The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-02 00:00:00

HAYMARKET ;THEATRE.

During. the past week crowded audiences have
continued to be attracted to the Haymarket Theatre
by Miss Amy Sedgwick's exquisite performance in
Mr. Palgrare. Simpson's new comedy of " The
World and- the Stage ;" and, far froin
the attraction appears to increase with each night's
performance. _

We noticed very briefly, in our impression of
Tuesday last, the reproduction of this excellent and
well-written play, originally written for Miss
Sedgwick's benefit, and the opinions that we then
expressed have been confirmed-and strengthened by
what we have witnessed in sub Sequent visits to the
theatre. The performers now are, all thoroughly
at home in their respective..characters, and the
interest of the piece from first to last is sustained
with unflagging effect. It would bedifficult to find
any• character more suited for the development
of all Miss Amy Sedgwick's powers of embodying
every phase of emotion than that afforded her by
the part she sustains in the " AVorldand the Stage."
Frotd thelightest and most playful badinage to the
deepest and most passionate emotions, all are alike
conveyed to the audience with A forge and reality
which come home to every heart.
Miss Sedgwick is well supported. by all the per-
formers in the play, especiallyhy Mrs. Buckingham
White and Mrs. Poynter, among the ladies, and by
Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Howe, and W.
Farren amongst the gentlemen ; and the whole
raise en scene is deserving of every commendation.
The great charm of Miss Amy Sedgwick's acting
is its perfect truthfulness and freedom from all
artificialiky, and restraint. .. There is a na-
tural. grace, ease, and thorough. -abandonment
to the spirit of the character she impersonates,
whieh is as rare as it is charming. -We may, with
sincere conscientiousness, congratulate Miss Sedg-
*wick -on hating achieved a complete• success by her
performance in the "World and the'Stage." •
On its reproduction on Easter Monday she was
called for bet Ween the- acts; :and Again oa..the
termination of the piece to receive the plaudits
of a. house. crowded in every part, .and -since then
her receptions have been equally enthusiastic.
Mr. Frank Talfourd's burlesque of " Elector,"
'bristling as it does in every line with 'puns of the-
most outrageous and unimaginable character—
which certainly show the capabilities of the Eng-.
lish 'language in -a way that' "few persons would
dream of—continues to elicit every night shouts
of laughtei.from the most saturnine faces.

Mr, amt Mrs. Jones, of Pantklas, hive arrived at
the family residence in aton-square for the season.
RQXAL
•OLLFGE OF SIIRGEONS.—At a meeting
of the. Court,of Examiners on the 29th uit. the following
gentlemen were reported as having undergone the prelim-
pary examinations for the fellowship of the College in classics,
matheinatici, and French, to the satisfaction of the Court,
and will therefore be admitted to the profedsional examina-
tions when eligible—viz., Messrs. Thomas Westcott Gale
Stond,'Lincohf s Inn-fields, diploma- of membership dated
April 11; John Couper, Mornington-road ; George B.
rodie, Salisbury; and Henry Lyell, Thomas •street, Horse-
lydown. • - • • • • •

INNER TEMPLE.—The undermentioned gentle-
men were on Saturday called to-the bar by the Hon. Society
of the Inner-Temple :—Robert Walter Daysh Stewart, Esq.,
M.A. ; Frederick Evers, Esq., Walter Kingscote Crossman,
Esq.,- and Henry Poulin, Esq.—Charles Vaughin, Sub-
treasurer. . . .

MIDDLE TEMPLE, APRIL 30.—The undermen-
tioned gentlemen were this day called to the degree of the
utter bar by the Hon. Society of the Middle• Temple —Bond
Coxe, Esq., of Trinity College, Dublin,
and of 7 Stone-
buildings, Lincoln's Inn, and- Harcourt-street, Dublin ;
Albert Gordon Langley, Esq. (holder of the studentship
awarded by the Council of Legal Education in Trinity
Term,.lBsB), of 28, Southampton-buildings; John Clark,
Esq., of 1, Essex-court, Temple; and James Coverdale
Patten, Esq., of 6, Pump-court, Temple.
LINCOLN'S-INN, April 30.—The undermentioned
gentlemen were this day called to the degiee of Barrister-
at-Law by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-inn—viz., William
Dundas Gardiner, Esq., M.A., Cambridge.- Henry Smith,
Esq.,- 8.A.,. and S.C.L., Cambridge; John Cordy Jeaffre-
son, Esq., 8.A., Oxford ; Edward Aikin, Esq., M.A., Cam-
bridge.; Herbert Clifford Saunders,. Esq., .8.A., Oxford,
and Joshua Frey Josephson, Esq.
GRAY'S-INN, April 30.—At a Pension of the Hon.
Society of Gray's-inn, holden this. day, .Walter David
Jeremy, Esq. and Charles Alexander Smyth, Esq., were
called to thq ilegrec of harrister-at-low.