The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-30 00:00:00

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POIMIGN.

The Journal de Cette (a small seaport in the south
of France) gives an account of a terrible calamity
which befel that place on Tuesday, the 22d instant.
About four o'clock in the afternoon, a thunderbolt
burst over the town, and produced such awful effects
that it is described as resembling a place which had
undergone all the horrors of a siege. The Royal
Arsenal, a large building, was entirely destroyed—
even the walls not being left standing. The zinc
roof of the building was carried into the air, and
broken into thousands of pieces, which fell in diffe-
rent parts of the town, where they did a great deal
of injury. Several other large buildings were also
destroyed. At the same time, a storm prevailed in
the harbour which wrecked and sunk six or seven
merchant vessels, betides a great number of fishing
and other boats. The ifember of persons who perished
is calculated at about thirty, but the exact number
saves not known, and numbers were still missing
whose fate was uncertain. A great number besides
are severely wounded from the falling of houses, and
even at the time when the accounts came away the
people were afraid of a renewal of the disasters, as
the storm was not yet over.
The Kabyles have made another attack on the
French troops at Dellys. A letter from Algier,s, of
the 20th, says there were 130 of the French killed
and wounded, of whom 15 were officers. Thirty-five
men and two officers were killed.
Several Progressista Spaniards have been arrested
at Carcassone, Limoux, and other places leading to
the Spanish frontier, their object being, as it is
alleged, to create an insurrection in Catalonia.
Troops had been marched towards Valladolid, where
it appears a serious alarm was excited.
The Minister of War had suppressed one second
lieutenant and one sergeant in each company of in-
fantry, which will effect a saving in the budget of
3,513,706 reels vellon.
Fuad Effendi, the Envoy of the Sultan to the
Queen of Spain, has received from her Majesty, to
present to his Imperial master, a magnificent coffee
service in massive gold, consisting of a large tray,
twelve cups and saucers, twelve coffee-spoons, a
coffee-pot, cream-jug, and sugar-basin.
A letter from the frontiers of Catalonia, of the
19th instant, states, that the movement made among
the Spanish refugees in the French depots, has given
occasion to the greatest vigilance of the French police
along the frontiers. They did not exhibit such vigi-
lance, when Narvaez and party escaped from France,
to overturn the Government of Espartero.
The Courrier de Havre, of the 24th instant, says
the Chamelion steamer brings news of a quarrel which
had taken place in Malta between some American and
English officers upon the subject of Louis Philippe
and the Queen of England, which led to several duels.
The issue of this unfortunate affair was not known
upon the departure of the steamer.
MAW Etairn POSZCZ.
Two young men, named Thomas Smith and George
Heffell, were charged at Guildhall with stealing three
pint pots from the Swan's Nest, in Coleman-street-
buildings. Sir Chapman Marshall remanded the pri-
soners till Thursday, that any person who had lost 1
pots might look at them.
At Queen-square on Monday, William Stanborough
a tall,
.fashionably-dressed person, who drove up to
the private entrance of the court in his horse and gig,
was charged with an assault on John Puleston, a boy
in the service of Messrs. Rackstraw and Atkinson,
fishmongers, Victoria-road, Pimlico. The summons
was directed to William, and George Stanborough, of
6, Wilton-street, Grosvenor-place, but the latter did
not appear. It appeared that the boy had gone to 6,
Wilton-street, to request payment of a bill ; that on
knocking at the door he was forced into the parlour,
where he was beaten and kicked by the defendant and
two others. The defendant, who denied that he was
present at the time, was fined 4/.
Monday three gentlemen, named Phillips, Hodg-
kin, and Smith, were fined 20s. for, obstructing the
police in keeping the line clear for the passage of the
royal procession, in the neighbourhood of Trafalgar-
square.
At Worship-street Mary Todd, the wife of a porter
in a city warehouse, who stood charged with having
been concerned in concealing the birth of a male infant,
the body of which she had surreptitiously introduced
into the Bethnal-green workhouse, on the admission of
its mother, a young woman named Maria Gaffee, who
is now an inmate of that house, was finally examined
and discharged, as there was no further evidence pro-
duced against her.
William Allsebrook, deputy to Mr. Raine, an officer
of the Palace Court, was charged at Greenwich with
stealing two china egg cups, two china mugs, sundry
china ornaments, curious shells, &c., the property of
Frederick Starkey, a plumber, resiaing at Lewisham.
The defendant who had been employed tamake a seizure
on the premises of the complainant, had removed
certain articles. Starkey having paid the money
required the restoration of his goods. They were
restored according to the inventory, but the missing
articles although taken by defendant did not appear
in the inventory. The prisoner refused to give the
complainant his address. He, however, discovered it,
and found part of the stolen property there. Mr.
Raine, who appezed on behalf of his man, made very
light of the matter, and said the articles were of
trifling value.. Mr. Starke; said that the prisoner's
ther china jug, the
son told him that there was an:2
match of the one in the basket, on the mantel-piece of
Mr. Raine's house. Mr. Raine was put Lto the box
and sworn. Mr. Jeremy then said—Now, sir, upon
your oath, is it true that the cup alluded to waa ay
your house? Mr. Raine, after a little hesitation, said
—No, sir; I deny having seen it; he was, however,
so much excited that night, that he could not remem-
ber. Mr. Jeremy, in giving judgment, characterised
the case as one of heartless cruelty. Here was a
tradesman in pecuniary difficulties, robbed under cir-
cumstances very painful, with little probability of
redress ; but having unexpectedly satisfied his cre-
ditors, fortunately found the means of detecting the
offender. It was a high misdemeanor, if not a felony.
The prisoner might consider himself very lucky in
having escaped beinti.esent to Newgate. He was fined
51. for the unlawful possession of the goods, and in
default of payment be committed for two months to
the county gaol. He was locked up.
John Featherstone, aged 53, was charged on a
peace-warrant, at the Thames Police-court, with pre-
senting a pistol at Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Wall, the
landlady of the Britannia Tavern, in the New-road,
St. George's-in-the-East, and with threatening her
life. The prisoner has frequently been bound over to
keep the peace towards Mrs. Wall, and at the last
sessions articles of peace were exhibited against him
He was liberated on bail only on Thursday last. The
bail, it was stated, was ." straw bail." The magis-
trate said that he knew, from long experience, that in
99 cases out of 100 false and artificial bail was given.
The Chairman of the sessions must be made acquainted
with the fraud. The prisoner was then ordered to
enter into sureties, himself in 801., and two sureties
in 40Z. each, to keep the peace until the sessions, and
in default he was locked up.
COVNLIO ---?ASELIONABLIN.
The Duchess of Inverness is passing the autumn at
Kensington Palace, where her Grace occasionally
entertains select parties at dinner.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester and Lady
Olivia Montagu intend to pass the winter in Spain,
for the improvement of her Grace's health, which has
been for some time in a delicate state. The Duke
and Duchess have arrived at Brampton Park, on a visit
to Lady Olivia Sparrow, from Tandaregle Castle,
previous to embarking for Cadiz.
The Hon. Mr. Cadogan and Mr. F. Courtenay have
returned to town from Lord William Powlett's seat
in Norfolk, and leave shortly on a visit to the Marquis
and Marchioness of Anglesey, at Beaudesert.
On Saturday, George Cornwall Lewis, Esq., one
of the Poor-law Commissioners for England and
Wales, led to the altar, at Watford Church, Lady
Theresa Lister, relict of the late Thomas H. Lister,
Esq., and sister to the Earl of Clarendon, and to the
Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers. The Hon. Montagu
Villiers officiated at the ceremony.
antiGNlS.GArfaloini.

On Wednesday, the 16th instant, application was
made to the Court of Quarter Sessions for the county,
at Exeter, for permission to erect a set of powder-
on Dartmoor. The Court took time to consider,
and on Friday granted a license for this purpose to
Messrs. George Frean and Co. The site selected is
ten miles from Moretonhamptead, and two miles from
Two Bridges. The nearest point of the mills to the
turnpike road is 728 yards, of three feet each. The
nearest point of the magazine to the road is 520 yards.
The distance between the mills and the magazine will
be 1,200 yards.
On Friday, October 11, as a labourer was employed
in digging flints on one of the highest points of the
hills whic bound the Vale of Pewsey on the north,
he turned up a beautiful ornament of solid gold,
weighing rather more than two ounces and a half
troy, in the highest state of preservation. It was im-
bedded in the earth at about eighteen inches under
the turf. The only articles at all resembling it are
the supposed Druidical ornaments called :torques, of
which several were discovered in Somersetshire to-
wards the end of the last century, but of base metal.
Prince Albert's Hariers met at the gas house at
Egham, on Saturday, had three excellent runs,
securing a brace and a half of fine hares.
On Saturday the students of University College,
Gower-street, assembled in the lecture theatre, for
the purpose of inviting Professor Liebig, of European
celebrity as a chymist, to a dinner. Though the
matter had been only broached the evening before in

the presence of thirty-five etudents, thirty of them
had instantly subscribed a guinea each. A committee
was appointed to arrange the affair.
On Saturday, as the mail train from York to Lon-
don was passing under Milford-bridge, in the even-
ing, the engine-driver was knocked down by some
miscreant throwing a stone, which caught him on
the head, from the effects of which he remained in-
sensible for some time afterwards. Fortunately the
stoker was competent to undertake the management
of the engine, or a dreadful catastrophe must have
ensued, there being two trains on the same line, about
a mile from the bridge, and waiting the arrival of
the train in question. The Railway Company offered
a reward of 501. for the apprehension and conviction
of the offenders, and on Sunday last three young
men, servants in husbandry at Milford, were taken
into custody on suspicion, and on Tuesday two of
them, named Newby and Westmorelaad, were com-
mitted.
The shawls, three in number, selected by the
Baron Nieumann as a marriage gift to his fair be-
trothed, are said to be among the finest that even' left
India. His Excellency will return from Vienna
about the middle of November, stored with precious
offerings to lay on the altar of Hymen, some pearls
of great value forming a portion of them.
Government has increased the reward offered to
discover the murderers of Mr. Carden's steward
from one to two hundred pounds, and a free pardon,
except to the actual perpetrator.
The new charter for incorporating the town of
Wexford comes into operation the Ist of January.
A son of the Rev. Thomas Buxton, of Kilbren
Glebe, near Ashbourne, a boy of nine years old, had his
hand nearly blown off by the explosion of a powder'
horn, a few days since. He escaped, however, with
the loss of two fingers and part of a thumb.
Westminster.bridge was re-opened yesterday.

THE THEATRES.
ADELPHI.
" Aut Ccesar nut Diabolus" might be taken as the
motto of the l; resent theatrical season. Go were we
will we are sure to find either Don Cesar de Bazan
or Satan. At the ilaymarket Cesar reigns supreme,
while the Devil, with his seven castles, hath taken
possession of the Lyceum; At the Adelphi
" Divisa Imperia cum ,s,ltano Cce.lar habet"—
the Devil and the Don have united their powers of
attraction—The Mysterious Stranger appearing in
the forni of a lovely woman in the beginning of the
evening, while the Don announces lumself as King of
Spain towards the conclusion.
" The Devil and the King divide the prize"
of drawing crowded houses to the great profit of Mr.
Webster. There is at the present moment a very
pleasant comedic vaudeville by Messrs. Clarville and
Damarin, which, under the title of Satan, on le
Diable a Paris, is attracting all Paris. This drams
has been very cleverly adapted to the English stage IT
Mr. Charles Selby, under the title of The Myste-
rious Stranger, and we have no doubt but that the
nightly levees of the Mysterious Stranger at the
Adelphi will be as numerously attended as the levees
of Monsieur Satan have been at Paris - In the
opening scene, we are introduced to Count Henry de
Beausoleil (Mr. Hudson), who is giving his farewell
bachelor party preparatory to his marriage with Na:
demoiselle de Nantelle (Miss E. Harding).
stranger is announced, who sends up his card " Satan'
and who enters in the person of Mademoiselle Celestfw
attired as an exquisite of the first water. The Count
is reminded by his visitor that some,.'ten years pre'.
viously he had ruined himself to save-a friend from de;
struction, and that, utterly destitute of money, he had
drawn up a paper offering to sell himself to the Devil
for ten years of wealth ; that the next morning be
had heard of a large legacy left him by a distant re'
lative, and had ever since been • in the enjoy;
ment of wealth unbounded. " You 11°'
no relation," says the Mysterious Strange;
,g I took you at your word. Here is your bond—the
date is run out, and you're mine." The Count trea'
his visitor as an imposter. " Well," says the Stranger
" in twenty-four hours I will deprive you of youl
wealth, your mistress, and your friends ; and then J.
shall demand the execution of my bond." He goes
to a ball, where he finds his mistress flirting with no'
other ; while there he hears that his banker has eb'
sconded with the whole of his property. The hlystei:
rious Stranger, dressed as a lady, enters, and renuou'
him that she had foretold it. A grand fete is give°
at the mansion of a Polish Princess with an unpre'
nounceable name. The guests are Beausoliel's foist
tress and his former friends. They determine to ell
him. He enters, followed by the Princess, who iss
no other than the Mysterious Stranger. She expose
their duplicity to him, and gives him letters writtell
by his mistress to his rival. At the opening of the
second act the unfortunate Count is in utter despolB;
dency, and gives utterance to his grief in a von
touching song, which was exquisitely sung by Huds
oll!
and deservedly encored. Mademoiselle de Nantelle
enters—she explains her past conduct, and seeks agal'e
to win his affections. "Those letters were written, Pi
says, "just as she left her convent, at that period °E
life when the girl is becoming the woman, and when
to say I love, is sufficient to secure her affections"'
but the dreams of girlhood had long since pa 4
away, he was the choice of her maturer years, si/te
although she knows him poor, she has come to she?
her fortune with him." This scene was very besot?
fully given by Miss E. Harding. There was ari
passioned tenderness about her acting, restrain' O.
however, by the innate bashfulness of the retirill7(
girl, which told admirably. Henry at once gives 'At,
and defies Satan—but too soon. Scarcely has t'is
lady retired when the Mysterious Stranger eote4,
and shows him a paragraph in a newspera:
announcing that his banker has been arrested
The lady enters immediately afterwards, 3 0
the Count, hid in a closet, is witness 0.0
scene in which the Mysterious Stranger, inforo
the lady that the paragraph in question is false, e
~.ePr,
that Henry is a ruined man, woos and wins I' by
ry enters, the lady faints, and the stranger late o
at ty„. success of his diabolical wiles. The lost F
scene di,„_,lvers Henry asleep on a sofa. He alci'moi o
and the ih)-sterious Stranger appears to P
in propria perso:a. She is the daughter of 'e
friend whom he has saved from ruin. To her he olej
his fortune. She has W.ng loved him, and has acloPt,
this strange method of opeDitlg his eyes to the
lessness of his pretended vi-jends. It is sea
necessary to add that he willing? til
liquidates his 0t,e1.,
and becomes hers for life. There is a comic tfbufw
plot, admirably supported by Wright anc: Miss to the
lin, and one scene, in which we are introduek:"--,evef
back slums of Paris, in which 0. Smith, as the
Ire i
of lapis franc, and a dealer in forged passports, o'cisi
he alone can act. There is a chorus song introdlleo.
into this scene, which was admirably sung by good
tleman with whose name we are unacquainted, 00
whom we do not recollect to have seen before, co
whose talents are such that it is impossible beyss:,
long remain unknown. Celeste as the mill
terious Stranger was the most fascinating sicuor
that has ever appeared in public ; and Hod of
as the Count, was first-rate. The mountiogoot
the piece was perfection, and it ea
fail, to draw crowded houses. The ove
by M. Doche, is a very elegant and agreeable
the
position, and will form a most useful addition tuifen
repertoire of stock overtures. It was admirably fetlio
by the orchestra ; and we cannot but congratuleevt
proprietors of this theatre on the vast impros;eot,
which has taken place in the orchestral deparr doe!
At the fall of the curtain Madame Celeste, o°llol
and Wright, were called for, and received with ti jos:
honours. When they had retired there wereed
calls for Selby, who came forward and annoutliestio
piece for repetition amidst the enthusiastic stunt
a crowded house.

HAYMARKET. rofici
No sooner does a clever actor make his apPeigeo
than Webster, the most enterprising of Inal',"„,ice
immediately does his utmost to secure his s,e' rble'
We are not, therefore, surprised to find Mr. "'fie
the prince of Yankees, on the Haymarket b‘./0 11
of thitect
He made his debut at this theatre on MoudaY, of
favorite character of Lot Sap Sago, in the f3r-coti°'
Yankee Land. We have so lately given an °c cO'
of the admirable pourtrayal by Marble
ratter, that it is unnecessary to go into this 511$0ti!
any great length. Suffice it to say, that his " eve);
was as dry, and his Jonathanisms as quainterso.s
and that his whole delineation of the charact or eve
very beau ideal of a "Help." He was well revel
throughout by a crowded house.
tb°

LYCEUM.
A new piece, of course an adaptation fr°opleo
French, was produced here on Monday- with °AP °.‘,
success, under the title or Watch and -Ward.,. 5 ft,t,)
French Baron has a pretty ward, Isabel (1‘,110;o0'5,
brother), who has a lover, Victor (gr. -Is.'r(lilfi
•e-
The guardian, after the manner of all stage fon 4,
of course disapproves of her conduct, and of co'ieo
closely to watch his ward. Her maid, °`
brings her lover to meet her in the garden' ? tOa
did a stage. lady's maid ever do otherwiselive
guardians and ladies maids are like the poslrettio $
negative poles of a galvanic battery, Pefijotoo,
neutralising each other, and in so doing in of cotsy
series of shocks on the unfortunate mediumioto P:10
munication, the heroine. The guardian Pe: Cattico,
garden, and there finds, not the lover, butkev
O'Donnell, an Irish officer, who had typoatito
fuge there to escape from the patrol• oiled to
demands hospitality as one who, havingoaring to
adversary in an affair of honour, is endenvoes into+
escape. from justice. While the Baron en toff
prepare a hiding-place for him, the lady'b Vic ti,e
and conducts O'Donnell to her 'Distress, w",ed hired
who arrives immediately afterwards, is f°T; nree,,,y
Baron into the hiding-place which be sd °rf
for him. From these contre-temps a wcir t
able incidents arise. The embroglio isker The
very last, when of course all ends bapPll9;_editsu,„o
weight of the piece fell on Wigan, who sust7_ tot
rably. We would just hint to birodlowev