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

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

I Due Foscari was revived here on Saturday evening,
Coletti resuming his gre,.t character of the Doge, Beau-
carde appearing for the first time as Jacopo Foscari, and
Madlle. Parodi as Lucrezia. The Lucrezia of V
Parodi was intensely impassioned; as she warmed in her
past she became positively sublime. Beaucarde 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 the conclusion of this scene was most en-
tausiastic. The celebrated quartette in the second act
was encored as a matter of course. The overture to
Guillaume Tell, which produced such an effect ou Thurs-
day, was again performed last evening, and the latter
part of it was again honoured with an encore, a com-
pliment moot justly merited by Mr. Balfe and the
orchestra, for nothing could exceed the firmness end the
precision with which this exquisite overture was given.
Trio new pas de trois, Les Gropes followed, and the
furore it excited was even more intense than on Thurs-
day. Both Atnalia Ferraris and Carlotta Grisi, were
encored in their respective pas, and were both vehe-
mently applauded. Les Grapes is certainly the most
classecal ballet that has been produced fir years. The
theatre was brilliantly attended.

CLOSE of DR URY-LANE THEATRE.
The Drury-lane season came to an abrupt conclusion
on Saturday evening. The performances consis e 1 of
The Beggars Opera, Family Jars, and The Devil's fling.
At the conclusion of the farce, Mr. Anderson came for-
ward and addressed the house as follows:
" Ladies and Gentlemen,—la appt aring 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 me 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 far 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 lone; I was soon
doomed to feel the depressing influence of the succeed-
ing gloom. Not the least of the discouraging impedi •
ments 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 the public press, does cot certainly apply to
ourselves. Anxious for the success of 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 cf 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.—SATURDAY.
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, 7st
15 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Fugleman, 5 yrs, 7st
16 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Chantrey, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b
—taken
20 to 1 aget Mr. Eddison's John Cosser, 5 yrs, Bst 51b
—taken
20 to 1 agst Capt. Harcourt's Ellerdale, 6 yrs, Bst 31b
25 to 1 aget Mr. Pedley's Cossack, 6 yrs, 9st 21b—t
25 to 1 agat Major Pitt's Mounseer, 4 yrs, 6st 91b
33 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Cockermouth, 5 yrs,
bat 101 b
1,000 to 5 agat 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; Glauca, Chantrey,
and John Cosser were also in favonr, but Osterley and
Fogleman, after being backed at 12 to 1 each, receded
to 15 to 1, layers.

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 Zotland's Voltigeur—taken
13 to 1 agst Mr. Gretwicke's The Nigger
15 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Mildew ,
30 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Penang—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Cariboo.
Clincher was backed for upwards of 4,000/. at 5 to 1;
Bolingbroke at 6 So 1 to 300/. (afterwards offered); and
Lord Eglinton's two at 8 to 1 to 4004

THE OAKS.
7 to 1 agst Captain Delme na Gillyflower.
CHESTER RACES.

CHESTER, YESTERDAY EVENING.
The following horses have arrived:—Atalanta filly,'
Receipt filly, Margaretta, Harlequin, The Anchorite,
Mr. Merryman, Alonzo, Stepping Stone, Decoy colt,
Shilmalier West, Leonidas, Camelides, Boadicea, Cos-
sack, Peep-o'-day Boy, Essedarius. Woolwich, Westow,
Fugleman, Osterley, Woodlark, Tarn Wadlin, Mona-
seer, Whim colt, Gaffer Green, Fleur de Seine, Mini-
mum, Gladiator colt, General Sale, Osbaldeston, Laura,
Concertina colt, Sprite filly, Greenwich, StGeorge,
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 Godiya, &o.

SPORTING NOTES•
No. 6.
I, Away; the corner' is deserted;
Away to Chester's ancient walls!
A thousand screaming trains have started;
'ris neck or nothing—pleasure calls;
From every ingle of our islands,
From east to west, from north and south,
From Wahner to Glengarry's highlands,
From Galway to the Bull and Mouth,
Away they come !"

ANONYMOUUS.
si Some there be that by due stops aipire
To lay their hands on that golden key
That opes the palace of futurity:
To such my errand is: Now to my task."
MASK or COMM.

Sm—The Olympics of the past week at head-quar-
ters have furnished myself and the world with a few ex-
amples of the glorious uncertainty of racing in its most
certain form; forcibly reminding me of Byron's idea—
" There's no such thing as certainty, that's plain
As any of mortality's conditions;
So little do we 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
acshtrbeyggtlhee merits of,
Pitsford and Hardinge, while Beehunter, unfortunate
pursuer of the sweets, had to cut out his own work, and
consequently stood a great chance of being defeated, as
h
; this was, however, ac-
complished, Pitsford, as by
the admirable jockeyship of that crack artiste, Alfred
Day, who landed the son of Epirus and Miss Horewood
e was' in
notthe s final
o much
by a neck I Had the Goodwood hero been favoured with
a pioneer to show him the way to Victory, he must have
,
won ! but as I remarked in my 'anticipations" last Mon-
day, " the struggle will be between'Beehunter and Pits-
ford," while Hardiage would be third, which was verified to
the letter, The result of the race elevated Pitsford, in
the Derby market, to 16 t.) 1, and Bolingbroke pro tem.
(on the strength of having given the victor 6 lbs and a
beating in the Prendergast last year) to 5 to 1, which
position he only retained until. the decision of the Newmar-
ket Stakes (illusion No. 3), when the triumph of Cariboo
(by the trial 101bs. worse than Lord Airlie's horse) gave
the premiership to Clincher, and sent Bolingbroke to
13 to 2 layers; and on Saturday, by way of a clincher to
their argument, the admirers of the Stanton 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 superfluity 13-f
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's victory to the
course (D.M.) being over the flat, which suited his
speed; had it been the Rowley mile he would have suc-
cumbed to Nutshell, as he 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-6. The first great point is obviously to ascer-
tain the maximum speed, and the next to discover 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." Re-
member these observations of Nimrod, and bear in mind
how well they are illustrated in Ides 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-morrow, Ilarriott or Estafetto will wilt the rola-