The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

LYCEUM.

The Lyceum has long been remarkable for the excel-
lence of the -matter, and the admirable manner in which
comic extravaganza's have been got up, but never has it
produced one more calculated to run through many suc-
cessful nights, and to attract bumper houses, than
that which has this night appeared from the pro-
lific pen of Mr. Charles Dance, and which may truly
.be
termed a new, original, musical, magical, and romantic,
necromantic, zoological, and ornithological extravaganza.
The scenery is admirably got up, and would alone be
sufficient to gratify the sight-seers and to ensure the
success of a far inferior performance; but the Enchanted
Forest scarcely requires such assistance. There are
some admirable hits and genuine wit sparkles in every
line. Mr. Dance has exceeded any of his former pro-.
ductions, and has placed himself in the first rank of the
caterers for holiday folks, and certainly he has no cause
of complaint either as to the performers or the audience,
as to the manner in which his piece was produced
or received. We have seldom seen an audience better
disposed to receive everything in a friendly manner, or to
be satisfied and pleased with that which was produced
for their amusement. The plot is taken from one of
those old fairy tales that have been the delight of our
infancy, that bring back so vividly the happy days of
childhood to our memories, that we could not, however
crossed or embittered we may have become
during the battle of life, refrain from feeling
our sorrows departing and our hearts rapidly overflow-
ing with the milk of human kindness ; in such a dispo-
sition, it would be impossible to criticise with much
severity that which was brought before us, and, in truth
,every spectator seemed to receive it in such a spirit.
The first scene opens before the castle of Count Wulfild,
a poor knight in hpes of better days, who has fallen
from his high estate, and is suffering all the pressure
~f covert} ; his retainers have desere him, friends have
fallen away, and all have abandon, d the victim of poverty
-ave a benevolent magician, ea ho, as in duty bound,
takes the family under his especial protection, and acts
as their single servant. There is then a scene in the
castle with the C wit iiiinself (enacted, most
admirably, by K.,.4)), who, exasperated at a
number of reoisals of any assistatic.e from sup-
posed friends. deteiniin- s to brave the horrors of
the enchanted fottit, awl to t.riti hack some game for
dttin•r. In tile t,irel scene we bye hi. t..rrific adven-
tures therein. Hav4fg shot a hare, he thert,by falls
into the power of Prince Bruin, who comes forward
ii the shape of a but who proves his goo d
:,reeding by dancing ?aid sinuir g a in clt bravura, given
by Mr. Wiga.: in his bc3.4 styie ; he consents, however,
to accept the hand .ot the C,aint's eldest daughter as a
ransom for has forteit life, arid to pay one hundred
:weight of gold as a dowry. Sitni'ar indiscretions place
the unhappy Count in the power of Princes Eagle and
Dolphin, who permit him again tae redeem his life by the
sacrifice of a d,zugliter to cacb, th first to pay two hun-
dred weight of gold, and the see.,nd thtee sack; of pearls.
Count, on his return, relates his adventures in some-

ug of a bore blstie vein, magnicying the number Of

ihe bears, like Falstaff's meet in buckram, but is
surprised to find the Princes arrive to claim their re-
spective brides, who, as they come in the shape of hand-
some young men, with magnificent trains, depart
with them nothinr, loath. The second act gives the ad-
venture of their brother, the Wonder Child (Mrs. Keely),
in the Enchanted Forest, who discovers his sisters, and
after a narrow escape from the devouring propensities
of his brothers-in-law, who are but men one day in
seven, at length discovers the manner in which
the spell is to be broken, by his rescuing their
sister the Princess ilildegarde from the wicked
Necromancer's power, and awaking her from her
enchanted slumber. This is achieved in the third
act, and the whole wiads up with a magnificent scene,
and the reunion of all parties. The piece was announced
for repetition every night, amidst thunders of applause,
and without a single dissentient voice, while Keeley and
the author, who was loudly called for, bore their blush-
ing honours thrust upon them. The music was very
neatly arranged by A. Lee, and strange to say, although
a lirst night, there was not a single mistake or failure
in the almost magical changes of scenery. The piece is
certain to become a standing favourite, and to afford the
most sterling evidences of its success to the worthy
author and the enterprising manageress.

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Sunday morning, as a
man was walking towards the entrance of Victoria-park, he
perceived a quantity of blood close to a gravel pit, and on
proceeding towards it discovered the body of a man in the
pit with his throat cut, and quite dead. He immediately
informed the police, who conveyed the body to the Hackney
workhouse, where it remains awaiting a coroner's inquest.
The deceased was about thirty-eight years of age, and was
respectably dressed. He must have first inflicted the wound,
and during his struggles have rolled into the pit. At present
he has not been identified.

THE MACKAREL FISH ERY. —There are upwards of
150 boats engaged in this fishery, now in this harbour. Each
boat carries a crew of seven—generally six men and one boy.
With the exception of some four or five boats, they hail from
Brighton, Shoreham, Reigate, and other places eastward, and
from Penzance, westward of this port. Diving the past week
large catches of niackarel have been taken. On Saturday
last thousands were sent off try the railroad to the London
and Bristol markets, a,,d a mai ket for them is now procured
i through railway agency in Birmingham. Thousands were
retailed on that day in this town at one penny each.—Ply•
mouth Journal.
THE CASE OF M. ALEXANthDheheßscEhaoarrilleoarteriThihn: AS.—Th. e
Civil Tribunal gave judgment on Friday in the actio_n_s
.
brought by M. de Girardin, girant of the Presse, and 1i
had aVeurniot,gfeorrantht
the breach
retalicehCoo
of
engagementst it u t t onn e ..,i aignation
en-
tered relative to the supply and publication of his romances.
wsthilleic 11. heAlexandre l
The judgment in both cases are the same. The Court ordered
that within six weeks from the Ist of March next Alexandre
far
orders only
Dumas shall be obligedfttohreenvloitlutmoesEomfiwlehdiceh Gthireardttn.b_naniuth!
manuscript of the first o
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declares him debter—that is to say,
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month, and that
beginning
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shall
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entirely
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Dumas shall neglect to make the deliveries
de Girardin the sum
cleared c?ff
specified, conch inns him to pay
that
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have
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Dumas
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be liable to arrest,when
ground for deciding relative to
nisishneod from 11th December, 1846, to
that the treaty shall be
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1847;but
and
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tahserepsart do;
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July following, the period of the
tth;rlie:tresd4c.ii.
commencement being changed ; condemns Alexandre Dumas
ittlioeftockemb
lt ;
tot
cto° pay to Emile de Girardin 3,000 f. as damages for the delay
in the execution of the treaty, with liability to arrest in case
of non-payment, but only in six months from this day; con-
demns Emile de Girardin to the expenses of the demand
against the other newspapers, as also to the expenses of the
demand against Dumas with respect to the advertisement in
the Mode ; condemns the Mode to the expenses of the de-
mand against it, but only up to March, 1846, at which period
it gave satisfaction to the complainants; condemns Dumas
to the expenses of the demand contained in the conclusions
of December 14th, 1846, including the registration of the
trcaty necessitated by the process; and orders that the cost
and signification of the present judgment shall be borne by -
Duni ai." A similar order was made with regard to the Con-
stitutionnel.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN THE UNITED

STATES.—A correspondent of Galignani's Messenger has fur-
nished to that paper some particulars illustrating the extent
to which the electrical system has been carried in the-United
States, and the working perfection to which it has attained.
A line " has been completed across the Allegheny Moun-
tains, and it has worked admirably between Philadelphia
and Pittsburg—a distance of 300 miles. The journals of
Pittsburg have published the proceedings of Congress of one
afternoon on the following morning; and this is the case with
all the news from the great cities of the Atlantic coast. The
message of the Governor to the Legislature of New York,
delivered at Albany on the 7th ult., and consisting of two
columns and a half of solid nonparil, was published in the
city of New York two hours after its delivery, having been
transmitted sentence by sentence by the electric telegraph.
A company has been formed, with adequate capital, to con.
struct a telegraphic communication between Washington.
and New Orleans, by the way of Richn2Ond, Charle6tol:l,
' Dzobile, &c.