The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-13 00:00:00

LYCEUM THEATRE.

Mr. Falconer's comedy, " Extremes," has been found, as
we predicted, to hit the popular humour. Where there was
a melancholy series of scantily occupied benches, there is
now a numerous and cheerful audience, who laugh at the
jokes and applaud the sentiments in the new piece as none
laugh and none applautt who do not thoroughly relish what
they are witnessing. The return of Mr. Charles Young to
Sadler's Wells would have caused a serious gap in the com-
pany had, not the genial and accomplished Mrs. Alfred
Mellon (late Miss Woolgar) most opportunely stepped in
and taken upon herself the character of Miss Vavasour.
She made her first appearance on Saturday, and was hear-
tily welcomed.
The comedy was followed by a farce, entitled " Too much
for Good-nature," and the person whose benevolent propen-
sities are counteracted by adverse circumstances is Mr.
Adolphus (Mr. Emery), a gentleman afflicted with a
reputation for easiness of temperament. Towards his
recently married wife he is so completely docile that he
is reduced to a condition of domestic slavery, and on
this account is not altogether sorry when the lady
quits home for a few hours, and leaves him to the
enjoyment of a file of newspapers and a bundle of
cigars, smoking and reading being alike impossible
under the iron sceptre wielded by the soft hand of Mrs.
Adolphus (Miss Portman). His anticipations of the rare
treat are, however, destroyed by his luckless character for
good nature, which has reached the ears of the lodgers in
the same house with himself. Mr. Spalding (Mr. Garden),
a frantic mesmerist, insists on using Adolphus's room for
a magnetic experiment on a young lady, which is to be un-
known to the mother of the subject and the wife of the
experimentalist. Mr. Jaffier Jenkins (Mr. Rogers), a
youth of a violently romantic turn, whose mock tragedy
contributes much to the mirth occasioned by the piece,
uses the same room that he may meet a certain
Matilda Jane without the knowledge of her parent, the
awful Mrs. Chummy (Mrs. Weston). Another intruder is
Miss Precise (Mrs. Wallis), the aunt of Mrs. Adolphus,
who bribes the maid Betty (Miss Kate Saxon) to secrete
her in a chamber, that she may watch unobserved the con-
duct of the newly married man, and thus draw conclusions
as to the happiness of her beloved niece. In consequence
of this tangled chain of circumstances Mr. Adolphus,
on the return of his better half, has no less than three
ladies concealed on his premises, of whom two are
pursued by angry mothers, while the jealousy of Mr.
Jaffler Perkins has been so much aroused by a
grateful embrace given to Mr. Adolphus by Matilda
Jane that he adds a large instalment to the general
riot. Mrs. Adolphus herself is not of a pacific tempera-
ment, and thus there is a general warfare, in which every-
body is pitted against everybody else, and which threatens
to pass from a conflict of words to an interchange of blows
and scratches. At last, however, the aunt, who has seen
the whole progress of affairs from the beginning, emerges
from her hiding-place, and prevents a general massacre by
explaining that Mr. Adolphus is not so criminal as he ap-
pears to be. The storm subsides, but its rumbling has
scarcely ceased when the curtain falls.

The farce was capitally acted, and proved completely
successful.

MR. WARREN'S WORKS AT TILE ANTIPODES.—
A letter, dated Whanganni, Wellington, New Zenland,the
17th of /%lay last, says—" Mr. -Warren's works are read here
by all classes with great interest, and at present tie Lily
and the Bee' is circulated from house to house. I read it
with uncommon delight. The idea is grand and beautifully
sustained."

THE PROPOSED ROYAL VISIT TO CANADA.
There is a hope, and a well-grounded hope too, that in the
course of next summer the people of our great American
dependencies will have their feelings gratified by a visit
from some prominent member of the royal family, if not of
the Queen and the Prince Consort. This much we are
enabled to say already. We are also enabled to say that the
loyal and affectionate sentiments which have prompted a
request so unusual, and in some respects so courageous, are
fully appreciated in the highest quarters. We believe, there-
fore, that we may prepare the public mind for something
like a royal progress in Canada m the good year of 1859.
Literary Gazette.
THE. PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale and Mr.
Gibbs, arrived at Edinburgh on Saturday morning by the
night express from London, via Great Northern, North-
Eastern, and North British railways. The express, which
was due at Edinburgh at 7.50, was 15 or 20 minutes behind
time, and a telegraphic message was sent, on its arrival at
Berwick-on-Tweed, to detain the mail train at Edinburgh
for Aberdeen, which leaves at 8 o'clock, until the Prince's
arrival. Although his Royal Highness was generally ex-
pected to pass through Edinburgh on his journey north,
the hour of his coming was quite unknown, and very few
had the pleasure of seeing him. After a few minutes' delay
in attaching the Royal saloon in which the Prince travelled
to the north mail train, his Itoval Highness resumed his
journey north, proceeding by Edinburgh and Glasgow,
Scottish Central, and Scottish North-Eastern Railways, to
Ferryhill Junction, Aberdeen, which he would reach about
half-past two, and where a special train was to be in readi-
ness to proceed to Banchory, whence his Royal Highness
would post to Balmoral.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, ac-
companied by Col. Forster, the Deputy-Adjuant-General,
has left town for Germany.
VISITORS TO LONDON.—Devonian and others,
who may, perchance, make a visit to the great metropolis,
will, we are assured, find the Turk's Head Inn, King-
street, Holborn, one among the several good "Devonshire
houses," of London. Mr. Colwill is a native of the "merry
shire," and " draws it mild " in the solemn 'moment of the
reckoning.—Western Times.
SIIIPS ORDERED HOME.--The following ships
have been ordered home from the coast of Africa :—Hecla,
6, Commander Aplin ; Alecto, 3, Commander Hunt ; and
Childers, 12, Commander Swinbtun, These ships have all
b..)en three years in conuTaLssion,