The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-21 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.

The holiday fetes at this place of amusement were The
Enchanted Horse, or the Fairy Lake, taken from an Irish
legend of the " Equestrian Peregrinations of O'Donohue,
round the Lakes of Killarney." The scenery throughout
was magnificent, using the term in the strictest sense of
the word. The tableau arrangements, by Mr. Webb, were
executed in the best taste. The rope-dancing by young
Pablo, a boy of eight years of age, was good ; be fell twice,
but notwithstanding he performed remarkably well con-
siderina his age. The piece went off extremely well.
The Victories of the Black Prince are classical ground in
English history. They were done justice to at Astley's
as far as scenic representation could effect. The enters
ments went off wcll, and were protracted to twelve o'clock.

COUF

LAR.

Her Majesty rode out on horshack yesterday, attended
by the Hon. Miss Murray, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Quen-
tin, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Paget, Sir Robert Otway,
and Colonel Buckley.
The Earl of Mil:t.) and Viscount Melbourne had au-
diences yesterday of 11 e Qa,cn.
The Royal Dinner P .eta 1;1,4 evening included the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Normanby, Earl and Countess of
Sandwich, Earl of VingAl, Earl and Countess Cowper,
Lord and Lady Ashley, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, ,Hon.
John Ponsonby, and Colonel Buckley.
The band of the Ist Regiment of Life Geards was in
attendance at the Palace during the evening.
The Duchess of Combridge, accompanied by the Prin-
cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and attended by
Baroness Ahlefeldt, went yesterday to Kew.
The Princess Augusta, attended by Miss Wynyard, took
an airing yesterday in a carriage and four.
The Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia and the Duke
of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck, were present
yesterday morning at the inspection of the troops in Wel-
lington Barracks. Their Imperial and Royal Highnesses
afterwards went to Wormwood scrubs.
The agent for Jamaica, the Earl o' Harevrood, and Mr.
Godson, had an interview with Viscount Melbourne and
the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, in Downing-street.
Lord John Russell will give a full dress dinner party on
the 23d instant, at Grillion's Hotel, is honour of her Ma-
jesty's birthday, to the Qaeen's Judges.
Sir F. Doyle, Lieut.-Colonel Snodgrass, Major Mac-
gregor, Captain Mackenzie (from Van Diemen's Laud),
and Captain Hobson, had interviews with the Marquis of
Normanby yesterday, at the Colonial Office.
The Marquis of Tavistock had an interview yesterday
wiih Viscount Melbourne.

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WIGA`

(FROM A CORRE4PONDENT.)
This morning a meeting of' the Town Council was
held, pursuant to previous notice, for the purpose of
considering the propriety of sending up an address to her
jesty, expressive of their admiration of the dignity
and
and
firmness with which she visited the u uprecedented
unconstitutional attempt, on the part of
Sir Robert Peel.
to wound her feelings, by depriving her of the ociety of
those friends in whose fidelity and affection siNe could con-
fide ; and censuring in strong terms the unpr
incipled and
unstatesmanlike trick which that plausible ge,ntleman en-
deavoured to play off for the purpose of de,
,n
the
g the
Queen, as regarded her high station, in the opinh.'n of
great mass of the people. The address is one replete w
sound sense, and, at the same time, puts forth, in constito".
tional language, whichcannot be misunderstood, the justly
grounded expectations of the Council that she will intrust
the administration of the affairs of the country only to men
who will endeavour to advance the principles of reform,
without the slightest reference to that blighting plant which
has lately sprung up in this country, and which a number
of observing politicians have most appropriately denomi•
nated " Finality." In the [course of reading the copy
of the address proposed to be sent this expression oc-
curs :—" With such councillors your Majesty may confi-
dently rely in undoubting security upon the loyalty and
affection of your subjects, assured that they will never
permit an interestedfaction to dictate to their Sovereign."
No sooner had the address been seconded than the Editor
of the Wigan Gazette made a powerful effort to rise to his
feet. Having attained that important point, he had the
excessive modesty to say that he did not intend to move
an amendment, but only to deny the necessity of the thing;
and that the address contained falsehoods. On being re-
quested to mention what portion of the address he applied
that observation to, he, in a state of great nervous agitation
shouted forth the words "an interested faction." Before
any member had time to make a reply, the Editor of the
Gazette snatched up his hat, ran from the Council room in
breathless haste, followed by the five Tory Members,
which constitute the Gazette's tail I It is almost impos-
Bible to describe the scene, the richness of the effect was
irresistible, exciting bursts of laughter among the by-
standers, which in a moment communicated itself to the
gravest members of the Council I
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