The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-01 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

An admirable piece de circonstance, from the pen of
Mr. Stirling Coyne, was produced hero on Saturday
evening, under the title of Railway Bubbles. The hero
is a certain Nir. German Hudson (Hudson), a genuine
llilesinn, the beau ideal of a "rattling, rollicking, jig of
an Irishman," who has managed to captivate the heart
of Miss Seyton (Miss Telbin), the niece and heiress of
General Bungalow (Tilbury), a rich old East Indian.
He follows her to London, and finding some paviours at
work opposite the general's door, assumes the disguise
of a " mender of ways," and watches an opportunity of
entering the house and obtaining an interview with the
heiress. The general approaches, and Hudson makes
his escape up the chimney 'of the house and descends
the chimney of the general's next door neighbour,
Mr. Braggs (Brindal), whom he finds engaged with his
clerk, Nobbleton Noakes (Mr. Clark), in the concoction
of railway lines to all parts of the globe. To the pro-
jector this sudden appearance is the avater of a De►is ex
Machind. He wishes for the patronage of the Railway
King, and lo ! G. Hudson, Esq., has dropped down his
chimney. In every provisional committee does the
name of G. Hudson, Esq., prominently appear. Shares
rise to an enormous premium, to the great satisfaction
of the members of all the provisional committees, who
are anxious to be introduced to the groat man. Among
these committee men is General Bungalow, who, of
course, is but too happy to bestow his niece upon the
great man who, by a nod, can regulate premiums. Hud-
son makes a good railway speech, which told exceed-
ingly, and is hailed as the Railway King, when the
honest Irishman, who has been as much hoaxed as the
rest, repudiate the title and exposes Braggs. Bungalow,
however, having made a good spec. through the
intervention of Hudson, bestows on him the
hand of the lady, and all ends happily. Them
is an amusing underplot, of the loves of
Kitty Crisp and Nobbletcn Noakes, which gives rise
to some amusing contretemps. The farce is full of bustle
and incident, and the dialogue sparkles with wit. It is
the best farce. Stirling Coyne has yet written, and it is
the best thing that Hudson has yet done. He was fitted
completely, and kept the audience in a constant roar.
May Coyne write many more suck farces for Hudson,
and may we be there to see him act in them. It is need-
less to say its success was complete. The house was
crowded.

• DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—This splendid house is
now nightly Varonged to see Flora Fabbri in the Devil to
Pay, and Wallace's opera of Naritana. Amongst others, on
Saturday, we noticed these distinguished persons :—Prince
George of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Count
Kielmansegge, Baron Rehausen, Count de Noailles, arl and
Countess of Harrington, Marchioness of Conyngharn, Coun-
tess ofCardigan ; Earls Fitzhardinge, Bruce, Munster; Lords
Gardiner, Canterbury, Foley, Ernest Bruce, Thomas Clinton,
Sussex Lennox, Cantalupe, Mandeville, Alexander Lennox,
W. Paget, Ranelagh, Duplin, Suffield, Russell; Ladies
Ernest Bruce, Foley, Graham, Tyrwhitt, Thomas Clinton;
Hon. Mrs. Granville Berkeley, Hon. Mrs. Dyce Sombre;
Right Hon. Henry Baring, Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart.,
Sir Charles Shakerley, Bart., Sir Henry Webb, Sir 1% Brink-
man, General Meade, Captain Rochfort, Colonel Knox, Colonel
Walpole, Captain Hudson, Captain Maitland, Colonel John-
son, Hon. Henry Berkeley, Hon. Fitzroy Stanhope, Montague
Gore, Esq., M.P., Colonel and Mrs. Fitch, &c. &c.
...
EW WEST-END THEATRE.—A project which has
been for the last two or three years in agitation, is now
being brought forward. The object of it is to build a new
theatre, on a grand scale, to be devoted to the encourage-
ment of English authors, English actors, and English musi-
cal composers, and for the exclusive illustration of the
English drama. The vacant ground on the east side of Lei-
cester-square, now in the occupation of Mr. Buckstone, is the
site upon which it is proposed to erect this new theatre.
'rho Earl and Countess of Abingdon are passing
the winter at Wytham Abbey, Oxfordshire. The Noble Lord
is in improved health.
The Earl of Liverpool, after attending the funeral
of the late Earl of Verulam on Tuesday, returned to Fife
House, and on the following day repaired to Buxted Park,
Surrey.
The Earl of Yarborough and Lord and Lady
Worsley, who have been passing some days at Manby Hall,
return to V.rocklesby on Friday next.
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney purpose to re-
ceive a succession of visitors at Frognal-lodge, their seat near
Footscray, this week.
Earl Cadogan and Ladies Augusta and Henoria
Cadogan arrived last week at Viscount and Viscountess
Chelsea's villa at Roehampton, from. a protracted visit to the
Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey, at Beaudesert, Staf-
fordshire. At the close of this week the Noble Earl and
daughters go to Bath, where they contemplate residing
during the winter.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey have,, it is under-
stood, deferred for the present their intended visits in the
provinces. Lady Clementina Villiers's health is greatly im-
proved during the last fortnight.
Tr. MUSTARD Caor.—During the last twenty
years an immense tract of valuable pasture land has from
time to time been broken up in the neighbourhood of Moul•
ton, for the purpose of growing mustard, and the exceedingly
remunerative prices generally made by the article has caused
parties to give most extravagant prices for old grass land,
with the view of growing the golden crop. This year,
however, has disappointed the hopes of many, the yield has
been very deficient, and the price low, the crops have proved
of far less value than the wheat crops.--Lincolnshire
Chronicle. _ _

HUNGERFORD MARKET COMPANY.—The half-
yearly general meeting of the proprietors of this company
was lied on Saturday, at the offices, 9, Villier's street,
Strand, the Earl of Devon, the chairman of the board of
directors, in the chair. The business was opened with the
usual formalities, after which the secretary read the report
of the directors. It stated that an agreement for the sale
of the bridge had been entered into by the Charing-cross-
bridge Company, for the sum of 226,000/., reserving the
rights of the Market Company therein. The report further
went on to state that negotiations had been pending for the
sale of the market to the same parties, but as the • terms
finally offered by them were such as the market directors
could not recommend the proprietors to accept, the negotia-
tion was now at an end. The directors had given notice to

Parliament for power to dispose of the market property, in
case such a course should be finally determined on. The
statement of accounts and disbursements was then read,
from which it appeared that there wa.4 sufficient surplus to
warrant a dividend of 21. per cent., which was declared ac-
cordingly. The report was received and adopted, and a vote
of thanks having been tendered to the chairman, the meeting
separated, highly satisfied with the improved prospects of the
undertaking.
A MAN GORED BY A Bomt.—On Friday last, No
vember 28, as a young man, named Alfred Hardman, in the
service of Mr. Birch, of the Ivy Farm, near the city of 'Wor-
cester, was crossing his master's fold-yard, a large boar kept
there rushed upon him, and gored him in a skocking manner,
tearing his arm, ripping open his leg and thigh in a dreadful
manner from the ankle to the hip. The poor fellow was un-
able to defend himself from the attack of the ferocious animal,
having no weapon at hand, and it was with considerable
difficulty that he escaped from the fold-yard by scrambling
over a hedge. He was conveyed to the infirmary at Wor-
cester. where his wounds were promptly dressed, and where
he still remains in great suffering. Indeed, should his wounds
heal satisfactorily, it will be many weeks ere lie can leave
that institution, of so serious a nature are the injuries which
he has received. It seems that the animal has frequently
been teased, and it is supposed that he mistook Hardman for
one of its tormentors.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT POYLE, NEARCOLNBROOK.

—SLOUGH', SUNDAY.—Last night, at a quarter-past eight
o'clock, a destructive fire broke out in the farm-yard of Mr.
John Cane, an extensive farmer at Poyle, near Colnbroek,.
about three miles and a half from the Slough station on the
Great Western Railway. For the time of its duration it
raged with inconceivable fury. A considerable time elapsed
before any engines were on the spot; at last the Colnbrook
engine arrived, followed by those from Windsor, Staines, and
Uxbridge' accompanied by a number oflabourers, and a party
of the T division of the Metropolitan Police. At this time
the flames had reached three stacks of torn, two barns, the
granary, stables, and other outbuildings. By the great ex-
ertions of Mr. Buley, of Colnbrook, and the constables of the
adjacent villages, assisted by a strong party of- la-
bourers, the live stock, with the exception of the
poultry, was rescued from the flames. The inhabitants of
the neighbourhood, notwithstanding the inclemency of
the weather (the rain descending in torrents during the
time) made strenuous exertions to save the thrashed corn
and other property. The engines were at length got into
full play, and. there being an excellent supply of water from
the neighbouring mills, the fire was subdled. The property
destroyed consisted of a rick of wheat, one of barley, and one of
beans, two barns in which a large quantiy of oats and wheat
had been housed for thrashing, the granary-stored with wheat,
only a small portion of which had been saved ; part of a rick
of hay, a large stack of straw, the farmitig utensils, and all
the outbuildings. Too much praise cannot be given to the
labourers in the vicinity, who, although drenched with rain,
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continued their exertions during the night and this morning
were still playing on the smouldering ruins and still smoking
remains of coin, &c. It is not known how the fire originated.
Mr. Cane, who is insured, is an excellent taster, and it is
not probable that it was the act of an incexcliary.
Excellency Connt de St. Aqlaire, the Freuph
Ambassador, is expected to arrive to-day at Manchester-
house, from Paris. We hear that the Noble Count will be
accompanied by his son, the Marquis de St. Aulaire. The
Countess, it is expected, will not leave France for London
liefore the first week In January'.