The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-07 00:00:00

DRAMA.

HAYMARKET.
We are glad whom a issaNior Whisks hire's', now
tad tit's of reticle, see of ear old essiediss. Suridtal ee
we are with numb hiseadessz sad rogouts, it is plement
to I,: down missionsity to • little of the English fare Nish
our (wristlets loved. We west therefore to the Ear
market es Saturday euesiag with sa empossailea of sofery-
meet 'flash, It set entirely loathed, was otraisly by we
asses dissypolatod. The play was The lassos' Stralblam ;
bat it was cal dews to thaw sete—s sastilatko, we thiak,
Rash to be repotted. Beam plays may be thus treated
with ednatege : "id sass, by the nyyrseaso of is ill.
reenocted underplot ; sad sleet modem ease, by the masks
efmosh vapid talk which serves only to even ameagre gutsiest
to the samemiesal else. Bat it ever there wee • play villa
seeker dense& see admits of atutkatise, that play is TM
Boma' Stratagem. Its animation never Rags. It has sot a
dull passage. As a whole It is Urn lame relandisa It has
me plot—simple bat pupas, with natter—to the pus
pas of which every scone directly tads; while the dia-
log:li ie is Ittr. to witty, we hawses., is dourarterletie, that
it is • pity to lase a wad of it. W• have Ma The bawl'
Stratagem ausboders times, is the days Mies ft was a
stook-pine la every sheaves in the Leedom. Is these days,
when arsher, sad Bomb, sad Endear, sad Merry, sad lin.
Sallee, smesisted with the mates of the greatest eemediaas
of the ago, were household words In everybody's mouth,
whatever faults were head with the play, sobody ever
thought it tee kiss, or wished It a minute Aimee We have
another objedies, of • more gourd kiad,to these aotßabsel
revival of oar old drease—to these perferamosoef than
with maimed rites." The practise is dioreepeathi to the
worthies of the old"' time. It is a prastlad sIMI is the
part of the mayor, eating as ezesayl" M the Was. It is
as such me saying that the plisse, after all, is mot worth re-
viving. Oa oar ended slap, we kaow, this way of pro.
sealing bee dose Wafts stieshief. If ea old Espial' opera
--Masi these Wags whist, width' our reaseisbreats, used
to great the paten theatres with outbreak multi-
tudes—is sew, by ISM refs SlIsaSS. PrOdsind. this
IS always &as in sash a po3r sad tweigetly way
as to show that the lemurs dose see thdak it
meth sun or memo, bat is merely seartheing to
old fashieeed taste. Of mares the pads MA "e ;
they judge of the plea itself by the Nasser of Is prima
amos. W. should Uke to see am of these Ise old indall
'Noddies prodaold as It was predated lily years sps—Nith 1
the IMO poise, epleadour, sad Went—aad ta NS what tb
FINN would thick of it them If it is mid that the WSW I
now be too lats, the fashion of the musical stage bring No i
as* cheated ; we would say ia reply, without admittlog
the troth °albs remark, that at .11 event" It asset be ay-
plied to TM Beast' &regains. If Forphar's
are-
pose wee ever pal, it k equally good sew, sad it k ee
worthy as eta it was of sostylets sad torehd reprensta•
boa.

We shall set ester late detailed animism eta play
whin, though rarely sass ow the stage, is knows to wary.
body. It le the bon work of the hest ends dramatist of the
eighteenth entity. "We my dm," says Hann, " the
Anise of Earth& sonny hen tho tins it !ironer"
It partakes of the freak= of Ito age, bat Ai is ea the
Mine, meistim is envenom wink on he emitted.
The play le sot matially inmost. The two heroes,
prime is their fertanhaatim " eteatigen" are well
asrimisatied. Anvil! Moms Innen* generosity aad
hemr—b. Memo his seism la the noonat of immos.
Amber, men aaserapains, Mark "the prettier fidMw "
.of tie two, is left to testa pee la the sad.
As to Mn. NOM, hoe }swig peanut for
the Mean valet is really an koomeshis la
the eiremetaasee. Tha subject, is shin is purely male,
min owe views It la say other *ht. Then mho gallery
of pleura! so original, so 'Med, eo freely draws, yet es
Addy ooliared end too fail of Ira& Fre= the islattable
Iknh to Father "'Mud sad Captala Gibbs,, nay Ni Is
• study Iron mare, sad it lea pity to lase • single bean
wink mho out the portrait.
The ploy was esesedlegly well used. Panes was • mop
▪ Alma, sad Rem Is Anther, as pretty ahem
am yew anid see. Mias Bermida wee • shooing Di...
/kiln fall of Ism sad spirit ; end Mbe Ihrealsomegb
was a gracidel sad hatenetim Dorbda. Desimsan
Dente, as night he nasgiaed, was eapital. If ibere
was a halt, It was la his man* a little toe easselon of
his en stolidity—his shrewd Mean, sow end thaw, as U
tin njoyed the j As. Bat, intim thin side, it wee a
atiatiely aad most aiming performing. n 0 Hun pert of
Cherry was piqaantly played by Mks Bells Copeload, •
yeses &Miaow, who makes mesh is that Use of parts,
wholo performs*, was resolved with imam ar
plane sad hearty laughter by a eery fall hem.

OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC
SOCIETY.

The Photographie Society opened their third
asseel eshihitioe to private view oo Saturday lest. The
larp well arranged esUeetlea et photographls pietnree Is
this day opined to the peblia Tim eshibitios is dialer
wised by foor distinct festares—vis., rest variety et solo
jedwastUr—essellasse *bulged la the rearceseseties et
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eatatneee—corialtal eampteities—and istilestiow of the
nodal tress to wbtah Niels/reply anus neallerly Minted
W. have 'lined first to the estaaisNag variety of ssbjssts
displayed, teens It is chili !eaten la the *abilities whisk
Int strikes the Martin of the spenstee, sad, beautiful
es
the various sposimeas an, mods in as ellen dense to
enetuia that Meads. to the list, Weigh affordisi it roe-
" Mat edl.L Mahn, PIM mobs to the photographic
ameers; the salmi, vegetable, Wawa" kiaidema,
yield their stuns se its seratiaisin pens. honk lee, sad
water, all thine Velble. the pilseepapkie amen takes
aste 0; as. is the leryeaese sad breadth of mimes la whisk
Anse are the. traassethed lees to be whaled this the
minutes= with whisk detail is ales readied through the
same swan. Let the Massie sebeel whine/ally ydept
• pre-andisidites" dries to pier fate tide t e y. ff sal,
to observe hew 'artfully. yet how free from effestaffea, low
meturally anus sleets herself. Under the had of ez.
"Shan in the department if mere spresentaties of
physioal Indies, it any be remarked that skies obegaend
with Isaias Meade sad fallen water, are sow browyltt I
militia the sena of Ibis fragegieg sad wet tonal art.
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• remeeksble proof of the positive utility of photography
is staged S. seas spriamis seetabsted by Kr. Besse
Beaten. Theft moist of fall ifa roprosirteasee of Me
alerts with cuneiform isseriptioss, brought bum
Niseveh. Though • very pest sav:zir of time is
ahead through this mode of copying theme
wry twirl inscriptions, still is this eiretego
r earthing compered with that which Is eilletlal threhill
the seiterry with WIWI, the Mesas see modem& Tyr
easiest writers, thus faithfully .ad rapidly taseessibed,
ore about te be ripened thrash the mcc:d, in eras that
the lunar In arch metiers, of every arse, may have the
eppertealty of immettgetleg sad tattered's : thus
any pbstsgrspby berme the mesas of theindeg 104
upon the dimmer periods of history. The facilities Ida\
it is doer ties sew rat offer for inmatieg a well a espy-
ing serer re powerfully set forth ea this essesiee ; sad
tear development of tie esseeress of the art is this dinettes
fa sub mere fully illustrated is this tiro it was is last
year's inhibition. 130, " bans is the Town (hem the
tlb);" 246, "The Collimate (frost the Lk)." bah by Mr.
Las Pries; sad 259, "Tim broken 6:elog : • seedy,"
by J. Water sad Co., are fine tampion of suo.
essatil attempts at sempositiee. la the ant el
the these, the ssbject, although of • horrifying erre,'
is so artistically treated as to be reedited attractive ; sad
tic lastaseolosed presser so mush seethes@ t, h es fall of
Naiad mesaisg, that rateably as the material parts .1
the pietism en reprreated, those eergage etesparedvely but
Hide if the spectator's attoutiee. liar., sae, we her
pirography thee( to the lerl of bleb art. But let as sot
be dualS, set grow to vein of our Mortices. There is
yet, sad them always will he, a golf hooves the human
sad the asobanical assdar. The living artist near to
!denied's eye the seer he wires to serve or pant, sad
from sky urithing, es it were, ereetes somaltiag substential.
Oise them the more of imprateg their Views, sad the
pastor and miser will arts in • desert. Net se the
photogrsphio artist— be sea sal totem hiss •
tabk.r torsi —a lista( piston ; he must have
placed before hen the whole sere terdfly, sad New
it to all it. solidity, breve he or eerier It to his
rums. To invent • mesas, therefore, through photography,
as rather to sesnotatturscoseesithes they to raper ;
=Me malts front this hum proton he Tory brotifel,ef
we hays *efficient pre( is this • abibitise. Me
=is Pell-mall was crowded until a late bees es
ay. The slumber of speeiness estibfted surds
cis headrest : grainy, however, as will se doubt
be glossed from this brief sake, enostinese the hest
attractive hostler* of this meat laterestior ea okras. Tel
bar aestemod all the spanner vs admired would have
besets ern est "lb. ratalegae." Ws may Mane. hat.
err, that roe easel is brighter'. vis-sr, sad diritouT
times permed Morph the egery el solindiee." W.
reserve Ware naafis epee the sunhat fee a fetter
esseelee.

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