The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-11 00:00:00

Till WEE THE 4223 10114 ADALPHI.

The new Adelphi Theatre is to be opened on
Botheralikt, and we us new Ms le gin wine pertionhos
et thsaneageseet std sweenweita al the Wilding.
Tie twin elands= lamas*/ In tits quid= d dawn*.
pima* will he toewititbs tires se to the width of the
pnisteelea-spiaig in *ponies to the w sattoty ;" the
projeeks d the Mauston miens d She dissweirele ; rd the
eftweny foamed gees- es speregristsd maid, with ve-
toers to the widest el ths mama Is Pala "ador
eWeerrd contweniestite Weems the Has ; sae I. a pl-
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key dairres, with ashram her Dell Las:ceert. dr; of
that which dr reared hem the shrsaos in the &read.
Width of porealserepesing. sad adverb( tits boat si
he lower•thr hors, have her Doted bp as es otelprierg
what right be a deeisahle appear to the prirdpie of the
ardor thole% is regard to the object of a good view of the
steps. Lords( at sere of the London theatres which beet
admit of coaprissa, the relative proportions of the prop
sktrepsialag to the "wahsery " may to gathered bar the
artereat as voila :
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Widte, h el
iaras possertme—Ailelpid. feet =t oi
37 ihr 2 ; T riamer36 ;s, 36Lier
Adolph'. Si lier_l_Lposa, 36 het; Olpaple,
Lmlstarmi—Prbaside. SO hit Whit the rale serer the
rem. or hetes= the hear-46 het in the ere at dr upper
der of dee Adolph! Trate% that is to way. 6 hot 7 robes
ones ther the L and 11 hat $ fares ern they the
Gi;W them the ...raiz:4 "Iltiabl7toos at diame
greater if oor ideas hare Wen rem& At the
mar demo, via* the pit is al* eicalea—lac• It wow
appose Iran the pre .pored. sot rig that the whole area
is pester tier rat la tits Ali rose, bed that eves a leas
bon —eb of the awe offers the nem are homer
height of the me
der above the step it Lai
this la W other teas.

Thus ere dine den (two, home; mad me, rallery) shove'
the plt level ; It Ohm words. there en four doom, m is the
tome of the memealum, white boxes will farm wiry be-
us' ;imam it the idiot The wirer bone mid parry
artiee ditlemat frame &brew Otmosiltoth br the ceeksioa
d Ow Übe* madly the fee., m pku, et the bow-flow at
the aides of the Mom _ . . _

—Then ;is tooiews dear fa the errs, sad the reran-
der of the slam le &sided lab kerma bras, whloh, Iron
the arnaprest of the dinakas, may he ese seal are
pride sad private bras. The edges of the arrow nap
heck to the Olin far the Kea of furs of then born
with a reale la earns of rarefy Imam Or ow
what the fern of a tanned lesehr T 110111/011111M•
will ecatelbate very ready to tba dirt of the boxes rend
boot or, sirther, sad rairelly bra the hors; whiles the
book iris are ea sane ae thozgA other lretoc=s la oth
thrleas. Anahor husovada• of is thane-
tended la the fast et the hadaa, wink se af ore•work
, aim Wad, es the the Wks' deans asr ehew
=kwhirs' it wit le lardar ray be • questkribru'l&
hans will sormaraW lON perms ener.
The belblhog k igtseirlable, as vs lan horn ederved,
forietteni= sr ken la area whir en Aerie, the
sk of the- der of bildere 4.4°.
sediry, Milo the tight liaalehl el the ataks la the
re et third lir readily allowed of that
af Indeoter, so I•lrak WU& In hare described
me a. .4 whirs la arks is ready shows la the
shire heat es the fans/ of be bean seer res ha this
Male ilessehr 4_llllll Wald bow
rend NI meredmishistal Kr rel is of warps
kin vh=isrleAhr i aired byre slaithres, r
le • the Irmo.
irdlisry sad the eas !Mr dna* 'of the
nada he re brow ore lioftg it. There are la
aboa t IS het opal
Kr. T. N. Wyatt is the erceillsot ; Mr. J. Water la the
WM, ; sad Mr. Naiad is the srohltans ark of the
works.—fr Ihuider.

TZn 211111111•11 PrintOtte—Yon have been in-
itialled tisium lettere that dbill Boma bee • greet
ttla to Is Puts, IS hy to the segued allasses that
heat bass is ft to Oahe her Minim* buseshas
It is emly Peels," ie enethewelen, bet lbs sem.
sts's hese is tiled, sad I bete Paris^ IA comayasts if
this elatiNwst h.r Majesty le ad to pastrami ea lon as she
/odd the departure of the Court from Casidayse,
mug by km Wist* with the Zweate she ab-
labia Pailtealawat after yealsessmat. At bet,
Thessim the lab, wee lead be the men ; the
tirlibawl kw impale idly, bet wee toil
eselit net pity be awarded; whertapat Ise Yr
Sooty al& has "mask head drew •p a patties to the Ear
serer, !nut*
for es day of sweet,
et at the very sooty , the ith, mg the bred bar
on these grab thee the cheater of the
loperld se the ?shoe of the Tuned= heaths
wedergass wan eepshs, ass Nauseates* ; ao
Mm • sew amen nide ke the Ulysses Mrisic was
wrheheraeo ; UM, Um she lerieff sad the lefts
of her smite teed sat avow .1t et be rear md
sass cassuq•eady set sew eon sots The patios
bar htelesty Wised, awe ea het heir leweeer, by
lee dloweets, *eelA lbetrbe. had when the ZlNlrear
woe Meat le
tire dews le dieser, la • wean et elow.
Wham " entryteg • Opel& Weer W, es
mite s datammt braise as eseraces “eerwkst
to that r veil the lloyeene, greedy =meta. The llama
imbed eeerelehtel, Mt bwiewelystsrtml that yarl Impaes lt
wee "a plebe hoe ewe pew Tb• erse
broke the esel—aued—aelled ; amble a = hetut:
hasher hem Ibe eelies• baba le-
aided as ressatidzampl
Mel weesura leek nay aa i• Bewley.
bet—Bab Come-
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ows we of Yee Illompethea Dowd or Worts •••
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the etehlteese amt iteame to mist he MAI= shaft to
diem lir emetweelew and eller weeeitel ettle
the Seethomett retWielelmter oeummiewims, aid other
heromemwele um le pee • Mew WM rewired hoe
the mew et Ilkllereyr, Milberwle, hr eamat
of Os twatelbeelle brew& the imprevesewe be Mit=
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LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 11.

Ir Mr. Lowa's speech at Kidderminster is
to be looked open, as a manifestation of
the PLUM/MON policy on the question of
Reform, the position of the late Administration is
settled for ever. They mast be content henceforth
to be ranked among the firmest opponents to poli-
tical pretreat. They most take their stand on a
narrow finality. They mast be deemed to have de-
cimal plainly to the aneafranchned classes that, so
far as it depends on them, no further extension of
the rights of citizenship is to be expected. The
manias of the late Administration have never
insinuated against them anything so damaging
as has now been openly avowed by this
zealous and candid friend. If, on the other
hand, this exhibition is to be regarded as the an-
authorised ebullition of personal recklessness and
personal effrontery, the sooner it is disavowed the
better for the reputation of all concerned. Already
rumours are rife on all hands that the Whigs are I
afraid of the working class... If this rumour be
untrue, it «anon be too speedily contradicted.
Meanwhile, straws esseetinum thew how the
wind Mows. When a Whig Load Chief Justice
takes occasion to intimate at a public dinner that
the Whip may soon be numbered amongst the
Coseervatives ; when an ex-Whig Minister goes
down to his constitaents charged with the mast anti-
reforming address that has been delivered in the
whole muse of the recede, it is high time that the
I chiefs of the Whig party should come forward with
some authoritative refutation of the inferences which,
wider these circumstances, are almost inevitable.

The Whip amid of the working Glasses ! was
there ever seoh a preposterous fear P In one sense
it may be well gee:laded, mid in one sense only. The
working slum ore formidable as long as they are
kept beyond the pale of the constitution. As
long as you withhold from any large body of intel-
ligent, active, and aspiring men the full measure of
their civic rights—they are in a certain sense for
They have but an imperfect appreciation of
the value, but a languid interest in the maintenance.
of institutions from all active participation in which
they are excluded. Their ambition seeks other
modes of gratification; their eager intellects, debarred
from the legitimate fields of political activity, project
themselves into wild speculations and visionary
theories of the end moiety. Yon refuse to allow them
to become eitinena of England, and they become
sit/sans of Utopia. Socialism and Ceermanism
become the polities' pabulum of the mon, whom you
train to intelligence and exclude from nunchise.
This is dangerous if yea will. But far the perpe-
tuation of this danger who are responsible : those
who would make these men citizens by an extension
of the franchise, or those who would keep them
acre-citizens by maintaining it as it is P

Om columns have just recorded a tragic incident
that has warred at Dublin, and which we think
ought not to be passed over in silence. A Clown,
attached to an equestrian troop which was perform-
ing is that capital, on the night WNW toe his
benefit, in order to give an additional attasetica
to the usual satertakunsot, announced his inhaatkia
of performing an martial and extrurdiney feat
This consisted in jumping from the' may, of the
Mnitio•hall, temporarily Iltted up sea is into the
centre of the arena, turning three sontanaults in the
air during his damn. When the time for the per-
formance of the feat arrived, the adventurous man
appeared in the gallarY, jovial eamagit to outward
observation, whatever inward misgiving he Might
have had u to the result of his perUrrea experi-
ment. Every reasonable promation was taken, we
are told, by the peoprieten of the Olrans to pre-
vent an accident, a large quilt, fee the piques
of receiving him, being held by twelve men In the
arena, and a satires laid on the guyed beneath.
Then precaution, however, preyed of so avail.
At the appointed moment the undretunate man
sprang from his plum in the gallery, bat instead of
turning over three times end alightiag on his feet, he
oaly tuned two-and-a-half times, and fell heavily on
kis heel. The mattrese, unable to break the force
of such a fall, simply diverted the fracture from the
skull to the spine. The pear man lay quite motion-
less, end many people, shocked with the conviction
that he wee killed, hurriedly left the place. The
fall, however, were set inetantemeuely fatal, though
all farther need of paint and motley was at an end.
The daring jester had entered the ring fee the lost
time that evening, and his ilsveterite gibes, gambols,
and dashes of merrimuet, the lathe of which had
scarcely died away, weld be sem end heard am
more. He was carried oat from the theatre still
breathing. though inseamisle, and died.withis a short
time afterwards. A morirouriking illustantits than this
incideat affords of extremes swiftly meeting weld
scarcely be imagined-4m wildest light et streaming
paetomises soddenly ecourted iato hushed and awful

trsgsdy. In the Pnesoos of the fatal result such s
spectacle appease in he woe ehmester as positively
criminal. It is a degrading and a wicked thing
that men should be emewaraged to risk their diem
in this manger for the massormat of the public.
This is the point to whisk public attention ought
to be directed in tonarakm with each oinurreacen

Those whe by their presence and applause directly
sanction sad rapport such dangerous exhibition
are mainly responsible for the results—far more
responsible than the proprietors of the entertainment
or the individual performer. The proprietors are
the servants of the public, and will be sure not to
introduce or allow any entertainments of which their
patrons would be likely to disapprove. The per
under the influence of competition and
applause, naturally wishes to do his best ; and
he, too, will endeavour to accommodate his per-
formanoes to the preaussed state of public opinion
and expectation with regard to his art. And clowns
and tumblers are just now in a difficult position,
being to a great extent the victims of a morbid
taste for the overstrained and extravagant. This
taste has been greatly fostered, if not created, in this
country by the inflated system of puffery and exag-
geration—the gigantic posters, monstrous troupes,
unparalleled performances, and exciting effects—of
which Haulms and his coadjutors are the represen-
tatives. Urged on by the prevailing tendency for
unnatural excitement, a performer in this department
may easily be led to attempt what is beyond his
powers, and it ma scarcely be wondered at if in
some instances he falls a victim to his efforts. Take
the present are for example. It was the poor man's
benefit. His salary could not have been a very
large one, and though comparatively young he
may have had a wife and children dependent
on his exertions for their support. He knows
that if be can offer some fresh attraction
in the shape of a daring and dangerous feat,
this will help to fill the benches and bring a
few more 'killings to the treasury. Whatever may
have been his domestic relations, there is no doubt
that he was in want of the money, and so resolved
to make the attempt. Of course be would never
have thought of undertaking such a hazardous ex-
ploit if he had not believed that it would prove gene-
rally attractive, and help to fill the Circus. The
responsibility connected with such perilous specta-
cles thus falls back on the frequenters of these
places. They can effectually put a stop to them.
A decisive expression of disapprobation on the part
of the public would be suffloient to prevent the
recurrence of these tragical scenes. Such an
expression of opinion becomes a public duty. We
believe that the number who really enjoy such ex-
hibitions is very small indeed. They appeal to sae
of the lowest and most degrading passions of oar,
nature—the fierce thirst for excitement at whatever
oost, the heavier the risk and the greater the danger,
the better. This reckless thirst rarely exists except
in those whose feelings are blunted by coarse excess,
and who have to a great extent lost the power et
rational and healthy enjoyment. The gambling
passion survives the wreck of the gentler and nobles,'
the more gamma and manly feelings it destroys.
The performer may succeed in his desperate leap,
or he may beeek his neck in the fall; and
there is something in that fatal risk to excite a
momentary feeling of interest in the most callous
natures. Bat the feeling is a degraded one, arising
from a criminal indifference to human life which
few in any assembly would sympathise with or
voluntarily indulge. That these exhibitions are
tolerated at all arises rather from thoughtlessness
and want of knowledge than from conscious sym-
pathy or approval. Such wonderful things are done
i now-a-days that audiences are disposed to allow a
performer to attempt anything he likes. This Dub-
lin tragedy, however, shows that there is a limit to
this forbearance, when it becomes a duty for the
audience to interpose and express their disapproba-
tion in the most decisive manner. It lies with them
to assert practically the truth that human lift is not
wantonly to be sported with, that it ought never
to be risked for the make of mere amusement.

We press this point all the more urgently now.
because during the last few years we have noticed
a growing tendency, as the pantomime season wines
round, to introduce marvellous gymnutic perfor-
mances on the stage. Last year one clown at least,
if not more, met with a serious accident in attempt.
ing to meet the heightened standard of pantomimic
dexterity. At this very moment one of the theatres
in the Eastern districts announces the " terrific
" ascent " every night of a lady from the itage to
the back of the gallery on a new electric wire. The
[ ordinary resources of a circus and a theatre are
' quite stifilcient for all purposes of legitimate recrea-
tion and enjoyment, without resorting to the kind
of stimulus that disgraced the publics entertain_
ments of the Roman Empire in the worst stage of its
corruption and decay.