The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-01 00:00:00

B It 7 N

MAY 1, 1846.

SEE THE DAILY NEWS of JUNE 1.
Daily News Office, Whitefriars.

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MENTS. Music Hall, Store-street, Bedford-square.
On MONDAY EVENING , MAY 4, at Eight o'clock.
Mr. WILSON will give his SECOND ENTERTAINMENT on the
SONGS OF SCOTLAND,
Part IPianoforte—Mr. LAND.
—Happy Friendship—An thou wert my aM Thing—Up in
the
Wallacemorning early—Last May a braw Wooer— Scots, wha hae
bled—The Land o' the Leal—The Reel o' Tuilochgorum.
Par. ll.—The Spinning Wheel—The Maid I daurna name—Saw ye
my wee Thing ?—The Ewle Wl' the croo:tit Horn—Come under my
Plaidie —Muirland Willie.
Tickets, 2s. Resened Seats, 2s. 6d. Private Boxes for Six, 155.;
for Eight, IL

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registered 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 65. '''atronised by the Prince
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This overcoat recommends itself to the Public generally by its
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against the almost constant humidity of the climate of Great Britain.
To be had in London only of the Patentees, 114. Regent-street.

. THE OPERA, WITH ESPECIAL
REFERENCE TO GOLD CURTAINS.
(From the New .Monthly Magazine.)
Trust not to the words of vain rumour—close your ears to
the voice of empty prediction—as Ulysses rendered his auri-
cular organs impervious to the song of the Syrens. You
will, perchance, hear that the curtains that decorate the
opera boxes are going to be nyed ; but expect nothing of the
kind. Even as gold—actual gold—the gold whereof, say
our spelling-books, " guineas and half-guineas are made "
asserts its superiority over all other metals, so shall the
seeming gold of the curtains proudly triumph over every re.•
bellious hue that would interfere with its dominion. Red,
sb h s; ellk l
ognfroottho
tine
deeply blushing at its own presumption, shall slink from
tdrt ee; 1-1)r:ill:it:rot'
the field; green, though it surveys the gold with jealous
their
re-
spective ,
eves, shall avoid the contest ; white shall remain pallid in the
rebellious
lookingsdci
ospl
ouut
re
si :t itself—thatththe they
supremacy
shall is,
ret
:r
retire
with
lookingaietkh otfh
e courseh
would never think of raising a question about the matttr ;
and as for all the hybrid shades that arise from the intermar-
riagespectiveparents.
For,
pindeed, why should the goldbe displaced '
curtains.
To gold, as we have hinted,
belongs. the supremacy of
natural right. If lou want •
al.:hemist (poor K an impartial judge, catch an
ellermann is dead) and ask him. Pindar I
sang:

.;I:Chcirov Ativ 178,0 p, ode xpvcr4 cialiip.evov irrp
d't
h"tehK raolt:e€(;a:-323:0nil n'A
6 u 7"
.
by a champagne saru
waterp was an excellent
icuerarl,y if the
was as conspicuous among
day
thinghaind Whereby
heighttbheeealripa r;ei geni 'doiifiref
preceded
ahteantirgehtin. t
hTeh
we
ohroldu,sea,nndr
t'hlyerrdefeocroer,sitteidisr,
an opera box, with gold curtains, pp nd that
other indications of a large income, as the opera chandere-
wishtehneit
consistently adorned with the most lordly colour in the world
—a colour, which, at the same time, delicately symbolises
moatis lighted
splendid u 11
t
the ready cash, that has been expended in the improvement.
But, say some, will not the gold curtains counteract the
effect which the ladies ought to produce, by the joint efforts
of their loveliness and their dressmakers? We are not sure
that we ought to condescend to npswer this objection, seeieg_
that we set forth in our very last • number that the gold
curtains were to be considered as so many frames, inclosing
a number of beautiful pictures. Nevertheless, we will not
content ourselves with a reference to the April New
Monthly, but will bring forward a new strong authority, no
other than the goddess Aurora herself. Homer tells us-
1-14n—xpeadreinkos ElaPaTO niwav eV aLaw.

that Eos (Aurora), clad in saffron-coloured peplus, was dii
fused on all the earth, and do our readers suppose that the
said Aurora, at whose bidding all flowers resume their hue,
who is the first to make the earth wear a variegated gar-
ment, was such a wretched judge of colours that she picked
out the most unbecoming of them all ? Did she wish to
look especially faded in the eyes of that Tithonus, whom she
had begged Zeus to immortalise ? No; if she had, Tithonus,
in his cricket-form would not now be singing to her praises
on the winter's hearth. As to any objection that saffron-
colour may not be precisely the same as bouton d'or we dis-
miss it as hair-splitting and frivolous. Again, when th 3
troop of satyrs were all made slaves to Polyphemus, and
mourned after their lawful: sovereign, Bacchus, the very
first peculiarity in that beloved deity that occurred to their
pides,
minds
did they was his
sing " yellow hair." Thus, according to Euri-
:—

Oaos, a sbae llatcxere,
vac olonvAits,
favOilv xatrav 1764.111,
Which is admirably rendered by Shelley—.
" Bacchus, oh beloved! where,
Shaking wide thy yellow hair,
Wand'rest thou alone, afar?"
Now Bacchus, as we all know, was the early conqueror of
India, a kind of foreshadowing of the East India Company ;
and do we suppose that in the very land of dyes, where blue
and black divinities are in fashion, and where the people
think it marvellous proper to stain their hands and feet with
henna, he would have allowed his hair to retain its pristine
yellowness, had he not been convinced that no other hue
was so becoming to his complexion ? Therefore, oh ! in-
habitants of the boxes, cease to dread the effect of the
bouton d'or curtains. Let Guido's picture over the stage
remind you of Aurora, and Lucile Grahn's pas de Bacchante
(if she; dances it) remind you of Bacchus—to say nothing
of authorities in the shape of amber-coloured boudoirs, &c.
supposing the case, that to certain dull habiliments, the
curtains are unfavourable—is it necessary that the sombre
attire should remain in fashion for an entire season? Berlin
guardsmen had portraits of Fanny Elssler painted on their
pipes ; French ladies of the revolutionary period wore
chapeaux a la guillotine; a certain sort of fans, used in the
days of Mazurier, the famous Jocko, recorded his triumphs
by exhibiting the variou, colours of the ape. What has not
set a fashion ? And now it would surely be worth while
for dressmakers to set their heads together, and escogitate,
colours that may stand in relief against the gold curtains.
There is am old proverb about Mahomet going to the moun-
tain when the mountain would not come to Ai ahomet.
Turn we to the physical world. Whence did experimen-
talists derive their first knowledge of the electric fluid ?
Why, they found that amber, when warm, had a power of
attracting light substances. This was the first revelation ;
and from the Greek word ;;),
~.escrpov, is the word " electri-
city " derived. Here is a whole department of science
founded on the attractive powers of amber. And shall the
amber curtains that so vividly represent the hue of the
mineral, prove repulsive to the hearts of the habitues—which
being hearts free from care, are light substances par excel-
knee. After a while, to be sure, the bits of feather, &c.,
being fully electrified, were found to start back from the
amber. But these curtains are new, friends, these curtains
are new, and the period of satiety cannot yet have approached.
At present, therefore, they must attract, or a physical ab-
surdity will be symbolised.
Moreover, what colour could be substituted? An ancient
metaphysician proved that anything that is not something,
must be something else, and hence the curtains if they be
not gold colour, must be of some colour which is not like
gold. Hang up your boxes with red, and make the whole
interior of the Opera-house look like Judge Jeffrey's court
during the "Red Assize," and nothing will be more heavy.
Blue will be cold and cheerless. Green will be as unpleasant
to the eyes, as its superabundance in the pictures of an
unskilful landscape painter. Run over the list of colours,
and you will find you must return to the theory of the
paintings in the gilt frames, and allow the bouton d'or to
maintain its place.
Therefore, to go back to the point whence we started—
heed no rumours about chromatic transformations, but resist
them as an obstinate player on the horn proverbially resists
the conductor of an orchestra. The bouton d'or is firmly fixed,
and neither Atlas, who carried the world on his shoulders, nor
the monkey Hanuman, who carried a rock on the tip of his
tail, can remove it from its place.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY, NIGHT.
In the course of the evening The Baron and Wolf-dog were
matched for 500 each, 200 ft, to run B. C. in the Houghton
Meeting, The Baron giving Ms. Oakley and Wolf-dog were
also matched for the same Meeting at Bst 71b each, D.M.,
200, h ft.
The following Matches have also been made in the course
of the week : •
SECOND SPRING MEETING, 1846 :—Brainless agst the filly
by Stockport, out of Ganymede, the latter receiving 10Ibs.
Half a mile.
SECOND Ocromn, 1846:—Alarm and Oakley, Bst 71b
each, 500, T.Y.C., and Alarm and the Bishop of Romford's
Cob, the latter receiving 61bs. T.Y.C. 300, h ft.
Several others have been made for 1847.
THURSDAY'S RACES.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old ; colts, Bst 71b,
fillies, Bst 41b ; the winner to be sold for 150 soya., if de-
manded, &c. T.Y.C.
Lord W. Powlett's f by The Sadiller, out of Fanchon... 1
Duke of Rutland's Alexa
Mr. Bowes's Forget-me-not
The following also started, but were not placed :—Sir J.
Hawley's Fugitive, Lord Albemarle's Nell Cook and Mr.
Batson's Malvoisie. ,
Betting-7 to 4 agst Fugitive, 9to 2 agst Fanchon filly,
and 4to 1 aget Alexa. Fugitive and Alexa made the run-
ning, the others lying well up with them to the cords ; the Fan-
chon filly then went in front, and won cleverly by a length,
Alexa beating Forget-me-not by a head. The winner was
claimed. Run in 1 minute and 18 seconds.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, and only 5 ft if de-
clared, &c., for three yrs olds and upwards, T.Y.G 5
.Subs....
Duke of Rutland's Poulton, 4yrs,Bq 9lb ..... ...........
Mr. Lowther's Lyons, 4 yrs, 7st 91b
Lord Albema, leißeaumont, 5 yrs, Sat 1111,
ng—
aßge9tttiiieauml lotnot.B agp,sautiLto,n 7to 4
n•oss,
made
stagrosntePrauunttnoinnsg, an,Ldy2ontos
second, and Beaumont well up : they kept this order to the
dip, where Lyons closed with Paultons, and they ran a
splendid race home, finishing with a dead heat. Run in 1
mm. 20 sec. Lyons afterwards walked over, and the Duke of
Rutland and Mr. Lowther divided the stakes.
The 1,000 Guineas Stakes, of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs
........
11LBliorrr..dGBouo
wlrfl)oe-
s'
,ds7smeponrwduies
se
..
Bedford The f o,BIITo wa nr
ign aft 1 s,
Aoosr
dt a r tGre.d started, butnt *Q. ;ll' e of 3
were
Ennui, Mr. Osbaldes-
ton's Giselle, Mr. Wreford, jun.'s nWilderness. Betting—Even on Mendicant, sto 1 agst Mowerina, 6to 1
agst Prussic Acid, 7 to 1 agst Taurina, and 7 to 1 agst Ennui.
Prussic Acid made strong running, followed by Mowerina
and Giselle, Mendicant lying up with the latter, and Wilder-
ness bringing up the rear. They kept their positions to the
new ground, where Giselle retreated, and Mowerina chal-
lenged Prussic Acid, ran with her to the cords, and defeated
her. Mendicant then came, reached Mowerina half way up, and defeated her by half a length. Prussic Acid a bad
third. Run in 1 min. 48 sec.
Sweepstakes of 10 Sovs, each, for two years old colts, Bst Est ;
fill, Bst 31b . T..C.
Mr. Stephenson's b fies by the Doctor,Y out of Sister to
Dromedary
Lord Lonsdale's Redshank
Mr. R. Clifton's Brown Bess
Mr. Ford's The Precocious Youth
Betting-6 to 4 agst Balance, 7to 4 agst Dromedary filly,
and 4to 1 agst Brown Bess. Won very cleverly a length.
Brown Bess a bad third, and The Precocious Youth beaten
off. Run in 1 min. 23 sec
roc k f Match,or d
,3008
K,
the ft,b beat
tt
Mr.7lbo
each,,B r
ileans,ts half of
Emerald
a lii.—Dir.sle:
C
sto 2 agst Kite. Won in a canter. Run in 55 seconds.
The Queen's Plate of 100 gs. ; for four yrs old, 3stlb ; fityhee,
Mr. G. /11°.s tm7ooll3r;essixan Wolfd
Dog walked
wlaOlskt
eld2lobv.er,R.diCv.
dividing
Plate with Mr. Shelly's Maynooth.
BETTING AFTER THE RACES.
DERBY.
3 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting—taken
12 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's
Crowne'sTom PTriceunllock—taken
33 to apt Mr. Wall's
OAKS.
8 to 1 eget Mr. Gully's Mendicant--taken
CHESTER CUP.
1100 toto 11
nagstgst Lmorr.dA.G .virß
.e iinl 'sTB Bowerehesßtaro
Sweetmeat—takes
12 to 1 agst Mr. E. R. Clark %lc 8
sp....taken
14 to 1 agst Lord George Bent' kD'ACkani
LEN o'CrocK.
81b--Blackie,
ankie, 3 yrs,
8 yrilsa,Nn7dEsitcaWip,o3:Dß.;:nui, 3
yr
R E-3E NEWMARKET,
THURSDAY
ENTRIES
Es DisrTi aFflb Di4GA:KT. r sTirlK rt
yrs, 7st
11.1 b.
7st llb—Breastgirth, Y
Handicap, A.F.—Co3llln7wood,
_3 Leaconfield,
3 yr 4 654 611)..4.e &Mt? 3MI TA 1 Yro, bat 411),
paid.