The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-11 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

Thank the Gods! justice has been speedy as well
as sure, and the latest profanity attempted against this
venerable temple of the drama has been expiated by
the untimely demise of Mr. Bolton's abortive auda-
city. So much for the entrepeneur, but, alas! for the
company. Although it grieves, yet it by no means
surprises us to learn that not a hand on the establish-
ment got a shilling at the expiration of their week's
labour. How any of them suffered themselves to be
inveigled into the concern, in the face of such ante-
cedents as ought to have been sufficiently noto-
rious to the profession in all its branches down to su-
pers and all, is rather marvellous. Really the com-
mittee ought not to countenance the chousing of ac-
tors, the desecration of this noble theatre, and the
flagrant insult offered to the play going world, by in-
viting them to witness performances that ought to be
pelted off the boards of a barn, for the sake of pocket-
ing a paltry week's rent. They must have known
that the " manager" in this instance is a wight who
is possession of the ring of Gyges, so that when after
weary day rehearsals and night appearances his un-
fortunate dupes attend the treasury, and find "no
effects" as their consolatory greeting, they may far
more profitably employ themselves in hunting for a
needle in a bundle of hay, or studying to square the
circle, or chasing a pig with a soaped tail, than in
striving to catch hold of that which is as impalpable
as thin air. Now tbis sort of game must be put an
end to as an intolerable disgrace and nuisance, and a
scandalous and heartless cruelty ; and we warn all
such gentry as go dodging about vacant theatres in
London on the humbugging system, that we shall
keep a sharp look after their proceedings. Let them
and their countenancers look to it, and we feel assured
we shall not stand unassisted in this determination by
the contemporary press.

HAYMARKET THEATRE•
An adaptation of a little Parisian piece,called Une
ldee Fixe, and which in the original was neither very
brilliant nor very intelligible, was produced on Sa-
turday evening. Mr. Buckstone's comic agility and
immense flow of drollery rendered tolerable an affair
possessing in itself neither humour, character, nor in-
telligible incident. The excellent actor who played
the droll lawyer's clerk in The Lady I Adore—as
how manydroll lawyers' clerks has Mr. Buekstone
personated—managed to infuse life and spirit into th-
be
inane production, and, by the quaint delivery of catc
words and those odd turns of expression which Mr.
M. Morton knows so well how to write, as well as by
his blundering in a fashionable ball-room—whither he
is sent by a hoax, but where he contrives by pure inad-
vertance to rescue a couple of ladies from the clutches of
a Polish swindler, whom they believe to be a ol
davian count—combines to brighten up the twoM or
three scenes of which the piece is composed. There
is a want of all coherence and interest in the plot,
which makes the position of the actor one of real dif-
ficulty, but the style in which Mr. Buckstone extri-
cated himself from the awkwardness, and kept the
attention and laughter of the house alternately on the
alert, was itself a work of art. His account of being
run away with by an old hunter and carried into the
midst of the hounds, and his droll embarrassment
when the servant takes away his hat in the ball room
—not, however, before a solemn promise is exacted
that he will faithfully return it—these two passages,
managed with all Mr. Buckstone's drollery, were pro-
bably the best of the piece. There was some applause
at the fall of the curtain.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.
Traffic—Week ending Oct. 9, 1852 ... £13,755
Traffic—Week ending Oct. 11, 1851 ... 14,622
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 209,975
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 225,321
Total number of PassengersWek ending
Oct. 9, 1852 ... 79,553
...£ll,OBO 10 4
Passengers ... ... ...
Goods „.. ~. ~.. ... 2,674 11 7

Total ... ... L 13,755 111
Total miles open, 1852, 17314; ditto, 1851, 173%
London Terminus. Oct.ll, 1852.

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ACCIDENT TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.—A cor-
respondent mentions that the Lord Chancellor met with an
accident on Wednesday, in the vicinity of his residence,
Boyle Farm, Surrey, which, although not attended with any
serious injury to the Noble and Learned Lord, was likely to
have proved of a very different character. His Lordship
was taking his accustomed airing on horseback, attended by
his groom, when it commenced raining, and on putting up
an umbrella the horse began to rear, and his Lordship was
thrownsunday
paper.
oapthen
e ground. Beyond receiving some rather se-
vere
bruises, the Noble Lord was not otherwise hurt. He
returned to his residence at Boyle Farm, and has since re-
covered from the shock his system received from the fall.—
oSUCIDE OF A BANKER.—James Taylor, Esq.,
banker,se of Birmingham, and who has generally resided at
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Friday. ir
about a month ago for the benefit of age,
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as he had been unwell for some months past. Since his ar-
rival in Brighton he had been in vary low spirits, and on
Friday afternoon he took a drive with his wife and son, and
returned to his residence in Cavendish-place about five
o'clock. He went up stairs, and in a short time after his
body fell into the yard behind the house. It was found that
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