The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

VICTORIA.

Last evening a new piece entitled Poverty, in three
acts, of that class which is termed the domestic drama,
was produced at this theatre to a very crowded audi-
ence. The plot and incidents are common-place
enough, but are rather well-worked out in the details.
Leonard (Mr. Freer), the son of Squire Graham,
having married against the father's will, a humble
girl, subsequently finds himself and family, consisting
of his wife, Mary (Miss Vincent), and the only son, in
great poverty in London, where he is lured into a
course of crime by the yeoman, George Gartland (Mr.
Nantz), whose proffered love Mary had rejected for
that of Leonard. In the course of vice and crime
which he has thus entered upon, his wife Mary is
abandoned by him, and, goaded on by Gartland, who
thirsts for revenge for his rejected suit, he attempts, at a
country inn near his father's residence, to bring his
evil deeds to a climax, by robbing two young naval
officers who stop there for the night, and who prove
to be the unfortunate burglar's son and his brother,
just returned from India. Mary Graham, the mother,
who had overheard her husband and his instigator
planning the robbery, gives the alarm, and Leonard,
already broken down by misery and remorse, sinks
confounded by the presence of his brother, child, and
wife, and dies. There is a sort of underplot, in which
Mr. Gardener, as Mr. Philip Augustus Figgins, and
Miss Arden, as his wife, were successful in drawing
forth much boisterous mirth. Miss Vincent and Mr.
Freer both elicited frequent applause through-
out the piece. The scenery was appropriate; and
though similar pieces have been brought out
in more showy style, and with broader effect, and
therefore more attractive to many of the playgoers
who frequent the Victoria, yet the inise en scene in
the present instance was more consonant to just taste.
The piece was entirely successful. A trifle in two
acts, called The Broken Promise ; or, a Sister's Honour
and a Brother's Duty, followed ; and the entertain-
ments of the evening concluded with the pantomime
of harlequin Lincoln Lucky, which the good folk
beyond the Thames seem by no means to be tired of
yet. At various times in the course of the evening
the amusements were diversified by the fistic en-
counters of some effervescent spirits in the more ex-
alted regions of the house, who, quite regardless of
the proceedings on the stage below, buffetted each
other most manfully, amid the cheer's, shouts, and
laughter of their respective abettors.

BUCKINGHAM THE ACTOR.-Our theatrical readers
will regret to learn that this favourite of the Minors, Vauxhall,
&c., is now suffering under all the privations that poverty and
sickness entail. Mr. Buckingham was an excellent performer.
His Trapbois (in the Fortunes of Nigel) would have made any
actor's fortune ; but, alas ! he pla.ti al it at the Surrey, not at
Covent-garden, and John Ball has a fatal knack of judging
things by where they arc done, heeding little how they are
done; and the Salley then was not what it is now. His Giles
(Miller's Maid) was also an admit able performance. Mr.
Buckingham has not been reduced to distress by follies or ax-
cess—he has 311 his Me been known as an inductions, honour-
able man ; but a wife, a large family (we believe of nine chil-
dren), all dependent upon his exertions, at length bore him
down. He has now been ill, helpless, for many months.—
Sunday Times.
ilimßußcar, JAN. 3.—An official statement of the
maritime commerce of Hamburgh gives the number of mer-
thantment that arrived there this last four years, as follows :-
1840 1841 1842 1.413
With cargoes ...... 2,640 2,890 3,001 3,409
In ballast 293 304 229 129
Under English colours 1352 973 894 907

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