The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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WINDSOR, SUNDAY. Yesterday the Queen and
lirince Albert, accompanied by the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz,
walked in the morning on the terrace and grounds of
the Castle. •

Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Berkeley Drum-
mond and Colonel Seymour, enjoyed the sport of shoot-
ing yesterday morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
their usual exercise yesterday forenoon in the grounds
around the Castle. The Royal Family took a carriage
airing in the afternoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, left the
Castle yesterday. The Earl of Auckland also took his
departure yesterday.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne :arrived
at the Castle yesterday on a visit to the Queen.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
rode out on horseback, attended by the Hon. Miss
Dawson, Maid of Honour in Waiting, yesterday after-
noon. The Equerries in Waiting, Colonel Buckley and
Colonel Seymour, also attended• on horseback.
The royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday in-
cluded the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne,
Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and the Hon. and
R .v. C. Leslie Courtenay.
The band of the Ist Life Guards attended during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band was afterwards in
attendance in the Castle.
This morning the Queen and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court,
and the domestic household, attended Divine service in
the private chapel. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Cour-
tenay officiated.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse, attended
by Barone.,s Scheel, Sir Andrew Barnard, and Baron
Meysenbuch, arrived in town on Saturday morning from
Cashiobury Park, Hens, -the residence of her Majesty
the Queen Dowager. The Princess visited and in-
spected Westminster Abbey and the Colosseum. Her
Royal Highness left town at four o'clock in the after-
noon by the London and North-Western Railway, for
Watford, on her return to Cashiobury Park.
Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz returned to
Kew on Saturday from Windsor Castle.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

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This pleasant little snuggery was opened on Saturday
evening, by Mr. George Bolton, with a very strong com-
pany, including (in addition to the lessee himself) Mr.
Henry Betty, Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Wilkinson, Mr.
Leigh Murray, Mr. John Howard, Mr. J. Cowell, Mr.
S. Cowell, Mrs. Walter Lacy, Mrs. R. Gordon, and
several other ladies and gentlemen well known on the
metropolitan boards. He has likewise engaged a nume-
rous corps de ballet. The piece chosen for the opening
was the Hunchback of Sheridan Knowles, which was
very strongly cast. Mr. H. Betty was the Master
Walter, who has been practising assiduously in the pro-
vinces since his debilt at Covent-garden some two years
since, and who is greatly improved since that period.
His Master 'Walter is an earnest and a feeling
performance, full of energy and vigour. It is
certainly the best thing he has done yet. Mrs.
B. Gordon's Julia is exceedingly beautiful ; she
has studied the character, and understands it thoroughly.
The simple trusting maiden of the first act, whose whole
soul is wrapped up in Master Walter, was pourtrayed
with a most touching simplicity, and then, when she
finds that Clifford, believing her affected waywardness
(for after all her waywardness is affected) to be her na-
tural character, casts her off, the intensity of passion
which she exhibited was sublime. Very fine, too, was
she in the scene in the last act with Master Walter,
where her pride, completely subdued, she bids him find
out some mode to escape these nuptials. Indeed, her
delineation of the character throughout was perfect,
and henceforth she takes her rank as one of the first
tragedians of the day. She was loudly applauded
throughout, and was, with the other principal artistes,
called for at the fall of the curtain. Mrs. Walter Lacy
resumed her original character of Helen, and acted
as she alone can act it, for though others have
attempted the part, Mrs. Walter Lacy still re-
mains the Helen unapproached and unapproachable.
Mr. Walter Lacy's Lord Tinsel was admirable. It was
worthy of Richard Jones himself ; and Wilkinson made
more of Fathom than we have ever yet peen made of the
character. His quaint stolidity told admirably in the
part. Mr. Leigh Murray acted Sir Thomas Clifford
carefully, and Mr. John 'Toward made a great deal of
the bookworm Modus. The comedy was preceded by
the following address, which was spoken by the lessee,
Mr. George Bolton ;
Ladies and Gentlemen—
Pray tell your friends our little boat
Is christen'd, launch'd, and now afloat,
Bound for whatever haven you
And they incline to waft it to.
We'll try to speed it to sueces—
Unto which end I now address
All present, with solicitation,
To aid us by your approbation.
D'ye wish to know our claim to this?
List. end I'll tell you what it is.
Our boat is built of English wood,
And manii'd by English flesh and blood ;
Our rigging is of wisdom made,
By the best workmen Ithe trade,
Set with such judgment as alone
Our mighty authors could have done;
Our masts are of the strongest sense,
Fix'd with most solid arguments;
Our flag the name of Truth displays,
Surrounded by poetic rays;
Our anchor is determination,
To keep in sight of honour's station ;
Our rudder's your support, which, lost,
The ship must be to ruin tost.
And last, to tell with what we're stor'd,
We nb bad feeling have on board,
But bring, in perfect preservation,
Peace and goodwill to all the nation ;
We'd quarrel with no class of men—
With us let no class quarrel then—
But treat us as to what we do,
Giving us help, if help be due;
We need the breath of every one
To urge our vessel safely on ;
Ourselves will do our best to steer
Of all the town's displeasure clear;
The Scylla and Charybdis shun
Of least offence to any one.
This fortune, then, to us befal—
But Hope's our grog—so " Ilcalth to all !"
The comedy was followed by a new grand burlesque
,of spectacle,Poetry,
dancing. The
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and singing very, very bad. It is intended to satirise
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music, spectacle, and dancing were good. The cleggrel
the prevailing taste for spectacle and ballet, but the ob-
jects of the, others aversion to the spectacle and ballet,