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BOSTON, NEWARK, AND SHEFFIELD
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EATRE.

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MAGAZINES -=--(CON TIN U ED).
DOUGLAS JERROLD'S.
The plot of " St. Giles and St. James" begins to
thicken. In the present chapter We have an account
of the forced abduction of Clarissa, while out riding
with St. Giles in attendance on her, by Robert Willis,
the murderer, assisted by Tom Blast, who knocks
down St. Giles, and threatens to denounce him as an
escaped convict should he venture to raise an alarm.
The paper entitled -I'Time v. Labour," is a well put
argument against the Ten Hours' Bill, a measure
which would deprive the poor man of one-sixth of his
only estate—his time. "The Advance of the Masses"
is an eloquent pleading for non-sectarian education,
and the paper which immediately follows it i 3 a caustic
satire, by Paul Bell, on the absurdity of feasts at
funerals. "Fables for Foolish Fellows" are continued,
and in a poem, entitled "A Vision of Old Fames,"
we have a prophecy (may it be a true one) that
"there shall be no more war." One of the most
amusing papers in the numbar is Angus Reach's
" Signs of the Olden Times." It is delightful to find
plain common sense brought to bear in this amusing
way against the net altogether harmless absurdities
of the romantic Yoling Englanders, who are eternally
regretting the old feudal times. Listen to Angus
Reach's common sense description of those much be- ;
lauded feudal times, and—
" The feudal times were no doubt very nice times in-
deed to write novels about, but, on the whole, I think,
they are best admired at a distance. Ruined castles are
very beautiful things—in ruins. I doubt much, how-
ever, whether there ten-feet- thick walls, garnished with
`Loop-hole grates where captives wept,'
were such agreeable objects of contemplation to the un-
protected foot traveller, as now-a-days when we catch
sight of their crumbling remnants from a speeding rail-
way train. The truth is, that the baronial keeps of old
were very much of the same nature with those estab-
lishments, which, in modern thieves' dialect, are deno-
minated kens,' and fences,'—in other words—refuees
for robbers, and receptacles for stolen goods. The
man,' said King James V. of Scotland, pointing to a
Border Castle, the man who built that tower was a
thief in his heart.' Indeed it is a pretty patent fact,
that not a few of the 'great old families' of England
would be, at this present moment, 'great old families'
in Norfolk Island, had an effective system of metropo-
litan and detective police existed in the times of their
founders—the Burke-lamented days of chivalry.
_
"No doubt both the 4 House' and the Castle dealt, and
still deal in monies and merchandise ; the difference
simply is, that the former makes ventures with its own
property—the latter, whenever it could, operated upon
other people's. Thus the merchant, now a-days, ,enters
upon a speculation—the feudal gentleman rode a foray :
he of the counting-house has dealings with other count-
ing houses—he of the castle had dealings with other
castles ; but they were confined in most cases to the
pillaging line of business. Tho man of the ledger col-
lects his debts—the man of the lance gathered in his
black mail. The one has his clerks, the other had his
moss-troopers. The first has his correspondents, the
other had his spies. The former rears cities—the latter
burned villages.
" Taking this view of the case, and looking at a good
many of the founders of our ancient families as gentle-
men well to do in the burglary and sheep-stealing lines
of business, nothing can be more appropriate than the
mottoes which they chose," to hint the nature of their
callings. The old legend of the Scots of Harden was
Reparabit cornea Phrase,' in plain English, There will
soon be moonlight.' The hint is most suggestive. You
could no more misunderstand it than you can the ' Coun-
try orders carefully attended.to' of the tradesmen in the
next street. Moonlight !—Can we mistake the delicate
insinuation. Diana's foresters I—Gentlemen of the
shade I—Minions of the moon I" The ancient motto of
the Buceleugh family was similar—' Best riding by
moonlight.' Yes—especially when one is burdened with
his neighbours' goods, or is making off surreptitiously
with his own.
The Cranstoun family boasts a peculiarly self-deny-
ing and Christian legend. It is Thou. shalt want ere I
want.' But as Lord John Manners will tell us—there
was such high-minded gerier;)sity in the soaring chivalry
of yore ! 4 Per ignuni et gladium,' the motto of another
noble family, breathes a fine spirit of peace and good-
will towards men—strikingly contrasted with the sordid
and selfish dictum, • Buy in the cheapest market, sell in
the dearest,' of modern shopkeeping days. Forth for-
tune, and fill the fetters,' would be a very good legend
for a turnkey or a bailiff. It happens, however, to be
that of the Athol family, who probably distinguished
their pursuits from those of more ignoble cagers of cri-
minals, by carefully abstaining from making legal cap-
tures, and only filling their fetters' with those who
might be instrumental in filling the pockets of their cap-
tors. Grip fast' is a piece of advice we have seen on an
ancient scutcheon. It was probably quite supereroga-
tory. Ride through! is another legend, which may, I
presum?, be rendered Don't stand on bones—Go the
whole hog—Make a clean sweep.' While such maxims
as ' Spare !weight' frweedale)—' A ma puissance,'
(Stamford and Warrington) give a fine notion of the
power and the disposition of-the magnates of those good
old times which Young-England would fain dig up in all
their festering rottenness from the grave.
" But no—they are gone—past recall. The workshop
and the counting-house have put down the castle and
the keep. The spirit and the symbols of the ancient age
are outworn together. Burglary, highway robbery, and
arson, would not, now-a-days, be accounted a brilliant
foray, or killing, no murder ; while the peaceful mer-
chants, who now hold the sway, once exercised but by
titled robbers and gold spurred burglars, would hardly
think of conforming so far to the spirit of times gone by,
as—in forming a company, or entering upon a commer-
cial speculation—boldly to blazon a device as a pair of
loaded scales, graced with such a motto as Success to
Swindling.'
In addition to these articles we have some cleverly
written tales and an admirable paper, entitled " Social
Barbarisms," being an eloquent pleading on behalf of
the illused and much maligned race, domestic ser-
vants—which we commend to the attentive perusal
of all masters and mistresses. Let them treat their
servants as fellow-creatures, as members of the family,
as continental masters and mistresses treat their ser-
vants, and " Chubb'a Locks and Patent Detectors,"
will become superfluities. As this writer well ob-
serves, "IN o substitute can be found for fellow-feeling
—no patent German silver benevolence can supply the
place of the genuine human heart." English servants
are, "as a body, the worst in the world," only be-
cause " they are treated as inferior, until they are
made in inferior." -

Notice is hereby given, that ail of Scrip Certificates for
shares in this undertukinv, who do not apply for the Midland Stock
to which they are entitled before the 20th of NOVEMBER next, will

A new Ballet Divertissement, entitled Uize Kermes,
was produced here last evening, for the purpose of
introducing Monsieur Paul and Monsieur Tell to the
English public. 'The former appeared in a grand
pas de deux Kith Mademoiselle Adele Benert, and
the latter in a pas de deux with Mademoiselle Anita
Dubignon. They are both excellent artistes for male
dancers, but a dancing man seems always out of
place. Nevertheless, dancing men are necessary
—the deesses de la danse require support ;
but while they are deesses, their male
coadjutors can be but mere mortal—they can be but
the Endymions to the goddesses of the night. As
such, MM. Paul and Tell were deserving of all
praise ; they are artistes in the best sense of the word,
and will add greatly to the efficiency of the Drury-
lane corps. The divertissement was preceded by the
opera of Stradella, and succeeded by Der Frieschutz.
With regard to the latter opera, we must say that it
would not have derogated from the dignity of Signor
Schiri if he had conducted it himself, although perhaps
the music lost nothing from being entrusted to Mr.
Hughes, the talented leader of the orchestra ; yet
certainly the music of Weber is as worthy the atten-
tion cf the musical conductor of a theatre, as that of
Flotow. We should have thought that, to a musician
fond of his art, it would have been a labour of love to
have presided in the orchestra over the performance
of such an opera as Der Freischutz. The house, we
were glad to see, was exceedingly well attended.

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3fansfleld, .Notts, 2d November, 1840.

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LOANS OF MONEY.

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interest will be paid half-yearly, on the let of January and Ist of
July, in London or elsewhere, as the parties lending may prefer.
Sealed tenders, stating the amount and term of years for which the
money is proposed to be lent, to be addressed to the Commissioners,
endorsed "Tender for Loans."—Birkenhead, Sept. 21, 1846.
13y order, RICHARD IIIND, Sec.

SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE,

Miss Laura Addison acted the character of Isabella,
in Measure for 2ifTeasure, at this theatre, last evening.
She has hitherto appeared in what may be called
conventional characters. In the Patrician's Daughter,
the character in which she made her dead, it was
impossible to avoid a comparison with Helen Faucit,
and as Helen Faucit had made the character
it was almost impossible to give Miss Laura
Addison fair play in the comparison. The same
observation holds good with regard to Pauline
Deschappelles, in the Lady of Lyons, the
next character in which Miss Addison appeared ;
then, with regard to Juliet, an actress is almost tied
down to conventionalities. Her acting in these
characters have satisfied us that she possessed genius,
and we have therefore anxiously looked forward to her
appearance in a Shakesperian character in which
she would not come into comparison with any of
her predecessors; in Is hich, while on the one han3,
she could have no recollections to assist her, on the
other, her auditors would have no prejudices of
previous readings of the part to warp their judgment.
Such a character is Isabella in Measure for Measure,
and having attentively watched her development of
the character, we have no hesitation in saying that
Miss Laura Addison possesses more gedus than any
other tragic actress on the stage, not excepting Miss
Helen Faucit herself. What, for instance, can com-
pare with her grand scene with Angelo ? How fine
is the contrast between her beautiful pathos
in begging her brother's life of the stern
judge—her maiden-like simplicity in not under-
standing his dark hints, which to her pure
mind are incomprehensible, and her indignant rejec-
tion of his suit, when at last the old miscreant speaks
plainly out. It was the beautiful elevating itself na-
turally, and by the force of circumstances, into the
sublime. Again, what could be more energetic, more
powerful, more true to nature, than the scene which
follows with her brother Claudio. How grandly did
she, the feeble girl, inspirit the timid brother
to accept death rather than dishonour; and
how superior in the native dignity did she ap-
pear to those who could consent to set life in the
one scale and honour in the other. We repeat
it, Miss Laura Addison has more genius than any
ether actress on the stage, but she is not such an ac-
complished artiste as others are. She has somewhat
yet to learn, but she wants nothing but what she can
he taught, and she will learn it too, and that
quickly, and do credit to her teachers. "She
will profit by the lesson they may teach
her, and it shall go hard but she
will better the example." There are many poets of
the present day who aspire to write tragedies—let
them study Miss Laura Addison's peculiar powers—
let them write for her, and we will answer for it, if
there is anything actable in their tragedies she will
make them, for it is the gift of genius such as hers to
make from its own reflected light even mediocrity
shine. She was very excellently supported.
The Angelo of George Bennett was a fine
piece of acting; and the Duke, of Phelps,
albeit too Macreadyish—(we recollect Phelps at Exe-
ter before he saw Macready, he would have acted
better then)—was very good. Marston's Claudio
was finely conceived, and his lugubrious voice told
well in the character ; and Scharf, as Pompey, and
A. Yonge, as the Constable, were quaint and amusing.
The house was crowded to suffocation.

announces his resignation
The accomplishedegtLoirlf,Yr.. Miles Gerald Leon,
magazine. His
regretted by the subscribers to D7o.man, inasmuch as
retirement
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the publication has thriven his
so admirably under
direction. If his successor, the Rev. Edward Price,
Catholicsot the only emulates
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cannot
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contained in completeour last
his withdrawal in foonlitohtwhlyeingo organ
terms
the Roman
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beg, which
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into prosper. Mr. Leon intimates
we have been engaged, and, in conformity with the an-
nouncementleast in the capacity editor, to take leave for the
historicalbc.w,
present of the readersonf
fPolman's Magazine. In resign-
ing our responsible and anxious charge we feel a
double pleasure. It s -
pleasing to know, as we un-
doubtedly do know, that
the body to which we belong in a more flourishing con-
dition than that in which
cessor's task will be less we found it, and that our suc-
arduous than our own has been.
It is also pleasing to know that the futureeditor
has ex-
pressed the same views and
principles
which have won
tor ourselves the favour and the confidence of so many,
and that our whiten] province m
administered in an entirely kindred on
acnt.tinue still to be
entirelylf it be
so administered, we shall not be I%hollf arseenntt.frnn these
pages ; more rich in leisure th. n while exercisingl the
manifold duties of editorship, we hope to seize an oc-
casional opportunity, more or less frequent, of addressing
the public through an organ, with which we have had-
the good fortune and the happiness of being connected:"
The opening article in the present number is
a
mournful story, entitled the "Miser's Death," by the
Rev. E. Price—to whom all success in his editorial
capacity. It is told with a touching simplicity. From
the next paper—a biographical essay upon Chris-
topher Columbus—we shall make one extract. This
Catholic writer thus describes the first voyage across
the Atlantic, and the divovery of land in the western
hemisphere by the greatest of all ;
--- nay..'atorgand o .., one
of the greatest of all men:—
" After shriving hirnsslf, and receiving the
blessed eucharist from the hands of Marchena, Columbus,most
early on the morning of Friday, August 3, 1494, de-
parted from the bar of Saltes, near Palos, in the presence-
of a prodigious multitude of spectators. Notwithstand-
ing the vastness of the enterprise, the instruments for
its prosecution were miserably disproportioned. Three
vessels comprised the fleet: one, La Santa Maria, com-
manded by Columbus himself ; another, La Pinta, by
Martin Alonzo Pinzon ; and the third, La Nina, by his
brother Vincente Yanez Pinzon. The two latter ships
were merely caravels and the whole convoy carried only
one hundred and- twenty men. Providence seems in-
deed to have smiled propitiously upon the endeavour :
the Great Spirit which had germinated such a craving in
the mind of Columbus to explore the Atlantic, glassed its
awful billows before him, strewed its surface with sun-
beams and tokens of ercouragement, and cooled its
atmosphere with refreshing breezes. And Christopher
responded to the, beneficence of the Deity ; throughout
his long life ho responded to it ; his piety was not inter
mittent or eccentric, it coloured his whole soul, and lent
a new majesty
diate to his majtic nature. His Journal, corn-
menced i after his departure from Palos, min-
dicates the incessant and intense awe with which he re-
garded the great One of eternity: its opening paragraph
is written, 'pi a. p. ilostri Jesu . Clit i4i.' Columbus
appears to have rendered the dreaded pas;;atye 4evase op
ocean less perilous by certain improvements in the astro-

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