The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
left the Castle at three o'clock this afternoon for
Claremont, escorted by a party of the Royal Regiment of
Horse Guards. The Royal Suite in attendance were
the Countess of Sandwich, lion. Miss Lister, Hon. Miss
Murray, lion. Miss Paget, Lord Byron, Lord Charles
Wellesley, Hon. C. A. Murray, and Colonel Bouverie.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal, Major-General Wemyss (Clerk Marshal
to Prince Albert), Sir Frederick Stovin, and the Baroness
Lehzen, remain .at the Castle.
Her Ma jesty and Prince Albert will return to the
Castle on Saturday.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Fanny Howard, arrived at her residence, Clarence
House, St. James's, at half-past one o'clock yesterday
afternoon, from Windsor Castle.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess
August:), of Cambridge returned to their residence at
Kew on Monday morning.
A Cabinet Couneil was held at four o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir
Robert Peel, the . Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Lord Wharnclitfe, the Duke of Buckingham, the
Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Ripon, Lord
Fitzgerald, Sir Henry Hardinge,-and Sir E. Knatchbull.
The Council sat two hours.
Lord Ashburton transacted business yesterday after-
noon at the Foreign-office.
Lieut. Faushawe and Mr. de Salis had interviews with
Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office. • '
Sir Henry Ilardinge arrived at his residence in 'White-
hall Gardens, on Monday evening. "
Lord Fitzroy Somerset had au interview with the
Chancellor of . the Exchequer, on Monday, in Down-
ing-street.

Sir Edward .Kna,tehbull arrivei in town, on Monday
evening, from Merstham.

HA YMARKET THEATRE.

Two first appearances—that of Miss Lucy Bennett on
the London stage, as Lady Townly in the celebrated
comedy of the Provoked Husband, and of • Mr. Stuart in
the counterpart of Lord Townly, threw out a twofold
attraction at this theatre last night. Recapitulation of
a _plot so familiarly known would be mere matter of stir.-
plusage. Enough to observe, that the-main vigour of
the piece lies in the contrast between the distinct and
diverse biasses and natures of the above two leading cha-
raeters, and to 'work out this success fully is the great
mastery of the whole. To impart a greater intensity to
each, the lines of divergence the wider apart the better.
Mr. Stuart has based his study of Lord Townly on this
principle, drawing out thereby in bolder relief the ex-
quisitively constructed character of his gay and un-
thinking wife. Idolized before her marriage by crowds
of suitors and adorers, Lady Townly, as enchanting in
person as adorned with accomplishments, fancies that the
connubial state ought to endow her with suck freedom of
carriage and action, as the hampered constraints of vir-
ginhood could not possibly permit. With a tempera-
ment naturally overadwing with sunniness to an ex-
treme, the shackles of constraint she supposes to be
broken immediately 'on her alliance with Lord Townly,
and, aided by his wealth and station, she flings herself,
like a bright-winged and incautious reveller, among all
the sunshines and enticements of a flaunty and fashion-
able existence. This attachment to the world's
pomps and vanities is as painful to Lord Town-
ly's mind, as it is -unexpected. He had admired
her retiring sweetness when unwedded, and adored the
depth of fascination that dwelt in her full-gushing, but,
till then, cloistered nature ; the reverse shocks his finely-
constituted spirit, and every repeated gaiety and indis-
cretion on the part of his wife throws spleen and dis-
comfiture into his heart. Lady Townly, as the play
progresses, grows more and more involved in the
vortex of fashionable dissipation, and Miss Lucy
Bennett imparted a brilliancy to her part of
no inconsiderable skill. The openings of her
quarrels with Lord Townly were thrown off with a
beautiful playfulness and apologetic cleverness that re-
flected a • fine light on the stateliness and discreet for-
mality assumed by Mr. Stuart. Graceful in her plumes
and satinity, Miss Bennett aided the charms of her part.
by so voluptuous and winning an air -that upbraidlngs
seemed cruel from her husband's lips.; and the beholder
wished to see her plunge the deeper among those plea.
sures which made her eyes gleam full of so super-
natural a loveliness infused into her lips the
r:ch music of happiness, and seemed to ex-
hilarate her form with delight and rapture. Her
pleasures appeared to steep her senses in, a " doke far
niente" of joy and sweetness, and the cold repulsive ad-
MOnitions of her husband seemed churlish and morose,
levelled in denial against so glowing and sunny-tuned a
creature. But in the second act the cast of circum-
stances becomes more serious : the havoc of the hazard-
table, and the expenditures resulting from gambling
debts, make violent inroads on her husband's possessions:
an incipient gloom begins tci'weigh down her vivacious and
hitherto exhaustless spirits: the transition of her voice
from its full hilarious melody, subsides into a tone that
trembles on tears; and was admirably thanaged by our
debutante, as her husband grows louder in denounce-
ment, and her incapability increases' of sustaining by
monetary 'sacrifices the demands that fashion makes
upon her. Jewels, money, dresses all gone, Lady Town-
ly in the third act sitsdownbefore her mirror, and gazes
at a face, once beaming with pulchritude, now fading by
line and lineaments, and bearing the marks of harassment
and care, Lord Townly's reproaches now become
vehement; they assume the character of irreconcilabilit'

and the last scene represents him bent upon divorce.
This was the touch-stone of the piece : the passions
of both were wound up to their topmost pitch ;
in the presence of his sister and Manly, he
proceeds to pronounce severation between himself
and his wife painfully he tasks his resolution,
till even
,his manhood melts into tears. At this
juncture Mr. Stuart comported himself, as indeed he did
throughout the piece, with great and unequivocal ability.
Lady Townly hears her union virtually absolved;
tiilter-
ingly she shows the origin of her thoughtless conduct;
with the beauty of a repentant Magdalene, she confesses
her fault, and acknowledges her error. The Lord Townly
carries no steeled humanity : recurrence of his early
love and homage spring back at the acknowledgment,
and he clasps again to his bosom, and for ever, the long-
lost and long-wayward of his heart. Mr. Stuart un-
doubtedly trod the boards with command and great
power: he entered into .the subtle conceptions of his
author, and wrought them out with style and enuncia-
tion that bespoke the superior actor. He pre-
.served an equarimity of mode and action that
was continuous, and finely sustained. Of Miss
Bennett our opinion is already given : slle is a
• fascinating actress, and will always please in charac-
ters that require emotion and tenderness, set off by
beauty of form and feature. She is rather melting than
energetic, but for sweet and passionate characters we
shouldexpecther to become more than eminent. A se_
lect audience appreciated 'her endeavours much, and her
appearance with Mr. Stuart, when called for after
the curtain dropped, brOught down upon her much
applause. We cannot avoid 'noticing cursorily the re-
flective Lady Grace (Misi• Charles) with • her pretty
satiricisms and advices : -Mo. Motherly (Mrs. Stanley)
who made a good Ducheks-of,Marlborough sort of
woman in her riding dress : Sir Francis Wronghead
(Mr. Strickland) who sustained with propriety the charac-
ter of a "Parliament-man" and "one of the quorum ;" the
bye-plays and snappish interludes between Miss Jenny
(Miss P. Horton) and her booby brother, Squire Richard
(Mr. Rees), amused wonderfully, and Went off with con-
siderable unction ; while the finesse and villany of Count '
Basset (Mr. Worrell) showed clearly-limned and to
effect beside the honourable high-mindedness of Manly'
(Mr. HoWe).
The fairy spectacle of the World of Dreams, followed
upon the Prince ..of Wales's Quadrilles, by Jullien.
Mademoiselle Celeste, as Violette, and Mr. Becket, the
Hobgoblin, gratified the audience greatly—the one, as
the' lightest limbed dansatrice of the day; and the other as
having no competitor but Wieland in extraordinary
pliability of muscle and motion. An orginal'farce, en-
titled Bob Short, from the pen of Mark Lemon, went off
pertly, and concluded the evening.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE
13URGII OF DUMBARTON.-His Grace is understood to
have- treated the authorities of the town of Dumbarton
.ifith as little courtesy as he did_ the deputation front
Paisley. The Magistrates and Council haring voted a
Congratulatory Address to the Queen, on the recent
Royal birth, sent it, in the pride of their hearts, to the
Duke for presentation. An answer came promptly
enough, but its purport is said to have been that " Field
Marshal the Duke of Wellington had no acquaintance-
ship with those- who had sent him the Address ; that he
knew nothing about the ancient burgh, nor did he hold
any official situation in her Majesty's Government." It
was added, with characteristic nonchalance, that " His
Grace had declined to present the Address, and had
given it to his porter. who would-keep it till sent for."
The only excuse we can make for such an act of rudeness,
and of which, we venture to say, no other Member of the
HouSe of Peers would have been guilty, is, that dotage
is making its inroads on the Duke's mind.—Glasgow
Saturday Post.
ANNE BOLEYN.—Mrs. Thomson's new His-
torical Romance, entitled " Anne Boleyn," is just pub-
lished. The historical knowledge and acquirements
evinced by Mrs. Thonison is her well-known " Life of
Henry the Eighth," led us to expect a more than usually
entertaining work from her pen, when its subject was
known to be the wife of that brutal Monarch whose fate

has elicited a' greater degree of sympathy than that of
any other of his victims ; nor in this expectation -have
we been disappointed. " Anne Boleyn" is worthy to be
ranked with -the best historical romances of the day.
The early history of this unfortunate Queen, her attach-
ment to Lord Percy, and the cruel manner in which that
attachment was broken off by Wolsey, aro admirably
exemplified ; and the character of Anne is pourtrayed
with exceedng truth and vigour. In youth, and during
prosperity, generous and noble, but rash and erring, she
gradually rises into superiority. and is perfected by
Christian submission• and forbearance. The devoted
love of Wyatt for Anne—a love which survived her
death—forms a most interesting subsidiary portion of the
talc, which will be read with delight by every person con-
versant with the history of their country, and more par-
ticularly by that sex to which " Anne Boleyn" was so
grel tan ornament..
YORK, A.D. 626.--,York was so small at that
time that there was not so much as a church in it, in
which King Edwin could be baptized. One was raised
in haste of wood for the purpose. The baptism of King
Edwin took place on Easter Sunday, A.D. 627.—Don-
caster Gazette. _ _ _

A Vienna letter, in the Augsburgh Gazette, says
that a duel with pistols has just taken place between
Prince Lichnowski and the Chevalier M-, formerly
Secretary of the Spanish Embassy, who considered him-
self affronted from a passage in the Prince's: memoirs
sf the war in Spain. It adds that one of the parties was
oadly wounded, but does not specify which.

EVENING SUN

• THE
MARYLEBONE BANK.
Yesterday evening an adjourned meeting of,the share-.
lders of this concern was held, at the Boar and
Cattle
Hotel, Oxford street, for the purpose of taking
into Consideration the propriety of at once creating a
fund in pursuance of and for the purposes mentioned in
certain resolutions agreed to at a meeting of, the Share-
holders
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Mr.t.,an of the coin
Parnell its the chair.
taior.
Investigation), after adverting to some incorrect state-
ments respecting the Bank, in a morning paper, said
the question for the consideration of the meeting that
evening was, whether they should at once et eate a fund,
in pursuanciof the resolution passed at the meeting of
the 21st of last month, and for the purposes men-
tioned in that resolution ; or whether any further delay
was desirable for the interest, of the creditors. The
meeting would see by the resolution that the
gentlemen who proposed that course. could have
putting their hands into
no object whatever in
the pockets of the Proprietors.—(Hear.)- They were
doubtless aware ,that the Committee bad repeatedly
advertised for the public creditors of the lite Bank to
come forward with their claims, and if those claims
should be found to be justly and bona fide due, then,
as honourable men, they (the Shareholders) wished
and intended to pay them.—(Hear.) There were a
number of gentlemen who had kept accounts at the
Bank, but who bad no interest in it,beyond thearnount
of their accounts. • Now the wish and. intention of the
Proprietors was to pay those demands out of the assets,
for he was happy to say that there was every pros.
pect of having money from Hannay's estate, the
officer of. the Court of Bankruptcy having stated that
if the accounts prepared by the bankrupt were cony
rect, and he (the officer) saw no reason to doubt their
correctness, the estate would yield 20s. in the pund, which
would be sufficient to pay all their accounts—‘cheers)
—the precise amount of the aggregate of which be of
course could not say ; but various statements had been
made of that amount, some making it 20,000/. ; others
coming down to 10,0001., while others gave it M
14,0001. at the utmost,—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Abra-
hams also read several communications from Share-
holders resident in the country, stating their readiness
at once to pay the 51. per share agreed upon by the
resolutions of the 21st of December' and highly approv-
ing of :the- determined spirit evinced by the Committee
of Proprietors in their proceed:ngs—,;Chcers.)
After a short 'discussion, it was ultimately resolved
that aW. should be made, and that Sir Claude
Scott be banker for the fund. Messrs. Parnell, Dukes,
Robinson, Jackson, and Christmas were appointed
trustreF. It was also resolved to pay all bona
.fific
debts, and that nine members of the Defence Fund
should form a quorum to adjudicate the claims. Thanks
were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting adjourned.

CORONER'S
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IR en burnt to death. The first was on the body of Mary
Aubrey, aged 38, of Wall-end, East Ham. It appeared
in evidence that on Monday morning last the deceased,
whilst standing before the parlour fire, opposite to the
looking-glaii on the mantel-piece, combing her hair, ac-
cidentally set her gown en fire. In here fright she tad
across the road to the Duke's Head Tavern, the flames
being, the witness said, at that time, three feet above
her head. A postman, who was passing, extinguished
the fire, but deceased was so dreadfully burned that she
died the next morning.
The next inquest was on the body of Sarah Cross, aged
10. On Sunday morning last, deceased was in a room
with two other children, when she attempted to reach a
marble from the mantel-piece. In doing so her frock
ignited at the fire-place, and before the flames could be
extinguished she received such severe burns that she
died in a few hours. The third inquest was on the
body of Jane Tustain, aged six, of No. 21, Old Beth-
nal-green-road. During the absence of the mother a
girl twelve years old was left in charge of the deceased,
but by an accident somewhat similar to that in . the
formes case, she received injuries sufficient to cause
dea;ll. The fourth inquiry concerned the death of
Margaret Gowring, aged four, of No. 5, Arboue-street,
Commercial-road, who died in the London Hospital of
the burns she received by an accident at the fire-place
in the par:our on Saturday night last. The last case
was that of William Ross, aged five, of No. 3, Union-
passage, St. George's -in the East. Deceased ran
down stairs on Saturday fait, saying that his youngest
sister had pushed him in the fire. His clothes were
in every part alight, and of the burns he received on
his arms he died the following day. Verdict in each
case—" Accidental Death."