The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. Sir Henry Whenti"
took his departure from the Castle yesterday f took
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert gi
their accustomed walk in the Home Park. Her It°Y-
Highness the Princess Royal was also taken out. „ $
Prince Albert rode to Cranbourne Tower 0" :
t„,
shooting excursion. His Royal Highness was n
tended by the Marquis of Ormonde, Viscount Ca.,l.
ning, Major-General Sir E. Bowater, Mr. G. Pas
Anson, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. The sport

excellent. the
The Duchess of Kent visited her 11Iajesty at
Castle in te afternoon. er Ral Highness tOt a
i-
carriage airing in the forHenoon,oy attended by Lady
Fanny Howard.
Her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort walked t°
Frogmore Lodge, and returned in a pony haet". P
her
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent andthe
ac
Lady in Waiting, and Mrs. Arbuthnot, ill have the
honour of joining the Royal dinner circle
Castle this evening.

" I I
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing .
an open pony phaeton on Saturday, in the drives
et 10,
the vicinity of her residence, C*nford House, D
ors
shire. The Hon. William and Mrs. Ashley took vase
of her Majesty on Tuesday, and left Lanford
on a• visit to the Earl of Shaftesbury, his sea

Giles's House, Dorsetshire. ,d the
Baron Brunnow, the Russian Minister, afmr..e. •
Earl of. Aberdeen yesterday at the Foreign-effi—'4-I,r:.
Excellency Count Kielmansegge."the Hanoverian.. f
nister, transacted business yesterday at the office °
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Windsor
Viscount Cannino• left town yesterday for
Castle. His Lordship returned to town yester 3)
morning.
Dispatches from the Governor of Van
°' Vernece
Land were received yesterday at the Colonial..offi,,
Dispatches were also received from the Governor
South Australia and from St. Helena.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

The lessee of this beautiful theatre has .begn n"
pewcareer with spirit. He last night produeed"tivc The
pieces, both of which were completely suceqssTal'a.„
first, which is entitled She's riot to. Blarne,
mestic drama, adapted from the French, and intro-
duced, for the first time to a London. audience, Miss
Amelia Mercer, from the York theatre. Thiqoung lady
is, we suppose, to be the heroine of domestic drama at this_
house, and she is well adapted to sustain that
,oel
character. Her person is good, her features expresci. 8
her
enunciation distinct, and her action appropriate. SO
was last night evidently suffering from the nervous:
ness necessarily attendant upon a first appearance, b°l'
h for
she gave indications of talent which promise rnue I.e
the future. She sustained the pxrt of Matilda, t".l.
daughter of Sir Thomas Dudley (Mr. F. Williaws(t;
whose character having been unjustly slandered awl et
consequence of the more than imprudent COlr:lin
of a young officer in a Hussar regiment, Car Ile,
Pemberton (Mr. J. S. Balls) has been cast off-
father. The old man becomes blind, and needs Ocof
one to attend to his comforts, and under the l'ulle„on
Ellen Courtenay, the cast-off daughter takes uut„
herself this filial office. The old man becora".-
tached to her ; she takes an opportunity of reve
herself to him, and declares her innocence. C3;Pnttaela
Pemberton has in the meantime become !Wi that it
with Sir Thomas, but the old man knows Hold that
been
was owing to Peinberton's conduct that he ha w
induced to cast off his daughter. The CaPtftillail°ftll
demands her hand of her father in marriage, and' the
ends happily. This plot affords situations 01 by
most intense interest, and Miss Mercer, gec,c,,,,ilst.
sneaking, availed herself of them to the tun—t° of
There was ouasionally perceptible a "I,Cous-
power, but that we attribute to "—A- to
ness, and when she gets more accustom e" out
her audience she will no doubt fully carrYiiia-rns
the intentions of the author. Mr. F.
sorting
acted the part of the old man. Oxberry, relief
Baronet, afforded, by his drolleries, an e as a p
xcelient
to the serious business of the piece. The second rich
laughablewasabia)it,and the hfiutenrlude, upon the in one act, enti_tdlffelnultjes of
R
Balls,Snobson, as a lawyer's clerk,
turned '
in geting timeeirne
is
to partake of the savoury dish from which the the iv
named, which had been prepared for'hira
by Betty Bright (Miss Emma Stanley), the la"' r•
of the said Snobson, and maid-of-all-wo 1
rk in the.e
vice of Mr. Crowquill (Salter), an attorney,
at Highgate. To attempt to describe the man Y.— "to
betwixt the plate and the lip, would be like attemptlllg
of
count the bubbles which effervesce on the s. the
a glass of Champagne. Balls was exactly fit: but
part, and he sustained the whole, not weitg";," 'olo.
lightness, of the farce. He bustled througu tolo-
riously; and all those who desire
ment " should assist, as the French would 58):4' at the at
Welsh Rabbit at the Princess's. It is Serie"' 11/4 to
WhO bidS &trice
nine o'clock by Miss Emma Stanley,
be one of the most espeigde of' soubrettes. We admits
Mr. Snobson's taste exceedingly. Both pieces 187,,ei.
not crovvae
quite successful. The house, although
was well filled. "good 'enter
the

rn that
It appears, from a recent statistical rettiTh'
there are in Austria and its dependencies, inen'llo- 00
its Italian territory, 25,500,000 Catholics, 3,5,,;j° of
members of the United Greek Church, 2,9009 vv- of
the non-United, 1,260,000 Lutherans, 2,240,000
000
the Reformed Church, 45,000 Socinians, and 600
Jews. The number of religious houses for
amounts to 766, comprising 10,354 persons, and e
eluding 27 religious orders. The Brothers of geres
possess 34 houses, and 542 inmates; the Beneclictiovd
37, and 1,093 inmates ; and the Ca uchins 98% • g
3,6611298 iwnonmlaetens.. There are 157 conlP'ents, cont
.This

r.rn.E GREAT ANTI-CORN-LAW
building is fast progressing, 'notwithstanding "01
firm
bad weather and the holidays. Its ge,."et-be
and arrangements will be better adaptede„-oe
purposes of sight and hearing than the last; an' 9-,-01
acoustic contrivance for aiding and throwing, folly; j 4
the voices of the speakers, will be devised. hLring
to be a gallery or galleries. The invitations arc u;'-otli
issued to various distinguished Members of„ in;-fl•
Houses of the Legislature° and to many out al a`g-Ifict
ment, who by their efforts of voice, and Pe"' -
purse, have advocated and helped forward' the cuse.os
free trade. We hear that the second evening Inee.,„tle,
in the pavilion will probably be a sort of proinel'd
e understand that for each meeting a chairtnal
two secretaries. will be appointed, to conduct it.lluo.fof
gulate its proceedings. Everything is' prep iff
these occasions on a scale of great magnitude, atolo
deed must he indispensable, where so many th°llor %tif
are to be seated and provided' with food, boteh ft
__Afa-ohster
physical and intellectual appetites,

LITERATURE.
THE POPE AND THE ACTOR. 3 Vols.
Newby, London, 1842.
The period at which the incidents related in
this historical novel are supposed to have oc-
curred, is the commencement of the sixteenth
Ravenna,
shortly after the famous battle of
Itavenna, which was gained by the French over
the combined Spanish and Italian fisrces, and in
Which the celebrated French Commander,
Gaston de Foix, received his death-wound. The
hero and heroine of the story, are Giulio, son
and heir of Count Rinaldo Zatti, a nobleman of
Hu ancient and distinguished Italian family, and
Lucia, a young girl of unknown parentage, who
lives near the country residence of Giulio's
father, and has been the youth's compassion
front childhood. After undergoing—the girl
More especially—the usual romantic vicissitudes
Of fortune, the attached pair are made happy by
marriage, it being luckily discovered that Lucia
is the child of Fnoble parents, and every way,
therefore, suited to the heir of the Zatti family.
Much of the narrative is taken up with the in-
trigues of a scheming physician, Battista, to
procure the hand of Luci:t, and also to advance
the political interests of his patron, Cardinal
Petrucci, who, with several other Cardinals,
Plots against the Pope, but is foiled in Isis
attempts at conspiracy. The character of this
subtle, bland, intriguing Doctor, is forcibly
pourtrayed, and indeed is the redeeming feature
of the tale.

THE ENGLISH BIJOU ALMANAC.
Schloss, L, ndon, 1843.

By the help of a pair of spectacles, we have
been able to discover the peculiarities of this tiny
volume, which is about the size of half a roast
ehesnut, is edited by Miss Mitfbrd, and con-
tains several poems from her pen, which are ex-
ceedingly pleasing, thou4h we have had no
slight trouble in deciphering them. Among
the pcortraits, is one of Mr. Rogers, the poet, but
We cannot say much for the accuracy of the re-
semblance, which is at least thirty years too
Young. The volume is enclosed in a neat red
morocco case, and is certainly the greatest cu-
riosity of the season.

JACK HIN7'ON: THE GUARDSIII4N.
Curry, Dublin, 1842.
This tale, which forms the first of a series,
entitled "Our Mess," and which is from the pen
of Mr. Charles Lever, has already appeared from
time to time in the pages of the Dublin Univer-
aity Magazine, and was noticed by us. as suc-
cessive portions appeared, in our usual sketchy
criticisms of the monthly periodicals. We need,
therefore, sty nothing more on the present occa-
sion, than that the tal, is well worthy of repub-
licat;on in its present handsome octavo form, and
that it is embellished with a half-length portrait
of the author.

JAY'S TV ORKS. Bartlett, London, 1842.

This volume contains a series of Morning and
Evening Religious Exercises for October, No-.
vember, and December. The author is Mr.
William Jay, who has executed a useful and
important task in a spirit of rational, unaffected,
Yet fervent piety.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.-TUESDAY.

DERBY.-8 to 1 agst A British Yeoman (t freely), 25
to agst Aristides (t), 25 to 1 agst Murat, 33 to 1 agst
Wipesour, 35 to 1 agst Progress colt, 40 to 1 agst New-
court, 40 to 1 agst Blackdrop, 50 to 1 agst Chesterfield,
50 to 1 agst Everton, 50 to 1 agst Sir Valentine (t), 40
to 1 agst Napier, 40 to 1 agst Siriko!, 1000 to 15 agst
Languish c, 1000 to-15 agst Lucetta c (t), 5 to 1 agst
Scot's lot (offered), 15 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot.
COURSING.—At the Caledonian Meeting over the
Duke of Hamilton's lands on Wednesday, Thursday,
and Saturday last, the Highland Stakes of 35/. value
Were won by Mr. G. Pollock's Young Sport ; Mr. A.
Graham's Alexander rem up.—The Lowland Stakes of
351. were won by Dr. Brown's Heather Jock, Mr. Wat-
son's Beeswing running up. Heather Jock and Young
Sport then ran together fbr the Caledonian Cup of
10 sons., which was won by Dr. Brown's dog in the
first two courses.—The Thistle Stakes were won by Dr.
Brown's Stewarton Bonnet-maker.