The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-19 00:00:00

LYCILUM THEATRE

The representation of " Macbeth" at this theatre
last evening attracted a crowded and brilliant au-
dience. Miss Helen Faucit and Mr. Chas. Dillon
supported the principal parts, and it need scarcely
be said that the lady was most cordially and en-
thusiastically received. Miss Faucit's personation
of Lidy Macbeth i vigorous and intense, develop-
ing e:xtrerne activity oepurpose, and ambition, and
combining the most careful artistic grace of stage
attitude with the most forcible enunciation of dra-
matic language. Perhaps this talented actiems
exhibits rather too strong a touch of the " so •Id"
in the scene where she urges Macbeth to the deed
of blood. According to our notion, a little more
subtlety and firmness of persuasion—she well
knowing the innate weakness of her tool—.would
be more consonant with Shakespere's showing ;
but the general representation of the character, as
given by Miss Faucit, claims the appreciative ac-
knowledgment of all who rejoice to see our great
English bard honoured by sound English acting.
Mr. Dillon was effective and earnest as Macbeth,
and evinced constant anxiety to sustain the
character with the power and attention it merits.
The Macduff of Mr. Stuart was played with his
usual steadiness and energy, and won well de-
served applause.
Locke's beautiful music was given, and if not
in the mest perfect style, still with sufficient ex-
cellence to highly gratify the audience.
It struck us that the "mob" of witches, in every
variety of " Rag Fair" costume, rath,r resembled
the gipsey encampment beale in " Guy Man-
ne ring, ' with the "Chongh and Crow" accompani-
ment, and somewhat marred the sublimity" and
terror which our poetic imagination attaches to
the ancient "weird sisters" and " blasted heath."

At the couclusi n of the play, a. rapturous call
brought Miss Faucit and Mr. Dillon before the
curtain, to receive the hearty plaudits they so well

merited.

SECOND BATTALIONS.

LITERATURE.

Mervyn, Clitheroe. No. VII. By W. Harrison

Ainsworth.
The mysterious bell ringing is explained, and
explained, too, most ingeniously. It proves to
have been a trick played upon Old Hazy by one
Dr. Hooker (our old friend or rather enemy Simon
Pownall), then lodging next door to the grange
at the adjoining farm Louse, occupicd by Mr.
Hazelrigge's bailiff, Stephen • Biaekd ete Dr.
Hooker, alias Simian Powaatl, h-as catered the
diabolical tintionabulati nby me-ins of a galvanic
battely adtottly put in comintinicstion with the
bell-wires 1 Hence the Edgar-Poe-like hubbub :--
" The jangling and the wrangling,
The swinging and the rinving,
Of the bells, bells, bah,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells,
The jingling and the tinkling,
The clamour and the clangour of the bells."
Mervyn visits his old schoolboy friend, now con-
sumptive Parson Brideoak—not by any means, to
our mind, as fine a fellow as he used to be, but
rather a fretful, captious, dyspeptic valetudinarian. .
He turns out to be in love with Ora—hopelessly.
He possesses the secret about Sissy Culeheth,
whom we half suspect to be either dead or dying.
Ned learns the truth about his missing wife, and
seems overwhelmed by it. But the reader is, as
yet, still left entirely to his conjectures. The must
remarkable passage of all in the present numb r is
one in every way worthy of 'he aui hor of k-
wood." It relates the Legend of Owlartou Grange,
a terrible tale of naurdir and starvation. Tue
murderer being the servant of the murdered, and.
the murdered a miser, who is surprised one day (in
the then lonely and otherwise uninhabited Grange)
gloating over his money bags, in a secret closet be-
hind the wainscot. A sliding panel has been acci-
dentally left, open, and by this means the villainous
domestic tracks his miser-master to his treasury,
and there beats him to death with a mallet.
Loading himself heavily with gold, be returns to
the secret entrance, only to find it has blown to—
the hidden spring being a mystery to him. So
tuat the wretch is fairly trapped. Days and nights
drag by, and at last the neighbours, having seen
b• one stirring about the house for a long while,
force eu.rance, and, guided by the feeble knock-
ing of tie bloody mallet in the hands of the dying - %
murderer, reak through the parti ion, and so learn. %-
the whole atrocity. Such is the legeriii tf 0 wlarton
Grange, told here in Ainsworth's mst weird •
manner, and cleverly illustrated by Phiz, in one
of those darklgoblin et chings, first adventured upon, •
if we remember rightly, in the embellishment of
" Bleak House." The story invests itself in each
new number with increasing attractions.

Jessie's Wail over Havelock the Bold. Words and
Arrangement of the Scotch Airs by D. M. gird
and T. Browne.

Out of the apocryphal Jessie of Lucknow, with
her " Dinna ye hear it about the imaginary
pibroch, much has already been made both by lyrist
and musician. Mr. Aird, in This graceful song of
Highland Jessie, has himself charmingly com-
memorated the incident—an incident which, if it
really did not occur, is in every way so exquisitely
beautiful, that it ought to have occurred f Here,
again, appears before us the fabulous heroine of the
Highlanders—in whose regard l%lr. Aird is certainly
exercising the prerogatives and privileges of poet
to the uttermost. He gives her to us bodily (by
aid of his artist) upon the titlepage, where she is
represented in a visionary rapture at the foot of
the Havelock monument. With the assistance of
Mr. Browne our lyrist has adapted to some of the
national airs of Sootland the pathetic words through
which he has articulated Highland Jessie's lamen-
tation for Sir Henry Havelock. The last verse,
however, breaks from the accents of grief into those
of exultation. It is the very hypothesis of the
saviour of Lucknow. As with the previous' weft
from the same hands, the profits of this new ditty
are to be devoted to the increase of the Indian
Relief Fund.

LAW INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

(Peers Present—The Lord Chancellor' Lord Broughafgs
the Bishop of Ripon, and other Peers.)
APPEAL-TRI LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY

COMPANY T. LINDSAY.
The further hearing of this appeal was resumed Ois
morning at half-past 10 o'clock.
The case was-reported in our columns of yesterday..
It will be remembered that the point of contentiol
was whether the plaintiff Lindsay, in two actions °I
damages against the London and North-Western Rail-
way Company (fur loss sustained by him by their refill'
ing to carry his fruit on their line of railway 10°3
an
rbruyr ghhi,s
fruit,tat ng
he that
being the
acofmr
fruit
Y 8°
Edinburgh to Liverpool, and for exhibiting a placard or
notice
eedin to carry filer•
chant there), was legally entitled to use arrest'
ments in the hands of the Caledonian Rai;way Compaq,
their -opposed debtors, fundanclum ad jurisdictioneo•
The Lords of the First Division of the Court of S„ ..lion
in Scotland sustained the competency of the jurisdiction
of the Court over the railway company, and against thie
decision the company appealed, on the ground that thei,
were an English company, and the Court of Session had
no jurisdiction over them, and that the plaintiff Lindel
bad no right to use arrestmente on his actions of unliqui
dated damages.
Mr. Rolt, Q.C., addressed the house on behalf of the
respondent Lindsay, and asked an affirmance of
judgment of the Court of Session.
Mr. Anderson, Q.C., addressed the house on behalf
of the appellants. It is probable that the hearing 0
counsel in this cause will occupy the house the_whole Gf.
this day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FORblariqUe.)
IN RE NANDERS—AN UNFORTUNATE BANKRETTOT—•'

FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATE.
This bankrupt was described as of nought, Mew',
&c., builder, and to-day was appointed, for consideration
of his certificate. ed
Mr. Laurance' appeared for the bankrupt, and ask
for a first-class certificate. The bankrupt had been L
business for many years with a person named Woolo°l
wko, however, had unfortunately invulved himself an
the firm in liabilities to an enormous extent, and
ni
afterwards committed suicide, and these lisoiliti"6
were brought into account against the firm. '"of
balance-sheet showed a surplus balance, Jan. 18"'d
2,0941. ; and the debte now were about 300/. ; so:0
the assets were doubtful debts, 1,2271. ; ,Agrel
7651. and property 8911,, he, Mr. Lawrence, conowe-
-
ae
LUIS to be a case which the Court would look twos,
1•
one of unavoidable loss and misfortune, as the eXP6IIOO
tore was considerably less than the profits, andm,oo
bankruptcy had entirely arisen through the misOn—
of Walcott.
His Honour said that every partner ought to exec tad
the right of examining the accounts, and if he neginew
he must bear the consequences. not
Mr. Lawrance said that in this case the bills were
k,OO
entered in the books, and no vigilance could "'—
discosoveHredhe fraud.
ti.notur then granted a certificate of the firstcla
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn:)

IN RE MORTON.
This bankrupt was described as of Maidstone, genoti
grocer, and to-day was appointed for a meeting for
Li
red
of debts. The debts are stated at 3,5581. so,
debts, 650/. ; liabilities, 9291. ; assets realized, B°°9
property in the hands of creditors,
570/. •
in partnership account of Pooley and : V. jut
51cirteat brhiellts
co
merchants, from which a surplus is expected. AsslFtej
were chosen, and Messrs. Paul and Turner APPeal
accountants..
(Before Mr. Commissioner Farce.)
Tgj
THE SURREY GARDENS COMPANY.—WINDING UP
AFFAIRS IN BANKRUPTCY.
Irathis case the propositions made tor an arrangeldr,
with the creditors having failed, it was agreed b 1 sr.
Fleming, of the committee of shareholders, andot'
Chappell, for several creditors consented, to the n'r
t,
being made for winding up the affairs of the con3P3°J
this court.
IN RE THE ELECTRIC LIGHT AND C3LOUR Col'lrl4lPir
A petition was pre,ented in the case of this coolt,o
for an order to wind up the affairs. The Petiti°2':
on benalf of Mr. Purdie, of Edinburgh, aild to-d—, fp
appointed for Leming arguments. The petition o'lo°,o
there "
very vuluuiinous nature, and it is understood
be a strong opposition to the granting of title order.

my.)
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This m--

MARL BOROUG-li-STREET. , lit
Thomas Johnson, aged 18, and George Ed'estnr—Alssitt
were this morning charged before Mr. thug",--caute;
stealing a parcel containing 31bs cigars from tue got,
of the shop 67, Haymarket,
the property of
Mr.
Salmon, and value two guineas. iboP
Mr. Salmon said be was sitting in the rear of Wooer
last night about ten o'clock when he saw Jolaus°° u
and slip off the counter the parcel in question' 0,13
which he immediately ran out. He pursued l'icci'dour:
saw Edwards outside, who, as ho crossed theibouli:
step, tried to trip him up. Prosecutor, 410,Pii
somewhat retarded by this, succeeded in ovehr,o, be
the former with the purl.dried property, vi't vilsT
dropped on his laying hold of him, exclaiming,' .rP"
out being question,,d, •‘ I'm not the alto I,' yobIL
wards aga.n impened .him as he returned wit„talor
son. A policeman cowing up he gave the latter
b 9 t
custody, rod on the way to the station Edwardslobargl
words he addressed to the prisoner then ill bi 3 coact
evidently was giving him directions how to slip 1,0
and escapel; prosecutor therefore believing 13° ti
concerned in the robbery gave him in cbarge.,.., 100°
Johnson, in answer, said be was guiLy u""
nothing of the btber prisoner. be Q.*:t
al till ..al,l he Lever ,a,
alta sold ,ranges to, toe 6upp-rt' " tis
ilLie U 14 LU. 0 416 1 ttli• Apv-
Mr. Bingham, directing enquiries to be nt°
Edwards, remanded the prisoners for a week'