The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-09 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

' Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer's long promised comedy of
Money was produced at this theatre last evening. The
, following is an outline of the plot. Alfred Evelyn (Ma-
, eready), a poor student, who had studied at one of the
Universities as a sizer, but had been expelled for horse-
' whipping a Nobleman who bad insulted him, has
two cousins, the one Georgiana Vesey (Miss P. Horton) a
girl of fashion, the daughter of a rich old father, Sir
John Vesey ( Strickland), commonly called St ngy Jack ;
the other Clara Douglas (Miss Helen nitwit), a poor
orphan, a dependant upon the bounty of the Veseys.
With Clara be is in love, offers her his hand, and, although
beloved by her, is rejected because she will not inflict on
him those miseries which wedded poverty necessarily brings
in its train. While he is smarting under the supposed wrong
of her rejection of his suit, which he attributes entirely to
mercenary motives, news arrives that a rich uncle is dead,
who has left the bulk of his property to Alfred Evelyn,
-ho, from the poor slighted scholar, becomes the admired
approach him. He pretends to have discovered
of a",%,- • •he. will, leaving Clara 20,0001. and thus
a Coale" Of '^nt of the world. Miss Vesey, by
m i makes her ndepen,_
and wins him, and be is received
desire of her father, wooe..
w of testing
tune by gambling.
testing her sincerity,
as her accepted lover, With a tn,
,Sir F. Blount.
he pretends to have log all his it—
She immediately rejects him and accepts
(Mr. W. Lacy), a fashionable fop, wh”es Clara e,.rn" for-
ward and ofFers to share her fortune with htnt—they. are
united, and all ends happily. There are a variety of other
characters in the piece. none of whom, however, contribute
essentially to the development of the plot. The cha-
racter of Evelyn is one of those monsters of perfee-
tion,—i. c. of intense but polished selfishness, under
the mask of universal benevolence, which Bulwer
is sO fond of drawing—very maudlin, very unna-
tural, and therefore admirably adapted for Macready.
Whet, for instance, can be more unnatural than his making
an offer to Georgiana in the presence of Clara and four
persons, who are all standing by listening and taking part
in the conversation ? In what civilized society could such
gn incident as th;s possibly occur? The piece is heavy and
requires curtailment, and it may then run to the end of the
season. There was considerable disapprobation manifested
the beginning of the fifth act, but the curtain fell
amidst bun :.',"Digise' and it was given out by Webster
for repetition ver
Bulwer_
,was
°calledfor but
was not forthcoming. ey
md,...read),_aftc!• calledb_ing. for
some tittig, led forward Miss Helen .",tualt, and was greeted
with e.
with loud dhter§. petting- tin ot piece is ad

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of the trade anii hotte.6.lh`rt well-,washers to this
cellent object is to be held this eVeningi at, the School
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body social be regarded, no class have such claims on the
public et large as the parties now about to establish that
desirable restitution, an asylum for their decayed and life-
.orn members. The artiilln printers have come forvv:ad
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much, and should embrace this occasion to evince a sense
of the obligation. We trust to see that the design, once
fairly set on foot, the funds for its completion will be found
ample and ready. -Professor
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FRIBURG, IN BADEN, N 21.-Professor
Charles Rotteck, the celebrated historian, and author of
" The General History of the World," has just died, at an
advanced act
The alteration anti additioti; at the Jclvel-dice,
in the TO 7j, .•,
have been cotoricted, and were ext..
ruined Duke Wellington Licfnre be lett toil,- for
Strathfieldsaye; where his Grace is entertaining a nu-
merous party of friends