The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-26 00:00:00

SUARENiTHEATRE

Two new pieces, the one a drama of interest, entitled Ju'ie
le Dru; or, the City Goldsmith; the other a broad farce, en-
titled Tea with my Aunt were produced here on Tuesday
with the most undoubted success. Julie Ic Dru (Mrs. H.
Vining) is the daughter of a City go•!dsmith, and her baud
is sought by the two apprentices of her father. Saud-
ford ( Mr. H. Hughes), the virtuous apprentice, and
Hurst (Mr. Maynard), the vicious apprentice; of course
she favours the suit of Sandford, and of course he is perse-
cuted by Hurst. He is tried, convicted, and condemned for
highway robbery, but just as he is on the point of being
executed, the villany of Hurst is discovered, and to quote a
play-bill common-place, " virtue is rawarded and vice pu-
nished." The piece is well constructed, and well acted, and
will no doubt draw. As to the farce it is excellent, and we
think the management may reckon upon this invitation to
Tea with my Aunt being accepted every evening that my
Aunt chooses to be "at home."

A GREAT PRINTING OFFICE.—We copy from Dick-
inson's Almanack, for 1846, an 'account of his immense
printing-office, in Boston e-e." The office of the Rotary Press
covers an area of 14,283 square feet, embracing fifteen rooms.
It is ligoted by day by 1,664 squares of glass set in 100
different windows ; and by night by gas shooting up from
100 different burners. In those premises we have one steam-
engine of ten horse power, three Adam's power presses, two
:
Napier presses, three rotary presses, two Ruggle's job presses,
eleven hand presses, two copper-plate presses, two embos-
sing presses, one hydraulic press, four standing presses, one
small power press, two paper cutters, three card cutters, one
ink-mill, and four machines for shaving stereotype plates, two
Of which are moved by steam-power. We have morethan 400
different styles of types, borders, flowers, and cuts of various
sorts, in weight 30,000 les. These are all held in their places
by means of 866 type cases, of brass galleys, 200 feet standing
galleys, 330 chases, and 3 bushels of quoins. We have two
large cisterns, which contain about a 1,000 gallons, or up-
wards of 18 hogsheads of water. This is distributed through
every part of the office, by means of 550 feet of lead pipe.
We use six hogsheads of water per day, which, supposing it
was brought in buckets, would take one man 131/2 hours
each day to furnish, allowing him to bring four gallons every
tea minutes. Our various presses threw off in the course of
the year, 6,069,480 sheets of paper, er 12,645 reams. Sup-
posing each sheet to be but 2i feet long, and that they were
placed in one continuous line, they would stretch out to
15,173,700 feet, or nearly 2,875 miles, about the distance
from here to Europe. It is computed that we have printed
the past year 130,240,000 pages, of books, 64,000 circulars,
25,000 commercial and lawyers' blanks, 20,000 cheques,
25,000 billets, 500,000 bill-heads, 300,000 shop bills sad band
bills, and 2,000,600 of Labels. We have cut up, printed,
embossed, and sold 1,201,520 cards, or 24,030 packs. Our
average consumption of coal is over two tons a week, or
more than 100 tons a year. Besides our 100 gas burners,
we use about 150 gallons of oil for extra lights and ma-
chinery. For our various printing it takes 1,200 pounds of
ink per annum, besides gold leaf, bronze, and size. In our
type and stereotype foundry we have used the past year
50,0001b5. of metal, and turned out 7,000 stereotype plates of
various sizes and shapes. In our whole -establishment we
employ usually about 100 hands, and it is safe to conclude
that our office affords direct sustenance to at least 500 per-
sons. "—Boston paper.
AN ENEMY TO IRON FOUNDERIES.—At the Drogheda
assizes a Mr. Harman, who has a domicile in that town
brought an action against Mr. Grendon, of the iron foundry'
for injury done to his property, in consequence of the ham-,
mering- which daily goes on in that busy and thriving
concein. At a time when Sir Robert Peel is at his wit's
end for devising means to feed and employ the Irish
people, and when societies, under the highest auspices, are
being formed for the same object, it is certainly rich to see a
person coming into a court of ju,tice to complain that his
long cars are daily assailed by the cheerful sounds that pro •
seed from au iron factory, and that he is frighted from his
propriety by the flames of a blast furnace. The jury seemed
to be under the impression, that if a hundred more iron
foundries were in fall play in Ireland, the country would not
be worse cff than it and very properly handed down a
verdict for Mr. Grendon, the defendant. We do not know
what country would suit Mr. Harman's quiet and contem-
plative disposition. Perhaps one of the Marquesa Islands er
a valley in New Zealand, where the spirit of improvement is
unknown, would be more congenial to him than the banks of
the Boyne.—The World, March 16.
WINDSOR ANNUAL MILITARY STEEPLE CHASES.—
The two Members for the borough, Colonel Reid and Ralph •
Neville, Esq., have just subscribed 51. each towards the race
fund. The sport, which will be extended this year to two
days, is to be of a first-rate character, four races having been
appointed to come off on the first day, the 7th of next month,
and five events on the second day following. Vicsount
Neville, the Hon. R. N. Lawley, and Albert Ricardo, EN.,
have accepted the stewardship,