The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-14 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

Last night we had the pleasure of witnessing the first
representation in this country of the grand Ballet of La
Belle au Bois Dormant, which some time since caused so
great a sensation in Paris, when produced there at the
Academie Royale de Musique. It would be idle to attempt
a development of the plot, for the story of The Sleeping
Beauty must be familiar to every reader of tales of en-
chantment. The situations it possesses for pantomimic
display are numerous ; and M. AUMER (the SCRIBE of
the French Ballet) has made the most of the advantages
of the subject. In Paris the fair NOBLET represented the
Sleeping Beauty, and the delightful TAGLIONI appeared
as the Naiade ; but last night DUVERNAY undertook the
representation of both characters. To say that she proved
herself equal to the undertaking, would be but faint praise.
Her beauty, grace, and skill, were so conspicuous, that
every one appeared anxious to join in acknowledging her
merits ; and we have never seen a foreigner meet with so
flattering a reception. In person Mademoiselle DUVER-
NAY is tall, elegantly formed, and possesses a complexion
of a dazzling clearness. Her features are regular and
expressive, and form one of the most favourable specimens
of French loveliness we have ever seen. Her dancing
embodies all the graceful finish of TAULIONI, with an
elegance of motion entirely her own. In the dance of
the Naides, her skill had a fine field for display, and
we . were highly gratified with the admirable manner
in which she acquitted herself. She seemed to have
no communion with the earth—for her form was
seen floating over the ground, as if the air had been
her proper element. Nothing could exceed the
exquisite beauty of the performance ; and the enthusiastic
d most.trations of approbation with which the audience
witnesee f her exertions formed the most convincing evi-
dence of her excellence. ANCELLIN is well known as a
very charming dancer. The fulness of her figure does not
take from her gracefulness or activity. She danced a
grand pas de deux in the first act with Monsieur Rut's.,
one in the second act with the same, and another in the
third act with Monsieur SILVAIN. PAUL possesses a fine
figure, wonderful flexibility of limb, and a rapid execution
of evolutions. SILvAIN is younger, his form is less mus-
cular, and his exertions less extraordinary ; but a classical
taste appears to mark his efforts. The most wonderful,
and at the same time the most graceful performance in the
ballet was a pas de deux in the first act, in which Mon-
sieur GILBERT danced with Miss BALLIN. The improve-
ment which GILBERT has made is extraordinary. His
vaulting exceeded anything of the kind we have witnessed;
and, if his pirouetting was less rapid than that of others,
in gracefulness he was not exceeded. We have no hesi-
tation in saying that the decorations and dresses which
adorned the ballet last night were produced in a style
equal to anything of the kind that appeared at the Acade-
mie Royale ; and, with regard to the scenery, STANFIELD
has exhibited nothing to equal his panorama from The
Fairy Lake to The Enchanted Castle. The applause
with which it was witnessed was truly deafening. After
the conclusion of the ballet Mademoiselle DUVERNAY was
led before the curtain by Mr. BUNN : she was loudly ap-
plauded by all parts of the house for several minutes, and
the same performance was then given out for repetition
three times a week, with a little dissent, but too slight to
be of any. importance. Such is the lavish liberality with
which this ballet has been got up, that we understand it
has cost the proprietors no less a sum than four thousand
pounds! Such spirit deserves to be rewarded.

CORPORATION REFORNI.--It is to be hoped
that Ministers will set about the task of Corporation Re-
form in good earnest, and root out the abuses of the system
with an unsparing hand. To encourage them in the good
wotk, and to urge them on, should the evil influences
assail them, the inhabitants of every Corporate town should
immediately send up petitions, setting forth the grievances
overt which they labour, and praying to have the Corpo-
rat,on thrown open to the inhabitants at large. At Hull
an excellent example has been set. The inhabitants have
agreed to a petition, and their new representative (Mr.
HILL) has undertaken to bring forward an efficient mea-
sure of Corporate Reform, should the Ministers not do it.

In consequence of a threat of a run on the banks
in Ireland, it has been thought expedient to be prepared for
the worst ; and, accordingly, the directors of the Provin-
cial Bank of Ireland have caused gold to a large amount,
both on Monday and Tuesday, to lie transmitted to Dublin.
On Wednesday, however, on some sort of indirect assuranee
from the leaders of t. e party that it had now become quite
unnecessary to resort to any such step, the proposed reform
in the Irish Church being sufficient, in their opinion, to
calm the agitation which previously existed, the directors
of the Provincial Bank have ventured to discontinue any
further remittances in specie. In the whole, they have
sent off about 200,000/., in addition to a pretty large
stock of gold held at their chief station in Dublin, and at
their various branches in the country, which amount to
about 17 in number. The expense incurred in thus pro-
tecting themselves from a mere vague threat of the great
agitator will be very considerable, and being altogether
uncalled for by any other circumstance, the directors na-
turally feel highly indignant at it. Their cause is
g,poused, too, by other members of the moneyed interest,
who demand, with some emphasis, whether it is right that
such important property should be placed in jeopardy from
such causes without some claim for protection from the
Government ? This may possibly become a subject of
deliberation in Parliament should the agitation in Ireland
gootinue, and it is not unlikely that a suggestion may be
matte for giving to the Irish banks, in such extreme cases,
the protection of a temporary restriction on cash payments.
Still the general impression here is, that it will redound
Much more to the credit of those banks, consequently prove
in the end to be the wiser course, not to avail themselves of
such protection, even should it be offered, but to trust, as
they have heretofore done, to their own resources to meet
the impending danger. The confidence in their stability
will then have been put to the severest possible test, and
will become the greater in future in all operations which
they may undertake.—Times.
GASPARD BALzTUS, who was both a poet
and a physician, deranged his brain so much by excessive
study that he imagined his body was converted into butter,
and on this account I e always shunned the fire with the
greatest care. Being at length worn out with the continual
dread of melting, he put an end to his misery by throwing
tailint•elf into a well.

A few days since, as a workman in the em-
ploy of Mr. Wlstvolv, of Holland Park, was passing
through a yard on his master's farm, he perceived some-
thine moving under some straw which was scattered about
the pl ice, and on proceeding to the spot a fine fox darted
off at his best speed, and made towards some paling,
through which he attempted to pass, but reynard had mis-
calculated, with 411 his cunning, the size of his own car-
cass, as he became so tightly jammed between two of the
pales that he could move neither one way nor the other, and
was captured by the man, who cooveyed the wily intruder
to the huntsman at the kennel, where he is reserved for a
day's sport, before the East Sussex hounds,
TRICKS of TRADE.—Every day affords
practical illustrations of the contemptible tricks to which
some tradesmen have recourse, in order to force the sale of
their commodities, to the prejudice of the fair shopkeeper.
The practice of marking up particular articles in shop
windows, at a price so low as to induce people to enter
the shop, who are afterwards disappointed in their ex•
pected bargains, because they refuse to couple some
article, which they do not want, with that which they de-
sire to purchase, is of every day occurrence, and fre-
quently leads, where people do not choose to submit to
imposition, to wanton impertinence. This was the case
yesterday evening, at the shop of a haberdasher, on Lud-
gate-hill. A lady, accompanied by a gentleman, perceiv-
ing a quantity of ribbon marked in the window f.r sale,
all at SP., entered the shop, and desired the person be-
hind the counter would cut her off eight yards ; upon
which, with a simpering self-sufficiency, he said that the
price of Sid. applied to the narrow as well as to the broad
ribbon, and unless an equal quantity of both was taken,
it could not be sold at that price. The lady observed,
that she thought this was unfair dealing, and quite incon-
sistent with the conduct of a fair tradesman ; neverthe-
less, she desired to see some narrow ribbon, of the same
pattern, which the man milliner admitted he could not
produce..
at The lady then desired that the quantity !
price
marked ; but, in defiance of all expostulation, her re-
quest was refused, and impertinence was added to
deception. j

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1833.

The Bishop of LONDON has, it appears, had
frequent conferences with the Ministry on the
subject of English Church Reform. His Lord-
ship is reported in the ecclesiastical circles to be
much more liberal in his views than the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY, and to have offered
some valuable suggestions as to the best mode
of reforming the abuses in cathedral worship.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in the various
meetings of the superior clergy, which were held
a short time ago at his palace, expressed his de-
termination to resist with all his influence
every attempt at Church Reform, which would
be calculated to weaken the supremacy of
the Established Church ; but declared that he
was favourable to any arrangement as to tithes,
which would have the effect of putting an end
to the dissensions between the clergy and the
tithe-payers, and to an augmentation of the
stipends received by the inferior clergy, towards
which he said he should for one be ready to con-
tribute by any personal sacrifice. At the same
time the Archbishop is reported to have recom-
mended to the superior clergy to resort to all
fair means of defeating attempts at Church Re-
form, which would partake of the character of
spoliation—a measure of which he would have
little apprehension from the declarations which
had been made to him by Ministers, if he did
not consider that Earl GREY and his colleagues
might be driven farther than they intended to
go, by the Movement party, unless they were
restrained by the determination of the Con-
servatives. That Earl GREY'S plan of Church
Reform is far more extensive than that of
the Archbishop of CANTERBURY is pretty
certain, but it is doubtful• whether the Premier
or the Archbishop will be the stronger party on
certain points of dispute, even as regards the
bench of Bishops, many of whom are much more
liberal in their sentiments than could, from their
former conduct, have been reasonably expected.
From the secrecy observed by Ministers, it is
impossible to say what is the precise nature of
the Reform which they intend to propose. It
may, however, be inferred from what has tran-
spired as to the extent to which the Archbishop
of CANTERBURY has expressed his willingness
to go with Ministers, that it has been resolved to
reduce the incomes of the superior clergy ; to
raise the stipends of the inferior clergy ;
to reform the abuses of cathedral patronage,
and to amend the tithe system. These alone are
important points, but there is good reason to be-
lieve that Ministers, after having kept faith with
the public thus far, will not disappoint our just
expectations on a subject which is calculated in
an eminent degree to try their sincerity.
With respect to the lamentations which the
Archbishop of CANTERBURY made in his last
charge, and at the meetings of the clergy at
Lambeth, it may be observed that the Church
is in little danger from any thing but itself. So
long as its abuses remain, the people who pay so
largely for its maintenance, and who, as far as
religious instruction in their own creed is con-
cerned, can obtain it at a much cheaper rate, will
not fail to demand Reform, and there will be
little of that respect for the Established Church,
without which it could not long hold its ground ;
but it is a mistake to suppose that there
is a party in this country, of the least
power or influence, which is desirous of
overthrowing the establishment. All men
who are capable of reflection concur in thinking
that an Established Church is absolutely es-
sential to our existing institutions. They
merely desire such a Reform as shall make the
Church useful, and prevent a few grinding and
grasping Churchmen from appropriating to
themselves the fruits of the poor man's labour,

whilst the pious, working clergyman is little
better off in worldly matters than the meanest
of his flock. It has been much the fashion
with the Bishops and the pluralists to attribute
to the Protestant Dissenters a desire to over-
turn the Established Church; but what is
there in the conduct of the Dissenters to
warrant such a charge, and what would
they gain by making the attempt ? The
Dissenters know, as well as the Churchmen
themselves, that so long as the other institutions
of the country remain in their present form, an
Established Church, will be requisite; and as no
Church on earth is so tolerant as the Protestant
Established Church when properly governed,
they would be sorry to see it destroyed, and its
destruction succeeded by a sectarian conflict for
supremacy, equally injurious to the interests of
religion, and to the freedom which they now
enjoy. We sincerely believe that the whole
body of Protestant Dissenters are as well dis-
posed towards the Established Church, as those
who follow the doctrines of that Church ; but
the Dissenters contribute to its support, and
they have a right, in common with their fellow-
countrymen, to insist upon having its abuses
reformed.

In the House of Commons, last night, Lord
ALTHORP, in reply to a question from Mr.
HAMMOND, said that it was not the intention
of Government to diminish the number of
Bishops in the House of Peers.

The latest accounts from Mexico, received by
the Mexican Minister at our Court, are, we un-
derstand, highly satisfactory. The rival factions,
sensible of the importance of union, have laid
down the basis of arrangement, by which the
Government will in future be better able than
it has hitherto been to protect itself
against a turbulent soldiery, and also to di-
minish the number of the standing army,
which exceeds 65,000 regular troops, the
officers of which, having no foreign enemy to
contend with, look for promotion in the tumult
of civil war. The Spanish Government having
refused to recognise the independence of the
South American States, and constantly kept up a
menace of invasion, it has been impossible for the
respective Governments to do without large stand-
ing armies, in order to convince the people of their
ability to resist any attempt at reconquest by
Spain. The expense attending these armies
has absorbed the amount which would otherwise
have gone to pay off the interest of their na-
tional debts, and kept up constant excitement
and civil war. As far as Mexico is con-
cerned, a better prospect has opened, and
it is also understood that a negotiation, under
the auspices of Great Britain, will speedily be
commenced with Spain, by which the indepen-
dence of the New State will be recognised for a
pecuniary consideration, to which the Mexicans
are ready to agree.

Among the sessional orders which were agreed
to in the House of Commons last night, was the
following:—" Ordered, That the Sergeant-at-
Arms attending this House, do, from time to

time, take into his custody any stranger or
strangers that he shall see, or be informed of to

be, in the House or Gallery, while the House,
or any Committee of the whole House, is sit-
ting ; and that no person, so taken into custody,
be discharged out of custody without the special
order of the House." And " That no Member
of this House do presume to bring any stranger
or strangers into the House or Gallery thereof,
while the House is sitting." We rather imagine
that this order was agreed to by the House,
from the new Members not having had opportu-
nities of seeing the manner in which it works,

han that a Reformed Legislature will persevere

in the maintenance of such an absurdity on its
records. Any one Member can, under this order,
by simply saying to the SPEAKER, " I see
strangers in the House," at once cause a clearance
of the Gallery. The object supposed to be had
in view is the keeping from the knowledge of the
public, discussions, which it would be wrong to
have known to any but the Members of the
House. The attainment of this object, how.•
ever, has been proved to be impossible, and
the only effect of endeavouring to attain
it has been to cause the publication of garbled
statements ten times more annoying to the par-

ties concerned, than the broad truth could have
been. The cream of the joke is, that the order
is violated every night ; that every Member
violates it—that the SPEAKER violates it—that
the Sergeant-at-Arms violates it—that strangers,
who pay half-a-crown to the door-keeper, with
the knowledge of the whole House, violate it,
and are liable to be committed to Newgate—
that every reporter who writes a word of what
he nears doubly violates it, and is liable
to imprisonment, and the certain payment
of a heavy sum for fees, at the caprice
of any Member whom his report may
offend. Let it not be supposed that the
power thus possessed by Members is never exer-
cised, that it is as inoperative as the Corpora-
tion Acts used to be; for hardly a session
passes that the threat is not held out, or that
some unfortunate printer or stranger is not ac-
tually taken into custody, and heavily mulcted,
although perhaps instantly discharged with a
slight reprimand. Mr. CANNING once wreaked
his vengeance in this way upon a reporter, for
having inserted a laugh in his speech, the accu-
racy of which he disputed. But even if no
grievances actually arose out of this order, surely
it would be more becoming the dignity of the
House of Commons to erase it from their books,
than have it continually violated. We trust
HumE will ❑ot drop his intention of get-
ting rid of this order.

By the American Papers to the 24th ult., we
perceive that Congress is proceeding in a calm
and cautious spirit to put in progress General
JACKSON's recommendation for restoring tran-
quillity in South Carolina. This recommendation
is, that coercion and concession shall progress
together in company. It is still hoped that there
will be no recourse to arms.

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