The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-26 00:00:00

VICTORIA THEATRE.

This very pretty theatre was last night atteriLd by a
crowded and fashionable audience. In the boxes we per-
ceived Col. Stanhope and his lady, Mr. T. B. Sheridan,
Lord Seymour, and several persons of distinguished ton.
The successful drama, entitled The Kw nee Ruins,
from the prolific pen of Mr. J. T. lia)ws, was repeated,
and &kited the greatest applause throughout. The author
himself, sustained, with great ability, the part of Cain
Kynon, in which it is difficult to determine whether
deep pathos or homely simplicity predominate. The
pantomime of Jack of Newbury, contir.u:s to be re-
ceived with mingled laughter and applats and to be
performed with as much life and drollery, as in the
first week of its presentation. From tic appearance
of the house last night, and the graii. a ion mani-
fested by the audience, we have no doubt that the exertions
of the manager, and his talented company, will be rewarded
by the elevation of the Victoria theatre to that he‘ght of
public favour, which its very name ought to secure.

WAR PREPARATIONS IN

GERMANY.

NCREMISCRG, JAN. 14 —Preparationsare already making
for the exercising of the 9th Corps of the Federal army
next summer, which are the more necessary as many of
the troops must bo drawn from a considerable distance.
It is composed of the contingents of Saxony, Ile se,
Cassel, and Luxemburg, and cor.sists of 24,274 men.
FIWNI TIIL MAINE, JAN. —lt is now decided that
the preliminary works for the construction of the forte se;
of Rastadt and IJim, as well as ,he forts of the Black
Forest, particularly at Freuverstadt and Donanschwingen,
and on the `lt to de Pont at Ge:m;rsiielm, shall positively
be commenced in the spring. The military preparations
will' several German States, are solely for the purpose of
restoring the corps of the army to the pan.: establish-
ment. We hear that ten corps of the army of the
German Confederation, tcgethcr with the reserve, are to
be raised to the amount fixed in the act of the Confedera-
tion, which is 300,000 men.
A private letter: from M. Guizot to a German states-
man, which we have seen, contain extremely pacific assur-
ances ; but, at the same time, express a wish that France
may be restored from the isolated estimation in which it
now is to a participation in the affairs of the world as was
the case before the 15th of July last year.—Liamburg
Papers, Jan. 17.

ROYAL ASYLUM, MANOR HALL,

CHELSEA.

Oa Friday last the Committee of the Sheriffs Fund,
accompanied by Dr. Stebbing,., the Lord Mayor's Chaplain,
the o.dinary of Newgate, and several members of the
Common Council, paid a visit to the Royal Asylum, pi-
tronised by the Queen, and established for the reception
and reformation of penitent females discharged from the
metr)politan prisons. The Committee were received by
Mrs. Fry, Miss Heave, Mrs. Pirie, and the other benev..)-
lent ladies who established the institution, and after having
insp:eted the Asylum, Dr. Stubbing and Sir James WIC..
hams severally addressed the inmates in a most impressive
style ; i.nd Mrs. Fry afterwards gave to the visitors a very
interesting account of the associations formed on the Con.
tinent, for the purpose of reclaiming and watching over
the conduct of unfortunate females, after having served
out their time of imprisonment. The ladies present, it
appeared, had many of them engaged in thethe establishment
of a similar institution in London, called Patronage
Society, to s Isichi
the Asylum was considered an auxi-
Ham, By the rules of the Institution, prsoners who dur.
ing the time of their confinement evinced signs of refor-
omtah..eiro,n,i, w
be procured, or until they could be restored to their
friends.
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The most gratifyin statements Were made of the success
.ieseiricelte on
ie dth
which
had rewardc'd the exertions of the ladies. A great
frome irdischarge t
clnp ttt i 0
ny until situations could
placed in the Asylum, or
number of the females had been restored to their families.,
end had become valinble members of society ; and a still
larger numbers continued in the came situattuns as servants
for years, and gave the most complete satisfaction ; and so
soon as the inni..tes were considered qualified to be placed
out, there were never wanting families to receive them.

THE SWINBURNE CORRESPONDENCE.—The
author of this work, Henry Swinturne, Esq. a son of Sir
John Swinturne, Bart., possessed of a handsome inde-
pendent fortune, whilst making what was styled the Grand
Tour, was received at the several Courts ha visited—par-
ticularly at Paris, Naples, Rome, Madrid, bond vicuna,
with unusual respect, and having a mind capable of
making the most of tha advantages he enjoyed (exhibited
by him in his admirable work on Spaio), his description
of the numberless objects of interests presented to him in
his travels—his antedates of the many distingaisbed pub-
lic characters with whom he associated, and his criticisms
on ',Le works of art every where thrown upon to his in-
spection, will doubtless unie to make his correspondence,
about to be submitted to the public, at once the most
entertining and the most perfect picture of the Continent,
towards the close of the last century, that has ever appeared.
TAISIWJRTII--POLITICAL SUICIDE.—Sir R.
Peel delivered a lecture " on the Advantages of Kno-v•
lodge to the Working Clas.42s," to ttie subscribers to the
neWly-estatilihed library and reading room, on Wednesday
last, in the Town-hall. If Sir Robert's lectures become the
bistrument of converting the humble burgesses of Tam-
worth to that great " knowldge" of their paramount in-
terests which alone ceo give thorn solid " advantages," he
will be the instrument of their moral and political emanci-
pation, and of a death-blow to the faction by which as
himself is sustained.—Stagbrdshire Examiner.

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