The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-22 00:00:00

PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE.

Mr. Copeland, inexhaustible in the production of pleasing
and popular novelties, brought out a little farce last night
with his wonted success, entitled My ;Title's Future Bus-
band. Messrs. A. Mayhew and Edwards are the joint au-
thors of this lively whimsicality, Nvhich affords a full mea-
sure of fun, conveyed in smart dialogue. Mr. Rogers was
as irresistibly comic as ever, maintaining his rank as a first-
rate farceur; and the other performers acquitted themselves
very creditably. The littls " Strand" is now an established
favourite with the play-going public, and very deservedly so,
as the management is equally painstaking and energetic:

EXETER HALL.—A very interesting exhibition took
place yesterday afternoon in the lower hall of this building,
being a distribution of prizes, to the value of 1051., given
by the proprietors of a weekly publication of high standing,
called the Home Circle, a work which has been eulogised by
Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Talfourd. These prizes
were offered by the proprietors of the periodical, for contri-
butions in various departments set apart in the journal for
amusement and instruction, with the view of bringing out
the intellect of the various branches of the community
unaccustomed to exercises of this kind; and it seems
that the idea, novel, and certainly worthy of com-
mendation, for the advantages it must necessarily
confer, was very largely and very worthily responded to.
The editor, Mr. Pierce Paaan, in a short and neat speech, pre-
' faced the distribution, drawing the distinction between the
work he conducted as being beneficial to the domestic circle,
and those of a pernicious class; atter alluding to the renewed
efforts to make the journal all that it promised to be, be con-
cluded by an analysis furnished by the committee of the re-
spective merits of the contributions sent in for competition. _TIe
i
meeting was most numerously attended, and the proceed-
ings e".
ings evidently afforded the greatest gratification to a"
as-
sembled. Not the least interesting portion of the
exhibition
was to see the various successful candidates appear to receive
their respective prizes.
1
A HARD-GOING PATRIANCII.—L3..-e-Y, at Aire, in
the Pas de Calais, there died, years, one of the most
ago 91 year' °thee age of 18 to
remarkable beer-bibbers upon record. From
-
60 his daily dose of the Teutonic beverage averaged 10 litres.
time of his death, the
It has been calculated that, up to the
was per day 4 litres
average
quantity of beer he imbibed.
3 198 francs. Henile'
and paid the Excise no less a thanfaswed to smoke one was
that ho must have drunk 1,066 hectolitres during during his 'Het', so
also an inveterate smoker, and -- ~ h „kilogramme
so that be mu e, rte a used 4,0,0 kilo.
of tobacco per week,
grammes during his life.
's name has been added to the Pen-
sion is with pleasure we
se of the
for 10W. a year. As one who, by her
NEW LITERARY
Jameson,
record that Mrs.
sion List—
beautiful and poetical
very careful
much to adorn
arts, has done
is
female authorship, this recog-
nition Mrs. Jameson, especially welcome as occurring in
nition of in female Sovereign, --.dtlienteuni, the reign of a a
w ewborekii: in the cruse
Eaicratsn V oCALhISTB,---4he proprietor of the Surrey
we hear, entered into an engage-
Gardens as,
malt tor ten nights with those eminent sio • Miss M
gets, es-
sent, Mr. Manvers, Mr. Young, and Mr. Leifer • Mr. Jolly,
pianoforte. in. addition to Monsieur Jullien and Phis band of
Zoological
artistes. We are glad that English vocal and instrumental
music durine. ,-,this peculiar season can be heard at an eeta-
bliihment 60 popular and fashionable.
METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY CONIMITTEE......
The proceedings yesterday before this committee, which is
0
beginniare for the first 4 Gul •
time ag a month's incubation to
show symptoms of exhaustion and ennui, related to the de-
tail of water supply as carried out at Edinburgh and Dundee,
the evidence of Messrs. Ramsay and Leslie going to show
that the waterworks at those places, as originally carried out
under municipal and rate-paying administration, had proved
failures, but that on their reverting to private enterprise, on
which principle they now were conducted, they worked effec-
tively and satisfactorily.
On Sabbath evening last, a female, named Mar-
garet Walker, died in the village of Pentland, having reached
the extreme age of 102 years and nine months.
ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—The
quarterly meeting of the friends of this institution was .
al
held
yesterday at the Thatched House, St. James's; llce-A &rur
Lord Radstock, C. 8., in the chair. It appeared last April
the sum of 485/. had been awarded to 78 applicantaa.M. stuns
varying from 51. to '231. The report of the committee tam ttteoef atE ; pointed at the last meeting to inquire into the duties
the a •
secretary, &c., was then read, recommending
in
theßomt-
bye_
of an assistant and other slight alterations
for the last quarter
laws of the society. The receipts .
amounted to 1,54..:/. 3s. 7d.. and the disbursements 3 to 551/..
18s. id., leaving a balance of 9901. The report was
5.
adopted, the various
applications for relief . were investigated,
Noble Ch
and after a vote of thanks to the aarilan the meet-
ing separated.