The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-19 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

At this theatre, so fertile in agreeable novelties, a new and
lively petit piece was produced last night, under the title of
St. Mark's Eve. The fun begins with the matrimonial quar-
rels and mutual disgusts of Mr. Tobias Patch (Keeley) and
Mrs. Patch (Mrs. Orger), and is prolonged into what the
author, if he were an ambitious man (which we are sure he is
not, or he could not have written so pleasant a farce), would
probably call the morale of his drama. The discordant and
embittered man and wife are reconciled, by severally seeing
what they believe to be each other's fetch, on St. Mark's Eve
a sure sign, as they each believe, that within the year the
plague of their life will be removed by death. In this persua-
sion the plague of course becomes much less intolerable than
before, and by the good-tatured intervention of Margaret
(Miss Goward), the wife's neice, a perfect and permanent re-
conciliation is effected. The incidents are amusing, though
extravagant, and the dialogue abounds in puns of various qua-
lity, but none of them too bad or too good to provoke laughter.
The acting of Keeley was as droll, that of Mrs. Orger as
piquante, as usual.

THE HEAD OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT IN
DANGER.—As the Duke of Wellington, on Monday morning,
was riding one of his favourite horses at a quick pace through
St. James's Park, on his way to the Foreign-office, on reach-
ing the parade by the Horse-guards, his steed suddenly fell
and rolled over him. By the aid of some of the soldiers and
officers on duty his feet were disentangled from the stirrups,
and he was conveyed to his official residence in Downing-
street without sustaining any material injury.
\Ve are sorry to announce that the Queen is indis-
posed, arising from a severe cold.
GRAND DINNER TO HIS MAJESTY'S MINIS-
TERS AT THE MANSION-HousE.—On Tuesday next a grand
entertainment will be given by the Right Honourable the Lord
Mayor to his Majesty's Ministers. His Lordship has invited
some of the most eminent merchants upon the occasion, as the
interests of that body are likely to be affected in a very high
degree by the measures which are to be pursued by the new
Administration ; and it is expected there will take place a
most explicit declaration of the course intended for adoption.
It is unnecessary to say that the public are looking with an-
xiety to the day. The company, which it is believed will in-
clude all the members of the new Administration, will consist
of about two hundred; and the dinner will be given in the
Egyptian Hall, which will be splendidly fitted up for the oc-
casion.

ST. LEONARD'S-ON- SEA .-Their Royal High-
nesses have not appeared in public during the last week. They
have generally walked on the beach towards Bexhill. The
Duchess attended divine service at the church here on Tuesday.
The Princess had a slight cold, and did not accompany her
Royal parent. The period has not been yet fixed on for the
departure of their Royal Highnesses, but it will be probably in
the middle of February.

Mr. Wigram, the late M.P., and an East India
Director, will, it is expected, offer himself as a Conservative
candidate for the city of Wexford ; Sir Robert Fitz Wygram,
Bart., having declined a requisition from that Borough. Lord
Loftus, it is stated, will offer himself for the county of Wexford.

It is rumoured, and we believe on good grounds,
that Sir Charles Wetherall is dissatisfied. Sir Charles was
Attorney-General before Sir James Scarlett, and a more con-
sistent political character does not exist.—Morning Advertiser.

On Friday last Mr. Hedworth Lambton arrived at
Lambton Castle, where Lord Durham is entertaining a select
party of friends.—Tyne Mercury.

On Wednesday last a memorial was presented to
the Commissioners of Woods and Forests from several inha-
bitants of the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, represent-
ing the great inconvenience and the injury to trade occasioned
in the neighbourhood of York-street, Tavistock-street, Charles-
street, &c., from the building of the new street leading from
the Strand being so very long delayed. Some of the railing
was yesterday removed, preparatory, it is supposed, to open-
ing the passage.

Shot at Porlock Weir, on Friday last, by the Rev,
R. F. Gould, jun., a wild swan, which weighed 151b5., and
measured from the beak to the tail five feet and six inches, and
from each wing when extended from tip to tip, eight feet and
sight inches.
SIR JOIIN BA.YLEY.--A recent traveller acrosst he
Alps, writing to his friend, says, " I merely mention my trip
to Chamouni for the sake of stating that at St. Martin, where
all regular travelling terminates, we found Sir John Bayley,
the ex-Judge, who, at the age of 74, had just been up the
mountain in a car. He seemed delighted with every thing,
and begged us to tell his legal friends that he was as well
and as happy as they could wish. He had been two days at
the inn, where the ancien Magistrat (as they called him) had
become a universal favourite, by the kindness of his manners,
and the facility with which he accommodated himself to the
unavoidable inconveniences of such an expedition."

THE ARMY.—Lord Hill's Levee yesterday at the
Horse Guards, as Commanding-in-Chief, was attended by—
Lieutenant-General Sir F. Wetherall, Lieutenant-General
Sir H. Cumming, Lieutenant-General Sir F. R. Macleane,
Major-General Bruce, Colonel Gurwood, Colonel Cooke,
General Sir Charles Pratt, General Maitland, Major-General
Sir T. Kribzler, Colonel Dixon, Sir John Hamilton, Colonel
Storey, Major Leslie, Major St. John, Major Macpherson,
and about 30 other distinguished Officers.

REMARKABLE OAK.—Most persons who have
wandered on a summer's day amongst the green glades and
leafy avenues of Greenwich Park, have probably observed a
massy and aged oak in the garden attached to the keeper's
house ; few, however, are aware of its real magnitude. The
trunk is hollow, and there is sufficient room within it for a
table, round which twelve persons may sit. At three feet
from the ground it measures 31 feet in girth. The circum-
ference of the interior is 22 feet. The doorway was origin-
ally a cleft, which is now five feet five inches high, and up-
wards of two broad. The present height of the trunk is about
40 feet, and its age is unknown. The old tree has been more
than once honoured with the presence of royalty, and is now
used as a place of temporary confinement for juvenile depre-
dators in the chesnut season. Greenwich Guardian.
LOUIS PHILIP AND THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS.
—A Paris correspondent says that when the news of the Em-
peror of Russia's journey reached the ears of Louis Philip, the
idea struck him of sending the Duke of Orleans to Berlin to
compliment the Autocrat. Prince Talleyrand, however, did
not approve of the plan. Nevertheless, Pozzo di Borgo was
sounded upon the business, but he stated that the Emperor's
stay in the Prussian capital depended upon the health of the
Empress, and that if it should prove satisfactory he would
speedily leave ; consequently the Prince Royal run the risk of
undertaking a useless journey. This excuse was made in the
most polite and respectful manner, but the anecdote may serve
to show the extent of the sincerity of the alliance between
France, Austria, and Russia.—Augsburg Gazette.

The religious persecution in Tonquin and Cochin
China still goes on increasing to a most dreadful degree. M.
Gazelin and a country priest were recently condemned to
death and strangled for having preached the Christian reli-
gion ; two neophytes also shared the same fate. M. Jaccard
has likewise been condemned to death, and waits in chains the
execution of his sentence. The other missionaries are dis-
persed and wandering about the country in distress, sometimes
taking refuge in the woods, mountains, or caverns. The
churches of their religion have been destroyed, and its profes-
sors pursued and imprisoned, and scaffolds are raised in all
directions for the execution of these persecuted men.