The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-02 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

Webster has taken advantage of the closing of Covent
Garden to secure the services of the elite of the Covent
Garden company.' Mrs. Nisbett and Mrs. Glover ap-
peared here on Saturday evening for the first time this
season, in the Love Chase, by far the best comedy that
Sheridan Knowles has as yet produced. Mrs. Nisbett's
Constance has lost none of its fascinating natural hey-
deyishness. She seemed overflowing with fun, whim,
and good-humour. Other ladies have acted the cha-
racter of Constance, and acted it well too, but Mrs.
Nisbett is the very Constance herself. There is
all the difference between the -COniftitire -of Mrs.
Nisbett and the Constance of every other lady
who has attempted the part, but there is a difference
between nature and art. In the directly opposite cha-
racter of the Widow Green, the affected, old coquette,
the husband-hunting Widow Green, Mrs. Glover was
equally admirable. We cannot sufficiently admire the
judicious discrimination displayed by Mrs. Glover in the
performance of this very difficult character. The
►Vidow Green, with a mind naturally vulgar, has yet
passed her life in a society which has given her manners
an outward polish. She is not a vulgar woßmn, but a
vulgar lady. Mrs. Glover never forgets this distinction ;
with many temptations to overact the part, she never
once " o'ersteps the modesty of nature." It were no diffi-
cult thing to draw down applause, and raise a laugh by
making the part in broad caricature sketch. It isa difficult
thing, requiring artistical talents of the highest order to
bring out all the lights and shadows of the character, so
as to make the whole a finished picture, and this it is
that Mrs. Glover has accomplished, and accomplished
in a manner so perfect, that at first sight the difficulties
of the character seem less than they really are, in con-
sequence of the apparent case with which she overcomes
them. Both ladies were called for at the conclusion of
the Comedy, and were greeted with the most enthusi-
astic plaudits which they gracefully acknowledged. The
announcement of the piece for repetition on Tuesday
was received with general approbation. We perceive
that Farren is engaged at this Theatre, and will, we
presume, make his appearance on his return from his
Northern provincial tour, so that this season Thalia will
resume her reign in her favourite temple, " The little
Theatre in the Haymarket," which wo hope. to seo
crowded every night with a throng of laughter-loving
worshippers of the most sprightly of the Muses.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
LATEST BETTING IN ST. JAMES'S.

CHESTER Cui.-7 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Marshal
Sault (8 to 1 laid once); 8 to 1 agst Mr. Holmes' Vulcan
(taken) ; Bto 1 agst Mr. Greville's Rory O'More (taken);
10 to 1 agst Mr. C. St. Paul's Jolly Tar • 10 to 1 agst Mr.'
Kirby's Lanercost ; 12 to I agst Lord Eglinton's The Young-
no,. 8 to I agst the feathers.
Dxaay.-6 to 4 agst Scott's lot (taken); 3 to 1 agst Col.
Anson's Attila ; 11 to '2 agst Mr. Trelawny's Frederica colt
(taken); 9 to 1 agst the Duke of Grafton's Canadian (taken) ;
18 to agst Lord Westminster's Auckland ; 25 to 1 agst Lord
Chesterfield's Jack (taken) ; to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's Lord
of Holderness; 25 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele (taken) i
30 to 1 agst Mr. Rogers's Tiptoe (taken); 35 to 1 agst Colonel
Peel's Chatham ; 50 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Barrier (taken) ;
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Booth's Prince Edward ; 600; to 400,
twice, on the Lord of Holderress agst Tiptoe (taken). •
OAKS.—S to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Adela filly (taken).
In the Derby betting given in our last, 9 to 1 was quoted
agst Chatham—it should have been Canadian; Chatham had
no price.

Her 'Majesty's wish, that the guests at tin. hall
should appear in the costume of the reign of,Edwarci the 'Third;
has oecasi.ned a perplexi!), to the Bishop .of Exeter and soma
of his colleagues: the Reverend Fathers have expressed great
reluctance to exhibit themselves in the,garb of Popish Pre=
lates; and to the suggestion that they might go as Lollards;
they have replied, "that would be worse, for the Lallards were
Dissenters." Lord Lyndhurst fears that his appearance in the
character of Chancellor to Edward the Third may give rise to
bad jokes, by recalling the earnest prayer of the Commons to
that Monarch, " that he would • appoint no alien Chancellor."
A sensation has been excited by a report that . the Reverend
Sydney Smith has consented to enact the part of Court .1 ester :
Lord John Russell and the Bishop of London declare they will
net go if be is to be allowed such a pretext for cracking his
jokes upon them in the very presence. But a worse dilemma
than any of them is that in which the Ambassadors from the
various American States have found themselves. Tlie repre-
sentattve of the Union was annoyed simply because he had no'
means of knowing what was the costume of his country in the
time of Edward the Third; but the Lord Chamberlain relieved
his apprehension by pointing to the example of the Highland
gentry, who are going ". all plaided and umed in their tartan
array," although it is notorious that this Harlequin garb was not
invented or borrowed by the savages of North Scotland till some
centuries later. The American bashfully replied, that although
on this side of the Atlantic, considerable credit was given to his
countrymen for modest assurance, yet all the world knows that
they fall short of Highlanders in that respect : ultimately, how-
ever, he was persuaded to defy anachronism and appear as a
North American Sachem. The dubieCes of the Mexican and
South American Envoys have not admitted of so easy a solu-
tion : all antiquarian reserch has only corroborated their fears,
that the drtss of their country at the period in question, must
have been a great deal ton simple and airy for the present occa-
sion. Sir Allan M'Nab, in whom the self-possession of the
Yankee and Highlander may naturally be supposed to be com-
bined, has set them a good example by resolving to go in the
character of an Esquimaux.— Spectator.
REVENGEFUL RECOLLECTION OF AN ELEPHANT.—
A few days since John Glascott, groom to a gentleman named
Turner, was conveyed to the London Hospital with a severe
fracture of the leg, near the ancle. The injury was caused by
an elephant, and is an additional ',roof that that animal is
mindful (the expression is almost justifiable) of wrings, and
seldom fails to resent them. On the morning of that day on
which Glascott was taken to the hospital, he had been wit-
nessing the performances of an elephant then exhibited in a
booth in the Commercial-road, East; and it is stated that he
took it into his head to amuse himself by teasing the
animal. Nothing more happened then ; but, is the after-
nom of the same day Glascott returned to the booth with his
children, and, whilst they were intent on the feats of the
animal, it suddenly wound its trunk round the man's leg, and
did not uncoil it until the leg was fractured. The surgical
treatment Glaseott received in the hospital at first succeeded ;
• but-a day or two back. erysipelas-attacked_the system; and ye's-
terdav terminated fatally.
We are sorry to learn, that Charles Hindley, Esq.,
M.P., is suffering from severe indisposition, at Pau, in the
south of France.