The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-12 00:00:00

NEW THE ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPIII.- Sole Pronti.tor and Manager. M. B. Wshster. THIS EVENING, THE ['BETTY HORSEBILEAKER. Miss Woolgar. 4t to Eig - ht, the New Drama of LEAH: Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, 1311- Iw:ton, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Billing - ton. To elneindo with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortunio mid his Seven Magic Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, it. Phillips, ttephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Patti "sei)hs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. H.-E VERY NIGHT. MISS BATEMAN. yrS h S e I B I4 A t j a - E pp N , I aAN., —THIS EVENING,AF.H.--tTTllilcSActress misa BATEMAN, in the character of Lr. r Zi. In ag consequence of with which Miss the un bounded s . ne . e„, Bateman's imperso nationthe riLcipai character in the new Five Act Drama of P b en tt n r FATI has e f a e Webster begs to announce of L • it will be per orme EVERY EVENING until further that notice. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. cHIS DAY.—Moiaing, sh. 12 , .n.—Afternoon, sh. 38m. r 0-Molmo-cf.-Morning, sh. 57m.—Afternoon, 6h. 18m. - The Weather—Sun Office, Feb. 12, 1864. 4. R OYAL ST. JAES's Management of Ir. T1 1,,, E .., AT RE , under the Manage p,• r,BSTER. ai.ra. Charles Evening --M t . -w a ,,‘-;,° ,1-I .., r edV of TIRE Crowded with rank and fashion.— The N„ r , SILVER LINING every :Ors. Frank lii.ii — Mathews, Mrs. Stirling*, The following emhews, and Mr. J. L. Toole every evening., ii.riqaot artistes are Webster. Mr. J. eng,ageri:—Mr. Benjamin Toole Mr. Paul Robinson. Mr. Ashley, Bedford, Mr. Frederic i Iferbert, Mrs an Mr ' Cbas. Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss • -`rank Mat thews Miss A. Cottrell, Mis • s Fanny Josephs, Iri s BWent worth and Mrs. Charles Mat:news. THIS EVENING, and during the Week, at 7 °• c , ie ()ek ' an enti re l y new Comedy, i n 3 Acts, by ' , v „ . _., ester Ituold nEf haw, Esq., entitled Ti 1 E ;.•;I LVE I:, LIN I, i. . mr. f, harks ' Mathews, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr, John stone, Mr. Montagne ; Mrs i barks Mathews, biro. Frank Matthews, miss Cottrell, Miss Wentworth. and Mrs. Stirling. To he followed by Nir, Charles Mathew/4 just translated from the Frenehii n his characteristic character of Un Anglais Timide, entitled COOL AS A CUCUMBE I:. To conclude with 1801; or, TILE SENSATIONS OF TILE PAST SEASON. : Mr. J..L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. A. Cottrell, and Miss I` anny • j osephs. • ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborounii. ars EVENING, UNLIMITED CONFIDENCE. Mr. Belford, Mr. Parselle ; Miss Marie Wilton, Miss Thorne. After which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPIIEU3 Y, Wood, James Fenton, AND EITRYOICE . Hone Mesdames SWanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, dm. Followed by MARGATE SANDS. Commence at'. -SHE THIRD EDITION OF ‘, THE SUN," Containina the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENc , san be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEIVii AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The annual assembly of the friends and supporters of the Dramatic, Equestrian, and Musical Sick Fund Association took place on Wednesday. The ladies and gentlemen who take a prominent part in the social gathering are gifted with quick wit and ready talent, besides possessing to a high degree that tact and self-possession secured by the experience of a long public career. Such was especially the case on this occasion, when the list of the company assembled to do honour to this admirable institu tion included most of the foremost names in the ranks of our dramatic talent. The speeches showed no diminution of their accustomed brilliancy either in the gay sallies of Mrs. STIRLING, or the interest. ing reminiscences of Mr. BUCKSTONE, who was the occupant of the presiding chair, a post for which ho was eminently well fitted. In proposing the coast of the evening, Mr. BUCKSTONE, with a mixture of humour and pathos, explained the objects of the association. " When the poor actor," he said, "is cast down by illness, and unable to don his theatri cal dress for Hamlet, Sir Peter, or Mr. Box—when the musician has no wind for his trombone—the singer unable to bring out hisfalsetto—or the eques trian cannot obtain a ' leg up' for his rapid act of horsemanship—this association helps him till his troubles are over, and if he succumbs to them, it buries him. What can it do more ?" It is a fact worth notice, as contradicting in a great measure the general opinion entertained of the thriftlessness and recklessness of the theatrical profession with regard to money matters, that where loans have been advanced by this society for the purpose of enabling actors to carry on their engagements, they have always been punctually repaid. The unprofessional reader may naturally overlook the serious perplexity which an inevitable journey may be to the struggling young actor of limited means. Could we tell by what privations and even sufferings the reitior actors sometimes reach their place of performance, we s lonia look With interest even on the "walking gentleman" and confidential companion. Mr. BUCKSTONE, in the plentitude of his reputation and success,afford toAtsellhous had once th h e eo s o ec a ret p s ot o )r f the o o. u s country actor himself he said he could well appre ciate the benefits of this society, for had it existed in his provincial days it might have saved him many a long journey on foot and many a wonder as to what fourpenceehalfp enny in his pocket. miles e iie w s was sto on d l o y . He on ce Walked seventy-two Another time, being part of a theatrical company assembled at Folkestone, whose manager suddenly decamped, he had to consider how to get to London, •••••••••••••• A . YLE S B RAIt I.Yco)N U Y AN BUCKINGHAM ILW.Y. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that thethe next SHARE- HALF YEA_RLY GENERAL MEETING of HOLDERS of this Company will be held at the Company's Offices, 5, Queen -square, We stminster, on FRIDAY, the 26th day of l'ebruary instant, at one o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of transacting the general business of the Com pany. EUCKINGILAU: AND CH. ROWEANDOS, Chairman; J. G. Secretary. Company's' Offices, 5, Queen-quare, Westminster, 3(1 February, 1864. -VT GRINSTEAD, GROOMBRIDGE. and j1L1( TUNBRIDGE WELLS RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next ORDI NARY HALF-YEARLY GENERAL IIEETI.NG of this Company* will be .held at the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Coropany's Station, Loudon-bridge, ou FRI DAY, the 26th day of February, 1864, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, for the purpose of Receiving* a Report from the Dire , tors, and Tra.nsacting, the General Business of the Company. The Transfer Books of the Company will be Closed on the 19tti day of February, 1864, and will remain so until alter the e4.2t in g. WEST, ChairmAn. G. W. BROWN, Secretary. Company's Office, 2S, Great George-street, Westminster, Feb. 12, 1864. uOftSH.A.M, DORKING, and LEATHER ECEAD RAILWAY COMPANY. ,NoT ICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next ORDI NARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING of this Company will be held at the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company's -tahion, London -bridge, on FRIDAY, the 26'h day of February, 1864, at half-past Ten o'clock in the Fore noon precisely, to receive a Report from the Directors, and for the general purposes of the undertaking,. The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed on the 10th day of February, 1861, and will remain so until after the paeeting. W.M. SEYMOUR VESEY FITZGERALD, Chairman. G. W. BROWN, Secretary. Company's Offices, 28, Great George-street, Westminster, Feb. 12, 1b64. THE GREAT EASTERN STEAM-SHIP GOMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under Companies Act, 1382," amount the liability of . each shareholder is limited to the for the time being unpaid upon his shares. capital, £150,000, in 7,500 shares of £2O each. peposit on app ication for shares not represented by bonds of The Great Ship Company, Limited" £5 per share. Subsequent calls on those shares to be made at such times as the terms of the purchase of the Ship will allow. Bonds of Great Ship Company, Limite," will be taken at their full amount in payment fors hares. DIRECTORS. Thomas Brassey, jun., Esq., of 4, Great George-street, West• minster. William Barber, Esq., of 1, Chapel-street, Liverpool. Daniel Gooch, Esq., Warwick-road, Paddington. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Glynn, Mills, and Co., Lombard-street. Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool. BROKERS. _ _ London—Messrs. Henry Tudor iiia Son, 29, Threadneedle- street. Liverpool—Messrs. Taunton and Co., York-buildings, Dale street. SOLICITORS. London—Messrs. Young, Jones, Vallings, and Roberts, 2, St. Mildred's-court, Poultry. Liverpool—Mi,ssrs. Lace, Marshall, and Gill. Temporary Offices-2, St. Mildred's-court, Poultry, Lon doa and 27, Toe Alb.ny, Liverpool. This Company is formed for the purpose of purchasing the Steam-SCip Great Eastern, at the approaching sale by auet on without reserve, on the 17th instant, if she can be obtained at a price not exceeding - £120,000, which sum is about one eighth of the original cost of the ship. A large proportion, in value, of the Bondholders of the Great Ship Campany (Limited), have already intimated their intention of exchanging their bonds for shares in the Com pany, and it is expected that more than one-half of the pro posed capital will be obtained from this source. In the event of the Ship being purchased at or under the above price, a meeting of shareholders will be held immedi ately afterwards, to determine whether she shall be worked by the Company, or whether she shall be placed under indi vidual management; to appoint directors, and to make such rules and regulations for the purposes of the Company as the meeting shall deem desirable. Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be obtained of the brokers, ,olieitors, and at the temporary offices of the Company; but no application for shares will be considered (excepting in exchange for bonds of the Great Ship Company, Limbed), unless a deposit of £5 per share has been previously paid to the bankers of the Company. Feb. 9, 1861 THE GREAT EASTERN STEAM-SHIP COMPANY (Limited). FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Great Eastern Steam-ship Company (Limited). Gentlemen, —Having paid to the bankers of the above named Company the sum of , I hereby request that you will allot me shares in the said Company ; and I agree to accept such shares, or any smal'er number that may be allotted to me, and to become a member of the Company, and I authorise you to place my mime on the register of mem bers in respect of the shares to be allotted to me, and I agree to be bound by the memorandum of association of the Com piny in manner provided by "The Companies Act, 1862." Dated this day of 1864. Name in full Firm (if any) Business or profession ... Place of business Residence ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING (2nd time' a new Opera, founded on Goldsmith's Comedy, and to be called SII STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss Louisa Fyne and ;Itlr. W. Harrison. After which, the Burlesque Opening of the Grand National Pantomime, HARLEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open at half-past Six—commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. VHS EVENING, the Performances will commence with the New Serio-Comic Drama, by Edmund Falconer, entitled ?'GILT AND MORN. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, supported by Messrs. Ryder, Raynor, Fitzjames, and Misses R. Leclercq, Atkinson, and Heath. To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto mime of SXNBAD THE SAILOR ; or, The Seven Wonders of th , World. Clowns, Messrs. 11. Boleno and C. Lauri; Barlequinu, Messrs. J. Cormack and S. Saville ; Pantaloons, Messrs. W A. Barnes and J. Morris ; Columbines, Madame Boleno and Misses Gunniss. Prices as - usual. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. DEMONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Evening during the Week. - - THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with a New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD: )less-s. H. Widdicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett, )Ivreland ; Misses Percy, Pauline Leaercq, Wood, Mrs. Lee, and Miss E. Lavenu. - - P -- --- A kter which, at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle," by Mr. John Brougnam. Principal charac ter by Mr. Pechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Brougham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims ; 311-,s Kate Terry, Miss E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Els worthy. • The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is made to the occupards of Boxes, Box-places, or Stalls, either for. play bills or for the safe keeping of hats and cloaks, and tom the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever. Box-office open daily from 11 to 5. Commence at 7. IfHEATRE ROYAL HAY NI ARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buck - stone. THIS EVENING, LITTLE DAISY. Followed by SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. After which, KING- ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights of the Round Table. Messrs. Chippendale, Compton, Braid, Clark, Rogers, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, Brough, Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. • R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA. After which, HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TUCKER; or The Fine Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't snow what to do, COALS. —The LILLESHAL L COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Col lieries. Marquis' 260. per ton. Double. 2le. per ton. Top 255. „ Nut 5......... l9s. f , Deep .22e. Well screened and delivered within live miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W. Best C01e...... . ... l5O. per chaldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. THEE MOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 3B Barometer-29.80. Wind—S.W. ; moderate, with rain. to* Sun LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 12, 1864. The marriage of the Count de PARIS with the daughter of the Duke de MONTPENSIER is officially announced. The Queen of SPAIN has given the cuatomary information to the other Sovereigns, and, among various complimentary responses, has received affectionate congratulations from—the Emperor NAPOLEON ! The present Sovereign of Franca and secure ruler of the French people, can afford to offer his congratulations, no doubt hearty and sincere—for what has he to fear from such an alliance ?—to the exiled heir of Louis PHILIPPE. When that very wily and over-clever sovereign, in the plenitude of his wisdom concocted the crowning scheme of his deeply-planned family aggrandisement —the Spanish Marria;c—he did not foresee that the result would be, in after times, the marriage of a daughter of his son and the Spanish Infanta, with the throneless,hopeless, exiled in heritor of all the glorious expectations of the royal house of ORLEANS. Truly a sad anti-climax to so much ambitious anticipation —perhaps an appropriate catastrophe to "a sinister career." So much for the disappointed hopes and frustrated ambition of Louis PHILIPPE. For the young bridegroom, as an individual member of an amiable and admirable family, there can only be experienced one unanimous feeling of interest and sympathy. Whatever obloquy may have justly followed the deceitful policy of the father, the late ex-King of the FRENCH, his whole family, from the revered and virtuous Queen MARIE-AMELIE and his numerous sons and daughters, have always merited and obtained a very large share of the popular respect and ad. miration—sentiments which no mere rank no mere royalty can purchase, and which can only be earned by individual excellence. General good wishes and congratulations, as " affectionate" as those of the Emperor NAPOLEON, will be showered upon the young couple. It is only to be regretted that in the present generation of the House of Orleans, inter-marriages should ba so much in vogue. It was but the other day that a family party assem bled at Claremont—sacred to the memory of disap pointed hopes—to celebrate the union of the daugh ter of the Prince DE JOINVILLE with her cousin, the Due de CHARTRES, another grandchild of Lours PHILIPPE. The marriage of the Count DE PARIS is the second or third instance of such alliances among the nearly related members of the exiled family. It is to lie hoped that it will be the last, and that the example of the youthful heir of the House may not be followed by the junior branches. Under very different circumstances from those which surrounded his cradle, the young Count of PARIS will celebrate his marriage. At the time of his birth his grandfather was in the pride of his power, and the first-born so❑ of the Due d'ORLEANS w 2,3 hailed as the cer tain inheritor of the Crown of France, amid rejoicings similar to those which have just greeted the advent of the grandson and future heir of our own sovereign, the young Count de PARIS was welcomed to existence. In the satisfaction with which the English people hail another heir to their royal house, the happy assurances of a past ex perience give a sate guarantee for the anticipations of the future. With the subjects of the new King of the FRENCH, it was otherwise. All there was in futuro—promises and pledges given only to be dis appointed. Therefore it is that; the hope of the house— " The heir of Palaces without a home"— may celebrate his marriage day only as a private individual. We may trust that the domestic happi ness which has hitherto been among the happy possessions of the offspring of Queen MARIE AMELIE mtv now become the precious inheritance of the heir of ORLEANS, and may compensate him for all other disappointments. THE SON, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1864. as he was penniless. This was not an easy matter to decide, but the skipper of a coasting ship, carry ing a cargo of leather for a London wharf, offered him a berth in the hold. There, rolled up in hides , with a hide for his pillow, he stowed himself away' and finally reached London in safety, although with his convictions that "there was nothing like leather" very much shaken, at least so far as feather beds were concerned. Another time at a provincial town the now:popular dramatist, actor, and manager was again the victim of an illusory engagement. But the misdoings of the manager were amply compensated for by a model landlady. She had been cook at the Rose Tun, where lived the pretty barmaid, celebrated by GAY, and, perhaps, in defe rence to the literary traditions of the house she encouraged the young author, who remained valiantly writing his tragedy, telling him he would certainly be somebody some day. Happily, for landlady and lodger, a temporary engagement as accountant brought more immediate relief from difficulties than the tragedy of an unknown writer was likely to do, but these misadventures which Mr. BIICKSTONE tells us had little effect on his youthful energy and spirits, would have been terrible to many less sanguine, less courageous, less physically fitted for the battle of life. Doubtless many a hopsful career has been cut short for want of timely aid, many a bright hope has died out, many a cherished project has been abandoned, many a chance has been missed, and many a favour able opening closed for lack of the helping hand which this association stretches out. And if such necessities press hardly on the young aspirant for dramatic honours at the outset of his career, they fall with treble force on the sick, the aged, the broken down, the weary with overwork and worn with disappointment and anxiety. To such straitened means are a terrible evil, for they deprive them of the chance of retrieving their for tunes. If the actor cannot find the money to pro cure the comforts necessary to recruit his strength, if he cannot pay the expenses of conveyance to the place where he is offered an engagement, if his mind is harassed by the prospects of the future, all the while he is lying in enforced stillness, what chance has the feeble frame to regain its force, the fretted nerves to recover their tone ? Toe pro fession of an actor is peculiar, its successes are prompt but brief, its triumphs intoxicating but evanescent. For a time he wields that " Spell of hearts Which only acting lends," and the public bends unreservedly to his sceptre, but when age or infirmities overtake him, woe betide the popular idol if he have made no provision for the evil day. Another fills his place upon the stage, another name is on the tongue, another's triumphs have dimmed even the memory of his former sue cesses. His name is scarcely heard, his fortunes are uncared for, and few trouble themselves to inquire what has become of the old favourite. If this be the case with the great stars of the profession, how much more is it so with the crowds of minor actors and secondary performers, who yet spend the best of their lives and energies i❑ catering for the public amusement. There is therefore urgent need for some certain means of supplying all these wants and requirements, and the principal members of the dramatic profession have come nobly forward to acknowledge the obli gations which weigh especially on them as the favourites of fame and fortune. But the pubic is not released from its share of the duty by their warm hearts and open hands. Oa the contrary, they who derive so much pleasure from the labours of the actor should be the foremost to come to his aid in the hour of distress and trouble. It is quite time that the state of things in Bethnal green was made the subject of inquiry, It is really a scandal to the community that so much want and misery are suffered to prevail. If some stringent measures be not shortly adopted, the very unhealthy atmosphere which prevails in these localities must spread its noxious influence and exercise a delete rious effect on other places. There is nothing so detrimental to health, so encouraging to disease, and so fatal to life as bad air and impure dwellings. It is astonishing to reflect that so much indifference exists on the subject. People will pity almost any other grievance, and seek to remedy every other evil, before they turn their attention to the sanitary condition of dwelling-houses. Yet rightly considered, what affliction can be greater than for a poor family to be fixed in a house badly drained, badly ventilated, and altogether unfit for human occupancy. Perhaps non-payment of some arrears of rent, the want of means to migrate to ►healthier, fresher dwellings, or the many other hindrances of which the rich know nothing, yet which the poor feel so acutely, intervene to prevent a removal. Meanwhile the children sicken and die, the adults drag on a miserable existence, until some epidemic occurs which carries off its victims by scores in such places. There is no decimatio❑ like a fever in these dreadful localities. The influences which a strong frame can throw off in a comparatively healthy dis trict are unconquerable where the poisonous exhalas tions have prevailed for some time, and enervated the health and wasted the strength. Now it seems a mistake, in so far as regards political economy, for our rulers to suffer so unsatisfactory a condition of affairs to prevail for so long a period, without endeavouring to circumvent the evil and remedy the deficiencies. It is also a reproach to the well-disposed members of society, who do so much in various quarters to aid the unemployed, provide for the destitute and relieve the sufferer, that they do little or nothing to stop not the effects, but the cause of such horrors. It is all very well to afford temporary succour, but it is a permanent improvement that is required, and which is so im peratively called for. The statements made by Mr. GAY, the senior surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital, is in itself sufficient to warrant the strongest measures being adopted, and the fullest reform being instituted. In commenting on the circumstances that attended the death of a child the most fearful disclosures were made. The child died during convalescence from the scarlet fever, in consequence of the state of the house in which it was. No wonder the medical man gave it as his opinion that the premises were the cause of the illness of the child, and of other persons. The de scription of the place conjures up a frightful picture to the mind. " The ground was saturated with filth, the air stank, and the rooms were dilapidated and unwhitewashed ; the air was so impure that the child could not throw off the vitiation of the blood, which was the proximate cause of death." Could a more painful case be presented to the mind, and more glaring instance of the want of proper accom modation for residence than in these details. It is not the notion of a quixotic philanthropy which calls for an inquiry into the state of things which creates such horrors ; it is not a morbid desire to dwell upon the dark side of things which bids us ponder on the lamentable issue of these disas trous occurrences. It is surely enough for such things to be made public, to awaken the desire of all who aro right-minded and well-meaning to in vestigate the cause, and put a period to the recur rence of such calamities. Private endeavours may do much, but it is not right that the authorities should no nothing. What is the use of a Poor-Law Board, of what avail are sanitary inspectors or any other portion of the cumbrous machinery of the State, if nothing can be done to mitigate the misery of which one striking instance has been prominently put forward to-day. A commission of inquiry should be instituted, or a committee ap pointed, or some other form entered upon which shall in time do something effectual to remove such nuisances from the neighbourhood of the metro polis, as the places before described. They are by courtesy called houses, but they are not the sort of places in which any one would allow a valuable animal to be located, and must therefore be totally unfit for human habitation. We can hardly suppose a more cruel thing than for a young child, suffering from a disease to be exposed to such im pure atmosphere that the little frame cannot battle with the attack, and fades away, adding another victim to the long list of tnose prematurely cut off from the unwholesome state of their locations. It is quite out of character that any one should be ?ermitted to take money for such houses as those described in the ac count above alluded to. The present condition of the sanitary regulations of Bethnal-green is a disgrace to the community, and those who have the authority to do so are imperatively called upon to interefere. This is their duty, and nothing slaouk deter them from fulfilling it. It is sufficient to know that a portion of the population of the metropolis is exposed to such horrible evils, and the nest Step taken in the affair should be to put a stop to the grievance if the regulations of the law, and the appliances of the statutes will enable them do so. If they will not, the sooner they are altered the better, for nothing c an m a k e a country secure, or a people prosperous, if the public health is sapped at tte foundation by such deteriorating iafluences, and the air whiclt is their life is vitiated by the corrupt state of the dwelling-houses, which bear more affinity to charnel-houses than abodes for living persons. There is a selfish consideration to impress these who can only feel for tnemselves that the spread of such diseases as those generated by these foul abodes will penetrate in time to the comparatively healthy divisions of the town, and the fever which originated with want attack the homes of plenty, and lay low the posses sors of wealth and ail that renders existence enjoy able. But there must be few who require selfish inducements to incite them to exertion when they know that more than life depends on their efforts, for death is a merciful b)on in comparison with the life of torture which is superinduced by these noxi ous exhalations. The greatest benefactors of their kind have often been found among those who went about doing good in an unassuming form, and the results of whose labours have called down the blessings of Heaven upon those who have aided the poor and afflicted dwellers upon earth. It is not likely, with the best endeavours, that the wealthiest community may realise the description of the Psalmist, that there should be no complaining in our streets ; but when want, wretchedness, and decrepitude pay out of their scanty portions for a covering for their heeds, let not the shelter within be worse than the storm without, and the spot they seek for repose or refuge be more injurious to their welfare than any exposure or privations they can encounter elsewhere. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] LITERATURE. The Fine Arts Quarterly Review. No. 111. Chapman and Hall. The Second Volume of this superb periodical— the quarterly organ of the fine arts—is now (by the publication of this third number) commenced. As a periodical, therefore, it may already be re• garded as so far established with security among its contemporaries, that its initial instalments have been honourably relegated, or, it might perhaps be said more correctly, promoted, from the library table to the book-shelf—from the quarterly s►one-coloured paper to the half-yearly half-calf. And the work, it will be apparent even upon a superficial glance, is one more adornment to any library—to an artist's or a connoiseur's library, indeed, an invaluable aquisition. As yet, the contents of the three numbers already published, have to the full justified the goodly promise put forth in the prospectus. They have now, during three successive quarterlies, put the subscriber com pletely au courant with the general condition, pro gress, and development of art among civilised nations. European art, especially, may be said, during these three quarters last past, to have had, in this, its fitting representative in the world of literature. The third number, now lying before us, is in no one appreciable respect any falling off from its predecessors. In one or two particulars, it is even in some senses an im provement upon them. The accomplished and (evidently in the fulfilment of his task) conscientious Editor of the publication, the Queen's Librarian in Ordinary at Windsor Castle, Mr. Woodward, the Keeper of the Royal Collection of Prints and Draw ings, has evidently got his hand well " in" to the particular work of selection among the great mass of valuable contributions doubtless submitted, by competent authorities in art, to his consideration. Hence the papers grouped together, in number three, are more varied both in theme and in treatment than those comprised in either the first or the second instalment of the periodical. " The Vase of Camirus" leading off the third number and the second volume is, although brief, not un worthy of its conspicuous position. It is embellished with a brilliantly coloured folding illustration of the design and the hues of this wonderful specimen of antique art—an amphora, in height about one foot five inches and a quarter, found as recently as in 1862, during the excavations then making by Messrs. Salzmann and Biliotti, in the necropolis of Camirus in Rhodes. Hence the name given to this same treasure trove, " The Camirus Vase," a not unworthy companion to that exquisite Portland Vase some years back swished to atoms by a mischievous idiot in search of noto riety, and now marvellously patched together at the British Museum, in the centre of the little room still set apart there for its preservation. The Camirus Vase, at least, is a not unworthy companion to The Portland Vase in all except the shape—the shape of the latter, to our mind, being just simply incomparable. It is in the desig❑ upon the Camirus Vase that lies its especial and distinguishing beauty. How eminently beautiful that design is, the illustration, already re ferred to, and the accompanying descriptive letter press, beginning the current number of the Fine Arts Quarterly. reveal quite distinctly to our ap prehension. The elaborate article upon " The Loan Collection at South Kensington," too long to be compressed within the compass of a single con tribution, is here concluded. Then follows a charming disquisition upon " Raphael's ' School of Athens," illustrative in a wonderful manner of the marvellous thought lavished by that consummate Painter upon a single work. Genius, in this, emulating Nature— of course at the infinite distance separating the power Human from the power Divine I Nature applying the same exquisite care (so to express it) upon the creation and rolling forth of a planet, and upon the germination and effloresence of each indi vidual blossom upon the tenderest and most fragile shrub. The blossoms every season being so afflu ently squandered, squandered in absolutely in calculable abundance over the earth's surface as it turns and basks and blooms in the sunbeams—and yet each one of those minute and countless blossoms, as we well remem ber Leigh Hunt remarking to us a very few evenings before his demise, each one of those numberless and tiny blossoms touched into perfect loveliness, as though it had been the one especial care of some beneficent Fairy. As with Nature, so relatively with true Genius—the whole and the minutest parts being alike cared for with an exquisite particularity. Instance, this any one among the great works of the greatest master of Painting who ever lived, the Divine Raphael—as in this very masterpiece of his School of Athens. Instance, in our own time, that matchless deliaeator of fruit and flowers in water colours— William Hunt, now, alas, we grieve to learn, no more! Who that knows old William Hunt's water colour paintings of fruit—ripening apples, delicate primrose blossoms, shreds of moss, pilfered birds' nests with eggs in them, square inches of marl and granite, tasselled sprays of cranberry, and so forth— but knows, thereby, full well the tender minuteness of touch peculiar to the hand of true genius in art, no matter what the department in art selected by that true genius for its manifestation. After a most interesting chapter upon Modern French Etchings—a chapter, the value as well as the inte rest of which are enhanced by the accompaniment of some curious specimen illustrations—another serial contribution is brought to a close, namely, that devoted to the " Early History of the Royal Academy." HORACE VERNET, it should be especi ally remarked, has been selected most judiciously ae the subject for the most attractive papers in the whole of this present number of the Fine Arts' Quarterly—a paper at one and the same time a Criticism and a Biography. A third serial con tribution, it should also be remarked, is here brought to a conclusion, meaning the one entitled interrogatively, " Who was Francesco da Bo logna ? " Due note is taken of the recent addi tions made, here to the National Gallery, here to the National Portrait Gallery. Besides the before mentioned contributions, and two others hardly necessary to particularise—one a❑ account of the "Drawings by Nicolas Poussin in the Royal Col lection," the other a very curious Catalogue Raisonne of the Pictures (at Somerset House) in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries— No. 111. of the Fine Arts Quarterly closes, as usual, with a carefully compiled record of the Fine Arts, both abroad and in the United Kingdom. Among the contributions unavoidably postponed, but immediately forthcoming, we are interested to see announced, that there are papers on Ancient Stained Glass and on the Old Abbey at Westminster. THE EARL OF DERBY, at the opening of Par liament, had no sooner risen than it became evident that he meant mischief. An eye-witness says :—A gentle man near us (not, surely, a member of the P. It.) said he " went to work with the gloves off," And there can be no doubt about it that he certainly gave Earl Russell some hard and ugly knocks, beginning with the betrayal of Reform, the "meddle and muddle" policy attributed to the Foreign Secrete' y—a description which won't soon be forgotten— fastening upon him the part of Moonshine, and comparing him to Bottom the Weaver. Vero was a burst of laughter at the lion similes; and wit must be very good in the House of Lords to create such loud and general amusement. Earl Russell retorted with Sheridan's taunt. The noble Earl was relying for wit upon his memory, and for facts upon his imagination. " The facts aro his own ; the wit is Shakspere's.' But it was not conveni4nt for Earl Russell to see just then that the wit was more in the application than in the words employed. And tho laugh in the end certainly remained with " the Rupert of debate." ANOTHER TITTLEBAT TITMOUSE AND LADY CECILIA DRELINCOURT.--We aro told, says t h. Court Journal, that a young lady of title, quite of the a one de la creme in society, has determined to ally herself to an exceedingly wealthy manufacturer in the North, but whose undesirable obscurity of origin is quite a trifle compared with the utter want of the commonest refinement in his habits and manners. Every possible family remonstrance is being brought to bear in the matter, but the young lady, it is said, is inexorable. A SHAKSPERE PERFORMANCE is apparently meditated by the managers of the Handel Festival Choir. The programme of tho last rehearsal at Exeter Hall :included five well-known settings of Shaksperian words : Stevens's " Blow, blow," and " Spotted snakes," Lord Mornington's "As it fell upon a day," Macfarren's " Orpheus with his lute," and Purcoll's " Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell." Death of Ylr. William Hunt. Mr. William Hunt, the well known painter in water colours, died a; his residence, Stanhope-street, Hempstead-road, of Wednesday, aged 74. Mr. Hunt has exhibited in the gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, since 1824. His works have latterly formed one of the chief attractions of the annual exhibitions, and their absence will create a void that the society will not easily be able to fill. His exquisite colour and delicate manipulation were not more conspicuous than his intense perception of the beauties of those objects of still life which he so loved to paint. Nor were his powers limited to the faithful reproduction of fruit and flowers. As a painter of flesh he was, perhaps, unequalled, and his rendering of humorous phases of rustic life alone was sufficient to win him an enduring reputation. His studies of landscape, sea, and sky, reveal to the instructed eye a capacity for this branch of art equal to those by which he is more popularly known. Mr. Hunt was an honorary member of the Academy of Amsterdam in addition to being a member of the Water colour Society. Although of late his in firmity has been greatly increased, Mr. Hunt has never relinquished work, except under temporary access of indisposition. Debarred in a great mea sure from the pleasures of society, almost his am delight was in his work. He may be said to have died in harness, for so lately as last Saturday, he was at his easel until mid-day, and only left it to visit the Gallery in Suffolk-street, where the com petition pictures of the candidates for associateships of the Water-colour Society were exhibited. Pro. bably the last act of his life was sending hisproxies for some of the competitors. During the night between Sunday and Monday, an attack of paralysis supervened upon the indisposition which had mani fested itself soon after returning home from the Gallery. There was no return of consciousness, and shortly after 8 o'clock onWednesday morning he expired. The following notice of the deceased is taken from " Men of the Time." - William Hunt was born in Belton-street (since called Endell-street), Long Acre, in 1790:—" He first exhibited, as a member of the Old Society of Painters in Water Colours, in 1824. Of the multitude who, from this painter's modest pieces of nature and truth scattered through each exhibition of the Water Colour Society, have received annually fresh enjoyment, comparatively few, perhaps, have suspected that those delight. ful and unpretending little bits of paper contained truer art, witnessed an eye for nature rarer and more penetrating —nay, even technical gifts of immeasurably finer quality—than are shown amid acres of ambitious and clever oil paintings at Trafalgar - square pictures commanding prices ten times higher than a mere water colour drawing can ever challenge. Who shall ex plain the secret of those magical effects of colour, light and shade, and composition ? Why do those modest groups of 'pri mrose pale, or blooming peach and gleaming grape—that broken branch of lilac or of May—that wonderful bird's nest with its deli cately-tinted contents, or the familiar-looking inte rior of a commonplace English room, with its com monplace chairs and tables—why does this consum mate mimicry affect us with so vivid and so poetic a delight? We may look upon actual primroses by a river's brim, and be as little reminded of toil or drudgery in the production,' as when we gaze on those of Mr. Hunt. But, in nine cases out of ten—unless, in fact, we bring the seeing eye with us, which we eannot all. command, or at all times—ewe do not while we look feel as Mr. Hu n t ma k es us fee). Whoever shall ac count for this will. do something to explain some of the shyest s Loretta of Art and its perennial spell— nay of ext erna l nature herself. For one thi ng , M. Hunt i s not only a mas terly artist, but a p oet . By an over master i ng sympathy (the poet's prero gative), the objects ho paints are seen and felt by him as they exist, and conveyed by a mystery of art with which we are wholly unacquainted,' writes a critic worth hearing, which we are at a loss how to define by any of the known results of genius and practice.' People have wondered why so gifted an au artist should perpetually repeat what often seems identically the same subject. But, in fact, it is only superficially the same. Because of his deep sympathy with objects as they exist,' he sees endless varieties in them; and delights to exhaust every phase of effect, of colour, light o p n r e s - w ß lo p s h e a e p l i r t a s e t p ic h e int i e ro r p s ii m es igh an t d lea n r a n n a . and shade, a nd grou ping. As t o t h e techn i cal part lesson his fr a o r m t, scends their principles. These irpibtrusive bits of nature present the perfection of fini,,ll—a perfec tion, however, not attained by elaboration. A degree of slightness of execution, or muzz.ness, ii you will, appears to be an element in the process, elaborators, admirable in other respects, hay': neglected or overstri ven t o avo id.' Forty years practice have brought this about, this marriage of finish and freedom—the last and mosi dirndl! t of technical achievements, result ing in images of Nature wholly, not partially, accurate and consistent. As for his composition, light and shade, colour, these are as quite in their i truth as complete. As a colourist, no loss a critic than Mr. Ruskin loves to speak of him as among the greatest in a school (the Eoglieh) rife tvith great colourists. From the very nature of his art end of his subject, Hunt cannot be engraved. Those sp:'- cimens of printing in colours which seem to repro duce his effects so well, only seem to do so. The difference is subtile, but complete. Mechanism cannot give us the results of a hand such as biti." AUSTRIA. FURTHER DESPATCH OF AUSTRIAN TROOPS TO SCHLESWIG. BRESLAU, FEB. 12. According to a telegram received here a body of Austrian troops numbering 3,400 men will arrive in this city in a few days on their way to Schles wig. They will be conveyed by eight special trains, and will be quartered here for the night. A meeting of the directors of the railway took place at Cassel yesterday. CLOSING OF THE AUSTRIAN REICHSRATH. The Session of the Reichsrath will be closed in state on Monday next by a speech from the throne. The Emperor will give a soiree to-morrow to all the members of the Reichsrath. The new lottery loan of 40 million florins was negotiated yesterday evening at 96 per cent. The Austrian Credit Mobilier takes 15 millions, Messrs. Rothschild 111 millions, and Baron Wodi aner 13 millions. All the other competitors for the loan joined these capitalists. Large offers for the loan were made to the Government both by foreign and home capitalists. FRANCE. PARIS, FEB. 12. At a dinner given yesterday evening to celebrate the Suez canal undertaking, Prince Napoleon made a speech which was loudly cheered. His Imperial Highness retraced the history of the enterprise, dwelt upon its grandeur and utility, and paid a tribute of praise to all who had parti cipated in the undertaking. M. de Lesseps replied. BOURSE, Feb. 11.--The arrival of the English funds with higher prices, and the reduction of the rate of discount by the Bank of England, have given firmness to this market, and prices show an advance. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 45c. Mobilier have improved to 1,122 f. 50c. Rail way Market not very animated, but previous quo tations pretty well maintained. The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cents. 95 20 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 50 Credit Mobilier 1020 Do. end month 1022 50 Bank Shares 3300 Credit Fonder 1240 Roman — Italian Loan 6B Do. end month — Sew ditto .. 67 40 Do. end month.... Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 5(l Rome Debt .. — Deferred - RAILWAIN. Cash. Account. Orleans lOOO .. 997 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 935 .. 935 New ditto — • . Southern — .. 665 Western _Eastern Sardinian Austrian ►,ombard North of Spain Saragossa .. Ditto to Barcelona .... 298 75 .. 305 AMERICA. (Per Etna, via Orookhaven, Feb. 11.) NEW YORK, Jan. 29. The contaadictory reports which have been re ceived during the two past weeks from Knoxville have been reduced to intelligibility. A letter from the correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette states that skirmishing between the forces of Generals Longstreet and Foster commenced on the 15th, and continued until the 20th, when the Federals fell back to Knoxville, having lost upwards of 150 men. A great battle was considered imminent, and much anxiety was felt in Knoxville for the result. Cairo despatches report that the Confederates, under Generals Marmaduke, Shelby, and Fagan, were advancing upon Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on the 22d. An attack upon Marmaduke by Lieutenant Payst had been repulsed ; the other columns were skir mishing with the Federals under Clayton. The same despatches state that guerilla firing upon the Mississippi steamers had been resumed at Milliken's Bend. Despatches from General Thomas to the 27th do not confirm the reported failing back of General Johnston from Dalton. Charleston telegrams of the 23d, via Richmond, announce that the bombardment of the city was almost suspended. The Courier of the 26th states that trifling damage has been done by the Federal shells. COMMERCIAL IN FELLIGENCE. Gold, 1561, Exchange, 1711. United States Sixes, registered, 1881, 1054; Trea sury 7-30 Notes, 107; ; New York Central Railway, 137 i ; Erie (ex dividend), 107: ; Itlinois Central, 126. Cotton, 83c. Breadstuffs lower. Provisions quiet. Sugars firm. Coffee depressed. The Etna takes out 101,404 dole. in specie. JAN. 30, 11 A.M. Another letter from the Knoxville correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, dated the 2nd, recounts still further losses to the Federals in the recent skirmish. Two hundred prisoners were captured, several caissons blown up, and a large quantity of clothing destroyed. The entire Federal force had retreated west of the Holston River, and skirmish ing was in progress within six miles of the city. General Longstreet has established an impreg nable base of oparations at Ball's Gap. Confederate accounts are to the 26th, which state that the positions of the contending forces were un changed. Seven hundred cattle, 900 waggons, and two boat. loads of provisions and tobacco had been captured from the Federals. General Foster is ill, and the Administration at Washington is asserted to be seriously alarmed at the situation of affairs at Knoxville. The Sixth Corps from the Army of the Potomac, under General Sedgwick, has been sent to the assist ance of General Foster. Richmond papers of the 28th report the capture by the Confederate General Forrest of Island No. 60, in the Mississippi River, with all the managers, negroes, cattle, &c. The Federals are declared by the same papers to have evacuated Fort Pillow ; also Corinth, Missis sippi, having first blown up their fortifications. General Forrest has defeated the Federals at La grange, Collinsville, and Germantown, Tennessee. A large force in West Tennessee is purposing to join General Forrest. Despatches recently read in the Confederate Con gress relate that the Confederate troops are recruit ing by brigades for the war. THE DANISH QUESTION. We understand that the English Government has proposed an armistice to the belligerents, on the basis of the evacuation of Schleswig, with the ex ception of the Island of Alsen, by the Danes. This suggestion has met with the support of France, Russia, and Sweden, and it 'is put forward as preliminary to a Conference which, it is hoped, will finally dispose of the long-vexed question of the Duchies. —Morning Post. The Duke of Rutland intends to return from his tour in Egypt towards the- end of March, or early in April. His grace has greatly benefited by his short residence in the more genial climate. The Duke of Newcastle is daily improving in health. His grace has, during the last two days, taken carriage drives, but he is still advised by his medical attcn dantss to refrain from attending the Cabinet Councils. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury will give a series of parties after Easter. he Earl and Countess of Cork entertained a select 'Arty at dinner last evening at their residence in Grafton-street. cro effurt MAJESTYHER id:::don; Let F et --4-°sl3;g rilri The Queen, with Prince Leo Beatrice, drove out yesterday afterno Colonel the Hon. D. de Res attended on back. rri fePt The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell a a 0 0 0 Osborne from London, and had ah 81166 c Majesty. _ 4 rince and P Journey of the Princess v to St. Leonards. re floo o Their Royal Highnesses left F001:000 yesterday shortly after 2 o'clock, an d dr ft,il o ' Windsor station of the South-Wester:lf 'ot leer attended by Major-General linollYsl dale, C. 8., and the Hon. Mrs. E. Ccl ke ' ore fr o ! ing at the station their Royal Hig linesge° teo detil ceived by Mr. Godson, the traffic Orr in the 1#: the South-Western Railway, a nd b f i g , ibee e superintendent, who ushered them 'P i " pal saloon carriage belonging t o the ullljesies It is expected that their Royal g`g remain at St. Leorials fora ort ni g ht f ROYAL ENGLISH OPP' , tba SHE STOOPS TO CONGO' 10 0 00 0 ,0 It is with unaffected pleasure that we h° lB ae • t eo l' pc brilliant success of Mr. G. A. Macfarrell'ea:tees:°lo. t At t its „ Stoops to Conquer," which was repres oht the first time at the Royal English Opera, 1 - 4 1 , et tlie10 bn O ua n it e A nt r e . r F ing the theatre our impression Was,tai-LidoPAri; comedy it . w b a a s ti n h o t a. w . e u ll ec c e a e lc d u ed la :d on forder f t: ll ° l 4 la . reo too d y represented are-Miss Hardcastle, D'l ti e " 0 in every way suited for operatic urposes. ) Ir, Ito :: t r ot, Miss Neville, by Miss Hiles ; Squire gar de . I t; frm Weiss ; Young Marlow, by ilarrifioo„llo ings, by Air. G. Perrin; and Tog ,„ oov Mr. H. Corti ; Mrs. Hardcastle being 7 1 ,„ - omitted. The overture is a vigorous foldooThAPr' position, though to our thinking there jo tf, ° : * b 04 1° derance of the fortissimo, though it plea se " . „, e O -(3 di t „" t o ; well that before the opera was allowed to P r " - ee tti 9 ;0 be repeated. The curtain rises upon a te_ i l r - ad 11 ; landscape-the exterior of Hardcastle commence with a very pretty duet sung jo ' t f',4 Miss Riles in praise of a summer morning ri1 ;1 1 elY,tef point Squire Hardcastle appears, and althe ti , ° ,, Ohio / of early exercise he objects to the ladies' stt're"aatos F o r well written and telling bit of musical disleglioriogoici -the Squire railing heartily against ladieseciettirc.,l3 powder turd hooped skirts. Tony Luraltill,a- tile 4 , 2 in vain attempts to obtain five guineas O c t n r , 3 0 1 ' enable him to gaud treat to hi e fi ftleti V, in a cricket match on the village gr e , e ",: 90 4 1 111 0' leads to a very charming quartet;, vit ue- sc oar '340 yd applauded. Tony having retired in ill 11 0133- 0 ; 0 , :0 castle informs his daughter Kate that 8 t friend, Charles Marlow, is about to arr`%:tll9'loP,' the purpose of proposing marriage to her, 0 7 0 011 e l/ thing that seems to stand in the wt'Y e itl e° ,o )l proposal being accepted is young Marlow 1 28 D O/ fulness. Kate tells her father she thint e 13 t he l' e fic° l that, the old gentleman leaves her to g„„ iv° el ttii ,a s directions to his domestics, and now we 7,, i piev t e ,; , e d first cavatina, " What is love ?" It ie s ,„„o Jr, ll and won great applause. The nei. t the green, is extremely picturesque, and Ile, r . ! At ter e ' and lasses all witness a cricket match, sc w ' - f 0 0 ',0 01• 1 great spirit and animation. This situation; e-.ofe, naturally suggest a merry chorus, and `"„',11 , se dt given us one which will become en orin e ,o o ;ol jj ` . will no doubt be sung with gusto at O n ii e meetings in both town and country. „ P T te .- t h; tlP „ r f " Song of the Cunning Old Fox," t ki°l'ill;oo4 villagers taking up the chorus. A gan ie'l ,; 00 ' Ti follows, and then a noise is heard sviL b°- „h t' ais e ' ,00 1 ° the breaking down of young Marlowe ;pa y a o',) lovers, Marlow and Hastings, e nter, an' die scl i f covers that they are the parties expeet ed , r bl a di r° ,l ll on their inquiring for Hardcastle . 1 - e- col, the place, but tells them that it is a t al llte it°) P r ` it) a. Buck's Head." Marlow and his friends° oe d, de 10 4 " merry-making while the chaise is being re l 3,, a t be iv i ,i being completed he takes his departure, b°llTatnterll,e'; vites the whole of the villagers to sup vid t/ t il b e 0 11 0 0 ft ,o w evening at the Buck's Head. Arrivingfitlac 0 11 ' meets the squire, who is overjoy ed at °I .:8 tt f, Marlow takes his cordial welcome rather a s s g and easiness with which he is not at ' 4l l of preciate. The old gentleman is rather 8- 0 , 0 0 31 0 , strange conduct of his friend's sou, b tl da te 011 ;ci 1/ .( 1. instructed all his servants to obey e t r-e e t iog a l t.° of their power. Marlow, withviev." e l. t tt for 0 140 '4 n old gentleman, whom he looks upon 3 ;0a 0 , 1 ", 1 it% c , inn, orders some punch, and then we I l a uc ert ics t i P r p." taking morceaux in the opera-viz, INIr•7: the grell,o at on relating to the young men how t ile Di Marlborough," in all his glory, fough t ° ".., a itie''' c nein. The spirit thrown into the coon hie road, Weiss was most remarkable. It just suiteoo46,ol appeared to revel in the relation of the w h , - • a .- the departed hero, and the manner h' l e ; e e " O A '" his friend listened to the story was suPr e ;plat i lt, ,p 4; audience were enthusiastic in their Ct 'o 3 o' l encore was the inevitable result. i°,, tll o - !if sang his ballad. It is entitled " Tli e ;c ° l l l3 ;r l e; ° o 4 , in our opinion it is not equal to a ``'' ) Ntr. opera of " Robin Hood." As, howe'itnaht 'if, of with great taste and feeling, it will na acquaintance. Of course it was encored. 0 00 ot el d4o ' o it now appears, and then follows a gl°r i° ,, ll ,, s s tata ll° ; o3B / Mr. Harrison and Miss Pyne-VIZ., tb .e 1 ", - a t e lady low, With this the act closes, en" ef fecu ,a i pelf followed the descent of the drop scene vit is „ l3- dor' P, j , tic. Mr. Harrison, Miss Pyne, and Ali' ferg, menced gathering the honours of the e i r° , B o9 do had to acknowledge the compliment of ° .. ..„ c5 . 1e 5, _,o i 1/, opens with a pretty ballad for Mies P i to $ cF- teV sighs the evening gale," an d then we h theave prO et t O r t iO with Tony and Hastings, in which a lb et ; t , e yd„? GJ latter that he loves Bet BOuncer 3 at less plump cousin Constance. Iles tin t g : e r i s i i311 0 4 0/ ! l e: intelligence, and thus Tony takes 035 ". i i e fie e 'OV: pare for the elopement of the lovers. o el 40 tO ift the use of his false key, obtains peseefdlc)thel‘.,, jewels, which he gives to Hastings; 7,0 3 is °00 0‘) 11 discovery of the loss by the s quire , v" e " at iy 4°,00'1 1)' amusing trio, in which Mr. H. Corri g re 0P jo i; ha° himself. In this scene we have Miss fr o - di/ 0 , 4 r/ , 1 it is entitled " The Barmaid's 0008, s eta your honour call," arid truly it 1334 g 0 ,41 as sae if,' taken the house by storm. It od e AO ' ° o °' ° bewitching style, and although 1 l ot' o' l , mands upon her vocal stenoa). s heooB aitoti4lo repeated it in compliment to the 111 10,0 De t , ° o 4 audience. Now commences her M ral id ionl ° '; for to tv .o Marlow, who. although abashed an d r ,„ .0 - as the lady, is nothing loathe to gio v ",, I 'y- 4 d ' of the nectar of her lips" as the barrna l ' ell ' t ail, 'at levels, Hastings and Constance, is P re : o ato rit o t e • o°l o l l ',o brought back to the Hall just at ; 0131 of villagers enter for supper, in aCCOrd3ll°' 0 1.4 1 o ti: 1 1 4 given in the first act by young ga rl°ll ; e t- g e oag f ;or 0 4 1 opera is here sung by the ladies al l pa rt " 60 0 0 ‘4 chorus ; it is an unaccompanied Of,- " Cuckoo S;ngs in Poplar- as or ie tree, to itaP opt e oe ,,d not a The choral society w ith anY c 06 1 0 j3 f k o i allow this genuine and thoroughly harmony;: 1 01 escape them. Every note is pure ll s at i t or, 1 10 1 4 1 0 ol being written by a popular m oderu ° 0. 00 ofi • e der I 0 current as one of the most successta taros, tia act o 0 ancient masters whose names haveerap 011/0 melody famous. The audience were pi:oo<f; 6,,A,GiOae‘i,st,' that the hour was growing late, au or a 0 0° - e the most genuine that we have Iva je„Otit.;° ,5 . f . insisted On. If it were possible the ' 0 1: 0 0 0 00 0 , ;, please more than the firstfury at ro tit d ; i l) 11 11 0 at castle now enters in a h°us e, t old re P, ( O4 the rabble of the village in his he ti6e t id bs 4 . or de• A 14 4 , 0 low for his conduct, when Marlovit;!as 6 ie 1 7, a ier, an inn, quietly tells Hardcastle h to o 1; 4 an/ td visitors not to spare the cellar, house's 00 0 01 ti d,,,„t more he could do for the good of tu t ; ot to wr en - e ijc , l ;4f trios, and choruses bring the see, °l3 g f' t .. W ir e had a most spirited manner, and ag'all:test va i 3 ',.he;,,t acknowledge tho applause hie 1 li ts ope cl o tec i In the third act Mr. Harrison say4„,jah, a pp Or o ttl' bud of May," the upper notes of which toou_ o ' o oll , _ f ti? outside his register. It noverthele ° very f ibo e : rj a C; v oo , After ver rent o ° o o l 4o and, of course, encored. quartette for Miss lilies, Mesars. 00 , 3 g , I ', lo r aer o je arrive at another very pretty ballad, in; lietio9 134 e lf 10t Pyne, " He'll miss me at the inorlior du ad O il , tion between the lovers, ge rl° duct, aid , 0 0 ) takes place in a very effective art but br ie tv descends at the conclusion of sh „ a pose r , Miss Pyne.with the e ° 00 0 ' hfif fr All the artistes together ovo , e ,40 ; ,I called in this time to receive a eiciTat Or t, Di t o ti l e r p ; oo , tG The acting was quite on a gar wit til e fas ea 13i ted tO and Miss Hardcastle gave us ' l ,, ,t; 9 1 3 0 in po rfe r va English comedy, and Miss e ° , l ytti cil tc" into her part. Mr. Ilarrisonah.Zes ar o Do tter itt fe J o: and Mr. 11. Cori and Mr: v __, loo t ail to highest praise for the very e:::otere., t. D e •' t o , supported their respective ClL o dy (Da 100 CA too, acted well ; •s never in d 0 - hes g iitfi' n h c e n s e u e c i : F a s t ovfitit,e i ctrticer f oo ;fe le • buesse' the e • sir - Their Royal 111 g o f 1110 0 I SO° p y bridge, the Grand Duch", Colo°,!3„eattO the Princess Mary, attenciteect u.,(1040ui Captain Ellis, honoured t BeLICV last evening. C O4 414 tray 9.41 O r 111