The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-18 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

40 '3onbe/nt was performed at this house last night. The
Ittkthiet parts, and perhaps we should add Mr. MA-
tt, --"
fSS Pisani° were well sustained. bliss E. Tang
Nred as Intogen. Her performance is full of delicacy
of heehng. 111.acttiAnri
fine
is n the few sketchy scenes
‘-oze4umus. The character is in his vein, and is left
ttfil his discretion. His first scene with lachimo
starked with peculiarly nic.. judgment. Hils reservedds,
titkentleminlike air, graced with a touch o
.sa
44pasted well with the easy impudence of the libertine,
idea he reluctance with which he seemed to entertain the
that the latter was serious in his ribald bravadoes,
he Give the more effect to his burst of proud defiance when
4 444, , that the immaculate purity of his Irnogen
1411,111 Y put in question. In his la.t scene of all he
10 be too little moved during the progress of
N144'41 confession, but the passion of despair which
l'iattet,run this stillness was vividly natural, and so
'Or 41 as almost to justify it, if it were only
Ic'atratit sake. There was a certain propriety
kiyalr energetic action of the unreclainied Prince
-uptVhiellas a propitious windfall to Mr. BENNETT.
ttned "°"b, in the part of the younger Prince, triani-
-I.NaNt.it dutiful appreciation of the heir apparent's style i.f
i6l", and was, as it were, a fantastic shadow of him.
ts IttEN was again unfortunate in his undertaking.
‘1111• Personation of the stolid bully Gluten was a total
t
Most studied piece of imbecility. If Mr. Gll EEN
• the Vend to establish a permanent character for him.elf
Cti :°arda of the great houses, he must look about him
7,Yotil;-' or else he will be lost in his opening indiscretions
411 - the .b.l.t of his recovering himself again.
e possi y
"arti, " performances in the piece were, in no way,
Y of notice.
OVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

k,
RN
comic opera of The Duenna was repre.
,44t tigeve last night, in which Miss SHIRREFF, for the
;,PPept,rn: e, appeared as Don Carlos. In the little which
17111•ZIna to the character, Miss SHIRRErF satisfactorily
411,1%;(1 herself, and in the execution of the songs,
,71kiid- a heart," and "Ah ! sure a pair," slie evinced
Tttulable taste and skill. Previous to the commiense,Ee-
'Aft 1,',; the opera, an apology was made for Miss N
trl,4) on the score of a severe cold and sore throat.
roughg rgs were therefore omitted, and she walked
logy e part accordingly. Mrs. C. JONES played the
t6tt4l„.zceedingly well,,,and so well burlesqued the
fq she 'voert a tender maid, as to convince her auditors
ouici sing. DowTox, s Isaac .111endoza, nexta-
414, to S (the original), comes nearest, we should 1m
ki°4 What the author intended it. The scene with
pp' cana3 where she sings to him the song above
P1)1 ,kip.. was highly wrought, and obtained them much
44511.45 it, ,_I3LANCIi AllD did great justice to Don Jerome,
lill'ottio7c.ltusar and TrtatetxTux. to Ferdinand and
th, IIEnFoRD was excellent in Father Paul, and
eoG °F°°,l effect the glee and chorus, " This bottle's
0011 our table." His subsequent scene withthe.lkO '',s ~tiiersLiving Skeleton," newly revived y
$1 W 55, from its contrast, strikingly ludicrous. b
it The
g °tine front of the House of Commons
%P.;%4 err tars Barden is now under repair. The orna-
frOrp ,L° be improved and beautified. The exterior
""e River will appear more picturesque.
V4l'llo
t(,:kr,,,, R,V--TENTS IN THE BANKRUPTCY
tll,.°,WE.,lt:v.,terday the apparatus, which has been forb
ti1:1:11 eutt:tna progress, for warming the different su -
111.4r4litioperation.antloffices was for the first time put into
The invention of the apparatus for
OvUteg
c &c., by means of hot water of high
irCulating of pipes, belongs to a Mr. elied-:,:ovi Messrs. Walker, of St. John's-square, have
kt;l'ltte. ‘°,„.invention to the warming of the Bankruptcy
I. tie result of the first trial was highly favour-
:llrd in"tnhieal result
being given to all the Courts. The
O'Us nktin pipes is heated by fire, which gradually
er), ° vvater in the whole range of conductors placed
k.ttrio?4" "f the building. It is expected that, while
e7Phere outside the building is at 20 degrees, that
441:1),.t0
RP be maintained at fifty degree,. The loss of
oration, it is expected, will be exceedingly

THE ANNUALS.

ORIENTAL ANNUAL. LONDON. 1834.

This is a very splendid work, as all Oriental
Annuals sh9uld be. Its exterior is so costly,
and its embellishments so gorgeous, that Alad-
din might have admitted hint° the library of his
enchanted palace. The designs from which the
engravings have been made, are all from the
pencil of Daniel, who, we believe, is orthodox
authority on all matters appertaining to oriental
scenery. There are some splendid views on the
banks of the Ganges—whom Mr. Calmer, in
his literary illustrations, has treated with be-
coming reverence, as the great " father of
waters,"—and as fine a show of ruins as is to
be met with even along the shores of the Rhine.
We had no idea that India could boast so many
magnificent architectural antiquities. " Raje
Gur Ginjee " is a wild, rocky landscape, crowned
—at a height of, heaven knows, how many
thousand feet—with a stern, battlemented fortress,
which vividly recalls our recollection of some of
the most imposing feudal castles of the Rhine•
Portrait of her Majesty the " Queen of Candy,'
is a half-length of a very pretty, graceful, and we
are quite sure also, an amiable young lady. The
lips, to be sure, are a little thickish, nor can the
nose be commended for any miraculous delicacy
of proportion ; but the eyes have a frank, winning
expressions the brow is finely, even intellectually,
developed, and the expression of the whole
countenance is that of simplicity, archness, and
exuberant joyousness of spirit. Despite the
somewhat too visible mahogany of her com-
plexion, we will wager odds that her Majesty of
Candy is prettier than any Queen in Christen-
dom. " The Alligator and the Dead Ele-
phant," though the design is effective, possesses
no great merit as an engraving. It is harshly
and stiffly handled. The trees want flexibility,
and the lights are injudiciously disposed. The
alligator, with sparkling eye and wide-extended
jaws, is just preparing for a handsome meal on
the gigantic carcase before him, and exhibits
just that sort of gloating avidity which we have
witnessed in the countenance of an Alderman,
when placed opposite a tureen of savoury cali-
pash. " Hindoo Temple" is one of the most
imposing structures, whether as regards gran-
deur of design, harmony of proportion, or
general chasteness of effect, we ever beheld,
Were our young architects, instead of restrict-
ing their attention exclusively to European spe-
cimens of art, to extend their travels to the
East, they might enrich and amplify their ge-
nius, without running the slightest hazard of
impairing their judgment. There is enough of
invention and originality in this Hindoo Temple
to set up a whole fraternity of architects. Yet

how strange to see close beside such a
proud monument of genius, a specimen of
the grossest mental imbecility ! A golden
cow guards the portals of an edifice which
might put to shame half the religious struc-
tures of Europe ! And possibly the mind
that conceived and executed the one, bowed
down its lofty faculties in the blindest adoration
of the other ! " The Cataract at Puppanassum"
conveys a vivid idea of the prodigious power of
water. The flood appa?ently of a whole ocean
is thrown headlong from a terrific height into an
enormous caldron below, bearing down, just
as if they were mere straws, crags, rocks, and
masses of earth, large enough almost to make a
flower garden for a Cheapside lover of the rural.'

" The Talipat Tree" is a slender, graceful, ve-
getable beauty, such as Darwin, had he seen it,
would assuredly have made the heroine of his
" Loves of the Plants." It looks as if
aught stronger than a West wind would
blow it to earth, and bows its delicate
head, as if listening in a spirit of coquettish self-
comp latency, to the soft-nothings which a jolly,
thick-set, smartly• dressed shrub is (or ought to
be) whispering in its ear. The " Talipat "

grows in Ceylon. We should rather expect to
read of it in an Enchanted Island, nurtured by a
Miranda, sung to by an Ariel, and lulled to
sleep by the flattering songs of a nightingale,

brought to it express by a Zephyr. We wonder
we do not meet with it in Theccritus, or
in CElian's magic sketch of the Vale of
Tempe. Possibly the 2.3:; liii);;piclu,a. of which
the pastoral poet speaks, was the sighing, not of
the pine but the Talipat. " This beautiful tree,"

says Mr. Caunter, " certainly among the most

graceful productions of the vegetable kingdom,
blossoms only once during its existence, then
dies, and in dying, like the fabled phoenix,
sheds the seeds of a future generation around it."
Better this, than to die, like an Aspasia or a
Sappho, " and leave the world no copy."
The literary portion of the " Oriental Annual"

is admirable. It abounds in marvels, such as
blood-thirsty fakirs, half men, half monsters ;
camels, which, when pressed by hunger, think no-
thing of eating up their own hump, being perfectly
well aware that it will grow again, the instant
they can get a supply of food ; Delhi cowherds
who run on all fours, and use their arms as
forelegs, " the fingers resembling toes, and the
hands being without thumbs;" anti jugglers,
who put to shame the legerdemain tricks of
half the most expert diplomatic conjurors of
Europe. Then, too, we have lavish details of
lovely young Gentoo, Cingalese and Delhi bru-
nettes, graceful as antelopes, sprightly as fauns,
and symmetrical as Talipat trees, who might thaw
the frozen bosom of an anchorite, and tempt old
Simeon Stylites from his pillar. The scenic
descriptions are gorgeous and exuberant, as the
subject deserves. e have old Ganges in all
his glory ; ancient Delhi,. as it lives, and will
imagination,—and, for ever, in our iagmation,—and, though
no travellers, we can vouch for its accuracy, for
we have seen it in our dreams a thousand

times,—rocks, mountains, cataracts ; the wind-
swept waste where the Sirocco lives and kills ;
the shy, silent, black glen ; the forest, whose
depths human foot has never trod ; the jungle,
where the tiger crouches and the snake lies
couchant;—in a word, all the sublime, all the

grotesque, all the lovely, all the magnificent asso-
ciations that link our fancy to the East, we here

find, as with an enchanter's wand, again brought

vividly before us. We pay it no extravagant
compliment, when we say that the " Oriental
Annual" is worthy of a place on the same shelf
with the " Tales of the Genii" and the " Ara-
bian Nights' Entertainments." As an appro-
priate extract, we quote the following bit of
necromancy. The conjuror who executed it
should instantly be hired by the French and
English Cabinets, no matter at what cost, to
reconcile the differences between Holland and
Belgium. Europe would also feel incalculably
obliged to him if he would just transform the
Emperor Nicholas into a Russian bear—no
very extraordinary transformation, by-the-bye,
especially to a man who can kill a child and
then conjure it to life again—and turn out his
brutified Majesty, like Nebuchadnezzar of old,
on the plains of Poland for a hunt :