The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-10 00:00:00

DRAMA.

MADAME EISTORI AS QUEEN ELIZABETH.
We do not fear to uaert that never wee a more
werprising sad original performance witnessed by any thea-
trical mamas in London than that which was presented by
Adelaide Ristori last night in the character of our own
Qum Elinabeth. It is not only that the impersonation of
that &gab' end latenetiog worms, who b to the ingibh
commemity befall eemparbsa the meet leveler mad big.
Yaey awaits Ogees la a 1 suer royii lie, most thews be
Mem= by the puelmemsand reality of her nature
she to rimmed anthely met et the eenventional rates el the
sleepier and more may nalememed characters width hem
the dementliffe ordinary Meek. In this reaped the
umnellom swam with which Ristori has hit the popular
cosmgdon d Filasbath, and the startling vivacity with
wide she pronmie it, are ell the maw .workable "Mee the
lege Mall amide ha with no preview sample ; and awe
a Issigsse, who bed eat, like salt Nagle man and vacua,
bum menelemli eta sidlibeed to dwell spa the !Mary el
or lommeme liar* "tit. aged Gerd QUM Book"
he. bee egad ups to Irma er to muds Ids saw dramatic
pert, in MIM temilensity to a treelltim whisk bed hitherto
bias to the aid dam a ilmager. Bat whiletilio drrsesee
be cogratablei en so what an aosomptielemed d this
arduous leek, the* wn*st scared not one maim el her au-
, Seem can Ism ti/id is semegaies the matt lalibmst of
their premineelved ibilliNhe great Qualm end wayward '
womaa with wham we all nem to be ao well acquainted, &la
perfermsnes cl bars has also afforded the sand striking
widows al the anheordinary ammo if her albedo poems-
by toning them into the varied extrabe end subtle aombina-
time of nommen& required in what is caned the rotunda or
Shakopee/Ims Wad of play, as distioguiehed from the OW.
coal drama la which bar roost coespicuous tridlispis bed
before been earned. Whereas it is the aim of the talper to
enhance the mysterious Interest of some use greet evemillA
to bold the mind suspended to =shay about a single
exhibiting the aid polonaise comma as utterly domi-
nated blooms releatlese, all-oonfonnding passion, the modern
and Beglielt dramatist seeks to give as a breedr and more
gear& view al human life, with all its piatareeque &vanities
and inconelsteactss, and the relieving or distracting incidents
which come, often se kindly, to change the einem of our
emetione sad to slacken the terrible berthas al destiny.
In the world of realities pure end uninalilled tragedy
L never produced ; the home of moaning b next
door to that of mirth; and so in the workl end
Shia/pears, we look to and fro between the mid-
night murder-chamber of Duncan sad the humor.

ous ribaldry of the parts, outside. The ohmmeter se
the hero or herdas la shown in its completenews, and net
merely as influenced by the emotions or a mailmen, mink
And this is what Illetori has dons with Elinsbeth—esprer
seating her not as the special typo of any OM
sentiment or disposition, hal as a very Leon, very
inalnins, and thereon very inoonsinant Lehi; fa whet
lea Inemaistent as humanity ; and is not were serentially
more Inman than man ? So hen we have the Itnekh
Qum, admirable and faulty as she was, generous and
MO-sealed map< when potty omitting mod meaner enmities
Mole away bar nobler spirit—mujestis in the oomemand or
others, seml sinrably deficient is the eammod of her owe
leteitir—trak yet kinesetitsg, Mora though pmfiimonloua,
ealoticeele,egellelkekeroi—e bode of settrotekedktlone,

sem of hoe rn dieitgth sod caber irldlot mowed blo to

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gift isulletiss which elw

shared with the reel of her ea, yet lormaded with tenors,
toe the violins* via whelk she obese Mnipreee them.
We seed oat ow mot at the campesidoe at Signor t:i ia-
'multi, white asay be repaid as lane& of bat sight's
pedennalioe. It kr as literary pretensions, beteg a mm-
Oahe, is the gam Of pees gialages, of the best biome
leeideets of Bliseledire riga awl at her pseessel mom
Nat much " panda' Unease hr bees takes with the Wa-
tery; and if we exempt the Intrelneiles cf/am,se &oast In
paean at Elleabeth's mart, Is protest aphid the Judicial
=War of his matter, we be sot lid hire soy wider diver-
pada from the reseted wake of the fads of the time thee
these which a shame et %Mary wtfl perceive is Sir Walter's
weal of "Beeilwartli." La the circumstances under which
Mary's

wee elpsed the mord hes bees fol-
lowed. The dingthoe of Wader, lite redone madden awl
falai the et Ewes to royal end bode throw, the iihrese
of Philip of Bpeb, the plaints dithenatthe of the Atheek
the floyorissithe et lierleigh above the itheethan, the geor-
nil of Ewes with hie rival Lord Noma elf Ilithegitero,
hie raeluers sod the yeesesqlsene Wanes with& Ineeiht
has to the eseithill, the etreseb hese& theelner sad heftiest
Ode in Blimatell's heart, hr &wide( distal to woke
the dreedifal sestisco, her wild tlithey sad yesethate self-
ebetheasat of reessava—these awl nosy other hafting of the
Any, lostethed with ea ever threembg interest, were sub-
stantially enbodied as the Sags
We troth this stay nth be the bet representation of Ifllits-
MU at the lit. Jame% Theatee.

THE VICAR OF KIRDAL.—We aft infettilltd that
the viewer at Medal hes bees scaopted by the Raw. 'Mr
Copper, A.M., Solar Yellow at Triaity Conap, to whisk
es oar netters ere swam the bi beleagr.—Zarrtst
Mwaw7. _ ---

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lag follow-
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mos at Liveepsel pseaday, nay the seas
sareselval of the Apareassa Qatesliene:-.4" The
walla tastrestasserler erblee IY.Ageasamea ailed yen
Is as east that N the eve* of tie sale Wailer slaw
KO mike pad sa, lbw (the ales) —, IS Nam is the
pesos of iselseepas t. Oa Wei age Arnalls,en mod,
when eta was to twit he a& sem daliellas. Dada
tams laseastioes Os Agarmesea eaw=ll7asliet
sad, if so, would at be us her sw bens
is supposed that thesis sans wiseekaseaselaies-6Zina-
&saw between des two mob, whist nay emeart hr the
eaisea's estra."
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