The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-05 00:00:00

Till ART OF PUFFING.

In this country when anew actor or actress aro coming
out, we content ourselves with putting their names pro-
minently in the playbills. Not so in the United States. In
that "great country," as Mr. Barnum assures us it is,
every engine is set to work to get up a "gas," nor are the
attractions paraded until a poper market has been mario
for their appreciation. We have a rare instance before us
iu the following, which we extract from the New York.
Herald. It may puzzle our opera habitues to recognise any
special favourite in the fair Ernestine or Annie alluded to.
GENEROUS CONDUCT OF THE ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL
PROPRIEToRS.—Our readers tray remember the arrival
of a " Professor" by the Hermann, a few week.with
a corps of ballet dancers and musicians, which were pre-
dicted to surpass anything ever seen in this hemisphere.
The " Professor," on arrival, took up his quarters,
with his troupe, at the St. Nicholas Hotel, and a few
days after his arrival his associates discovered that he
was an irresponsible adventurer, that he had no theatre
here, nor the prospect of getting one, and that they had
been sadly duped.

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Among the troupe were two young English girls,
sisters. Their names are Ernestine and Annie. The mo-
ment they heard of their situation they sent for the pro-
prietors of the hotel, and stated the whole case to them.
Taey had then been a fortnight in the house, occupying
elegant rooms, au premier, and depending on their em-
ployer, were now unable to pay their bill, being in fact
pennilecs. Moreover, the "Professor" had by this time
succeeded in getting his baggage out of the house, and
proposed to get theirs out, which they indignantly re-
fused, preferring to throw themselves upon the mercy of
the proprietors of the hotel.
Messrs. Trsadwell, Aher, and Co., than whom no
gentlemen in this community are me re high-minded or
generous, instantly assured the young ladies that they
were quite welcome to continue in their house as long as
they might find it necessary, and that they need feel no
awkwardness in going unattended to the public table,
their meals should be served in their rooms.

The gratitude of the young artists may be imagintd
when it is remembered that they are alone in a strange
land, and without means.

These beautiful girls are from her Majesty's Theatre,
London, where they were dan&ng when the "Professor"
Ea ur them.

Ernestine, the elder, is a bruneVe of 18, a c'assic face,
dark hazel eyes, full figure, with a tapering waist, and
as neat an ancle and foot as can be found anywhere. In
the Spanish and other dances she is said to be unex-
celled.

Annie, the yoanger sister, is just emerged from her
sweet sixteenth. She is tall, slender, and very grace-
ful ; of a delicate mould, with a deep blue eye, gentle
mien, and rather languishing manner—she personates
etherial and spiritual most enchantingly. Two more
graceful girls cannot be found, and we should think
them a splendid "card" for any manager. They will
remain at the St. Nicholas a few days longer, when they
are determind to seek employment, to relieve themselves
of the sense of dependence which now weighs upon
them.

Our word for it the theatre which has the good for-
tune to engage these young artistes will be well repaid,
not only from their artistic talent, hut also from the
romantic turn which their fortunes have taken in Ame-

r•cl.

P S.—Since writing the foregoing, we understand that
on Saturday last Brougham engaged the two sistore, at
the Bowery Theatre, for a week. They appear this even-
ing for the first time.

WAS DANIEL WRAY JUNIUS ?—lt is now generally
' understbod that the claims of Sir P. Francis as the writer
of the "Letters of Junius" have been disproved. I there-
fore desire to thaw your attention to an ingenious work
by a Mr. Falconer, called "The Secret Revealed," pub-
lished in 1830, at a time when no one would listen to
him, because we were then all Franciscans. Who Mr.
Falconer was I know not, nor shall I trouble you with
his speculations. His argument is to prove that Daniel
' Wray was Junius, and he adduces one or two facts which
are startling. What I want is, that some of your inge-
nious correspondents would show how the "marvellous
coincidences," as he calls them, can be explained without
admitting the "unity of authorship I" It is stated in
the "Preliminary Essay" to the edition of 1812 that
the 59:1 letter is one with which Junius had origi-
nally intended to conclude ; but that as Junius himself
says, Garrick's communication to the King "has lite-
rally forced me to break my resolution of writing no
more." (Tol. i., p. 238.) On this Mr. Falconer ob-
serves : "On the 18th of November, 1771, Wray thus
writes to Lord Hard wicke :--‘ Had I persevered in
that apparently wise resolution to write no more,'
&c. This in itself amounts to little, but I request atten-
tion to what follows. The communication made by
Garrick to the King, announcing that Junius would
write no more, carries with it still stronger evidence
of Wray's being the architypo of Junius. So strong,
indeed, as to exclude all doubt, it is presumed, of the
fact ; for Wray not only gives the same intimation to
his correspondent, Lordallardwicke, but actually assigns
the very cause, and prefixes the precise day on which
Junius designed to conclude his correspondence in tbat
character, had he not been forced by Garrick, as he ex-
presses himself, to break Lis resolution of writing no
more. The fifty-ninth letter of Junius, on what the
author calls the unhappy differences which had arisen
among the Friends of the People, is the one with which
be had originally intended to conclude. * • That let-
ter is dated October 5, 1771. Six days previously
[September 29, 17713 (mark that I) Wray writes to Lord
Ifardwicke as follows * * Nash will carry his
election, &c., &c. These proper attentions may satisfy
the good people of England for a month, accompanied
by the finishing dose of Junius on Saturday.' In per-
fect accor.lance with this decided intimation, the intended
finishing dose did not appear. The sth October, 1771,
was on a Saturday." I agree with Mr. Falconer that
the coincidence is startling, and I ask, how can it be ex-
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