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N°. 18,349.] LONDON, TUESDAY vs
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JULY 15, 185
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P.ARLI AMENTAR:VT-D1 VISIONS.

(From the Totes srtii Prucee.z...4. the Howe Comnwns

MONDAY. JULY 14.
SUPPLY.
Order for Committee read ; Motion made, nad Question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair:"
Amen.linent 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 a, ce of maintaining as national in-
stitutions the very valuable schools of medicine in Ireland,
which have derived their chief efficiency from the instruction
.fforded by the Dublin hospitAk; to the support of which for
a long series of years darliametit ha, contributed, it is unjust
and impolitic to reduce the arnount 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 :

MAJORITY-AYES, 106.
Aglionby, H. A. Forster, Matthew Parker, John
Anson, Colonel Fox, W. J. Pennant, Colonel
Armstrong, K. B. Gilpin, Colonel Perfect, Robert
liagshaw, Jolla 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, %V. H. Grenfell, C. Pascoe Richards, Richard
Bass, M. T. °mien, Charles %V. Rumbold, C. E.
Bell, Jacob 0 ey, R. W. Russell, Lord John
Bellew, w. M. Grosvenor, Earl Russell, F. C. H.
Bernal, Ralph Guest, Sir J. Salwey, Colonel
'Blair, Stephen Hall, Sir B. Scobeli, Captain
Boyle, Colonel Hedy bur ton, Lord Seymour, Lord
Brockman, E. P. Hastie, Alexander Smith, R.
I irotherton. Joseph Hawes, Benj. " Smith, J. A.
Sunbury, E. H. Heywood, James Smith, John B.
(lardwell, Edward Hodges, T. L. Smollett, A.
Carew, W. 11. P. Horsman, Edward Somerville, Sir W.
Carter, J. B. Howard, Lord E. Spooner, Richard
Christy, S. Howard, C W. G. Stanfield, W. R. C.
Clay, James Howard, E. G. Thompson, Colonel
Clifford, Henry M. Hughes, W. B. Thompson, George
Cockburn, Sir A. Hume, Joseph Thoruely, T.
Cowper, W. I'. Hutchins, E. J. Vane, Lord 11.
Craig, Sir W.G. Labouchere, Henry Villiers, Charles
Davie, Sir 11. Langston, J. li. Wall, C. B.
Divett. Edward Lewis, G. C. 'I% almsley, Sir J.
Duckworth, Sir J. Lushington, Charles Williams, W.
Duncan, George Lygon, General Wilson, James
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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. aed Mrs. C. Kann to rk their first
benefit a' managers of the Princ--se's Theatre. The
house ov ifl 'wed in every quarter. and during the eve•
fling numbers went away reluctantly from tie doors,
finding it totally impossible to guilt admittance. The
entire space usually unfitted to the orchestra WAS parti-
tioned off into eddiiional stalls, to accommodate, as we
were given to understand, parties who were anxious a:
any price to obtain private boxes. Had the latter been
trebled, all weul l have been in demand. Even the top
blips were occupied by box company in full dress, who
were unable to squeeze themselves into any ether lo-
cality. Here were rank, tashion, beauty, intelligence.
and, above all, numbers, from the nobleman of high
caste down to the simple mechanic, residents and stran-
gers, regular play-goers and chance contributors, fami-
liar faces and foreign visitors, from far and near, from
the West-end, City, and suburbs, congregated
together for one purpose sad with one feeling—
to evince the high esteem they entertain for the
two greatest 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 national drama. Such a demonstration ot
public opinion is not to be rnistekare It is an impartial
evidence voluntarily given, equally flattering as a per-
sonal compliment and conclusive as a professional judg.
meat. 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 dssert, but a
clicn.x to the steady tide of succ- ss which has ben
flowing in towards the Princess'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 horn 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
so. 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 and sub-
side from hour to hour as rapidly as the sands are shift-
ing when the glass is turned. But 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 exp,cted to take rout, like the Glastonbury
qiorn, the moment it was planted, and blossom at once
with two-told fecundity. These edifices were built
m sandy foundations. They melted like the actors in
he pageant conjured up by Ariel at the command ot
Prospero, "in.() thin air." The promise d homes proved
to be but temporary lodgings, with very indifferent
accommedateon. It appears to be reserved fur the Prin-
cess's Theatre, under Mr. li3ftif3 management, to realise
theee shadowy promises, and restore the brilliant epoch
tf Drury-laneand Covent-garden, when the stage refills
fluutished in a zenith of power and popularity—a
period which the Ceparting generation mourns over as
never -0 return. awl the ingenuous youth" who are
stepping in their pieces laugh at, with characteristic die-
regard of everything ohtt r th-:n themselves, as exagge-
rated it 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.
'rite Muses are not dead, they only slumber, and will
start into life and energy when the Promethean torah 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 must careful attention to all the accessorial
points. Those 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
,scents':, see mey etteasee:erise
diva dif Venice, Lfarda, -hi which Mr. iscan won ho
eettly Lannon laurel., in 1338, sal /bat f2,,tatblishui him-
self as a Shakum:an acter, and Henry IV., wird the
Falstaff of Bartley, as played at Windeor Cactls.
Dee 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-
collect 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
Bourcicanit—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 which 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 Gamester,
essentially sound, and universally applicable, so finely
acted as it was last night in the two principal characters,
J lid so received by such an audience, is not an occur-
eerie° of common.place interest, or confined in its effects
to the individual locality or single oceisaimi. It bears a
refl-cted influence on the stage as au instrument of
utility as well as entertainment, and becomes an era of
ome importance as regards the advancement of the
drams. It is a public lesson for the use of all studiints
in a refined, ennobling art—a moral lecture in a cap-
form, delivered in a s,houl of acknowledged
superiority. If we search the modern stage for is
p-eimen of living talent,
less open to criticism or on-
l. eti is than Bey 0 her, we may select the Beverley and
Mrs. Beverley of Mr. and Mrs. Kern, and rest satisfied
quit we have yen two very forcible dramatic conceptions
embodied throughout with atruth, apower, and adistinot-
aess which can only be mastered by comprehensive
genius, joined to long experience. Mrs. Beverley is
drawn by the author as a natural, unaff-cted personage,
as far as possible removed from a heroine, invested with
no regal loftiness of position to give solemnity to grief.
brown into no extrav 'put dangers, and encircled by no
mantle of romance. tier sorrows are purely domestic,
-uch as the humblest can understand and feel the reality
of, and which may happen to any one at any time. They
,rise 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
clay's occurrence, in the ordinary rank of educated life.
Mrs. Kean manages all this with surpassing skill and
delicacy. She can have derived scarcely any tints or
assistance from her predecessors, who bad nearly all left
the stage before her career commenced. She could have
known little of them beyond traditionary description
and vague reminiscences. Her idea of the character is
entirely her own, and in seveaal points strikingly ori-
ginal. We may select her scene with Beverley in the
second act, where she surrenders her jewels on the first
hint that he requires them, and her interview with
Stokely 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 and the first-rate artist.
Mr. Koan'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, and 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;
t laanpdhcee whois rtcceanain to L
producee
the strongest effect in the right
the most popular actor, and is in all probability the
heat. It rarely happens that the majority are wrong, or
that thousands can be wrought up to simultaneous ap-
probation unless the spark of genius has been knauled to
infl sine them. _ _ _

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Mr. and Mrs. Kan should always be seen together
in Ehn same piny to be fully appreciated. Their style
by natural t-ympathy
assimilate either or lung prAc-
Tileir powers are doubli.d by acting in uni-on.
Either deprivA of the other sv,uld be like a general
without his liOt arm, or a *hi) div. sti:d of rudoiu
and comps. Their comban-d talents were again see':
to great advantage, and with eztraordinary verbotility,