The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-24 00:00:00

ti EA Tit t3•RO Y AL, RAY MAttliET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. BaOkatofie.
" E."Nrsia, the nertorrnanoes will commence with
THE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
After which, a new Comedy, entitled THE SOFT SEX.
Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Bnekstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. E.Vllliers,
Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c.
With USED UP, Mr. C. Mathews.
To conclude with the Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE.
Commence a 7

[.LOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—
A_ U Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.
This theatre will open on Saturday, Sept. 28, with a new
and oric4nal comedy, in five acts, written byJohn Brougham,
titled PLAYING WITH FIRE • characters by Mr. John
.R 0 e
I.‘ ugham (Iris first appearance at 'this theatre), Mr, Ryder.
Mr H. Widdicombe, Mr. George Jordan (of the principal
theatres of the United States, his first appearance in Eng-
Lelcieng, and Mrs. Weston. With other En-
land,. Miss C.
tertatv ments. In active preparation, Shakespeare's tragedy
of 0 rim ELL°, with new scenery, dresses and appointments.
Othello,
Mr. Fechter. The box-office will open on Wednes-
day, Sept. 25.

It is but seldom that so much excitement can be
got out of an ordinary agricultural meeting as that
which was evoked last week by Mr. WEGUELIN
down at Wolverhampton. The occasion was
nothing more out of the way than one of the
customary Harvest Home Meetings. It was a
jovial banquet, in fact, bringing to a close—accord-
ing to oxr convivial wont here in England—the
sayings and doings of the local agricultural associa-
tion, the Agricultural Association, that is,
of Staffordshire. One would hardly have
expected that very much in the way of ex-
citement could be elicited from th cit. There
seems scarcely an opportunity for anything
of the kind, in an incident so exceedingly common-
place, and so excessively matter-of-fact. The pro-
ceedings at these banquets might almost as a rule
be reported for the local papers without any neces-
sity for personal attendance on the part of the
short-hand writer. Earl So-and-so (the county
magnate), as a thing of course, takes the chair; his
Lordship being " supported " (as though he was in
a fainting condition) on the right and left by Sir
DASH BLANK and Squire SUCH-AN-ONE, together
with a longish list of illustrious obscures, known
only to the countryside in the immediate neighbour-
hood. Full justice having been done to the excel-
lent fare provided by our " worthy friend," JONES
of the Golden Fleece, or TOMKINS of the Red Lion,
as the case may be, when the cloth has been removed
[they are full of these particularities in the provin-
cial newspapers] the "business" of the evening [as
if that, forsooth, were not the Dinner itself that has
just been consumed], the business of the evening
commences. Instead of slurring over the pre-
liminary part of this same business of the
post-prandial speech-making, with that little hack-
neyed sentence so familiar to us Londoners—" The
usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been duly
given and responded to "—our unsophisticated
country contemporaries indulge us with a record of
each toast with the utmost degree of pariicularity.
It is almost with reluctance apparently that at the
close of the second on the list we are let off with—
(after " H.R.H. the Prince CONSORT and H.R.H.
the Prince of WALES ") " and the rest of
the Royal Family." It seems like a missed
opportunity. And it is because of this,
perhaps, that we generally note immediately after-
wards that another royal highness is expressly
referred to, the toast of the " Army and Navy,"
admitting a courtly allusion en passant to the
General Commanding-in-Chief. Nay—so much are
the ininutice in these matters attended to that we
are generally informed (sometimes in the most ab-
surdly incongruous way in the world, of the music
warbled out at the close of each toast by the little
group of professionals who have begun their per-
formances simultaneously with the appearance of
dessert by nearly tiring every one to death by their
drearily protracted, " never-ending, still-begin-
nipg" intonation of Non Nobis Domine. Nor is it
enough that we are informed who gave forth the
toast of the Army and Navy ; we are next apprized
that the gallant Capt. SMITH, of the Onety-oneth,
returned thanks for the former, and that Commodore
BROWN duly responded on behalf of his brother
blue-jackets. In return for the successive toasts of
the "Lords" and the "Common s"—a thousand to one
but a non-political peer (for there are such) replies
on behalf of the Lords, and a silent member (silent,
that is within the House) on behalf of the Commons.
Yet it was actually out of proceedings of this
deadly and thoroughly used -up character,
that Mr. WEGUELIN contrived, by a master-
stroke of—what shall we call it ?—want
of tact—to elicit an exhilarating burst of
excitement. Speaking of Mrs. DOUGLAS (fami-
liar to the readers of the sparkling little
novelette of "The Semi-Attached Couple ") Colonel
BEAUFORT, the blasé fine-gentleman, says very
wittily, "If she occasionally squeezes a few drops
of lemon-juice into any stagnant cup it will be
rather an advantage. I shall effervesce." It was
in this opportune manner precisely that Mr.
WEGUELIN acted the other day down at the
farmers' dinner at Wolverhampton. He
squeezed a few drops of lemon juice
into the stagnant cup of the agricul-
tural banquet of the Staffordshire Associa-
tion. And forthwith—the farmers effervesced. It
was absolutely refreshing to read the account of it.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, the new and original farce, entitled
THE FETCHES; or, The Onconvanience of a Single
Life. Tim O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer; Mary O'Brady,
Miss Lydia Thompson.
After which, at Eight o'clock, the new and success-
ful comedy of WOMAN; or, Love against the World.
Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin,
J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray,
and Miss Lydia Thomson.
To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in
which Miss Lydia Thompson will danee a New Volunteer
Quick Step.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at
7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

E THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL-
,L. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Open for the Whiter Season.
THIS EVENING, MUSIC HATA CHARMS. Messrs.
D. Fisher, Romer, Werde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw.
Atter which (2334 time), THE COLLEEN BA WN. Mr.
D. Roucicault D. elsher, Billington, S. Emery, Stephenson,
C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis.
To conclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher,
Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly.

Doors open at hail past 6—Commence at 7.

C N TERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
Mr. SAM COWELL every Evening at Nine and a quarter
to Eleven.—Also, Grand Selections from TROVATORE,
TRAVIATA, NORMA, 'MARTHA, &c., by Miss Russell,
Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Morley, and a
powerful Chorus. The Comic department comprises Messrs.
IT ary ey and French, "The Nerves " Mr. Marshall—Mr.
Wood and his talented Son - and Miss Harriet Coveney.
New Opera by Auber LA CIRCASSIENNE.—A Grand
Selection, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans, from
this Opera will be produced, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS
couNrrtv, on MONDAY next. Principal Artistes—Miss
Russell, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli.
.Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is,
H E

O X F O R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
EVERY EVENING.

A Grand Selection from Verdi's ne;O;era, " Simon Boc-
canezra" (now produced for the first time in this country), by
Mis- Russell, Mossrs. C. Greville, Tivoli, Greene, Morley,
and Herbert ; also from Verdi's " Macbeth" by Madame
Enderssohn and the entire Company. Full band and chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonzhmans. Varied Comic entertain-
ments by Harvey and French (the Nerves), Wood and his
Son, K Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall, Bti. ; Balcony
and Stalls, Is. Private Boxes, Ns. Bd.

And all out of a matter so apparently trifling in

itself. An allusion to the " burking " last session

(among so many other Innocents) of the much-

talked-of and eagerly-looked-for Transfer of
Lands Bill ! The Bill projected by Sir HUGH
CAIRNS, and afterwards shelved by the hustling

of the Tories out of place, and the induction into
office, in lieu of them, of those wonderful much-

talking but little-doing Reformers ! It was a deli-

cate subject to touch upon, we may presume, in
purely bucolic company. Mr. WEGUELIN, like a
great city man, as he is, with all the weight of

the Bank of England on his shoulders, came
down upon the corns—not upon the corn but
upon the corns—of the Staffordshire agri-

culturists and landed proprietors. Came down
so unexpectedly and heavily, too, that, as a
matter of course, they howled. It was like the

stamp upon the tenderest of gouty toes from Miss
KILMANSEGGE'S wonderfully precious, but fright-
fully ponderous Golden Leg. The agriculturists

at Wolverhampton were not to be mollified by any

words that could afterwards be uttered by the perpe-

trator of this excruciating gaucherie.

Mr. WEGITE-

LIN had decidedly put his Golden Foot in it. He had

dared to talk politics—unpleasantly. And while
nothing but politics will " go down" at a public

dinner, perhaps we should rather say with a public

dinner at Sheffield—it is •diametrically the reverse

apparently at Wolvcrhampton. There—anything
but politics ! Particularly--anything but politics_
talked unpleasantly ! Even when the oil of poetic

compliment was poured upon the troubled waters,
the turbulence of the latter *as not to be in any

ALFRED MELLOWS PROMENADE ' advantage of the navalsrocedure is, that no one
CONCERTS. can tell where it wilt see fit to operate.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
LAST WEEK BUT TWO. Hence we already hear of regiments being
THE MOZART NIGHT THIS EVENING.
withdrawn from Northern Virginia to protect the
In consequence of the great satisfaction evinced on the
siu'ot the Mozart Night, it will be repeated this even- coast of the Carolinas.
Inc'he first part of the Concert will consist of a Selection October has been the time always fixed for the
from the Works of Mozart.— the second part wilt be Mis-
cellaneous, and include Beethoven's BATTLE Symphony, great onward movement. M'CLELLAN'S men are,
performed by the Orchestra, assisted by the Bands of the
Victoria Rifles and the City of London Rifle Brigade.—Grand however, reported to be far from being an army
Operatic Selection, "RobOrt le Diable."—The Dib 'in Qua-
drille (on nautical airs).—Grand Volunteer March and Part yet, although improving every day in regimental
Song.—A Part Song by Mendelssohn.—Songs by Mdlle. PA.REPA, Madame LAURA BAXTER, Mr. WEISS, and
drill and power of co-operation. We fear, how-
VE ttNON Jtc.
4 ever, that they will not, even in a fortnight more,
Commence at 8. Promenade, ls.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. be well in hand for any great offensive movement;
On Wednesday (To-morrow), a FRENCH NIGHT. while, on the other hand, their impatience and that
On Thursday, a MENDELSSOHN NIGHT.
On Friday, an ITALIAN NIGHT ; and on • of the public may again necessitate an advance.
Saturday, a VOLUNTEER NIGHT.
On Monday next Mendelssohn's Oratorio, ELIJAH, will Naval exploits, if they continue to be successful,
be given.
may possibly serve to quiet the restless eagerness
of the ignorant public, as it will obvi-
ously be so efficient' a mode of procedure.
Already the privations of the South are severe,
from want of the ordinary comforts brought by
commerce; and if the coast be blockaded, both by
seizure of harbour forts and by cruisers, the people
will be reduced to still greater straits. It mast,
however, be confessed that who will attack and
when it will be done are as great mysteries to us,
and probably to the dwellers on the Potomac them-
selves, as when the French will take themselves
from Rome, or what Louis NAPOLEON will please
to do.