The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-13 00:00:00

so near to this magnificent scene, and entertaining no
idea that they were so closely pursued, they would
not have failed to visit it. He was right in his con-
jecture. On Goat Island, from which the Falls of
Niagara, are seen to much advantage, he found the
names of. the Messrs. Ellis inserted in the visitors'
books. He also found that they had been staying at
the Cataract Hotel for a couple of days, but the
owners and servants of the hotel could give no infor-
mation of their " whereabouts" at the time of the
inquiry. It however appeared that they had visited
the Falls without being incommoded with luggage;
and the inference, therefore, was, that they had left Buf-
falo merely for the gratification of their curiosity,and
had returned to Buffalo, where,
.in all probability,
they had left the bulk of the plunder. Having in-
vestigated the matter. thus .far, the officer returned
to Buffalo,.but, could get no further tidings of them.
In this difficulty Forrester resolved to. go in search
of the American :gentleman, who had been in their
company to Michigan, and off he sailed for Detroit,
the capital of Michigan, on board a steamer on Lake
Erie. On 'Lake Erie the vessel had to encounter
one of the most terrific storms ever known within the
recollection of the 'crew to have visited the American
lakes, and was compelled to return—an object which
she accomplished with' much difficulty. At the end
of two or three days ,however, he set out again, and
he ultimately reached the residence of the individual
from . whom he expected to obtain intelli-
gence, about sixty miles beyond Detroit.
Here, as he had some notion that he might pounce
upon Burgess and Elder' and as the place was situ-
ated in a different State, he provided himself with a
new warrant. In the' hiipe•of apprehending the fu-
gitives he was disappointed, but he was informed by
the American that the yarties had invested the money
they had brought from England immediately on ar-
riving in Boston, and had actually had the impudence
to
.go to the British Consul to ascertain from that
officer the character of the various Lanka before they
would deposit what they called their property. This
was the extent of the information which Forrester re-
ceived on his visit to Michigen, with the exception of
the statement that they had talked of going into
Canada.

The journey from Buffalo to the residence of the
American gentleman, and back to Buffalo, exceeds
eight hundred miles, the result well repaid the
trouble, and, with the information obtained at Mi-
ehigen, Forrester instantly set out for Boston, .a fur-
ther journey of six hundred mile's, where he arrived
in due time. _ •

Here he set on foot .the inquiries Which terminated
in the capture,of both Elder and Burgess, in the man-
ner already detailed to the public. the fair. caused,
as may well be supposed, the greatest. sensation at
Boston ; and the newspaper, after giving an account
of the temporary escape of Burgess, and describing his
person, with a view to his detection, gave, as one of
the indications by which he might be known, the fact
that he was particularly fond of raisins soaked in
burning champagne, adding, that it was no doubt a
taste he had acquired while holding his official ap-
pointment in the Bank of England.
The personation of Mr: Oxenford by Elder, on ob-
taining the transfer of the stock in the Bank of England
was detected by Daniel Forrester, who traced him
and Burgess from place to place in England, after the
intelligence of their flight, and to their departure on
board the Britannia. The tact and ability shown in
investigating the case in the metropolis, was precisely
similar to the conduct in America by which the elder
brother was distinguished.

SPORTING IN
TATTERSALL'
CIIESTE

TELLIGENCE.
'S.-YESTERDAY.
a CUP.

500 to 10 agst Milton—t. I 500 to 10 agst Agricultu-
-500 to 10 agst Infidel—t.. I rist

100 to 20 agst Foig a-bal- 500 to 10 agat Winesour
lagh —t. 500 to 10 agst Coranna.
The last three taken in one bet.
Dit RBI%
10 to 1 agat Mr. Greville's Alarm—take 11 to 1
17 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt
18 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger—take 20 to 1
18 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas-20 to 1 taken
to 2001.
20 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam—t. and aft. off.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse—taken
22 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer
30 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Rebecca c—t. & off.
35 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit
40 to I agst Mr. St. Paul's colt—Calypso's dam—t.
50 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger—t. & off.
100 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Devil's Dust.
The only notable changes were in Idas and the colt
out of Calypso's dam, the former at an outlay of 2001. at
20 to 1, advancing to 18 to layers, and the latter, who
was backed in the first instance at 50 to 1, obtaining a

lift of ten points, the odds quoted above having been
taken to 75/. The betting in other respects was dull and
unimportant. A good deal of discussion took place on
the subjeCt of Iroumaster's qualification, resulting in the
expression of a wish that the attention of the stewards
of the races should be called to the matter without
delay. Those who have laid forties and fifties to one,
subject to qualification, are apprehensive that should it
be suffered to stand over, the horse may turn out good
for nothing, and they may be left in the same predica-
ment as in Dr. Allen's case. We have no doubt, how-
ever, that Mr. A. Hill, whose character for straight.
forwardness stands deservedly high, will relieve the
betters round from their difficulty, by at once submitting
the question to the proper tribunal.

THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN.
(Abridged from the Dublin Evening Packet.)
On Thursday evening last the tragedy of the Gamester
was represented, Mr. and Mrs. Kean supporting the re-
spective characters of Beverley and Mrs. Beverley, and
Mr. Calcraft that of Stukely. Mr. C. Kean's personal
endowments are above those of his father, but strikingly
inferior to those of J. Kemble. Slight, neat, and scarcely
reaching the middle height, his direction is plainly to the
graceful and the polished. His features declare at the
first glance his intellectual vigour and nervous irrita-
bility. His eye discourses. He is great in those cha-
racters of Shakspeare in which his father excelled—in
Richard and Hamlet especially—in Massinger's Sir
Giles, in which he exhibits the same fearful
energy ; he vanquishes the obstacles nature has
opposed to him in Macbeth by the force of mird.
We must hasten at once to that display of his ability
which, as we esteem it, constitutes the supreme excel-
lence of his acting—the part of Beverley. Here we have
an example of a' talent which neither Kemble nor his
father possessed—the portraiture of domestic life—of a
soft and noble nature betrayed, deformed, and brought to
cureless ruin, and the last and most awful catastrophe—
suicide. Highly as we have praised the performance of
Shakspeare's tragedy, we are not afraid to award still
higher eulogy
.to that of Moore's. The attributes of Mr.
Kean's acting in both were the same. The same absorp-
tion, the same identity. But this grand distinction may
be taken. In Beverley one and the same fatal passion
prevails, varying its shades only according to the grada-
tions of misery by which its indulgence overwhelms its
victim. Paroxysm follows paroxysm—remorse and re-
lapse, pathos and passion, alternate in fearful succes-
sion. But in the conduct of these gradations the
masterly art of the actor is displayed. Never, we will
venture to affirm, has there been so powerful, so terrific
an exhibition of ruin and desperation as in the
scene of the third act, where, after the total destruc-
tion of Beverley's last hope, he rushes from the
inner room of the gaming-house. We never witnessed
such abandonment of all personal regards, such bursts
of passionate invective, such a blending of distortion and
expression in the features, such hoarse and horrifying
dissonance of tone and inflexion, such a conflict of the
most terrible emotions. The test was the sympathy of
the audience, which not even this stormy vehemence in
the slightest degree interrupted. The last effects were
still more touching. The scene, a prison—the persons,
a wife, a sister, and a friend—the incidents, a hope and
a promise of happiness restored—the author and the
victim doomed by a despair so dread as even to forbid the
last resource of the wretched, appeal to Divine mercy,
yet prompting the commission of suicide and closing in
death—all these in rapid evolution presented a combina-
tion so intolerably harassing yet of an interest so rivet-
ing, that we have never, to our recollection, seen—
audience or personally experienced an effect so awful.
To this we may add one peculiar trait, A medical man,
who witnessed the performance, said to the writer of
this article—' Kean must have watched the progress of
death by poison.. It is utterly' incredible that an imita-
tion so minutely, so terribly accurate, could have been
given but from actual observation. -But' enough— the
reader will not need any recital of the other varieties.
Of Mrs: Kean we have no more to say, than that her
natural and delicate delineations of the tender and
touching lineaments of female character have stood and
still stand as far above all challenge as they do above all
competition."

ISLANDS IN TIIE RIVER NESB.—At this time.
when the pages of our southern Oontemporaries teem
with accounts of public meetings on the subjects of
walks, baths, and other improvements, we would direct
attention to the neglected state of the Islends in the
Ness, where walks of unrivalled beauty lie almost at our
very doors, but which, from the dilapidated condition
of the connecting bridges, are as unapproachable as if
they were situated in the wilds of Siberia, or in the midst
of the Great Desert of Africa. It is next to a miracle
how our spirited townsmen could so long tolerate the
idea of debarring themselves from the pleasure of luxuri-
ating among the thickets spread over the islands, when
the amount of time required to transport them from the
lanes and streets to these umbrageous shades, would not
exceed ten minutes. The bridge on the Bught side of
the river is broken down and half-covered with water.
What will strangers think of us when they cast their
eyes on our beautifully-wooded islands and find them as
difficult of access as if the trees were covered with for-
bid& n fruit ? What will the multitudinous Sassenaich,
who throng our streets and climb our rugged mountains
every autumn, have to report of us when they repair to
the fertile plains of Ungland, bearing in their mind's
eye, that the sweetest scene around the very capital of
the Highlands is allowed to lie waste and desert, from
the lukewarmness and inactivity of our inhabitants ?
hiverness Courier.
It was the Ist Life Guards, and not the Ist Dra-
goons, who formed the guard of honour at the funeral of her
Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda ; and it was
the first, and not the second, battalion of Fusilier Guards,
which did duty at Windsor, - _ .
A Government-steamer has been employed-during
the past three days in mooring some sections of Captain Tay-
. lees floating breakwater off Aldringtou.—.Brighton Gazette.