The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

MAY 13, 1851.

LITERATURE.
MIRIAM- SEDLEY ; or, THE TARES AND
THE WHEAT. A Tale cf Real Lift. By
Lady Buliver Lytton. 3 Vois. Shoberl.'
Lady Bulwer Lytton, in a lively French dedica-
tion, presents theiie volumes to the Countess Hen-
riette D'Angeville, in which dedication her Ladyship's
remarks on her own countrywomen are anything but
complimentary, e.g.:—" Et ce n'est point etonnant,
vu que l'idolatrie du veau d'or soit notre culte na-
tional, i quelques belles et bormes exceptions prey, Is
femells Britannique (animal sans mar et sans tete,
inedite par Buffon) est vraiment une nullite odieuse
et voila pourquoi le commerce social est une chose
incomprise chez nous ; car hind's que la France a
produit tent de femmes celebrets et de grandes dames,
i'Angleterre ne fait guisere que mettle! bas (et 4 has) 1
des fernelles, des femmelettes, et des, ne ladies. La
, prern'ire ne sait rien, la seconde ne fait rien, et
Ila troisiene ne dit rien." The plot of " Altriain
ISedley" is slight, and possessed of little or no roman-
tic interest, it mss' rather be regarlA as the cont!,:::;t- I
Log link of a series of lively sketche3 and observations,.
6,r the most p Irt brilliant, oecasioually truthful and
beautiful, but more often sarcastic and even taut sod
pea spiteful ; as, for example, the above quoted re-
marks feoni the dedication. Among the most truth-
ful and sensible advice bestowed by Lady Balwer
upon her fair readers are some excellent recommen-.
d ation s to good housekeeping and the cam of
invalids.
Her remarks on the requisites for
il a good attendant in a sick chamber are full
of practical utility, and her enumeration of
the excellences of good cookery and plain work
versus crochet and Berlin wool, would satisfy M.
Soyer or Mrs. Ellis. " I've no toleration," says
Miriam, " for a woman who cannot do every sort of
plain work, both neatly and expeditiously ; for there
is something unfeminine In this sort of incapacity,
and an unwomanly woman is always detestable.
Most of us take naturally to Berlin work and em-
broidery ; they are a part of our organization, like
hysterics and fainting-tits; but what can be a greater
incarnation of discomfort and disgust than one of
your dawdling, desultory women, who neither do nor
know how to do anything about a house, but accu-
mulate disorder and privations for themselves and
every one about them." Good practical teach-
ing such as this is seldom put before the
novel reader, and such observations , contrast
somewhat strangely with the flippant sareasm and
not very gentle severity to be met within other,
chapters of " Miriam Sedley." Although " variety'
is proverbially " charming," it should be, neverthe-
less, characterised by a certain amount of congruity,
a quality in which Lady Bulwer's very " various"
observations are strangely deficient. For example,
we are at one moment charmed with some beautiful
passage like the following :—" But, in either instance,
whether our lot be evasion or execution, it teaches
that one great truth, that on God alone we must de-
pend, and that there is no appeal from man but to
Him ; and then, come what may, we shall still be-
lieve that whatever is, is right, however wrong the
means may appear that are employed to achieve it,
for everything leads one to suppose that that
strange and complicated tissue, called human
destinies, must be the tapestry of heaven,
which, like every other, is always worked on
the wrong side, showing us nothing but the cross-
grained shreds and nottings here, and which there
alone we shall behold as a beautiful and finished
whole. Laying down my load for the present,"
adds Miriam, " I knelt down and prayed. Oh
blessed boon of God to mortals, prayer is the electric
telegraph of heaven : it asks for mercy and the in-
stantaneous answer from above is peace." And then,
shortly afterwards, we are grieved to find a hand
that can pen graceful compliments as well as Chris-
tian truths condescending to set forth thoughts so un-
courteous and uncharitable as those contained
in a foot-note complimenting Thackeray—" the
only English novelist deserving that name." The
concluding sentences of this note will convey an idea
of the good taste and refinement of the whole passage :
" It is much to be regretted, for his own sake that Mr.
Thackeray should be splashed by the literary mud of
his present entourage; but as he appears to have the
feelings of a gentleman, and neither blows a black-
smith's bellows of self-praise, charged with hyper-
borean German plagiarisms, or writes vulgar carica-
ture (!) of waiters eating up schoolboys' dinners, at
inus, or all sorts of fine sentiments against cruelty and
injustice, the better to toady and herd with all that
is most loathsome in moral depravity, it is to be
hoped he will soon emancipate himself." If
we filled twenty columns with a criticism
of " Miriam Sedley " we could hardly give
our readers a more just idea of its peculiarities,
both of style and sentiment, than the above brief
specimensi may suffice to convey. Recognizing the
talent manifested in this production, we feel assured
that Lady Bulwer Lytton might bestow upon us far
more interesting and valuable works if she would
condescend te, give her readers credit for good taste
and kindly feeling, and if she would, moreover, re-
member that in order to ba " brilliant" and " sar-
castic" it is not absolutely necessary to be un-
charitable or untrue.

TIIE !LIFE OF COLUMBUS. By Horace

St. John.

The author of this admirable little work has com-
pressed into a very small compass a succinct narrative
of the life and adventures of the great discoverer of
America, and hls defended, and successfully defended,
the character of his hero against the accusations
which the envy of contemporaries had brought against
him, and which the apathy of posterity had, in too
many instances, left uninvestigated, and, consequently,
unrefuted. We know no work so admirably suited
as a prize-book for schools as the " Life of Colum-
bus" by Horace St. John.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. Edited and
Published by John Weale.
A compact and comprehensive guided-book to the
metropolis has in this volume been produced at a
reasonable price, and at a time singularly opportune.
Besides containing an admirable map, the work is
embellished with 205 illustrations. It elucidates the
natural as well as the physical characteristics of
its
architecture. with an account of its antiquity and
architecture. The portions of the letter-press relat
ing to its arts, trades, manufactures and organization
will no doubt be peculiarly acceptable to the majority
of foreigners, while the more intelligent among them
will, of course, regard with no small amount of in-
terest the sketch given of its social, literary and
scientific institutions. Sight-seers, again, will turn
with no slight curiosity to the numerous galleries of
fine arts in the capital and its vicinity ; and these in-
quiries will be rewarded, moreover, by a large fund of
valuable and interesting information.

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)

COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.

The present number of COlburnOPEnl;iih the
introductory paper of what promises to be a valuabl e
series• " The History of the British Conquests in
India,"
by Horace St. John. The object of the
wri▪ ter is to prove how utterly unfounded are the
charges of unprincipled aggression which have been
brought against the East India Company. The
paper is well written, and displays great research,
the writer quoting his authority for every statement
made and every assertion advanced, and we must
confess that, as far as he has gone, he has completely
made out his case. Another most valuable article
in
this number is the paper of the designs of Austria,
in which the writer proves that the emeutes in
Tuscany and other parts of Italy were the work of
Austrian emissaries, in order to give the grasping
red Emperor an excuse for the military occupation of
the Duchy, and that the recent Neal aggression in
our own country was also an Austrian manceuvre, as
a proof of which it may be mentioned that Cardinal
Wiseman dated his letter to Lord John Russell from
Vienna, and that almost the only persons in this
country who have ventured
,i to eulogise the monster
Haynau have been Cardinal sernan and Mr. John
O'Connell. The author of " Singleton Fontenoy"
brings to a close his amusing account of " Pipws
Naval Career," and Captain B?llew continues 'his
"Narrative of the Campaign in Arracan." The
other articles in this number are all above the usual
average.

THE COMIC HISTORY OF Ro ma By
the Author of the Comic History qf England.
Illustrated by John Leech. Part 1.
Right glad are we to meet Messrs. A' Beckett and
Leech once again in the field. A right merrie his-
tory doth this of Rome promise to be, and veracious
and impartial—a matter to which it would have been
better that historians of greater pretensions, the
wordy Alison for example, should have attended. The
illustrations are glorious. The illustration on the
cover is alone worth all the money charged for the
pert.

SCHOOL SERIES. Edited by the Rev. G.
Gleig, 111. A. Third Book of History.--British
India.
'finis is an excellent number of the valuable school
series publishing by Messrs. Longman. We have
here in the small compass of 126 pages a resume of
the history of the provinces constituting British
India from the earliest ages, down to the conclusion of
the second Punjaub war under the Governor- General-
ship of the Marquis of Dalhousie.
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THE DALTONS. No. .1111. By C. /miles Lever.
Amusingly, as after the wont of Mr. Lever's
fictions, the three roads of life are traversed—the in-
cidents and accidents encountered suggesting, as
hitherto, comical etchings. to Phiz. Without marring
the interest of the story, it may be observed that the
narrative has so far advanced that Frank has at length
visited his uncle, and that Mrs. Rickett's " at home "
has at length been disturbed. With the number just
issued the second VQIIIIII9 145 bees outvienced.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Qaeen gave last evening- a Concert, to which a part
of between three and four hundred, comprising the Roy Y %
Family, and illustrious Foreign Visitors, the Diplomatic
Corps, and a numerous circle of the principal nobility
were invited.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at
Buckingham Palace, accompanied by her Royal Highneao
the Princess Mary of Cambridge, and attended by Ludy V.
Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Lord James P. Murray.
His Royal .Highness the Duke of Cambridge was attended
by the HOn. James Macdonald.
His Royal Highness the Prince Henry of the Netherlands
arrived at half-past. nine o'clock, attended by the Chevalier
Van Rappard and the Chevalier de Casembroot.
The general company were ushered on their arrival to the
Picture Gallery.
Shortly before ten o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert
were conducted by the Lord Chamberlain to the Grand
Saloon, which was fitted up for music. Her Majesty and
his Pick al Iligline,;3 were accompanied by their Royal
Highnesses the Duche,s of Kent, the Duke of Cambridge,
the Princess Mary, the Prince and Princess of Prussia,
Peince Frederick William of Prmrsia, Prince Henry of the
.Nethorhml3, and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of
S4xe. I.l..sitnar. The lath e-i and gentlemen in waiting en her
Majesty ard Prince mold their royal guects, attended the
august circle, and wer,., followed into the saloon by the cs-
sembled company.
The concert then commenced. Mr. Costa presided at the
pianoforte.
Refreshments were serval to the company daring the
eveniilg, and At eleven o'clock supper was served in the
inci pal
The 10110 wing had the honour of receiving invitations:—
His Serene
,I,li,igtelrinacisisdE
omtyeSraorx,etire'e
jim;.avra,rtialitel
Ut.Lt.. tile Argentine Minister. the
and Baroin,e cte Illruntiow, the Sicilian
7,Eici,ter, the 11 anovcrian Minister, tha Prussian Minister,
and Madame Bunsen, the Brazilian Minister and Madame
Marqms Lisboa, the Danish Minister and Countess de Ite-
ventiow, the Netiv.trhuids Mini.-ster and Countess Schent-
muipcminek, the Swedish and Norwegian Minister and
. ,
a.roness Itehauszn, the Go- sta Rica Minister, the Bolivian
Minister, the United States Minister and Mrs. Lawnence, the
Spanish Minister, the Sardinian Minister, the Greek Minis-
ter and Madame Tricoupi, the Nicaragua Minister, the
Turkish Minister, k theaire 8 Austrian
PortugueseAtrianCh Chargergk d' Affda
ritto,
French Charge d
the Mexican Charge d'Affaires, the Peruvian Charge
d'Affaires,
Countess Louise I\tscaii
4.Boyen, Count Goltz. Colonel Fischer, lieutenant von Heinz,
Minister,)doua the Countess
pu.de pHo_E a c7koen,thee
the Chevalier van Rap P.
pard,
the Chevalier de. Casembroot,
n
Baroness de Speth, Count de Flahault, Prince B
Mousier (le Viebahm, Count Harrach, Monsieur Stein, aroatell'n
C. Dupin, Prince Victor Bariatineky, lies., &c.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales
and Prince Alfred accompanied by the Prince and Prince's*
of Prussia, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, paid tui
early visit yesterday to the Exhibition of the Industry of all
Nations in Hyde-park. The Royal suites consisted of the
Countw A. de Backe, the lion. Eleanor Stanley, Colonel
the lion. Charles Grey, and Lieutenant-Colonel Francis
Hugh Seymour.
Prince Albert afterwards went to the opening of the
Museum of Practical Geology, 6., in Jermyn-street. His Royal
highness was attended by Lord ,George Lennox, Colonel the
Honourable Charles Grey, and Lieutenant-Colonel F. H.
Seymour.
The Prince was received at the Museum by Lord Seymour • ,
Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, and by the
following officers of the Museum, viz., Sir 11, T. De la Beche,
Dr. Lyon Playfair, Professor Forbes, Professor Ramsay, Mr.
R. Hunt, am Mr. T. Reeks.
Prince Albert returned to Buckingham Palace shortly be-
fore two o'clock. . _

Prince Albert presided, at three o'clock in the afternoon,
at a meeting of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of
the Works ;f Industry of all Nations. His Royal Highness
arrived at the Exhibition building in Hyde-park, attended
by Lieut.-Colonel lion. C. B. Phipps, and Lieut.-Colonel F.
H. Seymour.
Toe Commissioners present were the Earl of Roan, the
Right Ilan. W. E. Gladstone, 51. P., Sir Richard Westrna-
cott, Sir Charles L3rell, Mr. Barry, Mr. Thomas Bazley,
Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Cubitt, Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. John
Gott, Mr. Philip Pusey, M.l'., Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P.,
Mr. John Shepherd, and r. Alderman Thompon, M.P.
Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. Scott Russell, and Mr. Edgar
Bowring, Secretaries to the Royal Commissioners, were I
attendance.
Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Dr.
Lyon Playfair, and Colonel Lloyd, Special Commissioners,
were present.
The meeting broke up at a quarter before five o'clock.
Iler Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and her Royal
Highness the Princess of Prussia, went to Claremont yea-
tetday, and visited the Duchess d'Crleans and the Duchess
de Nemours.

The Prince of Prussia, Prince F;ederic William, and the
Princess Louise of Prussia, attended by Countess A. de
Hacks, the Countess Orinlla, lion. Beatrice liyng, Lord
Waterpark, Major Von Buyers, Colonel Fischer, andtLieu.
tenant Von Heinz, left Buckingham Palace, at twelve
o'clock yesterday, travelled by the Great Western Railway
to Windsor, and immediatwly proceeded to the Castle, whera
luncheon was served.

In the afternoon the Royal patty took a drive is thras
open carriages and tour, and visited the gardens at nog-
more.

At a quarter.past four o'clock the illustrious party returned
to Buckingham Palace, travelling to town by the Great
Western Railway.
Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa toot
a drive yesterday, in an open carriage and four.
A deputation, on the Subject of bonding foreign goods in
Manchester, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing.
street. The deputation consisted of Mr. Thomas Agnew
(Mayor of Salford), 31t. lhomss Bazley (Chairman of the
Chamber of Comm, rc,. Manchester), Mr.. James A.spinal
Turner (Chairman ot the Manchester Commercial Asocia-
tion), Mr. Alderman iValker (Manchester), Mr. Alderman
Kay (S.ilford), and Messrs. James Atherton, Win. L;ibh,
Thomas. Benyoe, 31eckie, John Hunter, and oN.
Crompton ( .iiiinehester`. The deputation W. 15 accompa-
nied nv the Right dir,n. T. Milner tiibson, M.l'., Mr.
Bright, 31. P., Jir. W. T. Egerton, M.P., A.tr. J. Brother-
tort, AL P., Air. .1. Kershaw, -ALP., Mr. Duncutt, Mr.
Brown, M.P., Mr. Alex 11cnry, M.P.. and Mr. U. hiind•
ley, M.l'.
Sir James Brooke had an interview
.yeterday with Lord
John Thiss.ell, .1. his official re...hie:nee in Downing. stre,t.
Sir 11 itliern talmin Cri-;ig, Mr. .1. R. Gardiner' Mr. Charl-
ton Lane, Mr. t 1.::. Davis, and M r. Situps:on, had an in-
terview with Loud Scy itivar relative to the improvement of
Kennington-ma-mon, at the office of her Majesty's Com-
missioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place, yes-
terday.

Mr. Morris (from Canada) bad an intervim with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office
Sir M. Barrington, Bart., and Mr. Jeffers, had an ;inter-
view with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday at the
Board of Trade. Mr. Thornely, and Messrs. Baldwiu
and Bew (of Bilston), bad an interview on Saturday with
the Commissioners.
Mr. Dalrymple had au interview yesterday with LoI4l
John Russell.
Lady John Russell's party, in Downing-Street, fur May
14, is unavviciably postponed to June 4.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.--Yesterday it rained
heavily during the afternoon, and so unfavourable was the.
state of the weather that we expected to find the Crystal
Palace half deserted. Public curiosity has, however, great
perseverance when once fairly excited, and, notwithst.indeatt
so formidable a drawback, 1,60 W. was taken in 55. payments
at the door. The sale of season tickets also experienced
ex expected for
decline, but not so great as might have laeeanve _ having
nearly 750/. was collected in this way, the_ rier
1 The Com-
for some days pact considerably
settled more
mission have, after lengthens I consideration,pP. a
specifically than hitherto deliberations
of their
shall make their awards, bet resultsthe
it is said, be kept private.
with reference to this subject will,
f. BRIDG STO WOOLWICH..
the grounds upon sv.hieh the jurors
VISIT OF THE DUKE or eiaai
in the garrison asc.4ent-
n undriss unarm.
bled at half-past nine o'clock
—MAY
common at 10 o'clock—the Horse Ar-
and proceeded to the
ia„...The wholeofthAe.ttrotoopsday I
Lieutenant-Cclonel Bell ; the 17th Lancers,
tiller}, under
the right under Lieutenant-Colonel .
in three battalions, .
(to which was attached Captain Harri-
son's under LieutenaLiti!CJlonel Lawrenson ; the Foot ArtillerY,
centre
Willin,m2'„(,„„hea battery, with gunners dismounted, and
1)-pounder battery, with gunnets dis.
Lieutenant-Colonel Stowe, the left battalion
tinted) under,
s on' s
Captain i .:
nw nant.Colonel Tiaorndike, and the three batta-
lionsunder Liente
Colonel Cruttenden ; the Royal Marines, under
*Pi—reere'sr
under
Lieutenant-Colonel l'ratt ; and the light field batteries of
under Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson. On the line
gliefrOy;med on the common it extended to such a length
frombAeri tni
the south edge of the barrack-field that the Horse
Artillery on the extreme right were out of sight of the posi-
tion at the flag staff, the entire line extending, although
formed at an angle, across the common to near the Shooter'a-
hill-road. Lientenant-General Sir Thomas Downman, C. 8.,
K.C. H., accompanied by his stall; arrived shortly before
eleven o'clock, and joined his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, who had just arrived in plain clothes.
His Royal Highness, accompanied by Sir Thomas Down.'
man, then proceeded to the part of the common where the
17th Lancers were drawn up in line, the Duke of Cat!-
bridge being Colonel of that gallant corps, and LieuternLu'
Colonel Lawrenson rode forward to meet his Royal fliglosem.
The troops afterwards broke into open columns and ,arched
corps
past at slow time, each band playing their respective
past the Lieutenant-General. The Royal Horst
returned at
and the 17th Lancers changed their fronts, Id.. _ fow.
a canter. The troops were again drawn up o
And tnterruo"troop,
Artillery
troops of the Laucers on the extreme righst'inapeeted them
on the extreme left, and his Royal Highness again marched
in that position. At the conclusion, tnferr barracks. Shortly
left the common
past at quick time, and proceeded to. Tilos
after twelve o'clock his Royal Mg,
__,, weut to visit the
with Lieutenant-Colonel Laweent ea5°11.._541.8.
barracks of his regiment in they: Kest "squat's .4
Beard, of
added another to the many
DAGUERREOTYPE
King-William-street, has
succeeded in making in the Daguerreo-
improvements be has
latestsueee
improvement consists of a mode of
YPe process. The lam, by means of which it is not liable
.aunelling the silver.f
rosy
even be washed like an oil paint-
PORTtty ITS.--zur.
:9 be tarnished, and any injury. The advantare does not
ft, under this - • de'
trapiove process the
a ,
stop here, h
-owe: brilliancyr and depth of tone hitherto un-
aoloare acquire
And orne of the sping without sustaintngr
ecimens now exhibited in Mr.
sn" :rill bear cornparieon with the best miniatures.
gallery
_
1 Daguerreotype portraits appear se harsh and
The ear ier
aßtetaatinda,eble,
contrast with those now produced, that it is difficult
• ads in i •
crude in de onese t they are results of the same prose +•
ocr'na
--Tim".
ive are happy to inform the public that maple
yaw able specimens of natural history have been this wee-
,,dded to the Hon. East India Company's museum,
rt.Leaden-
hall-attest. among which the following are worthy
.01_,,._
00' Vigneitomestic
Cee:—Ovie Ammon, male and female, from Thibeit,
male;uas
alahura, male and female from Thihet ;
()vis Vignei' domestic ;heel, of TinUet; Capra,
Kiang,
goat; Capra ibex, domestic goat of Kuala?: •
wild ass of Thibet ; Tetracerus Quadricorneise,
presented by Captain
the tour-horned
antelope. The whole of them have been P
R. Strachey, to whom the naturald
arranged 1w Ni J .
in-
debted; and beautifully etit tied an biStr Oriall is deeply
patty and to the British
11.ker, animal preserver to the
:Museum, who is admitted by scientificfreserver in Europe.
to be the most saccelaful anima P
(7nnl
naturalists generally
1:118 FRENCH ILLUSTRATE
LortDoN :.\.-,-ews.—We
ftisadmirably got up, written in
have now before us the secondi)number of the /nes/rated
London Noes in French. - when we consider the •`Strat-
pure French (no small praise
rrt
is carefully and correctly
oe ouch of our newspaper French),
ford by the Bowe" style
of a higli order of
latret.
success of an experiment wholly
printed, and the illustrations ant
congratulate the spirited pro-
prietors on the cota)),eo f
_
ARCHERY MEM:W.—MS meatiug
LEAMINGTON
ton on the :15th and 26th inet .
place at Leamington journalism.
unique in the his oi
will take
and 27th, se /Med in Gur Met of p
• .
instead of the 26th
terdey.

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E I‘. 1: • S TILEATRE.
GRAND fitA NIGHT.
1)0N GIOVANNI. •
It fs respeetfhliv announced that a Grand EXTRA MGM will
wake place. on THURSDAY EV'ENINti next, May 15, when will
be presented, tor tho lir,t time this season, Xozart's chef. d'mtrrre,
entitled .

• . .
DON GIOVANNI,
With following powerful CaSt :
Dim Glovanri, Signof• Coletti ; Don Ottatio, Signor Calzolari ;
Massetto, Signor F Lai a he ; Il Counnendature, S.lgnor Scapini ;
Leoporella, Signor - .:101,che; Donna Anna, 'dame Florentini
Donna Elvira, 31adatte-Clujiani; Zerlinu, 3ladame' Sontag-
Dr the Ball.rooin scene, Aladlle. Carlotta Cris) and Madlle Amalia
Ferraris will dance Ntrizerr's celebrated Janet and Zarabanda. •
With va ions Enterlainmen, s in the Ballet Department, by 31adile•
C. Grist, Madllc. Amalia Ferraris. Mestilles. Rosa, Leper, Julien, La-
moureux, Allegrinl, Pascalles, Ki.hienhem, Dantoinc, Aussandton:
FIJI. Charles, Ehrick, 'Paul -laglioni, Courier, Venctra, Li Matta
and Gosaeiin.

. Tho Opera will commence at Half-past Seven.
Application, for Beres, S alis, wad 'tickets to he
office of the Theatre. wade at the Box.

HER If AdESTY'S TEE ATR E.
It is resp
&Ilan), announced that TO-MORROW -EVENING will
ba presented :label's celebrated Opera, entitie4
GUSFAVE. III.; on,
Le Dal 31a,,que.
Amcile (Countess of Ankas ram). ‘l.a.lame
Florentini ; Arvedson,
Maine Feller; Oscar (Page of U u gin. ), .3ladlle. t.tuoline Duptez ;
Ankastrom, -,lifitor Lorenzo; Hehnrin ~glior t. Lablache ; ItibbliW,
Mons. Faultier, (,ustavus II 1., i-oznor k alzolart.
In the Ball-rood, scene Nt ado,: . arlotta Grist will appear in a
Grind I'd-4, s .pporta t by Mad c,. Aus,mdon, and Dantotne ; Pas
de Cbar,,ctere, by laullies..Eotenberg, Soto, Soldansky, and Emma ;
Grand Monsti:e (lalop by the entire ifallet Company.
To conclude with a selection from the highly successfni Ballet,
L'II.E I)ES AMOURS.
in which Madlie. Amniis Ferraris, Madllea Rosa, Esper, LamoUreux,
Julien. Alton-Wt.. Aussamlon, Kt.hlenherg, Pa-,cales, Esper, Rosa,
and Charles will 'appear. ,
Dantoine, MM. I.:brick,
The Opera will.commenc3 at Eight o'clock.
.
Applications for linxes, stalls,
,an i Zufteti to be
made
80. office ot tho, Theatre, Opera-colonnade, at the
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"-----THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. dames Anderson.
Engagement of Miss P. HORTON. •
TH ES .6 VE,S
Will be presented. by her Majesty's Sez:vitate
ectacle, entitled AZAEL, • THE
A .ne w grand
PRODIGAL. Reuben, Operatic
Mr: bp
Van.lenhott; Azael, btlsi P. Hor-
ton ; Amenophis, Mr. w: West rituchatis, Mr. Cooper ; Sethos,
Rafter; Jepbtele, Miss Vitiate; Sele, Mrs. Walter Lacy; Lia,
siMile. Victorine Legrain (Premier Wet du Opera de Paris), who
has been expressly engaged for the occasion (her last appearance
but two.)

To be foed by
UNE SOIREE CARNAVA.L , In 110
w which Madlle. Vlctorine Legnxin
and Madame Louise will appear.
. To,coneluile with the comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN AND
0001) QUEEN BEGS; or, Metric Eirgland to the Olden Time.
Harlequin, Mr. Lauri; Pantaloon, 3lr. C. Lauri; Clown, Mr.
Doughty; Columbhk. Miss Pilger.
- Stalls aust.Dress Circle - ' - 'bs.
First Price. Second, Price.
Boxes
Pit . . . . - - 2s. Is. ed.
Lower Gallery - - - - 18.1 No half-price
Upper Gallery - ' " - - 6d. j to Galleries.
Private Boxes to admit 6 reduced from 3/. 3s. Od. to 21. 12s. 6d.
Ditto 6 ditto 24 I 2s. 6.1. to 21. 2s. Od.
Ditto 4 ' ditto 2/. 2s. Od, to h. 11+, 6d.
Ditto 4 Oitto 1/. I Is. 6d. to 11. Is. Od.

TR.:ATLIE ROYAL, IIAYMAIoi, e. 7.
•yr B. Webster, dole Lessee and Manager, 01C: 100111p1OL.
THIS EVENINO,
Will be performed an entirely New Comedy, entitled RETIRED
FROM V.UsINES.S.

After which, a new and (as times go) original domestic drama of
startling intereit,.entitied .kitLINE ; or. The Fortunes and Vicissi-
tudes of a Bolkinian emit Arnhem, sir. J. Bland; Count
Florentine, Mrs. L. S. Buckizr,rham ; Thalami of Warsaw, Mrs.
; Devilshoot, Mr.' Buckstone ; the Ulpsy Queen, Mr. 11.
Bedtor 1.

Tfi EA. 1.1t1; ROI Al, ADELPILI.
Under the direction. of -Madame Celesta.
Tilt i EVEN _ "

Will be performed THE FOREST.

To be rolloiredli;owmaslcal, historical, pastoral, comical
fah' drama, called O'FLANNIGAN AND THE FAIRIEii ; or, A
Midsummer Night's Dream. • Thelim O'Flannigan, Mr. Hudson;
Oberon, Mill E. Chaplin: Mary, Miss K. litzwilltam.

ROYAL PRINCESS'i THEAIR.E, OXFORD-STREET,
under the Management m Mr. C. Kean and Mr. Keele_ve
THIS ,EVENING,

Will.- be performed the Comedy of THE PRISONER OF WAR.
Characters by Mr. C. Kean, Mr. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which a new Melodrania, entitled PAULINE, in which
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean will appear.
To cOnclude with a • new grand spectacular Extravaganza (taken
from a Tale, by Washington Irving), entitled THE ALHAMBRA
or The Three Moorish Princesses. Characters by Messrs. Keeley,
Harley, A. Wigan, Wynn, Cooke, Flexmore ; Misses Murray,- Daly,
Vivash, Robertson, Leclerq, Keeley, Jidlie. Auriol, and Mrs. Keeley.
Private Boxes, to be had of all the Booksebers, anu in Mr.
Massingham ;at whom also places may taken at the Box-office,
Oxford-street, from Eleven till Fur o'clock,

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Mamagement et Mokiame Vestrif.
tiole Lessee, Mr. Ch4.l•!es Mothatrts
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed
COOL AS A CUCUMBER.

To be followed by
A DAY OF RECKONING, in Which Madame Veetris will appear.
To conclude with

THE QUEENIPOF THE FROGS. Characters by Messrs. C.
Mathews, R. Roxby, Bellingham, Homeastle, Morris ; Mrs. Frank
Matthews, Miss *t. George, Miss Martindale, and Iliss

ROYAL OLYMPIC TIII;ATRE.
Lessee and Man, er, Mr. W. yarren.
THIS EVENING,

WM be performed r!..E LADLE.,' CUE ; or, Un Duel en
Amour.

To conclude with SIR ROGER UE 70VEHLEY , or, the Widow
and her Wooers, iupparted by Siessrs W. Farren, Compton, H.
Farren, W. Farren, ju'i., Did,lear, Q. Cooke, Shaiders, Lee, Bender,
Kinloch ; Mesdames, Stirling, Leigh Murray, L. Howard, Adams, E.
Turner, and Bartlett.

.11, AM i•
tfailer the Patronar.re of her Majesty and his Royal ilighnsgs
Prince Al t•ert.
Proprietor and Manager. Mr. W. Batty.
TIIIS
Will be performed a grand new Sok:eta:le, entitled ELEANOR
T ILE, AmAZoS ;. or, Queen or France and England.
To be followed by new scenes of the Circle, introducing an en-
Way new Company of French Artistes.
To conclude with a laughable Farce] •
open iron, 'cleven till Four. -
Stage Manager. Mr. T. Tilt moson.

_
PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. W. R. COI'ELAND, Liverpool.
THIS EVENINo,
Will be performed a new ContecY, entqled REN'SINGTON GAR-
DENS. Principal charaetent ty -Messrs. "Tilbury, A. Davies, :Nor-
ton; T. Rogers, and Bonier., Mn.s Seymour (her 2,1 appearance) ;
31. A. Marshlll, and Wallis.
Mesdames E, Romer,
An ILLUSTRATION OF ';',11.. EXPOSITION'. Principal charac-
ters by Mesdames Marshall, M". Taylor, u. Horsman, and Dibdin
wears, J. Reeve, Nerion, J. Rogers-, and Reiner.
To conclude with a new Farce called TAKINt ; THE CENSUS.
The prices of akin:lesion are arranged :IS. hulloes :—Orchestra stalls,
ss; Boxes (first circle), 35.; (second circle), 2s, ; Pit, Is.
Doors to be .. opened at :Half-past Seven, and the' performances to
Commence at Eight precisely.
-A, second price will be L.ken--tcr the Boxes only at Hslf-past Nine
—llrattircle, 24.; second circle, Is. , . .
Private Boxes Ope Guipea cicala Half each.

ROYAL SURREY ZCOLOGICAL. GARDENS.
OrietiTor the :•.ea.soll oft MONDAY, this sth orMay.
Aral representation eta $4B-
i title modelled ranwanaErainted by
'tilosseunt, Palace of the Cmsars,
the 11'Isrs• lAanson, representing tie Temple of Janus in the Eternal
citY. with a striking View or' th. 3, .
aq. The Jlenagerie is both va-.: led
the grounds, appropriately
raffes, two elephioits, Which promenade I
-and extensive, including two gi-
raffes,
' or must-
caparisoned and ' attended. The
~I)e,n.„,"4'd by Mr. Godirey.
glans of 'fleet-rate celebrity, hi ' ••••-'l---, ...„‘„, junk, with masts
lioored on the lake is, sem a real Chinese P`e3'"'"•- ' d various
er , bridge, au '
'n't mils complete. 'Ait Reutiusitell's. a-- Id-
~,,Ying•rod.S.
novelties; And at dusk will be given, oil a "scale of sn
binemee, a repreamtation of the Clcsiost
grand
Templs of Janus, With (for the first time ever attempted) a
....
(desist trasipstent dlarshoith.: panoptieoa,
of the lfrezenrP Gates &Abe
war an't thP' blesaing of peace,. terminating with a. moat. ._,. brilliant
showing, the horrors or
display ot fireworks by Messrs. Southby ; and an allegoTle.4.W., 1,444.-;
of ,the arts and sciences, depositing their treasures at the feet oi her
Majesty Queen l'ictoria; the Whole fowling the most gorgeoaS spec-
tacle ever whitened. .. . .
„._
• ~• '
'
. • AIiIIIS,SIOX—ONZ lIILLIA,i.
Frill aY•
Exhibition nights
—me ba aY, ,I nesday, Wednesday, Thnrsdr.y, and
M. JUELIEN, with the elite of his Band, will Commence their ea-
gagementa oil Monday; may 24.
will be repcatilt during
Tho FLORAL ill of the Royal South London nori-
cultural society
tae Seaton ; the First will
tate 'dice on Wednesday, may 2,..

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THE WEATHER.."—SUX
• THILICMOM!IIIIR, Tat sila,-tr:AY 12,
57—highest since noon yesterday.
42--lowest, this morning and miring title. , ght„
b3--thla day, at noon.
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Warn N.F.E.—Morning, ,`11,1,111,13" weather; Aftemoon,

Now ready at all the Lloraries, In :4 WWI, post avo.,
ILW • 0
0 D.
A NOVEL.
"The author, we are convinced, is young, otherwise we could
II trill ' fee clispLayed such fresh and enthusiastic sympathy in be..
half Or his heroes and heroii,..4. Ile is .a ro riter of . genius, inspired
by 011,01 standard of morality and religion, and by a laudable love
purest sort of fame. We gather this !rprfl the
~glowing
lillaitti.l which be exPreeseti his usellitgs, sentiments, and opinions
Oa the subjects just-mentioned.; There are several, chapters, in
whit* links of the story are dr..mped, containing most eloquent essays
on mutters. that are the prima mohilla ot• the actions which cha-
racterise nature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, tbough he
has marked per Se peedlierities,to..the school of
.theDiaraelie,
lenity, and Sinytbes."-Observer.
.• Siiwood' is' ordinary work ;it contains passages of exceed-
lug beauty, and is written in pure '.n4 forcible- language, with great
d taste and power, It one o• the most interesting and en
gaging novels which the .Present sseason has PrOhleeti. et the eha-
racter of Amelia Ross we have already spoken, and .the eitreet yes
!lave given abov-is Vie surest vouCtir of the truth of what we haVe
said. The other ladies whir. playconspicuons Pant in the. tale Are
Florence Howard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gordon, a wild and
Impulsive genius, passionately foul of music and poetry ; and
Maitland, the noblest and .best of them Posti.
Richard Bentley, New Barlithcton-street.