The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

BRIGHTON, WEDNESDAY.—SOOII after nine o'clock
this morning a tremendous storm of wind and rain com-
menced, the wind blowing a perfect hurricane from the
south-west ; but notwithstanding ,the sea was dashing
over the head of the Chain Pier and the cliff's, and the
rain continuing to pour in torrents, her Majesty and
Prince Albert have ventured out.

Prince Albert, accompanied by Duke Ferdinand, the
Princes Augustus and Paul Leopold, walked out along
the Marine Parade, and afterwards on the Chain Pier.
There was scarcely a carriage or person to be seen on
the cliffs, in consequence of the severity of the weather.
The earl orLiverpool left 'thy Pavilion this morning
for hik4at;Vxted Park, where' it is expected her Ma-
jesty will }amour him With a visit:
• Her Majesty and PrinCe Albert_ left 'the Palace this
.afternoon in a close carriage, unattended, and proceeded
along the.elo444sl,view. the fury of the ocean.

The Prince-of—Wales and the Princess Royal have been
confined to.the Pavilion by the weather.

His Royal -lighness the Duke of Cambridge visited
her Royo Higlutess the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday
at Gloucester House.

The Lord Mayor, accompanied by the City Remem-
braneer, . had, an audience of his Royal. Highness the
Duke of Cambridge yesterday at Cambridge House.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday.afternoon at
the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel,
the, Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Wharneliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Aber-
deen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon,
Lord Fitzgerald, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward
Knatchbull. The Council sat two hours and a half. _

Mr. d:B yn g, M.P., and a Deputation on the subject of
Metropolitan Improvements, had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official
residence in Downing-street.
The Duke of Bucchtuch has arrived in town from the
north. _

The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Haddington
have returned to town from Portsmouth.
Lady Peel had a soiree last evening at her residence
in Whitehall Gardens. His Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge. honoured her Ladyship with his com-
pany. A. very numerous party of the Nobility and
Gentry were present.

A correspondent who writes. from. Ripon, complains
that Mr. Roebuck should have deserted his post without a pair,
when the division on Mr. Villier's =Mien took plaCe, and gone
devil to attend the Bradford Seolona.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.
lton'a masque of Comus, which was represented fot
the first time after it littl been written at Ludlow
Castle, in 1643, before John, Duke of tildgrater, then
President of Wales, was revived at this theatre last
night, Considering how little this composition of Milton
approximates even to tile ordinary run of masques,
which during the times of the Illiddrs qhlefly were
noticeable for their coarse drolleries, it was to he coifed
that lofty sentiment, such as embodied in Comus and the
statuesque character of its heroine, would be but ill-
adapted for dramatic effect, and as the spectacle was
cmaposed of the triple combinations of performance,
music, and scenery, we shall consecutively notice each.
Mrs. Walter Lacy enacted the Lady, but her study of
the character does not appear to us absolutely conso-
nant with the poet's conception. The idea of a solemn
and stately personage, whose form, no less than whose
words, are characterised by the most majestic severity,
whose countenance should bear the very sign and im-
press of the " innuba Pallas"—the unwedded and chaste
daughter of Wisdom, and whose tongue was armed with
the august reprimands of virtue—this was the just ima-
gination of the Bard. But Mrs. Lacy, renouncing the
philosophic dignity of the vestal, invested her entire part
with passion and ejaculation, a posture into which Mil-
ton's Lady never falls. Even the " sacred flame of ve-
hemence" is not kindled in her, but only hinted at
prospectively in the original. Mr.f Harrison's Comus
was, for the most part, commendable, but in the fine
temptation-scene, his delivery of the passage
" What need of vermeil-tinctured lips for that,—

Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn ?
was not true. As the son of the `Vine-god, that being
his genealogy, he should have thrown rich fervour
into his lineaments, and, as born of Circe the Siren, the
most voluptuous of the wooer's tones into his utterance.
Among the groupings in the first scene was one singularly
elegant of the firs'. Bacchante (Madame Vestris). Another
picturesque tutbau also, was in the leaping forwards, as if
from the far-hills, of four cymbal-dancers, whose evolu-
tions of limb were masterly. Leffler, was a gorgeous
personification of "laughter, holding both his sides."
His " suiting the action to the word' "—his rotundity of
form and voice, and the heartiness and capacity of the
last, conveyed themselves so effectually to the chorus
that surrounded him, that it appeared as if fifty waist-
bands were about to be burst, and the latchets .of as
many shces split asunder. The ordeal which the
Lady is obliged to undergo while .seated in the charmed
chair would have been tedious, but for the truly magni-
ficent scenery, and constructive devices which the new
adaptation has introduced, though the " winter-scene "
needs seriously to be yet curtailed. The first scene;
conjured up by the arch-enchanter Comus, to act upon
her senses, is a Corinthian hall, with flower•wreathed
pillars and arches : this bland scene of beauty failing to
subdue her nerves to acquiescence, the chilling aspects
of a northern clime are summoned around I.er, peaks
and icy precipices, with glistening stalactites depending
these being still as vain in effect, a charming prospec-
tive, with the side-scenes consisting of golden trellises,
and forming a sumptuous hall, constitute the enchant-
ment that encircles her, when rescued by her
,two
brothers. But these, exquisite as they were, found
themselves surpassed in a water-scene, at the outset,
consisting of a fall of diaphanous water, with
a shrine or fabric of gold above it ; and the
subsequent scene in which Miss Rain forth, as
the Severn-nymph Sabrina, rises in her convolute shell
of jasper, under a fountain formed of five tiers of dia-
mond falls, and' glittering with the extreme of brilliance.
But of these scenic displays, the crowning tri-
umph was the last, representative of the skies
opened, and, round within round, the battalions
of the virtuous, who with their golden shields
and white-robed companies ascend step by step into infi-
nity : a lovelier piece of scene-painting than this, we
make bold to say, cannot be produced. The Lady's ma-
drigal to "Echo," in which that impalpable being fur-
nished a counterpart to the song as warbled, was tedious,
and little more than unmeaning. With regard to cos-
tume, dress, and decoration, nothing could be more com-
plete or better appointed ; and the general action and
dances have in them many features of grace and symme •
trical arrangement. The music of the three masters—
Handel, Purcell, and Arne—appeared chiefly in frag-
mentary snatches and disjointed portions, to answer
the purpose of adaptation to the poem, so that a
continued portion of either was not expected. Mr.
Harrison and Madame Vestris appeared after the
curtain had dropped, and the announcement of its repe-
tition for further nights by the former, was coriially
re:Tived by the audience. Considered in every respect,
C onus is one of those intellectual treats, which, from
its abstract and refined order, will find its chief favourites
among higher and more recherche minds.

WAR. AND THE TORIES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—One great cause of the difficulties England is
now struggling with, is the shameful Treaty of Peace
signed by the Tories in 1815, leaving France as strong
as at the commencement of the war ; so that we shall
probably soon have the battle to fight over again. France
never makes peace but she immediately prepares for
another war. France was twice at the feet of outraged
Europe. Common sense would have dictated the neces-
sity of crippling her, either by a diminution of her ter-
ritory on the frontiers of Spain, Switzerland, the Rhine,
&c., or by loading her with a portion of :our debt, in ex-
acting guarantee against an augmentation of her navy.
Why, also, was a Commercial Treaty overlooked with
her and other countries ? France, in her days of sue-•
cess, nearly annihilated the different countries she sub-
dued. Should there be a third march to Paris, are the
Tories to sign the Treaty of Peace ? 'find Napoleon
obtained 'military possession of England, what would
have been its fate .? War is now imminent, and the
Tories in power. If they are not unseated by a general
burst of indignation through the laud, those infatuated
wretcheS who, at • the late general election, sold their
votes for 51. or 101., will soon rue the day they touched
thOse bribes: - Ten times the- suet received will soon be
extracted from their pockets, and they will be fleeeed=
and plunderel, if not ruined. In fact, the past folly,
extraVagance; corruption, and jobbing of this party,
holds out. but a dark prospect for the future. The Whigs
were bad, but the Tories ten times worse.- The two
parties have 'drawn England to the mouth of a volcano.
Foreign nations are aware of this, and France, probably,
hopes to ruin us, and produce a national bankruptcy,
without firing a gun. Tier debt is not a third of our., ;'
her internal resources yield a revenue equal to ours.-
England's revenue, indeed, very existence, depot{ Is on ex-
ternal commerce. England, in case of war, can no longer
look to loans. She has eaten her cake. hen the rest
of Europe refuses to obey the dictation of France, she
has merely to order armaments by land and sea, and lo !
England is put to an expense of millions. To be pre-
pared, then, for these bursts of passion on the part of
ance (for under whatever Government it may be, it
wi 1 always be tormented with a thirst for conquest and
venomous hatred to England), the most rigid economy
in abolishing places and pensions is demanded. There
are I know not how many retired Chancellors. Some
of -them -might surely be employed, and their salaries
saved. Did not the late Lord Eldon have, in land and
money, about. two millions ; and, not satisfied, saddles
himself on the nation with a large pension ? Is it
proper, any officer in the State should have the power of
realising such a fortune ? Lord Brougham, -also, the
great gun and big-wig of .reform and economy, after
niazing and chattering for years on these topics,retires from
the scent with an additional grant of 1,0001. per annum.
•to the usUil pension. At all events, these pensions
should be given only to those who really want them.
The Liberal Royal Duke also solicited in forma pauperis
an additicin to his little salary. Billy Pitt, the Tory, the
pilot wh9l,Taihered the storm or gathered the state, after
spending seven or eight hundred million, failing in all his
undertakings, dies, overwhelmed with ebts, contracted
by his own carelessness, and leaves the country to pay
them. Canning, after pocketing 12,000/. for a pre-
tended trip to Portugal, when pleading the cause and
poverty of the economical Regent, afterwards George
the Fourth, exclaimed that theiCommons would at length
drive the poor man to dine at D'Oyly's chop-house if
they were so niggardly. What stuns of public money
have been paid to the Ardins and Percivals, Grenvilles and
Granvilles, Wellesleys and Wellingtons, &c., &C., &c. The
only real patriot who has appeared on the stage for
a length of time is Lord Camden, who actually (a
patriotic act unprecedented in English annals), aban-
doned a large portion of his pension conferred by a rapa-
cious Government. It 'is not meant to detract from the
merit,. of many of the above, but the purse of John Bull
is not in a state to admit of the drafts made upon it ; for
all theSe sums are paid from the productive labour of
the country ; from taxes paid on corn, tea, sugar, tobacco,
&c. &c. Fifty millions per annum must be raised to
pay the establishments and interest on the debt, and it
is now decided by the Tories that twenty millions per
annum more must be paid to protect the land and ruin
the merchants. The landholders all through the war
tripled their rents ; if they lived beyond their means and
morgaged their lands, is it just the nation should pay
for extravagance ? Some say twenty millions per
annum is spent by -absentees on the Continent. To
mend the matter, andit would be supposed to encourage
absenteeism, the Government pays large sums to chap-
lains where a number of English reside. Certainly those
who reside abroad should pay their Own pastors. These
are trite subjects, but they cannot be too often brought
forward. We are arrived at a moment that admits no
longer of trifling with the people. It is trusted the
general gOod sense of the, nation (if they cannot force
the great physician to abandon his charge) will at least
compel him to spare his patient, and the oligarchy, to
come into reasonable term s; as, in a certain sense, in a
general convulsion, the little man with his 1001. per
annum, will be as great a sufferer as the Dukes of Nor-
thumberland, Wellington, &c. &c. It is possible you
may
some hints in the above worthy of being
find
enlarged upon by your able pen.—Your's &c.
A REFORMER.
The frontier question of Canada was left open' and
unsettled for more than half a century by the Tories,
and now probably millions must be spent. France and
the United States will always act together.

APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE DOUSE OF
LORD3.—By arrangemeLts that have been made between the Lord
Chancellor, and Lords Brougham, Cottenham, and Campbell, the
appeals now waiting for hearing Wore the House of Lords will be
much expedited. The Lord Chancellor has arranged to be at the
House to hear causes four days in one week, Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday, and Friday ; and two days in the next week, Thursday
and Friday. The ex-Chancellors Cottenham, Brougham, and
Campbell, have agreed to attend four days in each week, so as to
be enabled to hear appeals on the two days that the Lord Chancellor
is absent. Thus, four days in every week being allotted to appeals,
those interested in the causes will have not,only the advantage of
four Learned Judges to adjudicate upon their causes, but will ob-
tain more speedy hearing than has hitherto been the case.
On Saturday, two excavators employed by Messrs.
Grissell and Peto, at the works of the County Courts, Cam-
bridge were killed by a fall of earth into a ditch which they
were digging. The contractors liberally paid the expenses of
the funerals, and ordered the wages paid to one of them to be
• • •
continued to his widow, till a subscription should be raised for
her relief.