The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-10 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Prince Labanoff de Rostoff, from Mivart's Hotel, for
Brighton ; Sir Clifford and Lady Constable, from ditto, for
Paris ; Count Pahlen, from ditto, for ditto.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

On Saturday night a new Comedy, in Five Acts, translated
by Mr. Bunn, from the French of Scribe, and entitled The
Minister and the Mercer, was brought out at this theatre. We
understand that the translator has had some trouble at the
Chamberlain's Office with his MSS.—a very superfluous piece
of coquetry on the part of the official authorities, for there is
nothing at all in the Comedy that can offend either public or
private character. We subjoin a slight analysis of the plot :-
Ihe scene is laid at Copenhagen, in the reign of Christian
VII., who was united to Caroline Matilda, the ill-fated sister
of our Monarch George 111. The business of the Comedy
refers to that political change in the Government of Denmark
by which Struensee, the Prime Minister, was destroyed, and
the young Queen doomed to an imprisonment from which she
was soon afterwards released by death, leaving her reputation
at the mercy of most malignant enemies, who, however, failed
to establish any credible proof of the heavy accusations they
brought against her, and which, if they had been well-founded,
were capable of ready substantiation. It is in this state of
circumstances, and while the Queenmother (Mrs. Sloman) is
busily engaged in plots against Struensee and the Queen
Consort, the King being in a state of fatuity, that the
Count Bertrand de Rantzau (Mr. Farren), a wily politician,
who has grown old in the mysteries of diplomacy, takes into
his hands the strings by which the puppets, the instruments of
the intrigue, are to be made to act. Without saying much,
and by doing still less than he says, he induces Raton Burken-
staff (Mr. Dowton), a rich silk-mercer and extensive manufac-
turer, to become the leader of a popular insurrection, drives
the Count and his colleagues of the Administration into mea-
sures which make them odious to the people, while he saves his
own reputation, and ultimately turns the very engines which
had been prepared for his disgrace into the means of his personal
triumph, and the downfall of his enemies. The Government of
Struensee is demolished, the Count Bertrand tie Rantzau is
appointed Prime Minister, amidst the acclamations of the people,
and Raton, who has risked his life and wasted his fortune in the
revolution, is rewarded by being appointed silk-mercer to
the Court, and having the privilege of placing the King's
arms over his shop-door. Even this good fortune is not
without its drawback, for the result of the conspiracy being
to send one Queen into banishment, Raton, who had be-
fore supplied two Queens with silk goods, loses just one-half of
his patronage. There is an underplot which adds to the interest
of the play, arising out of the star-crossed loves of Eric Bur-
kenstaff (Mr. Cooper), the only son of Raton, and Christine
Falkenstern (Miss E. Tree). The acting throughout the comedy
is of first-rate excellence; but foremost in point of merit stands
Farren. In modern times we have seen nothing like his per-
formance of Saturday, whether we regard its exquisite truth of
nature, its elaborate finish, the subtle force of its conception,
and, more than all, the perfect ease and absence of effort that
pervaded it throughout. Mr. Farren's personal appearance
was modelled with equal propriety, especially the head with its
silver fleece, and in his manner, so far as we are enabled to

SMITH FIELD MARKET

This day's supply of Beasts was moderately good, of Sheep,
Calves, and Porkers limited, and the trade was somewhat
brisk, at the following prices:—

PRICES PER STONE OF 8 LBS. TO SINK THE OFFALS.
s. d. to s. d. i.
Inferior Beasts 0 2 2 4 Large Lambe 0 0 0 t
Second quality ditto 2 8 3 4 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 t
Prime large Oxen... 4 0 4 '2 Large coarse Calve- 3 8 4 e
Prime Scots, &c..... 4 2 4 4 Prime small ditto 5 0 5 8
Inferior Sheep ...... .. 210 3 2 large Hog;
Second quality. Otto 4 0 4 4 Small Porkers 3lO 4 4
Coarse-woolled ditto 4 8 410 Suckling Calves 10,.t,30, each
SouthdownWcthers 5 0 5 2 Quarter old Pigs 125.t0.18...each.

SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT.
Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. I Pigs.
I
2,597 15,700 120 80
About 600 of the tieasts came up the St. Alban's road ; about
401 up the other northern roads; annul 100 (including Irish)
trout the western and mulland:districts , about 1100 'rum
f•ilk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; about 140 from 1. ent
and Sussex and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c
in the neighbourhood of London.

NEWG A l'E AN t) LEA►)ENHALL MACIKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
6. d. to 6. d, s. d. tos. d
Seel, inferior 242 6 I Mutton, inferior ... 24 2 8
- middling 2 6 3 0 - middling.. 3 0 3 4
- prime large 3 4 3 6 - prime 3 6 31.
- prime small... 3 6 3 8 Pork, large
Veal 3 4 5 4 -small 3 4 4 4