The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-17 00:00:00

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.

A Ught an 4 laughable uew force, under the
title of My Uncle's Card. w.rs plated at this theatre last
night, and teas received by the audience with the 1111,8 t un-
equivocal tr•ltens of succe,s. The ineidtnts of the piece
:ire few, and although they pretend not to any very con-
picuous novelty of invention, }et the author has hail-
aoren them together iti,h so much tact and skil as to
ortaluee an eisseniPe at oneo 4 frective and entertaining.
The performance throughout was mo,,t efficiently austeined
by all those engaged in it. Mr. G. Wild, especially. by
the bustling and humourous comicality of his manner,
not a little contributed to the success of the piect
atf.rding, as he did, much nrith'ul amusement to the
audience.

Don I. NI. De C e'ira gave his Guitar Iteeitali yes•
teiday at the Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover-square, to a
well-aven.led and highly respectable audience. This artiste
is (baking rapid stales in his profession, and bids fair to arrive
at its very summit. His strength of tone and rapidity of exe-
cution are most astonishini, and his stye chaste and pleasing.
We have lived and loved together," with variatio. s, was
soothing in the extreme, and the lively variations contrasted
beautifully with the melancholy expression o: the air. It was
rapturously applauded. The Overture to Guillaume Tell was
uerformed in a manner of whieh we had supposed the instru-
ment inciipAle. Master R Ciebra, a young debutant. per-
formed his part in a duet with treat exactness. He is very
..‘pig, and horn the specimen given much may be expected of
him.

file Inverness Farmer Society on Friday la-1,
the 10th inst., distributed premiums fur the best samples of
wool grown in the Northern counties. It is a somewhat cu-
rious tact, awl speaks strongly ;n favour of the spirited and
laudable competition going on in the north, that the .hree
premiums given by the Society were awarded to Mr. Maetavish,
Town-clerk. who bids fair to be as suttees ful in agriculture as
in law ! The following is the Socit Ws minute:— I. To Mr.
Alexander Mactavish, Town-clerk, for the best seven fleeces
of the Cheviot laid wool two sovercm. 2. To cit.° for the
best set en fleeces at Rack-aced laid wool—two sovereigns. 3
I odo for the best seven fleeces of wool, cross between Cheviot
and B;ack,aced—two stivineigies.—hrerness Courier.
MINISTERIAL PLAN' OF EDUCATION.—The
National Society took the lead in this headlong and'unscru-
pulous opposition to the. Ministorial plan. Lest we should be
suspect. d of exaggeration, we quote the ift flowing account of the
procceilitius of th.s :.•ociet%, nom an an hor.ty which cannot
certainly be su.pected of any undue bias in favour of Minsters
or their me isures, the nut hot Ity, namely, of a Correspondent 01
the Times, a hose letters occupy a conspicuous place in its
columns, a dare mentioned in its lea-ring articles with espec!al
approbation :—" It must not, however, be supposed that the
conduct of the National Society his been only unconstitutional,
tuicanonical, and foolish ; its tricks and impostures have seen
reprehensible in the highest degree. The Society, by its offi-
cers, agents, and innumerable circulars, has propagated the
ni.schievous misrepre,entatious ; and disregarding the
plain arid reheated disclaimers of the Committee of Council,
has published throughout the length and breadth of the king-
dam, the gross assertions that the Committee •of Council is
We learn that, on Wednesna) East., Mn T. Dui,.
conibe received a anal answer to the application for a fair in
Hyde.uark. and we regret to say that the determined ; off() r nug.
au tbe country an utracriptural latitudinarian system
t
excluding the parochial clergy from the superiti-
ppsition ;eadence of schools, and u.nnihilating the auohority of the
of Lord Dune ',mon to the application could not be . vercome. So, then, it appears that the cnarges brought by the
The higher ran-s of this country will one siay regret , heir hoc. t To. tee to 1639 against the Government are, on the showing.
Way to whatever promises to contribute to the jat enjoy. of oil, Toriesthemselvei in 1840, not only unfounded and untrg#,
luta of tile peoplc...Morning Chronicie. • ..-77Isat• opl4,lavaitio4; .. iucrociible.Nomifly Wiroxide,
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