The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-09 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

A new burletta, called Legacy Hunting, was brought out at
this commodious little theatre last night. The incidents, for
it pretends to no plot, are exceedingly simple. Genera IPlay-
well ( Mr. Brookes) an eccentric old bachelor, returns from India
immensely rich, and only accompanied by a single servant,
Sergeant Rigia (M-. Turneur), who had saved the General's
life at the storming of Seringapatam, and is, in his way, quite
as great an oddity as his master. The fame of General Play-
well's immense wealth reached England long before his arrival,
and Lady Playwell (Mrs. Norton), the wife of his
brother, Sir Richard Playwell, (Mr. Baker) resolves that her
children, by a former marriage, shall so ingratiate
themselves with the old General as to be declared his heirs.
Sir Richard Play well was himself a widower when he married
his unscrupulqus worldly-minded wife, and has one son, Henry
(Mr. Schrivall), and a niece, Fanny (Miss Fitzwalter), to whom
that son is secretly married, and who of course are as generous
and disinterested as Lady Playwell's children are selfish and
unprincipled. In the meantime the crusty old General and his
queer attendant arrive at Sir Richard Playwell's residence,
and are overwhelmed with attentions ridiculous and annoying,
from the ostentatious way in which they are offered.
Leonora and Alicia (Miss Treble and Miss Villiers),
Lady Playwell's two daughters, pester the fidgetty old General
with their fulsome praises and impertinent attentions, while her
Ladyship's son Captain Anson (Mr. Halford) disgusts him with
his foppery and puppyism. Fanny is, however, the General's fa-
vourite, and next to her Henry, his nephew. But to put the
sincerity of his friends to the test, the old General has a letter
addressed to him, in which his agent is made to inform him that
the firm in which he invested his whole fortune is declared
bankrupt, and that he has only his half-pay to look to for his
future support. Hardly are the contents of the letter known
before Lady Playwell and her children treat him with the
greatest indignity; his brother, his nephew Henry, and his
niece Fanny alone declaring that they would not abandon him
in his misfortune. As for Sergeant Rigia, he places the
•avings of many years in the hands of his old
master, and his distress, when he finds the General
letermined not to accept his little store, is only
equalled by the extravagance of his rugged joy, when he
tears that that master is really as rich as he before knew him to
have been. It is needless to intimate that Fanny and her hus-
band Henry are declared sole heirs of their eccentric uncle, and
that Lady Playwell is in despair at discovering that she has been
completely outwitted.
Such is the outline of a piece which would have Oven more
satisfaction, had not the performers vied so much with each
other in rendering it too farcical. The parts of Lady Playwell
and her daughters, as well as that of Nanny, were overdone.
l'he Ladies' Club, the Two Greens, and Gwynneth Vaughan,
succeeded, to the evident satisfaction of a very well-filled house.

The Duke of Wellington gave a sumptuous ban-
quet last evening, at Apsley House, to her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, who w. is attended by Earl Howe and Miss Mitchell.
heir Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, with
Prince George, also dined with his Grace, Lady Augusta So-
merset and }laron Knesebeck being in attendance on their
Royal Highnesses. The Archbishop of York, Countess of
Wilton, Lord Burghersh, Lord and Lady Mahon, Sir Astley
Cooper, &c , were among the guests. After dinner her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Noble and
Gallant Duke (the Director of the evening), went to the
incient concert, at the Hanover. square Rooms, as also to the
Jther guests of his Grace.

LORD LYNDHURST.—The answer to the in-
quiries yesterday at his Lordship's residence, in George-stret t,
was, that he was going on well. The Duke of Wellington
called yesterday afternoon, and sat with his Lordship some time.
The Countess of Belfast is so much improved in
health that her Ladyship is expected on a visit to Mr. and Lady
Charlotte Talbot, in Belgrave- square, from Leamington Spa.
The Earl of Belfast is expected at Fenton's Hotel.
The Duke of Devonshire left Devonshire House
yesterday morning for Dover, en route to Paris, accompanied
by Lord Alfred Paget, with an extensive suite.
Lord and Lady Dinorben gave a grand dinner
on the 14th ult. to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, at
Bute House.

The Earl and Countess of Warwick entertained
a large party at Warwick Castle, on Saturday, the birth••day of
Lord Brooke.

The grippe is very prevalent in Paris ; and the
same disease called influenza prevails to a great extent in the
metropolis.
PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN
PA RTS.—A very numerous meeting of the members and
friends of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts took place on Wednesday in the Egyptian-hall,
at the Mansion-house, over which the Lord Mayor presided.
His Lordship was supported on the right by his Grace the
Archbishop of Canterbury, on the left by the Bishop of Lon-
don, and surrounded by the Bishops of Winchester, Bangor,
Llandaff, Rochester, Hereford, Norwich, and Nova Scotia ;
Archdeacons Pott, Hamilton, and Wilberforce ; Lord Kenyon,
and Chief Justice Robinson, of Canada ; the Revs. Dr. Rus-
sell, Dr. D'Oyley, Hartwell, Campbell, Smith ; Sir Henry
Dukinfield, H. Hodgson, Jennings, the Sheriffs, Aldermen
Venables, Thompson, Magnay, and Gibbs; Messrs. Labou-
chere, H. Hoare, Wilson, C. Francis, J. Watson, Powell,
Cotton, Twining, Powles, &c. The meeting was addressed by
the Lord Mayor, the Rev. Mr. Campbell, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Bishops of London and Nova Scotia, Mr.
Thomas Wilson, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Sheriff Evans, Arch-
deacon Wilberforce, Chief justice Robinson, Mr. Manning,
Mr. H. Hoare, and the Bishop of Llandaff. By these Right
Rev. and Hon. individuals a series of resolutions was moved
and seconded. At the termination of the business of the day
there was a subscription amounting to the sum of 1,000/.
TOTNES ELECTION COMMITTEE.—The
Committee, after about an hour's consultation, decided in fa-
vour of the validity of the objection, and consequently the
election is void.

The Post informs the public that Benjamin
Bond Cabbell, Esq., has been invited to stand for the borough
of Marylebone, and that yesterday he declared his readiness to
put himself entirely in the hands of the requisitionists, and to
proceed to the poll on the first occasion.
ROCHDALE CHURCH-RATE.-A great many
summonses were issued, on Thursday week, by Mr. Abraham
Brierley, the Vicar's Warden, against persons who had refused
to pay their Church-rate. Amongst the defaulters were
several Quakers, against whom, of late, this impost has not
been enforced. Some poor persons have also received sum-
monses for sums as low as twopence. On Friday, Mr. Heaton,
the Solicitor, appeared for them before Mr. Royds and Mr.
Chadwick, and protested against his clients being called up to
answer the charge after a few hours' notice. Some were not at
home, others as well as himself would have to, be at the assizes
the week following ; and he requested the hearing of the cases
to be adjourned till Monday the 6th of April, which was readily
acceded to. The wardens in all the townships in the parish
but Castleton, neither have summoned, nor intend to summon,
any one for this rate; as both parties, after five days' poll,
claimed a majority. Besides, after the time fixed for the con-
clusion of the poll, the late Vicar extended it for two hours
longer; well knowing that, at the time, his party was 50 in a
minority.
STRIKE IN PLYMOUTH DOCK-YARD.--The
newly-entered shipwrights in this dock-yard, sixty in number,
finding that they were to be placed in the third class, and to re-
ceive third-class wages of three shillings and sixpence a day,
while at the private yards in the port the pay, on old work, is
four shillings, with a quart of beer added, refused to fulfil their
contracts yesterday (Friday), and suspended work. They ap-
pointed a deputation to wait on the Rear-Admiral Superinten-
dent. After hearing their case, Admiral Warren, with that
kindness and consideration for which he is distinguished and
beloved by every one under his command, undertook that they
should be paid second class wages, which is an advance of six-
pence a day, until the matter could be laid Before the Lords of
the Admiralty for their decision, and the men then immediately
returned to their work. It should be stated that the men were
only to be placed on the third class for twelve months on proba-
tion ; and with respect to the difference of pay in the national
and private yards, it is but fair to mention that the Government
artisans have the advantage of a pension in the event of sustain-
ing serious injuries while perfonning their duties, being worn
out by hard work, and after a certain number of years' service,
which advantages they do not possess in private yards. In ad-
dition to the shipwrights, twenty joiners, twenty sawyers, six-
teen smiths, and four caulkers have been entered this week, and
the remaining vacancies will doubtless speedily be filled up.—
Plymouth Journal.
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