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

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FOREIGN. • '
The King and Queen of the French, on the evening
of Wednesday, received at the Tuileries Marsha
Soult, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Finances,
Generals Jacqueminot, Tiburce Sebastiani, Aupiekt
and Carbonnel, the Grand Referendary of the Chamber
of Peers, the Prefect of the Seine, Baron de Barante,
and several ladies. The Duchess of Orleans and the
Comte de Paris are perfectly well. The Due de
Chartres has been .for some time very much indis-
posed, but has sensibly recovered during the last few
days.
The prosecution instituted against the Presse, for
an infringement of the law by publishing a distinct
journal (the Bulletin des Tribunaux) without having
made the requisite deposit of caution money, came to
a hearing on Wednesday before the Correctional Tri-
bunal. After a very able defence by M. Paillet, the
counsel for the Presse, the Jury returned a verdict of
acquittal.
The Prince de Ligne, the new Ambassador from
Belgium to the Court of France, has arrived in Paris,
and alighted at the Hotel Meurice. The Princes, find
the remainder of the family are not to arrive until the
beginning of January.
The Globe (a Paris journal) announces that the
Ministry will present, in the; approaching session,
Bill relative to the Sugar question, a Bill on patentes,
another on secondary instruction, and a fourth no

prisons.
Captain Bouet, who was recently nominated to the
Government of Senegal, has been authorised to en-
gage in Africa a certain number of Spahis, to replace
henceforward in the colony the soldiers now sent from France, and who fall so rapidly victims to the climate.
The Imperial Ukase ordering every person taken
up for incendiarism, in Poland to be tried
Council of War, has produced, says a Germaq jr-
Lunch car-
nal, the happiest effect, fires having become
numerous than before. ~
A. letter. froM Lubeck says • " Our uonstitution,
which for nearly 200 - • but little altered,
years has been
is about to be revised. .A. commission htls been ij)-•
are to prepare propositions to be laid ,before a
legal before who
pointed, composed of burgesses and
Senate."
MONEY-TRADE-COIKIVISSICZ' vas
On Thursday last an Anti-Corn-law soiree ‘" h
held 'at the Temperance Hall, Bradford, manywilic
la-
nearly 700 persons were present, including
dies. The speakers on the occasion were, W. I3us;
feild, Esq., M.P., Wm. Acroyd, Esq., of Otley, 11,313 be.
netore the
Stansfield, Esq., of Leeds, and Dr. Bowring• Sub'
scriptions to the amount of 4851. were annou
important meeting has also taken place at lineeectelale
where upwards of 1,200/. were collected in aid of the
Fund.
The distress in Marylebone is greater in that
illartfe
ie
parish this season than at any former period.
winter of 1840-41 above 2,5001. was
alleviate the prevailing distress. subscribled t°
as
NAVAL AND MILXTAIrr• first
class, educated at the East India Company's
The examination of the gentleman cadets of the
Seminary, took place on Frid h 33 cadets were
, w n
brought forward, of which numbers six were selectea
for engineers.
COURT-rasszortasx.s.
The Duke of Devonshire left town on Frida
fter-
noon by the two o'clock train for Keznp.-town•Y 8 ick
The Dowager Duchess of Bedford arrived at Bow
Hall, on Tuesday last. • tend
The Marquis and Marchioness of Themond 111
to pass the holidays at Taplow House, Berkshire.
,sO,,
The Marquis of Winchester has arrived in CaYv
dish-square for the season. Military
Ther Earl of Haddington has returned to town.,
ora
The Earl of Jersey arrived in town yeSterdai 'l.
Windsor Castle. ; ed In
Sir William and Lady Chatterton have arr•v-
Berkeley-square, from a tour. '
Lady, Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Lad and Miss Steils'
514
leave Belgrave-square, in the course of a feW d
for
irßalph
Scotland.
Sir and Lady Howard have arri'ved A
grave-square from a tour. nosy
Sir John, Lady, and the Misses Shelley nosy
on a visit to Teddesley Park, the seat of Lord 114 A
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-
ton, in Staffordshire.
Mr. St. John Mildmay returns to Berkeley-'gnarl
early, this week, from Leamington.
:Pus c ELLANZOrrs._ sever°
Lady Graham is fast recovering from her
attack of scarlet fever. f Peputf
In the ward of Bishopsgate Without, 3-..1.• - ,„tice
Peacock was elected for nomination as'relo,ege,inc-vior
of the Court of Common Council, and Mr.' -11.
and Mr. Woollett for Farrin don Without. ,4n the
The death of Mr. Fitch,g sen , leaves :5'.-. t to
Cler,l'irk.
situation of Vostry Clerk. and also that °I
sou
Three of Guardians of St. Gores,
to Mr'
i or four candidates are about to start.
. fixed
Thebanquet at Glasgow to be given
is for-the llth of January.
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Cobden

ARRIVAL OF THE TREAT, OP
DISPATCHES FROM CHYINA.

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~,uThe(ltfroocmustthsetePalmymero:Lithieruitmeneasnotfc.
el t on the 25th ult., bringing Ella or SoanituniradnaVr Jot:
cc nn, arrived here yesterday- from Malta, vv4ich 5,
Afalcitoilemh+a:des;
01,..etary of Legation, and Commander C.
. her Majesty's ship Cornwallis, the
with the Treaty of Peace concluded with Chinfh
and the latter with Dispatches for the Adclirealtefci
with which they immediately .on landing Auckland,
express for London. The news by the d
former charged
steamer, which brought them to Malta, will be f°111)
in other parts of our paper.
_(From the Devonport Telegraph of Saturday.)
Lieut.
DEVONPORT, FRIDAY.—The Locust steatner,.vi
days Lunn,
commander, arrived here this morning in tart
toays from Malta, bringing Major Malcolm, Settepred for
T the Embassy in China, with the Greslnuch4o-t
reoty of Peace between that country and ev.
peror,
ho
Britain, and a letter of assent from the,Em
pressing his readiness to sign it immediatey. it. 'sty.
lithave received the signature of her Britannic Me: 15'
bears the signatures of the three night:r-
aioners sent by the Emperor to Nankin fort stillip
pose. Commander Richards, of her' Mak, 57:5,1, dis-
Cornwallis, also came horn% in the Locusille" er the
patches from Vice-Admiral Sir W i
gilliam rolt
(F.
Naval Commander-in-Chief in China. The 33:tht;
Captain Bourchier, had sailed from China' "'I
millions and a half of dollars. thori•
Especial orders had been received by the all. fel-
tties at this port to relieve the Locust from ellitib'e-re..
f with all possible dispatch, and pratiVekw,3nt ga•
ore granted very shortly after her arrival, hen
express
jorfor Malcolm and Commander Richards set off ~....,
London. The news by her is merely confirrna7t
of the intelligence received overland. The' Loco
to
Malta on the 27th, calling at Gibraltar ri- ~ at
. ~,,, -
which time She left Gibraltar on the 3d ilr,—,,f the
time nothing was known at that plac - is,
84.;'#ereun,
reported wreck of the Formidable, .
therefore, every reason to hope the reP,o4;is,r.itar,
founded. The Lizard and Savage Were at Plioas—t of
thes latter under orders to sail for the ro?rtli:Borne
pain ; the Inconstant was under
lona, for which place she was to sai°ll.cinel:ew
The Locust brought a mail from 1m.,"
Inv (Friday)•
landed here in the course of this nornD -
A,.
whichllo::

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ORDNANCE SURVEY.—The persons en,-- .., oe
great national work are actively employed li, ,
.4bour
survey of the streets of Leeds and the nelb o.ooa
hood, and their operations seem to attract Av -
deal of public attention.—Leeds Mercury.
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THEATRE ItOYAL, HATMARKET.--The an..-- I this
nefit of Mr. Archer, the box-book
theatre, is fixed for - this evening, and a ri..„,
combination of talent appears to favour the 7.1.
casion. Five first-rate pieces are seleetkrew..
the evening, in two of which Maclaine v. 5,1
trig and Mr. Charles Mathews perform in °rig%
characters, one being a comedietta, which having* ir
name still kept in secrecy, is no doubt some extra° .:
dinary delice. In addition to this expected surprisalf
the Sadgrove of Buckstone, the Felix Trinimer,f.,
-keeper of t.ch
Farren, Mrs. Glover's Miss Bitterton, and Cele-,,,1ie
Suzanne, range severally among the attractions. -1. a.
Tarantella, by Mr. Charles Mathews, is to be dance f
and Madame Vestris sings her charming • song °,l
" Love is the Theme." An over-crowded house 0'
of course be the result.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT NEwGATE mAR.ET.--sature
day morning, at about half-past four o'clock, as one 0
a veil
the Sussex wagons was hurriedly unloading,
heavy load of dead meat of all descriptions, near the •
end of Newgate-street, one of the heavy hampers,4
baskets, slipped from the top of the wagon ant red
directly upon the head of an Irish porter, e
Michael Donovan. He was immediately -crushed te,
the earth, the weight of the hamper being uriWards 01
fi ur hundred weight. On being taken up And car-
ried to the hospital, it was discovered that the
brae of fle neck were dislocated, and that death Mu!'
have been almost instantaneous.
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BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, DEC. 9.--Wit1101.1v...-C f
apparent briskness to attract attention, the. salfes ()
the week have amounted to about 600 hhds.l.. Pr'ne,iii
pally Jamaicas and St. Vincent's, to the, railer* -
steady prices.—Bristol Mercury.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
I 11.•. 1V C 5 lan 1, Alarston's tragedy, The Patrician's
Daughter, Which, on its publication some few months
`ince, produced a ..great sensation in the literary
world, was on Saturday night produced at this
theatre as an acting play, Arid its success was as com-
plete as either the author or the manager could have
desired. Mr. Marston has written this tragedy for
the purpose of illustrating-a theory, the gem of which
is expressed in-:the worth which he puts into the
Indianh of his

The forms
Of the heroic change from age to age,
The spirit in the forms remains the same.
As an abstract proposition, we at once admit the
truth of this assertion. The life of the present day,
doubtless, contains the elements of poetry of tragedy,
but not of poetry for ourselves. A century hence
the poet may work up those elements into a thrilling
heart-t ending tragedy, but the Scripture aphorism,
A prophet bath no honour in his own country," is
a true one. No age was ever poetical to itself. It
.contains the elements of poetry for the succeeding
age, as the age which preceded contained the ele-
. meets of poetry for it ; but a tragedy, like a picture,
requires distance to brire•, it out in all its beauty, and
in spite of his theory, Mr. Marston has been com-
pelled to admit this. True, the scene of his
-. tragedy has been laid in the nineteenth century—
:, , true, the dramatis persance are attired in the costume
of the present day. ; The language which they speak
i 3 the language of past ages. He has ,pointedly
adopted the language and the versification of the
• dramatists of the Elizabethan age. Would he have
done this if he held-perfect and undoubting faith in
his own theory ? -We opine not. The interest of
the play turns on the hate which is constantly going
on between the aristocracy of birth and the aristocracy
• of intellect; and here again it strikes us that Mr.
Marston is false to his theory. That controversy
has been going on for centuries, and a Nobleof the
age of Elizabeth would have been as averse to
per-
initting his daughter to form an alliance with a
; •
plebeian, however talented, as a Noble of the age of
A Victoria. Would a Howard of that day have per-
-I„o,nlitted his daughter to form an alliance with Sir
iz,,H.Praneis D-fake Therefore Mr. Marston has not
chosen a subject exclusively of the present age, and
his tragedy would have been equally interesting, and,
,16/31erchance, more dramatic, if the scene had been laid
„2n the sixteenth instead of the nineteenth, century.
Lci7, IVith regard to the tragedy itself, it is replete with
~'Poetry—true poetry, beautiful paetry—poetry that
speaks from the heart to the heart. It is not a -per-
fect
,tragedy,, but we hail; it cordially as an earnest
)r of things to come. Mr. Marston can, and will, do
things that will throw this, his first attempt, into the
`4l •J, thade, albeit the , Patrician's Daughter is entitled to
,Igif rank in the very first class of modern dramatic pro-
'aft.e.iluctions. There is more promise in this play than in
any play that has been produced :during the present
It century. The got is simple. Mordaunt (Mr. Ma-
cready), a man born in the humble class of society,
Whose father had earned his living by the labour of
his hands—his horny hands, which no aristocrat would
grasp save at a borough election—has, by his talents,
raised himself above his father's lot ; he is a Member
• of Parliament—one -of those men who, by his elo-
quence, leads senates to his will ; but let 11.. Marston
himself describe his hero in the eloquent words which
% 1::; "e putsfriend into the mouth of Heartwell, Mordaunt's
.
ttc.
; - Minds of thine order come not every year,
• Nor are they grown in clusters ;_ instruments
Of power !if they be true,—of 'destiny !
Apostles to their age ! the virtuous
Hail them as Saviours, while the common herd
Of coward knaves grow paralyzed with fear,
Expectant that their day is passing hence !
This man is courted by Lord Lynterne, the Minister
of the day, and invited to his country house. Lord
laYnterne has a daughter, the Lady Mabel (Miss
Reign Faucit), of whom rumour 'speaks as the pa-
ragon of her sex, and as Mordaunt says—
Rumour has not o'erdrawn her. She is rich

In beauty, and in that which passeth beauty,
Or is perchance its source—a glorious soul.
I've known her but a month, and yet she seems,
As their own light, familiar to mine eyes.
4L She was methinks the vision which did haunt

... .....
Those reveries when mind shut out the sense,
' Or else refined it. One resembling her
My fancy loved to picture, and my pen
To have as an ideal. Little need
That I should write again so. Nature's hand,
Anticipating mine, has wrought in life
What I essayed on paper.
What wonder that they love. But the Lady Mabel
has all the prejudices of her station, and she knows
not how deeply she loves. She deems it impossible
she can love a parvenu. Her aunt, the Lady Lydia
(excellently acted by Mrs. Warner), takes advantage
v, of Mabel's aristocratic prejudices to crush her love in
I).ll'!‘,.the bud, and thus to avoid the mesalliance. She tells
kordaunt that Mabel loves him, and urges him to'
leave the Earl's house. As she.had anticipated, this I
511 induces. Mordaunt at once to seek the Earl, avow his
r:1 44.9 Ye for Mabel, and demand her hand.. Meanwhile '
seeks Mabel, tells her that the plebeian has taken
."*antage of her condescending kindness to him, in-
n•,}4,Sreted it into love, and is at that moment closeted
,74ti her father,, and demanding her hand in marriage
the price of adhesipp ,to, the Earl's
~party. The
Pride of the high-born Mabel is stung to the quick ,-
Cl
".tll4le bursini, upon the :conference of , the Earl and
.1. erdatini;lloonce ih'savows all love. for him, and
4mm answer to his,remonstrance that she had, to
beguile ennui, toyed with his heart, and that it was
;14ficient honour for him, the lowly-born, to have con-
tributed even in that manner to the amusement of one
who traced her ancestry up to the time of the Con-
Pest. Mordaunt withdraws, his heart broken, and his
4, teelin
s bli hted and thus ends the third act. A lapse
I'°f five years takes place, and at the opening of the
act we find the parvenu Mordaunt a Baronet—
Edgar Mordaunt—a star of the first magnitude in
the political world, a man whose alliance is courted by
the Earl of Lynterne, who, to secure it, has offered
the.
the Lady Mabel in marriage.. They are betrothed,
Lne.day of the nuptials is fixed, the wedding guests are
assembled at the Earl's residence, the writings are pre-
Pared and only wait Mordaunt's signature—he demurs,
and the Earl asks him----
kean you to wed my daughter ? . [pause)
Mordaunt (turning upon him fiercely). NO ! (After a
• Frown not. I stand here to represent
Those men of humble heritage who rose
T~greAtness by their virtues—those you deem
Their country's
,ornaments," " Earth's master-spirits,"
'I Whose merit outruns praise." Said you not so
Sorne moments hence ? "In their name I say—No !
sly wrong was theirs ; and they, through me, say—No !
' This speech was most effectively given by Mr. Ma-
ereadv. He was there as the representative of the
inillions determined "to stand by his order." The
aristocrats by .whom he was surrounded quailed before
,hits ; human thoughts and feelings had risen from the
uepths beneath, and had broken up the icy surface of
Conventionalism. Here was true tragedy. But still
the theory was not true; the situation was sublime,
but it could not by any possibility have occurred at
the present day. 'The real Earl of Lynterne would
have coolly rung the bell and desired his servants to
°rder Mr. Mordaunt's carriage. A century hence this
little breach of the proprieties would not be perceived;
the reader would then be able to give himself up en-
tirely to the illusion of the scene. If the action had
been thrown a century back, we should not have per-
• eeived this ; but when we are told that such a scene
(4'1,7 te'nk place at the presentday, among the people whom
Vie constantly meet in our streets, and see in our se-
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41,.te houses, we are almost tempted to exclaim with
orace—" Quodcunque mihi ostendis sic incredulus
•11*1.'.•di.,, In the fifth act we find Mabel dying of a broken
heart. The Lady Lydia, perceiving the misery she has
ought, confesses that she has been the destroyer of
her niece by her machinations toprevent the alliance
• With Mordaunt five years before, and in an agony of
Brief throws herself at the feet of the dying girl to
ask her forgiveness. This scene was again true tra-
Ny, and tragedy of the highest order. Mrs. War-
ner's acting in it was perfect, and drew down re-
peated rounds of applause. Taken as a whole, it was
`l4eidedly the most perfectly-acted scene in the play.
The Earl, on hearing the confession of his sister, de-
ermines to seek Mordaunt. The Noble becomes
human, the man has conquered the aristocrat, and the
"'gh-born determines to humble himself to the pie-
eimi, in order, if possible, to save his child. The
"Lady Mabel, on becoming acquainted with his pur-
pose, hastens after him, to save him, as she says, from
Zee'rn, from ignominy, and repulse. Again does she
Burst in upon the conference of the patrician and ple-
beian, but not as before, to mock. No; she comes to speak
of love of forgiveness, and to die—to die in the arms of
him who had been so deeply wronged, and so fatally
revenged. The play was completely successful, and
atacready's announcement of it, for four nights a week
Miss
received with the most enthusiastic applause.
the
Helen Faucit, Mr. Macready, and Mr. Marston,
e author, were successively called for, and received
With all the honours ; and the success of the play
va% complete. Macready acted Mordaunt most
efil;ctively. He was the representative of a class—of
the
1 , class of men in opposition to the class of Noble,
Napoleon—he was the Rodolph of Hapsburgh of
his house, and it was impossible not to sympathise
With him in his hopes, his love, and his aspirations.
Miss Helen Faucit, as Mabel, was at once gentle and
dignified. In . the scene at the conclusion of the
fourth act, she scarcely exhibited sufficient emotion,
but
with that exception her delineation of the charac-
.. 11' Was beautiful exceedingly. Mrs. Warner, as the
logh-lpred, cold-hearted aristocratic, schooled to re-
• press,ui all human thoughts and feelings as
• to prefer conventionalism to nature—the
to the jewel was perfect; and when
.it"7' length, on beholding the ruin she has wrought,
.her
conscience is aroused within her, and nature as-
), tieorts her supremaey—when the icy coldness of the
fdY is thawed, and the feelings of the woman gush fo
4, warm from the heart in an impetuous over-
ii„.el nand
torrnt—she was sublime, terrifically sub-
"te here passion was the more terrible from

thecontrast it formed to her former state of cold, un-
impassioned, unnatural -existence. The tragedy was
preceded by a prologue from the pen of Mr. Charles
Dickens, which was spoken by Mr. Macready. This
prologue. was neither more nor less than a poetical
version of Mr.Marston's preface to the published tra-
gedy. The house was crowded; there was not stand-
ing room in the pit when the curtain rose.