The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-05 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE THEA.T itE.

The Marylebone pantomime of the Knight and the
Wooden Demon continues to attract crowded house.'
here every night. It is a pantomime of the old school,
full of fun, frolic, and trick; with a Harlequin, Panta-
loon, and Clown who do not fear to exert them-
selves. It is delightful to witness the uproarious
joy of the children at this theatre. The engagement of
Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Buckstone, which terminates
shortly, has been most profitable to the management,
Every night since Christmas this snug little theatre has
been crowded to suffocation.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.
The Queen and his Royal Highness walked this
morning in the Home Park.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the
younger branches of the Royal Family walked and
rode in the Home Park.

-The-Blifon-Andriati left the Castle this -morning for
London.

The Chevalier Bunsen is expected to arrive. at
Windsor Castle this afternoon, on a visit to the Queen
and his R4al Highness.
Her Majesty had a small evening party, yesterday
evening. Thu following had the honour of receiving
invitations:;,.—the lion. Mrs. Anson, Mr. -and-Miss
lion. Mrs. Phipps, and Miss Bithurst.
The: i-.4al*:dinner party this evening will include,
in addition to".the ladies and gentlemen • of the royal
household, her, Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Mary, his Serene Highness Prince Ed-
ward of Saxe Weimar, Lady Augusta Cadogan, the
Marchioness of Waterford, Baroness Speth, Lady
Fanny Howard, Mons. and Madame Van de Weyer,
the Chevalier Bunsen, Baron Stockmar, Viscount
Clifden, BarOn Kneseheck, and Capt F. Seymour.

The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt held a quarterly meeting yesterday at the
office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Down-
ing-street. There were present the Master of the Rolls,
the Governor of the Bank of England, and the De-
Deputy-Governor. Mr. Iligham, Secretary and
Comptroller-General, was in attendance.

THE LATE EARL OP AUCELAND.—The deceased
Earl will be interred at Beckenham on Saturday, instead
of on Monday. The Bishop of Sodor and Man arrived
at the Admiralty on Wednesday evening; and the body
of the deceased Earl arrived at Whitehall, in a hearse,
from Lord Ashburton's, yesterday afternoon, at five.
The mournful cortege, Which is to be strictly private,
will leave the Admiralty for Beckenham, to-morrow
morning, at nine o'clock.

The funeral of the late First Lord of the Admiralty
having been appointed to take place to-morrow, an order
has been issued by the Board that all men-of-war hoist
their colours half-mast high on the occasion, from nine
o'clock in the morning till sunset on that day, and the
Lord Mayor of London has written to the harbour-mas-
ters of the port to intimate to the commanders of the
vessels in the river his request that they will perform
the same ceremony of respect to the memory of the
lamented nobleman.

ICH STORM IN CANADA.--In my last I gave you
rather a particular description of an ice-storm, together
with some of the effects and consequences of this me-
teorological phenomenon; but, in doing this, I omitte I
to mention one of its effects, of more cmsequence, per-
haps, than any other. In this country the electric tele-
graph communication is conveyed along wires supported
by upright poles, about 15 feet high and 200 feet apart,
except in two or three instances, where they cross our
immense rivers, where they aro obliged to be stretched
to a much greater extent, in one instance to a thousand
feet, without any intermediate support. Now, when it
rains and freeze•s at the same time, as is the case in an
"ice storm," these wires immediately become coated
with ice, and this adds to their weight so materially as
to break them down, especially in the instances of such
long stretches as I have mentioned. Such breaks, how-
ever, are not confined to these; for since the last break
steel wire have been substituted, of so fine a texture,
that they are less liable to be broken by such means.
In the present instance they were not injured, while the
shorter stretches of less perfect materials, although three
or four times their thickness, were broken by the super-
incumbent weight, and thus the communintion was cut
off so long, that we actually received the mail itself by
the Britannia before a telegraphic communication of its
principal items of intelligence could reach us.—Chronicle
Correspondent.
YANKEE RECEPTION OF THE PRESIDENT'S MRS^
SAGM.—" The country papers are loud in the it corn-
plaints of the almost interminable length of the Presi
rn ~190 t:'1; 11'1, :;
those which do, give it by instalments.'—Atu• York
Courier.