The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-18 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

The second amateur performance for the benefit of
the Shakspere House Fund took place last night.
The theatre was exceedingly well attended—far better
than on Monday. It is needless to enter into details
respecting the Every Man in his Humour, as the cast
is tor the most part the same by which so much éclat.
was gained at Miss Kelly's and the St. James's. The
substitutio❑ of Mr. Augustus Egg for Mr. Douglas
Jerrold, in the part of Master Stephen, is, indeed,
the only alteration of importance.
The following then was the cast :
Knowell, an old gentleman, Mr. Dudley Costello.
Edward ICuowell, his son, Mr„ Frederick Dickens.
Brainworm, the father's man, Mr. Mark Lemon.
George Downright, a plain squire, Mr. Frank Stone.
Wellbred, his half brother, Mr. G. H. Lewei.
Kitely, a merchant, Mr. John Forster.
Captain Bobadil, a Paul's man, Mr. Charles Dickens.
Master Stephen, a country gull, Mr. Augustus Egg.
Master Mathew, the town gull, Mr. John Leech.
- Thomas Cash, KitQly's cashier, Mr. Augustus Dickens.
Oliver Cob, a water• bearer, Mr. George Cruikshank.
Justice Clement, an old merry magistrate, Mr. Will.
mott.

Boger Formal, his clerk,. Mr. Eaton.
Dame Kitely, Kitely's wife, Miss Fortescue.
Mistress Bridge:, his sister, Miss Kenworth,y.
Tib, Cub's wite, Mrs. Cowden Clarke.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Last evening a drama in five acts, entitled the Lords
of Ellingham, was performed for the first time at this
theatre. The author, Mr. Spicer, is already known
to the theatrical world tip, his plays Honesty and
Judge Jeffreys, which :Leyillenced the possession of
considerable fancy and`ranlity on the part of their
author, and met with fair success. The Lords of
Ellingham, though one of the last enacted, appears to
be one of the earliest written of this gentleman's
plays. The mainspring of the action is a dark spirit
of vindictiveness harboured in the bosom of the prin-
cipal character, Lawrency (Mr. G. V. Brooke),
against his cousin Dudley Latymer (Mr. Davenport),
which moves him_tot.4 most direful deeds of perse-
cution. The origin of this hateful feeling is than
explained in his concluding address at the end of the
drama :

" With all the serpent passion of man's soul,
I hate thee, Latymer! From infancy—
From merry childhood—hate thee! Thou halt been
The shadow on my path—cloud of my air,
That shut out heaven—the reptile on whose scales
I trod, and slipped. Ev'n from that earliest time
When, sporting in the woods, I plucked a rose,
The queen• flower of the fields, for Edith's hair,
And you—the stronger—tore the coveted prize
Away, and bade me seek if all the woods
Held such another:—from that hour thou halt
Forestalled me ever. Who was't taught me sin?
Who, hate?—Who, jealousy? Whose influence drove
My tortured heart to wild and reckless ways,
That rooted me from out thy father's love,
And set my bark afloat in life's wide sea
With scarce a sail? Who took my promised bride—
My beautiful—whose fair possessions might
Have given the outcast beggar wealth and home?
Why, thou—and thou—and thou !"
The author hinges the story of this hateful and un-
happy character upon an event known as the " Ra-
leigh Conspiracy," A.D. 1603 ; the object of which
was the advancement to the throne of Lady Ara-
bells Stuart (cousin•german of Jame!) and in
which the name of one Lawrency, or La
Renzz is mentioned. The plot iialsther too
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comesthe day. Lawrency poisons
Latymer in a cup of w nIT rand is himself poisoned
by Marion (Miss Marie l
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he has seduced), a Young girt of low
and refused to marry.
Besides these three deaths,
Vivian, the friend of ; there is that of Walter
run through the body upona Latymer :tar (Mb r. Holl), who is
the Lawrency,
and several others engaged in thegceor
put to death off the stage with cruel
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de-
scribed with terrible vigour by Mr. Brooke. Thereare many effective situations in the eourse of the
play, and some good passages in the language.
But upon the whole it went off very heavily
until the last act, when the introduction of the
corpse of Edith on a bier, and the death-scenes
of Latymer and Lawrency in presence of it,
was a daring novelty, which, wrought up as it was by
the fullest powers of lungs of Messrs. Brooke and
Davenport, who seemed determined to outroar one
another, caused what the French call " a sensation."
Mrs. Mowatt's—though given somewhat to whining
and an exaggerated style of action—was, upon the
whole, an effective performance. Mr. Brooke had a
part which seemed to fit him very well, a regular
out-and- out stage villain, and he gave it in the darkest
possible colours. Mr. E. Stirling made a good pic-
ture of the part of one. Hugh Kensell, a gaoler and
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headsman, the father of the betrayed Edith, who her-
self found a pleasing and interesting representative in
Miss Marie Duret. The play requires curtailing. It
was not over till near eleven o'clock. It was, how-
ever, listened to with attention, and at the fall of the
curtain the applause was loud and unanimous. The
principal performers were called for, and afterwards
the author, who bowed in return for the compliment
from a private box.

MR. WILSON'S RETURN TO THE

MUSIC-HALL.

On Monday evening, Mr. Wilson gave the first of a
series of six entertainments, to :be given on each suc-
ceeding Monday, and his selection of songs was such as
to call forth the warmest admiration on the part of his
audience,
i among whom there were many persons distin-
guished n music and literature. Mr. Wilson was in
splendid voice, and gave all his songs with even more
than his wonted fire and clever delineation of their
various characteristics. " Lord Ullin's Daughter,"
among the pathetic ones, called forth the warmest sym-
pathies of the audience, while the humonrous way in
which he placed before his audience the graphic scene
of " The barring of the door," and others of a similar
cast, proved that he could sway the feelings in whatever
way he chose. As a specimen of fine melody and de-
lightfnl singing, Sir Walter Scott's beautiful serenade
from the Pirate, " Love wakei and weeps," was very
much admired. It is an elegant composition,
and cannot ' fail to become a great favourite.
We never heard a more elegant song. Mr. Wilson
sang with great effect, and by desire, for it
was not in the programme, Sir Walter Scott's beautiful
song of " The heath, this night must be my bed." The
fine ballad of " Young Lochinvar" produced a hearty
encore, and Burns's famous song of " Does haughty
Gaul iavasion threat ?" was received by the whole
audience with the most heart-stirring loyalty ; in fact,
their enthusiasm was unbounded at the last stanza,
which says—
" Wha will not sing God save the Queen'
Shall hang as high's the steeple ;
But while we sing • God save the Queen,'
We'll ne'er forget the people"—
for many stood up, cheered, and waved their handker-
chiefs, and insisted en its being encored. At the end
Mr. Wilson announced for next Monday his elegant
entertainment on the songs in '• The Lady of the Lake,"
which, from the warmth with which it has been
already received, cannot fail to be highly attractive.
Mr. Wilson still continues to prove himself the great
original, and the only one who can keep the audience
alive, for not one person moved till all was over. Mr.
Jolley accompanies Mr. Wilson beautifully, and with a
just appreciation of the poetry as well as the music.

HER MAJESTY'S TREATRE.—Her Majesty the
Queen Adelaide honoured the performances at her
Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday evening with her pre-
sence. Accompanying her Majesty were her Royal
Highness the Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar;and the
Princesses Mary and Amelia. The royal suite included
the Viscountess Barrington, the Hon. Miss Wheatly,
and Earl Howe. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Lord Jones
Murray, and Sir George Couper, also honoured the
theatre with their presence. We also observed his Grace
the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Mon-
trose, the Duke of Cleveland, the Duke of Devonshire,
the Duke and Duchess of Leinster and Lady Jane Fitz-
gerald, Prince Louis Napoleon, the Prince Lowenstein,
his Excellency the Russian Minister, his Excellency the
Minister,
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Baroness his Excellency the Sardinian
3'linister' de Brunnow and Mademoiselle
Clanricarde,
Olga de Lechner, his Excellency the Swedish Minister,
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Koudriaffsky, the Viscount Clifden, the Viscount Ra-
nelagh, Viscount Enfield, Viscount Dillon, Viscount
Somerton, Lord A. Fitzclarence, Lord Eardley, Lord
and Lady Aylmer, Lord Ernest Bruce, Baron. Nicolay,
Lady Anstruther, Lady Morgan, Lord and Lady Sefton,
Lord Elphinstone, the Hon. R. Curzon, the Hon. Mr.
Leslie, General D'Aguilar, the Hon. H. Cavendish, Sir
Augustus Clifford, Bart.' Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Sir
W. Clay, Sir George Wombwell, Sir Henry Wil-
loughby, Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Woodford,
Lady and the Misses Woodford, Mr. Stuart, M.P.,
Lady Clay, Lady Bailey, Lady Saltoun, Lady Armi-

tage,
FRENCH PLAYS, ►ST. J.s.mrs's TnIATJE.—Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady
Augusta Bruce and Lord James Murray, honoured this
theatre with her presence last evening. Their Serene
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Weimar, the
Princess Amele, the Princess Adelaide, and Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar also honoured the theatre with
their presence.
SUICIDE FROM TUE LOSS OF A WIFE.—An in-
quest was held yesterday at the White Horse, Castle-
street, Golden-square, before Mr. Bedford, on the body
of Robert Griffiths, aged 35, a painter, of No. 2 in the
above street. It appeared that the deceased had recently
fretted much for the loss of his wife, who died a short
titne ago ; and it was evident that his mind was dis.
ordered, for he frequently said that he met her on the
stairs. On Tuesday last his landlord recollected that
he had not seen him for several days, and on entering
his room found him hanging to the water-pipe. He had
been in that position for a week. Verdict—"Terapors
,•insanity."