The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.
WRibsoß, TIIIMISDAY.—IIiS Royal HighnessFrince
Albertta left the Castle this morning, at tNyenty-five
peueittb,.eistrbe nine o'clock, for Slough, en route, by
L.,ndon. ills _Royal Highness re-
turrActi toe
the C,,scle_ at half-pas,two o'clock:
Earl of Ellenborough left the Castle.- this
morning
The Queefi and Prince Albert walked in the after-
.ttP,
f,r some time, in the Slopes and grounds ad-
-1 1 Ing the Castle.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
Ve Princess Royal were taken out on ponies to-day.
Prince
ince Alfred and the Princess Alice were taken an
airing in the pleasure-grounds,
Sir Robert and Lady Sale took their departure
f
the Castle to-day.
4` Ir. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson ar-
wed ypsterday, from a tour.
p:rhe Earl of Liverpool and the Ric,ht Hon. Sir R.
walked out for some time this afternoon.
The royal dinner party at the ca,tle this evening
teluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
I,adY Charlotte Dundas, the Countess Wratislaw,,and
G. E. Anson.
..liheer band of the Royal Horse Guards were in at-
tendance at the Castle during dinner.
Majesty's private band afterwards attended.

Ills Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonelhalf-
Bouverie,arrived at Buckingham Palace at
Pga'di-dZaniine o'clock yesterday morning, from. the
ingtivo terminus of the Great Western Railway.
tees
Highness went to insct the new-stimtner
,unYie in the garden, and afterwards. proceeded, at a
1 r,t(-I*-past ten o'clock; to Somerset-house.
for'pn:y.rince left the office of the Duchy of Cornwall
ste. Paddington, taking his departure for the Slough
on his return to Windsor Castle.
phiiilB Serene Highness P:ince Ernest of Hesse .
London
etahl left Witley Court, Worcestershire, the
of her Majesty the Queen DoWage.r, for
n yesterday, arriving in town at seven o clock
last evening,
Rer
n pa. a rti
°3'al Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
tool, t
in g
ciguesterday in a carriage.
the Venezuelan Minister, transacted
"tine's at the Foreign-office yesterday.
Lord Wharticliffe, Lord President of the Council, is
441Tig at his seat, Belmont Castle, N.B.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
'-'olanial-once for the Governor of New South Wales.
the enry Wyse transacted business yesterday at
orein-office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
Cot e from Sir C. Metcalfe, Governor-General of
a
t'acla ; from Sir W. Colebrooke, Governor of New
of tixinwie„k ; and from Viscount Falkland, Governor
ova scotia.

BADLERS' WELLS THEATRE.
th e
~eatrel'inY of the City Madam was produced at this
.1, on Wednesday, with the most brilliant success.
-.2Ve bills announce it as Massinger's play of the City
title Q 4771; but we are almost inclined to demur to this
for the play has been so altered in the course of
sal-aPtation that we doubt whether, if Massinger were
„
be recalled to life, and taken to Sadler's Wells, he
`'noi!d be enabled to g recc nise his own production.a
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character of the Astrologer' is altogether omitted,
itts" thus the key to the character of Lady Frugal
therefore lost. She is waward, capricious, tyran-
Zie,al y
haughty, and vain, and she forces her daughters
uecorne the came, because the Astrologer has fore-
told for all the most brilliant destiny, and she
llbas implicit faith in his predictions, and despises her
,tsband, as bigotry only can despise, for his want of
j'th• The daughters are reduced to mere walking
its; and one of them, Mary, is made a'pattern of
'414:1-13,sartedness—the sentimental heroine of the
N.7ho calls her uncle " Good Master' Luke"
hde
.<in his dependanttears state, and briygs tears
'-'4`t)lll4 eS:'ek,hy'her kirldAess, This kindness is made
tod use .9,t, ill the .denottenients. An, the LA 'scene,
untothe about to,_titra his.brother',.s„wire and C'hildren
street to starve, when he sees
,Mary—the
*remembrance of her "good master Luke" rapes back,
anon his mind : he pauses, and in ag0nt4044,,
ugs her to his bosom—recals her mother aftelo:siklet;"
repents of his cruelty, and when his broiztiVreriteri,"
kneels at his feet, and entreats his forgiveness.- This
scroeanricyea,
btiomake use of the stage phraseology goes re-
well, and,
z assin acted as it was last night—Phelps
and
Miss Cooper were very effective—but it is not
..!icter of Luke.
ger' Na more, it is contrary to .the .cha-f
The Luke of Massinger is -one of
‘irane most original characters in the whole" rant! oo
gh?i, nglish drama. It would not have been unwor hy ,f
,4.-speare himself. He is the
..e„seeker—the embodiment of what the Frenchrimpersonationoofa,
tisas-4nle. Inheriting an ample fortune, he is icde
Overt. rnfligate, extravagant, cious ; 'reduce
o
poo.;;;•7_,I be is humble, obsequions; time-serving,
'`ew•--a dependent on his brother's bonnty, yet
tioonnh
i gat schemes of robbery. Love of approba-
devnpfB alsn, as a phrenologist would say, remarkably
Drofl:
°Ped in Luke. During the whole course of his
vers ity he is
igate career he seems to have been most popular
'with his debauched companions. In his days of ad
humble with Lady Frugal,
!be and although
treats him with the greatest tyranny, yet we
doubt whether Luke is not, in consequence of
tendering
an any other person himself useful to her, less ill-treated
Y her ban with whom she comes
Contact: with Sir Maurice Lacy, heis th 4 repentant
inner full of moral sayings and the
pleader for mercy for other men ; with his'brother's
Pander Prentices he is their tutor in dishonesty, their
of l in debauchery. He understands the_ nature
t those by whom he is surrouncied, and by minister-
! gto their failings becomes the favomite of all. He
becomes at once possessed of his brother's immense
',wealth. Those very men who had been by him
begged off, while they were debtors to his brother,
are
by him arrested and thrown into hen he
bee() gao w
mes the creditor. Sir John Frugal, while eon'
lis,oenoting, at the instance of Luke, to ve them
,onger time, desires that it may not be' men-
illasetde on 'Change, as he should be laughed at.
dete • water having succeeded to his brother's position,
he revokes
mined he will not be lauhed at, and therefore
, evokes that grant of furthestme which his brother
-,44Q made at his •
bat v. instance. He has learned, prudence,
.sittue, by th-lversity, and thus exhibits himself as
Os
rer and solitary flebauchee. He does , not turn
tiad hc,(4,,,her's wife and children into the street to starve,
tak done so " the world would have tallced,' and
the
we Is one of those who would fain stand Well with
I..adv7ld ; but he would also fain be rec,enge.d on
enanee ga, and get rid of the expense -s'ru
erk,leayand that of her daughters ; and theifOie he, .
Znrlrau —th n -nrs by promises of a brilliant asl:agc.e a
Vrince to induce her and her daughters go
'lll
arc A
cola with certain Indians, having previously
be
saeriel with the Indians that they shall
Thes„e on the instant of thew arrival.
Triend' Indian' are his brother and his' brother's
about s
disguise, and thus the denouement is brought
fere lo the origiii.al. This is certainly a very dtf-
ui,ot character to the Luke of last evening ; the
frou: t(),t: Massinger would never have been driven
„,'"s purpose by a " good master Luke." The
'clever Y -1-riadem, as acted at the Sadler's W ells, is a• very
sustainedd a very effective play ; the interest is- well
.citu , and it deserves to have a long run; but the
khel /1/adam of Massinger has yet to be. revived.
_
Invvys Luke was an impersonation full of energy and
wan'o' very effective throughout, but occasionally
solilo
g repose; for instance, he gave the beautiful
TIY, descriptive of the treasure he had inherited,
like a man who had besn robbed of his
'us than one who had just come into possession
of them
little 1 • be a
If he would in this scene
ess ever tie the audience would be better able
to a . ge
ppreciate the beauty of the language, and the,
'exquisite rythm of -Niassinger, who in this soliloquy
?a-8 given us one of the most magnificent descriptions
lwo. the whole range of English poetry, in comparison
ith which even " Hof Ri hes ' must
be Spencers House e
admitted to be inferior. In the last scene he was
admirable. Every sneer told with withering effect,
:n.,cl the transition from hate to tenderness on the sight
t Mary, was given with a power which belongs to
none but an artist of the highest order. He was
called for at the conclusion, and loudly and deservedly
aPPlauded. George Bennett, as Sir John Frugal,
Wag very effective ; it was the most evenly acted
character of the night. There were none Of those
brilliant flashes by which the Luke of Phelps was
distinguished, but it was perfectly sustained through-
out—it was faultless. Mrs. Warner was most
:amusingly viragoish as Lady Frugal, and the other
characters were well sustained. The house was
crowded.

PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER FOR ONE ITUNDRED
l'ontios.--Wednesday the fight between Paddy Gill and
'George Holden (of Birmingham) came off, in the pre nonce of a great assemblage of the Birmingham and-
London pugilistic fancy, and, from the well-known
merits m the men, and the heavy stakes pending the
result, much interest was created,laid
nln betting, 5 to 4 was
GiiL ~4t. ring having been formed, the combatants,
With their seconriJ, entered, and immediately *commenced
the contest, both 4:lisplaying great science_ and hard
hitting. When the coute.st had occupied thirty minutes,-
it was quite apparent the battle was in the hands of Gill,
*but Holden continued to fight with great courage, and
ultimately, Gill came off the winner.
Viscount Canterbury, the Bishop of Carlisle, and
the members of the Rutland family, have ball piacod in
mourning by the tlemise of the Rev. Thomas Manners
Sutton, who expired on Sunday last, at the Rectory,
Ivrerham, Notts, in his 55th He was grandton of
Lord George Manners Sutton, grTaL of
of Rutland. He was subdean of Lincoln,,-,:^a the Duke
pre-
viously a Canon of that cathedral establishment,
rector of Averham,
jTHE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.—As this: day of,
avcnile rejoicing and prank-playing is near at hand, it
shoula be rillnembereil that the Act 3 Geo. IV., c. 126,
makes it illegal to light a bonfire or discharge fireworks
within a diannee of eighty feet from the centre of a
turnpike-road.