The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

The season here terminated last night with the
benefit of Mr. Webster, who delivered the following
address :

" Ladies and Gentlemen,—ln accordance with cus-
tom, I beg on this, the closing night of our mimic sea-
son, teeming
with acts and studied speeches, to offer you
my grateful acknowledgments for - your continued pa-
tronage of this our house of representation. The sud-
den serious Dint sa of Mr. hlacready, which was a mis-
fortune beyond human - ken, unless gifted with second
.ight, or, as it is fashionably termed, the faculty of
clairvoyance,
combined with the too numerous and over-
puffed•up toreign amusements, which, in one particular
instance, reminds one strongly of the frog who essayed
to outsize the bull, have plueed onr last quarter's re •
venue not quite on a parallel with that cheering account
of the public revenue, imposing new duties upon me and
a fresh tax upon your kindness.
" I am, however, delighted—as every lover of the
drama ronet be—to inform you that Mr. Macready is in
better health now than I have at en him for years, and the
rest from care and fatigue he so much needed will enable
him to appear before you for hie final performances on

ay stage in October next with renewed vigcur both o f "-
ind and body.
Some new and useful histronic talent will be pee-
sented to you during the ensuing season, and also some
new and original dramas, which will not disgrace,
_trust, that standing the dramatic literaThre of
this country has universally attained, and which, as kr
as my humble effotti have permitted, it has ever been
my pride to support,
" In justice to the popular author of Whitlfriari, Owen
Tudor, and many other works of fiction, I teel it in-
cumbent on me to state that the Lord Chamberlain's
interdiction on the comedy of Richelieu in Love having
been removed, it would have been produced this season
had not the serious indisposition of Mr. James Wallack
and Mrs. W. Clifford rendered it impossible, bat it will
certainly ba one of the first novelties when we re-open.
Assuring you, ladies and gentlemen, that every
effort shall be exerted during the recess to make this
still the legitimate theatre in London, I respectfully, and
in the name of the entire company, wish you, until our
next merry meeting in September, all health and hap-
piness."

CREMORNE GARDENS.
The Scotch fete yesterday at these gardens drew a
large assemblage of the British public, that portion
from the
." Land o' Cakes" predominating.
Corporal Sutton, Ist Life, Guards, the winner of
the prize for broad-sword exercise at Holland Park,
opened the sports of the day in conjunction with
Corporal Waite, 2d Life Guards, with a most scienti-
fic display of fencing with foils, M. Gillemand keep-
ing time. This 'bout elicited deserved applause.
Next came Corporal Jackson, Ist Life Guards,
the winner of the second prize, exhibiting tite
most accomplished dexterity with the broad
sword. Corporal Waite and the celebrated, M.
Prevost next presented themselves on the stage. Tbis
was a most interesting combat with foils. The several
combatants resumed their contentions as if their
former differences had not been assuaged, until the
lengthy programme of the battles had been completely
fought, but as the conflict had equal merit we need
not particularise. The great wind-up, however,
between Gillemand and Prevost deserves especial cont.
mendation. Prevost is open to fence any man Pi
world, but he found the veteran Gillemand a most ac-
complished antagonist. In the Saladin feats was in-
troduced the cutting of a leg of mutton with a naval
cutlass—if our own taste were consulted we•should
prefer cutting 'one with a ' tableknife. Every
gentleman should know how to carve, remarked
a second Chesterfield ; for a - !Olson in the art
we recommend Corporal Sutton, Ist Life 6uards..
The leg of mutton is suspended; with one swing
of the arm the dexterous corporal cut.it in two. The
same achievement, with equal adroitness, he performed
on a bar of lead. Cutting the scarf was so delicate
and magical a performance that the audience imagined
the corporal had failed in his object. The scarf fell
as if uninjured, the corporal picked it up in two
pieces at the point of his scimitar. Sergeant Chalmers,
of the Fusiliers, then appeared, armed with fixed
bayonet, as antagonist to Gillemand, armed with
the sabre. Although the bayonet is considered
the superior weapon, the sabre in the hand of
the experienced Gillemand evidently had the ad-
vantage. The late lamented Bushman, who was
considered the most competent judge of the age,
always expressed himself in favour of 'the bayonet ;
and it is no small compliment to the skill of Gille-
mand to say on this occasion he refuted so great an
opinion. The Scotch pastimes were not confined to
the grounds, but were introduced on the stage. Mr.
Charles Cooper, the celebrated Scotch vocalist, sang
" Johnnie Cope" and " Allister M'Allister," with
great applause. When it is remembered that all
these national sports are in addition to the usual en-
tertainments of the establishment, and that the usual
charge for admission is not increased, too much
praise cannot be given to the liberality and enter-
prise of the management. The file is to be repeated
to-day.

NATIONAL SUBSCRIPTION FUND, FOR THE
WORKING MAN'S MONUMENT TO THE
LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., M.P.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Committee-rooms, Belvidere Hotel, Pentonville,
London, July 9, 1850.
beg to inform the public through you, that at
a special meeting of the Committee, held yesterday
evening, at the above rooms, at which Mr. Hume at-
tended, Mr. Coppock proposed, and it was unanimously
resolved, that the title of the testimonial be changed from
the " Poor Man's" to the "Working Man's" Monument
to the late Sir Robert Peel, and that the subscriptions
be from one penny upwards, and not limited to any
amount. Lists for small subscriptions will still be furnished
to any respectable persons applying for them, and books
for the purpose of larger subscriptions will be opened at
every banker's in London and throughout the United
Kingdom, for the " Working Man's Testimonial."
Heads of establishments, tradesmen, hotel-keepers,
and other respectable persons, in every part of the king-
dom, aro desired to open subscription books; but it is
particularly requested that they write to me as above,
notifying that they have done so.
A public meeting will be held on Friday evening next
in the grounds of the Belvidere Hotel, at six o'clock
precisely, at which Mr. Hume will take the chair, and
Mr. Cobden and several other public and influential
gentlemen have promised to attend.
Yours faithfully,
JOHN DOWNES, Hon. Sec.

We regret to have to record the demise of the
Right Iron. James Butler, thirteenth Baron of Dunbovne
which took place on Saturday last, at the chateau of Esh:
inghen, Pas de Calais. This ancient peerage (the last, we
believe, of the old titles which were restored), having been
forfeited by attainder in the reign of Charles 1., was created
by Henry VIII. in the year 1541 by patent to the heirs
male of Sir Edmund Butler, lint., who was lineally de-
scended from the third son of the ancestor of the Earls,
Dukes, and Marquises of Ormonde, and continued in the
direct male line till the death of John, commonly called the
twelfth Baron, on whose decease James, the thirteenth and
late Peer, descended from the younger son of the second Ba-
ron, became heir male, and petitioned George IV. for leave
to prove his right to the barony ; and his Majesty having
directed his attorney and solicitor-general to investigate the
pedigree, and the law officers having reported to his Majesty
that the claimant's right had been fully and satisfactorily
proved before them, his Majesty was thereupon graciously
pleased, by warrant under his royal sign manual, dated at
Windsor, 26th October, 1827, to order his attorney-general

that the attainers against this barony should be -imme-
diately reversed; which was accordingly done in the Court
of Queen's Bench in Dublin, in Michaelmas term the same
year; and that his Lordship's name should be placed on the
roll of Peers of Ireland. His Lordship was born on the 25th
of July, 1780, and was twice married. By his first wife, a
cousin of the late Earl of Chre, he has left a numerous
family, the eldest of whom, the Hon. Theobald Fitz Walter
Butler, succeeds him in his title and estates, as fourteenth
Baron of Dunboyne.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS—Yester-
day evening a grand fete took place in these gardens in aid
of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, Kent-road. Little need
be said in praise of this excellent institution - the appearance
of the children was the greatest compliment that could be
paid o the patrons by whom they are so liberally educated
and maintained. One remark we cannot help making—the
manner in which they are clothed does not stamp on them
the character of charity children, they can mingle in society
when away from the establishment as neatly-dressed chil-
dren. The fete was all that could be wished ; the weather
was fine, the gardens were crowded, their various and unri-
valled attraction delighted every one—the music, conducted
by Jullien. was worthy the" Grand Maestro." Tbeflreworks
were superb, and the eatire arrangements gave satistaction to
all. The fete will be repeated to-day, and we heartily wish
success to the institution.

CAPTURE OF THE CONVICT GRIFFITHS.-Intelli-

genes was received at Woolwich on Saturday last that the
convict John Griffiths, who had escaped a few days pre-
viously from the dockyard, had been apprehended, and was
in custody at Chatham. It appears the high constable there
bad received information of a burglary being committed at
Brompton on the night of Friday, or early on Saturday
morning, and observing two well known characters in the
abstracting line in company with a stranger, he had all
three taken into custody and searched, and by that meaaa
ascertained that Griffiths was an escaped convict from the
marks on his stockings. Griffiths remains in custody, and
will be tried for robbery and assault, the waistcoat of one of
the mowers, with whom he had a conflict on the farm of
Claypits, in the parish of Lee, being found upon him when
apprehended. _ _ _

- -
TER POST-OFFICE CBANGE.—Loud and numerous
are the complaints of the people at the great inconvenience
occasioned by the recent alterations in the Post-office. A
gentleman living in Tomes desires our correspondent to
mention the following circumstance, which painfully illus-
trates the hardship of the non-delivery of letters on the Sun-
day. A person of Devonport was on Saturday declared by
the surgeon to be at the point of deatb, and when informed
of his danger, he manifested the most intense desire to see
the person who gave our correspondent this information. A
letter was posted at Devonport in time for the mail of that
evening, but instead of being addressed to the gentleman, it
was put under cover and dir, cted to the post-master, stating
the emergency of the case, aid he kindly sent it to him
the same evening ; but for this it would have
lain in toe (Ace until Monday morning, and the dying man
would have had his last moments embittered by this hum-
bug, which savours so strongly of the compulsive observance
of the Sabbath, propounded by the late Sir Andrew Agnew.
The sick man was rather of a large tinnily, and bad probably
arrangements to make, before he closed his eyes for ever, of
vital importance to the welfare of his little ones. It is
scarcely possible to overestimate the agonising suspense with
which he awaited the arrival of his relative, and, for all the
originators of this precious scheme care for persons so si-
tuated, he would have gone to that bourne from whence Jo
traveller returns" without having his wish gratified, and
fatherless family might have been materially irjured through
the circumstance.— Western Times.
the delivery
APPLERY. Nori• DELivszr or LETTERS ON
SUNDAY. TUC " practical joke" played off upon the public
has
ably;dhterralMlsnajleissstiyon's .Aolfinleisttteerrss ioan tt, uhentia
stoppage ofexcited the in-
dignation of the inhabitants of Appleby. Two Sundays have
y,
sufficient to convince all but the extreme bigots,
been quite
of the deep injury, and inconvenience, and annoyance which
this " practical joke" is ir flicttng upon the public. A peti-
tion to the Commons, complaining of the gross outrage, is in
course of signature. It has alleady been numerously signed
b
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o 100 the
(expected)t tt gents}, eeiiti
adultt .
....ryt,ch professionalaa rtmale
elj fprebptr h end of the week 99 out of every
iun gentlemen, and tradesmen, and,
will have attached their
names
A PORTRAIT.—Cobden is unfit to fill any post but
that of an agitator, he comprehends nothing of the relatiosse
of empires, nothing of the honour of a great country, no'
thing of civilization in its highest forms. He wouldlorter
liberty for a cargo of cotton ; he babbles about pow, which
he confounds with national degradation. In one ,be to
a cosmopolite in the worst sense of the term.—ownttalf
Times.