The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-22 00:00:00

EVENING FDITION.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Wtrcosoa, MONDAY.—Her Majesty, acconyi.anied
by Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, rode out on horse-
back soon after three o'clock this afternoon, in
the Park. A numerous equestrian party followed,
including the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Melbourne,
Marquis of Normanby, Lord Lytleton, Lady C. Bar-
ringtOn, Lady C. Dundas, Baroness Lehzen, Miss
Quentin, Viscount Falkland, Hon. Colonel Grey, Lord
A. Pager, Hon. W. Bathurst, Sir F. Stovin, and" Sir
George Quentin.

The Duchess of Kent and Prince Eruest of Saxe
Coburg drove out in a pony phaeton at the same time.
The Hon. Miss Cocks and the Hon. Miss Pitt also left
the Castle in a pony phaeton.
Lord and Lady Lyttleton and Mr. G. E. Anson
arrived this morning at the Castle.

The two Princes, Ernest:and Albert, rode to the hunt
this morning,, attended by Lord A. Paget, the Hon. W,
Cowper, and Count Kolowrath.
Lord Holland was expected this morning from Ken.
sington to attend the Council, but his Lordship did not
arrive.

Her Majesty has a dinner party this evening,
and the company expected are the Duchess of
Kent, the Princes Ernest and Albert of Saxe
Coburg, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Nor-
manby, Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, the Ladies
Eleonora and Constance Paget, Viscounts Melbourne
and Palmerston, Lord and Lady Lyttleton, Lord Hol-
land, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. W. Bathurst, Mr. G. E.
Ansor, Hon. W. Cowper, Ladies C. Dundas and C.
Barrington, Hon. Misses Cocks and Paget, Baroness
zen, Viscount Falkland, Count Kolowrath, Baron
Alvensleben, Sir F. Stovin, Hon. C. A. Murray, Lord
A. Paget, and the Hon. Col. Grey.

The Queen held a Privy Council at two o'clock yes-
terday afternoon at Windsor. It was attended by the
Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Secretaries of State for the Home and Foreign De-
partment, the Lord Chamberlain, and Viscount Falk-
land. At the Council, an Order in Council was issued
for the further Prorogation of Parliament from Thurs-
day next, the 24th inst., until Thursday, the of
December.

Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the
Right Hon. Lord Lyttleton to be Lord Lieutenant of
the County of Worcester, his Lordship took the oaths
appointed to be taken there Upon.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in waiting.
The Princess Augusta, attended by Miss Wynyard,
arrived at Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past
one o'clock yesterday afternoon, from her residence,
Frogmore Lodge, near' Windsor. The Duchess of
Gloucester visited her Royal Highness atter her
a7rival.

The Marquis of Normanby left town yesterday
morning, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The' Lord Chancellor left his residence, at Copse Hill,
yesterday, for Windsor Castle.

THEATRES.

COVENT GARDEN.

Artaxerre's was again played here last night with im-
proved effect. Madame Vestris, rendered shrewd by
the mistakes of others, has avoided many errors in
scenery and costume committed by her predecessors.
Miss Austen as Mandane has acquired confidence, and
although much difference of opinion exists as to the
rank in the profession to,which she is entitled, we have
no hesitation in repeating the favourable opinion of her
merits before expressed by us. The house fills well for
the season.

SURREY.
Long before the rising of the curtain last evening,
this theatre was crowded in every part, to witness the
first representation of Jack Sheppard. Mr. J. T.
Haines is the adapter, and so satisfied is Mr. Harrison
Ainsworth, the author of the Romance, with this adapta-
tion, that he states in a letter addressed to the manager
that he has no hesitation in giving his entire sanction
to the performance. The whole of the scenery also has
been superintended by Mr. George Cruikshank, which
is, to use the words of Mr. Ainsworth, a sufficient
guarantee to the public for its excellency and accuracy.
The piece is in fact, a succession of Tableaux vivants,
from the novel, got up with great accuracy and care.
Our readers may form some idea of the immense ex-
penditure which the management must have been at in
the getting up of this piece when we inform them
that the scenes are thirty-nine in number—
all from designs by Cruikshank, and all entitled to
great praise as works of art. Mr. E. J. Saville was the
Jack Sheppard, and a most effective Jack Sheppard he
made. He was called for at the fall of the curtain to
receive that applause which he so well deserved. Mrs.
H. Vining acted the part of Mrs. Sheppard, with a
pathos and energy deserving our highest commendation.
Her interview in the madhouse with her son was
painfully true to nature—indeed we have seldom wit-
nessed anything more heart-rending than the acting of
this lady in the madhouse nevi In the scene
in which she stabs herself, and i the dying re-
conciliation with her son, she was most effective and was
rewarded. with that most sincere of all applause—the
tears of her audience. Mr. W. Smith had not much
to do as Owen Wood, but what he had to do he did
well. The other characters found efficient repre-
sentatives in the different members of the company
to whom they were entrusted. The piece concluded
with a moving diorama of London in the olden time,
from Newgate to Tyburn. The performance did not
conclude until half-past ten o'clock. The piece was
given out for repetition every evening without a dis-
sentient voice.