The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-19 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

This pleasant little snuggery was opened on Saturday
evening, by Mr. George Bolton, with a very strong com-
pany, including (in addition to the lessee himself) Mr.
Henry Betty, Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Wilkinson, Mr.
Leigh Murray, Mr. John Howard, Mr. J. Cowell, Mr.
S. Cowell, Mrs. R. Gordon, and
several other ear.
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ell known on the
metropolitan boards. He has likewise engaged a name-
rous corps de ballet. The piece chosen for the opening
was the Hunchback of Sheridan Knowles, which was
very strongly cast. Mr. H. Betty was the Master
Walter, who has been practising assiduously in the pro-
vinces since his Mfg at Covent-garden some two years
since, and who is greatly improved since that period.
His Master Walter is an earnest and- a feeling
performance, full of energy and vigour. It is
certainly the best thing he has done yet. Mrs.
R. Gordon's Julia is exceedingly beautiful ; she
has studied the character, and understands it thoroughly.
The simple trusting maiden of the first act, whose whole
soul is wrapped up in Master Walter, was pourtrayed
with a most touching simplicity, and then, when she
finds that Clifford, believing her affected waywardness
(for after all her waywardness is affected) to be her na-
tural character, casts her off; the intensity of passion
which she exhibited was sublime. Very fine, too, was
she in the scene in the last act with Master Walter,
where her pride, completely subdued, she bids him find
out some mode to escape these nuptials. Indeed, her
delineation of the character throughout was perfect,
and henceforth she takes her rank as one of the first
tragedians of the day. She was loudly applauded
throughout, and was, with the other principal artistes,
called for at the fall of the curtain. Mrs. Walter Lacy
resumed her original character of Helen, and acted
as she akine can act it, for though others have
attempted the part, Mrs. Walter Lacy still re-
mains the Helen unapproached and unapproachable.
Mr. Walter Lacy's Lord'Tinsel was admirable. It was
worthy of Richard Jones himself ; and Wilkinson made
more of Fathom than we have ever yet seen made of the
character. His quaint stolidity told admirably in the
part. Mr. Leigh Murray acted Sir Thomas Clifford
carefully, and Mr. John Howard made a great deal of
the bookworm Modus. The comedy was preceded by
the following address, which was spoken by the lessee,
Mr. George Bolton :

Ladies and Gentlemen—
Pray tell your friends our little boat
Is christen'd, launch'd, and now afloat,
Bound for whatever haven you
And they incline to waft it to.
We'll try to speed it to suces—
Unto which end I now address
All present, with solicitation,
To aid us by your approbation.
D'ye wish to know our claim to this?
List, and I'll tell you what it is.
Our boat is built of English wood,
And manr&'d by English flesh and blood ;
Our rigging is of wisdom made,
By the best workmen in the trade,
Set with such judgment as alone
Our mighty authors could have done;
Our masts are of the strongest sense,
Fix'd with most solid arguments;
Our flag the name of Truth displays,
Surrounded by poetic rays;
Our anchor is determination,
To keep in sight of honour's station ;
Our rudder's your support, which, lost,
The ship must be to ruin Lost.
And last, to tell with what we're stor'd,
We no bad feeling have on board,
But bring, in perfect preservation,
Peace and goodwill to all the nation;
We'd quarrel with no class of men—
With us let no class quarrel then—
But treat us as to what we do,
Giving us help, if help be due;
We need the breath of every one
To urge our vessel safely on;
Ourselves will do our best to steer
Of all the town's displeasure clear;
The Scylla and Charybdis shun
Of least offence to any one.
This fortune, then, to us befal—
But Hope's our grog—so "Ikalth to all l"
The comedy was followed by a new grand burlesque
entitled The Civil War of Pottry, a strange mixture of
doggrel, singing, music, spectacle, and dancing. The
music, spectacle, and dancing were good. The doggrel
and singing'yery, very bad. It is intended to satirise
the prevailing taste for spectacle and ballet, but the ob-
jects of the others aversion to the spectacle and ballet,

which are introduced solely to be turned into ridicule,
are the only portions of the piece which aro not too
dull to be even ridiculous. • Let•the lessee cut out all the
talkee talkee, and trust only to the spectacle and ballet,
and the piece may run, otherwise it will have a very
short life, but by no means a merry one. As it is, the
audience last night not only passed judgment, but
seemed inclined to move for speedy execution. The
house was crowded.

MR. OSBORNE MARK HAM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sett,—The distant friends of Mr. Osborne Markham
must necessarily be deeply shocked by the paragraphs
which have appeared in your paper of to day and yes-
terday, and I trust that you will have the goodness to
relieve their anxiety by stating that the occurrence in
the railway carriage took place when he was in a state
of delirium from approaching brain fever, under which
disease he is now labouring. Yesterday he was consi-
dered by the physician in attendar.ce end myself as in

imminent danger, but to-day I am peppy to be able to
pronounce him decidedly better. His escape from ex-
fernal injury may be deemed almost miraculous, tor,
with the exception of a broken leg and a feiv trifling
cuts, he has not materially :offered from his perilous
leap.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient ser-
vant, GEORGE HARRISON.

G 7, Brook-street, Hanover-square,

THE
.GREAT BRITAIN.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MORNING, OCT. 18, 9 A. 31.—
Just us we were about to dispatch our express for Lon-
don, the .NottCern Mug of yesterday reached us, in
which w~ find the following:—
" The Great Britain remains in the same position
(due west) she was in win n I last wrote. The lAi ding
surveyor from the Newry Customs has been superin-
tending the landing of her stores for the last two days;
and he has relaxed the rigidity of the Customs rules at
first adopted, much to the comfort of all on board. The
stores are deposited in the watchhow.e of the Coast-
guard, very near where the vessel lies. On Thursday a
party of gentlemen came from England who -are in-
terested in the concerns of the ship, among whom was
Mr. Patterson, who supcerintended her building at
Bristol.

" Mr. Gabriel, R.N., who assisted in bringing off the
Gorgon steam-frigate when aground in 1845, has also
been here for several days, examining the position of the
vessel, and communicating with the agents and owners,
with the view of undertaking to float her, Which he ex •
presses himself perfectly able to do, provided he is sup-
plied with the requisite materials and hands. He has
made drawings and calculations, from which he feels
quite sure of success.

" Mr. Coppin, from Perry, who succeeded in raising
the engines, &c., of the 'Rambler' lost on the Maidens,
came here on Thursday, and had communications with
Captain Hosken. All hands on board now muster about
thirty five, but several are about to quit here to-inbrrow.
Mr. Patterson examined her very minutely, and ex-
pressed his opinion that she had not suffered any injury
at all likely to effect her being got off."