The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-17 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THLATRE,

it is not very frequently that we have to record a
first appear:nee on any stage; still less frequently
does it t: 1! toui f(- to record a successful first ap-
pearauce at:.) s age. Rare, however, as such an
occurrence may be, it took place at this theatre last
evening, and in a Shakspearian character too. Miss
Emma Moggeridge was the fortunate debutante. She
appeared last evening for the first time in public, in
the character of Katherine in Shakspeare's Katherine
and Petruchior and was most successful. This young
lady possesses many of the natural requisites for suc-
cess in the profession which she has chosen. Her
figure is good, her features are expressive, and her
voice is clear, and will, when she has acquired that
perfect command over it which nothing but practice
can give, be sufficiently powerful to fill any theatre.
Her enunciation is very distinct, and her reading is
correct. As might have been expected, she was exces-
sively nervous at first, but as she became accustomed to
the stage she gained confidence, and the last two acts
were very effectively given. It was evident that she
thoroughly understood her author, and entered fully
into the spirit of the part. Her Katherine is a very
lady-like and promising performance, and we augur
well of her future career from what we saw of her
last evening. She was well supported by Roxby as
Petruchio, and the piece was excellently put upon the
stage. At the conclusion she was called for, and, on
being led on by Roxby, was greeted with the most
enthusiastic applause. We cannot close this notice
without alluding to the Grumio of our old friend
Rayner, which was a rich piece of dry humour. The-
house was crowded.

ADMIRALTY ORDERS,
(From Tuesday's Gazette.)
BY THE COMMISSIONERS FOR EXECUTING THE OFFICE OF
LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, &C.
Rules, Orders, and Regulations, for the preservation of
her Majesty's moorings, and for the mooring, anchor-
ing, and placing of all private ships of war, transports,
and all other private and merchant ships and vessels,
lighters, barges, boats, and other craft whatsoever, in
Plymouth Sound, and in the harbours of Hamoaze
and Catwater, made and established pursuant to the
Act of Parliament, passed in the 54th year of the
reign of his late Majesty King George the Third,
chap. 159, intituled " An Act for the better regulation
of the several posts, harbours, roadsteads, sounds,
channels, bays, and navigable rivers, in the United
Kingdom, and of his Majesty's docks, dockyards, ar-
senals, wharfs, moorings, and stores therein, and for
repealing several Acts passed for that purpose."
AS TO PLYMOUTH SOUND.
Art. I. All her Majesty's ships and vessels of war are
exclusively to occupy the outer anchorage in Plymouth
Sound, within and near the Breakwater.
Art 11. All merchant and other private ships and ves-
sels, of every description, are hereby ordered to occupy
the inner anchorage in the Sound, within a space bounded
by the following marks and lines, viz.:—
To the northward of a line supposed to be drawn from
Rain Cliff Point, towards the west.
To the southward of another line supposed to be drawn
from Mount Edgcumbe House, through the Canteen on
Drakes Island, to the eastern shore of Plymouth Sound.
To the eastward of another line supposed to be drawn
from the east end of Windsor• terrace, in the town of
Plymouth, to the Obelisk on the Hoe, and continued
through the whitewashed seamark on the rocks, to the
before-mentioned line supposed to be drawn from the
Ram Cliff Point, towards the west.
The object of this arrangement is, that a sufficient na-
vigable channel may be kept open over the hard and
foul ground on the west side of this anchorage, and no
ship or vessel whatever shall be anchored or placed in
the said navigable channel, under pain of the penalties
prescribed by the said Act of Parliament.
AS TO HAMOASE.
Art. I. It is hereby ordered, that no owner, master,
or other commanding officer of any private ship of war,
transport, or other private or merchant ship or vessel,
lLhter, barge, boat, or other craft, nor any pilot or
other person employed by either of them, shall anchor or
moor, or cause to be anchored or moored, any such pri-
vate ship of war, transport, or other private ship or ves-
sel, lighter, barge, boat, or other craft, in the fair way
or channel between the Queen's moorings in the said
harbour or in Barnpool, within fifty fathoms of the cen-
tres of any of the said moorings, or of her Majesty's
ships, floating magazines, and hulks, lying thereat, or in
the front or abreast of her Majesty's docks, dock-yard,
or gun-wharf, and between the same and the eastern line
of hulks, or even to drop an anchor within such space
and situations, except in case of necessity to prevent da-
mage to herself, or that of the Queen's ships which may
be at the contiguous mooring, and then to remove' as
soon as possible thereafter; except also in cases where any
of the said ships, vessels or craft, may be consigned to the
dock-yard or gun-wharf, and must, therefore, necessarily
anchor contiguous thereto, till they can come to the
cranes and wharfs for delivery of their cargoes, and then
to be placed in such situations as the superintendent of
her Majesty's dock-yard at Devonport, or the masters
attendant or Queen's pilots by whom they are conducted
hall direct.
Nor shall any private ship of war, transport, or other
private or merchant ship or vessel, lighter, barge, boat,
or other craft, be anchored or moored between the island
and main, at a less distance than fifty fathoms to the
southward of the transporting buoy within the said
island, or in any place off the east end of the island near
the buoy of the Asia shoal, or between it and the buoy
of the Winter, or near the fair way or outer transporting
buoy in the Sound, neither shall any be made fast to, or
be moored, or secured by any of the mooring anchqrs or
chains to which access can be had when the tide is out,
either on the eastern or western shore of the said harbour
of Hamoaze, or be made fast to any of the buoys or piles
of her Majesty within the said harbour, in the fronts of
the said docks, dock-yard, or gun-wharf, or other pre-
mises belonging to them respectively, nor anchor or moer
so as to swing within any of the said buoys or piles, upon
pain of the penalties for such offences as the said Act of
Parliament directs.
Nor under pain of the penalties before referred to,
shall any private ship of war, transport, or other private
ship or vessel, lighter, barge, boat, or other craft, be
anchored or moored in any place or places within the
port of Hamoaze, except on the eastern side of Stone-
house-pool, and in extent not coming further to the
westward than the Queen's Slaughter-house, and in that
range to the northward, at the mouth or entrance to
Milbrook Lake, or the northward of all her Majesty's
moorings. This restriction, in regard to the anchorage
of merchant ships, transports, &c., is, however, not in-
tended to exclude such as, trading to the port, must ne-
cessarily have admission to the several wharfs, docks,
&c., at Mutton Cove, North Corner, New Passage, and
elsewhere, for loading and unloading their cargoes, and
which are generally grounded for such purposes ; but
all such merchant ships, vessels, lighters, barges, boats,
or other craft, are to continue to enjoy their accustomed
privileges in this resp. et, in as full and effectual a man-
ner as if these regulations had not taken effect.
Art. 11. All private ships of war, transports, and
other private ships or vessels, lighters, barges, boats, and
other craft, are hereby expressly prohibited, under the
penalties of the said Act, from being breamed in any
part of the said harbour of Hamoaze, except on the
shores of Stonehouse-pool aforesaid, at Frank's Quarry,
or to the northward of the Queen's moorings ; and from
coining or entering into the said harbour, being laden
with, or having on board, any quantity of gunpowder,
exceeding five pounds weight in the whole. And all
such gunpowder is hereby appointed to be left and de-
posited ut a depot established for that purpose on Ni-
cholas Island, at the entrance of the said harbour, where
the same will be taken and received according to the
provisions of the said Act.
Art. 111. And it is hereby ordered, that no person or
persons shall take any ballast or shingle from the shores
or banks, or any portion of the shores or banks, of the
port and harbour of 1 larnoaze, on any account or pre.
tence whatsoever, without being duly authorised by us,
or other sufficient authority of her Majesty's Govern-
ment, upon pain of the penalties in the said Act men-
tioned ; observing, however, that this regulation is not
meant to restrict the raising of the sea-sand for agricul-
tural or other purposes, in the shoal water to the north.
ward of St. Nicholas' Island aforesaid, by the barges
and craft which have hitherto been employed thereon, or
any other.