The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-27 00:00:00

FRANCE.

T3ouasE, Oct. N.—The market was heavy at the
opening, but afterwards rallied, and now shows a
slight improvement, Threes, for the Account, being
at 67f. 171 c. Mobilier Shares are also rather higher.
Railway Shares firm, but with little business doing.
The market continued firm to the close, and left off
as follows :

11 per Cents. 95 30
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month G7 25
Credit Mobilier 1123 75
Do. end mont h 1123 75
Bank Shares 3340
Credit Foncier l'3oo
Roman

I Italian Loan 73 40
Do. end month 73 25
New ditto
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 53 50
Home Debt
Deferred
FAIN.
Cash. Account.
980 980
981 25 .. 980
9b5 .. 953 25
912 50 — --
500
686 25 692 50
512 53 .. 515
508 75 .. bO7 50
413 75 .. 415
416 25 .. 420
566 25 .. 565 —•
540 .. 541 25
632 50 .. 635
337 50 342 50

RA IL

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto .. • •
Geneva..
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona ....

HAYMARKET THEATRE,

A splendid audience last night assembled at the Hay-
market Theatre to welcome home the inimitable Charles
Mathews, after an absence from the stage of nearly two
years. This circumstance of itself would have been quite
sufficient to have filled the house, but the eclat which
has recently attached to his performances in the French
language at the Theatre des Vari6t6s, Paris, gave an
additional amount of interest to the occasion. It was felt by
all a duty to welcome hint, in conjunction with his ac-
complished wife, in a manner peculiarly and thoroughly
English. The piece he selected for his entree was a
farce from the French, known hero as " Cool as a
Cucumber." In this farce for forty nights Mr. C.
Matthews, in the French language, elicited from the
most fastidious and exacting audiences in Paris not only
applause but admiration, and that, be it remem-
bered, from a class by no means ready to admit
the existence of excellence in any but Pa-
risian actors, in what is familiarly termed here
"light" comedy. The moment his voice was heard
" without," as it is professionally termed, as the modest,
retiring and bashful (?) Mr. Plumper, the applause of the
audience commenced, and on his appearance the assembly
gave vent to such hearty demonstrations of fervour, that
Mr. Mathews seemed for the moment perfectly over-
powered by the cordial greeting. Again and again he
attempted to commence his pt.rt, but salvos of applause
followed each effort, and for some minutes the interior of
the theatre presented a scene of the most extraordinary
description—the cries of " Bravo, bravo I" " welcome,
welcome I" accompanied by the waving of hate and
handkerchiefs, coming from all parts of the house. At
length the farce was allowed to proceed. There is no
need of even giving a mere outline of the plot, as every-
body knows that Plumper introduces himself into the
house of a retired gentleman, on the supposition that he
has once met his son on board the Rhine steamboat, and
immediately he commences arranging the furniture, hang-
ings to pictures, &c., &c., to please his own fancy, irre-
spective of the wishes and desires of the astonished and
durebloundered owner of the house. He kisses the maid,
makes love to the niece, drinks Old Barkins's wine, rings
for biscuits, orders luncheon, &c., &c., in the most off-
hand free-and-easy style; and the farce is brought to a
climax by his obtaining the consent of the father to the
marriage of his (Barkins's) son and niece, a consent he had
determined never to give. The manner in which Mr. Mathews
enacts the part is the perfection of light comedy. He sus-
tains a perpetual laugh by the most delicate acting, and
when the farce evaporates into mere burlesque, and he
mingles stage facts with the dramatic story, the whimsi-
cality of the whole thing finishes the little drama amidst
roars of laughter. In the classical burlesque "The Golden
Fleece," Mrs. Mathew's sustained the part of Medea with
extraordinary spirit, of which it is impossible to speak
in too high terms of praise. To sum the performance up
in two or three words, it was the very cream of burlesque
acting, and elicited immense applause. Mr. C. Mathews
appeared as Chorus, and gave two or three of his extra-
ordinary patter songs, in a manner perfectly and wholly his
own. Mr. Compton was great and glorious as the King of
Corinth, and Miss Louisa Keeley as the fast young Jason,
reminded us very forcibly of her talented and gifted mother.
The burlesque, which was put on the stage in magnificent
style, pleased tho audience amazingly.