The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-21 00:00:00

OLYMPIC.
Miss Davenport appeared last evening in the cha-
racter of Juliana in Tobin's comedy of the Honey
Moon. There is a freshness and an originality about
this young lady's style of acting which, in these days
of dramatic conventionalisms, is really delightful. She
is the servile follower of no school. It is evident that
she thinks for herself, and, in every instance, exer-
cises her own taste and judgment; and as that taste
is pure and exquisite, and that judgment is sound and
correct, it is no wonder that her success is complete.
Her Juliana is beautiful. She depicted the way ward,
high•spirited, warm-hearted girl to the life. Her in-
dignation at the vile deception which she imagines
has been practised on her was admirably given, and
beautifully did she delineate the gradual awakening of
the better feelings of her heart, until at length she be-
comes reconciled to her fate, and really loves the man
whom she had at one time determined to hate. We
have never seen a more beautifully natural and artless
Juliana. Her reading of the part is new, but we are
satisfied that it is the correct one. Waldron, albeit
somewhat heavy, made . a respectable Duke Aranza ;
and Rayner, as the mock Duke, was first-rate. His
assumption of the dignified bearing of a sovereign
prince, as he sits in judgment, was one of the richest
pieces of humour we have seen for many years, and
reminded us of what the drama was in its palmy
days. With regard to the other characters, perhaps
the least said the better. The pantomime, which
seems to increase in attraction the oftener it is re-
peated, followed. It is worth paying a visit to see
the delight of the children at this pantomime. Mr.
Davenport has created a revolution in the nursery,
for it will be henceforth useless to attempt to awe
children into good behaviour by threatening them
with " Old Bogie." He is now their pat instead of
being their terror. The theatre was well attended.

STRAND.
Another adaptation from the French entitled Mon-
seigneur was produced at this theatre last night. As
the piece has been produced at other theatres in town,
and the plot given at full, we will not now enter into
a minute detail of it. Monseigneur is a person whom
nature has endowed with elements that scorn patient
industry. He never liked a calling that required
much labour, so he goes to Paris to make his fortune
in the shortest time possible. Monseigneur has an
instinct which tells him the best mode of arriving at
that end, so he becomes—a clerk in a merchant's
office? No; nothing of the kind. He becomes a
chevalier d' industrie, and if you believe the French
reports, a very lucrative profession it must be in Paris.
But Monseigneur is no picker of pockets; he scorns
inferior things and flies only at the very highest
game; not that little things do not come into his
pocket, but Monseigneur, who is at the very top of his
art, has employes whom he leaves minor details to. He
has got his cashier to dispose of his gains. They take
their thousands hut he his tens of thousands.
You will ask how he accomplishes all this ? Nothing
easier to a man of experience. He dresFes in the
first style, attends the opera, learns the secrets of
others, transmutes himself into a thousand shapeq,
takes a thousand characters, and is at home in them
all. Take an instance. A rich jeweller is sending
home a casket of jewels of immense value, of which
Monseigneur has information. He is taken, richly
habited, in a sedan, where he knows he will meet the
hearer of the precious articles. He is right, and he
comes out and tells the jeweller's apprentice that he
ought to be afraid of Monseigneur's band, and puts a
pistol in his hand, for the purpose of defending him-
self. He then calls watch, and says he has been at-
tacked by the apprentice, and that his rich jewels
have been taken from him. The police, of course,
know the value of fine clothes, and the apprentice
taken to prison, and Monseigneur marches off with
the jewels. They find their way through a variety
of hands, but are finally recovered for the apprentice
by Monseigneur himself, who finds that the appren-
tice is his brother. Mr. Roberts performed the part
of Monseigneur, which he maintained with consider-
able ability. The other parts were but indifferently
sustained, bat the piece was well received.

JEWISH LITERARY AND SCIEN
TIFIC INSTITUTION.

An event, extremely interesting to the members of
the Jewish body in London, and, in some degree, to
those in all parts of the kingdom, took place yesterday
evening, in the opening of a new literary and scien-
tific institution, in Leadenhall-street, intended chiefly,
though by no means exclusively, for persons of the
Hebrew persuasion. The name fixed upon by the
founders is " The Jews' and General Library and
Scientific Institution, and " Sussex Hall" has been
chosen as the denomination of the building which the
institution is to occupy. From the numerous attend-
ance, and other circumstances, it was evident that the
occasion had been looked forward to by many with
deep interest. Amongst the gentlemen assembled,
either to take part in the proceedings or to manifest
their approval of the undertaking, were the following :
Hananel De Castro, Esq., President ; Sir Isaac Lyon
Goldsmid, Bart., F.R.S. ; Sir Moses Montefiore,
F.R.S.; D. Salomons, Esq.; F. 11. Goldsmid, Esq. ;
Walter Joseph, Esq. ; Isaac Cohen, Esq. ;
D. W. Wire, Esq. ; Barnard Van Owen,
Esq.; Bazil Montagu, Esq. ; and Dr. Raffael, of
Birmingham. A great number of ladies were also
present, and appeared to take great interest in all that
passed. The theatre of the institution, in which the
company assembled, is a large and handsome apart-
ment, one of the best, in fact, that we have ever seen
in connexion with a literary institution. It had, as
the President stated, been previously used as far back
as eighty years ago, as a Jewish synagogue. The
galleries being retained, and a platform erected on
the spot formerly assigned to the ark, and the dome
in the centre considerably enlarged, the whole pre-
sented a very pleasing effect, and is well adapted for
the purpose for which it is designed.
Shortly after seven o'clock the chair was taken by
the President of the Institution, who commenced the
proceedings by a brief opening address. After ad-
verting to the liberal conduct of the Jews in founding
and supporting charities for the relief of their neces-
sitous brethren, he proceeded to speak of the want
which had been felt of an institution like that which
they were then establishing. They would there be
enabled to cultivate, foster, and encourage those noble
studies which must prove highly advantageous to all
classes of the community, and thus to follow the
example of the many laudable societies which had
endeavoured to ameliorate the condition of theirou_d
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now preparing, publicly, to vindicate their claims to
rank with the votaries of science, the patrons of lite-
rature, and the benefactors of mankind. It had been
said that institutions already existed which rendered
that which they were forming unnecessary ; and they
had been told that the only effect of the course they
were pursuing, would be to strengthen that barrier
of exclusion which it should be their chief aim to re-
move. The principle of the objection, he admitted,
was right, but he denied its application to the case in
point. This Institution was not exclusive.—
Cheers.) They did not refuse to receive any
person of respectable character, without subject-
ing him to any test of religious opinion, or requiring
him to subscribe any declaration of faith.—(Applause.)
The only ground on which the Institution could pos-
sibly be called exclusive was, that the direction and
management were to be in the hands of Israelites.
He then spoke of the vast importance and interest of
the study of Hebrew literature—a literature which
governed opinion throughout the world, and the force,

THE THEATRES.
ADELPHI.
A one-act farce, from the pen of the indefatigable
Morton, was produced here last evening. It is en
titled the Corporal's Wedding ; or, a Kiss of the
Bride. The scene is lail in Plymouth, where a cer-
tain Major Griskin (Selby) and a Sir Felix Marma-
lade (Hudson) are sojourning. The former is a hen-
pecked husband, and the latter a gay bachelor,
affianced to the daughter of Squire Partridge (Lam-
bert). Corporal Cobb (Munyard) has that morning
been married, and the Major and the Baronet deposit
each a hundred pounds, the stakes to be given to him
who shall first seize a kiss of the bride. Cobb is placed
under arrest for having exceeded his leave of
absence, and so far the coast is cleared for the ma-
nceuvres of the rakes ; but Nancy Cobb (Miss
Woolgar), completely out-generals both the
field-officer and his associate. She is placed
under surveillance in Sir Frederick's apartment:,
who has that night invited a number of bachelor
friends to a take-leave supper. He writes notes to
them, putting them off, but Nancy adroitly substi-
tutes for them notes to Lady Arethusa Griskin (capi-
tally acted by Mrs. F. Matthews) and Squire Part-
ridge, inviting them to Sir Frederick's ; and just as
the Major and Sir Frederick are abbut to sit down to
a petit souper with Nancy, the Lady Arethusa, the
Squire, and the guests arrive, and a rare scene of
confusion ensues. Nancy not only obtains the 2001.
without the kiss, but, by, threatening to report the
Major to " head quarters, obtains the discharge of
the corporal ; who, of course, gets the first kiss—
while Sir Frederick loses the hand of Miss Partridge,
which is bestowed upon the man of her choice, Sir
Frederick's secretary, Mr. Ringwood. The farce
was admirably acted, and the laughter was continuous
from the rising to the fall of the curtain. iliss
Woolger and Mr. Munyard were called for at the
conclusion, and received with all the honours; and
Selby announced the piece for repetition, every even
ing, amidst the loud applause of a crowded house,