The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-29 00:00:00

SADLER'S WELLS.

Stock pieces—roil gold and no counterfeit—seem
to be the motto of the Sitdler's Wells Manager. Whilst
psatomime sad the foriansbolist rule elsewhere, Shah-
=and Beaumont and !Fletcher have taken refuge with
helps—awl right good entertainment, we rejoice to
MC they receive from him and from the public whom he
an well men. The Merchant of Venice and Rule a
Wife and If.. a MO wire Isis present Easter Monday
offering ; and that it was a substantial and entertaining •
well-filled bowie testified abundantly. lb. part of Shylock
was played by Mr. Phelps himself. It might have hens
rendered with mere power, perhaps, but certainly taste and
judgment eesaot he denied Mr. Phelps in the delineation
of a awn difficult and trying character. The other
port were creditably sustained. The second piece
aseeoearily underwent a considerable eurtaihnent in
grin to make it st all presentable to a modern audience;
hot, however great and judicious the pruning, tie very
newton of the play Cirri.. ill it that which mu make
it aa isdelieate presentation. Mr. F. Bobiaeon, who played
Laos, acted most creditably that important part; and ►is
line looks sad lofty hearing after hie marriage with Me_rgm
rita won " golden opinions" from the audience. Mrs.
Barlett ethibited scarce pnde and vice enough as Mur-
ton ; but Mu. Tr►cers as Estifanla was brimful of satiric
palely is her strange scenes with Pens (Mr.
Both piens went off admirably.

One of the ebb/ holiday reereatione on UAW
Monday has always been the berermaaship at
Orme. MA fair in the end Astley's in the
appear to as mush Ile hibise lid
first holiday of the yew smug IsiellmeaPilliView-
Tool maids row ae le mu tireeipsieere of
ere assehasies' inabilities went Isheiwn, fir
maaeoms„ sad bounding girders were throws to the
pohlic remedy. believer, Easter at Astht l sae the
speaks( ea memo eller a long recess, eateadlialgreer half
the roar ; cow it is the re-openieg, after the befit bit cos
intiscry ciceseg dada' Ptseioli week. sib, m-
aws a day or two added, to enable the wedgies le get
thrash the necessary proemial, of clean*. lei pehding.
Bet, astnithetaadiag their matiority, the walk=
of dramatic'. entertaismeats for whisk this
moat bee bees se keg wiled appear to have het
elz of
their attraetive ineeesees. The soma onnietla na.
sseablial is frost of the theatre, tsksbig het
triage way two bears before the °peaky of Assisi do
same snare' for grandeur* at the pay boa ; the Soli
reel; gallery sad pit; the same quarreling, saduse..
Saes nag. for places; the same Wane delight end
laughter at the very old but not yet
flet of the Clown in the ring t• the MEM 111.116 S•
it.. of the "dating " feats of equesedes dill I
tag the eras surprise, almost amounting le isse.l
at the formal dignity and immoral& hats= of
combo, the riding master, which ahmseaderill Se Ibsen
audience at Ast y'a in the days of oar greeilhdues Sedum'
it last night. The battles is the Penisida.
India, and elsewhere, in which we haus bees
lave ell la their turn furnished popular tbess:Tage.
eaoreim of the talents of the dennatist of the ekes% eel
we presume the difficulty of manoeuvring mimeses of
bone marines es the stage is the only MOOR why the
Nile, Trafalgar, sad Bavaria., are sot so familiar to the
habitude of this house as Sea Sebastian, Waterloo, mai
sad Peroseshah. Os the present octanes we are tattoo
dewed to the lighting oa the boards before the victory le
the field eta—we are afraid—be said to have bees less,
The Kaffir war forms the subject, and the title of as
pkree, which is pet forward at the bead of the
y bill of fare, is Arieabse; or Seems of Koji, Wer-
fore. What the author's ides of the justice of that war
may he it is difficult to gather, bet he gives as the origin of
it a cause which probably neither the government nor the
Pesos Protection Society ever dreamt of, viz., "love." We
have a Kati ehiei filling desperately in love with the
daughter of an Buglish °Meer • a successful rival. in
the person of another English oMoer, nutnerous difficulties
consequent upon the rivalry, the remit, of the lady eng
bar European lover from unheard of datger by the .811110
roam devotion of the aforesaid Kaffir, who, in the sad, dies
by the treachery of one of hie own party ; these end
laassiorable skirroithes with horse and foot—attacks es
outposts and waggon convoys on the one band. and on
Eder kraals on the other, eonsitete the whole alba he.
indents aid plot of the spectacle. There was seem yogi
good slack-ro• e dusting afterwards by a M. P Gni Wm
usual dregs scenes, the principal riders being Wks
Masons, Mr. Barth v, Mr. Williams, sad Mr. A.
Cooke. Siete the sooeon which closed not mace days back
soomplete change of management has taken place. The
old favourite Batty has abdicated in favour of Mr. George
Ceske, who has we believe long been the proprietor of a trs-
veiling stud of considerable prowl, vial celebrity. There has
also been an extensive alteration in the company, many of
the old fates having given place to provincial actors, who
now make their bows for the tint time on the London
boards. The whole of the entertainments that night west

off satisfactorily ; and, as far ea gas be judged froiis first
night," the present management promises to be se siseoses-
ful u say of its predeeksaurs.

ST. I,l3lEtes TBSATItE.—M. Robert Houdin is
01.10 at Si. J amyl's, and his Sa;ances foilastipodu form not
the Nest attractive of the It titer entertainments. The
theatre was well Ailed last night, the audiene., comprising •
large proportion of juveniles. The performance is stated to
be the same as was prim ::efore her bisjesty, by express
eemmand, at Buckingham palmy on the 18th inat.
eIIeMOSNY. GattlikBB.—Thin plat.:' of public
was opeut4ll.llt •.Tkoing with a errfrt
that notwithstanding the attractions of Omens.. •
aid the 06ft...crab's state of the tit :flier for of /rare." stasseisests, drew a !•,ite parheriag of t.eariet. A balloon
anent inaugurated the eienirg's entertainments. In addition
to which we had • vocal sad ii,Arunsentsd omeert, followed
by the perfornuaters of Cie or,,,,aupbosie bond ; the clever
restidigitatino PrufestorTayinr, and the d,ruhle-sight of I
his son ; and • di.pl,y of Artworks, of which it is sufficient
to say that they did credit is that rand vt,cd pyrotechnist
Chevalier Manna. Dancing mai ,4117'...i On with great
spirit, and the company separated El idettly eatisacd with
ths opening of the Creative, lemon.
TER Gatti' OLOSE.—Mr. Wyld's vast tontribit.
iisa $s the ausosensats of Ifsober—siiishisse "the peas
• ebbe ifaVW all that it Wady' as eareestlei by kW-