The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-21 00:00:00

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

Miss Cushman, on Saturday, appeared in the charac-
ter of Julia, in Sheridan Knowles's play of the Hunch-
back, and a more admirable Julia has never appeared
upon the boards. In the earlier scenes of the play,
there was a mingled tone of warm-hearted earnestness
and graceful simplicity that at once won the heart of
the spectators, while in the more impassioned scenes,
when having sacrificed her love to her vanity, she
becomes fully aware of the fate which she has brought
upon herself, and stands, as it were, on the verge of
a precipice, from which she can see no escape, her
agony of despair was perfectly appalling. Her Julia
will certainly add much to her already high fame.
Mr. Leigh Murray, from the Theatre Royal, Edin-
burgh, made his bow before a London audience for
the first time, in the character of Sir Thomas Clif-
ford. He has a good figure, expressive features,
and his carriage is graceful. It was evident
that lie was suffering dreadfully from nervous-
ness; but notwithstanding his nervousness he
went through the part admirably. His declamation
was beautiful, and his action, though subdued, was
appropriate and graceful. Mr. Murray is evidently
a gentleman and a scholar, and he is certainly an
acquisition to the metropolitan boards. Wallack's
Master Walter was very fine, and Compton's Modus
was excessively quaint. Mrs. Stirling was the Helen,
and a more lively, coquettish piece of acting it is
scarcely possible to imagine. At the end of the play
the principal performers were all called before tle
curtain, and received with the usual honours. A new
farce (an adaptation from the French) entitled Who's
i
the Papa ? followed, n which Compton, as an old
bachelor, whose comforts have bees, invaded by a
squalling infant which some one has left in his bed,
was very amusing. The house was very well attended.

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THE REPRESEN rATION OF THE COUNTY DOWN.-
Lord Edwin Bill, the youngest son of the late Marquis of
Dowushire, will offer himself to the electors of the County
Down at successor to his brother, the present Marquis.

IRELAND.
TIIE OttEISN'S VISIT.

DUBLIN, APRIL 17.—The Limerick Chronicle says :—" The
Duke of Devonshire will accompany her Majesty and Prince
Albert to Ireland next summer, and receive the royal visitors at
Lismore Castle, which his Grace has ordered to be fitted up in
superb style."

A battalion of the Guards is expected to arrive in Dublin next
month, contingent upon the royal visit; also the 87th Fusiliers,
from Scotland.

DINNER OF THE 'B2 CLUB,

The first banquet of the 'B2 Club was held at the Rotunda last
night. From an early hour of the afternoon the streets through
which the Rotunda is approached were crowded. As the several
members of the club, dressed in green and gold, proceeded to the
banquet-hall, and were recognised by the people, they were re-
ceived with the warmest enthusiasm.

The banquet was served in the large Pillar Room. Upwards o
100 members of the club dined, many of them having come from
a colisiderable distance—from Limerick, Cork, Kilkenny, Clonmel,
and various other localities.

On the raised seats sat ladies in full dress, the friends and rela.

tives of the brethren of the club. Over the president's chair was
placed Kenny's fine picture of Grattan moving the Declaration of
Irish Independence, on the floor of the Irish House of Parliament,
on the 16th of April, 1782. The picture contains portraits of all
the celebrated Irish statesman of that day, and is the property of
Mr. H. Grattan, one of the vice-presidents of the club. At the
opposite extremity of the room were two banners, one the flag of
the Irish marine, the other a fancy banner containing on a green
ground a harp, in burnished gold, surmounted by an imperial
crown, over the legend " 1782." Around the emblems were
wreaths of shamrocks ; over all these were the inscription," Dun.
Bannon Declaration, 15th February," and below, the words,
" National Independence, 16th April."
Mr. O'CoxlsEbt., the President, after the cloth was removed,
rose to propose the health of the Sovereign—a tribute of allegiance
and respect—of attachment and duty. Whatever be the colour we
wear, or the name we assume, the sincerity and reality of our
allegiance to the throne, and our attachment to the connexion,
through the Crown of Great Britain, with that country, is not to be
doubted, and never will be diminished.—(Cheers.) I call upon
you, therefore, with great pleasure, to toast the health of her Ma-
jesty.—(liear, hear, and cheers.) Beyond any persons of her
family she has claims upon the affections as well as the duties of
the people of Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) Not one portion of her
public life can be considered as in the slightest degree derogatory
to the rights, or inconsistent with the justice due to our country,
and if she succeeded on the throne individuals who had not
the same genial feelings towards this country, it only augments
her claims on our gratitude, our affections, and our love.—(Hear,
and cheering.) The whole tenor of her political life, so far as
she has had the management of political affairs, has been replete
with sentiments of liberality towards this country.—(Cheers.)
" The Queen, long life and prosperity to her," was drank with
enthusiasm. " God save the Queen."
The PRESIDENT—Vice-presidents and brothers, I call your at.
tention new to the charter toast of the 'B2 Club.—(Loud cheers.)
You do well, brothers, to cheer it by anticipation. You know it
is " The legislative independence of Ireland."--(Cheers.) You
are quite aware that we do not meet here to-night fur the mere
enjoyment of the festivities of the social circle. No, we meet for
another, a better, a nobler purpose—we meet to make part of the
history of our native land—we meet to commence once again, in
this room, that struggle which, in the neighbouring apartment,
led to a great victory, and produced the independence, for a period,
of the legislative authority of Ireland.—(Cheers ) We meet to.
gether on the 16th of April—sixty-three years ago, on the 16th of
April, Ireland for the first time was free.—(Loud cheers.) The
Hon. and Learned Gentleman then entered into the history of
Ireland, at that and the subsequent period, and concluded by giving
" The legislative independence of Ireland."
The toast was drunk with enthusiasts; and, after some other
speeches, the patty separated.

DUBLIN, APRIL 19.—The Evening Mail states that the Earl of
Roden has left town for London, in order " to be in his place in
the House of Lords on Monday evening, to present the various
petitions against the endowment of Maynooth entrusted to his
care, when his Lordship will doubtless take occasion to reiterate
those sentiments of pure religion, and attachment to our sacred in-
stitutions, which have gained him the love, and placed him at the
head of the Protestants of Ireland."

The Dublin Evening Poet thus concludes an article on the
speech of Sir James Graham, which has produced the bitterest
mortification amongst the Orange party:—
"There is no man in the empire who will read the speech of Sir
James Graham with greater delight than Mr. O'Connell. He will
naturally feel that if the repeal agitation had not existed, Sir
James Graham would never have felt it to be his duty, as a Minis..
ter of the Crown, to deliver such a speech. Mr. O'Connell will
find, in the avowal of this new course, at once the vindication and
the success of his own policy, is concentrating the popular discon.
tent as the. surest mode of redressing the grievances of Ireland.

" No honest man will deny the sound policy, as well as the cou.
rage of the present Ministry in adopting the advice so constantly
offered them by Mr. O'Connell—to lessen his power among the
Irish people by the simple expedient of doing justice. The Whigs
were turned out because they had struggled, in accordance with
their old and cherished principles, to carry the policy of justice into
practical operation. Sir James Graham and his colleagues have,
at the eleventh hour, tried back upon that policy; and if they be
open to the charge of utter inconsistency, and much worse, they
may claim the merit at least of now taking up good measures, and
manfully maintaining them against a most besotted and ferocious
No-Popery outcry."
THE SHANNON NAVIG&TION.-Mr. Steele has been appointed, by

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the Parliamentary Committee of the Repeal Association, to report
on the Improvements of the river Shannon, at present in progress,
of which, by his Essay, published in London in 1828, he was the
originator.
BELFAST PROTESTANT PETITION IN FAVOUR OF TILE MAY.
ROOTH( GRANT.—Wednesday afternoon this petition was placed in
the Commercial Ncws-room, and received, in the course of the
evening, about 13d signatures, including the names of four or five
magistrates, several bankers, and a number of other leading inha-
bitants of the town. The number of signatures from such a class
of people is greater than we recollect being attached, in the same
place, and in so short a time, to any petition ; and, what is very
gratifying, they are those of Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, and of
all shades of Protestantism.—Northern JV/iig.
COTTON FACTORY,—A company is about to be formed to erect a
cotton factory on the Clyde River, which will be the first e er esta.
blished in the county of Cork. The capital is proposed to amount
to 75,0001., in 501. shares. —Cor k Constitution.

THE MAYNOOTH BILL.
ANALYSIS OF THE DIVISION ON THE
SECOND READING.
Majority, including Tellers—
Conservatives
Liberals 165

- 325

Minority, including Tellers—
Conservatives
Liberals 3l

- 178

Absent—
Conservatives
_ _

Liberals B3
Speaker ... 1
Seats vsf:;ant -
( 4 reenock
West Kent
Downshiro
Sudbury (2) 5

658

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
DURHAM RACES.—FRIDAY.
The Two Years-old Stakes of 10 guineas each, with 20 sovs.
added from the fund; colts, Bst 31b, and fillies; three-
quarters of a mile. (3 Subs.)
Mr. llesseltine's Fiddlestring (Bumby) 1
Mr. Fawcett's Miss Gaorgie 2
The Cup Stakes of 10 guineas each ; two miles. (6 Subs.)
Mr. Surtees nd Beaufront, 4 yrs, Bst 31b... ...(Joy) 1
Mr. Shaftoe's Bashaw, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b
Mr. Salwin's Pedometer, 4 yrs, Bst 31b
The limiters' Stakes of 5 sovs. each; four yrs, lOst 121 b; five
yrs, Ilst 81b ; six yrs, and aged, 12st ; half-bred allowed
7lbs ; two miles. (4 Subs.)
Captain Allan's Wasp, 6 yrs (Mr. Readlam) 1
Mr. Blaydon's Palanion, aged 2
Mr. Pack's Rival, aged ... 3