The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-03 00:00:00

COURT CU tC-ULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Quo 2n and Prince Albert
walked early this morning in th e grounds around the
Castle. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort again
promenaded in the afiernoon.

The Royal Family were ti-ken their usual airings
this forenoon. Their Royal IF glinesses Prince Alfred,
the Princess Royal, and the P, incess Alice, were again
taken out in the afternoon.

The Countess of Charlemoi it arrived at the Castle
tnis afternoon to pay her re ipects to the Queen, and
will remain to dine and shop.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel, CA:: Earl of Lincoln, Sir
James and Lady Graham, and a e Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone, left the Castle to-day..
There was no addition to ti to royal dinner circle at
the Castle this evening.

The Duke of Cambridge visit kck her Royal Hi2hnes6
the Duchess of Gloucester yt ate relay, at Gloucester
House.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel ret=ar led to their residence
in Whitehall-gardens yesterday morning, from a visit
to her Majesty at Windsor ()as tle. Mr. Gladstone
visited the Right lion. Baronet. •
Sir James and Lady Graham arrived in town yester-
day, from Windsor Castle.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of t he Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chan( senor of the Exchequer
yesterday, at his official reiiden,:e in Downing-street.
The Right Hon W. E. Glads,tot ie returned to town
yesterday, from Windsor Castl•?.
Lord Granville Somerset and tt e Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert visited the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday.
Dispatches were sent off yes ter lay evening from the
Colonial-office. for the Governor of Malta.
The Duchess Dowager of Cieveland, with her usual
kindness and consideration, distributed, on New Year's-
day, clothing, blankets, food, coals, and money, to
seventy poor families, in the ne'4hbourhood of Newton
House.

The Earl of - Lincoln returns il to his residence in
Whitehall-place yesterday, from Windsor Castle.

FRENCH PLAYS--ST. JAMES'S

TIIEAT RE.

Madame Albert made her debit for the season here
last evening, in the character of Madame Dorsan, in
Desforges' admirable comedy of La Femme Jalouse.
This comedy is a minute dissection. It might have
been aptly entitled " The Physiology of Jealousy."
It works out the passion through every phase—it
follows it through all its To tuifications to its re-
motest consequences—beginning with the ridicu-
lous, it en,'s with the sublime. Desforges has
done what Joanna Baillie pr. d'essed to do—he has
written a play of a passion--La Femme Jalouse is
the character of the piece—t7ae centre of the system
around which all the other c'laracters revolve as sa-
tellites. She has been for sixteen years the wife of
Monsieur Dorsan, and for fifteen years the mother
of an only daughter. She is a woman of strong
passion, who loves her daughter and her husband.
She would fain be a good wile—a good mother—a
kind mistress to her household—a generous bene-
factress to all—but her incurable jealousy spoils
her good intentions, and she is a universal pest.
In the earlier scenes, the nervous fidgitiness,
the tremulous uneasiness, the painful sensitiveness,
which are what logicians would call the essential
modes of a jealous nature—were admirably depicted
by Madame Albert. But an event takes place which
a mind, much less prone to jealousy than hers, might
beget suspicion. She discovers in her husband's pus-
session a small box ; she cannot open it. There is an
outbreak of unfounded jealousy. He refuses to satisfy
her curiosity as to the contents of the box. She
falsely accuses him of infidelity. Circumstances
prove to her the utter want of foundation of her sus-
picions. She restores to him the box, and asks his
forgiveness ; and, in the fulness of his heart, he
opens the box and shows her its contents. The box
contains the portrait of a lovely young girl. Again
does her jealousy revive. He assures her it is a
fancy sketch. Still her suspicions are not lulled, and
she watches him narrowly. Judge of the ungovern-
able fury of her jealousy when she learns that a
lovely young girl has been at her own house, asking
for Mens. Dorsan. M. D'Aranville (Cartigny), the
guardian of Madame Dorsan, under whose advice
Dorsan acts throughout, removes this young
girl to the house of Gervais, an old servant,
of the family. It is in vain that M. Dorsan (Le-
marde) protests his innocence. In her fury the
jealous woman demands a separation, and her hus-
band, who loves her dearly, tired out with the ty-
ranny under which he has suffered for sixteen years
at once consents, leaves her, and with his daughter
Eugenie (Mademoisselle St. Mare), and her lover, M.
de Fley (admirably acted by 111. Plunkett), who
also suffered severely from her jealous humours,
takes refuge in the house of Gervais, where
he finds D'Aranville and Clemence, the young lady
whose arrival at his house had roused the jealous
fury of Madame Dorsan. Clemence, a lovely girl of
eighteen, had never before seen Dorsan, but she knew
him as her benefactor, who had, from her earliest
years, cared for and caused her to be educated—to
whom she owed everything. She rushes into his
arms. At this moment Madame Dorsan enters,
and finds locked in her husband's embrace
the original of the portrait. Madame Albert's
acting throughout this trying scene was truly
sublime—it was la haute tragedie, and tragedy
of the very highest order. She retires to
her home. The rest go to D'Aranville's, who, after
much trouble, persuades Dorsan, who loves his wife
tenderly, and fears she may commit suicide, to leave
all to his management. D'Aranville writes to her
to inform her that the deed of separation has been
signed by her husband, who has gone he knows not
where, and whom she will never see more, and
that she is free. Her love—for without intense
love jealousy cannot exist—urges her on the
instant to D'Aranville's. She finds him alone. He
calmly tells her that at length the slave of sixteen
years has broken his fetters, and has sought, with
his two children, that happiness of which for sixteen
years her jealousy has deprived him. Yes, Clemence,
his daughter, born before he had become ac-
quainted with Madame Dorson ; he know-
ing her jealous disposition, had concealed from her
the fact of the existence of Clemence, and had,
out of tenderness to her, foregone the consolation of
seeing his first-born and tenderly-lovedl child. She
is melted at once. In agony she calls upon her
husband, who rushes from his place of concealment,
and she sinks into his arms. Nothing could exceed
the impassioned intensity of the acting of Madame
Albert, throughout this trying character. Words cannot
do justice to it; to be appreciated it must be seen. She
was admirably supported by Lemarde as M. Dorsan,
who depicted the struggle between love and the duty
he was under to himself to assert his own dignity,
and free himself from the unbearable annoyance of
her suspicious jealousy, with great pathos. Cartigny,
as the sententious, blunt, common-sense traleur, was
admirable ; and Mdelle. St. Marc infused into the
character of Eugenie a mingling coquetry, simpli-
city, and affection, which was most fascinating.
Madame Albert was called for at the fall of the curtain,
arid rapturously applauded. This is another of those
revivals of the French classical drama for which the
present season is so favourably distinguished from its
predecessors, and its reception b a crowded house
proves that the taste which dictates them is properly
appreciated. Bravo! M. Mitchell. Voila de la haute
comedic. En avant. The pleasant comedie-vaude-
ville of La illsuniere de Mirly followed, in which
Madame Albert again appeared in her favourite cha-
racter of Denise.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT on the GREAT

NORTH OF ENGLAND LINE.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

DURHAM, THURSDAY, JAN. I, 1846.—This morning
a very serious accident occurred upon the above line,
and as momentous consequences to the public may arise
from a correct information of the cause of the accident,
I will give you a few particulars below. I left York
this morning at a little before ten o'clock, A.m.,
and on arriving at the Thirsk station the train was de-
tained some minutes, in consequence of the overturning
of an experimental train which had preceded the one
in which I was a passenger. For some days engineers
have been working experimental lines on the Great
North of England line, and on that portion between
Thirsk and Northallerton more particularly, to test the
actual amount of speed that could be attained. This
norning a new engine was brought out, drawing car-
riages weighted, I understand, to seventy tons, and at half-
past nine o'clock away went the train like an arrow,
reaching Thirsk station in safety, when the speed was
increased to the greatest momentum, and when about
400 yards beyond the station, a gentleman who was
standing on the bridge observed a violent oscillating
motion, which increased every yard, until the engine was
fairly rocked over, thrown upou her broadside against
a slight cutting, upon which some of the carriages were
thrown, and all more or less damaged. I observed one
of the solid beams which had seemingly been shivered
with as much ease as one might break a reed ; the front
wheels of another had been carried away, and her buffers
tilted up and driven through the side of another carriage.
The shock was fearful, and yet the engineers, most
providentially, escaped injury ; one man only, the poor
fireman, who was thrown on his head upon the opposite
rails, was so seriously injured that, when I left the sta-
tion, he was not expected to survive very long.

DANGEROUS TRICK.—On Monday afternoon, two
women who keep stalls in the Bazaar, having boiled some tea
in the open area of the market, after partaking of the beve-
rage became exceedingly ill, and one of them seemingly so
dangerously, that she was conveyed to the police-office, and
the surgeon sent for. At length, however, she vomited, and
became a little better. In the meantime a boy named James
111Theely was taken into custody, charged with having put
some deleterious drug into the tea, and we are informed he
admits having done so, and that it was something like to-
bacco; but he says that it was a man named ISPCormick who
gave it to him, with instructions what to with it. The
police are on the look out for ArCormick.—Glasgow Argus.