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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE:
Yesterday we attended the fast rehearsal of Le
Nozze de l'igWo--a work of such merit, given with
such a ca.et,
tt, commands attention. The way inwhich
it is interpreted speaks for itself. It is ea to ima-
gine what is the perfection of the cast, when two
small parts, despised by second-rate singers, are un-
dertt.hen by such artists as Bouch6 and Lahlache,,
Mdlle- Lind has mr.nifostly bestowed on the part or'
Susannah minute attention which characterises
all she undertakes. It is not only that her acting has
all the spirit, the archness, and abandon of the " Cara
Susanetta," and that she displays in the part all the
resources of her voice, but she sings the music con-
scientiously, without inappropriate roulades or fiori.
ture ; we see that she has appreciated the full reach of
the creative master genius of Mozart, and, submissive
to his marvellous inspiration, she does not venture to
change the least tittle of the music, whilst she seeks
to give the utmost value to each note. In the
concerted pieces she sings as energetically as if
they were solos, and in the solos, duets, and trios she
sinks all egotistical ambition, and appears most of all
anxious to support her companions and do justice to
the author. Mdlle. Cruvelli's fresh powerful voice
and handsome person suit admirably the part of the
Countess—this part has seldom had so efficient a re-
presentative. The same may be no less truly said as
regards Mdlle. Schwartz's fitness for the part of the
mischievous page Cherubino. Her light agile form
is admirably adapted, and both these young and dis-
tinguished vocalists have the advantage, from their
first musical education in Germany, of feeling the due
reverence for Mozart, of understanding his spirit, and
possessing all the vocal traditions of the part, so well
preserved and deeply cherished in their fatherland.
The great harritone, Coletti, who performs the Count,
needs no support of eulogy ; if his Principal characte-
ristic of Almaviva be not so much liveliness and agility,
there is a beauty, freshness, and deep melodyof tone in
his voice that no contemporary can exceed. Those
who have seen Belietti in ll Barbiere will readily
believe that a better Figaro could not be found. He
has the breadth of style, the sincerity of tone and
conscientiousness of interpretation of the German
vocalists, combined with the faultless pronunciation,
the easy, elegant phrasing, sweetness of modulation,
and lively action of the Italian singer. He never
fritters away the music, the sentiment, and the me-
lody by exaggerated grimace and pantomime—he
never confounds the style of that headlong carica-
turist the buffo Napolitano with the refined comic
spirit of the caustic buffo Toscano. The former style
is suited to such parts as that of the husband in Il
Turco in Italia, but is totally inappropriate in repre-
senting that character of wit and infinite resource,
the Figaro of Beaumarchais, whose identity Rossini
and Mozart had too much genius to deface by cari-
cature and inappropriate strains in their music. It
will thus be seen, by what we have observed, that
the ensemble to be presented to-night in the Nozze
di Figaro is likely most amply to repay the eager-
ness the public has shown to be present on the first
performance.

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SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Under Sheriff BURCHELL.)
GELLATLY V. BUCKTON.)
The plaintiff is a plumber, &c., and defendant is a
builder in the City. The action was brought to recover
the sum of 181. 18s., for work done. The defendant
pleaded that he was cot indebted, but did not appear to
support the plea.
Evidence having been adduced, a verdict was given
for the amount claimed.
The plaintiff's attorney applied to the Learned Under-
Sheriff for his certificate, that it was a fit action to be
brought in the superior Court, in order that plaintiff
might recover the costs, of which he was otherwise de-
prived, in whole or in part, under the County Courts
Act.

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101,i,

The UNDER-SHERIFF said that he had no power under
the Act.
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London Act, for regulating the London Sheriff Court
for the recovery of small debts. By the 104th section
there was a general power by which the judges of any
of the superior courts could grant the certificate.
The UNDER-SHERIFF said, he could not see how an
Act passed for the city of London could affect any other
district any more than one passed for the city of York.
The ATTORNEY believed that he had put the right
interpratation on the clause.
The UNDER-SHERIFF said, it was unnecessary to dis•
cuss the question on that point, as he was not a Judge
of the superior court.
The ATTORNEY suggested, that for the purposes of the
Act he must be considered so, as he was trying the cause
brought in the superior court.
The UNDER-SHERIFF concluded the argument by re-
fusing to give the certificate.
Another case was tried on a bill of exchange for 10/. ;
but no point arose.
The remainder of the cases were struck out, the at-
torneys not being present.
The UNDER- SHERIFF said he could not inconvenience
the jury by detaining them.

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BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
John Fowler and Wm. Cassidy Stainton were charged
with being drunk and disorderly at the entrance of the
Adelphi Theatre, while the performance was going on
last evening.
It appeared that the prisoners demanded admission at
the pit entrance at half-price, and were refused on ac-
count of their drunkenness. They then went to the box
entrance, where they were again told that they could not
be admitted. They refused to go away, however, and
became so troublesome that Mr. Andrews, the check-
taker, was obliged to give them in custody to the consta-
ble on duty.
Stainton said he was not drunk. He had been for
some time suffering severe illness, and was very weak.
Last evening he very imprudently drank some half-and-
half and some brandy, and as he had not eaten anything
all day it "rather influenced" him.
Mr. HALL fined them ss. each for being drunk.

WRENCH PLAYS.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
The performances last night were for the benefit
of Mr. Mitchell, and, as might have been expected,
the house was crowded in every part, and the audi-
ence was one of the most brilliant and fashionable of
the season. And truly Mr. Mitchell had well ca-
tered for their amusement. Four new vaudevilles
and a pas de deux by Carlotta Grisi and
Perrot. Such was the entertainment provided by
Mr. Mitchell for his patrons. The vaudevilles were
all from the repertoire of the Palais Royal Theatre,
and therefore were, as a matter of course, all of them
"screamers." The first is intitled Pere et Fortier,
and consists of the adventures of a certain Adolphe
(M. Lacouriere), a youth who, although the son of
Dumarteau, the porter of the hotel, in which he is re-
siding, would fain pass himself as a young man of
fashion. The father, admirably acted by Sainville, is
a tailor as well, as a porter, and there is one rich
scene in which the father and son quarrel over a coat
which has been made for the latter by a fashionable
tailor, and in which between them the coat gets torn,
which told admirably. After a series of most amusing
contretemps, of course the imposture is discovered,
but not until the tiles of the spectators are left
aching with laughter. Then came a one act vaude-
ville, entitled l'lnventeur de la Poudre, with the plot of
which all English playgoers are well acquainted,
through the medium of a translation successfully
produced at the Princess's some season or two since,
under the title of the Barber Bravo, in which
Charles Mathews sustained the character of the hero,
which was on this occasion sustained by Ravel. He
is a country barber, who is sent for to the Court of the
Prince of Pi( oby the Princess, who believes him
to be the inventor of a dye for turning red
hair black, a dye which she has long used
but her supply of which is exhausted. Receiving
from her a lock of her hair, he fancies she is in love
with him, and sends a lock of his own in return.
The mystery observed in hiding him arouses the sus-
picion of the Prince, who fancies he has a rival in the
palace, and meeting with the barber, he mistakes him
for a bravo, and hires him to cut his own throat.
At length the barber discovers the object for which
the Princess has sent for him ; but alas !
fancying himself regularly installed as court
favourite he has destroyed the recipe for the dye.
However, he invents powder, and the lady comes
forth with her hair powdered, in order, as she ex
plains, that out of compliment to her husband she
may appear as grey as he does. The Prince is
delighted with the compliment, and the lucky in-
ventor of powder is rewarded with the post of court
barber. How Ravel could act the mystified,
yet vivacious barber, and how Sainville could
be majestic, dignified, gloomy, and grand in
the Prince, those who have seen them may imagine.
To those who have not seen them we say, go on Fri-
day next, when they appear in this piece for the last
time this season. This was followed by Un Jeune
Ifomme Presse, a vaudeville, in which are only
three characters, and those three are sustained by
Ravel, Sainville, and Alcide Toussez. Pontbichet
(Sainville), a respectable glove manufacturer,
is knocked up at two o'clock in the morning
by a rattling fellow, who announces himself
as Ilia Jeune Homnie Presse. He proves to
be a certain M. Dardad (Ravel), a hot-headed Bour-
deaux man, who, having seen Sainville and his
daughter at the theatre, had fallen in love with the
young lady, and had immediately followed them
home, and knocked up the father to demand her hand
in marriage. The glove maker tells him that the
young lady is already engaged to M. Collar-
deau, who resides in the next apartment, but
the Gascon will not leave, and astonishes
the old man by ordering 40,000 pair of gloves to be
packed in two cases, one all right-handed gloves, and
the other all left-handed gloves, They are to be im-
ported to England ; the one packet to be sent to
London, and the other to Liverpool. Of course they
will be seized, as he will pay no duty. They will be
sold for a trifle, he will buy both packets, and thus re-
alise his speculation. The old man is struck ;
he sends for Collardeau (Alcide Toussex), who
appears in the costume of a Grand Turk, having
just returned, tired to death, from a masquerade.
What would you do to smuggle gloves into England?
asks Pontbichet. " Ale toucher, "is the stolid
reply of the sleepy Collardeau, given with that
oily humour which is such a distinguishing cha-
racteristic of the acting of Alcide Toussez.
The scenes of contretemps that follow are
of the most outrageously farcical character,
In other hands they would be dangerous, but in the
hands of Ravel, and Sainville, and Alcide Toussex they
achieve a brilliant success, and all are reconciled by
the discovery that the ladye love of the gascon is the
sister of Collardeau, and not his betrothed. The pas
de deux by Carlotta Grisi and Perrot followed, in the
course of which a slight accident occurred. As the
fair Carlotta was revolving on the point of her
toe her foot slipped, and she fell, dragging Perrot
after her. They, however, recovered themselves,
immediately, and finished the tarantella amidst the
applause of the audience, The vaudeville of Le
Corporal and La Pape (with the English version of
which, Seeing Wright," every play-goer is familiar)
concluded the entertainments, Ravel sustaining the
part of the Corporal (the policeman of the English
version) with infinite humour.
The theatre was last evening attended by the Conde
de Montemolin and suite, the Prince of Syracuse, the
Prince Lubomioski, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Lansdowne, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Douglas, the Marquis of Douro,
the Marquis of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Sligo, the
Marquis of Titchfield, the Earl and Countess of Kil-
dare, the Countess of Malmesbury, the Earl of Auck-
land, the Earl Bruce, Viscount Chelsea, Lord Tuna-
more, Lord Bateman, Lord Charles Clinton, Lord
Cranstoun, Lord and Lady Holland, Lord Ward, Lord
and Lady Henley, Lord Ossulston, Lady F. Beauclero,
Lady Molesworth, Lady Lyndhurst, the Hon. Miss
Copley, Lady Clerk, the Count Kielmannsegge, the
Count d'Avigdor, Baron Nicola', Baron Kolier, Baron
Anthony de Rothschild, the
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Sir George and
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l'ulsford, Mrs. Brunel, Mr. broldsmid, Mrs. and Mks
Liddell, Miss Beauclerc, Mrs. Prinser, Mr. and Mrs.
Wodehouse, &c.

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CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)
A child, named Catherine Baily, under twelve years
of age, was charged before Mr. Hammill (of Worship-
street Police-court), with robbing her parents.
From the statement of the parents it appeared that the
girl was confirmed in very bad habits, and had fre•
quently stolen money and clothes. On Monday she
stole a new pair of trowseri, of her father's, which she
now acknowledged to have pawned.
The magistrate, on questioning the parents, found
that they did not live together, and that the father was
cohabiting with another woman. They said that the
separation was by mutual consent; and the mother
strongly denied that the girl was ill-treated by either of
them. They were both very anxious that she should be
sent to prison, in order that she might get into a
penitentiary.

- Mr. HAniatru. said that he thought this was a fit case
for the exercise of the discretion which the law allowed
him. The father could afford to keep another woman
besides his wife, and he should afford to keep his child.
He (Mr. Hammill) would therefore send the prisoner
to the workhouse, where she would be put to a good
school, and subject to a wholesome discipline, The
father must reimburse the parish for her cost,
The Chief Clerk, addressing Henry Reid, the shop.
man of Mr. Flood, of St. George-street, pawnbroker,
(who had taken in pawn from the little prisoner the
trousers which he now produced) asked him whether
he had brought three pounds to p,:.y the fine for taking a
pledge from so young a child 'r
The shopman said that ne had not, and
Mr. lIAmmoND orrlered proceedings to be forthwith
taken against him. under the Act of Parliament.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
The new farce called Poor Pdlicoddy, brought out
at this theatre last night,
.t, is one of those extravagan-
cies which, resting chiefly upon the shoulders of
Buckstone, is sure of immediate acceptance with the
public. The hero belongs to a class of personage in
which that artist shines—that of the
perplexed hus-
band, who, labouring underimaginary fears, tortures

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1848.

1 hiiiiteif unnecessarily, hilt in Me ineithvrhile,becasions
• a vast deal of diversion to the spectator. Poor f ills=
cm-Hy, a Hampshire florist, has married the young
and blooming widow of a certain captain O'Scuttle,
an Irish sailor, and his pBrpletities arise from the ap-
prehension which haunts him that the atOrest,ltl crp-
tamp, who has been reported drowned, may perchance
re-appear and rob him of his bride. The little man
is thiown into a Rate bordering on frenzy by the
arrival of a rough, weather- beaten tar, bearing the
dreaded name of " Scuttle," who comes to the florists'
house in search of his wife, who has run away
from home in a fit of jealousy. The agony of the
sensitive and uxorious Pillicoddy, when groaning,
under the conviction that this is the realization of the
phantom which has for so long a period pervaded him,
is the mainspring of the merriment, and Buckstone,
we need scarcely add, makes the most of it. In cha-
racters of this kind there is no one upon the stage who
can approach this popular artist. The skeleton which
is afforded him by the author he clothes with the most
comic adroitness, and his mingled timorousness and
desperation, while clinging to the smallest vestige of
hope, would have saved a much more worthless piece
from destruction. The farce was admirably played
throughout, particularly the part of the terrible
O'Scuttle, which was filled by Mr. 11. hall with an
amusing Milesian accent, and a ferocity of deportment
calculated to terrify all the Pillicoddies in the world.
Miss Marshall represented a pert servant girl with
her usual smartness and spirit. The authorship of
the piece is attributed to Mr. Maddison Morton, who
has been indebted for its substance to a French vau-
deville.

LITERATURE.

THE HOME OF THE LOST (WILD. One Vol.

pp. 223.
A graddui little book of a very peculiar character,
" lhe Home of the Lost Child," disarms criticism—
it is evidently written with an object so very good
and beautiful. The story is simply that of the recla-
mation of a young girl, Rachel Ambrose, from a life
of sin and frivolity to habits of virtue and penitence.
Although the writer of the tale is, according to an
announcement in the preface, a member of an ascetic
establishment at Hammersmith, and although the
whole tone, or, so to speak, the whole sentiment of
the fiction, is one peculiar to a particular class of
Christians, we mean the Roman Catholics—the
volume can be read without prejudice, inasmuch as it
is not in the smallest degree controversial. On the
contrary, anything approaching to theological dispu-
tation seems to have been especially avoided. The
style of composition is pure and unaffected, and the
vicissitudes of feeling in the young heroine are re-
counted with a singularly delicate and winning re-
finement.

ADAMS'S GUIDE TO THE WATERING-
PLACES OF ENGLAND. One Vol., pp. 268.
By E. L. Blanchard.
After Murray's inimitable hand-books for the
continental tourist, who shall ever have the temerity
to contemn the literary guide, who shall ever call the
writer of such a volume a fribble, who shall ever
deny that a work of this unpretending character may
combine at once the grace of the rhetorician, the in-
terest of the romancist, the elegance of the scholar,
and the bon-hommie of the boon companion ? No
one. The panegyric of the guide-books is visible
in the very fact of this publication. Therefore it is
that we are disposed to award to the present little
volume a praise higher than its unostentatious title
seems to warrant, but certainly not higher than it
merits intrinsically. In descanting upon our various
watering-places, E. L. Blanchard has revealed all
his love for nature, for the sea, for the air, for the
earth, for the sky, for the sunlight ; he has shown to
us that he is no mere babbler of faint praise to the
beauties of our insular scenery, but that he has
earned a right to become its encomiast by
his loiterings as a pedestrian. Among the
sea-coast towns and harbours depicted by his
exact and enthusiastic pencil are Weymouth,
Plymouth, Exmouth, Sidmouth, Yarmouth, Tyne-
mouth, Alnmouth, Margate, Ramsgate, Southend,
Gravesend, Swansea, Torquay, Dawlish, Bangor,
Hastings, Dover, Brighton, Maryport, Southport,
Warkworth, Harwich, 'Walton, Scarborough, Herne
Bay, Sheerness, Cromer, Lowestoft, &c. Among
the; districts, the West Coast and the South Coast,
including the New Forest. Among the islands, the
Isles of Wright, of Man, of Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, and
Alderney. The book is divided into two parts, em-
bellished with a variety of capital illustrations on
wood, from the practised graver of F. G. Delamotte.
Occasionally there is detectable a subordinate error
in
.the letter-press, as where the triangular stone is
mentioned as standing in the New Forest, on the
spot where the oak grew, from the trunk of which
glanced the doomed arrow of Tyrrel before it pierced
the heart of the Red King ; but no mention is made
of its iron inclosure shielding the stone as effectually
as the tomb in Winchester did the dead body of
Rufus ; or, again, as where Torquay is described as
having a theatre when that is one of its most conspi-
cuous wants. Excepting these, however, the book is
as worthy of reliance as it is delightful in tone and
tendency; it is as useful as it is unquestionably en-
tertaining, and the author affords us a testimony not
only of his industry, but of his good fellowship and in-
telligence.

SYLVAN'S PICTORIAL VANDBOOKS.
To the Scenery of the Caledonian Canal. 1 Vol. pp. 97.
To the Land o'Burns. 1 Vol. pp. 52.
Another handbook, graceful, gossipping, and pic-
torial ! Sylvan has sped further northwards than
Cumberland; he has continued his delightful pere-
grinations to the exquisite scenery of the Caledonian
Canal and has crossed over to the famous isle of
Staffs. Ultimately we shall expect from him a Pic-
torial Handbook to the Hebrides. Some of the em-
bellishments to the present publication, especially the
frontispiece representing the Fall of Foyers, are ad-
mirable. They amount (besides a map) to upwards
of fifty illustrations from original sketches by Thomas
and Edward Gilks. Clever as their preceding em-
bellishments have been, those comprised in the Hand-
book to the Caledonian Canal are perhaps the very,
best—they combine an almost microscopic minute-
ness with a softness like that of mezzotinto. This is
beautifully displayed in the frontispiece to the second
volume—being an admirable likeness of Burns, drawn
and engraved by Thomas Gilks. Sylvan has already
grown into a favourite, and here are fresh titles to
popularity.

TOWN LYRICS AND 0111E8 POEMS. 1 Vol.
pp. 102. By Charles Mackay.

Charles Mackay has already proved himself to be
a poet. Not by unwieldly epics, or grandiloquent
odes, or unactable dramas, but by songs such as the
people love to listen to, by verses which are stamped
with the golden die of the popular ambition, by
rhymes full of passion and vitality, because pregnant
with the thoughts of the age. Beranger calls him-
self a billadmaker—Charles Mackay would not dis-
dain the same epithet as that claimed by the greatest
of the bards of popular song. His " Hope of the
World," his " Salarnandrine," and his "Legends of
the Isles," are of a loftier character, but his " Voices
from the Crowd " and his " Voices from the Moun-
tain," and the present work, " Town Lyrics," are still
better calculated to extend his already eminent re-
putation, and to render his name a pleasant household
word with the multitude. Dr. Mackay knows how
to acquire celebrity. Here is his recipe:—
" Seize the Spirit of thy Time,
'rake the measure of his height,
Look into his eyes sublime,
And imbue thee with their light.

" Know his words e'er they are spoken,
And with utterance loud and clear,
Firm, persuasive, and unbroken,
Breathe them in the people's ear."

That he does himself, and by so doing he is steadily
acquiring a poetical reputation very far indeed above
mediocrity. He evidently agrees with the Abbe de
Lamennais that ," the future, the future is now the
great source of inspiration." In token of this his
" Appeal to Paris," written and printed before the
revolution of February, was absolutely prophetic.
" The Death Banquet of the Girondins " is grandly
conceived—at times almost worthy of Lamartine ;
and " The King and the Nightingales " will be de-
voured with interest by the readers of " Harold."
The following strikes us as being strangely and beau-
tifully poetical :