The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-11 00:00:00

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

A new piece in two acts was produced here last even-
ing with the title of The Carbonari. It is, like most of
our present dramatic novelties, from the French, but it is
scarcely so good as most of them, being deficient in that
great merit of the French playwrights, closeness and
neatness of construction, and effective incident and
situation. Dialogue predominates over action, a perilous
thing in most cases, but luckily in the present instance,
a large share of it falls to Mrs. Stirling, whose unaffected
and natural style of acting is always interesting. The
plot is a variation of the main idea of Don (Argar de
Bazan. A young nobleman. Frederic, Marquis de Pa-
larcini, is, with other young liberals, imprisoned in the
citadel at Parma, on suspicion of being Carbonari. Re-
becca (Mrs. Stirling), the daughter of a jew goldsmith
of the city, whom Frederic bas in former days rescued from
the attacks of a fanatic mob, comes to the prison provided
with money to bribe the keeper to aid in the young
Marquis's escape, and by the interference of Gianina
(Miss E. Stanley), with whom the deputy jailer, Pepito
(Mr. Compton), is in love, she succeeds in conveying a
letter to him, apprising him that means have been taken
to secure his flight ; but he refuses to peril others for the
sake of a thing so worthless as his own life. The reso-
lution is no sooner taken than a report is brought that
the warrant for his execution has been signed, the Go-
vernment having resolved on making some severe
examples. A young friend, Ascanio del Dongo, is a
fellow-prisoner with him, and supposes himself, errone-
ously, to be beloved by Rebecca. With only a few hours
to live, the Marquis thinks he may as well secure the
happiness of his friend by marrying Rebecca himself, and
leaving her a widow and a Marchioness with immense
wealth, and at liberty to wed Ascanio. Rebecca does not
know of his impending fate, and thinking that theresolution
ofthe Marquis proceeds frcm love for her, she consents, and
the marriage is solemnised with a celerity peculiar to
the weddings of French dramas. Now comes the em-
barrassment. By a sudden rise of the populace the
despotic Ministry is upset, the Liberals placed in power,
and the Marquis, instead of being marched to the ram
parts and shot, is freed, escorted to the palace, and
made Prime MiniFter! But what is he to do with a
wife who does not love him, and whom he has promised
to his friend? He applies for a decree of divorce,
but in the interview in which he intends to com-
municate to her their separation, he discovers
that he is the beloved ; finds the Jewess looks
charmingly in her bridal dress, and finally keeps her him-
self, leaving his friend to console himself as best he may
under his disappointment. The comic bye-play of the
piece is carried on by Gianina and Pepito, in excellent
style; but the incident, as we said before, is meagre, and
there are none of those telling situations that so abound
in the stage career of that " humorous dare-devil," Don
Caesar, to whom the Marquis of this piece is next of kin,
without much family resemblance. But it is well put on
the stage, and well acted. The second act is by far the
best, and the admirable manner in which Mrs. Stirling
plays throughout the scene in which the Marquis gra-
dually discovers her affection for him, and her exertions
to save him during his peril, is most expressively na-
tural. The applause at the fall of the curtain was only
moderate, but Mrs. Stirling was called for, and received
the approbation of the audience.

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The storm of Sunday week was the most
that has visited our coast this season, and has left with
us, as evidences of its fury, one large schooner ashore,
and one that fortunately succeeded in riding out the
gale at anchor, a short distance to the westward of-
this harbour. The first schooner is the Ellen Stewart,
of Dundee. She was on her voyage from Waterford
to Glasgow, with a cargo of flour. The latter is the
Liska, of Waterford, also for Glasgow, with bacon
and marble. Both vessels were descried from this
port immediately, after daybreak, and their precarious
sivation created the most intense excitement and
alarm for their safety. The Liska drove her anchors,
and was brought up on good ground about half a.
mile from shore; and, to the admiration of every one,
rode out the gale in safety. Her rigging, however,
is completely dismantled, the sails having been blown
into rags, and the foretopmast, spars, &c., carried
away. She is left, in fact, without a stitch of sail to
enable her to remove from her anchorage, and in con-
sequence, a tug steamer has been sent for to take her
up the Clyde. The Ellen Stewart was not so fortu-
nate. Being farther in shore she was obliged to make
for this harbour to prevent her being driven among
the breakers to the northward ; and the tide • being
little more than ebb at the time, she struck heavily on
the bar at the harbour-mouth the sea making its
way right over her. The master and crew immediately
took to the rigging, with the exception of a boy, a
passenger, who was lashed to the windlass • and from
this time, about nine o'clock, a.m., tin half-past
twelve, the situation of both vessel and crew was
perilous and distressing in the extreme. Every means.
was tried, for a time in vain, to get a line from the
shore to the unfortunate vessel, but at length this ob-
ject was effected by those on board attaching a line to
a small buoy, which floated ashore. Having by this
means gut a hawser on board, which was made fast
ashore, the vessel was kept more steady, and the wind
being right in shore kept her head on, and thus owed
her, for had she broached to in the bar she wout4
inevitably hove gone to pieces. As the tide flow." 1
she was driven gradually up the river, and the warner,'
were got off in safety, but much exhausted. Theo
were carefully and kindly attended to, and soon W-
covered their strength. The greatest praise is due to
the shipmasters and seamen of this port, for the energy'
and humanity displayed by them in doing everything
that could be devised to save the vessel and crew,
whose escape altogether was most providential, and
was deeply sympathised in by thousands of anxious
spectators ashore. The vessel is very much damaged,
and the cargo of course destroyed to a considerable
extent.—Ayr Observer.

ADVENTURE WITH A BOA
CONSTRICTOR.
(From the Madras United Service Gazette.)
Captain C--, of her Majesty's 84th Foot, was
one of the most indefatigable sportsmen I ever
met with, and the entire of his time that could
be spared from regimental duty was passed in
the jungles. He was a man of vast personal
strength, could undergo any degree of fatigue, in
short, possessed a perfectly iron constitution. Hip
halms, too, were anything but luxurious—a single
attendant carrying a rifle of large bore, a mean
carpet to sleep on, a limited stock of linen, and a
good supply of ammunition accompanied the sports—
man, who pursued his game by day, and at night
sought shelter in some village, perfectly care-
less as to his accommodations in the way of food or-
lodging, his beverage being moreover the simple ele-
ment, for he never carried with him supplies of any
kind, trusting his commissariat aid to Providence
and rural hospitality.
In this manner Captain C became well
known to the natives of the country in every direc-
tion where sport was to be obtained ; he was aufh-
ciently acquainted with their language to
himself understood, and the kindly simplicity of hir-
manner attached them to his person, and many of-
them indeed have been known to walk miles to
give him early information of large game, which
were his favourite objects of pursuit. Captain C—
was thus quite "at home" in the Wynaud jungle
and great western ghauts, where he probably
brought to bag single-handed more heal of
large game—elephants, bisons, tigers, and the like,
than any other man ever did before, or ever will
again in India. When upon one of these excursions,
Captain C— happened to be passing the night at
a small village in the Nirynaud jungle, when a ryot
who had been out very late searching for a stray
bullock, came to tell him of a large cheetul, oY
spotted deer, which he had watched to its lair. lie
had also heard from the villagers that a huge.
snake had been seen several times in that neigh-
bourhood. He started accordingly after his game
at day-break, accompanied by the villager and
a favourite dog, which rarely left his heels unless
ordered. After proceeding about half a mile
through very dense jungle, and being as the
villager supposed near the spot where the cheetul had
laid down, Captain C— of a sudden missed his
dog, and hearing a rustling in the bushes about ten
yards off, accompanied by a whimpering
noise, he turned in that direction, and saw
what he at the first glance took for a tiger, from
its colour, a mixture of black and brown, but soon
discovered what the monster really was—a huge
enormous boa constrictor, which seized his poor Juno,
and was at that moment crushing her to atoms in its
terrible coils. The native who was with him saw
what it was likewise, and immediately fled. Capt. C.
afterwards described the appearance of the reptiley
when thus coiled round his dog, as somewhat resembling
a barrel, every portion in violent muscular motion,
and he distinctly heard the bones of the poor animal
crack in succession within its terrible embrace. At
last the monster raised its head and fixed two glaring:
eyes on Captain C—, who in another moment might
perchance have been fascinated by their deadly
gleam, but with unerring aim he placed two balls
in its forehead. Their effect was not, however,
as he expected, fatal, and the snake instantly un-
coiling itself from its victim, came straight at Cap-
tain C---, who, of course, took to flight, but so
thick was the jungle, that he found the animal gain-
ing on him, From the noise it made amongst the
bushes ; and therefore sought shelter in a tree, re-
loading his gun with all possible expedition. Whe-
ther the reptile followed him by sight or smell, he
could not judge, but Captain C— was only just pre-
pared for a second discharge, when the baa reached
the tree, and instantly twining itself round the
stem would have soon seized him, but fortunately.at
the next shot he blew out both its eyes with a charge,
of BB ; yet though the snake appeared for a moment
stunned, it still continued its efforts to reach him,
until by repeated shots it was incapacitated
from rising, not though till Captain C— had com-
pletely emptied his powder flask, and even then he did
not venture to descend, as the reptile continued
coiled round the tree, occasionally by a muscular
movement slowing that its vital powers were not yet
wholly extinct. At length, after some hours' solitary
confinement on his perch, and shouting until he was
hoarse for aid, Captain C—had the satisfaction to
see a number of villagers arrive, by whom the mon-
strous animal was soon completely destroyed. Capt.
C— had no means of accurately measuring its
length but by a piece of stick, which the natives
said was a cubit long, and he declared that it mea-
sured upwards of thirty of these, and was much
thicker than one of his own thighs, which were of
a make that would have well become the leather
fie ;for shames of any Life-guardsman The bead of
the boa was cut off, by his orders, and sent to the Hon.
Mr. Cole, then Resident at Mysore, and its enormous
jaws may still possibly be inexistence at the Mysore
Residency. Pardon the prolix of
AN OLD SPORTSMAN.

Sir Francis Doyle has been appointed Assistant
Solicitor of the Excise, with a salary of 1,0001. a-year.
Mr. J. Hornby has paired off with Sir B. Bulkeley
until Easter Monday.
THE SWINDLEES.—TUNDSIDGE IVELLS.—On Sa-
turday these parties, whose capture we announced yester-
day, underwent an examination before J. Deane, Esq.,
one of the magistrates of the town. The male prisoner gave
his name Kidmar Stuart, 25, and the female, Rosina.
Amelia Stuart, 21. Her maiden name, she stated, was
Dettmar. James Wallace, apprentice to Messrs. Delves
and Jull, grocers, deposed, that on Saturday last Mrs,
Stuart came to his master's shop to pay her grocer's bill,
amounting to 31. Os. 2id. She gave him the cheque (now
produced) for 10/. 10s., and he gave her in change seven.
sovereigns, nine shillings, a sixpence, and a fourpenn).
piece. She then ordered some other articles, which were
sent to her house. Robert Jull, of the firm of Delves
grocers,defproosneldonteh
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check that -
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cash drawer and took therefrom the
been produced, and mall went by the •_ had 21. ready
.train to town. On
the following morning he presented the cheque at the
London Joint Stock Bank, Princes-street, for
pay-
ment, but the clerk told 1 •
him there were "no effects.-'
He also told him that
the person signing his nar3
Kidmar Stuart
was a notorious swindler, and that
they had had a. very large number of his cheqnr%
presented by different parties for payment. Mr.
Jeseph Delves, bouse•agent, deposed to the male
prisoner's (handwriting on the cheque, he having seem
him sign the agreement for the hire of the house, No. 10,
Calverley-promenade, and the signatures were precisely
similar. The prisoners were then remanded till Thursday
next, in the expectation that furdier cases int,: be brought.;
against them.
FATAL ACCIDENT Al' SOMERSET-HOUSE.---All
quest was last evening held at Mr. Spooner's, the Prince's
Head Tavern, Buckingham-street, Strand, by Mr. Higgs, on.
the body of Sarah Huson, aged seventy-seven. From the
evidence it appeared that the deceased had, for the last
twenty-one years, been employed as charwoman at the
Stamp-otlice,Somerset-house. On the morning of Mends''.
the 3d inst., she was proceeding to her work through tie
square of Somerset-house, which, owing to the rain and sub-
sequent frost of the previous ni,ght, was a complete sheet of
ice, when she slipped down. She got up and walked on,. but
on reaching the door of the Stamp-office she again direr.
and fell with great violence across the scraper, hi
ribs, and other.
forated her stays, fracturing several of. her
pl d
• .• her She was immediately ace ill
wise severely 'rum ._.
u,-cress Hospital, where shi)
a sb and conveyed to Chan „
gec red and cited on Saturdly last of
.the injuries reteirea,
Verdiet.-.." Accidental death. '