The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-04 00:00:00

STRAND.
We have not enjoyed such a hearty laugh for a long
tiroe:as we enjoyed at this theatre last evening, at the
burlesque of Antigone. It is a regular screamer—worth
fifty of the spectacle burlesques where fine scenery is
introduced to make up for paucity of jokes. The original
is closely followed—Aristophanes himself could not have
written a more ludicrously exact quiz upon the tragedy
of his great contemporary. The chorus was excessively
rich, and the Antigone of George Wild was, in every
sense of the word, immense. Hall was Creon, and, on
his appearance, was greeted with a roar of hearty
laughter. He made Creon after Punch's caricature of
O'Connell. The resemblance was exact ; and, when he
began, in a rich Munster brogue, addressing the Thebans
as " Hereditary, bondsmen," the audience was perfectly
convulsed. His imitations of Vandenhoff, Macready,
and Charles Kean, were excellent ; in fact, we never saw
Hall so great—his Creon is superior even to his lago.
But the whole is a piece of rich drollery ; the fun never
flags ; and, if we mistake not, the Antigone of Mr.
Blanchard will have a greater run than even the Anti-
gone of Sophocles. The house was exceedingly well
attended.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
The acceptances, which closed in town and at Chester
at twelve o clock on Saturday night, far exceeded any-
thing on record—the number 7 11—four more, owing to
omissions in copying the list, than appeared in yester-
day's papers. The horses omitted were, Vitula, 5 yrs,
6st 91b ; The Old Maid, 5 yrs, 6st 61b; Advice, 4 yrs.
6st 21b ; and Stayley, 5 yrs, sst 71b. Amongst
the horses left in will be found nearly all that
have been backed since the books were first opened
on the race. The betting yesterday was brisk, without
being so heavy as on one or two previous occasions ;
several commissions, however, were liberal, particularly
with regard to the two favourites, the Era, Pug (the
only one left in by Lord George Bentinck), Agriculture,
and Corranna. Cataract opened at 20 to 1, and closed
at Thursday's quotation. The final averages were as
under :

0 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Semiseria—t. and aft. off.
5 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Obscurity—taken
8 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Cataract—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Pug—take 25 to 1
20 to 1 agst Mr. 11. Stebbing's Celeste
22 to I apt Mr. A. Johnstone's The Era-25 to 1.
taken freely.
25 to 1 agst Mr. O. Parry's Zanoni
30 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Agriculture—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour
35 to 1 agst Mr. Vaughan's Extempore—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare—taken
35 to I agst Mr. Gully's St. Lawrence
40 to 1 agst Mr. Osbahleston's Sorella—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Cuthbert's Queen of Tyne—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's Corranna—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Foigh-a-ballagh—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Parry Master of the. Rolls filly—ta.
50 to 1 agst Mr. Wesley's Counsellor—taken
GG to 1 agst Mr. Plummer's Alice Ilawthorn—ta.
100 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free—taken
2,000 to 30 agst Mr. Collett's The Dean—taken.
The two leading favourites remain in about the same
position as we left them last week, Alarm having the
call. At one time it was a near thing for choice, 1,500 even
having been laid between them, and only 12 to 1 offered.
on the field ; 13 to 1 was subsequently betted against Col.
Peel's colt in fifties, and, we believe, might have been
got to a larger sum. Kedger was backed at LA
and 15 to 1; Idas and Pam at the odds returned; Men-
tor, in two or three quarters, at 1,000 to 30, to the pre-
judice of Annandale, against whom 25 and 30 to 1 was
laid ; The Laird o'Cockpen and the Frederica colt at
40 to 1 each (the outlay moderate); Ironmaster for two
or three hundred pounds at 40 to 1, " all in;" and Fuz-
bos, at I,ooo's to 15 and 20. Closing prices :-
12 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm
13 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt—taken
15 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger
16 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas-4, and aft. off.
18 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam—t.' and aft. off.
30 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Annandale
30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Newsmonger
30 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Miss' Whip c—take 33
33 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa—taken •
35 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England—taken
40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o' Cockpen
—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Frederica, colt—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Ironmaster—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse
50 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Fuzbos—taken
1000 to 15 agst Lord Chesterfield's Twig—taken
3000 to 30 agst Mr. Tuting's Adonis (Myrrha colt)
1500 between Alarm and the Cobweb colt
500 between Annandale and Miss Whip colt.
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for Constar,-
sßhripootkhees,Tawg'eunt, out of`
THE 21A11.5..-- SOUTHAMPTON, FEB, .3.1_,_ The
takes out the East India and
'l,si.s
Captaintesamh e-
Tagus has 35 passen-
China mails to Malta; whence they will be dispatched by
thistin °OrientalPi daye at'Ciaot mhMalta,rpeaenry.
passen-
gers, and a full cargo of Manchester and other goods.
the Iberia to Alexandria. The
The Royal West India mail-racket the Thames, Captain* Halt. which was to have sailed yesterday, but received
orders to retard her departure until to-morrow, will on
that day, at three o'clock 1).M., leave her moorings and
proceed on her voyc with the Mexican and West In-
dian mails. The Thanes has: 50 passengers, a large
quantity of quicksilver and other goods for the G ulf and
other islands. The Oriental steam-ship is daily ex-
pected round fro London, after undergoing a complete
overhaul. She will take out the mid-monthly mails for
East India and China. She leaves here on the 20th
inst. The Gibraltar yacht Royal Tar is hourly expected
with the Peninsula and Mediterranean snails. The Forth,
West India packet, will leave here on the 17th, and take
out tke mails for the Gulf, &c.
TUE REV. S9bNEY Siurru.—We regret to hear of
the dangerous illness of this reverend gentleman. It
was feared, last night, that a fatal termination must soon
take place, unless there should be some sudden change,.
more to be hoped for than expected.
J. 11. Ilippisley, Esq., has given directions that all
the game in his extensive preserves at Postbury, near
Crediton, shall be destroyed, seeing the great injury tliat
arises to the farmer from the preservation of game, and
accordingly man: hundred hares, pheasants, I;adbbnictss,ts&eof
havo been shot during the last few days, a ,
them given to the neighbouring farmers and - labourers.
Dev6nport Independent.
Marquis of Lansdo rtn
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f • wne,
Viscount Melbourne, the 3
th "Earl
b the Earl of Clarendon,_ e•
Marquis of Norman y,
1)e Inule , Lord budeley, Lord
of Auckland, Lord IN y
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select party of the Peers,
Strafford, and a
dined together last evening at Brooks 's Club, St. James s-
vets

16s 6d ; Ord's Redheugh, 16s ; O.
Pott's Primrose, IGs ; Pontop
worth West Hartley, 17s ; South Pr
Moor, 20s ; Taylor's West Hartley,
West Hartley, 17s ; West Wylam
16s 9d ; W. 8., Bell and Robson, 1-
16s ; W. 8., Wharncliffe, 19s 3d
Braddyll's Hutton, 20s 9d ; Hetton,
18s 6d ; Haswell, 21s 6d ; Lambta
19s 3d ; Pemberton, 18s 6d ; Russ&
Shotton, 20s ; Stewart's, 20s ;9cl
Cassop, 20s 6d ; Hartlepool, 20s 6d ; Heselden, 18s 6d ;
Heugh-hall, 19s ; Brown's Deanery, 19s ; St. Helen
Tees, lee ; South Durham, 19s ; Tees Raton, 19s ;
Clackmannan, 15s 6d ; Cowpen Hartley, 17s 6cl
Hartley, 17s ; Morgan Stone, 23s 6d ; Sidney's Hartley
17s 6d; Wst Hartley Netherton, 17s 6d.—Ships
arrived, 38.

THE THEATRES.
LYCEUM.
A new comic drama in two acts, entitled Taking Pos.
session, was produced at this theatre last night. Mr.
Beatus Boodle (Mr. Keeley), a traveller for a fish sauce
and pickle warehouse, to Germany in the way of
his vocation, and falls in with a band of gipsies, one of
whom is in possession of a lottery ticket, which he offers
to sell to the retailer of sauce samples for 100 florins.
Mr. Boodle offers ten, expecting that it will be refused;
but he is mistaken. The ten florins are paid, and No. 1,688 is Boodle's. Well, the numbers are drawn for, and
1,688 is a prize, the holder being declared the winner of
Ratenhole Castle ; whereupon the Englishman is all joy,
shou'ing, " at the top of his bent," " Rule Britannia."
But the ticket, of right, belonged to Carl, the nephew of
the seneschal of the castle, and the leader of the gipsy
band (Mr. Wigan) undertakes to get the title deeds from
Boodle. Of course the latter makes all diligent haste to
see his noble castle and demesnes on the banks of the
Danube, and the gipsy leader has everything prepared
to give him a warm reception. In the first place, as he
is leaving the steamer in the small-boat, he gets a duck-
ing; then, wishing to make a speech to his tenantry on
the subject of allotments, the corn-laws, and wash-houses
for the poor, he is well pelted by the tenantry. Ile is
next shown into a cold, unfurnished room, where lie is to
spend the night. The gipsy leader conies in disguise,
and you know, of course, that poor Boodle cannot sleep.
What between the howling of the wolves and the ghost
stories with which his companion entertains him, he
confesses he is the most miserable of men. But
that is not all. Ile is told that the gipsies are
bent on murdering him. One of them, who
took some of his soy, supposing it to be
a very rare beverage, declaring that he has a particular
and especial cause of complaint against him on that ac-
count. The good angel who brings this information to
the disconsolate Boodle you may guess is a gipsey her-
self ; and in order to evade their wicked designs, by her
advice, he alters his appearance, and pretends that he is
a foreign gipsey himself. Of course he is received with
acclamation, and, that he may not be idle, he is desired
to kill the leader of the band, Balthazar. There is much
humour in his going to act his first murder ; but
Balthaear, who knows he is disguised, says he will tell
who he is, and our poor Boodle is terrified out of being
a murderer nialgre lui. The gipsies all vow the most
horrid treatment against the new landlord of
the castle, who trembles all over in his disguise, and he
is but too happy to resign the title deeds of the castle.
having got as much money as will bring him back to
England. Carl and his betrothed, Corra (Mrs. A.
Wigan), are thus made happy, and Boodle vows never
go beyond call of the new police. The idea of the
aveller for sauce samples is evidently taken from " Our
I;
wn Correspondent " of the " Scourge," and like all
imitations, it falls deeply below the original. It would
be difficult to say what is the aim of the piece, except
that it serves as a vehicle for some halting witticisms,
which, however, like lame Vulcan performing the office
of cup. bearer, raised roars of laughter amongst tho
blessed " gods." The piece was announced for re-
petition.

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