The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-21 00:00:00

EARL OF DURHAM.

The Earl of Durham has addressed the following letter
:o the publisher of the Edinburgh Review :
" Lambton Castle, Oct. 18, 1834.

" Sir—ln the October Number of the Edinburgh Review,
which I have this morning received, I find an article in which
my name has been most unfairly introduced. It professes to
give an account of the transactions in Lord Grey's Adminis-
tration, respecting the preparation of the Reform Bill.
" If that statement came directly or indirectly from a
member of that Government, he has been guilty of gross mis-
representation, and of a suppression of the truth. If it did
not, I have a right to complain of your having pulished
charges against my public character—founded on assumed
facts and circumstances, which could only be correctly known
or stated from official authority.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" DURHAM."

' To the publisher of the Edinburgh Review."

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

The Earl and Countess of Lichfield, at their seat Shug-
borough, from Newmarket; Sir Thomas Edward Winnington,
Bart., at Hawkins's Hotel, Dover, and Albemarle-street, from
his seat Stanford-court, Worcestershire ; W. Titchborne, Esq.,
at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from a tour ; Captain
Powell, at ditto, from Leamington ; the Bishop of Worcester
and Mr. Carr, at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and
Cork-streets, from Hancing, Sussex ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs.
Vernon and family, at ditto, from Tunbridge Wells ; Sir J.
Walsham, Bart., at dittg, from Herefordshire ; Sir Richard
Affleck, Bart., and Mr. Affleck, at ditto, from a tour; the
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Gray, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-
square, from Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Sitwell, in Regent-
street, from Hastings ; J. Sherer, Esq., Mrs. Sherer, and
Miss Sherer, at the Berners Hotel, Berners-street, from Abe-
ristwyth ; J. C. Walford, Esq., and Mrs. Walford, at ditto,
from their seat Chipping Hill, Essex; James Fenning, Esq.,
Mrs. Fenning, and the Misses Storr, at ditto, from Tunbridge
Wells; H. Drummond, Esq., at ditto, from his seat, Albury
Park, Surrey ; the Rev. P. White and Sons, at ditto, from
Draxford, Hants; Taylor Smith, Esq., Mrs. Smith, and the
Misses Smith, at ditto, from Little Houghton, Northampton' •
Mrs., Mrs., and Miss Ferrond, at Mivart's Hotel, Lower
Brook and Davies-streets, from their seat St. Ives, Yorkshire' •
J. Howard Galton, Esq., at ditto, from Calais ; Mr. and Mrs'
Williams and family, at ditto, from Brighton ; the Marquis
and Marchioness of Downshire, the Earl of Hillsborough, and
Lady Charlotte Hill, at ditto, from their seat East Hamstead
Park, Berks ; G. Heatheote, Esq., at Morley's Hotel, Trafal-
gar-square, from Winchester; Capt. Austin, 97th Regiment,
at ditto, from Portsmouth; J. C. Robertson, Esq., at ditto,
from Edinburgh ; the Rev. H. Fearon, at ditto, from Cuck
field; C. H Masters, Esq., at ditto ; H. Nethercote, Esq.,
;—N"ni froma ditto ; Laggatt,
ndliT Esq., at ditto,
from sf;romErnNeosrtth toLaemipzoyn,
at ditto,
Esq., at ditto ; H. West, at ditto.
DEPARTURES.
Lord A. Fitzclarence, for Maple Durham, Oxfordshire •
the Earl and Countess of Harrowby, from Grosvenor-square,
for their seat, Sandon-Hall, Staffordshire ; the Hon. C. a
Cavendish, and Lady Catherine Cavendish, for their scat,
Latimers ; Sir Thomas Whicheote, Bart., from the Burling-
ton Hotel, Cork-street, from his seat in Lincolnshire ; Mr.
and Mrs. Tayleure and family, from ditto, for the Continent ;
Mrs. and Miss Ironside, from Hawkins's Hotel, Dover and
Albemarle- streets, for Liverpool ; Mrs. Nash from ditto for
Worthing ; Miss Barton, from ditto, for Calais ; Lord Comp..
ton from Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Cambridge ;
Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Dickens, from ditto, for their seat,
near Chichester; Captain Dixon, for Brighton`; the Hon.
Mrs. Colquhoun, and family, for the Berners Hotel, Berners-
street, for the Continent ; T. 0. Colquhoun, Esq., M.
from ditto, for ditto ; the Hon. Miss Powis, from ditto ; W.
T. Maude, Esq., Mrs. Maude, and family, from ditto, for
Longham Hall, Essex ; J. Bateman, Esq. from ditto, for
Kingperley Hall, Congleton ; J. Hunt, Esq., from Morley's
Hotel, Trafalgar-street, for Paris ; Colonel Wardlow, from
ditto, for Bristol; S. Barrington, Esq., from ditto, for Dub-
lin ; G. S. Ambler, Esq., from ditto, for Oxford ; F. mais..
tens, Esq., from ditto, for ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Knowles,
from ditto, for Reading ; Mr. and Mrs. Tennyson, from ditto,
on a tour ; H. Walsh, Esq., from ditto, for Oxford.

THE THEATRES.

DRURY-LANE.

That Scott and Byron took a warm interest in the represen-
tation of poor Maturin's tragedy of Bertram is more cre-
ditable to their liberality than to their taste. The nervous lan-
guage in which the scenes of painful excitement are clothed
cannot atone for the depravity of the characters, for whose
miseries the poet has endeavoured to raise the sympathy of his
auditors. Since the season this piece was produced it has
seldom been performed, and we think it would remain undis-
turbed on the prompter's shelf, but for the opportunities it
affords would-be tragic heroes and heroines to exercise the
common-place tricks of their trade. Mr. Denvil and Miss
Clifton were, in consequence, more successful than they have
hitherto been in obtaining the suffrages of the discerning pub-
lic. If Mr. Denvil had drawn for the dignities of Baddely's
twelfth-night cake, chance could not have cast him characters
so ill-suited to his qualifications as those of Shylock and
Richard. If we have been rightly informed, this gentle-
man owes his advancement to the Drury-lane stage to the
recommendation of a friend of the management who saw
him perform at Kensington, in the Queen's Champion. Now,
we should as soon expect a painter of a good s'gn of St. Bar-
tholomew, in Smithfield, to be chosen to paint an altarpiece in
St. Paul's Cathedral, as that the successful actor of a maniac
in a melo-drama at a Minor Theatre should at once be pro-
moted to the highest honour of his arduous profession. We
must, however, do Mr. Denvil the justice to say, that if he
be not made of the stuff of which first-rate tragic heroes are
formed, he has nothing of the quack in his composition.
Even in the characters in which he failed he generally gave
the text of the author in a sensible unaffected style. His
performance of Bertram has raised him so much in our esti-
mation that we think if he be put into characters equally
suited to his powers and experience, he may yet do credit to
the judgment of those who have, somewhat prematurely,
thrust greatness upon him. We regret that we cannot speak
so favourably of Miss Clifton. The young lady has stature,
voice, and feeling ; but she must undergo considerable training
before she will be fitted to take a leading station on a metro-
politan stage.

ENGLISH OPERA-HO USE.
A Scptiish ppeNtta, in two acts, from the pen of Mr.
Murray, of Edinburgh, was perfqrmed for the first time in
boildpn last night, under the title of aquiond Briq. The
main incident of the plot is familiar to old plappers from The
little and the Miller
(lf Mqnsfield, The
loniiitfitalde
made
;El
oriad of
i7lroieprpveti upon by Mr. Murray, He has
Lindsay (Paulo) the oppressive landlord of
John Howison (Williams), the Farmer o' Braehead, whose
dauoilter the Laird attempts to seduce. But Marian