The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-09 00:00:00

HAYMARKET.

" His MAJESTY having been pleased to extend the
license granted to this theatre," to use the words of the
play-bills, it opened yesterday evening for the season, and
a better opening it could not well have made. After
" God save the King," COLMA N'S comedy of John
Bull was performed with a tolerably strong east of the
characters. DOWTON took the part of job Thornbury,
and that is sufficiently saying how it was performed. Mr.
ELTON performed Peregrine for the first time. He
struck us as wanting care in the part, but whether it
was the result of a misapprehension of the character, or
the rigidity of his limbs and muscles, we will not deter-
mine. Toni Shuflieton fell to the lot of VINING, and
could not have been in better hands. It was a capital piece
of coxcombry. Mr. WEEK ES, after having been under a
cloud for some time, has again made his appearance. He
was the Dennis Brzdyruddery of the night, and
without going into any invidious comparisons of
his performance with that of either deal or living
actors in the same part, we will say that it was
excellent. We shall be curious to see him in some other
standard Irish characters. Mrs. YATES and Mr. BUCK-
STONE severally made their first appearance at this theatre,
in the characters of Mary Thornberry and Dan, and
were both successful. The scene of Mary's restoration
to her father was exceedingly affecting. The comedy was
followed by a new farce of BucxsToNes, entitled Open
House, or the Twin Sisters. The plot is shortly as
follows :—Two "eligibles" in the shape of a rising young
barrister and the son of a wealthy merchant in the city, go
down into the country on the Ist of September, to shoot,
but themselves get wounded by the bright eyes of the twin
daughters of their hostess, a " managing mama " The
fun of the piece consists in the contrivances of the good
lady to raise the courage of the " young men" to the point
of declaration, and their mistaKing one sister for another,
from their great personal resemblance. Mrs. GLOVER,
as the managing mother ; VINING, as the young
barrister, BOCESTONE as a shrewd man of all work, and
Mrs. HONEY and Miss VINCENT as the twin sisters, kept
the house in good humour throughout the piece. The
subordinate characters were well filled, and gave the whole
a liveliness which caused its announcement for repetition
till further notice to be received with general applause.
Of the piece itself we will only add, that we think it
might be advantageously prun d a little at the opening
scenes. The cut finger is a complete excrescence, and
the lady being left without any tei-cups and saucers, or
glasses, is somewhat overstraining the modesty of nature.
Midas followed, quite unnecessarily we think. The two
first pieces were quite enough to satisfy reasonable people.
The Manager must feel convinced of the fact by what took
Place last night. At a quarter to twelve, when the second
piece closed, the house was full ; at five minutes to one,
when Midas was ended, there were not a hundred
persons left.

ENGLISH OPERA.
The license granted to the proprietor of the late Eng-
lish Opera-house, having been extended, the company last
night opened their season at the Adelphi, where it is to
continue till the building of the new theatre, which by
the way seems to hang on hand as long as "11 Duomo
di Milano."

The novelty of the evening was a new drama called
ph illy of Anjou; or an Adventure of the Forest.
There was little in it calling either for very strong praise
much censure. Philip of Anjou is induced to le we
the Court by a Spanish Jesuit, who wishes to export
him t,) Algiers or murder him, but is foiled in his
plans by an orphan girl, who accuses the Prince of rob-
bery, and contrives to detain them till assistance arrives.
The first act was distinguished by three capital bad puns,

which evety one knows are better than good ones : the
second by one pun, and the fiting of a pistol. Of the
one or two songs in the piece we cannot say any-
thing very favourable, unless it be that they were not very
long. REEVE had a part in the piece, and was in one
scene which appeared to take very well. In a drinking
bout be is placed across a wine-cask, in the fasiion of a
gin•shop Bacchus, and certainly makes a droll figure. The
oft-repeated Cupid, with the melo-dramatic piece of
Neulas Cove, followed. The house was scarcely half full.