The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, APRIL 19,

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, rode out on
horseback yesterday afternoon. The equerries in wait-
ing were in attendance.

The Countess of Desart has succeeded Viscountess
Canning as lady in waiting to her Majesty.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday
for Hagley Hall, Worcesters.,-lire.

LYCEUM THEATRE.

. The new one-act piece, or proverb, Give a Dog an
• 11l Name, announced for Monday, and withdrawn in
consequence of Miss Isabel Dickenson's indisposition,
was produced last night, and from the success it achieved
promises to hold its place in the' bills for some time.
The piece is' undeniably French. The plot may be
briefly explained. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Dearlove
(Mr. Frank Matthews and Miss M. Oliver) are a very
happy and attached couple, confiding entirely in each
other's affections. Horace Ogle (Mr. Chas. Mathews),
an old friend of Dearlove, has taken it into his
head to fill in love with Mrs. Daarlove, not from feel-
i'ng, or instinct, or passion of any kind, but because he
hates husbands of every denomination, for the confidence
reposed in their wives and the self-satisfaction they at all
times seem to express in their isolated possession. Ho-
race Ogle considers this a piece of connubial impertinence,
and his chief object in,life is' to rendei husbands jealous
by making love to the wives. As Daarlove is his-friend,
ho considers it his duty to put him on his guard ; and,
accordingly; he informs him that he is in love with his
wife, and that he intends to win her if he can. Dearlove
laughs at him, and leaves him tite-d-tete with Mrs. Dear-

love. The lady is a true daughter of Eve, and, though
she appears to despise arid be offended with the cold-

blooded gallantry and presumptuous love-making of the
coxcomb who addresses her, in reality is moved with a
new sensation, and, when her husband returns, she vents
her ill temper on him, abuses hint, finds fault with him,
endeavours to work herself into a jealous fit, and leaves
the room in a fury. Dearlove soon perceives that
somebody has been tampering with his wife's affections,
and to give a matte:-of•fact explanation to the position
in which she has placed him, on her entrance with her
favourite King Charles, he pretends the dog is mad.
Upon her being convinced to the contrary by Master
Dash drinking plentifully from a tumbler of water, and
exclaiming, "No, he's not mad," Dea,rlove replies,
" No, he's not mad ; but it were easy to make him mad
—Give a Dog an 11l Name, that's enough." Mrs.
Dearlove, with quicker apprehension than ourselves, we
must confess, sees the direct application of the proverb,
and repents of her momentary falling away, even in
thought, from the strict pathway of conjugal faith.
Horace Ogle is dismissed with silence, and then laughed
at. It does not seem likely he will die of a broken
heart. The piece was received with peals of laughter
throughout the performance, and with unanimous
applause at the fall of the curtain, and a general
summons was raised for the author, who, nevertheless,
did not think proper to respond thereto.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—We are glad to announce
that this theatre will be certainly opened on Monday,
the Ist of May, for the performance of French plays,
under the direction of M. Lafont, so long known and
estimated in this country. Messrs. Hoffman, Bardou,
Ferville. and the excellent R6gnier, Mdlle. Luther, and
Mdlle. Fix, of the Theatre Francais, are already engaged
to appear during the present season.
THE LATE LADY ELtzaurria AsHBURNHAII, whose
death occurred at her villa at Richmond, on Easter Sun-
day, would have completed the great age of 91 years on
the 10th of May. Her ladyship was the last surviving
child of John, second earl and fourtk baron of A.sh-
burnham (who was keeper of Hyde-park and St.
James's-park, and first lord of the bedchamber and
groom of the stole to George III.), and sister of
the late earl and of Lady Jetnima, the first wife of
the late Duke of Montrose. By the death of
this venerable lady many noble and distinguished
families are placed in mourning. Amongst others
those of the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Earl
De Grey, the Earl and Countess Cowper, the Earl and
Countess of Ashburnham, the Countess (dowager) of
Ashburnhain, the Countess of Powis, the Earl and Coun-
tess of Ripon, Sir Henry and Lady Mary Gordon, Mr.
and Lady Mary Vyner, Mr. and Lady Eleanor Wode-
house, Viscount and Viscountess Goderich. The de-
ceased lady was descended from a family of the highest
antiquity—described by an eminent genealogist as "a
family of stupendous antiquity, wherein the eminence
hath equalled the antiquity, having been barons temp.
Henry III."
DEATH OF LADY JOHN Masszns.---It is with the
deepest regret we announce the decease of Lady John
Manners. Her ladyship, who, we .are informed, has
been seriously ill from the period of her aceonchment,
which 'took place on the 12th ult., died on Friday last
at the early age of 23. Lady John Manners was the
daughter of the late Colonel Marley, an owner of large
property in Ireland, and was connected with the noble
houses of Rutland, Charleville and others. She was
married to her bereaved husband in 1851.
THE BAL COSTUME AT THE FRENCH EMBASSY.—A re-
port having obtained circulation in some of our contem-
poraries to the effect, that the date of grand bat costume,
to be given by the Ambassador of France, has' been
changed fromthe 12th to the 9th of May, we are enabled
to state that no such alteration has been made or even
contemplated ; and that the fete, as at present arranged,
will take place on the 12th proximo, the day originally
fixed by her Majesty the Queen.—Morning Paper.
CONSECRATION OF THE NEW BISHOP OF SALISBURY.
—We are - informed that , the consecration of__ the
Rev. W. K. Hamilton, late Precentor and Canon of
Salisbury, to the bishopric, -void by the death of Dr.
Dquison, will take_ place at Lambeth on the Ist of May,
being the festival of St. Philip and St. James.

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THE FRIEND- OF THE CLERGY.—Thw anniversary
festival of this useful and prosperous charity has, in
consequence of the day of humiliation having been
fixed for the 26th instant, been necessaiily - postponed
until the 3rd of-May. -We trust the charity will -not
suffer by the dplay.
IIIgENSE HORSE.—On Saturday last; the largest horse
in the world was exhibited at the Horse Shoe Inn
stables, in the town. Ho stands 21 hands high, and
weighs 25 cwt.—Wilt€ County Mirror. • - •
MILITARY .AFFRAY.—A serious fight took place in
Winchester, oe Sunday last, between about 150 soldiers
belonging to the 88th Regiment and the Hants militia.
It appears that the regulars had been sneering at the
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awkwardness and unsoldier-like qualities of the militia
mFti; the consequence was a desperate fight with. fists,
sticks;e, stones: and soldiers' belts,"
a terrible weapon, with
its large -metal- buckle. Several soldiers were taken to
theebospital dreadfully, and, it is feared,latally wounded.
0 militii men were victorious, as they-numbered two
to ne ov! the regulars. The policemen were too few
tce interfere to stop, otyven to mitigate, -the disgraceful
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