The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-27 00:00:00

The Chancellor's Closet.

now this is a rising scene, for every one is getting up—how the
ablutions of the Lord Chancellor are attended by unexpected evolu-
tions —how, in arranging his dress, what a dressing he gets—how he
determines to Sally forth to his bewitching Maude, and how Maudlin
he is—how he intends to surprise her, but how he is astonished him-
self—how the old woman-would have " two beauthill trees" cut down,
and how he would havelithe forest cut up—how her inducements
prove a hoax—how this is a black. joke for " 'tis not all gold that
glitters"—how the Chancellor's rage gets the better of his rea•on—
how he sinks exhausted with terror, and the scene with machinery.
A Room behind the Shop of Old Bucklesbury's House.

" How the course of tree love never did run smooth"—how Maude
and Hal are roughly treated—how they think papa ! IS out, but how
Mll,ll more out they are—how, everything going wrong, Hal pro-
mises to write; and how a stop is put to his intentions by a note of
Interrogation—how papa denounces Hal, and announces another
su tor, who don't suit her—how the -€ll4tucellor makes strong love,
though weak in effect—how. he .first nurses himself with hope and
then the babbrwith nap—how the old woman of I. inchley co Les to
intercede for Big Ben, bnt does not succeed—how' Ilumpty's laugh
produces a cry, which leads to other cries, a domestic scene of con-
fusion, and to
The Hills W' Highgate.
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How Big Ben's band, though they have a eiinductor, are in want of
a leader, being in a sad state for " merrie men"—how, although
discord reigns, Guzzleaie pours forth a Melo ty—how the rest pause
for awhile, and how wily he is, and begs them to note (and they
give him attention) that Big Ben cries he will play " first fiddle,"
that is he will be first Lord Mayor of London—how this produces a
" horse laugh," as it sounds like " blowing his own trumpet"—how
the old woman of Finchley appears in a terrible hurry—how she in-
forms them fl the arrival of Richard, and that it will be all dicky
with tbem if they don't run to her standard —how this is the major
part of their dot gs—how they meet with some one else, which is a
minor portion of their march, and how they ultimately resolve to
their original motive.
Splendid View of Old London Bridge, conducting to an Antique
Court, prepared for the reception of Richard the First on his return
from Palestine,
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How Richard arrives over London Bridge under a vast escort,
which in those days consisted of Knights mounted on their battle
steeds, and surmounted by their battle-axes,. attended by Heralds;
Pursuivants, Standard-bearers, English, Irish, and Scotch Troops
(who made the Moors Troop), Archers. Pikemen, and Billmen (re:
gular stickers), Templars, Men-at-Arms (who have 'footed it all
the way), Attendants. Esquires, Pages (all of which we have from
the best books), together with innumerable others; and in adeition
to a very fair Body Guard,'Richard brings with him a division of
20,000 Moors as prisoners ! at least he intends to do so ; awd shots d
any of them be.pnissing, it will be found that a number (after all
amounting to nothing are unavoidably absent from indispositiOn—he
has, howeyer, Saladin, his Chief Officer, and alLthe rest too. How
Richard is up in the stirrups and down. In the mouth—how he
thought to take his subject, by storm, -but liew calm'they tke it—
how the Clty Keys are not the only thiegs laid at Ills fret—how he
receives the Illutticipal Staff,
.and then " tips them. a stave"—how ke
orders the:sports to pro. Ted, 6ut-how he proceeds to sport himself—
how the Fair Maple of-Chepe finds. a Beau in the King—how list
and the Chancellor both quiver, and how this leads to a narrow
escape for Hat • how Big Ben dem in la the hand of Maude at the
foot of the throne, and, to,crown all, howltichat-ct"wishes he may get
it"—how Big Ben challenges his rivals to the Fight, though he
cou'd eat 'em—how the Chancellor won't., for fear of a " Ltekllig"—
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and how Hal will.

" How Humpty Dnmpty had a great fall,
And all the King's horses, and all the King's men,
Can't pull liumpty Dampty up egain."
How Hal, having obtained's. Magic Cutting SwOrd, tufslike magic
t o the encounter.
Terrific Combat with-Horrific Effectil

How Hal wkts the day, an 4 the fair Maude sinniltaneoney. How
the King wishes them joy at the Bridal, and how the Old Woman of
Finchley, don't a pit. How she determines they shalt npt get the
whip hand of her, but give Hal full change for bis sovereign, which
leads to another change. Well I and ultintately to the Change of
ehara'Aers:. .

Harlequin
Columbine - - -" - Mdlle.•Theodore.
Clown - - -Mr-Seymour.
Pantaloon - - - - Mr. Jonsin Devlin.
Sprite
Mansion to Let—Nursery and Seedsman.

Trap for Harlequin and traps for others-spring Flowers-
Spring-guns—Shacking bells and a belle shocked—Pretty Misses
and ugly hits .:-Property tl be sold and purchasers too—a heed
signed, and a deed indeed—Nursery plants in endless variety, • - •
Exterior of Glassealace, Hyde-park=-Nattonal Exhibition, Hisl.
• .• . .

A Chinese Toy for the Ex it on - Master Clarke.
Universal Cement, universally% applied —ltalian • Works • verstis
French manufactures—General Thrashing-machine versus Illus-
trious Visitors—Change of t ffect and effect of change.
Grand ZoolOgical and Aerostattcal Exhibition and Monstet Balloon

Ascent.. -.
011 and Colourman's and Bird ranciees.

One trip leads to another-Clown in a' pickle—llarlequirfriresemd
—Patent transmigrating machine—Clown's demonstration of (h)or-
nithology—Rare birds done brown—Prices up and goods down—
Police ! policed and a rattling row. "
Dairy, and Chimney-sweep's Establishments.
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New milk and new love, the cream of the joke, a'sweeping conclu-
sion—Sporting 'pleasant, and unpleasant sporting—Shooting at the
pigeon, and killing the crow—An old friend, and a new style—" Be-
ware of the.bull!" maddening thought—Takin4 to arras, and taking
to legs—Bull baiting Baiting the • dogs—" Taking the bull by the
horns" and getting them—Toss for first innings, and obtaining it—
Clown and rantaloort getting out of hot water, get into eold—Power
of office, and officer in power—Bull knocked down and taken up by a
parochial functionary— Hoo-ray.!
Exterior of Humane Society's Branch Establishment.
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Bath for one, and blankets fer tivo—" t'll go no farlher"--:" Take
me to my mother '—Very wet and very dry—Setting dawn and
standing up—Weak legs and strong supportets—Borrow one and
carry two—lf you can.
Humane Society's Apartment

" Two naughty boys that could not swim"—" They are very bad"—
Turning up nosee at. turn-up beds—Water gruel and gruel and water
—Go to bed—Send for the doctor —" Throw physic to the dogs"—
Refreshment for two, enough for eight—Pork chops and stout, versus
the nip htmare—:UnComfortable symptoms, and symptoms of comfort
—Cupboard love, and love of cupboard—Breast), going down, and
everything going up.
Railway Station;
Railway trip,. and. trip by railway—Hie for the Thghlands—Ex-
change no robbery—Box on, the shdulder, and box on the ear—
Early trains"and late arrivals—Fares by cab, and cab fairs—" Cab !
cab ! cab ~- .versus Trab, trab, trab—A. pretty start.

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Sporting gains, and gents for sport,- Lowlandefs in the Llighlands--
Rare place for game—petty death,' and love in a tub—A slight mist
and a positiVe Tnizzla--" Yuriatt• of game under difliculties”—Chief
part by Clown—beer stalkiag,, versus dears 'talking —Motunaln
efforts and falirng•
game—Low game...tianie here—
Game there—Game, everywhere, afore garne—Whaf a game—Ex-
traordinary ,ohot—Abittudanqe ,of game—Mora than required—lt
, • •
never rains t 4 it pours.
, Scene the last. - •
Fali'y Abate of Britannia; Peace, aridifippiness.
Grand Emblematical .31011hg Tableau, illustrative of England's •
Welcome to all r ations.
•• • little Britannia. _ _

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Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Extraordinary series of attractive novelties.
THIS EVENING

The Grand new Spectacle of KENNILV% ORTH ; or the Golden Days
of the Virgin Queen, with new and costly costumes.
Together• with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing
the Magnificeat Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes, also, for
the first time in England, M. Ghelia, with his three highly-trained
Steeds, M. I'icolo Plige, the great Barrel Equilibrist, and the Bro-
the•rs Francisco, from the Hippodrome, Paris.
To conclude with an entirely new and original grand historical
Equestrian Christmas Pantomime, written expressly for this Theatre,
by the author of " Bluff King Hal," to he entitled
HARLEQUIN AND O'DONOGHUE ;
or, The White Ilorse of Killarney.
To say that this Equestrian Pantomime will be superbly
" mounted," is to sr no more than must be expected ; coming, as
it does, surrounded with such favourable auspices.
It has been said by some authors, that O'Donoghue (but I don't
know who) was a good Prince of Ireland; who, eschewing whiskey,
was always chewing water, and kicking his eels (heels) at the bot-
tom of the Lake of Killarney, excepting once a year when, finding
himself taken with a swimming in the head, he would pop up to the
surface, and mounting his charger, would charge her to gallop across
the Lake. Many expected that so much galloping would have
thrown him into a galloping consumption ; but such has not proved
the case, for same assert that not only he, but his Horse too, is " still
alive and kicking." This hard galloping, or Galloparding, always
occurred on the Eve df May-Day. The description of him is that he
was tall—but not at all too tall—that he was handsome, and would
hand some whatever they desired—that his appearance was even in
the light of Day—that of an Electroplated Knight; for he was
covered all over with 'a thin Coal of Silver—this Coat he could
never wear out, because he was always at homd. But now to the
Pantomime

SCENE VIE FIRST.
THE GLEN OF MISCHIEF.
The Hag of Mischief, over' a Peat Fire, is still trying to elicit from
an Elicit Still the Evil Spirit of Ireland, in the form of WHISKEY :
who, though still in the Stillt.posi't be still, but " busts his bller,"
and stands confessed the RE XL POTEEN 1 „,
t This pioi'erfitc Stilit is by the Ha-g'ot' 3ftlahlef, under the
.disguise of Padtly.Cstrey.to tenliptand rtlin the folliiivers '4Father
athew" and the " Water Cure,!) whom, she tags; are therspectar,
faVourites c) th.e." kyater,Drinking Fool," OlDonoglnte.- Whiskey
svcears,liet de her :bidding, for he'll fire, them With: drink, .by
making, theft( aCublc as blaze's.' Mischief parts • from . Whiskey
with 4' a drop in her eyU,'",but'Whiskey is not so affected ; for he is
sure that where Whiskey is, Mischief won't he rid' off. -,

SCENE THE SECOND.
THE LAKE OF KILLARXET!-1

The entrance to the Mansion a Lord Bullfrog is on One Mde, on
the other a little inn. It being in Ireland, the sign was to hare
been " a Bull," but "„bulls" not being in fashion at present, it has
been changed to the " Queen's Ileac'." It being May-Day Eve, the
Fairies of the Lake are seen dancing and strewing flowers on the
water, as if sweetly M•Xdamizing the road, preparatory to the ap-
pearance of
O'DO.NOGHUE ON HIS WHITE HORSE.

He gallops across the Lake, says much that is well worth hearing,
puts on the habit of a Beggar, and, " 0 Charming May," what a
time for making a little. love ; se think the fair Kathleen and her
Lover Dermot Astore, but instead of making a little, they make a
great deal. She relieves the Beggars wants, and then wants to
have a little more love. It has long since been an established fact,
that even Cupid, who can change any man into a goose, sometimes
has his own " goose eooked," and so it proves now, for Lord Bull-
' frog's Cookey, discovering the Lovers, flares up, a " broil" en,ues,
and all are thrown into a perfect " stew." At this cr:tical moment,
Lord Bullfrog, wilh his jovial companions, return from the chase.
Lady Bullfrog (to see her is to love her), with her interesting little
family, comes to meet him. 'She flies into her husband's arms—and
thus (as many married ladles 'have done before) stands "in-arms
against her husband." Lord Bullfrog is enraged with the Lovers,
so to punlsh Dermot, who is in his debt, he seizes his only friend, his
Horse, by way of payment, but gets " more kicks than ha'pence."
O'Donoghue, as the medicant, aids the Lovers, and Dermot's Horse
is restored: LOrd-Biallfrog, being determined to get rid of his plague
of a daughter, pu's her up as " a Prize," which makes her look very
" blank," as he exclaims—
Wheeer to-morrow brings the fairest steed,
The one tha .leaps the best, has greatest sped;
Shall have fair Kathleen—yes, she and all her tin,
So try your lucks, and let the best Horse win.
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All disperse, leavirg Dermot alone with his Horse, by whose aid,
he feels certain to win his heart's dearest hope. But, alas ! " the
course of true love never aid run smooth." Whiskey comes in the
way, and whi-ks away his senses—then his money—and, at last, his
Horse ; Wh skey mounts the Horse, and, setting up a horse laugh,
gallops off with it. Dermot in despair determines to try the
"Water Cure," by drowning: himself, but, is prevented by O'Dono-
ghue, who promises to lend him another horse for the morrow's race,
and at on e takes to the bottom of the Lake.

SCENE THE THIRD.
THE CORAL STABLE OF THE THOUSAND STEEDS.

Here O'Donoghue's White Horse is seen quite at home enjoying
his banquet, waited upon by. Ponies and Water Fairies. He is in the
prime of lite. " None of your has-beens," for he " never has beans,"
hut dines off his three courses like a gent. consisting of a TUREEN
of PUMP SOUP, a dish of STEWED tIORSE LEECTIE:i and a
plateau of CORN ED BEEF, the whole washed down by a bottle of
CLOVER WINE. 'Raving a turn for taciturnity, he stands no
" chaff," and having cut his corns, has no objections to a little dance.
Dermot chooses a Horse, which, as might be expected, proves " one
in a thousand." He feels " quite up in the stirrups," and as he is
changing his clothes, he is closed in by changing the scene to

SCENE THE FOURTH.
THE LAUGIIING FOREST.

Whiskey and Mischief meet again. The Evil Spirit tells the Hag
that he has obtained Dennot's fay, urite Horse, and on it he hopes to
win the race, and thus bring Kathleen within their power. The
trees enjoy the fun, and though prec'ous old ones, " laugh like
new 'uns."

SCENE TILE FIFTH.
MAY-DAY IN THE HILLS OF KILLARNEY.

Here we find Morris Danc.ng, Running in a Sack, Grinning through
a Collar, and other delicate amusements previous to the GREAT
TRIAL! All the competitors seize their stirrups, and some of them
" put their foot in it." But where is Dermot ? If they start without
him, there will be a start will a vengeance. But no !he is coining,
and very becoming he cornea. All is prepared; off they go. This
proves true enough, for many go off over their horses' necks. Der-
mot leaps his Lord.ligp's"" gate" after a " style" of his own Whiskey
being a lad of " stiat," is not at all behind. Now for the Race,
which, is to decide all ! Kathleen trembl s. Whiskey must put his
strength to the 'proof. Kathleen takes courage, for to her Dermot Ls
far tco winning to lose—nor does he ; but Whiskey getting possession
'of Kathleen and the Fairy Steed, flies off with her. All constetna-
tion—"Pursue, pursue."

SCENE THE SIXTH.
THE PURSUIT THROUGH THE LAUGHING FOREST.

O'Donoghne again befriends Dermot, by lending him his own White
Horse--Cooky ha's mounted her Arabian steed, which, clever as
she thought him; proves a perfect ass.

SCENE THE SEVENTY!.
THE LAKE QF KILLARNEY (as before).

The Evil Spirit and Kathleen fly across. The Horse knows his
own stable, so vanishes beneath the Lake, and thus water overcomes
the power of Whiskey. -Dermot, on O'Donoghue's _White Horse,
flies to the rescue of his love, and brings hersafely to land again—
when, as might be expected, Dermot is aauged to Harlequin, Kath-
leen to Columbine, Lord Bullfrog to Pantaloon, and Bloasabella
Brisket, the Fat C ok, to Clown. What follows comes alter, and
thellarlequinade begins.'
CHARACTERS IN THE OPENING.
, SPIRITS.

O'Donoghtie (the Fairy Prince of Killarney's Lake).
Coralina (First Fairy).
Waitedily (Second. Fairy).

Fairies of the Lake,

Poteen (the Evil Spirit of Ireland, commonly known as Whiskey).
The Hag of Mischief (the Jenny Lind of Bad Spirits).
Her Attendants—Murder, Forgery, &c.
MOUTALIS.

• Dermot Astore (afterwards Harlequin), Mr. W. H. ILirrey.
Lord Bullfrog (afterwards Clown), Mr. J. Henderson, his first ap-
pearance in London in that character.
• Blousabella Brisket (afterwards Clown), Mr. Rivoit'.
Kathleen (afterwards Columbine), Mrs. W. H. Harvey.
Lady Bullfrog, Miss Bullfrog,. Miss Wcezy Peezy Bullfrog, Master
'Brobdignag'Vullfrok, the Baby.

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