The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-27 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

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A piece from the French, called the Advocate and
his Daughter, was produced with success last evening
at this theatre. It is more pleasing than striking.
The plot turns upon the incident Of a French advo-
Cate or barrister succeeding, by his forensic skill; in
annulling a clandestine marriage, the lady concerned
in which he iliaeovers, in the middle of the process
and before his concluding speech,- to be his own
daughter, whom he thinks abroad in Italy. The
points are the discovery of the fact, and the subse-
quent struggle upon the father's part between duty
to his client and affection for his daughter. The
denouement consists in the softening of the plaintiff
in the cause (the young husband's father), a majestic
baron, majestically rendered by Mr. Diddear. The
bride was played by Miss Sarah Lyons, with natural
impulse and feeling. Mr. Farren, Miss Lyons, and
Mr. Hoskins were called before the curtain at the
conclusion.

LOT DAYS OF THE PYRAMIDS.—The panorama
of the Nile, we understand, is about to close. This is the
oldest of our pictorial moving exhibitions, and has been a
great favourite with the public. We regret that it has to
leave London, but before it goes it may be well to warn those
who have not already seen it that the opportunity for so
doing will soon have passed away. Since its removal to
Pall-mall, it has received some very attractive additions
which it did not possess under its original phase. Formerly
all we saw of Cairo was a bird's-eye viewe
of the city, but
now the streets of Egypt's metropolis ar placed before
and we pass along its narrow thoroughfares, still ringing
with the tread of llaroun al Raschid, and still reminding us
in the portrayal of modern triumphal ceremonies of the
The interest of the Nile as a subject must ever continue
Nsith
glorious processions which ever greeted the entry of Saladin.
the river, and before this vivid delineation of its scenery
to obtain an idea of what Egypt was in the das
ceases to be one of our metropolitan exhibitions it will be in-
terestingthe Vestry, Church-passage,
her proud Pharoahs when cities were set apart for tombs,
and a king had a pyramid for his Sepulchre! .
. they did not object
nEs
iQd
eurita
tLitoznitThieoN equalizationc rF
ofLAND-TAX.—A meeting
ofco the inhabitants of the liberty of the Rolls, to take into
re
whirlvenu et,
the
eut Mr. Steel
passage, yesterday evening, •
in the chair r. Shaw said they met to take into con-
siderationdiviBion
...,.
inequalities
of the land-tax, was held at
made since
the— "
parishes ato,setsheemuenfairness and injustice of the manner in
the
to I a
tnhde- t
taxax intheas
a sourcellol b o rout.
assessment vas made. There had been no as-
sessmentisLl parishes 3 s.4dho.ef:St oht.fe
, St. Arai.
St. George paid at present 9 Oil
St. Jo t)441;
lenoemnptatatbiet
wsuiitnhsoptahiedrsb.yyeii Is6ix92. He submitted a state-
ment
and St. Pancras
eltroalelsllo,49:9i7l.l.
55::.. 82dd.. , 5641. ss. Id., St. Pan-
Ai f
libertyoo
dl br oe
wr ns ,
of andatnh
de
pstead, 855/. 17s. 4d.,
it was fair that the
airtisdl:es olfielval:kr:iletl?
' .i.
largodd i
andng t
wealthy3s l/.6 sp.
should pay so much less than theirYsmg
division. I.n their own parish the land-tax
neighbours in the
the pound, in Marylebone only ls. 4d. ;Ix° was 2s. 6d. in
1 the present, unequal mode of assessing the proposed that
England and Wales was not only illegal, but callland-tax in
equitable distribution. Mr. Joseph Lowe seconeleeddfer a more
lotion, which was carried unanimously. Two
other
resolu-
tions were_ passed—First, that the committee should wait
the Commissioners for their opinions; and next,
that
the inhabitants of the Rolls liberty be requested to aid the
committee with subscriptions.
QUEBEC, Fen • 6.—NOVEL SUICIDE.—An extra-
ordinary case of suicide took place recently at Tecumseh,
near Streetsville, Canada West. A poor woman named
Williams, driven to desperation by a drunken husband, took
an axe to bed with her, and actually rubbed her neck against
it mita she severed ti4o windpipes