The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-13 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

A highly diverting burletta was produced at this theatre
last night, and was completely successful. It has for its
title A Quiet Day. Mr. Augustus Somerday (Mr. Keeley)
has retired from Gracechurch-street to sylvan shades, and,
being a man intensely desirous of tranquillity, determines,
after three days bustle of visiting to and from bii; new
neighbours, to have " a quiet day" to himself, provided
Mrs. Somerday (Mrs. Keeley), a lady of an excitable turn,
will let him. No sooner, however, has he seated himself
in his garden to indulge in the delightful anticipation, than
an old schoolfellow,Mr. Marsden, rushes in breathless, and
demands concealment till the result of an affair of honour,
in which he has been engaged, becomes known. Poor
Somerday, who is ready to yield everything so that he may
be quiet, ensconces the duellist in the arbour, and, as a
further favour, writes for him a letter to his mistress,
Emma Venture. This letter Mrs. Sonzerday,gets hold of,
and, no name being subscribed, her jealousy takes fire, and
her husband becomes in her eye all that is perfidious. To
add to his miseries, iVlrs. O'Reilly (Miss Murray), a neigh-
bour's wife, leaves her husband's house in a tiff, and wanders
into the grounds of Sonierday, to whom she was yet a
stranger. Somerday, surprised by his suspicious wife 16te-
d-tete with the new arrival, pretends that she is a runaway
niece of hi uncle Stately. Mrs. Somerday hereupon locks
the damsel up in a chamber till Mr. Stately is written to.
No sooner has the point been thus settled for the time
being, than Mr. O'Reilly (Mr. Brougham) rushes in to
communicate his misfortune to Mr. Somerday. The ex-
pressions of Keeley's horror at the denunciations thundered
out by the enraged Irishman against whomsoever shall
harbour his wife are ludicrous in the extreme. Sonicrday's
dilemmas do not end here, for Stately's niece, who is no
other than Emma Venture herself, has really run away, and
does really come to his house, followed by her uncle. Con-
fusion becomes worse confounded ; but after a scene of the
most laughable misconceptions on all sides, matters are
cleared up to the satisfaction of all parties. The burletta
is one of the best Madame Vestris has produced for some
time past.

The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia
arrived at Tegernsee, on the 29th ult., and in the course
of the same day the Dowager Electress of Bavaria. The
Dowager Empress of Austria was expected to arrive on
the 30th or the following day, and the Queen of Saxony and
the hereditary Grand Duchess Matilda of -Hesse were like-
wise expected.

The Duke of Wellington is expected in town from
Walmer early in the ensuing week.
The Duke of Bedford has left his seat, The Doune,
in Scotland, for Woburn Abbey, in Bedfordshire, where it
is expected his Grace will arrive to-morrow.
DOG CARTS, AND NIGHT HACKNEY COACHES
AND CABS.—One of" The Animals' Friend Society's" offi-
cers, named Gibbons (not of the Society usually called for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,) last week summarily
took George Sly, a drover, before Mr. Trail, for cruelty to
a sheep, and he was committed for seven days ; also James
Grimby, for gross cruelty to a dog, drawing a heavy cart,
and he was fined. The late services of this institution
against these nuisances have given universal satisfaction, as
well as its services in detecting the barbarity perpetrated,
under the shield of midnight, on the wretched night hackney
coach and cab horses.

Yesterday morning, between six and seven o'clock,
on unmooring a barge lying in the river off Shadwell, the
body of a man, apparently between forty and fifty years of
age, was turned up. He was dressed as a mechanic ; but
there was nothing about his person to lead to the discovery
of who he was. The body was towed ashore ;it has evi-
dently been in the water for some days.

Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the
Middlesex Hospital on the body of John Curtis, aged
seven years, whose death occurred under the following
circumstances. The deceased was amusing himself on the
premises of Messrs. Mills and Robins, wharfingers, Pad-
dington, on Monday afternoon last, when a horse, the pro-
perty of the above-named,firm, and which was allowed to
be loose in the stable, ran out, and meeting deceased ran
against him, knocked him down, and trod on his head.
The child was conveyed to a surgeon's in the neighbour-
hood, who bled him, and suggested that he should be im-
mediately removed to the above hospital, which was done
accordingly, but the injuries were of so extensive a nature
that Oceased survived only a few hours. The Coroner
remarked upon the impropriety of leaving horses loose in
the stable, and the returned a verdict of " Accidental
Death."

Several of the destitute but able-bodied members of
General Evans's Legion have been offered employment by
the contractors for preparing the scite of the new Houses of
Parliament.