The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-24 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

ROYAL DRAMATIC PERFORMANCES Ar
WINDSOR CASTLE. Edited by Benjamin
Webster.

A gorgeous quarto volume has just appeared, com-
memorative of the theatrical entertainments which
very recently revived to recollection the great age of
Elizabeth. We are puzzled how we may best dis-
tribute the praise due to the several persons from
whose hands the book has emanated. We know not
whether to apportion our applause first to the printer,
to the publisher, to the artist, or to the editor. Their
combined labours have harmonized so exquisitely as
to remind us of that beautiful law of nature so beau-
tifully expressed by one we wot of, how
" —colour'd rays unite
To form one pencil of pelucid light."
A more elegant volume in appearance, or one more
worthy of preservation, has not been issued from
the press for a long while, according to our
remembrance. The typography—clear, sharp
type on paper like rice paper in texture—does credit
to the establishment of Mr. W. S. Johnson. The
frontispiece, a coloured representation of the sump-
tuous Reubens' Room in Windsor Castle, with the
august audience on one hand and the celebrated per-
formers on the other—here the Queen, the Prince,
and the Royal children—there Shylock, Portia, Bee"
sanio, Antonio, and Gratiano. The admirable ar-
rangement of the contents is honourable in like
manner to the eminent manager of the Haymarket.
The plays, of course, are from the various pens of
Jerrold, Bourcicault, Thompson, Kenny, Morton,
and Oxenford, headed by two of the masterpieces of
our glorious Shakspere.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen held a Chapter of the Most Noble Order
of the Garter, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at
Buckingham palace, when the Earl of Clarendon and
Earl Spencer were elected Knights Companions, and Dr
vested with the usual formalities.
Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, attended by
the Countess d'Hulst and Major de Moerkerke, took
leave of the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday morning•
The Royal children took their usual exercise yesterdsf.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the perform'
once at the Haymarket Theatre yesterday evening with
their presence. The Royal suite consisted of the
Viscountess Jocelyn, the Hon . Miss Stanley, the Marquis
of Ormonde, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel
Bouverie.

Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians visited her
Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, and partook of
a dejeuner with her Majesty, at Marlborough House.
The Queen of the Belgians visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent yesterday. Her Serene Highness
the Princess Amelia of }lohenlohe Schillingsfurst also
paid a visit yesterday to her Royal Highness, at Clarence
House, St. James's.

Mr. Alexander Hastie and Mr. M'Gregor had an in:
terview with Sir George Grey yesterday. The Earl or
Clarendon had also an interview yesterday with the
Right Hon. Baronet at the Home•office.

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COLOSSEUM.—Among the numerous visitors to the
Cyclorama during the past week were the following:--
Lord Sidmouth and party, Lord St. Vincent, Viscount
Alford and family, Lady Douglas and party, Marquis
and Marchioness Chohnondeley, Baroness Dimsdale,
Baroness de Rothschild, Lady Dacre, Lady yard°
Buller, Lady Webster, Sir E. Codrington, Sir J. en,d
Lady Cole, General Pereira and party, Mrs. A. L.
Goldsmid, &c., &c.
BAN YARD'S PANORAMA, EGYPTIAN HALL.--Tbe
following distinguished persons have honoured Banvard'e
exhibition of the Mississippi River with their presence
during the current week:—The Duke of Wellington,
Lord and Lady Alfred Paget, Lord C. and Lady Russell,
Lady H. Russell, Right Hon. Earl of Lincoln, Sir B-
and Lady Peel, Lord Carlisle, Earl of Minto and Lady,
Bishop of London, Bishop of Norwich, Sir John and
Lady Anson, Sir E. W. W. Pendarves and party, Sir W.
Jolliffe and Lady, Sir N. and Lady Davie, Lady Char-
lotte Edgerton and party, Lady Webster, Marquis of
Lansdowne, Chevalier Bunsen and Lady, General and
Lady M'Donald, Colonel Gordon and family, itc:, die.
On Saturday last the boys connected with
.theil
Military Asylum, Chelsea, attended the Morning
exhibi-
tion, by invitation, accompanied by their u
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF THE VICAR OF WELDON,
Mills BEDFORDSHIRE.—Last evening
new-road,Mr.
on
William Shore Chalk, rector of e 01:1, Bedfordshire,
lithe s held
late an
Rev.in
quest at the King's Head, vvdM
the
eistEreussstinong
wfiotnougr o'clock last
whose death occurred under thheactfloelarlotk
circumstances:—George roctue sEt aunsct eosn
Euston-square,
:roe, e
deposed fie s et,
Wednesday afternoon, the housemaid informed him that
she could not get into deceased's room. He accordingly
forced the door open, when he found him lying dead la
bad, and at his side the basin full of matter he bad
ejected from his stomach. On the dressing-table were $
glass tumbler, a penknife, and a paper labelled "Purified
Epsom Salts." In his pockets were found letters, his ad-
dress, and 41.85. in money. lie had not previously seen
deceased. The Rev. William Monkhouse vicar of Gold'
ington, Bedfordshire, knew deceased for twelve years,
and during that period was intimately acquainted with
him. He never knew a man of a more composed
or even temper. He had everythin that could make
Ipilfaetedessui
suicide. In
andln wwaistntohsees lastm
opiniona n ghatthe wdoruulgdgcisetAnt
teu:pui
plied deceased with oxalic acid instead of salts,
caused his death. He was in the habit of taking
Mr. Thomas Skelding, surgeon,was
11, Euston-square,who
called to attend deceased, whom he found dead. The
at his bedside contained the contents of h„!..
stomach, which were impregnated with oxalic acid. .
a tumbler on his dressing-table were crystals formed by
the acid, and lose to it was a paper labelled Puri"
Epsom Salts,,, which contained a portion of the poisoan•
No druggist's name was attached to the label. Ile s:tb,
of epinion the deceased was supplied in mistake iv 2,
oxalic acid, and that he took it unintentionally for .0,1):
som salts. Mr. Lynn Smart, a solicitor, 56, Lincoln !.
an
gaps.
inn-fields, and several other witnesses, give similar efl_,.
dente. Verdict—" Deeeased was killed by oxalic aclur
but iteti,tr he Look i; besigt.euly
,destroy
through his ignorance of its effects, there was ni) ov•
deuce to prove."

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