The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-10 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

Madame Vestris, we are happy to see, is reaping
that reward which her spirit and taste have so well
deserved, and the Midsummer Night's Dream is
drawing overflowing houses. It was represented
for the fourteenth time last evening, and the
crowd awaiting the opening of the pit door re-
minded us of " the good old times" when the
drama was in its palmy days.
Long before the rising of the curtain the house
was crowded. In the pit even standing room was
at a premium, and in the boxes those luckless
wights who had not taken the precaution to se-
cure places, were glad to hie them to the
slips, and take up with such accommodation as
they afforded, or perchance, as a great piece of
good fortune, they might manage to procure a
back-seat in the third circle. The play was re-
ceived with even more enthusiasm than on the first
night of its representation, and at the falling of the
curtain the applause was hearty
and long continued.
After the play a new farce in one act, entitled
Brother Ben, was represented, for the first time,
and a most laughable trifle it is.
The scene is laid
at Clifton, where Nirs. Cutlass (Mrs. Brougham) is
rescued from insult by Mr. Snuffleton (Harley) at,
as he takes care to inform us, " considerable per-
sonal risk." In order to enable him to per-
form this feat of gallantry, however, he is
obliged to represent himself as her brother ;
and accordingly, at the opening of the farce,
we find him in the drawing-room of the resi-
dence of Commodore Cutlass (Bartley), as Mr.
Benjamin Bowles, recently returned from America,
after an absence of fourteen years. The Commo-
dore arrives from London full of wrath against
the said Benjamin, who had done hiin out of
some cash, and immediately afterwards the real
Benjamin himself (Mr. C. Mathews) arrives.
ws,
risey some most laughable
situations, and Bartley, Harley, and C. Mathe
alt')lllyeseascsois/tietrdetbeympiNsirsc,,
Jones, who acts the pint
of an old servant of the family, keep the thing
merrily going until all is explained, and the
curtain falls. The trifle was completely suc-
cessful, the fun never flaed, the audience were
on the broad grin from theorising to the falling of
the curtain, and Charlea Mathews announced it for
repetition amidst the unanimous applause of the
house.

LORD CARDIGAN AND THE
HORSE GUARDS.

DEC. 3, a
TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SUN.
or their
crime,
1840.
SlR,—Cardigan, it appears, is at all risks to b, up-
holden ; and the very men, whose forbearance or pru-
dence induces them to be silent respecting his :
m:scon•
EXETER,
prudence unhappily gives way ! I needf not say that
dwuhcetn, arc to
theiro
forbearance b e
yields
provocation,
silence
Major Morse Cooper's reprimand loin the Horse
Guards suggests this indignant observation. As Lord
Hill has grown so fond of late of lecturing honourable men
upon their duties, may I be permitted to call his atten-
tion, through your columns, to as gross an infringement
of duty, on the part of military men, as can well out-
rage the feelings, age, and the very constitution of so-
ciety—l know nothing, if permitted, more likely to en-
danger the peace and subordination of any corps.
In one of the recent numbers of the Record news-
paper (certainly in the month of November, though I
cannot recollect the date) among the notices to corres-
pondents, is the acknowledgment of the receipt of 1/.
from Colonel Oliver, of the Royal Artillery, and 11.
from Lieutenant Murray, for the Rev. Mr. Stowell's
expenses! That is, to meet the law expenses of this
Reverend calumniator in his recent trial for libel.
Now, Sir, there arc some Roman Catholic gentle-
men in her Majesty's regiments. Should there be one
in the Royal Artillery, in Colonel Oliver's corps, would
this he likely to promote its harmony ? Could I, as a
Roman Catholic officer, have that cordial respect for my
superior or brother officer which I should like to cherish,
after they had thus openly expressed their sympathy
with the slanderer of a minister of my faith ?
But further, Sir, here are gentlemen, men of respec!-
able and orderly education and habits, consequently
supposed capable of judging correctly of right and
wrong—bY their post in the army a part of our national
police—the conservators of our laws—siding with a
convicted slanderer. What are we to think of this ?
and is it not a grave matter for consideration at head-
quarters ?
we might overlook while we should pity
their expression of sympathy with Stowell before his
tlis,l, but now that he has stood before a judicial tribunal,
and the laws of the land have pronounced him guilty,
we think they have committed themselves to an act
which we should not wish to characterise, but whose
culpability, we must say, eems to us of no common order.
May I call your attentioni to the circumstance, assur-
ing you that my sole desire that in this country, and
should have
everywhere, each

SUUM CUIQUE.

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I beg of you to be so good as
TO Tllli EDITOR OF TILE MORNING CHRONICLE.
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lellt°tarelm:::llgSnirY, your most obedient servant,
JNO. HUSSEY.
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" TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.

"SIR,—Having been for the last month in a very re-
mote part of Ireland, I have only just been able to pro•
cure a copy of your paper of the 6th ult., in which up-