The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-19 00:00:00

SADLIIIVB WELLS.

It is to be presumed that the natives of Islington
sad the region" lying thereabout, know but little of French
melodrama's, or the Welts of Italian operas, elm Mr. Tom
Taylor would 'calmly have ventured to call hie piece of TM
Foote Revenge, produced last night for the first time, " a new
play," while Li loi l'lriteme and Ripoiette are extant among
dramatic aroltbres.

Up bye first poisoning, which is here snbetiusted
for a vary &gutting marder and suspend revolting
holdout of carrying the corpse in a sack, the story
Is entirely that of Itgok to. The details of the !Dis-
like in poisoning one person for another, and of
On beanses whore the unconscious lords are regaling
with eland dens whin the horrible secret is being told by
the paws tentassiistsly before the audience, smack strongly
both of Balzao's Marian and Luc, eao Borgia. Nor has the
phew, which Is written in blank reeve, any striking origina-
lity olf laagoopi—for, troth to tell, tho speeches an far more
prolate than pootic , for the moat part bald and wire-drawn,
and, whore adorned with simile, trope, and metaphor, but
foswy relaWssig what has been infinitely better expressed
beim.

Applause was constant throughout, and Mr. Phelps was
toned at tbs tad of sash aot.

'lb eel Is raw, slam, aad mamba, awl down* toe
Wiliest probs.

ASTLEY'S.

It would seem al if our popular dramatist, Mr.
Tom Taylor, intended to leave nothing In the way of thcetri-
eel enterteinment untouched or unadorned by his pen.
Having delighted the fastidious audience of the Haymarket
with his brilliant comedy, sad moved Adolph, sympathies
for hie Siicelliata, he now betakes himself across the bridge
to Utley'', sad recommends himself to the well-trained
actors of that establishment by writing for them a piece la
which they Ind themselves es much at hoesies Mies Sidi-
wick or Mr. Campton la the Unequal ketch, Mr. Taylor
chasms for his here the renowned Garibaldi, whom everyone
uses, and melody more than the audiences over the
voter, and, with peat sad propriety, dramatiees all the
more salient points in the career of that diseinguished
captain. We have him first In his Eatencia in the Banda-
Oriental, fighting against Rome at the head of hie Italian
leg ion, and in the intervals of repose fulfilling all the duties
of Paterfamilias with exemplary selection and dignity. His
wife, Anita, already shows symptoms of the beret= for
which she wee simmer& to become so distinguished, and
the well-known " Englishmen," Mr. Beard, appears upon
the some ea an importation from " Biromery " Axe,
dividing Lis executive attention between the purchase
of hides sod tallow, and a chivalrous devotion
to the Italian chief. The first act, or tableau,
finishes with a stampede of wild horses, which is so exceed-
ingly teal la the represettetion as to came considerable
alarm in the orchestra, and very much to derange the per-
formance of the appropriate murk, a surprise, the capture of
Madame Garibaldi, and an ultimate noose and escape of all
the piaci* characters. Three years elapse between the
font mad second acts, and when the curtain rises on the latter
we find ourselves apes the Meths' of revolutionary Rome,
where Garibaldi le seen performing the part with which the
airwomen have Weedy rendered ea so familiar. He Is a
ire, mad a beet in himself, everywhere, and everything,
bat treaohmy and the French ultimately prove too much even
for him, and we loam by the hones galloping up and down
the buditirmal platform, the laming of of innumerable squibs,
and a general atroompbere of red fire, that the stare owe
moor declare themselves against the merle.. In the third
sot he is a fugitive on the marshy shores of the Adriatic.
He le aecompthied by his heroic wife, now fist sinking under
hardship and vicissitude, and attended by his faithful Eng-
' Vanua, and an equally faithful negro whom he had brought
with him front South America. Here the beloved wife sinks
under her accumulated midortunas, sad Garibaldi, torn
with grief, has to be forced into the vemel which had been
provided fur his escape. The fourth act embodies the events
of yesterday and of to-day. Garibaldi Is now the Pied-
mutes" General, at the heed of his Alpine chaos/pure he
finds in • loopiest daughter ocesolation for the lona his be-
loved wife : his Englishman performs prodigies of valour,with
" Simmer, " Axe facility and national noachalance, and
commences " potting " the Austrians after the meaner
which has gained himself so much world-wide celebrity.
The battle of the Stalvio Pass I. fought over again, with the
whole cavalry and infantry of the establishment, a traitor is
killed by Geribaldi's own hand after a terrific brad-sword
combat, and, amid load cheering, the annoanommeat of the
armistice of Villafrance et last brings down the curtain. In
dealing with anah • subject, and for etch an audience, Mr,
Taylor bad several difficulties to contend with. In the first
place the subjects dealt with were real end fresh in everyone's
memory, send it required • good deal of Ingeanity to give any
dramatis anthenica to events happening In different
hernispbentee, mid at intervals of three and ten pen. Bet
Mr. Taykr bee found a way of uniting them altogether by
tame of a captain of the Italian Legion, originally Geri-
beides rival is love and ever after his implacable enemy, by
I the never-ending devotion of Mr. Beard, "Garibaldi"
Eogliohroors," and lastly by the help of the negro Procople,
who follows his sweater everywhere, and whom black face
eas=e • constant reminder to the mudienoe of what may have
gone before. In the sett place, it might be thought that •
pen so pungent and so polished es Mr. Taylor's, so trained
to elegant euphony, and so "hummed to subtle wit, would
run restive in any attempt to write down to horse pieces and
tree/potting naderstaadings. But hem the dramatist has man-
fully Mho the bull by the horns-in Frisch phraseology has
"accepted the eitualicw," andorithent any attempt tommulate
the dreadful bonhomie( the kippodreinatio stage, or, on the
Ohm bead, to Import into it the drawiag-roost phraseology
of his habitual high emeady, has produced • pleasant, intalli_
giblet, unaffected dialogue, which every one understands, and
which, whatever mansion requires, rises naturally and appro.
whitely to dignity or pathos, fully developing the force
and intention of the situation to which It is appplied. We
have, in fact, never seen • horse place which approached so
near a retinal entertainment ea this Astleyan achievement
of Mr. Tom Taylor's, and we consider it no small compliment
to that gentleman to be able to my so ninth. It was an
attempt entirely out of his line, and—pa:hems a smaller artist
would have thought—below his literary dignity, but having
taken it in hand, he has done his work well, and
not at all improbably, the success which tot introduction Of
well-constructed drama, natural, unaffected dialogue, end
probable incident, has met with, may teed to an entire and
berieficial revolution in this clam of entertainment. A word
must be mid for the actors, who seemed to feel that they were
speaking • now language, and that attest they had real human
characters to support. Mr. Ennis made a reheat Garibaldi,
and did not overdo hie part ; the heroic wife found a fitting
representative is Mime Caron; and the Hero of "Sha-
mmy " Axe had lull jostles done to his insular eccen-
tricity and Austrian antipathies by Mr. Phillips.
But the meet successful character In the piece, and
which certainly found most favour with the audience,
was that of the negro Procopio, most admirably played by
Mr. Behoove. Had the author entrusted him with • dojo.
sad provided him with a plantation song, he would have
moored for the piece • hundred nights' run at least. With-
out these traditional adjuncts, however, Mr Belmore med•
quite • hit of his part, and was regularly called out for his
ovation along with Garibaldi, hie wife, sad the Englishman,
after every act.
The emery wee well painted, and all possible managerial
exertions had obviously been made to secure the success of
the plow. We think we may congratulate all parties con-
cerned on the achievement of that result.

MAD•XI Tele addition to the recently-
eareeeete figures of Garibaldi and Peter* which have bar
Naafi Is &Knowles localities Is the well-known gallery in
Balser-elest, • agora of sir John lavrence, modelled by as
eminent alit, sow germs a part of the numerous attractions
which have dosorooffly obtained the of the public.
The figure of thee ,Mlguiebed s6it forms one of
• poop, consietisg at Generals Campbell and Havelock, end
it nosy be averred that no group in the whole colleotiou at-
tunes more attention, or Is more deserving of it. The figure
is admirable se • correct likeness of the original, and merits
peat grain fix ths delicacy of the manipulations of the
ode. TM of thestallery, which hes been en-
eittressely udid end in good taste.
MUM. •L•Ci. fin SHILLDIO DAT.—
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by mono dab*. 1,123.; total visitors, 7,694.