The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-14 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

DRUILY-LANE.—Mr. KEAN, who is so very
fortunate as to retain a considerable share of his
extraordinary popularity, in a very uncertain pro-
fession, returned to this Theatre lust night, after
a profitable country excursion, in the part of
Richard the Third. He was attended by a very
numerous audience, and received with a cheering'
acclamation. The new Pantomime of The
Golden Axe retained the majority of the audience,
and promises more solid gold to the Theatrical
Treasury.

COVENT-GARDEN.--The Tragedy of Romeo
and Juliet, admirably supported by the principal
characters, particularly the Romeo by Mr. C.
KEMBLE, and the Juliet of Miss F. H. KELLY,
drew a very elegant audience, and received an
ample portion of well-merited applause. But
perhaps, as the house was abundantly attended
during the Pantomime, poor SUAESPEARE had to
divide his hononrs with harlequin and The
Ogress.

BRIGHTON, JAN'. 12.—The satisfactory answer
to enquiries in the morning at the Palace, to
learn the state of the KING'S health—" His MA-
JEsTY is better to-clay"—underwent DO essential
change this evening ; the reply, to nearly ten
o'clock, to similar applications was, " His
JESTI continues better."
On Saturday night Mr. MATES, the King's
Messenger, left town with dispatches for Sir
WILLIAM A'CounT, at Madrid.
The Mexican Ambassador and suite arrived at
Philadelphia, from Baltimore, in December last.
It is very generally reported, that in the event
of a vacancy in the office of High Steward for the
University of Cambridge, that the Marquis of
HUNTLEY will be a candidate for that distin-
guished situation. •
Mr. SAMUELWELLS, of Huntingdon; has started
for Peterborough, in opposition to Mr.SCARLETT.
—Sir CHARLES WOLSELEY is also a candidate.
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM has presented a
magnificently painted window to the parishioners
of Buckingham for their parish Church, and for
which they have returned his Grace their warmest
thanks.
•
Sir Tuomas 13URD0N has, with his usual muni-
ficence, presented fourteen fat wether sheep, and a quantity of
coals, to be distributed amongst the poor in the township of
Jesmond.
The late Miss Barbara Christiana Craster, (sis-
-
ter of the present High Sheriff of Northumberland) left a bene-
faction of 201. to the Alnwick Dispensary.
On Monday se'nnight, THOMAS GIBSON, Esq. was chosen
Master of the Trinity House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for the
ensuing year.
On Tuesday last, Wrx.t.msr PARRER, Esq., was elected
Mayor of Ripon for the ensuing year.
'At a highly respectable meeting of the District
Committee at Alnsvick, in aid !of the Society for promoting
Christian Knowledge, holden on Tuesday last, in the New
Committee Room, Bontigate-street, his Grace the Duke of
NORTHOMBEREAND in the Chair,! it appeared 101 Bibles,
127 Testaments, 618 Prayer Books, 49 Psalters, 227 other
bound books,! and 1971 half.bound books and tracts had been
distributed in the course of the last year.
The Archbishop of CANTERnURY was danger-
ously ill during several days last week. His
Grace was on a journey into Nottinghamshire, on
a visit to his sister; accompanied by his lady and
daughters, when he was taken ill at Alconbury.
hill, in Huntingdonshire ; and the attack Was ..!o
alarming, that he did not proceed on his journey,
but returned to Eaton, in Bedfordshire, where
advice was procured. The medical gentleman of
that place accompanied the Archbishop to Lam-
beth Palace, where they arrived on Thursday
afternoon. On the alarming: state of the Rev.
Prelate being made known to his son, the
SPEAKER of the House of Commons, the Right
lion. Gentleman hastened to his Grace, and has
beet) constant in his attendance ever since. We
are happy to say that his Grace was pronounced
out of danger on Saturday, and 'was able to be
removed into his library.
•We are requested to state that the placing the
name of Captain BUTTERFIELD, It. N. OH the list
of Candidates for Governor of the House of Cor-
rection, Cold Bath Fields, .was the act of his
friends in London: it was withdrawn the moment
Captain B. understood what was the nature of
the office.—(Humpshire Telegraph.)
THE NORTH-WEST EXPEDITION.----At the
monthly meeting, on Tuesday last, 7th inst.t an interesting
paper was read to the Literary and Philosophical Society, on
the probable situation, condition, and prospects of Capt.
PARRY and his brave fellow adventurers, an inquiry surely
not ill-timed at a season to us of joy and festivity, to, them of
dreariness and darkness. It shewed the probability of their
having succeeded in getting a passage through some inlet
in the north-west of Hudson's Bay, since, if this had not
been the case, they would have returned, or at frost been
heard of. If they should have got beyond the Copper Mine
River the first summer, it is a subject of hope, rather titan expec-
taion, that they may have passed 3lackenzie'a, and pushed thee'
Behrings Straits. in which case we may expect intelligence
very soon. But in this, probably Fan:sum would have
heard of them. (Jr they may have been taken short by the
climate before reaching the Pacific, and are now passing
a second winter on this side of dehring's Straits ; still a
fairihope may be entertained of their ultimate safety ; but 'it
may be the end of this year, or the spring of the next, before we
hearof them. Or, thirdly, they may not have been able to
find a passage in the Pacific ; and then the question, can
they get back to the Atlantic before the open weather closes or have they the means of passing a third Polar winter ? Vari-
ous presumptions are in favour of this. But on a fourth, not
improbable, supposition, of damage to the ships, or deficiency
of, or injury to, their resources, cr sickness, disabling from ex-
ertion, their situation must indeed be wretched ; and what ought
the country, in contemplation even of its possibility, to do?
First, to dispatch directions to the Governors of Canada, find-
son's Bay, and the Nerd' West Company, directing them to equip
different parties of natives with proper supplies, to go in search
by the Copper Mine and Mackenzie's Rivers, and other mutes,
with a security of being rewarded at any rate, and munificently
in case of success. Secondly, that two or three small vessels be
sent in different directions. Thirdly, that the Davis's Straits
ships be encouraged to sail a fortnight or more before the usual
time, and explore the coast before they come to the fishing-
ground. These or any other expedients should be adopted,
rather than a single chance be lost of saving these brave men.—
(IVezeciistle Chronicle.)
REPEAL OF THE SALT TAX.—There, is no class
to whom the abrogation of the Salt Tax has given greater saris-
f.ction than the country people. " They called on me yester-
day ( Wednesday Bth instant) in numbers," says a respectable
dealer, " and those that never bought above seven pounds at
a time in their lives, went off smiling with half a hundred
weikilit." .(
Glasgow Chronicle.)
• EW LONDON BRIDGE.----WP understand that
the fifty-two designs for this intended structure have been sub-
mitted to Messrs. So*Nr, NASH, and SMIRICE ; but that the
report made by these Gentlemen has not met the entire appro-
bation of the Bridge house Committee, who have consequently
referred it back to them for further consideration. It is not,
however, understood that the Committee wilt be entirely go.
verned by the ultimate-opinion of the architects abovemention-
ed.—( Literary )legister.)
UTTERING NOTES, KNOWING THEM TO HAVE BEEN
STOLEN.—By a recent Act of Parliament, the uttering or
offering for payment the notes of country bankers or oaten,
knowing them to have been stolen, subjects the offenders to
transportation; this, perhaps, is not. generally known, and the
information, we think, cannot be too widely circulated.