The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

ADELPHI.

Honour to Mr. Stirling Coyne for writing, honour to
the Adelphi management for producing, one of the most
glorious farces that has ever been acted. Reader, are
you getting plethoric, fat, heavy, and stupid?—has your
medical man prescribed for you with a view to shake
your sides, and to stimulate your absorbents?—do you
wish to enjoy yourself, to laugh, to scream for half an
hour ? Go and see the new Adelphi farce. It is Al,
although it is entitled, Did you ever send your wife to
Camberwell? A question as dull as ever counsel put to
witness, but the answer to which affords matter for in-
finite mirth. Mr. Chesterfield Honeybun (Mr. Wright)
did send his wife to Camberwell—a wife whom he had
married without the consent of relations—a wife, more-
over, young, pretty (Miss Woolgar acted the part), and
jealous ; and during their absence from their attic,
Mrs. Crank (Mrs. F. Matthews), with her baby,
takes possession of the said attic. Mrs. Crank, imagin-
ing that the attic is the lodging of her husband, Mr.
Isaac Crank (Mr. 0. Smith), clockmaker of Stoke Pojis,
who has come up to London on busines, she leaves
her child in the bed, and goes out to seek her husband.
Crank, hearing a child cry, enters the room, and re-
cognising his own blessed " babby," which he had thought
sate and sound at Stoke Pojis, incautiously becomes
jealous. No sooner has he left than Honeybun enters,
and, finding the baby in his bed, and fearing his wife's
jealousy, hides it behind a the -t of drawers. As he
leaves, his aunt enters to bring about a reconciliation,
fancies it is a juvenile Honeybun, and takes it, away to
adopt it. Crank returns, meets Honeybun, accuses him
as the seducer of his wife, seiz2s him by the throat,
throws him against the drawers, which fall, and, as
Honeybun believes, " squashed" the child. Afraid of
being accused of murder he gets out on the roof of the
house, and Mrs. Crank entering tired by her walk very
quietly en•conees herself in Honeybun's bed. Driven in
by a shower of rain, Honeybun finds her there, and at
the same time hears his jealous wife ascending the stairs.
Fancy Wright in this quandary. Words cannot do
justice to the rich humour with which this scene
was given. The dialogue, what we could catch of
it, was pointed, but the shouts of laughter were
so loud, and so continuous that it was impossible
to hear two consecutive sentences. To increase the
confusion Crank enters and finds Honeybun on his knees
before Mrs. Crank. He is imploring her forgiveness for
what he calls babycide ; he is, however, relieved by the
entrance of Aunt Jewell with the baby, and then it
comes out that Crank lives on the floor below, and that
Mrs. Crank has mistaken the room. The piece ends
with a declaration on the part of Honeybun of his inten-
tion to send his wife to Camberwell every night, a
promise which, we doubt not, he will keep for some fifty
nights to come. The artistes, baby, and all were called
for at the fall of the curtain, and in this instance most
certainly the honour was richly deserved.

NEW BARRACKS AT WOOLWICH,
The Board of Ordnance having given notice to the Ad-
miralty that the west square of the Royal Artillery Barracks,
at present occupied by the Woolwich division of Roya
Marines, will be shortly required for the accommodation o
the 10th battalion, about to be raised, and the numerous re-
cruits for the Royal Artillery almost daily joining at head.
quarters, the works at the new Royal Marine Barracks have
been ordered to be expedited for the reception of the corps.
The whole of the brick-work of the extensive new Royal
Marine Barracks, capable of accommodating upwards of
1,000 men, with residences for their officers, has been
erected, and it is expected will be fully completed within
three months from the Ist inst. Ihe basement story will be
occupied as kitchens far cooking, and contain large iron ranges,
with every convenience for that purpose. The floors are formed
of large flag-stones adjoining the fire-places, and the other
parts of asphalte on a concrete foundation. To prevent the
possibility of the building being destroyed by fire, the whole
of the joists ar3 of metal, and the only parts made of wood are
the window-sashes and steps leading to the first and second
stories. The floors of the first and second stories are formed
of asphalte ou concrete foundations, placed upon brick arches,
and there are no fire-places in the apartments above the base-
ment story, the whole of them being heated by an apparatus
for circulating
hot air, which is effected by the aid of an
furnace
-screw eight feet in diameter, connected with a
dnaetwinter, and by an adaptation of the works, capable
of
cold air from the exterior to the whole of the
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interior of the barracks in summer. The motive power for
working the screw is attained by weights, on the same prin-
ciple as an eight-day clock, and when wound up will cause the
screw to revolve with great velocity for eight hours before it
will cease working on the weights reaching the bottom of
the building. In front of the first and second floors a large
open space, the entire extent of the building, has been con-
structed and arched over f)r the men to take exercise in wet
weather, and. every care has been taken for their comfort.
On the north side of the barracks fr the men substantial and
commodiOuS dwelling-houses have been built for the Colonel
in command, and the Colonel second in command, and for
officers' quarters. In a line with the barracks for the men
and a spacious room for a library and a piece of
haen ante-rooms, the staff non-commissioned officers' quarters have been con-
structed,set apart for a racquet-court. On the south side is
, with dwelling-houses for
sin front of the barracks for
the men is in progress of being levelled, as it will be required
for drill.before the contractor can finish the outbuildings and
boundary walls. In the rear of the barracks a building is
constructed for the purpose of being used as a magazine or
got ft iaer' ds' mess-roomq uart e quarters. (11'
store room, and a framework to represent the b )ws and part
of the sides of a ship-of-war vvi:h two port-holes in the bows,
and two on each side, for exercising the men with large guns
to instruct them in the duties they will have to perform at sea.

Contents of the enlArged Observer of Sunday, March
15.—Latest news from America by five days, brought by the steam
ship Cambria, which arrived at lAverpnel on Saturday; contents of
Boston and New York papers to 2d and Halifax to the 4th of March ;
names of 41 passengers. Windsor election of Mr. Neville on Satur-
day. Arrival of news on Saturday, from Poland; Cracow occupied by
the AUStriallS. Maryhtbone meeting, on Saturday, on the Metropo-
litan Buildings Act. Contents of two official despatches from the
Earl of Aberdeen to the British Minister in Switzerland. Four
columns of the trial at Bedford, " Coultas v. the Rev. Dr. Bowes."
A column on the subject of the pioneers of civilization at Liberia, on
the Gold Coast of Africa; and 32 cflunms of the latest miscellaneous
news. A Monday afternoon Obeirm, is regularly phblished.
EXTRAORDINARY LITTER OF Pros.—Mr. Rayner, of
Enfield, has a sow whisk littered down twenty-sIX Pigs, and twenty.
four are now alive, and are live weeks old. They were at the time
divided into two lots, and were suckled alternately by the sow.