The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-12 00:00:00

DRAMA.

HAYMARKET.

Dint night was produced, for the find time in
England, Mr. Tons Taylor's comedy of Our American
evidllifl, which originally raw gaslight at Miss !Aura Keentes
theatre in New York, and bad an Almost unpandleled me-
ows tbsoughost what were thes the United States.

If we bare bean in the habit of sharpening our wits at the
expire of our Transatlantic cousins for their tendency to
export to us rubbish—such as wooden nutmegs and clucks I
which will not "figure"—unsaleable for borne consumption,
they have now perfect grounds for turning upon us end ro•
toning in the same strain. Anything more drearily wretched
thus Our Americas Cousin, in plot, M dialogue, in lack of
imudent, anything more offensive than the manner in
which the state of EngLeh society is inisrepreseuted for
the purpose of exciting the jeers of • rowdy Yankee
audience, it has never been our fate to witness. The oldest
of threadbare materiale—a ruined baronet ; a villanoos
steward, who has get the estate into hie bands and demands
his employees daughter is marriage ; drunken, though oar
seller 411lillatle dirk to said steward ; foolish Midi with
eyeshot in eye, and without power of eisouncing kis "es.
makivesaking nether, silly daughter, virtuous dairymaid,
and (use sovelty), Dew CZ unbind American cousin, to
bring all things to happy conclusion—these are the rare in.
gredisets of what the play-bill has the assurance to call a
" am and original needy " Is oompomd.
It wield Maid be namely poaeble to speak in too data-
weeny Mims of this piss% were it sot that its productiou
has introduced to the public an actor, Mr. &Ahern, whose
quaint impersonation of Lord Dueleary, the silly exquisite,
will probably become a favourite topic for conversation, and
will draw crowds of all classes to the theatre. it one of
the meet deleted perhinnitems of a preposterous character
Nat can be elenehei; the mediae* are censeime el the
frightful radiators abseiled by the author, but the manner
in which the charge is Wed in by the actor is so fall of
natural point, so rookie with tilling humour, that it is on.
possible to deny it its natural reward, overwheln.ing laughter
and applause.

lIDLLI. PAM IN DUBLIN.

A Dublin correspondent writes :—" On Saturday
but tie gees Merle was &dastard as tieing fur the he-
seet of AMU& Patti, and it was further MOO/MOW that
she wooled sing, not only "The but Roes of Summer,'
which belay to the work, bat aho ' Rome sweet Horne,'
and a Scotch band, called' Within a Mile of Mahon'
Toone.' The Wen wee etemded less& as alga that sea-
lers WITS UMW* I. shale adnaino, sad in sweat seem
people Were allowed the privilege of on adefe is the Meet.
The performing* was one of the masa soassesa this
favourite 'Aide be. ever achieved, and the enema were
senaseles ; bat taigas! feature of intermit WY, of aura,
to be footed is the Wads which were sung in the bight&
arsguege. The enmities of these was ao perfect, gad the
eriessisties of the weals so clear sod dialled, this there
were no hare to the ezenesioue of delight, sad DIM*.
Patti received an make seek es is alma selmows as
bet in Dublin. At lb. esucilosiee of the opera, the
rapture of the audience had rises to its Initiate pout, and
when the prima doses was milled forward, she was literally
poled 'with bouquets ; but Maim messed • CEIVIIMAIMOD
eesetted which prixissed • feeling of depreetios
thaw who were the immediate wittiness of it. Pattihs
made her final bow, and was just disappearing behind the
curtain, when a large glass bottle, !keg, it arse believed,
from the upper gallery, fell upon the rase, and arse sht-
vend tato a hundred pleas. Had it hese throws ens
sewed sooner, the cooseqmisees might have bees very
sesious, but fortunately no article of the glass touched the
I•dy, six did anybody iD400,1 suppose that the act was in-
tended as other than as outburst of wild enthusiasm which
law so limit. The charming singer merely exclaimed,
' How very. strange! Was there anything in it? and in a
very short, um' she was prepared to take her departure from
the theatre. Was she had reached the stage door another
NON presented itself which showed that the events of the
light bad sot yet reached their greed climax. The weather
was vet sod stormy ' • but uevertheless a multitudinous
throng bad eciegagated oaten's, entirely filling the small
etre* and shouting with such determined energy, that the
whole neighbourhood was ' frightened from its propriety.'
• street cab (sot a private vehicle, as is usual on
melt oterkiaid had been provided for the lady,
sad whoa she made her appearance, she found that
the horse had been removed, and the mob had attached
ropes to the shafts. With the aid of these they dragged
the vehicle from the theatre to itorrisoo's Hotel, several of
the riugleaders mouLting to the roof and others clinging to
the back. The shouts of the populace followed than to
their destination, and when they arrived there, they
or rather insisted, that Millie. Patti would addreestge
words to them from the balcony. This she very graciously
agreed to do, and, presenting herself in the balcony, not-
withstanding the drenchiug rein, she thanked her Ilublio
freed. cordially for their generous patronage, and chowered
upon them the bouqueta she had previously received from
lie audience. Thus terminated the first eogagement of
Mlle. Patti at the Theatre Royal Dublin, and as DO mi-
ddle arose from the popular excitement, the favoured
artiste testified her desire to pay a second visit to tho Irish
metropolis se soon UCirCUMlltaDOdi will permit.*

MADAM Jxxxx Lien. Madam Oulthichmiat
Lied was so well pleased with her reception in Liverpool
that she has promised again to visit the town, and
etrag at a private mown to he give. exclusively to members
Of Ors Phabarmeic Society.
ISLINGTON PHILH A RYON te HALL—tact ...ironing
was the first anniversary of the opening of this place ot
anmenmat, when the proprietors gave ao entertainment to
commescrate the event. In addition to the company at
the atabliehmeet, several of the best comic Urgers ia
iscladieg Sam Cowell, appeared on the 000isioa.
IrTiliaa was crowded, sad everything passed off with erfee.
The sane snlertaimmot will be repeated to-oight sad to-
morrow main.
LONDON PAV/LION. —The success of Blond in has
not failed to call forth • number of imitators and competitors.
Hems at the mass musk balls one of the groat attractions
ham beta of late a tight or a slack rope walker. The pro.
piston of the Pavihm, in Tichborne-street, have for some
was past availed themselves of the services oboes Holder-
! ons, whose performances on a slack wire have each evening
Mashhad a large audience. lest night ha performed a
new feat -namely. that of gag through his performance
es the wire, which is out ages:We of as inch in diameter,
enveloped d fa Moodie, in a auk. The operation is us.
doubtedly a dangerous and a dallcult one, bat Mr. Hender-
son performed it with so much coolness sod unconcern as to
remove any fears which the &Mimes might have entertained
for his safety, and oa alighting from the rope h• wee enthu-
siastically and deservedly applauded. The Elliott Family,
'coseistiog of two adults and four boys, went through their
drawincrom eatertainmet. It can scarcely be caned
terabits,, for it is rather a combination of graceful atti.
tease assemed by the performs's. The vocal and instru-
mental ememmy is kept up to the usual staodsrd, and
seleoMme from averse as well executed ; and as during the
mewing about ID vocalists appear, it is impossible to mike
them iadivfidually.—lfeeninn Herald.
Innux Rumen Ries Fun o. —ln recognition
et the airdess reedered by Er. P. P. Low Rod Mr. G. S. It.
Oceanus, at the Ileasioa-lormin, as esereleries to the lodise
halos had, these pentlemee ham been ressoted by the
eeeseeisnie via Moines andelaben Vie value el fifty
pima