The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-13 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S.

Last evening the celebrated Parisian equestrienne,
Madlle. Clementine Soullier, made a most successful
debv.t at this theatre. Her entry into the arena was
rendered most imposing, all the Messrs. Cooke and the
assistant riding-masters stationing themselves at each
side of the gate as a sort of guard of honour. Her deli-
cate features and her truly feminine demeanour seemed
scarcely to belong to a proficient in gymnastic art,
and she looked more like an elegant lady about to
flcat through a waltz than an Amazon venturing on
a break-neck pastime. But when once her feats
began it was the immensity of her courage that
most commanded admiration. In her endeavours to
leap over ropes and through hoops (both of roses)
she occasionally made a bitch, and on one occasion
nearly fell to the ground, but these mischances were
rather beneficial than otherwise, for every one was
amazed at the perfect coolness with which she disen-
tangled her foot from some intrusive garland, and flung
back, almost disdainfully, the hoop that had dared to
settle on her shoulders. Her attitudes, which are of a
novel kind, are as much marked by grace as by auda-
city, and she certainly introduces a poetry of motion
into her horsemanship which few equestrians have at-
tained. At the end of her performance she was twice
called, amid acclamations of applause.

The Duke of Cambridge goes to Paris to-day, on a
visit to the Emperor Napoleon, accompanied by Colonels
Macdonald and Tyrwhitt.

On the 6th the Emperor and Empress of Austria at-
tended the representation of .a spectacle, entitled, " A
Story for Big and Little Children," at the theatre of
Vienna. Upwards of 150 children, of ages varying
from six to fifteen years, appeared in this piece.
On the 17th the Prussian Court will be transferred to
Charlottenburg.
LORD PALMERSTON FOR THE CITY.—A movement, it
is said, is on foot amongst a large number of influential
citizens for making arrangements to return Lord Pal-
merston for the City of London at the next general
election.
HEALTI OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON.—We are happy
to be enabled to state that the health of the bishop of
the diocese continues to amend. His lordship is pro-
gressing, though slowly, towards recovery.
Lady Cranworth has been appointed to succeed Lady
Canning as the directress-in-chief of the establishment
for supplying the army in the East with nurses.
Sir Benjamin Hall has left London for Paris. The
right hon. baronet will remain absent for about ten days
or a fortnight.

The African Steam Company have declared a dividend
for the half-year ending the 31st of October at the rate
of
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aler.--We re.
gret to learn that the above venerable baronet died, at
his residence, at Bognor, a few days since, after a short
illness.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday afternoon last
Capt. Hopton, senior captain in the North Gloucester
Militia, was driving two horses iu a dogcart in Ear
Bathurst's park, having with him Mrs. Hopton and his
groom. The horses became restive, and the groom
alighted, but before ho could reach the horses' heads the
captain and his lady were thrown from the vehicle with
great violence, and severely injured. Assistance was
procured, and the sufferers conveyed to their residence,
when it was found that captain Hopton bad received a
concussion of the brain, and his lady was also much
hurt. Dr. Evans, of Gloucester, and Messrs. Warner
and Cripps, of Cirencester, were called upon to attend
the captain and his lady, the latter of whom is somewhat
better, but the former, we regret to state, died on
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