The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left
Faisshot Park, the residence of her Royal. Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester, yesterday, for his resi-
dence at Kew.

The President of the Board of Control had an in-
terview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-
office.

Dispatches from the Governor of British Guiana
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Lord and Lady Hamilton Chichester have left
Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, for Belfast, Ireland.

ENtiLISH OPERA HOUSE. •
A new zoological dramatic sketch (we copy the
designation from the hills) called The Lion King, was
produced at this theatre last evening, for the express
purpose of introducing the extraordinary performances
of Mr. Carter, with his beautiful collection of lions,
tigers, panthers, and other wild animals. We always
thought the performances of Van Amburgh most ex-
traordinary, but his performances are certainly sur-
passed by those of Mr. Carter. In his first scene,
Mr. Carter is diScovered in a reclining attitude on an
elevated platform. The scene represents a forest, and
Mr. Carter personates a sleeping Arab. A tiger
springs upon him ,they roll together over the platform,
and, when on the stage, after an apparently desperate
struggle, he overcomes the tiger, places a collar round
the animal's neck, attaches a cord to it, forces the
tiger under a tub, and pulls his tail out of the bung-
hole, thus realizing one of the illustrations to Bay-
ley's facetious "Tale of a Tub." He then leads on a
young lion, knocks the tub over, seizes the tiger by
the cord attached to the collar, and leads the two
animals several times round the stage. The docility
of these two animals is quite astonishing. They
jumped upon Carter, fawned upon him, and played
with him as a pet dog plays with his master ; they
seemed quite to enter into the spirit of the per-
formance, and acted their parts admirably. In the
concluding scene Carter enters a cage, 'in which are a
number of lions, tigers, and panthers. He plays
with them, makes them jump over his
whip, climb the bars of the cage, jump
on his shoulders, lie down with him, roll over
him, 4nd when he leaves the cage leads out the young
lion with him to the front of the stage, where the lion
is bound with garlands by two young ladies, who
each hold one end of this chain of flowers. forming a
tableaux on which the curtain falls. At the conclu-
sion of the piece Carter was loudly called for, and
made his appearance, leading the young lion, the
other hero of the night, to share in the applause.
Thy Lion King was followed by a musical bur-
letta from the pen of Pierce Egan, entitled
Life in Dublin. The dramatis persona of this
piece are our old friends, Tom, Jerry, and Logic,
who have migrated to Dublin in search of fun, frolic,
mirth, whim, and adventure. The Dublin adventures
are to the full as entertaining as were their London
ones, and as the piece has had a run of three seasons
in Dublin, we conclude that it presents a faithful pic-
ture of life on the banks of the Liffey. The scenery
is excellent, and the Diorama, representingthe voyage
to Dublin, is a beautiful work of art. We have, more-
over, a real pony race and a fancy ball, rivalling in
splendour the masqued ball in Gustavus. With such
appliances, it is no wonder that the piece was de-
cidedly successful, and we doubt not but that the
present attractive performances will draw crowded
houses every evening.