The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-16 00:00:00

ACTORS.—Madame Rollan, who died in 1785,

the 75th year of her age, was a principal dancer on Covent-Gar-
den stage in 1731, and followed her profession, by private teach-
ing, to the last year of her life. She had so much celebrity in her
day, that having one evening sprained her ancle, no less an actor
than Quin was ordered by the manager to make an apology to the
audience for her not appearing in the dance. Quin, who looked
upon all dancers as " the mere garnish of the stage," at first de-
murred; but being threatened with a forfeiture, he growlingly
came forward, and, in his coarse way, thus addressed the audience:
—" Ladies and Gentlemen-1 am desired by the massager to in-

form you, that the dance intended for this night is obliged to he
postponed, on account of Mademoiselle Rollan having dislocated
her anele : I wish it had been her neck."

It is privately rumoured, that not a week will pass for
the next three months, without a paragraph of some sort in the
public papers about Miss Paton. The last bulletin announces,
that this young lady has strained the veins of her neck by her ex-
ertions in singing. We hope the next will contradict it.—
P. S. Since the foregoing was written, we perceive that the ex-
pected rejoinder actually has appeared ; and that, in consideration
of the paragraphs being Irish, a London newspaper, to support
their genuine characteristic, has placed the cart before the horse,
and actually transcribed the lady's recovery first ; and then fol-
lowed it up, in an ensuing number, by an announcement of her
illness. This exceeds all the patent medicine cures we ever heard
of.— Opera Glass.

Des Essarts, an actor at the Hague, having been
caught poaching on the preserves of the Stadtholder, availed him-
self of the resources of his profession to get out of the scrape. A
gamekeeper, who had never seen the tragedian excepting in the
garb of royalty, asked him by what right he came there to shoot ?
Des Essarts, with an air and tone of the most heroic haughtiness,
replied,
Ask you? by what right,
By that great right the vast and towering mind
Has o'er the grovelling instinct of the vulgar !
These lines, uttered with a tragic and theatrical air, so panic-
struck the poor gisne-keeper, that he exclaimed, " Oh, if I had
known that, of course, I should not have interfered !"
SACRED Music.—Last night a selection of Sacred
Music was performed on the organ at St. Bride's church, Fleet-
street, by Mr. Mather, organist of the parish. The Concert was
undertaken at the request of several of the parishioners, and con-
sisted of a selection from the works of Handel, Mozart, Haydn,
and other distinguished composers. Among the airs in the First
Part of the selection, " Angels ever bright and fair," and Holy,
holy Lord," both from Handel, were delightfully executed. The
Second Part.of the performance commenced with an extempore
Fantasia, by Mr. Mather, in which the taste and skill of the
composer were very happily blended. The Coronation Anthem of
Attwood followed, and in succession, the " Gloria in excelsis,"
"Benedictus," and " Sanctus," of Mozart; each of which was
executed with considerable skill and judgment. The "0 ! God
when thou appearest," from the same composer, and " With ver-
dure clad," from the Creation, by Haydn, were given with great
force and feeling. At the request, we suppose, of some of the '
auditory., Mr. Mather gave the delightful air of Dr. Arne, " How
cheerful along the gay meads," the unexpected introduction of
which, in relieving the solemnity of the music that preceded it,
produced the happiest effect. The selections concluded with
" Hallelujah," from the Mount of Olives, by Beethoven. In the
last piece, and two others, be was assisted by Master Don, his
pupil, who also performed one of Handers compositions between
the parts, in a manner that did great credit both to himself and
his master. The church was crowded in every part ; and if, in
the absence of those outward demonstrations of satisfaction which
we are accustomed to hear bestowed on public performances in
other places, we could judge of those displayed by Mr. Mather,
the lovers of church music received a high treat in the exertions
of that gentleman, whose merits as a musician are the more sur-
prising, from the circumstance of his being unable to see the
music which he plays. The performance commenced at seven,
and concluded within a few minutes of ten o'clock.