The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-14 00:00:00

NEW MUST U.

" Jeminy Cracks! How hot it is! The man
that couldn't get cool ; or, a Song for the Tee-
totallers," is the title of Mr. Beuler's last. We
very much suspect that the author is of Yankee
origin, although the Germans claim him under
the name ofVon Bider, for the conception of the
subject of the song is certainly American, but it
is a hyperbole with a good moral, and the author
well deserves a medal from Father Mathew.
The story is as follows :—Mr. Jeminy Cracks, by
overdoses of brandy (British or Foreign is not
mentioned) gets so extremely inflammable that,
while lying in the fields to chill himself, his nose
is the cause of several incendiary fires, and con-
sequently the country soon becomes too hot to
hold him. He quits it in a steamer, to which he
proves as good as a cargo of coals in keeping up
the power of the steam, by which the vessel is
enabled to go " much farther north than any
before." On the voyage, while bathing, he puts
the whales in a perspiration, boils the smaller
fishes in the sea, and, lastly, -" nearly sets the
Pole on fire ;" for he becomes a kind of prome-
nade " snap-dragon, and "walks about the polar
night" surrounded by a blue flame, and occa-
sions, as the crew report, the Aurora Borealis.
To quench the flame in vain he tried,
It gradually consumed his hide,
At last of self-combustion died,
The man that couldn't get cool.
Some part of him that was unburn'd,
Immediately to glow-worms turned ;
" And some part,' says old Boson Buss,
" The doctor took for phospho-rus."
The dust and ash the ship-cook choos'd,
And a'terwards he was accused,
That he for Cayenne pepper used
The man that couldn't get cool."
It is an extravagant, but humorous composi-
don, and doubtless effective in singing.

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NEW THEATRE, MARYLEBONE.
On Monday a new theatre was opened for the firs
time, in Church-street, Marylebone, in the immediate
vicinity of Portman market. It is a most commodious
building, and is capable of containing between two
thousand and three thousand persons. The interior
is fitted up with great regard to convenience, and
much taste has been displayed in the general decora-
tion of the house ; indeed we consider it to be as ele-
gant and as unique a theatre, for its size, as any within
the metropolis. The doors were scarcely opened be-
fore the house was crowded in everv, part, and the
audience in the boxes displayed a class of persons
whose attendance gave to the establishment a tone of
respectability which must hereafter have a most be-
neficial effect upon it. Amongst the company that
have been engaged we noticed several names that
speak well for the species of entertainments that will
be furnished to the visitors at this theatre.—Mr. Os-
baldeston, Miss Vincent, Mr. B. Rayner, Mr. T. Lee,
the Irish comedian, Mr. Collins, the vocalist, Mr.
Cobham, &c. &c. &c., are amongst those announced
to make their appearance at an early period • in-
deed, Mr. Rayner supported the character of Lu-
bin, in Passion and Repentance, in the course of the
evening. The performance commenced with a grand
historical drama entitled The Saxon Maid; or the
Days of William the Conqueror. It is one of those
pieces in which there are a tyrant Earl, an unknown
Knight, a lost child, a lovely maid, and all the et
cetera of the regular and well-established romantic
spectacle. It was well sustained by the several per-
sons engaged in it. Mr. Freer,• as the Unknown
unbounded • applause from the
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as a Page, played and sang
effect. A new farce entitled -Tea
wed. It is an agreeable trifle. The
entertainments concluded with the petite drama of
Love's Frailties, under the name of Passion and Re-
pentance, in which Mr. Rayner sustained his original
part of Lubin with unabated vigour and success ; but
it would be superfluous at the present day to offer
any comment on his performance of the character, as
it is perfectly well known to every play goer. He
had, however, to contend with a heroine (Susan),
who might have had a little more juvenile appearance.
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Is it, however, judicious to bring this gentleman for-
ward only in the last piece, and that at so late an
hour that the attention
before he appears ? We think the managers would
best consult their own interests by altering this ar-
rangement. of the audience is wearied

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THE WEST RN LITERAR
INSTITUTION. _ .

A very interesting. lecture ,401; the Scriptura
History of Sacred Music and the Practice of Psalmody'
was delivered the other evening, by Mr.-Netherclipt,
Institution, Leicester-square. The theatre was crowded
Literary and Scientific
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monuesiocf btheiencghief points of his education, and if it were
universally understood, it would be the means of pre-
venting a great deal of wickedness, for, as " Music
bath charms to soothe the savage breast," so might it
be made available in many ways, and more especially
in our prisons. He showed to the satisfaction of his
audience, who testified their approval by frequent
applause, that the great cause of the wretchedness
oofwitohge singingtothe‘‘ shyness"
in most of our churches was mainly
of the female part of the
congregation, and incompetent teachers of music
to the children, and in the
course of ' his lecture
suggested that every parish should appoint' com-
petent persons to teach the congregation, either
at the church or some other convenient place on par-
ticular evenings. The illustrations of the lecture, ex-
hibiting. the light and shade of psalmody, as expres-
sive of various devotional feelings, were selected from
the " Twenty-four Psalms and Hymns," composed by
the lecturer, and dedicated to the Bishop of London,
and were very ably sung by an efficient choir to the
Accompaniment of the organ.
A. Short time since a lecture on the "music of
Shakspeare's plays" was delivered at this theatre by
Mr: Rirribault, with illustrations, &c. ; and in noticing
these lectures it is but doing justice to say a few
words in favour of the society by whom they are
given, the "St. Martin's Subscription Library (in
connection with that founded by Archbighop Tenni-
° son), in Castle-street, Leicester.square, And which,