The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. —The unfavourable state of
the weather has prevented the Queen and the Royal
Family from leaving the Castle to-day.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horseback this morning, attended by Major-General
Sir Edward Bowater, Equerry in Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Albert inspected the finished
engraving of his Royal Highness Albert Prince of
Wales, after Winterhalter, which was submitted by
Mr. Moon to her Majesty and his Royal Highness.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Glou-
cester House. His Royal Highness afterwards re-
turned to his residence at Kew.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
.he Colonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar.

The Lords Committee of the Privy Council for the
affairs of Guernsey and Jersey sat yesterday, and re-
sumed the consideration of two petitions from the
Royal Court of Guernsey, touching the conduct of
the Lieutenant-Governor of the island. The Lords
present were the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, Mr. Baron Parke,
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the
Judge of the Admiralty Court.
Mr. Burge, Q.C., was heard in reply, and had not
concluded his address at four o'clock, when their
Lordships rose, adjourning the case for further hear.
ing until Friday next.

ADELPHI THEATRE.
The Adelphi, under the new management, main-
tains its old character of being the first in the field
with novelties. It has fairly distanced its competitors
in the production of Charles Dickens's Chimes. The
Adelphi chimes rang for the first time last evening,
and a bumper house was collected to see a beautiful
series of tableaux vivans, illustrative of the goblin story
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Maclise, Stanfield, Leech, and Doyle, have been admira-
bly transferred to canvass by Messrs. T. Pitt and John-
stone. A beautiful copy of Maclise's exquisite illus-
trated title-page to the work is used as the drop•scene
between the four quarters into which the piece is
divided. After a prologue spoken by Miss E. Chap-
in as a spirit of the chimes, we are introduced to
Trotty Veck (Mr. 0. Smith) and his daughter, Meg
(Miss Fortescue), and see Trotty's memorable tripe
dinner in front of the house of Alderman Cute (Mr.
Wright). We are next introduced to Sir Joseph
Bowley (Mr. Paul Bedford), the poor man's friend,
who plays at skittles once a year with his la-
bourers, that is to say, with those who pay
their rent, and tyrannises over his toady,
Secretary Fish, and sends poachers to prison,
and to his philanthropic lady (Miss E. Harding), who
subscribes to charities which give more than two
votes for five guineas. We then meet with Will
Fern (Mr. Hudson), the English labourer—not the
English labourer of former days, but the English
labourer whom neglect and penury have driven to
misery, and misery to crime; and then we have
Trotty's dream _of the chimes, and see Meg, a mi-
serable sempstress, driven to suicide by want; the
gloomy parts of the picture being enlivened by the
kindheartedness of Mrs. Chickenstalker (Mrs. F.
Mathews), and her quarrels with the hard-hearted,
well to do, Mr. Tugby (Mr. Wilkinson), umquhile hall
porter to Sir Joseph Bowley, but now the husband of
the ci-devant Mrs. Chickenstalker, and the landlord of
poor Meg. In the last scene Trotty awakes from his
dream, determining, henceforth, to eschew tripe, and
all ends happily with the marriage of Meg and Richard
(Mr. Selby). 0. Smith's Trotty Veck is one of the
most artistical pieces of acting we have ever witnessed.
It is quite equal to his old Scrooge. Miss Fortescue,
who has, we are glad to see, returned to the theatre
where she first made for herself her fame, supported
him admirably, and made a most interesting character
of Meggy Veck. Wright, as the dogmatical Alder-
man, who is " up to everything" and is determined
to put down "everything, convulsed the audience with
laughter by his quaint and ignorant self-sufficiency.
The sketch is evidently one from nature, and Wright
had the good taste not to " make up" the character so
as to bear any personal resemblance to the original; the
satire, therefore, does not degenerate into lampoon.
Hudson's Will Fern was full of power, and the home
truths which he uttered were taken up by the audi-
ence and applauded to the echo. Paul Bedford made
the most of the " poor man's friend," and Miss lE.
Harding, as his lady, was an admirable representative
of the fashionable female philanthropist, while Wil-
kinson, as the fat, red-faced hall porter, was the very
beau ideal of the class of men who ask " Wot is
taxes ?" The piece has been put upon the stage with
the greatest care and attention, and, with a little judi-
cious curtailment, will run pleasantly through the
Christmas season. The house was crammed to excess
long before the rising of the curtain.

The incendiary, we are sorry to say, has been again
at work in Mildenhall. About half-past one on Thursday
morning, a fire broke out in a straw stack adjoining the
homestall belonging to Mr. Edward Peachey, of Holm-
sey-green, which in a short time communicated to the
barn, stables, and other buildings, the whole of which,
with a quantity of corn thrashed and unthrashed, farm-
ing implements, &c., were totally destroyed. The house,
which is built of stone and tiled, was saved. The scene
of this fire was within 100 yards of the spot where Mr.
Childerstone's stacks were burnt last winter. An old
man who worked upon the premises nearly lost his life
in his endeavour to save some property in a barn, and
was rescued by persons outside breaking a hole through
and dragging him out. Mr. P. is insured in the Norwich
Union. A reward of 1001. is offered on conviction of the
incendiary.--Cambridge Advertiser.