The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-30 00:00:00

HAYMARKET.

A pleasant little musical drama (the drama by Mr.
Mark Leman, the music by Mrs. Gilbert A Beckett),
entitled the Young Pretender, was produced here on
Sablay with complete success. The scene is laid in
taifighlands immediately after the Battle of Culloden.
Capt. O'Neal (Hudson), an officer in Prince Charles
Edwards Army, makes his appearance at the house of
a loyal old Scotch lady, Mrs. Craggie (Mrs. W. Clifford),
who must have been a lineal descendent of the old lady
of Tullietudlem, attended by a Highland Gillie, this
Gillie being no less a personage than the Prince himself
in disguise; of course every attention is paid to the
Prince, who is about to sit clown to a hearty breakfast,
attended upon by Capt. O'Neal, when Capt. Cocker.
(Buckstone), of the Skye Militia, an Englishman and a
partisan of the house of Hanover, enters, and the Cap-
tain is obliged to chastise his gillie for stealing his
breakfast, in order not to awaken the suspicions of
Cooker. In the meantime Mary Armadalo (Miss P.
Horton), a quick witted young Scotch girl, the sweet-
heart of O'Neal, and to whom he has confided the
secret of the Prince's disguise, manages by songs and
signs to warn the Prince and O'Neal that Cocker
is but the avant.coureer of a host of emissaries
who are come to arrest the Prince. The dis-
guised gillie gets II p an extemporaneous quar-
rel with Cocker, and insults him us every possible
manner. Cocker complains to O'Neal of the ill man-
ners of his servant, and O'Neal, to pacify the English-
man, orders his Highlani servant to quit his service and
the house instantly. Is order to gain time for his
escape, O'Neal bamboozles Cocker by telling, :him an
interminable story about his Irish ancestors, and at last,
holding a pistol to his head, frankly informs him
that the Young Pretender is in the house, if he dares to
arrest him. Mary enters in the Highland costume, and is
introduced as the Young Pretender, and at length, by
dint of promises, Cocker is fairly won over to the
Prince's side by the magnificent promises made to him,
and kneels down at the feet of the supposed Prince, to
receive the honour of knighthood. The old lady, Mrs.
Craggie, surprises him in this attitude, and Cocker, for
hi. 3 own sake, is obliged to assist in deceiving his
comrades when they arrive. He, however, reproaches
O'Neal for hazing broken his word ; which, on the
contrary O'Neal declares he has kept to the letter,
for he has introduced him (pointing to Mary) to the
Young Pretender. The fun of Buckstone, the, roystering
of Hudson, and the singing of Miss P. Horton were
well brought out in:this pleasant little piece. The masse,
by Mrs. A. Beckett is graceful and appropriate.

THE RIOT AT COVENT-GARDEN

THEATRE.

M. Jullien has sent the following explanation of the
'riot of which an account appeared in our Saturday's
impression: —" Near the proscenium of the theatre
barriers have been erected, which, when the space before
the orchestra is full, are closed, to prevent inconvenient
crowding, which arrangement of course contributes more
to the comfort of the audience than to the immediate
profit of the manager. The barriers have each an inlet
and an outlet, so that for every person quitting tke front
another is allowed to enter. By the account in your
paper it is made to appear that these barriers were
erected for the first time on Friday night, whr-reas they
have been used every night during the whole month,
and have very greatly contributed to the convenience of
the visitors. On Friday evening some five or six young
men, who, from their general behaviour, appeared to
have come with the intention of entertaining themselves
at the expense of others, finding on their arrival that the
front of the house was already filled, commenced de-
manding in loud tones that the barriers should be
removed, which had it been done would have caused the
greatest confusion. Your correspondent next states that
I offered tickets for the next evening; what I said we;,
that any persons wishing it might either have their
money returned or tickets for the next evening. The ex-
count.proceecls thus:---1 The time having arrived for the,
British army quadrille, the noise of which completely
-drowned all attempts at further interruption, and
the theatre having been considerably thinned, the
first part terminated, but not until nearly an hour after
its proper time. In answer to this, Sir, I beg to say, that
the theatre was perfectly tranquil a quarter of an hour
'before the quadrille commenced, and during the piece
. played immediately before it, and that the first act of the
concert was not extended a quarter of an hour beyond
the usual time. With regard to the theatre ' having
been considerably thinned,' the door-keepers' returns
show that out of the several thousands assembled in the
building, so few were at all dissatisfi with the arrange-
ments,e,
ft
that only seventy-five perso left the theatre,
and availed themselves of the o of having their
money returned. These were chiefly persons who either
thought the noise would be continued, or were fearful
that some serious disturbance might take 'lace, for the
half-dozen snaleontents did not offer to leave. ' The
police' (who never once attempted to use their truncheons
as stated in the account) ' having interfered, the concert
proceeded without fart/tor interruption.' With the ex-
ception of the few individuals endeavouring to force
their way through this barriers, the disturbanceconsistad
only in the noise of these persons, their vociferations
'being occasionally joined in, in a jocular manner, by
some of the youths present. As to the house being
over-crowded; the back part part of the promenade, at
the time the disturbance commenced, was comparatively
empty, the number of persons in the theatre being by
several hundreds less than on former occasions. When
the theatre is nearly full, it is always notified to the
public on entering, and placards are placed at the doors,
stating that the dress-circle, the promenade, or the whole
.theatre (as the case may be) is tell."

ROBBERY OF DEEDS, NOTES, GOLD, &C. —On
Thursday s.e'nnight an extensiv, robbery was effected
during the night at the residence of Thomas Assheton
Smith, Esq., cf Tidworth House, about nine miles from
Andover. Between the hours of twelve and six in the
morning some person entered the library of the mansion,
and stole therefrom a strong box or chest, in which Mr.
Smith kept his deeds, money, and other valuables. One
of the female domestics, on coming down at half-past
ve the following morning, perceived the library window
open. She immediately gave information to the footman,
whose duty it was to have shut the window before
retiring to rest ; but as Mr. Smith was in the habit of
generally taking the chest to his bed-room with him,
the footman coolly replied to her, "Perhaps master has
done so to-night ;" but at half-past seven such was
found not to have been done. It was at first supposed
that the robbery had been committed by an entrance
through the window ; therefore, a diligent search was
commenced immediately by the inmates through the
'
house, outbuildings, shrubberies, plantations,
carriage
went all to no affect. Mr. Smith then ordered his a
went over to Andover, and gave information to Mr. Van,
Santen, the superintendent of police, who. was
as quickly as possibla at Tidwortb, and immediately
proceeded to examine the premises, when he dis-
covered that the window and shutters could not have
been broken open from the outside, and he was of opi-
nion that the thief was in thehouse. Mr. Van Santen
himself, on searching the premises, found the chest, with
its valuable contents, concealed in a boiler in an out-
house. This outhouse stands in such a situation that
anything there placed might have been removed any
night after the family had retired to rest. The box was
suffered to remain where it was found for some time,
and the place was watched by the police, but no one came
to fetch it away, and the place being so near the servants'
hall that every domestic might know of there being a
watch set; the box, with all its valuable contents was,
therefore, removed to a more secure place of safety. On
Saturday, an examination and .earth of some of the ser-
vants took place at. the mansion, before Sir John Pollen,
one of the county magistrates, Mr. Lamb, the clerk, and
Mr. Superintendent Tan Santen; but a report of what
took place might tend to defeat the ends of justice. In
the chest was Mr_ Smith's will, deeds to the amount of
thousands, fifty 101. Bank of England notes, a quantity
of gold, and other valuables. The Marquis of Ailes •
bury, Earl and Lord Bruce, and other noblemen were
at Tulworth on Saturday, to inquire into the circum-
stances, and to congratulate Mr. Smith on the pro•
Perty having been so fortunately recovered.—Bristol
Mirror.

A Wolf-Ex MousE.—A few days ago a weaver,
named Peat, in the employ of Messrs. Dover, Young-
husband, and Co., woollen manufacturers, Millbeck, near
Keswick, actually wove a live mouse into his cloth; but
Whether the unfortunate little animal had dropped from
the ceiling or had made its way up from the floor is al-
together a mystery. The little captive, however, was
taken out alive from its woolly net, and restored,to li-
berty, without apparently having sustained t slightest
h
injUry.—Freston Chronzele.
CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.--PREFERMENTS. RCV.
J. P. Aleocic to the vicarage of Wuodnesborough, near
Sandwich, Kent Rev. R. Wise, IL. A., to rectory of
La-dock, mar Truro, Cornwall; It. E. Mansfield, 8.A.,
to perpetual curacy of Euardean, Gloucestershire; Rev.
.T. 11. Butterworth, B A., to perpetual curacy of Staple-
ton, Gloucestershire ; Rev. James Reece, M.A., to per-
petual curacy of Swinton, near Rotherham, YorkThire;
Rev. Gibbons W. Mayne, 8.A., to the incumbency of
Ingram-cum-llainwortb, Yorkshire.