The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-25 00:00:00

SURREY THEATRE

Two new pieces, the one a drama of interest, entitled Ju!ii
Is Dru ; or, the City Goldsmith ; the other a broad farce, en-
titled Tea with my Aunt, were produced here last evening
with the most undoubted success. Julie le Dru (Mrs. H.
Vining) is the daughter of a City goldsmith, and her hand
is sought by the two apprentices of her father. Sand-
ford (Mr. H. Hughes), the virtuous apprentice, and
Hurst (Mr. Maynard), the -vicious apprentice; of course
she favours the suit of Sandford, and of course he is perse-
cuted by Hurst. He is tried, convicted, and condemned for
highway robbery, but just as h. e is on the point of being
executed, the villany of Hurst is discovered, and to quote a
play-bill common-place, " virtue 19 rewarded and vice pu-
nished." The piece is well constructed, and well acted, and
will no doubt draw. As to the farce it is excellent, and we
think the management may reckon upon this invitation to
Tea with my Aunt being accepted every evening that my
Aunt chooses to be "at home. '

VISIT OF THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY TO
GREENWICH HoserrA.L.—Yesterday the Right Hon. the Marl of
Ellenborough, First Lord of the Admiralty, Rear-Admiral Bowles,
C. 8., the Hon. Captain Rens, R.N., and the Right Hon. T. L. Corry,
Secretary to the Board, arrived in a carriage and four, about two
o'clock, at the house of the Governor, Rear-Admiral Sir Robert
Stepford, K.0.C.8., in the Quadrangle, Greenwich Hospital. After
a short stay with the Gallant Admiral, their Lordships proceeded
into the Council Chamber, and held a board, at which the Lieute-
nant-Governor, Rear-Admiral Sir James A. Gordon, C. 8., intro-
duced the officers of the institutions in their full naval uniform. At
three o'clock their Lordships, preceded by the wardens of the hos-
pital, and accompanied by the Lieutenant-Governor, &c., left the
Council-room, and crossing Romney-road, entered the grounds of the
Naval Asylum, where the boys, upwards of eight hundred, were
drawn up in military order to receive theni, the band playing and
colours flying. Lord Ellenborough appeared to pay marked atten-
tion to the precision and discipline of the young aspirants. Their
Lordships' next visit was to inspect the upper and lower schools,
dormitories, &e., all of which gave great satisfaction. The Victoria
and Albert sloop of war, built in the centre of the Asylum grounds
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evidently to avoid the crowdfront gate, and crossing Romney-road, again entered the hospital in-
firmary, which, having inspected, they departed at five o'clock for
London.
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leavingforlNDlAN CORN BREAD.—Bread baked from Indian corn
(maize) H coming rapidly into vogue in our city, and several bakers
are driving a brisk business in it already. At the meeting of the
Philosophical Society on Wednesday night, Dr. It. D. 'Thomson read
an able paper on the nutritive qualities of Indian corn, which he
ranked very high, and at the same time exhibited various kinds of
bread and biscuit which had been baked from it by Mr. Wilson; Gor-
don-street. Some of the specimens were mixtures of maize and
wheat, and maize and rice, in which state the loaves can be better
fermented than when maize is-used alouei- The bread and biscuits
were very palatable and pleasant. Various sties to which Indian
corn Sour may be applied in domestic cookery were described, and
some of them illustrated on the occasion. In any fortis it is Mem-
; parably more nutritious than potatoes, and may, with the smallest
amount of trouble and expense, be made an agreeable article of diet.
—Glasgow kVA