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Office of her Majesty's Paymaster-General, RI iis are The E.,,,, Whitehall, February 17. 1851. -,..4'. er 410 11 1, 1 , - "'Llerill Bills dated in tho month ot March, 1850, (per Act ' Wee. . ther eon " ,13. 20, i -7,786,7001., anno. 1849), with the Interest duo n-a•k, trip oea.se orlll be paid off on the 13th March, 1851, when the Interest - .s .0.;.,, ,, 1 , , •s• Olb to till B Tl re ia e il ls will he received at this Office daily, from half-past Ten ditto, Print o'clock until the 6th day of March, 1851, inclusive. to 4d; tic ti "'" forms, containing instructions for the preparation of the t... and the n,„ - 110 Ibo - " .4 at ti l i,, oe T e angement of the Bills, may be obtained on applica -114 hearers e. ditto, tid th rs must indorse each Bill with their usual signatures, No 1,9 10 b 'exh:reZoisaadersst insert their names and addresses in each List ; and 18 234.] L OND 0] • , 73 6d ; °flitch holders names of holders are inserted in the Bills, the indorsements 9d to w .., left form e u x st am als in o a b t e ion obtained previoasly to their Lists and u p le being MISMICRIPIIi..PrIIIPIZMINXTRIIEPIe .. 1. br the Zills. bearing Interest at the rate of One Penny Halfpenny 'a 64 ' lith e iZY. upon every One Handred Pounds, and dated the said NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AND rri ae 7of March, 1851 may be obtained in payment of the EQUITABLE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES 7 s per the af the whole or , part of the Exchequer Bills I,sued under 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. , the Abet, or e - mentioned, on the claimants specifying in their Lists , rl 7 es, t of New Bills required by them. DIRECTORS. I/ O N , t*T. LAMIE MURRAY, Chairman. 100 ' h kra % a g e !' E ms , together with the Interest on the Bills left on or *W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. *John Rawson, Esq. , • .14th stt said 6th day of March for exchange, will be issued on the *Hugh Croft, Esq. *John Shaw, Esq. 4111,2 of March, 1851 ; the bearers must attend at this Office to tElliotson, M.D„ F.R.S. f*Edmund S. Symes, Esq. 1851 . ?,,,;__ , Pts for the payment of principal and interest. *Ralph Gough, Esq. t*Clement Tabor, Esq. • is t i ti r x eat, in ~ money, may be obtained at this Office for any of the r load . *M. C. Maher, Esq. t Joseph Thompson, Esq. ape e -,,.'leque r Bills previously to the said 13th day of March, 1851 ' M. Moss, Esq. t*Augustus Vigne, EN* 1 0 tts.':ua claimants leaving the Bills for examination one day prior - —.... CI w • AUDITOR. )r .t. inch such payment is desired. tProfessor Wheatstone, F.R.S. Drevi on .l 4 ` ll Exchequer Bills dated prior to March, 1850, have been • iis 6 '`"LY-..... „............ off. PHYSICIAN. V. Elliotson,`M.D„ F.R.S„ 37, Conduit-street. ibs 3d SURSEON. T , S MOKY CHIMNEYS .— NO CURE NO PAY. 14s 3d % 1 x, .. DOWSON, 123, Oxford-street (five V I E. S. Symes , Esq., ma n 77 ACTUARY., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square. 15 , . 149 9d 0 ° , grA rB P deo f RegrsATENT RE west oent-circus GRATE, begs to c ), sole anufac atte u n t tion to f * W. S. rer of B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., &c. It. as bet REGISTER l SECRETARY. 15 9 94 Ch i kokynkg the most elegant, inexpensive, and certain Cure for *D. T. Lyons Clanchy, Esq. /3 5 mdd p ro oineys SUPERINTENDENT. J. e rie elus forwarded upon application, post free. *W. A. Hawkins, Esq. 1 41 " 1 4 , r btl /VSON is also the sole manufacturer of CUNDT'S PA- N no . r.A . / BANKERS. 58 ° CI Oahe.— R and VENTILATING STOVE, for Churches, t*Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. " .4,rt„ '*,... 8 , Shops, Entrance Halls, Re. Patronised by the Society SOLICITORS, be „ ,c'd , atkt WI ',those rooms, John. street, Adelphi. it may be seen in con- 'Messrs. Sutton, Ewens, Ommanney and Prudence, 6, Basinghall l4a D u Ni d; ...'_, e sod also at Messrs. Hitchcock's, St. Paul's Church- street. , i4 l " .84 tre y at the Manufacturer's as above. A prospectus may be *W. Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-street. 13^; ° ' A '" .ea 1 , 1 - RtiLt u NATIONAL 'LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE. l 2 • 4• 64 ... elf in ~ CIMNEY-PIECES, GRATES, and FENDERS are "vat ei -me extensive Show Rooms, in great variety, and of the C.A.PITAL-500,0001. 13 9 3 , 1 toitil, f eft:it description, at greatly reduced prices. Every article The WITHDRAWAL TABLE of the Society affords to the As 13s d ",i , 4 . E 4et . jr-,',,, 1 u pon the most perfect principle. cured the greatest possible present and prospective advantages that Ise 9 " - mu). -,..`"w SON', 123, Oxford-street (five doors west of Regent- can be conferred by Life _Assurance.. On this Tan'e the Assured is 15 , 64 - 'lllidon. entitled, at any time, to receive at interest an immediate advance, to the extent of one-half the amount of the paid annual Premiums, 10 ° d 1-1 J --- N No without security, persona; liability, or deposit of the Policy, but by 14 9 94 J OURNAL of the EXH IBIT ION, N. . v". • ny the Editors just , • simple endorsement thereonthe half Premium may be with . ic ed 'Ann. le of the London Literary Journal, pub . held during the whole continuance of the Policy. Also, in the ill 0 1 i kl . t.st a , b — 4 d. for 72 columns, contains :—All the recent News or , W e n event of the Assured at any time not requiring to continue the lb 6 1 -- utto ri , 4,000 Copies of this Number have been sent to the Policy, on its surrender one-half of the annual payments will be It i s tl , l on the Continent, returned by the Society. 12 1 3 " 1114 ,fortni e n °1 4 Periodical exclusively devoted to the Exhibition, Lapsed Policies may I.e renewed without fine, on proof of health ~,_'`liso i t , I F 4 Permanent record of it. and payment of arrears of Premium without interest. u nlct,„ 4 _ r ts at Is. 6d. each. Notices of Assignireenct of Policies registered and acknowledged, ...•,._,.._._::..L.e;2t....sl_reet, Strand. so as to make them available as securities in the hands of 1 third parties. 0 1% °ll trid MR. RUSKIN'S' NEW WORK. No Entrance Fees or any other charge beyond the Policy Stamp. • „ il 'V next, in imperial Bvo., with Twenty-one Plates, and :Wit te,us Woodcuts, from Drawings by the Author, The present mural income of the Society from Premiums is 63,000/.amount c ovcred by the Policies of the Society is 1 t hw E STONES OF VENICE. aut. , • 1,781,5801.; and the res erred profit, applicable to future bonus to i , Volume the First—THE FOUNDATIONS, the Assured, amounts to 82,4541. ss. 6d. At the last annual inves . Alitlie n ~ By JOHN RUSKIN. tigation, reported in 'Hay, 1850, the bonuses declared to the As - 0, "The Seven Lamps of Architecture," "Modern sured were, the option of a return of 15 per cent. on their Premiums • ?ri te T Painters," &c. In cash, or a reversion ary addition to the original stun assured by tat° -, t vo Guineas, in embossed cloth, with top edge gilt. each Policy varying from 20 to 65 per cent. . '--------- -----....!_, 4 nd0n : Smith, Elder, and Co., G 5, Cornhill EXAMPLES OF BONUSES ALREADY DECLARED. 1 3 f ry - A , Red tp i n , r 4c i',7 , -1, P OLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION Perma -01 th e , ti e - 1/./ ti ; es on the Music of Wales, by Ellis Roberts, Esq. (Harp : l l' Annaal IPo'dey Bonus in vent Re t LISA 4 1 '• the Prince of Wales), with Vocal Illustrations by Miss Age. 0 ... Pre- tal um addition Bonus in diction of '44 ir." YOun G ,T, mium. out. fn to Sum , Cash. Annual Nob' . l iy „, Fe, R.A. of Music, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, , no t ' . tetett krenings at Eight, and on Saturday, at . Three. The Ce _ __ Assured. r. Premium. be 19 01 • t.' 4 In k s e nile Harpists; (the Lockwood Family) will perform -- : ' 4 11..,.er the direction of Mr. Frederick Chatterton, daily at £ s. 4. A s d. £ s, d. e 44 Oohs by 1357 292 a 9 139 16 9 22 13 1 t e .... J. H. Pepper, Esq., on the Chemistry of Ignition 1838 267 11 4 126 17 2 19 19 7 het °. ,_ on o . nation, with brilliant Exporiments.—Lecture by Dr. bli° ' Nor atter 0 1839 241 18 6 113 17 7 17 8 8 lii 8 1 , ,,,, n Voltaic Electricity, in which will be exhibited All- P ii _..g X Z s.d. 1840 193 12 6 93 16 8 14 010 ,strfw. er ,nnt Electric Light.—Exhibition of the Oxy-Hydrogen ' the n„4°OP _ E lectric 89 510 13 811 loo: --ay e * -- --ew Series of Dissolving Views, illustrating some of 60 1000 74 3 4 1841 189 12 6 1842 162 16 8 76 18 4 11 8 3 03 " 1 al It ealdences of Europe. 1843 115 10 10 55 10 10 8 110 eiPett d m , Admission, Is.—Schools, Half-price. "" Sate,.,TY from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every Evening (ea- 1844 77 19 2 38 15 10 59 11 90 1 ' ''...........L .....___ 4 Y) from Seven till Half-past Ten. 184.5 66 15 0 44 10 0 410 1 - e ail .. -.-• . _.,:.--'—' <,-_---' w..• -- . --- _ i v" - ----, /4----,---- *- -,- _ - - - .. _ . ' . •. , - 41111 111, ,, • ,i 9 -....r.......,_ ..,- . 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The .3nditure amounts to 7,464,4311., including 463,2254 pre aninary expenses to passing of Act, 10,6821. for directors and auditors, 21,5891. secretary, efficers, and clerks, 131,4661 law and engineering, 1,511,560/. land and compensation, 4,042, 907/., wor k s and matertals, 11,9654, machinery and tools, 266,6861. engines and tenders, 251,5351. carrying stock, 19,2901. Foss navigations rent account, 573,604. interest on capital and advances, 5,554/. stamps for mortgage deeds, 65,424/. to complete works of East Lincolnshire Railway, and 7,019/. on permanent way or ditto ; and 78,399/. on the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway account. The balance remaining in hand amounts to 336,5901., consisting of 249,939/. he cash, and 86 - ,651/. invested in South Yorkshire and other shares. The expenditure during the half-year amounts to 1,071,468/. The revenue account for the half year ending the 31st of December last states that 156,822/. had been received, including 95,1611. for passengers, 270463/. fbr goods and merchandise, and 13,6454 coals and minerals ; and 66,977/. expended, of which 6,531/. was for maintenance of ways and works, 24,644/. locomotive power, 27,818/. coaching, merchandise and station expenses, 1, a balance 272/. rates and taxes, and .3,081/. Government duty-l eas i ng of 89,841/. To this sum is added 7,900/., the balance from the preceding account in June, 1859, making 97,745/. Out of this sum is deducted 19,396/. for interest on perpetu a l 5 per cent. preference capital ; 18,000/. guaranteed rent of 6 per cent. on 600,090/.. capital of East Lincolnshire Railway 2,370/. at 6 per cent. on Royston and Hitchin Railway capi_ tal of 200,000/. (being at the rate of 12,0004 per annum), due from the 21st of October, the day of opening, to the 31st of December last; 1,202/. interest of bond debt of East Lincolnshire; 4,223!. balance of loss on Witham Navi gation, leaving a balance of 52,5521. From this sum 16,164/. is deducted for one quarter's interest, accrued from the 30th of September to the 31st of December last, on 103,454/. preference shares; and 15,898/., being one-half the six months' interest due (31,7974), and paid on the 15th of January, 1851, on the mortgage debt of the company, the other half (15,898/.) (being charged to capital, leaving a disposable surplus from revenue of 20,489/. The revenue account of the Fossdyke and Witham Navigation for the half-year shows a receipt of 7,0634, and an expenditure of 11,287/., leaving a balance of 4,223/ to the debit of revenue account. The length of the line open prior to the 7th of August was 146 miles. On the 7th of August last the line from London to Peterborough (a dis tance of 77 miles) was opened, and on the 21st of October the branch from Hitchin to Royston (13 miles) was opened, making the total to that date 236 mileit.444 number of miles run by the engines was 967,302. _ The consumption of coke averaged 30.11 b. per mile run by the engines, being 2.53 d. per mile, and for the trains 2.96 d. per - mile. The working charges for the half-Year WiraJ l -6' t,9771., being 42.87 per cent. of the gross receipts, and amounting to Is. 7id. petmile per Amin on the 826.739 miles ;run by the trains. The maintenance of viay is charged on 143 milts, the ether 90 miles are at present maintained by the' contractor. The original share capital now consists of 146,491 251. shares, 250 254 shares in suspense, 45,588 A 12/. 10s. shares, and 45,588 B 121. 10s. shares. When the account is fairly ad.. justed . the 'amber of preference shares may, to a trifling ex tent, be more or less than 103,454. NORFOLK.-The half-yearly meeting of this company took place on Friday, at Guildhall-buildings, - Major Tyndale in the chair. The secretary read the advertisement convening the meeting, and also one which stated that the business of the meeting would be adjourned. The chairman said the directors had deemed it advisable, in the present circum stances of the amalgamation scheme, to adjourn the meeting till the 27th of March next. Major Court objected to the adjournment, and moved an amendment, to the effect that the business of the meeting be continued, but there being no seconder, the adjournment was carried. MARYPORT AND CARLISLE.-FTOM the report to be pre sented to the meeting of shareholders on Wednesday, we learn that the gross traffic of the half-year ending the 31st December, 1850, amounts to 17,9501. Is. Id. ; expenditure 15,2801.75. 6d.; the disposable balance being 2,709/. 13s. sd. 6,593 12/. 10s. preference shares, bearing 4 per cent. interest, amounting to 82,412/. 10s. have been issued and taken up, and a corresponding amount of debenture notes and tempo- rary loans paid off and cancelled. The balance due from Mr. Hudson having been ascertained and agreed to, has been paid ; and a dividend of 15s. per share is record. mended, being at the rate of 34 per cent. per annum, to be paid. EAST AND WEST YORKSHIRE.-The ordinary half-yearly meeting of shareholders in this company was held in Leeds on Friday. 1). W. Nell, Esq., presiding. The report stated that the revenue account (after deducting 186/. 19s. 9d., the balance of last half-year), showed the sum of 2,375/. Bs. Bd. as receipts for the half-year ending 31st December last, being an excess of 399/.lls. 7d. over the corresponding six months of the previous year. The report was adopted unanimously, and a dividend of 6 per cent. per annum was declared on the preference shares of the company. BOLTON, BLACKBURN, CLITHEROE, AND WEST YORKSHIRE. -The eighth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was held on Friday, at their station, Darwent-street. W. H. florae-, Esq., the chairman, presided. The Chairman re gretted very much that the traffic receipts had not equalled the expectations of the directors. They anticipated that six months after the:Clitheroe line had been opened the receipts would t heee been 1,000/. per week. If it had.been so, the com pany would have been able to have met all their engagements. It was true that the line was not in that state of completion which - the directors could have wished, for there was only one line of rails from Blackburn to Clitheroe, and no sidings at any of the The woricing expenses, since the terms 1 which had been agreed upon between the Lancashire and Yorkshire, had been reduced 40 per cent., which was a great benefit to the company. The new arrangements bad ;Sot increased the amount of traffic upon the Bolton and Black burn line, a. fact which led him to regret that the terms of the East Lancashire Company had been rejected. With re ference to the preference shares, the directors had resolved to withdraw their original proposition, namely, that the in terest on those shares should be reduced from six to five pee cent. A majority of the preference shareholders had agre•A to the reduction, but still there were a number who were ose. posed to it-a number which did not warrant the directce-s in carrying out their proposition-a number which ini;,ht have caused considerable opposition hereafter, and which, in addition to causing heavy legal expenses, might eventually have proved successful. He thought the proposition a 'very fair one; for, as the line was in difficulties, it was only right i that-the preference shareholders should bear a part of the burden. The surplus of 3,000/. which appeared in the ac- I counts had already been appropriated to the carrying on of the works. The directors' report was then adopted. LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT. - The seventh 'half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this railway took . place on Friday, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. W. Earle, Esq., presided. The attendance was not very nume rous. The accounts for the half-year showed a balance to the credit of revenue of 4,198/. 6s. 10d., from which the di rectors recommended the payment of a dividend, at the rate of 2 per cent. for the past half-year, leaving a balance to be .carried forward of 838/. The directors' report was adopted. TAW VALE.- On Friday, the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors was held at the London Tavern; John Sharland, Esq., in the chair. The secretary read the report, - which stated, since the last meeting the directors had liqui dated 12,000/. of the liabilities, estimated at that time at 20,000/. They had also entered conditionally into a guaran teed contract for constructing the remaining twenty-six miles of the line from Umberleigh to Crediton, for a sum within .the share capital of the company, namely, 441,0004 ',;Chey had also entered into a contract with Mr. Brassey for leasing the line, for a term of seven years, determinable however, at the option of the company, that gentleman find ing all plant, and paying all outgoing, at a rental of 12,000/. per annum. A committee of the board had visited all the principal towns in the locality of the line, to make arrange_ i ents for raising the 50,000/. in shares, in land or money, onformably with the resolutions of the special meeting of the 28th February, 1850, as the condition on which the di rectors might prosecute the works. This committee had re cently returned from its visit, and, owing to the landowners not being prepared to name prices for their land, and the re sident committees appointed in the several towns not having concluded their labours, the directors are unable, at this pe riod, to announce the entire subscription of 50,0064 They believe they can safely announce that more than half that sum has been accomplished, or promised, and generally they find a great desire on every side to see the line completed, as well as to support it as far as individual means will allow. The receipts had been 177,471/., and the balance was 6,6691. The report was adopted, and the thanks of the meeting were voted to the directors. MANCHESTER AND SOUTIIPORT.-The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was held on Friday. It is one of the companies amalgamated with the Lancashire and Yorkshire, and takes a dividend of 1 per cent. less than that company. Mr. Gill, chairman of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Corn pany presided, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire dividend having been fixed at 2 per cent., the present meeting simply had to declare a dividend of I per cent., which they did, and then separated. MONKLAND.-The sixth general ordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Monkland Railway Company was held on Thursday, at the company's office, West George-street, Jeha Bain, Esq., of Morriston, in the chair. The receipts frpm traffic show an increase of 93/. 7s. 10d. on the last, as compared with the preceding half-year. The net revenue is 889/. 9s. more than it was for the previous six months, but it is 264!. 15s. 6d. less than the net revenue for the half- G SUN, MARCH 3, 1851, N°. 18,234.] LONDON, MONDAY EVENIN [PRICE SD. DINNER TO MR. MACREADY. A dinner was given to Mr. Macready on Saturday by his friends and admirers, on his retirement from the stage. It was in the first instance intended that the entertainment should have taken place at the London Tavern, but the ap plications for tickets were so numerous that it was found im possible to provide the requisite accommodation in that esta blishment. The Hall of Commerce was therefore engaged for the occasion, and the large number of additional tickets which that arrangement enabled the committee to issue were speedily taken up. With the exception of two brilliant stars in gas, having the ciphers " V." and " A." in the cen tre, the hall was destitute of any ornament. Upwards of 600 tickets were issued. By six o'clock every seat in the hall was occupied. Soon afterwards Mr. Macready, who was accompanied by the chairman, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, and the members of the dinner committee entered the hall, and was received with enthusiastic cheering. Among the noblemen and gentlemen present were his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen (the Prus sian Minister), M. Van de Weyer (the Belgian Minister), the Ai arquis of Clanricarde, Lord Dufferin ' Lord W. Graham, Lord Ernest B ruce , Si r C. L. Eastlake, P.11.A ; Mr. Charles Dickens, Sir E. Landseer, Captain Sir G Back, Mr. C Bab bage, Mr. W. M. Thackeray, Sir R. Murchison. Mr. C. Kemble, Mr. J. Forster, Lieutenant-General Sir J. Wilson, Mr. C. Stanfield. M r . .J. Fox, M.P. ; Mr. R. M. Milnes, M.P. ; Mr. Heywood, M.P.; Mr. D. Maclise, R.A.; Mr. A. Stafford, M.P. ; Mr. C. Baring, R.A. ; Sir A. Gordon, Mr. C. Leslie, R.A. ; Mr. P. H. Howard, M.P. ; Mr. S. Hart, R.A. ; Mr. Macaulay, Q.C. ; Mr. D. Roberts, R.A. ; Mr. E. Warburton, Mr. W. F. Pollock, Mr. A. Fonblanque, Dr. Quin, Hon. S. Lyttelton, Mr. J. Cattermole, Sir E. Ryan, Mr. Sergeant Adams, Mr. R. S. Rintoul, Mr. D. W. Harvey, Dr. G. R. Rowe, &c. After the removal of the cloth grace was chanted, and The CHAIRMAN gave the " Healths of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family," which were received with the usual demonstrations of loyalty. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of " The Army and Navy," observed that the drama was under very great obligation to the army, three of our dramatic writers having been connected with that profession. Ben Jonson served with the army in Flanders ; Steele, the father of our serious comedy, had been a trooper in the Guards • and Farquhar owed many of his happiest recollections to the time when he was a lieutenant under Lord Orrery.—(Loud cheers.) He did not remember that the navy had, in former times, contri buted its quota to our dramatic literature, but one of the humiliates the genius it condescends to flatter.—(Great cheering.) And therefore it is tlrat he has so lifted up that profession to which he belongs in its proper rank amid the liberal arts; and therefore it is that in glancing over the list of our stewards we find every element of that aristocracy upon which he has never fawned unites to render him its tribute of respect.—(Loud cheers.) The Ministers of foreign nations—men among the noblest of the peers of England—veterans of those professions of which honour is the lifespring—the chiefs of literate and science and art— ministers of the Church, sensible, of the benefits he has bestowed upon society in banishing from the stage what had drawn upon it the censure of the pulpit,—all are here, and all unite to enforce the truth, the great truth, which he leaves to those who come after him—that let a man but honour his calling, and the calling will soon be the honour of the man. —(Loud and prolonged cheering.) Gentlemen, I cannot better sum up all I would say than by the words which the Roman orator applied to the actor of his day; and I ask you if I may not say of our guest as Ciceto said of Roscius—" Ile is a man who unites yet more of virtues than of talents, yet more of truth than of art, and who, having dignified the scene by the various portraitures of human life, dignifies yet more this assembly by the example of his own."—(Great applause.) Gentlemen, the toast I am about to propose to you is connected with many sad associations, but aot to-day. Later and long will be cherished whatever may be sad of those mingled feelings that accompany this farewell—later, when night after night we shall miss from the play-bill the old familiar name, and feel that one source of elevated delight is lost to us for ever.—(Hear, hear.) To-day let us only re joice that he whom we so prize and admire is no worn-out veteran retiring to a rest he can no longer enjoy—(Cheers) that he leaves us iu the prime of his powers, with many years to come, in the course of nature, of that dignified I leisure for which every public man must have sighed in the midst of his triumphs ; and though we cannot say of him that his effect that authors were not a particularly united body—(A augh)—and were not devotedly and inseparably attached to one another.—(Laughter.) He (Mr. Dickens) was afraid he must concede just half a grain or so of truth to that super stition ; but this he knew, that there hardly could be, or could have been, among the followers of literature, a man higher above those little grudges and jealousies which some times disfigured its brightness for a moment than Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.—( Hear, hear.) He had the very strongest reason at this time to bear his testimony to Sir Bulwer Lytton's great consideration for evils which were sometimes attendant upon literature, though not upon him ; for, in con junction with some others who were present, he (Mr. Dickens ) had just embarked with their chairman in a design for smoothing the rugged way of young labourers both in lite rature and the fine arts, and for cheering, but by no elee mosynary means, the declining years of meritorious age.— (Cheers.) If that project prospered, as he believed it would, and as he knew it ought to do, it would be an honour to England where there was now a reproach upon her, and it would have originated in the sympathy and consideration of their chairman, having been first brought into prac tical operation by the unstinted gift of his intellect and labour, and endowed from its very cradle by his munificent generosity.—(Hear, bear, and cheers.) There were many among them who would no doubt have each his own favou rite reason for drinking their chairman's health with accla mation, resting his claim probably upon some one of his diversified successes. According to the nature of their reading, some of them might the more naturally connect him with prose—others with poetry; one might associate him with comedy—another with the romantic passions of the stage, and his assertion of worthy ambition and earnest struggles against those twin goalers of the human heart—low birth and iron fortune. The taste of one might lead him to contem plate Rienzi and the streets of Rome; another's, the rebuilt and repeopled ruins of Pompeii ; another's, the touching his tory of that fireside where the Caxton family—so far a picture to them all—learnt how to discipline their natures and to tame their wild hopes down. (Loud cheers.) But how ever various those feelings and reasons might be, sure he was that with one accord all would swell the greeting with which they would receive "the health of Sir E. Bulwer Lytton." The toast was drunk with loud cheering, and was briefly actor is infinibely more necessary to reproduce the author's idea of a olay than a good musical director is required for the under:, tending of a great musical composition. You can set tunes a: ad harmonies to notes, but not words and sentences to declamat ion.. And what can you prescribe for action? The great a ctor is the real hypophetes of the prophet, the best interim tter of his meaning, and nothing less than his whole persoi 1, his body. mind, and soul are required for per forming that. great task. In the age in which we live it is not the quest don whether we are to have a national theatre or not. The question only is, whether the theatre is to be conducted by Libretto-makers and mechanical or mercantile managers, or vihether it is to be regulated by first-rate men both of intellect and of moral co u ra ge . The question is whether we- shall allow it to be disgraced iieto a slave of fashion and lova - amusement, or whether it is to be upheld as a high in tell ectual and moral school, nourished by the best feelings of the nation, or worthy o f th e support of an enlightened x national Government. Gentlemen, I think we all agree abo at this alternative. It i s our cor di a l agree ment on thi, question which has collected us also to-day around our ju saly honoured guest. The G erman li terature and nation 1 tave long decided that question in the genie way. I hav; t already mentioned that Leasing allied him self with Schr otter, the celebrated German actor of his time. In the same n a.inner Goethe dedicated a great pa r t o f hi s long, laborious, and: self - devoted life to creating and main taining a nati or ial theatre, and so did Ludwig Tiek f or many years at Drescle n and Berlin. 1 think that precious as th e i r time was it w at ; well bestowed upon this great object ; an d I cannot allow '.:b is occasion to pass without mentioning a fact directly beane; upon this occasion, that when Ludwig Tiek was, in 1 81 7, in London, he was struck by a young actor then oni I? beginning to appear before the public. He did not see him in a Shaksperiau play—the particular object of his de :voted attention, but in a now forgotten drama of the d ay, in a character neither attractive nor deeply poetical.. But, nevertheless, he was struck by that young actor it i the midst of the splendid constel lations which t !.en shone on the English stage. "If this young man," T iek-says, in his dramaturgic letters of 1817, " goes on as he la as begun, he will become one of the most eminent actors ot` the age." The young man's name was William Macre ady.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, there re mains nothing more for me than to pay personally the tri bute of sincere adiniration and,gratitude td dim by whose side I have to 3a y the distinguished honoar to.sit. Having watched him a' ttentively during the ten years I have had the happiness to spend in this dountry, Ido not know whether I adm Ire him more as the man who has made me " way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf," yet we can say that he has prematurely obtained " that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends"— (Cheers)—and postponing for this n4ht all selfish regrets, not thinking of the daikness that is tslefollow, but of the brightness of the sun that is to set, I call upon you to drink with full glasses and full hearts, "Health, happiness, and long life to William Macready." The toast was drunk by tip company upstinding, and was followed by rapturous cheers, which were renewed and con tinued for some moments. Mr. MACREADY, on rising, was received with a fresh out burst of cheering and the waving of handkerchiefs. He said—l rise to thank you, I should say to attempt to thank you, for I feel the task is far beyond my power. What can I say in reply to all that the kindly feeling of my friend has dictated? I have not the skill to arrange and dress in attractive language the thoughts that press upon me, and my incompetency may perhaps appear like a want of sensi bility to your kindness, for we are taught to believe that out of the heart's fulness the mouth speaks. But my difficulty, let me assure you, is a contradiction to this moral.—(Cheers.) I have to thank my friend, your distinguished chairman, for proposing my health to you, and for the eloquence —may I not add the brillant fancy ?—with which he has enriched and graced his subject. But that we may readily expect from him who in the wide and discursive range of his genius touches nothing that he does not adorn.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) I have to thank you for the cordiality and—if I may, without presumption say so—the enthusiasm with which the compliment proposed has been received, and for the honour—never to be forgotten—that you have con ferred on me by making me your guest to-day. Never before have I been so oppressed with a sense of my deficiency as at this moment, looking on this assemblage of sympathising friends, crowded here to offer me the sponta neous testimony of their regard. I observe among you many who for years have been the encouraging companions of my course ; and there are present, too, those who have cheered even my very earliest efforts. To all who have united in this crowning tribute, so far beyond my dues or expecta tions—to my old friends, the friends of many years, who welcomed me with hopeful greeting in the morning of my professional life, and to the younger ones, who now gather round to shed more brightness on my setting, I should wish to pour forth the abundant expression of my grati tude.—(Loud cheering.) You are not, I think, aware of the full extent of my obligations to you. Independent of the substantial benefits due to a liberal appreciation of my exertions, my very position in society is determined by the stamp which your approbation has set upon my humble efforts—(Cheers)—and let me unhesitatingly affirm that without undervaluing the accident of birth or titular distinction, I would not exchange the grateful pride of your good opinion, which you have given me the right to cherish, for any favour or advancement that the more privi leged in station could receive. --(Great cheering.) I really am too much oppressed, too much overcome, to attempt to detain you long ; but with the reflection, and under the con viction, that our drama, the noblest in the world, can never lose its place from our stage while the English language lasts, I will venture to express one parting hope—that the rising actors may keep the loftiest look, may hold the most elevated views of the duties of their calling.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) I would hope that they will strive to elevate their art, and also to raise themselves above the level of the player's easy life to public regard and distinction by a faith ful ministry to the genius of our incomparable Shakapere.— (Cheers.) To effect this creditable purpose they must bring resolute energy and unfaltering labour to their work; they must be content "to spurn delights nod live laborious days ;" they must remember that whate l er is excellent in art must spring from labour and endurancri. " Deep the oak Must sink in stubborn earth its roots obscure That hopes to lift its branches to the sky." —(Loud applause.) This, gentlemen, I can assure you, was the doctrine of our own Siddons and of the great Telma— ( Hear, hear)—and this is the faith I have held as one of their humblest disciples. Of my direction of the two:patent theatres, on which my friend has so kindly dilated, I wish to say but little. The preamble of their patents recites, as a condition of their grant, that the theatres shall be insti tuted for the promotion of virtue, and to be instructive to the human race. I think these are the words. I can only say that it was my ambition, to the best of my ability, to obey that injunction —(Hear, hear, and cheers)—and, believing in the principle that property has its duties as well as its rights, I conceived that the proprietors should have co operated with me.—(Loud and general cries of " Hear, hear.") They thought otherwise, and I was reluctantly compelled to relinquish, on disadvantageous terms, my half-achieved enterprise. Others will take up this uncom pleted work, and if inquiry were set on foot for one best qualified to undertake the task, I should seek him in the theatre which, by eight years' labour, he has, from the most degraded condition, raised high in public estima tion not only as regards the i n t e lli gence an d res p ec t a bilit y of his audiences, but by the learned and tasteful spirit of his oroductions.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I shall not detain you longer. All that I could desire, and far more than I ever could expect, you have conferred upon me in the honour you have done me to-day. It will be a memory that must remain as an actual possession to me and mine which nothing in life can take from us. The repetition of thanks adds little to their force, and, therefore, deeply as I am, already obliged to you, I must draw still further on your indulgence. You have had faith in my zeal for your service; you will, I am sure, continue that faith in my gratitude for the value you have set upon it. With a heart more full than the glass I hold, I return you my most grateful thanks, and have the honour of drinking all your healths. !rte 1f ~,~~ y ' ^ acknowledged by the Chairman, who observed that the com pliment was the more gratifying to him as it proceeded from an assemblage comprising so many of his own fellow labourers. V.tx DU WEYER, in proposing " the Artists, and Sir Charles Eastlake," said he was . grateful to the chairman for most brilliant wits of the present day, who had given to the stage some of the most sparkling and enduring of English dramas—he meant Mr. Douglas Jerrold—had been connected with the navy.—( Haar.) For the rest, one thing was per fectly certain, that had it not been for the navy, in conjunc tion with the army, our play-loving neighbours, the French, might have made England itself the subject of a very dis agreeable tragedy.— (Laughter.) The toast was briefly acknowledged by Lieut.-General Sir J. WILSON on behalf of the army, and by Captain Sir G. BACK for the navy. The CHAIRMAN then rose, and said—Gentlemen, when glance through this vast hall, and feel how weak and indis tinct is my voice, I feel that I must frankly threw myself on your indulgence, and intreat your most patient and courte ous attention while 1 approach that subject which unites to-day an assembly so remarkable for the numbers and distinction of those who compose it: We are met to do honour to an eminent man, who retires into private life after those services to the public which are always most felt at the moment we are about to lose them.—(Hear.) There are many among you far better qualified than I am to speak critically of the merits of Mr. Macready as an actor; but placed as I am in this chair, I feel that I should justly dis appoint you if I did not seek to give some utterance to those sentiments of admiration of which you have made me the representative. Gentlemen, this morning I read in one of the literary journals some qualifying remarks as to the de gree of Mr. Macready's genius; and now, as I recognise here many who aro devoted to literature and art, I will ask them , if I am not right in this doct r i ne —th a t th e t rue measure of I the genius of an artist is the degree of excellence to which I he brings the art that he cultivates.—(Hear, hear.) Judge of Mr. Macready by this test, and how great is that genius that will delight us no more—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—fur it is because it has so achieved what I will call the symmetry , of art that its height and its breadth have been often forgot ten.—(Hear, hear.) We know that it is the uneven and irre gular surface that strikes us as the largest, and the dimen sions of a genius, like those of a building, are lost in the just ness of its proportions—(Applause)—and therefore it is that in recalling the surpassing excellence of our guest as an ar tistical performer, one is really at a loss to say in what line of character he has excelled the most. The Titanic grandeur of Lear, the human debasement of Werner, th e f ran k v i vac i ty of Henry the Fifth, the gloomy and timorous gilt of King John, or that—his last—personation of Macbeth, in which it seemed to me that he conveyed a more exact notion of what Shakapere designed than I can recollect to have read in the most profound of the German critics; for I take it, what Shakapere meant to represent in Macbeth was the kind of character which is most liable to be influenced by a belief in supernatural agents—a man who is acutely sensible to all impressions, who has a restless imagination more powerful than his will, who sees daggers in the air and ghosts in the banquet hall who has a moral weakness and a physi cal courage, and who—as our guest represented him—alter nates perpetually between terror and daring—a trembler when oppressed by his conscience, and a warrior when defied by his foe.—(Loud cheering.) But in this, as in all that num berless crowd of characters which is too fresh in your memo ries for me to enumerate, we don't so much say, " How well this was spoken," or " How finely that was acted," but we feel within ourselves how true was the persona tion of the whole.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Gentle men, there is a word that is often applied to artists and to authors, and I think we always apply it improperly when we speak of a superior intellect—l mean the word " ver satile." Now, I think the proper word is " comprehen sive." The man of genius does not vary and change, which is the meaning of the word versatile, but he has a mind sufficiently expanded to comprehend variety and change. If I can succeed in describing the eircle, I can draw as many lines as I please from the centre straight to the circumference, but it must be upon the condition—for that is the mathema tical law—that all these lines shall be equal one to the other, or it is not a circle that I describe. Now, I do not say our guest is versatile; I say that he is comprehensive.—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—and the proof that he has mastered the most perfect form of the comprehensive faculty is this—that all the lines he has created within the range of his art are equal the one to the other.—(Loud cheering.) And this, gentlemen, explains to us that originality which even his de tractors have conceded to him. Every great actor has his manner, as every great writer has his style.—(Hear, hear.) But the originality of our guest does not consist in his man ner alone, but in his singular depth of thought.—(Cheers.) He has not only accomplished the obvious and essential graces of the actor—the look, the gesture, the intonation, the stage play—but he has placed his study far deeper. He has sought to penetrate into the subtlest in tentions of the poet, and made poetry itself the golden key to the secrets of the human heart.—(Cheers.) He was original, because he never sought to be original, but to be truthful ; because, in a word, he was as conscientious in his art as he is in his actions.—(Loud cheering.) Gentlemen, there is one merit of our guest as an actor upon which, if I were silent, I should indeed be ungrateful. Many a great per former may attain to a high reputation if he restrains his talents to acting Shakapere and the great writers of the past ; but it is perfectly clear that in so doing he does not advance one inch the literature of his time. It has been the merit of our guest to recognize the truth that the actor has it in his power to assist in creating the writer.—(Hear, hear.) He has identified himself with the living drama of his period, and by so doing he has half created it.—(Cheers.) Who does not recollect the rough and manly vigour of Tell, the simple grandeur of Virginius, or the exquisite sweetness and dignity and pathos with which he invested the self-sacrifice of lon ? (Loud cheering.) And who does not feel that but for him these great plays might never have obtained their hold upon the stage, or ranked among those masterpieces which this age will leave to posterity.— (Renewed cheers.) And what charm and what grace, not their own, he has given to the lesser works of an inferior writer, it is not for me to say.— (Loud and continued cheering.) But, gentlemen, all this, in which he has sought to rally round him the dramatic writers of his time, brings me at once from the merits of the actor having intrusted this duty to him, because he considered that a compliment was thus paid to the country he represented a country upon which the cultivation of art had thrown an immortal lustre, and which, since the restoration of its inde pendence, had witnessed with just national pride the glorious revival of its ancient school.—(Cheers.) He might observe that the genius of that great dramatic artist to whom they had assembled to pay their tribute of admiration had recently received a just homage from the greatest living French prose writer, George Sand, who had placed—to use her own ex- pression—under the protection Of his great name and of his friendship, her own views upon dramatic art. It must be to them, as it was to him, a source of extreme gratification to see in that assembly the most eminent representatives of art in all its various branches. They knew how all the arts were linked together, and when dramatic poetry was united with painting, sculpture, architecture, and music, it offered to man the most ennobling pleasure his mind could enjoy. He might be allowed to make one incidental remark on this subject. No foreigner could visit the English theatres without being struck with the extraordinary talent, the real genius, the richness of imagination, the picturesque ness of the colouring, and the beauty f the architecture displayed by the artists in scenic decorations—the last of which qualities he must say he had often wished to see transferred from the stage to the streets of.that metropolis— (Laughter and cheers)—where there were certainly somo architectural enormities, which weighed as heavily upon the soil as no doubt they did upon the consciences of the mis taken artists who perpetrated them.—(Laughter.) He had, since he had been in England, heard many doleful lamenta tions on the decay of British art, but he was not one of those who shared in that feeling. Was there, he asked, any school of painting which, in less than a century of existence, had produced so many eminent artists as the English ? Among the dead they had Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Wilkie, and many others. Among the living they had East lake, with his brillant colouring and exquisite taste; Land seer, whose pictures wer&poems—(Cheers)—Maclise, whose translations from Shakspere were in the memory of all ; Stansfield, whose pictures were full of life and freshness; Leslie, the worthy interpreter of Cervantes, of Sterne, and of Goldsmith ; and Turner, whose genius had inspired the pages of the most eloquent moral and religious book - ever published in this or any other age.-(Cheers.) He thought, then, it would be seen that there were talent and genius in the English school equal to the greatest requirements of art. Sir C. EASTLAKE, in acknowledging the toast, expressed his concurrence in the recommendation of his Excellency that the architectural scenery sometimes exhibited on the stage should be imitated in the streets of the metropolis.— (Cheers and laughter.) He bore his testimony to the ad miration he had uniformly heard expressed by the artists of this country of the judicious representations which Mr. Macready had promoted. Mr. Jomi FORSTER, in proposing the next toast, " Dra matic Literature," observed that it was peculiarly the glory of Mr. Macready's career that his name was equally allied with present and past dramatic literature, and that it would hereafter be associated with a long line of original poetic , creations which first derived form from the inspiration of his art. After referring to the connexion of Mr. Macready, as an actor, with the dramas of Lord Byron, Sir Bulwer Lytton, Mr. Knowles, Mr. Justice Talfourd (whose judicial duties prevented him from attending), Mr. Proctor, the Rev. 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I recall, gentlemen, that brief but glorious time when the drama of England appeared suddenly to revive, and to promise a future that should be worthy of its past—( Hear, hear)—when, by a union of all kindred arts, and the exercise of a taste that was at once gorgeous and severe, we saw the genius of Shakspere properly embodied upon our stage, though I maintain that the ornament was never superior to the work. Just remember the manner in which the supernatural agency of the weird sisters was made apparent to our eye, in which the magic isle of Prospero rose before us in its mysterious and haunted beauty, and in which the knightly character of the hero of Agincourt received its true interpetration from the pomp of the feudal age, and you will own you could not strip the scene of these effects with out stripping Shakspere himself of kalf the richness and depth of his conceptions.—(Loud cheers.) But that was the least merit of that glorious management. Mr. Macready not only enriched the scene, but he purified the audience— (llear)—and for the first time since the reign of Charles 11. a father might have taken his daughters to a public theatre with as much safety from all that could shock decorum as if he had taken therm to the house of a friend.—(Cries of " Hear, hear," and cheers.) And for this reason the late lamented Bishop of Norwich made it a point to form the personal acquaintance of Mr. Macready, that he might thank him, as a prelate of the Church for the good he had done to society.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I cannot recal that period without a sharp pang of indignant regret, for if that management had lasted some ten or twelve years I know that we should have established a permanent school for actors, a fresh and enduring field for dramatic poetry and wit, while we should have educated an audience up to feel that dramatic performances in their highest point of excel lence had become an intellectual want, that could no more be dispensed with than the newspaper or the review. And all this to be checked and put back for an age to come ! Why ? Because the public did not appreciate the experiment? Mr, 'Macready has told us that the public supported him nobly, and that his houses overflowed. Why then? Because of the enormous rent and exactions for a theatre which, even in the most prosperous seasons, made the exact difference be tween profit and loss.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, it is not now the oceasion to speak of remedies for that state of things. Remedies there are, but they are for legislation to effect. They involve considerations with regard to those patents which are secured to certain houses for the purpose of maintaining in this metropolis the legitimate drama, and which I fear have proved the main obstacle to its success.— ( dear, hear.) But these recollections belong to the past. The actor—the manager—are no more. Whom have we with us to-day ? Something grander than actor or manager ; to-day we have with us the man.—(A loud and prolonged burst of cheering.) Gentlemen, to speak of those virtues which adorn a home and are only known in secret, has always appeared to me to be out of place upon public occasions; but there are some virtues which cannot be called private, which accom pany a man everywhere, which are the essential part of his public character, and of these it becomes us to speak, for it is to these that we are met to do homage. I mean integrity, de votion to pure ends, and a high ambition, manly independ ence, and honour that never knew a stain.—(Loud and go ner 11 cheers.) Why should we disguise from ourselves that there are great prejudices to the profession of an actor? 'Who does not know that our noble guest has lived down every one such prejudice, not falling into the old weakness of the actor, and for which Garrick could not escape the sarcasm of Johnson, of hankering after the society and patronage of the great ?—(lfear, hear.) The great may have sought in him the accomplished gentleman, but he has never stooped his bold front as an Englishman to court any patronage meaner than the public, or to sue for the smiles with which fashion (Mr. Macready, who had displayed considerable emotion during some portions of his address, then resumed his seat amid most enthusiastic cheering.) Mr. C. DICKENS, in proposing the next toast, said it ap peared to him that there were three great requisites essential to the realisation of a scene so unusual and so splendid as that which they then witnessed. The first, and he must say the very difficult, requisite, was a man possessing that strong hold on the general remembrance, that indisputable claim on the general regard and esteem, which was possessed by his dear and much valued friend their guest.—(Cheers.) The second requisite was the presence of a body of entertainers —a great multitude of hosts—as cheerful and good humoured, under some personal inconveniences —(Cries of " No, no," and a laugh)—as warm-hearted and as nobly in earnest, as those whom he had the privilege then to address. The third, and certainly not the least of tho se less by hi s soc i a l position— oi by hi s f or t une — w hi c h identally lost— (A laugh) might s —than bmt by yis adventitiously ien e nw n hs t oei v w rnie t h oar o n , ac ce genius, might fitly represent at once the best part of that to which honour was done, and the best part of those who united in the doing of it.— (Cheers.) Such a president he thought they had found in their chairman of to-night—(Loud cheers)—and it was their chairman's health that he had to propose.—(Re newed cheers.) Many of those who heard his were no doubt present at the memorable scene on Wednesday night, when that great vision which had been a delight and a les son—verysupport and a comfort—to aar l s ooked for an elevated re de improved and charmed ltt hheeef them, owamnhdi tchht eo often, hadlwhichlabours he or dared a t ohrmf:eedayt many years lives, faded from their s i g ht ay, for ever.—(Cheers.) He would not stop to inquire whether their guest might or might not have looked forward, through rather too long a period for them, to some remote and distant time when he might possibly bear some far-off likeness to a certain Spanish Archbishop whom Gil Blas once served.— ( Laughter.) Nor would he stop to inquire whether it was a reasonable disposition in the audience of Wednesday to seize upon the words— " And I have bought Golden opinions from all sort of people; Which would be worn , now in th e i r newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon '— but he would venture to intimate to thos e w h om he addressed their d how in his own mind he mainly conn ected that occasion with the present. When he looked roun:onwthheenvhasetsaa:setmhe blage of Wednesday, and observed the huge pit hushed into misty a s t t l fi l stillness essstus surging striking i h ng e ga loe risingruyt, their e i trl wheree arms curtain, in e in like strong swimmers-- in shi r t s l eeves were (Laughter)—become still water a moment, and remain so through the play, it suggested to him something besides the trustworthiness of an English crowd, and the delusion under which those persons laboured who disparaged and maligned such an assembly. It suggested to him that in meeting hero to-night they undertook to represent something 7 of the all-pervading feeling of that crowd thr oug h a ll i ts in termediate degrees, from the full-dressed lady w i t h spark ling diamonds in the proscenium box tots bidinghehalf-un dressedhistime orgetanktlienmganso—m(eGrie.eaftrelashungihetnet in laughter)—who r) wa back row of the gallery.—(Renewed laughter.) He considered that no one whom they could possibly place in the chair could so well head that comprehensive represen tation, and could so well give a crowning grace to their fes tivities, as one whose comprehensive genius had in his various works embraced them all—(Hear hear)—and who had in his dramatic genius enchanted and enthralled them all at once.—(Cheers.) It was not for him to recal on that occasion what he had seen and known in the bygone times of Mr. Macready's management, of the steady friendship of Sir Bulwer Lytton for their guest, of the association of his pen with the earliest successes of those days, or of his zealous and untiring services; but he might be permitted to say— what, indeed, in any public mention of Sir Bulwer Lytton he could never repress—that in the path they both trod he had uniformly found him from the first the most generous of men—(Cheers)—quick to encourage, slow to disparage— (Hear, hear)—ever anxious to assert the order of which he was so bright an ornament, and never condescending to shuffle it off and leave it outside State rooms, as a Mussel man might leav e hi s s lippers outside . a mosque.—(L aug ht er .) There was a popular prejudice, a kind of superstition, to the Chevalier BUNSEN responded to the toast in the following words :—Much as I must wish that there was present on this occasion one of the surviving heroes of our literature to whom Germany owes the distinguished honour which has been done to her dramatic writers and critics, I am free to confess that I am proud it has fallen to my lot to be on such an occurrence the feeble, but sincere, interpreter of our national feelings. Sir, that honour is great and precious, coming as it does from such a man, addressing such an assembly, and on such an occasion. Gentlemen, the modern literature of Germany was nurtured by the English muse, and the genius of William Shakspere watched over her cradle. He is not a trae German who does not gratefully acknowledge that fact.—(Cheers.) When, after one century of bloody internal wars, and another of benumbment, about 80 years ago the national spirit of Germany had gathered strength to look around, he found himself in the fetters of the most conventional poetry and taste which ever has weighed upon poor humanity since the days of China and Byzanee—oratorical prose in rhyme, rhetoric screwed up to poetry, civilized galvanism mistaken for the rhythm of organic life. It was under such circumstances that the first of our intellectual giants, Leasing arose, and in pure classical German proved that our models must be looked fer somewhere else, and par ticularly in the dramatic art. Lensing pointed to two great constellations—the Athenian theatre and William Shakspere. He did more - be united with a great and genial actor, Schroeder, at Hamburgh, to give Germany a national theatre fashioned after those models. When one decade later the immortal author of our greatest national drama—of Faust— when the bright star of Goethe rose on the horizon, his dra matic creed was the same. ./Eschylus, and Sophocles, and William Shakspere for ever I—(Cheers.) Again, when a few decades later, towards the beginning of this century, that noble pair of brothers, Frederick and William Schlegel, began to apply the united force of genius, philosophy, and poetry to the creation of a comprehensive system of poetical and artistic criticism, considering all real and lasting pro ductions of art, not as an accidental kaleidoscopic variety of forms, but as a link in the chain of the develop ment of mind; and when their common friend, Lud wig Tiek, opened his delightful, both creative and critical vein, for the same object, who was the hero in whose name and to whose honour they broke down the idols of conventional poetry and condemned to eternal oblivion all sham and unreality? Who was the hero who inspired both Goethe and Schiller and the followers of the romantic school but William Shakspere and his theatre? This name of Shakspere, then, was not the fashion of an age; it was not the hue and cry of a school of metaphysic philosophers or the whim of critical poets. No, Sir, it was no more or less than the adequate expression of the deepest national feeling; it was the organ and echo of the universal voice of love and admiration with which the Anglo-Saxon mind, in its native abode, reverently hailed the great kindred genius of England, as the poetical hero of the Germanic race.—(Cheers.) It is, above all, this instinctive love and admiration which has made Shakspere the most popular name, and his dramas the most universally read poetical works, among 40,000,000 of Germans. The dis tinguished editor of "Shakspere"—who in our age has given to England and to the world the genuine text of that author and carried out the right principles of its in terpetration—says somewhere most truly, " The foundation of a right understanding of Shakspere is love"—reverent love, of course, as every true love is. Well, I think we Germans do love Shakspere, and we love him reverently. We do not love him for this or for that, but we love him best for being what he is. We do not admire him for a happy simile here or a striking observation there ; none of which, beautiful as they may be as part of a whole, would make him, as we think, a poet—much less the king of all dramatic writers of the world. We love above all his grand poetical conceptions, and the truthful manner in which he does jus tice to them. We see in every piece of his an artistic repro duction of those eternal laws which, in spite of many appa rent contradictions, and through all antagonistic forces, regu late always in the end the national, and very often the indivi dual destinies of mankind. To represent them in action is the divine privilege of the dramatic genius. This being our conception of Shakspere, and this the relation his immortal works bear to our present national literature, you will think me sincere in saying, what you praise us for is nothing :but the deep acknowledgment of our eternal obligations to your and the world's greatest dramatist—the voice of our grateful and reverent love to our saving and inspiring hero. I beg your pardon for having been so prolix on this point, but all I have said bears even di rec tly upon the occasion of ou r festive meeting on this day. For, Sir, I confess I have never been able to underst an d how one can love " Shakspe r e's Pla y s" without feeling the most lively interest for the national theatre on which his dramas are to be represented, and the highest regards for the great actor.—(Cheers.) The great understand Ma ebeth and Hamlet—and above all Lear— better than lev under Stood them before, or as the high minded manager, and as the man of character who has often staked his vf try existence on his great and noble object, which was—to reelse the standard of his art, to elevate the English actor, and to purify and ennoble the national stage. And I finally w isi t i you joy, gentlemen, that you have cele brated the retirement of this man from the stage in a manner which honours bot h him and yourselves, and which is full of European and universal interest; and I conclude by express ing my deep-felt ry ,gratitude for having associated me with your feelings.—((,h eers.) Mr. W. J. Fox: text rose, and said,—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, Shak spere has told us, through the lips of a melancholy mora list, that " All the world's a stage ;" pro bably many of ti Lose who repeated such words felt that the converse of the proposition was true also—namely, that the stage was all the world. Many of them, "native and to th e manner born," familiar with it from their earliest years— its revenues their subsistence--its applause the object of their ambition—hi we felt their connexion with it! grow with their growth as t hey advanced and expanded from, we'll say, Prince Arthi it to King John. To them, indeed, the stage was all the world, as to us the world is all a stage; and as it is the aspiration of the philanthropist that he may leave the world be tter than he found it, so it is the actual achievement of our honoured guest that he leaves the stage better than he fou.ad it,—( Cheers,) He leaves it better, ter he has enabled us to hear again the real voice of inspiration, the genuine oracles of immortal poetry, and not the poor, imperfect, and sham voice of pretended inspiration, which has so often been substituted for that of Shakespere. He leaves the stage better than he found it, for he has made the stage a worthier representation than ever it was before of the grand coneeptions of the grandest of poets. The motives of illustration always keep in view ti practical idea of the drama, and never permit it to be decked with tinsel, or to lack power by the want of proper adorn ment. Shakspere, with those means and appliances with which he was so peruliarly gifted, possessed within himself the grand combination of all those powers. And even he might have entrinsted, without the slightest alarm, the re presentation of his heroes to the genius of a Macready. He leaves the stage letter than he found it, for he hag raised its. character to a higher standard than before. He has shown the falsehood of the bigot's painting of , the drama, and the folly of the weak and sordid `speculator upon scenic effects. These were accidental nod not essential to the drama, which could throw them off, and raise to genuine purity that school of morals which, in ancient Greece, was the worship of the gods. He leaves the stage better than'he found it, for he made theatrical and dramatic criticisms .his own act:--so well did he embody with his representations the profoundest.know-, ledge of character and that accurat e discernment of distinc tions, that his actions created critics in himself. He taught the literary men here and in America to understand and appre ciate Shakspere mere than they had done before, and he had formed a school of criticism that arose out of the stage, which returns the benefit with interest, and which will not allow us to endure those superficial and flimsy remarks which used to pass for criticisms, as stage tricks used to pass for acting. Ile • leaves the stage better thz,ea he found it, for, although his own management of it was t2hort, and although as an actor he disappears from our view, yet the effects produced by him must be both great and lasting. A permanent decline of the drama is, I believe, as absurd a eupposition as a permanent decline of human nature. Though there have been seasons in which the drama has been corrupted and discouraged, it has arisen again into its original grandeur by the fresh power and vitality it received from the genius of those that were connected with it. When Rome was sunk in an abyss, she received from the north such fresh powers and impulse as forced her onward in her course. So when our central theatres have shrunk from their proper mission, and have falsified those words of the charter which have been repeated to you this evening, the legitimate drama revived again, while re presented under the fostering talents of Mr.Macready. These are the obligations of the stage to Mr. Macready. lam sure that no one would more willingly confess his own obligations to the stage than that distinguished gentleman. The stage is not a thing of creation by individual genius neither the actor nor the poet makes the stage; the tendency of human nature makes it. We had our monkish mysteries before the legiti mate drama. Festus was the herald of YEschylus. Shakspere felt the impulse of the theatre. Without it, though he no doubt would have been still a great poet, he would not be the one he was. His genius might have expatiated upon various subjects, but we should have lacked the undying perceptions which are represented to us in the drama. In this great aggregate, the stage, progressing in course of time, gives rise to the man of genius, who by it fills a large space in the eyes of the country. Such a person is the man to honour whom we have met together upon this interesting occasion—a man who, combining alike the powers of the actor and manager, has exhibited the true spirit of the poet in both. There may be many who take up this occupation who have the same impulses, present on this occasion. They may have often clustered around him, and gathered know ledge from the communication. I trust that the influence of the example they have had before them when Mr. Macready shall have retired into private life will not be lost upon them, but will for many years leave its permanent effects.—(Cheers.) Though he may retire from our view, he will be thus conspicu ous in his retirement, and I trust that he will even then think, with something of a fraternal feeling, of the poor player, " who struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is seen no more." It is pleasant to see that combination which the list of stewards and attendants here exhibits. We have here a combination which strikes my mind as a most feli citous one. We have with us the honoured representative of a dynasty that once ruled the stage.—(Great cheering.) The dearest associations cling around the name of Kemble. A distinguished member of the family now sits near me. When we look back to our young days, when George the Third reigned, and when Kemble and Siddons ruled the stage, we feel much gratified at finding that even at this moment we have one of the latter family amongst us.—(Cheers,) It is also agratifying fact that we can boast of having amongst us the man who has redeemed Sadlers' Wells Theatre— (Cheers)— and has raised it from being the scene of water works and similar amusements to be the home of the legi timate drama. How harmonious was Mr. Macready's work during the period of his management, how well were all the appliances of the stage blended, and the performers were taught to blend their exertions each with the other. That management has had the brilliancy and harmony of the rainbow. Though the rainbow is scattered by the driving wind, we may still see fragments of it fluttering around; and while we rejoice that the wand of Prospero is broken, the song of Ariel still floats in the air, and breathes enchant ment upon it. Dr. Johnson, while speaking of the stage, called it the harmless gaiety of nations. Were it no more than that, it could not be considered a trifling thing, for in this toilsome world of ours this gaiety is a thing not to be despised. Think of what relief it is to the careworn and anxious mind of man. What a high and noble mission the actor has to accomplish.—(Cries of "Time time.") Let us, then, do all in our power to cheer him in his onward course, and to encourage him in those efforts which con tribute so largely to the pleasure and instruction of his fellow creatures.—(Hear, hear. ) Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE having been loudly called upon, rose to speak amidst most deafening and continuous cheer ing. When silence was obtained, he said—Gentlemen, when I sat down to dinner to-day, I had not the least expectation of the very great honour I have just received, by having my name connected with the toast given by the illustrious chairman—namely, the toast of " The Stage." That toast has been seconded in a manner most congenial and gratify ing to my feelings by so noble and so fair an assembly, in which I discern many men most eminent in literature, in science, and in art. We have all met here to give the honour that is due to our respected friend upon his retirement frets his his profession.—(Cheers.) You will then, I am sure, for not much surprised if I say that I feel utterly a a t n thanks for the the words to give adequate expression of my e, th attempt that honours you have done me. I will not, td nor the less believe that I am not the less deenlyse which I feel to be impossible, but I entre at earn th es e tl rif° y r favour you have highly flattered, by the very signa l wanting in the desire, con ferred upon me. I confess lam not k d make a more suitable ac now e g. but only in the ability, to self, and at the same time most—one more satisfactory e, a of you to t° In v! ' the ' honour to drink all more acceptable to you. te enter into any remarks upon down, for I have not streng was connected, and th the stage with which my name ere are l reasons to prevent my doing so now, which m many persona • ht not influence me at another time.—(Cheering.) The CHAIRMAN -I am sorry to inform you that Mr. your good healths, and if rinhawill permit me I will now sit Phelps is gone—a sad piece of news, indeed. Mr. THACRERA.Y proposed "The Health of Mrs. Macready and her Family."—(Loud cheers.) Mr. MACREADY returned thanks. Lord DUFFERIN proposed " The Ladies." The Chairman Chen vacated the chair, and the meeting broke up at a quarter before twelve o'clock. CHURCH PREFERMENTS..--A return, moved for by Sir Benjamin Hall, and just printed by order of the House of Commons, shows " the several pieces of preferment held by every archbishop, bishop, archdeacon, chancellor, precentor, euccentor, prebendary, or canon, together with the value of each of such pieces of preferment, and the number of houses attached to them." The return contains little or nothing which has not already appeared under a different form, excePt as regards the residences in connexion with the several bene- Acee mentioned. year which ended 31st of DecemlTer,lB497fherevenue -- account showed a free balance of 8,2411. ls. 9d. applicable to a dividend upon the consolidated stock of the company, and upon the six and five per cent. guaranteed shares. The directors recommended a dividend to be declared at the rate ()f , 3 1 /, per cent. per annum, less income -tag and 4591. 2s. 7d., the balance of revenue, to be carried to reserve account.. The report was adopted. sour amp WESTEUN.-... KILKENNY AND GREAT SOuf: of this company Wa s 'chair. Mr. James Eadie, 13ridge-street, Westrein.. in the following report :—" The h O e n ld Fr i i a day th , e t ru he n h g tf A -y r e m ar a l . y_ nTa m tvb e e eit stet, Mr. George Emery meeting, have used their utmost however, shareh osaldteisra compelled, very have been reluctantly, to com dseircercettoarrya, to since h e your last compa n y, proporon of the mence legal P pending. It is, vEct,:r;.i.oinshetyo, lilueeiddaitnegtshaegoauitsttanthdeinsghlairaebhiloiltdieesrsofitnhearcroetnar-, factory to s the directors. have responded to the call made upon them by Nothing has occurred since the last half -yearly meeting worthy of especial notice; but it is important to state that the compulsory powers for the purchase of land will expire on the 17th of next August. Your directors do not feel and severaltaatcetiothnastaaregrnoeawt them selves justified, in the present financial position of the com pany, in applying to Parliament for a renewal of those powers. —A financial statement was read, from which it ap peared that the total receipts of the company have been 20,4401. Is. 2d.; that the disbursements have amounted to within 2121. of the receipts ; that the expenditure for the last half-year has been 61. is. ld. ; and that the liabilities of the company amount to 3,6971. 11s. 10d. The report and statement of eccounts having been adopted, the retiring di rectors, Messrs. G. Emery, C. Hulse, and G. Anderson, were re-elected. Messrs. W. H. Wilson and R. B. 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