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

HAYMARKET ,THEATEE.

During the past week crowded audiences have
continued to be attracted to the Haymarket Theatre
by Miss Amy Sedgwick's exquisite performance in
Mr. Palgrave Simpson's new comedy of " The
World and the Stage ;" and, far from diminishing,
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 subsequent .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 be difficult 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 " World andthe Stage."
From the lightest and most playful badinage to the
deepest and most passionate emotions, all are alike
conveyed to the audience with a force and reality
which come home to every heart.
Miss Sedgwick is well supported by all the per-
formers in the play, especially by Mrs. Buckingham
White and Mrs. Poynter, among the ladies, and by
Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Howe, and W.
Farren amongst the gentlemen ; and the whole
»iise en scene is deserving of every commendation.
The great charm of Miss Amy Sedgwick's acting
is its perfect truthfulness and freedom from all
artificiality and restraint. There is a na-
tural grace, ease, and thorough abandonment
to the spirit of the character she impersonates,
which is as rare as it is charming. We may, with
sincere conscientiousness, congratulate Miss Sedg-
wick on, having achieved a complete success by her
performance in the " World and the Stage."
On its reproduction on Easter Monday she was
called for between the acts, and again on the
termination of the piece to receive the plaud is
of a house crowded in every part, and since then
her receptions have been equally enthusiastic.
Mr. Frank Talfourd's burlesque of " Elect r,"
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 laughter from the most saturnine faces.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones, of Pantglas, have arrived at
the family residence in Eaton-square for the season.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—At a meeting
of the Court of Examiners on the 29th ult. the follswing
gentlemen were reported as having undergone the prelimi-
naryexaminations for the fellowship of the College in classics,
mathematics, and French, to the satisfaction, of the Court,
and will therefore be admitted to the professional examina-
tions when eligible—viz Messrs. Thomas Westcott Gale
Stone, Liecoln's Inn-fields, diploma of membership dated
April 11; John Cooper, Morning,ton.-road .; George B.
Brodie, Salisbury ; and Henry Lyell, Thomas :street, Horse-
lydown..

INNER TFiIPLE.—The undermentioned gentle-
men were on Saturday called to the bar by the lion. Society
of the Inner Temple : —Robert Walter Daysh 'Stewart, Esq.,
MA, ; Frederick Evers, Esq., Walter Kingscote Crossman,
Esq., and henry Poulin, Esq.—Charles Vaughan, 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 Haremrt-street, Dublin' •
Albert (Jordon- Langley, Esq. (holder of the. studentship
awarded by the Council of Legal Education in Trinity
Term, 1868), of 28, Southampton-buildings; . John Clark,
Esq., of 1, Essex-court, Temple; and James Coverdale
Ptte Itgq,, of 5, Pump-court, Temple.
aLinN,GQ
LN'S7INN,
April 30,—The undermentioned
gentlemen were this day called
.to the, degre'e:of Barrister-
at-Law by the lion. Society of Lirsaoln s-ima—viz., William
pandas 0-ardiper, Esq., M.A., Cambridge ; 'Henry Smith,
Esq., 8.A., mid 5.C,L., Cambridge; John Cordy Jeaffrc-
son, Esq., 8.A., Oxfoid . Edward Esq•.; M.A., Cam-
bridge; Herbert Clifford SaitrifiPrz, 89., 8.A., Oxford,
and joshiio, Frey Josephson, Esq. • • • •
GRAY'S-INN, April 30.—At a Pension of the Hop,
Society 'Of Gray's-Inn, itolsjeD this day, Walter • David
Jeremy, Esq., and Charles Aiesan&r• §mytk, Esq, were
called to the degree of barris:cr-at-law. •