The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-19 00:00:00

HA YMARKET T HEATRE.

On Saturday evening Congreve's comedy of the
Bray of the World was revived at this theatre, with
considerable alterations. These alterations have made
the play more suited to the moral feelings of the age,
but they have at the same time destroyed much of
the interest possessed by the original. The following
is the cast. of the principal characters :—Sir Wilful
Witwould, Mr. Farren ; Fainall, Mr. Vining , Mar-
wood, Mr. Stuart; Witwoud, Mr.iCharles!Mathews ;
Petulant, Mr. Buckstone ; Waitwell, Mr. Strick-
land ; Millamant, Madame Vestris ; Lady Wishfort,
Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Fainall, Miss Charles. In the
• play represented on Saturday night, there was rather an
unusual change, that of converting 'a female into male
character.. In the original comedy, Marwood is a
male part. This destroys the coherence of the
drama, deprives many actions of their motive,
and thus materially lessens the interest of the piece.
The acting, however, made amends for such defects.
Madame Vestris's Millamant was distinguished by an
easy and playful grace. Charles Mathews threw a
great deal of airy vivacity into the character of the
fribble Witwould. Mr. b'arren's conception of the
part of Sir Wilful IVitwould •was good, but Strick-
land should haveplayed this part. Strickland wants the
pertness and flippancy which the personation of the
impudent valet, Waitwell, requires. Mrs. Glover's
Lady Wishfort was by far the best acted part in the
play. I3uckstone made Petulant a broad farce cha-
racter, keeping the audience in a perpetual good hu-
mour while he was on the stage. Miss Charles gave
a very correct and ladylike personation of Mrs. Fain-
all. The other characters were respectably sustained.
The comedy concluded with a dance by the perform-
ers ; and it was given out by Mr. Holl for repetition
every evening this week with some applause

Preparations for the holiday entertainments are
proceeding at the two houses with the utmost activity.
The pantomime at Drury-lane is a burlesque of the
story of William Tell, and has been written by Mr.
M. Morton, the author of The Eton Boy and other
dramas. The pantomime at Covent-garden has been
compounded by the authors of Punch. There is ori-
ginality in the design of the piece, and no pains or
outlay will be spared in its execution.
Webster closes the Haymarket on the 15th of
January, and will not open it again until Easter.
Madame Vestris and her husband will remain with
him until the end of the present year, but what
course they will then take does not seem to be
determined.

SACRED HARMONIC SOClETY.—Handel's Messiah,
with Mozart's additional accompaniments, was given
at Exeter Hall on Friday, by the Sacred Har-
monic Society. The recollection of Braham's won-
derful power and brilliancy in this oratorio compelled
us to institute unfavourable comparisons with Mr.
Manvers, especially in the sublime opening recitative,
" Comfort ye my people," which was ever con-
sidered to be one of Braham's greatest triumphs.
He, however, redeemed himself in the recitative and
air, " He that dwelleth," which immediately precedes
the " Hallelujah" chorus. He also instilled some
power and expression into the 'recitative, " Unto
which ;" and, in fact, throughout the whole oratorio
he was far less objectionable than when on the stage.
Miss Birch and Miss Dolby sang the other portions
of the oratorio in their best manner, and were greeted
with continued bursts of applause whenever their ser-
vices were required. The " Hallelujah" chorus was
the climax of harmony and magnificence. It is im-
possible to conceive a more stupendous effect than
that produced by the execution of this splendid com-
position. The vast room was crowded to excess long
before the orchestra was even filled, and not a single
place could be obtained after the opening recitative.
An actor of the Cirque, on the Boulevard, named
Raymond, committed suicide on Monday evening.
A frivolous discussion between him and his dresser
had taken place on the preceding evening, which
ended in blows, and a M., Laloue having interfered to
separate the combatants, M. Raymond gave him a se-
vere blow on the eye, and left the theatre in a state of
exasperation. He did not go home during the
night, but on the following morning went to the
theatre for the rehearsal, when the manager, observ-
ing his haggard air advised him to go home and lie
down till the evening. He followed this advice; but,
an hour after he had been in bed rose and stabbed
himself with a dagger. His death was instantaneous.
—Galignani.
THE REBUILDING OF HAMBURGII.—The senators
of Hamburgh, instead of availing themselves of the
opportunity afforded them by the late conflagration
that destroyed so large a portion of the worst part of
their ill-built city, of rebuilding it upon an improved
plan, have at length, after many deliberations, decided
upon one to which they have affixed their legal and
irrevocable fiat. It is a sort of patch-work compila-
tion concocted from the many which were submitted
to them by architects and engineers of various na-
tions, in which they have most strictly preserved,
without any exception, all their unwholesome fleths
(Fleet ditches) which intersected with their mud and
filth every part of the town, and which they dignify
by the name of canals, and adhere as closely as possi-
ble to the old street arrangements of that entangled,
narrow, and unhealthy portion of the city.
LISKEARD FAIR.—On Monday last, this fair took
place, and was well supplied with fat cattle, which
sold freely at an advance in price; but lean cattle
went off but slowly. Store ewes fetched sd. per lb.,
and nearly:all the sheep were sold. As a damper,
however, upon the rising spirits of the farmers, the
assessors under the Property and Income-tax were
busy delivering their assessments, which excited
strong expressions of disapprobation against Sir R.
Peel.—Cornwall Advertiser.

On Wednesday morning last, a most violent out-
rage and an attempt to commit both robbery and
murder, took place at Beckingham Manor House, in
the county of Lincoln, within five miles of Newark,
on the Sleaford-road. It appeared that C. G. Milnes,
Esq., who owns a considerable property in the village
and neighbourhood, had received his rents the day
previous to this attack, and about two or three o'clock
on Wednesday, two men, disguised, one in a mask,
and the other with a blackened face, entered his bed-
room, and threw a cord across the bed, and proceeded
to secure the hands of Mr. Milnes, but the cord was
fastened so tight to the right hand that it produced
pain, and Mr. Milnes shouted out murder with all his
might; the two men retreated in consequence of the
alarm, and were followed by Mr. Milnes into the kit-
chen, where they were trying to hide themselves; he
immediately returned and secured his room door, and
shortly after the butler came and knocked, but Mr. M.
refused to open the door, but desired him to fetch
up the gun, instead of which he brought up a pistol
belonging to Mr. Milnes, which the robbers had had
in their possession. It appears that the butler was the
principal in contriving the robbery, and Mr. Milnes
was to have been shot by Bradshaw, in case he offered
resistance. The butler (John North) admitted his
brother. (William North) and Bradshaw into the pre-
mises on the evening of Wednesday, and had, them
secreted in the hay-loft, where he supplied them with
ale, and when he thought all was still, he conducted
his brother and Bradshaw to his master's room door;
and, had the robbery been effected, the butler was to
have been tied down to the bed, to make it appear as
if he had been out of this infamous conspiracy. They
were committed to Lincoln on Monday last, for trial
at the next Assizes. William North is committed to
Palkingham, to be remanded.—Nottinzham Review.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.--On Friday afternoon a sin-
gular accident occurred to a man named Charles
Gater, seventy years of age. It appears that the
poor man was at work on board a barge at the Baltic
'Wharf, Wapping. .'/V. man named Kearney was
at ' the same time walking along a plank laid
from the wharf on to the barge, with a sack of
tares on his back, when his foot slipped, and he fell
with his burthen into the barge. In his fall he alighted
upon Gater, whom he knocked down with great vio-
lence, by which his leg was fractured in a shocking
manner, and he was otherwise severely injured. He
was immediately conveyed to Guy's Hospital. Kear-
ney was not hurt.

tattle for the London Christmas markets have been
sent off from Somersetshire to a considerable extent.
At Bridgewater, on Monday, forty fat beasts were
taken up by the railway train, together with a num-
ber of sheep ; and at Highbridge, and other parts of
the railroad, cattle were likewise taken up for the
same destination. They were conveyed in open car-
riages, six oxen in each. The length of the train, on
its arrival at Bristol, was very considerable. An ad •
ditional engine was put in requisition, for the purpose
of living along the rail with this ponderous load,
whiCh must have been equal to many tons weight.
The advantage of thus transporting, in a few hours,
our flitted stock to the London market, is very agree-
ably felt, not only by the graziers and cattle jobbers
in this part of the country, but by those also who re-
side westward.—Dorset Chronicle.

A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS DURING THE LATE
FOG.—One night, during the late dense fog, John
Tindall, a mechanic, residing near the Three Colts'
Tavern, East Hackney, was returning home from
town, when the fog became so dense that he missed
his way, and tumbled head foremost into the Regent's-
canal. Fortunately for him' a barge was passing at a
short distance, so that the persons on board heard his
cries for assistance, and they made as much haste as
they could towards him, and with some exertion suc-
ceeded in getting him .out. Tindall, not wishing to
alarm his family by going home in such a condition,
called in at the house of Mr. Carter, a friend of his,
and sent a person, named Henry Peale, to the Three
Colts to procure some brandy. The latter made his
way tolerably well to the tavern, but on his return
he missed it; and, after floundering about for some
time, he dropped into a deep well in the garden of
Mr. Carter. His lengthened absence caused some
suspicion for his safety, and, upon hls friends going to
look for him, his cries directed them to the well, from
which he was taken without much injury, but V(ritli''
the loss of the brandy.