The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-12 00:00:00

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I and we were glad to find that the genius of this ad-
mirable artist was duly appreciated by the audience.
The encores were numerous, and Madame Grist
was enthusiastically called before the curtain at
the conclusion of each act. The sci-nery, by
Messrs. Grieve and Telbin, is entitled to high praise.
Her Majesty the Qaeen and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert honoured the performances with
their presence. The royal suite included tl e Vis-
countess Canning, the Hon. Mi•s Murray, Lord
Eiphinstone, Lord Charles Fitzroy, acrd Lieutenant-
Colonel
Francis Seymour. Amongst the general
company were the Earl and Countess Gran-
ville, the Earl and Countess of Bradford, and the
Ladies Bridgman, the Earl of Gifford, Viscount and
Viscountess Sydney, Viscount Clifden, Viscount Mal •
den, Lard and Lady Foley and the Honourable Miss
Foley, Lord George Manners, Lord Arthur Hay,
Lord Rendlesham, Hon. Frederick Villiers, M.P., and
Lady Elizabeth Villiers, Colonel the Hon. George
Dawson Darner, M.P., Hon. John Fortescue, M.P., Sir
William and Lady De Bathe and Miss De Bathe,
Sir Gen. and Lady Carroll and the Misses Carroll,
Sir Thomas Herbert, Mr. Henry Greville and Miss
Greville, Miss Burdett Coutts and party, Hon. A.
Willoughby, Mr. and Lady Caroline Sandford, Mr.
Samuel Rogers, Mr. Hobhouse, M.P., Mr. C. Baring
Wall, M.P., M. and Madame Lizarde and party,
Colonel Hawkins, Captain Egerton, &c.
• HAYMARKET THEATRE.

Mr. Stirling Coyne's version of The Yicar of
Wakefield was produced here last night with the most
complete success; It is perfectly different from the
Strand version. The Strand author has taken the
sentimental portion of the story a• the basis of his
version, and has endeavoured to use the very words
of the novel in every instance that he possibly can,
and has followed Goldsmith closely in the elaboration
of his plot, Mr. Coyne, on the contrary, has used
the novel rather as materials from which he has con-
structed a drama that may be almost called
original, and be has not scrupled to deviate from his
author whenever by so doing he could
heighten the dramatic effect. The. cast was
a strong one. Mr. Webster's Dr. Primrose
was highly effective. He makes of the vicar
a warm-hearted, benevolent, rather vigorous old man,
and he carried out his conception of the part admi-
rably. Mrs. Keeley's Mrs. Primrose was a very
clever piece of acting; she seemed at first
somewhat too young and too petite for the part, but
her burst of feeling when she sees Olivia for the first
time after her elopement so electrified the house that
all felt that they would not have her otherwise than
she was for worlds. Such is the magic of genius.
Buckstone, although not quite the Moses of Gold-
smith, was the Moses of Buckstone, which, as far as
the stage is concerned, is by far the more amusing of
the two. Howe made the most of Ephraim Jen-
kinson, which in this version is much curtailed; his
scampish friend Staggers was well dressed and well
acted by Selby; and Stuart as the sentitious Burchell
was excellent. His " Fudge" told most effec-
tively. Lady Blarney and Miss Skeggs were acted
admirably by Miss P. Horton and Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
Each lady introduced a comic descriptive song, and
the latter as the fortune-teller was most amusing.
The most humourous scene in the drama is the one in
which she tells Moses his fortune, a scene we believe
of Mr. Stirling Coyne's own introduction. The suc•
cess of the drama was complete, and it was announced
for repetition amidst the unanimous applause of a
crowded house.

YEOVIL.--HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Thursday
evening, as Mr. Henry Tomkins, son of Dr. Tomkins, of this
town, was returning from Key Farm, about eight o'clock, he
was stopped by two men, one of whom asked for his money,
which he refused to give; the other struck him over the
eye as he was handing them two sovereigns, which he then
throw away, being determined that they should not have
them by unfair means. The ruffians, hearing some one
coming on the road. left him. He returned home, and after-
wards went with his man servant to look for the money.
When just above Brag Church the servant was attacked by
two men and two women, who ill-used the man brutally,
and afterwards stopped and maltreated. Mr. Tomkins. The
women have been apprehended; and it is hoped, therefore,
that some clue will be found to tho mien. —Bath Chronicle.
FIRE IN FRIDAY-STREET, CHEAIISIDE. -- Last
evening, about half-past seven o'clock, a fire, which, but for
its opportune discovery and the accidental bursting of a
water-pipe, would no doubt have been attended with a loss
of several thousand pounds' worth of property, occurred in
the well-known and extensive Manchester and shawl ware-
house belonging to Messrs. John Mair and Sons, carrying on
business at No. 60, Friday-street, Cheapside. The flames
commenced from some unexplained cause in the basement
warehouse,' and when discovered were seizing upon every-
thing on the ibor, and also feeding upon the wooden wain-
scot on either side leading to the top floors. By throwing
buckets of water upon the front of the basement, the fire
was prevented from extending further in that direction, but
the heat at the back was so great that a water-pipe wee
melted, and there was a copious stream of water discharged
from the melted pipe, which fortunately dropped upon the
flames.• The damage done was, therefore, with the exception
of that occasioned by smoke in the top rooms, cnfined to the
basement. The firm was insured in several of the London
insurance offices.

THE COUNT DE NEutux.—Their Royal High-
nesses the Count and Countess de Neuilly, the Duke and
Duchess de Nemours, and suite, honoured Newhaven with
their presence on Wednesday, April 10. Their Royal High-
nesses arrived at three o'clock, in two carriages, from Brigh-
ton, and drove to the Bridge Hotel, where they partook of
refreshment. The Count de Neuilly expressed himself to
Mrs. Smith, of the Bridge Hotel, as being very thankful for
the reception and attention paid him by the inhabitants of
Newhaven on a former occasion, and remarked that he hoped
to have the pleasure of paying them another visit while in
the neighbourhood. Their Royal Highnesses remained at
the Bridge Hotel for about an hour, and then departed to-
wards Brighton.

ROYAL CONSIGNMENT.—A package has arrived at
the port of Southampton, by the steamer Pacha, from Gib-
raltar, consigned and addressed to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, which contained a valuable picture, and was imme-
diately forwarded to town, for delivery at its destination.

CLEVER MUSICAL CRITICISM,-Our reporter having
been dispatched yesterday to distribute the paper among the
up-town subscribers, in the absence of the boy, had the im-
pudence not only to go to the opera without leave, but to
furnish the following account of what he heard and saw.
N.B. We dismissed him from the office ipso facto :—" The
opera was brilliantly attended last evening to hear Bertucca
in the role of Lucia. We have but ore fault to find with this
inimitable artist—a want of crescendo in the staccato move-
ments, by which she falls two bars short of her cantabile in
the pizzicato notes running from H to L, thereby leaving
the allegretto bare and unsupported by her appoggio. Forti
and Beneventano, ever great in their respective roles, were
only surpassed by the prompter. We have never heard
this glorious artist to more advantage; his rough, stentorian
notes soaring above all others, kept up the pleasing delusion
of a drunken man in the pit, and frequently suggested to you
the inhospitable exclamation of ' Turd him out !' * • •
Spagnoletti, the other day, in speaking of his first viola
player, declared that both as a man and a musician he was
praiseworthy—as a man, for the tenor of his conduct, as a
musician, for the conduct of his tenor."—New l'erh Christmas
Bell.

GIVING A PRISONBE THZ BBNErIT OF A DOUBT.
—The following scene took place at the Town-hall, Graves-
end, aeahort tithe since :—Recorder--Gentlemen of the jury,
the prisoner at the bar is indicted for stealing a piece of
meat, the property of the prosecutor. You have heard the
evidence, and if you have any doubt upon your minds, you
must give the prisoner the benefit of such doubt. (Jury
turn round in box—much whispering—sagacious nods, with
repeated reference to notes—Judge fidgetty front delay—
prisoner from fear—jury turn round—silence.) The Town-
clerk—How say you. gentlemen, "guilty," or " not guilty ?"
Foreman—" Guilty;" but we recommend him to mercy.
Recorder (surprised)—On what grounds? Foreman—Be-
cause we don't think he's the man. We don't think there is
sufficient evidence of " indentity. Recorder—l told you be-
fore, gentlemen, that if you have any doubt, y. u must give
the prisoner the benefit of the doubt. Foreman—Wen, then,
we find him Guilty.

ROYAL Fuss HOSPITAL.—At the quarterly meet
ing of the governors of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-
road, heldin the Board-room, on Wednesday, the 11th inst.,
the report from the weekly board stated that during the pre-
vious three months 179 in-patients, and 6,408 out-patients,
had been relieved; that by the recent re-opening of one of
the wards (which want of funds had some time ago compelled
them to close) the board had been enabled to adopt a better
classification of patients; and that by the continued benevo-
lence of the public, they trusted soon to re-open the other
closed wards and thus apply an additional fifty beds to the
relief of the suffering poor.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
members of the college having undergone the necessary exa-
minations for the fellowship, were admitted by the President
and Council yesterday afternoon fellows of the institution,
viz.,—Messrs. George Gwynne Bird, Swansea, South Wales,
diploma bearing date Jan. 2, 1824; Alexander Bridge, St.
James's-street, Piccadilly, Nov. 13, 1835 ; Joseph Maclise,
Russell-place, Fitzroy-square, Oct. 13, 1837 ; George Brown,
Kensal-green, May 13,1839 ; John Gregory Forbes, Devon-
port-street, Hyde-park, June 4, 1841 ; John Thomas Griffith,
Peckham, Surrey, April 14, 1845; John James Halls, Down-
street, Piccadilly, Nov. 27, 1846; and Joseph. Thomas
Clover, Aylsharn, Norfolk, May 28, 1847.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION FROM ABERDEEN.—
On Tuesday a fine moulded clipper brig, named the Sophia,
was launched from Adamson's building-yard, Marine-parade,
Dundee. She measured 113 tons n.m., and 157 tonsoo.mac.;
t
and is to be commanded by Captain A. Stewart,and
as a coadjutor to the Lady Franklin (launched be tother
week at Aberdeen), under Captain Penney, in his expedition
xpaendditihoins
to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin
crews.—Edinburgh Weekly Register.
GRAND ENTERTAINMENT TO THE LORD MAYOR ,
BY THE MAYOR AND CoßronATiow OF HASTINGS.—The
Lord Mayor of the city of London a' n
tertained at Hastings, by the Mayorw aand° Wednesday Corporation of ell_
the
Town, in return for a magnificent banquet which his Lord-
ship had given to those gentlemen in January last. The
Lord Mayor is a native of Hastings, and is the first Sussex
man who has ever been Lord Mayor of London.
The incumbency of St. James's Chapel, on Pen-
tonville-hill, has become vacant by the death of the Rev.
Edward Craig. 31-
A who, it will be remembered, not long
since incurred the displeasure of the Bishop of London. on
account of the active part he took in favour of the Rev.
James Shore. The appointment is in the gift of the Rev.
W. E. L. Faulkner, M.A., Rector of St. James's, Clerkenwell.

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