The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-08 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

A version of the Une Bataille des Dames was pro-
duced at this theatre last night, under the title of The
Ladies' Battle, and was most successful. The transla-
tion is perfectly literal, and the cast is as follows:—
Henri de Flagviniul, performed at the St. James's by
Lafont, is personated by Mr. William Farren, jun.;
Gustave de Grignon, performed by Regnier, is assigned
to Mr. Leigh Murray. The magistrate, Montrichard,
personated in the French by Roger, is given to Mr.
Henry Farren. The Countess, whichlle. Judith
enacts at the St. James's, is undertaken by Mrs. Stirling;
and 'Wile. St. Mares part, I.4onie, is sustained by Miss
Howard. The Countess of Mrs. Stirling is a pi-rfect
gem; it is one or those parts cornbiniog pathos with wit
and high breeding, iu the representation of which Mrs.
Stirling stands alone, and the character of the Countess
will henceforth take its place as among the first, if
not the very first, in her repertoire. Next to the
Countess of Mrs. Stirling comes the De Grignon of
Mr. Leigh Murray ; he brought out the lights and
shades of the poltroon hero with admirable tact and dis-
crimination. Mr. ID.rfry Farren, as the Baron Mont-
richard, was admirable, and the Henri of Mr. W.
Farren, jun., afforded sati..factory proof of the progress
which that geetl,man has made of late in his art. Miss
Louisa Howard made a most interesting Leonie, and,
as might have been expected from such a comedy so cast,
the success was complete, and another excellent play
is added to the list of Olympic stock pieces.

ASSAULT OF ARMS -SAVILLE•HOUSE,
LEICESTER-SQUARE.

Mr. Green, mute, himself one of she most agile, grace-
fal, and rkilful of fencers, has fitted up one of the large
saloons in Saville-house (better known to sight-seers as
Miss Liesvosd s Gallery) as a gymnasium, in which
every day an exhibition takes place of athletic and
gymnastic sports and exercises. Ile has secured the
services of some of the best fencers, swordsmen, single-
stick players, wrestlers, and sparrers in the kingdom.
The following is the list of his corps:—Fencers, swords.
men, Sec.—Messrs. Prevost, Leon Gillemand, VS inter-
bettons, Percy, Platt, Parker, Herr Van der Masr,
Chambers, Edwards s, &c. &c. Wrestlers—Cumberland
and Westmoreland—Dixen (the Champion), Nicholson,
Cain, Pritchard, Taylor, Douglas, &c. &c.; Cornish and
Devon—Bowden (the Chsmpu,n) 'friscett (ex-Cham-
pion), Dyer, Westlock, Bartlett, &c. Sparrers—
Alex. K .sne, J. Welsh, Young Sambo, Harri-
Son, Hoiles, Scott, Msddon, &c. &c.
We were present yesterday at a special morning per-
formance, and were highly gratified with the manner in
which the amusements were conducted. The wrestling,
both Westmoreland and Cornish, was first-rate, seldom,
indeed, has there bsen such a display of power and skill
combined. The single-stick playing was admirable,
and the fencing of' Messrs. Winterbottom and Chapman,
Messrs. Winterbottom and Gellemaud, and Messrs.
Gitlemand and Prevost, was most graceful. Mr.
Parker exhibited the Cater-de-Lion feats of
cutting a sheep in two by cue blow of a
sabre, severine a leg of mutton at one blow
and cutting through a leaden ingot, while Mr.
Winterbottom performed the Seladia feat of cutting
through a siik handkerchief. There was a bayonet and
sabre combat by Messrs. Parker and Campbell, in
which the sabre had manifestly the advantage.
We congratulate Mr. Green on the triumphant sue
cess of his praiseworthy attempt to rescue the noble
art of self-dr fence from the inglorious state into
which it bad fallen through the vices of some of its pro-
fessors—perhaps the most graceful and elegant portion
of the whole exhibition was the sparring of Messrs.
Alexander Keene and Harrison. Instead of being
stripped to the waist, as was formerly the custom with
sparrers, these sparrers were attired in the usual
fencing costume. The sparring itself was of the
most scientific order, it was not a brutal battering, but a
friendly trial of skill, and from the elegance of the poses
and the grace of the artistes it was quite as pleasing as
the performances of the Rtsleys. Indeed, it was a
perfect specimen of what may be called drawing-room
gymnastics. The ladies in the gallery were delighted
with it, and applauded the sparring to the echo. There
cannot be a doubt of the success of Mr. Green's under-
taking. Every lover of manly sports wilts visits the me-
tropolis will make a point of going once at least to Ssvile
House.

MONEY MARKET.—The quotation of gold at Paris
1.._3 about 3 per mine discount, according to the
4eW tariff, which, at the English Mint price of
31. 178 1 d , . 0,1 . per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
'
cnange of 23 10 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at THE MANIFESTATION OF THE EARTH S ROTATION.
thort being 25.00, it follows that gold is 0.40 per cent. —Various paragraphs and articles have been since circulated,
dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Elam- in which very unsuccessful attempts have been made to give
burgh the price of gold is 425 per mark, which, at the Eng- an intelligible account of this fact to the general reader.
a
rish Mint price of 31. 17s. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, In the face of these abortive efforts, some of them by men
gives an exchange of 13.4 i ; and the exchange at Ham •• making first-rate pretensions to astronomical and scientific
burgh on at short being 13.5 i. it tellows that gold acuteness, we shall not presume to translate the abstract
is 1118 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. demonstation of cusmical lore into the ordinary parlance of
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills ac miscellaneous readers; but this we will say for the latter
63 days' sight is 110' per cent., and the par of exchange that the attempts to render this point intelligible have
between England and America being 103 a 3-40 per cent., tailed, in many cases, not from the want of scientific pene-
it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.E7 per cent, in trati: n on the part of the public FO much as from loose
favour of England; but after making allowance for differ- description and palpable error on the part of their self-
e States. of
elected teachers. Tables have been said to rotate round
ftli:tereat and charges of transport, the present rate
leave their centre instead of round an axis—not so much theirs
profit on the importation of gold from the United
either as the earth's; pendulums have been described as
vibrating for hours or days without the slightest hint how
ARRIVALS4.,,_ . !OR THE EXHIBITION.—The arrivals of this was done—how or whether the effects of drafts, of
'anlihign contributions to the Exhibition continue to take place torsion, of local vibration, were guarded against or allowed
froth all parts, and have within the latest dates included for—in what plane, whether meridianal or otherwise, the
4Orne from France, Belgium, Prussia. Holland, and the Han- pendulum was made to vibrate in the outset,
aeatic St here
have
ates and in addition to the European arrivals t notwithstanding such uncertainties, they were told that it
la 2 been some from the East Indies, via Southampton, con- was only " the unscientific mind" 'hat for a moment hesia
fro
to the East India Company ; I case of glass and 3 Bac., rite. And,
tated to gulp down all the " commen sense," east like pearls
ar‘as.arlackages from Boston, United States ; and two boxes before those who could not appreciate it; whereas, we verily
ne7lialifax, Nova Scotia ; aid also 36 packages from Syd- believe, it was the unscientific alone who were at once car-
net'' New South Wales; the whole of which are declared to reed away by the ad captandum idea of the table rotating
Intended for the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry round i s centre, with the earth's rotation, while the peuda-
ol all
...Nations, in Hyde-park. gum measured out that rotation like fixed hands on a hori-
I
day
in
GBOURN WARD.—It was understood yester- zontally rotating dial !—Builder.
City that Mr. Cubitt, M.P., would be a candidate CURIOUS METEORoLoGICAL PHENOMENON.—A cu-
lot thil the
Joh
.17. Aldermanic gown of this ward in the ioom of Sir rious meteorological phenomenon has just taken place at
a Ja•ey. who has been advanced to that of Bridge With- Lardabourg, in Calabria. A luminous meteor was perceived
td°,lr..t:
_Mr'. Cubitt is stated to have received the support of to fall on a barn, which it set on fire. Professor Tosti, who
nlaiterman, M.P., and Mr. Samuel Gurney. has given an account of the matter, mentions that this is
CAN A
...RIES: THEIR HONEYMOON.—When your ca- only the second time that such an event has been known to
varies are well " paired," turn them at once into their breed- take place. The other case occurred on the 13,.h of June,
g cage. They will feel themselves "at home" in a moment, 1759, at Captieux, near Bazas, in France. The meteor there
a quite and will
i understand what is expected from them. If als,) set fire to a barn, in which a beggar had taken refuge.
lon are observant, you will find that the sight of a nest-bag, He was arrested under a charge of incendiarian, and taken
and a peep at the two nest-boxes, will soon inoculate the to Bordeaux. He declared in the most solemn manner that
aPPY pair" with a desire to enter upon the duties of an he was innocent; but be would, notwithstanding, have been
active life. The chances are, that the very first day they certainly condemned had not the Abbe Nollet, then cele-
enter a breeding cage will see the nest-bag pulled to pieces, brated as a natural philosopher, examined the premises, and
and the nest itself progressing far towards completion -the having found among the rubbish the aerolite that had fall.n,
),en, be it observed, is the most alert hi this matter. Whilst exerted himself in favour of the poor man, and got him ac-
cosilyit
for
seated on the building material. and busily arranging quitted. The phenomenon mentioned by Professor Tosti was
from two to
is rthe reception of her eggs (the average number of which witnessed by several persons.
GERMAN PASsPORTS FOR ENGLAND.—According to
to a constant sue
five), the. hen will keep on giving utterance
_ succession of very peculiar, but expressive.
con-
conjugal notes._ It is quite easy to see that each one of these the German papers all the German Governments have
cluded a treaty by which passports delivered by consular
notes is full of the " dear"-est meaning, and thoroughly agents and Eng ish ambassadors do not preserve those to
comprehended by the male. His lordship, like a good bus- whom they are granted from expulsion, this favour being
b •
, will be observed thoroughly attentive, tenderly affec• only accorded to passports examined in England by theand
ttonate, and ready, at a moment's notice, to do her ladyship's
Sitting Thus,
the nest; at another time, arranging her moss,
Ir, and wool; and, at all times, lavishing on her the most ROYAL WESTMINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL.—
" delicate attentions," anticipatin,g• indeed, her every wish. The committee of this institution have issued an address, in
So passes the honeymoon.-- William Kidd, in the Gardeners' which they state that since the year 1817 to Ist January,
Chronicle.
SERinVAthNeT'S R 1851, 82,725 persons have availed themselves of the benefits
AN AMERICAN of the charity. Of these, 1,958 have been restored to sight
Boston of a gentleman . ruirrs.—l was told at by the operations for cataract and the formation of an arti-
found him very satisfactory' in all
neighbourhood who having ficial pupil. The appearance of 3,791 persons had been im-
togged a farm servant,
respects, except. that he invariabl ame into the house and proved by the operation for the removal of squinting. 4,954
into his master s room with his hat persons had been admitted to its benefits during the past
lam one day, "you always keep N ouorn.i` John," be said to
hata on when you come year, of whom 166 were in• patients. Of the principal opera-
into the house." "`Nell, Sir, haven't
one amright to, /
right to?" " Yes, lions during 1850, 95 were for cataract, 25 for the formation
I suppose you have." 0 Well, if I havrie of an artificial pupil, 041 for squinting, and I'2 others for
shouldn't I?" This was a poser from
an, to another
w2Y various complaints. Of the operations for cataract and arti-
vthere all have equal rights. So, after a too
ahke —how ficial pupil two failed, the remainder obtaining, some a rea•
he shrewdly asked, " Now, John, what'll merits reflection, sonable and others an excellent sight. The number of in-
muchanore wages will you ask to take off37ounrt patients has been augmented from 16 to 20; the hospital
you come in ?" " Well, that requires consideration, Pt when
has, however, still two wards closed, capable of containing
" Take the thing_ into consideration, then, and tell m ess."
ten persons, but they cannot be received for want of funds.
morrow morning." The morrow comes. " Well, John
, Ellittt°-ve A FAMILY AT A BIRTH.--A Saffron Walden COT-
you considered what additional wages you are to have for respondent writes that a Mrs. Chegnell, in that town, last
taking your hat off?" " Well, Sir, I guess it's worth
Itsettled then,
's John, you shall have and the mother is "as well as one can expect." '
far a Month:' "a dog- week gave birth to four daughters, all of whom are living
another dollar a month." And the gentleman retained a
good - servant, while John's hat was always in his hand S m cl Ti • quicksand
T. MARGARET ...HURCLIYARD.— _us
when he entered the house.—Professor Johnston's Notes in Waste,
filled with frail mortality, is now certain to excite
America. great observation: the noted painted window of the church
and the. abbey of St. Peter's will, beyond doubt, bring
PROVISIONS FOR THE CAPE.—Six hundred bags of thousands of strangers to the spot, who will marvel at the
biscuit have been shipped in the Tanjore, freight-ship, from careless keeping of the last home of our foregones: they will,
—A nut a ' the gravestones the Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport, for the use of the troops Perhaps, ii„,,,ghae
seme misunderstanding exists between the
at the Cape. She is to call at Plymouth for a further churches as to who
ianlike. se duty it is to keep it in order. A few
quantity, cart-loads of 1-,
to their whereabouts b
petual officers seem not esßuand level the grouud, would make it look
mould and a little labour to regulate
EFFECTS OF UNEXPECTED GOOD NEWS.
fOTttiightiCahcreinst,
, save the mark, a select vestry and perk
fortnight
having
gthe wife of a labouring man, residing at
the grass don't grow.-2"s '
not to create a very clear atmosphere ad-
Stratford,husbandof property
received a. letter by post informing her
would be put in p,seession amount- —flowers won't show, and even
Builder.
in g to
gds Should be left unmolested and
aelaares.—When I gave a
striVetEcliamutliNonltNha—t °your bier
I TJNG
theand process. When the young
ui e private whilst breedin
3 distended, unconsciousness, in which -he remained for some time, q
from,hs the effects of which she has not yet entirely recovered.l
ticu'arlv to the early part of
ale sickly
w and then to look at
birdsaell i
is
should do, red
on
of her husband
has also had an unfavourable effect on the mini
are
iwilltlhf
t htbhee
inreecdraof up:
duce insanity
nd, and it was feared at ono time it would pro-
-Essex Standard. every no
as may be,
It is with much regret we announce the decease the contrary, they are of
of Mr;lhomas Harrison, many years one of the Commis- are empty, then at once construct them
tahnedinh healthy,
them,
as hue' their crops
sinners cf Excise. This event occurred on Tuesday last, at a new nest (after first scalding and drying the materials
his residence in Alpha-road, after an illness of considerable and change the one for the other; change also the nest
uration, Mr. Harrison was much es eemed by his col- This done, carefully remove the nestlings with a
warm hand,
leagues and an extensive circle of friends. He was the only 1 them in their new abode. On examining
child ofan( place . the old
minute v •
the late Sir George Harrison, K.C.H., who long De •will it full of vermin.
nest, you find Subject one of
filled the office pit, 'd head • the blood of Assistant-Secretary to the Treasury. By
them to pressure under a
Mr.
Inlandßevenue.
very birth till this moment, have sustained these vermin in
THE NATIONAL CLUB.—The annual dinner of this life!! Never neglectthis act of duty. You will
_thereby
club took place yesterday evenin, at the club-house, Palace- save the lives of many a parent and many an offspring. The
yard. It was very numerous attended, and amonst those 01l birds will thoroughly understand what you are about,
present were Members ofthe Legislature. The chair andwillshow themselves well pleased when the change has
many
Vas Gardeners' Chronicle.
taken by Sir Digby Mackworth. been effected.— William Kidd, in the
1184 D MONEY.—An account has been printed by MARRIAGE A LOTTF RV.—At an evpning party re-
order of the House of Commons of the manner in which the cently it was proposed to dispose o' the belle of the room by
1.000,0001., voted, in the session of 1850. for head money, has lottery. Twenty tick as were immedately sold at a fixed
Stn applied. In addition to that sum, 6,4404 was paid under price. The joke euued not here. The fortunate adventurer
1 unction of the Lords of the Treasury. I, has since married the lady.—,Aberdeen herald.