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

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Cousin Cherry, which was produced here last night
for the first time in an English dress, is a clever
translation of Le Moulin a Paroles. The plot is of
very slight construction. Charles Earl of Mandeville
(Mr. Leigh Murray), under the assumed name
of Mr. Charles, visits the neighbourhood of his
newly-acquired estate in search of his sister and
her' child, whom family dissensions have severed
from her husband. The Earl assumes an incog-
nito the better to escape vulgar curiosity, and
finds himself in the house of Thomas Primrose
(Mr. Norton), with whose sister, Elinor (Miss St.
George), he falls in love, and is by her secretly ac-
cepted. And now steps upon the scene Cousin Cherry
(Mrs. Stirling). This Cousin Cherry, a young
and buxom widow, and the chatter-box of the
village, after a brief acquaintance with the sup-
posed Mr. Charles, imagines that he is in love
with her, and determines to ascertain the object
of his visit into the neighbourhood. After a series
of failures, she thinks that she has made the desired
discovery. On the person of a lady, whom, in her
flight from her home, she happens at that moment
to be befriending, she finds a locket, which contains
the portrait of the Earl, whom she now taxes with
a desertion of his wife and child. The sup-
posed Mr. Charles here declares himself, ex-
plains th• object of his presence, ascertains that
the lady in question is the sister he is in
search of, and shows by a letter he has
just received that an adjustment of the family
quarrel may be immediately effected. Matters are
thus cleared up, and the Earl takes the hand of Elinor.
Mrs. Stirling was admirably fitted in the part of
Cousin Cherry, and rattled through it with sparkling
vivacity. Liberty of speech is to her like the air she
breathes, without it she dies. Her eternal chatter
was most delightful. The piece was completely
successful.

SACRED HARMONia SocirrT.—Handers Messiah
will be given at Exeter Hall, for the first time this sea-
son, on Friday next. Mr. Sims Reeves will sing in it
for the first time in London; and it will also be the first
occasion on which M. Costa has appeared as a Handal=
conductor.
MARTLERONE THEATRE.—The engagement of Mr.
Buckstone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam at this theatre has been
of service to the treasury, for, since they have been
playing in the favourite burlettas of Flowers of the Fo-
rest and A Rough Diamond, the house has been ex-
tremely well attended. The enterprise of the manager
has, therefore, been rewarded as it should be ; and we
are glad to find that the inhabitants, of this distant dis-
trict of the metropolis, have not been indifferent to the
presence of two of the most genial comic artists the
English stage possesses.
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JusticiaryeiN t uaGnanetCnonAnsrartsurrdTayßlAfor.rs. —theTphuerHpoisgeh.oCf
sidering the sentence which should be pronounced upon
Henry Ranken and Robert Hamilton, who were found
guilty on Tuesday last of sedition, in so far as that they
used language calculated to excited popular disaffection
and resistance to lawful authority. As it was under-
stood that the counsel for Ranken and Hamilton were to
object to the sufficiency of the verdict returned by the
jury to warrant the infliction of punishment, there was s
full bench. The judges present were the Lord Justice
Clerk, Lords Mackenzie, Moncrieff, Medwin, Cockburn,
and Wood. The case having been argued, the judges
retired for consultation. They returned into Court after
on absence of about forty minutes. The Lord Justice
Clerk said that he was sorry that the Court could not
pronounce judgment at present. In order to give the
tullest consideration to the subject, they would delay
giving judgment till Saturday next, the 25th. The
prisoners were then removed to prison, and the Court
adjourned. _

'The letters from Hamburgh mention that bills
generally on London were in demand, and also on Bres-
lau, Berlin, and Leipzic; Prague and Vienna continued
nominal. Money was abundant, and stocks and railway
shares were firm.
Unhealthy as the weather has latterly been, and
abominably health-destroying as are many localities in
the large parish of St. Martin, which comprises about
one-eighth of the whole population of the city, only a
single death occurred in the parish between Oct. Ist and
Nov. 12th—i. e., on each of those days there was a
death, and only one between. There has, however,
been an abundance of such disease as is the usual con-
sequence of ill-drained and badly-ventilated
Sta nyord Mercury.