The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-09 00:00:00

FRENCH PLAYS.

M. Bouffe appeared last night in Ina favourite cha-
racter of Grandet, in La File de 1 ' Avare, perhaps one
of the best in the repertoire of this admirable artist.
He sustained it, we need hardly say, with all his or-
dinary vigour and finish, and was enthusiastically
applauded.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Countess of Desert, the Hon. Miss Cavendish, Lord
Camoys, Colonel Buckley and Colonel Gordon,
honoured the performance with their presence.
On Monday M. Boufte will appear in Michel Per-
rin, and on Wednesday will again sustain the charac-
ter of Le Gamin de Paris. " The last week but one
of the season " is, we are sorry to see, now an an-
nouncement in Mr. Mitchell's affiches.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAY.—(Open 29 miles.)—Traffic
or the week ending Aug. 3 :
Passengers, parcels, &c.
Goods and live stock

... £419 7 10
... 169 16 6

Total .. ... .. £589 4 4
Corresponding week last year ... 482 5 G
SHREWSBURY AND BM:HINGHAM RAILWAY....Trafne re-
ceipts for the week ending Aug. 3 :
Passengers ... ... ... £4OO 5 2
Cart juges, horses, and parcels ... 94 8
Live stock ••• ••• ••• 14 13 6
Merchandise and minerals ... 254 19 8

Total .. .£679 3 0
Corresponding period last year.. 755 410
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.-- (160 miles opened.)—Return of
.raflic for the week ending July 27:
Passengers, &c.
Goods, &c.

... £3,284 12 2;
... 3,'34913 7

Total• .. .. ... £6,634 10 91
Corresponding week last year ... 6,842 2 11
• Including Wishaw and Coltness, now in charge of a
factor.

CREMORNE GARDENS.—Anong the varied amuse-
ments that have been introduced at these gardens are some
pyrotechnic displays termed "naval fetes," the third of which
took place on Thursday night. The occasion represented
was, when the Spaniards, with the assistance of the French
fleet, attempted the capture of Gibraltar. To illustrate this
attempt, the Citizen and Iron Steam-boat Companies lent
their aid, and their boats and crews represented the Spanish
and French fleet, while a host of auxiliaries, commanded by
Chevalier Mortram, impersonated the English garrison force.
The engagement commenced on the part of the boats, who,
at a given signal, poured a broadside of tire into the fort and
esplanade, which was immediately taken up by the assaulted,
the whole line of battery sending out volleys of rockets,
Roman candles, &c. For upwards of half an hour the mimic
war was waged, suspended only for a minute or two by an
explosion which failed now, as indeed it did before, to blow
up the rocky Straits. The introduction of a new explosive
floating fire, which appeared to increase in brilliancy as it
came in contact with its antagonistic water, and the addition
of distant bugle music added to the effect of this novelty.
A fashionable and crowded audience assembled to witness
the fete.

MIVART'S HOTEL.—Arrivals—Messrs. Cannell,
Skipwith, Randolph, and Coles, from the United States;
the Prince de Schoenberg, from Germany ; M. H. T. Konigs-
water, Consul de Saxe Coburg Gotha aux Pays Bali; the
Duke Marino lorlonis, from a visit to the Count and La'
Cecil Delafeld, at Little Hampton ; Messrs. W. C. Ewurn
W. A. Brown, and Wharton Chancellor, from therti 1""
States. Departures—Lord and Lady Farnham,
seat in Ireland; the Earl and Countess of Fingal! a d
the Count
Henrietta Plunkett, for Dover; his Excellency ..thadeiyr
Cervellon, the Duchess de Fernan Nunes, the t!
Cmhibald Camp-
and suite, on their return to Belgium ; Sir Arc
for Fol-
Car}',
Camp-
bell, for Scotland ; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley„ari„;
n tees Uralic
Mr. and
laton, Devonshire ; M. de Balaschetr, forniechioness of Water-
Mrs. Colyer, for Herefordshire; the --cier Gage, for his seat
ford, for Curraghmore ; Sir T. Rokewro
rar
is and the Count
liengrave-hall ; Captain Essaaoll; for
V. Miaczynski, for Paris.
ROYAL ASYLUM OF
Arizes SOCIETY.—A half-
yearly general court was
sgate-street, hod yesterday at the London
Tavern, Bi
.ufollowed by an election of fifteen
Mr. E. Halswell occupied
shop
children into the Royal Asylm.
the chair, and Mr. Leeks, secretary,
.read a report, announc-
ing the continued prosperity of the institution, and stating
that the
payment of two . legacies, the one of 500/ and the
other of 200/., had permitted a valuable addition to the funds
of the institution. No legacy, however, had beets bequeathed
during the last six months. The report was adopted, and
the election commenced, the ballot lasting from twelve
,
o'clock till three, there being eighty candidates " child-
ren of those once in prosperity," seeking the benefits, in
the shape of maintenance, board, and religious education,
which the illstiOatioll will Afford to the fifteen who have been
auccosfAl.