The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-11 00:00:00

SMAND THEATRE.

A rattling piece of fun, provocative of continuous
explosions of mirth from the audience, was produced
last night at this theatre. This production of the
comic alembic of Messrs. Augustus Mayhew and
Edwards, is entitled The _Fifth of November, and ap-
pears to have the laudable object of casting discredit on
the childish and dangerous practice of exploding
fireworks as a testimonial of ]oyal abhorrence of the
dark designs of Guy Fawkes against the British
Solomon and the Peers in Parliament assembled.
Mr. Wheeler (Tilbury), an elderly gentleman of the
old school, who seems to think there is an intimate
and insuperable connexion between the existence,
constitution, and the observance of all time-honoured
customs, is introduced, giving orders for the incarna-
tion of a well got up Guy. His daughter (Miss Mar-
shall), on the other hand, belongs to the extreme gauche
on this subject, and for this, and a too lively feeling
for Mr. Sinjohn (Mr. Rogers), she is confined to her
chamber, whilst he is expelled the house. But as
lovers are never at a loss for an expedient, particu-
larly on the stage, Sinjohn assumes the paraphernalia
of the Guy, and in this disguise finds ready accept-
ance from the father. He is fimally taken out to be
cast into the bonfire, when the father, hearing the
real state of the case, orders the revellers to stay
further proceedings, but somewhat too late. The
unfortunate lover is brought back in an apparently
dying condition, and the old gentleman then, in order
to soothe his last hours, consents to give away the
daughter. The accepted lover, overjoyed at the event,
tells his father-in-law that he has been done, it having
been " the regular Guy" that was cast into the fire.
The Fifth of November is a successful addition to
the repertoire of agreeable short pieces, in the pro-
duction of which the management of Punch's Play-
house seems to be inexhaustible.

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic foa
,he week ending November 8, 1851:--
Passengers (20,029), goods and
parcels, horses and carriages.. £3,623 8 0
Corresponding week in last year
for Glasgow and Ayr, and
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle Railways £3,067 6 9
Glasgow, November 10.

GREAT FIRE IN EIOLBORN.—Last night, shortly
after ten o'clock a fire, involving a serious loss of property,
broke out in the premises of Messrs. Mainon and Sons,
French basket importers, 12, Holborn-hill, at the corner of
Castle-street. The building was four stories high, and be-
tween 60 and 70 feet deep. The fire commenced, from some
cause not clearly ascertained, in the back part of the premises
and, owing to the inflammable nature of the contents, the
work of destruction progressed with such rapidity that be-
fore an engine had time to reach the spot the whole of the
back buildings were in a blaze. The engines of the London
Brigade and West of England Company, with the Royal
Society's fire-escapes, having arrived the most strenuous ex-
ertions were made to subdue the fire, but it was nearly mid-
night ere this could be accomplished, and not until the
greater portion of the extensive property bad bean reduced
to ashes, and considerable damage done to the premises ad-
joining. The total loss must, at a moderate calculation, ,
amount to several hundred pounds.
THE INFLUENCE OF LEGISLATURE UPON FASHION.
—Sir Robert Peel's Bill having discarded a large portion of
the duty upon dress, the public appear now to be reaping the
full benefit of that measure. At the Customs' examinations
we notice these facts and obtain also a notion of that which
is denied to us elsewhere, viz.—what is to be the vogue
during the current month. A large case consigned to the
Messrs. Jay, which was opened yesterday, displayed some
bonnets of a white and semi-transparent ground, on which
was a raised cord that appeared remarkably new. The
scintillatory and diamond-like effect of some of the head-
dresses was very chaste and elegant. There were likewise
some bonnets, for which one of our countrymen has taken out
a patent both in France and in England. It had really
puzzled us to know how so much style and variety could be
produced for a house which is limited to specialities, but it
would seem that the recurring success of these importations
is attributable to the constant visits and personal superin-
tendence in Paris of the Artiste en Mode, who directs the
confection of the millinery for the salons in Kegent-street.
THE OMNIBUSES.—The whole of the omnibuses
on the Oxford-street line having reduced their fares, the ve-
hicles on the Piccadilly and Strand line of road are pretty
generallye6 following their example. The Pimlico, as well as
omnibuses
Sloane-square,
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Westminster
mom4ndi.butsoes3,dh.avtheereednuteiteed the fares to and
from the City from
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liawrehicdistance, and the
pas-
sengers to and from c,
ar.n announce
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carriage further
of
f portion
Charing-cross I g-cross and either end of the
journey at the lesser fare, reta" • full fare of 4d. for
retaining the
the entire distance, while the
thing, but retain the four omnibuses do the same
Chelsea
street and the Bank, and P6ednn3'r fare to and from Sloane-
• also the case with the numerousfor the whole journey; as is
route. In addition to these concessions, omnibuses running on this
ning to and from Hunt,
(rerforcdoncessions, the omnibuses run-
reduced their fares from 4d. to market and Paddington have
on the roof. It appears now that3d., and 2d. only, as before,
gene-
rally the opportunity of travelling by
most of the omnibuses
the public have very
to and from Charing-crass at a m
they are indebted to the oppositionoiety of the fare, for which
recently
Oxford-street and Holborn line at the low fares, and doubt-
ently started on the
less also to the remarks made bysubjee. the public journals on this

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII—Mr. Francis Whisbaw,
the inventor of this important discovery, is about to deliver
illustrated lectures in London, one view of which will be to
demonstrate that the charge need not be more than a shilling
for every twenty words, from all the principal towns of the
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