The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-16 00:00:00

MON DAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1

' THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
The Haymarket Theatre, which opened for the
season on Saturday night, certainly required re-deco-
ration, and with Mr. Webster's usual enterprise and
liberality he appears to have determined to do it
effectually, for which purpose he availed himself of
the wel• known talents and artistic skill of Mr. Sang,
who has now worked so long among us as to have be-
come one of us, and nobly he has fulfilled his under-
taking in this case, for he has produced at the same
time or:e of the richest end most elegant interiors that
has ever been combined in this metropolis ; and under
the superintendence of Mr. C. Manby the general
alterations and improvements of the theatre are as
complete and effective as those at the Adelphi, which
emanated from the same source.
The entrance has been generally improved, and it
is intended to erect an internal porch to keep out the
wind, and to convert the present hall into a crush
room. The lobbies are all of a fresh cool green
colour, with crimson lines round the doors. Backs
have been added to all the seats in the circle ; the
ugly square columns which formerly impeded the
view from the corner boxes are replaced by elegant
palm tree stems of white and gold. The hand rests
on all the tiers are amber and crimson satin. The
furniture of the dress circle is cerise and straw cos
loured damask, and that of the stalls, pit, and upper
circles a rich crimson damask, according with the
flock paper of the private boxes, which have rich crim-
son damask curtains and fringe.
The centre chandelier and those round the circle
have been improved by additional glass drop, and we
were glad to perceive by the gilded network in the
centre of the ceiling that increased ventilation had
been attended to.
The general tone of the house is cream colour and
gold. The ceiling and the proscenium alone aspire
to high artistic decoration. The ceiling forms a coup
d'ceil surprising and beautiful by its elegant outline,
its brilliant colouring, and the original distribution of
the architectural part. The pervading tint is an
aerial blue, gracefully intermingled with gold, and
ornamental and figurative painting.
In the spandrils of the four corners are depicted
the Seasons, with their architectural accompaniments
beautifully studied, and in tone of colouring only to
be surpassed by the group of Tragedy and Comedy
in the centre of the proscenium, which emulates some
of the best works of the old masters. The inner
proscenium contains the royal arms branching off into
arabesques and groups of figures, flowers, and birds,
managed in a most masterly style. The hideous
columns which formerly encumbered the proscenium,
and circumscribed the space on the stage, have been
removed, and are replaced by well proportioned
pilasters, which are decorated with a running pattern
of the Indian cane with its graceful falling leaves en-
twined with bright flowers. The fronts of the pro-
scenium boxes present a rich and refined effect,
glittering with gold and arabesques, containing the
royal arms and the Prince's plume.
The only gap we perceived was the royal box,
which as yet is not decorated at Wall. The reason of
this is, we understand, because it is not Mr. Webster's
property, but remains is the hands of the proprietress,
who reaps the benefit of the royal visits, and who,
when so much appears to have been done by her
liberal tenant, ought not, in our opinion, to evince
such want of loyalty and taste as to permit the royal
box to be the only blot in so fair a building.
The new drop painted by Mr. P. Phillips evinces
much of that poetic feeling and artistic repose, for
which English landscape and scene painters receive
such general and merited praise. The centre repre-
sents the church at Stratford, where rest the ashes of
our immortal bard, and as a landscape has a chaste
and mellow effect. It forms the centre of a rich
screen of the best period of the renaissance architec-
ture, surmounted by a bust of Shakspere, and
flanked on either hand by two beautiful groups of
Tragedy and Comedy. The former is from the well-
known engraving of Mrs. Siddons, and the latter is
an original composition fully equal to it. In these as in
the architectural portion of the drop we fancied that we
could detect the pure taste and facile pencil
of Lewis Haghe, which alone is a guarantee for the
excellence of the production. Two minor compart-
ments contain views of the Globe Theatre and of
Shakspere's house, and the whole is surrounded by
an arabesque border upon tapestry. We never re-
member to have seen a drop that generally pleased us
so well, or that so perfectly harmonised with the in-
terior decorations of the house, and were glad to see
this system followed, which has been recently so suc-
cessfully adopted at the Adelphi. Altogether, this is
perhaps the most successful of Mr. Phillips's produc-
tions, and he must paint well now to keep up his
ordinary scenery to the level of this artistic work.
Tt.e company engaged is a strong one, and from its
composition it is evident that it is not the intention
of Mr. Webster to pay such exclusive attention to
comedy as has hitherto been his wont, but that we
are occasionally to be indulged in the representation
of tragedy also at this, the only legitimate theatre now
devoted to the representation of the legitimate drama.
The company will comprise the following distin-
guished artiets :
Mr. Charles Kean and Mrs. Charles Kean (late Miss
Ellen Tree), Miss Laura Addison (her first appearance
at this theatre), Mr. James Wallack (his first appearance
these five years), Mr. Webster, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Cres-
wick, Mr. Hudson, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. H. Holl, Mr.
Tilbury, Mr. Howe, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. James
Bland, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Brindal, Mr. Clark, Mr. Braid,
Mr. Caulfield, Mr. Coe, &c., &c., &c.; Mrs. Glover,
Mrs. Keeley, Miss Julia Bennett, Miss I'. Horton, Miss
Reynolds, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Mrs. L. S.
Buckingham, Mrs. Stanley, Miss E. Messent, Mrs. A.
Wigan Mrs. Caulfield, Miss Woulds, Miss E. Woulds,
Mrs. doe, &c., &c.
All honour to Mr. Webster for having engaged
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, not as stars, but as
members of the general company, and ;all honour to
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean for having so engaged
themselves. This is the first decisive blOw that has
been struck at the abominable star system which has
been the bane and the destruction of the drama, and
the grateful thanks of every playgoer who likes to see
a good play well performed as a whole are due to Mr.
Webster for his conduct in this matter.
The play chosen for the opening was Romeo and
Juliet, with the following cast :
Prince Escalus... ... Mr. Caulfield.
Paris, Mr. 11. Vandenhoff ... Montague, Mr. Gough.
Capulet ... Mr. James Bland.
Romeo ... Mr. Creswiek.
Mercutio ... Mr. H. Roll.
Ty bait ... Mr. Howe.
Benvolio... Mr. Braid.
Friar Lawrence ... Mr. Rogers.
Friar John ... ... Mr. Seater.
Peter .-- ... Mr. Keeley.
... Mr. Brindal.
••• ••• Mr. Clark.
••• ••• Miss Laura Addison.
(Her first appearance at this Theatre).
Lady Capulet Mrs. Stanley.
Lady Montague ... Miss Brooks.
Nurse ... ... Mrs. Glover.
The great novelty of the evening was the first ap-
pearance of Miss Laura Addison at this theatre in
the character of Juliet. She had acquired a very
high reputation at Sadler's Wells for her imperso-
nation of the heroines of Shakspere, and that reputa-
tion she will, we doubt not, judging from her per-
formance of Saturday, more than sustain at the Hay-
market. She has a sweet and expressive voice (an
exquisite thing in woman), an admirable stage figure,
features full of expression, and an intensity, a power.
and an earnestness in all she does that exactly fit het
for distinction in the high path she has chosen ; she
has not only the intellect to conceive, but the power
and the will to embody the characters of Shakspere.
Never was there, for example, a greater instanceof
will triumphing over all obstacles than was ex-
hibited by Miss Laura Addison on Saturday
night. From the moment of her appearance
it was evident that she was not only suffering most
painfully from intense nervousness, but that she was
also labouring under physical indisposition, against
which she was struggling courageously. In the
balcony scene it was evident that the physical indis-
psition was mastering the strong will, and she
fainted—the curtain fell, but in a few minutes again
rose—the stout will defeated for an instant had con-
quered, and she went through the remainder of the
play triumphantly. Her powers seemed to rise witi:
the occasion —in the third act, the feeble, timid
girl of the balcony scene, had become
the intensely impassioned woman. The whole
of the third and fourth acts were given
with a degree of impassioned power which corn-
pletely embodied the conception of Shakspere.
The soliloquy over the poison was magnificently given.
Since the days of O'Neil that soliloquy has never been
so admirably rendered as it was on Saturday. At
the conclusion of the play Miss Laura Addison was
called for and led on by Mr. Creswick, who as
Romeo had affbrded her most efficient support
throughout the piece, and received the enthusiastic
congratulations of the audience. Of the Nurse of
Mrs. Glover how shall we speak in terms of sufficient
eulogy 2 It,is faultless, and the intense pathos which
she infuses into the part when she discovers Juliet's
death is the finest and most artistical piece of acting
on
ping the
tone stage. the
gradual change from the gossip-
theold nurse to the strong agony of the
broken-hearted woman was so exquisitely given on
Saturday that it took the audience quite aback,
convulsive sobs were heard in many parts of the
house, and at the conclusion Mrs. Glover received
three distinct rounds of the heartiest and most richly
deserved applause that ever enraptured audience be-
stowed. Mr. Rogers's Lawrence was a careful piece
of acting. Keeley's Peter was as quaint as ever, and
Howe's Tybalt was excellent. At the conclusion,
" God save the Queen" was sung by the company,
and the performance concluded with the farce of The
Pus de Fascination, in which the clever Keeleys kept
the audience in a roar.
(From the Times.)
This house opened on Saturday, shining with all the
splendour of renovation. It is scarcely a fortnight since
the Adelphi company quitted it, a worn out dirty-look.

Samson ...
Apothecary
Juliet

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ing edifice, and now, thanks to the exertions of Mr.
Charles Ma: by (also the good genius of the Adelphi), it
is completely new In m top to bottom. The home
opened with Romeo and Juliet, in vs Meta the principal
feature was the appearance of Miss Laura Addison;
as the heroine. This young lady had gained con-
siderable reputation by her performance at Sad-
ler's Wells, during two successive seasons, but she
was so extremely nervous at acting before a West-end
audience, that she cannot, as yet, he said to have given
them a real specimen of her powers. In the middle
of the balcony-scene she fainted, and the curtain was
suddenly let down. On her recovery, which took place
in the course of a few minutes, it was again raised for
th© continuance of the lavers' interview, and she acted
to the end of the play without other interruption. 'The
best point she made was in the bedchamber scene, and
here she produced a favourable impression on her
audience. Miss Addison has a great deal of profes-
sional zeal, but there are two faults which she should
especially mend, and which we mention here because
they cannot be attributed to tho nervousness of Satur-
day. One is a certain peculiarity of tone, which has a
monotonous effect; the other is a tendency to make
every word too isolated. This has doubtless arisen from
a laudable attempt at high elaboration, but its result is
a redundancy of emphasis. The Romeo of Mr. Creswick
is not without intelligence, while the Mercutio of Mr.
Hull is more lively than finished. Mrs. Glover's Nurse
was the gem of the whole tragedy, and her burst of
grief at the supposed death of Juliet was one of those
bits of strong genuine acting which are only to be found
among the well-trained representatives of the old school.
Mr. Keeley, by his humorous impersonation of Peter,
gave prominence to that part. The marked applause
which was bestowed on Mrs. Glover and Mr. Keeley on
their first entrance should be noticed as a well-merited
and distinguishing mark of respect to two genuine artists
and established favourites. A word in praise of Mr.
Rogers, whose Friar Lawrence was carefully read and
excellently made up. Mr. Rogers has generally played
subordinate characters; but all that he has done has
been marked by that real histrionic feeling which is
every day becoming more rare in the profession. At
the conclusion of the tragedy Miss Addison was called,
and was led on by Mr. Creswick. Mr. Webster ap-
peared as the central figure in his company when the
National Anthem was sung. Mrs. Keeley was as wel-
come as ever in the Pas dc Fascination, and her Cachuca
with Mr. Tilbury gained an unanimous encore.
(Frosts the Chronicle.)
On Saturday evening this theatre opened for the
season with Romeo and Juliet, and the farce of the Pas
de Fascination. On this occasion Shakspere's muse
introduced to the footlights of a west-end theatre a
rising aspirant for Thespian fame, who heretofore has
acquired some reputation among the denizens of that
far-north locality the dramatic capital of which is known
as Sadler's Wells, or " The Wells." The performance
of Saturday evening, upon the whole, was an interesting
one, and creditable to the establishment. Miss Laura
Addison enacted the part of the loving, hapless Juliet
with great intensity of passion ; but she showed more of
the impulse of native fervour than of deep and mature
study of the Juliet of Shakespere's creation. Tho scene
where she drinks the sleeping draught was, upon the
whole, her beat ; the terrible subject was prominently
in her mind, and she forgot her affected style—for that
is the term to give it—forgot herself, and thought only
of her author. In the last act also (which, by the way,
was very properly given according to the text of Shaks-
pere) she acted with great truthfulness and genuine
feeling. Miss Addison suffered considerably from ner-
vousness in her earlier scenes, but recovered herself-pos-
session as the play proceeded. She was warmly ap-
plauded in many of her scenes, and called for with
acclamation at tho fall of the curtain. Mr. Creswick
did the part of Rumeo carefully, but not very passionately,
affording, in this respect, a marked contrast to his young
lady love. his nbite dress in the earlier scenes was
not becoming. Mr. lloll's Mercu io was an unpretend-
ing performance, and therefore calls fur no particular
remark. For the rest of the cast, it was in many re-
spects admirable. Mrs. Glover is the Queen of Nurses;
her acting throughout was marked with careful study,
and exquisite finish. The scene where she discovers the
supposed dead b.Nly of her young mistress was the per-
fection of natural feeling. Keeley's Peter has well been
known as an inimitable morceau of its kind. Mr. Rogers
did the part of Friar Lawrence with great care and
scrupulous exactness. lie was rather hard withal, par-
ticularly in his speech discoursing upon the merits of
the herbs in his basket, which gives opportunity for a
display of elocution of the very highest order. The
play generally was extremely well mounted, many of
the scenes being new for the occasion. After the tragedy
the National Anthem was sung, Mr. Webster appearing
in the front, in the midst of his " little Haymarket "
family.

(From the Post.)
The season commenced on Saturday night with Shak-
pere's tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, restored, in all its
material respects, to its original form, the alteration of
the last scene by Garrick, and its melo-dramatic effects,
with other absurdities and impertinences, being very judi-
ciously cast aside. The special novelty of the night was
the first appearance of Miss Laura Addison, who had
earned considerable celebrity at Sadler's Wells in the
part of Juliet. The material which the histrionic pro-
fession affords for tragedy is net extensive. It presents,
in the whole, but few names, and of those none are asso-
ciated is the public mind with achievements of high
and undoubted success. Mr. Webster has, there-
fore, to find out the successors to Kemble, to
Kean, to Garrick, and to Siddons. In this
task, difficult in its nature, and not sudden in its accom-
plishment, it is for the public at once to sympathise
and to assist. The effort is noble, and worthy of all
praise. May the triumph be complete! That Miss
Laura Addison possesses genius there are few, we
think, will gainsay. She manifestly thinks for her-
self, and eschews the old conventional stamps of the
character. There was, throughout the portraiture, in-
tellectuality and a deep study of the various
phases of the emotions and passions evolved by
chet.palsing incidents. There is also intensity and ab-
stpttion—qualities potent in securing the half-belief so
vital to the dramatic illusion. But to countervail
these great means, there is so great elaboration, that
Much of the potency of the deep passion and spirit of
the golden poesy is lost in the process. Of the design
of the new Juliet it is impossible to speak in terms of too
high praise. In parts of the execution there were points
which justice equally to the artist and to the public re-
quires to be noticed. There was one manifest evil which
marred, especially in the earlier part of the play, many of
the effects, This was either an excess of nervous timidity,
not unnatural nor even undesirable on a first appearance,
or the oppression of considerable indisposition. Under
this Miss Addison's strength failed her in the balcony
scene ; she seemed to struggle heroically with some
strong attack, but the enemy prevailed, and she sunk
down in a swoon. The curtain fell, but in a few minutes
rose again, and the aot was finished with apparent con-
straint or feebleness. In the next act, however, Miss
Addison seemed to recover her powers, and in the im-
passioned scenes which followed, particularly that in
which she learns the fate of her lover and her cousin, and
in the great soliloquy over the fatal potion, she rose to a
grandeur which it was delightful to rewelcomo to the
English stage. The whole of this soliloquy, and the words
"I will do it," in the interview with the Friar, were given
with energy, and yet with " temperance which doth
give it smoothness," which Shakspere tells us is the
actor's perfection. Mrs. Glover's Nurse is one of the
most faultless dramatic pictures which an enraptured
audience ever contemplated, and never was it given with
more perfection of let ling and spirit than on Saturday
night. It is of itself a refreshing memorial of the best
days of the stage. Next to this was unquestionably the
Friar of Mr. Rogers, a gentleman of consummate talent
and taste—Mr. Keeley's Peter—and Mr. Llowe's Tybalt.
Miss Addison was recalled before the curtain, and
saluted with loud applause. The National Anthem was
then sung by the entire company. The farce called the
Pas de Fascination followed, and received its usual hearty
welcome.

The application for a divorce in the Philadelphia
Courts, by Mr. Pierce Butler, against his wife, Fanny
Kemble Butler, is cn the ground that she has deserted
him tor two years, having been abroad for that time in
Europe. Mrs. Butler resists the application, and as a
large tbrtutte is depending on the question, whether
Lhe wife shall have her legal portion or be cut off' by a
divorce, the case will be ono of interest. Mrs. Fanny
Kemble Butler is among the visitors at the Revere
[louse, Boston. She will soon reappear, it is said, on
:he boards of the Park Theatre, New Yolk.—llloritreal
Pilot.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—OR Satur-
day, in the Bloomsbury County Court, an action was
brought by Ann Elliott, the daughter of a laundress re-
siding in Hart street, Chelsea, against a person to re-
cover the sum of 201. as a compensation for a breach of
promise of marriage, the circumstances of the plaintiff
not being adequate to the expense of entering an action
in a superior court. It appeared from the evidence that
the deendant, who was a solicitor residing in Randolph-
terrace, Caniden-town, was one afternoon, during the
summer of 1835, walking through the Lowther-arcade,
when he accosted the plaintiff, to whom, alter a little
conversation, he made a proposal of marriage, and of-
fered to allow her 251. per annum as pin-money. A re-
sult very common to this kind of courtship followed,
and ultimately the defendant refused to perform his
promise, and was united to another. His Honour having
fully entered into the evidence of the case, the hearing
of which occupied several hours, allowed the plaintiff the
full amount claimed, with cost, at the same time ex-
pressing regret that a person bred to the profession of a
gentleman should have taken so mean an advantage of
the plaintiff.

PREVENTION OF FIRE IN HOUSE-BUILDING.—
A correspondent of the Builder says :—" I have to pro-
pose that, in the erection of dwelling-houses, no open
timber floors, ceilings or partitions, be admitted, as it is
well known that fire without draft to assist it, is not a
dangerously destructive element, but that, with this ally,
there is no limit to the range of its greedy and devour-
ing appetite. I would therefore insist that all internal
partitions be composed either entirely of brickwork, or of
brick Dogging or pugging; that the floors, if not com-
posed entirely of fire-proof materials, should in like
manner, be filled in solid with some incombustible ma-
terials; and that the stairs, if not of stone (which they
might be without any great increase of expense), should
be (that is the steps and risers) fixed upon some solid
and almost wholly incombustible material, the construc-
tio❑ of which might follow that adapted for the floors.
SPOT ON TUE SUN.—The large spot on the sun
which attracted attention about a fortnight since is again
brought into view by the rotation of the sun on its axis,
and was observed on the 13th of October as a fine dark
line upon the extreme edge of the sun's disk, towards the
south-east. The spot is likely to be visible till about
the 26th of this month, and will probably appear again
so large as to be visible without a telescope, about the
17th, for several days.

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LITERATURE. t
TILE ZOIST : a Journal of CerebialeysicAyy_ ana
Mesmerism.
At length mesmerism has been submitted to the
caperignentum crucis, and has not been found wanting.
It has cured an organic disease which *,4 Aitrcito
always been considered incurable. It .hh4`etfreti
cancer. The case of cure of a true cancer of the
female breast with mesmerism, by Dr. Elliotson,
which appears in this number' of the Zoist, is one
of the most
of
important papers ever published in
the
medical science, demonstrating as it
does that the curative powers of mesmerism exceed
those of any other therapeutic agent with
mankind has as yet become acquainted. "Thh which
echs-
ease cured was," says Dr. Elliotson, " malignant
and structural, and such as the art of medicine has
never been known to cure, nor the powers of
nature to shake off." The patient, Miss Barber,
is a dress-maker, residing at present at
No. 12, New-street, Dorset-square. She first applied
to Dr. Elliotson, on the Gth March, 1843, and at that
time was labouring under decided cancer in a state of
schirrus. Dr. Elliotson proposed mesmerism to her,
with a view of rendering her insensible to the pain of
the surgical operation for the removal of the part,
and accordingly she placed herself under his
care, she being unacquainted at the time with the
nature of her disease. After she had been some
time under the care of Dr. Elliotson, she was
induced to consult Mr. Brown, surgeon, of the
Edgware-road, who pronounced it to be cancer, she
then consulted Mr. Powell, surgeon, of Great Coram-
street, who gave a similar opinion, and concluded by
recommending an immediate operation. Dr. Elliot-
son was at this time out of town. Mr. Powell took
her to Mr. Samuel Cooper, the professor of surgery
at University College, and the most learned surgeon in
this or any other country. "Poor thing," said Mr.
Cooper, "if she wishes to wait for Dr. Elliotson's return
she may, but it must be cut away then." She did await
Dr. Elliston's return, who found that during his absence
she had not been mesmerised as much as he could
wish, and who again took her in hand himself, and
produced a state of sleep-waking, and by the constant,
and assiduous, and scientific application of mesmerism,
for upwards of five years, succeeded in dissipating
painlessly and imperceptibly, but perfectly and com-
pletely, the diseased mass, thus for the first time, in the
history of the medical profession, curing cancer. There
can be no mistake as to the nature of the disease, for
Dr. Ashburner, Dr. Engledue, Mr. Symes, Mr.
Hands, Mr. Powell, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Samuel
Cooper, all certify to the nature of the disease and
the present state of the patient. The three latter
gentlemen are not mesmerists, and Mr. Samuel
Cooper, it is believed, has never seen a mesmeric
phenomenon. The following observations, with
which Dr. Elliotson concludes his narrative of this
case, may, perhaps, in some measure, account for the
failure of the earlier mesmerists, and for the desue-
tude into which the practice of mesmerism fell soon
after its first discovery.
" This case proves the necessity of perseverance in
mesmerising. Five years and upwards was Miss Barber
mesmerised, and for the greater part of the period three
times a day: remaining in the happy trance some hours
each time, and the part being locally mesmerised in her
morning and evening mesmeric sleep, which took place
in bed; and in the night the mesmeric passed into the

natural sleep. Most patients and some mesmerists have
no idea of the necessity of perseverance. I have no
patience with half tho people who make a trial of mes•
merism, expecting it to act as though its powers were
miraculous and not natural. They almost deserve to
suffer on, _ _ _

For miracles arc ceased,
And therefore we must needs admit the means,
now things are perfected.'
Abp. Canterbury, Henry V., Act. i. Sc. ii.
But I know mesmerists who give up a case if there is not
improvement or some sensible effect after a mcsmerisa-
tion of a quarter of an hour for a few days: and who
also mesmerise far too many persons. Greatrakes and
Mr. Loutherbourg committed these faults, and thus at
length fell into disrepute.
" I shall continue the mesmerism with Miss Barber
for months to come."

The present number of the Zoist also contains an-in-
teresting narrative of the cure of a supposed case of
hydrophobia by mesmerism, by Mr. H. S. Thompson,
but as other remedies were exhibited in that case we
do not insist upon it as we do upon the case of Miss
Barber, which at once and for ever sets at rest all
question as to the therapeutic powers of mesmerism.

A MAN MADE OF MONEY. By Douglas Jer-
rold. With Plates by John Leech. Part I.

This is the first part of a new serial (to be com-
pleted in six numbers), which promises well. Mr.
Jericho, " the man made of money," is a character of
which Jerrold will, we doubt not, make much. The
following extract will at once show the state of Mr.
Jericho's affairs :

" What shall we say of a man of a decent and com-
pact figure, a man of middle height ; who nevertheless
wishing to stand two inches taller in the world than
fairly beseems him, consents to be stretched by the rack
in the hope of walking the higher for the pulline—
Now Mr. Jericho was this foolish man. Ho wanted to
stand higher in the world than his simple means allowed
him; and he had submitted himself to the rack of debt,
to be handsomely drawn out. To get appearance upon
debt is, no doubt, every bit as comfortable as to get
height upon the rack. The figure may be expanded;
but how the muscle of the heart, how all the joints are
made to crack for it."

Tormented by his wife, and by his wife's family
(Jericho has married a widow), the unfortunate man
imprudently gives utterance to a wish. " I wish I
was made of money," says Jericho, and a busy fiend
hovering near takes him at his word. Jericho falls into
a deep sleep, and even as the rib of Adam was extracted,
so is the heart of Jericho, but instead of being made
his wife, it is transformed into a bundle of bank notes,
and restored to his side, for the use of his wife. For
a description of the manner in which this was per-
formed Nt e refer our readers to an interesting conver-
sation between two fleas who, perched on Jericho's
nightcap, beheld the whole operation, which conver-
sation is faithfully reported in this the first part of
A Man Made of Money.

THE POTTLETON LEGACY. By Albert Smith.
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Parts I. and 11.

This new serial promises to be the best novel that
Albert Smith has yet produced. There is the foun-
dation laid for a most interesting narrative in the
manner in which the legacy is left, and the death-bed
scene of the miserly old woman, who leaves this
legacy, is described with great power. Ilis descrip-
tions of rural scenery are extremely picturesque, in
fact, they are word-paintings, and his characters are
well conceived and admirably contrasted. The hero-
ine Annie Mailland is one of the gentlest, most warm-
hearted, and most unsophisticated of human beings ;
being a complete contrast to the Misses Twinch, with
whom she is thrown into contact, and who, sisters of
the village attorney, are, par excellence, the ladies of
Pottleton. These ladies are thus described :
" There were the two Misses Twincb, sisters of the
lawyer, who, conceiving that they had been neglected
through life, revenged themselves upon a small portion
of mankind, by visiting the poor, but never giving them
anything except advice : and would stop small children
in the road when taking their fat.her's dinner to the field,
and ask them, with great severity, the hardest parts of
the Catechism, such as "1
.desire, ' and their duty to-
wards their neighbour, of v. Inch personage each one had
a different notion according to their residence. The
eldest Miss Twinch had lately taken some strange reli•
gious fancies into her head—at least, so the villagers
thought, who had great belief in the creed their fathers
had professed before them. They attended their morn-
ing and evening service on the Sundays with constant
zeal, when the pleasant bells called them to worship;
but this was not enough for Miss Twinch. She would
watch the old woman who went in to beat the hassocks
and clean the church, and steal in too, for what she
called her private devotions. Indeed, once shim was nearly
cured by being locked iu by mistake, and passed a win-
ter's night in the old carved oak family pew, formerly
belonging to the Grange, where she was found the next
morning on the occasion of a wedding, more dead than
alive. She had also worked something with a hard Latin
name, to put upon the altar, for lack of employment in
the slipper and brace embroidery line—the young men
of the locality having cea scd to throw out even any
straws of hints that they want( d such things, fur Miss
Twinch's sinking hopes to clutch at. She had betides
been more than once suspected of having once waked to
the site of the abbey with uncomfortable pebbles in her
shoes, after she thought,that she hadidone wrong in
going to a party at Farmer Grant's; at which, by the
way, no one asked her to dance, even in Sir Roger de
Coverley, which we take to be always a great asylum
fur the neglected. But finding that the pebbles all cut
holes in her stockings she had given up the pilgrimage
for the future."

We have Sherrard a rough villain, a railway gauger,
plotting against Philip Hammond, who is evidently
intended to be the hero of the story, and aided and
assisted in his machinations by Mr. Wyndham Flitter
a thorough bred cockney, swell scamp, who amuses
himself episodically by pigeoning Mr. Tiddy Spooner,
an exceedingly flat" young gentleman just " let
loose" upon town from the university, where he has
previously been kept rather tight in hand. Here is a
goodly assemblage of personages, and Mr. Albcrt
Smith will manage them after a fashion so effective as
to amuse the reading public for many months to come,
or we are much mistaken. The illustrations by Phiz
are admirable ; there are two to each part.

POST-OFFICE ACCELERATION IN THE NORTH.--
This expression will be best understood when we men-
tion that our papers and letters from Edinburgh, which
formerly wore delivered at four o'clock in the afternoon,
are not now delivered, under the new arrangement, till
next morning, making an acceleration, in Post-office
phraseology, but a delay, according to our notions of
common sense, of no less than twenty or twenty-two
hours. Further, all letters now arriving at seven
o'clock A.M., per the morning mail from the south, in-
tended fur the Mearns, have to lie in our post-office till
next morning at five o'clock, making a delay iu this case
also of twenty-two hours. In all our experience of
Post-office acceleration we must say that the present is
the most extraordinary we ever heard of, and it is really
Such that it is beyond human forbearance.—Montrose
Standard.