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N°. 18,349.] LONDON, TUESDAY EVENI'- GI SU N, JULY 15, 185

THE LONDON NECROPOLIS AND
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than the three lives which we have already stated to be
sacrificf d are lost, but a great number are in the hospital,
soma of whom are not expected to recover.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From Ihe Votet ani Proceelzpko of the Howe of Cammons.)

MONDAY, JULY 14.
SUPPLY.
Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to
the end of the Question, in order to add the words " con-
sidering the public impor area of maintaining as national in-
stitutions the very valuable schools of medicine in Ireland,
which Lave derived their chief efficiency from the instruction
.fforded by the Dublin hospitals; to the support of which for
a long series of years Parliament bas contributed, it is unjust
and impolitic to reduce the amount of the annual grant
which was allowed in 1848 and the preceding years to those
hospitals," instead thereof. - Question put, " That the words
proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." The
House divided :

14AJORITY-AYES, 106.
Aglionby, H. A. Forster, Matthew Parker, John
Anson, Colonel Fox, W. J. Pennant, Colonel
Irinstrong, it. B. Gilpin, Colonel Perfect, Robert
Bagshaw, John Gladstone, W. E. Price, Sir R.
Baines, M. T. Glyn, G. C. Ricardo, Osman
Baring, Sir F. T. Graham, Sir James Rice, E. R.
Barrington, Viscount Greene, Thomas Rich. Henry
Barrow, W. 11. Grentell, C. Pascoe Richards, Richard
Bass, M. T. Grentell, Cnarles W. Ruitibold C. E.
Bell, Jacob 0 ey, R. W. Russell. Lord John
Bellew, it. M. Grosvenor, Earl Russell, F. C. H.
Bernal, Ralph Guest, Sir 4. Salwey, Colonel
Blair, Stephen Hall, Sir B. Scubell, Captain
Boyle, Colonel -Hailyburton, Lord Seymour, Lord
Brockman, E. P. Haute, Aleviiuder Smith, R. V.
Brotherton. Joseph Hawes, Benj.. Smith, J. A.
Bunbury, E. H. Heywood, James Smith, John B.
'lardwell, Edward Hodges, T. L. Smollett, A.
Carew, W. 11. P. Horsman, Edward Somerville, Sir R.
Carter, J. B. Howard, Lord E. Spooner, Richard
Christy, S. Howard, C W. G. Stansileld, W. R. O.
Clay, James Howard, E. G. Thompson, Colonel
Cliflord, Henry M. Hughes, W. B. Thompson, George
Cockburn, Sir A. Hume, Joseph Thornely, T.
Cowper, W. F. Hutchins, E. J. Vane, Lord H.
Craig, Sir W.G. Labouchere, Henry Villiers, Charles
Davie, Sir H. Langston, J. H. Wall, C. B.
Divett, Edward • Lewis, G. C. Walmsley, Sir J.
Duckworth, Sir J. Lushington, Charles Williams. W.
Duncan, tleorge Lysol', General Wilson, James
Duncult, John Artiregor, John Wood, Sir Charles
Dundas, Admiral M'Taggart, Siry. Wood, Sir W. P.
Dundas, Sir David Milner, W. M.
Ellis, John Mostyn, E. MUMS.
Elliot, John E. Noel, G. J. Hayter, W. G.
Evans, John Norreys, Lord Hill, Lord M.
Ferguson, Colonel Ogle, S. C.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
MR. AND MRS. C. KEAN'S BENEFIT.
(From the Morning Herald.)
Last night Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean took their first
benefit as managers of the Princess's Theatre. The
house ova fl cared in every quarter, and during the eve-
ning numbers went away rehictently from the doors,
finding it totally impossible to gain admittance. The
"entire space usually allotted' to the orchestra was parti-
teener' off into additional stalls, to a4euusmodate, a,s'we
were given to understand, parties who were anxious at
any price to obtain private boxes. Had the latter befit
trebled, all ne ul-1 have been in demand. Even the top
slips were occupied by box oompsuy dress, who
were unable to squeeze themselves into any other
cality. Here were rank, fashion,. beauty, intelligence,
and, above all, numbers, from the noblemen of high
caste down to the simple mechanic, residents and stran-
gers, regular play-goers and chance contributors, fami-
liar twee and foreign visitors, from far and near, from
the West-cud, City, and suburbs, congregated
together for one purpose and with one feeling--
to evince the high ' esteem they entertain for the
two gratest performers now on the English stage,
and to mark their approval of a system of 'manage-
ment which promises to restore the best and brightest
days of our naTi,Mel drama. Such's demonstration of
public opinion is not to be mistaken. It is an impartial
evidence voluntarily given, equally flittering as a per-
sonal compliment and conclusive as a professional judg-
ment. It amounts to a vote 'of confidence, carried una-
nimously and without a division. Neither is this an
isolated case—one full house as an exception to the
general rule •or a single green spot in the desert, but a
climes to the steady tide of success which has been
flowing in towards the. Pritsess's Theatre ever since
Mr. Kean 'assumed the management in• the commence-
ment of October last.
It has been supposed, and repeated loudly, until at
last it was believed, that the Great Exhibition was a
leviathan which swallowed up everything—a devouring
whirlpool which attracted and engulfed all within its
vortex, leaving the public and the countless thou-
sands who rushed up from the country with neither
. time nor inclination to turn their thoughts to any
other amusement. The increasing audiences which
are seen nightly within the walls of this well-conducted
'establishment show that this—with 'many others—is a
popular fallacy, disproved by fact. We rejoice that it is
30. True English acting of the highest class can never
entirely lose its attraction. It may .be clouded for a
time. by the caprices of fashion, the variations of taste, or
the influence of counteracting causes which rise andiub-
side from.hour to hour as rapidly as the sands are shift-
ing when the glass is turned. lint there is an inherent
vitality in the stage which sooner or later vindicates it-
self, and springs up with an elastic rebound, in spite of
prejudice or temporary neglect. During.the last five or
six years, we have seen many theatres—rather ambiti-
ously than wisely—designated "homes for the legitimate
drama," houses of refuge where Apollo and his wander-
ing family were invited to take shelter, as in a haven of
security whence neither chance nor change could ever
more eject them—temples where the national stage of
England was expected to take root, like the Glastonbury
thorn, the moment it was planted, and blossom atonce
with two-told fecundity. These edifices were built
on sandy foundations. They melted like the actors in
the pageant conjured up by Ariel at the command of
Prospero, " into thin air." The promised homes proved
to be but temporary lodgings, with very indifferent
accommodation. It appears to be reserved for the Prin-
cess'a Theatre, under Mr. Kean's management, to realise
these shadowy promises, and restore the brilliant epoch
Of Drury-lane and Covent-garden, when the stage really
flourished in a zenith of power and popularity—a
period which the departing generation mourns over as
never to return. and the ingenuous youth" who are
Stepping in their places laugh at, with characteristic dis-
regard of everything older than themselves, as exagge-
rated if not imaginary. Both (or we are mistaken) will
ere long change their opinions, and from the quarter we
have designated the new light is ready to burst forth.
the Muses are not dead, they only slumber, and will
start into life and energy when the Promethean torch of'
animation is skilfully applied.
We have watched the progress of the season at
this theatre with constant anxiety and unmixed satis-
faction, although our notices, from many intervening
causes, have been less regular and detailed than we
could have wished in justice to have rendered them.
Several of Shakspere's noblest plays have been
produced and frequently repeated, with powerful
casts, and a most careful attention to all the accessorial
points. These minutia are too often neglected, while
they materially heighten the effect of the general per-
formance; and in this we should do well to take a lesson
from the continental theatres. Among the Shaksperean
revivals we may particularise Twefth Night, the Mer-
chant of Venice, Hamlet, in which Mr. Kean won his
early London laurels in 1838, and first established him-
self as a Shaksperean actor, and Henry IV., with the
Falstaff of Bartley. as played at Windsor Castle.
fbe arrangements of this fine historical play, and the
entire getting up, with all the accompaniments of beau-
tiful scenery and correctly-studied costume, were more
complete and more uniformly excellent than we ever re-
c6llect to have seen during our long experience. Among
the most prominent novelties there have been The Tem-
plar, a very effective play by a new author, and Love in
a Maze, a genuine comedy, from the practised pen of
Bourcicault—one of his most successful efforts, repeated
above sixty nights. These, with pantomime, farce,
melo-drama, and spectacle, in constant succession,
have administered to all tastes, and included almost
every form of dramatic composition. Every piece has
been produced with equal care and liberal expenditure.
A theatre conducted on these principles, with the well-
assorted available talent included in the company, must
succeed, and will advance in public estimation with cer-
tain progress. There are yet assisting influences pro-
ceeding from high quarters whidh might be brought in
to aid still further the cause of the legitimate drama,
and which might elevate its moral and political influence
tar beyond what can be effected by managerial tact and
acting ability. Of this we shall treat hereafter, when
we have more time and space to enter on what we con-
sider a very important, and in many respects, a national
consideration.

A genuine English tragedy, such as the Gaiwester,
essentially sound, and universally applicable, so finely
acted as it was last night in the two principal characters,
.nd so received by such an audience, is not an occur-
rence of common-place interest, or confined in its effects
to the individual locality or single occasion. It bears a
reflected influence on the stage as an instrument of
utility as well as entertainment, and becomes an era of
.otne importance as regards the advancement of the
drama. It is a public lesson for the use of all students
in a refined, ennobling art--it moral lecture in a cap-
tivating form, delivered in a school of acknowledged
superiority. If we search the modern stage for a
specimen of living talent, less open to criticism or ob-
jection than any oilier, we may select the Beverley and
Mrs. Beverley of Mr. and Mrs. Kean, and rest satisfied
that we have seen two very forcible dramatic conceptions
embodied throughout with a truth, a power, and a distinct-
ness which can only be mastered by comprehensive
genius, joined to long experience. Mrs. Beverley is
drawn by the author as a natural, unaffected personage,
as far as possible removed from a heroine, invested with
no regal loftiness of position to give solemnity to grief,
thrown into no extravagant dangers, and encircled by no
mantle of romance. Her sorrows are purely domestic,
such as the humblest can understand and feel the reality
of, and which may happen to any one at any time. They
arise from the fatal propensity of her husband for one
overwhelming vice, his only failing. She still fondly
loves and trusts him in spite of his follies and
infatuation. The very simpleness and familiar tone of
the character render it difficult for stage embodiment.
It requires the consummate ability of a great
actress to preserve the dignity and impressive
effect of tragedy under circumstances of every
tray's occurrence, in the ordinary rank of educated lite.
Mrs. Kean manages all this with surpassing skill and
delicacy. She can have derived scarcely any hints or
assistance from her predecessors, who bad nearly all left
the stage before her career commenced. She could have
k:,own little of theta beyond traditionary description
and vague reminiscences. Her idea of the character is
entirely her own, and in sevettal points strikingly ori-
ginal. We may select her scene with Beverley in the
second aat, where she surrenders her jewels on the first
hint that he requires them, and her interview with
Stukely when he ventures to lay bare his infamous de-
signs. Her answer to his assertion that the jewels have
been given to a mistress," I'll not believe it," produced a
sensation in the house which told that genuine nature
was there and recognised unanimously. It was one of
those master touches never to be forgotten: the refined
pencilling of genius which marks the wide distinction
between the simple painter sad the first-rate artist.
Mr. Kean's Beverley is deserving of equal praise.
Of the two the part is the more telling, as abound-
ing in superior bursts of passion and greater variety of
emotions; alternately swayed by excitement and repen-
tance, spurred on by hope, exasperated to frenzy, or
sunk down to the lowest depths of despair. His third
act scene with Stukely, when driven frantic by his losses,
and his concluding act in the prison, after swallowing
the poison, are fearfully contrasted, acd arrest the au-
dience in a manner we never saw surpassed. The men
held their breath in rivetted attention, and women sob-
bed with uncontrollable agony. If effect be a just test
of the actor's merits, as it unquestionably is, here is an
instance in which it is most triumphantly exemplified.
An individual spectator may object to a particular
reading or a passage, or a second may differ altogether
from the conception of the actor. Either may be right or
wrong; but the collective audience is the safest tribunal.
The object is to produce effect; and he who can produce
the strongest effect in the right place is certain to be
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Mr. and Mrs. Kean should always be seen together
in the same play to be fully appreciated. Their styles
assimilate either by natural sympathy or long prac-
tice. Their powers are doubled by acting in unison.
Eicher deprived of the other would be like a general
without his right arm, or a ship divcstid of rudder
and compass. Their combined talents were again seen
to great advantage, and with extraordinary versatility,