The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-03 00:00:00

Cly Court.

PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. MACREADY.

The lhike of 'Wellington had an audience of the
Queen at hilt-pad two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at
tueltinalunn

Later in the afternoon the 'Marquis of Lansdowne had an
audience of her lajesty.
Y. 'lay morning the Marquis of Lannlosrne had an
audios, e of the Queen.
Load John 11usse:1 !:at audience of her MAjesty
day afternoon.

Th. Duchess of Kent visited the Queen on Saturday,
: partook of luncheon with her Majesty and Prince
Albert.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the
Arden of Buckingham Priam.
The Prince of Wale., Prince Alfresl, the Princess Roral,
the Princesoa-s Alice, Helena, and Louisa, took their
accustomed exercise yesterday in the garden of the palace.
!lee Majesty and Prince Albert. the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal, the ladies and gentlemen of the court,
and the domestic household, attended divine service yester-
day mornin2. in the private chapel in Buckingham Palace.
The lion. and Ike. Gerard Wellesley ofliciated.
Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal) has relieved Lord
Charles Fiteroy in his duties as Equerry in Waiting to the
Queen : and Colonel liouverie has relieved Lieut.-Colonel
lion. Ale:ander Gordon in bit duties as Equerry in Waiting
to Prince Albert.
Mr. Ker Hamilton. Lieutenant-Governor of Grenada.
an, tided the Queen'. levee on Wednesday last.
The I/wheel of Kent left Frogman. on Saturday morn-
ing for Kew. anti paid a visit to the Duchess of Cambridge.
Her Royal Ilighnvoi afterwards processletl totoent. In the
aft. nasal the Royal Duchess left Clarence House, St.
Jam, tt.,, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George
('..apes. on her return to Eros:more.
The Duke of Wellington arrived in town on Saturday
fr..m hi. seat. Strithtiehlsaye, Hants. The noble duke at-
t. 0d..1 the early nixie,. yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St.
Jam, The Rey. I/r. Wesley ofaciated and preached
lice nuon. loos Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
a:tended the daily service in the Chapel Royal. The prayers
were read by the.lter. J. Thomas ; the lessons by the ltev.
T Hammy-, and the communion service by the Bishop of
Lawton. The sermon was preached by the Her. Dr. Wea-
l. y. The anthem was " I will sing of thy power." Mr.
it ('es. •r presided at the organ.
Sir Thomas ltedington had an Late, view with Sir George
tin, CC Saturday at the Home OfSce. Mr. Spooner, M.P.,
bad also an interview with the right hon. baronet.
Despatches were sent oil on Saturday from the Color,sl
thrice w the governors of the West India islands.

OMCIAL APPOISTMENTS.—Mr. Saville Lumley
,• appointed Fint Attach:, to the British Mission at St.
P, knitting, rim Wombwell, n.signed. Mr. Richard Kerr,
late Anachi at Paris, is appointed Second Paid Attache
t Petersham, rip Lumley. Mr. S. Creelman is appointed
Fmatirial Secretary fur Yore Scotia. Mr. William Barrow
appointed Chief Clerk in the *See of the Colonial
Innate: at the htaoritias.-08serear.

It is statill that all the members of the late cabinet met
et 11 o'clock this morning, at the residence of Lord John
Ruasell, in Chesham-plaet.
All the Ministers were present except Mr. Libonchere
lobo is at Brighton.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1851.

already oblige,' to you, I must draw still further on your i applause the object of their ambition—have felt their con-
indulgence. (Hear, hear.) You have had faith in m , nexion with it grow with their growth as they ashamed unit
zeal for your service, you will lam sure continue that fait lexpauded from, we'll say, Prince Arthur to King John. Tu
jin my gratitude for the value you have set upon it. With them, indeed, the etege ws ith the world, as to us the world
On Saturday the friends and admirers of Mr, a heart mere full than the glass I hold, I return you my tie all a stage ; and ue it lathe aspiration of the philatithro-
Meeivady entertained him at a public dinner in the Hall of . grateful thanks, and hive the honour of drinking health to 1 pig that he may leave the world, better than he Soma it,
Commerce. Upwards of 600 gentlemen assembled to do ! you all. Iso it is the actual achievement of our honoured gatot
honour to this pueular actor on his retirement from the 1 Mr. Macready, who was several times evidently much . that he leaves the stage better than he found it.
stage, and amongst them were Sir E. peewits+. Lyrrga I affected in the course of his address, resumed his seat I (Cheers.) he leaves it better, for he has enabled us to hear
(who took the chair), their Excellencies the Prussian "1- I amidst general demonstrations of applause. again the real voice of inspiration, the genuine oracles of
mister, the Chevalier Barmen, and the Belgian Minister, M. I Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, who was received with the , immortal poetry and not the poor, imperfect, and sham
Van de Weyer; Sir C. L. Eastlake, FICA.; Charles , most enthusiastic applause, rose to propose the next toast. " voice of pretended inspiration, which has so often been sub-
Dickens, Esq.; Sir E. Lantheer ; Lord Dulferin ; Captaiu , lie said—Gentlemen, after all yuu have already heard, and ' stituted fur that of Shakspere. He leaves the stage better
Sir George Back; Charles Babbage, Esq.; W. M. Thucke- I have so rapturously received, I assure you that not even I than he found it, for he has made the stage a worthier re-
ray, Esq.; Lord W. Graham : Lord Ernest Bruce; James I the warmth of your kind welcome would embolden me to presentation than ever it was before of the grand conceit-
Heawood, Esq., 14.1'.; 1). Maitre, Ewe, ILA.; Charles , hope to interest you, if I had nut full confidence in the tions of the grandest of poets. He leaves the stage better
ri Bang, Esq., R ' .A. •A. Stafford; Em., M.P.; Sir Aleean- ; subject I have to offer to your notice. Many of those who ; than he found it, for he has raised its character
der Gordon ; K. Dellanimeville ; S.llart, Esq., R.A.; M. I now bear me were present, 1 dare say, at that memo- .to a higher standard than before. Ile has shown the (alms
Macauley, Em., Q.C. •D. Roberti, Ewa, RA.: Eliot ruble scene of Wednesday night last. (Loud cheers.) ' hood of the bigut's painting of the drama, and the folly of
Warburton, Esq. • W, is, r011,..k; E.t. ; the morons of i When I looked round on the vast sowmislage, and observed i the weak and sordid speculator upon scenic effects. These
Clanricerde; Sir it. Murchison; Hon. %%. Cow per, M.P.; the huge pit hushed into stillness on the rising of the . were accidental and not essential to the drama, which could
Charles Kemple Esq.; and John Forster, Lou. curtain, and that mighty surging gallery, where men in; throw them off and raise to genuine purity that school of
The dinner being over and the usual toasts having been their shirt sleeve, had beta striking out their arms likes morals which in ancient Greece woe the worship of the
duly huneurea, strung swimmers—when I saw that boisterous human flood gods. Ile leaves the stage better than he found it, for he
Ihe CII.IIIIMAN said—Gentlemen, we are met to become still water in a moment, and remain so from the made theatrical nnil dramatic criticisms his own act —so well
do honour to an eminent man who retires into private life opening to the end of the play, it suggested to me some-didl he enilmely with his representations the profoundest
after those SerSieea to the public which are always must thing besides the trustworthine-s of an English crowd, and 1 knowledge of character, and that accurate discernment of
felt when we are about to lose them. (Loud cheer.) There the delusion under which those labour who are apt to I distinction., that his actions created critics in himself. Ile
are many among you far better calculated than I tint to disparage and malign it t it suggested to me that in meet- tausrat the literary :urn here and its America to understand
speak critically or the merits of Mr. Maery.:l4y as an actor; ing here to night we undertook to represcat something of : not appreciate Simi:Tem more than they had done before,
but, placed us lam in this chair, I feel that I Should greatly the all-pervading feeling of that crowd through all its inter-1 and he had formed a school of criticism that arose out of the
disappoint you if 1 did not seek to Five some utterance to mediate degrees—from the full-dressed lady, with her die- ; sage, which returns the benelit with interest, and which
those sentiments of admiration of which you have made me mends sparkling upon her breast in the proscenium-box, to I will not allow us to endure those superficial and flimsy re-
the representative. (Applause.) Gentlemen, this morning the half-undressed gentleman—(laughter)—who hides his ; marks which used to pass for criticism., as stage tricks used
I read in one of the 'itemry journals some qualifying re- time to take *some mfr en in the back row of the ; topass for acting. lie leaveothe stage better than he found it,
marks as to the degree of alr. Macready's genius. And gallery. (Laughter.) And I consider, gentlemen, that no one 1 foradthough Motown management of it was ehort ,and althoue,h
I now, gentlemen, as I recoonio, here many who arc devoted who could pos:Oly be placed iu thie chair could so well head as an actor he disappears from our view, yet the effects pm-
,to literature sad art, I will ask them if I em not right in that comprowe.iee repel eentation, and could so well give I ducat by him must lie both great and lasting. Apermanent
this duetrine
the crowning goose to our festivities, as one whose comp,- , decline of the drama is, I believe, as absurd a supposition
artist is the that the true measure of the genius of on e
degree of excellence to which he brings hensive genius has in his various works cmbrarsd them all, 'as a perraanent decline of human nature. Though there
the art that he cultivates. (Hear, hear.) Try Mr. and who has, iu his dramatic genius, enchanted and en- have been setlaoll% in which the drama has been corrupted
jMacready by this test, and how great is the thrilled them all at once. (Loud cheers.) There arc and discouraged, it has risen again into its origin:a grandeur
, genius that will delight lie ne more. (Loud applause.) many mon, v., who will have each his own favourite by the fresh power and vitality it received from the genius
Its real greatness is not at once folly recognised, for in ad- reason foe drinking our chairman's health, resting his claim of those that were connected with it. When home was.
1 miration of what I will call the symmetry of art, its height probably upon souse one of hie diversified successes. Ac- sunk in an abyss, she received from the north such fresh
and breadth are often forgotten. (Cheers.) For we know cording to the nature of your reading sent,' of you will con- powers and impulse as forced her onward in her course.
that it is the uneven and im.gultor surface that strikes us, nett him with prose, others will connect bins with poetry ; So, when our central theatres have shrunk front their
and that the iliMellsiOlts of genius, like those of a building, one will conueet him with comedy, and another with tile primer mission, and have falsitiva those words of the
are lost in the jusuuso of its proportiunit—(cheer.)—and romantic passions of the stage; and his aesertiun of worthy charter which have been repeated to you this evening, the
therefore it is that in recalling the surpassing excellence of ambition and ear wet struggle against those twin jailors of legitimate drama revived again, while represented under
our guest as an artistical pt.rfurawr, one is really at a dos to the human heart, low birth and inntuttuue. (Cheers.) the fostering talents of Mr. acready. Let us then
see in what line of character he excelled the must—the Again, another's taste will lead hint to the coutemplatiou of do all in cur power to cheer him in his onward course,
titanic grundeur of Lear, the mentaldebasement of Wernc r, ItTeuri and the streets of 'tome ; anther's, to the rebuilt land to encourage him in those efferts which contribute so
th the too vivacity of Henry the fifth, the gloomy and and repeopled streets of l'ompt ii• intotherho, to the touching largely too the pleasure and instruction of his fellow crea-
timorous bigotry of King John, or that, his last per- 11-tory of the lire-side, where the Caxton family learned . turn. (Hear.)
anation, of Macbeth, iu which it seemed to me that low to discipline their natures and tame their wild hopes I Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE, having been loudly called
he conveyed a more exact notion of what Shakspeare down. (Loud cheers.) phut, however various their feelings upon, rose to speak, amidst most deafening and continuous
do-igued than I recollect to have read hi the most and reasons may le, lam sere that, with ouc accord, each cheering. When silence was obtained, he said—Gentlemen,
profound of the German critic,. 1 don't soy that our guest will help the other, and all will swell the greeting, with when I sat down to dinner to-day, I had not the least ee-
ls versatile, but I Fay. that he is compreheroive ; and which I shall now propoee to you, "The Ileselth of our peetation of this very great honour I hare just received, by ,
the proof. that he is most comprehensive in hi, Chairman, Sir Edward liulwcr Lyttun." (Loud and lung- havine my name connected with the toot given by the
cepacity is, that all the lines he has created illustrious chairman, 11/11116V, the toast of "The Stage."
within the range of his art are equal one to the other. And continued cheering.
The toast having been drunk with the greatnt . That toast has ben second-ill in a manner most congenial
that, gentlemen, m splains to you that originality, which enthusiasm, and gratifying to my feelings, by so noble and so fair an
even his adverearie* have couciehd to him. Every great •
fhe CHAIRMAN rose and said—l have ofan bud to assembly, in which 1 dioorn many miss most eminent in
actor lets his manner, as every great writer has his style. return thanks for similar compliment., and I have always literature, in science, and in art. We have all met here to
But the urieinalit). of our guest dente not consist in his man- felt the occasion so overwhelming that 1 Imre never been give the honour that is due to our respected friend upon his
nor alone, but in hie singular depth of thought. Ile is not able to conquer the difficulty which we most of us retirement from his profession. (Cheers..) You will then,
only comprehensive iu hie esseintal views of oratoryen bolde, experience when we have to speak of ourselves. Per- I a:a sore, be not much surprieed if I say that I feel'
in gesture, intestate/to stage elay, but be has applied his not me to content my,lf with thaukiug you mint c-or- I utterly at a late fur words to give adequate expression of
study far de, per—he lies touelit to penetrate int,' the onto dieily, and assuring Neu that the reinctubraiim of my imy thanks for the honour You have done me. I will
that intentions of the
the
:Ilia mole poetr 'itself the god frit ad's culogiurn, mot your kindnessto-slay, l shall ties- I not, therefore, attempt thut which I feel to be impossible,
keyte the secrets of the Iniuten heart. (Great applause.) stare among the proudest of my struggles for literary repo. ; but I (monody entreat of you to believe that lam not the
lie is original loaeuee he has not nought to he original, but anon. (Cheers less deeply Knead: nor the tem highly flattered by the very
true, because, in a word, he is riuseientious an art :is in his .)
116 Excellency M. VAN DE WEYER proposed " The signal favour you have conferred upon me. I confess I am
, nether. (Loud cheers.) Gentle-men, there''' one merit in Artists lend Sir Charles EaOlake." (Loud cheers.) not 'ranting in the deeire, but only in the ability, to make a
our guest as an actor, on which I would indeed be ungrate- Sir C. EASTLAKE, on his own part, and that of those 1 noire suitable acknowk figment—one more eatnfactery to
' Cal if I were silent. Many a great performer may attain to who Led born associated with him in this twist, legged myself, and at the some time, more acceptable to visa. I
: bath reputation if he restrain his talents to the toting of to offer his most reepectful thanks for the honour teat I have the honour to drink all your god health", mina if you
Sitaluspeare and the groat writers of the pelt, but it is clear toast had conferred, acid concluded his speech amidst loud will permit me, I will now sit down, for I have not strength
that in su doisig he does not :allow, ties inch the literature ch,.ers, to enter into any remark, upon the stage with which my
of his time. It lees be en the merit of our guest to reeug- Mr. JOHN FORSTER, before poipoein,e the next toast. name was connect 1, and there are many personal reasons
Mee the, truth that the actor has it in his power to east he had been trusted with a few Jinn of poetry by his to prevent my doing so now, which might not influence mu
moist its creating the %race. Ile has identified himself friend, the poet leureate, Alfred Tennyson, adaresaell to at another time. (Immenee cheering.)
with the living drama of the period, awl by so doing he has their distinguished guest, amid it was lett to his discretion I Mr. TRACK ERAIC—The toast I have the honour to
half created it. Wee the-s not ri ~...I.:syt dr, neigh and whether he would r.s.til them in public to-night or not. 11 propose is one that I propose with the utmost ne pert and
manly rigour of Tell, and the Roman heroism of Virginias, (CH, of ~ Read, mid.") Ile thought he ought, and was , cordiality, in which I tun sure you will all reciprocate.
and the exquisite "weetne"" and Path's' and dignity of km ? sure he should Woe penuiseion to do so. The lines were 'fles tetet is, 1 believe, the most popular iu the mind of Mr.
(Trenundowe cheering.) Who dues not feel tint, but fur gm, Macready of env that have been proposed this seeming. I
aim, those wrest ploy, would never have obtained a hold Farewell, Mrsomily, sinc • to-night we part ; shall, neverth-fm,s, propose it, though under circumstances
Lion the stage, or have runketl among the masterpieces Eall-hatided monde., oft, is base cout..st of particular difficulty, for I happened to rend in a news-
which will gn down to the letest posterity ? (Great cheer- Tay power wee-eq.. to na=ve the , übie breast. paper before I came down here that every single speech
iiie.) And what charm and gram—not the author's own— we thmk *See wish one Tree, sod from .4. heart. made upon this occasion, the name:, weights, and colours I
he- lets given to the lesser w',rks of at iuferior writer it Is Farewell, al sc.e.aly ; since tale night we rest. of the 'lookers., would be published, and a correct list of 1
for me tow) . (A loud burst of cheering front all posits e; . take th..te our...tiro bane: wit ulds tee best,
leg
t.e'rrket., ant sum tier hemble, and the test them distributed by hundreds of thousands over the
01 the room) But, gentletaen, in all (Ids mu which he has loot moue a nation paw sirs' Muir art. cowary. (A laugh.) As the lady whose health I wish I
seuelit to rally round him all the amniotic writers of hi. T..i,w to it, that oar hands Len bat die, to driuk will infullibly be in one or more of thew
time, all this brings me at some from the merits of the ger memo &ern to brainless Wooiorme, papers, I have some little hesitation in giving her name
*lgor to those of the manager. I retell that brief hut Oust then wltt r cal• nimoehildren swarm to SPO• such T:iblieity. She will no doubt seek fur those papers
edgious tine when the dr.uta ..f England militated suddenly Farewell. IligaereO.V; moist gess., subine., .
Oil • abakespeare's 'blond and liniTer•al Tye
homes ately on their publicat ism, for the purpots of reoling
to revive, and promise that the future would 'be wurthy of the Dwells onsred, thio' tw kW a hundred years outlaw. every word that is said in insiise of her -husband. (Hear.
post (cheer.; —wlwn broth: union of all the kindred art*, hear.) She will read every name of every distinituished
'e Literature "and
end the toe nist of taste at once gorgeous and I, acre., we (Loud cheers.) Ile
.gave. them " Dramati . , min here who has met to do hint honour; yet 1 feel certain
saw the thoughts of Shakspere prom rly embodied on the he would rout with ti the names. of Mr. Pram and that when she wane to that pert where her own most
sum., the ornament hteing ever subonlinate to the work. th" Rey. Mr. Vilit‘l• 1 honoured and respected name ;call be brought forwanl, she
Just remember the nos miser he rin which t supernatural 'fits CII.IIItMAN—We are graced this evening with will wish most eineerely that it hail never apiwared ; and it I
weency of the weir' sisters was made meteor to the eye—or the presence of the representative of a country to which would lie, no doubt, more none able to her if, under the air-
how the magic isle of Prospero roe in its Inyttatissa. mu- we art indebted fur the profoundest analytical criticism of I cultist:ince., it was not mcutioued here. I mean to propose
toile —or prim the knightly eh tract..r of Heery of Agincourt Shakespeare—Gs oentkanen who is well know¢ for his at, the health of our friend's best friend—his wife—and chil-
verived its true interpretaii,..l from the pump of the feudal remplielanents ;he meant the press-don Minister, Chevalier, I &am. (Load Cheers.) I wish to think of mar friend Ma-
me, and you will own that you could ion strip tho stage of littlies'us I l?fil to loa'a°l'2 "f he f;Orasea. ealsawn'' of en atly, who, like Claude 3ltinotte, is siy:lling toe his Con-
those scenic effects without stripping Shaksocre of half the see,e.peune iu counectiou with this thetinguished gen- stoner. sued I shall out do:reams, detain you Wager, but pro-
da;ol. and imitet.... of 1,!.. .I••seriptions. (Unlit cheering.) Ildunm• po:e to vote the health of Mrs Macreedy and her family.
But that was only half the merit of hie man:eminent :he The. toast having hem warmly re...penile(' to, (Loud cheers.)
purified the audience, so that, for the, first tilde Sinn he
the Chevalier BUNSEN, who was received with loud cheer- Mr. aIACItEADY then rose and said: Gentlemen, my
r ion of Charles the !kerma, a father night have taken his big, responded to the toast in the following wools:—.Mach fies.ntl, Mr. 'llearkeny, has informed vou that the subject of
&nettle r to the public the:titre with as. much safety and as a. 1 mat wish that there was proem on this oecaeiem one your courtesy sits by her hearth at home. It is most true
little fear of any shuck to decorum as if he had token her of the surviving hero" of our litereture to whom Gertnany 'he does so ; but I am eure she is still in spirit here—Oicar,
to the h„,„ of a teeend..._(eheore)—und for this reason, owes the elidinguished honour which has kern done to her hear)--and a "still email voice.," which call only lie heard
the late lamented Bishop of Norwich male it a point drametlc writers and critics, lam free to confess that I am when the heart listens, tells me to thank you in her name
to focus the personal acquaintance of Mr. meenody. proud that it has fallen to my lot to be on such ass occur- fur your kindness now, which I shall repeat to her to-
hit he might thank pion as a prelate of the churai once the feeble but sincere interpreter of oar national morrow, (Hear, hear.) Like a dutiful husband, 1 oleo
for the geed he had done to moiety. (Hear, hear.) feelings. Sir, that honour is great and precious, coming her orilers—(laughter and " hear ")—and on her tort, and
The toast I ma about to propose to you is con- as it dues from such a man, addressiug oath an timetable'. Gan the bottom of my heart, in her name, I thank you.
netted with many aid association, Inst not toolay. On melt an occasion. Gentlemen, the modern literature of wheara,,
(11,-ar.) Later and long will w • cherish whatever ina Gera cry wa • nurtureslby the English muee, and the genius s Lord bIeFFERIN proposed the lust toast of the evening
sullen the mingled feelinee that accomny this twelve ot Wail= Shakespeare watched over her cradle. He is
_,• The Ladies." (Cheers.)
—(hear)—later, when 'tight sifter night patie inio from the not ei true Gentlest who. does nut gratefully acknowledge The chairmen then vacated the chair, and the meeting
playhille the old (*mitten none, and fro, that our, that fact. (Cheers.) W hen after one century of bloody broke up at a quarter before 12 o'clock.
the inure:: of elevated aelight, is lost to us for internal wane and another of benunibment, about
ever. (Gnat applause.) To-day Jet to only no eighty years ago, the national spirit of Germany
j ie.- that he who is etc prtoioue and dear is no worn- hail gathered strength to look arnund, he found
otit veteran retiring to the rest he can no longer enjoy— himself in the fetters of the most conventional motel.,
and taste, which ever has weighed upon pone humanity
that he leaves us in the prime of his powers with many
eurs to come in the course of nature of that dignifiedsince the days of China and Bynum s manorial prow iu
leisure for which every public man must have sighed in the rhyme, rhetoric reserved up to poetry, civilised galvanism
nustaken for the rhythm of organic life. It was under
midst of his triumples—(cherrs) • —ead although I cannot
emit circumstances that the fint of our intellectutil giants,
ovay that the period of his life ha:fallen into ern, the
and in pure classical German proved that
yellow leaf,', I can say that prematurely he ha- obtsined la-seine, more,
that which should acentaipany.old age—" love, honour, andwir motels must be looked for somewhere else, and parti-
obedienee —troops of trietele ; • and, therefore, withdrawing cuhirly in the dramatic art. Leming pointed to two great
fur this night all selfish regrets—nut thinking of the dark. coustelletiosiso—the Athenian theatre, end William Stooks--
nes, which is to follow, but of the lorightuees of the sun that Warr, lie did more: he united with a groat send genial
is to set, I call upou you, with full glasses and full hearts, actor, Schroder, at Hamburg, to give Germaatty a na-
to drink, " Health, happiness,and lone We to William timid theatre fashioned after those models. When one
Miters ady." decade Liter the immortal author of our greatest national
The toast was drunk with the most enthusiwgic applause, drama, of " Faust," when the bright stir of Goethe ruse
the cheering being several times renewed. on the korizau, his dnunatie tested was the tame . _tetchy-
alr. MA CREAMY, who was received with a loud burst pus anti. Seephoeles and William Shakepenre for ever'
) Again, 'when a few decades later, towanls the
of applause from the company, said : I rite to thank you, I 1'
shuald say to attempt to thank you. for 1 fee.l the task is far
_befinning of this century that noble pair of brothers
beyond any powers. What can I say in reply to all that the
.......tredelerif c
canelWilliani 'Schlegel—began to apply the
kindly feeling% of my friends have dictated ? I have not ""'hil hand e to the
of gentus, p osop y, pot ry
the pia' to arrange and dress iu attractive language the creation of a comprehensive system of poetical and
artistic criticism, conside • all' real und lading pro
thoughts that puss upon me, and my humnpetence may,
perhaps. appear like a omit of saneanlity to your kinaucto, ductieerts id art, not as ' an. accidental kateiduecopie
fur we are taught to believe, that .• out of the heart's ful- variety of forms, but as a link in the chain of the elevelmo
new the- mouth sproketh." But my dilticultv. let me 3-file picot of mind ; and when their common friend, Lueloig
you, is • contradiction to the aesertion. 1 have to thank 1:
i *Lk, opened his delightful, both creative and critical,
my friend, your di•t gu rated chairman, for proposing 7
ain i vein for the same object, who was the hero, in whose name
health to you, and fur the eloquence, and may I out ad , and to whose honour they broke down the idols of conven-
the brilliant fancy with which lee has entiched and graced tional mtry, and condemned to eternal oblivion all sham
his subject. But that we might readily expect from him, and unreality ?Who was the hero who inspired both
who in the wide diecursive range of th genius touches Goethe anti Schiller, and the followers of the romantic
nothing that he does not adorn. (Applause.) I haven to school, hut William Shakespeare and his theatre ? This
thank ynu fur the cordiality, and if I may without pg„unge n::-me of Shakespeare, then, was
lint the fathion of nu age,
tin' say so, the enthinicom with which the complimeat 100 it was not the line and cry of a school of metaphyeic philu-
hers or the whim of critical poets. No, sir, it was no
been received, acid for the honour, uever to be forgotten, %.31) , •
that you hare conferred on me by making me your guest more or less than. the adequate expression of the types
to-day. (Loud cheery.) Never bc.fore have I been eo
of
national feeling; it was the ortran and echo of the universal
ce love and admiration with which the Anglo-Saxon
opprsssed with a sense. of my eleticienries as at this moment,
when looking on this assemblage of sympathidng friends mind,T''i in its native, abode,' reverently hailed the great-
crowded here to offer the epontancous testimony of their minded goons of England as the poetical hero of the Ger-
me cunt (Ca
It is above all this inotinr.
mord. (Great cheering.) I observe among you many who
for years hale been the encouraging conipanions of me
. Itliivac love and admiration which has made Shakespeare
e the tpopular name, and hi: dramas the most univer-
neys
course, and there are pneent, too, thoee who have cheereu
•I my very latest efforts. (Hear.) fu all who have united in forty millions of Germans.
due crowning tribute so fur beyond my merits or expecte- '."
tions—to my old frieuels—the friends of many years, who stele head poetical works among t
distinguished editor of teliaketware, who in our age has
welcomed me with hopeful greeting in the morning of my d out the right principles of its inter-
given to England mid to the world the genuine text of that
author., said came .
profeeetoual life, and the younger ones, who now gather pretatron, *as.; MM% hero most truly, "the foundationufa
right understanding of Shakspeare is love —rt scrent love,
wand to shed more brightness on my setting, I wish to
a source, as eve 'true love is. Well, I think we Germans
p forth the abundant explosions of my gratitude.
do love Shakespeare, and we love him reverently.
(Great applause.) You are not, I think, aware of the full ° — • • '
I cannot allow this occasion to pass without Mea-
lextent of my obligations to you. Independently of the tia ins a fact directly ht.,,,ing upon this occasion,
eulistantial benefit due to a liberal appreciation of my, exer-
time, my very peition in society was determined by the that ben Ludwig Tiek was, in 1817, in Loudon, he
etamp which jour approbation has set to my humble merits was struce by a young actor, then only beginning to
a pea lwfore the public. Ile did not see him hi a
—(hoar, hear) —let me unhesitatingly *arm that without
undervaluing the aecidents of birth or titular dietine- I siLk*Per
; attention, but in 'a now forgotten drama of the day, in a
-mien play. the particular object of his devoted
tiun, I would not exchange the grateful pride which
character
your good opinion has given me the right to cherish, neither attractive nor deeply poetical. Bat,
nevertheless, he was streak b that young actor. in the
for any favour or advancement that the most privileged
midst of the splendid constellations which then shone on
y
in station coidd receive. (Enthusiastic applause.) Gee- the English sum. ~ If this young man (Tick says in his
tlemen, I am really too much oppressed, too much over-
Drain:tile Letters of 1817) goes etc as he has begun, he
come, to attempt to detain you long ; but with the re-
flection. and under the eonviction that your drama, the 'will become one of the most moment actors of the age."—
the young man's name was Willem Macready. (Loud
noblest in the world, can never lose its place from the stage e: Gentlemen, there remains noticing more for me
while the English language lasts. I would venture to ex- '"'gg,
than to pay personally the tribute of since' e admiration and
)
peso one parting hope that the rising actors may keep the gratitude to him by whose side I have to-day the distill-
loftiest look, may hold the most elevated views of the duties guut hed honour to sit. liaviug watched him attentively
of their calling. (Muth cheering.) I would hope that they during the ten years I have had the happiness to spend in
may strive to elevate their art, and with it raise themselves
this country, I do not know whether I admire him more as
above the level of the player's easy life to public regard and
the genius of our nunistry to incom• the man who has made me understand •' Macbeth" and
distinction by a faithful
parable Shakspere. (Applause.) To effect this creditable "hamlet," and, above all, "Lear," better than I ever
understood them before, or as the high-minded manager,
purpose they must bring resolute energy and unfaltering
and as the man of character, who has often staked his very
labour to their work—they must be content "to 'Turn de-
lights and live laborious days." Remember, whateer is existence on his great and noble object, which was to raise
the standard of his art, to elevate the English actor, and to
excellent in art must spring from labour and endurance. purify and ennoble the national stage. And I finally wish
(Renewed applause) Nop oak you joy, gentlemen. that you have celebrated the retire-
Mastthe disk in antihero earth Us roots absent*. ment of ais man from the stage use manner which honours
Tint hopes to list Its branches to the sky. both him and yourselves, and wich is full of European
This, gentlemen, I can assure you, was the doctrine of our sad universal interest; da conclude hyteespressinateo you
Siddons and of the great Telma, and this is the faith I have my deepfelt gratitude for song anomie Ime with your
ever held as one of their humblest disciples. (Cheep.) feelings. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, I shall not detain you longer. All that Mr. W. J. FOX said—Shakspere has told us, through
I could dram, and La MOM than I ever could el- the lips of a melancholy muralist, that the world's a
such words
you have, in the honour you have done me this stage;" probably many of those who repeated
proposition true al
peat you
conferred upon me. It will be a memory that felt that the converse of the was
so—
Must remain as an actual possession to me and mine, which namely, that the stage was all the world. Man of them,
nothing in life can take . • from The repetition of thanks ii native and to the manner born," familiar visit from
adds little to their force, and therefore, deeply as lam their earliest years—its revenue. their s---

THE INAUGURATION OF TIIE )[UN. SHERIFF Au-
MON, all Lord Rector of the Glasgow University, took place
on Thursilay last in th common hall of the university,
which was greatly crowded on the °minion. Mr. Alison
having been formally installed into office, delivered a
lenztliened and eluqueut address, with which the proceed-
ings terminated.
Tim WINDow Dtrrtra AND HOUOE T.tx.—On
Thursday a numerously attended meeting was held at the
Guildhall, Bath, to express the dissatisfaction of the citizens
at the proposed substitute of the late government for the
window duties, and to petition parliament for a full, com-
plete, and unconditional repeal of the window-tax. The
mayor (F. Dowding, Esq.) presided. Lord Duncan, M.l'.,
was present. Resolutions, in accordance with the object of
the meeting, were unanimously adopted. In the course of
the proceedings the following letter was mad from Lord
Ashley :—" Sir,—lt will not, I fear, be in my power to at-
tend the meeting at Both to-morrow, OA I have business of
importance, and also a commission in lunacy on my hands.
You will not, I think, be abbe to come to any definite con-
clusion. We do not know who will he ministers, and, of
cows . we can have no knowledge of the measures to be
proposed. One thing only is certain, that, whether a new
ministry he formed, or the old one return, the budget must
he altogether withdrawn. Touching the window tax, I may
say that I have ever regarded it as one of the very worst
I imposts on our statute book ; and though, when the sudden
repeal of it might have endangered the public credit, I wee
unwilling to take so forward a step, I am satisfied that, on
any rehire= of taxes, it is among the first, it' nit the very
first, that ought to be entirely removed.—l am, sir, your
very olallient servant, AglILET.—Feh. 26, 1851."
SUICIDE AT CHARING -CROSS HOSPlTAL.—Yester-
da7 afternoon, about half-past one, a most appalling act of
suicide wee committed at Charing-moss Hospital, under the
following circumstance, :—The unfortunate nubs idual was
a person of the name of Samuel Bridges, aged about 30, who
was well known in the sporting world as a jockey. Ile had
but few friends in town, his mother and chief friends being
in Norfolk. Mr. 11. Lingham, the house surgeon, states
that he had been in the Dow ward of the hospital as a pa-
tient for the but /41 months, suffering from an !abscess in the
arm with pains in the back, but had nearly recovered, and
in fact was about being discharged. Ile was always a well
conducted man, and although he showed considerable de-
spondency of late, he exhibited no symptoms of insanity, or
any kind of derangement such as to induce the least suspi-
cion that lie might despot?, himself. At the usual dinner
hour he declined taking inner with the other patients, and
was observed to go to the window (on the 3rd floor). Ile then
took off his coat, looked out into the street for a minute or two,
when some of the patients remarked that he was goingto bed.
again. In another moment they saw him tilt over, and
precipitate himself from the window, lodging for a few
anomie on the abutment of the second floor window, and
then falling on his face into the area, on the southern side
of the hospital. Mr. Linglumn believes the suicide to have
been premeditated, as the deceased previously destroyed all
his letters and documents. Dr. Golding, together with
witness, saw him almost immediately, whilst he was bleed-
ing from the mouth and nose, with n severe contusion over
the left eve ; and Dr. Golding considered that he had sus-
tained a friseture of the skull, which was the fatal injury.
When picked up there were symptoms of life, but ere his
removal to the ward he gasped and expired. The deceased
evidently watched his opportunity, and the inducement to
his communion of the rash act is attributed to his depressed
essielition from not knowing what to do after his con.
Yi:leseenee and departure front the hospital. The body now
swain the coroner's inquest.
SUICIDE IN A STATION-HOUSE.—On Saturday, Mr.
Bedford held an inquest at Westminster Hospital on the
body of John Goodall. On the night of Saturday last the
deceased was noticed by Sutton, A 221. to be rolling on the
cerement In front of the National Gallery in a state of
drunkenness, and conveyed by him to the King-sweet sta-
tion-bow, where some money, gold and silver, was taken
from him, and lie was leaked up. At midday, on Sunday,
Inspector Shepherd offered to liberate, him on his own re-
eigninutes to appear at the police court on Monday, but he
refined the favour, saying he would rather stay where he
was. About a psarter of an hour after ;eras the constable
in reserve, hearing a moan in the cell.. hastened thither,
and asking, " Who called ?" deceased, who was locked up
alone, replied, " I have stabbed myself with a penknife ;"
which was found to be the fact, the penksifis beingt picked
up by his side. lie was immediately taken to e above
hospital, where he lingered till Thursday morning, when he
died, previously saying that when he did the deed he wan
mad from drink. Deeegig4 wig g single luau. Verdao—
insanity."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

BOW-STREET.
Viotryr APSACI.T. —J. Rale was chervtl with

assaulting his landlord, W. DeU.
The prosecutor said he was a porter. The prisoner occu-
pied a room in his house, and he invariably had considerable
difficulty in obtaining his rent. On Saturday night last
he went to the prisoner's room and asked for his rent.
Ile replied that he could not give him any, but that he
should have it on Monday. Witness remonstrated with him,
and the prisoner ordered him to leave the room. Directly
afterwards he was seized by several persons from behind,
rind, while in that helpless position, the prisoner struck him
a violent blow upon the head with the poker. Ile was ren-
dered senseless by the blow, and, when he recovered. he
found his clothes saturated iu blood, which was flowing from
a wound in his head. Several of his lod;ers came to his
assistance, and, after considerable trouble, the prisoner was
given into custody.
The prisoner called a boy, who said there was no poker in
the room. They used a small piece of wire as a poker.
The prosecutor cut his head by filling upon the hearth.
The constable who took the prisoner into custody, said
he searched the room, but could not find any poker. A fall
would not cause the injuries the prosecutor had received.
Mr. Hall said he most send the case for trial. There was
evidently perjury somewhere, and he must say them ap-
peared taults on both sides.
The prisoner was accordingly committed.