The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-16 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Other theatres have had their sentimental crickets.
This theatre boasts a " right merrie cricket," which com-
menced its chirp last night, to the great delectation of the
laughter-loving leiges who frequent this theatre. "Ti e
Cricket on our own Hearth" of the Olympic is an admirable
burlesque on the various Crickets of the other theatres,
and with :Miss Kate Howard as Dot, Mr. James Browne
as Perrybingle, and though last not least, Mr. Cockerill
as the glorious Tiily Slowboy, kept the au-
dience in a constant roar of laughter and applause.
The scenery is good, and there is some really excellent
dancing introduced. Altogether the Olympic Cricket is
a most amusing affair. The Pantomime, now that the
machinery has been taught to act, " goes " capitally, and
the evening's amusements were loudly applauded by •
house crammed to the ceiling.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
The afternoon's business was confined to the follow-
ing bets :-15 to 1 in ponies, and 1,400 to 100 agst Bro-
cardo, 1,000 to 30 agst Fancy Boy, and the odds quoted,
to small sores, agst Spithead, West Countryman, and
Queen Anne. Enough was said about lago and Mal-
colm to fix the extreme laying prices, but not to lead to
the transaction of any business.
CHESTER CUP (ACCEPT OR ITOT).
50 to 1 agst Miss Burns.

DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting—take 6 to 1
14 to 1 agst General Shubrick's Brocardo—taken
30 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's lago—take 33 to 1
30 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Malcolm—take 33 to 1
33 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklarn's Fancy Boy—t. & aff. offered
50 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's West Countryman.
OAKS.
16 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Queen Anne—t. Jc afft. offd.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Preston's Osprey—take 25 to 1.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
BATH, 1846.
Handicap for the Somersetshire Stakes.
Lothario, 6 yrs, 9st 51b—Coranna, aged, 9st lib—Dis-
cord, aged, Bst 131b—Sweetmeat, 4 yrs, Bst 131b—St.
Lawrence, aged, Bst 1 Ilb—Newcourt, 6 yrs, fist 111 b
Ionian, 5 yrs, Sst 91b—Mickey Free, 5 yrs, Bst 91b—
Wolfdog, 4 yrs, Sat 91b—Needful, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—Pan-
tasa, 4 yrs, Bst 51b—Warp, 5 yrs, Bst 41h—Antler,
5 yrs, Bst 41b—Vitellius, 6 yrs, Bst 41b—Rose of
Cashmere, 4 yrs, 7st 1 llb—Ould Ireland, 4 yrs,
7st 10113—Queen of the Tyne, aged, 7st 916—Roderick,
6 yrs, 7st 81b —lntrepid, 5 yrs, ist 71b—lEgis,
4 yrs, 7st 71b—Clumsy, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Laird
o'Cockpen, 4 yrs, ist 61b—Crim-Con, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—
Young Lochinvar, 6 yrs, 7st 51b—Ajax, aged, 7st 51b—
Due an Darras, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Cinnaught Ranger,4 yrs,
7st 41b—Fausta, aged, 7st 41b—Reindeer, 4 yrs, 7st 41b
—What, 6 yrs, 7st 41b—London, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Ninety-
one, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Salopian, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Lord Sal-
toun, 4 yrs, 7st Ilb—Fama, aged, 7st llb—Pugilist,
5 yrs, 7st Ilb—Carissima, 4 yrs, 7st Ilb—Teetotal-
ler, aged, 7st—Portrait, aged, ist—Taglioni filly,
4 yrs, ist—Fox, 6 yrs, fist 131b—Giantess, 4 yrs,
6st 121b—Best Bower, 5 yrs, 6st nib—Columbus,
4 yrs, Est 111b—Mystery, 4 yrs, 6 101b—Miss Burns,
6 yrs, 6st 91b—Arthur, 4 yrs, 6st 910—Symmetry, 4 yrs,
6st Sib—Science, aged. fist 71b—Haitee, aged, Est 71b—
Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs, 6st 61b—Dexterous, 3 yrs, 6st 61b
—Sparsholt, 4 yrs, 6st 51b—Anti-Repealer, 4 vrs, 6it 41b
—Secutor, 4 yrs, Est 31b—Nik‘ 511 y, 4 yrs, 6st 31b —Red
Skin, 4 yrs, 6st 21b—The Warrior, 3 t rs, 6st 21b—Wild
Rose, 4 yrs, 6st lib—Blackbird, 3 yrs, fist—Dulcet, 4 yrs,
6st—Jack Cade, 5 yrs, 6st—Hero, 3 yrs, sst 131 b
Devil's Dust. 4 yrs, 7st I 21b—Astonishtnent, 3 yrs,
sst 121b—Morocco, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Marquis of Conyng-
ham, 3 yrs. sst 101b—Chamois, 3 yrs, sst 91b—Buttress,
3 yrs, sst 91b—Lady, 6 yrs, sst 11b—West Countryman,
3 yrs, 3st 81b—Pal, 3 yrs, sst 81b—Camera Obscura,
3 yrs, sst 61b—colt be Montreal, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Cer-
berus, 3 yrs, sst 41b—Regalia, 3 yrs, sst 21b—Peasant,
3 yrs, sst—Muscatel, 3 yrs, sst—Eclat, 3 yrs,
4st 1016—Zebra gelding, 3 yrs, 4st 1016—Pet colt, 3 yrs,
4st 1016.

NEW BIIILIOTHEQUE ROYAL, PARIS.—The present
buildings are long and straggling, covering an im-
mense surface of ground, and manifesting a great desire
.to tumble into ruins—a disaster from which they are
only saved by heavy annual outlays. Exist much longer
they cannot, even with all the expense they occasion,
and so down they must come. The Government pro-
poses to erect the new library in a different quarter
of tire town altogether, so as to be able to sell the
parcels of land in which the present edifice stands.
Those parcels are in one of the busiest, richest, and
most populous quarters of the town, and their sale would
realise an immense sum, almost enough to pay for the
oprrotefisoentnhtoerstithtoeew, on the ground that in any other
new building. But interested parties object to a change
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It is not likely, however, that their convenience will be
permitted to outweigh the general interest which un-
doubtedly requires the removal of the present odious
Biblioth‘re Royale, and the sale of the site on which it
stands.—Paris Correspondent of the Builder.
Viscount and Viscountess Canning have left Gros-
venor-square on a tour of visits, commencing with her Lady-
ship's noble mother, at Highcliffe, Hants.
CONINGTON.—INCENDIARY FIRE.—A fire broke
out on Monday night last on the farm of Mr. Kirby, of
this place ; a great quantity of stacks of corn, as also two
cottages wi re totally destroyed, but we are happy to say
the dwelling house of Mr. Kirby was saved although the
fire was raging around in every direction.—Cambridge
Advertiser.

E FRUGAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION.—The
fifth monthly meeting of the members of this institution was
held last evening at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Black-
friars, for the admission of new members and for the sale of
shares. Mr. Neale, of St. George's-terrace, Islington, was in
the chair. The object of the association is to accumulate and
employ the savings of the industrious classes, so as to assist
those who may require immediate pecuniary advances to
carry on their pursuits, or to promote any other laudable
object. Each member subscribes IL per share per month,
and he continues such subscriptions until they amount to
1001. per share, which limits the duration of the society to
the period of eight years and four months. The purpose of
the meeting was of a purely formal character. Numbers were
admitted, and they paid their respective subscriptions; after
which, five 1001. shares were put up for auction, and were pur-
chased at a premium, averaging 761. odd. The meeting then
separated.
THE POWER LOOM WEAVERS' DELEGATE MEET-
ING AT MANCHESTER. —On Sunday a numerous meeting of
delegates, from Ashton-under Lyne, Oldham, Stockport,
Heywood, Rochdale, Royton, Bury, and other manufactur-
ing towns, was held in the Bradford-street School-room,
Manchester, fur the purpose of devising the best means of
forming a union of the power-loom weavers generally through-
out the kingdom. An operative, named John Greenwood,
was called to the chair. He opened the business by stating,
that it was the determination of the power-loom weavers, in
every part of the manufacturing districts, to adopt such mea-
sures as would henceforth prevent their masters from reduc-
ing their wages in times of depression, as they had hitherto
done ; and, therefore, it now rested with those present, as
they had been sent there as the representatives of the
weavers generally, to consider what steps should be taken in
support of that branch of factory labour. Considerable dis-
cussion followed as to the propriety of the formation of a
general union of the whole body, when it was afterwards re-
solved that a central committee, consisting of one delegate
fr ,m each manufacturing town, should be formed, and com-
mence its sittings at Oldham ; that a code of rules or laws
should be drawn up for the government of a union of the
power-loom weavers throughout England, Ireland, and Scot-
land, and that immediate steps should be taken in the forma-
tion of the union. In order to effect this, it was agreed that
local committees of the weavers in each town should be
forthwith formed, and that they be requested to forward their
views to the central committee, who hold their next meeting
on the first Sunday in February. Mr. Richard Cooper, a
schoolmaster, of Oldham, having been appointed general
secretary, the meeting, after a vote of thanks to the chair-
man, separated.
The Guernsey Star states that a prisiate of the
depot of the 27th regiment, named Thomas Curry, stationed
at Fort St. George, has been committed to prison on a charge
of attempting to commit highway robbery.