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Whatever may be the style of the performances
at Stratford-upon-Avon on the celebration of the
Shakspere Tercentenary, they will not for certain
exceed in magnificence Messrs. Falconer and
Chatterton's revival of the first part of Henry IV.,
which was performed last e7ening in presence of
one of the largest audiences that ever assembled
within the walls of Drury-lane Theatre. During
the management career of Macready at Covent-gar-
den many years ago, he astonished the metropolis by
the production, in a style of unsurpassed splendour,
the exciting play of " Henry V.," but since that time
nothing of the kind has been attempted at either of
the national establishments until last evening, when
with the combined abilities of Mr. Phelps, Mr.
Walter Montgomery, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Walter Lacy,
and Mr. R. Roxby as the principal actors; Mr. W.
Beverley, the celebrated scenic artist, and Mr.
Keene, as designer, the Managers of Drury-lane
Theatre made their Easter offering at the shrine of
Shakspere. The reception of Mr. Phelps, who sus-
tained the part of Sir John Falstaff, was enthusi-
astic, and on his rising to acknowledge the compli-
ment the cheering seemed to increase in intensity.
When the fat knight stood erect we had an opportu-
nity of admiring the artistic: manner in which Mr.
Phelp's dressed the part. The make-up of the head
and face was a masterstroke of art, while the other
peculiarities of the portraiture were brought out
with the utmost skill. Who but Mr. Phelps now-
a-days could be found to represent Sir John, the
boon companion of "Madcap Hal," and most cer-
tainly he never appeared to enter so heartily into the
character as last evening. From the first line of the
part, "Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?" down
to the closing speech in the fifth act, " follow, as
they say, for reward. He that rewardst me,
Heaven reward him I If I do grow great, I'll
grow less ; for I'll purge and leave sack and live
cleanly, as a nobleman should," he was in the best of
humours, and chuckled with the highest relish over
his sins and follies. Perhaps the culminating
point in the performance was the relation of the
part he had taken in the robbery of the
carriers on the road by Gadahill. The
audience fairly gave vent to the heartiest
laughter during the recital, but on the discovery of

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the-mountain of falsehoods, the exclamation by
Falstaff of the well-known words—
" By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye,"
the mirth of the audienee burst all limit, and for
some moments the action of the play was stopped
by the tremendous applause that followed. Mr.
Walter Montgomery, as the firy and impetuous
Hotspur, won great applause by his acting, and
Mr. Ryder supported the part of King Henry with
becoming dignity. Although Mr. Walter Lacy
played the part of Prince Henry with much care,
it was by no means the best thing we have seen
him do. However, he did his best, which, we are
bound to say, pleased the audience; but, notwith-
standing, we must honestly confess, we should have
wished to have seen a more juvenile actor sustain
the character. Mr. Robert Roxby's Poins was a
capital performance, and Mr. Edmund Phelps, as
Sir Richard Vernon, acquitted himself with much
ability.
The first scene in the third act, in which the disa
pute arose between Hotspur and Owen Glendower,
has been restored, and with it the Welsh song, by
Lady Mortimer, which was prettily sung by Miss
Edith Wynn. Lady Percy was well sustained by
Miss Rose Leclercq, and the part of Mrs. Quickly,
the hostess of the tavern in Eastcheap, was given
with great point by Mrs. Edmund Falconer.
The scenery, which was entirely aew, was of the
most splendid description, and often as we have had
to compliment Mr. W. Beverley, we never did so
with more pleasure than on the present occasion,
for certainly a more remarkable production has
never been contributed to the stage than his moon-
light view "On the Road to Gadshill." The battle
field of Shrewsbury is, however, the great scenic
effort of the play, and it will long be remembered
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audiences at this theatre that the management has
not found it necessary to produce any important
novelties for the Easter holidays. But, by way
simply of complying with custom, a new farce, by
Mr. J. M. Morton, was last night played fot the first
time, " Drawing Rooms, Second Floors, and Attics"
is the title, and it treats of the adventures chiefly of
Triptolemus Brown, a chymist's assistant, who
is brought up from Cambridge by an ucele, Mr.
Cockletop, to be married offhand—after the manner
of uncles and nephews in farces—to Miss Bunny,
the daughter of an old friend. Pursued by an in-
furiated rival, be makes his way up a chimney to an
attic, where he meets the real lady of his affections,
Phoebe Fur below, a laundress. Thence he is forced
to take another flight down the chimney, which
lands him in the second floor, inhabited by Miss
Hardaport, a fascinating milliner, with 38 male
cousins, and finally, precipitated through the win-
dow of the second floor to a balcony below, be makes
his appearance battered, and tattered, and grimy—
unrecognisable even by his uncle—in the greatest
confusion among the inmates and amusement to the
audience. The piece is written in Mr. Morton's
usual sparkling style, and the part of the luckless
lover—who is at last made happy—is exactly suited
for the versatile and energetic Mr. David Fisher.
Nothing could be more unreserved than the verdict
of approval which rewarded both author and actor.

STRAND.
The Christmas burlesque of " Orpheus maid Eury-
dice" continues to be so attractive that it retains its
place in the Easter play bills. A new comedietta,
by Mr. I. P. Wooler, was, however, produced for
holyday visitors, entitled " A Hunt for a Husband."
Mr. Poppleton (Mr. H. J. Turner), a retired furrier
and susceptible old bachelor, has proposed to a fair
widow, Mrs. Courthope (Miss K. Carson), who
consents to accept a husband as soon as her young
niece, Sophy (Miss L. Weston). is married. That
capricious young lady, however, rejects all the
swains whom the indefatigable Poppleton brings
to her feet. An anonymous letter at length ap-
prises him that she is privately married. The widow
now seems to be his own, for he has only to tell her
of the match, as he thinks, to win her. But Sophy
is not the only young married female in the house
who is believed to be a spinster. Mr. Poppleton's
servant Mary Ann (Miss F. Hughes) is secretly
married to Jack Sharp (Mr. A. Wood), groom to
Mr. Arthur Stanley (Mr. D. James), the favoured
lover of Mrs. Courthope. Jack Sharp comes to visit
his Mary Ann, and is hid in the bedroom of Miss
Poppleton, Mr. P.'s ancient and romantic sister.
When detection seems inevitable he reappears in
feminine guise, having arrayed himself in Miss P.'s

" front" and other garments. Jack Sharp is the
real hero of the piece, but another comic personage
presents himself in Chicory (a young grocer), who
writes love-letters to Sophy, which are picked up
by Miss Poppleton. Jack Sharp finds one of these
letters in his Mary Ann's apron, and, becoming
jealous of the grocer, bastes him freely with a culi-
nary ladle, and is admirably seconded by Mr. Pop-
pleton, who, having a spite against young Chicory,
wears out several pairs of boots in kicking him
about the house as often as he sees him. Jack
Sharp, in his female habiliments, is successively
claimed by Miss Poppleton and Sophy as their dis-
guised lover, but he is taken possession of at last by
his lawful spouse Mary Ann. Arthur Stanley
appears at the right moment to claim the widow's
hand, and Mr, Poppleton having remembered that,
although Mrs. Courthope promised to marry when
her niece took a husband, she omitted to say" whom,"
is persuaded to live on terms of amity and friend-
ship with everybody, and to consent to the ladies
being happy in their own way. Mr. A.Wood played
Jack Sharp in petticoats with great humour and
drollery ; and, in a character admitting of great
exaggeration and presenting some temptation to
coarseness, had the good taste to tone down the
part, and to divest it of everything objectionable.
The piece, although light in structure, was amusing
and successful. The curtain then rose upon
"Orpheus and Eurydice," in which Miss Marie Wil•

ton, Miss Ada Swanborongb, Miss M. Simpson,Mr.G.
Honey, Mr. A. Wood, and the other characters in
this popular burlesque exerted themselves with
more than their accustomed vigour. The scena of
" Polly Perkins" created the usual furore. It appears
to be the custom to encore this song five times every
night ! The entertainments concluded with " Mar..
gate Sands." The house was well attended.

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ana here it was that the crowd chiefly gathered *atelora-
noon.
The amusements in the transept, under the direction of
Mr. Nelson Lee, opened at 1 o'clock with the performances
by Orville Parker, the " negro vocalist." They were fol-
lowed by a comic entertainment, or pantomime, in which
harlequin, harlequin junior, and a third performer, repre-
senting a tortoiseshell cat, performed a number of sur-
prising summersaults with stilts on. A dance by the
D'Aubans was much applauded, but a more startling enter-
tainment succeeded—that of " lee Quatres Pierrots"— four
French clowns, each with a fiddle, who went through all
the evolutions of acrobats without ceasing to play and keep
time, although in attilules which seemed to render ouch
operations absolutely impossible. The performance was
well worthy of the favourable reception it met. Various
other entertainments followed, among which the most re-
markable was perhaps that of the infant Poland us, specially
intended for the young, Lut amusing to every one. One of
the most interesting objects exhibited yesterday in the
Palace was a model of the house at Stratford-on-Avon in
which Shakspere was born. Occupying a conspicuous piece
in the great transept it was during the day constantly sur-
rounded by a group of visitors. It appears that Mr E.
Parris has been engaged for some months in constructing,
in wool, plaster, and canvas, a copy of the house of the
exact size of the original. Oa the 23d of next month, the
day of the great fete, it will be placed in that part of the
great transept yesterday occupied by the small model.
Several parts of the large copy were to be seen yesterday
on the basement. These gave ample evidence of the care
and fidelity with which the monument will be represented.
Very judiciously Mr. Parris has imitated, without the
slightest deviation, the house as it now appears. The
building has been restored or rebuilt without any attempt
being made to give the newer patchwork the tints of age,
and the appearance so produced has been faithfully repeated
in the great model. The cracks and farrows and blisters,
which the beams exhibit, have been carefully imitated with
the chisel and paint-brush. The small size of the building
will surprise many of those who are familiar with the wood-
cuts representing it, It is 60ft, long, but the whole height
is 25ft. from the ground to the roof of the red brick roof,
and it will form but a small object when placed under the
lofty roof of the transept. The more interesting part of the
interior of the house, including the room in which it is said
the poet was born, has also been reproduced, even the cracks
in the old-fashioned window panes, on which visitors have
scratched their names, having been carefully imitated, as
far as it is possible to do so by stucco moulds and photo-
graphs. The visitors to the Palace a few weeks hence will
thus have it in their power to form quite as correct an idea
of the appearance of Shakspere's house as they would have
after ajourney into Warwickshire. As a guarantee of the
correctness of the reproduction, a photograph of the house by
Negretti and Z ambra is to be presented to each visitor on 23d
proximo. In the grounds yesterday there was little doing.
This year, however, the booths of Edmonds' (late Womb-
well's) menagerie have been erected in the grand walk of
the Palace gardens, and yesterday they were visited by
immense crowds. It was amusing to see how
gently the elephants pushed their way through
the closely packed crowd, and how familiarly they were
stroked and patted by the ladies and children, who
would have rushed in terror from a drove of bullocks cross-
ing Blackfriars-bridge. The performance of an African, who
enters the cage of full grown lions and leopards, and makes
them perform tricks which would be surprising in dogs,
were repeated yesterday every hour, and seemed to excite
more interest and wonder than any other part of the day's
entertainment.

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but the forerunner to a Eeries of demonstrations of
scarcely less uproarious claart.cter.

SURKEY.

This theatre, in accordance with unvarying CuEr
tom, presented its patrons with a novelty for their
Paschal enterZainment, and in accordance also with
their unvarying custom, the patrons of the theatre
assembled in overflowing strength to welcome the
novelty. Tee ardour of Surrey eudiencfs for the
drama cannot be doubted, for none but the most
devoted enthusiasts would undergo such bodily
agonies, such physical pressure, as were endured
last night for nearly six hours by the occupants of
the pit and gallery of this theatre. While it cannot
truthfully be said that they endured their sufferings
uncomplainingly or unresistingly, yet it marked an
advanced stage in civilisation to notice how much
good humour and how little angry feeling was dis-
played among so vast a mass of persons. The
novelty presented last evening bore the promising
title of " The Soldier of Fortune, or the Devil's
Death Tower," and was stated in the bills to be a
translation from and adaptation of a French piece,
by Mr. J. Anderson, one of the managers of the
theatre. The story, as dramatised, although his-
torical as history, as represented in Dumas's novel
is exciting, and to a sensitive mind startling, if not
revolting. Marguerite of Burgundy, the Queen
of Louis X., during her husband's absence from
Paris, indulges her and her sisters' guilty passions
by receiving lovers in the Death Tower, on the banks
of the Seine, and, at the conclusion of each evening's
revel, their unfortunate paramours are assassinated,
and their bodies cast into the river by a band of
ruffians under the orders of one Guido Malatesta, a
creature of Marguerite's, and ostensible keeper of
an auberge adjoining the Tower. At this
auberge meet Leander de la Croix, an orphan,
who has come to Paris to his twin brother Lionel,
who is Captain of the Queen's Body Guard, and
high in Marguerite's favour, and one Captain Ber-
trand, the soldier of fortune. The latter oppor-
tunely interferes to save Leander from a cowardly
attack by an envious Paris mob—a noble action,
which elicited the loudest applause of the Surrey
audience, probably because their English notions
favoured the man who ventured to fight one against
nine, as was the case in this instance. The two be-
come intimate, and from their mutual confidences
it appears that they have each received an assigna-
tion to meet an unknown lady that evening. Lionel,
the captain, who appears, endeavours to dissuade
his brother from keeping the appointment, but in
vain. In the next scene, the circular room in the
Devil's Tower, the Queen and her two sisters
are seen masked and retiring from the tower ;
but Lionel, after in vain essaying to obtain a glimpse
of his fair companion's face, determines to insure re-
cognition by puncturing the cheek with a silver pin.
This act alarms and enrages the masked Queen, and
she revokes some exceptional orders which she had
previously given for the safety of the young man,
and accordingly he and another victim are mur-
dered, and their bodies cast into the river. Ber-
trand is more fortunate, for although doomed to the
same fate he finds in Jacques Sangnoir, the chief
assistant of Malatesta, an old comrade, who per-
mits him to escape. In the second act Bertrand
appears at the Queen's Court in the disguise of a
Bohemian fortune-teller, and by his subtle hints so
works upon Marguerite's tears that he extorts from
her the promise to meet him at Malatesta's tavern.
At the interview which there takes place Bertrand
threatens to acquaint Lionel de la Croix with the
fact that his brother had been assassinated by the
Queen's order,to avert which disclosure Marguerite
gives Bertrand a warrant appointing him chief
minister of the realm, which she subsequently nul-
lifies by another warrant for his arrest, which imme-
diately takes place. He is visited in his prison
by the Queen, who comes to gloat over his suffer-
ings, and to taunt him with his prospective fate,
but by a disclosure that he is her lover of past
times, Bertrand de Longueville, the parent of the
twin children and the murderer of her father, he

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S GARDENS, REGENT'S-

PARK.

In spite of the gloomy aspect of the weather, which did
not promise much enjoyment for those engaged in outdoor
amusements, a large concourse of holyday makers resorted
to these gardens yesterday morning, and continued to do so
during the greater part of the day. The entrances up to
the time of the closing of the gates amounted to 15,250, a
large number, but less than those that have visited the
gardens on several previous Easter Mondays, when that
national holyday has fallen later in the year, and the
weather has turned out more genial. It is satisfactory to
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invokes her fears anew, and to prevent certain cri-
minatory letters from reaching the hands of the
King, she agrees to release Bertrand, and to carry
out her former promise to make him chief minister.
Notwithstanding this arrangement mutual distrust
exists between the two principal characters, and a
plan is laid whereby each plot the death of the
other at the Devil's Tower. Lionel, drawn thither
by his infatuation for the Queen, is murdered by
her creatures, and Bertrand, who has learned too
late the identity of the two La Croix with the off-
spring of himself and Marguerite, arrives only to
acquaint her with the dreadful fact that she has
been the murderer of both her children. She
in despair stabs herself, and Bertrand, re-
sisting a Royal order for his arrest, is mortally
wounded. The piece thus terminates, if not
pleasantly, at least intelligibly, as none of the prin-
cipal characters remain to invite speculation as to
their future earthly career. The drama, full of in-
cident and of horrors as it was, seemed to afford
satisfaction to the large audience, who warmly ap-

This exhibition, which is not yet so generally known as it
deserves to be, attracted 1,184 people in the course of the
day; last year there were 912: in 1862, 670; in 1861, 279;
and in 1860, 771. It is the property of the nation, as its
name imports, and is exclusively devoted to the portraiture
of eminent British worthies of all classes, by the first
masters. It was opened a few years ago with about a score
of rare portraits and busts, presented by private indi-
viduals as a beginning, which have now increased to
182. The collection is vested in a body of trustees com-
posed of noblemen and gentlemen, and is free to the
public ordinarily on two days in the week, and on Easter
Mondays and Tuesdays. Among the latter additions to the
gallery are portraits of Lord Mansfield, William Woodfall,
the first Parliamentary reporter, Archbishop Laud, Lord
Heathfield, and a bust of Dr Arnold. The whole collectiou
is made up of contributions by about 40 donors, at the head
of whom is the King of the Belgians.

plauded the most striking passages, and with a
slight curtailment it will probably be found attrac-
tive for some time to come. Mr. J. Anderson as
Bertrand, and Miss Pauncefort as the Queen, were
sufficiently vigorous in the delineations of their
respective characters, and were honoured with spe-
cial notice at the close of the piece. The perform-
ances concluded with the nautical drama of" Ashore
and Afloat," itself se full of sensations and striking
situations as to fairly entitle it to stand alone as an
Easter attraction.

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