The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-07 00:00:00

PARIS THEATRICALS.

VARIETIES.—A drama, the precise qualities of which
it would be difficult to describe, was brought forward here
on Wednesday night, before one of the most closely-packed
audiences we have seen in this theatre for years, founded,
or purporting to be founded, upon the biography of Kean,
the celebrated tragedian. It is entitled Ke (pronounced,
ioto
as the ajiche kindly acquaints the public, " Kinn "),
Disordre et Genie, and is written by M. Alexander Du-
mas, who, we must take leave to say, hasues
tn, but calculated m
of
the
liberally upon the presumed ignorance of the Parisian pub-
lic, not only of the life of the actor in question,
commonest usages and customs of English society. We
find Kean the idol of the public and the hero of Covent-
garden (a theatre at which, by the way, he never acted
above a few nights in his life, Drury-lane being the scene of
Kean's performances ; but let this pass), and also a perfect
Richelieu in the beau monde, being contended for by
ladies of the highest rank, and disputing the heart
of Countess Kefeld, lady of the Danish Ambassador,
with no less a personage than the Prince of Wales,
who is his intimate friend. His, Royal Highness, how-
ever, rashly refusing his assent to Kean's modest request to
yield up the lady to him, the actor takes occasion while acting
Romeo to feign an access of lunacy, and insults his Royal
friend before the public in the grossest manner, for which,
in consideration of his great talents, the Prince only allows
him to be transported for one year to America, whither he
carries off a young lady, a certain Miss Anna Danby, the
richest heiress, we are informed, in all Angleterre, but who,
struck with Kean's genius, is determined to follow him, and
become an actress. Into this framework is introduced a
London pot-house, where the tragedian and a watermark
treat the public to a regular " set-to," in which our hero,
it is scarcely necessary to add, floors his adversary. Here
a certain Lord Melvill is detected by Kean in an attempt to
carry off the above-mentioned Miss Anna Danby, having
basely inveigled that young lady to the public-house by
writing her a letter in the actor's name. This Lord Melvill
now refuses to fight a duel with Kean, because the latter is
no gentleman ; whereupon the actor shows the Lord up in •
his true colours before a number of his connives, and the
nobleman is right glad to make his escape in a whole skin.
We have also a morning scene after an orgie, in which Kean
and three or four blackguards are discovered asleep over
the wreck of their night's debauch ; with the visit of a poor
Jack-Pudding, to request his old friend to assist him by a
benefit, to which Kean consents, promising to enact Falstaff.
Among the absurdities of this strange rhapsody, not the
least amusing are the terms in which the London actors are
made to address the audience, being invariably " My Lords
and Gentlemen."—Galignani's Messenger.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL
AT LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—This mmning a good deal of
interest was created by the ceremony of laying the founda-
tion stone of a new school attached to the Church of
England, caused by a difference between the Clergymen of
the Establishment and the members of the new Town
Council, on the subject of the introduction of the Irish sys-
tem of education into the public schoOls of the former.
When the Council determined upon adopting the Irish
system of education in their schools, a meeting was called
at the Amphitheatre, and a public subscription was en-
tered into, which, in a few weeks, amounted to the large
sum of 10,000/. for the purpose of founding rival schools.
This occurred about ten weeks ago. At the time the
subject caused a good deal of controversy and heart-burn-
ing in the town, and the local papers were inundated with
dissertations pro and con, on the Irish system of educa-
tion. The subject has been partially revived to-day by the
ceremony which took place, and the large assemblage
which congregated to witness it.

About ten o'clock the children attached to the Church
of England began to assemble in the yard of St. Peter's
Church, and shortly after the procession began to move,
headed by the members of the Tradesmen's Conservative
Association, accompanied by banners and suitable inscrip-
tions, followed by the members of the Operative Conser-
vative Association. The followed the children, amount-
ing, it was calculated, to nearly 3,000 of both sexes. The
procession was closed by forty Clergymen, dressed in their
canonicals, preceded by the Rev. Rector Brooks, who was
supported on his right by Sir Thomas Brancker, and.
on his left by James Aspinall, Esq. (the ex-mayor) who
acted in the capacity of treasurer.
The site of the intended new building is in Bond-street,
at the north end of the town, in the midst of a very nume-
rous and constantly-increasing labouring population.
The procession having reached the ground the super-
scription on the plate was read, and the plate was then
placed over the stone.
James Aspinall, Esq., then presented a silver trowel to
the .Rev. Rector, with snitable address.
The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS then said, that his first
duty was to express the pride and satisfaction which he felt
in executing the trust which the committee had been pleased
to confer on him. Liverpool, from being a small town, had
risen during the last century to a high rank in the scale of
commercial cities while, in the number and extent of her in-
stitutions she had been surpassed by none. Her benevo-
lence and liberality had kept pace with the increase of her
wealth, and in administering to the wants and sufferings
of those who were labouring ulider distress or sickness she
proved that 'assistance was not asked in vain. But the
occasion which had given rise to the present meeting had
tacai
displayed another feature in the character of the town—
it
hadt
the
the principlesccall
f,
reli-
gion
as shownve
as ahfathma it ottlyld,
to rise
assert a
of
that sacred faith in which they were all interested—
in_
which they were • all brethren. It had proved that,
while they were actively engaged in ' the business and pur-
suits of this life, they were by no rocans insensible to
the
more important business of eternity. (Cheers.) How stood
the case as regarded the tow
The present town council, at
thencouncil and these schools ?
suggestion of their educa-
tion committee, resolved to admit the system of education
which prevailed in Ireland
into their schools. That system
might suit the peculiar circumstancesltr,asakinodfolfreland, and. might
be found to work well.
ina en-
tered into between Protestant, Presbyterian, and Catholic,
s
order to bring the children of their respective modes of
lorship harmoniously together. But. the Bible was sacri-
fiv
ced for the purpose of producing this result. TIM Irish
system had been introduced into this town, where it was not
wanted, where it did not apply, and therefore he could not
help saying, that, so long as teat systenreontinued in opera-
tion, the Bible was-virtually excluded from the schools of
the corporation. The march of intellect, as it had been
called, was progressing with giant strides ; but while edu-
cating the people, he trusted they would never permit a
spurious philosophy to interfere with the word of God.
After a few other observations, the Rev. Gentleman con-
eluded by hoping that God would prosper their undertaking.,
after which the ceremony of laying the stone was gone
through by the Rev. Gentleman, and shortly after the
meeting separated.

EXTRAORDINARY AMBITION.—it was the am-
bition of the late Dr. Hunt to fill up the whole of the large
chancel window of his parish church with old stained glass.
As be was too poor to purchase it, he begged,
borrowed, and
—ted it, whenever he had an eppoannitv ; and thus, by
kil
degrees, he left to his parishioners one of the- finest windows
in the kingdom. Whenever the doctor found a solitary piece
or two of old glass in the window of some small country
church, he endeavoured to procure it in some way or other.
In one of his excursions, he had taken some trifling bits, as he
thought, unperceived, but was followed and seized for the theft,
tlie glass being found safely deposited in his coat:poel:ct.
He would have been committed fur trial, had not his friends In-
tel cored and rescued him from his unpleasant prediennient.by
restoring the glass to its former situation.
would never admit that.he had acted -wrong n this respect,—
..-Inyler's Rambles. however,
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