she may be looked for
about the 22d inst.
CREMORNE.—His Excellency the Ambassador from
Nepaul has, through his Secretary, Captain M'Leod, signi-
fied his intention of honouring these gardens with a visit this
evening. His Excellency's expressed object is to witness
Madame Antonio's rope performance and the fireworks by
l\lortram. On the occasion of the former visit the distin-
guished party were compelled, by other engagements, to
leave early, consequently were nut gratified by the grand
finale to the evening's amusements, in which the lady in
question takes so prominent a part.
ST. MARY'S, SCILLY.—POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS.
—The non-delivery of letters on Sunday proves a very se-
rious inconvenience to the inhabitants of these islands, and
loudly cads for alteration, particularly when halt an hour
v
hassi not
thear-
rived
new regulations
t themrili e mailt)n S- packetatu Saturday, y, n
Monday 7 nto °ll3:tt ,
andth et
the
effithcee closingbox
closesa t
9 r would
in sufficelt time,rp butr
at half-past 8 A.m., barely affording one hour end alalf for
correspondence; but the postmaster, being d •
rous of giv-
ing every facility in his power
desirous
under the peculiar circum-
stances in which we are placed, has not withheld delivery
early as 6 A.M. The inhabitants at the off i -lan s d as
s are en-
tirely precluded from answering
per return of post —Corn-
wall Gazette.

A LIBERAL LAINDLORD.—On Thursday last, at
Heinswortb, a return of 10 per cent. was made by Mr. R.
Cuttle to the tenants of the Rev. John Allott on the South
Kirby estate.—Doncaster Paper.
Mauritius papers announce the arrival at Port
1,014 pa the 15th Qf 7izze, of gat Diptiop of Colombo.

MISS CUSHMAN.
(From the Liverpool Journal.)
The announcement that Miss Cushman would ap-
pear at the Amphitheatre was received, in town,
better than most dramatic intimations m late days.
Immensely popular as Miss Cushman is in London,
she is a still greater favourite in Liverpool; an,l, as
has been observed of her before, " draws," at the great
theatre of this town, better than any one of her con-
temporary artistes. The manager himself could
hardly have felt more pleased than we did, last Mon-
day evening, at witnessing the dense masses of people
that, so early as five o'clock, surrounded the spacious
Amphitheatre, eager for admission. As the time for
opening the doors drew nigh, the hopelessness of ac-
commodation for the assembled crowd became evi-
dent ; Charlotte.street and Queen-square were filled
with persons whose anxiety to obtain admission was
plainly evident. Then came the crisis—the opening
of the doors, the rush, and the disappointment to
those who could not succeed in entering. Every
effort was made by the employes of the theatre to
meet the unprecedented demand for
places ; but the
cry was " Still they come," and they were at last re-
luctantly compelled to utter "Hold, enough." Cu-
riosity tempted us after the performance to inquire
the number of persons assembled ;-2,906 paid at the
doors, and we were assured that double that number
were excluded for want of accommodation. _

It is but justice to the management to state that it
refused to inconveniynce the public by admitting
more than could be fairly accommodated—thus in-
suring an uninterrupted representation of the play ;
and, with the kind and ready acquiescence of Miss
Cushman, the " disappointed ones" were promised a
repetition of the performance on the Wednesday fol-
lowing—an opportunity of which they gladly availed
themselves—and which said repetition again filled the
house.

We shall not attempt to criticise the performance;
a good audience had the certain effect of stimulating
the actors to their best efforts. Miss Cushman repaid,
on Monday night, the compliment tendered to her,
by playing Meg Merrilies with a more perfect art,
and a more terrible power of portrayal, than we ever
before saw her manifest in any of her previous per-
formances of this weird character.