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 wick a view to shake
your sides, and to stimulate your absorbents?—do you
wish to enjoy yourself, to laugh, to scream for halt an
hour ? Go and-see the new Adelphi farce. It is AI.
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 aff,rds matter for in-
fieite 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 tittle,
Mrs. Crank (Mrs. F. Matthews). with her baby,
takes possessioi of the said attic. Mrs. Crank, imaein-
ing that the attic is the lodging of her husband, Mr.
Isaac Crank (Mr. 0. Sthith), clockmsk'r of Stoke
who has Coma. 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 " baht9 ," ,4hich he had thought
safe- and sound at Stoke P. jis, incautiously becomes
jealous. No sooner hay he left than Heneybun enters,
and, finding the baby in his bed, and fearing his wFe's
jealousy, hides it nehind a the t of drawers: As be
leaves, his aunt enters to bring about a reconciliation,
fancies it is a juvenile Honeybun, and takes i awae to
adopt it. Crank returns, meets Howybun. at:cases him
as the se-ducer ot his wife, seiz ,s him by the throat,
throws him against the draw. rs, which fall, and, as
Honeybun believes, " t.quisbcd" the child. Afraid of
being accused of murder he gets out on the roof of the
house, and Mrs. Crank emering tired by her walk very
quietly fn,conces herself in Hone) bun's bed. Driven in
by a shower of rain, Heneyhun finds her there, and at
the same time hears his j,,alotts wiFe aseonding the stairs.
Faecy Wright in this qumtdary. Words minuet do
justice to the rich butt eur 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 senteneee. To increase the
confusion Crank enters and finds Honeybun on his knees
before-Mrs. Crnnk. He imploring her forgiveness for
what he (tails. bakeeide ; he is. however, relieved by the
entrance-. of. Aunt J,well with the baby, and then it
comes out that lives on the- floor below, anti that
Mrs. Crank has mistaken the room. The piece ends
with a declaration on part of Honeybun of his inten-
den to seed his wife to Cambekrwell. every night, a
prlhiise which, we tieiOt he will for some fifty.
night's tea ct)rue. The, n.rtis!,,L,, baby, and ali were called
for at the fall of the euetein, and in this instance moct
certainly the honour was richly deserved.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALUS—YEsTERDAy.

The Chester Cup betting was corfined to three or four
horses, and was limited in amount and importance. Clumsy
and Miss Burns were prominently in demand at an improve-
ment on last
,week's prices, and nut until near the end, to
the prejudice of Best Bower, who h•id previously been quoted
at 22 to 1., with several friends Whiristone, once a'' st-
class " favourite, receded to 4t) to 1, and even at that figure
was feebly supported. Beyond the advance to Poynter of
40 to 1 there was nothing in the Derby betting to call for a
remark ; and the business transacted on the Oaks was coil
fined to Kent's lot, and Princess Aiice at the prices mentioned
underneath. .

CLOSING AVERAGES :
WARWICK TRIAL STAKES.
5 to 4 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Burlesque—taken
5 to 1 agst Sir J. Gerard's Pantasa—taken
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Arthur—taken
20 to 1 agst Col. Anson's Rowland Hill—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Mat quis of Conyngham—t
20 to 1 agst Mr. Worthington's Thrapston—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Woffencen's Miss Burns—taken
CHESTER CUP.
6 to 1 agat Kent's lot--takesi
16 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Sweetmeat —taken
20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Clumsy—taken
22 to 1 agst Mr, Woffendcm's Miss Burns—taken freely
25 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Best Bower—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Thompson's Hope
28 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Mermaid—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Hesseltine's Fitz Allen
40 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Arthur
• 40 to 1 agst Capt, Peyton's the Magnet
40 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Whinstone
10 to I agst Clumsy and Miss Burns—taken
1,000 to 50 agst The Baron and Billy Purvis—taken
300 even between Miss Bums and Billy Purvis
DENBY.
22 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Let—taken
9 to 2 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting—ditto to 100/.
15 to 1 agst General Shubrick's Brocardo
25 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Tillthorpe—t. and aft. uffd.
40 to 1 agst Ramsey's Malcolm
40 to 1 agst Mr. Weatherald's Poynton—taken
1;000 to 20 agst Mr. Ford':. kmi); Fauns—taken
1,000 to 20 'agst Duke of Rictimo,.d's Tugnet—taken
OAKS.
5 to 1 agst Kent's L,d-6 to 1 taken freely
16 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Princess Alice-18 to 1
taken freely