The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-06 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Emile Angier has writt,n no more graceful little
drama than that which has been translated, or
rather paraphrased, into English by John Oxenford.
Last evening the new version of the Cigue was pro-
duced with brilliant success at the Olympic Theatre, the
principal characters being inimitably pourtrayed by
Mrs. Stirling and Mr. Leigh Murray. Those who bear
in recollection. the beginni❑g of Mr. Mitchell's season of
1848, in St. James's, will ❑ot have forgotten the agree-
anle freshness of the little piece here revived in affother
language—the classical elegance of what may be called
the drapery of the drama—the sparkling witticisms
scattered through the dial ,gue—or the peculiar com-
bination of languor and excitement diffused over the in-
cidents. With little claim to excellence in regard to
dramatic completeness, the Cigue had nevertheless an in-
describable charm in the circumstance of its originality both
in its conception and in its treatment. The moral is
literally an antidote to suicide. Clinias, an Athenian
youth, (ore of the e¢rdSef) is the hero. He is
first revealed in the condition of a satiated voluptary—
" used up" in regard to all his emotions—blase to very
exhaustion—ennuyee beyond endurance by the cloying
sweetness and pomps of his profligacy—absolutely
wearied of life, and resolved at last to rid himself of the
burthen of existence by quaffing a draught of hemlock.
Before committing self-destruction, however, he deter-
mines to amuse himself with one more sensation. To
this end he proposes to bequeath his possessions to one
or other of his two parasites Cleon or Paris. The game
in which they are rendered competitors for his
property is nothing less than that of courtship.
They are required to gain the affections of a
beautiful Greek slave just purchased: by Clinias; and
whoever proves the successful suitor is to inherit the
fortunes of the debauchee. Nothing, however, will in-
duce the Grecian to listen to the advances of the rival
s)cophants, and disgusted in the end with their hollow
and selfish flatteries she flies for protection to her lord.
In the rapture of hearkening to the acknowledgment of
her love for himself; Clinias hurls the bowl of hemlock
from him, and compensates the slave for the trials to
which she has been subjected by espousing her, and
abandoning altogether his parasites, his profligacy, and
his thoughts of drinking poison. In the original
the drama is not only rhythmical but rhymed. Mr.
Oxenford has transformel the couplets into blank verse,
and, in doing so, has displayed the capacity and skill
which he has obtained by practice as a translator. Mr.
Leigh Murray as Clinias was peculiarly felicitous both
in the delineation of a soured and cynical voluptuary,
and in the revelation of love and ecstacy inspired by
the purity of the Greek maiden. The slave found in
Mrs. S:irling a gracetul and impassioned impersonator.
Both of the principal artistes were called before the cur-
tain on the conclusion of the play, and rewarded with
the heartiest applause. Of the scenic effects we must
likewise speak in terms of eulogium. In particular the
spectacle produced by the banquet in the polychromatic
triclinium—where the guests reposed upon cushions
habit, d in the goriteous kitons of Attica, and crowned
with the violet garlands of the Acropolis—was singu-
larly beautiful. Pauvre Jacques was subsequently re-
presented by Mr. Benjamin Barnett, hitherto a stranger
to a London audience. With a recollection of the ini-
mitable acting of Mr. Morris Barnett in the same part,
it must be confessed that the debutant had great diffi-
culties to overcome. His triumph, nevertheless, in the
expression of the old Frenchman's decrepitude, whimsi-
cality, and pathos, was complete. He was rewarded
with acclamations.

OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S TREATRR.--Their
Royal Highnesses the Duka and Duchess of Cambridge
and Prince George ofCambridge, attended by the Baron
Knesebeck, Sir Edmund St John Mildmay, and Lady
Augusta Somerset, honoured the French plays with their
presence last evening. There were also present his
Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, his Serene High-
ness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, her Serene High-
ness the Hereditary Princess of Parma, his Excellency
the Turkish Ambassador and suite, the Duchess of
Marlborough, Lady Goldsmid, Lady William Paulet,
Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lord Trimleston, Lady Quen-
tin, Lady Webster, Sir John Lyster Kaye, M. Eugene
de Gelache, Sir John and the Misses Burgoyne, Sir
William Fraser, Mrs Denniatoun, Sir Henry Webb,
Captain Burton and the Hon. Mrs. Ryder Burton, Mr.
Claude Scott, Mr. Seymour Bathurst, Colonel Hamil-
ton, Mr. Hardwick, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hammers-
ley, Miss Lushington, Mr. De Caters, the Hon. George
Jerningham.

REFORMATION OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS.—His
Royal Highness Prince Albert, who a short time since,
signified his intention of layitrg the foundation stone of
the Philanthropic Society's Farm School and Chapel,
has fixed Monday, April 30, for the occurrence of the
interesting ceremony, which will take place at the
newly-selected situation, near the Redhill and Rei-
gate station of the Brighton Railway. In addition
to the munificent donation of 1,000/. from a " Friend,"
and 50/. from her Majesty the Queen Dowager, the
handsome donations of 100/. and 2001. have been made
respectively by " N." and Thomas Vincent., Esq.
SE AFORD.—REWARD.—The Royal Humane So-
ciety have, within the last few days, acknowledged the
benevolent and meritorious exertions of Abraham Hart
Youngs, Richard Paddy, and Jeremiah Nagle, three of
the Coast Guard, who so nobly distinguished themselves
by saving the lives of five of the crew of the Swedish
vessel Lafayette, of Uddewalla, from St. Übes, Alm,
master, wrecked in this bay during a storm early in the
morning of the 29th of November last. The sum of 3L
has been given to Youngs, and 11. each to Nagle and
Paddy. A. H. Youngs is also to receive a silver medal
making the fourth medallion presented him by the Royal
Humane Institution, for being instrumental in saving the
lives of his fellow-creatures when in danger of drowning.
—Sussex Express._

THE ROYAL VICTUALLING YARDS.—It has been
customary for staff or customs' officers to be stationed at
the several yards appropriated to the receipt and deposit
of stores for the service of her Majesty's victualling-
yards, whose duties have been to receive all goods con-
tracted for the service of the naval department by the
Admiralty B9ard, when sent to the different depots by
the contractors. A proposition was recently made by
the Lords of the Admiralty for the officers
of the customs at those places to be removed, it being
the intention and wish of their Lordships that the
officers of their department should in future perform
the duties, by which the services of the revenue officers
could be dispensed with, and some saving thereby
effected. In pursuance of this communication from
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the officers
of the customs at the Royal William and the Royal Cla-
rence yards have received notice to discontinue their ser-
vices at those places; and the customs lockers at the
victualling yard at Deptford have been removed from
that establishment.

PLYMPTON.—DeebIe Boger, Esq., has been elected
Recorder or this ancient borough, in the room of his late
much reApected fa-her. John Boger. Rig.. deceased.

BIRTHS.
On the 2d inst., at Gillingham, Kent, the wife of Captain
11. St. George Ord, Esq., of a son.
On the 2d inst., at Upper Eccleston-place, Eccloston-square,
the wife of T. E. P. Lelroy, Esq., of a son.
On the 2d inst., at Paradise-row, Stoke Newington, Mrs.
J. Barnett, of a daughter.
On the 2d inst., at Tottenham, the wife of J. P. Thom,
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 31st ult , at Derby, the wife of W. H. Barlow, Esq.,
of a daughter.
On the 31st ult., at Bays water, Mrs. A. Lackersteen, of a
daughter.
On the 3' st ult., at the Rectory, Bishop's Waltham, the
wife of the Rev. W. Brock, of a daughter.
On the 31st ult., at Upper Montague-street, Montague-
square, the lady of E. T. Trevor, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 29th ult., at Southsea, Hants, Charles George,
eldest son of Charles Mott, Esq., of Church Stretton, Shrop •
shire, to Sophia, youngest daughter of the late P. Breton,
Esq., H. E. I. C. S., Calcutta.
On the Ist inst., at Puddletown Church, Dorset, Captain
John Temple West, of the Grenadier Gourds, eldest son of
Admiral Sir John West, K.C.8., to Margaretta, only child of
Sir Joh❑ G. R. de la Pole, Bart., of Shute-house, Devon.
On the 3d inst., at Bulpham, ➢lr. F. J.Vincent, of Brighton,
to Elizabeth Sarah, daughter of the late Mr. Stevens, of
Bulpham, Essex.

DIE.
On the 3d inst., in London, theD
Hon. Thomas Hugh Nugent,
youngest son of the late Earl of Westmeath, and only sur-
viving brother of the present Marquis of Westmeath.
On the 26th ult., at Basle, in Switzerland, Thomas Lovell
Beddoes, Esq., eldest son of the late Dr. Beddoes, of Clifton,
On the 30th ult., at Kinnaird Castle, Sir James Carnegie
Bart., of Southesk, aged 50.
011 the 30th ult., Martha Elizabeth Anna, wife of the Rev.
W. A. Osborne, Macclesfield.
On the 30th ult., at Laneroeth-house, Penzance, Com-
mander John Campbell, R.N., son of the late General F.
Campbell, of Salton and Poquhan, Stirling.
On the 2d inst., at Inverness road, Bayswater, Charles
Herring, Eq., aged 75.
On the 2d inst., at the Rectory, Farnham, Essex, aged 77,
the Rev. William Greenhill, B. L., late Fellow of Trinity
College, Oxford.

On—theidinst., at Islington, John D. Niemann, Esq., 01
Lloyd's, aged 71.

On the 2d inst., at Walhampton, Hampshire, Theresa, wife
of E. Cooper, Esq., of Pain's-hill, Cobham, Surrey.
On the 2d inst., at Mlornington•road, G. Thompson,Esck_

London Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of
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Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, is the eesef
Middlesex, Tuesday, February 6, 1849.

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