The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-18 00:00:00

lAmount I Age Age. Amount
Assured. I' I Assured.

£ a. d
7 270 0 0
8 271 4 9
9 270 12 A
10 2i9 16 7
15 255 6 0

X s. d.
240 7 8
225 6 4
210 5 11
195 10 8
181 2 5

I Age• I

Amount
Assured.

s. d.
167 2 11
151 4 7
142 14 6
132 11 0

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

Mr. Peter Piper, or Found out at Home, is the title of
a new three-act piece produced at this theatre on
Saturday evening. Report says it is from the pen of
Mr. Bourcieaulc. Mr. Peter Piper (Farren) is a stock-
broker, well to do in the world, well fed, well housed,
well wived
" Constant at church and Change, his gains were sure,
His givings rare, save farthings to the poor ;
The Devil was piqued such saintship to behold,
And longed to tempt him like good Job of old."
And the particular form which the temptation took on
this particular occasion was that of an opera ticket.
Peter goes to the opera ; Peter is fascinated by the
ballet, and the ballet dancers, and wicked thoughts take
possesi.n of Peter's brain. The steady, sober, elderly
Peter Piper, sets up for a rake, and actually
pens an epistle to the lovely Lady Janet Piper
Mrs. Seymour), his own ward, residing with
him and his wife, at their country house,
breathing vows of ardent attachment, and solicit-
ing a midnight interview in the conservatory.
Mr. Peter Piper (Mrs. Glover) has suspected that all,
was not right with Peter since his visit to the-opera ; and
albeit the note to Lady Janet is anonymous, yet when
the Lady Janet shows this note to Mrs. Peter Piper, the
latter lady instantly recognises the handwriting, and
keeps the appointment herself ; so that Peter is uncon-
sciously making love to his own wife, while he fancies
he is whispering soft nonsense into the ear of the Lady
Janet. Thus is Mr. Peter Piper found out at home ;
and albeit he knows not of the trick that has been played
upon him, yf,t does he live in perpetual fear of a disco-
very. The Lady Janet has a fortune of 10,0001., and,
of course, a multitude of suitors. Two of these arrive
on a visit to Mr. Peter Piper—one of them, Major Garry
Owen (Mr. Hudson) is a prisoner for debt, but out, on
unlimited rule, as it would appear, and is accompanied by
Facies (Buckstone), a sheriff's officer, who is
introduced by him to the family as one of the heroes of
the army of the Sutlej, just returned from India.
To him the maiden aunt of the Lady Janet, Miss Galatea
Piper (Mrs. W. Clifford), who is'determined not to die
Miss Galatea Piper if she can possibly avoid it, makes
desperate love. The suit of the Major is favoured by
Mrs. Petcr Piper. The other suitor is Sir Chevy Fair-
sex (Mr. Tilbury). Now, it so happens that Mrs. Peter
Piper, in hunting among her husband's papers, has dis-
covered a lock of brown hair tied up with pink and blue
ribbon. Sir Chevy Fairsex, however, declares boldly
that it is his property; and, having thus rescued Peter
from his quandary, demands the hand of his ward, and
Peter consents to the marriage. Big wife, however, is
not to be thus out-manoeuvred. Busk (Mrs. Humby),
her waiting-maid, approaches Peter, and whispers these
ominous words in his ear—" This match must not take
place I—remember the conservatory I—twelve o'clockl—
I'll tell all!" Farren's look of indescribable horror may
be imagined, but cannot be described. It is Busk, then,
and not the Lady Janet, to whom he has been making
vows of love in the conservatory, and, worse still, he is
in her power. In his dread of discovery he promises
everything. The match shall not take place; he will
give her 1001. as a trifling recompense for her fidelity if
she will never reveal that dreadful secret--a secret she
herself is dying to discover. The situation itself is the
veriest common-place of the drama, but it is one of those
common-places which never fails to tell, and which
never will fail while it is acted by such artists as
Farren and Mrs. 'Hamby. The Major and Lady
Janet plan an elopement; but Sir Chevy, by the
aid of Miss Galatea, manages to disguise himself and
to take the Major's place, and is actually married to
Lady Janet at Gretna in a dark room. Lady Janet
does not discover that her husband is not the Major
until the latter declares that it is not to him she is
married, and Miss Galatea, •finding her niece is sin-
cerely attached to the Major, repents her of her trick,
and declares that it is with her, Miss Galatea, and not
with the Lady Janet, that Sir Chevy has contracted
matrimony. Sir Chevy immediately tears up the cer-
tificate, the only existing proof of his marriage, and
declares himself free, whereupon the Lady Janet is
united to Major Garry Owen. In the meantime, Peter
confesses his peccadillos to his wife, receives abso-
lution, and Miss Galatea Piper bestows her hand upon
a one legged admiral. The piece was strongly cast
and admirably acted, but yet at ,times it dragged.
There is scarcely enough of it to make a
three-act play, and towards the conclusion there were
some expressions of disapprobation. The dissentients,
however, were outnumbered far by the applauders, and,
what was better still, during the course of the piece, by
the laughers.' The use of the pruning knife is however
necessary. and the play will go all the better for judicious
condensation.—The house was crowded.

• POST-OFFI CE NOTICE.
FOREIGN MAILS.
On Saturday the following notice was posted at the chief
offi6e, St. Martin's-le-Grand, relative to the departure and
arrival of the next mails to India, China, West Indies, Ame-
rica, the Peninsula, &c.
AMERICA —The Hibernia will sail from Liverpool with the
mail for British North America and the United States on the
evening of the 18th instant (this evening). The Oambria
will be at Liverpool on the 30th instant, with the next Arne.
ricatt mails.

.„
INDIA, C11114A0;&C., SOirrIIAMPTON.-rThe next mails
for ,GibrAkit4, Greece, the Ipnian Islands, Egypti.
India, Chins, be disPatcbid ibre'Adhlll6, from
Southampton, on the niorniag of the 20th Instant.
Co v 4 ft LAND' MAILS' FOR 11,11.4. A., CIIIXA, CY'LOI•T; Bic.; VIA
31,114s'Ett.Lits.--;:-Thettett'itiails for the 'Mediterranean,Egypt,:
India, China, Ceyltiii,lc'!•.," via-Marseilles, will be dispatched
on the evening of the 25th instant.
WEST INDIES.—The Dee, mail steam-packet, will sail from
Southampton, with the mails for the British and foreign co-
lonies in the West Indies (except Honduras and Havannah),
and for Bermuda, San Juan de Nicaragua, and New Grenada,
on the morning of the 18th instant (this day). The
next mailsfrom the West Indies except Honduras, Bermuda,
and Havannah, will be due at Southampton on the 22d
instant ; and from Mexico, Havannah, Bermuda, San Juan
de Nicaragua, and New Granada, on the 7th of June.
PENINSULAR MAlLs.—The Pacha will sail from South-
ampton, with the mails for Vig Oporto, Lisbon, Corunna,
Cadiz, Gibraltar, Spain and Portugal, on the morning of the
18th instant.

MADEIRA, BRAZIL, AND BUENOS AYRES.—The next mails
will be dispatched, via Fahnotith, on the evening of the 2d
of June (from August to January inclusive, the packet
touches at Pernambuco and Bahia, on her outward passage
to Rio Janeiro, and the other six months on her homeward
passage). Her Majesty's brig Penguin, with the mails from
Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres, will be due at Falmouth
on the 29th instant.

SYDNEY AND NEw Sotrm WALES.—The next mails for
Australia, Sydney, and New South Wales, will be made up
and dispatched on the evening of the Ist of June.

FIRE.--' Saturday night, shortly before ten o'clock,
a fire of rather an alarming nature broke out in the premises be-
longing to Mr. Atkinson, termed the White Hart Wine-vaults, si-
tuate in the Coal-yard, discoveryDrurya-lane. was made by
seine of the inmates hearing
the upper part of the instituted,ese- pnroeeedigfrom
cull/. Search hag vin it
was soon ascertained that the second floor was in a general blaze.
An attempt was quickly made to subdue the flames, by means of
buckets of water, but owing to the firm hold they had previously ob-
tained, they defied the exertions of all present, and it was found
necessary to send for the firemen. With all possible expedition five
or six engines of the brigade, two of the parish, and the West of
England one attended, and likewise an eseape of the Royal Society
tor the Protection of Lite from Fire. An abundance of water being
at hand, one engine was an to work under the direction of Mr.
Morris, of the Holborn division, and before half-past ten the fire was
safely extinguished, but not before that part of the building in which
It commenced was burnt out, the contents destroyed, and the whole
of the lower floors extensively damaged, mote especially the ceilings,
by water. A number of newspaper express pigeons of great value,
on the roofs of the premises, perished in the flames. The origin of
the disaster could not be ascertained.
CAB STAND IN OXFORD STREET.—On Saturday, at
the usual weekly meeting of the Marylebone Vestry, a numerous de-
putation of the innabitants of Oxford-street, attended the vestry for
the purpose of presenting a memorial, signed by upwards of 100
householders in that great thoroughfare, calling upon the vestry to
take steps for the abolition of a nuisance which had sprung up in the
shape of a "monster cab stand" in Oxford-street. The memorial
set forth that the cab stand in question extended from Rathbone-
place to the Regent-circus, and that the vehicles stood so close that
passengers could ()slow side of the
sblocked up
esiltrieYe tfrwomas
that there was only a small channel on either side of the cab stand
other.o tt passalwithout
alleged g rtehaatt d
theiM
trect to the
for passing vehicles, and that in consequence of want of room for their
carriages the nobility and gentry refused to come into the street, to
the very great injury of the shopkeepers. Mr. Nicholay moved the
appointment of a committee to investigate the matter. Sir Peter
Laurie said that the Corporation of London had succeeded in effecting
the removal of cab stands from Cheapside ; but he thought, in doing
so, they had created a worse nuisance. They had created the
harbeiFtt, na ttiste.
pe-
rambulating cab nuisance, which, but for the vigilance of the police,
would be ten times worse in 'the City than it was.—Mr. Joseph ob-
served, that ail the regulations in the world would be of no use, un-
less the vestry were either aided by the police, or an entire regiment
of beadles to enforce 'them.— Sir Walter Stirling considered the whole
affair
y3wioorneoldvegr. go thoealonooktheedruppaortn ofca cab stands
apnadrsis, hi
naan dgreaantntohyotrhoireinh-..
sa wild-gome chase, as, if they removed the stand from Oxford-
street,
fare like Oxford-street, as a public convenience. The resolution was
carried by 16 to 14.

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LORD WATERFORD.—The Marquis of Waterford's
horse Roper, iu leaping the hurdle on Wednesday, at Bogside Races,
tell with his rider, and his Lordship had his shoulder dislocated.—