The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-16 00:00:00

morning we hail about the usual supply of Wheat front the
grower., nbd, having nothing fresh to from the coast, the
parcels remaining over from Saturday weia freely taken at
that day's rater, viz., 42.. Ga. to 43, tar qr. for extra red,
farmers am. les commanding about similar prices.
1 Fine foreign was in steady requeit, Ifelificithaten in some
last's Mania commanded a trifling advatiee. Flour, though
no dearer, found rather more inquiry. ltye in trilling re-
quest. Barley, Malt, Beans, and Peas underwent scarcely
any variation, but Oats were held for rather more money,
which had the effect of checking basilicas.

DRAMA.

ST. JAMES'S.-THE OERMAN PERFORMERS.

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The German company came before the public last
evening, under a new aspect. Dr. Kuenzel seems to have
• talent for artistica' arrangement, and as he got up the
first night of the performance the pmMgue in honour of
England, so last night he presented to the public Schiller's
noble poem of the " Gliicke," dramatically arranged. Its
beautiful sentiments, its praise of order, its love of '
liberty and domestic happiness, found responsive echoes in
the audience, though they obviously liked not the little
diatribe against the people freeing themselves,. but the
performance--a representation on the stage of the casting
of the bell—though the men did their parts well, was like
a travesty of the splendid ode, and grated on the feelings
and tastes of the admirers of Schiller. Showing much
versatility, the company afterwards performed a drama,
written eapressl) for Herr Emil Devrient, by the Duchess
Amalie of Saxony, called the 0 111.joratserbe, the Heir of
Entail," and we know not which most to admire, the
excellent adaptation of the piece to the powers of the actor,
or his exquisite performance. The drama is of the light
French caste, with • plot very little different from • thou-
sand other plots involving a little intrigue, equivocal court-
ship, and happy marriage, hut the character that Devrient
fills is peculiar. A spoilt only son and heir, with the
most admirable natural qualities never corrected and
sprouting into all kinds of eccentricities, unable to live
without his valet, his books, has desk, his dogs, his violin,
his toilet, and sll the thousand things that he has been
accustomed to—and especially unable to live without his
valet—afraid of a draught, and utterly regardless of the
ways of the world, full of all kinds of oddities
and whims, and yet generous and noble, and
an unusual blending even on the stage of various
human qualities, and requiring great powers, was per-
formed by him with consummate skill. lie was in perfee-
tion—the boisterous. careless spoiled heir; and he was
also in perfection the noble and generous man. lie re-
minded us in the first part of Charles liemble in his
younger days, and in the latter put of Charles Kemble in
his maturity. Herr Devrient grows on the public, and the
more we see of him, the more parts he undertakes, the
more finished do his performances appear. The drama has
nothing of great value in it hut his character. The
character of the Countess Itertita (Fraulein Schaeffer, who
also grows on us with every performance), and the indis-
pensable old valet (Herr Limbach), and these two other
characters being well filled, the piece was received with
rather more hearty applause than is usually heard
in • German theatre. Herr Emil Devrient was called for in
the course of the performance, and, with Fraulein Schtef-
' fer, was called for at its close. Her Majesty and Prince
Albert were present, and might have had a double pleasure
at witnessing the performance of a piece written by a royal
relative, and at seeing the accomplished actors. lint the
house was not so crowded as the merit of the performance
deserved. The evening was elated with a trifle called the
" Eifersiichtigen " (or Jealous People), and served to bring
r out the lighter and more comic qualities of the company.
, Asa school for German it is quite impossible to hear the
langusge more clearly and distinctly pronounced than by
Herr Emile Devried; and to improve our knowledge, both
of the language and the people, the German Plays arc
, worthy of being frequently visited.