The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

PRINCESS'S.

• Exclusive of 960,

which had been left with Fabio (Mr. Allen), his
pupil, by his brother, Count de Fiesque, who had
intended them for Clelia (Miss E. llonner), daughter
of the Marquis. The Duke discovers the verses in
the apartments of his wife, and threatens death to the
writer. The Marquis and his instrument, Caffarini,
are alarmed, and seek to inculpate the Count and
Fabio ; but matters are, in the end, cleared up, to the
satisfaction of all parties, and two marriages furnish a
very pleasing termination to the seriocomic intrigues
which, throughout, forms the staple of the Opera.
The barcarole, which we give, is in the first act—
" Oh thou, whose lustrous beauty
Doth all mankind enchain ;
Without or crown or sceptre,
Thou o'er each heart dust reign.
In silence I adore thee ;
But if thou hear'st a sigh
When lovers round thee gather—
'T:s I !—'tis I !—'tis I !
"Each gallant high-born courtier
Doth seek thy heart to move,
They try all means to win thee,
I, nought can do but love.
• Yes, in silence I adore thee,
But if thou hear'st a cry,
That of love some one is dying, •
'Tis I !—'tis I !—'tis I '

This piece was thrice encored; the scene in the
same act between Caffarini and Fabio, where the
former rushes in to the latter's attic to remonstrate
against his eternal " practisings," was ludicrous in the
extreme, as was that wherein Caffarini seated at
the piano-forte in hopeless helplessness, waiting
for some bright thought to carry out his
patron's idea, pounces upon the air which Fabio is
humming in the adjoining closet, and transfers it
and its accompanying words to his own collection.
But we cannot, without quoting columns, give any-
thing like a correct idea of the opera, which, to
be understood, must be heard and seen. The artistes
were in excellent voice ; were throughout highly
applauded ; and at the conclusion of the piece were
called before the curtain. Mr. Allen appeared lead-
ing on Miss Anne Romer, Mr. Bodda, Miss Honner,
and Mr. Leffler followed. The opera was announced
by Mr. Walton for repetition. That most
beautiful of Shakspere s fairy creations,
A Midsummer Night's Dream, followed,
and was deservedly applauded. Mr. Henry
Hughes personated Theseus, and Miss Winstanley
(whose first appearance it was in London) enacted
Hypollita. The burthen of the drama rested, of
course, on the two twin friends, Hermia and Helena
(Mrs. Stirling and Mrs. Hughes). The acting of
these ladies is so well known, and so justly admired,
that comment would be an impertinence. Mr. Comp-
ton, as the worthy Bottom, kept the audience in a
roar, while Miss Marshall and her fair friends ex-
hibited the fairy world in its most attractive aspect.
The admirable airs which are interspersed throughout
were admirably sung by Miss Georgiana Smithson,
Miss Sara Flower, and Miss Anne Romer. The
evening's entertainments appeared to give the utmost
satisfaction to a crowded and most respectable house.

13,198,733
1,000/. recei.

LYCEUM.
Martin Chuzzlewit, Crusoe the Second, and The
Enchanted Forest, such was the bill of fare provided
for the amusement of the holiday folk at this theatre,
and never, perhaps, even under its present manage-
ment, had a more satisfactory bill been provided. Of
the merits of the first piece, Martin Chuzzlezeit, it
would be a work of supererogation to enter into, as
there can be but few persons, if any, who are un-
acquainted with the " Adventures of Martin Chuzzle-
wit. Of the acting, nothing more can be required
to be said than that the part of " Mrs. Sairey Gamp
the wet and dry nurse in the %Vale of Tears, and
well-be known at Guy's and Bartelmy's" was sus-
tained by the inimitable Mr. Keeley; and that Bailey
alias Old Bailey found a representative in the clever
and amusing Mrs. Keeley. When we have said this,
we think we awaken such a degree of curiosity
as will lead all those who have not yet seen the piece
to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded of so
doing. Crusoe the Second, or the Shipwrecked Milliners
—an extravaganza in one act by the author of the
Marble Maiden, &c., was produced for the first time.
In this piece, Willoughby Wobbles, alias Crusoe,
(Mr. A. Wigan), had, like his celebrated predecessor
and namesake, been cast upon an island in the
Atlantic ocean, and, like him, had also in the person
of Marmaduke Snodgrass, (Mr. Keeley), a man
Friday, for the proper government of whom,
and for the purpose of defining the relations
which in a well conducted Government should sub-
sist between the subjects and their rulers, a code of
laws and regulations had been drawn up, to the
various articles of which many most humourous ap-
peals were made by the subject when the monarch
attempted to infringe upon either his rights or his
liberty of conscience. Between, however, acts of
obedience and insubordination on the part of Friday,
and acts of oppression by Crusoe, seven years had
passed over the heads of the two solitary in-
habitants of the Island of Ascension, when, as
fortune would have it, a vessel was wrecked
upon the coast, and some score of passengers
(milliners), having effected a landing, proceed, as a
matter of course, in search of " natives." Two of
their number, Clementine (Mrs. Keeley), and
Wilhelmina (Miss Dickinson), more enterprising
than their companions, succeed finally, in discovering
first, the dwelling, and then the persons of both king
and subject. Acquaintanceship is first made by
Friday with Wilhelmina, to whom he makes his snit
and is accepted. Afterwards losing sight of her
he discovers, proposes, and is in like manner accepted
by Clementine; but at the moment of her accept-
ance, and while Friday is expatiating somewhat
grandiloquently upon the ceremonials of the marriage,
in which the sun, the earth, the moon, an
the stars, are to occupy a considerable
position, Wilhelmina makes her appearance,
and Crusoe also returns from an excursion,
into the country. The rest of the shipwrecked
maidens make their appearance, and Crusoe, by
virtue of his position as head of the church, in a burst
of enthusiasm proclaims polygamy the law of the
land. Subsequently he is discovered by Clementine
to be her long lost husband, and Friday receives the
hand of her fair companion.• The piece is smartly
written, and excellently got up. The amusements of the
evening concluded with the musical,magical,and roman-
tic extravaganza, founded on the chronicles of the three
sisters, from the German of John Augustus Musmus,
called The Enchanted Forest, which was really a
most amusing and latighable piece. The scenery
(especially that portion of it representing a portion
of the enchanted forest) reflected the highest credit
upon Mr. Philips, the artist. We ought not to omit
'to notice a very pretty pas de deux, danced by Miss
Frampton and Master Forrest, which was loudly and
most deservedly encored.

14,350,444 12,820,671
rod on Loan of 8,000,0 C

11,608,804 51,978,652
11., as stated below.

Miss Addison is a favourite with the public, and her
powers—such are their promise s—deserve the pa-
tronage ; at the same time , if she would mouth less
her declamations, if she would recede further from
that extreme of inane boarding-school recitation, if she
would approach nearer the expression of the very
passion as it would spring in actual life, from the
circumstances around her, always making allowance
for the exaggeration required by the stage, we feel
certain of her immediate triumph in her profession.
Considering the doleful, dismal character of the
piece, for an Easter Monday, it passed off
well, nay, we are certain it passed off very much to
the satisfaction of the gods, et superi et inferni, who
were but too glad to welcome the happy humour of
the Rival Sergeants, the rollicking frolicking Irish
fun of Leary O'Lynn (Mr. 11. Mellon), the rival of
his brother sergeant (Mr. Scharf), in their suit to
Margaretta (Miss Julia Wa'lack). The incidents of
this tiny interlude chiefly arise out of the wit of the
Irish sergeant, which, however, proves too sharp fur
its owner in the end; the green unsophisticated
honesty of Sergeant Charles wins upon the heart of
the happy, merry object of his affections, and they
were, in the terms of Miss Wallack's spirited
epilogue, " dismissed with flying colour•, that
they may stand guard to-morrow night." The
well-known amusing farce of The Bengal Tiger,
followed with an excellent cast of characters. Mr.
A. Young° played Sir Paul Pagoda with effect; Mr.
Morton meritoriously supported the character of the
Young Merchant (Edward Henderson), but espe-
cially Scharf, in the character of the Servant David,
earned for himself the universal applause of the audi-
tory. On the whole, the high character of this
house, by bating the indiscretion which gove-rned the
selection of the pieces, was worthily sustained.

While Mr. Maddox continues, as at present, to
unite under his managementoa corps of artistes, dra-
matic and operatic, second to none other in the me-
tropolis, he may rest assured that the public— a most
discriminating judge in such matters—will, as on the
evening of Easter Monday, testify, by and over-
flowing house, its appreciation of his earnest
and unwearied efforts. Wherever talent, lite-
rary or artistic could be procured, whether that
talent were continental or " native born," we have
seen the enterprising lessee of the Princess's spare no
cost in bringing it before a London audience, and if
his exertions have not been fully recognised, neither
have they been altogether unrewarded. Certain
coteries have arisen and shed a fictitious brightness
over the theatrical world for a while, but depending
on no settled laws, they have week by week waned
in lustre, until finally they have been altogether
extinguished. Mr. Maddox had determined from the
first to command the public patronage, and having
been successful in obtaining it, he has since that
period continued zealously to deserve it. Long may he
and his patrons maintain their present amicable rela-
tions. The entertainments yesterday evening were of the
diversified character, which has in so great a measure
earned for the Princess's Theatre its high repu-
tation. The first piece was The Barcarole,
the joint production of Scribe and Auber, for
the first time presented to the lovers of art in this
country in its original and unmutilated form. Al-
though this celebrated comic opera has attained a
wide spread continental celebrity, we are not aware
that its story is so universally known in our own
country, and for the benefit of those who were not
present last night to witness it, we shall give the
veriest outline of the plot, and afterwards refer some-
what more in detail to its musical excellence. The
Barcarole then is a comic opera in three acts. 'The
Marquis de Felino (Mr. Walton), Prime Minister to
the Duke of Parma, is thwarted by the Grand
Duchess and the Count de Fiesque (Mr. Bodd3),
her favourite—he is anxious to draw her into a
musical correspondence, and for that purpose
applies to Caffarini, the organist, (Mr. Leffler,)
to assist him with a somewhat amatory effu-
sion, which he intends getting placed in the
Grand Duchess's work-box, in the expectation that
she will reply to it, and thus give him a power over
her by exciting her fears of the Duke's jealousy.
Caffarini, driven to extremity, steals the air and words

ST. JAMES'S—FRENCH PLAYS.
Mademoiselle Rose Cheri made her debut for the
season here last evening, in Un Changement de Mains.
Who does not recollect the artiste-like personation
last season of the character of Elizabeth, the Em-
press of Russia, by Mademoiselle Rose Cheri, in this
admirable comedie-vaudeville—the mingled dignity,
pathos, and humour which she infused into the cha-
racter ? It at once secured to her the suffrages of the
English public as the first of French actresses. In
fact, it made her in this country. Last night she, if
possible, surpassed herself; never have we seen
her to greater advantage. Un Changement de
Mains was followed by Scribe's new one-act
comedy La Protegee sans le Savoir, in which
Rose Cheri acts the part of a young French
girl, an artist, who is most virtuously protected by a
young English nobleman, Lord Albert Clavering
(Rhozevil), who employs Crosby, a picture dealer, to
purchase her pictures of her at unheard-of prices, and
thus, while she imagines she is acquiring a fortune
by her talents as an artist, she is in fact indebted to
her unknown protector for all she possesses. She
is of course, as all pretty artists are, beset by dan-
dies, men about town, &c., but rejects all their
advances, and is at last rewarded, as all paragons
of virtue are rewarded on the stage. The naivete of
Rose Cheri's acting in this character was exquisite.
There was a simplicity and a self-dependence about
her that was most fascinating. She was called for at the
conclusion of both pieces, as was Rhozevil, who also
made his first appearance for the season. It would be
injustice to close this hasty notice without mention-
ing the admirable acting of Cartigny, in the last piece,
as an old French artist, qui n'aime pas les Anglaz.c. It
was rich—exceedingly. The house was crowded.

OLYMPIC.
This popular little theatre opened for the Easter
holidays last evening, with a very attractive bill of
fare, consisting of three pieces. The performance
commenced with Coleman's play of The Mountaineers,
very respectably cast, and which was received with
considerable applause. This was followed by the
farce of the Sparc Bed, in which Mr. W. Artand,
Mr. Butler, and Mr. Romer, played the principal
characters. This also went off with considerable
eclat. The feature of the evening then succeeded, in
the shape of a grand historical pastoral battle-piece,
called, the Life and almost Death of Joan of Arc, the
Maid of All-he-un.y. The
piece, as indicated by the
title, is founded on the well known martial proceed-
ings of Joan of Arc, and the feminine character and
valorous exploits of the great French amazon, are
most extravagantly caricatured; the delineation of
the heroic maiden being intrusted for representation
to Mr. George Wild. The burlesque opens with
a very well executed moonlight scene, entitled The
Fairies Haunt, in which we are introduced to a group
of the elfin tribe, headed by Fleur-de-Lis, their female
chief (Miss Fanny Williams ). The politics of France
come under fairy discussion, and the result is a deter-
mination to assist Charles the Dauphin in the war
then raging with Beauvais. For this purpose the aid
of Joan of Arc is to be invoked, and a hatchet is
procured, with which it is arranged the Amazon is to
free France. We have next a ludicrous representa-
tion of the Dauphin's army, and are introduced to
the Chief himself (Mr. Romer), as absurd a
' specimen of the regal genus as can be well
imagined. A change of scene brings the heroine
before us, engaged in the unheroic vocation
of carrying out " heavy wet" for her father,
a publican. She professes to have been mesmerised,
and had a call to leave the retailing of " stout," and
take to the field for the liberation of her country.
The Fairy Chief, in the guise of li'lorine, comes to
her aid and counsel, and having armed Joan with
her " cleaver," they set out for the army, accom-
panied by a donkey well loaded with pro-
visions, the forces being represented as exces-
sively hard up. After some diplomatic sparring
Joan is admitted into the service, the result of which
gn with her hatchet in ement with the army of
ag
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she
ee
mveorwysit
firstd oewn
capi-
tal style, clearing all before her. But the "best laid
schemes of mice and men gang aft aglee ;" an ambus-
cade is laid for the heroine of the hatcht, and she is
eaptured. She is condemned to be burned alive as a
witch; and, clothed in a white sheet, is about under-
going the fiery ordeal, when the Fairy comes to the
rescue, and the piece ends in the jolification of all the
characters, and a grand fairy scene as a finale. The
piece is creditably placed on the stage ; several of the
scenes are well painted, and the several parts were
fairly
in That of Amazon, especially, had
aWild, who completely de-
feminized the heroine, and in conjunction with the
capital sustained.
representative
mock heroics of Romer, kept the audience in a roar of
laughter throughout. The scene in which the female
battalion of warriors is made to go through its evolu-
tions,
was much applauded, on account of the spirited
and clever manner in which the movements were
effected. The piece was entirely successful, and gave
evident satisfaction to a highly respectable and nume-
rous assembly of holiday folks.

THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING APRIL 5, 1847.

No. I.—An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of April, 1846, and sth of April, 1847, showing
Increase or Decrease on each head thereof.

QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUARTERS ENDED YEAR Year ended April 5. Quarter ended April fr.
4 , ended ,--_. . i ended
,__„
~......._ --%
July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 5 April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 5, April 5, ......
1845 1845 1846 1846 1846 1846 1846 1847 1847 1847 ! Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
-..-------
£ £ £ £ £ £ £ X X X I
?£ X -
X £
4,499,548 4,848,303 4,354,789 3,961,918 17,661,618 4,523,391 5,310,83.5 4,514,721 4,447,673 18,796620 1 Customs .• • • ... -. • 1,132,002 Customs • .... .• •• • 485,755 -
2,965,684 3,955,106 3,338,837 1,626,458 11,886,085 3,104,711 4,181,926 3,608,155 1,652,865 12,547,657 ; Excise
Excise • .. 661,572 .... 26,407 -
.• ... 1,837,076 1,780,175 1,792,402 1,685,868 7,095,521 1,730,495 1,174,364 1,740,687 1,817,282 7,062,828 ' Stamps ...,•• ..... ....
Stamps.
130,892 4,257,158 t Taxes .............
Taxes ................ 2,000,567 201,279 1,876,051 146,142 4,224,039 2,006,427 259,940 1,909,89933119 • • •• • •
Property Tax ••••• • • • • . 909,991 1,823,883 386,985 1,963,882 5,084,741 1,009,1°2 1,972,128 450,219 2,033,072 5,464,581 Property Tax• ••• . • 379,840 • .
15,250
.... 69,190 -
Post-office ••.•••• • . • • • • 155,000 209,000 189,000 215,000 768,000 181,000 217,000 203,000 219,000 820,000 Post-office• •• •• •• •• 52,000 .. .• 4,000 -
Crown Lands 30,000 30,000 25,000 45,000 130,000 - 45,900 30,000 37,000 112,000 , Crown Lands
8
2
•• • • 18,000 •• • • :02.50:
Miscellaneous 13,652 15,102 68,612 91,522 188,888 , 18,001 177,910 29,657 92,593 318,161 Miscellaneous.... • • 129,273 • ... 1,071 -
- -
Total .. ...... 2,387.896 50,693 717,837 3
Total Ordinary Revenue 12,411,518 12,862,908 12,031,676 9,735,790 47,041,892 , 12,573,187 13,889,103 12,486,338 10,430,377 49,379,005 ,
China Money.. • • .., ..1
.. 450,000 300,859 .. 750,859 ' 440,000 227,644 .. 667,644 China Mousy ...... .... 83,215 .. -
Imprest Moneys, &c...; 29,262 24,591 64,084 52,909 170,846 73,939 33,815 31,884 53,859 193,497 ImprestMoneys,&c. 22,651 .• • • ••950 -
Repayments ofAdvances 182,354 473,881 404,179 456,473 1,516,887 111,607 199,882 302,449 164,568 778,506 RepamntsofAdyncs. .... 738,381 .... 291,905
--- --
Total lncome* • • 12,623,1:34 13,811,380 12,800,798 10,245,172 19,480,484 13,498,733 14,350,444 12,820,671 10,648,804 51,018,652 ' Total ..... •• . 2,410,457 872,289 718,787 315,155
--
I
Amount applied to Con-
Deduct
I 1 Dedt Deduct
3,207,608 27,917,075
solidated Fund ...... 8,255,562 8,869,973 7,859,997 5,468,355 30,453,857 8,476,134 7,617,435 8,615,898 872,289 1 315,155 1
Ditto, as Advances..... 101,501 550,000 615,077 140,000 E 406,578 91,501 472,500 837,500 2,910,000
4,341,501 ; Decrease Decrease.
Ditto, as Ways & Means I , Increase Increase
of the Year.. •••• • • .. 4,266,071 4,391,407 4,325,724 4,636,817 17,620,019 4,631,098 6,260,509 3,367,273 5,461,196 19,720,076 . 1,538,168/ on 403,632 on the
- - ---- ,, ~ the Year. Quarter.
Total. •• • • 12,623,134 13,811,380 12,800,798 10,245,172 149,450,404 (11 13,198,733 :14,350, 444
,12,820,671 11,608,804 1 51,978,652 1

No. ll.—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth April, 1846, and the sth April, 1847.
Quarters ended April 5.
1 Quarters ended April 5.
f- - -• t
~.—.....---..--_,
INCOME. 1846 1847 I CHARGE. • 1846 1847
, X. X. , X. X.
Customs ....
Excise •• • •
Stamps 1,685,868 1,817,282 Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund . ...
146,142 130,892 Sinking Fund • •• •• •• •• •
.....
Property Tax ••••••• • .• • • • ......... 1,963,882 2,033,072 The Civil List ......... .....
Post-otlice -•• • •
Crown Lands • • . ..... 45,000 . 37,000 For Advances, including 2,800,0001. in the present Quarter to Ireland, per Act 9 and 10 Vic. cap. 107 .......... 140,000 2,940,000
Miscellaneous • •
Imprest and other Moneys ..... ••• • • 52,909 53,859 Total Charge •• • .
Repayments of Advances .
10,260,514 10,661,417 ' 10,260,514 11,621,417
To Cash brought to this Account, be-
-
irg the First Instalment of Loan of , The Surplus of Revenue on the sth January, 1847, after providing for the Charges of that Quarter, was .. •.• . . • .... 1,365,455
8,000,0001.
.--
10,260,514 11,621,417 The Amount issued in the Quarter ended April 5, 1847, of the sums granted by Parliament out of the Con- .... 1,994,236
solidated Fund, for Supply Services • •
The probable Amount of Exchequer-bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended
April 5, 1847 •
_____.

upon the English stage; delighted, because there is
about it a union of the poetic and the imaginative,
which embodies in a remarkable degree one of Byron's
finest conceptions ; and improved, because there is a
representation of costume, of manners, and of deport-
ment, which, notwithstanding the exaggeration of
stage effect, is admirably true to the customs of the
country in which the scene is laid. And if we speak
thus of the plot and conception, we have great reason
to speak strongly of the way in which the manager
has brought out this piece. It is everything that the
frequenters of Astley s could desire, full of incident,
rich in costume, and fertile in effect, just
such a thing as play-goers would like to see.
To add to the effect of the piece, the docile horses,
the elephant, and the camels were introduced, and did
their part well in doing nothing—or that which is the
same thing, in being led on to the stage and off again.
They were docile and effective, and that was sufficient
for the manager. In addition to this, we may say
that the corps de ballet were a most admirable addition
to the piece, for the business assigned to them was
well performed, and such as was likely to bring a
large assemblage to the theatre. The Bride of Abydos
was succeeded by a variety of equestrian performances,
in which the elite of the company were called into
request, and performed some of those feats which
nobody would believe to be possible if they did not
see them. Mrs. Batty, Mr. Bell, Miss Isabelle, and
Mr. Powell were the principal agents. These
was succeeded by a laughable farce called the Married
Bachelor, and we only wish that we may always
have the same source of enjoyment. Truly, Batty
has commenced his season with an admirable view to
the enjoyment of the people. Among the chief of
these we may notice the performance of Mr. Powell,
by whom the attiring of a life-guardsman was most
admirably depicted. During his ride he took the
accoutrements of a number of the cavalry corps, and
exhibited all the phases of a guardsman's life, both in
coming into and going out of battle, and they were
given to the life as well as a number of other novel-
ties, by which Mr. Batty seems determined to catch
the public.