The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1860.

UNITED UNIVERSITY CLUB. Tae
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Members
01 the United -University Club will be held at the Club House
on THURSDAY the 31st May. The chair will be taken at
three o'clock precisely. •

By order of the Committee.
CAMILLUS FAWSSETT, Secretary

LAW

LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE,
Fleet-street, London, 28th May, 1860.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in conformity with
the provisions of the Deed of Settlement a GENERAL
MEE fING of Proprietors will be held at the Society's Office,
Fleet-street, London, on SATURDAY, the 23d day of June
next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, to elect a Trustee in the
room of Philip Martineau. Esq., deceased; to elect six Direc-
tors and two Auditors, when those who go out of office' by
rotation will be proposed for re-election; and for general
purposes. _

By order of the Directors. .
WILLIA.3I SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary.

TILE WILITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.

The cold and tempestuous weather by which the
present Whitsuntide is distinguished appears to
have offered but slight interruption to the holiday-
making portion of the metropolitan public. In all
directions numerous parties were seen leaving home
at an early hour yesterday morning, evidently bent
on enjoying the day. The excursion trains to
Gravesend, Southend, Brighton, and other places,
carried large human freights from the dust and
smoke of London to a more congenial atmosphere,
while the steam-boats on the river, notwithstand-
ing the storm—for such it really was throughout
Ihe day—and the pleasure vans destined for subur-
ban places, were also active and numerous. In the
evening operas, concerts, theatres, and entertain-
ments of all kinds-musical, pictorial, and scientific
—put forth their claims to the suffrages of the
holiday makeis, and came in for a fair share of
patronage; and notwithstanding the cold, Cre-
morne, Royal Surrey, and Pavilion Gardens, North
Woolwich, were not forsaken.

Miss Julia Daly still maintains her sway over the
feelings and judgments of the spectators.

STRAND.

The entertainments here last evening commenced
with a new comedietta, in two acts, on behalf of
which we cannot, " with the very best intentions,"
to quote the cant phrase of one of its personages,
find much to say. A more absurd or an idler con-
junction of stale incidents and the cheap second.
hand materials of farcical effect, has not very often
been seen. The plot, if such a confused story can
be so called, is indeed so far original that it is
more unnatural than almost any other stage

conception yet represented, of probable events in
the London life of the present • day. In this play,
which bears the title of " Appearances," there is a
young fellow, a snob in mind and manners, who,
having had a fortune left him, changes his name of

Tommy Puff for that of Montgomery do Courty
Plantagenet, and purchases an old-fashioned por-
trait, warranted by the picture-dealer for a genuine
" Holbein," to make believe it is that of a noble
ancestress of his own family. The portrait has
been seen in the shop by an interesting pair of
young ladies, Mrs. Mowbray, a -rich widow, and
her cousin, Miss Cecilia, who recognise it
as the likeness of a deceased female relative,
mother to the second, and aunt to the first.
They come to buy it, and are referred

o Mr. Puff, who is coxcomb enough to fancy
hey are both in love with him. The mysterious
deceased lady had also a baby son, who was en-
trusted to an unprincipled nurse, and somehow mis•
laid "on a doorstep in Doughty-street." A wicked
old man, guardian to the two ladies, who was privy
to making away with the infant for the sake of his
inheritance, is led to fear that in gallant Thomas
Puff will be discovered the long-lost boy. Hence
some tampering with the dismal old woman, for-
merly the nurse, and now the housekeeper, " all
unbeknownst," at Puff's lodgings. Two genteeler
men, an artist and an accomplished barrister, ena-
moured respectively of the two fair cousins, come
in to cross the pretensions of Mr. Montgomery Plan-
tagenet Puff. It would be tedious to describe the
inconsistent and not very intelligible mistakes and
accidental detections that ensue. The upshot of it
all is that, by the agency of May Marigold, a slighted
poor cousin of Tom Puff's, the mislaid orphan is
found in the person of Mr. Vincenti the deserving
young Templar, who obtains Mrs. Mowbray's hand,
whilst her cousin makes the artist, Mr. Florid,
equally happy; and the luckless Puff, having been
thrashed, and snubbed, and bullied in a variety of
ways, at last condescends to requite May Marigold's
affection. The dialogue is poor, abounding only
with tedious repetitions of the same verbal blun-
ders and misapplied phrases, with which, however,
the gallery audience was diverted to the end ; and
as the good Vicar of Wakefield remarks, " if there
was less wit, there was all the more laughing." Mr.
Clarke, in the character of Tom Puff, was broadly
humorous and funny enough ; Miss Bufton ap-
peared as the elegant widow. The author of the
piece was called for, and announced to be Mr.
Palgrave Simpson.

SPORTING NOTES.

. _
The settling on the Derby has passed off highly
creditable to all parties, only one or two absentees
from the general rendezvous being announced.
After Mr. Merry, who is said to have won
£lOO,OOO, the chief winners on the 'race are Mr.
Payne, Colonel Ousley Higgins (who executed a
portion of the stable commission), Mr. Buchanan,
and Mr. Graham Smith, the latter of whom "throws
in" for ten thousand. Thormanby, The Wizard,
and Horror—in fact two-thirds of the Derby field
—are in the St. Leger.
The Manchester races, Owing to the pub-
lication of the
_handicaps before York, will not
afford such good sport as the bill of fare at first
gave promise of. Amongst the chief items in the
list for to-morrow is the Union Cup, for which 63
horses are weighted, 11 of which have already paid.
For the top weights I have no fancy, nor do I see
anything higher in the list than Little Agnes and
Meg Merrilies that I should prefer to them ; I shall,
however, pin my faith on the representative of the
Tupgill stable, Sir William or Horaze, Andover
colt and Jack Spring will also run well.

The Tenth Manchaster Produce Stakes may
bring to the post the three late Derby aspirants,
Northern Light (brother to Rainbow), Restes, and
Cramond, and to the Baron's worse I award the
preference.

The 30 two year olds named for the Sapling
Stakes will probably furnish a moiety of the num-
ber to the post, and the best to stand on are The Sage,
Northern Light, and Sister to Singapore.
The Phillips' Handicap maybe credited to Mr.
Dawson's account, by the aid of Montrose. Annie
and Miss Hawley I conceive to have the best chance
for the Trafford Handicap.
On the second day the Manchester Tradesmen's
Cup looks likely to fall to either Sir William or
Rajah Brooke, and I give the preference to the
latter.

To the Two Year Old Stakes there are 18 horses
nominated, of which Kildonan, Mr. Buckley's colt
by Rifleman, and The Norman are the best public
performers. I expect to see Kildonan the winner.

Jack Spring ought very easily to dispose of all
but Nucleus in the Volunteer Stakes.
On the last day either Sutton or First Lord ar e
sure to carry off the Salford Borough Cup ; Mon-
trose or Swertha Imlay win the,Derby Handicap,
and Dagger the Nursery.

There are a couple of days' sport at Hangerford
on Thursday and Friday, which will likely enough
be largely patronised by those of the London pro-
fessionals who decline ajourney so far as Manchester.
The Berkshire Handicap, two miles and a dis-
tance, has but half a dozen acceptors, the ablest of
which I take to be Dreadnought, 3 yrs, 7st.
The Wild Dayrell Stakes, five furlongs, has the
names of Big Ben, King of Kent, end Viscount
Brignal, and the former is well able to carry the
penalty attached to winners, as he is at least 71b
better than the other two.

The Hungerford Stakes, for two year olds, six
furlongs, has 24 subscribers, the best of whom are
the Bohemienne colt, King of Kent, and Rupert,
and as tha former proved himself a good and game
colt at Bath, I shall give him the preference over
the other two.

In the John O'Gaunt Stakes, a mile and a half,
Plumper and White Rose both look formidable ;
and of the six in the Kennett Handicap, one mile,
I put the greatest faith in Ringlet and Woman in
Black.

A FRESHMAN.