The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-10 00:00:00

ENGLISH OPERA, ADELPHI.

Last night a new musical drama was performsd at this
Iheatre under the title of The Irish Girl. Tiaras*.
rafters were as follows t—LordNore, Mr, F, MAT..
Ilt*S; Sir Lanster ,Leybroke, (under the ;set*
none- of Gerald) Mr: Uttar ;. Matadi (stetifirl;to
Lord 'Kilniere) 11fr. Prutems ; OlRoarhe,'Mr../Ifitrian
Rm.; Jarvis, Mr. RALTICU. O'Rotale, (the
Irish Girl) Miss Kant.,; and Lady. Ana,- 14114 H.'
CAWSE. The plot of the piece runs thlla :—RridOet
O'Rourke leaves her father's cabin, and , is about to pre-
ceed at midnight to the mansion of Lard Kihnore, In
order to aid in the arrangements for en approaching 'festi-
vity, when she loses her path in a wood. Being very
superstitious, she is, dreadfully terrified on finding herself
close to O'Reytan's but--.a hovel deserted, and generally
believed to be haunted—her terror increases at heating
a noise within the hut, but an uncontroluble influence
urges her to peep through the door, When she perceives
a man within. She retreats on perceiving that he is
about to issue from the hut, and, watching, hears
hies say that he has buried it so deep it must be
impossible to discover it. At assumes him to be a mur-
derer, and, mustering up courage, enters the cottage,
but, can find nothing. All through this scene the acting of
Miss li.'et.t.s• was amazingly powerful; but it was yet
more thrillingly effective in the ensuing scene at the Castle,
where she recognizes in the person of Mandeville the in-
dividual whom she had seen the previous night et
0' Reyan's hut, to whose care she is committed by Lady
Julia. The following night she is driven from room to
room in endeavouring to avoid the company at Lord ICil.
more's, until at last she finds herself, at midnight, in his
Lordship's study, adjoining to which is the depository of
his Lordship's treasures, from which Ito had for some time
been missing considerable sums. ilridget here sits down
to work, in order to finish a tent before morning, it being
then about one o'clock, but unable to keep waking,
falls into a deep sleep, and then Mandeville enters,
for the purpose of currying off more treasure. , A
scene of intense interest then ensues; he tries various
experiments to see if her sleep real, and being con-
vinced that it is so, he enters the Cabinet, cad
loads himself with bags of gold. • The clock in the
mean time strikes two. Bridget is awakened by the
sound, sees a light in the Cabinet, goes to the door, and
sees Montkville at his work of plunder, who, in re-passing
through the room, drops the bags of gold, and apprehen-
sive that she may, awaken, putts out his own light, and
then picking up as many of the bags as he can, runs o-ffn.
One bag, however, ho leaves behind, -which :Bridget picks
up just as the family enter the room with lights, and she
is immediately presumed guilty of the robbery, and placed
in confinement. The denouement may easily bo guessed—
at the trial she charges the guilt upon . Mandeville, who
denies it. She, however, cau.es 01 Ilegan's hut to be
dtig up, and the discovery of the stoles gold satisfies all
parties of the guilt of Mandeville. The other characters
were respectably sustained. The music is stated to be
composed by Mr. HAWES.

For nearly two centuries, two factions divided
Holland and Zealand. One bore the title of litoeh (fish-
ing-hooks); the other was willed Knabe/jasues(cod-tish. )
The origin of these denominations was a dispute at a least,
whether the cod-fish took the book, or the hook the cod-fish.

A new light has been lately invented for light.
houses, so intense as almost to exceed credibility. It has
been adopted by the Trinity House. The effect is pro.
direct' by dropping a small bit of chalk lime at the jut, or
conjunction of two flames obtained from different gases,
and impelled towards each other. The brilliancy is ha
prodigious, that it casts shadows at the distance of ten
miles and more ! Gasak,
THE WIIEATEA HIS NEST.—..No bird 'eon.
cede its neat with snore artifice than the wheatest; and
in consequenee of this circumstance, and the retired
places in which it .fixte its !summer residence, very many
of the young ones are produced.. This summer (June lA,
1828) I appointed a boy to watch two hen birds to their
retreat, and after some hours of vigilance he succeeded
and gave use notice; one .had made her nest sleep in the
crevice of a stone-quarry, mid an carefully bidden by Ko-
jectilig fragments as not to be observed from witliout until
part of the rock was removed ► her ishrie was large and
rudely constructed with dried bents, scraps of shreds, fea-
thers, and rubbish, collected -about the cottages on the
down, containing -four pale blue eggs, about the size of
those of the sky-lark. The other bird- bad descended.

through the interstices of some rather large loose atpues,
and then proceeded laterally
ton hollow would
which the stones were
laid ; and so deep had she penetrated, that many of the
stones were to be retnoved -before we Could discover her
treasure: as no appearadces led' to any suspicion of a nest,
it would never have been detected but for our Watchful-
nos...../ouraal of a Naturalist.

Little or nothing was done here to-dayi most of. the
subscribers having gone to the Warwick Rags, where
the running has been important, and the Letting to rather
heavy amounts. Birmingham won his race easy, and in
the betting there he rose to 16 to 1. It should be recol-
lected, however, that he was defeated at Chester by Lawrie
Todd and Moss Rose, the distance, in each ease, being
greater. The Cardinal and Hassan are backed, the former
standing at 8 to 1, and the other at a shade above it.
Priam is at 6 to 4, and few takers ; Mossilose remains
at Sto I, The above may be considered as the average
prices at London and Warwick, nothing else being men-
tioned.