The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-25 00:00:00

MUSIC.,

OH, NOT THE CAUSE OF Ilfir SADNESS.
• BY OSMOND. G. PHIPPS.
D'Almaine. Soho Square.
This is a sweet and simple melody, adapted to a
favourite German air, and possessing far more depth of
feeling than is usually the characteristic of English
adaptations. The composer is a gentleman named
Phipps, who shows that he has a true ear 'for music,
and whom we shall be glad to find devoting his abilities
to original melodies. His present adaptation is equal
to any we have met with for some time.

LES ETRENNE S.
• D'Almaine. Soho Square.
Those who are partial to Quadrille airs, which are
sor.`aething more various and original in the style of
their melody than mere musical snuff-box tunes, will
Drury-kup
derive much pleasure from " Les Etrennes ; " for in day text.
Shakspeare's
the first place, they are the production of an eminent r_ft inlslti?cfhOctober,witl
'Theatre has announced its opening on fri.nr;
Macready, after an absence 01 ts, ebetthile
composer ; and in the next, the airs are all judicioti:ii, Yr..trs, will make his re-appearance in that character ; ,13c
characteristic of the figures. An experienced p, ; farce from the pen of Pocock will follow. The lessee
rfortner ing relinquished the management of Covent.gard,e;_co
would take great pleasure in making himselc -
acquainted provided, with the addition of many new members,
with them, for they are by no means r
beneath his notice. The tom os- 40 easy as to be powerful company," from the elite of both. The COTES
-
P is Jr. Phipps, to ballet, under the direction of M. Anatole, from Par'''
whom we are indebted for
said to be numerous and complete, being selected from. tb:,
" Oh, ask not the cinisn the plaintive adaptation, Opera House and Continental Theatres. The music'ke:
of my sadness." heretofore, will be under the control of Mr. T. C°°,
the chorus, more numerous and effective than ever, rrlo
conducted by Mr. J. T. Harris ; and the scenic del3`
ment, on which so much depends, devolves into the .0
of the Messrs. Grieve, whose taste and talent 'nave ?°,1:„.
many years added to the attractions of the rival estao:!,,
0
ment. Under the direction of the latter the decora!°o
have undergone renovation, and considerable ahemt lop•
dnd improvements have been effected in the interior.
witi,
sides a new drop scene, which will strictly harmonise
1,0
the ornamental part of th•-. 1 auditory, the proscenium iu
been entirely re-modelle,d, and the orchestra greatly
sir
creased in size and ac•zommodation. The central clonsai
Tier has been much 'enlarged, and the light on the stagehich
be more equally ,:dffused than it hai hitherto been, screct.
it is expected• will greatly increase the general scenic ode
The Rotu:lda, or " Hall of Shakspeare," as it is hene jer
ward to be called, will have, in addition to Roubiliac's sPisio
did statue of tile bard " for all time," Carew's 00,4
statue of Kean, and another of his eminent prot):,
Garrick. Cooper retains the stage management, and lay .
r, e
as before announced, is the newly-appointed acting man "er
The Adelphi opens on Monday next, under the plai!ne'lls
ment of Mr. Charles Matthews, son, of the late 01
comedian, who, being the author o‘: two or three successor
dramatic trifles, shows at least that he possesses some .tfeJ
petency for the undertaking. Though it must be ado' the
that the company has sustained considerable loss.,i'er
person and talents of John rteeve, yet with new aocifv ;so
pieces, and an efficient company, which he has, retail'in'the
many of its old and established favourites, added teuther•
public paUronage he is likely to enjoy in right of his i°,l.tir
there can be little do..abt but the speculation will be i°oo
nate. At all everais he commences with spirit, and its
with two new pieces. The first, called Mandrin,beside f
strong cast, will exhibit much new scenery, and some °tit/
novel and striking description. Buckstone's very fa."li y
farcetta .of The Christening will follow ; and a new Imec'th4
Fitzbr.ll, called The London Carrier, will conchal'
eve:eing's entertainments.
The Olympic, like its rival, opens on Monday ilig7-'4,)011
with two novelties ; in the first, Love in a Cottage, Vl:tee
Vestris will sustain the principal .character, and si•
5g
new songs, to " Love in a Cottage," and " 11l be rjo suu'fei'
sive Wife," by Alexander Lee ; and one, " Rer o'l4°°.,li'itts,
by S. Lover. In the second, A Gentleman DificLet.
Liston will bear prominent sway, assisted by Mrs....nr,
In last season's favourite burletta, An Affadir of .101; er,
Keeley will divide with Liston the aite
icarancTinotn
inofedtbdise
formance • and in Court Beauties a
of female beauties will be concentrated.
decorations of the theatre have 'oeen renovated, °-
whole presents an agreeable- asrdect. accustomed
ornaad'ei'tbe

AE THEATRES.

•••••••.....

LITERATURE.

BRITISH CONSTITUTION.
Orr and Smith, London. 1835.
Alien is much of sound, practical utility iii this
little unassuming treatise, which is not encumbered
with verbiage, or defaced, as is too often the case with
such dissertations, , with showy paradox and specious
theory. The authors style themselves " Members of
Gray's Inn," but there needed not this express avowal
of their vocation to prove that they have professionally
studied, and made themselves masters of the peculia-
rities of the British Constitution. The mind of a
diligent and comprehensive lawyer betrays itself in
every page of the Essay.

VAGARIES IN VERSE.
Hunt, Bath. 1835.
A very silly work, wherein the ambition to write
witty poems is more apparent than the capacity. The
author, we perceive, takes as a motto for his work,
the well-known Shakesperian sentence, " trifles light
as air," a question which to a certain extent is strictly
applicable, for his poems are really "trifles;" but then
instead of being " light as air," they are " heavy as
lead." We cannot possibly imagine what could have
induced him to perpetrate so trumpery a production !

BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. Vor,s. 6-7.
Murray. London : 1635.
Of all the various re-publications of the day, we
know of none more attractive than this. Though
professing to be merely the biography of Dr. Johnson,
it is, in reality, the domestic history of the literature
of the eighteenth century, of which " surly Sam" was
the great boast and main-stay ; and is so fertile in
anecdote, so graphic in its style, so happy in its de-
lineations of men and things, as to constitute almost
the only book in the language of which it may justly
be said, decies repetita placebit. Unlike the generality
of biographies, it shows us its hero, not attired in his
full-dreSs suit, but in his dressing-gown and slippers :
we are admitted even into the privacy of his bed-cham-
ber ; and are made partakers of his most confidential
and familiar moments. Nor is the narrator less a sub-
ject for curious and interesting speculation than the
subject of his narrative. Two such originals in their
way, as Boswell and Johnson, the world never saw
before, and may possibly never see again. Honour
then—eternal honour to Bozzy for the treat he has
afforded us by his incomparable biography ! We can-
not hear him spoken slightingly of with patience, so
grateful are we for the disinterestedness which has in-
duced him to " write himself down an ass" for the
benefit of posterity. Some one has sneeringly observed
that he has not, in his own person, said a single goe,ij
thing throughout his whole Life of Johnson. ?;;ow
we must beg leave to enter our protest against, this,
for, in the seventh volume, we find him (on the sub-
ject of death) thus expressing himself to Dr. Johnson :
—" True, Sir, we may carry our books in ottr heads ; but
still there is something painful in the thought of leaving
for ever what has given us pleasure. I remember
many years ago, when my imagination was warm, and
I happened to be in a melancholy mood, it distressed
me to think of going into a state of being in which
Shakspeare's poetry did not exist." In a note at the
bottom of the page, Mr. Croker sneers at this remark
as a conceit, but we can assure him that there is far
more warmth of fancy and feeling in it than in any
production we have ever seen of his, whether in prose
or verse. It has the merit of being something better
than common-place, which is more than can be said
for his " Talavera," which is verse only by virtue of
its rhymes, or for his criticisms in the " Quarterly,"
which are effective only from their ill-nature, lt, is
curious to observe how in every page of his ;,-.lquant
biography, Boswell is constantly ridiculing; in Gold-
smith the simplicity which forms so int'gre a portion
of his own character. NevertheleF:.;despite his jibes
jibes
made poor Goldy's bonhonzmie and, unworldliness, he has
made him, with his Peacti-blossom coat, and his
ludicrous ebullitions of
envy and 1 jealousy—two pas-
sions which never 'assumed Iln amiable form, till they
met in his 1)M-son—tip:, most loveable and delightful
ch'racter, in a beak teeming with all possible varieties
of literary nature. There is nothing even in his own
Vicar of Wakefield," richer in its way, than his
affected indifference when Johnson was repeating to an
attentive audience the circumstances of his celebrated .
interview with George the Third. The Doctor who
knew him well, esteemed him highly and loved him
more, chiefly however from that want of discretion,
knowledge, and presence of mind which left him so
cOmlctely at his mercy in all wit-encounters. We can
always afford to love those, from whom we have nothing
to apprehend in the way of rivalry. It is our equals
and superiors that are apt to call forth our scorn and
detestation. The present edition of Boswell, from its
elegence, its completeness, and its reasonableness in
point of price, is an honour to the literature of the
country.

Duk

over
ne Juke of Wellington -arrived it Weimer r
on Saturday. On Monday 'dis Grace pri:Jceeded to v
)ti
to inspect the works at the„ harbour.
The Duke and
D'uehess e:r St. Alban's are $
visiting tour through the Hip.' $4l
nlands. Their Graces inte
passing the month of Octo
taer in Edinburgh.
The Marchioness of Hastings and the L 3
Hastings arrived at
i...mudon Castle, Ayrshire, on Saturi,it
The Earl al,.d Countess of Burlington have
Compton Plaerj, Eastbourne, for Chatsworth.
, -PC
?it-PA to state that Lady Maryboronn is
We re
in u_nmsj. (.1t aiwerous state of illness at Weimer Castle' cl.
.-I.lae, Duke de Nemours, attended by Geneva' %Lilo
,ra.:0:1, returned to Grillon's Hotel yesterday aftrirnoon, w'of
ms tour in the provinces. The following was the outeorr
the young Prince :—On tbe 14th and 15th he was at) otlt
caster races, 16th at Liverpool, 17th at Manchester, age,
he crossed the Principality and visited the Menai l3ri
19th at Shrewsbury, 20th at Worcester, 91st at Oxford.
EXTRAORDINARY AND MOURNFUL EVENT ri' A marriage took place last week in the village 01,-ilat4
hill. Their friends met in the evening to eele"tb.it
the occasion at the marriage supper ; but ant festivity, was soon dashed by a cause as sudden ~s7,ar
was distressing. " The spoiler Came." The hapPY
groom was struck with apoplexy—and eze another sn°
arisen, the union between him and th,e wife of an kor
dissolved for ever.—Scotch Paper.
; eal On Monday last, a numero'ds meeting of the fr-eose
of the late Sir John Malcolm. %vas convened for the Pu1:00
of erecting a monument to 'nis memory. The frog"; tbe
attended, and Sir James Graham laid the foundation °f ,
monument, as Provin'c'al Grand Master. Different te_.„,re
hers of the Union J_,,..idor
ge and the Lodge of HartnonY 'or
present. The ny.raument is to be erected on Lane"' tio
hill (on the Bo:
town of LatYg}john,—Whitehaven Herald.
raer of Scotland), an eminence above
lit
THE GREAT STAFFORDSHIRE EsTA.-.-1 60$
our eolranns last night, it was stated in error that. this the
Pr.oln:rty, including near 2,000 acres of the best land
Onunty of Stafford, near to the Potteries, tythe fmet_esij*
tax redeemed, extra parochial, with manorial rights, vto lit
present income of four thousand pounds a yel':r, was tatel
disposed of by Private Treaty. It sboul'a have s ot)
that it was for Peremptory Sale by Auct',oa, on the
October, by Mr. George Robins, in Lcndon.--(See
vartisement in this paper.) •
stee
DEATH OF THE EARL OF C7,IATHAM.--'`eg 0"
(lay morning, at one o'clock, the "Earl of Chatham, `,;0„r:.
died at his house, No. 10, Charlr,s-street, BerkelersiLie,
His Lordship was an Elder Brother of the Trinity 'l".„,i des:
Governor of the Charter Hov.se, High Steward of ona
ter, a General in the Arms:, Governor of Gibralt
Colonel.of the 4th Regiry ent of Foot. By his liArd'lt '5
death, the title of Earl of Chatham is now exti•oct•
now twenty-nine year?, since the decease of his La"'
younger brother, the illustrious William Pitt.
v sII
The Tories have been defeated both at I•l3arusiel, the
Gainsborough. At the latter /filace, we ;earn fr°s-f
Lincoln Gazette that the Liberals had 0-I,,en notice °The
objections, 13 of which they triumphant]; sustainecL4lst'
Tories had given notice cf. 6,
thew SocXy," but as Matthew Sooby, depending Dele'ace,
not a single object:lon could be
notoriety, had emitted to mention his ple.ce of rest
rd
are excessively 61agrined at the result of this blundel;:ore
swear that Matthew Sooby shall be called for the t" jot
Matthew Poohy. A similar occurrence took Place- of
week at Beverley, when we believe some thousands as
weinticehrtawbeirede s,
ignTelcile
Tory notices of objections fch to the ground from the
omission,
hem d'art
,
CORPORATION CANVASSING. —WC I, been
i
canvassing has already commenced for civic offices °bell
the Municipal
already ma 'Reform Bill. In Lincoln a 1;:dt has
.5 re
40 out by the Conservatives, and, their tools.
to be ^jailed upon to vote for every ore of 24 nag' ses
4./t
rirt.'Zie of their allegiance to Pinkisni, ecta,ti f
future reward. Really this is aly.,minaanbdle el
xPT°
decency from a party who have so recently, oPen,Y;
flagrantly paid two sovereips each for votes at the
int a
election would certainly be absurd ; but we did OP
such
little gratitude, if not a little policy, in putting ur:4l
list the names of their own friends who have fill the CO
porate offices before.—Lincoln Gazette.
nclaY It appears from the Police Report, that
last no less than 115 persons were de rgyed at the cbu-
ren
police offices with criminal offences "
car of $
THEATRICALS AT SYD'sEy. In the
public-house in Tottenham. in
Theatre, is to be seen the printed playbill of a theatru„
New South Wales,' It. Commences ai Theatre 13.5t,Var'
Sydney. hivcalna will be performed the 19°,,P19;
afterdram a of. P -street, close to the wu-,,`
;- uo Robbery, or the Diamond -I";fect
vvnich, the fare() of Honest' Thieves ; .
de°' by exhibitions on the tight rope by the Australian so:
To conclude with No." The bill farther informs itlff,
the following' dramas, which have been played with "
degrees of success in London, are in preparation
Gambler's Fate, The Station House, The For'/
Ncwgate, and The Exile.
EXTRAORDINARY EXPEDITION,:—The ' 11;„0.
steam ship started from Blackwell last Sunday tr,ornii;
and arrived at Edinburgh 911 Ira onday afternoon at '
to be
o'clock, making the passes,-
in 82 hours.
The harvest in most parts of the north ern %be
is still unfinished, and has been considerably ,nipeded Vi•
late rains,

PROVISION CONTRACT.—Yesterday being ap-
pointed by the Lords of the Admiralty for taking into con-
sideration the tenders for supplying the navy with P,OOO
tierces of beef; and 9,500 tierces of pork, for the ensuing
year, the number of representatives of provisior 'houses who
sent in proposals for the contract, and u.rlio were in atten-
dance at Somerset House, was greater than at any time
during the late war. At one o'clock the last tender was
received, and their Lordships sat in close deliberation until
half-past two, when Mr. White, who was said to be con-
nected with the firm of Robarts and Co., was called in and
declared the contractor for the whole. The secresy ob-
served in such cases, and the extreme caution which was
previously adopted by the present Lords of the Admiralty,
prevented us from obtaining officially the prices at which
this large contract has been taken : but from what we could
learn the beef went off at Si. 13s. and -the pork at
4/. 12s. 6d. per tierce, a considerable reduction on the
prices of last year. The quantity contracted for last --
was 6,500 tierces of beef, and 8,500 of port- ,ear
crease on the present occasion ic --sand the in-
duced state of the s.^-' • attributable to the re-
mew--
in the different victualling depart-
.siroughout the kingdom. The bidding for this con-
tract is considered to regulate the prices of live stock, ge-
nerally, throughout Ireland, so that if it was so difficult for
the parsons to extract any great amount for tithe when
the prices were what might be considered remunerating
last year, what will be their situation during the current
year ? And yet the Lords threw out the Bill that would
have secured to them an adequate remuneration for their
spiritual labours,