The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-12 00:00:00

DRAMA.

THE HAYMARKIT.
A fleroest drama, entitled .Loar's Martyrdom,
was last night produced at this theatre. The plot is simple
—the old, old story of lees, and minsiontandlepo, sad
isoleasy, and mutual pain inflicted by dam sir law Mat
ate. There is nothing of scenic display, sa booed sem.
bindlthe of mirth and burowing incidents. And yet the
Slay was essemeliel &NW its intense easthelthes sod
gelded bossy-410Mgh Ms author's essehat ile= es
Oak emi same. The swab Winn: Unithe. The eons
Mme with preparations a mashie. Fraaklyss
a aelhospirited and esseagillibsd Noise, ls east le
be Wedded to Margate's a 'MIMS high alusullaltl
smegalls beauty. The basis et linskn's aid eile
austeepoked by his peasiset delay,ly,
whisk he k
markedly seesibis. Tide Ye &Oh So air of select SI
his wooing, which has pilled hie help. The *MOO Iler
an explosion are prepared, said • Nag segkees i heal
to light Ike petard. Cisme% Pialegs'elush,, hee
ban invited to the marriage, sad milk bin ewes nee.
lam a woe friend, who seeks to abate him boa a
mistress. Freelove discovers the weakens's.' the beagibed
pair, sad skilfully plays apes them, as also apes the week
and impressible character of Clarissa Tashi's, yeemsded
that Margaret loves Clarence, nape bee in spay, and
she, in pique, acquiesces in the trinsthesthe of bat hand.
Clarence, vain, sad easily led, forgoes lei pledgee is Julia,
whom Le hes seduced ; and Fraley', trithipithe in the 1
sums of his plots. prepares to carry of Jails,
who rejects his preened love. He is baled and
slain by Leaeham, Julia's brother, as with de.
Tonally attathed to Timid" who hes peemdeed him
in youth. Leah.= brads et the lies esei mai* by
producing Julia sad denewssfug Minn as her sederes.
13:planation. ensue betweenMargaretssdPrsahlyn, whisk
end in their entire reconcillatioa. Julia sepals the oars of
Clarence, who is thus every way pasidiaL This is a bald
and meagre outline of a tale made Ise* atesestieg by
the author's ualytie portraiture atthismatit sal lonia—
by his pure sad unconventional lease of mini beauty, end
by corasional bursts of high poetical sathisiessa. The loading
Monsters were ably supported: Margaret, by Mir Helen
Fatten; Franklyn, by Mr. Barry Freelove, by
Mr. Leighton Walter; and Lambs= by Sullivan;dr. Howe. The
play flagged somewhat during the latter part of the second
and the whole of the third sets. Bat in the fourth and
Mit sets the impassioned imaginativeness of the poetry, and
the sincerity with which the able performers threw them.
sidue into their several parts, carried the audience by
ISM, and the curtain fell amidst load sad hearty sp.
pyre Miss Fault, who had been oace before called during
Ile eigemssratios, sus again brought before the curtain,
eall dam was a vigorous and prolonged demised for the
ordiriw—Mr. Baader', formerly editor of the Pork's
Arse& sad author of some of the most pleas's' papers in
Light's " London." The access of Low's Martyrdom
awes that oar theatrical audiences amemible so the
lapeasions of genuine passion sad poetry without the
• I Utheirthe additions of melodramatic extravegthes.
of

DIORAMA OF THE EVENTS OF THE WAR IN
THE BAST.-GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.

Messrs. Grieve and Telbin are not only indefa-
tigable, hat very eseceesful, in their amnia= to enlighten
the pablie reepeetiag the events of the war. Alter viewing
these pictures sad listening to Mr. &Gaga'lees evocable
ezplanation of them, we feel as if we had assists& at the
rough sad esagninuy gams in the Crimea. What with
oar succesees sad the spirited details of feats of arms
famished in the newspapers, and the admirable graphical
retweesstatioes of the inpertaat features of the
gaggle, the *Wag peen*a must seeds imbibe a
martial disposition. We availed ourselves yesterday
of an invitation to see three *tares which the above-
mentioned clever artiste have added to their sense. They
*eaglet dainty at the " Mortar Battery, Rana, sad Bide
Pits;' " Oland Pelierier's gallant and eamessfal eight
attack upon the outworks of the Flayed Battery
"Mr. Fineman's ingenious, ample, sad effective system
of fertilisation" The Mona Battery k a very effective
plan" mad clearly illustrates both the snare of this per-
nimbi feature of military architecture mad ski i
rueneeted therewith. General Pelissier's attack rasiitii4
impassivesone. The lashes at light la imitation of
agi
emiames breath. afford omasiosal glimpses of the doses
eneeemear haterma oar &miss alike sad tbe lawimes
heals of the Flagstaff Battery. lb. 7 •
system of fortMeatits is a sabjed pessesslag
mach interest to be bat slightly meatiosed. e
therefore give a deseriptisa of it. however brief. The Mob- 1
'Wes am the old method emelt' la stmesimil-
hag the place to be Mended with a inks ell
smiles Isisesur, is utak ape pissed ism; lbe 1