The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-26 00:00:00

ITALY.

In its sitting of the 21st, the Chamber of Deputies
at Turin rejected the motion of Signor BROFFERIO,
amounting to a sort of vote of censure on the Mi-
nister of Public Instruction, and adopted the simple
order of the day by a large majority. This result
must chiefly be attributed to a very able speech of
Count Cavoua's, in which, after disengaging the
main question from the petty details i❑ which Signor
BROFFERIO had skilfully enveloped it, he took his
stand upon the broad ground of the general pulley of
the Government, stating that this was not the first
time suspicions of a retrograde policy had been stu-
diously fomented in the minds of the public ; but that,
to remove all such doubts, he need only declare, in
the name of the Cabinet, that his MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment had come to the irrevocable resolution not
to give way to Rome in the pending questions.
" We have hopes," said the Hon. Minister, " of ob-
taining the consent of the Holy See to the reforms
which are called for; but, were our hopes deceived
in this respect, we would never sacrifice the welfare
and prosperity of the country to a sentiment of blind
and injudicious ohedience.'
HAYMARKET THEATRE.

Diverting are the dilemmas of Mr. John Bonny-
castle, of Hatton-garden, the hero of the new farce
produced at this theatre last night. Labouring under
the impression that he has stolen a watch from th•
person of Mr. John James Johnson, the terrified
Bonnycastle decamps from his newly-married wife,
and hurries to an obscure village, where he engages
himself to one Smuggins as his clerk. Now Smug-
gins has a daughter who indulges in a tender corre-
spondence with the aforesaid Johnson. The latter, to
get access to the house, represents himself as Bonny-
castle ; and the agony of the real husband when he
hears his double talk of his "little Clotilda" whom he
has left in Hatton-garden can easily be imagined. A
second equivoque is originated by the arrival of the
wife in search of her runaway husband, when sbe, to
punish the impudence of the impostor, whom she recog-
nises as an old admirer, claims him as her own. The
mystification of the parties is finally put an end to by the
usual process, and the difficulties of Bonnycastle are
removed by the discovery that Johnson is no longer a
member of the detective police, and that he is disposed
to listen coolly to his "short but moving tale" touch-
ing his accidental possession of the watch. It is
seldom that we have met with a farce so profusely
studded with comic situations. The plot is full of
ingenious surprises, and the house was in a perfect roar
from the moment the curtain rose until it fell. But
there was Buckstone to personate the unhappy hus-
band, and popular actor never fitted himself with more
genial materials (for he is the author of the Taco
Bonnycastles) for the display of his peculiar humour.
His frantic jealousy when he fancies his wife has re-
tired to bed with the pseudo-Bonnycastle'jwas consum-
mately droll; and his device of tying the leg of his
rival with a cord while he remains below the balcony
with a revolver, leads to a practical catastrophe as
original as it is amusing. Buckstone, in short, was
in the fullest force, and the audience absolutely
screamed with laughter at the comic results of his
indignation. The farce, which was smartly and ra-
pidly played by the whole of the dramatis ppersona►—
sustained by Mr. Lambert, Mr. Howe, Mrs. Buck-
ingham, and Miss Vining—was announced for repe-
tition amid a round of the merriest and most enthu-
siastic plaudits.