The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-13 00:00:00

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

We understand that the sensation so recently created
by the very extraordinary performances of the pupils of
this institution in Operas, has led to their being re-
quested to give a series of similar exhibitions at the
Bath Theatre next month. We are confident that
the favourable and greatly excited anticipations of
the Bathonians will not meet disappointment. Pre-
vious to their departure, there will be three more
performances by them at the Theatre Royal English
Opera House. No small anxiety is beginning to be
manifested by the liberal admirers of art, that the
efforts of the committee will not be always confined
to the exclusive production of Italian Opera, a sen-
timent which we entirely concur in. The insti-
tution is essentially British; its ultimate views,
therefore, ought, and we have no sort of doubt will,
be liberal, comprehensive, and generous; and such
as to ensure the general sympathy and strenuous sup-
port of an English community.

Miss Phillips, the very successful debutante
at Drury-lane Theatre, again eame forward last evening
in a new and interesting character. By thus introducing
this- delightful actress into new plays, all invidious com-
parisons are avoided, and her real merits are appreciated.
There certainly has been nothing equal to Miss Phillips, iu
tragedy, since the retirement of Miss O'Neill.

Mr. Wallack, the comedian, has given sub-
stantial testimony of the complete success of his transatlantic
theatrical trip,, by the large remittances in cash from his
profits, which he has made to hie wife since his arrival in
America. In consequence of applications made to Wallack
by nearly all the Managers of Theatres in the United States,
his continuance in America will extend beyond the period
originally contemplated, unless his return to England should
be hastened by the death of his father-in-law., Mr. Jobn
Johnstone.

Miss Bartolozzi is engaged at Drury-lane at a
very high salary. She will make her first appearance
next week, in the character of Lisette, in The Lord of
the Manor. The tragedy represented last night at this
house is from the pen of Mr. Walker, the author of Wal-
lace (a play written purposely for Mr. Macready's peculiar
talent, which was very successful.) The incidental music
is composed by Mr. Parry. A new comedy, from the pen
of Mr. Lunn, entitled Village Vagaries, was rehearsed,
for the first time, at Covent-garden, on Thursday. The
new opera to be produced here is from the pen of Mr.
Dimond ; it is in active rehearsal. From the great suc-
cess which has attended the revival of The L'eaux
Stratagem, we hear it is in contemplation to re-cast
Farquhar's Recruiting Officer in the same efficient man-
ner. Miss Nelson, who made so successful a debut in
Peggy, will speedily appear in the character of Rosalind,
in Shakepeare's comedy of As You Like It.

A few days before the first representation of
the Beaux Stratagem, Mrs. Oldfield, who was to be the
Mrs. Sullen of the piece, being apprehensive lest the final
arrangement, which so frankly transfers Sullen's wife to
Archer without the formality of a divorce, might give
umbrage to the audience, is reported to have sent a mes-
sage to Farquhar, then almost on his death-bed, re-
questing that the catastrophe might be amended. " Tell
her," was his reply, " I wish she was married to me in-
stead of Sullen, for then, without the trouble of a divorce,
I would give her my bond that she should be a widow
within a few days ;" and the anthor kept his word, by dy-
ing ere his friends had done congratulating him on the
brilliant reception of his play. .

Haydon, it is said, has sold his painting,
" The Chairing of the Members, in the King's Bench,"
fin• five hundred pounds, reserving to himself the right to
engrave the picture and the profits resulting therefrom.
This artist has received one thousand pounds for two pic-
tures painted within a period of six months.

The well-known picture, painted by the la-
mented and unfortunate Harlow, representing the trial of
Queen Catherine, from Shakspeare's Henry the Eighth,
in which are introduced admirable portraits of Mrs. Sid-
dons, Mr. Kemble, Mr. Charles Ketuble, and Mr. Stephen
Kemble, as well as those of the principal actors and
authors connected with Covent-garden Theatre at the
time the picture was painted, which the proprietor de-
posited with Rowland Stephenson, for a valuable con-
sideration, will, we understand, be sold by auction, by
order of the Assignees.

THEATRE, IPSWICH.-011 Monday night
Miss Foote, from the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, made her
first appearance on our boards in the character of Letitia
Hardy, in " The Belle's Stratagem;" on Wednesday, as
Rosalind, iu " As You Like It ;" and, on Thursday, as
Violante, in " The Wonder, a Woman Keeps a Secret."
She performed likewise in the afterpieces of each night.—
Miss Foote's performance is such as cannot fail in giving
delight to all admirers of gent. el comedy. Without any
unbecoming levity, she sustains all her characters with a
great flow of spirit and animation, whilst her easy . and
graceful deportnient, totally free from affectation; gives an
air of elegance to all her words and actions. In the cha-
racter of Rosalind she certainly excelled ; her:elegant figure
and expressive features being quite in accord:aloe with the
idea of that fair and gentle wanderer. As a songstress,
though not of the first order, Miss Foote deserves our enco-
miums. In the course of her performances she introduces
a variety of pretty ballads, which, from being sung with
a pleasing vivacity and sweetness of voice, have never
failed of producing deserved applause, and not unfre-
quently an encore. Miss Foote has made a good selection
in her entertainments; and, franc the numerous admirers
of her talents during her short stay in Ipswich, her benefit
'was, as might be expected, a brilliant overflow. She acts
this week at Stafford and Wolverhampton, and the follow-
ing she coinmences a Y'4...y lucrative engagement in Dublin.
—./psTich Jourual

On Saturday the enthroniaation of .the Right
Rev. Dr. Blornfield,- as Bishop of London, was celebrated
with great pomp in St. Paul's Cathedral. After the cere-
mony, .a great number of the nobility and clergy, together
with the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, in their state carriages,
accorupanieti .with two regimental bands, escorted the
Bishop from St. Paul's -to his . residence in St. James's-
square. ' - • ' •

A manufactory has been established at Lyons,
for making patent soap, which is described to be superior
to all others; and so low in price, that none can compete
With the makers. It is to be made and sold in every part
of France.

On Sunday morning last, a sudden squall of
wincl,-or---tornado, was observed in the neighbourhood of
Tewkesbury, which threw down many large timber trees
in-its course, one of which fell across a barge in the Se-
vern, and did considerable damage, an ;mother fell over a
public house, breaking down a great part of the roof. But
$6 it is an ill wind that blows nobody good," for it is a sin-
gular fact, that the noise so alarmed the landlord, who had
liven confined with the-gout for three months past, that he
leaped out of bed and ran down stairs immediately, corn-
p.letely cured-of-his complaint, of which Boniface has not
since had any 'return.— Gloucester Journal.