The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER

COURT CIRCULAR.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

SPORTING NOTES.

WINDSOR, OCT. 28.

A five-act play, by Mr. Westland Marston, hestirg 1
the modest title of " Anne Blake," was produced at this
theatre last night, with most signal and deserved success.
Tho intrinsic merits of the drama are of the highest
order, and it is impossible to speak in too favourable
terms of the admirable efficiency of the performers. A
play bettor calculated to hold possession of the stage, and
ono more deserving of being seen by all who entertain
any appreciation of dramatic and histrionic excellence,
we cannot specify. It is not the mero production of a
playwright's ingenuity—popular for a season, and des-
tined, after fulfilling a brilliant transitory existence, to
quiet interment and speedy oblivion, but a valuable addi-
tion to the storehouse of our dramatic literature, rife
with a Bound vitality.
The plot is artistically and lucidly constructed and
evolved. The characters are distinctive, prominent, and
unexaggerated. The dialogue is nervous, elegant, and
natural. We find no " purple patches" stitched on, no
ear-tickling surplusage, but all germane to the matter.
No tinsel or clap-trap, but a sterling and polished sub-
stantiality. " Anne Blake" is, we repeat it, the work of
a legitimate dramatist, not of a pretentious playmonger.
Five acts, and but seven characters—the unities of nine
and place preserved—and yet not a moment of tedium
or flagging of interest. Such, in brief, is this master-
piece of the contemporary stage.
The story, simple in its framework, and harmonious
in its details, may be narrated in a few words. The
action lies in the mansion of Sir Joshua Toppington,
tho vulgar-souled, ungentle, and sordid uncle of the
orphan girl, whose father died in poverty, and lett her
dependent on the bounty of his coarse brother-in law,
and the heartless and wily Lady Toppington, Sir
Joshua's property is fully mortgaged to Mr. Lanniston,
a neighbouring gentleman of station and fortune, who
would gladly make the poor but spirited dependent his
wife, which, when discovered by the worthy couple,
they change their harsh demeanour towards her into a
semblance of the greatest affection. The noble-minded
Anne, who feels bitterly her situation, has, however,
given her affections and troth to Thorold, a wandering
artist, and stands firm to her faith;despite their in4ga-
tions. Llaniston perseveres in his suit. ?heroic/ locks
confidently and calmly at the proceedings of his rival;
and, strange to say, the rivals are friends. At length,
however, Lady Toppington, by dint of wile, and
treacherous interpretation of motive, begins to insinuate
doubts in Anne's pure breast; and at length she finds
a golden opportunity—not less than Thorold alone, and
rapturously kissing the miniature of a beautiful woman.
An accidental summons causes him to leave the trinket
on the table—Lady 7oppington eagerly secures it, nar-
rates to Anne the history of what she has seen, and
finishes by triumphantly exhibiting to her the cherished
picture of another. In the third act, some in-
geniously-contrived recitations of speeches—in a re-
hearsal for private theatricals, in which both lovers,
Anne, and her aunt, take part—are brought to
bear upon the situation of Thyroid and his betrothed;
the latter of whom, after gradually surprising and then
agonizing her lover by her altered manner and cutting
words, tells him that he is free, almost at the moment
that news is brought that the poor artist is a distinguished
Indian officer of great wealth and consideration, and
Anne's guardian. Upon this the lady, with deeper and
deeper feeling, takes an oath before her aunt that the
poor dependent girl will never marry the rich betrayer,
and then promises her hand to Llaniston. The fourth
act contains the grand scene of the play, in the parting
interview of Thorold with Anne—when he gives her the
fatal miniature, with the terrible intimation that it is the
portrait of her own mother, and in nobly written
language details the unbroken love of her father, who
died in India, for the wife from whom death, occasioned
by poverty and want, had parted him. In breathless
words poor Anne shrieks out her agony and her love for
Thorold; but the fatal vow interposes, and she falls fran-
tically on her knees, utterly prostrate and undone.
Anne had already refused for the second time,
Mr. Lanniston, and she only scruples to fulfill her
troth to Thorold upon account of her oath—when the
sudden revealed fact, at the end of the play, that cer-
tain Indian mine shares held by her father, and after-
wards by Thorold for the daughter's benefit, have be-
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his lady.
Lovel and Bourcicault have written plays, in which
the interest is centred in the characters originally sus-
tained, by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, but even
in respect of the co-performance of these pre-
eminent artists—to say nothing of Westland
Maraton's more exalted rank las a dramatist—
commend us to the play under consideration. At the
conclusion of the fourth act the whole house rose at
them in an irresistible impulse of enthusiasm, and they
had to appear before the toot-lights in obedience to the
universal and vehement demand. Were it but for this
portion"..alone, we say—Go see "Anne Blake." Mrs.
Kean's personation of the heroine is a veritable triumph
of art. Nothing can exceed her exquisite delineation of
the nature "ardent and galled by wrong, "of the spirited
and loyal girl. The part is one requiring great acting
ability to do it adequate justice ; and to what hands
could it so felicitously be committed as to those of our
most finished and delightful actress? Thorold is one of
those characters of serious comedy in which Mr. Kean is
incomparable, from his characteristic blending of expres
sive energy and accomplished ease. Mr. Walter Lacy
as Llaniston, looked and played in his usual gentlemanly
manner. Mr. Addison was admirable both in make up
and acting, as the detestable Sir Joshua, and we must give
an especial commendation to Mrs. Winstanley, who makes
her appearance but too seldom, for her assumption of
the plotting traitress, Lady Toppington Jillot, the but-
ler of the household, a rare coxcomb in his way, was
capitally done by Mr. Chester, who drew the first of the
countless rounds of applause that abounded throughout
the play • and Lloyd, the housekeeper, was done as well
as possible by Mrs. Daly. Better acted on the whole
no play could by possibility be. The scenery is, it need
hardly be said, painted and sot in the invariable first-rate
vle of the Princess's Theatre.

No. CC CXXX VII.

The fcilowing had the honour of dinirg with Her
Majesty yesterday:—The Prince and Princess of Ho-
henlohe, hangenberg, the Princess Adelaide and Prince
Hermann of Hohenlohe, the Earl of Mahnesbury, and
the Viicomat Hardinge.
Prirc", Albert, accompanied by Prince Hermann of
Lichenlohe, went out hunting this afternoon, attended
by Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour,
The Earl of Malmesbury left the Castle this morning
for London.

A deputation frcm the Local Board of Health of
Dewsbury had an interview yesterday with the General
Board of Health, at their office, Whitehall, with respect
to the supply of water to the above-named district.
The deputation (which were attended by the Engineer
to the Local Board, Mr. Ranger) consisted of Mr. John
Tweedale (the Chairman of the Local Board), Mr.
Thomas Cook, Mr. James Howes, and Mr. Benjamin
Clay.
Mr. Henry Clive, M.P., had an interview with Mr.
Secretary Walpole yesterday at the 'dome. office.
General Campbell had an interview with Sir John
Pakington yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Finance Committee of the Royal Commission for
the Exhibition of 1851 met at the Palace of West-
minster at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, Sir William
Cubitt in the chair; Mr. T. F. Gibson, Sir Alexander
Spearman, and Mr. Bowring (Secretary), attended.
Dispatches from the Governor of Malta were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were—The
Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Lens-
dale, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Secretary Walpole,
the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir John Pakington, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Northum•
berland, the -Right lion. J. W. Henley, the Earl of
Hard wieke, the Right lion. J. C. Berries, and Lord
John Manners. The Council sat three hours.
We hear that the address will be moved in the House
of Lords by the Marquis of Bath, and will be seconded
by the Earl of Donou.,!heaore.—Morning Herald.

FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF
WELLINGTON.

WEDNESDAY.

The authorities are making very slow progress with
the arrangements for the Duke's funeral. With the
exception of the interior of St. Paul's Cathedral, which
Messrs. Cubitt and Company are rapidly transforming
into a vast and magnificent amphitheatre, little has
been done, and it is a remarkable fact, that little is
known as yet as to what will really be done by those
appointed to carry out the operations. Whether the
remains of the Duke will remain under the roof of
Chelsea Hospital on the night preceding the funeral,
or whether they will be deposited in the Audience
Chamber of the Horse Guards, as originally arranged,
was not known :at a late ihour last evening by the
present Duke himself. It can hardly, therefore, be
expected that the public should have ,accurato infor-
mation on the point.
It seems to be a great pity that some definitive plan
is not at once determined on, and officially published.
The public have a right to expect information upon
a matter in which so deep an interest is felt through-
out the length and breadth of the land, and it is more-
over, desirable that the parties upon whom the carrying
nut of the arrangements devolves should have a more
clear and defined notice of theiriduties than they have
as yet received.
The design for the funeral car upon which the body
will be conveyed to St. Paul's, was finally approved yes-
terday. This is a step in the right direction at any rate,
and the country will be glad to learn that it is proposed
to construct the car, not merely for the temporary pur-
pose, but rather as a national heir-loom to be handed
down to posterity, With this view it will be built in the
strongest possible manner, and of the most substantial
mA terials.

The design, which has emanated from the national
establishment at Marlborough house—the Department
of Practical Art—is described to be very appropriate and
magnificent. The stage or platform upon which the
superstructure is to be raised will be nearly 30 feet long,
and its width msy be imagined, when it is stated that
there will be but one foot to spare on each side, as it
passes through Temple-bar. The upper portion will
present something of the appearance of a military tent,
and the stage will be decorated with massive ornaments
of solid bronze. It is tinder/stood that eight or ten horses
will be required to draw the car. One other feature
already settled is the trappings to be worn by these
animals. The period of the middle ages has been
selected to afford precedents for the occasion. The
horses will be enveloped in black velvet, touched with
silver from the shoulder to the hock, after the manner
of the chargers in the tournaments of the fifteenth cen-
tury. These caparisons are now being prepared, and it
is understood they will bo extremely magnificent.
Altogether, from the little known relative to the cere-
monial, it certainly promises to be a most imposing
spectacle.

PREPARATIONS AT ST. PAUL'S.
The preparations in connexion with the funeral ob
se.qtnes of the late Duke aro proceeding with great ra-
pidity, and on the most extensive scale, under the di-
rection of liar Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and
Works, the Lord Chamberlain, and other authorities.
Yesterday the workmen, in number amounting to be-
tween three and tour hundred, were engaged in com-
pleting the vast amphitheatre of seats, on either side of
the great central aisle, leading from the western end of
the cathedral, and which are constructed to contain
5,000 persons on each side, rise tier upon tier, com-
pletely to the roof, a height of some hundred feet from
the ground.
It has been determined by the Government authori-
ties that all the seats shall be free, and that no gra-
tuities shall bo taken by the representatives of the
Dean and Chapter. The steps at the western por-
tico are to be covered with black cloth, and a plat-
form, also black, is being erected to receive the
bier, with its illustrious remains, after ascending
Ludgate-hill. On entering the Cathedral yard, where
the funeral car and equipage will be drawn
up, the procession will have to diverge slightly from the
straight line, in consequence of the interposition of the
statue of Queen Anne. Machinery, in connexion with
the platform, is being specially constructed for the pur-
pose of conveying the bier, on a moveable stage, along
the centre aisle to its place of deposition, under the dome;
and its slow solemn transit will be accompanied by the
Dead March, or other requiem. It is stated that in con-
sequence of the limited height and width of Temple-bar,
the proportions of the funeral car will have to be mate-
rially curtailed as regards their originally meditated
dimensions. The proprietors of one of the houses front-
ing the cathedral is reported to have let his house for
1,0001. for the occasion, and the purchase money for
seats to view runs enormously high, both in the neigh-
bourhood of St. Paul's, and over the whole route.
During the progress of the works the usual daily ser-
vices are announced, with the exception of those on
Sundays, to be suspended. The cost of carrying out the
arrangements is estimated at 10,0001.
EXPERIMENT WITH THE GAS IN ST. PAM: 8, FOR THE

The applause at the conclusion was unanimous and
cordial, and a general recall was awarded to the artists
en masse. A most genuine gratulation fell to the lot of
the author, as he appeared, pursuant to custom, in the
front of his box ; and be may indeed feel proud of his
noble contribution (and mark I original, not French-
stolen) to the stage, and, we must add, grateful to the
management for the pains, above all praise, bestowed on
its representation.
The play was followed by " Sweethearts and Wives."
Wright's Billy Lackaday kept the audience in repeated
peels of laughter, and the unique ditty of his disasters
was hilariously encored. Miss Carlotta Le Clercq looked
most charming as Laura, end played with delightful
spirit and expression. Mr. Addison as the gouty amo-
rous old admiral, and the other performers in their re
spectivo parts acquitted themselves very well.
The huuso was most fashionably and fully attended.

FUNERAL.
Last evening the first general experiment was made
in St. Paul'e, at the instarce of Lord John Manners,
Commissioner of Woods and Works, of the effect of
the gas arrangements within the edifice. The gas is
thrown downward from near the roof, throughout the
entire length of tho cathedral, springing in one con-
tinuous chain from the cornices on both aides of the
centre aisle, around the base of the whispering gallery,
and along the choir. The appearance is that of a beau-
tiful beading, lending tbat " dim religious light" so
appropriate io the cathedral and the solemnity of a
grand funeral. Mains and pipes have been laid on in
the edifice to supply many thousands of small burners.
w
A specimen pipe, with its burners, as shown in action,
by Mr. Goulding, the manager of the gas department
under Messrs. W. Cubitt, who pointed out the necessity
of regulating the supply of gas so as to cause an equal
play of the gas from every jet.

TUB LONDON CITY Missrotv.—Last night the sixth
annual meeting of the llolborn-hill Association in connexion
with this organization was held in the Inquest-room, St.
Andrews's court, Holborn. Admital Vernon Harcourt, R.N.,
occupied the chair, and was surrounded by several clergymen.
He referred to the great work going on in Ireland, where
between 30,000 and 40,000 conversions from Roman Catho-
licism hal taken place within the past year.—The Secretary
then read the report, which stated that during the past year
the missionary had made 2,579 calls add visits; of these 192
had been to the sick and dying. He had read the Bible to
552 persons, distributed 2,340 tracts. The domiciliary visi-
tations had occupied 1,109 hours, and 107 meetings had been
held for devotional exercises. It appears that the sphere of
the City Mission Society embraces 2,528,000 persons, which
is a larger population than that in ten English counties, viz.,
Bedford, Berke, Bucks, Cambridge, Chester, Cornwall, Cum-
berland, Dorset, Durham, and Rutland. Of the 3,428 adults
who died last pear, 1,047 were visited exclusively by the mis-
sionaries. The number of persons in the metropolis regularly
neglecting public worship was as large as the entire popula-
tion of Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester, Birminghanm, Ox-
ford, and Wolverhampton ! There were 275 missionaries, all
of whom visited 500 families per month, or 2,000 persons.
Since the mission was formed, 8,309,197 visits had been
paid, of which 861,970 were to the sick and dying; 204,504
devotional meetings had been held, and 11,324,949 tracts
and 77,761 Bibles had been distributed. There were mis-
sionaries to the police, to cabmen, to soldiers, to Germans,
to Italians, to Jews, to Irish, and to the Welsh residing in
the metropolis. The report was adopted.
GOVERNMENT EMlGRATlON.—Southampton, Thurs-
day, Oct. 28.—1 t has this morning been officially an-
nounced by telegraph that the Emigration Commis-
sioners have fixed upon Southampton as a Government
depot for emigrants to the British colonies, and of dept.-
ture for ships employed in this service. We under-
stand that the terms on which the Commissioners have
accepted the tender of the London and South-Western
Railway Company for constituting Southampton an
emigrant station are, that a depot capable of accom-
modating 2,000 emigrants is to be built at the London
terminus end in the Southampton docks ; and,
time on the Vey
as the passengers are to he conve) ed by railway from
London to the ship's side at Southampton, the departure
vessels, and from this port will be, practically, a starting from the
tmetropolis without the dangers, delay, expense, loss of
n e
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ti i increasedcostof premiums
provisions of
lot both
insurance
pas-
sengers
freighti,he of
ergers and prow attendant on on incident to the
passengers end cargo in the London river.
ispatch of ships of large size taking on board their
. opening of the new year 13 expected to give great
activity to shipping at Southampton, and many ships, it
is anticipated, will be dispatched to Australia under the
terms of the new regulations.
. men of Queenstown refuse to allow the men of this
regiment, who are stationed et Spike Island, to pass

29, 1852.

YESTERDAY'S RACING AT NEWMARKET, &c.
Or the races decided yesterday, only two—the Glas-
gow, and 50 Sove. Stakes—are worthy of comment.
West Australian, in the race for the former, reversed the
Criterion, running with Speed the Plough and Filbert.
The last named cut out the work to the bushes, where
West Australian took up the running, and finished a
very easy winner by a couple of lengths. Speed the
Plough was a bad third, and the Potentia colt a very in-
ferior fourth. The running of the winner immediately
elevated him to thousands to sixty in the betting for the
Derby ; his chance for that race, however, I consider to
be but a so-and-so one.

The 50 Soya. Stakes brought out Pharold at last. He
has been prepared for three stakes ; for the first he was
drawn at the last moment for some unexplained reason,
for the second he was actually saddled and got some way
to the post, but arrived there too late to start : the third
time, however, things came off more favourably, for in
his spin yesterday he not only took the lead at starting,
but made all the running, and won, with some seven or
eight pounds in hand, by a length. Nicotine beat Glen-
even (the favourite at 6 to 5 against the field) by a
head, for second place. Cobnut was stalled off. I
cannot imagine what the ring could have been dreaming
about, considering the reputation Pharold is held in at
Newmarket, when they laid 10 to 1 against his winning.
I fancy he will find his way into the Derby betting; and
I am confident he stands quite as much chance of taking
the great event next year as many of the present favour.
ices; by which, however, I do not mean to say that he
will win.

All the Stakes to-morrow are at present skeletons.
The Matches, I have but little doubt, will be decided as
follow—Pelion, Bst 81b, will beat lonic, Bst 21b, T.Y.C.
Doublethong, Bst 81b, will dispose of Feramorz, Bst 61b,
A.F. The Knight of the Garter, Bst 71b, will beat Ilex,
let 111 b, a mile and three-quarters. Miss Sarah, filly,
I think, will dispose of Ernestine; and a close race may
be expected between Caracara, Bst 71b, and Sackbut,
Bst 51b, D.M.—the former, not improbably, just obtain-
ing the best of it.

THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.

The last race to-day, of which we barely had time to
send cff the result, was one of the most disgraceful affairs
ever concocted. The Moor and Trinket had bee• pur-
chased in the morning by a Mr. Mytton, and a Mr.
Hughes (of Worcester), the two names, beyond all doubt,
representing one interest. At the commencement of the
betting 5 to 2 and 2 to 1 was laid on the Moor, and a
good deal of money got ex Euphony, and against Trinket,
at about 3 to 1 each, the majority of the bets, it is strongly
suspected, having been made for Messrs. M. and 11., and
parties connected with them. On its oozing out that the
Moor was not likely to have anything to do with the
race, he went out of the betting, and even money, and 5
to 4 was laid on Euphony, Trinket closing at E to 1.
The Moor, instead of going to the post, galloped another
way; only Euphony and Trinket started, and the latter,
to the infinite horror of the plotters, won easily. Mad-
dened by his disappointment, Mr. Hughes rushed into
into the weighing stand, snatched the saddle cloth out
of Crouch's hand, and declared that he should not weigh.
The jockey, and the clerk of the scales, however, were
resolute—the former was weighed, and the latter kicked
Mr. H. out of the room. It was said after the race that
that the three horses were the property of Mr. S. Merry.
This he positively denied, and a written declaration to
that effect was posted by him in the subscription room.
On returning into the room, the clerk of the scales, Mr.
Manning, made a representation of the attempts to dis-
qualify Trinket to the stewards, who have ordered
witnesses to be in attendance to•morrow at eleven o'clock