The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-14 00:00:00

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.

A new farce was produced at this theatre last
evening., tinder the title of Like Talker like Son,
iVliibh thins upon the mishaps of Lubin Log, jun.,
son to the wellknown individual of that name, who
comes up to London from Yorkshire on an errand
of the same nature which had led his father into
Yorkshire from Tooley-street some thirty years pre-
viously, namely, to unite himself in the bonds of
hymen to a lady whom he has never seen. The
lady, of course, favours the suit of another, a
Captain Dashwood (Mr. Fitzjames), who, by the
assistance of his servant Glib (Mr. G. Wild),
manages to get Lubin, jun. (Mr. Compton), con-
fined in a private Lunatic Asylum at Kensington,
from which, however, he soon makes his escape,
and arrives at the house of Sir Toby Toppit,
(Granby) the father of his intended. Dashwood,
however, succeeds in getting him ejected as an
impostor, while he (Dashwood) is received as the
genuine Log. The mistake is cleared up, but not
until the young lady and Dashwood are united.
The incidents are not new, yet the farce went off
well, and was announced for repetition every even-
ing, without a dissentient. The author is indebted
for his success to the admirable acting of Compton
and Wild. Without at all approaching to a ser-
vile imitation of Liston, Compton's acting was
most thoroughly Listonian. There was the same
unctuous humour, the same excess of self-esteem,
the same vacant stare, which in Liston were wont to
set the Louse in a roar. Lubin Log, junior, is a
chip of the old block. It is, indeed, " like father
like son." Wild's acting as Glib was exceedingly
diverting. In the mad-house scene, which, by the
bye, is nearly a translation from that in M. de Pour-
ceagnac of Moliere, his acting as the Doctor was
exquisitely rich. He rattled over his jargon of
medical terms, and describes his wonderful cures in
admirable style. Compton's look of astonishment
at him was one of the richest things of the sort we
have seen for many a day. The applause during
this scene was vociferous, and well was it merited.
Mrs. It. Romer, as Sarsnet, a lady's-maid, sang
a ballad entitled " Lovely Night," very beautifully,
and was most deservedly rewarded with an encore.
Her rich mellow contre alto voice told well in this
ballad, which she sang with great taste and feeling.
This lady, both in her singing and acting, reminds
us strongly of Miss Love, whose place she is quite
worthy to occupy. The house, we were happy to
see, was well filled.

NEW CHARGE AGAINST THE

JEWS.

A letter from the frontiers of Poland, dated the
24th ult., published in the Universal Gazette of Leipsic,
states that " a circumstance which lately took place
in the town of Tarnow had created a great sensation,
and recalled public attention to the alleged occurrences
at Rhodes and Damascus."
It would appear, that " on the arrival of the Arch-
duke Charles in that town there was a general illumi-
nation erdered, which attracted many peasants from
the neighbouring villages ; amongst others was a fine
young woman, who wore a handkerchief round her
head. She was accosted by a Jew, who pulled off the
handkerchief, and ran away with it. She followed
him, whom she considered a thief, to the Jews' quarter,
where she suddenly found herself surrounded by a num-
ber of Jews, and from that time she was not heard of
for some weeks, nor indeed until she appeared before the
commissary of police to make a complaint, which has
been transmitted to the superior Court at Lemberg."
She states, that " when she was surrounded by the
Jews, she was dragged into a house, and thence into the
cellar, where she was bathed in a vat. A Jewish sur-
geon then came, and having carefully examined her per-
son, he bled her in the arm and preserved the blood in a
vas?. This operation was repeated on several days.
The young woman having observed that she was care-
fully examined by a female to see whether she had any
wound, or stain, or blemish on her person before the sur-
geon bled her, determined to cause one, which she did
by rubbing her knee against the bathing tub in which
they placed her. The next time the surgeon came he
av ti 9 wound, and declared (according to the Jewish
phraseology) that she was unclean, and on the same
night she was carried to, and left in, the churchyard,
where she was found the following day.'
This is the young woman's account. She has iden-
tified the Jewish surgeon who bled her, and the young
woman who examined her person, and the cicatrice
where she was bled is visible. The criminal court has
not yet decided on the case. The young woman has no
witnesses, and the accused declare that the charge is.
false. .
We have before us the details of a somewhat similar
occurrence at Iwaniska, in the palatinate of Sandomir, in
Poland, some years since, and transmitted to us with the
foregoing, in which, however, the alleged victim was a
Christian boy, three years old, and who had been mur-
dered. The narrator, however, states a circumstance
irreconcileable with the k,tory given in the LeipsieGazetle,
namely, that the parties guilty of or accessory to the
murder required that the victim should be of the male
sex.