The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-23 00:00:00

ITNE DEMOISELLE FRANCA ISE, parlant
parfaitment I'Allemand, et outre cela de I'ltalien et l'Anglais,
desire se placer dans une famille pour y instruirt et prendre la charge
entiere des enfan s. Elle est trea habile d l'aiguille, et pent entre-
prendre la charge de toute la maison. Elle dormers tousles reuse's ne-
merits desirables, ayant ete pendant 13 ans dans la memo famine.
Bei conditions sont, Stisante Quinees par an.—S'adresser aux imtiels
A. M. G., No. 51, Manchester-street, Manchester-square, London.

iIRURY-LA NE.—Le3see, Mr. F. T. Smith.—
ReduicA Pr!ces as usual.
Will bo performed an adaptaticn, written expressly fbr this
Theatre by Mr. RETrinDsON, of Meyerbeer's Grand Opera,
L'ETOILE DU NORD. Characters by Messrs. Henri Drayton,
Williams, Bowler, Leffler, D. Bea', Miranda, and Blake Mrs
Henri Drayton, Miss Johnson, Miss E. Arden, and Mdlle. Jenny
Baur.
To conclude with THE ARTFUL DODGE.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
'Cruder the management of Mr. 13Uckston0.
THIS EVENING,

Will be preser.tel TUE SECRET AGENT. Principal characters
by Mr Buckstone and Miss E. Chaplin.

To be ful'owel by THE SPANISH DANCERS.
To which will be added A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSINESS. Chi:-
reefers by Ife.srs. II .we and Buckstone ; Mrs. Caroline White, arid
Misses Ellen thaplin and Reynoids.
To which will be adeed the new Pallet by the Spanish Dancers,
called TILE GALICI kN FETE.
To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS.

ROYAL PRINCESVS TELEA.TRE, OXTORD-intsET.
Ur.der the Management of Mr. COLE Erax.
THIS EVENING,

Will he presented the original adsptatton of Casimir Delirvigno's
Historical Flay, entitled LOUIS TII.. ELEVENTH. Principal
shat-Teter by Mr. C. Kean.
To he followed by (sth time) a new Farce, entitled A GAME
OF ROMVS. rrille,PAl characters by Messrs. Harley and Cheater
Mrs. Winstanley, Ulises Heath, Murray, C. Leelercq, Daly, and
Ternan.

,onclude with AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Wetettr.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS LiVENI;;CI,
WTI perforir.ed a n,w and cr!nal Drama, preceded by a Pro-
logue, and ennui JANET PRIDE.
After whleh, BETTY DIARTIN.
To conciwie with THE FETE OF NA.TIONS.

RIYAT. OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. rag en.
TIM EVENING.

Will he prsenied the new Comelietta, celled TIT 17011. TAT, In
Which lles3i-s. F. Itobs,,n, A. Wigan, and Mies Masiv:ll will app3ar.

Followed by A LUCKY FRIDAY.
Ailer which, a nets Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE YELLOW
DWkIIF AND TLIE KING CF TID GOLD MINES'. Characters
by Mr. F. Robs.-m, Lis Julia St. Geo,ge, hilS3 Ormonde, Miss
Marston, Miss Bronil,ey, and Mrs. Fli

NATIONAL STANDARD.
TITS EVENING,
WM be performed, VNTONY and CLEOLUTIZA. Pew!pal r er-
former*, t, r. li. 3134,-,ton c.n I Miss Glya.
After width, n Y.
To conclude wit% TIIE SCA ['ECM ICE Or PARIS.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lesiee and I'dana;er, Mr. Win. Cooke.

THIS EVE NING,

The Gran] Eqiestrian Spectacle cailed ttmoult TE:F. TARTAR.
Also, a novel mks of zeI,;N7F-St in the CIRCLE. he performance
cf Ilcrr Endenchn, le Fil-ac-Ftx, with rEntre,-; du Clown 3 1a
Francalse.
Wm-office open from Eleven till Four. Raze Manager, Mr. W.
West. .4 ctii:g man•rer, ,r. W. 11. Cooke. Equerstan Directer,
Mr. W. Cooke.

140YAL S.TaAND Ti:EXTRL.

Unier the directlon of Min IZebeem Isaacs.
T 313 EVF,Nltici

ba perfornild CRICKET ON' TUE lITIA.TVITI. Cha-
racters by Mcr.srs J. Roo son, and Kinloch ; and Miss Re-
becca Isaao, Beaumont, and Miss Somera.
To be foltiwed by TiIE•PEr OF TUE PUBLIC.
'To concluCe with CITY FRIENDS.

HlCill WATER AT LONVON
True PAL I —Mix: mina 10 alla.art,..q. 5 1' venitg 28 nii.a.r.Ft. 5
To. acw -I._Torallg 47 min.arter 5 Evening S miu.aft. 6

.eilt ATRATHER.—Suu I.l,treh. 23.
T.STLIVIOZEZTEB, 17,4 THE SIZADE.
:39 —lfighiist since neon yesterday.
37—*.owest this morning and during the night.
41—tails day, at noon.
BAP-011'0:7E11, 29•12.
WIND, N.N.E. Fresh breeze, with cold, cloudy
we: Char. Snow and sleet yesterday afternoon.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH. 23, 1855.

A bombshell has fallen suddenly in the midst
of the torpid and dozey group of gentlemen re-
presenting the Royal Literary Fund Association.
It dropped amongst them—plomb ! and with
scarcely a moment's forewarning-3U the after-
noon of the 14th of this present mouth, and hardly
fell before it exploded. NO charitable augur had
conjured the unfortunates even by a hint or an
innuendo to Thware the idez of March ! Every-
thing seemed to them, doubtless, to b 3 going on
pretty much as usual, just in precisely the same
sluggish, idle, dawdling fashion to which the
society had become, by the sheer force of habit,
regularly accustomed. The annual meeting of the
Fund, that is to say, in other words, of its sym-
pathisers and supporters, was in due course an-
nounced. The cobwebs were swept out of the
Society's Rooms, the shutters were opened for
light and the windows for ventilation, and for
once the outer-door stood a-jar in Great Rnssell-
street, Bloomsbury. At the appointed hour the
gathering commenced. The members of the
Council for the current year were there, but
nervous as by a sort of presentiment. The
members of the General Committee were
there, likewise, but iu numbers so gunusually
large as to threaten something that had
never, until then, been dreamt of either
in the Auditors' or in HORATIO'S philosophy.
The venerable Oxford evergreen, with the pe-
rennial flower blooming, no doubt, as freshly as
ever in the accustomed button-hole, was selected
as Chairman for the occasion. The accounts were
looked over, possibly as it might have seemed to
the uninitiated merely pro formd, with all usual
languor and habitual negligence. When—the
bombshell before mentioned, smoking, hissing,
grim, hot, and detonative, was unexpectedly
trundled on to the platform. Such dismay and
confusion as ensued ! Such desperate efforts to
quench the vitality of that horrible missile, laden
with the materials of destruction ! Such abortive
attempts to "put it out," to " throw it overboard,"
to kick it under the table as an eyesore' and a
nuisance—just as they do night aft& night those
bundles of waste-paper, called petitions, in the
Commons House of Parliament. All to no pur-
pose, however,—in spite of that deprecative re-
mark of Sir R. H. Ixar.lS, " We are following the
precident of the Royal Society"—in spite of that
gallant assumption of a nonchalance that could not
possibly have been felt by Mr. E. Foss, when he
inquired so amusingly from the exquisite apposite-
ness of the query, " Would any reform do us any
good r Would it ? The question was answered,
juat in the nick of time, too, by the aforesaid
lxmasaiell, when it in due course exploded. Such
a wholesome explosion as it was, moreover—like
that of thunder oa a sultry day—freshening and
purifying the whole atmosphere !
Now that the noise of it has been bruited abroad
from that little clasaic corner of Bloomsbury, we
the windows
may say of the society, as the Boil
windo;rasn of
to say of royalty from
wet e wont
the Tuileries—The Literary P
Lisitpereaarayt Lon
live the Literary Fund ! —Tut:l
that is, redivivus, thoroughly reformed and com-
pletely reorganised.
Virtually the Society is, from this moment,
already, thus reformed and reorganised. Although
nothing more has yet been done than the appoint-
ment
of a Committee—to consider the propriety of
applying for a new Charter or Act of Parliament.
But then the manner in which this,really remark-
able Committee has been constituted, is of itself
a sufficient guarantee that its labours will be every-
thing that could well be desired or expected. Its
chairman is the NESTOR of Politicians. Its lead-
ing members include amongst their number, be-
sides the accomplished celebrant of TAsso, and

the genial biographer of GOLDSMITH, the first
lyrist, the first humorist, and the first satirist of
-,--,): -; ur7%so generation, to say nothing of that facile prin.-
,: •;
aMOng living men of letters in England—
t6\i't,loTEus of prose and poetic fiction—the
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