The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-11 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

Mr. Vandenhoff appeared a;Roba last night. The per-
formance was one of great beauty, and it will be the fault of
the manager and not of the actor—if the actor continue to
perform as he did on this occasion—if he prove not an attrac-
tive and an efficient addition to the corps dramatique. In the
scene in which Rolla rescues Alonzo from prison Mr. Van-
denhoff elicited shouts of approbation. The appeal to the
sentinel was pathetic, but not more touching than the anxiety
with which he clothed Alonzo in the Friar's garb, and watched
him through the portal. The scene with Pizarro was also
finely acted. Miss Clifton was Elvira, and although she is
unquestionably an actress of considerable merit she can only
expect permanent success after much perse-..ering study and
practice. At present her physical qualities are not consistent,
for her voice and action have no apparent correspondence in
power with her stature. Mr. Cooper was Alonzo and Mr.
G. Bennett Pizarro, and they acquitted themselves with suc-
cess ; but Mr. Cooper would do well to remember that playing
twelve or fifteen characters a week is quite sufficient proof of
the strength of lungs without converting the lover Alonzo into
a Stentor. Cora was assigned to Miss Taylor. The romance
of Cymon concluded the entertainments.

The Duke of Dorset is gone to Drayton-house in
Northamptonshire.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster left
Grosvenor-street on Thursday last for Eaton-hall, in Cheshire,
where they intend remaining till February next.
The Marchioness Dowager Conyngham, after a
tour, and visiting her brother, Mr. Denison, at the Denbies,
has returned to her magnificent abode at Bifrons, near
Canterbury.

Count Matoushevitz, the Russian Minister, took
his departure this morning for Hamburg, in the General
Steam Navigation Company's mail packet Columbine.
Lord and Lady Crofton have arrived in town.
A large remittance arrived this morning (Friday)
from the Scotch bank reported yesterday to have failed, in con-
sequence of which the house of agency here goes en to accept
and pay the bills drawn upon it as heretofore. The refusa 1
in the first instance arose, it appears, not from any doubt of
the solvency of the Scotch bank, but from an irregularity on
the part of the managing director in not giving due notice to
the London agent of the intended drafts upon him. The
mode of doing business generally by the country joint stock
banks is much disliked, it seems, by the London bankers, who
are far from being desirous of carrying on the connexion with
them. A case has occurred to-day of one of them, not a
Scotch but an English bsnk, whose agency has been re-
linquished by the London house which carried it on for some
time past, and on applying to two or three other houses, they
have refused to take it.— Times.

A correspondent states that the bank of Scotland
whose bills have been refused here is a Glasgow establish-
ment, and not an Edinburgh one.

The real Lord Courtenay, now Earl of Devon, re-
sides at the superb Chateau de Draveil, on the river Seine,
near Paris.

INTELLIGENCE FROM CAPTAIN BACK.—The
Canada papers contain the following news of Captain Back,
furnished by Mr. Duncan Finlayson, partner of the Hudson's
Bay Company, who arrived at La Chine on Saturday, the 6th
inst., in a bark canoe, navigated by ten voyageurs of that con-
cern. He left Fort Vancouvre, on the Columbia River, north.
west coast of America, on the 20th of March last, passed over.
land to York Factory, the company's principal depot in Hud-
son's Bay, which depot he departed from on the 24th of July.
Two other canoes, manned by 16 additional voyageurs, are
daily expected at La Chine, and the remaining voyageurs and
passengers from the interior this season will be down in than
course of next month ( October). A part from the mmpany's
usual despatches and letters from their servants in the inte-
rior, together with those from Red River Colony, Mr. Fin-
layson has brought a packet from Captain Back, addressed to
the Colonial-office, London. We are happy to state that let-
ters have been received from that gentleman, dated Fort Re-
liance, east end of Great Slave Lake, up to the 4th of May
last, when he was preparing to be off to prosecute the ulterior
objects of the expedition. The packet from London inti-
mating Captain Ross and party's safe return, which was for-
warded from Montreal last November, reached Captain Back.
the 25th of April.

It is reported that the Commanding Officer of the
Birmingham Barracks refused to the Directors of the Musical
Meeting the customary use of the military to parade and pre-
serve order. It is also stated that an application was made to
the Government for the attendance of the dragootr, but who
returned for answer " that troops were not wanted.'' Assuredly
the presence of the military on such occasions would have
scared the prejudices of our ancestors age;.nst " standing ar.
mies." Such military exhibitions are meuliarly out of place
on occasions of a public entertainment, by its expensive nature
necessarily limited to the higher and middle ranks of society.
The attendance of soldiers was probably not required at the
recent dinner of 3,000 persons given to the Members of that
town, nor at the excited public meetings of Birmingham dur_
ing the agitation of the Reform Bills. The refusal is honour`
able to the Commanding Officer and the Grivernment. The
civil force, when ret!ily required for the preservation of order,
is the old English and constitutional security of the peace.
The they
who mount guard nightly at the London thea-
tres arc offensive and useless mutes, and would not long be
permitted to gape at the entrances of our provincial theatres.
The link-boys in Shakspeare's time would have speedily re-
moved this modern guard of English amusements.—Aforning
Chronicle.