The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-22 00:00:00

PAVILION.

Richard the Third was performed at this house last
night, to a crowded and respectable audience, Mr.
Elton sustaining the part of the crookbacked tyrai.t.
Mr. Elton, who has a just conception of the character,
performed it much more powerfully than we were pre-
pared to expect, and failed only in the more violent
out-bursts of passion from want of physical powers.
The whole was, for a minor house, well cast, and both
actors and actresses acquitted themselves in a very
creditable manner, with the exception of a Mr. Gardner,
who had presumption enough to be a Buckingham,
that he might be comforted with hisses and prove him-
self a fool. The Mountain Sylph followed, and the
new drama of Jack Sheppard concluded the evening's
amusements. Under the spirited management of Mr.
Gladston this house promises to do well.

VICTORIA THEATRE.
Jack Sheppard, as dramatized by Mr. Moncrief,
was produced here last night to a very crowded
audience. The piece is in five acts, and the author of
'the drama has stuck as close to the text of the author
of the novel as the necessary departures for stage area
would allow. From the haste- in which the drama has
been produced, the actors were scarcely up in their
parts, which necessarily marred the effect to be pro-
duced; neither were the arrangements on the stage at
all perfect. The characters in general were well sup-
ported, especially that of Jonathan Wild by Mr.
Hicks, and Jack Sheppard, by Mr. Harding.
Miss George, of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden,
made her first appearance in the character of Edge-
worth Bess, and sung very prettily a new song called,
" My Love is a Rover," in which she was most de-
servedly cheered.

The audience, which was very numerous, seemed
well picased throughout, and applauded many parts of
the acting very judiciously. The piece must be very
much curtailed, for it will not always have such a good
natured audience as last night, they having been highly
amused with it for upwards of five hours.
After it has undergone the application of the pruning
knife, we lave no doubt the piece will have a suc-
cessful run.

.The talented author of the drama was loudly called
for at the fall of the curtain. We suppose he was not
in waiting, and the good-natured audience were satisfied
with the •appearance of Jack Sheppard, led in by
Jonathan Wild.
The piece was given out for repetition to-night amidst
loud applause.

THE NEW CUT IN LIVERPOOL—which was
projected and commenced by Cant-"in Denham, R.N.
hasat
in This beeno. pronounced
F.R.S., in November last,
p racti-
cable for night and day navig is the second
time within the last four years, that the adoption of
Captain Denham's suggestions has rescued the port
from choking, by' the sands which outlie the dock
and ten miles. We trust that the shipping interestBeight
Liverpool will not be unmindful of the vitalim-
portance the services of this officer have been to the
port, notwithstanding his having since ceased to be thPir-
marine surveyor. Captain Denham is at present 'con-
ferring the benefit of his knowledge and experience upon
the River Wyro, an estuary in Morecombe Bay, thirty
or forty miles north of Liverpool, where there is every
probability of his succeeding in the construction of a
new harbour, accessible to vessels of the largest dimen-
sions.
MERSEY TUNNEL.—Last week a meeting was
held at Livepool for the purpose of forming a company
to undertake to make a tunnel under the Mersey, to
Connect Liverpool with the Cheshire side of the river.
Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Vignoles, and other eminent engi-
neers, declared the undertaking practicable.
The following bit of wit is running the round of
the salons. It may, however, be an old Joe for aught
I know to the contrary. A General who is in high fa-
vour at the Tuileries, but who has made himself re-
marked more than once by his hostility to the English,
was dining, it is said, the other day in a large company,
and indulging in sarcasms upon England, when a piece
of veal being placed on the table he asked an English
lady who was present if there was any veal in England.
The lady,
astonished at the question, replied in the
affirmative." Do 'not be astonished at 'the question,"
said, t..l‘.
ii., E
it!'i dig
French lady, " The General is about to visit
a great calf himself he is anxious to
'l-know if there are calves leoruccountry, so that he
may find some acquaintancesn