The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

SURREY THEATRE.

A new drama, entitled the Rover's Secret, being another
version of the French piece on which Clarisse is founded, was
produced here last evening with the most decided success.
The piece was very strongly cast. Mrs. H. Vining sustained
the character of the 'heroine with great power; and Mr. H.
Hughes, as the foreman of the yard, and Mr. Hicks, as Mar-
tial, were both excellent. The Laroche of Mr. Fredericks
was very good, and Mr. S. Cowell, by his humorous vagaries,
as Barbillon, the diver, kept the audience in a roar the whole
time he was on the stage. The scenery, by Brunning, was
beautiful, and the Rover's Secret will no doubt become a mcst
popular Surrey piece. The house was crowded.

FORTIFYING SHEERNESS.—The fortifications of
this garrison are to be considerably strengthened, and 70
guns are to be immediately placed on the old batteries. A
detachment of the Royal Sappers and Miners has commenced
work on the south side, near the drawbridge, by throwing
out the mud and clay from the adjoining moat, also raising it
higher, and a large number of masons has also been set to
work to complete the job. The greatest activity prevails
throughout the whole of the official departments, which leads
the inhabitants to think that a " storm is brewing."
RAILWAYS V. UNIVERSITIES.—It has been the
fashion with a certain clique, to denominate the labourers,
who are employed in forming railways, "untutored savages."
We understand that the Bangor police have reported to the
magistrates, that eight or ten collegians, who, for some
weeks, had been located in that city, had been more riotous
and disorderly, and had given them more trouble, and, to
many of the respectable inhabitants, more annoyance, than
all the six or seven hundred labourers employed within
Bangor parish, on the Chester and Holyhead Railway. We
trust that the parties referred to had only assumed the name
of collegians. It would be highly discreditable to either Ox-
ford or Cambridge to send out students, whose conduct would
not bear a favourable comparison with that of railway la-
bourers.—Carnarvon Herald.
EXPLOSION OF GAS AND SKOCKING ACCIDENT.—
On „Monday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, the
inhabitants of Fleet-street and its vicinity were alarmed by
a loud report and smashing of glass, while smoke and flame
were seen to issue from East Temple Chambers, in White-
friars-street. It appears that that the housekeeper on going
in as usual to prepare the rooms, perceived a strong smell of
gas, and called a lad, who came into the room with a lighted
candle. Immediately a loud report took place, and the room
and furniture were quickly on fire. The Farringdon-street
engine was speedily on the spot, and the firemen succeeded in
confining the flames to the room in which the explosion oc-
curred. We regret to add, that the unfortunate woman was
severely burnt, while her clothes were destroyed. She now
lies in a very dangerous state. The poor boy was also in.
jured by the fire, but not so severely. The escape of gas
which caused the accident is supposed to have arisen from
its not having been turned off at the main.
he Universal Prussian Gazelle states that the
crops in Western Prussia were not considered this year to be
even of an average character. The rye had given but a
small return, and the wheat and oats harvest was every-
where indifferent, In the districts of Schlocbau, Konitz,
and Lobau, Stuhm, and Rosemberk great damage was done
by a violent hail-storm on the night of July 8; and the
lower localities, bordering the Vistula, had suffered greatly
from the inundation of that river. The hay and clover crop,
however, was everywhere satisfactory, if not for quantity at
least for quality, The potato crop did not promise well.
PAINFUL AcclDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, be-
tween three and four o'clock, as the son of Mr. Wilson, 15,
Gardner's-crescent, an interesting youth, shout seven years
of age, was amusing himself, with two other companions, at
the commencement of the extension tunnel of the Glasgow
and Edinburgh Railway, one of the wheels of a waggon,
weighing nearly six tons_, which was employed in conveying
bricks a few yards into the inle-601, passed over his right leg,
which produced a very severe and serhine fracture of the
smaller hone:, and a deep incision. It appears that the boy
had been wailing on the rails in front of the waggon, which
was propelled by two men, at an ordinary walking pace, but
more rapidly than he was moving, and hence came in colli.
sion with him, and threw him 11Nleath the wheel. He also
received a slight contusion on the !wad, supposed to have
been produced by the fall. He was instantly Convoyed home,
where Dr. Menzies and two other medical gentlemen were in
attendance, but what may be the result it is impossible to
divine, as be is in a somewhat precarious condition.—Edin-
burgh Witness of Saturday.
OUR MANCHE6Tga Goons SUPERSEDED,— S -
vend French artists have arrives in Egypt, to organise the
new manufactory for printing ealieoes, which are intended to
suPersedethe English printed Manehasteroods that country
has hitherto been eupplied with.—Hanipshireildvertiser.