The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

LYCEUM THEATRE.

An Appeal to the Public at this theatre, last night, was
highly successful. The appeal is made by Mr. Charles
Mathews, from the footlights, and the public are the
audience, for the time beirg, of the Lyceum. Mr. Charles
Mathews—that is to say, Mr. Rosemary—has taken
shelter in a doorway in Fleet-street, from a pelting and
decidedly pitiless storm of rain. A young lady (Miss
Howard) is in a like case. She is very charming,
but it is not her beauty &one which piques Rose.
mary. He is curious to a fault in other people's
business, and he is dying to know why his beautiful
companion has sighed and cried to herself " Heigho,
Bilberry 1 " He scrapes acquaintance, manages
to get enlisted in her cause, finds out the wrong Bil-
berry (an elderly gentleman, who must go making love
to everybody else's wife and neglecting his own, which,
of course, makes her very jealous), gets into all sorts of
amusing scrapes, at last finds out the real Bilberry, and
then, to his extreme annoyance, discovers that the latter
has married clandestinely one Charlotte Smith (the
mysterious young lady), who had been affianced to him-
self, though he has not seen her. The whole piece de-
pends on the neatness of the dialogue, the capital acting
of Charles Mathews, and the anxiety the audience feel
to know what such a rigmarole of improbable concate-
nations will lead to—a curiosity kept alive from time to
time by Rosensary's confidential " appeals to the public"
to know what it is all about. The piece is a little too
long, but it was laughable and successful.

THE REPRESENTATION OF
SOUTH DEVON.
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OP
THE COUNTY OF DEVON.
" Fulford, November 25, 1848.
Gentlemen,—l have just received the accompanying
letter from Mr. Kekewich, which I think it my duty to
lay before you us quickly as possible, together with mine
to him. I remain, Gentlemen,
Your very obedient servant,
B. FULFORD.
Fulford, Nov. 24, 1848.
My dear Kekewich,—l know perfectly well that a pa-
ragraph I have seen in the Exeter Gazette of this day
expresses your opinion on the subject of the payment of
the Roman Catholic ministers in Irland; but will you
empower me to say so on authority?—Yours very truly,
B. FularoßD.

S. T. Kekowich, Esq., Peamore.
Peamore November, 25, 1848.
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My dear Fulford,—lf my friends had permitted me to
answer fully the questions which were put to me at the
meeting, on Tuesday last, I was ready to say that I
would never consent to make any provision for the
ministers of the Roman Catholic Religion in Ireland,
taken either directly or indirectly out of the revenues of
the Protestant Church, or out of the public revenues of
the State. You may make what use of this letter you
like.—Yours, very truly,
SAMUEL TREHIViIKE KEREWICH.
B. Fulford, Esq., Fulford.

SOCIETY Or BRITISH MUSICIABIL—The Society
of British Musicians gave their second chamber concert
fur the season, at the Hanover-square Rooms, last even-
ing, before a numerous and fashionable audience. The
entire performance went off well. The most successful
pieces, in a judiciously varied programme, were
Beethoven's " Quartette in C minor, No. 4," exquisitely
played by Messrs. Blagrove, N. Mori, Hill, and W. L.
Phillips, and two two-part songs by Mendelssohn,
which were very nicely sung by Miss Stewart and Mrs.
Noble, and encored.
SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY, Nov. 27.—The Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship
Jupiter, Captain F. Meehan, sailed to-day with the
Spanish and Portuguese snails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon,
Cadiz, and Gibraltar, in charge of Lieutenant Rainer,
R.N., Admiralty agent. The Jupiter took only a few
passengers, about4o tons of goods on freight for Lisbon,
15 bottles of quicksilver, and a small quantity of specie
for Vigo.
FEMALB GUARDIAN SOClETT.—Yesterday afternoon
the committee of this society met, for the purpose of re-
ceiving the "eighteenth annual report, at the Asylum,
North -side, Bethnal-green; Mr. Edwardes in the chair.
The report, which was read by Mr. Natt, the Honorary
Secretary, stated that 94 females have been received into
the asylum since the last report was issued, in 1846,
when the inmates numbered 33, which made a total of
127 that the society had under its care during the year.
Of this number of females it appears that 20 have been
placed in service or satisfactorily provided for; 39 have
been restored to their friends, 33 have been discharged
or withdrawn, 1 has died, and 34 are now under the
care of the society. The report also mentioned that the
number of females who have partaken of the advantages
of the institution, since its foundation in 1829, has been
2,090, of whom 588 have been restored to their friends,
494 placed in service or satisfactorily provided for, 54
sent to their respective parishes, 900 discharged or with-
drawn,2o have died, nd 34 are now under the care of the
society. It appears febm the documentin question, that the
amount received by the institution in the shape of dona-
tions, annual subscriptions, &c., during the year, was
948/. 10s. 3d., and the disbursements for the mainte-
nance of the women and servants of the asylum, house
expenses, rent of asylum, salaries, printing and sta-
tionary, &c. amounted to 9121. 15s. 5d., leaving a
balance in iavour of the society of 401. 16s. 3d. The
report being adopted, and other matters of minor im-
portance having been transacted, a vote of thanks was
passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated.
II ort. AND 11 Ev. B. W. NOEL.-011 Sunday morning

last St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, was, at an early
hour, crowded to so great an excess that it was barely
possible to obtain even standing room. A large number
of persons were evidently attracted to the chapel by
curiosity, to ascertain the "reasons" assigned by Mr.
Noel for his proximate secession from the Established
Church. They were, however, " sent empty away," for
the Rev. Gentleman, in the course of his long and able
discourse, did not make the most remote allusion to the
subject.

We are glad to mention that Messrs. Gouger and
Steuart, East India merchants, who were compelled to
suspend on the 25th of May lira, have announced a divi-
dend of six shillings in the pound, payable on the 30th
inst. The liabilities of the house at the time of its sus-
pension were stated at about 80,0001.
Private advices from Naples reach to the 17th of
November, when all branches of trade were suffering
greatly from the increasing want of confidence regarding
the maintenance of tranquillity. The election of six
slembers for the city of Naples took place on the 13th,
and in proof of the apathy of the people towards the
exercise of constitutional rights, it is mentioned that out
of 17,000 registered electors the numbers that recorded
their votes did not exceed 1,000. The candidates chosen
belong to the democratic side, and are therefore repre-
sented by the Ministerial press to be of the most dan-
genous and objectionable character. The alarm created
by this and other circumstances was greatly increased
by active movements amongst the troops, coupled with
general preparations at the forts; and the funds had con-
sequently declined about 2 per cent., the last quotations
being 82. The position of the Sicilian question was still
unchanged.

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kiORONERI T S INQUEST.—FRIGHTFUL CASE OF ASIATIC
CIIOLEIZA.—Mr. Baker, the coroner, held au inquiry
yesterday, at the Ship Tavern, Wheeler-street, Spital-
fields, on view of the body of Daniel Rush, a child aged
two years, who died from an attack of Asiatic cholera
under deplorable circumstances. The jury returned a
verdict of " Death from Asiatic cholera," and they
strongly-recommended the coroner to draw the attention
of the board of guardians to the deplorable condition in
which deceased's family were.