The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-27 00:00:00

A BILL OP HEALTH.

Mr. Leigh Murray is one of the very best of out few good
actors, and the stage is a loser by the unfrequency of his
appearance. His health has not been good, and we are
doubly glad, for his own sake and that of his art, to see
that he has resumed his engagements. He dresses, walks,
and speaks like a gentleman, and acts with a full compre-
hension of his author, and an earnest intention of making
his author comprehend. And in the more elevated drama,
Mr. Leigh Murray shows that he has loftier gifts. Mt.
Punch is happy to have an opportunity of saying this.
Having said it, he begs to remark upon a novelty which
Mr. Murray's manager has introduced into the play-bills.
These interesting documents announce that Mr. Leigh
Murray will appear, "having recovered from an attack of
Rheumatic Gout." It is all matter of taste, and some
persons may enjoy a comedy the more from knowing ex-
actly what has been the matter with a leading performer,
but on the whole we almost think that " indisposition," or
"illness," would have been enough, without such very de..
cided realism. Suppose this fashion of letting the audience
into the entire confidence of the performers were to prevail,
what a cheerful play-bill we might have, especially in an
influensa season. We should read that—

THIS EVENING WILL BE PERFORMED
OTHELLO,
OR THE STRAWBERRY SPOTTED HANDKERCHIEF.

BY W. SHAXSPEARE,

OTHELLO (who has obligingly re-
covered from the chicken-pox) . , Mr. BELLOWMOHE.
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personal interest in the performer, and.the latter would be
curiously watched t) see whether any signs of the latey in
disposition could be detected. So far, that sympathy Noutld:
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be created which aids the electric effect of art; but,
whole, we think that the affections of our favourite artists
had better continuo to bo vested in the graceful indefinite-
ness of a doctor's certificate, and we beg to add that we
should not have taken any notice of the little eccentricity
on the part of the Strand management, it it had not enabled
Air. Punch to apprise Leigh Murray that he, P., is exceed.
ingly glad to see him, L. M., again at his work. Good
actors are not so plentiful in these days that we can spare a
very good one,—funch.

M• TRIERS' new pamphlet, which is to be called
" L'Autriche et ses Retormes," we would commend to Mr.
Roebuck for translation.
FEARFUL STATE OF CRIME IN LANCASIIIRE.—In
deliTering his charge to the grand jury, at the
opening of the late Liverpool assizes, Mr, Justice Black-
burn said the calendar exhibited a more fearful state of
crime, particularly with regard to the grave offences of
murder and manslaughter, than he had ever before noticed,
or perhaps bad ever come within the experience of the
judges
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