The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

No. 17,242.] .LONDON, TUESDAY, EVENING

ROYAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET,
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.
CHARLES STATES solicits the patronage of his
BROTHER TRAVELLERS to the above Establishment, which
has recently been newly furnished and laid out expressly for a Com-
mercial Hotel.
The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of the largest and most elegantly
fitted in the NORTH, it is hoped will be found complete in every
respect.
The BED-ROOMS (Sixty in number) have been furnished ha a
style which must ensxre the approbation of all visitors.
Gentlemen travelling with STOCK can at all times have SHOW
ROOMS without any extra charge.
The Music Hall, Lecture Room, and Royal Hotel Assembly Room
are all attached, and under the same management.
The Royal Hotel is in the most central situation in Newcastle.

ppURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause COLLYER against
ASHBURNER, the Creditors of ROBERT POUNDS, of High-
street, Camden-town, in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, (who
died in the month of April, 1846), are, on or before the 27th day
of January, 1848, to come in and prove their debts before Sir
GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Cham-
bers, in S9uthampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; or, is
default thereof; they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of
the said Decree.

CHRI-TMAS HOLIDAYS.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Dr. RYAN has been engaged to deliver a short COURSE of
LECTURES on CHEMISTRY, with brilliant Experirnen:s, Daily at
Half-past Three, and every Evening at Nine o'clock, except Satur-
day Evening. A LECTURE by Dr. BACHIIOFFNER on the
Laws of Nature, in reference to the Important subject of SA-
NITARY MEASURES, and on the various modes of VENTILA-
TION, in which the PHYSICAL PROPERTIES of a JET of
'TEAM will be exhibited Daily at Two, and en Tuesday and
Thursday Evenings at Eight rat. The OXY-HYDROGEN MICRO-
S.:OPE, New DISSOLVING VIEWS, the'OUROMATROPE. PHY-
SIOSCOPE, Ste. MODELS of MACHINERY at work, and ex-
plained. The DIVING BELL and DIVER, with HYDE'S NEW
APPARATUS for CONVERSING ander WATER, &s.
_ .

Now ready, price 3d., stamped 4d.
PUNCH'S ALMANAC for 1848, profusely
illustrated by John Leech and Richard Doyle.
London : published at the Punch-ofilce, 85, Fleet-street.

CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS

THE THEATRES.
DRURY-LANE.
The pantomime at this theatre is the oint compo-
sition of Alfred Crowquill and Albert Smith,
entitled Friar Rush; or, Harlequin King Gold. Our
readers no doubt recollect the legend upon which the
plot is founded, which was published some years
ago, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. It
was last night illustrated by Messrs. Grieve and
Telbin in the most exquisitely beautiful manner. To
quote the words of the programme—" the opening
(by Alfred Crowquill) is a savage landscape, of a re-
markably quiet nature, indulging in a little water
down the back. The small waves are playing upon
the pebbly beach, and snatching some silver, thrown
down to them by the munificent moon, who coquets
with the father lake, and places her portrait on his
bosom ; the cream of the stars, skimmed from the
milky way, descend to earth—each is a destiny.
The Queen makes a speech, explaining only as much
as she likes, with which her Court is satisfied. She
summons an earthly sprite to mislead one who is al-
ready miss-led, giving, at the same time, a little
change to everybody, although she despises gold and
has no exchequer." This scene was one of the most
exquisite pieces of dioramic effect ever beheld ; the ef-
fect of the moonlight on the lake, and the rippling of
the waves as they slowly retied on to the shore, was
beautiful exceedingly. There was some clever
dancing in this scene by Madame Louise, Mademoi-
selle Melanie Duval, and Madame Giubelei. The
appearance of Friar Rush mounted " upon a hot
and fiery steed," to wit, a dragon-shape locomotive,
" which his aspiring rider seemed to know," was
cleverly managed, and altogether the first scene
promised well. Then came " a romantic wood,"
another exquisite bit of scenery ; and in " a cottage
by this wood" resides an old gentleman who wears
the most remarkable sabots ever beheld, and who
makes great fun by stamping about the stage in them.
Then comes the transformation, and we are intro-
duced to our old friends, Harlequin (Mr. Harvey),
Columbine (Miss Waite), Pantaloon (Mr. Garden),
and Clown (Mr. Ridgway.) The tricks in the har-
lequinade are, some of them, novel—all of them
good. As an instance of novelty, we will mention
one ; Harlequin is stuffed,down a pump by Clown and
Pantaloon, and then pumped up again through the
spout into a washing tub, from which, after
various tricks, he emerges. Many of the
transformations are very elaborate, and some of them,
as might hare been expected on a first night, hung
fire, but the fun of Ridgway, whols one of; if not the
very best of clowns on the stage, and the agile activity
of Harvey as Harlequin were instantly put into requi-
sition, and kept the audience in good humour until
the mistakes could be rectified. When the tricks "go
well," which they will do after a night or two, this
will be a capital pantomime. It was preceded by the
opera of the The Maid of Honour, to which the
audience listened as attentively as though it had not
been boxing night, and albeit they were lavish of the
applause which they bestowed upon it, they were
likewise discriminating in its bestowal. The house
was crowded to suffocation.

HA YMARKET.
Messrs. Gilbert A'Beckett and Mark Lemon have
revealed the secrets of the World Underground to the
patrons of the Haymarket, and a very entertaining
set of personages are its inhabitants. King Quartz
is the very beau ideal of what a king should be—of
what kings were in the good old time before parlia•
ments were heard of, and when the Monarch was his
own legislator, judge, and executioner; and how glo-
riously tyrannical was,James Bland last night as
King Quartz ; then there was his son Emerald, most
interesting of princes, most interestingly personified
by Miss P. Horton, who is placed under the tutelage
of the living essence of Brass (Mrs. Keeley), and
those who recollect Mrs. Keeley as Young Bailey,
can form an idea of what a concentrated essence
of Brass she can be. Then there was
Miss Reynolds (whose clear bell-like voice
told with great effect in the beautiful
snatches of melody with which her part was inter-
spersed) as the Princess—and a most fascinating
Princess she is—with whom Emerald and all the
other unmarried Princes of the world are desperately
in love, and whose marriage, it, would appear, created
-en infinitely grrntor son-at;onttiamthat or either the
Queen of Spain Or her sister. These all exerted
themselves according to their wont to the utmoit.
Tha scenery was good, -and the jokes not few, but
somewhat too far between. A little judicious con-
densation would make this one of the best burlesques
ever produced. It was preceded by The Rivals, cast
as it eon be only cast Est this theatre. The house was
crowded.

ADELPHI.
A genuine Melphi audience last night crowded pit
and gallery of the " favourite theatre," prepared to
enjoy with due gusto the Christmas fare provided for
them. The boxes shoWed a much larger sprinkling
of foreign costumes and physiognomies than we are
accustomed to see within the walls of an English
theatre !upon "Boxing night," the ,reason probably
being that Pantomime has on this occasion to assume
a foreign dress ann exhibit foreign character, the
Italian Pierrot and Polichinello superseding our old
friends Pantaloon and Harlequin. The story of the
pantomime, as developed last night in ten tableaux is
sufficiently simple. Pierrot in a dress of white calico,
with empty pockets makes love to a farmer's daughter,
and is of course rejected. He presently comes into A
large fortune, and dressed in white satin, ith splendid
offers of pin-money, is equally of course accepted,
ried man." Polichinello, the
gay single fellow," is
and becomes, as the bill calls him, "Pierrot the mar-
present at the courtship and at the wedding, where
he lays the foundation of the plot, of which the sole
peint is that Pierrot finds himself blessed with an in-
"
creasing family, very few of whom are the " the
exact image " of Signora Pierrotte's husband. The
tableaux showed how,
by Polichinello's practices,
Pierrotwas tricked and buffeted ; how he was half
poisoned, and wholly made drunk, on his wedding
night; how he was enlisted as a soldier; how his wife
was run off with, and his wine drunk before his face,
or rather behind his back. But the
"fun " chiefly
lay in those kicks, thefts, and escapes which are al-
ready stale, or almost so, to our youngest
playgoers,
while some of it was perhaps unintelligible to an
English audience, and some was so coarse that it had
better have been so too. M. Paul Legrand, who
played Pierrot, showed considerable powers as a
mime, and was well seconded by the Polichinello
(Mr. C. J. Smith).

LYCEUM.
Madame Vestris, Planch6, and the Countess
d'Anois, united, have given to us one of the most
beautiful Christmas pieces ever produced; no fire -
and-fury romantic melodrama, no mere vulgar bur-
lesque, but a burlesque such as was wont to be pro-
duced at the Olympic at its best days, a burlesque in
which witty dialogue and witty parodies, set to the
most popular melodies, and sang
a withnd thetast
emf
no: most
raiseic h they can only be ex-
quisite taste, are combined with excellent acting,
e n
scent,splendid
in costumes,
manner
in w
beautiful
h scenery,
com-
bined under the management of a Vestris. The story
chosen for this year's burlesque, is " Le Rameau d'Or,"
which under the title o f the Golden Branch was pro-
duced last evening with the most complete success.
To give the 'plot of these burlesques is a work of
supererogation, inasmuch as it is generally well
known beforehand, being founded on some popular
legend, and it is, moreover, the matter of the least
possible importance in connexion with the piece, in-
asmuch as a good plot never secured. the success of a
witless burlesque, and a witty dialogue will always
secure the success of a burlesque without a plot. The
Golden Branch is supported by almost the whole
strength of the Lyceum company. We have Madame
Marshall,
who sung, acted, and danced exquisitely; H. Hall as
fVu el
lsyt r;i s ,a
Misshost
Kathleen in herself, F
whoitzw
1 sunganit and acted delight-
u i s s
old King Bear (the name is suggestive) the
King of all the Browns, who gave some admirable
imitations of " great tragedians of the present and
of the past times; Frank Matthews as Hugmuffin, the
grimmest of all grim enchanters ; and though last,
not least, Harley, as a Captain of the Guards, and
afterwards as a shepherd,
" Tityre to patulo recubans sub tegmine fagi,"
with crook and pipe in Arcadia. With such a cast,
and with the most exquisitely perfect raise ett scene, it
is not necessary to say that the success of the piece
was complete. As to the plot, we recommend the
reader to go to the Lyceum and discover it for him.
self. The house was crowded in every part.