The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

rithieo are rft ney furth er ' a w 72 0 . Stock r4' doilL t°. ire a gio ter d , ire s t I ! kccot int ' stock the reel! " P P' 502 ..... - 4,0. -... ..... • " " ..... s 6 -f. 63% 100% V e b° l alter; . Edgy ,hiftrl4 Bre t* S I A t en3 oll 1 , cape cl=lol`ll t Tsai * , tab, I' .badv`" fr goo owPw l e.* 2 0 . st, vicum, orris' . 412 a. 9 " 5. Ss' tp cit 4 SPORTING INTELLIGENC. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING: SUNDAY NIGHT.—The following outline of the races for to-morrow, as they stood - at , the reading of the list this et - ening, holds out a better prospect of sport than, in ignorance of Lord Glasgow's Deerslayer and Purity %137,. we had calculated upon wht n our morning dispatch W;ts forwarded : Craven Stakes. St. Lawrence, Corranna. Spiteful, Pine Apple, Voltri, Mocha, c by Ratcher, out of Turquoise, 3 yrs, and c by lon, out of Mary Anne, 3 yrs. Handicap of 20 sous. each, &c. The Brewer, 4 yrs, Bst 81b—Souvenir filly, 4 yrs, B st 61 b—Tom Thumb., 4 yrs, Bsr4lb—Shocking Mamma, 4 Yrs, Bst—Antidote, 4 yrs, Bst—Czar, 4 yrs. 7st 121 b Rirdeen, 4 rs, 71b—Seakale filly, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b (Paid)----c by lon, out of Mary Anne, 3 yrs, Est 10lb— end c by Beiram, out of Agn e s, 3 y rs , -G s t 41b. All stan d but the Seakale filly. Handicap of 25 sous. each. 10 ft. T.Y.C. BBGarry Owen, aged, Bst 121b—Canton, 4 yrs, Bst—The wer, 4 yrs, ist 31b—Afric a n, 5 y rs , 7 st 61b—Frau 1, yrs, 7st--Currycomb, aged, 7 s t I lb—C ec il, 6 yrs,. est 1 01 b. The Brewer and Canton . are scratched. Sweeps of 50 sovs each, for 3 yrs old, D.M. Rattan, D e l apre, Crosby, Sir Diggory Diddle, c by Clearw t ll out of Nininka, Numskull, and the Blusterer. The others are scratched. Match, Deerslay e r ags t L arry M`C a b e. Match,-Scalteen agst Evenus. ' r " the Riddlesworth one of Mr. Thornhill's will walk over. LATEST BETTING.—CHESTER CUP.-12 to 1 agst Pha ktil 20 to 1 agst Roscius, 20 to 1 agst Red Deer. -I. wo THOUSAND GOINEAS.—Offers to take 6 to 5 about Lie aUgly Buck. _l3tt E RBY.9 to 2 ag s t th e U g l y B uc k, 11 to 2 agst •ean, 25 to 1 agst King of the Gipsies (t), 30 to 1 agst Leander (t), 35 to 1 agst Bay Momus, 50 to I agst Mount ECharles (t), 50 to 1 agst Qui Tam (t), 6 to 5 on The gly Buck agst Rattan (t), even on Foig-a-Ballagh agst 'tura Charles. e „,i 4° , ead ay'sßiddlesworth.—The Marzellina and Thebes - r" a 'are'sqatehedi. ''-k; NEIV'MARKET CRAVEN MEETING. • z ia ., -4 ° l •lty A rrtits oom.--Th e arrival of Lord Glasgow's i t i e -- •.? 1 . layer,. and filly' by ROtainer, out of Purity, shortly ( e i e enift °ll r p i l s ast dispatch .was forwarded, followed in the etek„„ uy very catisfactory entries for tli a e - Craven t oin c ed and the two Handicaps, have agreeably disa_p eat, ,_ our anticipation's as to the amount of sport the bill' 4.13 li kely to realise ; in, particular, they made the hope s ° ' fitre for this afternoon attractive beyond our !'rt ; and admitting the walk over for a Nee that of bl:%e was one of the - most interesting of the many great 4_nta decided 'tit Newmarket, to have been a draw -1( to the regular visitors, gave considerable eclat to c''n"nln(Uncenient of the season. The company, owing, 11° doubt,• to the extraordinary fineness of the weather, tilthita holi days, and the s p ec i a l tra i ns , if l ess numerous g)r! we have seen at many Craven Meetings, was more . t uan the comparatively unimportant na t ure o f t h e rakes had l e d Inv) expect. - - - " Otthe six ev e nts d escr ibed below, t wo on l y were ca l " - to to make any impression on the odds—the Craven 4)10 Sovs. Stakes. The first - proved beyond the pos walbility of doubt that Voltri's two-year -old performances tt e ,rs' ',` quite correct" —the other, that- Rattan's public a ll ''''Prwate 'merits have' not been overrated ; he made of ahocking example of his coinpetitors, and having no 1, 4t1e engagement b e f ore t h e Derby, will make bad 1 1 tig fOr those who are a ga i nst hi m . -I , Craven Stakes of 10 sovs. each, for 3 yrs old, Est ; Yrs, Bst 41b ; 5 . yrs, Bst 131 b ;6_ years and aged, 9st Mfrsll). A.,. ~„ ~.e (8 Subs). 11,! , 4-4,9yee's Corianna, 5 yrs .... .. ....... (Robinson) 1 1-r4 ‘Ford's bl c, by lon, out of Mary Ann, 3 yrs ... 2 t,...1ic following also started, but were not placed •-- FrZr• 'John Day's St. Laurence, aged (John Day, jun.) ; eit.: Croekford's Pineapple, 4 ' yrs (Rogers) ; Mr. Ford's eful, 4 yrs (F. Butler) • Lord Exeter's f Mocha, by Ir o t i e , r ,P°Ol, out of Mecca 3 ' yrs (Abdale) ; Mr. Watts's ea , '''''', 3 yrs (Simpson) ' and Lord Orford's ch c, by Rat _teher, out ol Turquo ' ise 3 yrs (R. Cotton). Voltri ` l `ried 3lbs over-weight. ' . ten ße e .tti!g----3 to 1 agst Corranna, 7 to 2 agst St. Law- Ittli. vw to 2 agst Voltri, 6 to 1 agst Pine Apple, 7 to 1 Th e VarY Ann colt, and 7to 1 agst Turquoise colt. V o i t ,,TarY Ann colt took the lead at a great pace, with tea t " . in waiting' and the others some lengths in the * a T h 4 r . ran ' so to the bushes where Voltri 11, beaten, and the -leader was followed by en,.l 43 trnna and St. Lawrence; the Saint gave up at the ,;_q3) but Corranna, Mending her position in the run in, r.: ( ; with a rush at the finish, and won on the post by a lie fi l Lawrence. a very bad third, and the others 4 a all off a long way from home. t.'iL'' e ltlY Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and only 5 ft. if - vv, lared, for - 8 and 4yr olds. D.M. (10 Subs; one de t:ieeett.) 111.114•Ibemarle's The BreWer, 4 yrs, Bst 81b 1 •Co'l'd' by lon, out of Mary Ann, 3 yrs, Est 101 b 2 . 'Ar s c. Del. n Indham's Tom Thumb, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (Bell) ; iist - 6 1,? , rortland's f by Beirarn, out of Souvenir, 4 yrs, 4 •e rn w „(Nat) • Mr. Osbaldestone's Shocking Mamma, Itilf"' oat (F. Butler),; Mr. Watson's Antidote, 4 yrs, 4r. Boyce) ; Lord Exeter's Czar, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b ; 1, 0 ,._, INLltown's Birdeen, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (Marsden) ; and (Alq,EXeter's c.by Beiram, out of Agnes, 3 yrs, 6st 41b `"1"4041e); also ran. eOt, Tiug.---7 to 4 agst Antidote, 7 to 2 agst Mary Ann T OE . t apt Birdeen, and 5 to 1 agst The Brewer. th, Thinub, Lord Exeter's two, the Souvenir filly and kod ' alevri'eYiAnn colt, started in close order, and ran so at a 11111ib ttile.ne°°-•a Pace, until near the T.Y.C. post. Tom rip the ruPPrieigsigned his b , ran with them a few bte into the ' plac e in front, and Czar car redlev ti:,seeracoen,da.nd andwtoon roidrdses: wiehftertheeTinhewßithreowuetrmwueenht er lY by a length, the Mary Ann Portland's filly, E xeter's two, and the Duke of eii_ * fl u id pot place .. awtielrrecii!plantl so close that the Judge rf , (heap s.,„A,__, p the favourite was sixth. s-cpsßk es of 21 sovs . each, 1 . 0 ft. T.Y.C. 1.:47:1rd G. Dentin e + (7 Subs.) O. Peers Garry e s African, 5 yrs, 7st 61b...(Abdale) 1 ~._ o c.xeter's Fnl 1 / 4 r , o w nuke of Bedford'u 9111' 4 Yrs' ,en, aged, Bst 121 b 7st air. None, Cecil Currycomb, aged, 7st 11b . 2 to I . n.. ,§. . 6 yrs, fist 101 b 5 Z a d t e V at r_FlTlelp-i in ea ,l; 3 . to 1 agst Garry Owen, 3 to 1 ot 4 to 1 agst Currycomb. African w on cznlg running' throughout, was never headed, and " othe r , Y by a ength, Garry Owen second, and the a ` nowhere' lerd Iv_ Match, 100, h ft. _ A.F. to, -;:•eidstone's Larry M`Hale, Bst 7113 (Nat) 1 ' ylasgow's Deerslayer,, Bst 71b .......(Robinson) 2 to to ' El e ,„,_ *Pn Larry *Rale, who had it all his own way. iastakes of 50 sovs. each; for 3 yr old colts, Bst 71h, 2; o : 1 , B st 41b; not engaged in either Riddlesworth, .i..ol.),tird.‘..,ArGignfonred.a,:,i3tratlt,aonoo Guineas Stakes. D.M. (9 Subs) (Rogers) 1 r:,;l4,,oeMarle's Delapre ' (Robinson) 2 zord . 6 .c.x, et,,r's Crosby, Mr. Ford's Sir Diggory Diddle, dset n r 'ord B'C bfClearwell, out of Nininka,Mr. Osbal- Vity - dh / Ws Escrick - Mr H. Vane's The Blusterer, Col. 5 1 14 1111 8 Numskull, ' also started, but were not placed. 7 to 1 - ° II Rattan (offered),,* to 1 agst Delapre, and tea r .Rattan, winning this and the Derby. The too,e,,_rer aad liim skull started in company, and ran lit:i t le ,l . for fe a quarter of a mile at a . moderate pace. t i , s t. 41,1151,:een took up the running ; was never challenged 4 -41 t h,`, - , °a ched ; and won in a canter by two lengths ; atverViesecond, Nininka and Numskull head and head cot op i eto r . gths in their rear, and everything else tailed 3 41tatth off. I.) Mil o rd Stradbroke's Evenus Bst. (Nat), beat 11 • . ' ft. 0 ,wn. a Scalteen, Bst 61b, (G, Edwards), -200. Vro... ` 44l : lo lid..eshi N... 4111 a _ 5 re Course.-2 to lon Evenus, who . e nkih sw catiter by three lengths. cOlt ° "h Stakes of 200 sots. each, h ft; for 3yr old 14 ; Th s o l t i lt i . 7 „ ll , ), . 8 44 fillies, -Bst 41b. Abr M. (6 subs.) 9 Itteli4 tl o B Elegy, .......................... Walked over. st 711, ,r;. _ , , h ft. T.Y.C.. Duke of Bedford's Espuir, Aad ior t'ee.;Yed forfeit from Lord Glasgow's fby Sheet ? out or o BEr rix a,,ad„ .... a, 6st 7111 • . - --- "1 t 4-1" TO FIVE O'CLOCK. 12 t.z. 1 ___ ... CHESTER CUP. 1 2 tO 1 ' l g s ' A ir. Grayons Roseius l3_t o agst Col. Cradock 16 t o , agst 'Mr. Bri sto ,'. a P agan 50 . agst Lord G i . w . s Pharaoh—taken to . .k a tm mr. to...entinck's Bramble Birdee e Neu ba'evi°trteA!ngtan's Collins—taken 4 bk.. 1 agst Mr. C .- T be til uis th y a . morning at 50 to 1. sa :0 1 agst Mr. (:):I 2 9 5 t° 2 agst Mr. Jorr kford's Rattan—taken Day's The Ugly Buck —taksa to t ° 1. apt Alt Johne3' Xing of the Gipsies—taken 40 te'lagst Mr. J. o Scott's Bay Momus—takat Iler o ' agst 111 i: Fo , k , sboree's Mount Charles bi4v4,_re the reslooc oc r : t o s ( )Id Tam —taken i e . and 5,000 , 'out/ t aga r i zas vo l i a t i ri d against Sir Diggory 411 co 03 LAI rERSALL , • ;.4.11,--I?,,tstaateq_ tuhetoicisie of the absB—eneYelcor nearly all the sub . ewmarket Races, nothing was done ,triy,of notice if I'lli betti n - THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1844. THE THEATRES. ± fail to convey an accurate or adequate idea of the re- so, therefore, do we) grasps a rifle that some " spirit of DRURY-LANE. ality; and the.audience applauded th e wonderful tableaux health or goblin damn'd" had benevolently left on a successively presented with the utmost heartiness of h e d g e h ar d b y , an d at once lodges a bullet in the thorax M. Dupree has obtain e d .an a dditi ona l conge o f a wee k from the Academie Royale de Musique, and, conse- manner. As we do not think it desirable to enter into of his son-in law that was to have been, who, of course, quently, during the Easter week he will continue at the plot, it is, perhaps, best not to make any lengthened drops from the crag into the shades below. De remarks on the performance of the actors in tie stirring r o thea, th e heroine of the revolt (and very well Drury lane. H e app eare d l as t n i g ht as A rno ld i n Guillaume Tell, and' Will appear : on Wednesday an d scenes. William, Duke of Normandy, was very ably- that heriaine was- personated by Miss L. Melville) Friday. Siretton, who - was the Tell, was suffering so ! sustained by Mr. Henry Howard, the Saxon King by now fires the signal, and the revolt takes place,—that is, severely from lameness, the 'consequence of an accident, Mr. J. Danville, whilst Algitha, the wire of Harold, we suppose it does, for less of row or ri o t we never yet was pees by Mrs. Short. Great amusement was saw or r ea d o f a t a revolt. The " dy i ng patr i ot " b lesses that, before theco mmencemen t o f th e o p era , C oo p er came ert forward, and bespoke the consideration of the audience eau: Si by the acting of Mr. Hudspeth, as Magnus, his now liberated country, and having given his daughter on his behalf. - The accident, however, as Mr. Cooper in which character be joins the invading in marriage to anather young gentleman in military most truly stated, had "not affected Mr. Stretton's vocal force, anc , accompanied by a young lady who shares his attire, who was luckily near at hand, gasps out bis latest powers," for we never heard him in better voice. The adventures, lands with the Norman troops. His per- sigh, and so brings all to a close. The character of old drama of the Tale of Mystery, which was very well formance eli c ited roars o f la u ght er . The character of Rftf.envelt was very fairly played by Mr. Laws, from the acted, followed the opera. The management judging, Sweeno, a Saxon, surnamed Sweeno of the Flail, was Brighton theatre, a first appearance on these boards, and, and - judging rightly, that the attraction of Dupree would cleverly taken by Mr. T. Barry. The Norman Conquest by the applause of the house, we may fairly prophesy be sufficient to fill the house, without the addition of the was succeeded by M o n s i eu r pleg e ' s evolution s on the ivery far from a last one. In addition to the plot we usual Easter spectacle, the house was crowded. tight rope ; and greater dexterity could not possibly be have thus sketched, there was an under-plot (if we exhibited than was displayed, on this occasion; by this may so term it), of low comedy, in the persons of Sam clever performer. Signor Germani, Monsieur Ziesback, Nubbles, a London lozenge manufacturer on his travels and :Monsieur Massotta, successively astonished the (Mr. G. Wild), and Rummy Tights, an extemporaneous audience by their wonderful feats of equestrianism ; and tiger following the fortunes and misfortunes of nibbles these were followed by a very pleasing and elegant per- I (Mr. Rogers). ; Both these characters, redolent of low formance of the same description, by Monsieur Tour- comedy in speech and action, were admirably acted, and naire and Mdlle. Annette. A farce called My Next drew forth repeated plaudits and bursts of laughtei• Door Neighbour, wound up the amusements of the even- The piece, of is kind, is a very creditable one, and we ing, which throughout appeared to afford the greatest I have no doubt will draw money. There are seine satisfaction to a numerous and highly respectable sprightly snatches of song in it, which were well giver, company. especially by Miss Lebatt, who, in the after part of the evening, sang, "Tell me my heart," with excellent taste and judgment. The scenery in this drama of The Signal, especially the mountain portion of it, deserves praise, and we therefore state that Mr. Beverley is the artist. The other new piece was a burlesque extra vaganza, called Cinderella, or the Great Fairy and the Little Gliss Slipper, and really it has been most truthfully christened in the bills. A better hit at Italian opera and French dancing we have never seen, and, while full of fun, it is alike free from ill nature or low vulgarity.. Cinderella, by Mademoiselle Georgiana Wild, is one of the most amusing pieces of act ing we have ever seen. We can conclude as we have begun, by repeating, that the manager has catered hap- ' pily for the season, and that those who wish to " drive dull care away" cannot more effectually do it than by going to the Olympic theatre. RAYMARKET. Plana* the indefatigable, has provided the Easter piece for this theatre, in the shape of a new original, oc casional, and local extravagania, entitled, The Drama a t Rome; or, an Evening with Puff This, like all Planeligs burlesques, is replete with wit, full of excellent hits a t the follies of the day, and abounding with puns that might make Hood himself jealous. In the first scene we find the Drama (Mrs. Glover) in extremis. The scene represents the ancient temple of' the Drama, with a miserable prospect and a dissolving view of the company. Puff (Mr: C. Mathews) appearS in a critical moment, and straightway proposes various plans for the re storation of Drama to her former supremacy. It was a dangerous experiment to reproduce Puff on the stage, but it was completely successful. Planche's Puff is the lineal descendant of Sheridan's Puff, and he is worthy of his lineage. Some of his schemes. are admirable. He proposes to turn Covent- Garden into a grand National Hydropathic Establish ment—cold water for the million—and to reproduce the farce of Animal. Magnetism, under its new name Mes merism, by mesmerising the whole of the audience, and making them applaud in the proper places, so as to ensure the success of any piece that may be produced. The Drama is thrown into a mesmeric state, and Drury lane and Coient-garden Theatres appear before her in a vision. The latter is under a cloud, to wit, behind one of Jullien's immense bills. The actors, too, have left the temples of the drama. Ariel (Miss P. Horton) is engaged to lecture at the Adelaide Gallery and the Polytechnic ; Othello is boarded by Warren, and is a walking advertisement for jet-blacking ; while Macbeth, who is up to snuff, takes up his position as the High lander at the shop-door of a tobacconist. The Drama' driven from the patent theatre, takes refuge in the Hay market, which, for the first time; appears on its ()an stage (by the kind perniission of Benjamin Webster, Esq., lessee). Having thus found a refuge, Mr. Puff presents the Minor Theatres on the occ ision of their late emancipation, and the piece concludes with a grand ano malous procession of the London exhibitions, including the Ojibbeway Indians and Tom Thumb. The piece was admirably got up, and was completely successful. At the conclusion, Mrs. Glover, Mr. C. Mathews, Miss P. Horton, and Mr. J. Bland, who acted Punch, were called for and received with loud applause. The extraordi nary and classical performance of Professor Risley and his son followed, to the great delight' and amusement of a crowded house. SURREY The principal Easter piece at this theatre—for there wire two others—was an adaptation from . Mr. Towns end's " Whitefriars," under the direction of Mr. R. Honner, to whose skill and judgment it does consider able credit. The scene is laid in a period of our history in which the worst passions of the vilest men were let loose, and it is one, too, which is not without its interest and moral for the times we live in. The main point in the plot is not unlike that upon which the interest of Richard Savage, not long since produced here, was founded. Mervyn (Mr. E. F. Saville) is the son of Lady Howard (Mrs. H. Vining), by whom he is disowned, and whom he does not know to be hts mother. Under the guidance of Titus Oates (Mr. Eleslop) and Colonel Blood (Mr. H. Hughes), a formerlover of Lady Howard's, he is unintentionally made a party in the murder of Sir E. B. Godfrey (Mr. Hawkins.) After his return from the war in Scotland, whither he is forced to fly, and where he is made a captain in King Charles's service, he falls in love with Aurora Sydney (Mrs. R. Honner), of whose charms, Charles (Mr. Johnson) also becomes enamoured, and whose honour he tempts by a casket of jewels, sent by Mervyn. The offer, of course, is indignantly rejected, but the Merry Monarch, bent on accomplishing his object, effects a meeting with Aurora Sydney, and endeavours to force her compli ance, but Mervyn rushes in, and an encounter ensues, the King being assisted by Blood, and Mervyn by Claude Duval (Mr. N. T. Hicks). Blood and Mervyn being wounded are taken to the laboratory of Elkanah, a Jew poisoner (Mr. R. Milner), to whom Lady Howard offers a considerable sum of money, upon his undertaking to poison both. Mervyn refuses his remedies, .but the Colonel imbibes the poison through his wound. After it begins to act, he calls upon Elkanah, who informs him that Lady Howard instigated him to infuse the poison. Before his death he procures a meeting with Lady Howard, and just as he gets her to acknowledge that Mervyn is her son, he calls in the latter, who is con cealed in an adjoining room, upon which his mother swoons and dies in despair. The Colonel also dieS from the poison, and the curtain drops. The piece possesseg,some good scenes, and was very well received. The charac ters are very creditably sustained. Mrs. Vining and Mrs. Honner performed their respectis4 parts with taste and ability; and Mr. Johnson, Mr. Hughes, and Mr., Saville, were very effective in theirs. A little comedy, called the Scapegrace of Paris, and a short piece, called Barak Johnson, adapted from a tale in the New Monthly Magazine, followed, and went off very well. The theatre was very well attended, and the pieces were announced for repetition amidst loud ap plause. SIRAND THEATRE. This snug little theatre, was opened for the summer season last evening, when, among other sources of at traction provided for the audience, they were gratified by the first appearance of a juvenile actress (according to the bills only eiglit years o . d), Miss Heron, from the Theatre Royal, Dublin, who made her bow to a London audience in the character of Terry O'Rourke, alias Dr. O'Toole, in the Irish Tutor. While the memory of poor Power is still fresh upon us, it is no trifling matter for another to please in any one of those characters which he made so peculiarit y his own ; and in none was he more laughter-exciting than that of Dr. O'Toole. It must, therefore, be no slight merit that drew down such repeated plaudits as greeted the young aspirant to fain from all Parts of the house. In fact, she made a decided hit. Her acting was marked by extraordinary tact, cleverness, and just perception of the part She had to play; and if there was any one matter in which correction might be sugge s ted, it was in her taki ng too muc h pa i ns to mark the brogue. This, perhaps, s h e t h oug h t re quisite to suit an English audience. The manner in which she danced an Irish jig was admirable, and drew forth an encore. The entertainments concluded with a, mythological burletta, entitled Ven us an d M ars; or, the Golden Net, founded on the not very delicate subject of The loves of those deities. It is a very du'l piece, with moderateiy..good scenery, and was little more than re deemed from failure by the clever acting and singing of Miss Louisa Lyons as Mars, and Miss Fitzjames as Venus. The dialogue was totally devoid of point, and the sentiments were anything but delicate. It did not deserve to succeed. SADLER'S WELLS. The performances of yesterday evening at this theatre were of a somewhat novel character, inasmuch as an ex hibition of wrestling, of single-stick, and of sparring with the gloves, was included in the bill of fare. The qaulity of the materiel scented, however, too recherché for the tastes of the worthy public of St. John's, and a very poor house was the necessary cynsequence. The first piece of the evening was a drama of Mr. Planche's, entitled Ivan Dana& or the Sledge Driver, founded, we believe, on an incident in the reign of the madly ca pricious Paul of Russia. The principal personages are the redeubted Ivan himself, and Catherine, the heroine, to whom lie is ultimately married, personated by Mr. H. Marston and Miss Caroline Rankley, with their se costumed excellence, and happy appreciation of charac ter. This was succeeded by the amusing farce of Raising the Wind, in which Mr. Marmon enacted Jeremy Dicldler. Then followed (we copy from the play-bill) " for the first time in London (pray Heaven it be the last), a new ball*. called Finsbury Fiddv, or Good Old English Games." The games we have already mentioned. and the artistes were, in the wrestling, Dyer and Snell, Truscott and Kemp (the latter a Guardsman, noted at Chalk Farm. Stacey and Davis exhibited their skill in a bout at single-stick ; and Mason, alias the Bull-dog, and Johnny Walker ; Bill Jones and Tom Maley, asto nished the lieges with the gloves, which amusements may be useful in propagating a taste for manly and honest modes of self-defence; but surely the stage of a theatre is not the fitting place, and delicate females not exactly the proper individuals to witness them. The evening concluded with a revival of the comic pin tomime of Baron Munchausen, or the Genii of the En chanted Isle. The tricks and situations, if not entirely original, were certainly striking, and created much fun by their rather broad drollery. 'The brothers Boleno, as Harlequin and Clown, exhibited astonishing agility, and Miss M. R. Fairbrother made a most graceful Co lumbine. Great credit is due to the manager, Mr. Greenwood, for the manner in which the pantomime was got up; and we have no doubt it will yet draw more crowded houses than on this, the first night of its repre sentation. ADELPHI. At this theatre, the more than celebrated, the re nowned " Wizard of the North," appeared last evening, re-ascending his mystic throne," to astonish and amuse the public a fourth London season. An entertainment that has commanded so continued a popularity must have great intrinsic merit: and we were glad to see that a crowded attendance last night bore testimony to the great skill of the " modern Faustus," for to fill a theatre may, in these days, be almost accounted a supernatural feat. In this the Wizard succeeded to his desire, and the applause that attended his deeds—it were un seemly familiarity to call them mere tricks —gave good promise that their attractive power will endure. His apparatus is most magnificent, and arranged with an eye to effect; while he, the won der-worker himself, waves his wand with the air of a perfect master of arts—we say not of what colour. But, as variety is pleasing to a holiday-making public, the Wizard, though in himself a host, does not trust entirely to his own efforts. Like Prospero in his island, he calls in music to aid his magic, and relieves the eyes of the assembly, which vainly attempt to follow his sleights, by furnishing gratification to their ears. After the first hour of the evening has been rendered pl eas i ng l y brief by his necromancy, the Wizard retires, and Mr. Malone Raymond, favourably known as a successful representative of Irish characters, commences an entertainment called An Hour in Ireland ; it con sists of tales, stories, and jokes— some new, but a ntiquity—mingl e d w i t h snatches many of venerable of song, comic and sentimental, liberal use being made of the melodies of Moore. H e is as sisted by Mrs. Raymond and Miss Linley, and the trio, during their " hour upon the stage," gave some favou rite airs, harmonised for three voices, in a very effective manner. Mr, Raymond was himself encored in the " Groves of Blarney." Altogether the " Hour in Ire land," threw a pleasing variety over the evening, which concluded with the second part of the Wizard's per formances in the " Mystic Temple." Of his separate feats of dexterity we do not speak ; there are some things beyond the powers of description, and these, as the poet says, " are of them." But for a combination of cleverness, neatness, brilliancy, and effect, to say nothing of the total absence of anything painful or ob jectionable, they cannot be surpassed. PRINCESS'S. Perhaps the principal cause of the crckwded, state of this beautiful theatre last evening, was the announce , merit that it would be the last evening but one of Ma dame Eugenia Garcia's performance here this season. The opera of OteFa was repeated, and it is unnecessary for us now to enter into a disquisition of its merits; and we have only to say that it was warmly applauded in every passage. There was a grand Faster entertainment, to which we could mot give a name if the bills had not helped us. It is entitled Fair Star, or the Singing Apple and the Dancing Waters. As we could not guess the name of this grand and really entertaining affair without the assistance of the bills, we are forced to ac knowledge that we could not, from all the cleverness of .the acting, and the splendour of the embellishments, ar rive at any conjecture as to what was the dramatic effect intended by the author. It was enough, however, for the purpose. The gorgeous scenery, imposing tableaux, and many ballets, each of which would have done honour to a theatre aspiring to excellence in this department alone, will ensure a long popularity to the "extravaganza," which was fully successful. LYCEUM. This amusing little theatre opened last night for the season under the management of Mrs. Keeley. The house was exceedingly well attended, and the per formances, which consisted of three new pieces, ad mirably suited to the tastes of an Easter, audience, went off with great applause. The first piece was, a come dietta in two acts, called Hasty Conclusions, and turns upon the ludicrous mistakes made by a General Mowbray (Diddear), who is always too apt to ccme to decided conclusions upon wrong premises. Mrs. Keeley played the part of an arch servant maid, Nancy, with admi rable naivite, and by her acting saved the comedy, which would otherwise have gone off somewhat tamely. The Post of Honour, which followed, represented Keeley in one of those parts in which he never fails to make a hit—namely, in the character of a quiet, good-humoured, but somewhat over-timid gardener,who, by some strange ill luck, finds himself metamorphosed into a soldier of the burgher guard in a Dutch frontier town, in which the scene is laid. No sooner has he been persuaded to enlist in this guard, than he is ordered to do duty at a certain post which the'French are expected to attack, greatly to the annoyance of his sweetheart, Trudchen (MissWoolgar), who, finding that he must needs go, resolves on accompanying him. The scene wherein the Burgomaster (Turner), endeavours to reconcile him to the dangerous post, by telling him that it is a post of honour, and that if by any miraculous chance he .escapes with his life, he will win an immortal name in history, was acted with infinite humour, and nothing could surpass- Keeley's mingled expression of horror, disgust, and apprehension at the idea - of his being compelled, against his inclination, to play the part of a hero and a patriot. When told that be ought to rejoice rather than grieve at the thought that he has now an opportunity of " bleeding for his country," be replies, with a world of dry and shrewd humour, that—thanks to the tax-gatherer—he has al ready bled quite enough for his country —a delicate allusion to that upright and lenient impost, the income tax, which was received with shouts of laughter. The piece concludes with Cobus Yerks's (the character played by Keeley) successful maintenance of his post, against a host of fanciful peril., first from the enemy, and, secondly, from the more dreaded ghost of a despe rate miller, and his ultimate marriage with Trudchen. Miss Woolgar performed a secondary part with much archness, and Mr. Turner, as the Burgomaster, exhibited all the phlegm and self-importan of a heavy Dutch dignitary. The night's performances closed with a whimsical parody in rhyme on the favourite Arabian story of " The Forty Thieves," which was got up with uncommon splendour, as regards scenery and decoration, and bids fair to run through the season. In this piece Keeley appeared in the cha racter of Hassarac, lieutenant of the band of robbers, and sang an admirable parody, with irrisistibly ludicrous attitudinizing, of the famous drinking-song in Der Freischutz. Mrs. Keeley was the maid-servant, Mor giana, and displayed infinite spirit and self-possession in her performance. Miss Fairbrother made a lively captain of banditti, who entertains the highest possible opinion of his own personal graces, and was called on to repeat the dances, which she went through in a very superior style. The piece was in rhyme throughout, and abounded in puns and smart hits at' several passing topics of the day, which seemed to be particularly acceptable to the Gods. We have rarely seen an Easter spectacle which created so much amuse ment as this quizzical parody on the Forty Thieves, which will be pretty sure to become a favourite with the play-going public. aa5.,„,..; - :_lgaii '-------•2---'--"""e•---- -attersall's yesterday evening, Mien 415rOtigh a7Utillee'l that Lord Lonsdale had beaten Lord 41144te_fa and Sir James Graham in the two Lord Lieu 41t win-Vaees, was 50 to 1 that Lord Brougham would livo l,tilud no r vit_ LrryOrdoirCheiletfheßr arofotTehip and 8 to 1 that he ot i O SLA v M garters.--Chronicle. 1 - mq 25th i 4 '-a4l-I:m.--A letter from Havannah, , 114 ... , 4ravttit., published in the New Orleans Bee, says ~041-e......_11`t oil the coastlast week with upwards of 4 4e 4 , - .7ige- ueS, and it is said that $13,000 was paid to h Plidn-Ge4, , )4 4 -to g )01 , - p.+, so as to allow the landing of thew. 1c MIL.— This o fficer `Ni t we *, at hi, - M Th. d i ed ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. t erpd the teat in Dorsetshire at the ale of 79. He 4 .' 17 eirt4Y 7tllyeb., 1781; w as made Lieut. June Raving recently described the alterations which have IN. 85; Captain iq ; Zie tat...ol, , July 31, 1790 ; Major, Nov. 30, espe take place in the interior of the building, it is quite hey-, ; Major •G on of Easter is likely to make the public , Aug. 24, 1.795; for, April 29, needless to make any allusion to them at present, -ii, ,T u • eneral Oct. 25 1805 • Lieutenant-Ge- cially as the seas lit d,,_ aged tte4.lB24; and Gen ' 1 Ja n. ' 10. 1837. The q ainted with them by personal observation. The -.. tit, ts-'4l_ served at th e er : l ii; sie ge of Fort. St. Philip, isle of M,•„„ i g 4 Wider, - -..urett, allu was taken prisoner at its - •e so for a considerable time, was a new grand Acquainted attraction yesterday evening, and which is likely 41% It • . to cont inu e 111411:114:p 141 : t ° Z; t t r itT Tim AUTHORESS or " TEE cou entitled The ln historical spectacle, J. three parts and fourteen 1 44 1 e `' ; V d llardl •• h • A. - more gratifying announce- tableaux, by Mr. J rtenay, - O f England by William the Conqueror, the it l ib oaries th ) -e .11aade to the patrons of the circu- canon 1 ,, p et , of „_ an that of a new work of fiction from or , the Battle of Hastings. A better subject for this ioN.., et ......„ _ . p_opu ar authoress of " The History of a . v i ' ei ,, ‘t.T":6ot the l best novels (as the A theneum truly 414 ti u f at has for species of representation could not possibly have been many years issued from the press chosen, and the attempt was, we must say, eminently u Miat E 4,7 \ •.the new work (which is to be published kn . . as to " sucesful. It is not necessary to say anything as to •iieb " 0 ' 9. " The -Wilfulness fWo " a them e the plot, further than that -it it was so constructed mardi,, f tt the clever hands of this ° attractive n — writer c an fill up all the gaps ' n the mental picture of the Norman, t tatt,‘ a jl of finding:the most vivid and instructive illus.- ' invasion. Nothin was wanting to complete the effect, !_ti e uni 7 , a n d at thesame time of affording to her readers ' from th e time when William assembled his troops and Twt-rip4.44zit of arawieraent , combined with that high aetior 'Tose which is to be found in the pro - N u , I ts,. of this always by the 1 and established his ru le Blaug liter embarked in the enterprise, . up to . the time when, having " , Is authoress and which has given them a been successful, liil4-- above any others ' of their class, ' of Harold, he was at length crowned first Norman King. day Itetl:l'A'rioN op AMERICAYPROVISIONS.--011 Sun- 1 was which.tended , teiret ti: ! ° ° ll , at five "o'clock, the A • line t. Every thing . pourtra).ed in a manner h leading features of • the - -history sh i thltitAttrint,r ,Q,ue,bee, Captain American o to impress t e' 'llebard, arrived in St. the audience. With regard kph, ee l eon . 4 -focit, from New Yor k, with a full carp, al atlng of ch ee se, scenery, the tableaux, and all the WU, pork, and other American to the on the minds of raise would ar rangements of the piece , the utmost p • -1, ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY. The proofs of a continued course of good management in a public institution were never more prominently ex hibited than they were last evening, in the variety of entertainments produced, and the crowds which assem bled to witness them. To speak first of the portion of the entertainments which many would consider merely popular, we must say that the " Gallery of Practical Science" has fully attained its object, in making the greatest works of the greatest authors in Musical Science not only popular, but appreciated. That mag nificent piece, " The Masaacre a St. Bartholomew" (perhaps the chef-d'ceuvre of the master), from Meyerbeer's " Les Hugenets," was executed in a style so masterly, .so complete, and so exact, that it left us in doubt whether the mush() or the orchestra• dessrved the greatest part of the applause, which was rapturously bestowed by an audience, in our judgment, fully competent to judge. M. Laurent, the conductor, deserves great praise. To turn from the musical department to that which the dryest of philosophers will admit to be a fit subject for his study, P e may state that the Electrical Eels have in creased enormously in size and health, and in the vigour of their shock. The lectures of Professor Maugham were worthy of his reputation as a simple, clear, and eloquent professor. The principal novelty was " Bielfield's Aphanascope," an invention from which im portant results in the science of optics are expected. The experiments of last evening were in the highest degree satisfactory ; but the subject will require a separate notice. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Yesterday we visited the rooms of this interesting establishment, and were glad to find that there is no lark of energy on the part of the management. An in stitution like the Polytechnic differs from all others, in asmuch as its ulterior object is the dissemination of in struction, blended with that amusement which is an ex citement to the best moral feeling, and which induces a train of thought and reasoning, the benefit to be derived from which, probably will not be made very general un til this generation shall have passed away; however, from this circumstance its range is greatly curtailed. \Ve.have here this season another new instrument for the optics' department arranged by Mr. Longhottom, which pro mises to be one of the most attractive exhibitions in the metropolis, and is capable of being made a most useful adjunct to the whole field of natural philosophy ; investigations may be now made on objects which, until the adaptation of this instrument, have remained uninvestigated. It is called the Physioscope, and we yesterday saw a human face magnified by 12 feat, and the effect was most extra ordinary—the appearance being that of a moving giant —and, when a round of applause had been given, the monster bowed its head in acknowledgment, and the audience was convulsed with laughter. There were also several novelties introduced in Longbottom's Opaque Microscope, and we observed several important additions to the Scientific Museum, which will most advantageously he noticed at another time. On Thursday Mr. C. E. Horn ill commence a series of lectures on the National Music of Different Countries, to be illustrated by vocal and in strumental accompaniments. Thelnstitution ►►•ascrowdod in every part. NAPOLEON MUSEUM Among the many exhibitions - now open fur the amuse ment of the holiday folks, we•know of none more jute resting tha - , the Napoleon Museum. It is indeed an illustration of history. We visited it yesterday, and found it very well attended. The reduction of the charge of admittance to a shilling has had the effect of greatly increasing the number of visitors. EASTER SUNDAY. THE STEAMERS AND THE RAILWAYS. The weather on Sunday was most auspicious. The holiday folks were early stirring, and from sunrise till sunset the pent-up artizans, their wives, and families, were hastening down to Greenwich, Woolwich, Gra%es end, and other places, in the steam boats, or seeking a cheap pleasure trip by the numerous railways. Greenwich was, as usual, the chief place of resort for the Londoners. There was of course no business done in the fair, the amusements_ of which commence this day, but it was filled with people continually passing between the lines of booths and shows. The park was also crowded, and this beautiful place was never seen to greater advantag'. Numerous groups were continually running up and down 1-loliday-hill, promenading the green sward, or taking a view of the great metropolis from the terrace in front of the Observatory, where the old pensioners realised a good deal of money, by allow ing the visitors to peep through their telescopes. Greenwich fair presents the usual appearance. Richardson's travelling theatre, in which a tragedy is to be performed in twenty minutes, and a pan to mine in half that time, during . the next thret days, and the great Crown- and Anchor booth, being the principal objects pf attraction. The tea rooms, pub lic houses, and Other places of entertainment, have laid in great stores of provisions for the consump tion of the visitors. The trains on the Greenwich rail way were conning from London to that town, and vice versa, every quarter of an hour during the day, and we believe the numbercoonveyed each way did, not amount to less than 15,000; but the numbers who chose that expeditious mode of conveyance were trifling as com pared with the thousands brought don n by the steamers of the Watermen's Company and thole of the Woolwich and Greenwich Companies. Some thousands proceeded to Woolwich and Greenwich via the Blackwell Railway and the Brunswick wharf, at the terminus, was crowded .during the day, and a b:ind of music, the expense of which was defrayed by the directors, was in attendance. There is an extensive prospect of the river and the op posite shore of Kent to he obtained from this wharf, and it promises to be a favourite place of resort. on fine Sun-lays. The warren at Woolwich, where the bands of the Royal Artillery and another regiment, were play ing favourite airs during the afternoon, was covered with well-dressed people. The Gravesend steamers also conveyed good • freights of passengers, and there were twenty vess►-ls employed in the traffic, who landed 10,000 persons, during the morning, at the Rosherville, Terrace. and Town-piers, and brought them back •in the evening, after they had ranged the fields in the vicinity of the town, or dined at the various ordinaries. The Brighton, . Dover, and Southampton Railways only charged half fares between these places and Lon don; and also to Tunbridge and other towns one the lines, and hundreds who had never seen those places b.— fore, took advantage of the cheap rate of travelling to visit them. The experiment is to be continued during the Easter holidays, and is likely to answer well, and thousands will be enabled to visit the beautiful scenery of the home counties at tt small expense, and in a reasonable space of time. The number of passengers who filled the above bridge steamers yesterday would almost defy calculation. T►ere were not fewer than thirty iron and wooden steamers continually calling at the various. piers, em barking and landing passengers. - Some of those boats proceeded only as far as the Red House, others to Chel sea, a few to Putney, and five were solely engage in the Richmond trade. A new steamer, called the Echo, which left the Adelphi-pier for Richmond, steamed along in fine style, and attracted a good deal of notice. The extraordinary number of 105 steamers were em ployed yesterday on the Thames in the conveyance, viz,, 20 for Gravesend, 30 above-bridge, 11 watermen's steamers, 12 of the old Woolwich and Greenwich Com pany, 3 of the Herne Bay Company, 2 (the Flirt and Coquette), between Blackwell and Greenwich, 2 for Southend and Sheerness, 1 for Ramsgate (the Queen Victoria), the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal (the vessels of the Margate and General Steam Naviga tion Company), and half-a-dozen steam-tugs. This is an amount of steam power not surpassed on any other river in the world. INFORMATION FOR THE EASTER HOLIDAYS. The following places are open to the admission of the public, and may not be uninteresting to our readers during the present holidays St. Paul's Cathedral, open daily; charge to see all, 4s. 4d. Tower of London, open daily; charge to see all, is. Westminster Abbey, open daily; charge to see all, 6d. The Monument, open daily; charge to see all, 6d. Greenwich Hospital, open daily; charge to see all, 3d. Custom House, open daily; free. Mansion house, open daily ; free. Guildhall, open daily ; free. Duke of York's Column, open daily ; charge of 6d. Adelaide Gallery, Strand, open daily ; charge of Is. Polytechnic, Regent-street, open daily ; charge of Is. Society of Arts, Adelphi, open daily, except Wednes day ; admission by order. British Museum, Monday and Wednesday ; gratis. Chinese Museum, Hyde Park, daily ; charge of is. Napoleon Museum, Piccadilly, daily ; charge of Is. Geological Museum, Craig's-court, daily ; gratis. United Service Museum, Scotland-yard, daily ; by order only: Royal Military Repository, Woolwich, daily; gratis. Cosmorama, Regent-street, daily ; charge of Is. Burford's Panorama, Leicester-square, daily ; charge of 18. Diorama, Regent's Park, daily ; charge of Is. National Gallery, Charing cross, daily ; gratis. Royal Academy, Charing-cross d a ily ; charge of Is. British Institution, Pall-mall, daily : charge of Is. Dulwich Gallery (except Friday), daily ; gratis. Society of Painters, Pall-mall, daily ; charge of ls. Prize Cartoons, Suffolk-street, daily ' • charge of Is. St. James's Gallery and Ancient Masters, daily ; charge each of Is.—Evening Sun. WILL OF GENERAL LORD LYNEDOCH.—.-The will of this late eminent and veteran General, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, Knight of the most distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, and styled " Father of the Army," •has been proved in Doctors' Commons by Andrew Murray and Robert. Stewart. Esq., two of the executors, the Hon. Henry Trevor hair , ing declined to act. The property within the province of Canterbury has been sworn mid& 4,000 L, in order to enable the executors to receive that amount in London, the will having already been proved in Scotland, where the bulk of his property (which is very considerable) is situated. By this instru ment the following legacies (the only ones of pubic in terest) are given :—To the children or the late General Sir John Hope, 5,000 i ; to Eliza Grame, daughter of the late J. Grame, Esq., 1,0001, in testimony of his esteem and regard ; to J. Goodsman, of Edinburgh, his Lordship's late servant, 500/. ; and to all other servants two years' wages, in addition to what may be due ; to each of his trustees, 1001. The residue of his property is bequeathed to various branches of his family, but it is utterly impossible, within our limited space, to give any thing like an abstract of the will.—Britannin. The Earl of Eglintonn has sold the great Eagle sham estate, one of the finest in the west of Scotland, to A. Gilmour, Esq., late of Glasgow, for 217,000/. The rental averages from 9,0001. to 10,0001. per annum. An extraordinary passenger is booked for shipment f ro m Hull for Rotterdam next week, namely, a fine rhinoceros, from Manchester, which will arrive, we un derstand, on Tuesday next.—,Eastern Counties Herald. NOVEL NUTCRAGKERS.--.A• facetious writer in the Bristol Timcs, in his reminiscences of the churches of that city, relates that one of those Sacred edifices, hav ing been built on a had foundation, had declined so much from the perpendicular,- that it oscillated very danger a usly, and that while the bells were being rung, it was oi; unusual for boys to insert nuts in the opening cre vices of the walls to be cracked !—Very cool, this ! VICTORIA. A new drama, entitled Leontine, or Sixteen Years Ago, was produced at this theatre last night, and met with considerable success ; the principal characters being sustained by Mr. Osbaldiston ; Mr. C.J. Bird. a promis ing actor, who made his first appearance here last night ; Mr. Coreno, also his first appearance, who played the character of Paul Dupont, a simple hearted portrait painter, very respectably ; Mr. Freer, Miss Vincent, and Mrs. G. Lee, all of whom sustained their parts in a creditable manner. The plot was well arranged, the scenery well painted, and, in short, the piece was produced in a manner highly creditable to the enterprising lessee. The drama was followed by a pretty little ballet, called Ondine, or the Water Spirit, which introduced Mr. Frampton's talented juvenile ballet company, eleven in number. Some very pretty dances were performed in a manner which called down the applause of the audience. Another drama, bearing the title of the Bridge of Kehl, was also produced, in which Miss Saker, from the New castle Theatre, made her first appearance here, as Madelon. After the drama, Mr. Frampton and four of his pupils performed what the play-bills termed a " grand pas de einque ala Chinoise," which was also well received, and was followed by Buckstone's Ice Witch, a Norwegian tale of enchantment, which con cluded the evening's entertainments. The house was very well attended. OLYMPIC. The manager of this theatre has been happy this year in catering for the amusement of his Easter pa trons.- Two entirely new pieces bear testimony to his efforts to deserve support, and the unqualified approba tion, if not of a crowded, certainly of a delighted au dience, may be fairly taken as evidence of the merit of the pieces themselves. The first is of a mixed melo dramatic and comic character, and is from the pen of Mr. S. Coyne, a gentlemen already favourably known in the theatrical world. The drama is called The Signal, and its chief plot turns upon the historical incident of the rising of the Tyrol in resistance to the tyrannic rule of Bavaria. The machinery of this political struggle is found in the domestic incidents of one Rezenvelt (Mr. Laws), the widower of a murdered wife, and the father of an only child, of course, a daughter, and the offspring of his buried love. Stung by his own and his country's wrongs, Rezenvelt becomes the leader of the Tyrolese confederacy - , and has for his bosom confidant an Italian, named Michael Bernard (Norman), who is deeply enamoured of Dorothea, Rezenveles daughter, whose hand he hopes to gain. Bernard has neither personal nor patriotic sympathy in the Tyrolean conspiracy, but has joined in it solely with the hope of being united to Dorothea, in reward for his services. As the plot thickens, and the time for the rising approaches, Rezenvelt draws his dagger, and, in presence of his Italian confederate, swears solemnly never again to sheath it till his - own and his country's wrongs are redressed. At sight of the dagger the Italian wildly asks where it was obtained by Rezenvelt, and, in his confusion, acknowledges that he lost it twenty years before on that very spot. Rezenvelt declares that the dagger then in his hand had been drawn by him from his wife's murdered body at the period alluded to, when, having refused the unmanly overtures of a marauding soldier of fortune, he had plunged it, in disappointed passion and revenge, into his victim's bosom. The murderer thus stands confessed before Rkenvelt, who (of course) rushes on him to consummate " the wild justice of revenge ;" but the Italian, too quick for him, commends the dagger to the husband's bosom, in pre ference to his own, and drives it pretty well into him, but not with such instantly-fatal effect as when practis ing, some years previously, upon his wife. Bernard now makes for the crag from which the beacon-fire. " the signal" of the revolt, is to be fired, and where he expects to find Dorothea, whose hand is to fire the torch on the arrival of her father and her lover. The Italian determines to seize upon and take her to the first Bavarian post, where, by giving notice of the intended revolt, he hopes, after all, to secure her as his bride, steeped though his hands are in her father's and her mother's blood, and to have honours and riches heaped upon him. On his ar rival at the appointed rendezvous he feigns to her that suspicion is rife as to the plot, and that he is commis sioned by her father to stay " the signal." Dorothea, who had never liked or trusted him (and who, of course, had another love of her own, and not her father's selection), demands some token from her father that he has really commissioned him (the Italian) on this doubtful errand. He produces the dagger which had previously been so very useful to him, and she fur a moment is pacified, re collecting it well as having for years been carried by her father. But her eye wanders from the well-known handle to the blade, and on it she sees drops of blood, scarce yet dried. A horrible thought is now awakened in her mind, and she turns from her companion with horror and shuddering. She wishes to make for the crag to light " the signal," but the wily Italian detains her. With the true quickness of woman she pretends she has lost her cloak, only a few yards behind, and sends him to discover it. No sooner do his receding footsteps die away upon the ear, than she mounts rapidly the mountain side to gain the beacon. He returns, and seeing her design, rushes rapidly in pur suit of her. At this moment the wounded parent totters in,.and, as the Italian is struggling with his intended , victim, " the dying patriot" (for so the bills call him, and kRRIVAL •OF THE WEST INDIA MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY AFTERNOON.—The Royal .;ail company's steam-ship Dee, Captain Helmsley, arrived at half-past one o'clock this afternoon; from the West Indies, Mexico, &c., bringing theusual mails. Her tes of departure are as follow;—Tampico. Feb. 24 ; Vera Cruz, March 3 ; Demerara, sth ; •Trinidad, sth ; Jatriffica; 10th ; Barbadoes, 10th; Savannah, 11th; Gre nada, 12th; St. Thomas, 17th; and Bermuda on the 23d, havi; g no communication with Fay-al. The Dee brings no news of importance. Everything Was goiet in Mexico, and nothing was heard of Santa Anna. Yud West India Islands generally were in a healthy Awe. At St. Thomas's the small-pox was gradually de- Teasing. and, in fact, may be said to have entirely sub ,iided. The authorities were issuing clean bills of health. Ile Dee, however, was put into quarantine at Havannah, an I remained seven days, in consequence of having touched at that island. The Inconstant frigate, with Mr. Nnkbead on board, .vas off Vora Cruz on'the evening of the Ist of March, sut in consequence of a" norther" springing up, she was necessitated to pet is sea again, and had not returned when the Dee left. The Governor of St. Kitt's was much better, but still in a very delicate state. of health. The last accounts state that he was gradually, though slowly, recovering. Sir Charles Adam was daily expected at Bermuda when the Dee left. The Dee remained .here two day , eeyond her.tirne, waiting for the Thames to bring up the mails. Her Majesty's ships Ringdove, Albatross, and Spartan, were ordered off to the coast of Africa, in con sequence of• the great increase of the slave trade. The Albatross, however, proceeded to Halifax first. The Dee brings home 214,320 dollars on merchants' account ; 308 lbs. of gold dust, 870 lbs. silver, 85 serons of cochineal ; two boxes of van ill a , va l ue d at 3,000/, and two boxes of pearls, of the estimated value of 1,2001. She also brings home. 44,000 dollars on account of the Mexi can dividends—viz., 20,009 from Tampico and 24,000 from Vera Cruz ; 18,000 more were left behind at the latter place,an consequence of a stiff norther" blowing, rendering it impossible to ship them. The Dee spoke the Ringdove on the 13th of March, all wall. Her Majesty's ship Albatross arrived at Ber muda on the 19th of March, and sailed the same day ler Halifax. The Company's steamer Thames . arrived at Bermuda on th e 23d o f M arc h w i th the mails, and the. Dee immediately started fOr England. Hee Ma jest 'a ship Scylla was also at Bermuda. The Tweed was at Havannah on the 11th of March, and the Teviot [at St. Thomas's on the 17th, all well. The Trent is the next steamer home, and nearly every berth is taken. The barque John Dennistlun. of Greenock, Young master, from Liverpool to Mobile, was totally lost on the 2d of February, on shore off Cape San Antonio, crew and mat er i a l s saved. Part of the crew are at. Flavannah; the master and articles saved were at Key West. The mate and nine seamen came passengers in the Dee. The ship Ayrshire, of Greenock, Barker master, from Mobile to Liverpool, with cotton, was also totally lost in Hanover Sound on the Ist of March, crew, cargo, and materials saved. The mate and ten of the crew came hi elle in the Dee. It is a singular coincidence that:, both these unfortunate vessels belong - to the same owner. The brig Two Friends, Ozier master, of Jersey, from :Cewport, South Wales, was lost and abandoned on the Colorado Shoals on the 28th of March ; mastettand crew saved, and arrived at.Havannah. Four came home pas sengers in the Dee. . • The Dee passed the Dutch barque " J. 48, J.," of Portland, running. westward, on the 7th ult. The Dee brought home the following passengers : 'Jr. Stein, Higson, Mrs. Higson, Mr. Benoist, John King. servant. from Vera Cruz ; Count Sazamet, from Havannah ; Dr. and Mrs. Gilgeou., from Detnerara ; Rev. J. Cox; from Dominique ; Miss Hill, from Antigua ; Van Bremen, from Carthagena ; F. Henry, Mr. and Ntrs. Lowe and child, Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Sercomb, and three children, from Jamaica ; Miss A Noreen, from St. Thomas ; Wm. Jamens, Dr. Goodriche, Mr. D. Si' v:4; from Jamaica ;: Mr. Morgan, purser of the Scylla, from Bermuda. IRELAND. DEP 4RTURE OF MR. O'CONNELL FOR CORE. DUBLIN', APRIL 6.L--At three o'clock yesterday after• noon Mr. O'Connell left his res dPnce in Merrion-square, for .Cork. where he is to be entertained at the Munster provincial banquet on Monday next. The Hon. Gen tl••man was accompanied by Mr. William S. 'O'Brien, M.P.; Mr. John O'Connell, M.P.; Dr Gray, Messrs. Thomas Steele, Richard Barrett. and the Rev. Thomas 'Tierney, P.P. Tittreorh Reporter of Thursday contains the follow ing Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by Mr. John O'Connell, will sleep in Clonmel on Saturday evening, and will arrive in this city on Easter Sunday about four o'clock, P.M. •He w:11 be entertained at dinner the same evening by the Mayor, at whose residence Mr. Smith O'Brien and a large party are invited 'to meet him. Let ters continue to be received from the most remote parts of the province, requesting to have tickets secured, and the dinner list is rapidly approaching the numerical ex tent for.which accommodation is provided." LOU I) DE GREY'S REPEAL MAGISTRATE. The Nenagh Guardian, the Orange organ of the dis tr:ct, recently announced that Mr. T. O'Brien had been ordeiLd from Nenagh to the county of Down ; and the Newry Tebgraph, the Orange organ in that - county, confirmed the announcement ; but there has been, it ap prars, another countermand. Ireland is Peel's difficulty, and Mr. I'. 043rien is the difficulty of his Irish Viceroy. In the • IVenagh Vindicator of this day appears the following:— • "Mr..ThontasO'Brien, S.M., has been c-mr,termanded: The Executive has sent him orders to remain where he is until he shall resign, we suppose." The Nenagh Guardian contains the following:— " Mr, O'Brien, R.Mt, accompanied by a strong party of polite, was engaged on Thursday in the protectiOri of a bailiff of Mr; Hill's, who was serving ejectment no tices in the..parish of YoughaL A serious . riot had taken place upon the previous day, in which a boy's skull was frietured: Mr. O'Brien has taken his dying depositions. Mr. O'Brien left yesterday (Friday) for the fair of Castle Otway, the usual scene of many riots." ; ; I In Harbour—Camperdown and Ocean. In Dock—Gan -, Ps, Amazon, .lEuius , Lnd Cygnet. At the Nore—Boscawen. Paomouorts.—Lieutena tts--Fran;is R. engh'an (ti (Anson), and Montagu Tnonma (the Thalia), 1831, :o the rank of Commander. Second Masters— , F. H. May, of the Frolic, and Stephen Johns, to the rank of Niaster, vice Hammett, deceased. APPOIN TMErrrs.--Commander--C. F. Brown (1841), to the Wolve.•ine, 16, in the East Indies, vice Morris (acting.) Lieutenant .—J. B. Emery (1827), of the Comet, to the Lucifer *than er ; J. F. Lapidge, to the Cyclops steamer ; George Cleaveland (1842), of the Tartarus, to the Hecate steamer ; W. IL Church (18:38), to the Tar tarus, vice Cleaveland ; R. W. Aldrich (1842). to Op Firefly ; W. Woolcoek (1809), to the Poictiers ; Richard Fowke (1816), to the Ocean. Muter and Pilot—Richard Hoskyn (1837), re-ap pointed to the Comet steamer. - Masters—Stephen Johns, to the Wolverine ; L. C. Bailey. (1838), to the Firefly. • • Mates—John Cartwright, from the Caled on i a , to t h e Cyclops ; W. H. Hood, of the Coast Guard, to tt.e Royal William ; F. Rooke, to the St. Vincent. Surgeon—D. Thotrias (1843), to the' Firefly. Chaplain—Rev. H. Franklin, to the Anieries. Second Master—G. Stovin; to the Firefly. Assistant Surgeons=-J.. D. Hooker, 'to the William and Mary, for special service; J, , P. Lawrence, to the Styx; J. C. Walsh (1840), of the Lark, surveying schooner, and .James_Laird (18-t2),- of the Blustliou., flag-ship on the West India station (additional), to the Illustrious, : for hospital service at Bermuda. NaVal Instructor—K. M. Knapp, to the America. Clerks in Charge-ZC. E. Colman. from the Admiral's office on board the Queen, to the Polypherthus ; J. Par miter, to the Thames. Clerk—G. Jeffery- (additional); from the Excellent, to the Tortoise. Naval Cadets-4f. M. Elliott, to the Aigle ;W. J. Smith, to the Bonetta. Midshipman—The Hon. H. Moreton, to the St.Vinckot. FACTORIES BILL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. DEAR SIB,—A wise -acre, signing hirnseT' a "Ten Hours Man," whose letter you inserted (probably without reading it) In Thursday'S Sun, bases hfs profundities on the assumption that ae Manchester mill-owners, whose -letter to him Sir James tlr"ham .quoted, - had stated, that they "employed 30,000 persons, andopaid 40,0001. in wages." If this sage had made use of his eyes, he wOulii have discovered that the real -statement mule by th-se gentlemen was, that they "employed 30,000 hands, and were rated 44,0001. to the poor-rates." 'lt is scarcely necessary to add another word. . The comments of the deputation on Lord Ashley's statements, have completely taken the - ground from under the feet of that benevolent nobleman, hut miserable statistician—whose knowledge of the human system and muscular pawer appears to have been sufficiently limited to induce belief of scores of thousands of operatives being able to travel from 19.0 to 250 miles per, week, on foot, month after 'month. Oh, that good men 'would learn the difference between a chesnut horse and a horse chesnut before they began to - legislate ! • It has been well said, that "an ounce of common sense is worth_ . a hundred-'weie-ht of Oratory." Imagine a gentleman, who thinks himself qualified to direct and alter the principles on which a trade ; of forty millions per annum is based, naively believirg the statement of a. " MATHEMATICIAN" !I) that, In some branches of the manufacture, the Operatives', walked thirty-seven -miles per day ! This, at the rate of three miles per hour, would consume twelve hours and a third; yet the Noble Lord never thinks of: asking what is done in the remainder of the day When a man walks in a factory, it is to do something; he is not paid merely for zvalki* ! The difference between the noble Lora's statements and the facts appears to be only seventy-five per cent., so that, by the simple operation of .di% Ming his quan tities b y Ibur, we get a v er y 'close appro x i ma ti on t o truth! As the majority of the House of Commons have decided that wages- and profits can be regulated by legislation, and as I am as warm a fiend to the operative as Lord Ashley, I beg leave to propose thAt the same oparati:m which is necessary to be performed with his numbers, to make them agree with fu.ct, should he performed in regard to the hours of labour, viz., that the present number should he divided V four, and no one be allowed to labour more t}w.o three hours! A 'SUBSCRIBER. LIMITATION to the ACQUISITION of KNOWLEDGE by the LABOURING CLASSES. As we strive for an equal degree of justh-e, an equal degree of temperance,, an equal degree of veracity, in the poor as in the rich, so ought we to strive fur an equal degree of intelligence, if . there Here not a preventing cause. It is absolutely necessary for the existence of the human race, that labour should be performed, that fool should be produced, and other things proided. human v.elfare requires. A large proportion.of man kiwi is required for this labour. Now, then, in re gard to all this portion of mankind that labours, only such a portion of time can by them be given' to the acquisition of intelligence as can he ab,tratted from ).,hour. The difference between intelligence and th e other qualiti es d es i ra bl e in the naiad or man is this,, that much of time, exclusively devoted to the fixite,- , : of the associations on which are other qualities depeat, is not necessary; such trains may go on while other things are attended to, and amid the whole of the business of lire. The case is to a certain extent the same with intelligence, but to a great extent it is not. Time must be exclusively devoted to the acquisition of it ; and there are degrees of command over knowledge to which the whole period of human life is not more than sufficient. There are degrees, therefore, of intelligence, w hi c h must b e reserved to those who are not obliged to labour. The question is, and it is a question which none can exceed in im portance, what is the degree attainable by the most numerous class ? To this we have no doubt it will, in time very clearly appear that a most consolatory' answer may be given. We have no doubt it wild appear that a very high degree is attainable by therm It is now almost universally acknowledged that, on nh conceivable accounts, it is desirable that the great body of the people should not be wretchedly poor; that when the p eo pl e are wretc h edly poor, all classes. are vicious, all are hateful, and all are unhappy. If so, far raised above wretched poverty as to be capable being virtuous, though it be still necessary f or Corm to earn their read by the sweat of their brow, they are not bound down to such incessant toil es to have no time for the acquisition of know. ledge and the exercise of intellect. Above, all, a certain portion of the first years of life: are admirably available to this great end. With a view to the productive powers of their very labour, it is desirable that the animal frame should not be d-- voted to it before a certain age, before it has ap proached the point of maturity. This holds in re gard to the lower animals; a horse . is less valuable, less in regard to that ver y l a b our f or w hi c h h e _ is valuable at all, if he is forc e d u p o n it too soon. T h ere is an actual loss, therefore, even in productive.. powers, even in good economy, and in the way of health and strength, if the young of the human species are bound close to labour before they are fifteen or sixteen years of age. But if those years are skilf u lly e . s . in of knoledge, intelligence in rend de pends,r i n in g p a h l l t e h d o i s n e the acquisition habitual it may he easly !howl) th at a ver de to on f oun d a tion may b e l a id f or a life of men whichgree of intellectual acquirements b may gained ; life of wisdom, a n d re fl ect i on, and in that tiaat c afi aa rT a genuity, even in those by whom the most ordinary labour will fall to be p erf ormed.—Eacyclopeedie t Bri tannica,- Seventh Edition. Art. " Educatioar by James Mill, Esq., late of the India House. WOOD PAVEMENT.—(Front a Cerrespondent.)— Notwithstanding the exertions of the various' patent• tees and the willingness of the public to patronise wooden pavement, it Is in vain to deny the fact that, it is rapidly losi ng groun d , wh i le it daily becomes more evi dent that it is unsuitable us a mode okpaving, and wanting in the essentials of safety, durability, or economy.. By a return famished by Mr. Harvey-, the Commissions r of the City 'Police, it appears , that in the leading thoroughfares in the City there are 1,237 yards (4* wood pavement, and that in a given period no fewer than 297 accidents occurred from horses falling., while during the same days upon 4.122' yards of stote. pavement only 51 horses fell. The Life Gbards, during the last winter, showed that discretion was the better part of valour, and. avoiding Regent-street,:went down l,•• mount gua-d by Bond-street and St. James's-street. while "Hoby's," where the roadway "dishes" into S. James's -street, has become a rec e ivin g -house for the horsemen who slip and are picked up at the corner. The durability of the woad-pevement is chi merical : if it is quite smooth it• certainly' lasts :some • time, as no traffic can go over it tti wear it out ; but it' it is grooved for safety, the edges wear down directly, as in Regent-street, and the block ht-pared •away. and But it is the then the street is stopped for reparation.' question of expense whieja will put an extitig u i s l ter upon wood. It is impossible. to lay it down under tts ler square yard per !minim, while Boud-: , treet is Mac-, adamized 'mid watered at 7d. per square .yard, and :he small granite paveinent, like London -bridge, mail- be laid down at a 'much smaller • annual charge. fit is n• t surprising that the inhabitants of the leadi ag strveta should prefer the quietness of Wood pavement; but when th e y find that this quiet is increased by the a voidance of these streets hr hors - men and carriages ; when they find their trade leaving them, and .their pavi ng-ratre In creased Dive-fold, they will do as Messrs.. swan ' Edgar, and many leading houses in Regene-stmea, hays done—sign a nactnorial to the Commissiontsrs ate Nif(,d4 and Forests agaiii,t any More being laid down, or wheu they have the power in their o's n hands, they will do as the inhabitants of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and Si. George the Martyr, did a short time since— turn cut twenty-one paving Commissioners who voted fix: wooden pavement, and thereby increased the rates greatly, and elect twenty-one gentlemen pledged against it. ATMOSPHERIC ftAILWAY TO DALKEY. The Mercantile Advertiser says—" We are happy to state that the Atmospheric Railway, since its opening to the public on this day week, has been most decidedly succesful. Trains start from Kingstown and Dalkey every half hour during the day; and although the sea son has not yet opened, the traffic is very considerable. The fares are, for first-class, 3d.; for second•class 2d. The amount received on Sunday from these small sums was 321. ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY IN FRANCE. The Evening Post states that the French Government have determined on the adopti ,, n of the atmospheric system, so successfully carried into effect for the first time between Kingstown and Dalkey. • NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 6.—The Malabar, 72, Captain Sir G. Sartorius, and Vernon, 50, Captain W. Wal pole. are expected daily from the Mediterranean. The Malabar left Gibraltar for this port on the 20th of March, and the Vernon arrived at Lisbon on the 24th of March, afterapassage of twenty-•five days from Malta, and was expected to leave the `Tagus for England on the 28th ult. The Albion, 90, Captain Lockyer, is spoken of by the last accounts as having surprised her officers by her rimb!eness in working and steering, and it is said that in crossing the Bay of Biscay she behaved most gal lantly under very rough weather and heavy soas. They say no line-of-battle ship in the service can equal her spend, unless it be the Queen. . The Winchester, 50, with the flag of Rear-Admiral the lion. J. Percy, C.B. was in Simon's Bay pn th e 30th of January, and was shortly to proceed thence to As cension and the western coast of Africa. The orders for the return of the Queen, 110, flag ship of Vice-Admiral Sir E. Owen, in the Mediter ranean, to England to be paid oft have been counter manded, the Admiralty having abandoned their intention or reducing the Mediterranean fleet to one ship-of-the ; cons:quently tho three line-of-battle ships, Queen, 110 ; Formidable, 84 ; and Indus, 80, will re zna;n on the station until the completion of their full period of service. ' The Prince Regent, 120, is being rapidly reduced from a lumbering first-rate to a 92, and report speaks of her as likely to turn out a crack ship of the latter class. The Hastings, 72 (in harbour), will be commissioned ab ut June next, as the flag-ship on the West India ; ,tation, to relieve the Iliustrious, 72. In Harbour—The St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Victoria and Albert, and Soho and Fearless s teamers. In Dock—Prince Regent, Rodney, Athol, scourge (building), Lily, and Bee. DEVONPORT, APRIL s.—The Pluto, steam-vessel, Lieutenant Crozier ;sailed for Cork on Friday, having had her defects made good. The Black Eagle,.Admiralty yacht, Mr. S. B. Cook, master commanding, arrived from Portsmouth, on Sun. day, with the Hon. 11. P. L. Corry and the Hon. Sydney Herbert ; and on Monday they proceeded to view the ground intended for the formation of a new steam esta blishment at Morricetown, and completed the purchase of 55 acres for that purpose. On l'uesday they sailed in the Black Eagle for Holyhead. The America, 50, Captain the'llon. J. Gordon, is fitted with lower caps on the improved plan of Mr. `Valli., foreman of the shipwrights in this yard. She will be completed ready for-sea by the middle of May. It is reported she will be put on the Mediterranean station. The artificers in this dockyard on Saturday resumed working on the Flora, the Amethyst, and the Creole, building here, and ordered to be launched at the fall of the present year. The Sanspareil, the Thetis, and the Niobe, will occupy their slip 4. In Harbour —The Caledonia, the San Josef, the Ame rica, and the Confiance. • SHEERNESS, APRIL s.—The Cygnet, brigantine, and Fantome, 16, are rapidly fitting for sea, and will shortly be commissioned at Chatham. • The Boscawen, 70, was towed to this port on \Veda's day, to be masted, and now lies at the Nore, ready to be towed into harbour. The Bonetta, 4, brigantine, Commander Brock,- and Sparrow, ke:ch,Lieutenaut-Commander Otter, are fitting at Chatham, as surveying vessels ; the former for the Mediterranean, and the latter for the coast of Sealant'. They will be ready for sea about the Ist of May. The Mutine and the Espiegle, new class 12-gun brigs, building at Chatham, will be launched about the middle of May. The Firefly, steam-vessel, Captain Beeehey,fitting for surveying-service at Woolwich, %ill be ready, for sea early in . May. - • '. - The Speedy, cutter, Lieutenant-Commander Beaufoy, sailed, on Wednesday, for Penzance, to convey the mail between Penzance and Scilly pro tern. The Vulture, first-class steam-frigate, is rapidly pro gressing, and will be out of the dockyard hands in about three weeks. I Tr 'Pa. I % s I; to 44 111 De• A9 13 1' obi 000, !St, ram' Vi r : o s froo rfgr . 'rot" tiO ; And 1:1 0 Ices tb 'I I I 1 Fl 1