The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-14 00:00:00

PRINCESWS THEATRI.

The Merchant of Venue, which is generally un-
derstood to lie the last of those magnificent Shaksperlas re-
ef,* width the talent, energy, and liberality of Mx. Chubs
Keen have pitted hake, lie public, wee produced on Satur-
day night white swam TWA, to my the least of it, it amply
desermd. Most litelmate has Mr. Bean been in his soloe-
d= of this play ea the home honcho of his series of princely

eatertainments; for in it he has been able to combine the
Mier% reading and resessult, and the light and elegant play
of lacy which, ismarately, have laeseed the attraction' of
the ohm revivals ; in it, too, more strongly than in any other,
bee ►e hod the power of realising to modern spectators
the places sad people among which the action takes plans.
With a shun era at cos blow he has swept
Ewa est framework of ocaventineelity wit► which
the play leis hitherto bees anrrounded. Hitherto the dams
chemoters refinented, though meeting and moving la the
most crowded regorge of a populous city, have been the caly
persons seen by the audience—they might se well have ex-
isted at Carthage se at Venice; bet he Mr. Hean's version
the be tle and life of a great city gone on bekee our eyes ; the
elresbawarts with popalatica, the peciesska of the Doge
Idols r mina way across St. lierk's Piece, and the pew
pasts of the day, heated of entering upon • bleak step,
mllde s mamma asset ea the tack end two motile houses of
essy op et areibutems al the eiky sew glkle sadly along to

theft rlbiled oeudeba. boa minds OW bid elieseeedika
idle *ale Alladhothe oldles yak hitumble WU-
home ow- ft behmlaides d the Wok Peeelee hems
le • inseie• giallo le Ile- alltemeee et doe meth
lady, the roads are Wavily appentlei ___
the *bete ealtrimags breathes at weak awl psalm The
laid soar deem es senarreess•hudh ale beltimieesa ea-

orb( ogees rasp* ea • beash noir mese 1, bat • boy
foam swenslas with Pb; tiro is the Delp, la his mood-
lows, semesaded by the seasessom a Imbed dab; Was, at
which are used the advocates sad their (brio enraged at
the idea, while the forearmed is 198 d with the ohm,
oleo awl other Oboe of the °earl. It is in this mamas that
the goat triumph of the mammas* islom pia webs,.
all on the Nereiemi sJ ream a some of limes, owl have
bar eeenstamed he 'lewd Bbyloolt se the pressigal kale,
to wham the others ware merely sommories ; bat ila the sew
vomits, so elaborated is the Spry in all Ito details by the
mere Oros of careful sad szadient acting, that Antonio rises
be.. the mere sulkies geOlsonea" he bas always boa, into
a boo sad poselble martyr, sad we &wider at the thought that
the donate of the law may aelaelly give to the Jew's
kale the boost of is ellatioade • Mimi sad wok a
respectable we.. It is, too, la this memo the the elimaz is
arrived at. From the reemeat whoa that WOO sowed ol
the whetted knife jers Imo the son of Ell moot aatil
Portia's triumph and Bbylock's tiegradiallas w fully meal-
het, the etteatica of the mellow wee embed to the highest
pitch, sad the slowest It of he weaties sectemitited a rootlea
la the folluilag aid asachodis set. We de sot seraph to
say that we have over r isMato taellsesoli more tho-
roughly displayed Yea tt was doh* the whom., rd the
hard' ea cm Saturday night.
Otis rein we asa speak in the very highest terms.
IL. Reseda aresegaaa at Oh** is that et a as. the paw
MAW of whose lest red whose Wars mature buret through
every allesept at seariamdca whisk Twiny pate* say
adobe. The loan of the three thousand duets be
mere at first u a mercantile spetaleillem, • risk,
La will* a lair smoant of psromiage should may
lief; bet mushily the remembrance Ball the Image ha he.
aislwel, the heal he bee sustained through the high spirit
of the akyhtim archeat, breaks ups Ishii. and he bunts
eat hele that thereat at rugs which tr salt allayed by the
thlegght that by complying with his tummy's mud he bee
the shmee d wteshiag his vsagesses ea him. Se prarafany
is the noes of straw*. whist wan and Wag* repo-
stelet toy Yr. Kok that ter timbal three ads the wettable@
et the srathase are Mashy with Skylark sod the display al
&Oohed, useeleadm bleaddirety ruegeseste is the trial
some, I. rally mein/ I. batng their )airomit to a poor
!shwa. Of Ma Loa's Portia we 11111 tail aq thst so
sera aging is to be hued we the addle( British sage.
Bared, elegrat, ad vales* thuregbeat—her delighttel
"Mims& iSeedlest seassetsas he ibilvarbe the adshraell
epos* yea the wary at Om 41smillitobas at
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