The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-12 00:00:00

WILLIS'S ROOMS.

Mr. Carter Lee repeated his Sketches and Scratches
last night at Willis's Rooms. The programme is not
constructed upon any regular plan, or with any pal-
pable motive, but is simply a collection of anecdotes
concerning music and its professors; the peculiarities
of some of the most distinguished of the latter being
pleasantly portrayed in song and story. Mr. Carter
Lee has managed to get together a copious assem-
blage of whimsicalities, written or adapted, it may be
presumed, by himselc. He plays on the pianoforte
sufficiently well for the purposes of accompaniment;
and is also a violinist, a flautis, and a concertina per-
former, in each of which capacities he introduces a
solo. The phantasmagoria of Alfred Crowquill are
pretty things of their kind, and the spectra steal into
shape and evanish with all the precision that the lec-
turer requires. The rooms last night were fashionably
attended, and Mr. Carter Lee was frequently ap-
plauded during the progress of his labours.

CABINET CuUNCIL.—(Tars DAY.) A Cabinet
Council, summoned last evening, was held at the Foreign_
office to-day at one o'clock. There were present, Lord Derby
(Premier), Lord Hardwicke (Postmaster-Ganerall Lord
Lonsdale (President), Lord John Manners, the Duke of
Northumberland, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr.
Henley, Mr. Herries, Mr. Spencer Walpole, Sir John Pack-
ington, Lord Malmesbury, the Marquis of Salisbury, and the
Lord Chancellor. The Ministers were on the eve of breaking
up when we went to press.
FEES AT THEATEES.—A case of some interest was
heard on Wednesday at the Bloomsbury County Court, in-
volving the right of taking Is. as a fee for retaining places
for a particular evening. On the 22d of M,y,:the Hon. Mr.
Lyttleton took a stall at the Princess's Theatre, for which ho
paid the usual price of admission and an additional shilling
for ;bookiug the place. • Mr. Lyttleton summoned Mr.
Charles Kean for a return of the Is. fee, alleging in person
that as Mr. Kean, by his advertisements and bills, held out
to the public that stalls were to be had at 6s. it was a con-
tract with the public for that sum. On the other side, Mr.
Lewis (Lewis and Lewis), who appeared for Mr. Kean,
contended that the public, by the contract, was to
hare a stall when the doors were open, and not when a
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per-
son went to the box-office and had the privilege of picking
out a stall, by which an advantage was gained, and for which
a fee ought to be paid. Further it was urged that, as it was
a voluntary payment on the part of the plaintiff, he could
not in law recover it back; and, also, that custom sanctioned
the charge. The box-office keepers of the several metropo-
litan theatres gave evidence of the oustom of charging a fee
in such case?. The Learned Judge (Mr. Heath) confirmed
the custom, by giving judgment for the defendant with costs
of witnes3es, amounting to 305., which the plaintiff had to
pay. This decision will settle the question—the first time
raised—in the theatrical profession.

EAST SIIFFOLK.—IPSWICEf, JUNE 11.--We un-
derstand that the prospects of the Protectionist champion, Sir
Fitzroy Kelly, have become very far from encouraging to
his partisans, a candidate having been started in opposition
to the learned gentleman. Mr. Sutton Western, the son of
Bin T. B. Western, of Tattingston-place, in this county, is,
we understand, in the field, and as there can be no doubt that
he will receive the support of the whole of free-trade portion
of the constituency, there is every chance :of his ultimate
success.

Richard Nathaniel Philipps, Esq., of the Inner
Temple, and Moor Lodge, Yorkshire, is canvassing the
borough of Stafford on the Liberal interest.

The last state ball of the season will he given at
Buckingham Palace on Wednesday next. The Court will
proceed to Scotland immediately after the dissolution of
Parliament.

N.
SOYER'S BOUQUETS, —The world-renowned
chef de cuisine has of late developed i
a floricultural taste
which attracts the greatest admiration n the fashionable
world. We have seen several of the bouquets prepared by
him this season, and, for a recherche combination of all that
can delight the eye, or exhale a floral fragrance of a most
exquisite delicacy, they are altogether unrivalled.
thscovEny OF Com., IN CHILL—In late adriees
from the South-Western coast of America, it is announced
that coal has been discovered in Chili of A superior quality
to British coal used in steato-packet&