The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-21 00:00:00

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ltbe 'Drama.
11AnialkKEr.—A play, in fire ante, was produced
here yesterday evening, and announced for repetition until
further notice. It is entitled " The Heart and the World,"
and is the production of Mr. Westland Marston. The plot
rune then Vivian Temple, recently enriched by an unex-
pected bequest, a man of heart, but too susceptible of the
opinion of the world, is assailed by the seductions of Sir
George Hallerlern, who seeks to wed him to his sister, that he
may use his fortune, and by the sister, a woman whine better
nature has been obscured by her brother's worldly sophistries,
and who resolves on the conquest of Virian, because he,
alone, of that brother's friends hu hitherto seemed insensible
to her charms. The resolution is doubly confirmed when
she finds that his indifference to herself arises from his love
to another, and that other the friend of her childhood,
whom, fallen in fortune, she has with a geaerous impute
made her guest. This attachment, however, remains,
for a time, a secret to all but the haughty jealousy of Laura
Ilallertms, for Pinion, a prey to worldly prejudices, fears
to avow his love for the humble Florence. The feacinations
of the aristocratic beauty bring Vivian to her feet, and
Florence, with breaking heart, returns to her mother's poor
roof. Sir George, impending ruin stifling all nobler feelings in
his bosom, now seeks to precipitate the marriage of his
sister ; but she, her vanity having achieved its triumph,
reverts to the gentler impulses of her heart, which teach her
at once to effect her wronged friend's happiness, and to avow
to the world her own attachment for IValter Ashbrooke. a
retired student, an attachment which her brother's scorn
has only for a while sufficed to overshadow. Tioion him-
self, the aristocratic infatuation once passed away, has
long alone resumed his passionate love for Florence,
but, from a sense of hts own unworthiness, hes feared to
approach her. By the intervention of Laura Hallertots,
Florence is made aware of her lover's constancy, and of his
noble vindication of her fame from the imputations of an un-
principled coxcomb, and thus reassured she bestows her hand
upon the enraptured Vivian, Laura at the same time, with
the consent of her brother—redeemed from ruin by the
generous aid of rivian—giving hen to Waller Ashbroslce.
Thus happily ends a play which, to the last scene, has been
wholly of a grave character. Neither the plot, nor the
moral, if seen, has nny peculiar novelty about it, nor is the
language of a quality, in any marked degree, to adorn the
tale. It is a combination of prose and of blank verse, the
latter disfigured by endless, unmeaning, and, in tooth, for
the mat part, very absurd inversions, after dhe man-
ner of Mr. Sheridan Knowles, of whom, in this re-
, pest, Mr. Marston is a close imitator. There are,
however, some passages of considerable ability; one of
these effectively delivered by Miss Julia Bennett, on Laura
Ilallerton, runs thus . .

I should have asked
For what fine qva were made.
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To goo with—stilt

I At•tA.

To me with ! Nay, to darZeoriers' eight.
Mast bright but fatal weapons woman wields
In Arils with man! Would'st learn their Ilse—attend.
Display the blithe glance first; that dares the foe
And tempts him to encounter. Give him trine,
Then with a ray as brilliant but as cold
As wintry *trio's, admiration feed,
But starve Ma hope; yet ere it quite die out
Emit a gleam of pity. With a burst
Of sodden glory ravish Dent his sense
And then Ind pride eclipse it. Fold him now
In a soft hone of doubt; but melt anon
To pathos tender as the Wreaks of eve.
bead him from change to change till stubborn will
Be alsve to every mood. Then beauty wear
Thy regal mien; let all thy trimmer life
Flush lily warm cheek; and let thy tresses float
Like streaming pennons by the polished curve
Of the proud arm restrained, while pendent swinrn
The foot in canine freedom, es a breeze
Of triumph swayed it, or on if it seamed
The vanquished heart before it!
A second, in the mouth of Mies Faucit, the representative
of Florence, thin diametric' of lore :
The rights of love.
They are an easily phrorcd—so soon restored;
Ileart.strings a touch ontunea, a touch repairs.
Oh, sir, thou canal net love! Love bath no rights,
It doth not know the word. Earth's substance ta'en
Earth's laws may give thee back. Thy fair repute
Maligned, eartlea laws may vindicate. But love—
That in it hart no property of earth—
!lath no appeal there. Rights it mat. away,
Is proud to be defenceless; all it. bond
The nature it emdblea in. Break that bond ;
It feels its beggary—but *ads no rights.
And a third, also delivered by Miss Faucit, thus distin-
guishes love from friendship :
Oh ! speech hi poor to paint ■ difference
I lisel eo vast. Trust, Meow, eendaven—
The an that friendship anite—esingski nag love!
Primekblp will keeps akelesein. Meads am twain,
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TIMMS Me seperedempins; llnt In km
DM realm united Mks em numb ma lemur,
Ows la*, mss taills„, dr em emmen sue crown!
Friends me two Mao • Madly deem divides ;
Lewes—MY deeds Yds mit Mar biset
AM WWI I& as ewe Ism Pktmlls are like trees
in sled slut ems mined but peeled roots ;
But Mt we Me legeollot en ass atm,
Fed with our em sal metur'd by our dews,
And whined In me Wit!
As to the leading peritoneum, it was scarcely fair, perhaps,
to put Miss Julia Bennett into a part so entirely out of her
usual line as the aristocratic beauty, Laura Rallerton, strug-
gling with her own proud heart ; but Mile Bennett went
through the character far better than we could have ex-
pected. Mies Faucit met with loud applause in her delinea-
tion of the gentle, though high-minded Florence; yet, at
times we could have wished her to mitigate her delivery, and
throughout, as always in hearing her, we desired a clearer
enunciation of her words. Mr. Cresurick filled the part of
Vivian. There was a crowded house.

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