The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Saturday the
16th instant, at Windsor Castle. The Council is ap-
pointed to be held at three o'clock in the afternoon.
The royal children took their usual exercise on the
sea beach at Osborne House, on Wednesday afternoon.
Lord John Russell had the honour of dining with the
royal circle at Osborne House on Wednesday evening.
Yesterday her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in
the forenoon in the pleasure grounds of Osborne House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
walked and rode in the plantations and rides. Her
Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken an airing
yesterday.
Lord John Russell left Osborne House yesterday
morning.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, left her residence, Frog-
more House, Windsor, at a quarter before ten o'clock
yesterday morning, in a carriage and four, and arrived
shortly before twelve o'clock at Clarence House, St.
James's. The Royal Duchess, attended by Lady Anna
Maria Dawson, left town about four o'clock, on her
return to Frogmore House.
General Bell had an interview with Earl Grey yes-
terday at the Colonial-office.
The Committee of Visitors of the Hanwell Asylum,
consisting of Mr. C. A. Tulk, Chairman ; Mr. John
Wilks, Mr. Pownall, Mr. Freshfield, Mr. Marlborough
Pryor, Mr. Armstrong, and Mr. Kemshead, had an
interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the
Home-office.

Dispatches wars received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of Sierra Leone. Dispatches
were also received yesterday from the Governor of Gib-
raltar.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood left town yesterday for Hickleton, near Doncaster,
Yorkshire.

Lord John Russell arrived at his residence at Wim-
bledon yesterday afternoon, from a visit to her Majesty,
at Osborne house.

Lord and Lady Alan Churchill arrived at Farrance's
Hotel, Upper Belgrave-street, yesterday, from the Isle
of Wight.

ADELPHI THEATRE.

A new drama, entitled Eugenia Claircille, or The
New Found Home, was produced here last evening.
'Eugenia Claireille (Madame Celeste) is the orphan
daughter of an English lady, who has eloped with a
French soldier. Deprived of her parents, she disguises
herself in male attire, and wends her way to England
to find her rich uncle, Mr. Rugleigh (Mr.Cullenford),
her mother's brother, who has discarded his sister be-
cause she has married against his consent. Rugleigh
is lodging with Mrs. Corbell (Mrs. Laws), an old
friend of his sister's, and is attended on by Bernard
Langrel (Mr. Boyce), a sort of humble Joseph Sur-
face, who has insinuated himself into the old man's
good graces, and has persuaded the old man to make
a will in his favour, leaving an annuity of 3001. a
year to Eugenia Clair9ille, his sister. Langrel, how-
ever, plots with Buzzard (Mr. Lambert), a lawyer,
to draw up a will, omitting this annuity, and to pre-
sent it to the old man for signature; and when the
will is prepared, the lawyer waylays a certain Mr.
Toffey (Mr. P. Bedford), a lollipop merchant in the
Borough, who is out for the day, and bribes him to
be a witness to the execution of the document. At
this period Eugenia arrives, is recognised as the old
man's relation, and he refuses to execute the will.
Toffey, however, witnesses the execution of a bond from
Langrel to Buzzard, the price of the vilainy of the
latter, and Langrel pretends to be rejoiced at the
arrival of Eugenia. He then forges the signature of
old Rugleigh to the will, forges the signature of
Toffey as the witness, and leaves Rugleigh asleep in
the care of Eugenia, having previously mixed poison
in the old man's night draught, which is to be admi-
nistered to him by Eugenia. But this poison was
not mixed without the presence of a witness. There
is a certain Hugh Matlock (Mr. O. Smith), who
having been unjustly sentenced to transportation as a
poacher, has vowed vengeance against the world. He
breaks into Rugleigh's house that night, and, con-
cealed behind a curtain, sees Langrel mix the poison
and leave the room. Matlock then enters and com-
mences plundering the room, when he is interrupted
by Eugenia, and by the old man, who awakes. In Rug-
leigh he recognises the magistrate who had sentenced
him, and rushes upon him to stab him. Eugenia
here throws herself between them, remonstrates with
Matlock, and so works upon his feelings that he drops
his knife, throws down his plunder, and leaves the
house. The excitement has been too much for Rug-
leigh, who falls down in a fit and expires. This ends the
second act, between which and the third a lapse of
nine months takes place. In the third act we find
Langrel in full possession of his ill-got wealth, but
desperately in love with Eugenia, now reduced to
poverty. She, however, loves Frederick Stanmore
(Mr. Worrell), and indignantly rejects the suit of
Langrel. He endeavours to coerce her. He seeks
the aid of Buzzard, who bribes Matlock to assist him.
Langrel threatens to denounce her to justice as having
poisoned her uncle. In an agony of grief and de-
spair, she still refuses his suit—albeit he has so cleverly
wove together his chain of circumstantial evidence
as to make it appear impossible that she should
escape. The acting of Madame Celeste in this scene
was intensely pathetic; it harrowed up the feelings
and went to the very soul ; but when escape seemed
impossible, the witness of her innocence was at hand.
It was Matlock, who bribed by Buzzard to assume
the character of an officer of justice, for the purpose
of carrying off Eugenia, recognises in her the being
who had awakened his soul to a sense of virtue, and
denounces Langrel as the murderer ; at the same
time the forgery is discovered through the means of
Toffey, who, although he witnessed a deed, wit-
nessed no will ; and while Stanmore is united to
Eugenia, the heiress, Langrel is arrested, and
receives the just punishment of his crime.
There is a very amusing comic underplot, in which
Toffey, his wife (Mrs. F. Matthews), and his lodger,
Frank Biceps, a random rattling medical student
take part, which ever and anon comes in as a relief to
the more serious scenes. The character of the
iredical student is capitally delineated by Howe.
He enters into the spirit of the character with great
gusto, and never has the rattling, rollicking, careless
quasi-profligate, but good-hearted medical student
been more truly represented. His making up was
beyond all praise. It was a perfect pictorial
exemplification of the " season" career of the
medical student upon town. It was the con-
verse of the metamorphoses of entomology, for
beginning as the butterfly, he passed into the
transition state of the chrysalis, a leetle tarnished, and
ended as the grub; yet not altogether as the grub, for
although seedy and shabby, he was never crawling ;
there was always a swaggering spirit of independence
about him, and a kind-heartedness at the bottom of all
his follies that prevented him ever becoming contemp-
tible. It was evident that he had not lost his own
self-respect, and therefore it was impossible for him
ever entirely to lose the respect of others. Considered
as a dramatic as contradistinguished from a melo-
dramatic actor, Mr. Howe was the great artist of
the play. Mr. Munyard had a little park that of a
lawyer's clerk, of which he made a great deal, and of
which he would have made a great deal more, had he
imitated Oxberry less palpably. The incidents of
this drama are not new, but they are admirably put
together. It is an exceedingly well-built play ; the
dialogue, too, is carefully, and in the comic parts
wittily written. Frank Biceps keeps up a constant
fire of puns, some very good, , some so execrably
bad, that they are better than good, and almost all
new. Seldom have we met with a piece in which
there is so much spoken fun, with so little of it
common-place. The piece was completely successful,
and was announced for repetition amidst loud applause.
It was followed by Used Up, with Webster as the
hero, and the glorious Pas de Pippins concluded the
evening's amusement. The house was crowded to
suffocation in every part.