The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-30 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
ook their usual early walk this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Alice ts ere taken a carriage airing to-day, at-
tended by the Dowager Lady Lytteiton.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was also
taken her usual airing to-day.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting
in the forenoon in the royal preserves, accompanied by
the Earl of Liverpool, and attended by Sir Edward Bo-
water and Captain Meynell. The Royal party returned
to the Castle to lunch.
Sir Robert Peel arrived this afternoon at the Castle.
The Right Hon. Baronet will dine and sleep at the Castle.
Lord Stanley and Mr. Davis are 'expected to arrive
this evening on a visit to her Majesty..
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and her
Lady in Waiting will join the Royal circle at the Castle
at dinner this evening.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, arrived in town yester-
day morning from her residence at Kew. Her Royal
Highness returned to Kew in the afternoon.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has
arrived at Goodwood, Sussex, to honour the 'Duke of
Richmond with a visit, from Petworth, the seat of Colo-
nel Wyndham.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present
were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord
Waharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aber-
deen, Lord Stanley. Sir James Graham, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddingdon, Right Hon. W.
E. Gladstone, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward
Knatchbull.

The Lord Chancellor subsequently joined his col-
leagues.

the Council sat two hours.
Immediately after the Council Sir Robert Peel left
town for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty.
Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council,
gave a grand dinner last evening at his residence in
Curzon-street, to the Cabinet Ministers and the Great
Officers of State of the Queen's Household, viz., the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the
Horse. At the meeting the Roll of Sheriffs for the pre-
sent year was settlsd, preparatory to it; being submitted
to her Majesty in Council.
All the Cabinet Ministers were present at the dinner,
with the exception of the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of
Ripon, and Sir Robert Peel. The Clerks of the Privy
Council, Mr. C. Greville and the Hon. William Bathurst,
were also invited to the dinner. _ _

The dovernorof the Bank of England and the
Deputy Governor had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
Viscount Canning has arrived in town, from a visit to
her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Mills, Carpenter,
R. C. Carpenter, William Burchall, Knight, and Jones,
had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. The Deputation were accompanied by the
City Remembrancer.

THE THEATRES, &c.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.

This theatre—the Lyceum as it is now called—
was opened last night, for the first time this season,
with the First Part of Shakspeare's King Henry the
Fourth. The character of Sir John Falstaff, the
most difficult, perhaps, in the whole range of the
drama, was undertaken by Mr. Harvey Tuckett, whose
duel with Lord Cardigan attracted, it may be re-
membered, a good deal of public attention a few
years since. On first coming forward on the stage
Mr. Tuckett was received with marked approbation
by a full, but not crowded house, and justified the
favourable feeling of the audience by the spirit and
intelligence with which he went through his part.
Some of his points told exceedingly well—especially
his catechism on honour, which he delivered in- an
appropriate tone of mingled sarcasm and humour.
His manner, too, on being detected in his
monstrous falsehoods about the "eleven men
in buckram," was highly comic, and elicited
a hearty burst of laughter. Mr. Tuckett pos •
sesses many requisites for a successful actor ; he
has intelligence, self-possession, and an evident love
of the art ; but, generally speaking, we missed some-
thing of that quiet, oily humour which is so
conspicuous a feature in the fat knight's
idiosyncracy. The actor's tone wanted mellowing ;
but this will come of practice, without which no one
can convey to an English audience an adequate idea
of Shakspeare's Falstaff. Mr. Tuckett was, also, oc-
casionally too active and elastic in his gait ; he did
not
move as if labouring under a mountain of flesh;
and it was with difficulty we could bring ourselves to
believe, notwithstanding his apparent bulk, that he
" larded the lean earth as he walked along." These,
however, are blemishes easy of removal ; and as Mr.
Tuckett's conception of the character was correct and
distinct in the outline, and failed only here and there in
the filling up, we see no reason why hishould not
become a very diverting and successful Falstaff. Of
the rest of the dramatis personw—the less said the
better. Prince Henry was cruelly marred by Mr.
Melford, who went through the part with the set, for-
mal gravity of a Methodist parson. Mr. Wentworth
rendered Hotspur a noisy, petulant boy, instead of an
ardent, chivalrous warrior. As he is very young,
however, and somewhat inexperienced, we are not
without strong hopes of his improvement. Before
the play " God Save the Queen' was sung with the
usual enthusiasm ; and the evening's entertainments
were closed with a drama, entitled The Miser's Well,
in which Mrs. Keeley played the/part of an adven-
turous boy, Dolph Heylinger, with infinite spirit. The
scenery in both plays was excellent.