The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-29 00:00:00

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Tuc THEATRE.—A new Farce was brought
forward at Drury Lane Theatre last night, under
the title of. Five Hundred Pounds. The plot is
just as probable as most productions of the same
kind.—Nonplus, the hero of the piece (Coops a)
is very much in debt, and obliged to resort to the
Jews for pecuniary assistance. Wiseacre; his uncle,
(GATTIE), assumes the appearance of an Israelite,
and discovers his nellbew's embarrassments. This
resource being stopped, Nonplus then appears as
a Ghost to his uncle, and terrifies the old man
into the surrender of, his pocket-book. Charlotte
(Mrs. °Roca) and Nonplus are attached to each
other, and the supply raised by the Ghost clears
away all impediments to the Union. A Mr.
Bobbin (RussELL), a City Haberdasher, is a pre-
Leader to Charlotte, who, assuming the character
of a Blue-stocking Lady, scares him by her learn-
ing, and induces him to leave the field to his
happy rival.—Modern dramatists do not seem to
have the law before their eyes, and provided
they make their heroes successful, think they
have a right to make them roguish. The trick
of the ghost may pass with a modern critic,
but it would hardly escape so easily with a
Magistrate. But au audience come to be di-
verted, and the farce before us, with the assistance
of the performers in general, chiefly accomplished
that purpose. There'was some disturbance last
night owing to the intrusion of some persons in
the pit upon tho platform placed there for the
passage of the horses in the Coronation. These
personsUbstructed the view of those behind them,
and naturally raised a reasonable clamour, which,
however, was soon quieted by the removal of the
parties. The piece was announced for repeti-
tion, but not without many dissenting yokes.

THEATRICALS.—We understand Covent-gar-
den Theatre will re-open on Monday, the 24th
of September.—Mrs. W. WEST, that justly ad-
mired favourite of the public, is now performing
at Southampton with the greatest success.—
JOHNSTONE took his final leave of the stage on
Friday last, at Liverpool.; and, after playing
Sir Lucius O'Trigger and Paddy O'Rgyeri,y,
spoke an Address, written for the occasion by
GEORGE COLMAN, Esq.—Miss WILSON appeared
at the Edinburgh Theatre on Wednesday even-
ing in the part of Clara, in The Duennu, which
she sustained so successfully as to induce a repe-
tition of the performance on Thursday night,'
notwithstanding the Opera of Artaxerxes had '
been previously announced for the occasion, it ,
being the last night but one of her engagement.—
Mr. CoNsott, of Covent-Garden, is now the fa-
vourite performer of the Irish characters at the
Dublin Theatre.'

Cugrous CrneusisTANcE.—Two sheep were
roasted whole in a sand-pit, near Petersfield, on Saturday last,
on Mr. ATCHESON'S arrival in that town ; and', nest of young
SAND MARTINS, which must have been eoveretl with smo'ke
and fire nearly the whole day, were afterwards found alive and.
well in a hole in the sand, by persons.who went out of curiosity
to view the spot.—(Hants Telegraph.)

The Basingstoke and Alton DiStrict Committee
of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, held their
Annual Meeting on the 7th lest., at the Swan Inn, Alton,—
Admiral Sir Lawrence William Halsted, K.C. B. in the Chair.
The number of books issued in the course of the year were-
-13.1 Bibles, 234 Testaments, 793 Prayer Books, 145 Piiiters,
and 565 tracts, making a total of 1863.
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—The Rev. Mr.
FARMER, who on Sunday officiated at Queen-street Chapel,
in this city, related in the course of hfs sermon the following
circumstance stated, that while he was bathing on the
preceding Friday, for the benefit of his health, on the south shore,
near Liverpool, a woman distant 200 yards had also come to the
shore for the purpose of bathing her child, and who having in-
quired of a man nearer at hand for a suitable and safe pare,
was directed to a particular spot. It is almost. incredible
to suppose that. the man would knowingly point her to a place
of danger, and yet his subsequent apathy goes a great. war to
warrant such a conclusion.' She had proceeded but a very sbert
distance from the shore, when, with the child in her arms, she
sunk in deep water ; on rising again, she shrieked aloud for ielp,
the wretch who had been the cause of her distress, remaining
an inactive spectator, without attempting an effort to assist her.
A gentleman, at a greater distance, attracted by her cries, rah
towards the place and plunged into the water; but finding
himself out of his depth, and probably being an indifferent
swimmer, he failed to give her effectual relief and made to- !
wards the shore to save himself. In the mean time this scene of
distress caught the attention of Mr. Farmer, who instantly 1
hastened to the perishing woman ; jumped into the water,
and as she was for the third time sinking, fortunately caught
hold of her arm, and succeeded in drawing her to the shore, with
her little charge, whom she had during the whole time continued
to clasp in her arms, though sinking into a state of insensibility.
It is needless to say, that when she came to herself, and discov-
ered the very narrow escape she and her offitpring had had from a
watery grave, she expressed her grateful acknowledgments to
him who had been made the insfrument of their preservation. Mr.
Farmer having acquainted himself with the place of her re-
sidence in Liverpool, visited her in the afternoon of the same.
day, and found her with the child very ill in bed. On seeing him,
she burst into tears, and renewed her expresaions of
gratitude.
The poor child, on his asking if it had not been in the water,
replied with tears an its eyes, " Yes, Sir, and you helped me
out of it."—(Chester Courant, Aug. 28.)

A melancholy occurrence took place in this town on Wednes-
day evening (22d inst.) " The circumstances of the ease, so
far as we can learn, arc as follow :—A family residing in
Smithfield, consisting of a father, mother, a daughter, and
another young girl, took supper, consisting of stirabout and
milk at ten o'clock at night. The mother and daughter took
sweet milk, the father and the young girl took buttermilk. In
a very short time after, the mother and daughter were seized
with violent pains in the bowels, and severe retching& They
became alarmed, and as their complaints increased, they informed
their neighborkrs ; but it does not appear that any medical aid
was called for till- towirds the morning of yesterday (Thursday,
23d instant,) when the mother was in a dyingstate, for she ex-
! pired about seven o'clock. The daughter continued in great
agony, notwithstanding every prescription being administered
that the best medical skill could suggest. The cause of 'this
melancholy occurrence appears to be, that•the milk taken by
the two sufferers, had, by same accidental means, been poi-
soned, supposed by arsenic, which hail -been mixed up into
what is called fly-water, and that part of the mixture had, un-
fortunately, either dropped into the vessel containing the milk,
or had been thrown into it by mistake Such are the particu-
lars generally reported ; and it is added, that the father narrow-
ly escaped the danger, being about to use the sweet milk, but
preferred the butter milk, saying that the sweet milk had an
offensive smell of onions. Late last night the daughter was
still living, but with little hopes of recovery.—(Belfast News
Letter.)

A pedestrain of Chichester has undertaken, for a wager, to
run a measured miie in five minutes. The odds are at present
in favour of time.

At the late robbery at Dr. PIGOTT'S residence
at Mereworth, in Kent, the-thieves carried off a
considerable number of medals, struck on the oc-
casion of Coronations, Victories, the Hanoverian
Succession, &c. and first impressions of the goid,
silver, aind copper coins of former reigns up to
the present time, some of them as far back as the
Conquest.

The bathing'p!ace at Eastbourne has already
a tolerable sprinkling of fashionables, and the
Theatre-his been opened there for the seaeun,
with a respectable company.