The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-03 00:00:00

ADELPHI THEATRE•

Last night a new farce, entitled Bloomerism ; or
the Follies of the Day, was produced at this house,
and met with the most flattering reception from a
house crowded to excess. The heroine of the plot is
Miss Woolgar, who, in the character of Mrs. Portia
Lucretia Green, has to assert the rights of woman in
this particular. Labouring to realise on the stage
those ideas of the elegance and advantages of this
dress, which some ladies inculcated at formal lectures
on the subject, she calls upon her friend Mrs. Bounce
(Miss Kathleen Fitz william), whom she finds in great
trouble, her husband having taken up strange
crotchets, respecting universal peace, which prompt
him to bring into his house foreign counts, " who
know everybody and everything," to entertain them
with profuse hospitality, and at lest to threaten her
with expulsion unless stie conform to his new mode
of life. After a little conversation, Mrs. Green in •
duces her friend to adopt the Bloomer dress, and to re-
ceive at her house that evening a few female friends,
who will arrive similarly attired, and whom, after a
quiet cup of tea, she purposes addressing on this
revolution in female costume. Mrs. Muncie consents,
in the hope of bringing her husband to his senses
again, by forcing him to pay more attention to do
'nestle concerns. lie, poor man, finding himself
unable to procure dinner, in consequence of a vora-
cious policeman (Mr. 0. Smith), whom the servant,
Siirey Potts (Miss Ellen Chaplin), has taken care to
provide for, repairs with a count, whom he has just
brought home, to the house of Mr. Green. This gen-
tleman is a great advocate of a vegetable diet, and
Bounce and the Count find themselves at table ss ith
several gentlemen, for whom nothing has been pre-
pared but a collection of vegetables—carrots, turnips,
onions, salads, &c. A repast of this description not
proving agreeable to his guests, the host rises, and en•
forces, in a humorous speech the superiority and
sanitary excellence of a vegetable diet, to which
he attaches an extraordinary degree of importance.
Cries of "Nonsense," "Humbug," "Stuff," and so
on, continually interrupt him, and a scene of great
confusion ensues, which keeps the audience in con-
stant laughter by the humorous points which cha-
racterise the conversation, and the vehemence with
which the parties respectively advance the most
absurd ideas. One man believes in hydropathy, an-
other in mesmerism and phonography, and Bounce
gives the most ridiculous latitude to his notions of
universal peace. In the midst of the uproar which
ensues, Slownaan, a friendof the party (Mr. Woolgar),
enters the room, and informs the guests that their
wives are assembled at Mrs. Bounce's, in Bloomer
costume, and are listening to a spirited harangue
from Mrs. Green in vindication of it. And so it
turns out. In the next scene we find the stage
gorgeously fitted up as a drawing-room, which
is graced by a dozen Bloomers. In a com-
manding position, and in a dress of great
elegance, Miss Woolgar is delivering the Bloomer
lecture; and, certainly, what with the affability of
manner in which she addresses her compatriots of
costume, the good sense of much which she says on
the subject, and the charming tone of voice in which
she speaks it, the advocates of the change need fear
nothing from this new attack. The husbands sud-
denly come in and give vent to a few expressions of
disapproval, but Mrs. Green dexterously disarms their
opposition. At length Slowman suggests a compro-
mise, but Mrs. Green remains firm in her adherence
to the Bloomer cause. The whole piece was splen-
didly put on the stage, and continued applause
throughout the performance gave promise of a suc-
cessful " run." As an appropriate overture the
" New Adelphi Bloomer Polka" has been composed
by Mr. Alfred Mellon. A variation of " Yankee
Doodle" is occasionally observable in the music,
which is lively and pleasant. The polka itself was
danced at the end by the Bloomers and their lords,
and was honoured with an encore.

A SUMMER MEMORY.
BY E. E. M. K.

(From Ainsworth's Magazine for September.)
You remember how we rambled through the fields that

sunny day, _
Discoursing of all beauteous things that thronged upon

our way;
From the wave of vernal grasses to the chaffinch 'mong

the boughs, .....
Fro in the water's spotless lily to the sun that tanned our

. _
brows;
From the vetch and azure speedwell to the fly with gor-

genus wings,
That hung like gems and silver o'er the trumpet wood-
bine rings;
And you culled the pale wild roses with their petals'

waxen hue,
So like a maiden's faintest blush, and so rich with sweet-

ness too;
And tufts of bright " forget me not," dear gift for part-

ing hours!
That looked as if the blue rill's wave had bubbled into
flow'rs!

You remember all the calmness, and the holy light then

seemed,
And the things despised in thoughtless hours hos
beautiful we deemed;
How ev'n the rook that crossed the sky—as some fou
fancy might
A saint in prayer—we greeted then as %were some
thing of Not!
And the gnats that droned above the pool in noonday's
insect play,
We discovered wore gay feathers that were glancing in
the ray;
And the sombre moth that glided by with brown and
velvet wings,
We agreed Ras clad in raiment such as never mantled
kings.

You remember when the length'ning shade fell cool
upon the grass,
And we watched it like dark lace-work o'er the verdant
meadow pass;
With the trill of linnets near us, and the clover breath-
ing round,
Such ripo sweetness far the pilf'ring bees they swarmed
the honeyed ground,—
How you spoke to me of mysteries in Nature's mighty
plan,
That, despite its beaten track of laws no mortal eye may

scan;
Of marvels such as when the rock 'mid surging billows

chained,
The barren rock puts forth a bloom, a flow'ret hued and
veined;
And then of other wondrous facts with eloquence of

speech,
As if of earths hushed secrets you wero privileged to
teach;
And while I listened wond'ringly to wisdom raro as
thine,
You sighed to think how poor such store of knowledge
the divine!

You remember when the daylight failcd, and rose-tints
turned to grey,
And the yellow beams were fused with green along the
western way;
And silence crept upon the air, and foam-like mists
appeared
Along the water'4 dewy banks, and the trees grew dun
and weird,—
flow we watched the first soft star arise and the crowds
that gathered soon
About the purple light of eve as the rosy flowers in
June;
And the constellations, one by one, we traced amid the
maze,
" Cro wn-jewols" of the summer night with their thou-
sand
sa r
s h
arrow
t o n rauyrshe,arts dilated most—then most we
" ytehaortned " t
God'sow
diadem?"kno'— we asked, and we felt our
spirits glow,
Glow with a souse of patient trust, that as night brought
the stars,
So unto us would wisdom come through death's dark
prison bars.

VISIT.--After much anxious.
THE ADMITTANCE TO TnE EXCHANGE AT MAN-
sgfe at Manchester on the 10th
lituoßthleisAtujeEceseiTisasvt:o the attempt to sell the right
speculationco
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admissionE R
as
the last day on which he would inst., it has been abandoned as a failure. At last the Mayor
fixed Tuesday week as
they
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came in so slowly that the time
re-
ceive applicatitoons,thbeut I
hweaasr ethxatetntdheedplan had been rigidly adhered
empty. At a council
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alteration of the seats, and 1,500
iovuelda
provision made, and that if thebeen
out of the 3,000 would have
to,
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ticket to each of the persons
meeting held on Wednesday
d subtracting those necessary
leave 1,660 to be disposed of, an .
A portion of these
forwarded, still 1,500 would be on h
of the Exchange, and the
to be sent in consequence of invita.tiaounds.to be issued or to be
are to be given to the proprietors
itw who shsaddeatpe
rest will be distributed by the corporation through a com-
mittee appointed for the purpose.
EXPECTED MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFB.—Lord
Continent, and ha,
,
Lords announced
Brooke, M.P., arrived at the Earl of Warwick's, in Carlton-
gardens, early in the week, from the
since left town for Scotland. The Noble
marriage with the Hon. Miss Charteris , daughter of Lord
Elcho, and grand-daughter of the Earl of Weroyfit, will
take place in February next.
FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—BRISTOL, OCT. 2.—
h _
been lost, occurred yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, at
Another fatal colliery accident, by which three lives ave
Welton Old Coalpit, near Midsummer Norton, about fifteen
miles from this city. The colliery is situated on thehigh
road leading to Wells. The depth of the shaft is about 160
fathoms, the men being let down and up by means of a rope,
which is wound over a drum, and to which the men, contrary
to ordina7 practice, sometimes apnd themselves without
•
the use of a bucket, by means of "rope shugs" attached to
a hook. Yesterday afternoon three men, named George
Hill, Samuel Taylor, and George Delimore, attached them-
selves to the rope, with a view of being lowered into the
pit. The rope was lowered in the usual way, no danger
being apprehended, and the descent vas safely made till the
men had reached about 150 feet from the bottom, when the
rope suddenly broke, and all three were precipitated to the
bottom of the shaft. An alarm was instantly given, and in
a short time a fresh rope was fixed, and the bodies of the
unfortunate men, two of whom must have been killed on the
spot, were got up. They were all three dreadfully man-
gled ; one of them survived a short time after reaching the
surface. Taylor has left a widow and children to lament
their loss. Delimore, it was stated, was on the point of being
married. No doubt a strict inquiry will be made by the
i coroner when he holds the inquest on the bodies as to the
I CAWie 91 this frightful catastrophe.

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LONDON,