The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-12 00:00:00

THE OXFORD.

Again have we to thank Mr. Morton for one °f
the most pleasing musical novelties it has been our
good fortune] of hearing for a long time. On
Saturday he presented to the public a very charnling
selection from Offenbach's operetta, entitled " 661;
which was first produced six or seven years ago
the Bouffes Parisiennes. The solo parts were con-
fided to Miss Russell, Miss Barrie, Mr. St. Albyn'
and Mr. Green. The plot of the operetta, we Pre-
sume, from the " selection" we had on Saturday'
turns upon the freaks and fortunes of a rustic"
going lover, who wins a large fortune in a
lottery ; 66 being the lucky number, of which he
is the holder, and which entitles him to 100,0
florins. The part selected for execution at the
Oxford is that in which the drawing for the late**,
occurs, and the opening duet by Misses Russell anQ,
Barrie was sung with such telling effect that it
elicited a rapturous encore. The lottery trio of Miss
Russell, Mr. St. Albyn, and Mr. Green was not only
finely sung but excellently acted, each of theartistes
throwing a good supply of point and fun into their
respective parts. Mr. Green, who so fully distin-
guished himself in the " Orphe," came out again ill
great force as the manager of the lottery ; his song/
" Ah, if in Paris I had stayed," was most artisticallY
given ; and Mr. St. Albyn deserves unstinted CO"'
mendation for the tenor part of the performance'
Altogether, " 66" is a great and enthusiastic sae"
cess, and one which will have the effect of attracting
for many months crowds of admirers to the Oxford'

AT ARCHBISHOP MANNING'S CONSECRATION,
the tribune reserved for the diplomatic body, were
their Excellencies Prince de Latour d'Auvergne, the Fortell
Ambassador; Count Apponyi, the Austrian Ambassv
dor ; Baron Brunnow, the Russian Ambassador ;
Don
Patrick Comyn, the Spanish Ambassador; Marque;
Fortunato, late Neapolitan Minister ; Marquess d'Azeglio,
Sardinian Minister ; M. Vander Weyer, Belgian Minister;
the Mexican Minister; the Hon. Mr. Cartier, Premier
_„°
Lower Canada; the Hon. T. D'Arcy McGee, Canadian
Minister of Agriculture, ttc., with the Secretaries of l'egv
tion and Attaches of the principal Embassies.
" 'IGH ART."--The Athenaeum states that, at Cer'
Min "photographic establishments" at Chelsea, the aPPe:
tites as well as the vanity of the public are stimulated 2,,
the offer of an "eel-pie and your likeness for sixpelle%
Others offer "your likeness" and a cup of coffee for Intl
same money. At a third house it is "your likeness sod

cigar for sixpence."
COUNT LAGRANGE.—We understand that C 0 at
Lagrange, the owner of Gladiateur, winner of the "io
Thousand and the Derby, has sent by Mr. Jennings' "ds
trainer, the sum of .£lOO to the Rev. Mr. M'Donald, tovIL%
the building of a new Roman Catholic Church and Frt,
bytery at Newmarket. We are informed also that
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Roman Catholic Bishop of Northampton will make hit`
visitation to Newmarket on Sunday, the 18th inotl
order to celebrate this event, when a grand mass will
performed.—Cambridge Independent.
MR. SALA ON A KLEPTOMANIAC !—ln on-
Mr. Sala's picturesque letters from Algeria, c°ll,tri;
buted to the Daily Telegraph, we have a choice bit of literary
gossip. Says Mr. Sala:—" A dear good lady, ns'illao
Rogers—yes, Mrs. Albert G. Rogers is the name—did
out here last winter with her husband, an estimable
clergyman, and essay to convert the heathen by 03°35 of
tracts. I have heard much of her pious exertion le,
Algiers. Her mission seemed to have been a d 0 once
barrelled one, for she was desirous of demolishing at °tfie
the arch-impostor Mahomet, and that wicked old rust` the
Pope of Rome. She smote the Mussulman and tist
Papist hip and thigh with many tracts, and to
have vexed Belial sorely ; only she apfour° the
have been in a state of dubiety as to who were
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most wicked people in Algiers, the Arabs, the Fie %,"ece
or the small English community resident there. 13sta'.00:
these three stools, however difficult the feat may "peel
Mrs. Albert G. Rogers got on worse than might balris, sc-
expected, and she failed in converting anybody'. S'eed to
cordingly shook the dust from off her feet, and return ore"
Europe. lam the more inclined to mention this be% 1
lent lady with sentiments of affectionate reverence, sie ce
ris.
find she has written a book called A Winter in .Alt?"1,-Jell
The book an English gentleman in Algiers wasi that
enough to lend me ; and on perusing it I 11,1 Do'
Mrs. Albert G. Rogers has, amidst many dolen"gfish
wailings of the backslidings of her French and rjlistocl'
fellow - Christians in Algiers, coolly aPPr°,P Dag°
without a word of acknowledgment, several
of a story called Yadace,' which your corresl.:lo,
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took the liberty of writing, 10 years ago, in Ir. "'ogled'
Household Words, and which has since been rellll
with other papers, in a collected form. I need 5 ,and'
point out to good Mrs. Rogers the existence of a OW the
do
numbered Eight in the Decalogue ; also that 161'51
service called the Commination there are some Pretli'bois
things said about people who take away their ve.gi viret°
landmarks. The best part of the story is thatfriod in
Yadace from an anecdote related to me 147 arch it re
Paris under the impression that the game to wieribbilig
ferred was an Algerian one, and that Mrs. Rogers' wooer°
from me, gives it as an illustration of Algerian rase 10
and customs ; whereas I have since learned 17.311 •
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Persian and not an Arab game at all." Fr
NARROW ESCAPE OF TILE ADELPIII ais.
FlRE.—Yesterday morning about half-Pas fire, as
alarm was given that the Adelphi Theatre was pas
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on the arrival of the Chandos-street 'engines: b'es f
and manual power, under the superiutendeucocee 1010
Girard, it was found that the flooring of the erdrs,__ fireioll.
was burning, and but for the timely arrival of tni'estroyer
the entire structure would doubtless have bons des 00.
Happily the damage was confined to the rafte.ru:"
throve,.
ing, which had, it is supposed, been smouldVir t
ens ol
out the night, consequent upon either the n posaogfe
cigar or fusee having been thrown down
..te,„des
Several other engines were in attendanceicioo 7t' tilefr
mentioned, but the fire was extinguished iv 1 u
five aid. JgCs
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WESTERN BANK OF SCOTLANI). set a ,0
the First Division of the Court of Sessiona _coo, teeth
the verdict in favour of Mr. Addie, who claimed ; 0.61
lwighuicidhathoor ohfadthbeoWu
entations.
to be false and fraudulent rep
res int 01,
ices deec
aside a verdict obtained in similar circutory
to
Graham, of Mosskuowe, as being codu
gehsttefrrnoißlifttnhke braerkyonaneNnvthaol.,,bleoiraldieogscle;
ships did so on the same grounds on wullusch
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1 The question of expenses was reserve •