The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

In consequence of the state of the weather, and the
storm that prevailed during Tuesday, the Ducheis of
Rent and the Princess Victoria stopped to dine and sleep
at Rochester, and arrived at Claremont yesterday, attended
by Lady Theresa Strangways, Baroness Lehzcn, and Sir
John Conroy.
At the Council at Brighton yesterday, it was expected
that Parliament would be further prorogued from the Bth
inst., and a proclamation issued summoning it to meet for
the despatch of public business.
Captain Bornhana, 15th Regiment, arrived in town yes-
terday, with despatches from Sir Francis Head, Lieutenant-
Governor of Upper Canada, for Lord Glenelg, Secretary
of State for the Colonial Department. Captain Bornharn
transacted business at the Colonial Office.

Captain Polley, Deputy Master of the Trinity House,
and Mr. Morrison, M.P., had interviews with Mr. Poulctt
Thomson yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Austrian Ambassador and his son, Prince Nicolas
Esterhazy, are staying at Pansanger, on a visit to the Earl
Countess Cowper.
At the Sitting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council: yesterday, the appeal " Meer Usd Oollah," also
called " Shah Chaman, v. Mussumat Beeby Imaman," from
Bengal, was resumed and concluded. Mr. Wigram was
heard for the appellant—Mr. Sergeant Spankie and Mr.
Lloyd for the respondent—Mr. Miller replied. Lord
Brougham then intimated that their Lordships would post-
pone giving judgment, and the Court adjourned. The
Lords present were—Lord Brougham, Sir J. Bernard Bo-
sanquct, Sir James Park, Hon. Thomas Erskine, Sir Alex-
ander Johnston, and Sir E. East.

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ARRIVALS.

Captain Jan Orde, in Cockspur-street, from the Mediter-
ranean; Major and and Mrs. Park, in Piccadilly, from Brus-
sels ; Colonel and Mrs. Graham, in Audley-street, from
Paris ; Captain and Mrs. Nelsen, in Duke-street, from the
Netherlands; Captain Edgar, in Charles-street, from the
West Indies ; Major and Mrs. West, in Piccadilly, from
Dublin ; Celonel and Mrs. Brooke, in Davies-street, Berke-
ley-square, from Paris ;Captain and Mrs. Matthew William-
son, in Dover-street, from Northumberland; J. Deacon, Esq.,
at the Berners Hotel, Berners-street, from his seat, Mabledon
Park, Kent ; H. Drummond, Esq., at ditto, from his seat,
Albury Park, Surrey; Captain Trowers and E. S. Trowers,
Esq., at ditto, from Chelmsbury ; Captain Stewart, at ditto,
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, at the Waterloo Hotel, from their seat
in Surrey ; Sir Thomas Gage, Bart., at ditto, from the North.

THEATRES.

Di`? URk-LAIVE:

Mr. Forrest al-Tented laat eirening, iii the character of
Macbeth, and in the performance t it full* sustained the
reputatiot.he has already obtained in the parts of Othdlo

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Lear. Mr. Forrest brings to the performance os
gpbtlre's Itcroc§arl bitettg,' zuvi tiptit; telliptjed itli a taste
anti jedgineut, wb rart4 ittany 0,10
venture tO tread the §tintb: There is;l3esid6s; reality in his
acting=ati actual identification of hithself With fhb Ehataefer
he impersonates—stronger than in any actor we have ever
seen. If this was remarkable in his performance of Othello
and Lean it is not less so in his performance of Macbeth.
From the first act to the last--4totti his flrPt interview with
the Weird Sisters, whose vague prophecy instils into his
mind that feeling of " vaulting ambition" which leads him to
the commission of so many crimes, to the last scene in
which lie finds his charms dissolved, and begins too
late to doubt " the equivocation of the fiend," he carried
the audience completely with him, and made them at
times wholly unmindful of the skill of the actor from the
interest excited in the actions of Macbeth. The soliloquy,
in what is commonly called the dagger-scene, was finely de-
livered, and wholly unaccompanied by any of those violent
starts which we have been in the habit of seeing. The
" air-drawn dagger" comes slowly upon his vision, and ex-
cites no intensity of horror till it is seen marshalling him
the way that he was going, and clotted on " blade and
dudgeon" with gouts of .blood. Here the expression of
horror was admirable, but not more striking than the sud-
den recovery of self-possession when the vision fades, and
lie exclaims, " There's no such thing." The scene with
Lady Macbeth, alter the murder, was, perhaps, the finest
in the whole performance, and it would indeed be difficult
to conceive a finer piece of acting. As he enters the hall with
the bloody daggers in his hand, he continues to gaze behind
him, and thus approaches to where Lady Macbeth is standing
without being aware of her presence. She stays him by the
arm, and he starts with terror in a manner that positively
electrified the house. We have not seen this done before :
the effect was one of the most forcible we have ever seen
produced upon the stage, and it was acknowledged by se-
veral distinct rounds of applause. In the banquet scene,
in the scene with the witches in the fourth act, and again
throughout the whole of the fifth act, where one by one he
finds his charms dissolve, until at last, wholly unmanned, he
would rather fly than fight, Mr. Forrest sustained the part
with extraordinary vigour. In the last act, indeed, the
effort to be brave, the assumption of ,a courage not felt, was
very powerfully pourtrayed, and the burst of passion when
he is told that Birnam wood moved towards Dunsinane,
was almost electrical. But it is needless to point out par-
ticular passages where all was excellent. It is enough to
say that Mr. Forrest's performance of Macbeth was in no
way inferior to that of any of the other characters in which
he has appeared in this country. We must not omit, how-
ever, to mention a singular and bad reading of a passage in
the first act, which we are surprised a gentleman of Mr. For-
rest's usually correct taste should have adopted. It is at the
commencement of the soliloquy beginning with the words
" If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It wero done quickly : If the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence," &c.
In the usual reading of this passage, the pause is made at
the word " quickly ;" but Mr. Forrest made a full stop at
the end of the first line, thus—
" If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well ;"
commencing a new sentence with the next line, and running
it together in this way—
" It were done quickly if the assassination could trammel
up the consequence," &c.
We cannot think this the right reading. Miss Huddart
appeared as Lady Macbeth, but was not equal to the
part ; her acting—avoiding all comparisons whatever—
was highly creditable to the young lady. Mr. Cooper
and Mr. Warde were the Banquo and Macduff of the
evening, and both of them played with their usual abi-
lity. A new feature was given to the play, from the whole
of the vocal strength of the establishment being thrown
into the chorusses, and the effect produced by this ar-
rangements was such as to make us hope for its continu-
ance. There is a charm in these compositions•which always
makes them popular, however feebly or imperfectly they
may be executed ; but when they fall into the hands of such
singers as Messrs. Balfc, Templeton, Wilson, Giubelei,
Anderson, Bedford, Duruset, and Mesdames Shirreff,
Romer, Poole, Forde, Taylor, Jones, and Humby, assisted
by a double chorus and an enlarged band, they assume a
character and importance little inferior to the most stirring
scenes in the play. At the fall of the curtain Mr. For-
rest was loudly called, for, and in obedience to the call he
came forward and walked across the stage. The play was
announced for repetition on Friday next, amidst the loudest
acclamations.