The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert walked early yester-
day morning in Claremont Park. His Royal Highness
Prince Albert afterwards enjoyed the sport of shooting,
attended by some of the gentlemen of the royal suite.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
took walking and riding exercise yesterday morning.
The Hon. and Rev. C. :Leslie Courtenay left Clare-
mont yesterday.
In the afternoon her Majesty and her Royal Consort
promenaded in Claremont Park, and the Royal Family
took their usual airings.
A deputation from the Irish Railway Companies, con-
sisting of Mr. J. G. Frith, Mr. W. H. Thomas, Sir John
Campbell, Mr. T. Tyrell, and Mr. F. H. Hemming, bad
an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. T. Erskine May and Mr. Samuel Smith bad an
interview with the Right Hon. Edward Strutt, yester-
day, at the Office of the Commissioners of Railways.
Mr. Parker, M.P., had also an interview with the Right
Hon. Gentleman yesterday.
The Rev. George Smith had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with
Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
Sir Joshua Walmsley had an interview with the Right
Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday at the office of the
Board of Trade.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of New Zealand, Ceylon, and
the Cape of Good Hope.

FRENCH PLAYS.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

Frederic Lemaitre commenced his engagement here
last evening, in the character of Don Cesar de Blasi].
He was the original Don Cesar, and he is decidedly the
best. Between Lemaitre and Wallack, the English re-
presentative of Don Cesar, it is almost impossible to
institute a comparison. Wallack makes him a gentle.
man, in difficulties it is true, but still such a joyous,
effervescing, high-spirited gentleman, that although the
spectator feels an intense interest in his adventures, he
feels no great interest for the Don himself. For in-
stance, in the scene in the condemned cell, as
acted by Wallack, it is impossible to doubt for
a moment but that some means will be found
to rescue him from his impending fate ; it is impossible
to doubt for a moment but that he himself believes that
his shrewd mother-wit will be sufficient to save him.
Curiosity as to how he is to be saved is excited in a high
degree, because the Imbroglio is perfect ; but interest in
the fate of the Don is not excited, because it is impos-
sible in Wallack's version of the part for the spectator
ever to bring himself to believe that Don Cesar is in
danger. In the Don Cesar of Lemaitre, on the con-
trary, the most intense interest is excited in the fate of
the man. Lemaitre is a reckless dare devil, it is true,
but he has no sense of enjoyment, he is l'homme blase—
careless, to a oertain extent, of life, because
he has well nigh exhausted it, but yet there is an under-
current of deep feeling, although apparently careless of
life, he does not wish for death. He would rather live
than die, although, when death comes, he is prepared
to meet it. Wallack gives the lights of the character.
Lemaitre the shadows. Wallack's picture is a brilliant
Turner—Lemaitre's a rich Rembrant. Which is right?
The spectator must judge, and the auffragcs will be
nearly equally divided. Wallack makes Don Cassar
the hero of high comedy, Lemaitre of high melo-
drama, and each is perfect in his version. Mdlle.
Clarisse, who also made her first appearance for
the season, was the Maritana, and she acted the charac-
ter in the most fascinating style imaginable. It would
be an act of injustice to close this notice without men-
tioning the Lazarille of Mdlle. Val!e.?. Her Lazarille
is the best we have yet seen. She made up and acted
the character perfectly. All other Lazarille's have been
evidently girls masquerading. Her looks, her actions,
her dress, were those of a boy. Her voice alone be-
trayed her sex. The House was crowded to excess in
every part ; so crowded that it was warm, notwithstand-
ing the severity of the weather.

A PLEA. FOR THE SUFFERING
HIGHLANDERS.
BY MRS. CHARLES TINSLEY.
Forget them not, the sufferers
By glen and mountain side,
The thousands that now pine in want,
Where crowds in want have died ;
They send no loud complainings forth—,-
They work no deed of wrong,
Nor tax a nation with the woes
In silence borne so long.

They pour not forth, as did their sires,
In headlong foray bands,
Leaving the track of lawless war
On cattle-pilfered lands ;
They keep within their fastnesses,—
We scarce have heard the cry
That tells us how they daily live,
And how they daily die.
Think of those homes that lie apart,
Some on the wide bleak moor,
Some bedded in the mountain clefts,
Where snow wreaths hide each door;
The hearths within are dark and cold,
The meal-tubs empty lie;
And children there, to anguished hearts,
In Tian for succour cry.

Their wants are simple, frugal, few,
No luxuries they crave;
They waste not time or substance, yet
They have no means to save;
And stern indeed is that distress
That pileth up the way
Whence men are wont, for daily bread,
To look from day to day.

Those unfrequented solitudes
No chance relief afford;
The scattered dwellers there are wont
To lean upon the Lord:
Pastor and flock alike are bowed
Beneath one common ill,
For in those regions lone, remote,
All men are brothers still.
They suffer not the less because
They send few wailings forth;
Alas! life's ills fall heaviest
On hearts of quiet worth!
oye that for imagined woes ,
Can boast the power to feel,
Turn to these living wastes of earth,
Where there are woes to heal!

And ye that in the summer sheen
Have wandered with delight,
Amid those old, song-haunted hills,
Now crowned with sorrow's night,—
Remember how, by Highland hearths,
Ye still found welcome true;
And let the hearts that hailed ye then
Find meet return from you.
So when ye seek those scenes again,
In brighter days to come,
A right good welcome ye shall find
In every Highland home!
And may be then ye'll hear some tale
Shall make your hearts rejoice,
Not having coldly turned away
From sorrow's earnest voice!

WINDSOR, MONDAY tVENING.—The Court, it is
fully expected, will return from Claremont to Windsor
Castle on Thursday next, the 14th instant. Orders have
been issued to the proper officers to be prepared for its
return on that day, and the whole of the Royal Family
will remain at the Castle until the 17th or 18th instant.
After the opening of Parliament, her Majesty and the
Prince will return to Windsor Castle, and there remain,
with the exception of occasionally proceeding to Buck-
ingham Palace, for a day, as the business of the state
may require ; and, about the middle of March next, the
Queen and Royal Family, with their Court, will. again
take up their residence for a time at Osborne House, in
the Isle of Wight, to resume their superintendence of
the improvements they have projected there both in
planting and building, and which have been entirely
suspended for many weeks by the inclement weather.
Prince Albert, since the Court removed to Claremont,
has almost every day been shooting in the preserves
there, attended by Lord Alfred Paget and the Hon.
Colonel Phipps. They have had great sport, and as
pheasants are very rare birds in Belgium, the whole of
those which have been shot in the preserves of the King
of the Belgians at Claremont, have been duly forwarded
to the Palace of Lackeu at Brussels.

FIRE AT LAWSHALL.—About half-past six o'cicek
on Sunday morning, a fire was discovered on the farm
of Mr. Smith, of Lawshall, which, in spite of every
effort to subdue it, resulted in the total destruction of a
barn, containing 30 coombs of wheat and a quantity of
peas, the produce of six acres ; a stable, with harness,
all the tools, a good quantity of straw, and the upper
portion of a dwelling-house, which was so injured about
the roof and walls that it is feared the whole will have
to come down. No cattle were lost, but the utmost diffi-
culty was experienced in blindfolding a horse to get
him through the flames. Suspicions are entertained that
this, like many an act of the same kind, is the work of
an incendiary; but as yet there are no traces of the
culprit. This is the fifth fire that has taken place
within a mile of the same spot in two years—Mr.
Nunn's. Mr. Cadge's, Mr. Reaman's, Mr. Smith's, the
brother of the present sufferer, and that we record
Cambridge Paper.