The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-28 00:00:00

SADLER'S WELLS.

The pantomime at this neat little theatre, the favourite
resort of the infernal gods, is a very good one, though the
uproar of the upper dis-orders is rather distressing to " ears
polite." The pantomime is called Harlequin and the Stolen
Nose ; or, Four-and- Twenty Blackbirds baked in a
Pie. There certainly is a pie in the opening scene, and
a blackbird larger than life, hut what either has vrt
to do will it we could ill discover. Indeed, the fint
opening plot we could comprehend was a " go-off"
upon " 'Morison's 'Vegetable Pills." We have o,:r
obi friend MA NCHA ICD as .F.Crrienioo7l, and .he is incon—

testably the best extant. The Harlequin is a very
good one, and there was a young lady whom we understood
to be columbine. There are two clowns—which is just
one too many, for we do not like too much of a good
thing. In short, the pantomime is a very clever one.
The scenery is very pretty, and in the course of the piece
there is a very well painted and well managed polyoramH,
living views of Oporto and the neighbourhood, and of
Admiral Napier's victory. The clown's mouth is filled
with too many clap.traps. Notwithstanding the extreme
inclemency of the weather, the house was crammed.

SESSIONS FOR THE YEAR 1834.

MIDD.

ESEX.
Jan. 9*, 16, 29 July 10#, 17, 23, 29
Feb. 3, 13*, 20, 26 Aug. 7*, 14, 20, 25
March 3, 13*, 20 Sept. 4*, 11, 17, 22
April 2,7, 17*, 24 Oct. 2*, 8, 13, 23*, 10
May 7, 12, 22*, 29 Nov. 19, 26
June 11, 16, 25, 30 Dec. 4*, 11, 31
WESTMINSTER.
Feb. 13, April 3, May 8, June 26, Aug. 28, Oct. 9, Nov. 20.

LONDON.

Jan. 1, Feb. 19, April 9, May 14, July 2, Sept. 3, Oct. 15, Nov. 26.

OLD BAILEY.
Jan. 9., Feb. ‘...)0, April 10, May 15, July 3, Sept. 4, Oct. 16, Nov. 27.

Those marked thus ► are County Days.

A great number of persons who bought copies
of the King's speech of the criers in the streets yesterday
were surprised on reading it to find that his Majesty spoke
of the rupture of Antwerp, the m irriage of the Princess
Louise, &c. On further examination they found that they
had been hoaxed, the speech being that delivered at the
opening of last session.— Galignani's Messenger.

ONE OF TIIE AMUSEMENTS OF AN EGYP-
TIAN GOVERNOR.—I sometimes accompanied him (the
Governor of Damietta) in his excursions on the Nile ; he
was a capital sportsman, and made it a point to fire at
birds with a single ball. In this way I have seen him kill
sparrows repeatedly; indeed he very rarely missed. One
day I was disputing the excellence of an officer's pistol
who sat by me; he would have it that it was an English
pistol, though it was really a German one. When I as-
sured him it was not English, he very deliberately primed
it, and, retiring to the distance of four or five yards, he
fired between my legs, as I sat on a bench, at a jar about
20 feet distant ; he smashed the jar, and said in a trium-
phant tone, " Well, is that an English pistol or not ?"
" Most undoubtedly," said I, "it must be English." It
is not very pleasant to have a drunken Turk shooting be-
tween one's legs. —Madden's Travels in Turkey, Egypt,
Nubia, &e.

The Doctor arrives at Sidon, and to the stir-
p ise of all its inhabitants, the far-famed Lady Hester
Stanhope invites him to her Villa of d'Joun, eight miles
distant from the town ; there is no village in its vicinity,
—hemmed in on all sides by arid mountains ; this residence
is shut out from the world, and is at the mercy of the
Bedouins, if they had the audacity to attack it. But of
this there is little fear ; they regard her Ladyship as the
Queen of the Wilderness. * ' The room into
which I was ushered was in the Arab style ; a long divan
was raised at the end, about a foot and a half from the
ground ; and, at the further corner, as well as a glimmer-
ing lamp would allow me to distinguish, I perceived a tall
figure in the male attire of the country, which was no
other than Lady H. herself. She received me in the most
gracious manner, arose at my entrance, and said my visit
afforded her great pleasure. One of the most striking
features in her Ladyship's character is, that she reads the
stars, and is guided by them. The Doctor says that her
Ladyship's influence over the Turkish Pachas of Syria has
greatly diminished, and for an excellent reason—that she
has no longer wherewithal to buy the rogues' protection.
Her establishment formerly consisted of 30 or 40 domes-
tics, and a great number of girls, whose education was hit
employment ; but they have all deserted her, with the ex-
ception of five servants, and on their fidelity her life ie
now dependant. Several attempts have been lately made
to break in at night; people have been found murdered
who were attached to her, and the corpse of a stranger, to
lew days ago, was found lying near her gate. Her habits
are peculiar ; she retires to rest at the dawn, and rises in
the afternoon ; she takes her meals in her own apartment,
and never with her guests; she drinks no wine, and very
seldom eats meat. Other nights it was still later when I
retired ; tea was sometimes brought in towards two in the
morning. Part of her Ladyship's conversation turns upon
following
gobs soldierss: Ther
some of our late awl most famous statesmen and politicians,
Idfoorpin,
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are none like them ; for a coup de main I would have
Irish—all Irish. The Scotch should plan the project—
tiina
[care
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Eery-headed
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the Irish execute it ; the latter know not how to retreat ;
they have a great deal of wit, which consists in quitltnese
of apprehension ; they always have genius, but they never
have any judgment. George Canning was one of your
fiery-headed Irish politicians. When I acted as Mr. Pitt's
Secretary, I had nothing but trouble with this Irishman.
One day I could hardly persuade him to sit down to dinner
at Mr. Pitt's because Lord Castlereagh was present. He
was like a fine lady at a play, who becomes quite fidgett:e
because a naughty person is sitting in the next box ; he was
afraid of infection. Oh ! there is no one knows George
Canning so well as Ido ; he was never stanch to any per-
son, nor to any party ; he would neither serve Mr. Pitt
well, nor yet bleak with him. When Mr. Pitt went out:
of office, Canning used his name to make it be believed,
he was only waiting for a bait to be drawn in again. Mr.
Pitt was obliged to forbid him the house; but he soon in-
gratiated himself again into favour. He has no largeness
of soul; he is voluble and erudite, but he never was such
en orator as Grattan. Grattan's speeches will read well
tGoreevekeraynodnLe,atbinutGGenrtalettmaenn's;
atroethoenic)o'
are nonsense. To such beings as myself, who have their
uinntterlyligiqbuleiretoe, y:hoeuyr
strong notions of things and persons, the speeches of Can-
ning are vapid ; there is no depth in his eloquence—oo
universality in his philosophy. Lord Castlereagh was the
best meaning man in the world, but his intellect was not,
of the first order; in the documents he was in the habit
of writing for Mr. Pitt, there were always blunder,., but
he used to write them over again very good sl I
uinpuredly.
Canning and he were always in one anotlier'e way; the
Senate was not large enough for both. When Mr. Pitt
was out of office, I acted as his Secretary, and he had
thee as much business as ever. He seldom opposed my
opinions, and always respected my antipathies. In private
li e he was cheerful and affable; he would rise in the midst
of his gravest avocations to hand me a fallen handkerchief ;
lie was l a
-wave polite to women, and a great favourite with
many of them ; but ice was wedded to the State, and d'eath
only could divorce him from his Country. His great re-
creatioe, after business, was stealing into the country,
entering a clean cottage, where there was a tidy woman
and a nicely scotered table, and there be would eit bread
and cheese like any ploughman. He detested route, and
always set down to plain dinners. Re never ate before
he went to the House; but when anything iniporeint was
to be discussed, lie was in the habit of taking a glass of
port wine, with a teaspoonful of bark,-.411-adden's Tra.
eels in Tarkeyt Egypt, Nubia,