The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-18 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

A new farce, entitled A Scotch Mist, was produced
at this theatre last evening. It is a piece de circon-
stance, anent the Royal visit to Scotland, and the
sleepy Provost and mystified Corporation of Edin-
burgh, do not of course escape Scot free. The mystery
of the plot consists in the mystification of Mistress
M'Weazle (Mrs. Granby), an old Scotch lady, who
has come to Edinburgh to see the Queen,
and at the same time to marry her niece,
Florence Mayland (Miss Lebatt), to her
Highland cousin Rory M‘Nabb (Mr. Searle). She
is completely mystified by the introduction to her
notice of three Highlanders, each claiming to be the
veritable Rory McNabb—Rory No. 1 being the
young lady herself; Rory No. 2 being a certain Fre-
derick Manifold IMr. Fitzjames), whose pretensions
are favoured by Florence ; and Rory No. 3 being the
real Simon Pure. Miss Lebatt, as Rory No: 1,
looked exceedingly well in her Highland costume,
and sang a Scotch melody, " The heather for me,"
with such taste as to elicit a deserved encore. Rory
No. 2 brings his mother, viz., Tim Towell, the waiter
of the inn (capitally acted by Ross), diyguised in
female attire and a Scotch dialect, to vouch for his
M`Nabbistn, while Rory No. 3 brings a certificate of
identity in the shape of a letter. The lovers are, of
course, made happy, • but how that was accomplished
we are unable exactly to explain, being, like Mrs.
M'Weazle, in a Scotch mist on the subject.
Its success also was somewhat misty. It
would have puzzled the Speaker himself; with-
out a division, to have decided whether the
Ayes or the Noes had it at the fall of the curtain.
The farce was followed by a new burlesque entitled
Norval, from the pen of Mr. Leman Rede, the suc-
cess of which, thanks to the irresistible drollery of G.
Wild, as Young Norval, was most unequivocal. The
tragedy of Douglas is certainly a most burlesque-in-
viting production, and it could not have fallen
into better hands. The recognition scene was given
in a style of the richest humour by Wild and Miss
Lebatt, who was the Lady Randolph ; awl the
song of sentiment, dance of joy, and jig of
delight with which it concludes were loudly en-
cored. The Adventures of a Gentleman was the first
piece, and bids fair to have a long run, and deservedly
so ; it is a good tale well dramatized and excellently per -
formed. The taste, the pathos, and the feeling displayed
by Miss Lavinia Melville, in her touching delineation of
the character of Gertrude Douglas, would secure a
lengthened run for a piece of much less merit than
the Adventures of a Gentleman. Wild's Job Johnson
seems to get more and more unctuous the oftener he
repeats the character. His glorious song, " The Life
of a Vagabond," was encored as a matter of course.
The house was exceedingly well filled.

The total length of railroads at present open in
France is 748 kilometres (196 leagues), which are
thus divided :—From Lyons to St. Etienne, by Givors
and Rive-de-tier, 58 kit.; St. Etienne to Andrezieui
22, Andrezieux to Roanna 67, branch line from Mon-
trond and Montbrison 18, Paris 'to St. Germain 19,
Paris to Versailles (right bank) 19, ditto (left bank),
17, Mulhouse to Than 10, Strasburgh to Basle 140,
Centro
the Grand Combe Mines to Nimes 64, Nimes to
Beaucaire 24, Cette to Montpellier 27, Bordeaux to
to °lli
terre
Teste 51, Paris to Orleans 26, Nimst
the ttee n
o 'llin
50, Lille and Valenciennes to the Belgian frontier 28,
Epinay to the Burgundy canal 28, Epinay
canal 15, Villers-Cotterets to Port-aux-Perches 8,
Denain to St. West 9, Denain to Abscon 5, Montet-
aux-Moines to the Allier 25, and from Creuzot to the
cenDtroevz canali,e
TO.
imus OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAlL-
war.—The Directors of the South-Eastern Railway
Company, attended by their engineer, Mr. Cubitt,
have arrived in Dover for the purpose of fixing the
Dover terminus. They have had some interviews with
Mr. Hardwick. the surveyor to the Dover harbour
estates; and from what has transpired, it is conjec-
tured the station will occupy the site of Beech-street
and Fisherman's-row, being the line from Archclitf
Fort to Cheesman's Head ; and it appears to us a
better situation for the terminus could not have been
selected. It will be very convenienkto the harbour
and pier, and perhaps the least expensive of any that
could have been found suitable hr the purpose.—
Dover Chronicle.
THE KIRK AND THE GOVERNMENT.--We under-
stand that the heads of a new Bill for settling the
concurrence of the Non-Intrusionists, and which. the
again drawn up with the
Church question have been
Government is disposed to aceedebutto.withltsomise Sir
George Sinclair's Bill in suhstatnce,
the male heads o f families, and permits . the Ire. sbyteries
hey stiallthink fit in each cas.
al-
terations to please the No
jiiss.in
objection-
ablertearleict.yogisre_es,,the.vetoof
to give effect to it or not, as! .
This discretionary power
than the absoluteveto, .
_. opens a door
because it
for jobbing and private partiality, and invests the
may employ at pleasure against the patrons, the
Church Courts with an almost despotic power, which
they
• or the congregations. The same high legal
:
presentees,
vvempayastsafely
I functionary who took charge of the last fruitless n
is:inuices-p—asSsee°dts:wa,an; ; for some mornings
gotiation, is said to have been the go-between in. thei;
Tim WEATHER.—The flue weather,
on a small scale have been threatening,fogs
and. occasion-
ally made themselves manifest in the-, ' vicinity of the
Thames. But yesterday morni , n!.., about nine, a fogy
which had . been gradually growing in intensity,
settled down on the Strand, and, we suppose, other
localities of London, particularly those adjacent to the
river, which, with some years' experience
of London
fogs, was fully a match in pitchy darkness and thick-
ness for any of them. The gas
lamps were obliged to
be lighted, and the morning seemed converted to night.
SOUTHAMPTON OCT. 14.—The British Queen,
ohieli sailed from Cowes last month, fbr New York,
encountered a most terrific tempest on the 19th ult.
which lasted for ten hours. Numbers on board, who
had crossed the Atlantic„ declared that they never ex-
perienced a more dreadful or clangorous storm. Every
one on board expected death. The British Queen is
now ou her voyage to this country, and is expected at
Southampton about the 25th.
We are sorry to have to announce the death of
.John George itokewoode, of Coldham Hall, and of
Lincoln's Iv),
Esq., Barrister-at-law. Mr. Roke-
woode was one of our most zealous antiquaries, and
on the council of some of the new societies recently
. establ:shol for
,the production of ii ,published materials
i for the history,and literature of etir country.. lie was
born in 1786, and was a. yOunger ion of .Sir Thoma
thinight of a TiOtlee b.,...,_ _ Gage, of Hengrave Hall, Bart. .His death, which -
o'clock AA.; nobody Shall else ' Y are merely told was awfully sudden, took Ow
modity ?it et thisnotice • -;day while out h t'''• he 1 • t the
son nig, heir a
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matter of e ty§ my the . Post office regala- ei.„ 'to his relative, Thomas. Fit.zherbert
tions,-,standa,-7 .
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boNcEN-1,•-• , • ~—Mr; in" holes of Claug.. ---e acquainted with hi-
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length between Manchester and Sowerby-
The want of water led the managers to stop
tl.,
actntbhaNbvhhlnora
sorhieni
tdBssd:tesgll,hasl, unprecedentedhel.eteO eoidespecially
avail long, for onWednesday it became necessary to
.11r)e whole navigation. Several years ago the Com-
pany
of
had some large addTonalluurgesearuvoocirscicirornesutcreu:teandd,
been of so providingunusuallyt against a drought ; but
in October—one of the wettest months of
atthat
n oyu,egahrt—. that
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this particular season is of some consequence to ex-
porters to the Baltic, as, in case of the frost setting in
early, there may be some difficulty in landing ships
at Hull, but for the facilities now afforded by the
Manchester and Leeds Railway Company.—Man-
chestee Mardian.
TILE TARIFF BEEF AND PORK.—Since our last
publication, considerable excitement has been produced
in the city- by importations of salted beef and pork,
which have been retailed irt various plaCes at 4d. per
pound. _Messrs. Westlake and Co., Fore-street-hill,
were the first to •announce that they had a supply of
" American pork and 'Hamburg beef, at 4d. per lb. ;"
and on Saturday, particularly in the evening, after
the artisans had received their wages, the shop VMS-
crowded with customers, to whom several hundreds
of pounds weight of the imported meat were sold.
We have seen some of the beef and pork—both were
very good, and some of the- latter was exceedingly
fine. The beef is now selling at :lid. per lie—Exeter
Western Tirnts.
been
.our opinion, had fair play, because it
of the
clockan t e d
Pose-Omea.—The uniform system
at-
tended by a great many limitationsi.
The restric-
tionroonirnilnjigornirroitnßiorntioss.toblel, la'lh.telyd.
upon the hours of posting in
a 1054
as
ence previously- enjoyed by
entee:l-s of neces-
sitye revenue:;
that
to euNi iNuTi
letters si t
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(Nv: merely
l.uicti:
cselsewhere,heiovu:el aletto eniress
o'clock
ltolcekhei
dispatchednaci
th ofe these
fmPevlia:ebtj.nyi eflo:airuroertn:3:hi,nge(4)octiaotelonvt:le,l'rniihiie
to the
phuapb--
contribute to
s
nine-tenths of all letters written in.perfectly
v2r:j: :nil e:Aineor);P:ecol:o'oi—clktail tlnoi dnsi.esl%iap Birmingham,
alnlatocbcsheort b:r' elto_rtuanhehmee(in revenue. It is altogether
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e unne-
cessary letters, written often becatt%e the writer has a
fnfeol
Nit
sisitashlpilell.treos
moments
sluoptupli supposensneft- itohl
pens in the evening) ; and thus the early hour of
posting causes, besides the ineouvenie
tic, a serious loss to the revenue. What would he
' from • '
six o clock P.M. to nine
other taxed com-
-,1 in the,