The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-26 00:00:00

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA

MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company have received the following telegram
" MARSEILLES, MAY 26,
" The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived
at Marseilles at 6 a.m. this day.
" The mails were to leave for London at 11 a.m.'

Sheridan in Paris, or Un Homme de Rien.

Mr. Aylic Langl4, a French dramatist, who about a
month ago suddenly leaped into celebrity as the author of a
comedy in four acts, entitled " Un Homme de Bien," and
produced at the Theatre du Vaudeville, shows a great deal
of the talent by which the egg-dancer of former days was
distinguished. He has chosen for his principal personage
no less a man than Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and he has
evidently taken some pains to become acquainted with the
circumstances connected with his subject. Ho knows that
Sheridan was a dramatist before he was a politician, and that,
of his two comedies, the " Rivals" was written before the
" School for Scandal." He knows that Sheridan went into
Parliament as representative of Stafford, and that he
figured in the ranks of the Opposition. He knows that his
love for the lady he married in his youth involved him in
two duels with the same adversary. He knows that at the
end of the last century, there was a celebrated English
actor named Kemble. The acquisition of all this knowledge
implies a praiseworthy spirit of research not always to be
found in a Fi ench dramatist. But what is far more surpris-
ing than the knowledge possessed by M. Langle is an in-
accuracy which almost seems to be the result of deli-
berate study. Having mastered a tolerably veracious
outline, he is determined to be incorrect in every de-
tail; nor did the accomplished egg-dancer avoid touch-
ing her eggs with greater precision aran is shown
by the dramatist in missing correct dates and facts.
He must not be compared with those common Gallic
blunderers who exhibit a Lord Mayor selling his wife at
Smithfield, or show the constituency of a free and in-
dependent British borough electing a member of the House
of Lords. These may be likened to egg-dancers who would
shirk the task imposed upon them, by putting their eggs in
one corner of the room, while they danced in the other.
They simply avoid their mark by not approaching it, and
their caution is undeserving of applause. But M.
Langle dexterously navigates through an archipelago of
facts, and the skill with which he avoids bumping against
an historical truth is may marvellous. If he once grew
careless, he would be right in spite of himself; but such is
his vigilance, that any misfortune of that kind is beyond the
sphere of moral possibility.—Saturday Review.—Precisely
a like absurdity was perpetrated twenty odd years ago by
M. Alexandre Dumas in his utterly ridiculous drama of
Kean (that is Edmund Kean), the Tragedian.

MARKE TS This Day.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.--Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Os Od ; clover
do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs; and straw, £1 lOs to £1 16s per load.
slow demand.

CUMBERLAND.--Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Os; clove;
do., £3 10s to £5 lOs; and straw, £1 lOs to £1 16s per load.
Trade inactive.

WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £2 Od to ZI Oa; clover
do , £3 lis to £5 10s; and straw, Ll lOs to £1 36s per load.
Trade dull.

COLONIAL.

• TEA.—Tha dealings have been extremely limited, and
prices remain inactive.

St coax.—There has been a fair inquiry for exportation,
but the operations for home consumption have been chiefly
in goed grocery qualities, at slightly reduced quotations.
COFFEE.—OnIya small amount of business has been trap
sacted at about previous rates.

RICE.—For East India descriptions there has been a
tnoderate inquiry, without any mak erial alteration to report
in values.

TALLOW.—The market has continued exceedingly inac-
tive, and but few dealings have taken place, either for pre-
sent or forward delivery. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted
43s 6d, and last three months 40s per cwt.

The "Four-in-Hand" Club's first appearance for
the season in Hyde-park is spoken of by the Court
Journal as not having been a good one, owing to a tre-
mendous shower coming down about an hour before the
time appointed for the "meet." The eky, however, cleared,
and about six o'clock seven or eight of the "drags" ap-
peared at the Magazine, and shortly afterwards wended
their way in procession down "the drive" to Greenwich.
The Earl of Sefton took the lead, and his "golden chest-
nuts" showed no diminution in the exquisite beaaty they
presented last year, Mr. William Morritt, the memt-er for
the North Riding of Yorkshire, has turned his experience
to good account, and his neat yellow drag and work-like
looking roans presented quite the beau iieul of the old
coaching days. The Duke of Sutherland followed with a
team of magnificent bays, and Lord Strathmore rivalled him
with four splendid browns. Lord Londesborough's turn-
out is too well known for every sort of perfection to need
especial mention, and it excited quite a sensation in Paris,
where its noble owner ordered that it should meet him on
his return from the East. The drags of ,Sir Michael Shaw
Stewart, of Sir George Wombwell, and of Captain Callen-
der, a debut, brought up the rear,

An attorney (evidently up to sharp practice)
stated the other day in the Court of Bankruptcy in
Liverpool that it had been his custom to carry in his pocket-
book a black cheque-book of each of the local banks : and
the reason he assigned for this practice was, that sometimes
people would say, " Dear me, if I had my cheque-book I'd
pay you." " Oh! you would, would you ? " Yes'
certainly." Whereupon ho was down upon them
with a
blank cheque,

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