The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-12 00:00:00

HAYJIARKET THEATRB.

On Saturday evening a new comedy, by Mr. Tom Tay-
lor, entitled the " Babes in the Wood," was produced at
this theatre. The title applies to Lady Blanche Rushton and
Mr. Frank Rushton, who have made a runaway match, and
find themselves plunged into the horrors of genteel poverty,
with the chance of being precipitated into genuine pauperism'
After suffering all sorts of inconveniences, even to incarcera-
tion in "the Bench," the young married people obtain the
forgiveness of their parents, and all ends happily. Miss
Sedgwick, of course, sustained the part of Lady Rushton;
and although the character did not furnish her with any
very novel materials, she brought it out in exquisite style.
The great part of the comedy, however, is that sustained
by Mr. Buckstone—one Mr. Beetle—a hen-pecked husband
of a lodginghouse-keeper, whose comical sorrows caused
vehement laughter. Nothing could have been more
ludicrous than the appearance of Mr. Beetle, after his
promotion from boot• cleaner to the office of housemaid,
looking for his black-lead brush which he had lost, after
giving the finishing touch to the drawing-room grate. The
acting of Mr. Buckstone throughout the piece was the very
cream of comicality, and fairly convulsed the audience with
laughter. Mrs. Wilkins, as Mrs. Beetle the " superior "
wife of the aforesaid Mr. Beetle, acted with great spirit and
effect. The other characters in the play, if we except that
of the Earl of Lazonby (carefully sustained by Mr. Chip-
pendale), are very thinly drawn, and, in many instances,
beneath the talent of the artistes who had to sustain them.
The great fault of the piece is its extreme length, a defect
easily remedied. At the fall of the curtain Mr. Buckstone
announced the comedy for repetition every evening.

TILE ENSUING SMITHFIELD CLUB
CATTLE SHOW.

attakte h place this year at
The ensuing Christmas prize cattle show of the
Smithfield Cluhbnasoiti position,
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fixedrati to
the Baker-street Bazaar, on the 11th, 12th, 13th,
and 14th December, and the entries already are ex-
ceedingly numerous.y y
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Richmond, who, as immediate successor of the late
EpraerslidSepnetnocfetrcth'o for
Smithfield Cattle Club, has caused
mtaa evacancy
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he club, to be held on the 11th
e annual general
Decem-
ber. It is generally believed that thechoiceoi
the club will fall upon Earl Berners, in conse-
quence of the great attention the noble lord has
paid to the interests of the club, not only as vice-
president but as locum tenons for the late noble
president. Considerable misapprehension exists as
to the proposed removal of the Smitbfied Club
prize cattle show from. the Baker-street Bazaar.
An impression is abroad that the removal of the
show will take place this year. This is erroneous.
The contract between the Smithfield Club and
Mr. Boulnois, the proprietor of the Baker-street
Bazaar, does not terminate till the Christmas of
1861, and the proposed building for the reception
and exhibition of the stock at Islington will not
be in readiness to accommodate the show till the
Christmas of 1862. It will be remembered that
some two or three months since there was a great
controversy upon this subject amongst themembers
of the club, and that several meetings were held at
the Freemasons' Tavern to decide the question of
removal or non-removal to the site of Dixon's cattle
lairs in the Liverpool-road, Islington, which was
carried by a considerable majority. TICI late
noble president, the Duke of Richmond, expressed
himself adversely to the removal, in a letter which
was read at the final meeting presided over
by Lord Walsingbam ; whilst Earl Berners,
who was also absent upon that occasion,
expressed his written concurrence in this proceed-
ing. It is not improbable, therefore, that
there may be some contest upon the point at the
annual general meeting of the club in reference to
the election of president. It is stated that an opi-
nion has strongly gained ground amongst the mem-
bers of the club that it will be impolitic to move the
locality of the show, and more especially to a district
so far away from the central and fashionable end
of town as Islington. It is believed, however, that-
the change of opinion, if it has taken place, has
come too late, as it is understood that the deeds and
documents are all executed by which, upon certain
conditions, the club bind themselves to the limited
liability company who are .to erect the building at
Islington for a period of twenty-one years.

Gounod's " Faust" has been withdrawn from tho
list of operas to be presented at Covent Garden during the
present ssaiou,