The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-28 00:00:00

ROYAL PAVILION THEATRE.

The offeling at this Theatre was Jack Straw's Castle, or
Harlequin and Dame Darden. The merit displayed in the
invention and getting up, belongs to Farrell, who. seems in
that line no way inferior to the Prince of Pantomitnists, Farley
himself. It was highly amusigr, and drew forth the incessant
laughter of the andieace. • Hill, Chapino, and Toungman, as
Clown, Harlequin, and Pantaloon, gave universal satisfaction.
Miss Rayner is a graceful Columbine. A Pictorial Diorama
was much admired. The artists have displayed great talent.

WILLIAM I. or PRussiA.—The dress of the King
corresponded with the simplicity of his domestic arrahgc-
ments. He wore alternately a civil dress or a uniform till
1719 ; after which time he always appeared in the uniform
of a Colonel of the Potsdam Grenadier Guards—blue
cloth, with red facings and silver lace, buff waistcoat and
breaches, white linen gaiters with copper buttons, and
square-toed shoes. When hunting, and in wet weather, he
always wore boots. All his things were made to fit very
tight. His cocked hat Wil2 bound with a narrow gold
lace, and had a gilt • button without a loop, and a gold cord
with two small tassels. When pursuingthe chase at Wus-
tcrhausen or Potsdam, his general costume was a • green
hunting dress and a couteau de chasse. " The last expen-
sive article of his Majesty's wardrobe," says Faszmann;,
"was the roquelaure or great coat, which was made of a
very coarse white or blue cloth. Nay, it almost seemed as
if his Majesty considered it silly and extravagant to wear a
fine coat in bad weather. So careful was the King of his
best home suit, that when engaged in hii Cabinet he inva-
riably put on a linen apron and half sleeves. He was the
declared enemy of new fashions and showy attire."—Foreign
Quarter/N.

SPORTING.--Lord Segrave's hounds had a most
extraordinary day on Wednesday. The fox was found at a
small plantation within a mile of the Castle, and running-
through the line of woods at Hill, and twice making a cir-
cuit of the deep vale near the Severn below ThOrnbury and
Oldbury (where the hounds had a check of about twenty
minutes), was killed near Shcphcrdinc, after a run of three
hours and thirty minutes.

Cardinal Richelieu used to boast that he could
entraat matter to send any man to a dungeon out of four
or live ordinary words. One of his attendants immediately
wrote upon a card, " One and two make three." " Three
make only one," exclaimed the Cardinal, " It is blasphemy
against our Holy Trinity. To the Bastile with him."
•
On Monday last, near Old Liam, a
Joseph Holbinson undertook to worry 4 fellow limn ::(1
pole-cat of the
feminine- gender, or ‘vhat is commonly called a ii,onicrt,
weighing 211bs. animal was placed on a round table
with a string round its neck, and the above brute worried it
in twenty minutes, for a gill of rum, and 2s. 6d. in money,
whielCwas given to his wife.
p 2d. each, witness A great number of persow,
aid
ed the disgraceful s,:ene. The
f4ow was bitten in a most shoekia,4- manner.—Stody rt
ildvertiscr.

. AN ARISTOCRAT OF NATURE.--The idle man
is, in fad, the only true aristocrat of nature—others werk,
he looks. on. He walks about the world with his hands in
his pockets, and sees other men doing their duties in that
state of life unto which it has pleased God to call them.
Ile smiles to himself superior ! Yet as idleness opens his
heart, and disposes it to pity, and all ether peaceful and
contemplative virtues, he is sorry for them. If anything
can anger hire (which is di(xieult, seeing that it requires
some exertion to put oneself in a passion), but if anything
e:m ruffle is to see the offensive pride which those
nuisances called active people take in their miserable avo-
cations. To see bow they will rise at six in the marring
with impertinent alacrity, as if the day could not dawn
without their assistance ! To see what courtiers and syco-
phants they are, repdsrly attending the sun's levee, and
how they will brag of their finnilianty with him, and'S'ay—
" I was up with the sun this morning"—putting themselves
on a par with that great luniinary, as it were,
" hail fellow, wail met !" between them. Then how envious
and officious they are ; they take delight in entering. the
chamber of the id!o man, who is harmlessly_ and virtuously
asleep at noon day, and wake hiM from his calm slumbers
with the noisy assurance, that • they " have been stirring
since si!: o'clock !" .Slihing ! what an employment fdr any-
thing above the capacity of a 'spoon ! 13ut this barbarous
custom of theirs is but .a slight infliction compared with
other malicious devices which they.calplay against the harm-
less objects of their hatred—the idle man.—ne Keepsoke.

A GREEK CiutisTstAs:—ln Swan's • Journal of
a Voyage up the Lleditetronean," is the following account
of • a -Greek Christmas :—" This being Christmas Day with
the Greek Catholics, ti,eir Churches are adorned in the
gayest manner. There was one in Which a sort of raree-
show had been set up, illumined with a multitude of can-
dles : the subject of it was the birth of Christ, who was
represented in the back ground by a little waxen figure,
wrapped up in embroidery, and reclining upon an embroi-
dered cushion, which rested..upon another of pink and satin
—this was Euilpo.sed to he the manger where our Saviour
was born. Behind the irnage two paper bulls' heads looked
unutterable things.' On the right was the Virgin Mary,
and on the left one of the Eastern Magi. Paper clouds,
in which the paper heads of numberless cherubs appeared,
enveloped the whole ; Whilst from a paste-board cottage
stalked a wooden monk with dogs, and sheep, and camels ;
goats, lions, and lambs. The construction of these figures
was chiefly Dutch ; they were intermixed with China images
and miserable daubs on paper. In the centre a real foun-
tain, in miniature, squirted forth water to the ineffable de-
of crowds of prostrate worshippers."
LEICESTER CCRPORATORS.—TIIC last public act
of the old Corporation :nay be truly said to have given it
the coop &grace in the estimation of every class of the
inhabitants pretending to the 'smallest modicum of right
feeling. Loud dissatisfaction at its conduct is not only felt
aid expressed by its opponents, but by thou: who have
been accustomed to range themselves among its admirers
and supporters. "It is too bad" only conveys a faint idea
of the disgust
,tvith which even !key %ler.' the proceedings
of the last Common Hall: To grant penSions to one or
two servants worn out with free living, might perhaps have
been borne without much grumbling ; but to grant a piece
of plate, value 1001., to Mr. Alderman James Rawson, for
his services !—To Mr. tiurbidge, Bool.—Aldermen
rnadge and Yates, pieces of plate. value 504 each—and an
annuity of 501. for life to Mr. William Parsons, for'all and
each of THEIR respective services=-to the Mayor, for his
second year'S salarsS, '2501., and to the Town Servants 051.
year ealt, far the §anie purpose—to do these things, we
say, is indeed out-Herodiug Herod, and shows such, reek-
lesssos; of self-respect, and contempt for the opinions of the
inhableanti of the town at large, as must at (oleo have
earned for those who supported them the scorn and indig-
nation of every hooourable, right-minded person.—Leics-ster
Chronicle.
Cows FED ON 11'18FL-1-qr. Brooke, in his travels
in Lapland, mentions a fact at which 'the English farmers
will be mach surprised, viz., that the cattle in Lapland, or
Finn:ark, are uniformly fed on fish. His surprise at the
5:111.c time will not be lestened, when he heirs that the
animals not only devour this kind of food with the great-
est eagerness, but thrive and do well upon it. It appears
that diesse dung, when it can be pro Cured, is also boiled up
with the fish bones, and greedily eaten by the cattle, in
Lapland and Norway. As the process by which the food
is prepared for'the cattle is curious, it may not be unin-
teresting to the English farmer to read the account. About
five o'clock in the evening, a large iron pot is regularly-
plaeed on the kitchen fire, partly fined with water, into
which is immersed a large quantity of fishes' heads and
bones, with the addition of some hay ; and this is to boil
gently for some time, till a kind of fish soup is prepared.
The pot is then • taken to the cow-house by the mai&ser-
rant, and its contents are placed before the animals by
being poured in their mangers. I was much surprised to
observe the extreme relish and greediness with which they
devoured this ; both sheep and cows appeared equally fond
of it. The milk is of a remarkably rich flavour, and the
beef aml mutton are very good. •
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SUICIDE IN CIIINA.—TIV.! frequent, tecurrence of
suicide in Canton is at the Siii:te iota a Proer and .a cot:se-
m:nee of the demoralizaficm which so generally exists ; it
is •;t Inelaneltory demonstration of the weakness, both Mental
an I hosiiis', whieh prevails oolong the inhabitants. A silly
zunhition to " make light, of life" has crept among them ; and
4.l,:atnost ins4uilicant'causZ!s fr6quentiv occasion the Corn-
initsioti of ‘zscif-cle,;tructiou. It is calculated that eight cr.-
nine-tenths of the untimely deaths which come under the
.unties autherltiesare caused by suicide; and of fitese
ix or sex eostefiths 'ere 'perpetrated by women.
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