The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-02 00:00:00

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LORD DE GREY'S VISIT TO THE THEATRE.
DUBLIN, OCT. 29.—The Lord Lieutenant paid his first
visit to the Theatre Royal, Hawkin's-street, yesterday
evening. The house was extremely crowded in every
part. His Excellency, at half-past seven, entered the
box appropriated for the Vice-regal party, and was re-
ceived with general acclamation. He was attired in the
costume of a general officer, and was attended by the fol-
lowing members of his household:—Lord Aberdour, the
Hon. A. Cole, A.D.C., Col. Simpson, Capt. Parker,
Comptroller, and Capt. Williams, Master of the Horse.
The performances selected for the occasion were, the
comedy of As Yeu Like It, and the Lottery Ticket.
It soon became apparent that the house was packed
with Orangemen, and it has since transpired that the
members of the lodges were brought together by circulars
'issued yesterday. The " Kentish fire," the favourite
mode of Orange rejoicing, was raised soon after the
first act, and the faction became more boisterous as the
play proceeded. A number of persons in the pit cheered
for " the new Lord Mayor," but this attempt at a counter
demonstration only increased the fury of the Orange-
men, and during the remainder of the evening little else
could be heard but the repeated rounds of the " Kentish
fire," and the yellings of the Orangemen for " Peel,
Stanley, and Lyndhurst." During the afterpiece the
house presented a disgusting scene of uproar and tumult.
The Lord-Lieutenant (who is evidently a weak man in
the hands of bad advisers), gave open countenance to
the factious display of the Orangemen. His Excellency
rose repeatedly and bowed his acknowledgments to the
Kentish firemen. Looking at this most discreditable
exhibition, in which the Queen's representative took so
prominent a part, one is astonished at the total absence
of all reserve upon the part of his Excellency. The
Orangemenraised their flag over the box occupied by Lord
Haddington in 1835, for which Sir R. Peel some years after
denounced them as " vagabonds," but the scene last
night was a much more scandalous display of faction,
and Lord de Grey; unlike Lord Haddington, openly par-
ticipated:in the exhibition. When the Orangemen in the
pit quarrelled with some dissenting Liberals, his Excel-
lency laughed aloud. In fact, the house resembled an
uproarious Orange lodge, with the Lord Lieutenant pre-
siding as Grand Master.
The Times of Thursday says—" Earl de Grey seems
to have alighted upon Ireland like the bird of calm upon
a tempestuous sea." If the writer of this flummery had
been in the theatre last night he would have seen Lord
de Grey more like a bird of storm amidst the tempest of
party fury.
The Tory papers do not attempt to deny the Orange
manifestations, but pretend that it was the result of an
attempt to get up " a cheer for O'Connell, the new Lord
Mayor." The Evening Mail says—
" The utmost decorum and good order prevailed until
the cheer for O'Connell was raised ; and our readers
can best form their opinions from the extracts we sub-
join from the three papers published this morning."
The Evening Mail, being the organ of the Orange
party, does not deny, but glories in the manifestation.
The following are the extracts quoted by the Mail :
(From Saunders's News Letter.)
The comedy proceeded, and was heard with the utmost
attention, except on one occasion, when an individual in
the gallery, indulging himself by calling for a cheer for
the new Lord Mayor, led to a decisive demonstration,
that put an end to all opposition.
Silence was not as well preserved during the farce; for,
from the impatience of so long-continued a pressure, and
the desire to manifest the opinions of the great majority of
the audience, the afterpiece was not heard. The perform-
ances were so much shorter than usual, that when his Ex-
cellency left the State box, which he did amid similar
demonstrations to those which greeted him on his en-
trance, no carriage was in waiting. A delay. of nearly
half an hour occurred, and during that period a large
crowd collected around the theatre. The Noble Earl
left at twenty minutes to eleven o'clock:for the Vice-royal
Lodge, loudly cheered by those present.
No Lord Mayor attended in his official capacity, Sir
J. K. James being now
.functus officio, and his suc-
cessor, under the recent Act of Parliament, not being
yet appointed.
(From the Freeman's Journal.)_

The first act of the play passed off quietly enough
but the confusion for which the greater part
of the audience came prepared, soon after com.
menced, and went on increasing in violence to the
end. One loud and hearty cheer, which com-
pletely set the Kentish fire at defiance, was raised for
O'Connell, the new Lord Mayor of Dublin ;" but
during the rest of the evening the Liberal portion of the
audience seemed to enjoy the scene with perfect good
humour, occasionally laughing heartily at the disgraceful
exhibition of the Orange faction. The afterpiece was
the Lottery Ticket, but the yelling and Kentish fire had,
by this time, risen to such a pitch that this portion of the
performance passed off in pantomime. The seats of the
pit were invaded by a general rush, and amidst the
screams of females, and the confusion of crushing and
skirmishing in various parts of the house, a scene which
we must designate as in the highest degree disgraceful
took place. When the national air of "Patrick's Day"
was played, after " God save the Queen," it was quite
drowned in the yells and Kentish fire. His Excellency
appeared to enjoy the whole proceedings very much, and
repeatedly rose to acknowledge the greetings of the
Kentish-firemen. Among the shouts which were re-
sponded to by these factious demonstratfrs, during the
evening, were those of " Stanley," "
Welling-
ton," with several others, which, in the hideous uproar,
it was impossible to catch.
(From the Morning Register.)
His Excellency arrived at the house about half-past
seven o'clock, attended by an escort of Dragoons, and
was received by Mr. Calcraft, who attended him to the
Vice-regal box. The entrance of his Lordship was the
signal for one of the most uproarious party demonstra-
tions every witnessed within the walls of a theatre.
" Peel's vagabonds" were truly in a most.glorious mood:
they shrieked, they shouted, they yelled ; and when
sheer exhaustion compelled them to a cessation from
their vocal labours, they had recourse to the Kentish fire,
with repeated rounds of which they closed their welcome
of his Lordship. His Excellency bowed and smiled, and
bowed again. in recognition of the compliments showered
upon him ; but when in the course of the evening the
scene became more noisy and offensive to the feelings of
those not belonging to the party with which the house
was packed, his Excellency laughed outright—even a
row in the pit, under his Excellency's box, resulting from
the insufferable conduct of his admirers, did not induce
him to adopt a course less calculated to encourage those
ebullitions of party feeling. They shouted for Peel—
they shouted for Stanley—they shouted for Wellington
and Lyndhurst.
FAILURE OF THE lIARVFST.
The monthly report for the counties of Waterford,
Tipperary, Kilkenny, and Wexford, gives the following
alarming account of the harvest:—" The results to a vast
portion of our agricultural population are, we regret t?
say, calamitous in the extreme; so much so, that we o
bound, notwithstanding our conviction of the impo fr cy
and iniquity of any restrictions upon the corn-trade, to
cry out loudly for some measure restrictive of exporta-
tion a 7.
tion as a protection against the ordeal of famine and
its concomitant disease, with which otherwise our people
will have to contend before the next harvest sets m.
In the best limestone lands, and on the driest soils,
potatoes are a bad crop, deficient in quantity, and
most inferior in quality, while in the moorland and
wet soils there never was a more appalling. failure,
and the supply, scant' as it is, altogether unfit
for human *sustenance in any quarter of the civi-
lised world, save unfortunate Ireland. The digging out
of this crop has now commenced generally throughout
the country, unfavourable though the state of the soil
be for phis important operation, and serious apprehen-
sions are entertained, should the rain continue, as to the
great difficulty of harvesting any portion of it in a sound