The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-27 00:00:00

Enter Uncle Baby, sober,

(Uncle Baby—l've seen him and sold the annuity, and
got permission for you all to be married. Take her—bless
you—be happy ;—and if our friends in front will only join,
then there will not sit down a happier party to supper than
Uncle Baby.)

Curtain descents.
This piece, turned into a very pretty ballet, with costumes
a la Watteau, and sparkling music by Mr. W. H. Mont-
gomery, would open the evening very well ; but who that
knows how to give a good entertainment will dose his
guests with a glass of sixth-rive Chablis with his oysters,
simply because the remainder pf the dinner is to be washed
down with the very best sparkling Moet and Chaudon
No, no, Mr. Fechter, Bel Demonio will suffice for every-
body, and begin at eight by all means ; but if tbere must
be a comedietta, by way of first course, then let it be some-
thing better of its kind than Uncle Baby.

An absurd effect was produced one night last
week at Marseilles, where they were playing the
"Huguenots." When the soldiers tried to fire on Marcel,
Valentine, and Raoul, in the last act, it was found that the
powder had not been put into their muskets; naturally the
caps alone exploded; but this did not prevent Valentine
and Raoul falling down dead, amidst the roars of the au-
dience. Marcel, an older soldier, stood up like a man till
a scene-shifter took a shot at him from the slips, when he
fell over the bodies of his prematurely deceased friends, and
the curtain fell upon the group .
A GREAT GARDENERS FR:ST ATTEMpT.--1 will
Thomas Andrew
relate an anecdote of the great
Knight, who, when a child,
on seeing the gardener bused
planting beans in the grounds, asked him why he
those bits of wood, and was told that they would grow into
bean plants, and bear beans. lie watched the evelit, and,
finding that it happened as the gardener laid foretold, deter-
otation of its
mined to plant his pocket-knife, in the eIEP
and when he saw
also growing, and bearing other knives •
to consider the
that that did not take place, he set hini's.o
thus was led to
canoe of the difference in the two cases, and pts at tracing
occupy his earliest thoughts with those at' On
the vital Phenomena of plants to their cones, and upon
which he eventually constructed so brilliant a reputation,
for a greater vegetable physiologist never lived. than the
late Mr. Knight, of Downton Castle.—.72/14.)berd's Gar-

dener's Magazine.
LE GEANT.--,Of former
GIANT PRED ECESSORS OF
ballons with which a comparison may be made we
g gigantic balloon built of skins, and
have first Egg's Folly, internally a small gas bladder,
in form like a fish, having sof dimensions sufficient
and this appendage °veil
whenwa the fish balloon itself was
to take up, in after years,
at the Surrey Gardens.
no more, Barnum's Tore Thumb
The Globe, a French ballc.in, which ascended from Cre-
morne in 1852, would take up five-and-twenty persons, and
was, we believe, fully as large as t 110 Geant. 'Chen, again,
Hoare's immense fire balloon, which played such sad antics
he Beulah 5
p a--s ta rtin g cff without due notice of its
at
,s,
auti „rrying off in its netting some of the poor
intentio. land them with broken. bones. Indeed, the
workmen, to - onster brought it to *nu untimely end, for,
vagaries of this re.
neuter occasion at the Surrey Gardens,
refusing to go uP on' halfpence shied . by the infuriated.
it was cut to pieces with
ip in America, which was built
multitude. Lowe's aerial t. a
to cross the Atlantic mate tbtr,:e
size of the Greallt, years since, was double the