The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-05 00:00:00

Cl/VENiT•GARIIk N.

Mr. N 7. F.trrei appeared on Thur..tiay night in n new
rh:uacter, Su ikslottl fia.staat, in the comedy of The
Way to keep Him. This actor here comes before us in
his own person, and throws oft' that envelope or artifi-
eiai disguise, which, in his Lar.l.o,j/ebj or Sir Peer

••.

Teazle, throws a degree of obscurity around hiw, add
leaves us in a great measure to Fuess at the real eiattlj
and versatility of his powers. the disclosure has not.
we think, enhanced the reputation he has already ac-
quired, although his performance of Sir Bashful
slant possesses, what it is impossible that any part Mr.
Farrell selected as the lumhum of his efforts should lot
withont. many masterly points and refined touches tof
consummate skill. His great delia:t was i t the Falk, of
tuanneti he has fixed on as his noti.m of this character,
too much elf the forced and artificial cast, and wholly
differing both from his predecessor.:, and from the notion
we !dyne on perusing the co;nedy. There is no rcatim
why this part of the cemetly should nut be given in the
natural tones of the voice, sure it is not the manners,
bat the sentiments and coniu,:t of the character that
produce the ludicrous effect intended. Bannister always
give it on this rrinciple. Mr. Farrar, en the contrary,
obviously emrloyed a feigned voice and
sconstraine.l
manner as the basis on which his performince was
founded. In every other respect he was masterly and
complete. No actor is less liable to be taken by surprise,
or more completely fills uo in his by-pl ty, the pauses
in the dialogue. • His manner of ascertaining if any
listecers were at hand, bethre he communicates to Love-
more the secret of his attachment to Ludy Constant, was
truly admirable. lie received reiterated marks of ap-
probation from the audience. Mr. C. Kemble did not
succeed so well in Lain-more as we anticipated ; and
Jones's Sir Brilliant Position, though liyely.and spirited,
would have admitted .o greater degree of refine tient
We admired Mrs. Faucit, and thought her unusually
happy .in Mrs. Lovanore : nod the same praise may be
assigned to Mrs. Gibbs, in Masan. Miss . Brunton
represented the- Widow Berman', and, allowing for too
strong a cast of' seriousness, with great success. More
attenti'n should be paid to costume in the getting up c'f
this excellent comedy. The three chief mule characters
were dressed in the ftshion of three different period',
distant from each other at least half a century.

A " young lady," as her first essay before a London
audience, on Friday eight ventured on.the part of Luv
Bert/ uni, in the play of 'Guy Mannerine. ,Judging the
debutaak merely as a singer, we have seldom incurred
the painful necessity of recording a more complete
failure. In that line her chance of success is quite hope-
less, since she ',messes neither voice, nor taste, nor
science; even an ear for music appears to have been
denied her. As an actress she is not without merit;
sonic passages wen, delivered in a manner that disco-
vered both a feeling heart and a good understanding ;
but even in that department her chance of eminence
is very remote and uncertain. The audience were
Ex-
tremely indulgent ; -the trying situation in which a
.perfurtner is placed on thcst occasions, particularly
when _a young and .interesting female, always prow-s
an irresistible appeal to. their kindness; if the applause
it produced could be admitted as a decisive proof of
merit, we hould now be congratulating a peribr.ner OR
her triumph, to whom, even us a inei:t
cordial weli-
wisher, we can only recommend a spet:ly ret;rement.

The annual expellees of Drury Lane rientre are
reduced by the economical measares adolned by Ow
Sab Committee, from 70,0001. to 40,0001, a sum
the lowest annual receipt ever experinced at that Itutt• .
The will of Matthew Gre.:;tiry author tif
" The Castle Spectre," " :bti,t!!'4.- and. otuer 5t,:-
rary woi'st, has been prt..red• in his will he gives to
Jlcs hl.,,lohustone, late of the Theatre Royal Covent
Garden, the sum of 1001. to purchase some trinket ur
(alter ornament w be worn on her neck in remembrance
of him : to the Right Honourable Lord Ilollund
bon!: .ut eatieatures: personal property within theimo—
vince of Canterbury sworn under 60,0001.
"'From the evidence adduced before the Committee,
it appearr that Lord Lonsdale is in postsa,sion of a
very beneficial lease of the whole coals belonging to
St. Bees School, for a term of 800 years,. at a ren
31.145. per annum ! The Noble Lord is a Trona
of the School. His ancestor, Sir .James Lowther,
was a Trwtee, and as such granted a lease to Ma/3(V
of the mils within the manor—being quite un illegal
act, and.ht sof course only to be otAice,l to be set elide.
, What blame must attach to the Trustee:4 of the Chu-
, city ihr allowing this abuse to exist without noticing.
tt !1! The evidence is iaromplete, owing to the dis-
wlistion of Parliament btfore the matter had been fully
iavestigatcd."—Carlisie Panty?.
in
A great number of workmen are nw..employel
alterations at Kew Vadat*. T;to tetarles nod alcovi
which bud been stitier:.l to faLl. into a very ritino,ti
state, have been rel;airel an decor.ttol,; aria it is in.
tended to lay darn a tittrolvr spacial's gravel wa.lll*,
intersecting the lawn at seyer:il pOil2t3. Ode very
spacious -WM:C, wady half a, wile in kook, is alraektv
in grind for ;Mums. It is to extend Irma the A,,tiury
gate of OK uowe shrublsr:ry over the lawn, to the ewer
culled tlie.lotly-walk, near the Pagoda : wad from am
luxuriant ;a/ myth of the hollies, and other erergreem,
in this partivf the platittition, it will form an aclenirali!ta
und must pictarespie winter promeitsde.
The Nesfrviaberi; Gazeflc sates, that the Jewi 1-t
bunker who lately tat,mre.t sairitle at Vienna, t.i.ts
embraced the Chrettian and reetived ketrOva.
•: