The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Th^ Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, left Claremont
!n a carriage and four at ten minutes past three o'clock
• yesterday afternoon, escorted by a party of the 4th
Light Dragoons, for town. Their Royal Highnesses
Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice were in another
!arrive and four, accompanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton. The Equerries in waiting, Colonel Arbuthnot
ind Colonel Wylde, were in a chariot and four ; and
%he Marchioness of Douro, the Earl of Morten, and Mr,
T. E. Anson, followed in another carriage and four.
The royal party arrived at Buckingham Palace at
twenty-five minutes past five o'clock, escorted by a party
of the 4th Light Dragoons. Her Mcj!•sty and her Royal
Consort were received in the Grand Hall by the Hon.
Misses Paget and Kerr, the_Viee Chamberlain, Lord
George Lennox, Colonel Bowles, Sir Frederic Stovin,
and Sir George Anson.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken their accus-
tomed early airings yesterday in Claremont Park.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the Hay-
market Theatre with their presence yesterday evening.
The royal suite included the Marchioness of Douro, the
Earl of Morton, Colonel Arbuthnot, and Colonel Wylde.
Mr. Colquhoun had an interview with Lord Aberdeen
yesterday, at the Foreign office. Baron de Pehausen,
Swedish Charge d'Affaires, transacted business at the
Foreign-office yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of the Mauritius.
The Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign•offrce.
HAYMARKET THEATRE.

A new two act drama, entitled The Cld School, of
which Farren was the hero, was produced at this theatre
last evening, with complete.succcss. The scene is laid
in London somewhere about the year 1798, and Farren
acts the pirl of Louis, the servant of the young Duke do
Choiseul (J. unit), a refugee French nobleman, who,
after living at Vienna and Berlin, has come to London.
Wherever he goes he hears of the fame of a certain
Baron de Fleury. At Vienna the Baron is the first of
fencing-masters; at Berlin ha is the first of cooks; in
London he is the first of dancing-masters. This Baron
de Fleury is no other than Louis, who is really the uncle
of the Duke, and who had sworn to the Duke's
father to watch over the welfare of his son.
The Duke's property is all lost, but still
Louis will not inform him of it, and, as the Baron de
Fleury, earns money, with which he enables the Duke to
koep up his rank. He is exceedingly desirous that the
Duke should marry the niece of the Countess of
Bloomsbury (Mrs. W. Clifford), a woman of immense
fortune, but the Duke, who has met with a fair country-
woman of his own, Estelle (Mrs. Edwin Yarnold), re-
fuses. Louis, at length, meets with Estelle, and in her
recognises his own daughter, from whom he had been
separated by the revolution, and whom ho imagined
dead. Urged by her father, she consents to
quit London, and to resign her lover. It ap-
pears that the Duke has lost a sum of money at cards
to a Capt. Saville (Mr. Brindal) to whom he has given a
cheque for the amount, which cheque is dishonoured, and
Saville thinks to post him as a swindler. This brings
about an explanation from Louis, and the Duke consents
to marry the rich heiress. The scene of the second act
is laid at the Countess of Bloomsbury's. Saville, who is
the Countess's nephew, and who wishes to marry the
heiress, her daughter, for whom the Duke has propos-d,
denounces the Duke as a swindler, and produces the dis-
honoured cheque. At that instant a note is put
into his hand from Louis, enclosing the amount
of the cheque, and explaining that the mistake

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had arisen from tho circumstance of the account at thr

banker's having been kept in his (Louis's) name, and not
in that of the Duke. Saville, however, takes care not to
explain this fact to the Countess, who in her turn re-
' hates all she has heard to Louis, who, as the Baron de
Fleury, has come to teach her the waltz. The Baron
refuses to give her a less:m unless she will see the Duke
and hear his explanation. This she promises to do,
and then follows a most humorous scene—the first
lesson in waltzing, the pupil being the Countess, and
the tutor the Baron. This scene, which was admirably
given by Farren and Mrs. Clifford, elicited roars of
laughter and applause. They are interrupted by
Saville, and, on the Countess retiring, the Baron
at once designates him as a scoun,'rel for
his conduct to the Duke de Choiseul, and challenges
him to fight. At first he laughs at the idea of a duel
with a dancing-master ; but when the dancing-master,
locking the doors, and taking down two swords, the
larger of which he presents to Saville, announceshim-
self as Louis de Bayard, Knight of the Ord( r of St.
Louis, Saville accepts the challenge. They fight, and
Saville is disarmed. The fencing of Farren in this scene
was very beautiful. A knocking is heard at the door,
and Estelle enters, seeking the Countess, who had
brought her from France, and with whom she hal rr
sided ever since. Thl party is immediately joined by
the Countess, who brings good news to Estelle—a cer-
tain Pierre Bayard, her uncle, had (lied im-
mensely rich, and has left his fortune to his nearest
relative. That nearest relative is Louis, who transfers
the whole of it to the Duke de Choiseul, and the Duke,
of course, marries Estelle. The piece is well put up( n
the stay, and was beautifully acted by Farren, Mrs. W.
Clifford, and Mrs. Edwin Yarnold. It was preceded by
The Cricket on the Hearth, and followed by The Bee and
tie Orange Flower. Tier Majesty, accompanied by his
Royal highness Prince Albert, and their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and their
suites, honoured the theatre with their presenca last
evening. The royal party occupied her Majesty's
private box.

LIFE ASSURANCE.—This most important subject, ap-
preciated as it may be at present, is still more beneficially
developed by the prospectus of a new association, the Alpha
United Life Assurance and Investment Company, uniting
with its posthumous utility immediate and continuous ad-
vantage dining liifei time. It proposes to purchase property,
and give instant possession to the assurei, secured to the
Company by lease or otherwise, extending and improving
the equitable principles of Building Societies; thus affording
perfect security and large return to the shareholder, an un-
limited field ter employment to the capitalist, full enjoy-
ment of privileges at once to the purchaser, absolute con-
veyance on an agreed term of years, and certain unencum-
bered possession on death to his representatives, with an
identity of interest between the borrower and the Company
—thus completing, by these varied radii, .a centre of mutual
support and safety. —Globe.
MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLISI.—The number of deaths
during the last week was 901, Meg less by 8 than that of
the previous week, and 179 below the average of five
winters. 13ronchitis is almost the only disease more fatal
than usual. The number was 62, whilo the average is 31.
The violent deaths were 18, of which 6 were suicides.
FORTIFICATIONS OF LIVERPOOL.—The ne s batteries
which are about to be erected at the northern extremity of
the docks will be so situated as to cross their fire with that
a
of the fort on the Rock Perch, and to command both the
narrow channels by which alone Liverpool is accessible to a
hostile force.—Liverpool Times.
4. THEFT FROM HER MAJESTY.— At Greenwich
Police-court yesterday a workman employed in Deptford
Dockyard was charged with stealing an old iron s'aple, the
property of
at fire-sixteenths of .'
farthing. As the man had been dis -
her Majesty the value of which was estimated
missed from his
employment in consequence, the magistrate
considered that sufficient punishment for the offence without
kitiCting Cy penalty.