The Press.
London, England, 1854-05-27 00:00:00

MR. ELLA'S MUSICAL UNION.

Mn. ELLs's third concert, given on Tuesday last,
was very successful. The programme was as fol-
lows :

Quartett, E flat, Mozart.—Quartett (Posth.), No. 0, F minor,
Mendelssohn—Sonata, dedicated to Kreutzer, Op. 47, Pianoforte
and Violin, Beethoven Fantasia (Favorite), Violoncello,
Piaui. Solos, Pianoforte, C. Halle.

We never heard M. Ernst play with more effect.
Beethoven's sonata, in particular, was given to per-
fection. The quartette, too, having regard to all
circumstances, were exceedingly well rendered. The
violoncello solo by Piaui was a poor affair; but it is
only justice to say that the subjects of the fantasia,
though hackneyed enough in all conscience, were
charmingly delivered.

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HAYMARKET THEATRE.

THE well-deserved success that has attended the
production of The Knights of the Round Table at
the Haymarket Theatre proves how much more
important in the eyes of an audience are the gar-
nishings of a piece than the piece itself. The plot
of the drama is trite, the story is loosely hung toge-
ther, the characters are old acquaintances, and
the incidents violent and improbable. In the course
of our theatrical experience we have known some
dozens of plays presenting precisely the same super-
structure, built upon precisely the same basis.
There is a heroine stolen in infancy by gipsies,
rescued by a benevolent family, and falling in love
with the son and heir. There is the heroine's un-
principled relative, who conceals her existence, and
squanders her property. There is the relative's
scoundrelly associate who knows all his secrets, and
compels him to submit to all sorts of indignities,
and become accomplice in all sorts of villany.
There are the scoundrelly associate's comrades, who
share his plunder, and, in the last act, bungle his
best schemes. There is the comic character,
immensely honest and enormously simple, who in
his simplicity manages to detect and baffle the wiliest
intrigues of the wiliest intriguers. Finally, there is
punishment for the villains all round, and a mar-
riage for the heroine. In each and all of the many
dramas of this class which we have witnessed nothing
but the dimensions presents any variety. From one
act to five, from smugglers to nobles, from fustian to
cloth of gold, from cockney slang to courtly repartee,
from hovels to palaces, the length, the rank, dress,
language, and locality of the piece may vary, but its
identity remains. All our old friends are there, and
they play out the play, beginning, middle, and end in
exactly the same fashion.
Mr. Planche, however, weaves us the pattern in the
most gorgeous tissue. His scenes, with slight ex-
ception, are laid in gentlemanly mansions. His
dresses, even for gentlemen, are all velvet and em-
broidery apud the fashion-books of 1740. His charac-
ters are all gentlemen and gentlewomen, real or ficti-
tious. His Knights of the Round Table, sad rogues
as they are, play for the gentlemanly stake of a quar-
ter of a million. His heroine marries the gentle-
manly possessor of 40,0001. a year. And even his
villain dies by a sword thrust, artistically rendered
while giving and receiving the " satisfaction of a gen-
tleman." His dialogue is not less gentlemanly ; its wit
is the wit of the lounger in aristocratic drawing-rooms ;
its pathos the sentiment of ladies delicately nurtured
on circulating-library novels, such as no man writes
so well as Mr. Manche, in whose hands refinement is
made to compensate for any lack of keenness and
trenchancy. It is, however, by Lthe dexterity of his
manipulation that the author has chiefly secured his
triumph. The plot may be old, but it is ingeniously
presented and ornamented; the incidents may be
improbable and inconsequent, but they are depictedl
in a lively manner and filled with capital " business,
of which the actors concerned take excellent advan-
tage. The experienced hand is manifest also in
another point, namely, the recapitulation of anterior

ADELPHI.
THE temptation to adapt the Fillet de Marbre for
this theatre was obvious : its French directress, and
one or more of the corps especially famed for repre-
senting French characters, seemed to promise a safe
success forth° most famous of the Parisian pieces of
the last two or three years. Unfortunately this drama is
intimately interwoven with French habits and ideas,
and its English adaptation becomes very difficult.
In The Marble Heart, the ladies, about whose position
in the original there is no doubt whatever, are suited
to English prudery, by making their position alto-
gether unintelligible. What is worse, the spirit of
the piece—kept up by the repartee, easy impudence,
and vivacious folly so consonant to our neighbours—
was totally lost. Tho subordinate actors, on whom
much depends, were very indifferent; and Mr. Selby,
with his eternal grimaces, worse than indifferent.
Mr. Webster mouthed to very little purpose, and
Madame Celeste has acted parts which are all heart
so long that she is quite unfitted for a fine de marble.
Miss Woolgar had the part of injured innocence to
play, but it is so useless an excrescence that all her
efforts were unavailing. The strength of the piece lay
in Mr. Leigh Murray, who—a rising young artist—
falls into the meshes of the " marble heart." As
a monologue of a man driven absurdly, ridiculously,
and irreclaimably mad by the face of a pretty
woman, his acting was vigorous, effective, and truth-
ful ; and to the interest he excited amongst the
audience the piece owed its success, such as it was.

OLYMPIC.
ON Mcnday last The Mummy, a broad farce, ren-
dered inimitable by the late John Reeve, was revived
at this house. Mr. Robson, as the hero, discharged
his part to the evident satisfaction of the audience;
but the merriment would have been much greater
had the inferior parts been better acted and the
piece put upon the stage with more attention to the
minor details. An extravagant farce of this kind
depends much for its success upon the care with
which the accessories are produced, and in this in-
stance the dresses and properties are unworthy of
so excellent a management as Mr. Wigan's. Mr.
Robson introduced and sang with great power Hood's
song, "The Lost Child."

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BANKING DEPARTMINT.
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Rest
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Other Deposits
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