The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-03 00:00:00

THE -MANCHESTER COMPANY AT THE

THEATRE ROYAL.
We can assure the brilliaat audience attracted to the
Philharmonic Hall this evening., that they missed a
treat Of rid ordinary kind, by tieing absent from the
Theatre*here the eoitipariy- front the Theatre
Royal,,Manetiester; eorrinienced n short engagement of
sii nights thilY.
The thrilling rind •rditirilitid• dtania' Of "Faust and
Marguerite," was last night performed in ft Stile and
with a degree of effect and faithfulness that we have
never anywhere seen surpassed; every member of the
company exerting themselves to the uttermost,. all being
thoroughly up to their respeetive roles, and what is
more, all being thoroughly interested in them.
The Mephistopheles of Mr. Charles Calvert was really
a wonderful conception,—accurate, terrifying, and demo-
niacal: We have frequently seen Herr Formes in Robert
la :Vial4, AO a ithrellous representation it Ittas, but the
acting of Mr. CalVeit in this; to, a. large eitent kindred
character, offers (Otte its Many to ort_r adrifiration.
Mr. H. Irving was rather too tall to perMit of htiitic-
cessfully realising the popular idea of a learned doctor,
and there was not the least of an alchymist—which we
certainly think there- ought to have been—about his
appearance. He offered a very truthful picture of a
"spooney" youth who was ready to die, and something
more, for the object of his passion, but the portrait
failed to recall the original; .and the consequence was,
that It hen . he ," wNit below," mnbh moraof our pity
folloWed him than the tiiitlidr intended hi shodld receive.
The Marguerite of Miss Angel, who is ail extremely
interesting and ladylike young actress, was a piece of
acting, charming for its simplicity, and remarkable for
the absence of anything like exaggeration. The open-
ing part of the second act, where she appears seated at
her-distaff in the midst of her flower-garden—the temp-
tation scene—and the interview which follows with
FaUst, who accomplishes her fall by the aid of a casket
of diamonds, which are giten him for' the purpose, by the
fiend, afforded party favontable orpoitiinities for the
dispiq ofr her ieti,con,sidernble Histrionic; and
she availed litiself Of ilient ,thiongliont the p'erform-
ance in a way that sedlifed dpi
iroval of
the audience. Mrs. Raymond, as _Arnie Mariho,
the attendant af Marguerite, would have been greatly
missed had the droll requisites of the part not
been so admirably supplied by her very spirited
and laughter-provoking representation of it. Siebel, a
pupil of Faust, and the original lover of Marguerite;
was very happily and successfully represented by. Mr.
Ererill; rind the. Valentine Pargnerite's brother) of
Mr. S. F. Sinclair could ndt haie fddild many better
representatives. The combat between hireand .Parisi,
the latter heir).g aided by the fiend, was as pretty a
piece of stage fencing as we have seen for a long time ;
and the thrilling death scene of Valentine—slain by his
opponent, owing to the demon striking up his sword
arm when he *as about to parry a terrific lounge from the
unnaturally strengthened arm of Faust, as he died cursing
his unhappy sister as the douse of his death, and uttering,
in allusion to her shame, the words, "Thank God,
my mother's dead," was a singular and highly men.
torious piece of acting.
It would be unpardonable to omit to state that the mist
en scene of the piece was extremely fine. Marguerite, as
seen in the attitude of a penitent kneeling at the altar of
one of the Lady chapels of the cathedral whilst Mepltisto
pheles stands without, grinding his teeth with bafiledral.v,e;
and, the ascension of Marguerite whose repentance has
been accepted, though perhaps open to objection in the
minds of some, on the ground of its mimicking a theme
which sacred history has made its own—was, in a scenic
point of view, extremely successful. The 4. &swim,
Averno" of Faust and his Familiar, was not effected quite
so easily, as the Proverb demands,•but this was owing
merely to a slight derangement in the machinery of the
vehicle in which the downward move was effected.
We cordially congratulate the enterprising manager
on the success of this most interesting drama, which has
not been previously brought forward, either at the
Theatre Royal or at the Amphitheatre, and we have no
doubt the•merits of the piece, as well as the exertions of
Mr. Copeland in putting it on the stage, will be de-
servedly appreciated by the public.
It will be noticed that the performances of this
talented company will alternate during the eveniro*. of
this week and the preSent with those of the • Italian
artistes.

THE LATE ELIAS ARNAUD, ESQ.—Elias Arnaud,
Esq., died on Saturday last, at his house in Abercrombv..
square; where he had resided for many years. The
lamented deceased filled the high and important office
of Collector of Customs in this town for about thirty
years.
NEW IRON WORKS ON THE GREAT FLOAT AT BIR-
KENHEAD.—Yesterday, Mr. James Taylor, of the firm
of James Taylor and Co., laid the foundation-stone of
the new Britannia Iron Works. These works, which
will be of a complete and extensive character, are
situated in Cleveland-street, and on the margin of the
Great Float.
SUSPICIOUS CHILD DEATH AT BIRKENHEAD.—An
inquest was held yesterday at the Market Inn, Birken-
head, before Mr. Churton, the coroner, on the body of
a child found in a field at Bebington. Wm. Boston, a
stable man at the Woodside yard, deposed that he found
the body on the morning of 'fuesday, the 25th of Sep-
tember, in a field between Bridge-street and Don-street.
Dr. Vale stated that he hatl made a post mortent exami-
nation on the body, and believed the child to have been
born alive ; he was unable to give an opinion as to the
. cause of death. Under these circumstances the jury
found a verdict to the effect that the child was horn,
alive, but there was no evidence to show the cause of
death.