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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 21, 1862.

The King of PRUSSIA has created for himself a
petty stage on which he might utter his monologue
to the nation. A party of absolutists approached
his MAJESTY by Right Divine, to tell him humbly
the true sentiments of the Prussian people, "so
grievously misrepresented by the Chamber of De-
puties." By what right they claimed to speak for
the nation is not apparent, seeing they were sent as
a deputation by a " Conservative Society"—an
avowedly party body. This seemed not to occur
to them any more than to him of Right Divine, as
as any qualification of their claim. They were
" indignant" that the persons, whom the electors, in
the teeth of the immense Beaureaucratic power of
Prussia, had chosen to act and speak for them, should
represent their voice as that of the people. And
especially were they indignant that they should
declare that they had the "exclusive right to re-
gulate the Budget." This claim, so far as we have
seen the accounts of their proceedings, was not
made by the Deputies—not at least in a
sense different from what is the case in all
constitutional countries. The Deputies admitted
the right of the Crown to demand supplies—they
asserted their right to accede to the demand to the
extent to which they thought the country would
approve their doing so—they admitted again the
right of the Upper House to reject any budget sent
1113 by the Lower House, as a whole, whether the
budget were the original ministerial one, or a bud-
get modified by the Lower House—they admitted,
therefore, the full constitutional share of the Crown
andthe
Upper House in regard the budget, and
their
real delinquency in the eyes of the deputa-
tion and the KING, if the former had stated it truth-
fully, was, they would not allow the Crown
the " exclusive right to regulate the budget." The
an'gins of the deputation peeped out, however,
PrcttY Plainly at the close
they
be when they said: :
" Never would
suffer the centre of gravity
of the Governmeet-t fixed in the Chamber of
Deputies ; they did nut want parliamentary Govern-
ment, but a royal Government."

Of course this is just what theoupstart feudalist
party in Prussia really want. T
their bitter mor-
tification they have a Parliament, but they want
to nullify it. They are the very
and at this time of
day
too,
counterparts,
STRAFFORD and his 4-€ Thorough.'' Happily, o
lyf Lord
how-
ever, there is every reason to believe tha tthev
have not one man of the ability of the English Earl
amorg them; and if, with all his high talent, he
shipwrecked the cau so, of absolutism in England,
we may hope that fe.,e bier abilities will shipwreck
the same cayse in Yr v esia. If Prussians be not such
sturdy freemen as r forefathers, in their battle
vcith STUART tyranny, neither has the Prussian
monarch such noble g at his service, as were the
Cavaliers of our CHA I.LES.
The KING, as mix ht be expected, was in high
feather—lie was tlaani kful for small mercies. A little
deputation was a gr‘n It comfort when the whole re-
presentation of the r ttion was against him. But his

speech will be no comfort to the country. It is
pretty plainly a drawing of the sword. He just
reiterated all the common places to which we are
well used here, also, on behalf of an extravagantly
large army. " What," be said, " can avail all pre-
sent wealth, all the development of industry—what
can avail all the good things that GOD has given
us, if there is no means of protecting them when
they are threatened ? Seldom has any enterprise
been attacked as that task has been which I began
with a view to the protection and the prosperity of
my country. It is true I was obliged to ask for it
sacrifices on the part of my people, but I am fully
convinced that those sacrifices were not excessive,
as the financial statement demonstrates."
All this reads very much like what Lord PAL-
MERSTON and his Secretary for War tell us when
they want to make us patient under seventy mil-
liens a year for an army and navy which cannot
induce the EMPEROR to leave Rome. But what
follcws is what Queen VICTORIA, by their advice,
would never say, not even if the House of Commons
should cut down the army and navy by one-half.
Referring to their demand for a "Royal" as con-
trasted with a " Parliamentary" Government, he
said—" As you have remarked, it is not the trans-
formation of the army which forms the point of
attack properly speaking; but the mark is elsewhere.
The intentions, at first disguised, have become partly

unmasked." In other words, says his MAJESTY,
these representatives, who decline to sanction the
amount of military expenditure I propose, aim to
dethrone me. He went on to assert that he " was
determined to yield nothing more of the rights
which had been transmitted to him," though what
he had yielded it is not very easy to see. He varied
his phraseology, however, by speaking of the
" Constitutional rights" of the Crown ; yet it is
hard to comprehend in what respect the deputies
have trenched on these at all. On the question of
question of the amount of supplies and the number
of soldiers the KING and Ms Chamber differ—whose
opinion then should prevail ? A Constitutional
Crown is surely pledged to accept only what the

people will give.
It will be seen that this obstinate Monarch is
improving at once the opportunity of the dismissal
of his Chambers to assail the press_ Not fewer
than five papers are mentioned as having been seized
or stopped in the Post-office. Herr BISMARK and
his master, are imitating, in their way, M. PER-
SIGNY and his master. The man who was to unite
half the German States under the Prussian sceptre,
is doing all he can to make them think their own
petty despots no worse than he. We should be in
no way surprised if Austrian Statesmen should take
the hint—for they are able enough—and when
they see that disgust with the Prussian Monarch

has reached the boiling point, that they should

initiate a really liberal policy which should cause
all the Liberal party in Germany to desire rather
the Protectorate of Austria than that of Prussia.
The Prussians must, however, be men. They are
loyal to their KING. They must teach their KING
to be loyal to them.

Some wonderfully interesting statistics have re-
cently been collected and published in connection
with the history of New South Wales. They mark
in a very vivid manner the importance of the colony.
And they indicate more plainly than any written
descriptions could possibly do, the extraordinary
speed, the steady advance and that a perpetually
increasing advance in its general development. In
the cultivation of the soil. In the multiplication
of the live stock. In the surprising growth of the
number of the population. In the unmistakeable in-
dication of the general prosperity. In regard to all
these particulars the statistics we are referring to
are replete with really invaluable, because at once
most reliable and most encouraging, information.
Not a man amongst us who cherishes any interest
whatever in respect to the prosperity of the nation
at large, whether at home or abroad, in its foreign
policy or in its colonial possessions—but must
conn with lively satisfaction facts and figures in-
dicative in so very remarkable a manner that
the British Empire is witnessing now in
this later half of the nineteenth century
the very reverse of what M. LEDRU ROLLIN dis-
gracefully exulted over (disgracefully seeing that
whilst he wrute thus, he was an exile, sheltered
under the tagis of our authority), as in his own
phrase, in the pitiable title cf his ungrateful book,
La Decadence d' Angleterre. If there were any wish
seriously entertained by any one to recognise within
a very brief compass and with a very swan. amount 1
of trouble, proof positive of the reality of the fact
we are referring to, the fact totally discredited by
these depreciators of our power and of our consti-
tutional form of Government, that proof positive
might be witnessed by any visitor to the
Great International Exhibition, down at South
Kensington, who took the trouble to look, from
this point of view, at one half of the collection of
works of art and industry there displayed. Mean-
ing the contents of the eastern division of
Captain FOWKES'S monster and monstrous
edifice, the products of the skill, or of the
industry of Great Britain and her dependencies.
The metallic and carbonacious treasures drawn
from the depths of the earth by those British
Cyclops—our miners! The evidence of the amazing
variety of the fauna and fora squandered over our
vast and scattered dominion--brought hither to our
shores by vessels sailing over almost every division
of that mighty element, over which an Englishman
is supposed to have some mysterious and impre-
scriptible authority,over which, during many centu-
ries at least, he has exercised an almost undisputed
supremacy—a supremacy never yet disputed with
impunity. In every imaginable way the fact of the
wealth, and of the increasing wealth, of the power,
and that that power, too, long visibly being enhanced
—of the prosperity, and of the truth that it is a
prosperity that is ever visibly and widely ex-
tending—all these things are rendered substan-
tially visible to every thinking observer who
traverses the eastern division of the huge build-
ing now comprising under its roof-beams the
marvellous collection of the works of art and in-
dustry, making up the astounding whole of our
last great International Exhibition.
As directly corroborating the story thus told by
one section of our own collection there, of our
British collection, the statistics we have already
here spoken of possess a very peculiar, and impor-
tant, and timely interest for us all. A few of these
statistics, the pick amongst them, we will here con-
tent ourselves with giving—as tending to throw a
flood of light upon the actual condition of things at
our antipodes. Upon the state of affairs latterly,
that is to say, in our noble c.)lony of New South
Wales.

New South Wales would be especially deserving
of note among all our sixty colonial dependencies
—if for nothing else, for the circumstance that
it is admittedly the greatest of all our pas-
toral colonil4. In that sense it is our
antarctic Arcadia! The dimensions of the colony
are first of all, of course, worthy of being taken
into consideration—the whole area of it being com-
puted at 323,437 square miles, or 207,000,000 acres!
Otherwise to express it—four times as large as
England and Wales together, or three times the
size of England and Wales and Scotland regarded
as one kingdom. According to the last Australian

census (that of 1861) this gave as many as 575'
acres of land as the proportion to each individual.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER ROLLESTON, the Registrar of
New South Wales, and Mr. SEDGWICK COWPER,
the Secretary to the New South Wales Exhibition
Commissioners, are our authorities (certainly reli-
able authorities) for the facts upon which we are
now commenting. We learn through their agency
that " The population on the 7th April, 1861, was
350,860 souls (198,488 males, and 152,372 females),
exclusive of the military and aboriginal inhabit-
ants. The subsequent increase by births and by
immgration would probably bring the numbers
at the end of that year up to 360,000—about
205,000 males, and 155,000 females, the pro-
portion being about 75 females to every 100
males," It is very curious to note that
the capital of the Colony, that is to say, its world-
famous metropolis, Sydney, actually contains within
it more than one quarter of the entire population.
Sydney being inhabited by but very little short of
100,000 souls—to be precise, just 93,686. As for
the occupations of the inhabitants, not of Sydney
alone, but of the whole mass of the population, we
find them thus ingeniously classified :—" 1. Govern-
ment, professional, and trading classes, males,
13,345 ; females, 2,293 ; 15,638, or 4.46 per cent.
2. Manufacturing and labouring classes, males,
31,501 ; or 8.98 per cent. 3. Gold-mining, males,
20,365 ; or 5.80 per cent. 4. Pastoral and agricul-
tural classes, males 46,916 ; females, 7,084 ; 54,000,
or 15.39 per cent. 5. Personal offices, domestic ser-
vants, Szz., males, 13,683; females, 14,490; 28,173, or
8.03 per cent. 6. Miscellaneous, including women
and children, both at home and at school, males,
72,678; females, 128,505 ; 201,183, or 57.34 per sent."
Already we have accorded here to this colony of
New South Wales its right to a distinctive pre-
eminence, among all our sixty colonial possessions,
as the pastoral colony of the British Empire. Re-
membering that, "In 1796, the whole of the live
stock in the colony, exclusive of goats and pigs,
was 57 horses, 227 cattle, and 1,531 sheep," it is
something surprising to be told now that, " from
this stock have sprung the vast flocks and herds
which were feeding on the natural grasses of Aus-
tralia at the end of 1860, as exhibited in the follow-
ng table" :

Sheep. Cattle. Horses.
New South Wales 6,119,163 2,408,586 251,497
Victoria 5,794,127 683,534 69,288
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania .. 1,700,930 83,366 21,034

General totals .. 19,888,381 3,886,641 314,722

The quantity of wool exported from the colony
in 1860 was so immense that it amounted in
weight to 12,809,362 lbs., and in value, £1,123,699.
At the close of that same year, on the 31st of De-
cember, 1860, the public debt of the colony
amounted to no more than £3,830,230 in all,
or at the rate of merely £ll an individual !
Skilled artizans can earn there, in New South
'Wales, readily enough from Bs, to 10s. a day—farm
labourers and shepherds from £3O to £4O a year
wages, with board and lodging. During several
successive years bread has ranged from sd. to
6d. the 21b. loaf—being at this time dow❑ to
3d ! Potatoes being down to Bs. the hundred
weight, and meat to 3d., or even as low as 13d.
per pound ! Millions of acres, we are row re-
minded, are there to be purchased, at the choice
of the bidder, at the uniform rate of £1 sterling
per acre. Rents have dropped, of late, as much
as 50 per cent. Altogether, musing over these
statistics, one marvels that the tide of emigration
does not set more strongly in the direction of that
hapyy, fruitful, lightly taxed colony of ours, which
we are again disposed to regard seriously, and
not merely by a complimentary phrase, as our
Southern Arcadia.

According to the EMPEROR and his new Foreign
Secretary, all is to go on in its old course. No new
policy is launched, disturbing the waters of either
the Seine or the Tiber. The dock-gates have
opened, and another vessel belonging to the same
service, with the same destination and the usual
freight, has taken the place of the old one, and
been calmly warped out to start for a fresh voyage
—that is all. To be sure, that all is a great all
relatively. So much had been going on which
seemed to promise that the EMPEROR was coming
to his senses, and beginning to be influenced by
the generous sentiment. a shown by Frenchmen gene-
rally after the atrocious affair of Aspromonte, that
better things were expected. It was thought that
the EMPEROR was becoming as ashamed as his sub-
jects are, that France should be made the gaoler of
the Romans, and the prop of a miserable puling
and cursing ecclesiastical despot—it was hoped that
the miserable RATTAZZI scheme, having disgraced
all the actors, from the EMPEROR, who ordered all,
to the men who shot the hero to prevent his lead-
ing Italian youths to Rome, the EMPEROR WC.
about to act with common justice and honour, and to
fix a term for the withdrawal of the POPE'S French
keepers ; and it is rather the contrast of persistency
in evil, with the previously excited hopes, than the
inauguration of any new evil, which has excited the
public mind. _ _ _

In his circular, which has appeared to-day, M.
DROITYN DE L'HUYS, like his master in his dis-
missal letter to M. THOUVENEL, lays stress on his
intention to abide by the old policy. Through all
phases of the question during the last thirteen
years the EMPEROR has aimed, says the Foreign
Secretary, to conciliate all interests concerned—
which aim might have been all very well if the
interests of the POPE'S temporal despotism and
Italian liberty admitted of reconciliation. This is
termed by the Secretary "a high and impartial
policy." Both these it certainly is. It is a high-
handed disregard of all international rights and the
acknowledged duty of non-intervention. And it is
really " impartial" as between the Italians and the
petty despot whom the EMPEROR protects, since he
cares not a straw for either. He wrongs the
Italians and the Romans, and patron;ses the Holy
oppressor of the Italian capital for the perfectly im-
partial reason that he thinks it for the honour of
1 the Empire
EEmmpirrEeßtooß,sexhibit the POPE in a French cage.
The
Secretary says—" The Roman
question touches upon the highest interests of reli-
gion and of politics, and engenders on every part
of the globe scruples most deserving of respect."
The politics of the case are obvious enough—the
glory of the second empire—for to both Emperors
wrong-doing witha high hand has been a favourite
glory. As to the religion of the business, we may
be allowed to smile at the oddity of the association
between religion and a BONAPARTE. We may
suppose, however, that his sentimental Empress
taught him that word " after her return from the
bull-fight." To all sound-minded persons "on every
point of the globe" religion and injustice—reli-
gion, and the head of their religion being the poli-
tical slaveholder of subjects held in slavery for
phaimtibble ideas.
yforeign slave-drivers—are not very con,-
There is one
Papal villeny—
gratifying consideration connected
with all this dark Imperial and Pap
il that it is doing after all a great work for Italy.
The Papal cut-throats sent into the Southern pro-
vinces
evils
haerye
workindeed
an
fearfulaundesigned v
good. but
evil, like other
The POPE
and EmrEnon will never through them restore the
l

BOURBONS and re-distribute Italy into a weak
confederation to be played with by French strength.
In the first place, the Papal Imperial wrong will unite
the Italy which the POPE and his master desire to
break up. All the world over a common wrong will
unite those whom nothing else would persuade to
act together. The Italians would doubtless be far
more likely to split into factions if the French left
Rome, and the Austrians the Quadrilateral, than
while a dominating hatred thus pervades every
mind.

Then again, the Italians, according to their own
proverb, being nearest Rome, naturally respect it
least of all people. And when to the contempt for
the Papacy which proximity always inspires, we
add the special provocation of the Papacy at the
present moment, we may conceive how every year
makes the Papacy more and more hateful. Indeed,
an Italian who intimately knows his country
assures us that nine out of ten Italians are anti-
Papal. On the same authority we learn that light
is extensively dawning on the Italian mind. They
think it a point of honour to stand by their Church
—they would think it cowardice to desert it—but
they are renouncing belief in Papal infallibility for
belief in the Bible. They would not like the name
of Protestants, he says, but they do like the name of
Evangelical Catholics. The demand for the Bible,
the most deadly danger to priestcraft, is becoming
quite general. He knew of the circulation of a
hundred thousand Bibles in the last year or two.
Now, all this is making the Italians really free—
free in thought and understanding from the fetters
of the Papacy and its priests, as wed as free politi-
cally from the decrees of the old petty despots. The
two must ever go together. Countries have the
spirit of freedom just in proportion as they free their
minds from debasing religious bondage to their
fallible fellow-mortals. In Europe opposition to

the Papacy and civil freedom nave always gone
together. It will be so in Italy. The opposition
to the POPE and the EMPEROR will be the seal of
her liberties.

Again the telegram has sounded the alarm about
GARIBALDI. After all the couleur de rose accounts
furnished by the authorities, as to his improve-
ment in health generally and the gradual healing
of his wound—a brief intimation comes flashed to
us by telegraph abruptly announcing that his con-
dition is altogether very unsatisfactory. It is true
that in opposition to this announcement, almost in
direct contradiction of it, we learn that the Hero
has recently addressed a cordial letter to
M. VICTOR HUGO, in which the General pro-
miees his friend that in two months time he
(GARIBALDI) will be in London to witness the first
representation of the dramatised version of the poet-
novelist's great work, Les iLiserables. 'What an
attraction to the Lyceum ! that first night of Mr.
FEcIITER'S appearance in the double character of
Actor and Manager, that first night of the
representation of the drama prohibited by
the Imperial Government at Paris, but destined,
no doubt, to delight the theatre-going people of Lon-
don during the chief part of this next year of grace,
1863. The recognition of General GARIBALDI and
M. VICTOR HUGO in a box at the Lyceum on that
first night, would surely bring " down " the house
with a thunder of acclamations. Unhappily, how-
ever, the hopes awakened by GARIBALDI'S cheerful
missive to the Great French Author are dashed to
the dust almost immediately they are recognised by
a Turin letter, dated the 14th inst., which appears
in a recent number of the Temps, and in which
we read, upon the authority of the correspondent
—" I have j ust seen Dr. RIBOLI. He is greatly
cast down. The mere sight of GARIBALDI at once
dissipated in his mind alt the illusions encouraged
by the optism of the daily bulletins. GARIBALDI
is pale, exhausted, attenuated. A fever, not intense,
but of daily recurrence, is slowly consuming
him. As to the wound, M. RIBOLI agrees
with M. PALASCIANO that the ball is in it. He
thinks it not safe to attempt the extraction at pre-
sent, and at the same time fears that delay may
bring with it the most serious complications. In
short, his impression is most discouraging." And
now comes to-day's brief but sinister telegram.
All we can do at this moment, however, is to hope
that in these latest tidings from Spezzia there
has been something of exaggeration.

THE END OF THE LONG VACATION.—On Friday
next the long vacation will terminate, when the several
common law offices will resume business in preparation for
the coming Michaelmas Term, commencing on the 2d, or
rather Monday, the 3d proximo. The Chancery vacation
will not end for some days later. But for the Jadges'
Chambers sitting two days in each week there would have
scarcely been any indication of life in the legal profession.
Proceedings in actions have slumbered for some time, but
arrangements must be made before the 24th instant, or
Parties will be entitled to costs for declarations, and after so
long a rest attorneys are not inclined to forego their privi-
leges. The arrears in Chancery and in the common law
courts are not considerable.

NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LEAGUE.—On Sunday
last 47 sermons were preached in connection with this asso-
ciation, and at some of the services collections were made in
behalf of the League's funds. Nine of the sermons were
delivered in London, three at Manchester, and the re-
mainder at Gloucester, Bristol, Swansea, Cardiff, Chester,
Worcester, Burslem, Walsall, Newcastle-on-Tyne, South
Shields, Spalding, Louth, Peterborough, Bedford, Luton,
St. Albans, and other places. Of the 47 preachers, 15 were
Churchmen, 16 Baptists, nine Independents, four Me-
thodists, and three Presbyterians.
GARIBALDI AND THE TRADES OF LONDON.—
General Garibaldi having in letters to friends in England
signified his intention of shortly visiting this country, to
thank them in person for the sympathy manifested in his
behalf, and for the interest taken in the cause of Italian
unity, preparations have already commenced for giving a
public welcome to the Italian hero on his visit to the me-
tropolis. A preliminary meeting has been convened of the
influential and leading men in the metropolitan trade so-
cieties, to consider the propriety of the trades, as a body,
joining in the proposed demonstration. Should this course
be decided upon, each trade will be at once called upon to
appoint its delegates to carry out the necessary arrange-
ments, and the friendly societies, such as the Foresters,
Oddfellows, Druids, Old Friends, &c., will be also invited
to take part in the proceedings.
LAND COMPENSATION.—An inquiry regarding a
claim for land compensation at Plymouth, which commenced
on Wednesday last, was concluded on Saturday. Mr.
Drake was assessor. Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Johnson appeared
for the applicant, and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Han-
nen for the War Department, it being a question of fortifi-
cations. The residence, Brookland-house, and the land
have been many years in the family of Mr. Gennys. The
property is situated two or three miles north of Plymouth.
The amount claimed was £45,000. The Government in the
first place offered £20,000, and was, it is said, prepared to
compromise before going to a jury. The amount awarded
was—for the house and gardens, 000 ; compensation for
severing a piece of water, £2,000; for absolute purchase
and compensation for clearance rights, £25,158 10s.; total,
£3l, :58 10s. The land absolutely taken is about 98 acres.
The clearance rights are exercised over 166 acres. Mr.
Gennys made a claim for increased value on account of
mining royalties, but it did not appear to have much
weight with the jury. One Plymouth architect valued the
building land at £3OO per acre; another at £275.
FATAL COLLISION ON THE RIVER.—About five
o'clock yesterday evening, the tide being at the time nearly
full, a collision took place in Northfieet Reach, between a
brig laden with corn from the Baltic, proceeding up the
river, and an empty collier running down. The violence of
the shock precipitated the helmsman of the collier into the
liver, and he sank before assistance could be rendered. The
brig kept on her tack to the Gravesend side, and was
brought to shore at Northfleet, where she will undergo re-
pairs at low water to keep her free.
DISASTROUS COLLISION AT SEA.—The Hamburg
steamer, running between Havre and Brest, came into vio-
lent collision with a French barque, called the Juanita,
from Monte Video, on Friday morning at about 5 o'clock.
when about six miles west of the port of Havre. A strong
south-wester was blowing, and intense darkness prevailed.
The Hamburg sunk directly. Ten of her passengers are
known to have been lost, and several others are missing.
The captain and mate ere saved. The total drowned or
missing is stated to be 26. The Hamburg formerly ran be-
, tween Havre and Southampton,—.Manchester Guardian.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

THE NEW MANAGEMENT.

This theatre, which on Thursday last witnessed
the close of Mr. Harris's management, as well as of
the engagement of Mr. and Mr. Charles Kean, with
something like the eightieth performance of the
spectacular revival of Henry Vlll.—was re-opened
last evening by Mr. Lindus, with a company com-
posed for the most pert of various favourites from
the leading theatres, and with an entertainment
which favourably indicated the taste of the
new lessee, however insufficient may be his present
arrangements to render it duly attractive. If it be
his intention, as we are induced to infer, to play
either the regular or the romantic drama, in a form
which shall rest their attraction on the piece
itself rather than on its setting—on the merits
of the writing and the acting rather than
those of mere production—in other words, on
dramatic ends rather than the ordinary
dramatic instruments—we cannot but think
that such a design, supported by a mode-
rate amount of energy and a tolerable share
of sense and taste, will result in a success that will
be as profitable as it will be praiseworthy. Indeed,
we see Tao other course that is at all possible at this
theatre. Spectacle has been so exhausted here,
whether in respect to Shakespear or melodrama,
whether under the pretence of illustrating poetry,
or upon its own avowed attraction, that it seems to
us the only path left which a manager can pursue in
safety—is that which honestly avows the value of the
drama itself and its exposition, and not the facti-
tious aids which have so often stood in lieu of them.
After the manner in which the public have been
drugged with the sensuous at this theatre, a
recourse to the mental and the human would be the
greatest possible novelty. This argument becomes
conclusive when it is remembered that spectacle in
its highest form, as connected with Shakespear at
this theatre recentlywas onlyattractive on the ground
of the excitement it supplied to our jaded exhibi-
tion visitors. In its announcement of dramas, and
pictorial aid, in the services of Mr. Beverley, the
management puts forth signs of energy undoubt-
edly in a right direction, but we cannot dis-
guise the fact, that the company must be
considerably strengthened, especially in the
matter of heroines, in order to give this right
direction any fair chance of success. The enter-
tainments commenced with Mr. Charles Dance's
pleasant adaptation, entitled " Delicate Ground,"
which was capitally acted by Mr. G. Vining, in the
Citizen Sangfroid—saving an occasional excess of
emphasis—by Mr. Roxby, in his original character
of the lover, and by Miss Mary Oliver, in Pauline—
a character that is rather difficult to act, owing to
the struggle it exhibits between a true and false
attachment, fancied wrongs, and illusive pleasures,
but which she mastered with an amount of skill
and ease—with a mixture of feeling and intelli-
gence which marks her recent and sensible ad-
vance, both as a comedian and an artist. The play
of " Love," which followed, most of our readers
are aware is a highly poetic treatment of the idea
of the "Lady of Lyons''—the assertion of the claims
of the heart and humanity against those of an-
tique convention—but which has the defect of a
plot or movement so desultory and meagre
as to deprive its eloquent appeals of any
due effect on the sympathies. It rather de-
claims its noble purpose than it embodies and
imparts it. Its hero—Huon, the serf—was played
by Mr. Herman Vezin with a vigour and a fresh-
ness which placed his claims in the front rank of all
our yoling tragedians. His conception had the
defect that it leant rather too much
to the ideal side, and at times was
wanting in reality—in the degree it was want-
ing in manliness—but, on the whole, it was a
very able and a very gratifying performance,
which must attach considerable interest to all his
future efforts. The Countess, which Mrs. Charles
Kean made so attractive on the play's produc-
tion, is, perhaps, one of the most arduous charac-
ters in the whale rcund of the modern drama, owing
to the singular boldness, as well as beauty, with
which the author has painted the struggle of her

pride and love—demanding in its actress the utmost
passion, as well as the most perfect mastery of her
art to render its sudden transitions not only natural,
but pleasing. It is, in fact, a character which can
only be treated by a thoroughly accomplished
artist, who knows the secret of uniting the highly
vigorousand graceful. It will be seen, therefore, that
its selection was most inappropriate for Miss
Florence Aylmer—the young lady who made her
debut in it—and who, it is evident, has only very
recently adopted the stage as her pursuit. The
difficulties of the character overwhelmed her at
every point, and left the audience no course but to
suspend their judgment altogether till they saw
ner in something mere adapted to her, and cer-
tainly less arduous. The Duke was ably embodied
by Mr. Henry Marston, and the sprightly Cathe-
rine not less so by Mrs. Buckingham White.
The farce of " Perfection" concluded the evening,
and elicited a continuous roar of laughter at the
hands of Mr. Roxby, Mr. Belmore, and
Oliver. The house was tolerably full.