The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-14 00:00:00

LIDEL.-GOASPERTZ V. SNESTON.

Want of room prevents us giving this case to-day, which is
an action for libel, by the Rev. Mr. Gompertz. the late Mi-
nister of Harlington, against the defendant, Mr. Weston, in
sending a memorial to the Bishop of London, imputing to the
plaintiff acts of great indecorum in the discharge of his clerical
duties. We shall give a full report of the case (which was
going on when we went to press) to-morrow.

DRURY LANE THEATRE.-Mr. Edwin Forrest,
appeared last night in the tragedy of Brutus for the first time.
The tragedy has not been acted these two years; its revival
is on a scale of great magnificence, and the cast contains the
whole strength of the house. All the characters were !sell
filled. Titus was played by Mr. Cooper, and CollatOus
by Mr. Warde. Miss Huddart was the Tullia, and mt.-
tainly increased her reputation by the manner in which
she supported the character. Miss Taylor was equally suc-
cessful in the delineation of Tarquinia. The public arc,
by this time, so perfectly well acquainted with the merits
of Mr. Edwin Forrest, and have appreciated them so
judiciously, but little is required from criticism to point out the
beauties or the defects of his personations. The play of last
night was well selected to enable him to avail himself of his
peculiar style, and to display his powers. It is filled with.
short passages of forcible declamation, and in giving effect to
such passages consists his principal merit. He has more
physical than mental energy (not that lie is deficient in the
latter), and when the scene requires the forcible expression.
of the passions without any peculiar delicacy of delineation, lie
is, from his natural judgment and long experience, as well,
or better adapted than any man on the stage, to give effect
to his part, and render his efforts energetic and suc-
cessful. He was last night exactly in his element, and brought
out the part of Brutus more prominently than it has beets
brought out for some years. At the fall of the curtain there
was a loud call for him, with which, after some little delay, he
complied, and made his bow to the audience. The play of
Brutus was followed by the farce of the Critic, in which Mr.
Barrett, described in the bills as " principal comedian of the
theatres in the United States," filled the part of Puff. He
was well received. The entertainments of the evening con-
cluded with Blue Beard. The house was filled.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.--WC visited this ele-
gant and commodious little theatre last night to witness the
" Hale Mr. O'Donnell's" address to the Electors of Garret on
the subject of their manifold public grievances, and we were
glad to observe that he well sustained the interest he excited
at the Adelphi. At a distance the personal resemblance be-
tween him and the great original is very striking, but his ac-
tion is rather violent and his utterance hurried. The
performance for the evening consisted of Pedrillo, or the
Castle of Andalusia; Village Coquettes ; and the Mayor of
Garrett—in which Mr. Braham, Mr. Harley, Mr. Strickland,.
Madame Sala, Miss Rainsforth, and the Misses Smith, ap-•
peared to great advantage. Mr. Harley, as Pedrillo, in the.
Castle of Andalusia, was loudly and deservedly applauded.

ADELPHI THEATRE.—DougIas was cut up last;
night at this theatre into as many strange quiddities and co-
micalitics as there are slashes in a Cameronian plaid. It is
the great merit of one who commits a joke to be brief, and
in this characteristic our literary conjuror of last night was
very happily indeed. He hashed up Douglas in less than an
hour, in a strong-flavoured hodge-podge of burlesque.
Amongst his dramatis persona, Master John Reeve's Young
Norval was conspicuous for simplicity and heroism ; for a
striking figure, like a bell-wedder accoutered in heroic tartan;
and for a face, in which that which fills the moon when round
as his shield, was fairly out-done and out-shone. 0. Smith's
Glenalvon, with a black wig, and heart to match, was also a fine
piece of art. ' Mrs. Stirling was not insensible to the emula-
tion which such examples might be expected to excite, and she
floated about in black velvet, bewailing the cursed fate that
gave her to a Randolph, and leaving nothing to be regretted
on the score of her not appearing stark mad in white satin.
On the whole, the affair perfectly suited the audience to whom
it was addressed, and it went off with amazing hilarity, con-
sidering that it was a tragedy.
CHURCH RATES.—Public meetings continue to
be held in every part of the country, in order to petition the
Legislature for the abolition of an impost equally odious and
unjust. The whole country is up against the payment of rates
Which arc indefensible in principle, mischievous in practice,
and derogatory in the last degree to the parties receiving.
The country papers teem with accounts of Church-rate meet-
ings. To record the proceedings of any considerable number
of the meetings daily held would require a newspaper exclu-
sively appropriated to this purpose.
The extreme caution observed by the bank of France
in respect of discounts may be conceived from the fact that the
only loss incurred in the course of last year (during which bills
to the amount of 760,000,000 francs had been discounted) was
one of 200 f. (8/. )

The Dutch papers of the 9th, which have arrived
to-day, state that the influenza had at length reached Amster-
dam and the Hague. It had attacked a great number of per-
sons, but not so violently as in other countries.

MR. BUCKINGIIAM.—Mt'. Buckingham has an-
nounced his intention to retire from the representation of
Sheffield whenever a dissolution of Parliament may take
place. The Hon. Member has detailed the reasons which
have induced hint to come to this resolve in a long address.
These reasons all resolve themselves into the impossibility
which the Hon. Member finds of combining a due attention
to the laborious occupations of a Representative with the ful-
filment of those permanent obligations which he owes to his
family and himself. His purpose is to accept the invitation
which he has received from America, and there attempt to re-
gain, by the exercise of his talents and industry, that honour-
able independence of which he has been deprived by tbeihr-
bitrary act of the Indian Government, and the resistance °tic red
by the Home Government to his claims for compensation.

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