The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

Sir Bulwer Lytton's comedy " Money" was played
last night, Mr. Murdoch assuming, for the first time in
London, the part of Evelyn, the varied and opposite
features of which he indicated with considerable force
and effect. Lightbess is not his characteristic ; but the
peculiar quality of his comedy is now well known, and
the intelligence of his conceptions and the native ease of
his deportment have been considered equivilents for the
masculine hardness which more or less pervades his style.
His Evelyn is quite as Meritorious as the other char-
acters which he has undertaken at the Haymarket
Theatre.

ADELPHI THEATRE.

Last evening the popular drama of "Janet Pride" was
performed, Mr. Webster resuming his original character,
and appearing for the first time after a long interval of
absence. This excellent actor was received with an
amount of applause that bore emphatic testimony to the
high position which he holds in the estimation of the
public. He played with his usual graphic discrimina•
tion ; and the drama, further aided by the melo-dramatic
skill of Madame Celeste, and the comic exuberance of
Mr. Wright, who now succeeds Mr. Keeley as Dicky
Trotter, passed off with the old spirit and effect. The
house was well attended.

A Cabinet Council was held this day at the official
residence of Lord Palmerston.
Mane. Piccolmini made her first appearance at the
Itatieen Opera, Paris, on Monday evening. She met
with immense success.
Tax ROYAL Beams BANK.—Sir F. Kelly com-
menced his reply in tlis important case before the Lords
Justices this morning. At the close of the arguments
it is expected that the judges will take time to consider
their decision.
To-morrow (Wednesday) a Grace will be submitted to
the Senate of the University of Cambridge, by confer-
ring the degree of Doctor of Divinity on the Rev. Robt.
Baillie,
Bickerstetb, M.A., Bishop designate of Ripon.
A matrimonial alliance is shortly to take plaee
between Major Colville, brother to Lord Colville, and
Ali" M. Georgians Baillie, second daughter of Evan
Mr. Richari Andrews, the Mayor of Southampton,
Esq. of Dochfour.
and candidate for the representation of the borough, now
lies dangerously
ill at his residence at Winchester.
Felice Oreini will deliver a lecture, at St. Martin's
Hall, to-morrow at eight o'clock, P.m.
Dr. Coxe, sub-librarian at the Bodleian, is about to
start for the Levant in search of MSS. The Univer-
sity has given Dr. Coxe leave of absence for 12 months
at the request of government.
Nine Frenchmen, political prisoners, had arrived at
New Yo'k from Cayenne, whence they had escaped.
The Longridge prize of 401. for general proficiency in
medicine and surgery was awarded by the Council of the
London University, at their session on Saturday last, to
Mr. James Gibbs Blake, of Taunton, Somersetsh4te.
MDLLE. D'HETtIIL, the juvenile pianiste, whose per-
formences last season excited the admiration of all who
heard them, has lately been playing with great success
ntwirid, under the immediate patronage of the *teen
of Spain.
It is stated that the directors of the London Chartered
Bank of Australia will, at the approaching meeting,
recommend a dividend of 2i per cent. for the half year
ending the 30th of June, and that the accounts received
from the colony continue satisfactory.
A meeting of the East India Coal Company took place
yesterday, when the report detailing progress was
adopted. The machinery lately sect out has reached the
mines, and it was expected to be speedily put up. Strict
economy is exercised in the management.
The departures from the port of Loudon for the Aus-
tralian colonies during the past week have comprised
five vessels—two for Syduey, two for Port Philip, and
one for Adelaide, with an aggregate capacity of 3,868
tons. Tie rates of f;:eig'at exhibit ir.creasA firmness.