The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-26 00:00:00

THEATRES.

HER MAJESTY'S.
The performances here last night for the benefit of
Mario consisted of the second act of Bellini's Sonnambula
(in which Pcrsiani and Rubini elicited raptures of applause)
the opera of Norma, Mario taking the part of Polonio, and
a new ballet, called the Gipsey. It was brought out last
winter at the Academic Royale de Musique of Paris, and
called La Gipsy, in contradistinction to La Gitana of
Taglioni. The scene lies in Scotland, and the Fair is
backed by a beautiful view of Edinburgh. Here Fanny
Eisler introduced a mazurka, which she danced in a
military dress. The catastrophe is brought about by the
Gipsy being brought before the Provost of Edinburgh for
stealing a chain, though she is really innocent, Mab (the
eldest Mademoiselle Eisler), the Gipsy Queen, having
hung a stolen chain about her neck in a fit of jealousy,
caused by the attachment of the young Gipsy to a fugitive
Jacobite (Guerra), who has joined the tribe. Evidence
is against the girl ; she is condemned by the Provost to be
executed, and her despair and passionate farewell to her
lover, call forth some fine pantomimic acting on the part of
Fanny Elsler. At length a scar on her arm discovers that
she is the Provost's daughter, who has been stolen in
infancy. All are in ecstacy : the Provost even consents
to unite her to her lover, when one of the tribe, deter-
mined that the latter shall not abandon them, shoots him
dead, and the
. b young Gipsey falls senseless. The Gipsy
would lose nothino• in attraction by k .. in somewhat shorter.
The new ballet, however, was successful, and elicited from
all parts of a crowded house the greatest applause.

ENGLISH OPERA.
A new farce, called the Ball Porlcr, written by Mr.
Lover, was performed here last night after the opera, with
unqualified. success. At its conclusion Mr. Lover was
called for, and received marks of satisfaction from the au-
dience. The plot turns upon the play made upon the
vulgaritiei and ignorance of a retired tradesman's wife,
who hires a Hall Porter, whose former vocation was among
the Aristocracy, to teach her how to receive the company
whom she was now able to invite to her west-end domicile.
An interplot of love between a young Honourable (Mr.
Brindal) and Rebecca (Miss Lucy Bennett) serves to
create an interest in the fate of the story, which Pat, an
Irishman (Mr. T. Lee), enlivens by standing up for his
country. A host of jokes, blunders, conceits, and idioms
make the audience laugh, as English audiences ever do at
practical Irish peculiarities. Mr. F. Mathews sustained
the role of the Hall Porter with half-sentimental humour,
and was much applauded. Mr. T. Lee made a good,
lively Irishman, both as to brogue and business. Mrs.
Garrick, who took the part of Mrs. Betts, the retired
tradesman's wife, threw into it great animation and vi-
vacity, and diversified it with all the degrees of vulgarity
which the author intended to satirise and pourtray.

DUTCH MAIL.

TliE HAGUE, JULY 23.

During the absence of his Excellency, Baron Vurstock
Von Soclen, Minister for Foreign Affairs, the duties of
that office arc exercised by his Excellency Baron Von
Zeuglerva Negfeldt. A letter from Rotterdam, in the
Hande/sqad says, that the reason cf the protracted stay of
the Prince of Canino in the Netherlands, is his intention
to exhibit for sale his fine library, and his rich collection
of antiquities and curiosities, some of them from Hercula-
neum and Pompeii. He has hired a house near the quay
of Rotterdam, where he has arranged his collection, and
given the principal inhabitants leave to go and see them.
His Royal Highness Prince Henry, third son of the
Prince of Orange, is to go next week to the Mediterranean
as Captain-Lieutenant on board his Majesty's frigate the
Rhine, commanded by Captain Arriens.
Her Imperial Majesty the Duchess of Braganza with
her daughter the Duchess of Nleadella, arrived here yes.
terday afternoon from Kiel.—Hamburgßorsenhall, July 20.