The Sun. — 1844-12-19 (London, England)

ADELPHI TIIEATRE. The Adelphi, under the new management, well" tains its old character' of being the first in the field with novelties. It has fairly distanced its competitors in the production of Charles Dickens's Chimes. The Adelphi chimes rang for the first time last evenin, ,g 1 and a bumper house was collected to see a beauti* series of tableauvsvivans, illustrative of the goblin story of some bells that rang an old year out and a n.,_evi year in. Mark Lemon and Gilbert A'Beckett are spy, dramatisers of the story and the illustrative sketches 011 Maelise, Stanfield, Leech, and Doyle, have been admin. bly transferred to canvass by Messrs. T. Pitt and John, stone. A beautiful copy of Maclise's exquisite Wu!: trated title-page to the work is used as the drop•snel: between the four quarters into which the pie° J" divided. After a prologue spoken, by Miss E. Chap ras a spirit of the chimes, we are introduct atty Vock (Mr. 0. Smith) and his daughter, Dm (Miss Fortescue), and see Trotty's memorable UV dinner in front of the house of Alderman Cute (11; Wright). We are next introduced to Sir Josef Bowley (Mr. Paul Bedford), the poor man's friend, who plays at skittles once a year with his by bourers, that is to say, with those who ps, I their rent, and tyrannises over his toga," Secretary Fish, and sends poachers to Prisl,,,P' and to his philanthropic lady (Miss E.Harding), subscribes to charities which give more than 11 votes for five guineas. We then meet with W'l Fern (Mr. Hudson), the English labourer—not theb English labourer of former days, but the Englit, labourer whom neglect and penury have driven i've Misery, and misery to crime; and then we }ill‘ Trotty's dream of the chimes, and see Meg, a 113,1,,.• serable sempstress, driven to suicide by want; gloomy parts of the picture being enlivened by f: kindheartedness of Mrs. Chickenstalker Mathews), and her quarrels with the hard-hear well to do, Mr. Tugby (Mr. Wilkinson), umquhile b 5131 porter to Sir Joseph Bowley, but now the husband °I the ci-devant Mrs. Chickenstalker, and the landlord r poor Meg. In the last scene Trotty awakes from 11 dream, determining, henceforth, to eschew tripe, itA all ends happily with the marriage of Meg and Riche's (Mr. Selby). 0. Smith's Trotty Veck is one of j_s°' most artistical pieces of acting we have ever witnes'6' It is quite equal to his old Scrooge. Miss ForteselL who has, we are glad to see, returned to the theeft where she first made for herself her fame, -supPnir him admirably, and made a most interesting chareci; of Meggy Veck. Wright, as the dogmatical Alder man, who is " up to everything" and is detertnin.th to put down "everything," convulsed the audiesce wl,, laughter by his quaint and ignorant self-suffinieni The sketch is evidently one from nature, and Wrigio had the good taste not to " make up" the charactertio as to bear any personal resemblance to the original; 0, satire, therefore, does not degenerate into bur., Hudson's Will Fern was full of power, and the (J'iii; truths which he uttered were taken up by the .I'lllAO ence and applauded to the echo. Paul Bedford the most of the " poor man's friend," and als, Harding, as his lady, was an admirable represent! ,o,„ of the fashionable female philanthropist, while kinson, as the fat, red-faced hall porter, was the vetys beau ideal of the class of men who ask " taxes ?" The piece has been put upon the stage ;tii, the greatest care and attention, and, with a Littlepiiie cious curtailment, will run pleasantly through eel Christmas season. The house was crammed to el" long before the rising of the curtain.  '