The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-22 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

A new farce, in one act, entitled the Light Troop of
St. James, was successfully produced here last evening.
It is an adaptation, by Mr. T. M. Morton, from a French
original. The plot, which is somewhat of the flimsiest,
is as follows :—Jane Roberts (Miss Reynolds), the
daughter of an apothecary at Kensington, comes to the
Court of St. James's, in the reign of Queen Anne, to
solicit the place of attendant as one of the Maids of
Honour. She arrives just at the period that
the Masham intrigue, which eventuated in the down-
fall of the Duchess of Marlborough, is at its height,
Lady Alamodo (Mrs. W. Clifford), the superintendent
of the Maids of Honour, to whom she applies, is a
strong partisan of the Marlborough factions, and drill
the Maids of Honour to coquette with various in-
fluential courtiers, so as to bring them over to her
party. Jane Roberts has a great anxiety to procure
this situation, as on her success in so doing depends
her union with Master Thomas Smallbones
(Buckstone) the Inspector of the Queen's Kitchen,
and the son of a rich old money-scrivener.
Smallbones, who had imagined that the office was merely
honorary, finds to his horror that he has actually to
attend in the kitchen, and to taste every dish before it
is presented to the Queen, and being a man of taste, he
has no taste for such a tasting occupation, and is about
to resign his office in disgust, but the Maids of Honour,
to prevent bis quitting the palace, pretend to fall in love
with him, and each makes an assignation to meet him at
twelve at night near a statue in the apartments of
the Queen. Jane Roberts gets possession of the
billets, and transfers each billet to the courtier who ad-
mires the writer of it. They keep the assignations,
and are thus won over to the Malborough interest.
Lady Alamode meets Smallbones in the dark, and is
exceedingly affectionate to him. However, at the entry
of Jane Roberts every thing is cleared up, and the
lovers are united. The piece owes its success entirely
to the admirable acting of Buckstone and Miss Rey-
nolds. The latter was deservedly encored in a very
beautiful ballad, the music of which is the composition
of Mr. T. S. Reed.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—There were presen
at her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday evening—The Conde
de Monteinolino' the Princes Louis and Jerome Bonaparte,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Ormonde, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Worcester, the Hon. William and Mrs.
Ashley, who occupied her Majesty Queen Adelaide's box ;
his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow
and; Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner ; the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Ailekury, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Sligo, the Marquis of Douro, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl
of Wilton, the Earl of Munster, the Earl Grenville, Countess
de Jarnac, the Earl and Countess of Harrington, the Coun-
tess of Blessington and the Misses Power, the Earl of March,
the Count de C(.urey, the Count d'Orsay, the Count Koudri-
affsky, the Earl of Falmouth, the Count de St. Aulaire, the
Viscount Duncannon, the Viscount Maidstone, Viscount
Cantilupe, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord 11. Lennox, Lord C.
Wellesley, Lord A. Fitzclarence, Lady Glentworth, Lady
Macdonald, Lady Woodford, Lord Foley, Hon. G. Byng,
lion. Mr. Upton, Hon. Mr. Butler, Mr. Dodd, Sir Jasper
Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs Brenton Trelawny, Sir 11. Webb,
Sir John and Lady Jervis, Sir A. Barnard, Sir H. Wil-
loughby, Sir P. Shelley, Sir R. Vivian, Sir W. Ball, Captain
Greville, Major Baring, Mr. P. Wheeler, Captain and the
lion. Mr 3. Itvder Burton, Captain Reynolds, Mr. Barry
Baldwin,
A theatrical benefit on behalf of the Printers' of
Edinburgh, will take place at the Theatre Royal, English
Opera House Strand, this evening.
SERIOUS 'ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN R. VYSE, M.P.—
On Thursday last the Baron Rothschild's hounds met at
Rowsham. The deer took a line towards Bierton, and when
near Mr. Eustace's house, Mr. Vyse, in taking a fence near
the road, fell from his horse, in consequence of the saddle
His foot unfortunately, hung in the stirrup,
slipping round.
full speed and beating the unfortunate
the horse galloping at
ouud. At len •th his foot
gentleman's head against the g.r
by which he was dragged upwards of one hundred yards,
itwas deemed advisable to remove him to London by
period,
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In grrtreEdaNy
for the general fast, the authorities at the Post-office have
issued the following notice :—" General Post-office, Muck
—n Ie 'xots Tb -e
20, 1847.—The Overland Mail for India, &c., cis Marseilles,
appointed to be dispatched on the 24th inst., has been de-
tained. Letters will be in time on the evening of Thursday,
the 25th instant.—By comnand of the Yost-waster-General,
W. Alaborly."

LITERATURE.
SELECT WRITINGS OF ROBERT CH,4211-

BERS. Vll 111
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pen collected together after many years
ductions
. publication, it is less pleasanthis
of no to
of periodtca,
admirers. The .Nriter of these goodly volumes has lorg
:imself no small share of popularity,
since acquired for
through the enterprise which he
and that not merely
hr?ther in the dissemination of
has evinced in aiding his
knowledge by cheep publishir,'• but likewise through his
own earnest and industrious labours as a contributor to
modern literature. The bulk of the humorous and
familiar essays contained in the work just issued is
already known and appreciated by the million. Some of
the articles have been printed and reprinted in a hundred
different forms, and distributed to the reading com-
munity through as many different channels, so that they
will attract attention less from their novelty than from
their bearing about them the associations of the old
familiar faces. What is particularly observable through-
out the collection is, the admirable simplicity of the
author's style, and the sedulous exclusion of anything
pernicious, whether in manner or matter, from his com-
positions, The humour is always genial and natural;
the themes are often homely, but never vulgar; the
sarcasm is invariably good•natured; and the thoughts
are, with one exception, namely, in the eccentric chap-
ter upon " Christian Names," never pursued to an ex-
travagance. To those who regard Robert Chambers
as a source to them of many literary boons both agree-
able and beneficial—and of these there are thousands—
the appearance of his select writings will be a matter
of congratulation, as it will enable them to enshrine
him on their bookshelves as one of the most welcome
and valued of their household companions. The volu nes
are compact and elegant, all their appointments being
excellent—printing, paper, arrangement, and binding.
The collection was wanted.

HUGH TALBOT. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century.

By William J. O'Neill Daunt.
By several previous publications—more particularly
" Ireland and her Agitators"—Mr. Daunt is already
familiarly known to many of his countrymen. His
present work, though coming under the unpretending
title of a tale, we cannot but regard as the very best of
his productions that have come to our knowledge. There
is a liberality, moreover, about the object of " Hugh
Talbot" that, to us, is peculiarly palatable. It makes
its appearance, too, at an appropriate crisis, when the
bile of the polemical disputants throughout the kingdom
is being excited into rancour by the revival of ono or
two very old and very obsolete bugbear cries. As is
announced on the title page, the book is founded upon
the Irish confiscations of the seventeenth century—
namely, during the reign of James I. and the supremacy
of Steenie. At all times the contemplation of intole-
rance is distressing; at all times it forces upon us
the spectacle of the degradation of our species. But
when we find that intolerance, coupled with the dis-
semination of the Biblical truths, and, in fact, sprouting
like a villanous disease out of the very stem and
branches of Christianity, we cannot but mourn doubly
for the blindness and degeneracy of our forefathers.
The history of the penal laws is among the most lament.
able portions of our national records, and the skeletons
of those penal laws—those laws which Mr. Watson is
just now endeavouring to have obliterated from the
statute book—is a damning proof of the authenticity of
the narratives relating to their operation. Those
laws—the laws, we mean, which are at present
under the consideration of Parliament—are virtually
abolished already. They are no longer enforced;
and we would stake our word for it that the
Honourable Baronet the Member for the University
of Oxford would be very loath to clamour in the House
of Commons for their enforcement. But, dead•letter as
they are now, they were once enforced with the utmost
rigour of the executive and many others, yet more
strigent, which have been some time since, to the credit
of Parliament expunged. A barbarian code is not the
code for a civilised and enlightened race, and, therefore,
the laws we speak of, have been abolished It is upon the
miseries entailed upon the victims of those enactments
that this novelette has been penned.
. It is a melancholy and
distressing but salutary and Listructive picture. Hugh
Talbot is calculated to do good service in purging from
the popular mind that i
old leaven of bigotry and of
religious animosity which s
i still—though to an insig-
nificant extent—fermenting n the community. It is
likely to render all classes more charitable the one
towards the other, and to render the most obstinate and
zealous religionists indisposed to tyrannise over their
neighbours. Dogmatism, of course, can never be got
rid of until human nature he thoroughly transformed,
but cruelty and petty despotism may be, and, indeed,
are now tolerably well overruled. That not only in
this country, but throughout the world generally, a
spirit of sympathy and brotherhood is spreading is
manifest. Through that expanding spirit Ibrahim
Pacha was induced to pay amicable visits to the courts
and people of Western Europe. Through that spirit
his children are being educated in French seminaries.
Through that spirit Dwarkanauth Tegore was prompted
to labour in London for the moral and mental regenera-
tion of his oriental fellow-countrymen. Through that
spirit almost as much as through force of arms, new
relations of amity have been established between
the Emperor of China and our beloved Sovereign.
And very recently, through that same benign and enlarg-
ing spirit, a cordial understanding has for the first time
been arrived at between the head of the Papacy and the
Mahometan Sultaun. For these reasons we are disposed
to welcome this little tale by Mr. Daunt with pleasure.
The times are those of progress and liberality, and the
book is in accordance with the principles of the times.
Hugh Talbot is the chief victim of the laws of confisca•
tion—being a priest. Eveline is the heroine, and, for
the advantage of her father and the benefit of the priest
Hugh Talbot, and also for the gratification of her own
lust of power, she sacrifices herself by marrying an old
nobleman, Lord Carthwaite. The incidents of the story
are numerous and interesting, particularly those descrip-
tive of the various escapes and perilous adventures of
Hugh Talbot himself. Altogether the tale is a genuine
original.

JOURNAL OF iHE ROYAL AGRICULTU-
RAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. Vol. VII.
Part 11.
Another of those important and elaborate volumes
which have in their character something absolutely
national, is lying before us. As a specimen of the industry
of the persons engaged in its composition, and as a sign
of the comprehensive efforts made by the society from
which it proceeds it is peculiarly remarkable. Agri-
culture, at this particular period, is attracting. more
notice in Great Britain, than it has ever done previously;
and it is attracting more notice, for two reasons,. first,
because there is a manifest necessity for. an increase of
our enterprise as cultivators of the soil, pow that w.e
have to compete upon the same footing with the agri
culturists of the whole world ; and secondly, because
the vegetable disease, now afflicting Ireland and Scot-
land, is a fresh inducement to us to study yet
.more pro-
, voluminous library of the Royal'
foundly the mysteries of the growth and nourishment of
plants. On these accounts, the present part of the
England is invested with more interest and importance
than any of its predecessors.
Agricultural Society of

Sin,—ln the the report which your
MR. GYPSON'S BALLOON.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN..
gave of the accident which attended the private. trial of Mr.
Gypson's new and magnificent balloon it is
.stated. that the
cause of the disaster was owing to the netting being fan
" inferior description," and that it WAS
widely-eirculated journal
" discovered b 3,, competent judges to be defective in its meshes. NOW., although
the termination of the experiment would seem to justify this
and incorrect, and will, as briefly as
conclusion, I have no hesitation in pronouncing it. premature
circumstances under which the first fracture haypene.d, and
the final separation, which led to our being left in, the
possible, point out the
the inflation was commenced the weather was remarkably
.
lurch "with feelings of disappointment and regret. W hen
fine. No sooner, however, had the upper hemisphere of the
gigantic machine become distended with about 15,000 cubic
feet of gas than the breeze freshened considerably, and
agitated the balloon with greater violence than is usually
experienced at public gardens, owing to the protection
reixffocredededinbgyiythgeasnud on rroundthhilag
ntreeeeassoinfns,ucahnpd tlaz .
the netting being left ten feet longer than is commonly re-
quired, in
i order to allow room to test some ingenious
lowerre g a
finess being
nogf
machinery invented by Mr. Gypson, and in readiness for use;
the balloon in consequence was subjected to the full force of
a strong wind, which had greater power on it from the ad-
ditional length of the hoop-lines. A tremendous strain from
a fitful gust that swept over the gas-works broke one line
first, arid had it been practicable to repair that, a " stitch in
time would most indisputably have saved nine ;" but the
wind being stronger than the united efforts of about fifty
iieurfeact satisfaction assistants and friends the balloon could not be hauled down,
and the pressure becoming from wind and restraint unequal
on the netting, the injured part yielded gradually, and that
which will bear more than. a ton and a half waig, lit when
continued to
every respective line has its proper bearing,
give way, until an aperture was worked sufficiently large to
admit of the escape of the balloon.. Notwithstanding the
ofof thet.he
accident, I boldly give my opinion that the netting nggood,
,gen faith,ra l
anduse ;
ma nyd positive proofis
strong,
earnea
t naenada
of
ft for general
construction of the whole apparatus, I intend to
the intrepid proprietor of the. balloon the
honours share with
dangers of a second private trial, which will take and
place pro-
bably in the course of a week or ten days.
I remain, Sir, your obliged servant,
1 HENRY CO WELL.

Editor of the "Erostatic Magazine.

DEATII OF SIR lIARFORD JONES BRIDGES.—This
venerable Baronet expired on the '2oth inst., at his seat,
Boultibrook, Herefordshire, aged 83. He was son of Harford
Jones, Esq., of Preateign, Radnorshire, by the daughter of
Richard Hooper, Esq., of Whittern, Herefordshire. lie was
born in 1764, and in 1796 married the eldest daughter of Sir
Henry Gott, Lint. In 1822 the deceased gentleman was
created a Privy Councillor, and in 1826 assumed the addi-
tional name of Brydes. He was a Deputy-Lieutenant for
Herefordshire. The great grandfather of the deceased having
highly distinguished himself in the army, especially at the
battle of Blenheim. was presented by Queen Anne with a
valuable sword. The title, which was created in 1807, with
the estates, are succeeded to by Hartland Jones, eldest son of
the late Baronet, who was born in 180 g.
DEATH OF COMMODORE Ileßnisox.—The public
in general, and snore particularly the patrons of aquatic
was a true
o f ngl
sports, will regret to hear announced the unexpected demise
of William Horatio Harrison, Esq.. late Commodore of the
Royal Thames Yacht Club; he expired on the 17th inst., at
i
his residence at Brompton, n the 49th year of his age, after
a
gentleman, re-
maernkgatbbie ned
alikedisposition, goodness of
heart, gentlemanly demeanour, and integrity of conduct. Ile
was an ardent admirer of aquatic sports, and was Commodore
lengthened illness. r He
benevolence
of the Royal Thames Yacht Club up to a few months since,
when he resigned, owing to ill health.
The result of extensive inquiries as to the amount
of orders from the United States by the last packet is upon
the whole satisfactory. The purchases considerably exceed
those of the corresponding period of last year, and a promise
is held out in the general advises of a further increase, as it is
- ected a large number of buyers will leave New York and
expected
for this country by the packet which will sail at the
beginning of next niontl4

TANCRED, or the NEW CRUSADE.
The following art extracts from Mr. Disraeli's new
work :

JERUSALEM.

" The broad moon lingers on the summit of Mount Olivet,
but its beam has long left the garden of Gethsemane and the
tomb of Absalom, the waters of Kedron, and the dark abyss
of Jeltoshaphat. Full falls its splendour, however, on the
Opposite city, vivid and defined in its silver blaze. A lofty
wall, with turrets, anti towers, and frequent gates, undulates
with the unequal ground which it covers, as it encircles the
lost capital of Jehovah. It is a city of hills, far more famous
that those of Rome: for all Europe has heard of Sion and of
Calvary, while the Arab and the Assyrian, and the tribes
and nations beyond, are as ignorant of the Capitolian and
Aventine Mounts as they are of the Malvern or the Chiltern

" The brozd steep of Zion, crowned with the tower of
David ; nearer still, Mount Moriah, with the gorgeous tem-
ple of the God of Abraham, but built, alas! by the child of
Hagar, and not by Sarah's chosen one; close to its cedars
and its cypresses, its lofty spires and airy arches, the moon-
light falls upon Bethesda's pool ; further on, entered by the
gate of St. Stephen's, the eye, though 'tis the noon of night,
traces with ease the Street of Grief; a long winding ascent to
a vast cupolaed pile that now covers Calvary, called the
Street of Grief, because there the most illustrious of the
human, as well as of the ;Hebrew race, the descendants of
King David, and the divine Son of the most favoured of
women, twice sank under that burden of suffering and shame
which is now throughout all Christendom the emblem of
triumph and of honour ; passing over groups and masses of
houses built of stone, with terraced roofs or surmounted with
small domes, we reach the hill of Salem, where Melchizedek
built his mystic citadel ; and still remains the hill of Scopus,
where Titus gazed upon ,lerusalem on the eve of his final
assault. Titus destroyed the temple. The religion of Judaea
has in turn subverted the Panes which were raised to his
father and to himself in their imperial capital ; and the God
of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, is now worshipped before
evert• altar in Rome.
"Jerusalem by moonlight! 'Tis a fine spectacle, apart from
ail its indissoluble associations of awe and beauty. The
mitigating hours soften the austerity of a mountain land-
scape magnificent in outline, however harsh and severe in
detail ; and, while it retains all its sublimity, removes much
of the savage sternness of the strange and unrivalled scene.
A fortified city, almost surrounded by ravines, and rising in
the centre of chains of far-spreading hills, occasionally offer-
ing, through their rocky glens, the gleams of a distant and
richer land !"