The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.--The Queen and Prince Al-
bert, attended by Lady Portman, Hnn. Misses Liddell
and Paget, Lord Byron, Hon. Captain Duncombe,
Major-General \Vemyss, and Colonel Bouverie, re-
turned yesterday evening from town.
This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert
walked out for some time in the slopes and pleasure-
grounds adjacent to the Castle.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, were taken their accustomed airings to-day.
The Earl of Ellenborough and the Earl of Liver-
pool (Lord Steward) arrived at the Castle to-day, on
a visit to the Queen. The Right Hon. Sir Robert
Peel arrived in the afternoon, on a visit to her Ma-

J
es ty.
In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert
again walked out.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
Charlotte Dundas, and the Countess Wratislaw, joined
the royal circle at dinner to-day.
The band of the Royal riorse Guards was in at-
tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band
afterwards attended in the Castle, and performed the
remainder of the evening.
Her Royal I lighness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Charlotte Dundas, the Countess Wratislaw,
and Sir George Couper, Bart., returned to Frogmore
House yesterday evening, from town.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent did Sir
George Hayter the honour of sitting to him twice in
the last week for the picture of the Christening of his
Royal Highness the Prince of %Vales.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
arrived in town on Monday evening from a visit to
her Majesty the Quren Dowager, at Witley Court,
\Vorcestershire. His Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge visited the Royal Duchess yesterday at
Gloucester House, after her arrival from Sew.
His Excellency M. Dedel returned to Wilton-
crescent last Sunday evening from Tottenham Park,
to attend the ceremony of opening the Royal Ex-
change on Monday.
Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister, had an inter-
view with Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
The Earl of Westmoreland transacted business
yesterday at the Foreign-office. His Lordship after-
wards had an interview with the Right Honourable
W. E. Gladstone, at the office of the Board of Trade.
Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday afternoon for
Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty.
The Marquis of Exeter had an interview with Sir
James Graham on Monday afternoon, at the Home-
office.
' Mr. H. Cope, jun., Solicitor to the Metropolitan
Anti-Bridge Toll Association, presented yesterday
to the Lords of the Treasury a memorial from 10,000
merchants, manufacturers, and householders of the
western and central districts of the metropolis, being
one of several containing upwards of 200,000 signa-
tures, already presented for the free passage of Wa-
terloo, Southwark, and Vauxhall Bridges, as a para-
mount measure of metropolis improvement, by the
commutation of the burdensome imposts thereon.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yester-
day afternoon for his seat, Beechworth House, Surrey.
Lady Peel left her residence in Whitehall-gardens
yesterday afternoon, for Brighton.
The Yeomen of the Queen's Body Guard, in full
coronation costume, were on duty at the opening of
the New Royal Exchange by her Majesty, under the
command of the Earl of Beverley, Captain; Sir George
Lee,Lieutenant; Mr. Ellerthorp, Adjutant; and Cap-
tain Sadler, Exon in Waiting, and lined the grand
portico of the western entrance, and area, the am-
bulatory, the great area, the eastern area, the grand
staircase, and the rooms leading to the Throne-
room. The Officers, Exon and Yeomen, were after-
Wards regaled by the Lord Mayor.

THE ADELPHI THEATRE.
" Ant. Cesar aut Diabolus" might be taken as the
motto, of the present theatrical season. Go were we
will we .are sure to find either Don Cesar de Bazan
or Satan. At the Haymarket Caesar reigns supreme,
while the Devil, with his seven castles, hath taken
possession of the Lyceum. At the Adelphi
" Divisa Imperia cum Satano Caesar habet"—
the Devil and the Don have united their powers of
attraction—The Mysterious Stranger appearine, in
the form of a lovely woman in the beginning of° the
evening, while the Don announces himself as King of
Spain towards the conclusion.
" The Devil and the King divide the prize"
of drawing crowded houses to the great profit of Mr.
Webster. There is at the present moment a very
pleasant comedie vaudeville by Messrs. Clarville and
Damarin, which, under the title of Satan, ou Le
Diable a Paris, is attracting all Paris. This drama
has been very cleverly adapted to the English stage by
Mr. Charles Selby, under the title of The Myste-
rious Stranger, and we have no doubt but that the
nightly levees of the Mysterious Stranger at the
Adelphi will be as numerously attended as the levees
of Monsieur Satan have been at Paris. In the
opening scene, we are introduced to Count Henry de
Beausoleil (Mr. Hudson), who is giving his farewell
bachelor party preparatory to his marriage with Ma-
demoiselle de Nantelle (Miss E. Harding). A
stranger is announced, who sends up his card " Satan,"
and who enters in the person of Mademoiselle Celeste,
attired as an exquisite of the first water. The Count
is reminded by his visitor that some ten years pre-
viously he had ruined himself to save a friend from de-
struction, and that, utterly destitute of money, he had
drawn up a paper offering to sell himself to the Devil
for ten years of wealth ; that the next morning he
had heard of a large legacy left him by a distant re-
lative, and had ever since been in the enjoy-
ment of wealth unbounded. " You had
no relation," says the Mysterious Stranger ;
" I took you at your word. Here is your bond—the
date is run out, and you're mine." The Count treats
his visitor as an imposter. " Well," says the Stranger,
" in twenty-four hours I will deprive you of your
wealth, your mistress, and your friends ; and then I
shall demand the execution of my bond." He goes
to a ball, where he finds his mistress flirting with an-
other ; while there he hears that his banker has ab-
sconded with the whole of his property. The Myste-
rious Stranger, dressed as a lady, enters, and reminds
him that she had foretold it. A grand fete is given
at the mansion of a Polish Princess with an unpro-
nounceable name. The guests are Beausoliel's mis-
tress-and -his former friends. They determine to cut
him. He enters, followed by the Princess, who is
no other than the Mysterious Stranger. She exposes
their duplicity to him, and gives him letters written
by his mistress to his rival. At the opening of the
second act the unfortunate Count is in utter despon-
dency, and gives utterance to his grief in a very
tollching song, which was exquisitely sung by Hudson,
and deservedly encored. Mademoiselle de Nantelle
enters—she explains her past conduct, and seeks again
to win his affections. "Those letters were written," she
says, "just a 3 she left her convent, at that period of
life when the girl is becoming the woman, and when
to say I love, is sufficient to secure her affections ;
but the dreams of girlhood had long since passed
away, he was the choice of her maturer years, and
although she knows him poor, she has come to share
her fortune with him." This scene was very beauti-
fully giver. by Miss E. Harding. There was an im-
passioned tenderness about her acting, restrained,
ho;: ever, by the innate bashfulness of the retiring
girl, which told admirably. Henry at once gives way
and defies Satan—but too soon. Scarcely has the
lady retired when the Mysterious Stranger enters
and shows him a paragraph in a newspaper,
announcing that his banker has been arrested.
The lady enters immediately afterwards, and
the Count, hid in a closet, is witness . a
scene in which the Mysterious Stranger, infornung
the lady that the paragraph in question is false, and
that Henry is a ruined man, woos and wins her.
Henry enters, the lady faints, and the stranger laughs
at the success of his diabolical wiles. The last
scene discovers Henry asleep on a sofa. He awakes,
and the Mysterious Stranger appears to him
in propria person,. She is the daughter of the
friend whom he has saved from ruin. To her he owes
his fortune. She has long loved him, and has adopted
this strange method of opening his eyes to the heart-
lessness of his pretended friends. It is scarcely
necessary to add that he willingly liquidates his bond,
and becomes hers for life. There is a comic under-
plot, admirably supported by Wright and Miss Chap-
lin, and one scene, in which we are introduced to the
back slums of Paris, in which 0. Smith, as the keeper
of lapis franc, and a dealer in forged passports, acts as
he alone can act. There is a chorus song introduced
into this scene, which was admirably sung by a gen-
tleman with whose name we are unacquainted, and
whom we do not recollect to have seen before, but
whose talents are such that it is impossible he can
long remain unknown. Celeste as the Mys-
- Stranger was the most fascinating Devil
that has ever appeared in public ; and Hudson,
as the Count, was first-rate. The mounting of
the piece was perfection, and it cannot
I fail to draw crowded houses. The overture,
by M. Doche, is a very elegant and agreeable corn-
po-sition, and will form a.most useful addition to the
repertoire of stock overtures. It was admirably given
by the orchestra; and we cannot but congratulate the
proprietors of this theatre on the vast improvement
which has taken place in the orchestral department.
At the fail of the curtain Madame Celeste, Hudson,
and Wright, were called for, and received with 411 the
i honours. When they had retired there were loud
1 ca; for Selby, who came forward and announced the
,+- ion amidst the enthusiastic applause of
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piece for rept.
a crowded house.

Guarro.—Owing to the easterly winds the arrivals
of the past week from Ichaboe do not exceed 300 tons.
Sales hate been made to the extent of 100 or 120 toi s,
at 5/. 17s. 6d. to 6/. An entire cargo on the spot is re-
ported to be sold at the latter price. For forward deli-