The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-14 00:00:00

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OPERA BUFFA.—LYCEUM THEATRE.—There
is no reason why a minor Italian opera company should
not hope to be successful in London, provided it be managed
with judgment. The attractions of the King's Theatre,
while of the highest description, have also been specially
reserved for those who could habitually pay the highest
price for the gratification of resorting to it. To the great
body of our respectable population it has consequently been
a luxury, purchasable at too dear a price, and therefore to
be altogether relinquished. We look at this Opera Br ffa
as it is called at the Lyceum, as an effort to remedy the
evil, and take advantage of the goods the gods provide us.
Mr. Mitchel, with M. Puzzi, have made themselves the in-
struments of this desirable consummation, and we do hope
they will succeed. On Saturday night the first experiment
was made in their undertaking. The opera was Donizetti's
Elisir d'Amore ("a jocose melodrame," the best of all me-
lodrames), and it was supported by Mademoiselle Blasis,
Signori Catone, and Bellini. The music is worthy of Doni-
zetti, and proves bow agreeable, graceful, and masterly, he
can be, in composing even for so trifling a subject. Made-
moiselle Blasis played and sang in Adina, the heroine. Ma-
demoiselle Blasis was a favourite at the King's Theatre
" some six years ago, or perhaps it was more." She does
not look younger now, but she is still not less agreeable.
Her voice is a pure soprano, and where she does not attempt
intricate ornament, her singing is exceedingly pleasing from
its good taste and good feeling. There was no ballet or
after-piece on Saturday night, but this must be, and we un-
derstand will be, amended. " God save the King," was
sung after the opera, and we must say, in much of its true
spirit, by Blasis and Catone.

On Tuesday week, Mr. Edlington, of Haxley
Grange, being in want of some gunpowder, sent his boy to
Haxley to purchase a pound of it. The morninc, being
very rainy, the powder got wet ; and, in order to dry it as
speedily as possible, he thoughtlessly and incautiously put
the greater part of the powder into the oven for the pur-
pose of drying it. It soon exploded with, of course, tre •
mendous force. The oven was shivered to pieces : one of
the fragments struck Mr. Edlington's thigh, laceratinc, it
very considerably : another struck his sister, and broke her
arm. Every door about the house was broken off the
hinges ; the glass was forced out of all the windows, ex-
cepting only the kitchen and dairy ; and one of the parti-
tion walls was very much bilged. Some of the glass was
found more than twenty yards from the house. The
kitchen door was fortunately open at the moment of the
explosion, or, in all probability, part, if not the whole, of the
house would have been destroyed, and the loss of life in-
evitable.—Doncaster Gazette.

According to the Greenock Advertiser, the recen
meeting of his constituents by Lord William Bentinck,
gives but an imperfect view of the opinions of the people
of Glasgow. " The Hall where it took place will not con-
tain more than 500 people, whereas the Parliamentary con-
stituency, according to the latest return, amounts to 8,733.
But the meeting consisted of non-electors as well as elec-
tors ; and, of course, its proceedings can afford no idea of
the views of the population of a city containing about
240,000 inhabitants. The political party must be small
indeed that could not muster, in Glasgow, numbers suffi-
cient to fill the Justiciary Hall. From all we can learn
Lord William has gained by his visit ; and although Mi-
nisters are condemned with equal virulence by those who
would uphold every abuse, and those who would overturn
every institution, yet they have lost nothing of their popula-
rity among the friends of safe and practical reform, who, we
are happy to say, constitute a large majority of the consti-
tuency of Scotland. The meeting between Lord William
Bentinck and his constituents indicates nothing more than
that there are in Glasgow, as well as in most other places,
a party who wish to go a great deal farther than his Ma-
jesty's present Ministry, or any other Cabinet likely to be
entrusted with the Government of the British empire."
A DUCHESS'S REVENGE.—Sarah, Duchess of
Marlborough, had still, at an advanced age, considerable re-
mains of beauty, most expressive eyes, and the finest fair
hair imaginable ; the colour of which she said she had pre-
served unchanged by the constant use of honey-water—
hardly such as perfumers now sell, for that has an unlucky
aptitude to turn the hair grey. By this superb head of hair
hung a tale, an instance of her waywardness and violence,
which (strange to say) she took particular pleasure in tel-
ling. None of her charms, when they were at their proudest
height, had been so fondly prized by the poor Duke, her
husband. Therefore, one day, upon his offending her by
some act of disobedience to her " strong sovereign will,"the
bright thought occurred, as she sate considering how she
could plague him most, that it would be a hearty vexation
to see his favourite tresses cut off. Instantly the deed was
done ; she cropped them short and laid them in an ante-
chamber he must pass through to enter her apartment.
But, to her cruel disappointment, he passed, entered, and
repassed, calm enough to provoke a saint ; neither angry
nor sorrowful ; seemingly quite unconscious both of his
crime and his punishment. Concluding he must have over-
looked the hair, she ran to secure it. Lo ! it had vanished,—
and she remained in great perplexity the rest of the day.
The next, as he continued silent, and her looking-glass spoke
the change, a rueful one, she began for once to think she
had done rather a foolish thing. Nothing more ever tran-
spired upon the subject until after the Duke's death, when
she found her beautiful ringlets carefully laid by in a cabi-
net, where he kept whatever he held most precious : and at
this point of the story she regularly fell a crying.—Lord
Wharnelife's Correspondence of Lady Mary TV. Montague.
On Friday morning a robbery to the amount of be-
tween 400/. and 500/., and of a character quite as myste-
rious as any of the numerous plunders of late at the west
end, was perpetrated at the house of Mrs. Booth, 6, Hert-
ford-street, Park-lane. The cook on coming down stairs
discovered the drawing-room in the greatest disorder, the
locks of drawers, boxes, Sze., having been forced, and the
chief portion of their contents abstracted. The parlour
had also been rifled in a similar way. The property con-
sisted of plate, jewellery, Sze. Prior to leaving the pre-
mises the thieves regaled themselves with meat from the
larder, but it is supposed they were in some way disturbed,
as numerous articles were lying about, which were intended,
no doubt, to be packed up with the rest of the plunder.
No marks indicating a forcible entry are apparent.
"DE vi L."—A Methodist preacher, at South Shields,
last Sunday, after remarking on the appropriateness of the
above cognomen to the person designated by it, added,
" The whole name is bad ; if we take away the first letter, it
is evil ; take away another letter, it is vile ; take away the
next letter, it is ill ; and the last letter itself has the sound
of Hell."—Shields Obserevr.