The Sun. — 1842-01-11 (London, England)

ALEX. Low seconded' the motion, which was, uranimously carried. After.a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the Meeting separated. '  VICTORIA!TBEATRE; Perfected by a week's reheirsttW theChristmasyieces, k on their nightly re-apPeai'anee,'-'hoiV- pass of with improved rapidity and 'eclat Before a erowded gathering of merry, juveniles; who:abounded in- 'gay looks and' laughters, Gerolfline; or the Mini Orphans of St. Pre led the- van of last evening's. entertainments: -Little brilliances of attitude and surprising positions—micapected developments that produce a- •" syncope and . pause "—so vary the 'Scenes of this domestic drama-, that excited interest was sustained throughout. In thehamlet of St. Pre, reside a brOther and his fair-haired, sister. A.Very village,queen for beauty, ti4-i6ers soOn" aspire. to the hand of but the successful' suitnr is Edgar ' Huntingdon; a dashing Englishman whirling' on ''pleasure through France, and who, with the art and array'Of the cavalry officer, wins the sweet girl's affections, arid then flings her, like a weed, away. RighteOus indignation takes possession of her brother's breast. Armed with. weapons of vengeance, he sets out in pursuit of the seducer. They meet in encounter, bitt the-interposition of Geraldine prevents, in this instance, a fatal issue ; a second conflict proves deadly, and, contrary to all moral laws, the innocent brother falls; and in passion Edgar strangles his sister, and flies. Five years elapse, and Edgar Huntingdon has entered into' possession of the Hose-court estates, but, regarding himself as the murderer of St. Clair and his. sister, dreams haunt perpetually his nocturnal rest, and gold and pomp avail nothing to quiet his disturbed spirit. Geraldine, meanwhile,. miraculously recovers, and, in the. guise of an abbess, still hovers round his steps, and acts as his preserver ; and when Larole, her brother's friend, tracks the seducer to his, estates to slay :him,, she throws herself in the poniard's. way, and receives the death-wound dealt at Edgar. Ex4ellent as is ,the piece for representation, the moral aimed at is undoubtedly strained, and of a false school. The notion that Geraldine, having received in her own person the deepest injury of which human nature can be susceptible, should still with unswerving firmness of purppse so cling with her -first love to her seducer as to anew:the sacrifice of, her own avenging- brother and his friend, is uncountenanced by any canons of moralsriticism. However, this objection is not over-palpable to play-goers. Gardner, in Jemmy Jottle, and 'Paul, in Davy Glib, sustained the conucalities scatterer "throughout, with great naivete and humour ; the logic of the former was highly flavoured with the spice of the Epicurean school, and his syllogisms were truly savoury. Miss. Vincent, as Geraldine, threw all the customary sweetness and pathos which she is so accomplished a mistress, of, into those parts that fitly required them. Her first costume has too much prudery about it ; but her second draperies of mourning, and her thrd of white, suited her gracefully. The pantomime of Peter Wilkins, with, its bright silver-winged aerials, and floating forms,- opened charmingly its display. Having noticed it on its first night, it is only necessary recapitulatively to remark, that practice has made its interminable variety of trick, masquerade, and knavery, perfect in their changes. Among its sly sarcasms, was that of an Irishman's blessing, in wishing fdt a benison on a child, that " every hair of its head might become a mould candle, to light her up to glory." The dissolving Diordma was admirable ; the advance and retrogression' of a bright scene or portrait, now obtruding itself close upon the view, and now retiring so apparently remote as to seem like a lucid star, was managed with great adroitness. 'What with the merry din of the music, the posturings of the silver-boddiced Columbine and Harlequin, and the fulsoma dazzle of the szens, the audience is warmed with gratification. The infinitely amusing drama of the Illastrioas Stranger wound up the evening, with its broad burlesque -and humour.  TO