The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-14 00:00:00

land is uncultivated.—(Cheers.) Endowed with every-
thing that ought to make her great and prospe-
rous, she has been miserable and poor, because she
has been disunited.—(Hear, hear.) It is by the merging
of all party feeling in the ono great eject, your country's
welfare—it is by holding out the hand of friendship to
your fellow-countrymen—it is by preserving order and
tranquillity among yourselves, that you will see happy
faces—full haggarde, and empty barracks—(Cheering)
—that you will see your harbours filled, British capital
flowing in, and railway enterprise carried through every
corner of the country. Gentlemen, it is not often that
the representative of the Sovereign in this country has
an opportunity of speaking to those whom he governs
—rarely, if ever, to en assemblage such as this. But I
seize upon it with great eagerness, because there is
nothing nearer to my heart than to try and persuade the
people of Ireland that I am actuated by the most earnest
desire for their welfare.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
h
I believe it unhappily happens that many—some
perheps, from mistake, but others, I fear, from malice
—would endeavour to persuade you that I am foreign to
you in tastes, foreign to you in interests—that I am not
actuated by kindliness towards you. Believe, rather—
because I pledge you my honour that it is the case—
that I already feel affection for the warm-hearted people
among whom I find myself—(Cheers)—l already love
this beautiful island which is placed under my charge,
which I look upon as a trust which has been committed
to me—not only as one for which I must answer to my
Sovereign and my country, but one for whose evil or good
fulfilment I must'hereafter answer to my God.—(Cheers.)
Believe me that I have accepted the trust, determined to
act honestly and openly—not to praise this party and
cajole that—not to truckle to the one or to flatter the
other with fair promises—but to preserve tranquillity,
and, while I preserve the liberties of the Irish people, to
inculcate order and loyalty to my Sovereign.—(Cheers.)
Gentlemen, whatever time I spend in this country, be
assured, whether it be long—as I sincerely trust it may
be—or whether it be short, I can only tell you that I
shall carry with me an Irish heart, and that I shall
hereafter feel myself pledged by honour, by feeling, and
by duty, to attend to Irish interests—(Cheers)—and,
amongst the bright hours that I have spent 'in Ireland,
I shell not look with the least pleasure to those which
the kindness of the citizens of Cork has afforded me.—
(Loud and prolonged cheers.)

FOREIGN THEATRICALS.

At tho Gymnase, a little vaudeville has seen the light,
under the bizarre title of Un Souilet n'est jamais perdu.
No less a personage than Madame de Pompadour is the
heroine; while on an excursion of a rather ambiguous
character through the streets of Paris in the simple guise
of a grisette, this celebrated lady, has repelled the gal-
lant importunities of a certain M. Dauvergne with an
sough t. This Dauvergne is a poet, little favoured by
fortune, but who, en revanche, possesses the good
graces cf a young and pretty grisette, who is in some
way or other related to the royal favourite. To com-
pensate Dauvergne for so ungrateful a return for the
homage paid to her beauty, Mme. de Pompadour seeks
him in his garret, and after a series of incidents of an
extremely improbable nature, marries him to his in-
amorata, on whom she settles a handsome independence.
In spite of the impossibilities .'with which every scene
of this little affair is
,crammed, the lively dialogue, and
the excellent acting of Bressaat and Mdlle. Figeae were
a sufficient excuse for the favourable reception it expe-
rienced.
VARlETES.—Gavarni's humorous and satirical cari-
catures cn Parisian society, and more particularly of
the Cyntnias, Lesbias, and Philocomoiiums of modern
days, have furnished the idea of a piece in four acts,
lately brought out at this theatre, called Les Femmes
de Gavarni. Gavarni's caricatures are in four
aeries, each of which occupies one act in this affair:—
"La Vie de Jeune Homme," " Lea Fourberies des
Femmes en Metier° de Sentiment," " Lea Actrices,"
and "Le Cernaval s Paris." The principal feature
of this compound is the last scene, which represents the
ball at the Opera; it is undoubtedly extremely curious,
something amazingly like the cancan and other dances
greatly in favour at the " Grande Chaumiere" being in-
troduced into it, and executed with all the zest and ap-
parent enjoyment of the habitues of the celebrated
bavringue.—Another novelty, Madame Diogene, has
als© been given here; it is a broad extravaganza, replete
with absurd improbabilities, and the acting of Lassaigne
alone saved it from condemnation.
The affiche of the Fraccals announces that the first
representation of M. Ponsurd's Ulysse will take place
within a few days.
M. Gueymard is shortly to make his rentree at the
Grand Opsre, in Verdi's Jerusalem.
M. Bosco, the well-known conjuror, is about to make
a professional tour in Italy.
M. F6licien David's La Perle du Bresil, which, it may
bo remembered, was produced with marked success at
the Theatre Lyrique last season, with Madlle. Dee z and
M. Bouchie, has been performed at Nantes with the
greatest success.
M. Lucchesi, the tenor, is at present singing with
great success, it is said, at Marseilles.
AL Leopold de Meyer has been giving a series of con-
certs at Lyons with the most brilliant success. The local
papers describe the enthusiasm he excited as not unmixed
by the surprise of the public of Lyons, who, on the faith
im
agined
M. a certain malicious caricature, had, it appears,
M. do Moyer to be a kind of musical ogre, under whose
powerful hand the most solid of Erard's instruments be-
came hut the wreck of a piano, after a
few rnorceaux.
Instead of this," says the Salut Public, "we have
found in M. de Meyer an admirable artist, whose execu-
tion displays a rapidity, tone, and pathos, combined, in-
deed, with a power seldom if ever to be found in the same
executant, but modified by a taste of the most fastidious
delicacy. His principal morceaux were his "Marche
d'lsly," and variations on Styrian motives, in which amid
a perfect cascade of chromatic passages, the melody is
never for a moment obscured, even to the least practised
ear. After these two pieces M. de Meyer obtained a
perfect ovation." The vocal portion of the programme
was entrusted to Wiles. Virginia and Carolina Fern!,
whose performance is highly spoken of.
Amelia Ferraris, the favourite ballerina at her Ma-
jesty's Theatre last season, is engaged for next autumn
at La Scala, in Milan.
At Reggio Ernani is said to have excited the
greatest enthusiasm, with Mdlle. Seotta and MAL
Mirate and Varesi.

Letters from Naples state that Otello had been given
at the Fond°, Mme. Penco and M. Pancani taking the
principal parts; both artistes were much applauded. At
the Nuovo, Belisario has completely failed.
At Trieste, Roberto Devereux has been received with
favour, with M. Manzoli and Mme. Brignoli.
A symphony is now being composed at Weymar by
Maestro lianlingee, in honour of the President of the
Republic: it is entitled " Napoleon."—Galignani.
Madame Celeste, who made her debut as a beautiful
young danseuBe at the:Bowery some years ago, is playing
her farewell engagement to an American audience at the
Broadway. She is now a highly finished and classic artist,
in the melo.dramatie school, almost without a rival on the
stage. What r. history and a life of the theatrical ad-
venture she has had in her 13; illiant career! The
daughter of a soldier of the great Napoleon—starting as
a Parisian girl, young and beautiful—she is now at the
top of the naclo-dramatic line on the English and Ameri-
can stage.

Julia Bennett continues to attract admiring audiences
al the Lyceum, to witness her classic representations in
E ngltsh comic opera.
ASTOR-PLACE OPERA-ROUSE.—Everybody speaks in
th© highest terms of praise regarding the new drama
ctilled the Corsican Brothers, which has bean produced
in a style cf splendour seldom surpassed in this or any
other country. Mr. Brooke has displayed great the-
istrical judgment in the production of the piece. The