The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-05 00:00:00

DRAMATIC INTELLIGENCE.

Some months ago we announced that Lady Boothby
was about to return to the stage, and we added that
she would re-adopt her name of Nisbett. Our asser"
tion was industriously contradicted at the time, but
we well knew our authority, and within the last week
it has been repeated in nearly all the daily papers of
London. Moreover, we mentioned the very theatre
of her reappearance, and we referred to an instance
in point—that of Lady Slingsby, in the reign of
Charles IL, the only lady of title that had figured on
the stage. She was the wife of a poor.baronet, and
acted during the life of her husband, and under her
husband's name. She retired in 1(i85. Lady Booth'
by's maiden name was Macnamara, but she came out
as Miss Mordaunt, and withdrew on her marri:age
with Captain Nisbett. Becoming early a widow, sire
was at one time about to be married to Mr. Feargus
O'Connor, but circumstances, into which we need not
enter, prevented that union. After continuing some
two or three years on the board,, she received
an offer from Sir W. Boothby, which she nc'
cepted, and, it was thought quitted the stage (t 0
which she was much and naturally attached, on
account of her eminent success) for ever. Sir 11(.'
Boothby dying, it was found that she was most in'
adequately provided for by his will ; and very soon
afterwards Lady Boothby gave out that she intended
to return to the stage. The project was for sotno
time opposed by Sir W. Boothby's family, and, If
we are not mistaken, terms were offered to Ladi
Boothby in order to induce her to forego it. NO
satisfactory arrangement having since been come to,
she determined to ccrry her intention into effect.
This, we apprehend, is the short history of the
matter, and we may congratulate the public on again
having the opportunity of seeing once more an
actress quite unequalled in her department. ller
re-appearance will form an era at the Haymarket,
especially in her charming character in " The
Love Chase," which she acted more than. 100 times
in its first season.

It is stated in the theatrical circles that the Keeler
have determined upon giving up the Lyceum, 111
consequence of the large addition of rent required
of them, and that Macready has made au offer for
the house. If this be so—and we have reason te,
think it is true—we shall again have tragedy O.°
comedy represented in the heart of the metropolis.
Whom Macready is to have to support him in the
female characters seems quite uncertain ; but her
friends say positively that it will not be Mrs. Butler.
We do not think they could pull together in the same
harness at all harmoniously and steadily, and neither
of them would like to be a secondary attraction. The
same objection would in some degree apply to 111'.8
Cushman, and we should be sorry to see Miss Addy
son (whose real name, by the way, is Wilmhurs9
withdrawn from the meritorious Phelps at Sadler
Wells.

The additional sum required as rent from the
Keeley's is understood to be 1,200/. a year; and a°
lessee seems to have no recollection of the manner
in which they came forward to rescue his horse from
its bad name. But for them it might have bee°
tenantless at this moment, and many deemed the er
periment most hazardous. Whither they will remote
is very questionable. Somewhere they must go, for
the town cannot, and will not, do v.ithout then:. The!
have proved themselves excellent managers, and have
realised considerably at the Lyceum, though of late
their houses have not been so good as formerly, wheel
they produced more frequent novelties. The Strap
Theatre seems the only one on this side of the water
that is just now open to them ; but it is as much too
small as Drury-lane is too large, If Buckstone
built his proposed new house in Leicester-square, I
might have suited the Keeleys exactly.

•
DEATH OF MR. LEMAN REDS
THE DRAMATIC AUTHOR AND COMEDIAN'
This gentleman, Mr. William Leman ReJe, 5,°
well known to the public as the writer of so many
successful dramatic pieces, and equally admired 05;
contributor to the weekly andmonthly literature °'
the day, expired, after a very brief illness, on Saturday
at ten in the morning, at his house, 32, Southatog;
ton-street, Strand. The immediate cause of-his
death was an attack of apoplexy, which struck
on his arrival at home on Thursday evening, and efts
thirty hours' suffering he quitted this mortal scene'
Unexpected as was the calamitous event, his health
had been seriously undermined for a considerabe
period. Three surgical operations were performed °n
him by Dr. Liston, which, with an attack of gout'
'
had completely broken up a once robust frame'
Mr. Rede was born in the year 1802, in the CltY.,
of Hamburgh. His father was Thomas Laos"
Rede, Esq., barrister-at-law, author of variel
works of merit. Two of them are, " The Laws °
England," and a translation of Pierre's " Anecdotel
of Eminent Characters." Mr. Rede's father dier,
when the subject of these lines was only eight Ye to
of age. His mother, with five children, came „de,
England and settled in London, where Mr.
continued to the period of his death, with the a:1
ception of the time spent in making some provinaW
tours during connexion with the stage as a performer.
It is scarcely possible to overrate the extent of his
varied knowledge; endowed with a prodigious
L'"
mory and extraordinary conversational powers,
was the admired associate of a large circle of friend!;
indeed, it may be truly said of him, that he rarely
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spoke but to instruct, and scarcely touched a subjecs
he did not adorn. His drama hie
years, compositions, for r
years, are very numerous, and the principal rai,
lessees, past and present, have greatly benefited I)/
his facile and graceful pen. " The Old and Young.
Stager," written to introduce Mr. Charles MathB'
to the stage of the Olympic Theatre in 18,31,°;
was acted eighty-four nights in succession. "
Affair of Honour," written to exhibit Liston $W
Keeley together, was equally successful. "The Love;
of the Angels" (Cupid in London), "Flight to
rice," "his First Champagne," "Frolics of the
Fairies," " Sixteen String Jack," "Jolly Dick, the
Lamplighter," "Jack in the 'Water," and " The Bake"
Progress" (the latter drama was acted an entire
season), are but a small portion of his dramatic
labours. He was also a large contributor to the Nee;
Monthly, Bentley's, and other magazines. As a vvrinten
of pieces des circonstanes he was most felicitous. v.;
the opening of the Strand Theatre with Rayner, 1-
1832, and on the return of John Reeve from Amerieli
Rede was applied to for his aid to introduce each Peru.
former to the audience. When Mr. W. J. Hamm°
became lessee and manager of the Strand, Mr.liede ,
called upon for a local ske..ch, which he supplied, under
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the title of " Cofw to Town ;" indeed the hapPie,e;
parts ever represented by Liston, John Reeve, Char
Mathews, Keeley, and G. Wild, were furnished 1,2
him. As a performer, he was chiefly known to tl'e
public from his ardent friendship for professors of t°e,
sock and buskin, by playing for every benefit that
his name and exertions could at all serve. 1101/
painful it is to state that, with the most commanding
talent in various departments of literature, his oWil
interest should have weighed as dust in the balance'
but such is the truth. In 1830 he was united t°
Miss Sarah Cooke, daughter of Mr. Cooke, bass
singer of Drury-lane Theatre, and cousin of Mrs'
Waylett and Mr. W. West. By his union with that
lady he has left a son ten years of age. Dr. Roberts
and Dr. Richards attended him most sedulously to
his last illness, but he never spoke during the thief
hours it lasted.

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BIRTHS.
On the Ist inst., the Lady Ashley, of a daughter.
On the 30th ult., at Highclere Parsonage, Hants, the Da
of the Rev. R. Macdonald Caunter, of a daughter.
On the Ist inst., in Grosvenor-street, Mrs. Charles Lewis of a daughter.
On the Ist inst., the lady of R. H. Terrell, Esq., of Med('
lenburgh-street, of a son.
On the 2d inst., in Hamilton-terrace, St. John's-wood, Mrs'
H. T. Wright, of a son.
On the 2d inst., in Hans-place, Mrs. Rose, of Glastullicilf
of a daughter.
On the 2d inst., at Southses, aE.
lady of Captain •
Fanshawe, R.N., of a son.
On the 2d inst., Mrs. Druitt, Curzon-street, of a son.
On the 2d inst., at Greenwich, Mrs. Thomas H. Thong'
son, of a ton.
On the 3d inst., in Chester-street, Belgrave-square, Mrs. 0°
Sampson, of a son.
On the 3d inst., the wife of W. Wood, Esq., of Bethlenl
llospital, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the IRh of February, at Trichinopolv, Captain
Whistler, Madras Artillery, Deputy Judge Advocate-Genera
of that army, to Helen Hamilton, eldest daughter of MAP',
John Fulton, of the Madras Army.

DIED.
At Warneford-place, Ilighworth, Wilts, the Hon. Eliza-
both Warneford, relict of the late Colonel Warneford.
On the 30th ult., at Bath, the Rev. William Penrice nor'
rett, rector of Siston, Gloucester.
On the 30th ult., at Glyn Garth, Anglesey, Charles llenrY'
the infant son of Ilugh Beaver, Esq.
On the 31st ult., at Selwood-terrace, Brompton, Mrs'
Elizlbeth Syers, relict of the late J. Syers, Esq. of
On the 31st ult., Ann; the wife of Isaac 4-therms.%
Finchley-common, Middlesex, Esq.
Oa the 31st ult., at the Close, Lichfield J: Ilarcrorth, EA'

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LoTion: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 13
strand, Printer, at The Bun Office, W 0.112, Strs nd, in the PreeMG
the Savoy, in the Comity of Middlesex, Monday, April 5 1847

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