The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-12 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

An entertainment termed a Romantic Melo-
dramatic Spectacle was produced last evening, under
the title of The Forest of Terror; or, the Devil's
Diggings. It was beautifully put upon the stage,
and Mr. Flexmore, as the Imp Rubezahl, was inde-
fatigable in his rapid feats of grotesque agility.
Madlle. Auriol, as the Spirit of the Golden Lake,
displayed her choregraphic talents with great effect,
dancing with exceeding finish and aplomb, and was
greatly applauded. Here we must stop, for the piece
itself is trashy and wearisome, as its qualified recep-
tion by the audience sufficiently demonstrated. When
copiously cut down it may answer to fill up an hour.
The house was extremely well attended, and the
preceding pieces, Sink or Swim and The Loan of a
Lover, very satisfactorily performed. In the latter,
Mr. W. Ferree, jun., played remarkably well, and
Miss Harriet Gordon acted and sang most agreeably.
Her talents are a decided acquisition to the establish-
ment.

Tau CABINET THEATRE.—The members of the
Amicable Dramatic Amateurs gave their second performance
here last evening. The pieces selected were She Stoops to
Conquer and The Honeymoon.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—The iron railings which
have been in course of erection for some months past in front
of the British Museum are at length put up, though the
ornamenting them is not yet completed, and will take yet
five or six weeks to accomplish. The porter's lodge, the last
remnant of the old building, is cleared away, and not a
vestige remains of that celebrated structure. It is intended
to form an ornamental garden and shrubbery on the exten-
sive area within the enclosure, with a dwarf wall, on which
will be placed an iron railing, a part of which is already
raised. Several alterations have taken place in the arrange-
ment of the sculpture and other antiquities in this national
institution. The Assyrian relics, which from the darkness
of the apartment could scarcely be distinguished, have been
removed to a gallery which extends the whole width of the
Museum, adjoining the Lycean Gallery. The light will
here be distributed from the roof, which will be almost en-
tirely composed of glass, on an iron framework. These
arrangements
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dispensing no to the present time, had the gratification of
members. Atlessthe
than 5801. to the families of deceased
the Registrar of l'tline of enrolment, Mr. John Tidd Pratt,
the remark, that Friendly Societies, is stated to have made
of London would not he hoped the example of the printers
do well to establish si be lost upon other trades, who would
and orphan funds ,Wermeitr societies." At that time widow
great railways of the being
established on a few of the
extended to the majority of ItI:lis, and are now, we believe,
the compositors' iund is sr' We learn that, although
some assistance, in the shape
ostuPP"ting' it has received
mittee of the fund wish gratefully t donations, and the com-
this week, of 5/. from Mr. viral:
Scottyknowledge the receipt,
City. 1 his, and other acts of k. of New-street-square,
gentlemen, will surely have its weigness from benevolent
of munificent means to lend a helping
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object of which must be a k and to an infant
ciety, the . e nowled d so-
ciety, and deserving of support, especially
to be highly
considered that the metropolitan printers are, lit:r wlhen it
is
jug, public servants, devoting their short lives,a y speak-
labour and otherwise, to the dissanaination of int rby night
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the world.
SECRETARYSHIP OF THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAT.
Captain Coddi *ngton, C.E , has retired from the secretaryship
•
of the Caledonian Railway. The Captain was appointed to
this important office four years ago, on an engagement for 10
years, receiving for the first two a salary of 1,8001. per an-
num, and for the residue of the term 2,0001. per annum. We
understand he is to receive a solatium of 6,000/. for retiring
at tbis period.—North British Mail.
Lady Ernestine Digcutrbe, the only daughter of
the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, bad the misfor-
tune last week to fall on the sive of the terrace at Cotele,
and broke her arm just above the Wrist.