The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-23 00:00:00

THEATRES.

DRURY LANE.
After the play of Pizarro the equally well-known
extravaganza, entitled Giovanni in London, was re-
vived last night at this Theatre, on which occasion
Miss Love in breeches made a very gentlemanly
Giovanni. The house was well attended.

COVENT-GARDEN.
Mr. Kean last night made his second appearance
here in his favourite character of Richard, to which
Mr. C. Kemble good-naturedly played Richmond,
and gave it an importance which it never before
possessed. It would be idle to dilate on Mr. Kean's
" crook-backed hero," enough to say, that with more
tempered energy it was distinguished by his charac-
teristic defects of slovenliness and inattention to
minor points, in order- to make a hit in particular
passages. It was, however, well received, particu-
larly the death scene, which exhibited fearful enemy.

COBURG.
This entertaining little place of amusement was
well filled 'last. night, in compliment to the newly
engaged operatic performers, Miss Forde and Messrs.
Pyne and Melrose. The play was the " Lord of
'the Manor," in which, in addition to the vocal abi-
lities of the above three, (most of whose songs were
encored), the audience• was gratified by Mr. Da-
ridge's versatile genius in Sir John Contrast, and
Sloman's 'rich delineation of Moll Flaggon. It is
by such a display of spirit, followed up with un-
abated perseverance, that the manager has already i
acquired that encouragement from which he is now
reaping the harvest.

SURREY.
Miss Graddon and Master Burke still continue to
draw attention to this Theatre. Last night they
were both eminently successful : the former as 1107
salving, in the Devil's Bridge ; and the latter as
Doctor O'Toole, in the laughable farce of the Irish
Tutor.

Miss Clara Fisher, as appears from an Ame-
rican Paper, has made a decided hit among the Yankies.
She has.even ousted the Sea Serpent.
ENGLISH THEATRICALS IN FRANCE.--
It would appear, from the following account given by the
Quotidienne of the representation of Jane Shore in Paris,
that the English style is so much liked as to render a change
in the whole system of acting in France probable. " The
manner in which Rowe's tragedy has been performed ;as
given a great lessen to our tragic actors.. It would have
afforded a gratifying triumph of Tidma, the only actor of
our times capable of understanding and appreciating the
dramatic system of the English performers. The Parisian
public may now judge whether pompous emphasis,
psalmody, of pauses, declamatory sipg-song, and
studied gestures, are tragic elements; or whether the ex-
pression of the soul, nature, and grace, are not surer means
for affecting the hearts of an audience. That 'expression,
that nature, and that grace, constituted Talmo 's qualities,
and were the cause of his prodigious success ; and those
precious qualities he owed to the English,---a fact, which
he avowed himself with pleasure." The Quotidicnne
then bestows considerable praise on Mrs. Waugham, Ab-
bott, Mason, and Chapman, who performed Alicia, Hast-
ings, Shore, and the Duke of Glos'ter. With respect to
Miss Smithson, it speaks (and the Constitutionnel and
the Journal des Debate are still more enthusiastic)
in the following terms Miss Smithson was admirable
in every part of her character. We, who have seen Miss
O'Neil in Jane Shore, must confess that she frequently re-
minded us of her. She threw into the whole performance
a shade of gentle melancholy, and an affecting union oflove
and repentance, which proves a deep knowledge of the re-
sources of her art, or rather a remarkable degree of tragic
instinct ; for it is by her fidelity to nature, still snore than
by artful combinations, that Miss Smithson has enchanted
*all Paris. It was necessary that she should come over to
France, to make our tragic actresses comprehend that it
was possible to depict during a whole act the torments of
hunger, to pass through every stage of a long and rending
agony, and to drag an exhausted frame on the scene, with-
out ceasing for one single moment to be touching and
pathetic,—without assuming one attitude which was not
noble and graceful,—or without producing one inflection
of voice which did not reach the soul. That scene has
produced so great an impression, and the actress appeared
so sublime;that we predict that ere long our system of de-
clamation will be altered, or that French tragedy will no
longer be borne in Paris."
Cruikshank it seems is about to employ his
laughter-stirring pencil in a set of new illustrations of the
celebrated tale of " John Gilpin." •
FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.—The Earl and
Countess of Harewood, at Harewood House, in Hanover-
Square, from Yorkshire; the Dean of Team and Air. Car-
ter, in Guildford-street, from Ireland ; the Earl and Coun-
tess of Belfast, at their house in from a visit to
the Duke of Devonshire, at his seat, Chatsworth, Derby-
shire ; Hon. Colonel Anson, at his house in Curzon-street,
May-fair, from Newmarket; William Gaven, Esq. and
Lady, at Warne's Hotel, Conduit-street ; Captain Frank-
lin, at ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Stodden, at Fenton's Hotel,
St. Jaines's-street, from Wales; Mr. and Mrs.
houn, at ditto, from York ; James Crompton, Esq. at
ditto, from York ; J. Bennett, Esq. at ditto, from Paris ;
Christopher Cooker, Esq. at Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-
! street, from his seat in Hants ; William J. Campion, Esq.
at ditto, from his seat near Brighton.
CHANGES.—The Earl and Countess of Jer-
sey, at the Duke of Bedford's seat, Woburn Abbey, from
Newmarket; Lord and Lady Churchill, at their seat in
Oxfordshire, from Richmond Park ; the Hon. Mr. and
a 0 C. Mrs. Sturges Bourne, at their seat, Testwood House,
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Hants, from a tour ; the Hon. Agar and Lady Georgina
Ellis, at Roehampton, from a visit to Prince Leopold, at
Claremont ; Lord and Lady Anson, at their seat, Sling-
borough, Staffordshire, from Newmarket; the Duke and
Duchess of Richmond, from Newmarket, to Hanham Hall,
Suffolk ; Lord Althorpe, for Mr. Coke's seat in Norfolk ;
' the Earl of Chesterfield, for his seat in Leicestershire ; Sir
J. Conroy, Bart. from Kensington Palace, for Wales; the
Hon. Mr. Dec Chamberlin, Roos,
rif3r.no,m
Esq, Newmfoarrklreetiantdo
;Mla7li.sl,coenuHntaelsls,
Suffolk; u
Hopetoun, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for
Fm Lord Lynedock, from Warren's* Hotel, Re-
gent-street, for Euston, Norfolk; Mrs. and the Misses
Sober, from ditto, for Hastings; J. S. Russell, Esq. from
ditto, for Worcestershire; J. Barnaby, Esq. 'from ditto,
for Worcestershire; Hon. Captain and Mrs. Montague
Stopford, from Jordan's Hotel, to Ireland ; Captain R.
Edwards, from the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and
Cork-streets, for Sussex; Captain H. Rose, from ditto,
for the Continent; Captain White, from Warne's Hotel;
S. Levy, Esq. at Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, from
Brighton.

BRA VERY OF A FRENCH CAPTATN.--A
short time after the Olivier, Captain Olive, left Alicant,
she was captured by an Algerine. The pirate took out
four of her crew, and sent on board sixteen Algerines.—
Captain Olive and one seaman only were left on board the
Olivier. During the day, some of the Algerines went
below to drink. Captain Olive gave a signal to his sailor;
and, when they were half-"drunk, he shut down the hatches.
The Algerines on deck endeavoured to resist; but they did
not succeed. A vessel was in sight; signals of distress
were made, and a Spanish vessel assisted the Olivier into
a Spanish port, where she is now performing quarantine,...
,share th 4 licq're.

THE GAME OF SKITTLES NOT PROHI-
BITED BY TIIE.7'ZILAIS OF .A PUBLICAN'S RECOGNIZANCE.
—ln the course of an assault, case heard to-day, at Bow-
street, Sir Richard Birnie decided that skittles were a law-
ful genie, as tending to promote exercise, in contradistinc-
tion to such sedentary:arnusements as dice, dominoes, cards,
bagatelle, &c.

A NARROW ESCAPR.—A very ludicrous
occurrence took place at Chieveley, last Saturday. The
banns having been published in the usual way, of Daniel
Painter and Lucy Smith, the parties attended, accompanied
by F. Full, as father, and Raehael Smith, as bridemaid.
Painter never haring Witnessed the ceremony of matrimony
before, Full 'officiated for him, and was to all intents and
purposes married to the fair one. When the name of the
bride was about to be inserted in the Register, it was dis-
covered, to the consternation of the whole party. The Rev.
Gentleman /elt very angry with the parties for inch con-
duct, and at length adjusted the circumstance, and married
thy Air PC t 9 he; flight Wet.