The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-13 00:00:00

SURREY THEATRE.

The bills of this theatre on Monday night announced': wo no-
velties, the first of which was designated an historical operetter
entitled The Ilaynted Head! or the Sculptpr's Study. It
would be unfair to give any opinion on the piece, as it was evv
dent that it had been got up in a hurry. It was, howeveo
successful, there were only one or two dissentients when the
curtain fell. The great titinction of the night was another
version of the Bronze Morse, Saving for its second title, TM
Cloud King's Curse. The Brazen Horse has been made a
very hack of in England; the celellty it had acquired in
France has set the breeders of this co-Kntry on the idea of
crossing to such an extent, that it becoinee difficult to de-
fine exactly the pedigree of all the BrrPze Horses we
are called upon to inspect. The Bronze ,r-lorse of the
Surrey is most nearly allied to that of Covent-orden, but
it has a kind of apostrophe dove-tailed to it in tie shape
of a paraphrase of the Ghost scenes of Hamlet. The
whole strength of the company was employed. Mr. ELiwiet;
the hero, and Miss Byfield, the heroine. The dresses were. al'
most elegant and characteristic.

The Duke of Wellington, when the situation of big
head gardener at Walmer Castle last became vacant, gave
it to an old sergeant, named Townshend, who served in his
Grace's regiment, the Grenadier Guards, at Waterloo. The
old soldier was present at the anniversary dinner of the
Deal and Walmer Conservative Club on Thursday Pit'
Price, M.P., in the chair), and sung the song of the " AI"
mer and the Old Soldier" on the occasion.
Sir Robert Peel is expected in town in the course
of next week, with his family. The Right Hon. Baronet
has entertained a succession of visitors at his seat, Drayton
Park, during the shooting season, and is himself eztremell
partial to the sports of the field.

The Marquis of Hertford, who sojourned last win-
ter at Milan, has returned to his former residence at Napil
with his establishment, where he intends to remain wit?,
May, when he will return to this country. There are n°"
so many English of distinction this winter at Naples, as
there were at this time last year.
The Viscountess Milton, relict of the late Viscount
Milton, was on Monday delivered of a daughter at the
house of her father, the Earl of Liverpool. The next soil
of the Earl Fitzwilliam thus becomes entitled to the titles
and estates of the present Earl on the death of his father.
He has not yet arrived at full age.
The Earl of Minto's dinner at the Admiralty, on
Monday evening, was given to Viscount Me;bourne,
Vis-
count Palmerston, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Countess Sebas"
tiani, Baron and Baroness Bulow, Mr. C. Romilly, Ste. Os
Lordship will give a Cabinet dinner to-day.
MRS. HALL'S NEW NOVEL,—" The 0111'
LAW."--These volumes are crowded with striking incidents'
Mrs. Hall has chosen wisely in selecting the epoch of the
reign of James 11. for the scene of her story, into which
she has breathed all the animation, the bustle, the strife,
the startling and contrasted situations, the vivid character,
in short, peculiar to the period. The Outlaw himself is
mysterious personage, who is hunted throughout the land,
from one hiding place to another, by the ruthless myrmidon?
of James 11. The various escapes and sufferings of tho
persecuted Protestant keep the attention and the sympath/
of the reader perpetually alive, while the dramatic workinf
out of the other principal characters attest the authoress?
claim to a very high station among writers of romance!
Naval and Military Gazette.
A great sensation was produced in Westininster,
Hall last night, by the communication of a confidential
Usher to some aspirants at the Bar—that a change in
high judicial department was certainly on the eve of takias
place, as Mr. Justice Bosanetuet had in the course of the,
morning returned the State Robe, temporarily borrowed es
Lord Lyndhurst, his occasion for it having ceased.
ADVERSE MAJORITIES.--011 the 12th of Jan.,
1784, the new Ministry of Pitt was twice left in a minority,
once of 39, the second time of 54. This not indueingtheel
to resign, a series of motions was made to compel them t°
do so. It was never ventured, however, to stop the
supplies. Between Jan. 12 and March 8, fourteen motions,
besides those which passed without a division, were carried
against the Ministers with various, but on the whole, de-
creasing majorities, the last only by a majority of one. This
ended the struggle. The Minister saw that the time wag
now come when a dissolution was likely to tell in his fa-
vour, and it took place accordingly March 25.
HEALTH OF THE KING OF SWEDEN..—HAM-
BURG, DEC. 29.—1 t is asserted that the health of the
Kirtg, Charles John, has become very weak, and that the
rough climate of Sweden greatly injures him. He may
possibly think of spending the remainder of his days in a
milder climate more suited to his constitution, in which
event Prince Oscar would assume the reins of Goverir
mont during his father's life. Letters from Copenhagen
state, that at the beginning of the milder season King
John, by his doctor's advice, intends making a temporary
tour in the South. Time will tell how far these reports
are well founded.

A dancer at the Grand Theatre, named Bourrachon,
dining out last week with another actor and the chief me-
chanist of the theatre, proposed to his companions to go
to a shooting gallery, and practise pistol-firing. Mr.
Bourrachon made a bet that he would hit the bull's eye the
first shot. He primed and loaded his pistol, and, crying
out, " There's thd bull's eye 1" put the weapon in his
mouth, pulled the trigger, and shot himself dead.—Censeztr
de Lyon.
Charles Lewis, the most eminent bookbinder in Eu-
rope, died at his house in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly,
on Friday. Nearly all the splendid bound books in the
libraries of the Duke of Sussex, Earl Spencer, the Right
Honourable Thomas Grenville, Heber, Hanrott, Dent,
Sir Mark Sykes, Sir Francis Freeling, Archdeacon Butler,
Miss Currer, Beckford, the Duke of Devonshire, Baron
Bolland, and other distinguished collectors, have beep bound
by Charles Lewis.

It is found from experience in American prisons)
that convicts condemned for life frequently procure their
discharge sooner than those who are sentenced for limited
periods. It would seem that the former apply more assi-
duously and steadily to work, a certified report of good con-
duct generally being followed by a pardon ; while the latter
recklessly continue, trusting to the lapse, of time, which, if
they survive, must ultimately produce theie freedom.
ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY.-Last night the
monthly. evening meeting of this Society was held at its
rooms, in
Lineoln's Inn-square. A number of interesting
works of art were laid on the tables, and arnongst others
Mr. Hakewell's Sketches, illustrative of his tour in Jtaly.
TheSe drawings excited considerable interest, fOlr"#ral of
them wore of Scenes in the vicinity of Rome, and.`iveee exe-
auted'*ith great taste. There were also some highly-fi-
nished architectural drawings of churches, and other build.