The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-11 00:00:00

ADELPHI THEATRE.

The title of a new piece announced for production
hat,night at the Adolph' was eminently suggestive of ado-
drtmit fin Its integrity. Vet Dowd Lead could imply
nothing but woes unnumbered end misery more or leas in-
tense. These expectations were fully realised by the por-
ter/sums of "a new and origin.'" drama of that class,
which, considering that the some is laid during a period
embracing the rise and progress of the first French revolu-
tion, and that it le full of the usual sentiments peculiar to
the time, it le at least doubtful whether it ha. bean played
very recently on the Parisian stage. The story is not very
complicated, though it is somewhat diffusely told. In a
"Prologue' (what is the difference between this bled
of prologue and a first act?) we are introduced to
the characters who figure through three succeeding
acts. The ceremony of the betrothal of Robert
Landry (Mr. Webster), a young &diet, and Catherine Duval
(Miss Woolgar) ia being celebrated at the Cate de la Belle
Jardiniere, and is watched with envious eyes by the Abbe
Worm (Mr. D. Fisher) and the Count St. Valerie, an
aristocratic lover of the bourgeoise bride. The Abbe is •
spy of the court, end amore than doulrful associate of the
Count, and listening to certain seditious talk that goes on, by
means of one of his agents, produces evidence sufficient to
obtain a " 'eters de cachet" for the imprisonment of Landry,
which is executed in the chamber of Catherine, into which
the Count penetrated at night for the purpose of carrying her
off. and whither Robert, bowing her cries, hes followed him.
An interval of seventeen years elapses between this
end the first act, which opens with the taking
of the Bastille, and the release of the penmen, among them
Robert Landry, a piteous spectacle, who is with tbilleulty
restored to sense and strength. In the interval above mo-
tioned Catherine has married the Count St. Valerie, and
has been left a widow with a young son, who is pursuing a
rapid career of vita, •eeslereted by the base tuition of the
Abbe, who hopes to gala the love of his mother by swim
him from ruin some day or the other. Latour artfully opens
his approaches to the Countess, sod is soornfaily repelled by
her. She follows her sea fate • cele, which oho comprises
a gambling Moan and them moats lwadry, who reveals to
her • vow white he Imo mode to mamma his long sufferings
ea WOW and say one who bears the name of
St. Valerie; while in answer to all her entree.-
, ties to spare her son, he answers that his body ham been
restored to life but that "his heart is deed." Three years

more rape, sod the Abt..e and the Young Cori are
users the pronoribed victims of the Convention of which
Landry I. now en influential member. With a refinement of
mores Landry is not wired that the Abbe should die
en the inlaid, but kills him in a duel in a nor le theCoacier-
Ildlioe whither be e•mmone him to an interview alone. lathe
Let sot, some papers discovered on the body of the Abbe
prove to Landry that the Count Bt. Valerie, the baker,
had used all kin influence to obtain his release from the Bar
till., but bad been deceived by the Abbe into a belief that
Landry had died there in • few days after his imprison-
ment. The "Deeklinert" revives, sad he seeks the Coun-
tess, who bee waited the live long night at the door of the
pram, when ber re wee to pies to execution at the dawn
of day; tlw7 renew their old love, and Landry, having firstly
sent to Robespierre for a psaport for the young Count,
retrace him, takes his place cm the tumbril which was to
convey him to the Place de Cher, and the curtain drop.
while Landry I. being bound on the guillotine; and es the
playbill says " the destiny of the dead heart is fulfilled."
It is only fair to say that not only woe the drama powerful
and interesting es • whole, but eevaral of the nellei were
elaborately worked out by the author, and ample justice was
done to them by Mr. Webster, on whom the weight of the
piece fell, and who has one of those character parts, varied
and striking, in which he excels. Miss Woolgar
hem ono good scene, that in which the Abbil ►ttempte to
woo the Counter; and her pourtroyal of the dignified
matron and SZIWIII loving mother was admirable ; but
the rest of what sbe had to do was rather et the common-

place epainnodic kind, and wee by so mach As lace effective,

though not through any fault Of her Ora. The only ether
Marked character was that of the AMA, la irhich Mr. David
Fisher seemed singularly out of his element. The combo re-
lief (ea it is suppled to be) which le so rigidly hafted Into
this class of drama, wee happily of very moderate di-
' mensions, and being mainly eotriasted whir. Toole wee very
judiciously dealt with by him. For • first night the drama
played with singular closeness, sad though long, will hardly
afford room for much compression. TOY is in itself praise,
and therefore It may be fully admitted that the applause
which it received was justified by its merits, and its success
Is undoubted. Mr. Webster, in answer to aWI for the
author, stated it to have been written by Mr. Watts Phil.
lips, who, being absent from England, had not the satisfac-
tion of hearing it announced for repetition *very night till
further notice. _ . .

The burlesque of Dinorah under DifeuUses, in which
Mr. Toole exhibits so much comic power, vivacity, and ver-
setiuity, followed, sad wee recadved with every appearance of
immense smasessot by a very crowded house.

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here, delivered in his own language an eloquent and
ap
propriate address, "On behalf of the Germans in
IMPROVEMENTS AT S. PAHL'S CATHEDRAL.—
England, who feel proud of their race when they
Various improvements are being media to the interior of recollect this hour, on behalf of the Britons, related
to them by consanguinity, who have opened their
St. Paul's Cathedral, and elaborate &mations are being
carried out under the directions of Mr. Penrose. Theintenor minds to the genius of Germany, and who have
of the dome is being decorated on an extensive scale. Three given it a home here in preference to that of all
of the windows by which ilia lighted have been painted,
of to
reatlysodas the lull glare light, end
to impart to that portion of the edifies a warmth, the want of other foreign poetry, and on behalf of all lovers of
the effect being g
himfrcedom "—he bade a reverent greeting to Schiller, to
only to be an experiment; and at present it is not 'nuke' laurel and that which is deserved by the virtuous
which was before much felt. This, however, is understuaa crowned with the twofold wreath of the poet's
that the remaining windows will be painted In a correspon- citizen. After a brief mention of the parentage,
ding manner. The whole of the cornice surrounding the
interior circumference of the dome. and supporting the birthplace, and early education of the poet (who wall
the son of a poor but diligent and intelligent man, an
gallery, hes been profusely gilded, no have also other
portions of the architectural enibellishmente. The army surgeon of Wurtemberg), he noticed the cir-
organ, too, is undergoing a renovating process. cumstaners which induced the young medical stu-
A proposal is even on toot for removing it from its present dent to throw up that profession and break from the
petition, and taking away the screen over which It is fixed. restraints imposed upon his mind, with that free
The alterations in the organ have barn entrusted to /imam sp" spirit which ever revolted against oppres-
Hill, at en estimated cost. for what is really indispensable, of , _ and which indignantly found vent in
1,0001.; bat to wake the instrument fully efftctive a farther aunt ",
Of 3501, is said to be neow.ry. It the alterations are cow. his wild drama, " The Robbers." The vehe-
plated in time It is intended by the Desn and Chapter to re- went and passionate character of his first
EU" the Special Sundae Erasing &Mem ow the 27th toot. youthful productions was thus accounted for by the
(Meant Shildef). Pending lb. •Iterati°wl/21h•daili "I.i°. same feeling which led him in " Don Carla'," a
In the Cached is "ducted in the little chapel ea t" north matnrer work, to put into the mouth of the Marquis
side of tb• nave. Pose that appeal addressed to the gloomiest of
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE LIVERPOOL POST-
orrice.—After lemithy and wearisome negotiations between despots, to Philip H. of Spain, "Sire, grant us but
the government and the Liverpool corporation, respecting liberty of thought!" The chief events of Schiller's
the erection of a new post-otfloe in Dale street, adjacent to subsequent career, at Mannheim, at Jena, and at
the new public) Gems, the Lord, of the Treasury have at Weimar—his acquaintance with Herder and Goethe,
last declined an erect a new post-offl is in Liverpool. They
his
lo meat at different nods in writin those
elate that they have at present ample room for the post-ofliar s elhPyDLaub Pe g
mi.',....,„ le the num.,. they now occupy adjoining the histories of theßevolution, and of the Thirty
Custom House. Years' War in Germany, which bear such witness
A public meeting was held on Tuesday afternoon to the ardour of his sympathy with the struggles of
at the Town Hall, Southamproe, when lb. Bishop of WM- a people for liberty, and to the ardour
cheater distributed the rettiticatee of merit given by the of his patriotism as a German—his up.
Uldversttylot Oxford and the books pesentM. by the town
?ointment as Professor of History at Jena—
to the seacesstal modhisses at the Jane essobtatioa.

his marriage and happy domestic relations—the
continued fertility of his genius in poetic creation,
and his labours, not lees profound than extensive, in
critical and philosophical research—the part which
he latterly took in the practical direction of the stage,
and the splendid succession of " great world-trage-
dies" which yearly emanated from hie teeming
imagination—" Wallensteio," then " Mary Stuart,"
then "The Maid of Orleans,"followed by the " Bride
of Matains,"and at length by the heroic" William
Tell"—these features of the subject were displayed in
Dr. Kinkel's biographical eulogy, and • touching
co.ument was made upon the too short life of the
suffering, toiling poet, who was stricken in early
manhood with • fatal disease, and died at
forty-five. The strong effect produced upon his sin-
cere mind by the stirring political events of his time,
by the taking of the Bastille, the cour.e of the
French Revolution, and the wars of Napoleon, was
also described; and the speaker forcibly observed
that Schiller, who did so much to inspire the youth
of Germany with courage, virtue, and the love of
their country, was not permitted to live to see that
astonishing effort of the whole nation which shook
off the yoke of their foreign conqueror, and in which
his disciple, Theodore Korner, the inheritor of
Schiller's lyrical genius, bearing with the poet's
lyre the patriot's sword, obtained • glorious
death. In conclusion, Dr. Kinkel remarked that the

10th of November, which a hundred years shim gays
Schiller to Germany and to the world, was the same
day which, four centuries ago, produced us Martin.
Luther; and he would add that on the same day,
within the present century, was born one whom he,
as a German, could never forget—the late Robert
Blum. In reference to the cause with which that
name was associated be summoned the Germans
who heard him to swear, by Sohiller's fame, that
they would stand fast by their nationality, and
when the time should be fulfilled when they should
form one people, under one law and one command,
each might exclaim, in Schiller's own words, "I am
prowl to be a German !"
Amidst very cordial acclamation Dr. Kinkel ended
thus, waving the national banner from the platform.
The next thing was the performance of a grand fes-
tival cantata, composed for the occasion, the music
by Herr E. Feuer, and the words by a well-known
writer on Rhine banks Ferdinand Freiligrath.
' Whilst an appropriate verse was being sung, solo, by
Msdame Jenny Bauer, the veil was withdrawn from
a fine colossal bast of Schiller, modelled by Herr
Andre Grass, which vividly preserves that well-
known look of aspiration and heroic earnestness
familiar to those who have seen Dannecker's noble
bust or the engraved portraits from it. A violin solo
by Wieniawski, and then one of Schiller's songs, set
to music by Herr Manna for the German choir,
were given, previously to the performance of a great
piece composed, for the entire body of vocalists, by
Herr Romberg, to the words of the " Song of the
Bell." Messrs. Lawler, Wilbye Cooper, and Hatt-
mann, Madame Jenny Bauer, with Mdllea. De Villar
and Behren, were the principal performers.
This was all for the daylight entertainment. But
after dark, at six o'clock, when the terraces and
balconies of the Crystal Palace were crowded with •
vast multitude of spectators, gratified already, bat
whose curiosity wee not yet exhausted, a very pecu-
liar exhibition, and one sa we believe quite novel in
England, took place in the vast garden beneath
them. It was torchlight procession, a real German
Fackel-Zug. Hundreds aid hundreds of bluing
torches, tossed up and waved overhead by their joy-
ous bearers as they marched along the paths, ap-
peared to form a great moving flood or river of fiery
particles, wantoning all over the ground, overflowing
here and there, collecting, dispersing, exulting as if
the bright element were allowed to revel in its own
free and glad caprices. Then when, to the strain. of
so many manly voices, the procession had completed
its course, the torches, whirled madly aloft from every
' hand, fell together into a great heap, and an enormous
' bonfire cut its tierce blaze amongst the statues, the
shrubs, and the fountains, whilst it poured huge
' volumes of dark smoke into the upper air, and on-
! wired the fair ontlioes of the Crystal Palace. The
silver waters rosezipai_glisnmered between the torch-
light and the moOnlitEt and when they fell, so far
as we saw, the Schiller Festival was over.

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