The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-16 00:00:00

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worshipped since that time by the name of " Notre
Dame de la Victoire," attracted thousands of persons
who had come on pilgrimage from the surrounding
country. The inhabitants of the interior classes had
spared no expense to enhance the splendour of the fetes,
and many hundred children represented in the proces-
sion the fathers of the Church, the principal male and
female saints of Paradise, the patriarchs, Ste. All were
bt:autifully dressed, and some with the most dezzling
magnificence. The young ladies represented the Queen
of Heaven under the various titles applied to the Virgin.
They wore long velvet cloaks, the trains of which were
borne by very little angels. One of the daughters of
Baron de Pira wore a diadem of complete regal attire,
which cost, as we are assured, 10,000 francs. It would
be difficult to form an idea of the imposing appearance
of the procession. In order to protect the procession
from the crowd, some strong men were ranged on each
side, holding ropes at certain distances on the whole
line by which it was to pass, so that perfect order was
maintained.

AUSTRIA MERAM, OCT. 6.—His Majesty the King of
the Belgians pa,sed only five days at Botzen, and spent
the remainder of the time apportioned to his visit to the
Tyrol, in a closer inspection of the environs of Meram,
o hich he traversed for the most part on foot, and by his
cheerful condescension gained the hearts of all who ap-
proached him. His Majesty was so much delighted with
Passer that it is probable that he will make a longer
stay on some future occasion.

Ills MNjesty left Meram yesterday, and proceeded
across the btilterjoch to Como, from which place he will
return, without much delay in Switzerland, to his own

dominions.

STUTGARD, OCT. 9.—The Grand Duke Constantine
departed for Russia at an early hour this morning, after
a stay of sixteen days.
DRESDEN, : OCT. :2. According to a Nuremberg
correspondent, the prospects of the completion of the line
of the Bavarian and Saxon Railway, in the Saxon territory,
are most unfavourable. Of the required sum of five or
six millions beyond the first e:timate given, not a tenth
part has been raised by means of subscriptions on shares
which should have a prior claim, notwithstanding the
success of the line from Leipsic to Reichenback, which
yields a return of 4 and 4i per cent, and is about to
commence a reserve fund. Tho workmen employed on
the bridges in the valleys of Detach and Ester, about
3,000 in number, have lately left the works, because their
wages had been stopped, and the line has now been
wholly abandoned. The Government, alone, which is
pledged in such cases to render assistance, can complete
this railway. It is reported that the States are shortly
to be summoned, to deliberate upon this point.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

An excellently well-built and very cleverly written

farce, entitled Spring Gdrdens, was produced here last
evening, from the practised pen of Mr. Planche. The
scene is laid at an ordinary, in Spring-gardens, some
time towards the latter end of the seventeenth century.
Sc,,rettp, (Mr. Buckstone), the keeper of the ordinary, is
a jealous-pated fool, with a pretty wife, Mrs. Scoreup
(Miss Julia Bennett). His ordinary is frequented by
various roué courtiers, who tolerate his execrable
wine for the sake of flirting with his pretty
wife. The jealousy of Scoreup is without the
slightest foundation—albeit he endeavours as much
as possible to keep his wife out of view, and with
that view he sends her down to Brentford on a particular
day, when divers of the Court gallants are expected at
his house. Among these is Lord Courtington (Mr. H.
Roll), who has certain designs upon the pretty Mrs.
Scoreup, and who manages, by means of his servant
Lightfoot (admirably acted by Mr. Clark). to waylay
her, and to transfer her from the Brentford stage to his
own spat-in-writs, where are divers fine articles of dress
prepared for his fiancée, the Lady Clarissa (whom he has
not seen), the niece of the Lord Keeper. The Lady Cla-
rissa (Mrs. L. S. Buckingham), has heard of
the roué character of Lord Courtington, and knowing

:hat Seoreup's ordinary is one of his haunts, determine;
;0 go there in disguise, in order to see him as he really
s. The Lady Clarissa herself is in love with Sir Ar-

thur Lovel Howe). She arrives at Scoreup's just
after the departure of Mrs. Scoreup, and she bribes
mine host to permit her to appear as one of his house-
hold, in order to see Courtington in his true colours.
Courtington arrives, and his man informs him that Mrs.
Scoreup, after being, as he thought, safely lodged in
his appartments, had disguised herself in the attire she
found there, and made her escape. Immediately after-
wards Mrs. Scoreup enters, dressed as a Duchess; she is
full of rage against Courtington, whom she finds there, for
the trick he has played upon her, and Courtington endea-
vours ;to arouse her
.jealousy against Scoreup. Most
opportunely for his plans, the Lady Clarissa, disguised
as a domestic, enters, and says she is Scoreup's cou sin
sent for by him to keep his house, in the absence of his
wife. She refuses to accede to Courtington's propo-
sitions, but still she wishes to be revenged upon, or
rather to discover, the machinations of Scoreup ; and,
therefore, consents to dine with Courtington, masked.
Scoreup is ordered to bring up the dinner and wine,
and, by desire of Mrs. Scoreup, he is ordered to bring up
the wine with the yellow seal on the cork. Puzzled to
know how Courtington could have discovered the se-
cret of his best bin, he yet obeys the order.
He leaves the room ; Courtington being sent for, also
quits the ordinary, having previously taken the precau-
tion of locking up Mrs.Seorcup in an anti-room. Sir
Arthur Lovell enters ; recognises Lady Clarissa in her
disguise ; they have an interview with Mrs. Scoreup,
who appears at a window ; Courtington's villainy is
discovered, and the tables are turned upon him. In the
meantime Scoreup has been endeavouring, by means of
a bottle of wine, to pump Lightfoot, and from him he
learns that he (Lightfoot) saw Mrs. Scoreup emerge from
a Brentford stage and throw her arms round the neck of a
Major of Dragoons His jealousy is aroused, and he com-
mits all sorts ol mistakes in serving the dinner—the dinner
for four, for Sir Arthur Lovell tells Courtington that
he too has an assignation with the fair damsel, when
Courtington has already seen them, and the dinner is
servedts up to Courtington and Sir A. Lovell, and Cla•
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thattwo tlhaest.bAeg masked.
familiar with him, a
his wife. He is orderednd Duchess very
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nevertheless, to watch ; and, accordingly, his head
strap-door, and he is witness to the orgies;
emerges from
he hears his wife defend him against the libels
and insinuations of Lord Courtington, he sees her resist
the advances of the libertine, and he hears Courtington
resign all pretensions to the Lady Clarissa, for the sake
of Mrs. Scoreup. The plot is complete. Lady Clarissa
discovers herself, and is resigned by Lord Courtington
to Lovell. Scoreup finds that he has a trustworthy
wife, and he cares not who looks at and admires her.
The arch intriguer, Courtington, beats a retreat, under
cover of a bon ma, and his servant Lightfoot is
ejected at - the point of the spit by Scoreup.
This little farce is full of bustle, intrigue, and wit.
The dialogue is piquant enough to have carried off a
much heavier plot ; the imbroglio is quite full enough
of intrigues to have carried off a much heavier dialogue,
while the incidents follow one another with such
rapidity that the interest is perpetually kept alive ;
and we recommend those who wish for an hour's plea-
sant amusement, to hie at once to the ordinary near
Spring-gardens, where they will find excellent enter-
tainment every night between this and Christmas.