The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-21 00:00:00

WINDSOR, OCT. 20.

Yesterday the KING and QUEEN rode several hours ia
the Palk, the KING in an open phaeton and the QUEEN on
horseback.

Her Royal Highness Princess AUGUSTA, we are happy
to say, is quite recovered, and paid a visit to their
MAJESTIES at the Castle, yesterday.
Lord FALKLAND left the Castle yesterday.
In the afternoon the Bishop of WORCESTER, Sir HENRY
WHEATLEY, Sir JAMES KEMP, Sir GEORGE SEYMOUR,
and Sir FREDERICK SMITH arrived, and had the honour
of dining with their MAJESTIES; the officers of the Life
and Foot Guards on duty here were also present.
This morning their MAJESTIES attended Divine S-r-
-vice, in the private chapel of the Castle. The Bishop
of WORCESTER officiated. Her Royal Highness Princess
AUGUSTA and the Royal Household were also present.
This afternoon his MAJESTY drove out in a carriage,
accompanied by Sir WILLIAM FREMANTLE. The
QUEEN attended Divine Service at St. George's this
evening.

On Tuesday next the marriage of the Hon. Mr. W.
WELLESLEY to the Hon. OLIVIA DE Roos will take
place in the Castle.

Several of the clergy in the neighbourhood will join the
Royal dinner party this evening.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

The Stranger was perf ,rmed here on Saturday night.
In Mrs. SLOMAN'S performance of Mrs. Haller there
was the fault which belongs especially to her, it is re-
dundancy of action, and that, too, of an imposing kind
She holds forth too much, making formal orations of every
unfortunate sentence, which exceeds the proportions of
smart dialogue. This may be corrected. Mac READY'S
Stranger is the picture of a very miserable being indeed
—we should say that a calmer, colder, less splenetic
misanthropy than he represents would better become the
two first acts of the play. His interview with his friend
Steinfort was very fine—his natural feelings, long dammed
up, here found vent and burst out in a fl The passage
in which he exclaims, "Oh God, Oh God ; what are
chains or death compared to the tortures of a deceived yet
Boating husband ?" were given with such an energy of
agonised expression as to wring from the audience three
distinct rounds of applause. COOPER'S Steinfort was very
good. The house was well filled at half price.

CAPTAIN Ross.—We have great pleasure
in stating that Captain Ross, and Commander J. C. Ross,
arrived at the Portland Hotel late on Saturday evening
quite well.

Shakspeare's Henry the Eighth will be pre-
sented to night at Drury-lane Theatre, in which Macready
will appear as Cardinal Wolsey, Miss Ellen Tree as Anne
Boleyn, and Mrs. Sloman as Queen Katharine; with
the spectacle of Timour the Tartar. To morrow, in
Ring Henry the Fourth, Miss E. Phillips, who was so
favourably received on her debut, will enact Lady Percy,
Macready the fiery Hotspur, and Dowton the fat knight,
Sir John Falstaff. On Wednesday and Saturday there
will be no performance at this theatre; but on Thursday
will be revived Lord Byron's tragedy of Werner, in which
Macready will resume his original character, and Mr.
King will essay Wallack's part of Ulric. In the Maid of
Cashmere Mdlle. Celeste will play Zelica, originally per-
formed by Duvernay. On Friday Mrs. Sloman will, for
the first time, appear as Lady Macbeth.
To night, at Covent garden, after the opera of Der
Freischutz, in which Mr. H. Phillips will make his first
appearance for the season as Caspar, will be brought out a
new naelo-dratne, by Pocock, called The Ferry and the
Mill. Alexander Lee caters the music, and the Messieurs
Grieve have provided for it some beautiful scenery. To-
morrow and Friday there will be no performance here.
On Wednesday will be repeated Alexander the Great.
On Thursday an opera, in which Mr. H. Phillips will
appear : and on Saturday a young lady will make her
first appearance on any stage as Rosina, in The Barber
of Seville—Figaro, Mr. 11. Phillips.
The English performers who formed part of
Miss Smithson's company at Paris last year, have met
with much success in Germany. After having played at
Brussels, Antwerp, Frankfort, Hanover, and Bremen,
they are now at Himburg. Mr. Archer is the leading
actor.

PAGANINI'S VAGARlES,—Paganini has
been at Lincoln. The professor advertised his prices to
be—boxes, Is. 6d. ; pit, .55. ; and gallery 2s. 6d. ; but
the Lincolnites determined they would pay no such money,
and hinted to the prince of fiddlers that they would sub-
mit to no imposition, though they were willing to give him
the full award of his talents, which they estimated at the
f 'flowing rates :—Boxes, 45. ; pit, 31. ; and gallery,
Is. 6d. The hint was taken, the prices accepted, and
Paganini had a crowded Louse, and smiling faces.
We understand that the long-talked-of ex-
periment of a steam-carriage between armingbam and
the metropolis will be at length put to the test, through
the means of the engine of Sir Charles Dance. It is
said that 'a number of engineers and gentlemen interested
in the improvement of the means of conveyance on the
Holyhead road have hired Sir Charles Dame's carriage for
a journey to Birmingham, and that they will start from
the metropolis some day during the ensiling week, when
they are apprised of the completion of the arrangements
which are in progress for supplies of fuel and water at
the proper stages. If the machine can ascend chalk hills
at a rate of five or even four miles an hour, the question
of the applicability of steam carriages to that line of road
will be at once decided.

The Chambers were not to have met till
about D,cember 20th, but it is now asserted that impor-
tant considerations have induced the Government to de-
cide upon opening the Session. Some of the Ministerial
Me.-nbers have, it is said, been already privately made
acquainted with this resolution. and the ordonnance is ex-
pected to appear in the Moniteur on Sunday.—Courrier
Francais.

In his new novel, ‘. Eben Erskine, or the
Traveller," Galt has described many of the real adven-
tures of his early life, both at home and in other countries.
This circumstance confers on his present narrative all the
charm of a book of travels, in alliance with the amusement
that might be naturally expected in the pages of fiction.
He has here imparted to us many anecdotes, which could
not properly find a place in his autobiography. Hence the
great popularity of " Eben Erskine." Many of the de-
scriptions of London society are portrayed to the life ; we
may instance, in particular, the dinner at Major Verdure's,
where four such lions as a poet, a player, and a " Parlia.
ment man" were assembled, by way of bonne bouche for
the raw young Scotchman. The travelling sketches, too,
on the shores of the Mediterranean, will be perused with
high interest. We are not surprised that Galt's writings
should have made so favourable an impression on Byron.
On Friday evening a vestry was held at St.
Bride's, Fleet-street, when Mr. Sangster, one of the
Committee of the City Gas Company, attended, and ad-
mitted the liability of the Company to be assessed for their
pipes; but he contended that the sum of 5001., at which
it had been rated, was much too high. After some dis.
cussion on this point, the Vestry agreed to revalue the
Company's pipes and works. Having succeeded so well
with the Gas Company, a resolution was carried that the
water pipes running through the palish should he valued
and assessed. At the same Vestry a motion to raise a
church rate of Is. in the pound, and which would have
produced about 1,2001., was negatived. In the year 1823
a debt was contracted for the repairing of the church (the
estimate of which was only 9001., while the eventual
charge was 5,0004), the remainder to be discharged in
the year 1837, A motion was made which would have
the effect of securing at once a fund to extinguish the debt,
but Mr. C. Wood, a parishioner, moved an 4,,,dwent
that the churchwarden he allowed to discharge such de-
mands from his ordinary funds, arising from the rent of
houses which are the property of the parish. These rents
have heretofore been applied to the current expenses of the
church, but the parishioners are aware that these rentals
hive lately increased to 1,600/. a year, and will probably
soon reach 1,8001., and they carried Mr. Wood's amend-
ment by a large majority.