The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-06 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

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I Due Foscari was revived here on Saturday evening,
Coletti resuming his great character of the Doge, Beau-
carde appearing for the first time as Jacopo Foscari, and
Madlle. Parodi as Lucrezia. The Lucrezia of
Parodi was intensely impassioned; as she warmed in her
part she became positively sublime. Baaucarde was ad-
mirable as Jacopo Foscari. His opening scene of the
third act was exquisitely rendered, the pathos which
he infused into this scene was most touch-
ing. The Doge of Coletti has long been cele-
brated as one of the gems of lyrical tragedy, and
on Saturday it was perfectly rendered. The last scene
was the very perfection of heartrending passion. The
applause at tae conclusion of this scene was most en-
thusiastic. The celebrated quartette in the second act
was encored as a matter of course. The overture to
Guillaume Tell, which produced such an effect on Thurs-
day, was again performed last evening, and the latter
part of it was again honoured with an encore, a com-
pliment moat justly merited by Mr. Balfe and the
orchestra, for nothing could exceed the firmness and the
precision with which this exquisite overture was given.
The new pas de truis, Les Graces followed, and the
furore it excited was even more intense tha❑ on Thurs-
day. Both Amelia Ferraris and Carlotta Grisi, were
encored in their respective pas, and were both vehe-
mently applauded. Les Graces is certainly the most
classscal ballet that has been produced fur years. The
theatre was brilliantly attended.

CLOSE ofDRURY-LANE THEATRE.
The Drury-lane season came to an abrupt conclusion
on Saturday evening. The performances consis,ed of
The Beggars Opera, Family Jars, and The Devil's [ling.
At the conclusion of the farce, Mr. Anderson came tor-
ward and addte:sed the house as follows:
" Ladies and Gentlemen,—ln appearing before you at
the close of this my first campaign, my address, like
my season, shall be brief. I have the melancholy duty
of announcing to you that this night will finish the
present season, but that I hope to have the honour of
appearing before you again at Christmas, when, after a
disastrous Peninsula, I hope to achieve a glorious Wa-
terloo. It would be useless for the to attempt to deny
that I have suffered a great loss in my private re-
sources, but though disappointed I am not discouraged.
I well knew that, in undertaking the management
of an establishment like this, in a building, too, so long
devoted to purposes fiar different to its legitimate ones,
I had essayed no ordinary task; but still I hoped that,
when three foreign theatres were supported, it would not
be too much to hope that sufficient patronage could be
found to support the temple of the national drama.
Arguing thus, I hoped the light of your favour would
shine upon me and cheer me in my labours. The sun
which shone so brightly at Christmas last could not, in the
nature of things, be expected to last long; I was soon
doomed to feel the depressing influence of the succeed-
ing gloom. Not the least of the discouraging impedi•
meats that have beset me has been the coldness of the
public press; with scarcely an exception, I have had no
cheering words from that quarter. In the name of a
grateful company, I again bid you farewell, hoping to
meet you under more favourable auspices in the season
of 1851."
The accusation of coldness brought by Mr. Anderson
against applyto
ourselvesth. e
Anxiouspubli c pfroers st
h, e doessuec e
:so to
of
certainly
the
very
praise-
worthy attempt in which Mr. Anderson was engaged,
we have taken every opportunity of directing public at-
tention to those efforts, and we have been by no means
chary of "cheering words of encouragement." We
cannot but regret the present ill-success of Mr.
Anderson's experiment, an ill success which, however,
we are glad to perceive will not prevent him from
attempting a renewal of it, and we doubt not but that
warned by the past, and having ascertained the causes
of his present failure, he will remove those causes and
conduct his renewed experiment to a triumphant
termination.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.--SITUBDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
8 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigott's Essedarius, 4 yrs, 7st 91b
—taken freely
8 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Peep-o'-day Boy, 6 yrs,
9st
12 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Roland, 4 yrs, sst 81b
13 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glauca, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—t
13 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Miss Ann, 4 yrs, 7st
15 to 1 agst Mr. H. Hill's Osterley, 4 yrs, 7at
15 to 1 agat Mr. Osbaldeston's Fogleman, 5
Gyrs, 7st
16 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Chantrey, 4 yrs, st 101 b
—taken
'2O to 1 agst Mr. Eddison's John Cosser, 5 yrs, Bst 51b
—taken
20 to 1 agst Capt. Harcourt's Ellerdale, 6 yrs, Bst 3115
25 to 1 agat Mr. Pedley's Cossack, 6 yrs, 9st 21b—t
25 to 1 agst Major Pitt's Mounseer, 4 yrs, 6st 91b
33 to 1 agat Mr. Isaac Day's Cockermouth, 5 yrs,
6st 10lb
1,000 to 5 agst Mr. Murphy's Dough, 5 yrs, Bst 51b
5 to 2 agst John Day's lot
Essedarius was backed eagerly near the close at 8 to
1, and lett off with the call of Peep o'-day Boy, the latter,
however, having plenty of friends; Glance, Chantrey,
and John Cosser were also in favour, but Osterley and
Fugleman, after being backed at 12 to 1 each, receded
to 15 to 1, layers.

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DERBY.
5 to 1 agst Lord Airlie's Clincher
6 to 1 agst Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke
9 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Mayors
11 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Voltigeur—taken
13 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwieke's The Nigger
15 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Mildew
30 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Penang—taken
30 to 1 apt Mr. Greville's Cariboo.
Clincher was back( d for upwards of 4,0001. at 5 to 1;
Bolingbroke at 6 to 1 to 3001. (afterwards offered); and
Lord Eglinton's two at 8 to 1 to 4001.
THE OARS.
7 to 1 agst Captain Delme na Gillyflower.
CHESTER RACES.
CHESTER, YESTERDAY EVENING.
The following horses have arrived:—Atalanta filly,
Receipt filly, Margaret! a, Harlequin, The Anchorite,
Mr. Merryman, Alonzo, Stepping Ston., Decoy colt,
Shilmalier West, Leonidas, Camelides, Boadicea, Cos-
sack, Peep-o'-day Boy, Etsedarius. Woolwich, Westow,
Fugleman, Osterley, Woodlark, Tarn Wadlin, Moun-
seer, Whim colt, Gaffer Green, Fleur de Seine, Mini-
mum, Gladiator colt, General Sale, Osbaldeston' Laura,
Concertina colt, Sprite filly, Greenwich, St. George,
Cockermouth, Lady Speedy, Stanton, Saucy Dick, Bee-
hunter, Eagle's Plume, Mrs. Taft-, Sir Philip, Forest
Deer, Diana, La Voleuse, Lethargy, The Cantab, 4 yrs,
Wilmont, Colleen, Rhue, Lady Godiva, &c.

SPURTING NOTES•
No. 6.
Away ; the corner' is deserted;
Away to Chester's ancient walls!
A thousand screaming trains have started;
'Tis neck or nothing—pleasure calls;
From every ingle of our islands,
From east to west, from north and south,
From Walmer to Glengarry's highlands,
From Galway to the Bull and Mouth,
Away they come!"
ANONYMOUVS.
66 some there be that by due steps aspire
To lay their hands on that golden key
That opes the palace of futurity:
To such my errand is: Now to my task."
MASK OF COMUS.

SlR,—The Olympics of the past week at bead-quar
ters have furnished myself and the world with a few ex.
forcibly reminding
me of Byron's idea—
" of the; glorious uncertainty of racing in its most
Lair
" There's no such thing as certainty, that's plain
As any of mortality's conditions;
So little do e know what we're about in
This world, I doubt, if doubt itself be doubting."
The race for " the key to the Derby," the Two
Thousand Guineas' Stake, was the first great illusion of
the week ; it was run in the manner best suited to
Pitsford and Hardinge, while Beehunter, uufurtunate
pursuer of the sweets, had to c;uttohuist his own whnowweovrekr:aancd.
mceeroiftsboefinrgitclteluferdat,eads,
bays
of that crack artiste, Alfred
of Epirus and Miss Horewood
"anticipations" last Mon-
consequently, stood a greboaytggctlhheean
bineytween Beehunter and Fits-
c hetpho nay, who
was,li
admirablewsh ie
ond
l,
a nottnhde landed
do
jockey
finalt
ah e phisotr son of
by a neck ! Had the Goodwood hero been favoured with
a pioneer to show him the way to victory, he must have
dwaoyn,
4! , but
the asat
struggle
remarkedggle will
be
en
ford," while 'Jardine would be third, which was verified to
othrde
Atrijurimiep,ah
the letter. The result of the -race elevsted Pitstord, in
hoofrse) gate
the Derby market, to 16 to 1, and Bolingbroke pro tern.
Cariboo
(on the strength of basing given the victor 6 lbs and a
beating in the Prendergast last year) to .5 to 1, which
position heonly retained until,the decision of the Newmar-
k (bye t S
thet ak
trial
al
1 oi (illusion
ba.
worse
a3e)
t,
hviahne 1
in
the premiership to Clincher, and sent Bolieg broke to
13 to 2 layers; and on Saturday, by way of a clincher to
their argument, the admirers of the Stauton nag
actually backed him in the aggregate, for some
21,000/. to 4,2001., to beat such cattle as Ghillie
Callum, Bolingbroke, The Italian, The Nig-
ger, and Sweetheart; from such proceedings, I
deduce the presence of a superflaity of
cash, or expect
to hear in the next return from St. George's Fields an
increased demand for jackets and vests of the kind de-
nominated straight. I attribute Cariboo'a v
chictory to the
course (D.M.) being over the flat, whisuited his
speed; had it been the Rowley mile he would have suc-
cumbed to Nutshell, as be did on this course to Longinus
a week or two back.
The public, who never seem to look below the sur-
face ought to bear in mind what the late Mr. Apperley
(a first-rate judge in these affairs) remarked in his
celebrated work, " The Chase, the Turf, and the Road;"
he says—" The first great point is obviously to ascer-
tain the maximum speed, and the next to discr,ver how
that is affected by weight; but here there are difficulties
against which no judgment can provide, and which,
when the best 'intentions have been acted upon, have
led to false conclusions. The horse may not be quite
up to his mark on the day of trial, or the horse, or
horses, with which he is tried may not be so ; the nature
of the ground, and the manner of running it, may like-
wise not be suited to his capabilities or-his action, and the
trial and his race may be very differently run."
Rt-
member these observations of Nimrod, and bear in mind
how well they are illustrated in Idas backed at 2 to 1
for the Derby of 1845, in Conyngham at 11 to 4 for the
Derby of. 1847, in Glendower at 4 to 1 for the Derby
of 1848, and in Nunnykirk for that of last year.
Exotic filly just won the 1,000 Guineas from Tiff (il-
lusion No. 2), but the latter will turn the tables upon
the Exotic for the Oaks.
:Queer, quaint old Chester now attracts my mental
eye, and for such an important meeting I shall dispatch
it in a very few words.
TO-En9l79W, getretelt QE gitgette will win the 8614-