The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-15 00:00:00

being easy, weincline to thehope that the Board will
commence doing something with the undertaking
of this necessary work. As to the aesthetical por:
tion of the task, it is to be hoped some enlightened
ADAM will be found to supply the Board with new
names, which will neither offend the ear by the
want of euphony, nor the understanding by con-
veying the notion of flunkeyism or servility.

comely, welcome, delightful—doubly all this,
we are nearly tempted to say, from all her queer,
fantastic changes—changes quaint, eccentric,
and grotesque. It should be observed in regard
Mr. Reed's share in the Entertainment, that he
has the arduous task of remaining upon the stage
uninterruptedly from the time of his first appear-
ance. Taking his part in the Dialogue, indulging
occasionally in Soliloquy, lending an air of veri-
similitude to the incidents by his by-play, and
accompanying on the piano, with an ever ready
finger and a sparkling touch, the various Songs
introduced by his lively partner in the course of
the Entertainment. For, of course, Mrs. German
Reed sings—and equally, of course, when she
sings, she sings delightfully. There are no less
than five new ditties in all, worthy of note—the
"Echo Song," the " Violet Song," the " Travel-
ler's Lay," "Love makes a Home," and a
droll Irish Ballad about " Judy of Killarney."
Remembering which, and remembering also the
laughter provoked on Saturday evening by the
performance, then first exhibited to a select few
—we cannot hesitate to predict a decided success
to Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's novel and most
amusing Entertainment.

MR. AND MRS. T. GERMAN REED,

AT THE GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.

We enjoyed the privilege on Saturday evening
of attending at the above Gallery, among a select
circle, to witness the private performance of Mr.
and Mrs. German Reed in their new and very
sparkling Entertainment. An entertainment which
will be publicly inaugurated this evening—and
which, we doubt not for one moment, will rival its
predecessor in popularity and success, if it does
not actually eclipse it altogether by at once ex-
tending and enhancing the reputation of the two
artistes, artistes as lively and amusing as they are
versatile and indefatigable. The scheme of the
new Entertainment is soon told. It resembles in
some measure the old and laughable stage-equivoque
—known far and wide as 'The Manager in Distress.'
That capital bit of affected reality so bewildering
to every one not " up" to the secret at the first
moment—bringing the Manager apologetically to
the footlights—arousing the indignation of an
irascible gentleman in the Pit—kindling the ire
of another irascible gentleman in the Boxes—and
waking up at last the dormant wrath of a third
still-more-irascible " gentleman" (in his shirt-
sleeves) up in the Top Gallery ! Until the House
rings with their wrangling voices—and there is
a notion at last among the uninitiated part of
he audience that the Police will -have to be
called in to put a stop to the disturbance. When—
lo, and behold ! an explanatory whisper somehow
gets abroad ! People begin to look at one an-
other with a gradually dawning consciousness of
having been " played upon," or "Sold," or
" Roasted," or " Hocussed," or whatever else you
may like to call it ! Those who have been all
the while laughing in their sleeves—now fairly
laugh outright ! And the jest comes to an end,
at last, in the midst of very general hilarity with
the eclairicssement that the Abusers of Mr. Mana-
ger are after all really and truly among the Stars
of his Company—that the gentleman in the Pit
is Mr. So and-So, the Light Comedian ; that
the gentleman in the boxes, is Mr. What-d'ye-
call-em, the Tragedian ; and that the gentleman
(in his shirt sleeves) up in the three-penny
gallery, is Mr. Thinggummee, who sang the comic
song just now (in a red wig), and danced the
frog-dance with the lady's-maid at the tail end
of the interlude ! Well, the old old joke of
" The Manager in Distress," it seems, has
furnished a capital notion of a new entertain-
ment to Mr. and Mrs. German Reed. The
last mentioned—better known by her familiar
came as Miss Priscilla Horton, or, best of all,
indeed by the mere initial of it as Miss P. Horton
—after a moment's pause, on the drawing up of
the curtain, suddenly appears upon the stage
or platform (the said stage or platform being de-
corated, as usual, after the fashion of an elegant,
gilded, armolu'd buhl-adorned apartment), with
an appearance of considerable "flurry," " worry,"
" hurry," and general puzzlement. The Murder
comes out in a minute or two through divers
gasps of apology—Mrs. Reed incoherently
hinting to her audience her extreme regret
that her husband's unexpected non-appearance
upon the scene prevents the forth-coming of their
newly projected entertainment—" The Lady of
Lucerne." In the midst of these stammered ex-
planations, on comes Mr. Reed, to be dragged
into them, as it were, neck-and-heels, in due
course, to his apparent bewilderment ! Mutual
explanations of another kind then take place
before the footlights as to the cause of
this general want of punctuality—when the
lady announces to her astonished lord the
magnificent proposal held out to them both by
some new Gye or Lumley, Bunn or Barnum—
tempting them with a promise of 60,0001. (and
all expenses paid) to a world-wide tour like that
recently made by Miss Catherine Hayes, here,
there, and everywhere ! A young-lady-Ward is
the only incumbrance calculated in any way to
preclude them from at once snapping at the pro-
position. With a view to the ridding them-
selves of which incumbrance, Mrs. Ger-
man Reed, it then appears, has inserted an
advertisement, in that day's Times, for a Gover-
ness. Having explained which preliminaries
with delightful volubility, and handed to her still
rather bewildered mate a copy of the paper con-
taining her advertisement—Mrs. German Reed
hastens away to the City in the hope of com-
pleting her negotiations with the aforesaid
G. L. B. Barnum, Esq., leaving Mr. German
Reed, Times in hand, seated before the open
piano, with a look of comic surprise in his eyes—
co await the arrival, there and then, of the pro-
bable candidates for the office of Gouvernante.
There is the " cue" of the whole Piece 1 Au
obvious " cue " enough. Mrs. German Reed
that Is—Miss P. Horton that was—appearing, of
course, anew upon the scene in all sorts of novel
lisguises as the applicants for the filling up of the
" vacant-place " advertised. A Proteus in Petti-
coats ! A Chamelion in Crinoline ! A Female
Woodin ! Anyhow you may like to express it, so _
as to afford the most vivid notion conceivable of a SEAFORD, SUSSEX.—On Saturday last, at midday, this
series of total and rapid transformations. Plea- town was visited by a terrible storm from the south-
.tant, charming Mrs. German Reed, no longer—. west. The lightning was severer than has been seen for
many years, and incessant flashes lit up the bay during
our artiste, steps forth from behind the side-scenes a spice of ten minutes. Three men employed in dress-
entirely and almost distressingly " transalogri. ing the stone in Mr. Thotiaas Ade's mill were struck by
find." Dowdyfied acidulated and prae-
er
leo u
for
i na
half
the electric fluid, and frightfully burnt. It is supposed
matical, as one Miss Lucretia Mint, a drab-
thatithhe steel instrument in use. for this purpose attracted
dressed spinster, with a poke bonnet and a
remainedltteofa.lly unycowns
c usp an hour a ter and
dressed spinster, with a poke bonnet and a remained totally unconscious for half an hour alter the
green veil, and the reddest imaginable tip to the accident. They are, we are glad to say, now doing well,
leanest possible nose Altogether spiteful, waspish, but it was at first feared they would be deprived of the
and in every way, as Dogberry hath it, " very nos eof theihr
asdletewawsoauomdiriaclenhthey were not killed.
tolerable and not to be endured." Another while, wiser, man
much scorwcheed ; panother ssuffteres fercokm, aan dwound
h ern
Mrs. German Reed is hocus-poeus'd before the the side and breast. The third has not been so greatly
footlights, in the rather more portly and decidedly damaged. Their outer clothing was little injured, and
more agreeable, though at the same time be it in
blackened, a case
nw where e
otherthe stockingsdam ao,e
than are a
hle ho
bursttt to shreds
is d i
and
said, the horribly vulgarised--tawdry—free-and- verable in the trousers. The mill stands intact, and
easy character of Mrs. Carrickfergus O'Connelly. sulphurous odour in the loft alone tells of the visitation.
Speaking with a brogue of preternatural breadth ! Some fishermen in the boat-house on the beach had a
Clad in chintz of the very loudest pattern ! Help- doornarroawndeswcaepnet.
offTahgealiinghattanoinganeonhteorrehdatohgroiog up withughtheoena
ing herself to wine, to a chair, to anything and report like that of a pistol. The end of a rope, as if
everything, with a relish of delightful self- dipped in gunpowder, witnesses to the fact of fire.
possession ! And yet after all quitting the Beane wDe laNNER IN
eHiOtiNQIIRt OFh StIR Hill oauffseTroder
iSTh
BwrAßTatifi--.
ca-
when she finds she has altogether Wei in win- tion troeaslul roeurwreanderres,awehwenawewannounce tnat gAdmiral
ning from Mr. Reed the covetted place of Sir Houston Stewart, K C. 8., yesterday cordially ac-
governess (for her daughter) with a snap of the cepted an invitation, addressed to by 1
fingers and a general insolence of demeanour
king the
the request of anumbeart a
public dinner in
of our tow
worthy to the full, we might say, either of Bil-
Greenock thocke plineaosrudreer of his company
affor
the citiz-ns an opportunity
lingsgate or of Donnybrook Afterwards, on of giving expression to the feelings of respect and kind
cometh—sweepingly, sailingly, a walking balloon n's which they entertain for him personally, and their
of petticoats, or rather it should be said a veritable
aappd reciation and
T admiration
admiral's
his services to our Queen
long and close con•
moving parachutein crinoline—Claudine Delacour, nne t
ioo country.
w
with hGreenock,e ga
and his valuable labours in the
in the Extreme (literally) of the Fashion ! Scarcely Black Sea combine to give peculiar ihnterehstvetohetehae
able to squeeze in at the doorway 1 Unable to meeting. In all parts of tthheecoutihnitiroys tense
of
gratitudea
opportunities of expressing
find room for herself in an ordinary chair ! En-bled the • this
to the soldiers who fought and in war ,
sconcing herself at last upon an ample settee, and will be, we believe, the first banquet in honour of the
hiding it entirely by the sweep of her portentous navy ; and a large seaport like Greenocka.i
is
most
oamP
apparel ! Claudine Delacour, who is up to every-
Ipreprintimeot they o
haves it
so
well
dose
avye
do! r
Ourerseaders are
thing—makes herself perfectly at home with aware that,
since Sir Houston's return from the Black
everybody—.—has been, in a manner so to speak, Sea, he has received from her Majesty's Government
everywhere ! "Been up Monte Rosa ? Thought tthhehe ir,rth American and West Indian station—the
and important command of the fleet on
p
you hadn't—/ have !" " Climbed to the to of highest mark of confidence which they could
bestow
the Groat Pyramid, before breakfast ? Thought upon him. As we believe it impossible to say when the
you hadn't—/ have !" " Gone down in a ' admiral may receive orders to assume his command,
diving-bell ? Thought you hadn't—/ have will tdh. ern
eefro ries bteo
oteaekees
epalrayceforur,aolnl
wFbroidaw3ienbeticot,beanpdret.
And so on, in regard to all sorts of sur- sent to give early intimation of their intention. It will
prising situations ! At last she too goes off be seen that a preliminary meeting is to be held at noon
to-day to make arrangements.—Greenock Advertiser of
in spite of the narrow doorways—sweeping away
with her, as she goes, a gold watch and a few Frjcl4l.
ACCIDENT TO THE PENINSULAR .AND ORIENTAL COM-
other trifles of that kind—proving herself, in point PANT'S STEAM-SHIP Azor,—SOUTHA.SIFTON, Sunday.—
of fact, a Prig, both in her proceedings and in her The steam-ship Cleopatra arrived at; Devonport early
deportment ! Yet another adventurer (husband this morning, and for4arded intelligencte to So; thaim ospoatloiri
of the last-mentioned) is presented to view a by
Oriental
telegraph that she had
steam-ship f I en inA
withzifltohe 0
miles north-
few moments afterwards by Mrs. German Reed and,
west of Cape Company's
Finisterre, leaky and in. a sinking state.
under the extraordinary half-length disguise of,:j. The Cleopatra placed six marines on board her, and re-
one AL e Viscomte Fanfaronnade--voluble in mained by her four days, having left "tahermatto7nThe
o'clock
French-English as we might fancy M. de Florae
company yesterday'smeourpoei
ruignteeendher
t cuss
eain Sot' Engledue, imni a-
would be if suddenly changed into a sort of in- diately ordered the steam-ship Madrid, Captain Brad-
dignant demirep of a Prince de Moncontour ! sha,w, to be got ready, and procee..l il.ll search of the
After the withdrawal of which same M. Le Vis-
iAlizeof.,aztoof render her
hampton any asosiosttahnece
esth
:lost.,
eosmti-ght very require,
deep ly
o a
Mute de Fanfaronnade re-appears upon laden,t t k teup a temporary sonic,' from-
Mauritius to I
the scene Mrs. German Reed herself, Aden.