The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-22 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

A new farce, in one act, ei.titled the Light Troop of
St. James, was successfully produced here last evening.
It is an adaptation, by Mr. T. M. Morton, from a French
original. The plot, which is somewhat of the flimsiest,
is as follows :—Jane Roberts (Miss Reynolds), the
daughter of an apothecary at Kensington, comes to the
Court of St. James's, in the reign of Queen Anne, to
;elicit the place of attendant as one of the Maids of
Honour. She arrives just at the period that
he Masham intrigue, which eventuated in the down-
!all of the Duchess of Marlborough, is at its height,
Lady Alamode (Mrs. W. Clifford), the superintendent
of the iaids of Honour, to whom she applies, is a
strong partisan of the Marlborough factions, and drill
:he Maids of honour to coquette with various in-
fluential courtiers, so as to bring them over to her
party. Jane Roberts has a great anxiety to procure
this situation, as on her success in so doing depends
:ler union with Master Thomas Smallbones
(Buckstone) the Inspector of the Queen's Kitchen,
and the son of a rich old money-scrivener.
Smallbones, who had imagined that the office was merely
honorary, finds to his horror that he bas actually to
attend in the kitchen, and to taste every dish before it
is presented to the Queen, and being a man of taste, he
has no taste for such a tasting occupation, and is about
to resign his office in disgust, but the Maids of Honour,
to prevent his quitting the palace, pretend to fall in love
with him, and each makes an assignation to meet him at
twelve at night near a statue in the apartments of
the Queen. Jane Roberts gets possession of the
billets, and transfers each billet to the courtier who ad-
mires the writer of it. 'They keep the assignations,
ind are thus won over to the Malborough interest.
Lady Alatnode meets Smallbones in the dad:, and is
exceedingly affectionate to him. However, at the entry
of Jane Roberts every thing is cleared up, and the
lovers are united. The piece owes its success entirel)
to the admirable acting of Buckstone and Miss Rey-
nolds: The latter was deservedly encorvd in a very
beautiful balled, the music of which is the composition
of Mr. T. S. Reed.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—There were presen
at her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday evening—The Conde
de Montemolino' the Princes Louis and Jerome Bonaparte,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Ormonde, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Worcester, the Hon. William and Mrs.
Ashley, who occupied her Majesty Queen Adelaide's box ;
his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow
and, Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner ; the Marquis and Mar-
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lion. Mr. Upton, Hon. Mr. Butler, Mr. Dodd, Sir Jasper
Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Brenton Trelawny, Sir H. Webb,
.Sir John and Lady Jervis, Sir A. Barnard, Sir H. Wil-
loughby, Sir P. Shelley, Sir R. Vivian, Sir W. Ball, Captain
Greville, Major Baring, Mr. P. Wheeler, Captain and the
Hon. Mrs. Ryder Burton, Captain Reynolds, Mr. Barry
Baldwin, &C. &c.
A theatrical benefit on behalf of the Printers of
Edinburgh, will take place at the Theatre Royal, English
Opera House, Strand, this evening.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN R. VYSE, M.P.—
On Thursday last the Baron Rothschild's hounds met at
Rowshann. The deer took a line towards Bierton, and when
near Mr. Eustace's Mr. Vyse, in taking a fence near
the road, fell from his horse, in consequence of the saddle
slipping round. His loot, unfortunately, hung in the stirrup,
b ;vhich he was dragged upwards Of one hundred yards,
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