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to those of the manager. I recall, gentlemen, that brief but
glorious time when the drama of England appeared suddenly
to revive, and to promise a future that should be worthy of
its past—( Hear, hear)—when, by a union of all kindred arts,
and the exercise of a taste that was at once gorgeous and
severe, we saw the genius of Shakspere properly embodied
upon our stage, though I maintain that the ornament was
never superior to the work. Just remember the manner in
which the supernatural agency of the weird sisters was made
apparent to our eye, in which the magic isle of Prospero rose
before us in its mysterious and haunted beauty, and in which
the knightly character of the hero of Agincourt received its
true interpetration from the pomp of the feudal age, and you
will own you could not strip the scene of these effects with-
out stripping Shakspere himself of kalf the richness and
depth of his conceptions.—(Loud cheers.) But that was the
least merit of that glorious management. Mr. Macready
not only enriched the scene, but he purified the audience—
(llear)—and for the first time since the reign of Charles 11.
a father might have taken his daughters to a public theatre
with as much safety from all that could shock decorum as
if he had taken therm to the house of a friend.—(Cries of
" Hear, hear," and cheers.) And for this reason the late
lamented Bishop of Norwich made it a point to form the
personal acquaintance of Mr. Macready, that he might thank
him, as a prelate of the Church for the good he had done to
society.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I cannot recal that
period without a sharp pang of indignant regret, for if that
management had lasted some ten or twelve years I know
that we should have established a permanent school for
actors, a fresh and enduring field for dramatic poetry and
wit, while we should have educated an audience up to feel
that dramatic performances in their highest point of excel-
lence had become an intellectual want, that could no more
be dispensed with than the newspaper or the review. And all
this to be checked and put back for an age to come ! Why ?
Because the public did not appreciate the experiment? Mr,
'Macready has told us that the public supported him nobly,
and that his houses overflowed. Why then? Because of
the enormous rent and exactions for a theatre which, even
in the most prosperous seasons, made the exact difference be-
tween profit and loss.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, it is not
now the oceasion to speak of remedies for that state of
things. Remedies there are, but they are for legislation to
effect. They involve considerations with regard to those
patents which are secured to certain houses for the purpose
of maintaining in this metropolis the legitimate drama, and
which I fear have proved the main obstacle to its success.—
( dear, hear.) But these recollections belong to the past.
The actor—the manager—are no more. Whom have we with
us to-day ? Something grander than actor or manager ; to-day
we have with us the man.—(A loud and prolonged burst of
cheering.) Gentlemen, to speak of those virtues which adorn
a home and are only known in secret, has always appeared to
me to be out of place upon public occasions; but there are
some virtues which cannot be called private, which accom-
pany a man everywhere, which are the essential part of his
public character, and of these it becomes us to speak, for it is
to these that we are met to do homage. I mean integrity, de-
votion to pure ends, and a high ambition, manly independ-
ence, and honour that never knew a stain.—(Loud and go-
ner 11 cheers.) Why should we disguise from ourselves that
there are great prejudices to the profession of an actor? 'Who
does not know that our noble guest has lived down every
one such prejudice, not falling into the old weakness of the
actor, and for which Garrick could not escape the sarcasm of
Johnson, of hankering after the society and patronage of the
great ?—(lfear, hear.) The great may have sought in him
the accomplished gentleman, but he has never stooped his
bold front as an Englishman to court any patronage meaner
than the public, or to sue for the smiles with which fashion

(Mr. Macready, who had displayed considerable emotion
during some portions of his address, then resumed his seat
amid most enthusiastic cheering.)
Mr. C. DICKENS, in proposing the next toast, said it ap-
peared to him that there were three great requisites essential
to the realisation of a scene so unusual and so splendid as
that which they then witnessed. The first, and he must say
the very difficult, requisite, was a man possessing that strong
hold on the general remembrance, that indisputable claim
on the general regard and esteem, which was possessed by
his dear and much valued friend their guest.—(Cheers.) The
second requisite was the presence of a body of entertainers
—a great multitude of hosts—as cheerful and good-
humoured, under some personal inconveniences—(Cries of
" No, no," and a laugh)—as warm-hearted and as nobly
in earnest, as those whom he had the privilege then to
address. The third, and certainly not the least of those
less by his social position—
oi by his fortune—which
identally lost— (A laugh)
might
s —than
bmt
by
yis
adventitiouslyienenwnhs toei
vwrnie
thoaron,
ac
ce
genius, might fitly represent at
once the best part of that to which honour was done, and
the best part of those who united in the doing of it.—
(Cheers.) Such a president he thought they had found in
their chairman of to-night—(Loud cheers)—and it was
their chairman's health that he had to propose.—(Re-
newed cheers.) Many of those who heard his were no
doubt present at the memorable scene on Wednesday night,
when that great vision which had been a delight and a les-
son—verysupport and a comfort—to
aarlsooked for an elevated re-
de
improved and charmed
ltt
hheeef
them,
owamnhdi
tchht eo often,
hadlwhichlabours
he
or dared at
ohrmf:eedayt many years
lives, faded from their sightay,
for ever.—(Cheers.) He would not stop to inquire whether
their guest might or might not have looked forward, through
rather too long a period for them, to some remote and distant
time when he might possibly bear some far-off likeness to a
certain Spanish Archbishop whom Gil Blas once served.—
( Laughter.) Nor would he stop to inquire whether it was a
reasonable disposition in the audience of Wednesday to seize
upon the words—

" And I have bought
Golden opinions from all sort of people;
Which would be worn
,now in their newest gloss,
Not cast aside so soon '—
but he would venture to intimate to those whom he addressed
theird
how in his own mind he mainly connected that occasion
with the present. When he looked roun:onwthheenvhasetsaa:setmhe-
blage of Wednesday, and observed the huge pit hushed into
mistyastt l
fil stillness essstus
surging
striking
ihngega
loe risingruyt,
their
e i trl
wheree
arms curtain,in e
in like strong swimmers--
in shirtsleeves were
(Laughter)—become still water a moment, and remain
so through the play, it suggested to him something besides
the trustworthiness of an English crowd, and the delusion
under which those persons laboured who disparaged and
maligned such an assembly. It suggested to him that in
meeting hero to-night they undertook to represent something
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of the all-pervading feeling of that crowd through all its in-
termediate degrees, from the full-dressed lady with spark-
ling diamonds in the proscenium box tots bidinghehalf-un-
dressedhistime
orgetanktlienmganso—m(eGrie.eaftrelashungihetnet in laughter)—who
r) wa
back row of
the gallery.—(Renewed laughter.) He considered that
no one whom they could possibly place in the
chair could so well head that comprehensive represen-
tation, and could so well give a crowning grace to their fes-
tivities, as one whose comprehensive genius had in his
various works embraced them all—(Hear hear)—and who
had in his dramatic genius enchanted and enthralled them
all at once.—(Cheers.) It was not for him to recal on that
occasion what he had seen and known in the bygone times of
Mr. Macready's management, of the steady friendship of Sir
Bulwer Lytton for their guest, of the association of his pen
with the earliest successes of those days, or of his zealous
and untiring services; but he might be permitted to say—
what, indeed, in any public mention of Sir Bulwer Lytton
he could never repress—that in the path they both trod he
had uniformly found him from the first the most generous
of men—(Cheers)—quick to encourage, slow to disparage—
(Hear, hear)—ever anxious to assert the order of which he
was so bright an ornament, and never condescending to
shuffle it off and leave it outside State rooms, as a Mussel-
man might leave his slippers outside. a mosque.—(Laughter.)
There was a popular prejudice, a kind of superstition, to the

Chevalier BUNSEN responded to the toast in the following
words :—Much as I must wish that there was present on
this occasion one of the surviving heroes of our literature to
whom Germany owes the distinguished honour which has
been done to her dramatic writers and critics, I am free to
confess that I am proud it has fallen to my lot to be on such
an occurrence the feeble, but sincere, interpreter of our
national feelings. Sir, that honour is great and precious,
coming as it does from such a man, addressing such an
assembly, and on such an occasion. Gentlemen, the modern
literature of Germany was nurtured by the English muse,
and the genius of William Shakspere watched over her
cradle. He is not a trae German who does not gratefully
acknowledge that fact.—(Cheers.) When, after one century
of bloody internal wars, and another of benumbment, about
80 years ago the national spirit of Germany had gathered
strength to look around, he found himself in the fetters
of the most conventional poetry and taste which ever
has weighed upon poor humanity since the days
of China and Byzanee—oratorical prose in rhyme,
rhetoric screwed up to poetry, civilized galvanism
mistaken for the rhythm of organic life. It was
under such circumstances that the first of our intellectual
giants, Leasing arose, and in pure classical German proved
that our models must be looked fer somewhere else, and par-
ticularly in the dramatic art. Lensing pointed to two great
constellations—the Athenian theatre and William Shakspere.
He did more - be united with a great and genial actor,
Schroeder, at Hamburgh, to give Germany a national theatre
fashioned after those models. When one decade later the
immortal author of our greatest national drama—of Faust—
when the bright star of Goethe rose on the horizon, his dra-
matic creed was the same. ./Eschylus, and Sophocles, and
William Shakspere for ever I—(Cheers.) Again, when a
few decades later, towards the beginning of this century,
that noble pair of brothers, Frederick and William Schlegel,
began to apply the united force of genius, philosophy, and
poetry to the creation of a comprehensive system of poetical
and artistic criticism, considering all real and lasting pro-
ductions of art, not as an accidental kaleidoscopic variety
of forms, but as a link in the chain of the develop-
ment of mind; and when their common friend, Lud-
wig Tiek, opened his delightful, both creative and
critical vein, for the same object, who was the hero
in whose name and to whose honour they broke
down the idols of conventional poetry and condemned to
eternal oblivion all sham and unreality? Who was the hero
who inspired both Goethe and Schiller and the followers of
the romantic school but William Shakspere and his
theatre? This name of Shakspere, then, was not the
fashion of an age; it was not the hue and cry of a school of
metaphysic philosophers or the whim of critical poets. No,
Sir, it was no more or less than the adequate expression of
the deepest national feeling; it was the organ and echo of
the universal voice of love and admiration with which the
Anglo-Saxon mind, in its native abode, reverently hailed the
great kindred genius of England, as the poetical hero of the
Germanic race.—(Cheers.) It is, above all, this instinctive
love and admiration which has made Shakspere the most
popular name, and his dramas the most universally read
poetical works, among 40,000,000 of Germans. The dis-
tinguished editor of "Shakspere"—who in our age has
given to England and to the world the genuine text of
that author and carried out the right principles of its in-
terpetration—says somewhere most truly, " The foundation
of a right understanding of Shakspere is love"—reverent
love, of course, as every true love is. Well, I think we
Germans do love Shakspere, and we love him reverently.
We do not love him for this or for that, but we love him best
for being what he is. We do not admire him for a happy
simile here or a striking observation there ; none of which,
beautiful as they may be as part of a whole, would make him,
as we think, a poet—much less the king of all dramatic
writers of the world. We love above all his grand poetical
conceptions, and the truthful manner in which he does jus-
tice to them. We see in every piece of his an artistic repro-
duction of those eternal laws which, in spite of many appa-
rent contradictions, and through all antagonistic forces, regu-
late always in the end the national, and very often the indivi-
dual destinies of mankind. To represent them in action is
the divine privilege of the dramatic genius. This being our
conception of Shakspere, and this the relation his immortal
works bear to our present national literature, you will think
me sincere in saying, what you praise us for is nothing :but
the deep acknowledgment of our eternal obligations to your
and the world's greatest dramatist—the voice of our grateful
and reverent love to our saving and inspiring hero. I beg
your pardon for having been so prolix on this point, but all I
have said bears even directly upon the occasion of our festive
meeting on this day. For, Sir, I confess I have never been
able to understand how one can love " Shakspere's Plays"
without feeling the most lively interest for the national
theatre on which his dramas are to be represented, and the
highest regards for the great actor.—(Cheers.) The great

understand Ma ebeth and Hamlet—and above all Lear—
better than lev under Stood them before, or as the high-
minded manager, and as the man of character who has
often staked his vf try existence on his great and noble object,
which was—to reelse the standard of his art, to elevate the
English actor, and to purify and ennoble the national stage.
And I finally w isiti you joy, gentlemen, that you have cele-
brated the retirement of this man from the stage in a manner
which honours bot h him and yourselves, and which is full of
European and universal interest; and I conclude by express-
ing my deep-felt ry ,gratitude for having associated me with
your feelings.—((,h eers.)
Mr. W. J. Fox: text rose, and said,—Mr. Chairman and
gentlemen, Shak spere has told us, through the lips of a
melancholy mora list, that " All the world's a stage ;" pro-
bably many of ti Lose who repeated such words felt that the
converse of the proposition was true also—namely, that the
stage was all the world. Many of them, "native and to the
manner born," familiar with it from their earliest years—
its revenues their subsistence--its applause the object of
their ambition—hi we felt their connexion with it! grow with
their growth as t hey advanced and expanded from, we'll
say, Prince Arthi it to King John. To them, indeed, the
stage was all the world, as to us the world is all a stage; and
as it is the aspiration of the philanthropist that he may
leave the world be tter than he found it, so it is the actual
achievement of our honoured guest that he leaves the stage
better than he fou.ad it,—( Cheers,) He leaves it better, ter
he has enabled us to hear again the real voice of inspiration,
the genuine oracles of immortal poetry, and not the poor,
imperfect, and sham voice of pretended inspiration, which
has so often been substituted for that of Shakespere. He
leaves the stage better than he found it, for he has made
the stage a worthier representation than ever it was
before of the grand coneeptions of the grandest of
poets. The motives of illustration always keep in view ti
practical idea of the drama, and never permit it to be decked
with tinsel, or to lack power by the want of proper adorn-
ment. Shakspere, with those means and appliances with
which he was so peruliarly gifted, possessed within himself
the grand combination of all those powers. And even he
might have entrinsted, without the slightest alarm, the re-
presentation of his heroes to the genius of a Macready. He
leaves the stage letter than he found it, for he hag raised its.
character to a higher standard than before. He has shown
the falsehood of the bigot's painting of , the drama, and the
folly of the weak and sordid `speculator upon scenic effects.
These were accidental nod not essential to the drama, which
could throw them off, and raise to genuine purity that school
of morals which, in ancient Greece, was the worship of the
gods. He leaves the stage better than'he found it, for he
made theatrical and dramatic criticisms .his own act:--so well
did he embody with his representations the profoundest.know-,
ledge of character and that accurat e discernment of distinc-
tions, that his actions created critics in himself. He taught the
literary men here and in America to understand and appre-
ciate Shakspere mere than they had done before, and he had
formed a school of criticism that arose out of the stage, which
returns the benefit with interest, and which will not allow us
to endure those superficial and flimsy remarks which used to
pass for criticisms, as stage tricks used to pass for acting. Ile
• leaves the stage better thz,ea he found it, for, although his
own management of it was t2hort, and although as an actor
he disappears from our view, yet the effects produced by him
must be both great and lasting. A permanent decline of the
drama is, I believe, as absurd a eupposition as a permanent
decline of human nature. Though there have been seasons
in which the drama has been corrupted and discouraged, it
has arisen again into its original grandeur by the fresh power
and vitality it received from the genius of those that were
connected with it. When Rome was sunk in an abyss, she
received from the north such fresh powers and impulse as
forced her onward in her course. So when our central theatres
have shrunk from their proper mission, and have falsified
those words of the charter which have been repeated to you
this evening, the legitimate drama revived again, while re-
presented under the fostering talents of Mr.Macready. These
are the obligations of the stage to Mr. Macready. lam sure
that no one would more willingly confess his own obligations
to the stage than that distinguished gentleman. The stage is
not a thing of creation by individual genius neither the actor
nor the poet makes the stage; the tendency of human nature
makes it. We had our monkish mysteries before the legiti-
mate drama. Festus was the herald of YEschylus. Shakspere
felt the impulse of the theatre. Without it, though he no
doubt would have been still a great poet, he would not
be the one he was. His genius might have expatiated upon
various subjects, but we should have lacked the undying
perceptions which are represented to us in the drama. In
this great aggregate, the stage, progressing in course of time,
gives rise to the man of genius, who by it fills a large space
in the eyes of the country. Such a person is the man to
honour whom we have met together upon this interesting
occasion—a man who, combining alike the powers of the
actor and manager, has exhibited the true spirit of the poet
in both. There may be many who take up this occupation
who have the same impulses, present on this occasion. They
may have often clustered around him, and gathered know-
ledge from the communication. I trust that the influence of
the example they have had before them when Mr. Macready
shall have retired into private life will not be lost upon them,
but will for many years leave its permanent effects.—(Cheers.)
Though he may retire from our view, he will be thus conspicu-
ous in his retirement, and I trust that he will even then think,
with something of a fraternal feeling, of the poor player, " who
struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is seen
no more." It is pleasant to see that combination which
the list of stewards and attendants here exhibits. We have
here a combination which strikes my mind as a most feli-
citous one. We have with us the honoured representative
of a dynasty that once ruled the stage.—(Great cheering.)
The dearest associations cling around the name of Kemble.
A distinguished member of the family now sits near me.
When we look back to our young days, when George the
Third reigned, and when Kemble and Siddons ruled the stage,
we feel much gratified at finding that even at this moment
we have one of the latter family amongst us.—(Cheers,) It
is also agratifying fact that we can boast of having amongst
us the man who has redeemed Sadlers' Wells Theatre—
(Cheers)— and has raised it from being the scene of water-
works and similar amusements to be the home of the legi-
timate drama. How harmonious was Mr. Macready's
work during the period of his management, how well were
all the appliances of the stage blended, and the performers
were taught to blend their exertions each with the other.
That management has had the brilliancy and harmony of the
rainbow. Though the rainbow is scattered by the driving
wind, we may still see fragments of it fluttering around;
and while we rejoice that the wand of Prospero is broken,
the song of Ariel still floats in the air, and breathes enchant-
ment upon it. Dr. Johnson, while speaking of the stage,
called it the harmless gaiety of nations. Were it no more
than that, it could not be considered a trifling thing, for
in this toilsome world of ours this gaiety is a thing not
to be despised. Think of what relief it is to the careworn
and anxious mind of man. What a high and noble mission
the actor has to accomplish.—(Cries of "Time time.") Let
us, then, do all in our power to cheer him in his onward
course, and to encourage him in those efforts which con-
tribute so largely to the pleasure and instruction of his fellow-
creatures.—(Hear, hear. )
Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE having been loudly called upon,
rose to speak amidst most deafening and continuous cheer-
ing. When silence was obtained, he said—Gentlemen, when
I sat down to dinner to-day, I had not the least expectation
of the very great honour I have just received, by having my
name connected with the toast given by the illustrious
chairman—namely, the toast of " The Stage." That toast
has been seconded in a manner most congenial and gratify-
ing to my feelings by so noble and so fair an assembly, in
which I discern many men most eminent in literature, in
science, and in art. We have all met here to give the honour
that is due to our respected friend upon his retirement frets
his his profession.—(Cheers.) You will then, I am sure, for
not much surprised if I say that I feel utterly aatn
thanks for the
the
words to give adequate expression of my
e,th attempt that
honours you have done me. I will not,
td nor the less
believe that I am not the less deenlyse
which I feel to be impossible, but I entreatearnthesetlrif°yr
favour you have highly flattered, by the very signal
wanting in the desire,
con-
ferred upon me. I confess lam not
k d
make a more suitable ac now e g.
but only in the ability, to
self, and at the same time
most—one more satisfactory e,a of you to
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Inv!' the' honour to drink all
more acceptable to you.
te enter into any remarks upon
down, for I have not streng
was connected, and th
the stage with which my name ere are
l reasons to prevent my doing so now, which
mmany persona
• ht not influence me at another time.—(Cheering.)
The CHAIRMAN-I am sorry to inform you that Mr.
your good healths, and if rinhawill permit me I will now sit
Phelps is gone—a sad piece of news, indeed.
Mr. THACRERA.Y proposed "The Health of Mrs. Macready
and her Family."—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. MACREADY returned thanks.
Lord DUFFERIN proposed " The Ladies."

The Chairman Chen vacated the chair, and the meeting
broke up at a quarter before twelve o'clock.

CHURCH PREFERMENTS..--A return, moved for by
Sir Benjamin Hall, and just printed by order of the House of
Commons, shows " the several pieces of preferment held by
every archbishop, bishop, archdeacon, chancellor, precentor,
euccentor, prebendary, or canon, together with the value of
each of such pieces of preferment, and the number of houses
attached to them." The return contains little or nothing
which has not already appeared under a different form, excePt
as regards the residences in connexion with the several bene-
Acee mentioned.

year which ended 31st of DecemlTer,lB497fherevenue--
account showed a free balance of 8,2411. ls. 9d. applicable
to a dividend upon the consolidated stock of the company,
and upon the six and five per cent. guaranteed shares. The
directors recommended a dividend to be declared at the rate
()f, 31/, per cent. per annum, less income-tag and 4591. 2s.
7d., the balance of revenue, to be carried to reserve account..

The report was adopted.
sour amp WESTEUN.-...
KILKENNY AND GREAT SOuf:
of this company Was
'chair. Mr. James Eadie,
13ridge-street, Westrein..
in
the following report :—" The
hOenldFriiadayth,
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stet, Mr. George Emery
meeting, have used their utmost
however,shareh osaldteisra-
compelled, very
have been reluctantly, to com-
dseircercettoarrya, to
since h e
your
last company,
proporon of the
mence legal P pending. It is,
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factory to s
the directors.
have responded to the call made upon them by
Nothing has occurred since the last half-yearly meeting
worthy of especial notice; but it is important to state that
the compulsory powers for the purchase of land will expire
on the 17th of next August. Your directors do not feel and severaltaatcetiothnastaaregrnoeawt
them-
selves justified, in the present financial position of the com-
pany, in applying to Parliament for a renewal of those
powers. —A financial statement was read, from which it ap-
peared that the total receipts of the company have been
20,4401. Is. 2d.; that the disbursements have amounted to
within 2121. of the receipts ; that the expenditure for the
last half-year has been 61. is. ld. ; and that the liabilities of
the company amount to 3,6971. 11s. 10d. The report and
statement of eccounts having been adopted, the retiring di-
rectors, Messrs. G. Emery, C. Hulse, and G. Anderson, were
re-elected. Messrs. W. H. Wilson and R. B. Trew were then
appointed auditors, and the meeting broke up.

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AMBRICAN PRESENT TO THE PRINCE of WALES.—
We inspected, a day or two since, a very unique present to
the Prince of Wales, consisting of a pair of superb sculls or
oars, enclosed in a case of black walnut, exquisitely fashioned.
The mountings are very costly, and the weight of silverthaetm-
tached to them is about eighty ounces. An&inscription on a
silver plate indicates the presentation. The sculls will be
exhibited at the Crystal Palace during the summer, and can-
notwill fbaeilatobigahttirytefitemiehuecdh
eaartttetnhtiirotnyleix feetAccom
Lilliputian sculls of the silage,f pens. The wood is white
ash, manufactured by Mr. of New York, whose repre-
sentative, Mr. Finney, is now in England. The goods have
but as 64 all the world and his wife" will be in Hyde-
gone to London, under the Customs' seal, otherwise our
townsmen would have had an opportunity of inspecting
;this year, the opportunity is not lost.—Liverpool
cent. for the half
-year.
Chronicle.
Gas Company has declared a
hfoiuterhpaevren
Some time
ago they reduced their charges from 8 s. to 45. per Imo
cubic feet.
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