The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-11 00:00:00

THL THEA.TRt

.lIAYMARKET.
madame Anna Thillon made her first appearance at
reis theatre last evening, in the character of Juanita, in
'Auber's celebrated opera of The Black Domino. The
English public is already %miler with the plot of Le
Domino Noir, from the various dramatic versions of it
which have been produced at almost every theatre in
London, but no one can form the remotest idea of the
capabilities of the character of the heroine who
has not seen Madame Thillon. in the part.
The Haymarket is the theatre for this fasci-
nating actress. The play of her expressive features,
and the delicate intonation of her delicious voice, can be
much better appreciated in a theatre lik« the Hay-
'narkPit than in the vast area of a large theatre. It is
use' ess to disguise the fact, but our so-called rational
theatres are too large, and the decline of the drama is
'more to be attributed to the enormous size of our na-
tional theatres which overtaxes the energies of
artistes, and renders the delicacies, and consequently '
the beauties of acqing inappreciable to all who are at a
greater distance from the stage than the third row in the
pit, than to ally other cause. It is impossible thoroughly
to enjoy a laPay in a theatre larger than the Haymarket.
In the first act, which may be entitled the Masquerade,
Madam Thillon gave us one solo and some et lightfully
axecu.ted concerted music in cor.junction with Miss P:
Ilr,rton and Mr. Hudson. He'r burst at the conclusion
Col the act, when the clock strikes twelve, and she dis-
covers that she cannot regain her convent fur the
tight, was magnificent, and drew down repeat( d rounds
of applause. Her Fipanish masquerade costume became
her exceedingly, and she managed her mask in the most
eoquetishly fascinating manner imaginable. The second
act passes at the residence of Don Alphonso (Mr. 11.
Roll), to which Juanita in her distress, has been at-
tractcd.by a light, and where Bona (Mrs. Caulfield), Al-
phonso a housekeeper, gives her refuge, pass-
ing her off as her niece, a peasant girl,
from Arragon. Her acting as the pretty peasant, to
whore the rollicking roues assembled at Alphonso's
ine7ke love, was an exquisite mixture of naivete and
tspeglerie, and the concerted scene was rapturously en-
cored. Her acting, too, when among the guests she re-
cognises Felix (Mr. Rudson), whose heart she had
captured, was admirable ; and then comes the castanet
Song, which she s:aig with the greate't taste and beauty,
d acted most bewitchingly. This song created
quite a furrire; its repetition was loudly called for. The
audience were completely carried away by it. Bouquets
were showered upon her, and from that moment to the
b4enci of the opera every scene was for Madame Thillon a
141111"Pla- The gem of the opera, however, was her
-esOciptive scena d'entree, in the third act. This
rc-na afforded her opportunities of which he well knew
ow to avail herself. Irresistibly comics was her de-
cription of the adventures of the night, fascinatingly
espieg/e ; her description of her adventure with the gal-
lant captain, who having been permitted, in return for
his - bred
boors, tQ take one kiss, took advantage of his situa-
tion by taking two ; and when at the conclusion she
aang the Gitana, her soft, sweet, clear, flute-like flexible
Organ seemed to revel in the melody, and, like some
atveet bird, to shed an atmosphere of song around.
tierfioriture was marvellous. Rich beyond the powers
of description, yet most delicate and most tasteful, it
adorned the melody tc the utmost possible pitch,
Without overlaying. Anything more graceful, more
eczquisite more perfect, than Madame Thillon's
_ecution of this scena it is impossible for
musician to imagine, even in his happiest
4'reams- At th.e conclusion the stage was a perfect
IreteLre, &ore, the bouquets innumerable which were
called
°"" to !ear. At the fall of the curtain she was
44 Fel' ewe
and led forward by Hudson, by whom,
17,an0 her lover, and by Miss P. Horton, as
throVl's, she had been most efficiently supported
thr ighout. The theatre was crammed, and will con-
). as to be crammed every night of the engagement of
-aadaree Thillon, if there be any taste for acting or
tausic extent.

VICTORIA.
trio Another novelty, entitlr-d Barnard, the Victim Pa-
t I or the Double Pratricide, was produced at this
l'ueatre on Monday. The author has founded his drama
Z°l the " Glorious Itevolution of July," at that period
rn the selWitled Charles the Tenth endeavoured to
bad back the monarchie of seventeen hundred, which
1,,11(1 become obnoxious to the people. The hero of the
wrthes?t drama is one Barnard Donay (Mr. E. F. Saville)
in 4.nduced to join the insurgents. This he does, and
:" e melee which ensues he kills his brother; he is
means unnerved, and in the course of the action
•?tleded. He appeals to the Chamber of Deputies for
Chat seated in the chair, and presiding over the
duelist a, he finds Francois Bardin (Mr. W. Searle) a
andttand a coward, who insults the wounded patriot,
din ind-37 are about to fight, when the cowardice of Bar-
t° Car him to apologise ; this he does, but is obliged
hanger ave the Chamber. Alter a variety of vicissitudes,
d and the pain of his wonnd accelerates his death,
and e expires in the arms of his wife, within an hour of
thes year, by which means she is entitled to the pension,
.ordained by the Chamber of Deputies. Mr.
Saville as the e•-ithusiastie patriot, acquitted him-
rself his usuP.l style, and apparently much to the
cation of the company present. Mr. Searle, it f needless to say, was perfect in the delineation of the
Lerociou7, revolutionist, who is at heart a coward and a
;Piggiv:t. We have before spoke in terms of praise of
t;entleman's acting, which is, if possible, becoming
'' e successful every evening. The other principal
,rtittracters were sustained by Mr. T. Fredericks (Pierre
anaY), Mr. Ranoe (Valton), Mr. E. G. Burton (Theo-
-14-aitle John Butler), Mrs. G. Lee (Madame Donay),
4188 Treble (Mariette), &c., in a very creditable man-
arhet Some excellent scenery was also introduced,
ng ti:le chief of which were " Suburbs of Paris,
tr,7„404' d to La Vendee, the e Barrier, and distant coup
144;4 -
" Ball of Deputies," &c. The house was well
43.

DESTRUCTION OF DOGS IN MAN-
It I,„c CHESTER.
rit. ong been usual in Manchester for the autho-
dc''s to issue orders for the keeping-up or muzzling of
wiigs during the summer and autumn months, during
donich hydrophia is most prevalent. Formerly this was
tais:., under the now defunct Manchester police corn-
atre I"ersi by
a man going constantly about the
downets with a sort of hatchet, with which he knocked
uluzzi the dogs that he found at large in the streets un-
tiotZtl
ar twLY the poor aaimal escaped after receiving a blow
Then°,land much unnecessary cruelty was perpetrated.
streets
or a time a man was employed going about the
this was any dog unmuzzled and at large ; but
passi"as occasionally very alarming to ladies and others
°ll for ng at the time, and not always without some risk ;
thes,,,‘"e occasion a boy, who was near a dog that was
at, received a large portion of the contents of
the•
gll° in his leg and then this practice was abandoned ;
toe the last'few years, under the corporation, a
b,411,e4 More humane system of destroying the ani-
F.a'S has been adopted. In 1843, the number of
'es() animals suffered to go at large increased
greatly as to become no small nuisance. Vigorous
leasures were, therefore, taken. Two men were con-
stantly going about the town, seizing all dogs that
'ere found in the streets unmuzzled, and these were
/
eouve •ed to the town's yard, Clarence-street, and
U ,
htroyed every evening, by the application of a
Mail quantity of prussic acid on the tongue of the
4nilnal. In this way the number of dogs destroyed in
thif five months, from the Ist of May to the Ist of Oc-
tober, in the year 1843, was little short 7 ;00 in the
-nine period of 1844, about 600 dogs were destroyed ;
li
1845, about 600 ; but this year the work of destruc-
°n has commenced somewhat later—viz., on the 10th
of 11137—and from this cause, and the fact that the
—umber of animals has somewhat thinned by the destruc-
tion of former years, and that the survivors. are either
Zuore kept up or are more generally provided with the
pen wire Muzzles—(which, by the way, are
.in-
finitelyi preferable to the close leathern ones in
ss till lately, being much less heating, besides en-
-4131,6'1 th animal to breathe and to drink freely,
en-
ling the leathern ones did not)—owing, we say,
aLese causes, the number of dogs destroyed this
ele,-B°o, before the Ist October, will in all probability not
ia"-"ed 500. The present system pursued is tohtrace.saarege
e°l3l°, and then summon the ()Airier before t e nin
him
t°lnnnittee of tke c,uncii, end ihe option is g ven _ e
tl°ol;ay a fine of 2s. 6d. or to deliver up the dog to b
t.-18fr°Yed. There are 10 stations whither dogs are
'4.eh for this purpose, viz., the town's yard, Clarence-
/street
, the Oldhaw-road police station ; the scavenging
• mannre yards in Choriton-streer., Portland-street ;
'ollard-street • Rochdale-road ; Bridgewater-street ;
Itnti t-,.Gloucester street (Oxford-road) ; also to the
irorlton town-hall, for Chorlton-on-Medlock and
loae ; and the Ardwick township yard. The dog's
'o
4.,outh being forced open, about halt a small teaspoonful
▪ the prussic acid is placed upon the tongue, and in a
seconds the dog is dead. T 1.43 bodies of the animals
destroy
toed are removed daily, so that there is no danger
fr
teP
their caresses being left to putrify. At
re,ent,
_oe daily r über destroyed does not reach a
score ;
ika the dog-days the number destroyed will probably be
Ititich greater. We are not aware of any large town in
the kingdom where so large a number of these aninaals
is annually destroyed ; but here, we are, fully persuaded
the work of destruction is a work of necessity, to keep
down the immense number of dogs that would other-
wise overrun the town.—.2lfancliestcr Guardian.

ROYAL VISIT TO THE NAVAL SCHOOL, GREEN-
:!!'scH.—On Tuesday afternoon her Royal Highness the Duchess of
,noucester, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Prince George
,„°ir Cambridge, and the Princess Mary of Cambridge, Lord Adolphus
tzelarence, Hon. Csotain Liddell, &c., paid a visit to the Royal
Naval School, at Greenwich.
Mr. Waghttrn tett London on Monday evening for
Aden, rid Trieste. We understand that Sir Robert Peel, the Earle 01
e.llenborough and St. Germans, and Mr. Glidstone, have each for-
Warded their subscription in aid of the testimonial to Mr. Waghorn's
'Services.

ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.—Two non-commis-
stoned officers and 18 privates of this branch of the Ordnance service
Woolwicher yesterday morning for Windsor Castle, where they
lo ed in tunne ling, under the command of Lieut. Hon.
1,7.75eY FaenepKeYane, son of the late gallant officer, General Lord
Keane,
distinguished for his services in the East Indies.
`°ltomATloN OF OSCAR I.—The coronation of Oscar I.
„,,
1,-Zuls consort, Eugenic, daughter of Prince Eugene do Beauhar-
07,Lis Rine anw
d (fueen of Norwa, is fixed to be helon the
owhich occasion the Storthing willbe convoked. 15th
3esieDELaTE POPE.—The Presse s :—" We received
surgical a letter from Rome of May 30, which states that after a
vtreal cPeration, Performed on one of the legs of his Holiness, a
,1„.ellt Inflammation took place there on the 26th. The evil had
e,saeca so rapidly that on the arrival of our correspondent's letter
It ,sl3'sicians no longer entertained any hope of saving the patient.
ir, 0,1;111 known that Gregory XVI. suffered from a chronic affection
day At us caused by the habit of passing the greatest part of the
Wag tint 8 desk." According to this letter, the death of the Pope
V., euddea es stated in the telegraphic dispatch,

LI TERATURE.
WESTMINSTER RE VIE TV. No. LXXXIX.
Our great living philosopher, Professor Faraday,
whose researches upon the most primitive elements of
the physical sciences have acquired for him a more than
European celebrity, receives in this number of the
iVestrninster Review an instalment of that approbation
to which his genius and his labours have entitled him,
and which, if denied by the niggardly spirit of his
contemporaries, will be unstintingly awarded by pos•
terity. Unlike many of his predecessors, Faraday has
abstained almost entirely from theorising; an hypothesis,
however specious, or however feasible, has possessed no
charms to him in comparison with those appertaining to
the acquisition of novel data. Acting upon the largest
principles of inductive philosophy, he has tested the ac-
curacy of his suppositions before admitting theminto
his calculations With Leonardo da, Vinci, he has ever
regarded "experiment as the general and theories as the
soldiers." Indeed, what we are the more inclined to
regard as admirable in the scientific advances of Pro-
fessor Faraday is the cautiousness of his admission of a
truth rath: r than the brilliancy of the truth admitted.
Rej=cting that impatience with which the immortal
Kepler endeavour. d to hurry an effect to some suppo-
sititious cause, Faraday has nevertheless partaken in
,some measure of the capacity for suggesting schemes as
• keletons for first discoveries which so particularly cha-
racterised that most wonderful man ; in this manner
both philosophers possessed a hypo helical imagination.
As we have just intimated, however, the imagination of
cur Enelish experimentalist is in a great measure suc-
cumbed, or rather modulated by the interposition of a
stern end inflexible prudence. Circumspect in the ac-
knowledgment of a conjecture, he has invariably given
that coo jecture some degree of form, and solidity and
character by the most industrious analysis before he has
even dreamed of venturing upon its publication. And
from these very circumstances, from his captious treat-
ment of mere theories, from his repugnance to pro-
nounceupen any unfamiliar phase in natural philosophy-,
it has been elaborately tested and scrutinised ii.
all its bearings, an announcement from him, however
startling, or however contrary to all previous experi-
ence, comes upon us with peculiar weight. Incredulity
is scared away by a consciousness of the announcer's,
reverence for mathematical precision, and his intimate
acquaintance with the rules of logic, as well as with the
laws of matter. On these accounts our sentiments were
restricted altogether to those of astonishment on the
declaration of Professor Faraday, which started before
the scientific and the general world towards the close of
1845, that a hitherto unknown affinity existed been
light and electricity—that if those two great forces were,
not absolutely identical, they possessed a subtle correl-
lation with each other, and in proof thereof, he (Pro-
fessor Faraday) had succet elf d in magnetizing and elec-
trifying a ray of light, and in illuminating a magnetic
line of force ! Wonderful and prodigious as was the
nature of this professed discovery, we were neverthe
less fully impressed with the actuality of the truth,
not from any blind credulity in the progression
of science, but from a recollection of that cha-
racter for accuracy in the elucidation of philosophical
fact which our illustrious countryman had acquired.
For many long and arduous years of experiment and in-
vestigation, Dr. Faraday has been pursuing in silence hi:
inquiries as to the nature of the analogy between these
two marvellous departments of nature ; for years he had
maintained silence; and not until a few years since, when
the matter was throughout proven by experiments as
simple and beautiful as the fact which they tended to
demonstrate, did the discoverer divulge the nature of his
discoveries. This we conceive to be a pattern to all
who would aid in macadamizing the road to knowledge,
to all those who have the real interests of science at
heart, to all those who would expound even the smallest
of those unnumbered mysteries with which we are sur-
rounded in creation, and the subtlety of which have as
yet baffled the research of the most astute intellects.
To these important events, the first paper in the West
minster Review is devoted. and the history of the disco-
veries which preceded, and relate in some measure to
those of Professor Faraday, is given with singular per-
spicuity, while the manner of the writer evinces his
hearty relish for the theme. With the intention of in-
troducing his commentaries upon the recent assertions
of Faraday, the author prefaces them with a rather
microscopic narrative of the progress previously effected
in this division of science. From the time of Pytha-
goras and Pliny the loadstone has attracted, not wily
fragments of iron, but the attention of every successive
philosopher ; nevertheless, it was not until 1200 that,
according to Di Vitri, we find this strange phe-
nomenon applied to the purposes of navigation,
through the medium of its polarity. Again, it was not
until as recently as 1590, that a surgeon of Rimini, am-
bitiously christened Julius Caesar, detected the fact that
all ferruginous substances contained a certain amount of
magnetic power. That the magnetic fluid, or power
contained in these bodies was composed of particles re-
pellant to each other, " inversely as the squares of tin
distance ;" and that the particles of this fluid and the
principles of iron possessed a reciprocal attraction each.
to each was an hypothesis reserved for the ingenious
mind of Epinus, in 1759. No further advances whatever
towards the development of magnetism appear to have
been made until 1800, when Coulomb defined, with the
assistance of the torsion balance, " the correct law of
magnetic attraction and repulsion ;" be proved that the
magnetism of iron was merely superficial, and so forth.
In 1820 CErsted discovered the connecting link between
electricity and magnetism. Such are the broad outlines
of that preliminary history to which we have referred,
and from a perception of the somewhat narrow boundaries
which had been overleaped in the organisation of data upon
so wonderful a field in science, the advantages which
must ultimately accrt.e from such discoveries as those of
Dr. Faraday, are obvious. Having demonStrated " the
magnetisation of light, and the illumination of magnetic
lines of force," philosophy will not tarry long upon the
mere threshold of one amongst her noblest strudtures :
she will advance boldly to its still hidden mysteries,
cheered on by the success with which her votaries have
been already crowned, and yearning for the practical
employment of her revealed secrets, as a motor in some
definitive manner. With the asserted discoveries of
Baron Richenbach, to the effect that magnetic patients
have beheld in darkened rooms " a luminosity like a
moving flame at the poles of an electric battery, and
Around powerful magnets," we must acknowledge we have
but a comparatively feeble sympathy ; and, but that
the translation of these " Researches" bears the sanction
of Dr. Gregory's signature, we should have rejected them
as altogether fictitious. The paper under notice should
be perused very generally ; it is teeming with informa-
tion, and is penned in a generous and popular strain.
" The Tendency of Puse) ism" is a copious retrospect of
the tractarian movement, but the dogmatism of many
sentiments in the disquisition we conceive to be rather
clumsy and inadmissable. "The Lost Senses" is It
charming review of a publication, written by Dr. Kitto,
upon the most melancholy calamities of body to which
humanity is subjected. With all deference to the
amiable Doctor, we regard the comparative wretched-
ness resulting from blindness or deafness as peculiarly
afflicting, according to the idiosyncrasyof the patient,
not from any inherent preponderence in the one or the
other. Deafness to Beethoven must have been a more
horrible privation to that musical Titan than possibly
the loss of all his other senses combined ; whereas blind-
ness to Milton, who had loved the glorious phases of
creation through his visual organ, must have possessed a
proportionate intensity. The argument, however, in
either instance is solemn, and of ineffable melancholy.
" The Oregon Question," with " Railways and Metro-
politan Improvements," are singularly elaborate and in-
structive articles : in both the writers are intimately
versed in their different subjects, so that to all who are
ignorant of the merits of our American squabble, the
former will prove a most comprehensive informant, while
to those doubtful as to the influence of railway specula-
tions upon our large towns, but especially upon our
vast metropolis, the latter will enable them to form a
definite opinion. Number eighty-nine, though not quite
gloriousso as the ninety-eight of the Corn Bill majo-
rity, will be welcomed as of a kindred spirit.

THE ROBBER. By G. P. R. James.
" The Robber" forms the eighth volume of Mr. James's
works. This series, every volume of which is orna-
mented with an engraving, is wanting in some of the
necessary adjuncts of good paper, type, printing, and
" getting up." It will be very acceptable to the author's
admirers, who will be able to procure all his works in a
compact form, and when we consider his prolific power,
it must certainly be an advantage to have them in one
volume instead of three.

THE MARCHIONESS OF BRINVILLIERS.

By Albert Smith. Standard Novels.
The histor) of the celebrated " poisoner of the seven-
teenth century," which for many months interested and
appalled the readers of the Miscellany, now appears in
the neat and attractive form of a standard novel. Tho
name of the author will be a sufficient passport to many
who are acquainted with his more genial and attractive
compositions; and the title itself will charm, and the
contents will not disappoint, the lovers of the horrible,
from which class, h6wever, we beg to be excepted.

THE PRYINGS OF A POSTMAN.
The Postman of Stockgate, with unblushing effrontery;
does not scruple to inform us that every letter which
passed through his hands, was, in opposition to all rules
of honour and propriety, by him duly examined and pe-
rused. He Las even gone so far as to transcribe the
most interesting, which furnish a volume of considerable
amusement. The affairs of individuals of all characters,
good, bad, or indifferent; their various thoughts and
feelings,m hopes and fears, are freely unfolded to us, in the
most
and natural manner possible, by the perusal
follow
en suite,
pprivate correspondence. Many of the letters
siderable
and furnish a little history of themselves;
amusement.
and however much we disapprove the conduct of the
postman, we
must confess that his peccadilloes afford con-
B

A 00K OP HIGHLAND MINSTRELSY. By
Mrs. D. Ogilvy. With Illustrations by
.R R. Wan.
g book of ighland minstrelsy! Is not' the name
esimpleio u h D
h? a l l a
dose,
Hitth e not
rberfulg
mbeel f oedies uosf tthe
mwild
taani
nd
land? The fanciful and heart-stirring legends of the
north are peculiarly the poet's theme; and the High-
landers, with their fierce passions, clinging superstition,
romantic chivalry, generosity, and devotion, are the
Heaven-made heroes of minstrelsy. Such are the ma-
terials from which Mrs. Ogilvy has formed her book.
Many an old custom or wild tradition is here converted
by her pen into a poem. The metre is very various,
but well assorted to the subjects. One of the most
beautiful pieces is the first, " The Exile at Culloden."
The long lines of many syllables have a degree of
mournful majesty very appropriate to the theme; and
the picture of the heart-broken exile, hiding his brow in
his bonnet, is among the most interesting of the illustra-
tions with which the work is bountifully adorned. The
binding and "getting up" of the volume are unexcep-
tionable, and the crimson cover, bordered with thistles,
displays an ancient minstrel leaning over his "Harp of
the North" with a mixture of sadness and affection.