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London, England, 1836-11-30 00:00:00

and Black Norris. The following passages where Marian,
half frenzied by the recollection that her own evidence !Jaz
condemned her father to death, hears of the death of
Edward, displays a thorough knowledge of the human
heart

" MARIAN.
WCII, Stephen, n hat of ►nisery more
For sure it in your errand by your looks!
Tell ine—you can add nothing to the cup
Already that o'erflows. Ii it of Edward ?
Is lie dead?

STEPIJEN.
He is drowned op the coast of France.

MARIAN.
I hear it, and I do not she'd a tear,
Nor feel the want to weep ; I welcome it
"l'is good news---lis well he's dead
The friends he leaves should put on holiday,
Not mourning, clothes for him well, he's dead;
How was he drowned ?

STEPHEN.
His ship, they say, innt down,
With all the crew.

MARIAN.
With all the crew ! How fresh he look'd the day
He went. What ho= .3 was in his eye,, whose fire
You would have thought would r. e'er go out! He seein'd
In speed to meet good fortune, as a friend
. Already come in sight. I see him now
Stepping with gallant air into the boat,
And looking' at the sea, as 'twere a thing
Stable as the solid earth. My sailor lad !
Young, comely, manly, good, and fond of me.
I little thought the look would be my last,
Which promised I should sec thee soon again !
Thou died'st in good time—l thought justlnow
I was past weeping."
The sudden change from the numbing, tearless lethargy
of despair to the quicker and gentler sensibilities, is ex-
pressed in this passage with a truth and simplicity worthy
almost of Shakspeare. At first, Marian can think of nothing
but, the father she has drowned to !the scaffold ; all minor
griefs give way before this absorbing agony ; she has not
even a tear for her doomed lover ; as recollection, however,
dawns upon her, and she pourtrays him in imagination as
he last appeared to her, when " stepping with Valiant air
into the boat," her soul dissolves under the softening influ-
ence of the memories thus conjured up, 'and, for the mo-
ment, even her parent is forgotten. Equally characteristic
is the scene where Wolf details the circumstances of
finding the body which Norris had murdered. Th', struggle
of the wretch's mind, when he learns that tlie corpse was
that of his own father, his short-lived remorse, borne down
by his hardened and callous nature,, are pourtrayed with the
skill and force of one who can, probe the human heart to
the quick :

" NORRIS.
Kept the blood flowing still ?

WOLF.
It did--more fre; das it flowed, the heart
Mora full n is quick did beat.

NORRIS.
I thought 'twas over warm about the I,:nark!
WOLF.

Oh, No►ris, say it not.

NORRIS.
Why, of what value is a spark of life,
More than a spark of any other thing ?

WOLF.
The body was—thy Father's I

NORRIS.
Devil I Imp
Of Hell !, Unsay it, or thou diest, with
A lie in thy throat—Who else has heard it from thee ?
WOLF.
No one.

Noma&
I am mad ; no wonder if I am ;
Wretch, had'st thou stopp'd the old man's blood—

WOLF.

He h-4d lived.
I thought thy interest 'twas that he should die.
I knew not then it was thy father.

Norms.
Devil I Why had I anythng. to say to thee ?
And where's the body now ?
WOLF.
I left it where
I fond it.

NORRIS.
Fool ! thou should'st have carried it
To the cliff, and cast it straight into the sea
Where ne'er the sand dry.

WOLF.
Would not the sea
Have thrown it up :gain ?
NORRIS.

The sea ? The earth.
Though it were buried in't ten fathom deep,
Would throw it up again ! Nothing can make
A grave that's deep enough to keep it.—Cast
A mountain on't, 'mould heave it olf-7'heilll know it,
When it is brought &Are the coroner.

WOLF.
I have taken care of that.

NORRIS.

Mangled the features ?

WOLF.

NORRIS.

Savage !

WOLF.

For thy sake I did it.

NORRIS.

True
Right I You did very right,— and after all,
TVhat was it but a piece of clay 9"
There are many other passages in the play fully equal in
truth of nature, and terse simplicity of expression, to those
which we have just extracted ; in evidence of which we
may instance the entire interview that takes place between
Marian aud her father, after the latter's condemnation.
The following is a brief portion of this exquisitely touching
scene. Marian, it should be observed, is sueing old Robert
for pardon, which he scornfully denies, telling her that had
she really been his daughter, as she pretends, she could
never have brought her parent to th• scaffold

ROBERT.
Thou wort never child of mine!
No I—No ;—I never carried thee up and down
The beach in my arms, many and many a day,
To strengthen thee, when thou wast sickly !—No!
I never brought thee from the market town
Whene'cr I went to it, a packet load ,
Of children's gear I—No 1-:-Never 1 Nor
When fever came into the village, and
Fix'd its fell gripe on you, I never wattled
Ten days and nights running, beside your bed,
Living, I know not how, for sloop I took not,
And hardly food ! And since your mother died-.

MARIAN.
Thou'lt kill me, father !

ROBERT.
Since your mother died,
I have not been a mother and a tather
13oLh--both to thee !

MARIAN.
Oh ! spare me

M.BERT.

I was never
Anything to thee I—Call me father !--why
A father's life is wrapp'd up in his child I
Was mine wrapp'd up in thee?—Thou know'st 'twas not !
How durst thou call me father ?—fasten upon me !
Tint never gave thee proof, sign, anything
Of recognition that thou wait my child i
Strain'd thee to my heart by the hour I—parting thy hair
And smoothing it, and calling thee all things
That fondness idolizing thinks upon
To speak its yearning lave 1— •
HighlY as we admire Mr. Knowles's dramas, we know
not that he ever produced a finer one than this. If it do
not possess the graceful fancy or poetic feelin of the
Hunchback and The Wife, it far surpasses them in its de-
lineations of character, and power to stir the passions. It
was in consequence highly successful ; and could not pos-
sibly have been better acted. Ward's Black Norris is his
best performance, and Miss Kelly herself could not have
played Marian with more feeling and propriety than did
Miss Huddart. 'Knowles tlirew_much rough energy into
the part of Robert, and where a deeper show of.vnsibility
was required, (lid not hang fire. At the close of the play
the three chief performers were called for before the cut-
tain, mid the waving of hats and handkerchiefs in pit, box,
and gallery.

. It is not correct, as stated. yesterday, that the front
of Messrs. Hitchcock and Roger‘' premises was - blown
down in the gale ; only a pane or two of glass was broken.
It is asserted that the gas in St. Martin's
Church emits a stench even worse than that which deters
so,many persons from frequenting the theatres.
Complaints arc very nat though
generally made, that
the consumption of tea has greatly increased, its general
quality is much (Zeteriorated.
The disputes h2tween the operative spinners and
their employers have not yet been fully adjusted. Mr.
Charles 13radhury's hands did not coinmence work before
last week, when he agreed to pay by the list prices. Messrs.
J. and J. Hague, of Acre-mill, Oldham,
have not yet set-
tled their differences with the spinners in their employ, who
have not resumed work since the commencement of the
strike. The masters of from 16 to 00 spinning establish-
ments, united in an associaticit, have had frequent meetings
during the dispute wag, their hands, and have resolved that
if any member q,annot agreo.with any man in his enaPay
befetVg 4 Rivet time, the remainder of the combined are to
cease working mills till disputes ho seltledi. Ncitieo
their the
has been given to their hands, that if tko Messrs, 11- ,
differences with their spinner% are not arnicabl- -ague s
.- .
fore Friday morning (Nov, 4j4th), they ~, settled be-
-
their es_ta.hAiiirtlonts ou siAturd- - will cease working
T...y evening.—Manchester
vie.S., /
Last v,•• . 4
ll— .eek an officer of -the 4th Dragoon Guards
i
...dertook to ride his horse from Dorchester to Blandford i
1 (16 miles) within an hour for a wager of .50/., which be did, 1

THE POLISH REVOLUTION.

Last night a numerous meeting was held at the Crown
and Anchor Tavern, for the purpose of commemorating the
anniversary of this memorable event. The Hon. Colonel
Stanhope was in the Chair, supported by General Dwe.r..
nicki, Major Beaiowski, M. Napoleon ZabLa, and other
distinguished Polish emigrants. The rest of the platform
was densely Occupied,. and set mad ladies were present.
Colonel STANHOPE, on taking the chair at eight o'clock,
an hour later than the advertisement mentioned, apologised
to the ladies and gentlemen for having so long detained thsen;
but the fact was, that his Polish friends being, as might be
expected, but slightly versed in English formularies, took a
longer time than ordinary in preparing their resolutions.
He was proud to preside On that occasion. They had met
for the purpose of giving the free and sympathising peo-
ple of England an opportunity to commemorate another
anniv,l.sary of the outbreak of the Polish Revolution,'
and thus do their part in encouraging and consoling.
the brave patriots of Poland, and transmitting their nanira,
their deeds, and their sufferings, as an example, from gene-
ration to generation.—(Cheers.) It should be borne la
mind that generation.. .(Cheers.)
been, from the earlier ages dawn to.
the present time, a barrier protecting the rest of Eurepe
from the incursions of the barbarians of the North ; the
brave people of that country had signalised themselves in re-
pelling the inroads-of despotism, particularly in +2ne 7th and
13th centuries; and when, on the mernoraffi'J 29th of No-
vember, 1830, they took up arms against Russia, the Cos-
sacks had actually received orders .1'
- -rrim the Autocrat of
.-,
Russia to march against the peep/ of Paris.—(Cheers.)
The amazing increase of Rwssia population and military
power, since the days of the Empress Catherine, must fill
every reflecting Eurospean with amazement and apprehen-
sion. Under that Empress they could reckon not more
than six millions of men able to bear arms —now thet cal-
culated on one hundred millions.—(Hear, hear.) From the
calamitous partition of Poland might be dated most of the
That was
misfortunes of that brave people. a
partition
which had been stigmatised by the greatest personages of
Europe, as the greatest outrage on the law of nations com-
mitted in the eighteenth century. At the treaty of Vienna
Austria, England, and France *contended for the indepen-dence Poland. It was promised by Russi,ts, but instead
of granting her her rights, and a native King, she sent try
govern Poland the Duke Constantine—a being who
scarcely the name of mon--(Hear, hear)—so great and
numerous were his atrocities. For more than five years she
gave her nothing like a- Parlinment. What would Ise the
state of this country if it were five years without a Parlia-
ment?—(Cheers.) The people were also deprived of the
pcwer of the press ; their judges were also removed ; men
were condemned unheard and untried—immured for life
in
diimal dungoons, or confined to the frozen solitudes of Si-
beria. Instead of having a Polish national guard, as gua-
ranteed by the treaty, Russia sent 10,000 of her own
troops into the heart of the country. The national religion
was subverted ; the universities were closet 4.; and a system
of espionage was set at work upon tht: affairs of every
household ; and, finally, came the orgar;ic statute. (Hear,
hear.) The object, then, of the prtsent meeting, was to
excite a feeling amongst the people of England, and, if pos-
sible, throughout the civilized world, that should urge their
respective Governments to call upon Russia to adhere to
the treaty of Vienna, and grant a practical independence
to Poland. (Cheers.) That must be done by public opi-
nion, or there must be a general war, in which France,
Austria, and England, would resist the encroachments
and the increase of the Russian power, in co-operation
with Poland, Circassia, Georgia, the Caucasus, Persia,
and Turkey. (Loud cheering.) If it were necessary
to excite further horror and indignation against the mon-
strous tyranny of Russia he would remind them that
that Government had chained the nehappy Poles to iron
bars like wild beasts, and depriving them of their hereditary
names, compelled them to be recognised only by numbers.
The women of Poland, the wivrA of exiled patriots, were
bribed and forced to marry Rryssians.—(Hear, and groans.)
When the Governor of Wa*.saw was besought by an illus-
trious widow for leave tn•
band to the family tom:ra, 'remove the remains of her hus-
he said it should be removed to
the gallows !—(Sharae, and horror.) These, out of thou-
sands of examples, "tic thought, would be sufficient to excite
the sympathy, tlsq.
Englishmen, in, generosity, the horror and indignation of
b'ehalf of a nation renowned for their bravery,
and who, tho,u.-.11 now subdued and persecuted, had never
yet been ecmquered.—(Cheers.)
GeneDwEnmeerovhe commanded an army of Poles
against. 'Aussie in the late war, rose to address the meeting.
The. 'appearance of the veteran warrior was hailed with
er.tbsisiastic cheers by his countrymen. He proceeded in
d Polish language to recapitulate their struggles and their
Sufferings, and to exhort his countrymen to endure their
privations with hope and fortitude ; for the sympathy of the
generous people of England, taking the lead of other divi-
lized nations, would ultimately influence the fears of Russia
to grant the people of Poland that redress, of which there
was no probability from her sense of justice or visitings of
remorse. The gallant veteran was frequently cheered.
Mr. -BEALS moved the first resolution, to the effect that
every effort ought to be made by the people of England and
France to procure the restoration and secure the inde-
pendence of Poland, as the best guarantee of the liberty •
and peace of Europe, and the advance of human improve-
ment and civilization. He was grieved to perceive that
Poland had received so little sympathy from England, while
we had been pouring in our legions to the aid of the thank-
less Spaniards, and dispatching our fleets to the support of
a wayward girl, who knew not how to uphold a free sceptre.
As for Louis Philippe, he was one of the falsest friends of •
Poland.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Beals then proceeded at;
great length to review and contradict the statements of a
lnamphlet by a " Manchester Manufacturer," lately pub-
ished, which endeavoured to prove that the subjugation of
Poland by Russia would be a national benefit to the former
country.
Mr. VINCENT seconded the resolution as a member of
the working classes. He threw all the blame of the mis-
fort
unes of Poland not on the people, but on the nobility,
who by their intriguing and vacillating conduct prevented
the revolutionary army from following up its successes. It
was in Poland, as in England and every where else, no per-
manent good could be effected until every tree e of a here-
ditary nobility had been extirpated.—(Cheering and oppo- •
sition.) That was his conviction as an ultra-democratical--.
Several of the refugees on the platform said they did not
concur in those sentiments, though file Polish nobility were
much to blame.
Mr. BEAUMONT referred to, h work lately published by
a Pole in Paris, to show' that the Poles were not deserv-
ing of that sympathy which 'they sought. That work said, that " Poland could not 'receive freedom, because it would
injure the rights of pror,serty."—(Great uproar, and hoar.)
The Poles, who were. Roman Catholics, did not grant re- •
ligions liberty to tlae Greeks or the Jews.—(Hisses from
the Poles.) Tine, Poles must not hiss here—or lie would
appeal against them, not only to the men, but to every.
Englishwoman, Irishwoman, and Scotswoman.—(Laughter,,
hear, and, 'great confusion.) Prince Caartoryski lanienteil
the fall, of Poland, because ho thereby lost a property e
twen'sy thousand slaves.—(Great uproar, hisses, yells,- - and
crios " Off!" made the speaker for several mi..jut:„ i„_
audille.) At length, on the interference of tl,.e Bernour_
• ahle Chairman, lie vvos heard again, thoughwith most bois-
terous impatience. Were such people, 11F.: ,
asked fit for
liberty, or worthy of sympathy, while tly.:v rtdined f- , teen millions of men in bondage
a' slP:oar.)e Was theourre
no English sympathy for the strugglinn,
people of Germany,
Italy,: Switzerland, and France ?--?--(Great uproar.) Was
it not also true that the subscript ions raised in England. were appropriated by Prince CraVtoryski and an aristocra-
tic synod to the injury of tire really deserving Poles ?
(Hear, hear.) Mr.
.Beausmotat was proceeding in this
strain, until his voice was overwhelmed in a perfect hurri-
cane of hisses,
Mr. GORDON next addressed the meeting.
Major Bkmowsev, in a speech 'remarkable for correct
English, appealed to the sympathy of the people of Eng-
land, and said that by its operation liberty and justice would
be soon extended to the shores of the Baltic and the Black
and White Seas.--,(Cheers.)
Mr. TICHBOURNL' was sorry that the Polish refugees re-
sident in this country had received so little Government
support. All they got was an empty barrack and an al-
lowance, the highest rate of which was 15s. for a General.
M. NAPOLEON ZABBA, in a long and eloquent speech,
rebutted Mr. Beaumont s imputations. By the Constitu-
tion'
proclaimed in Poland 41..1791, time most extensive per-
sonal and commercial freedoin was conferred on Poles, and
coequally on foreigners.—(Hear, and cheers.)
Mr. BeaumoNT.-7Nes, but it was never enforced.--
(Great uproar and hisses, mingled with the most discod ant
outcries.)
M. ZABBA—No, because Russia, Austria., and Prussia,
would not allow it.--(Hear, hear.)
Dr. WADE moved the second resol'
that the meeting ation, to the effect
, deeply impressed with the sufferings of
their Polish brethren, desired to express the utmost sym-
PathY with them in their prese'at distressing situation. He
trusted the people of Engk'and would do something for the
Poles till the parliament met, and then they would meet .
again and make the government do something.—( Hear.)
Mr. SAUL seconded the resolution, and hoped that the
Press would, by its. 'valuable co-operation, assist in commu-
nie.sting their se'atiments to the interior of the country and
the Continent,.

The O.IAIRMAN said that the object of the meeting wa
not to collect pecuniary aid ; that was to be done in of
places.

Mr. FLOOD, as an Irishman, bed to assure the P
present of the deep interest his country felt in the we
of that brave people.
Thanks were then voted to the Gallant Chairman ,an
eleven o'clock the meeting separated.