The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-21 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING-,

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
On g ,y Lesaiing's Emilia Galati eras given al, St.
James's `lnt atre, with the full strength of the German
company. Emil Devrient took the slight part W.Caunt
Herr Kuhn was allotted the part of Marinelli,
and o,.!oardo Galotti was performed .by Herr Lehleld.
Frau Stolle was the Emilia. The performance, as
far us the acting was Concerned, was excel-
lent, and afforded an individual proof of tho
assiduity and intelligence of each tietar,
and of their perfect" pulling together." ly?ssing's tragedy
is but a pale shadow of Virginus. Shorn of all the, interest ,
of history, disguised under the modern costume Or as
insignificant lib?riine Duke of GoezSga, Appius Chtti-
dius is brought before us in a new garb. Eniilia Ga-
loaf is a substitute for Virginia,
_Count Appiani fOr
Lucius and the Minister Marinelli for Marone
Claudius. The plot, of ccrurse, is slightly altered.
Emilia Galotti, betrothed to Count Appiani, has aroused
the licentious admiration of the Duke. 'Marinelli, it is
true, does not claim her as a slave, but he hires brigands
to tear her away forcibly from the arms of the Count,
who is shot,(very early in the tragedy), and takes hsr to
the country seat of the Duke. Her fattier, to prevent her
fall, stabs her:with his daggcr. klacready's personifica-
tion of the Roman-patriot is still present before us, and
the noble tragedy of Alfieri ( Virginia), who has adhered
so truthfully to history, casts Leasing into the shade.
We are glad to find that Hamlet is announced for repe-
tition, and that Faust and The Robbers are co follow
shortly.

LITERATURE-
BLEAK HO USE. No. IV. By Charles Dickens.
Sufficient progress is already made in the develop-
meat of the plot to afford the more discerning some
notion of the probable drift of the narrative. 'Nem°
has expired before his discovery by Mr. Tulkinghben,
who thereupon goes back
" to allegory and msdita-
tine." Although no manuscripts tending to eluci-
date the mystery of his identity are found in Nemo's
portmsnteau, it
.is evident that such MSS.. are in ex-
istence, and that Krook extracted them from their
resting place surreptitiously when the lawyer was
calling for the Assistance of Miss Flite, the crazy
female lodger. Equally
evident is it that the dark
young surgeon, who appears at the deathbed, is the
same as the one mentioned at the elm of the present
number as likely to prove the lover of Esther Sam-
merson. The account of the inquest upon " our
dear brother" (with all its preliminaries), is admirably
exact, and may lead
ultimately to the re-or-
and very inefficient.
ganization of a system at present very absurd
The beadle, generally un-
derstood to be " a ridiculous institution," exas-
perating the public
" by exclusion, delay, and
general idiotcy," taunted .at last by youthful
voices with having " boiled a boy," the " active and
intelligent" Mooney, is scarcely less delicious as a
slight sketch than Mr. Bumble's more elaborate por-
traiture: As a companion address to that of the
brickmaker in the last
number, take the evidence of
Mrs. Piper on the " Crowner's 'Quest," when the
question is put as
,to whether any one else is in at-
tendance who knows anything more ?
"Mrs. Piper pushed forward by Mrs. Perkins. Mrs.
Piper sworn.
" Anastasia Piper, gentlemen. Married woman.
Now
is , Mrs. Piper—what have you got to say about
th?
par"enWtlhieys'isMarrstd without Mrs.
Pwiiperouhtas. a nod deal to say, chiefly in
g
Punctuation, but not much to
tell. Mrs. Piper lives in the court (which her husband
is a cabinet-maker) and it has long been well beknown
among the neighbours (couetin
tom the day next but
one before the balf-baptising of Alexander James. Piper
aged eighteen mouths and leer days old on accounts of
not being expected to live such w:a the sufferings gen-
tlemen of that child in his gems) as the Plaintive—so
Mrs. Piper insists, on calling the deceased—was reported
to have sold himself. Thinks it was the Plaintive's air
in which that report origivatinin. See the Plaintive
often, and considered as his air
n c was fearioeioas, and not
to be allowed to
go about 'male children being timid (and
if doubted hoping Mrs. Perkins Way be brought foraTcl
forshe is hero and will do credit to her husband and her-
self and family). Elii seen the plaintive wexed and
worrited by the children (for
children they will ever be
and you cannot expect them special] if of playful dis-
positions to be Methoozallers Which You was not your-
self). On accounts of this and .his dark looks has often
dreamed as she see him take a Pickaxe from his pocket
and split Johnny's head (which the child knows not tear
and has repeatually called after him
close at hie eels).
Never however see the Plaintive take a piokiee or any
other wepping far from it. ilf,
---8 seen him hurry away
that he notith epr
awnhde when
neverrnn andsee nulled
him
speak
afteras
to
if n e
person at any time (excepting the bo that sweeps the
crossing down the lane over the Way
round the corner
which if he was here would tell you has been
seen a speaking to him frt quent)e,
Thereupon the boy is summoned--giseng an account
of himself, such as would qualify him to become a
pupil in one of the ragged schools near Saffron-hill.
Little Swills, the comic singer, who gives a descrip-
tion of these proceedings in the evening
aCrhtiialdi tn o
or children
grown
at the public-
house, closes each point in the delineation—in a
Manner delightfully ridiculoue—ae with his (the
coroner's) tippy tol li doll, tinny tol lo doll, tippy tol
li doll, Dee l' The lamentation over the corpse be-
fore burial has evident reference to Lady wedlock,
who re-appears at Chesney Vold with Sur
Leicester—my lady Wang accompanied by Hor-
tense, her maid, a Frenchwoman who seems to be
always "on the watch," and 'who promises to
aid much in the entanglement and ultimately too,
perhaps, in the eventual revelation of whatever is
mysterious in the story. An exquisite little v(gnette
view of Paris is given by the magic pen of Dickens,
in the course of his description of Sir Leidester's
journey from that capital to his estate in England.
Arrived there, we have a record of the people as-
sembled under the roof-trees at Chesney Wold, and
partaking of the hospitalities of Leicestershire. A
capital and bizarre pasquinade here occurs en polities
and politicians. The interview between Lad f Pad-
lock and Mr. Tulkinghorn, trifling though it may
seem now, will turn out, we feel assured, to lead to
many important consequences. In the
subsequent
chapter "Esther's Narrative" is resumed. The oc-
cupants of Bleak House are up in London. Ma and
Richard are betrothed. The latter is placed lunder
the care of one Mr. Blybam Badger, a surgeon at
Chelsea, for the purpose of studying for the profes-
sion. Mrs. Bsyhani
Badger, formerly Mrs.' Pro-
fessor Dingo, formerly Mrs. Captain Swosser, is al-
together intolerable—but still more intolerable, if
that be possible, is her husband. At the theatres, in
the pit, with his hair straight and flat, and his shirt-
collar down, looking up at the box containing Esther
and her friends, with an expression of ' general
feebleness about him," appears Mr. Guppy—tpain-
fully disconsolate. Among the many happy phrases
in this instalment there—is one peculiarly new and
witty, where pawnbrokers' duplicates are tpoke9 of as
" turnpike tickets on the road of poverty.' Nothing
could scarcely be more indifferent, in their way; than
Hablot Browne's two very careless illustrations.

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d Cumberland, must nt all
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and the "Environs ofpublished by
very remarkable, is
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by no
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every imaginable information
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MEE ' ; '
Ildlle. Clauss's announced l and
1114 r NUCICALE.
recital of classical
.2:
ondeLr:Epi.anC.oLfoArteCTS:Sie
Willis's Rooms, "1413
a ri'erYdlarge and select audience;
During her short stay t° 01x plnce on Saturday, at
ceeded in
In-- 4tiot, of the great nansi,.!•
loving world of London. tki,
fl'
- gentle and prepossessing
manners of this youthful eslebrit made her a spe-
Y have
cial favourite, and she was httile_.
a burst of ap-
acquiring thelarri,,-,?,n. Mdlle. Claus has see-
the Instrument. The:
solos selected on this occaziort 1,,,_e
vr Bach's prelude and
fugue in C sharp, a nocturne ire C, by Chopin, and a
pkuse on her tutting her seat atu with
presto scherz.lndo by lipnd
p_ --elsaohn, which latter was
rapturously encored. "sbthcven's ,onato, ~ meonlighl,''
''' fingering into full
play. . The crowning performance Was
fantaisie from the Sonnambula
brought Mdlle. Clauss's• exquiai._ .
. which • concluded the
matinee.. Mille. Muss was ably supported
_ y
h Piaui
and Jos him in a trio by. Beethovertr. Staudigl sang
three German. Lieder, and Aldine.
additional laurels in M. eyes beWs I,.Clara, Novelle, won
and in a duo (Rossini) with Herr R.; ,
" v ezzosa gondoliers,"
Tbulberg's grand
.court, who possesses
a ,
•most pleasing well, auited
room. TheAbunder-storm, winch buratto the concert
organ,
during the pet:-
formance,
,did nut in the least disturb the attention 'of
the audience.

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• FIRE laSuß.ANCE.—vounaei.oll3therp .
'his annual return respecting the saunas 'nft;A
Paid into the office on insurance from re., The A
___. . flu amounted last year
Stamp-
to a very considerable sum. 4 'l',, he largest sem in one quarter
by one office (the Sun) was 4,,,84/. in E,
- ""ngland, farming
stock, which is exempt from duty, was insured in the last
has obtained
- Mr. D. Wemyss Jobson, who aPPentis to his name
the words " Author of 6 History of the French Revolution,' ''
has just announced himself a candidate for the represen-
quarter of 1851 to 54,935,0531.
tation of Westminster ; and concludes his
address to the
bwuarniinlig to the
If elected your l!dember, I shall be no silent repro-
Derby Cabinet:
make them ri 'n pii-
ng i
nisterial ears in words palpable as the sun in his meridian
splendour." words of
electors encttaotrisv
ei no f tyh
oe suer
The Edinburgh statue of the Duke of W II- ton
e mg
was inaugurated ou Friday with much cereniony.
ENOItMOUS PLANK.—On Tuesday there was at the
Bridgewater Canal-yard, Chester-road, Aranchester, an
enormous plank, Which had been brought from Liverpool by
the canal. Its dimensions are—length, 141 feet; breadth
20-inches ; 'and thickness, 6 inches throughout
It is of a
species of wood known as gum wood, or African oak, and
was imported from Africa into Livbrpool during last summer.
The tree from which this plank has been sawn In
have
been of a gigantic height, probably not Much less than 300
feet.
THE 49D REGIMENT..--On Thursday
having
on board the gallant 42d Highlanders. She
is last from
Nova Scotia, and has on board 18 officers and upwards of
600 men and women. The troops landed at Greenock, and
were conPerveyth, Dundee, &ed thence the
C. following day, by railway, to
Stirling,
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—The
dividend has been computed to be at the rate of 3.,,
Ye with,a
decent surplus to go to next half-year. Should the directors
determine to pay only 3'A, the surplus must, of course, be much larger.—Herapath.