The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-21 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, .1848.

up-st&rs bad-room, where the wounds were dressed.
Crisp remained with her till three o'clock this
morning, and has frequently seen her since, hut from
n. r precarious state he can give no hopes, as there up-
pears to be sympur.:s of a concussion of the brain.

The unfortunate woman, who is only tvlei;ty-.;x yenrr,
rf age, has hcen married about lour 3 cars, has no chil-
dr..n; they were in comfortable circumstances, but the
husband has lately taken to drinking and spending all
the alone) he could get. Re was examined at Lambeth
Police-office this morning, and remanded.

I_RELANJJ.

CASE OF MR. JOHN MARTIN.

DUnLIN, MONDAY.—It was reported yesterday
that immediately after the judgment of the Court
Mr. Martin was sent direct to the convict depot at
Spike Island, preparatory to transmission to the place
or his ten years' banishment. Such, however, was
not the fact; but it is believed that Government
means to carry out the sentence against Mr. Martin
with as little delay as possible. His friends still
speak of bringing the case before the House of Lords,
and in the event of the Attorney-General withholding
his sanction to the writ of error, it is stated that a
petition will be presented to the Chancellor, praying
his Lordship to direct the writ to issue, if it so seem
fit. Although the Chancellor may have jurisdiction
in this matter, there are but few authorities in sup-
port of this novel claim.

WEST RIDING ELECTION.

\\THAT SUET OF MEMBER, WILL MR. FITZ
WiLLIA n, IF ELECTED, BE?
TO TILE _EDITOR OF TILE SUN.
Sin,—As I know of no newspaper published in the
West Riding in the early part of the week, I am in-
duced to ask you to allow me a short splice in your
columns. The importance of the approaching election
to Yorkshire, and in some respects to the nation at
large, is my only claim on your courtesy. Lord
Fitzwilliam asks the thirty-six thousand electors of
the West Riding to send his youngest son, a youth
of twenty-two years of age as their representative to
Parliament. We may infer frpm the conduct of those
Members who are now in Parliament through the
influence of Lord Fitzwilliam, how his son would vote
on all important matters, and the policy, generally
speaking, which he would advocate.
Lord Fitzwilliam is the owner of a large part of
the borough of Mahon, and appoints two Members
for that borough. At the gent ral election in 1841,
when I happened to he residing in Millton, within one
week of the day of the election not a single voter for
the borough knew who were to be the Members.
The only question in men's mouths was—Has the
letter arrived ? meaning from Wentworth Howe.
During the sitting of the last Parliament, Lord Fitz-
william desired that his eldest son, Lord Milton, who
was unsuccessful as a candidate for the West Riding;
at the general election in 1841, should again enter
Parliament, and one of the Members for Mahon re-
tired to make way for him.
At the last election Messrs. Denison and Childers
were returned without apparent opposition, but the
majority of the electors do not regard them as their
representatives, and with the protection of the ballot
would immediately say so. Both the present Mem-
bers for Mallon voted against Mr. Hume's motion.
Why recal these matters ?; That the electors of the
West Riding may clearly understand what sort of
representative they will find in Mr. C. W. W. Fitz-
william. On all important questions he will, in all
probability, vote as the present. Members for Melton
do. He is a member of, and will do all he can to
support, the aristocracy. On those great questions
which will have to be brought before Par-
liament again and again, the extension of the suf-
frage, the reduction of expenditure, the separation of
Church and State, the Vote by Ballot ; in a word, on
those questions on which the great majority of the
electors of the West Riding have not only fully made
up their minds, but on which they feel very strongly,
this young man, if now returned, will vote against
their wishes or not vote at all.

Is this the position which the greatest constituency
of the kingdom will voluntarily take ?
But the expense alarms them. Let every man pay
his own expenses, and a very small subscription from
each elector will be sufficient to meet all other
charges. Music and banners may be dispensed with
by such a constituency. Twenty thousand men ani-
mated by one common purpose, that of sending a man
" fit and proper" to speak and vote for them in the
great council of the nation, is a grander spectacle than
all other outward things can exhibit.
Will Lord Fitzwilliam stand a contest ? Those
who best know his resources have their doubts. The
support of the Tory party would be an expensive affair.
But where is a suitable candidate to be found ? Is
there no one among the aldermen and town-council-
lors of the West Riding boroughs P Is there no
merchant or manufacturer of Leeds, Bradford, Hali-
fax, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Wakefield ? Send a
man blindfold into any market-place, cloth-hall, or
corn-exchange of the Riding during the present
week, and he cannot fail to lay hold of some man far
better qualified than this young man is to represent
such a constituency. Names may be mentioned at
random which suggest ideas of labour done, and indi-
cate the ability required. This youth asks the West
Riding to send him to Parliament for this single rea-
sun, because his father once advocated the liberal
cause. Goodman, D. Gaskell, Hamer Stansfeld,
Luccock, Carbutt, any one of these would
infinitely better represent the feelings and wants of
the constituency than Mr. Fitzwilliam can pretend to
do ; and if we may step across the boundary of the
Riding, there is Wilson of the League, well worthy
to take a seat beside R. Cobden. What matter if he
be a Manchester man ? If Yorkshire can produce no
other than Mr. Fitzwilliam as its representative,
would it not be better to send a Lancashire man, or
one from any quarter of the globe, provided he pos-
sessed those qualities of mind and attributes of cha-
racter which the representative of the West Riding
ought to possess ?
The Mayor of Wakefield offers 500/. towards the
expenses of a contest, thatiks and honour be given
him; others will follow his example. Let the League
organization, once treated so contemptuously by Lord
Fitzwilliam, be resumed, and engagements for meet-
ing expenses be received. There are fourteen days
before the election. I cannot despair of twenty
thousand who have ever advocated the Liberal cause.
Some one it is to be hoped will yet be found whose
return cannot be such an unspeakable disgrace to the
constituency as would in the estimation of all
thinking men be the return of Mr. Fitzwilliam.
Yours, &c.,
A NON-RESIDENT ELECTOR
Nov. 20, 1848. For the West Riding.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In my letter of the 19th I omitted to state
that the reason the working expenses of the New-
castle and Berwick Railway are put down at so low
a rate is, that one of the most important items in the
working expenses of railways generally is that of
coke; but the Newcastle and Berwick Railway Com-
pany having erected enormous ovens for making
coke, they supply several other lines, and their profit
is so great that their own coke which they use stands
them at nothing; and when we consider this makes
a difference of between 6 and 7 per cent. on the
working expenses, we may fairly hope that the line
will be efficiently worked for the sum named.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Liverpool, Nor. 20. VINDEX.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sts,—Will you excuse me in calling your attention
to the incompleteness of r the Lantashire and York•
shire Railway Company's statement, as I perfectly
agree with your suggestion, that whatever statements
companies publish in the present sad state of railway
property should be both complete and unassailable,
except upon their respective merits. With this view,
I and many others complain that the directors have
not shown the amount of weekly traffic necessary for
them to continpe paying the present dividend of six
per cent. Other companies have done so, and I am
afraid it is on account of the largeness of the sum
required that it is not done so in the present instance.
What confirms me in this is, a private calculation
which I was shown the other day, and which made it
appear that a weekly income of near 22,0001. would
be necessary in order to pay a dividend of even five per
cent., being an increase of near 100 per cent. upon
the present receipts from the main line. If this be
true the shareholders and the public ought to be
made aware of it, and be placed in a position to
judge whether such an enormous increase was probable.
Oldham, Nov. 20. A DAILY READER.

THE SEA SERPENT ONCE MORE.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE TIMES.
you do me the ♦ery great favour to give
a place in your widely circulating columns to the
following reply to the animadversions of "Professor
Owen "on the serpent or animal seen by me and
others from her Majesty's ship Diedalus on the 6th
of August last, and which were published in the Times
of the 14th instant?
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
P. M'QUHAE,
Late Captain of her Majesty's ship Daedalus.
London, Nor. 18.

Professor Owen correctly states that I " evidently
saw a large creature moving rapidly through the water
very different from anything I had before witnessed,
neither a whale, a grampus, a great shark, an alligator,
nor any other of the larger surface-swimming creatures
fallen in with in ordinary voyages." I now assert—
nsither was it a common seal nor a sea elephant, its
great length and its totally differing physiognomy pre-
cluding the possibility of its being a " Phoca" of any
species. The head was flat, and not a " capacious
vaulted cranium;" nor had it " a stiff inflexible trunk
a conclusion to which Professor Owen has jumped, most
certainly not justified by the simple statement, that no
" portion of the 60 feet seen by us was used in propel-
ling it through the water, either by vertical or horizoutal
undulation,"
It is also assumed that the "calculation of its length
was made under a strong preconception of the nature of
the beast;" another conclusion quite the contrary to the
fact. It was not until after the great length was deve-
loped by its nearest approach to the ship, and until after
that most important point had been duly considered and
debated, as well as such could be in the brief space of
time allowed for so doing, that it was pronounced to be
a serpent by all who saw it, and who aro too well ac-
customed to judge of lengths and breadths of objects in
the sea to mistake a real substance and an actual living
body, coolly and dispassionately contemplated, at so
short a distance too, fir the " eddy caused by the action
of the deeper immersed flea and tail of a rapidly moving
gigantic seal raising its head above the surface of the
water," as Professor Owen imagines, in quest of its lost
iceberg.
The creative powers of the human mind may be very
limited. On this occasion they were not called into re-
quisition, my purpose and desire being, throughout, to
welsh eminent naturalists, such as the learned Professor,
with accurate facts, and not with exaggerated repro-
sentations, nor with what could by any possibility pro-
ceed irom optical illusion ; and I beg to assure him that
old Pontoppidan having clothed his sea serpent with a
name could not have suggested the idea of ornamenting
the creature seen from the Dwdalus with a similar ap-
pendage, for the simple reason that I had never seen his
account, or even heard of his sea serpent, until my ar-
rival in London. Some other solution must therefore
be found for the very remarkable coincidence between us
in that particular in order to unravel the mystery.
Finally, I deny the existence of excitement or the

possibility of optical illusion. I adhere to the state-
ments, as to fora:, colour, dimensions, ecntained
my 1 report to the .Admiralty.arid I them ma
data, whereupon tlyi !carried find scientific may px.rei,.
" p ea,ures of imagination" until fortunate :-)p-
portuni:N7 shall occur of making a eloeer accittaintai,,.
with the great anknown"—in the present instance most
assuredly no ghost.
THE NATIONAL GUARD.

The following letter, which was received by Alderman
Salomons from one of the National Guard of Paris,
shows that the attention and respect which the late visi •
tors met in passing through the metropolis have made
more than a slight impression upon them :
(Translation.)

"Paris, Nov, 6.

"Sir,—ln returning to France,- we bring back with us
to our country a very lively feeling of gratitude for the
cordial welcome which we everywhere met tnroughout
'our journey..
" Both my friends and m 3 self have had occasion to
felicitate ourselves on the attentions which we base ex-
perienced during the course of our excursions to Eng-
land. As it is impossible for us to express our thanks
to all your fellow-citizens, be so good us to permit us to
address them to you, Sir, in your capacity of alderman.
We feel bound also to express to ?.Ir. Salomons indivi-
dually our fullest gratitude for his polite attention in
being our guide to the Central Criminal Court, to New-
gate, and to the model prison at Pentonville, which were
indeed the most interesting objects to us, and by which
we have incurred a deep obligation to the two gentlemen
who fill the office of under-sher:ff.
" May our political horizon remained undisturbed,
and permit us in return to receive you at Paris. You
will then perceive that the cordiality which we express
with our lips is seated in our hearts, and that our
warmest wish is to see England and France for ever
united.

" You will excuse, Sir, the liberty I now take in thus
trespassing upon your time. I could not resist the
pleasure of making you acquainted with the effect pro-
duced upon us by our recent excursion, which, I trust,
•will hereafter prove equally advantageous to both coun-
tries.

" With the utmost respect, I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
" OSCAR. DE SEVELENZEZ.
" Mr. Alderman Salomons, 3, Great Cumberland-place,
• Hyde-park.".

THE LATE CASE OF ROBBING A NATIONAL

GUARD.
TOWER.—Frederick White, the private of the 2d
battalion of Grenadier Guards, who was convicted a
short time ago of robbing a French National Guard,
under circumstances too fresh in the recollection- of the
public to need recapitulation, was yesterday morning
expelled from the service. After the usual inspection,
the battalion was drawn up on parade, and formed into
hollow square, when Colonel Sir Ord Honyman, Bart.,
the commanding officer, ordered the delinquent to step
forward, and addressed him as follows:—" Frederick
White, the crime of which you have been convicted
by the civil power is at all times considered most
disgraceful and degrading to the character of a soldier;
but, considering the consequences resulting from it in
your case, it is a crime of the deepest die. You robbed
a soldier of the French National Guard, a stranger in
this country, who in the generous warmth of the moment
on meeting a fellow-soldier, invited you to drink. In
robbing him you committed an act' which not only
stamped your owh name with infamy, but compromised
the character of the whole British army; for that soldier
nn bis return to his own country, beyond all doubt, pub-
lished through the ranks of the French army that he had
been robbed in England, and that the robbery had been
perpetrated by a soldier of the Queen of England's
Guards. What atonement can you make for the
stain you have thus cast on the character
of the soldiery of England ? What atone-
ment for having outraged the feelings of every
good soldier in the army ? None. The sacri-
fice of your miserable existence would not redeem
the deed. The only consolation left us is, that you will
no longer be suffered to disgrace our ranks ; and I trust
that as the knowledge of your crime has been spread far
and wide, so the fact that we have expelled you, and
thus done all that lies in our power to punish you, and to
redeem our fair fame, will become as extensively known
to the world. I have the command of his Grace the
Commander-in-Chief to dismiss you as utterly unwor-
thy of serving in the British army; and his Grace de-
sires me at the same time to express to the regiment his
regret that, in consequence of your having been already
tried by the civil -authorities for your offence, it is not in
his power to bring you to a court-martial, in order that
you might have been drummed out of the regiment, and
disgraced with all the ignominy which the rules of the
service permit,." At the conclusion of this address, White
was marched out of the precincts of the barracks.

MARYLEBONE SAYINGS' BANK,
WELBECK-STREET.—Established July 5, 1830.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF PROGRESS, AT SPECIFIED
PERIODS, DURING THE LAST SEVEN YEARS.
Sums invested with
Open Deposit National Debt
Accounts. Commissioners.
On Nor. 20, 1842 ......X13,349 £285,382
1813 14,130 319,496
1844 15,124 350,089
1845 16,201 356,954
1846 • 17,280 348,643
1847 18,119 301,663
1848 19,019 '291,386
D. FINNEY, Secretary and Actuary.

THIS Fins AT Tllll ROYAL EXCIIANGB. Yester-
day, at one o'clock, Mr. W. Psyne, the City coroner,
instituted an inquiry before a jury of merchants, at the
Old England Cotfee-house, Threadneedle-street, into the
origin of the fire which, on Friday last, occurred in the
reading-room at Lloyd's. From the evidence it appeard
that a stove at the extreme end of Lloyd's reading-room
had been fitted into the space of the window, and an
irun belt or stay which held what is termed the fire lamp
of the stove to the main brickwork passed su close to the
wood-work of the windows as. to fire it. The jury
found that the fire arose from want of due precaution in
fixing the stove, and recommended the committee of
Lloyd's to institute an investigation as to the plan
adopted in setting the stoves throughout the building.
Ii.OI3DERY OF GOLD DUST.—The Solicitor to the
Treasury has received directions from Sir G. Grey to
prosecute three men charged with stealing nearly 2,000
ounces of gold dust from the ship Lemuel, whilst lying
off the African coast. Two of the prisoners' and all the
gold dust are to be forwarded to London by the Vis-
countess Canning.
EMIGRATION.-- PLYMOUTH, Nov. 18.— The Bri-
tannia, private emigrant ship, has all her passengers on
board, and is expected to sail to-night. The emigrants
have gone on board the Steadfast, after her fumigation;
the Osprey has also taken her passengers on board, and
both are likely to sail at the beginning of the week. The
Rev. T. C. Childs, of Devonport, who has most kindly
given his religious services gratuitously, for many months
past, to the emigrants while they were in this port, is
now interesting himself in the formation of a society, to
he called the Female Emigrants' Employment Society,
the object of which is to provide poor emigrants with
materials to enable them to occupy their time in making
useful articles of wearing apparel, or other necessaries,
during their long and monotonous sea voyage.
CHOLERA.—Yesterday only one case of cholera in
London was reported to the Board of Health. It oc-
curred in Kensington, and was fatal. From the pro-
vinces reports were received of five cases at Blyth, of
which two were fatal. In Scotland the disease is still
active. The return is:—Edinburgh, 21-12 fatal; Leith,
1; Dysart, 1. Total new cases, 29; 15 deaths.

The commercial advices by the India mail appear
on the whole satisfactory. At Bombay the market for
cotton goods was less active, but metals were firm, with
an advancing tendency; while at Calcutta both descrip-
tions of imports have been well maintained. It will be
observed that the shipments of specie to England from
the Bengal Presidency during the month of September
were little short of 210,0001. This continued eglux,
however, seems likely to be checked, according to the
last accounts, by an increase of activity which had be-
gun decidedly to manifest itself in the export trade. At
Bombay the disavowal by the India-house of their gua-
rantee to the Callian Railway in the form in which it
had been universally understood had created the greatest
surprise and disappointment.
WINDSOR, MONDAY EYRNING.—His Royal High-
ness the Prince Consort rode out this morning to shoot
in the covers around the Norfolk farm, attended by Lord
Waterpark, Colonel Seymour, and Mr. Ormsby Gore.
His Royal Highness and party had good sport, and re-
turned to the Castle soon after two o'clock. Her Ma-
jesty and the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal,
attended by the Marchioness of Douro, walked for some
hours in the ornamental grounds of the Home Park, not-
withstanding the somewhat boisterous and damp weather.
It has been finally arranged that the Court will leave
Windsor Castle for Osborne at ten o'clock on Wednes-
day morning. A portion of the royal servants, equi-
pages, and horses are to set forward for the Isle of
Wight by the South-Western Railway so early as six
o'clock to-morrow morning.
WESLETAx Mtssrosts.—Yesterday evening, the
24th and last anniversary meeting of the Wilderness..
row Branch of the Wesleyan Missionary Association was
held at the chapel, Wilderness-row ; George Bowes,
Esq., in the chair. Mr. Watts, the secretary, read the
report. The committee were of opinion that the present
state of things in the world generally was indicative of
the drawing near of that kingdom which should level all
others, and fill the whole earth. The funds of this
branch had suffered some diminution as compared with
the previous year, nevertheless the income was a hand-
some one, and much above the average of years gone by.
There were at present scattered over various parts of
the globe, 278 Wesleyan missionary stations, employing
411 missionaries and assistant missionaries, 2,472 chapels
and preaching places had been established. There were
about 600 catechists, Etc., who received salaries, and
7,051 who afforded their assistance gratuitously. There
were 100 000 church members in full connexion, and
upwards of 4,000 on trial, and about 74 540 scholars in
the schools. The missions had also the important
agency of eight printing establishments at their com-
mand at different stations. The present would be the
last anniversary meeting 'of this society, which, since its
commencement, had added upwards of 1,4001 to the funds
of the parent institution. On the motion of Mr. Belling-
ham, the report was adopted. The Rev. Messrs. Dun-
can. Hay, Holgate, Hargreaves, and others, afterwards
addressed the. meeting, and at the close of the proceed-
ineb.s a liberal collection was entered into.
It has been announced in Lincoln that a public
meeting of the British Anti-State. Church Association
will be held at the Corn Exchange on the evening of
Thursday the 23d instant, to consider the questions of
the separation of Church and State and the endow-
ment of the Roman Catholic Clergy. G. Thompson,
Esq., M.P., and the Rev. W. Robinson, of Kettering,
are announced as the deputation, and the chair is to be
taken by Mr. Seely.—Stuniford Mercury.

ELIZA COOK AND CHARLOTTE'

CUSHMAN

Miss Eliza Cook, in publishing a new edition of
her beautiful poems, has dedicated than in the follow-
ing truly heartfelt and generous strain's to a kindred
genius—the gifted Charlotte Cushman.- 'The verses
do donour to both.

TO CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN.
The early melody my heart-strings bore, •
Free and untaught as GOD'S iolian notes,
Of winds in woods, or waves upon the shore, •
Was heard by thee long since—thy soul, which dotal
On High, Eternal Nature, gave to me
Its gentle sympathy: and all unknown, '•
Thy spirit clung to mine, and craved to see
The simple reed that pleased thee with its tone.
Fate brought thee hither from the far-off West,
Thy genius shone, and Fame can tell the rest.
I gazed with joy upon thy open brow, . •
And Faith sprung up between us, firm and sound;
We were good, earnest friends at first, and now
Where is the hand by which could be unbound
The mingled threads of Feeling's taire.t Ewes,
That hold us captive in Affection's thrall?
Where is the poison-tongue that could infuse

Into our draught of Peace, Doubt's burning gall?
We speak too meaningly, and mean too well,
For any worldly craft to break the spell. •
We have talked on through many a cheerful day,
As Reason's mood or Fancy's impulse led;
Time oft has flown so deftly on our way,
That ere the South seemed light the West was red;
And if my later song bear harvest grain,. .
Of richer excellence, as some declare--
Thine be the praise that waits upon the strain,
And thine the leaf of laurel it may wear; - - •
For thou hast brought back all the zeal of Youth,
Broadened my brain and fortified my truth.
I love thee,.and herewith I dedicate _ _

Unto thy name the children of my mind;
My verse is honest if it be not great,
And thou wilt brook the fruit's unseemly-rind.-
My first instinctive lays poured with the hope
Of soothing breasts that meet too little heed—
To add a star to the dull horoscope
Of hearts that in their darkness still can bleed.
I sing for the chafed mass, and not for those
Who, crouched on flowers, groan o'er a rumpled rose.
I know thou art an altar where my lyre
May honourably yield its worship chaunt ;
'Tis only worth like thine that could inspire
The unbought minstrelsy of this Romaunt.
I would not flatter monarchs for their thrones,
Nor serve a golden shrine to win its pelf ;
My Harp—the proudest thing my spirit owns—
Lies only at the feet of thy dear self.
Friend, Woman, Sister, let it lie there long
And mark how Love and Truakehall help its song I
" ELIZA COOK."

ADELPHI THEATRE.
It seems fated that the London stage should' be in-
debted to the Liverpool boards for all its best bur-
lesques. Since the palmy days of the Strand, when
Othello according to Act of Parliament (originally a
transplantation from Liverpool) was drawing crowded
houses night after night, although we have had many
very graceful extravaganzas, half spectacle half
comedy in verse, in which a parody might be
met with occasionally, and occasionally a clever
mot that might create a smile, not a laugh,
we have had no regular legitimate " screaming "
burlesque until last evening, when another Liverpool
production, the author of which is Mr. Brough, was
performed here for the first time, with a success
which cannot but secure for it a run of some hun-
dreds of nights (for at the Adelphi runs are always
reckoned not by scores, but by hundreds). The
piece is entitled The Enchanted Isle, and is a bur-
lesque of The Tempest. We have 0. Smith as
Prospero, Madame Celeste as Ariel, Miss Woolgar
as Ferdinand, Paul Bedford as Alonzo, Munyard as
Caliban, and Miss M. Taylor as Miranda.
Ariel
,and the attendant spirits are fairy
special constables, and Caliban is a Red
Republican, who fraternizes with Stephan()
and Trinculo behind a halfpenny bundle of wood,
which does duty for a barricade. Prospero is a half
professor, half conjuror, who wears a trencher cap, a
barrister's wig and gown and green goggles. Miranda
is a nice young lady with a parasol. Alonzo is a
magnificent King with an umbrella, and Ferdinand
a " fast man "on town. The scenery is superb,
but the great thing is the dialogue—it is :replete
with wit, joke, fun, and pun, there is
freshness, an originality, a raciness about it that
we seek for in vain in the dialogues of perhaps more
artistically built and more gracefully written bur•
lesques. The actors were all in admirable " fooling,"
and the piece went off in a "blaze of triumph," to
quote one of the placards exhibited in the Enchanted
Isle announcing the last week of Signor Prospero. (By
the bye, the last week will last a long time). Let all
those who wish to dispel care visit the Enchanted
Isle, and they will be enchanted. It is the best bur-
lesque that has been produced for the last fourteen
years.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
Madame •
Vestris made her first appearance for the
season here, last evening., in the character of Mrs.
Ford, in the Merry Wives of Windsor. The co-
medy was revived some years since, by Madame
Vestris, at Covent-garden, and the cast night was
nearly the same as on that occasion, the only mate-
rial differences being the substitution of Mrs. Yates
for Mrs. Nisbet, as Mrs: Page, and of Miss K. Fits-
william for Miss Rainforth, as Ann Page. Mr.
Cooper, who has joined the Lyceum company, re-
sumed his old character of Ford. The vase en scene
was admirable, and the comedy was played excellently,
to the great delight of a numerous audience. The
reception of Madame Vestris was enthusiastic in the
extreme.