The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-07 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

A pleasant-two act comedy (a genteel comedy in the
strictest sense of the term). entitled Presented at Court,
was produced here last evening with the most unequivocal
success. It is from the pen of Mr. Stirling Coyne, who
seems of late to have deserted the shrine of Momus for
that of Thalia; and sincerely do we congratulate him o❑
the fact that the " Muse of Comedy" has been so propi-
tious to him. Presented at Court is an admirably built
and excellently written comedy, such as a French dra-
matist might have written for the Gymnase, but
we are happy to say it is original—Stirling Coyne
throughout. The scene is laid at the Court of
Charles 11., where we find Lady Castelmaine (Mrs. L.
S. Buckingham) intriguing to prevent the presentation
at court of a certain Mistress Anne Franklyn (Miss
Reynolds), the pretty daughter of a City mercer, who is
to be introduced previous to her marriage with Captain
Montague (Mr. Howe), by old Lady Trumpington
(Mrs. Stanley). Rochester (Mr. Davenport) aids the
Castelmaine plot, so far as to cause Mistress Franklyn's
hairdresser to sprain his wrist, her carriage to be de-
stroyed, her court-dress to be purloined, and old Lady
Trumpington to be decoyed away, intending to make
terms with the fair daughter of the mercer for her in-
troduction to court. He, however, meets with his match in
the witty abigail of the fair Anne, who manages to re-
cover the court dress out of his clutches, to induce the
French Marquis de Flenea (Mr. Selby) to dress her
hair, to bubble old garrulous Sam Pepys (Mr. Lambert)
out of his carriage, and to substitute for the lost Ludy
Trumpington her nephew Geoffrey (Mr. Buckatone),
whose appearance, dressed in the old lady's court dress,
elicited shouts of laughter and applause. They go to
court, where they find the real Lady Trumpington.
Mistress Anne is accordingly presented, and returns into
the country with her husband, Captain Montague,
to the great chagrin of Rochester. The dialogue
smacks strongly of the Court of Charles 11. ; it is
full of that peculiar wit, banter, and sparkle, which we
meet with in the best comedies of the perioJ. Buck-
stone's Geoffrey was the most prominent character in the
piece, the scone in which Rochester makes him drunk
whilst his companions aro taking off Lady Trumpington,
was admirably acted. Buckstone's drunkenness was
superb. The piece throughout was exceedingly well
acted, and the anise en scene was very tasteful. The ap-
plause at the conclusion was enthusiastic. The theatre
was crowded.

Sir Emerson Tennent, the newly-appointed Gover-
nor of St. Helena, proceeds this day to Devonport, and em-
barks on board her Majesty's steam-frigate Sampson, Cap-
tain L. T. Jones, for conveyance to the seat of his Go-
vernment.

POWER OF POETRY.—Poetry is no "dream," but
a reality of unmeasured influence and power, for good or for
ill; so much so, that one lawgiver (Charondas) wrote his
laws in verse, and another banished Homer from his ideal
Republic. Homer's words have decided national disputes,
but they also, according to Plato, corrupted the popular
religion, and sensualized its ideas of divinity. It is some-
what singular (or, rather, it shows some old sage's idea; for,
as Emerson says, " language is fossil poetry,") that the
words poetry and drama are both derived from the words
meaning action. This was not a mere verbal coincidence,
but the thought of some old seer whom we know no-
thing of. Poetry sends its influences into the outward
life, and the dreams of the poet's internal life
becomerealities in the deeds of succeeding genera-
tions. Homer, doubtless, thought he had uttered but
an ordinary truth when he said, in his "Odyssey," that "all
men need gods;" but three thousand years afterwards,
Robespierre had to repeat the same words (the great moral of
the French revolution), "if God did not exist, it would be
necessary to invent his being." And vet men call poetry
"dreaming," when the earliest of Gentile poets proclaimed a
truth which had to be fully proved in after days, by a Reign
of Terror, with its " suspects" and guillotines.—Eliza Cook's

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.--Space ball been granted
to the Bible S-eiety to exhibit specimens of their Bibles in
no less than 150 languages.

THE MERCANTILE MARINE ACT.--The Board of
Trade have conceded to Bristol the privilege of an extra first
class examination for masters and mates. A deputation
from that city waited on the president yesterday with a me-
morial from the Bristol Town Council on the subject. Mr.
King,:of Bristol, African merchant, instanced their Custom-
house returns, which were much larger than those of Glas-
gow, with Greenock added, and far exceeded the Customs'
duties of the ports of Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland
put together; and he also pointed out the great and rapidly
increasing extent and importance of the foreign trade of
Bristol. The President of the Board of Trade observed that
a sufficient case had been made out, and that Government
would concede to Bristol the privilege of granting first class
certificates, as at London and Liverpool.

CHURCH PREFERMENT.—The Rev. Janes Hunter
Gandy, 8.A., has been appointed to the vicarage of Old
Cleeve, Somersetehire. Patron, the Rev. A. F. Luttrell,
Quantochehead.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—The following
papers will be read at the evening meeting, on Monday
next —I. Comparison between Newman's standard and
the Aneroid Barometer. By Colonel:Yorke, F.R.S. 2. Pro-
ceedings on the South Sea Islands. By Captain Erskine,
R.N., her Majesty's ship Havannah. 3. Ascent of Propoca-
tepeth. By E. Thornton, Esq.
The Flimby Lodge estate, near Maryport, includ-
ing the mansion, pleasure grounds, 53 acres of land, and the
royalty, was sold in public on Friday last for 7,8001. The
Earl of Lansdale was the purchaser.—Cumberland Parquet.

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.—+-The whole of the houses
on the south side of Cannon-street, extending from Lawrence
Pountney-hill to St. Martin's-lane, including those in Pew-
terer's-building, a large portion of the East London Union,
and the property contiguous, have been taken down for the
widening of the east side of Cannon- street, in order to open
the thoroughfare from King William-street to the south side
of St. Paul's Churchyard, and for which purpose the corpo-
ration voted 200,0001. The removal of the above houses
completes the widening of Cannon-street, and the formation
of the great thoroughfare from London-bridge to Queen_
street, Cheapside, being halt the entire length,

The Standing Orders 9f the House of Commons
were declared complied with yesterday in respect of the City
of London Im prevenient Bill and the Clerkenwell Improve-
ment Bill.

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