The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-27 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Mr. Marston's admirable play of Philip of France
and Marie de Miranie continues to attract crowded
and enthusiastic audiences, who fully appreciate and
enjoy the exquisite poetry and the equally exqui-
site acting presented to them. Monday night, after
the performance of My Wife's Daughter, for the first
time as a second piece, the entertainments concluded
by a new ballet divertissement, which brought into play
the whole of the resources and the taste of the esta-
blishment of this department. The story in such
cases is so evidently the mere string on which to
thread the various dances, that we need only say it
turns upon incidents familiar to all ballet lovers, and
introduces Madame Louise and .Madlle. Adele in
several pas de deux, &c., greatly to the delight and
satisfaction of their numerous admirers. Madlle.
Adele is truly a graceful dancer, and the management
deserves the utmost credit for the care and liberality
they bestow on the getting up of these brilliant spec-
tacles. The scenery and decorations were excellent,
the music light and buoyant, and the ballet quite
successful.

MADAME ANNA THILLON AND MR.
HUDSON'S NEW MUSICAL ENTER-
TAINMENT AT WILLIS'S ROOMS.
A most agreeable variety of the " At Home "
species of entertainment was produced at Willis's
Rooms last evening, the great novelty of which con-
sisted in the performance being a duologue, if one
may be allowed the expression, instead of a mono-
logue ; the performance, moreover, took place on a
stage elevated at the end of the room, with a door
in the centre, and thus while the stage was never left
vacant, much greater facilities were afforded for the
display of costume than under the old regime of table
talk. The performers on this occasion were Madame
Anna Thillon and Mr. Hudson, and seldom have we
passed a pleasanter soirée than we passed with
them at Mrs. Colonel Fitzsmythe's bal costume,
last evening. Mr. Hudson, as Mr. Jeremy Jenks,
opens the ball, and sings an Irish ballad, " Norah
Dear," developeth a new collection of conundrums,
and introduceth an eccentric Irish gentleman, Mr.
Banagher O'Sbocknessey, a " cawntinental" pilgrim.
We are then introduced to the fascinating and lovely
Anna Thillon, who, as Mademoiselle Nina Fluri, a
prima donna at a musical soiree, sans the grand aria
from The Crown Diamonds ; the aria in which she
made her debit in England, awl by her delicious render-
ing:of which she created afurore which until then had
never been equalled. She was in excellent voice, and
rendered the sparkling music of Auber delightfully.
She then appeared as Miss Euphemia Bas Bleu,
a "gifted" young lady, who mastered Hebrew in a
day and a night by curling her hair with the gram-
mar. In this character she sings a song, " The
Modern Plato," with great humour and archness.
Mr. Hudson now takes up the ball, and details in a
song ,with a moral to it the adventures of "Lazy
Loony ;" and then we have Madame Thillon admi-
rably made up as Lady Darville, a fine old English
lady, who sings a romance, "Youth in ;Wrinkles,"
albeit there were no wrinkles there, for we never saw
her look more lovely. The bal costume concludes
with Mr. Hudson's Lord Fitzsappy, a youth from
the west, who details the affecting history of a pet
puppy dog, who was dwound in Il Lago Maggiore.
'rhe second part is entitled Coming Events, and is a
piece de circonstance, apropos to the Great Exhibition.
Mr. Hudson personates Rackstraw, a genius in "a
fix ;" he is, however, cheered by the arrival of the
Genius of Industry, who cheers his spirits by singing
to him a charming ballad, " The Flight of the Fairies,"
at the conclusion of which she takes her flight, and
leaves Rackstraw to compile "The News of the
World," which he does in an admirable buffo song,
of which a second edition was at once called for. He
now receives a visitor from Asia, So-sli, a
Pagoda Belle, who sings with great archness
a very smart satirical song, entitled, " Can
this Country be your Own ? " He is then suc-
cessively vi'ited by Zeynab, the Lily of the
Nile from Africa, by the " Star of the New World,"
a fair composite creature, half Dutch, half Spanish,
half Yankee, and the rest Mohican ; and lastly, by a
" Visitor from Europe Melanie, A Boulonaise." Each
of these characters is sustained with infinite spirit by
Madame Anna Thillon; in each she introduces a de-
licious melody, which she sings in those char, silvery,
enchanting tones, which are so peculiarly her own,
and in each her costume is most elegant, rich, and
becoming. Never have we seen the charming Anna
Thillon look so fascinating as last evening. The ap
plause was enthusiastic throughout, and at the con-
clusion both artistes were called on. The room was
crowded.

CO URT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Nov. 26.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
Ln the grounds adjacent to the Castle.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out hunting
this morning, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Hon. A.

Gordon.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle to-day
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
the Duke of Wellington, the Right Hon. Sir George
and Lady Grey, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley,
Lady Fanny Howard, and Baroness de Speth.
The band of the Coldstream Guards attend during
dinner. Her 'Majesty's private band will afterwards
attend in the Castle.
The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
attended in the Castle on Monday during dinner, and,
under the direction of Mr. Tutton, performed the fol-
lowing pieces :
Overture, "Egmont"
Waltz, "Die Hietern"
Selection, " Le Favorite" Donizetti.
Quadrille, " Chevalresque"
Galop, " Themse Tunnel"
The Queen's private band afterwards attended in
the Castle, and performed the following pieces :
Overture .... • l. Thomas.
Selection, "Le Songe d'un Nuit d Ete,
Chorus, "*„Das Nachttager" Kreutzer.

Mr. M'Gregor, Mr. M'Chlery, and Mr. W. R.
Sandbach, bad an interview with Earl Grey yes-
terday at the Colonial-office.
The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, had en
interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Sir Francis Baring returned to his residence in the
Admiralty yesterday.
Sir James Hogg had an interview yesterday with
Earl Grey.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Co-
lonial.office from the Governors of the Cape of Good
Hope, Malta, and Gibraltar; and also from the Lord
High Commissioner cf the lonian Islands.

Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial• office for the Governor of Gibraltar.

FATAL ACCIDENT FROM A PEA.—A youth, the son
of Mr. Richard Bolton, of Great Horton, -Yorkshire, was
playing a few days since with a juvenile companion, who
was pretending to place a pea in his ear and to make it come
out of his mouth. Bolton, believing the feat to have been
really pe, formed, was induced to make the attempt himself,
and thrust the pea so far into his ear that it could not be
got out. In a vain endeavour to extract it made by a
medical man, it was sent further in, and the poor boy died
four days afterwards from the effects.