The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-24 00:00:00

CRICKET.

I ZINGARI TILE GUARDS' CLUE.—This returD.
match w,as played at the Oval on Saturday. The final
score stood thus:—l Zingari, first innings, 91; second
innings, 49; The Guards' Club, first innings, 74; second
innings, 79.
GENTLEMEN V. PLAVEBS.—This match was com-
menced yesterday at Lord's, and the following is the
result of the first day's play:—Gentlemen, first innings,
45; Players, first innings, 207.

DERBYSHIRE, STATFORDSHIRE, AND WORCESTER-
snin Juscrlos Iteir..vvAv.—The ordinary half-yearly meet-
ing of the company was held at their office 4, N 0.2, Guildhall
Chambers, on Friday ; Rowland Gardiner Alston Esq.,
chairman. T,ie report of the directors recommended the for-
feiture of 7,666 shares, belonging to parties against whom
proceedings had been instituted for the recovery of arrears,
but who had submitted to bankruptcy or insolvency. A re-
solution declaring those shares forfeited, and giving authority
to the directors to sell them, was carried unanimously, and
the proceedings terminated.

ACCIDENT ON THE DUMBARTONSHIRE RAILWAY.
The Lochlomond steamer, which arrived at the Broomielaw
on Monday night, about nine o'clock, brought with her a
number of passengers who had been more or less injured in
consequence of an accident on the Dumbartonshire Railway.
Two of the number, a man and his wife, residing in John:
street, were conveyed home in a cab, and the lattetr,
be
par-
ticular, appeared so much hurt that she had even
car-
ried from the vessel to the cab in waiting. The oacceident,
we understand, occurred about half-past seven o'clock, and
the number of parties injured amounts to eight ; but further
than this bare n ention of the fact no other particulars have
reached us.—Norih British Mail.
A WIDOW BIT.—A Madame de V—, the widow
of a tradesman and living in the Rue Fontaine St. Georges,
got into conversation, a fewhad
gone •
to make au a man at a
g
grocer's shop, where she some weeks ao, with
pur-
chases. On leaving the stranger tullowed her, and,
to her great astonishment stated that be was a trades-
man in a prosperous way of at Etampes,
that he was in want of a wire, that be bad
her his
her beauty and conversation, and thatbeen struck by
offeredbehoaxing her, but
hand. Tne widow at first thought he
seeing that he appeared quite serious,warde,thinking that an
d was not to be
offer of marriage, however strangely
iii,reg .rded, the invited him to callae irddminsagee her. An intimacy
was fixed. One
soon became established, and thenwd•d
requested a loan of 500 f.
day last week he went to besrhea
unhesitatingly gave them.
on a pressing emergency ;
But to her surprise he never returned, and she learned that
he had abandoned his lodgings. She went do,,n to Etampes
to make inquiries, but nothie g wh,,tever was known of him
there.
She saw that she had been duped by a swindler, and
laid a complaint before the police.— Galignani.
The Fairy, Robert..
SBAL FISHING.—PETERHEAD.— . y,
eon, of this pert, arrived on Tuesday, d.irect from the Seal
shing. She has a cargo of 3,000 seals, or 30 tons of oil.
To show the enterprise of our merchants and others in this
northern trade, we may give the following example : —The
Xanthus, a barque, belonging to this port, and employed in
the merchant service, arrived here with a cargo on Saturday
week, and on Monday a joint-stock company was formed to
fit her out for the whale and seal fishing of next season. She
is divided into 100 shares of 351., and wa believe they are
nearly all eold.—Calcdonian Arcrcury,

FRENCH PLAYS
ST. JAMES'S THE A.TRE.
she should have succeeded
Soutnet's ponderous tragedy of Jeanne d'Arc was
performed for the first time this season :last evening,
Mademoiselle Rachel appearing as the heroine. That
in sicquirin7 for Soumot's
play a place in the tragic repertoire, and have even ac-
quired for it a certain degree of popularity, is one of the
most marvellous feats th9t even her genius has been
able to accomplish. The play was origually written in
1825 for Matte. Georges, but even her energies
were insufficient to bear up against the weight
of the five. dreary acts into which M. Soumet,
servilely following classical (so called) models, thought
it necessary to expand a play commencing with Jeanne
in her dungeon, and ending Nish her execution. Mdlle.
Rachel, however, saw that the
play gave) her an oppor-
tunity of introducing
effects unimagined by the author,
and accordingly she adopted it, and, by the mcire force
of her genius, made even SOuulet Popular. She makes
ofJeaune a conscientious enthusiast, and something more
—au extatio, in fact—who has the firmest faith in her
own inspiration. The scene before the tribunal was
acted with, immense power; and the scene in which she
converts thei Duke of Burgundy is one cf the finest die-
plays of religious enthusiasm, founded on undoubted
faith, that has ever been portrayed. Iler rendering of
the passage—
" Je triomphe, et le ciel a mon saint divotlment
liiiervait tout l'honneur de ce grand changement:
Je =line un biros a la France, a la &eke !
Que soot tous mes combats pros de cette victoire?"
was magnificent. Sbe seemed au inspired prophetess as
she uttered the words. In the last act. in which she is
represented as under sentence of destb, she was pain..
fully true to nature: there was no whining, no repining,
no tear, but a solemn and melancholy resignation in.
The house was crowded.
anitely more heart-rending.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Mr. Farren is constantly presenting plays to the pub-
lie, either standard or novelties. Last night, after the
drama entitled Part and Present, the burlesque entitled
Liogenes and his Lantern, which was produced two years
ago by Mr. Fairer], and which then met with the greatest
success, was revived, and the applause which it obtained
promises f. rit a long and profitable lease of its new,
life. The author, Mr. Taylor, has introduced into it
many new hits relative to the Crystal Palace and other
remarkable features
-of the. present exhibition time.
The various performers exerted themselves most satis-
factorily, and the audience appreciated the admirable
tout ensemble with which the extravagansl was Pre"
suited. The scenery is very be
The costumes
are excellent and quaint, and the entertainment itself so
piquant and droll, that we cannot but recommend stran-
gers in London to visit this elegant theatre, where they
will find the genuine spirit of comedy represented under
various phases. No one who loves dranritic art should
miss seeing some of Mr. William Farren's wonderfully
artistic and beautiful impersonations.