The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1852.

FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF,

WELLINGTON.

IVe believe that the following programme of pro..
ceedings at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington
will prove to be in the main correct.

The remains of his Grace will remain at Weimer
until four days before the funeral, which will take
place between the 17th and 19th of November.
They will then be removed to Chelsea Hospital,
where the body will lie in state for three days, and
on the evening before the solemnity it will be re-
moved to the Horse Guards.

On the morning of the funeral, the funeral cortege
will bc formed at the Horse Guards, and will pro-
ceed by Charing-cross, the Strand, Fleet-street, and
Ludgate-hill, to St. Paul's.
Six regiments of infantry, eight squadrons of
cavalry, and 17 guns, will take part in the proces-
sion, that being the number of troops to which his
Grace was entitled by his rank in the army.
A body of M Irines will also form part of the
cor*e, which will be headed by 83 veterans from
Chelsea Hospital, who shared in the Duke's cam-
paigns, the number 83 representing the years to
which his Grace had attained.
We have also reason to believe that the Field-
Marshal's baton of the deceased Duke will be borne
on the occasion by the Marquis of Anglesey, his
companion in arms; and that representatives from
those foreign Sovereigns in whose armies his Grace
bore the rank of Field Marshal will assist at the
solemnity, each bearing the bato❑ of the deceased.
With a view of diminishing as much as possible
the delay inseparable from a long file of carriages
it is intended to make the procession as much as
possible a walking one, and to dispense, as far as
consistent with the solemnity of the occasion, with
an unnecessary train of vehicles.
It is also hoped that the good sense and good
taste of the City will, on this occasion, consent to
waive its claim to precedence, and that the Lord
Mayor, after meeting the cortege at Temple-bar,
will fall into the procession after the Prince Con-
sort.

Finally, it is not intended to line the streets
through which the procession will pass with military
The guardianship of the thoroughfares will be left
to the police, and to the good feeling of the public,
who will thus have an opportunity of beholding the
mournful spectacle without the interruption of a
line of soldiers, and of testifying their respect for
the mighty dead by their decorous and orderly
demeanour.

Messrs. Cubitt, the eminent builders, have received
instructions to fit up the interior of St. Paul's Cathe-
dral for the accommodatiou of from 18,000 to 20,000
spectators.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, OCT. 18.

Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince Hermann of
Hohenlohe, went out shooting this morning, attended by
Colonel Hun. N. Hood, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The Duke and Duchess of Nemours visited her Ma-
jesty to-day.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and the
Marquis cf Exeter have been invited, and are expected
at the Castle this afternoon.

The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta
Bruce, left her residence, Clarence House, St. James's,
at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Frogmore, near
Windsor.

A deputation from the Corporation of the City of Lon-
don, consisting of the Lord Mayor, the Lord Mayor
elect, the Sheriffs, Mr. Alderman Farebrother, Sir Chap-
man Marshall, Mr. Alderman Farncomb, Mr. Alderma❑
Sidney, Mr. Alderman Moon, Mr. John Wood (chair-
man), Mr. Deputy bolt, Mr. Deputy Cork, Mr. J. M.
Barnard, Mr. Edward Couder, Mr. Frederick Farrar,
Mr. Thomas Snelling, and the City Remembrancer, had
an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday, at
the Home office.

Sir Horace St. Paul, the Rev. E. Hawkins, and Mr.
Cadogan, had interviews with Sir John Pakington yes-
terday, at the Colonial-office.

The Belgian Minister transacted business yesterday,
at the Foreign-office. _ _ _

The Marquis of Exeter bad an interview yesterday, at
the Home-office, with Mr. Secretary Walpole.
Dispatches from the Governor of Canada were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.

On the nomination of his Grace the Duke of Nor-
thumberland, the Qaeen has appointed Captain the Earl
Talbot, C. 13., &c., to be one of her ➢i..jeatp's Naval
Aides-de-camp.

LYCEUM THEATRE.

The ever-sparkling Charles Mathews and the peer-
less and perennial Vestris, opened the campaign for the
season last evening, in this elegant theatre. The house
was crowded, despite a rise in the market (whether pru-
dent in the main or no, time will tell), the pit havir g
been advanced from two shillings to half-a-crown, and
the upper boxes from four shillings to five. The first
piece was a new comic drama in two acts, called " The
Mysterious Lady," an adaptation from the French, from
the pen of Mr. Planche. The original piece is a little
vaudeville, of the most light and farcical description.
The adapter has endeavoured to give a more substan-
tial and serious character, and to raise its tone by
writing the dialogue in blank verse. The result has not
been very happy; for the slightness of the subject and
the absurdity of the incidents are only rendered more
apparent by this elaborate mode of treatment. There is
an old gentleman, Sir Amaranth Fitzape, who has a
great admiration for the character of a roué, and sends
his nephew on his travels fur the express pur-
pose of his acquiring the accomplishments belong-
ing to such a character, The uncle joins his
nephew at Antwerp, and is rejoiced to find that his
design has been successful, for the young gentlemen
(Hector Fitzape) has, by his own aceounr, ma le h reself a
perfect Don Icon. But there are also at A ntvrerp a gen-
tleman, r amed Blackstone, and his daughter, who are
there fur the purpwe of unmasking " young hopeful's"
character, and exposit g him to his uncle as a mere pre-
tender to the character he assumes. Their scheme con-
sists in disguising themselves as a Corsican count and
countess, and persuading the uncle and nephew that the
count is a tremendous persenage, who puts any one
to death who pays any attention to his wife. The uncle
is charmed with an adventure that will give his nephew
an opportunity of showing his spirit ; but Hector is
frightened out of his wits. After being terrified in
various ways, he is at length persuaded that the count
has put a deadly poison in his wine after dinner. He is
in agonies of horror, of course, of which be is not re-
lieved till his cowardice and false pretensions to the
character of a courageous scamp are fully exposed.
There is another character in the piece, a properly
behaved young gentlemen, between whom and the
young lady there is an affair of the heart, which ends
in marriage ; but the connexion of this underplot with
the principal business was by no means apparent. The
principal part was performed by Mr. Charles Mathews,
who acted with great spirit, and made the last scene
very laughable ; but this was the only character that
produced any effect. At the fall of the curtain there
dwiasaspcpornosbiadteiroan ;
bleenadpptlhaiussceo,
ninteinltiodn lastedhow evear'gwooitdhmlaonuyd.
minutes before Mr. C. Mathews came before the cur-
tain
with Miss Oliver, and made his bow hastily. A
call for the author, raised by two or three persons, was
not attended to.

The middle piece was the Golden Fleece, (produced
here by the permission of Mr. Webster,) a justly fa-
vourite classical extravaganza, which was done lull hon-
our to, and which was made the xiedium for the re-ap-
pearance of the manageress,:Madame Vestris, who was
greeted with a cordiality that could only arise from
genuine admiration. We were glad to find the lady
looking remarkably well, and in possession of all her
usual vigour, notwithstanding the reports circulated as
to her health, and which we were gratified to learn were
groundless. _ _

Her acting was the perfection of burlesque, combin-
ing classic grace and elegance with grotesque and racy
humour. Her mellow contralto voice was as beautiful as
extremely inge-
ever, and her singing was delightful. Her parody,
in particular, of the old Scotch ballad "John ,
An-
derson, my Jo,'' was exquisite, and received with
acclamation. The part of Jason (originally Mrs.
Keeley's) received ample justice from Miss St. George,
A T.Hhoeuseenotuein mhoentisvincdoonueslu, dwedhiliitsh a farce, called
nious and amusing. The entire action is conducted in a
trtoaft
cleverly set scene, showing the front windows of a first
and second floor. On the second floor resides Mr Paul
Potter, an artist (Ur. lioxby), who makes strong love to
Julia (Miss Martindale), on the drawing-room floor, at
first letting down letters with a string, and ultimately
descending by a rope-ladder himself. He is found in
this situation by Closecard, the landlord, himself an old
beau ; who draws up the rope-ladder, and goes for a
policeman. Poor Paul is left in a sad dilemma, and he
is wetted to the skin by a pouring rain ; and his lady-
love comin,, 0- to his rescue, with an umbrella, is herself
shut out in the balcony with him. This situation caused
much fun, and was made the most of by Mr.
Roxby. The fate of the young couple appears cri-
tical, when Paul contrives, at apparently an immi.
nent risk, to slide down the gas lamp, and to regain his
own apartment ; so that when Closecard arrives with
a policeman, he appears in his night robe, at his own
window, and the old landlord is abused by all parties,
including the policeman he has fetched, as a drunken
old ass who has created a useless brawl. Of course, an
old aunt (Mrs. Macnamara) consents to the union of
the young people, and their hands are united in the
balcony ; nu one having ever appeared actually on the
stage, and the whole of the scour' baring taken place
out of the windows. It is a very clever little piece,
with a good deal of smart dialogue ; and two or three
novel and telling situations in it. The audience enjoyed
it very much, and the actors all (including the Mario.
nette-like policeman) did the utmthit for their parts, ana
it consequently was thoroughly successful, and is likely
to continue a favourite. It is :aid to be the production
of one of the Mr. ktroughs.

SPORTING NOTES.

No. CCCXXX.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE " WAIFS AND STRAYS."
(To the Editor of the Sun.)
SlR,—The following scraps of information respecting
the last great Handicap of the season, have been col-
lecting during the last ten days, partially at Newmarket,
but principally in those clubs and places where sporting
men most do congregate. Taking its money for my
guide, I find that those stables, the names of which are
given below, in all likelihood will be represented by the
horse whose cognomination is attached to each, as fol.
lows:—T. Taylor, Babette; T. Dawson, Evadno; Kent,
Chief Baron Nicholson; Dockeray and Dilly, Knight of
the Shire; Stebbing, Hungerford; Isaac Day, Ephesus;
J. Shepherd, Sir Charles; Saunders, Hobble Noble;
Bullock, Grief; T. Parr, Weathergage; John Day,
Father Thames; Death, Convulsion; Stevens, Azael;
John Scott, Hyacinth; Fisher, Plot; and Cleary, Brawn.
From other sources, I have ascertained that one, or
bath, of Mr Drinkald's will go to the post; that Rachet,
will probably bo Osborne's animal; that Le Juif ..1
also be started from Saunders's stable; end that Job
Marson's lot will be represented by the High Sheriff,
and Wadlow's by Lady Amyott.
Khalidja is reported the representative of the Horse-
heath Stable; and Herbert is to try it on for Lord Rib-
blesdale. Mainlold will go from Carlisle's, Miss Fanny
from Shirley's, Phlegra from Harlock's, Puritan from
Darling's, Pancake from Rogers', Peacock from Boyce's,
and Sabra from Armstrong's; and report says young
Stephenson will have Billy Bar, and Stephenson, sear.,
Sophistry in the race.
Bardolph, not unlikely, will run for Mr T. Parr's in-
terest, equally with Weathergage.
Alec Taylor's stable, I believe, will be unrepresented,
for Sister to Singapore is held in light estimation, and
Teddington'a lb. extra for winning the Doncaster Cup
is considered to have destroyed his chance.
Lady Evelyn will run in case of an accident to her
stable companion. in the hope of saving the cash invested
on her chance previously to the Babette move; the sum,
however, is anything but great.
Truth is looked upon as a von-starter, or, if a runner
without hopes.
Glauca will, not improhably, go, in addition to the
money representative of the Dockeray and Dilly Stables.
Ephesus has been backed for a very heavy stake by
the partisans of the stable; but in some very knowing
circles his chance is considered anything but rosy.
They are not remarkably confident in Saunders' stable
of victory with Hobble Noble.
Chief Baron Nicholson has been doing good work for
some time, and, 'tis said, will come out in his old form.
Stebbing's rather crack string will have, it is ru-
moured, for its money horse, Hungerford; but I have
some doubt of this being the ease, comparatively little
having been invested upon him as yet, Alfred the Great,
if in form, looking much more like business.
I shall publish the remainder of these " waifs and
strays," as they arise, on Thursday, and endeavour to
throw a ray of light as to the
SPIRIT OFrobableTHE TURF. winner.—l am,
Oct. 19.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S-MONDAY.

A considerable outlay on Babette, at an improvement
of about twenty points on the odds last quoted from
Newmarket—the result of previous transactions at the
West-end and in the City—the decline of her stable
companion, Lady Evelyn—and a disposition to back
Hungerford, were the features yesterday; business in all
other respects was unimportant and dull. The follow-
ing were the closing prices:—
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
5 to 1 agst Mr. R. E. Oliver ns Babette (taken and
afterwards offered)
12 to 1 agst Mr. T. Parr's Weathergago (taken and
afterwards offered)
13 to 1 agst Sir W. Booth's A zael
14 to 1 apt Mr. Waller's Ephesus
100 to 6 agst Lord Bruce's Knight of the Shire
18 to 1 agat Major Martyn's Convulsion (taken)
12 to 1 agat Baron Rothschild's Hyacinth (taken)
20 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Lady Evelyn
20 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Robbie Noble (taken)
20 to 1 agst Mr. Morris's Hungerford (take 25 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Mr. E. Phillips's Le Juif
25 to 1 aget Mr. Robson's Bardolph
DERBY.
20 to 1 apt Mr. Powney's Cineas (taken, and after-
wards offered)
20 to 1 agat Lord Derby's Umbriel (taken, and after-
wards offered)
20 to 1 agst Lord John Scott's Tho Reiver (taken, and
afterwards offered)