The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-03 00:00:00

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-rd at the conclusion of the act, when the
ade of Ninus appears, never were the horpota
nscience-stricken guilt more appallingly dep'etei'
an they were by Miss Adelaide Kembh...
She reminded us forcibly of Pasta in this scene. The
second act opens with a duet between Semiramide
and Assur (Mr. Giubilci), which was given with int-
, mense power and effect, and was loudly applauded.
Then followed the most beautiful murceau or the
opera, the duet " Oh, day of Ikrror"- (the " Giorno .
d'orrore" of the Malian version), by Miss Adelaide
Kemble and Mrs. Alfred Shaw. Frequently as we
have heard this exquisite duet, with a perfect recol-
lection of Malibran and Pisaroni, and. of G risi and
Brambilla, we have no hesitation in saying. that we
never heard it to such perfection as.. on Saturday
evening. In fact, we cannot imagine anything supe-
rior to it ; it may b? equalled, it cannot be surpassed,
for it was perfeat. It is needless to say that there
was an unanimous call for its repetition, which was of
course complied with. This was the -only encore or
tke evening. The concluding trio in the tomb of
Ninus was beautifully given by Miss A'. Kemble Mrs.
A. Shaw, and Mr. Cr'uibelei, and the piece concluded
with one of the most extraordinary scenic effects ever
exhibited. Immediately that the shade of Ninus has
been appeased by the sacrifice of hid murderers, Se-
miramido and Assur' the tomb sinks, and tie' Grand
Place in front of the Palace, with the City ofßabylon
and the tower of Belus in the distance, is discovered,
and the stage is filled with warriors, captives, priests,
&c., who hail Arsace as their Sovereign. On the fall
of the curtain Miss Adelaide Kemble turd Mrs. Alfred
Shaw were called ior, and were led on, the former by
7Ar. Cooper, and the latter by Mr. Giuhilei. Bouquets
%v ere showered on the stage, and amidst the waving
of hats and handkerchiefs, and the most enthusiastic
bursts of applause, they withdrew. Mr. Giubilers
deep and sonorous bas 3 told excellently in Assur.
Leffler' as Oroe, acted the part judiciously, but
seemed out of voice. Great praise is due to
Mr. Travers for his chaste and musician-like
singing in the part of Idreno. This gentle-
man is a valuable acquisition to the. operatic
corps of Covent-garden. It has been asked why
Mr. Harrison was not cast for Idreno; we, however,
are glad that he was not. Idreno is not a character •
that will bear Macheathising. The choruses .were
most efficient, and their picturesque groupings and
appropriate!action, contrast most favourably with the
lead-alive appearance of the
.chorus singers at the
Italian Opera. The costumes were superb, and, a
re have before observed, the scenery, decorations, gird ,
Sipointments, surpass in splendour anything that has
yet been produced. Semiramide will no doubt draw
crowded houses. The theatre was crammed long
before tire rising of the curtain.

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CORONERS' INQUESTS.
(in Saturday evening, a lengthened investigation
took place at the King of Prussia, Lower John-street,
Golden-square, before Mr. Higgs' on view of the body
of Miss Elizabeth Campbell, aged 43, a maiden lady
of independence, whose death occurred under the fol-
lowing shocking and lamentable circumstances :
Ellen Joyce, cook in the deceased's establishment,
No. 19, Golden-square, deposed that about eleven
o'clock on the morning of Friday, the 16th uatimo, the
deceased, who had been indisposed for about three
weeks previously, and under the care of Mr. Johnston,
a surgeon, was ordered to take by that gentleman a
table-:ipounful of potash mixed with a table-spoonful
of milk. Witness, by the desire of Miss Hannah
Campbell, the deceased's sister, went to the shop of
Mr. Marshall, chemist, of Lower James7street, Gol-
den-square ; a young man was in the shop, and she
asked him to serve her with as small a quantity of
potash as he could. Witness then left the shop to go
elsewhere, and returned in a few minutes, when a
phial was given her by the young man wrapped in
paper. Sha took it home to Miss Hannah Campbell.
Mary Ann Mason, housemaid in the family, de-
posed that she was in the deceased's bed-room when
Miss Hannah brought in the phial containing the
potash. She gave the deceased a table-spoonful of
the potash, mixed with a table-spoonful of milk.
Immediately the deceased swallowed it she appeared
greatly convulsed, and exclaimed " I am poisoned—l
am all on lire." She rolled about the bed in the ut-
most possible agony. Mr. Key, assistant to Mr.
Johnston, arrived in about five minutes, and admi-
nistered a draught and some drops and water, whieb
appeared to relieve the deceased slightly. Mr. John-
ston arrived soon afterwards.

Mr. Francis Johnston, surgeon, of Beak-street, Re-
gent•street, stated, that he had attended the deceased
since the 9th of September last, with inflammation of
the bowels. On the 16th he ordered the deceased a
table-spoonful of potash-water, mixed with the same
quantity of milk. After she had taken it he was
sent fin. and on looking at the phial he discovered
she hail taken a different article from what he had
prescribed. The deceased was suffering under great
agony. lie administered antidotes, which gave her
temporary relief. She lingered in a very precarious
state until the 21st, when Pr. APLeod,..Alr.Copqlatal,
and witness, met in consultation. She died on Thurs-
day. On a post-mortem examination, witness disco-
vered extensive disease of the viscera. The deceased's
death was occasioned by apoplexy.
1:y the COROMIN—The phial contained a CALLS tic
preparation of potash, which ought only to be taken
oy drops, and that in a diluted state.
-In half an hour the Jury returned a verdict of
" Apoplexy, accelerated by the administration of
candle potash; and the Jury regret the surgeon did
not write a prescription, and the chemist Was een-
surahle in not labelling the word poison' on the
phial."
An inquisition was taken before Mr. Waklev on
Saturday, at the Middlesex Hospital, on the body of
Thomas APAllester, aged 55, servant to Messrs.
Jordan and Son, of Southampton-street, 13loomsburv-
square.
John -Al4Carthy stated that he was a fellow-servant
Of the decea.sed, and he brought him to the hospital
by the advice of 1)r. Coke, of Howland-street, Fitz-
roy-square, on Saturday l:tst, in consequence of his
suffering from a diseases! throat. Mr.,Corfe, the
apothecary of the hospital, refused the deceased ad-
mittance, on the ground that it was not a case of
emergency, and that Saturday was not one of the
receiving days. On Tuesday last, a letter hawing
been obtained from one of the Governors. of the hos-
pital, the witness brought deceased again, and he was
placed in the physician's room on a couch. Ile coughed
and spit blood while he was there, and nobody came
to. attend him for an hour and a half, when Mr. Gee
desired witness to remove him to the patients' room,
observing that the physician's room was not the proper
place for patients. 'Witness took him up in his arms,
and carried him into the receiving-room, and he died
in about ten minutes afterwards. .
Mr. Corfe here stated, in answer to the Coroner,
that a Governor's order would not Minh t patient at
any tune. The admissions were left to the discretion
of the medical officers of the institutim to decide upon
cases of emergency. Ile denied that the deceased
had been kept so long waiting.
Mr. Forbes, the house surgeon, proved that the de-
cc

eased died of consumption. -
The Coroner and Jury expressed their regret thnt
attention had not been sooner paid to the deceased,
and said it too often happened that patients were kept
waiting an unnecessary length of time, which ought
Not to be the case at ►nst►tutions founded for humane
and benevolent purposes. A verdict of" Natural Death'
was then returned.

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Shearwater, from Leith
Arrived her Majesty's
RAILWAY TO lIARW
The Shear water
having formed one. of
of Liver l
ticsillioy..l:lllAK;acilirr::::rri.nlg7.l—te;
pass.engers,i
,-,
Waiting,Poo the
with. their
n landing, pro-
ceeded Id io , and tat,
lA)::)ktivii•:saslate v oil:: tt3oletSxhceot-t‘iia:,sanrdciono.
Lord Steward of
suite ErlErl ; oft al.!: rit,l,:)%rideskiedp„l,l°l.;riluns
ei-Id'
_ia\Tte.i,
to jcin her ..N1.1j,_..,_ yat 1 incisor, We under-
stand that both these Noblemen expressed their ad-
e°(l.of its value
as • the ttest point for reaciting
,;London, where
;Liiii(rlitat:i),:intitefr
dispatch and regularity are art object, as 'in the case
of carrying Mails. At the time of the Site. t• '
s
urri,„l it was blowing a fresh breeze from tiar"4 trl
i tale sout 1-
west, and therefore directly contrar • a strong
ehh or northerly tide was running, 3'
that'lt a
. so.. steamer
‘vould not have reached London till nine or ten at
night, whereas by landing here, •a nd taking advan-
tage of the railway, their- LOrdshi • pswould arrive
with ease before six o'clock • , and, of course, as soon
as the railway to Harwich is completed, the advantage
of this, as the . means of communication with all
northern Europe,
will
be manifest.—Essez Standard.
PnoultESS OF TILE SOUTii-EASTEILN RAILWAY BE-
TWEEN I)OVJR AM) FoLKESTONE.—Tho near ppros-
pect
of having the Railway terminus at Dover is of
course highly gratifying to those who have property
near the spot proposed Sonic of the men employed
by the Company have lately been•-iengaged sinking
large pits at half low water, in order to ascertain the
distance to the solid rock, whereon to lay the founda-
tion of a sea-wall front the Shakspeare Point to the
rock in front of Archcliti Fort. The sea tunnel at
Shakspeare I;litf, it is currently reported, -will be
thrown open in three weeks or less, anti the brick-
work will not be far behind that tune in its comple-
tion. 'l'hev are going on very rapidly .in throwing
down thy cliff over the sea-wall, which latter is also
in a very forward state at the cliff. We regret to
have to state, that last week, by the sudden turning of a
hand horse truck, one of the men had his leg broken
just above the ankle. Fortunately he is, we under-
stand, doing well. lie has a large tunilY dependent
• , On him for their support, which, from his temperate
1 habits, he has hitherto maintained in a creditable
manner.—Doter Chronicle.
'The Special. Commission was opened On Saturday
at Stafford, and an application, made by Mr. Lee on
behalf of Mr. O'\ Bale to be admitted I to bail, was re-
jetted by the Judges because the CoMmission was
' opened, and being opened, they had no power to
entertain the application,