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

A' 711
No. 16,759. LONDON SATURDAY
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SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER
COLOURS.
The FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION is NOW
OPEN, at their Gallery, 5, Pail-mall East, each day, from Nine
till Dusk.

Admittance, One Shilling. Catalogue, Sixpence.
J. W. WRIGHT, Sec.

SOUTH UNION, or MANCHESTER POT-
TERIES and LONDON RAILWAY.
All Persons having CLAIMS AGAINST this COMPANY, are re-
requested to FORWARD them to this office forthwith, In order that
they may be examined and discharged.
By order, WM. WILSON, Secretary.
17, Fludyer-street, Westminster, June 4, 1846.

THE HIGHLAND DWARFS.
THE HIGHLAND DWARFS, who have had
the honour of exhibiting before her Majesty and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert on two different occasions, are now to be
seen in the Cosmorama Rooms, 209, Regent-street, every day from
twelve to two o'clock, and from three to five ; and from seven to nine
in the evening. The dwarfs are three in number, two males and a
einale (brothers and sister) ; they are fatly equipped in the High-
land garb, and perform a series of national, martial, and festive
dances. The two males, who are remarkably active, excel in the
celebrated Gills Coullam, or Sword Dance ; and so extraordinary' is
the muscular development of the eldest that he can with ease carry
two sGlb. weights about the room. He and his brother exhibit all
the positions of the broadside exercise with a precision that would do
honour to the first school of fence. And in addition to their other
accomplishments, they, in conjunction with their sister, sing the
beautiful airs of their native glens with exquisite taste and feeling.
As Mr. Mackenzie. who has these singular creatures under his
protection, can (in consequence of his other engagements) remain but
a short time in town, the admirers of the wonderful in nature are
requested to pay an early visit.
Admission from Twelve to Two and from Three to Five o'clock,
Is. ; and from Seven to Nine o'clock, Is.

BUSINESS PREMISES to be LET, consisting
of a compact RANGE of BUILDINGS, suitable for any con-
cern that requires extent and convenience ; with a three-stall stable,
coach-house, and yard ; all enclosed, adjoining an excellent Family
Dwelling-house, with large and airy bed-chambers, drawing-room
(20% feet long), two parlours, and all domestic conveniences, cheer-
fully situated, No. 7, upper part of John-street, Clerkenwell,
London.

May be viewed and .partieulars had of Mr. John Smith, on the
premises.

CALEDONIAN. ASYLUM.
(Incorporated 1815.)
A QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of this CORPARATION
was held on Thursday last, in the llall of the Scottish Hospital,
Crane-court, Fleet street, for the Election of Six Boys, and Four
Girls into the Asylum,' when the following were declared to be duly
elected :

Boys. Votes.
Thos. Jas. Johnstone Aird 1,834
John Francis Watt...... 1,778
Robert William Bell • •—• • 1,547
John 8r0die.......• • • • 1,433
Alexander Cumming .... 964
Hector Lewis Munro 833

Girls. Votes.
Mary Miller. 965
Charlotte, J. M`Rae ..... •- 588
Maria Rankin . • • ••• • • • 382
Catherine M. Alexander .. 268

JOHN BURNIE, Seeretai

THE CATHOLIC, = LAW, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
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TRUSTEES.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers,
Cheadle, Staffordshire.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Traquair, Traquair House, Peale-
shire, North Britain.
The Right Hon. the Lord Stafford, Cossey Hall, Norfolk.
A. H. Lynch, Esq., Master in- Chancery, 33, Queen-square.
Thomas Barnewall, Esq., 15, York-terrace, Regent's Park.
Thomas Eyre, Esq., 62, Pulteney-street, Bath.
DIRECTORS.
The Right Rev. Wm. Morris, D.D., Acton, Middlesex,
The Hon. Edward Petra, 26, Wilton-crescent.
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the Mon. East India
Company, and of The London Joint-Stock Bank.
The Very Rev. IV,ons. A. Magee, D.D., 9, Romney-terrace,
Westminster.
Rev. Thomas Doyle, D.D., London-road, Southwark.
Henry Clark J)uppa, Esq., Quarry House, Boughton.
Francis M`Donnell, Esq., Usk, Monmouthshire.
James Reach, Esq., 13, Lower Berkeley-street, Dlrec tor of th
National Bank of Ireland.
William. Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square.
AUDITORS.
E..freningham, Esq. I James Marshall, Esq.
C"..IT.TING PHYSICIAN—James Copland, M.D., F.R.S., 5, Old
Burl'..figton-street.
C.JONSULTING SURGEON—WiIIiam Teevan, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-
8411are.

STANDING COUNSEL.
England—Mr. Serjeant Shoe, Sergeants' Inn.
Edm. Reales, Esq., Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn.
Ireland—Sir Colman O'Loughlen, Bart., Merrion-square, Dublin.

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Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
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with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the nremiutas paid (see Table) ;
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
terests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
rates.

DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society
has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare
a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid
on each Policy effected on the Profit scale.

I X Xs. (1. 18371.11838
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6011000 74 3 4 1839
I 1840
1841

£217 15 1
192 3 0
165 11 10
116 7 6
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£lOO 0 111XI6 0 41
87 1 41 13 10 21
74 1 9i 11 3 11
54 010; 718 10,
49 10 0' 710 41

1X445 0 0
395 11 1
346 2 3
296 13 4
247 4 5

The division of profits is annual,-and the next will be made in
December of the present year.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

PUBLICATIONS.

JAY'S FAMILY PRAYERS.
Printed in a large type, price 7s. 6d., post Bvo. cloth, being
Volume X. of a New and Collected Edition of the Author's Works,
revised by himself.

THE DOMESTIC MINISTER'S ASSISTANT; or, Prayers for
the use of Families for Six Weeks, Morning and Evening. By the
Rev. WM. JAY. .

Contents—Prayers for Morning and Evening for Six Weeks—
Prayers for Select Occasions—Short Devotions —Pious Addresses for
Particular Seasons—Thanksgivings for Particular Events—Acts of
Devotion for the Table.

C. A. Bartlett, 32, Paternoster-row.

NEW ZEALAND.

THE RECENT CORRESPONDENCE be-
tween her MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT and the NEW
ZEALAND COMPANY, which has resulted in a conditional reso-
lution by the Proprietors to abandon the'r enterprise, will be pub-
lished entire in a 24-page SUPPLEMENT to the next SPECTA-
TOR (Saturday, 6th June), and delivered gratis with the paper of
the week.

To be had of Mr. Claytrn, the Publisher, 9, Wellington-streel
Strand ; and of the Newsvenders in town and country.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
As customary, Don Giovanni attracted an overflowing as-
semblage, the pit being so crowded at one moment as to be
impassable. The comparative coolness or the house,. with such
vaescurol
twedf inh a svoi n
gw warm s
nal season,ted
scientificsii menved lastin
n night l t the
newgoo
ven-
tilation of the edifice, in all respects, essential as well as
ornamental, so admirably restored. The heat, unbearable
in most edifices, is here kept down by currents of the out-
ward air, so subdivided and so general, that no draught
is felt. Thus is salubrity combined with recreation.
The pressure of matter will not allow of our doing justice to
the performances of the night. It suffices to say, that the
dances as well as the lyrical portion of the entertainments
met with repeated applause and encores. One encore alone
failed—it was that of the shadow dance—the treacherous
moon would not light itself again, and consequently the
heroine of the pas, although recalled twice running, and en-
ticed with bouquets, could not gratify her admirers. Le
delire d'un Peintre, admirably enacted by Grahn, and a new
pas of the graceful Taglioni, finished triumphantly the per-
formance of the night.
THE SCENARIO OF THE NEW BALLET OF LALLA ROOKH.*
EPIGRAPH.
"The imperial Selim held a feast
In his magnificent shalamir,
In whose saloons when the first star
Of evening o'er the water trembled,
The valley's loveliest all assembled;
All the bright creatures that, like dreams,
Glide through its foliage, and drink beams
Of beauty Irons
Here, too, the harem's inmates smile ;
Maids from the west, with sun-bright hair,
And from the garden of the Nile,
Delicate as the roses there;
Daughters of love from Cyprus' rocks
With Paphian diamonds in their locks;
Light peri forms, such as there are
On the, gold meads ofgandahar ;
Everything young, everything fair,
From east and west is blushing there.
The board is spread with fruits and wine,
With grapes of gold, like those that shine
On Cusbin's hills ;—pomegranates full
Of melting sweetness, and the pears
And sunniest apples that Cabool
In all its thousand gardens bears;
Plaintains, the golden, and the green;
Malaya's nectar'd mangusteen ;
•

Every thing young, everything fair,
From east and west is blushing there."
SCENE I.—lnterior of the Palace of Lahore.—Hall of the
Durban
A brilliant scene is taking place at Lahore, where the
great and magnificent Emperor Aurungzebe is holding his
court. Ambassadors have arrived from Aliris, the King of
Bucharia, demanding in marriage for the young Monarch
the daughter of the Emperor, Lalla Rookh, described by
the Persian poets as the most beautiful of those heroines
whose names and loves embellish the songs and tales
of Persia and Hindostan. It is agreed that the nuptials
shall be celebrated at Cashmere, where the young King, as
soon as the cares of empire will permit, is to meet for the first
time his lovely bride ; and they will remain for a time in
that enchanting valley before travelling over the snowy hills
into Bucharia.
The King of Buchiria has sent a brilliant suite, amongst
whom is a lovely troop of Tartarian and Cashmerian maids
of honour, to accompany his beautiful bride. With them
comes a young poet of Cashmere, on whom his royal master
has conferred the privilege of being admitted to the pavilion
of the Princess, that he may beguile the tediousness of the
journey by some of his most fanciful recitals. The minstrel
is accordingly introduced to the presence of Lalla Rookh.
He holds a kitar in his hand, and much pleases the
Princess by his skilful execution, his graceful bearing, and
pleasing manners ; but there is a personage in Lalla Rookh's
suite, who is by no means so much delighted at the appear-
ance of the young poet ; it is Fadladeen, the great nazir, or
chamberlain of Lalla Rookh—a personage in his own opinion
of infinite importance, and who looks with the keenest
jealousy on all whose talents or attractions bring them into
notice. He endeavours to turn the young poet into ridicule,
but in vain, and, discomfited, he withdraws full of secret
rage. The new companions of Lalla Rookh now surround
her, with the lovely inhabitants of that city which is so soon
to be deprived of her graceful presence. They dance a
Hindoo dance, in which they form into various groups, each
more graceful than the preceding one, while the most fan-
tastic pageantry is going on around them, giving the whole
the appearance of a scene of enchantment. Lalla Rookh,
with her fair attendants, executes a dance, in which, as is
the fashion in Hindostan, they imitate every imaginable
figure.
The following are some of the twenty figures represented
by the Hindoo maids :

Hennes The Stars
The Shell The Pine Apples
The Kiosks The Car of the Rising Sun
The Cage The Butterflies
The Mirrors The Sun's Rays
The Harps The Living Statue and its
The framed Picture of the Pede6tal
Morning Breeze
SCENE ll.—Distant view of Lahore.—The Departure.
The royal party have left Lahore, which is still in sight,
with the cavalcade, which presents one unbroken line of
splendour.

SCENE 111.—Sandy Waste.
First, the jungle, the lair of tigers—and next, the dreari-
ness of a desert waste, has taken the place of those smiling
scenes through which the journey of Lalla Rookh has
hitherto laid. A wild and gloomy tract, covered with a low
bushy jungle, is present to the eye, only alternated by the
awful signal of the bamboo staff, above which waves a white
flag, which warns the traveller that in that spot a tiger
has devoured his victim. The caravan is seen approaching
in the distance.
SCENE IV.—The Tempest of Sand.—Suddenly the Whirl-
wind rises.
A fearful tempest has come on. The caravan is dispersed
by the storm—the travellers fly in every direction for safety,
leaving the Princess alone to brave the fury of the simoon,
which rages with resistless force. All sensation forsakes her;
she cannot defend herself—her danger is imminent—but Fer-
amroy, rushing forward, saves her, and she remains lifeless in
his arms. Nearly fainting with alarm for the safety of one he so
dearly loves, he seeks for water to bring the 'Princess back to
life, but in vain. He disappears in search of that refreshing
element, so rare and precious in these arid, gloomy regions.
Meanwhile stragglers flying from before the storm arrive on
the scene, and amongst them is the frightened Fadladeen.
The Princess still remains without sense or motion ; but
Feramory re-appears, he has happily found a small quantity
of water, which he brings to Lalla Rookh in a large leaf,
and he has the happiness of seeing
her open her eyes, now
beaming with gratitude upon him. Fadladeen can hardly
conceal his rage at the tenderness of manner of Lalla Rookh
towards her preserver, and he at length separates them.
The fury of the elements is gradually hushed—a profound
calm succeeds the storm. Whilst the travellers are thank-
ing Allah for their preservation, night is gradually coming
on. The caravan encamps on the spot, and the attendants of
the Princess erect her pavilion. The most exuberant gaiety
succeeds to the alarm which had prevailed but a moment
before.

SCENE V.—Star of Venus.—The Moon.—Night.
SCENE Vl.—The Pavilion
The Princess, grieved at the absence of Feramory, begs
Fadladeen to send for him, but the latter evades the request
by saying that the Princess needs repose rather than
listen to the frivolous fantastic nonsense of the so-called
bard. But the little Persian slave of the Princess has slyly
slipped ont and warned the poet of her mistress's desire to
see him ; he enters, and Lallah Rookh expresses the wish
that his sweet minstrelsy should calm her mind after the
agitation she has that day passed through. He complies,
but Fadladeen, with his usual ill-natured spite, finds fault
with the poet and the performer, saying that, for his part, he
prefers his sweet-scented chibouk. Feramory hearing this,
breaks forth into the wild and joyous strain of the chibouk
song, and the Princess, inspired by these enlivening sounds,
dances to the tune. The fumes of the opium be smokes
sends Fadladeen to sleep, and whilst he dreams of Mahomet's
paradise and the Houri, Lalla Rookh and Feramory take
advantage of the opportunity to avow their mutual love.
SCENE VlL—The Sandy Waste.
The sun rises and sheds his warm beams over the dreary
expanse, across which Lalla Rookh and her suite are to pur-
sue their toilsome journey, and the caravan resumes its
march.