The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-15 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1865.

Boyal Dramatic College Fete.---This Day.

The annual fete and fancy fair in aid of the funds
of the Royal Dramatic College commenced to-day
at the Crystal Palace, and certainly the weather
was all that could be desired. Although the hour
set for the opening of the fete was 12 o'clock, long
before that time numbers of ladies and gentlemen,
whose faces were familiar to thousands of the metro-
polis, might be seen strolling along the greensward
previous to their taking up their positions either as
showmen, actors, or money-takers at the various
booths which was to compose the fair.
Amongst the ladies whose talents were this day
exerted in the " art of selling," were first and fore-
most our own native and unapproachable comedienne
Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Amy
Sedgwick, Mrs. Howard Paul, Miss M. Simpson,
Miss Elsworthy, Mrs. Billington, Miss Lavene, Miss
K. Hickson, Miss H. Simms, Miss L. Thompson,
the Misses Pelham, Miss A. Burdett, &c.
At twelve o'clock our old frigid, M. R. Romer,
appeared as the Herald of the College, and opened
the fair with the following proclamation :
Proclamatio Regii Collegii Dramatici Perils Annuls Agen-
dis prEedicta, Manse Julii xv.,
PRI3IUM. Be it proclaimed, on the Queen our Sovereign
Lady's behalf, that every person, of what state, degree, or
condition that ho or she bo of, having recourse to this Fair,
keep the peace of our Sovereign Lady the Queen.
ITEM. That in all cases, where it shall come within the
knowledge of the Master and %Wardens, that any person or
persons, whatever sex they be of, shall have perversely,
wilfully, or without good cause absented themselves from
the Fair, then such person or persons shall make a forfeit
of one guinea, and the Secretary shall answer thereto under
the title of Nummus Populorum Absentium.
ITEM. That no party nor parties, within the precincts
of this fair, shall take upon themselves to make any man-
ner of assignation, attachment, or betrothment with any
" Woman in Mauve," or White, or Black, or Red, or any
other woman in and of any other colour, unless it be done
in the presence and with the consent of the Master, Deputy-
Master, or one of the Wardens of the Royal Dramatic
College ; in contempt thereof, it shall be lawful for the
Master and Wardens in solemn Council assembled to make
a forfeit of one guinea on every such person so offending,
and the secretary shall answer thereto under the title of
Nummus Adolescentis Perviridis.
ITEm. That all female vendors of merchandise, fancy-
ware, and other goods, having booths or stalls at said fair,
are hereby empowered and authorised by the Master and
Wardens in solemn Council assembled, without let or
hindrance, to ply their calling in such manner, suasion,
art, or fashion, as shall obtain from the buyers at the said
booths and stalls a large exchange in money for such mer-
chandise, fancy wares, and other goods ; and it shall be
lawful, as also the duty of such female vendors to arrest
and detain for barter and merchandise all bachelors of
kindly look and easy means, and there and then, in such
restraint, to use all lawful arts and wiles to lure from them
the said bachelors such superfluous coins of the realm as
they may then and there possess.

ITEM. That it shall not be lawful for cosherers, or
idle, purposeless varlets and wanderers going from stall
to stall without making purchases, to linger within the,
precincts of this fair. All such cosherers, together with all
blue-devils, megrims, vapours, head-aches, and all and
every description thereof, are hereby required to abjure the
Real during the continuance and duration of this said fair.
Posnomo. It shall be lawful for the Master and War-
dens in solemn Council assembled, by and with the consent
of such person or persons,:who may have wilfully or other-
wise infringed the edicts of this their Proclamation, to
cause punishment
to be inflicted by the fine of a sum of
ten guineas, or more, and the Secretary shall answer
thereto under the title of Nummus Laterculorum Jocularium.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

It is needless to say the reading of the above
produced shouts of laughter, and immediately
afterwards the "fun of the fair" commenced by the
opening of Richardson's Show, with a new and ori-
ginal drama in five shudders, entitled " The Smug-
gler's Doom ; or, The Sailor, the Syren, and the
Secret," written expressly for the occasion by Mr.
Nelson Lee. The artistes engaged in the perfor-
mance were Mr. T. Thorne, Mr. F. Robson, Mr.
Montgomery, Mr. J. Clarke, and Mr. R. Atkins.
The patronisers of the first performance were
exceedingly numerous, and a better com-
mencement to a jovial and pleasant day
could not have been devised. Buckstone and
Sothern seemed to be driving a good trade with
their " Aunt Sally," whilst Wombwell's Menagerie,
and the " Ri-Toole-i-o-Rama" poetry, painting,
and music, and dissolving views described by Mr.
Toole, of the Adelphi, and his " boy," Paul Bed-
ford, came in for the most extensive patronage.
The ladies' stalls were exceedingly beautiful and
attractive, and no doubt the fair vendors will net

a large sum for the benefit of the College.

CRYSTAL PA.i.acE.--ONE SHILLING DAY.—Yes-
terdaythe adwissions on payment were 3,961; do. by /MOOD
tickets, 1,203; total, 5,164.