The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-06 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

A new farce and a new burletta of domestic interest
were produced at this theatre last night. The farce, The
Wager, or How to Furnish a House without Money, is a
poor affair, and its dullness of composition was not at all
redeemed by any excellence in the enacting of it. The
domestic burletta of Love is Blind is better in many re-
spects, and though improbable in plot, and in some respects
disagreable in its moral, there are many touches of origi-
nality about it, and much to praise in the acting. :Miss
Allison is a very pretty and well-mannered young lady, and
got through a very arduous task with a great deal of suc-
cess. The part she plays is that of a young romantic
miss (an orphan), who has some years ago been the ser-
vant at the Golden Lion public-house or inn in a country
village, whence she Las been taken by Sir Charles Went-
worth (Mr. Saville), who has adopted her as his ward, and
bestowed upon her a first-rate education. Sir Charles has
become attached to her, and, at the opening of the piece,
makes her an offer of marriage ; this, however, the young
lady refuses, her love being dotingly fixed upon a certain
rustic Adonis, named John Thistle (Mr. Barnett), the son
of her late master of the aforesaid Golden Lion. Her
warm fancy pictures this quondam playmate as a beau ideal
of all that is good, elegant, and excellent, and being once
more in the neighbourhood of the village where he dwells,
she resolves to leave her kind patron's house, and seek her
darling Thistle's arms. She makes her way to the Golden
Lion, offers herself as a servant to the lioness of a landlady,
Mrs. Dumps (Mrs. Penson), in which capacity she has the
pleasure of serving up supper to John Thistle, who comes
in swearing and swaggering from market. A sort of con-
venient marriage has been getting up between Thistle and
Mrs. Dumps, who are plotting with Mr. Claw (Mr. Hol-
lingsworth), Sir Charles's steward, to cheat the latter's master
out of a farm at a very inadequate rent. Thistle recog-
nizes his former favourite with some degree of kindness
and good humour, but soon lets out the selfish and de-
based nature of his thoughts and disposition. He is an
altered man. The Golden Lion glitters no more in our
poor would-be heroine's imagination, and making the best
of her way back to Sir Charles's mansion, she tells him she
has changed her mind (the whole of this was done with
great delicacy and prettiness by Miss Allison), frankly
confesses the illusions which formerly prevented her from
giving up her heart to him, and is welcomed as candidly
and cordially in return. Mr. Barnett's performance of the
cunning, heartless clodhopper, John Thistle, was a perfect
picture, and, if unsupported by any other merit in the pro-
duction, would be worth going to see.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.—SO great and unpre-
cedented has been the demand for this new periodical pub-
lication, edited by Boz, that, though an unusually large
number of copies has been issued to the trade, the supply
was wholly inefficient, and much disappointment has, there-
fore, been occasioned to numerous persons who were anxious
for an early receipt of the work. We are now authorized
to state that a new issue will be ready for delivery this day.

The Hon. Capt. Gordon, M.P. for Aberdeenshire, has
received from the committee a special invitation to the din-
ner to be given to Sir Robert Peel at Glasgow. The Hon.
General Arbuthnot has also received a similar invitation.—
Glasgow Courier.
-Major-General Sir Willoughby Cotton, K.C.H.,
appointed to the Staff in India, will embark in the Aber-
eronzby Robinson, for Madras and Bengal, on the Ist of
February, at Portsmouth.
The office of Chief Superintendent at Canton, worth
6,000/. per annum, and held at present by Sir George Aber-
cromby Robinson, Bart., is, it is understood to be forthwith
abolished.
The longest snow-storm that ever was known in Eng-
land took place in the year 1614. It is recorded in the
register of the parish of Wotton Gilbert, that it begun on
the 15th of January, and continued to snow every day until
the 12th of March. The loss of human life and cattle was
immense.
Two of the Giraffes in the possession of the Mena-
gerie of the Surrey Zoological Gardens have lately died ;
the other, however, being in good health. The whole of
the Giraffes at the establishment in the Regent's-park, con-
tinue well, with the exception of one, which has suffered much
from the inclemency of the season.
The New Gas Company have made a donation of
fifty chaldrons of coke to the poor, the distribution of which
they have placed in the hands of the Local Relief Committee.
—Brighton Guardian.
While our numerous curlers are bracing their
nerves on an icy arena, amidst the keen excitement " the
roaring play," and enjoying themselves in the evenings over
beef and greens, washed down by liquids stronger than
teetotallers consider lawful, or at least patronise, it is con-
solatory to know that the poor, so far from being forgotten,
are supplied at fourth price, and in many cases gratuitously
with a comfortable mid-day meal, every lawful day.—Duni-
fries Courier.

The obstructions from the weather, which for seve-
ral days interrupted all communication with the Continent,
have so far been removed as to allow the arrival of four or
five French mails.

A few days ago, as James Nevill, of Northgate,
Wakefield, was loosing a horse from a chaise at the Straf-
ford Arms, the animal bit off his under lip. The lip has
been sewed on, but the poor man is not able to eat in con-
sequence of this disaster.—Halifax Express.
The Conservatives of Cambridge have resolved upon
starting, at the next election, the Honourable T. Manners
Sutton, as a second candidate, to stand along with Mr.
Knight.—. Suffolk Herald.
The German papers state that apprehensions were
entertained at Belgrade for the plague, which had made its
appearance at a village about 20 leagues distant. The
most energetic means by cordons, &c., have been adopted
to prevent its further progress into Servia. These papers
also
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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1837.

In another patt of The Sun will be found a com-
parative statement of the Revenue, for the years 1835
and 1836. It is extremely gratifying to see that the
increase on the year just closed over that which pre-
ceded it exceeds two millions and a half. The increase
on the last quarter is not of great amount, but any in-
crease under the circumstances in which the commer-
cial part of the community have been placed, during
the last three months, is the strongest possible evidence
of the vastness of our national resources.

The deficiency which appears in the last quarter's
customs, may be attributed to the check given to
American importation by the state of the Money-
markeq; while, on the other hand, this deficiency is more
than made up by the increase in the excise—that de-
partment of the revenue which is the truest index of
what may be called domestic prosperity—of the com-
forts enjoyed by the great mass of the people.

The Paris Journals of Wednesday, which we have
just received contain no news of any interest, with the
exception of the following telegraphic communication,
which we copy from the official columns of the Moni-
teur

The following despatch, dated Narbonne, 31st December,
seven o'clock, A.M., was received yesterday by the Govern-
ment. It was conveyed by telegraph to Tours, and thence
forwarded to Paris by the mail :
" Mina died on the 24th at Barcelona. General Serene
re-entered the town on the 26th, with 100 cavalry and
200 gend'armes.
" El Serrador was, on the 15th, at Albocacee, with 400
horse, and Forcadell at Rosell, with 3,000 men. Royo, with
400 horse, and 200 font, occupied Rubiclos.
" The municipality of Valencia succeeded on the 20th, in
effecting the drawing of the Quinta. A detachment of ca-
valry dispersed the armed peasantry. The office of the
paymaster of the army was closed for want of funds."

A Morning Contemporary adds that General MINA
was buried with military honours on the 27th. MINA
as everhe
N baredvas naturally
was a man of incorruptible principles, and as brave a
soldier
a blade
ri
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aud defence
tarnished o f human
liberty ; but a
distinguished military
reputation by the most barba-
rous atrocities. As f Commander-in-Ch.
le of the
QUEEN'S army, he purchased for himself an unenvi-
able notoriety, and his execution of CABRERA'S mo-
ther will out-weigh his most daring deeds as Captain-
General of Catalonia. MINA was one of those men
to whom a long life has proved a curse rather
than a
blessing.
The news from the North of Spain is favourable to
the QUEEN'S cause. Of the troops under the com-
mand of General ESPARTERO, 8,000 are about to
occupy San Sebastian, in order to allow the British an
Legion an opportunity of taking the field against the
Carlists. The Legion will first move upon Tolosa, and
as active operations arc about to commence, General
EVANS will not return to England for some months
longer.
For the proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies on
Wednesday, we refer to our extracts from the journals.
M. DUCHATEL, the Minister of Finance, occupied
nearly the whole of the sitting with the presentation of
projects of laws, connected with the regulation and ap-
propriation of various items of the revenue.
Brigadier JAUREGUY (EL PASTOR) has published
a bulletin of the raising of the siege of Bilboa,
dated St. Sebastian, Dec. 29th. He states the loss
on the QUEEN'S side to be 800 men, put hors de com-
bat; that of the rebels, 1,000 men. On the 27th,
860 Carlist prisoners were brought into Bilboa. VIL-
LAREAL and EGutA, with the remnant of their
forces, are at Galdacaro. The plight of the insurgents
is most miserable. The whole of their artillery was
captured.

Advices from ;Madrid of the 30th ult., have been
received. Their contents are unimportant. Rumours