The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-18 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-THE SALE.

According to the announcement made by Mr. Scott,
the auctioneer, the sale of the fittings, scenery, dresses,
and decorations of this world-famed establishment, took
place yesterday.
At the hour appointed a crowd of persons numbering
at tbe,most 150, assembled on the stage. Mr. Scott,
attended by his clerk, having made his second ap-
pearance on this stage, proceeded to read the conditions
of the sale, and afterwards put up the whole of the pro-
perty for the upset price of 12,0001.
A long pause ensued, but not one single offer was
made.

Mr. Scott then informed the assembled few that not
having received any advance on the upset price, he would
commence the sale in the concert-room.

Shortly after two o'clock the auctioneer made his ap-
pearance at a slightly-built desk in the concert-room, and
two rows of theatrical, tables having been covered with
scarlet cloth, the sale commenced in earnest. The first
lot consisted of two parcels containing fifty-seven pieces,
and brought seventeen shillings. It was bought by
Mr. Sheppard of the Surrey. The lots sold yesterday
formed part of the gentlemen's wardrobe, and consisted
chiefly of shirts,, tunics, and the like, realising in some
cases 31., but generally the prices at which they were
knocked down did not exceed 21. The celebrated dress
worn by Lablache in the Tempest, after a languidabidding,
sold for one guinea. A parcel of Egyptian dresses
brought 2/. 14s. A magnificent Indian dress and a lot
of imitation tiger skins brought only 235.
Those present at the sale consisted principally of gen-

tlemen connected with our metropolitan theatres,
Smith of Drury-lane, and Mr. Conquest of the Grecian
Saloon, being among the principal buyers.
The sale, we are informed, will last over ten days.

IMPERIAL TASTE.-A Frankfort journal states that
it is able to communicate the interesting fact that Gene-
ral O'Donnell has received from the Archduchess Sophia,
in memorial of the service he rendered the Emperor on
the 18th ult., a gold ring with a large turquoise. Under
the stone are several hairs of the Emperor, clotted with
the imperial blood.
RUMOURS OF ANOTHER EXPEDITION FOR THE INVA-
SION OF CUBA.-It is said, though we do not vouch for
its truth, that another expedition is being organised in
New Orleans, with the design of invading the island of
Cuba, and wresting it from the possession of Spain. A
colonel of the late Hungarian army is to have the com-
mand of the expedition, which, already, it is said, num-
bers a force of fifteen hundred men, from Cincinnati and
elsewhere. The committee is reported to be in the habit
of meeting for the transaction of business and further-
ance of the project, almost every evening, at one of the
hotels, in New Orleans ; but it is surmised that no ac-
tive measures are to be taken for five or six months
more.—New York Herald.

HYDROPHOBIA.—A very curious fact has come out
respecting canine Rabies ; it appears that in the Ar-
dennes there is an institution for the cure of hydro-
phobia dedicated to St. Hubert, the patron of hunters,
and that scarcely any person bitten by dogs said to be
mad, have incurred that disease if they had good fortune
to be admitted into this institution. Now, the fact
is clearly as we have stated, but the reason or ratio
medendi of these cases requires explanation. The
patient, on admission, has perfect faith in the cure,
which, as is well known, the Catholic ascribes to
the powers of the Patron Saint ; all the inmates of
the house pray also and the person bitten has his mind
so much fortified by confidence in the remedy that those
frightful symptoms resembling hydrophobia do not come
on, and he is discharged cured or rather freed from
danger. Now the real explanation which has resulted
from medical examination is this. The true hydrophobia
is so rare a disease that it scarcely happens twice in a
century, whereas a spurious but equally fatal disorder
of the throat and stomach is brought on, in predisposed
constitutions, by fear of the disease. The dog which had
bitten the patient is, too frequently, foolishly destroyed
by his timid master, and thus the poor patient has no
means of finding out that the animal was not really rabid-;
wbereas, if the dog had been only chained up, instead of
being killed, not only would many a valuable dog be
saved, but the patient, perceiving that the animal was
not rabid would be, satisfied in his mind of his own safety
and would not incur the disorder alluded to. The
false alarms, usually spread abroad about hydro-
phobia,have a similar bad tendency to promote
this malady. This subject is so important that it ought
would
a hvto be more generally known. There is in particular
epidemic seasons a tendency to these disorders of the
and throat and fauces under the special influence of the mind,
and if the advice herein contained were promptly acted
The above remarks have been communicated to us on
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