The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-07 00:00:00

THEATRES.

ADELPHL
This theatre closed for the season last night. The fol
,owing is the farewell address

" Ladies and Gentlemen—Our efforts to amuse you are
this night terminated, being three weeks earlier than by
authority we arc enabled to keep open what we call our
after season.

" Two circumstances have induced us to close—the ne-
cessity imposed on us by Act of Parliament of re-building
the front wall of the theatre, and the unexampled beauty
of the weather.

It is a singular fact that the devil has found London
too hot to hold him, and he therefore this night re-
treats with his tail, composed of eighty young ladies.
" We have to thank you for a very fair proportion of pa-
tronage ' • great success during the run of Jack Sheppard,
of which may I be allowed to say that the version exhibited
here was as much distinguished by its absence from low
vulgarity as it was famed by the excellence of its acting.
" The period which will elapse before we again mako
our bow to you will be employed by me in searching for
your amusement, and respectfully in my own name, and
that of the company, we bid you farewell."

HA YMARKET.
A new farce called tho Irish Attorney, by Bernard, was
produced last night with decided success. An old York-
shire lawyer of the last century takes into partnership a
wild Irish practitioner (Power) with a notion of nothing
beyond racing and duelling, but who is at bottom an honest
good-hearted fellow. This " Galway practitioner" ad-
vises one client to call a man out instead of bringing an
action, puts a writ into his pocket, and goodhumouredly
allows a defendant to escape, puts on a jockey-cap and
wins a race in the middle of business, gets roaring drunk
on the occasion, and, in a word, commits such a host of
unprofessional enormities, that his senior partner resolves
on an immediate dissolution of partnership, and orders his
junior out of the house. As it turns out, the harum-scarum
good-humour of the Irishman has gained so many friends,
that his eccentricities prove of the greatest benefit to the
firm, and, overpowered with thanks from all the clients for
the admirable conduct of his partner, the old Yorkshire-
man is just as anxious to make it up with him as he was
before to get rid of him. With the reconciliation of the
two partaers the piece terminates.

LAUNCH OF THE MEANDER FRIGATE.—
Yesterday afternoon, at half-past two o'clock, this beautiful
vessel, constructed under the superintendence of the late Sir
R. Seppings, was launched at Chatham with all the usual ce-
remonies—the display of numerous flags, bands of music, and
the cheering of a vast number of spectators, amounting to
several thousands. The dock-yard was thrown open for the
free admission of the public between one and two o'clock, and
every point that could command a view of the ceremony was
quickly occupied. She dashed into the river in fine style,
without the least rocking, with the Royal standard, union
jack, and other colours, hoisted en board. She was christened
the Meander, with the usual forms, by Lady Marshall. The
Meander is a 46- gun frigate ; her keel was laid down about thir-
teen years since.
The Duke of Leinster, as will be seen by the
following, has caused his name to be attached to the petition
adopted at the Leinster Aggregate Meeting :
" Carton, Maynooth, 2d May.
" GENTLEMEN,-Will you have the goodness to put my
name to the petition against Lord Stanley's Registration Bill.
I would not give you the trouble only I have been prevented
going to Dublin by business.—l have the honour to be, your
obedient humble servant, " LEINSTER.
" T. T. Dolan, W. H. Hart, Esqrs."
MR. JOHN DRUAIMOND.—His Excellency the
Lord Lieutenant has been pleased to appoint John Drummond,
Esq., to be a Stipendiary Magistrate in Ireland. This gentle-
man is a member of the Scottish bar, and brother of the late la-
mented Under-Secretary.
We omitted to state in our Parliamentary Re-
port that Colonel Salwey presented a petition from the Mayor
and Town Council of Ludlow, against the clause in the Con-
stabulary Act which provides for the consolidation of Borough
and County constables.
THE ISLINGTON MURDER.—Within the last
few days some information has been received relative to the
atrocious murder of Mr. John Templeman, late of Pocock's-
fields, Islington. Mr. Templeman, the deceased's grandson,
attended at Hatton-garden office, in company:of two individuals,
one of whom had given the information alluded to, and they
were closeted for some time privately with Mr. Combo and one
of the clerks, when they left the Court. The strict secrecy
observed on the occasion precludes particulars.
DR. BIRKBECK.—On Monday evening last,
the members and friends of the three Lyceums, established in
Ancoats, Chorlton-on-Medlock and Salford, assembled in the
lecture-room of the Manchester Athenaeum, to meet Dr. Birk-
beck, the well-known originator of the plan of giving cheap
scientific knowledge to the operative and mechanic. The doc-
tor very kindly accepted an invitation given hint by Mr. Wm.
Fairbairn, the president of the Ancoats Lyceum, to lend the
powerful aid and sanction of his presence, approval, and coun-
sel to these institutions. James Heywood, Esq., president of
the Atheneum, was called to the chair : at his right hand were
our venerable and distinguished townsmen, Dr. Dalton, Mr.
Wm. Fairbairn, Col. Wemyss, and Mr. Alderman Cobden ;
at his left were Dr. Birkbeck (who, on his entering
the room, was, together with Dr. Dalton, welcomed
with hearty applause). Daniel Maude, Esq., president
of the Salford Lyceum, Mr. William Langton, and
Mr. Ed tvard Ilerford. Amongst other gentlemen
present were Mr. Smith, of Deanstoun, near Edin-
! burgh ; C. J. S. Walker, Esq. ; Messrs. Absalom Watkin,
Joseph Adshead, Eveleigh, T. H. Williams, I'. H. Holland,
C. Peuntney, and other friends of popular education. Dr.
Birkbeck made a speech in reply to the following resolution :
" That this meeting feels great gratification at the sanction
afforded by the eminent founder of mechanics' institutions,
to the plan and objects of the Lyceums." Many other compli-
ments were paid to Dr. Birkbeck, who well deserves this testi-
mony to his public utility. It is equally honourable, also, to
the public, that they pay the well-merited honours to the
peaceful, but most valuable, merits of the great promoter of
mechanics' institutions.
The following Fashionables have visited the
Olympic Theatre during the week:—Lady Fanny Williams
Wynne, Lady Langford, Sir Watkin William Wynne, Right
Hon. Lady Stepney, Lord Petersham, Lord Frederick Beau-
clerc, Lady Gordon Cummins, the Ladies Tierney, Right Hon.
Lady Woolmote, Earl and Countess of Harrington, Right
lion. Mr. Stanley, Lord Gardner, Lord E. Thynne, Lord
Beresford, Countess Zytche, Most Hon. Marquis of London-
derry, -
derry, Colonel Copeland 31, Earl and Countess Harrington,
Peplow, Hon. Mrs. Rowley, &c.
the ew Solicitor-GenerallMrn.lTomasAlaitla forbe nd, of the
eScotch bar, is to

EVENING EDITION.

TRISTIA ;
OR, THE SORROWS OF OPIUM.

Alone like a King on his chair of state,
The disconsolate Spirit of Opium sate ;
He looked in as wan and lean condition,
As the Tories do, when in Opposition ;
And 'twas clear from his chin's dark, stubbly hue,
That he had not shaved for a week or two—

Alone he sate ; and while thoughts of pain
Swept over his vexed bowildered brain,
He thus, with many a tear and sigh,
Poured forth his griefs in soliloquy :

" My reign is over, for one and all,
" My foes are combined to work my fall;
" Yes, they who can see nor shame nor sin
" In the wide-spread havoc wrought by Gin;
" Who can coolly resolve to shut their eyes
" To the crimes that from Brandy's influence rise;
" Who caa swear that Whiskey's the best of cures
" For the sorrows that brother Pat ondures;
" Who can bid him sock refuge from distress
" In a constant round of drunkenness;
" And quiz, as a capital jesting theme,
" Poor Father Mathew's Temperance scheme;--
" The sly, hypocritical Tories, who
" Thus speak and act—the canting crew !
" Now lift their eyes like a duck in thunder,
" And are filled with horror, and awe, and wonder,
" To think that lam allowed to stray,
" Unfettered o'er moral far Cathay,'.
" While Gin, and Brandy, and Whiskey, three
" As innocent Spirits a% ever can be,
" Roam here at large with impunity I

" Ungrateful knaves I From the Tories, I
" Could least have expected such cruelty;
" For mine is the Spirit that prompts their sense,
" And inspires their drowsy eloquence;
" What is Goulburn's rhetoric, dull and still,
" But a genuine, unmixed Opium-pill?
" What is Sibthorp's sarcasm, trite and tame,
" But a larger and heavier dose of the same?
" What arc Graham's Philippics, so wire-drawn?"-"
But here the Spirit began to yawn,
From the force of association deep,
And instantly after fell fast asleep
The ancient name for China.

HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE•

The Queen held a Levee yesterday afternoon, at St*
James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived
soon after two o'clock, from Buckingham Palace, escorted
by a par .y of the Life Guards. The suite of her Majesty.
and Prince Albert occupied three of the Royal State Car-
riages, and consisted of the Marchioness of Normanby and
the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Ladies of the Bedchamber
in Waiting, Lord Byron and Sir Frederick Stovin, the
Lord and Groom in Waiting, Hon. Colonel Cavendish,
Clerk Marshall, Equerry in Waiting, Masters Cowell'
Chichester, and Byng, Pages of Honour in Waiting, the
Earl of Morley and Mr. Francis Seymour, Gentleman and
Groom of the Bedchamber in Waiting on Prince Albert'
Colonel Wylde, Equerry to Prince Albert.
The Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward received
the Queen and Prince Albert at St. James's Palace, and
conducted the Royal Party to the State Rooms.
His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, at'
tended by Baron Knesebeck, was present at the Levee.
Prince Castelcicala, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the King of Naples and Sicily, had
an audience of the Queen in the Royal Closet before the
Levee, to deliver his credentials.
General Alava, the Spanish Minister, had an audience
of her Majesty to deliver a letter.
Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by,
Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8., her Majesty's e
Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by
Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies.
Her Majesty having entered the Throne-room the fol.'
lowing presentations took place in the diplomatic circle
Monsieur Edouard Herbet. Attachee a l'Ambassadc, and
Monsieur Lenormant, Membre de l'lnstitut, by Monsieur
Guisot, the French Ambassador.
Le Baron de Pfeil, Conseiller Antique, of his Majesty
the King of Wurtemberg, by Count Mandelsloh, the Wet'
temberg Minister.
Major Baker End Captain Huger, bob of the United
States Army, presented by Mr. Stevenson, the /Meng°
Minister.
The Chevalier Perez de Castro c 3rito, Attache to
the Spanish Legation, by General Tara, the; Spanish
Minister.
After the Presentations in the Circle, tit following were,,,
presented to the Queen at the Entree:—
Mr. Gabriel Salame on his arrival iron Egypt, by Ifti brP
ther, Mr. Salame
~ra
Mr. Sheriff Evans, by the Marquis of Normanby -;
Mr. Sheriff Wheelton, by the Marquis of Normanby
The Dean of Chester by the Viscount Melbourne
Mr. Strachan, Gentleman Usher to the Queen, on his lasi
riage, by the Duke of Montrose
Rev. Thomas Watson, M. A., by Mr. Sheriff Wbeelton
Lord Robert Grosvenor presented an Address from the
Meteorological Society, congratulating the Queen upca
herattended by the Foreign Ambassadors,
The Majesty'sia ev neewuapst ial s.
CaAbminoentgMtihneisgteernse,
general company company were Sir David
R. A., Principal Painter in Ordinary to the Queen;
George Hayter, Historical and Portrait Painter to ha:
Majesty; Sir Harris Nicolas, K. C. M. G Chancellor°
the Order of St. Michael and St. George.; &c. eact tad
The following Noblemen and Gentlemen were resen
t(' her Majesty:__
The Hon. Hugh Fortescue, by Viscount Melbourno
Hon. Charles Ashburnham, her Majesty's Secretary of JJe-
gation in Mexico, by Viscount Palmerston
Hon. George Fortescue. by Lord Braybrooke
The Earl of Caledon, Coldstream Guards,
on promotion.
by Colonel Walton
Lord Wenlock, on being appointed Lord- Lieutenant of the
East Riding of Yorkshire, by Lord Bra) brooke
Lord Kilmaine, on his marriage, by Lord Wicklow
The Hon. C. Maude, on his appointment to the 21 Lou
Guards, by Colonel Reid, 2d Life Guards.
Sir John Kirkland, on appointment as Military Agent to
Field-Marshal his Royal Highness Prince Albert, by
Lord Robert Grosvenor
Mr. Armstrong, on his appointment as one of her Me-
jesty's Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor
Mr. David Dundas, on being appointed one of her Mr"
jesty's Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor
Mr. Holford, by Mr. Estcourt
Mr. Charles Barton, on his return from the Continent, by
Lieut.-General Sir Robert Barton, K. C. H.
Mr. l,
ha'nd
Ferrer, r
r, by his Grace the Duke of Buckingham ad
c
Mr. Kuper, Attache to her Majesty'3 Legation at Frani -
fort, by Viscount Palmerston
Mr. Law
Mr. Benjamin Oliveira, on his appointment, by the Elul
of Lovelace
Dr. Addison, by the Earl of Rosalyn Lard
Dr. Ingham, 29th Regiment, by Lieut.-General
Strafford
Dr. Downie, Physician to her Royal Highness the late
Landgravire of Hesse Homburg, by Lieut.-General Sir
John Macdonald
The Rev. Arthur P. Stanley, by his father the Lord BialloP
of Norwich
Mr. Th;selton Dyer, on taking the name of his maternal
uncle, by the Marquis of Normanby
Mr. Frederick Dundas, on his appointment as DoPtitY.
Lieutenant of the county of Orkney and Zetland, by the
Hon. John Dundas
Mr. Gerald Fitzgerald, by Lord Talbot de Malahide
Mr. James St. George, Ordnance Storekeeper, by Gee'
Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart., M.P.
Mr. John N. Gladstone, Lieutenant Royal Navy, on
marriage, by Viscount Ingestrie
Mr. Kennedy, by the Marquis of Lansdowne
Mr. William Beckford, by the Earl of Effingham
Mr. Francis Ellis, by Colonel Sir R. Shaw. LOrd
Mr. Alfred Lewis, on his return from abroad, by
Lyndhurst
The Rev. John Courtney, by Lord Wenlock
The Rev. Dr. Arnold, by the Lord Bishop of Norwich
the
Rev. Dr. Williams, Prebendary of Winchester, by the
Bishop of Winchester
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Clogber, by irlf"
count Hawarden
Captain Graham
Grasr CharleshiamEgertoEn,ge7r7ttohnßegiment, by Lieutenant'
General
Mr. Robert Pulsford, by Vice-Admiral Sir Richard
sey Hussey
Mr. B. Chaillet, by Lord John Russell
Mr. E. W. Robertson, by General Sir John Fraser
Mr. Lawson, of Brough hall, by his Grace the Duke or
Norfolk, E. M.
Mr. Sumner, by Mr. Douglas Halford eath
Mr. Thomas Barnard Hart, by the Marquis of Wel" Duke
Mr. Townley Mitford, Royal Sussex Militia, by the Du
of Rich ;mond, K. G.
Mr. Rutherford Alcock, by Viscount Palmerston
Mn, Congreve, by Lieutenant-General Sir W. H. Pringle
Mr. Henry B. Walker, by Sir E. Knatchbull, M.P.,
Mr. !sham, Northamptonshire Militia, by Mr. Maui'
sell, M. P.
John Len
onnoxa,ppoofinNtSm'ocondthetaod,thbey
BMbthe DukeLigh ftolarAMr. arngtrYll.l,
by Mr. Maunsell, M.P.
Mraa lrlduindesor,n,K.
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Wes-
Mr. Henry Frye, Madras Army, by the Hon. Henry

tenra
Mr. Macdougall, 70th Regiment, by General Hall
Mr. Peter Fitzgerald, by General Sir William Anson,
Bart.. K. C. B.
The Rer. William R. Tomlinson, Rector of Sherfield
English, Hants, by his father, Rear-Admiral Tomlinson
Rev. James Wiggett, by Sir George Staunton
Mr. Sergeant Halcombe, by the Lord Chancellor
Surgeon-Major Johnson, Grenadier Guards, on promc-
tion, by Colonel Lambert, Grenadier Guards
Major-General Sir John Gardiner, K.C. 8., on appoint-
ment to the Colonelcy of the 61st Regiment, by Lord
Hill
Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, by

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the Earl of Rosslyn
Licut.-Colonel Johnstone, 42d Royal Highlander!, on

promotion, by Sir George Murray
Lieut.-Colonel M'Donall, 2d Life Guards, on promo

tion, by the Gold Stick in Waiting
Major Sir Trevor Wheeler, Bart., by Lord Rolle
Lieut.-Gun. Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, on appointment to
the command of the 52d Light Infantry, and return
from the Continent, by Lord Hill.