The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-02 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

DRURY-LANE. that
One of the most curious and novel representations "ini.
our stage has seen was exhibited last' night in the Petir",ll,
mance of Mr. Hill, an American comic actor. Mr. the
it seems, has been extremely popular in America for
humorous fidelity with which he has pourtrayed the cl-;
racteristics of Yankees, a race whose peculiarities excltl
no small degree of mirth among the nephews and nieces:a
Uncle Sam. The sketches of the late Mr. Mathews ar c
the lucubrations of Major Downing and Colonel Crocks,
have given us some notion of the oddities of the Do
Easters. Mr. Hill's personation furnishes a finished bl't:
ture, of the accuracy of which we havo no reason to dca 5
and of the whimsicality of which we rea,gily bear witne!..
to. The Yankees are said to be distinguis2led by a cerise,
sleek, plausible cunning, great industry, some
a scanty and pliant honesty, a dialect which LI not "lat
unlike that of our own more eastern counties, aa,,ade
humorous extravagance of speech which seems to Yer—tri.
the lower classes of the United States. All these Dt,i'jj'a
butes are embodied in the Yankee pedlar, who is 'O4
hero of the slight one-act piece which was brought „0,.
last night for the purpose of introducing Mr. iliuna
enterprillei
a London audience. The plot of the drama is
thine-. An old Virginia Colonel (Mr. Bartley) j"--0,
a daughter Nancy (Miss Lee), who is beloved hY
young gentleman from Philadelphia. The Colonel deg'
tines her fora horse-j.,:ekey friend of his, and is induced'
some degree by accideni% but more by the contrivaoco
of Hiram Dodge, the Yankt:e pedlar, to bestow her bathe
upon her true lover. Mr. Hill, as may be conceived, has a,
intr
l.°,
who has a v
whole weight of the piece on his ow.) shoulders. fie
duces himself into the house of the Colonel,
lent antipathy against all of Hiram's race anti
na wri bi
sheer impudence, escapes a flogging by cunningly' lfor
substitute for the lashes which the Colonel has prockle-n,
him, and lets the Colonel's horse win a race by riding 08
posite horse himself. Some of his conceits and phrases
irresistibly whimsical ; the praises of his pedlar's Waretsan
looking glasses that you can see a mile deep in--P°s,„..
clocks which go all the days in the week except Sunda,'" 01
razors so keen that if you only " ile'em well," and put thery
under your pillow at night, you'll get up in the 01eap
ing
clean shaved, are among them. He boasts of
mono
makinging pork and pudding enough to shingle it
house, and describes a machine for sausage it,
ii;wp_..
cleverly constructed, that if you put a whole bog
one end produces ready-made sausages, and the other ,ns,
tent scrubbing-brushes. But the true merit of his act! c'r,
is, that he gives a perfect picture of a very odd charge
hitherto very slightly on our stage, and proves that always
power of humour which is somewhat rare, and al, the
highly attractive, he can fairly take his ,stand anwnlo,ith
best low-comedy actors we possess. He was receive and
great applause, his jokes produced abundant la:igh
the audience seemed so to relish the whim of the rek'resenon
tion, that he can hardly fail to become a fikvourite.
was called for after the close of the piece, and hi:,
nouncement of its repetition was received with unive rrs
r;
probation. Some more such importations as Mr' :11 be
Amerca teal
and Mr. Hill, and our dramatic freights to ter,
ta..
brought "much more directly under the reciprocitY sYs
than they have hitherto been.

S .
A burletta in one act, entitled The Miniature, was pro"
......
duced at this theatre last night. The characters are few ' ~.
A rich and crusty father, a tender daughter, a wealth,' es
mirer, whom she hates ; a half y ensign, whom she loves,:
aln,idi
The
npllertislils servant-of l-evtr.oute-kl-pfbaaltuhnedrertseans and bullsji:n el udea,
llthe distracted
ensign, r's
marry Slipper, the stockbroker. She takes out her loving
tiitre to gaze upon, and drops it acco'di°glY' bassists
her in .1
-ter distress, and is espied by
iTr'snt'lfta fainted. An elderly and fantastic neigh,lo" 9,00 g
loos
ady in his arms. She rushes to it'ihsewsifpeostviinh la
e ;41- V
fury, but is greatly appeased by lighting on theme" counterteiro
fellow. She is yetllangin
of a charming over it her
delight, when her husband returns, and, discovering - r
pastime, is forthwith possessed by tls, green-eyed
rionsit,,i;
The gentleman's name is Gander,ie and,g wriihout dealing
in the spirit of the author with the first
the word we are about to use, we may be allowed to.
the name furnishes forth his whole history. Ile is 39 :14
Fitzfl
,t
liant as Gander may be after his fashion against
who imagines him to be the husband of Ws Lucretia, *Ont.,
whom the ire of Mrs. Gander is in cot Lquence of tbe ftor_.,
ing fit excited. As soon, however, asis ;he vilest collect:.
doifepuns that was ever yet inflicted on the patience of
.f 1 0„
1 nee has been exhausted, all differences are eastlXie is
to at
p amed and adjusted, andmost contemptible m
a co ice°
brought to a close. scrv-
We are sorry to see so poor a Pci 0
this house. Mr. Braham's energy and enterprise c
into'
success ; his theatre presents perhaps the handsome!ttoady
syllable
Say
nor in London, and he has some good actors, Pa,rtle most
Strickland, whose merit is of no ordinary kind' ri
adhere to
contrive to find some clever writer of novelties, or
the best stock-pieces.

Viscount de Miralcazar, a Spanish Grancic'e,
at Mivart's Hotel yesterday, from Paris,
randee, arrived