The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-15 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Mr. Lumley is conducting bis great establishment
in a spirit worthy of the Exhibition year. Another
tour nights, at play-house prices, are announced, the
management having come to this resolution for the
very good reason that the house was lust week
crowded to the ceiling, every place in fact on every
day of performance having been taken prior to the
opening of the house, and seats, in consequence of the
demand, having risen to, in many instances, not in-
considerable premiums. The inference is that thou-
sands of country and continental visitors must have been
gratified by a spectacle which they could not other-
wise have beheld, and which certainly forms one
of the things which, as the guide-books say, all visi-
tors positively must see. We noticed last week the
tact and enterprise with which each evening's
amusement was arranged, so as to give the audience
a taste at least of as many musical and choreographic
dishes as possible, the bill of fare nightly varying,
but always agreeing in assembling as many differently
characterised and coloured works, interpreted by as
many artists of differing styles and specialties, as pos-
sible. During this week, as in the last, Mesdames
Sontag, Barbieri Nini, and Cruvelli will nightly ap-
pear—a trio seldom to be seen on one occasion, and
under the same artistic roof. The management, in
fact, are quite cramming a season into their few sup-
plemental nights, and we are glad to hear that the
monetary results of the experiment are as gratifying
as the providing of so much intellectual amusement
at so cheap a rate ought to make them.

THE BLOOMERS AGAIN.
Yesterday (Sunday) considerable sensation and amuse-
ment was occasioned to the numerous visitors in St.
Jsrnes's-park, by the arrival of a complete batch of
Bloomers, consisting of five females and two males, evi-
dently moving in the upper class of society. Two of the
ladies were French women. They were certainly most
elegantly attired, all the ladies being dressed alike, with
the exception of the French women, who wore blue
trousers, whilst those of our own country women were
pink. The upper dresses (coats we suppose they call
them) were of rich brocade satin, and the covering for
the head a sort of cross between a bonnet and hat, as it
did not partake more of one article than the other.
The only difference observable in the gentlemen's attire
was very short coats, somewhat resembling Prince Al-
bert's shell jacket. The new style of dress did not ap-
pear to be agreeable to the mob, for the Bloomers had
scarce made their appearance before they were assailed
with an uglimited quantity of coarse jokes from the by-
stauders, who, atter inquiring whether their mothers
knew they were out? Where they kept their flannel
petticoats ? and other similar salutations, caused the
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FOREIGN YACUTS.—There are at present yachts
belonging to no less than three foreign nations lying in
Portsmouth Barbour, with their respective national colours
flying. A French cutter yacht of 60 tons, belonging to the
Due se Caylus ; a Neapolitan schooner yacht of 220 tons;
and a Russian schooner yacht of 1 0 tons.
AN AGED AND HAPPY COUPLE.—JOhLI Bodle,
aged 86, and Jane, his wife, aged 96, are now living on
Sydenham Common, Kent. He possesses a donkey that as-
sists in affording Lim an ample maintenance, aged 26, and
all three were born on the Common. Their united ages are
208 years, and the old man, free from want or the prospect of
ending his days in a poor-law union, walked on Saturday to
the Greenwich Police-court to prove the service of a legal
notice.