The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-01 00:00:00

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BAYLE BERNARD'S DRAMATIC VERSION OF
" FAUST."—Mr. W. Harrison is to take the part of " Faust"
in the new dramatic version of the story which will be pro-
duced at Drury-lane, the original intention having been
to assign it to Mr. E. Phelps.

Signor Arditi will, it is rumoured, no longer con-
duct Mr. Mapleson's Italian operas. The successor named
being Signor Bottesini.

M. OFFENBACH'S NEW OPERA about to be pre.
sented at the Theatre du Chatelet, will bear the title o
" Ilarou n-al-Ra schid."

M. DU3IAS, we are told, is to write the book of
the opera to be fabricated for Mdlle. Carlotta Patti, draw-
ing on his own novel, " Le Vicomte de Bragelonne," for
materials. M. von Flotow is named as the composer.

THE POTATO DISEASE.—The pOtato disease is
causing great injury and loss throughout the country. In
this neighbourhood more than half the late crops are
found to be bad, and equally as unfavourable reports are
received from various parts of the country. The early
crop; lifted before the continuous rains, have escaped
with comparative little injury, although many which ap-
peared sound when stored have since been attacked by the
disease.—Oxford Chronicle.
The late William Worthington, Esq., of Stilton,
Huntingdonshire, has bequeathed to each of the fol-
lowing inFititutions a legacy of £2ooch Miss British
Churionary
and Foreign Bible Society,.
Society, Religious Tract Society, Society for Pro-
moting Christian Knowledge, Society for Promot-
ing Christianity among the Jews, Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Church
Building Society, London
Missionary
Huntingdon Society,
Wesleyan Missionary Society,
Infir-
mary or Hospital, and the Old Wesleyau Chapel at
Stilton. Also a sum of £BOO for the poor of Stilton,
to be laid out in clothes, &c.