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N°.18,234.] LONDON, MONDAY E' E G MARCH 3, 1851.

DINNER TO MR. 'IIIACREADY.

humiliates the genius it condescends to flatter.—(Great
cheering.) And therefore it is that he has so lifted up that
profession to which he belongs in its proper rank amid the
liberal arts; and therefore 'it is that in glancing over the
list of our stewards we find every element of that aristocracy
upon which be has never fawned unites to render bim its
tribute of respect.—(Loud cheers.) The Ministers of
foreign nations--men among the noblest of the peers of
England—veterans of those professions of which honour is
the lifespring—the chiefs of literature and science and art—
ministers of the Church, sensible of the benefits he has
bestowed upon society in banishing from the stage what had
drawn upon it the censure of the pulpit,—all are here, and all
unite to enforce the truth, the great truth, which he leaves
to those who come after him—that let a man but honour his
calling, and the calling will soon be the honour of the man.
—(Loud and prolonged cheering.) Gentlemen, I cannot
better sum up all I would say than by the words which the
Roman orator applied to the actor of his day; and I ask you
if I may not: say of our guest as Cicero said of Roscius—" Ile
is a man who unites yet more of virtues than of talents, yet
more of truth thin of art, and who, having dignified the
scene by the.varias portraitures of human life, dignifies yet
more this assembly by the example of his own."— (Great
applause.) Gentlemen, the toast •I am about to propose to
you is connected with many sad associations, but not to-day.'
Later and lOng will be cherished whatever may be sad of
those mingled feelings that accompany this farewell—later,
when night Oiler night we shall miss front the playbill the
old familiar bathe, and feel that one source of elevated delight
is lost tot us .for ever.—(Hear, hear.) Today let us only re-
joice that he whom we so prize and admire is no wornout
veteran retiring to a rest he can no longer enjoy—(Cheers).
that he leaves us in the prime of his powers, with many
. years to come, in the course of nature, of that dignified
leisure for which every public man must have sighed in-the
midst of his trituhphi; and though we cannot say of him
got his
lc way Of life
• Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow-leaf,"
, . •
We can say that he hall pranaturairOttained .
1 that whieValiGuld 4rad age,
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effect that authors were not a particularly united body—(A
augh)—and were not devotedly and inseparably attached to
one another.—(Laughter.) He (Mr. Dickens) was afraid he
must concede jus: half 'a grain or so of truth to that super-
stition; but this he knew, that there hardly could be, or
could have been, among the followers of literature, a man
higher above those little grudges and jealousies which some-
times disfigured its brightness for a moment than Sir Edward
Bulwer Lytton.—( Hear, hear.) He had the very strongest
reason at this time to bear his testimony to. Sir. Bulwer•
Lytton's great consideration for evils which were sometimes
attendant upon literature, though not upon him I for, in con-
junction with some others who were present, he (Mr. Dickens)
had just embarked with their chairman in a design for
smoothing the rugged way of young labourers both in lite-
rature and the fine arts, and for cheering, but by no elee-
mosynary means, the declining years of meritorious age.—
(Cheers.) If that project prospered,' as lie believed it would,
and as he knew it ought to do, it would be an honour to
England where there was now a reproach upon her, and it
would have originated in the sympathy and consideration
of their chairman, having been first brought into prac-
tical operation by the unstinted gift of his intellect and
labour, and endowed from its very cradle by his mun&ent
generosity.— (Hear, hear, and cheers.) There were many
ambrig'them who would no doubt have each his own favou-
rite reason for drinking their' chairman's health with accla-
mation, resting 'his 'claim probably upon some one' of hiS
diversified successes. According to the nature of their reading,
some of them might the more naturally connect him with
prose—others with poetr"; one might associate bird With
comedy—another with the romantic passions of the stage,
and his 'assertion of worthy ambition and earnest struggles
against those twin goalers of the human heart—low birthand
iron fortune. The taste of one might lead him to contem-
plate Rienzi and the streets of Rome; another's, the rebuilt
and repeopled ruins of Pompeii; another's,- the touching his-
tory of that fireside where the Caxton family—so far a picture
to them all—learnt how to discipline their natures and to
tame their wild hopes down. (Loud cheers.) But how-
ever various those feelings and reasons might be, sure he
was that with one accord all would swell the greeting with
which they would receive " the health of Sir E. Bulwer,

A dinner was given to Mr. Macready on Saturday by his
friends and admirers, on his retirement from the stage. It
was- in the first instance intended that the entertainment
should have taken place at the London Tavern, but the ap-
plications fot tickets were so numerous that it was found im-
possible to provide the requisite accommodation in that esta-
blishment. •The Hall of Commerce was therefore !engaged
for the occasion, and the large number of additional tickets
which that arrangement enabled the committee to issue were
speedily taken up. With the exception of two , brilliant
stars in gas, having the ciphers 41, V." and " A." in the'cen-
tre, the hall was destitdte of any ornament. Upwards of 00
tickets were issued.. • • . •
By six o'clock every seat in the•hall was occupied. Soon
afterwards M. Macready, who was accompanied by the
chairman, Sir E.,l3ulwer Lytton, and the members of the
dinner committee entered the ball, atid Was received With
enthusiastic 'cheering. Among the noblemen' aqd-gentlemea
present Were his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen (the Prus-
sian Minibter), M. Van de Weyer (the Belgian Minister),
the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Dufferin., Lord. W. Graham,
Lord Ernest Bruc'e!,'Sir C. L. Eastlake, P.R.A; Mr. Charles
Dickens
Sir, E. Landseer, Captain Sir G. Back, ,Mr. C Bab-
bane, Air. W. M. Thackeray, Sir R. Murchison. Ur. C.
Kemble, Mr. J. Forster,: Lieutenant-General Sir J. Wilson,
Mr. C. Stanfield. Mr. W. J, Fox, M.P. ; -Mr. R. M. -Mines,
IILP.; Mr. *Heywood, M.P. ; Mr..D. Maclise, R.A.; Me: A.
Stafford, M.P.; Mr. C. Baring, A.A. ; Sir A.' Gordon, Mr.
C. Leslie, R,A. ; Mr. P. H. Howard, M.P. ; Mr. S. dart,
R.A. ; Mr. MacaulaA Q.C. ; Mr. D. Roberts, RA. ; _Mr. E.
Warburton,' Mr. W. F. Pollock, Mr. A. Fonblanjue, Dr.
Quin, Hon. 8. Lytteleon, Mr. 'J. Cattermole, Sir Ryan;-
Mr. Sergeant Adams, Mr. R. Rintoul, Mr. D..W. RitirV9-t.
Dr. G. R. Rowe, &c. • •
After the removal of the cloth grace was chanted, and.
The CHAIRMAN gave the " Healths or the Queen, Prince
"Albert, and tfie-Itoyal Fatally," 'which -were received with
'the usual demonstrations of loyalty. ! • •
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the, toast of." The Array
and Navy," observed That the dtama was under very gespit
obligation to the army, three of pur.drantatie writers having-A
been-cam:acted with that ;profession. Ben Jensen served,
evith-git9nlity;in,FtennAls Btettl/4.ll4l4eritiCenrierious.'

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not thin ing of the darkness that is to follow, but the
brightness of the sun that is to set, I call upon you to drink
with full glasses and full hearts, " Health, happiness, and
long life to William Macready."
The toast was drunk by the company upstanding, and was
followed by rapturous cheers, which were renewed and con-
tinued for some moments. _ _

liFfilinuarseeencoemen. *AMC/Oper 117-WIR vases.;
6Whd many of his happiest recollections to the time when he
was a lieutenant under Lord Orrery.-(Loud cheers.) He
did not remember that the navy had, in former times, contri-
buted its quota to our dramatic literature, but one of the
most brilliant wits of the present day, who had given to the
stage some of the most sparkling and enduring of English
dramas-he meant Mr. Douglas Jerrold-had been connected
with the navy.-(Haar.) For the rest, one thing was per-
fectly certain, that had it not been for the navy, in conjunc-
tion with the army, our play-loving neighbours, the French,
might have made. England itself the subject of a very dis-
agreeable tragedy.-(Laughter.)
The toast was briefly acknowledged by Lieut.-General Sir
J. WeLsoet on behalf of the army, and by Captain Sir G.
BACK for the navy.
The CHAIRMAN then rose, and said-Gentlemen, when I
glance through this vast hall, and feel how weak and indis-
tinct is my voice, I feel that I must frankly throw myself on
your indulgence, and intreat your most patient and courte-
ous attention while I approach that subject which unites
to-day an assembly so remarkable for the numbers and
distinction of those who compose it. We are met to do
honour to an eminent man, who retires into private life after
those services to the public which are always most felt at
the moment we are about to lose them.-(Hear.) There
are many among you far better qualified than I am to speak
critically of the merits of Mr. Macready as an actor; but
placed as I am in this chair, I feel that I should justly dis-
appoint you if I did not seek to give some utterance to those
sentiments of admiration of which you have made me the
representative. Gentlemen, this morning I read in one of
the literary journals some qualifying remarks as to the de-
gree of Mr. Macready's genius ; and now, as I recognise here
many who are devoted to literature and art, I will ask them
if I am not right in this doctrine-that the true measure of
the genius of an artist is the degreeeof excellence to which
he brings the art that he cultivates.-(Hear, hear.) Judge
of Mr. Macready by this test, and how great is that genius
that will delight us no. more-(Hear, hear, and cheers)-for
it is because it has so achieved what I will call the symmetry
of art that its height and its breadth have been often forgot-
ten.-(Hear, hear.) We know that it is the uneven and irre-
gular surface that strikes us as the largest, and the dimen-
sions of a genius, like those of a building, are lost in the just-
ness of its proportions-(Applause)-and therefore it is that
in recalling the surpassing excellence of our guest as an ar-
tistical performer, one is really at a loss to say in what line of
character he has excelled the most. The Titanic grandeur of
Lear, the human debasement of Werner, tae frank vivacity
of Henry the Fifth, the gloomy and timorous gilt of King
John, or that-his last-personation of Macbeth, in which it
seemed to me that he conveyed a more exact notion of what
Shakspere designed than I can recollect to have read in the
most profound of the German critics; for I take it, what
Shakspere meant to represent in Macbeth was the kind of
character which is most liable to be influenced by a belief
in supernatural agents-a man who is acutely sensible to all
impressions, who has a restless imagination more powerful
than his will, who sees daggers in the air and ghosts in
the banquet hall - who has a moral weakness and a physi-
cal courage, and who-as our guest represented him-alter-
nates perpetually between terror and daring-a trembler when
oppressed by his conscience, and a warrior when defied by.
his foe.-(Loud cheering.) But in this, as in all that num-
berless crowd of characters which is too fresh in your memo-
ries for me to enumerate, we don't so much say, " How
well this was spoken," or " How finely that was acted,"
but we feel within ourselves how true was the persona-
tion of the whole.-(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Gentle-
men, there is a word that is often applied to artists and
to authors, and I think we always apply it improperly when
we speak of a superior intellect- I mean the word " ver-
satile." Now, I think the proper word is " comprehen-
sive." The man of genius does not vary and change, which
is the meaning of the word versatile, but he has a mind
sufficiently expanded to comprehend variety and change. If
I can succeed in describing the eircle, I can draw as many
lines as I please from the centre straight to the circumference,
but it must be upon the condition-for that is the mathema-
tical law-that all these lines shall be equal one to the other,
or it is not a circle that I describe. Now, I do not say our
guest is versatile ; I say that he is comprehensive.-( Hear,
hear, and cheers)-and the proof that he has mastered the
most perfect form of the comprehensive faculty is this-that
all the lines he has created within the range of his art are
equal the one to the other.-(Loud cheering.) And this,
gentlemen, explains to us that originality which even his de-
tractors have conceded to him. Every great actor has his
manner, as every great writer has his style.-(Hear, hear.)
But the originality of our guest dces not consist in his man-
ner alone, but in his singular depth of thought.- (Cheers.)
He has not only accomplished the obvious and essential
graces of the actor-the look, the gesture, the intonation,
the stage play-but he has placed his study far
deeper. He has sought to penetrate into the subtlest in-
tentions of the poet, and made poetry itself the golden key to
the secrets of the human heart.-(Cheers.) He was original,
because he never sought to be original, but to be truthful ;
because, in a word, he was as conscientious in his art as he
is in his actions. - (Loud cheering.) Gentlemen, there is
one merit of our guest as an actor upon which, if I were
silent, I should indeed be ungrateful. Many a great per-
former may attain to a high reputation if he restrains his
talents to acting Shakspere and the great writers of the past;
but it is perfectly clear that in so doing he does not advance
one inch the literature of his time. It has been the merit of
our guest to recognize the truth that the actor has it in his
power to assist in creating the writer.-(Hear, bear.) He
has identified himself with the living drama of his period, and
by so doing he has half created it.-(Cheers.) Who does not
recollect the rough and manly vigour of Tell, the simple
grandeur of Virginius, or the exquisite sweetness and dignity
and pathos with which he invested the self- sacrifice of lon ?-
(Loud cheering.) And who does not feel that but for him
these great plays might•never have obtained their hold upon
the stage, or ranked among those masterpieces which this
age will leave to posterity. - (Renewed cheers.) And what
charm and what grace, not their own, he has given to the
lesser works of au inferior writer, it is not for me to say.-
(Loud and continued cheering.) But, gentlemen, all this, in
which he has sought to rally round him the dramatic writers
of his time, brines me at once from the merits of the actor
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 -AI-leer, 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 half the richness and
depth of his conceptions.-(Loud cheers.) But that was the
least merit of that glorious management. Mr. Macready
rot only enriched the scene, but he purified the audience-
(Hear)-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 them 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 occasion 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 knoen in secret, has always appeared to
me to be out of place upon public cccasions; 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 ge-
neral 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?-(Year, hear.) The great may have sought in him
the accomplished gentleman, but he has never stooped his
bold froneas an Englishman to court any patronage meaner
than the public, or to Due for the amiles with which Whim

acknowledged by the Chairman, who obsel.ted that the com-
pliment was the more gratifying to him as it proceeded from
an assemblage comprising so many of his own fellow
labourers.

_
M. VAN DE WETER, in, proposing " the Artists, and Sir
Charles Eastlake," said he was grateful. to the chairman for
having intrusted this duty to him, because he considered that
a compliment was thus paid to the country he represented—
a country upon which the cultivation of art had thrown an
immortal lustre, and which, since the restoration of its inde-
pendence, had witnessed with just national pride the glorious
revival of its ancient school.—(Cheers.) He might observe
that the genius of that great dramatic artist to whom they
had assembled to pay their tribute of admiration had recently
received a just homage from the greatest living French prose
writer, George Sand, who had placed—to use her own ex-
pression—under the protection of his great name and of his
friendship, her own views upon dramatic art. It must be to
them, as it was to him, a source of extreme gratification to
see in that assembly the most eminent representatives of art
in all its various branches. They knew how all the arts
were linked together, and when dramatic poetry was united
with painting, sculpture, architecture, and music, it offered
to man the most ennobling pleasure his mind could enjoy.
He might be allowed to make one incidental remark on
this subject. No foreigner could visit the English theatres
without being struck with the extraordinary talent, the
real genius, the richness of imagination, the picturesque-
ness of the colouring, and the beauty of the architecture
displayed by the artists in scenic decorations—the last of
which qualities he must say he had often wished to see
transferred from the stage to the streets of,that metropolis—
(Laughter and cheers)—where there were certainly some
architectural enormities, which weighed as heavily upon the
soil as no doubt they did upon the consciences of the mis-
taken artists who perpetrated them.—(Laughter.) He had,
since be had been in England, heard many doleful lamenta-
tions on the decay of British art, but he was not one of those
who shared in that feeling. Was there, he asked, any school
of painting which, in less than a century of existence, had
produced so many eminent artists as the English ? Among
the dead they had Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough,
Wilkie, and many others. Among the living they had East-
lake, with his brillant colouring and exquisite taste; Land-
seer, whose pictures were poems— (Cheers)—Maclise, whose
translations from Shakspere were in the memory of all ;
Stansfield, whose pictures were full of life and freshness;
Leslie, the worthy interpreter of Cervantes, of Sterne, and of
Goldsmith ; and Turner, whose genius had inspired the
pages of the most eloquent moral and religious book ever
published in this or any other age.— (Cheers.) He thought,
then, it would be seen that there were talent and genius in
the English school equal to the greatest requirements of art.
Sir C. EASTLAKE, in acknowledging the toast, expressed
his concurrence in the recommendation of his Excellency
that the architectural scenery sometimes exhibited on the
stage should be imitated in the streets of the metropolis.—
(Cheers and laughter.) He bore his testimony to the ad-
miration he had uniformly heard expressed by the artists of
this country of the judicious representations which Mr.
Macready had promoted.
Mr. JOHN FORSTER, in proposing the next toast, " Dra-
matic Literature," observed that it was peculiar;y the glory
of Mr. Macready's career that his name was equally allied
with present and past dramatic literature, and that it would
hereafter he associated with a long line of original poetic
creations which first derived form from the inspiration of
his art. After referring to the connexion of Mr. Macready,
as an actor, with the dramas of Lord Byron, Sir Bulwer
Lytton, Mr. Knowles, Mr. Justice Talfourd (whose judicial
duties prevented him from attending), Mr. Proctor, the Rev.
Mr. White, Mr. Sheil, Miss Mitford, Douglas Jerrold, and
others, Mr. Forster stated that his friend the Poet Laureate,
Alfred Tennyson, had intrusted him with a few lines of poetry
addressed to their distinguished guest, which with the per-
mission of the assembly he would read.— (Loud cries of
" Read, read.") Mr. Forster proceeded to read the following
lines, which were received with much applause :
" Farewell, ➢lacready ; since to-night we part.
Full-handed thunders often have confest
Thy power, well used to move the public breast.
We thank thee with one voice, and from the heart.
Farewell, Macready ; since this night we part.
Go, take thine honours home; rank with the best—
Garrick, and stateli -r Kemble, and the rest
Who made a nation purer thro' their art.
Thine is it that our Drama did not die,
Nor flicker down to brainless Pantomime,
And those gilt gauds men-children swarm to see.
Farewell, Macready; moral, grave, sublime.
Our Shakspere's bland and universal eye
Dwells pleased, thro' twice a hundred years, on thee.'

Mr. MACREADY, on rising, was received with a fresh out-
burst of cheering and the waving of handkerchiefs. He
said—l rise to thank you, I should say to attempt to thank
you, for I feel the task is far beyond my power. What can
I say in reply to all that the kindly feeling of my friend
has dictated? I have not the skill to arrange and dress in
attractive language the thoughts that press upon me, and
my incompetency may perhaps appear like a want of sensi-
bility to your kindness, for we are taught to believe that out
of the heart's fulness the mouth speaks. But my difficulty,
let me assure you, is a contradiction to this moral.—(Cheers.)
I have to thank my friend, your distinguished chairman, for
proposing my health to you, and for the eloquence—may I
not add the brillant fancy ?—with which he has enriched and
graced his subject. But that we may readily expect from
him who in the wide and discursive range of his genius
touches nothing that he does not adorn.—( Hear, hear, and
cheers.) I have to thank you for the cordiality and—if I
may, without presumption say so—the enthusiasm with
which the compliment proposed has been received, and for
the honour—never to be forgotten—that you have con-
ferred on me by making me your guest to-day.
Never before have I been so oppressed with a sense of my
deficiency as at this moment, looking on this assemblage of
sympathising friends, crowded here to offer me the sponta-
neous testimony of their regard. I observe among you many
who for years have been the encouraging companions of my
course; and there are present, too, those who have cheered
even my very earliest efforts. To all who have united in
this crowning tribute, so far beyond my dues or es pecta-
tions—to my old friends, the friends of many years, who
welcomed me with hopeful greeting in the morningshofoud
myl
professional life, and to the younger ones, who now gather
round to shed more brightness on my setting, I
wish to pour forth the abundant expression of my grati-
tude.—(Loud cheering.) You are not, I think, aware of
the full extent of my obligations to you. Independent of
the substantial benefits due to a liberal appreciation of
my exertions, my very position in society is determined by
the stamp which your approbation has set upon my humble
efforts—(Cheers)—and let me unhesitatingly affirm that
without undervaluing the accident of birth or
titular distinction, I would not exchange the grateful pride
of your good opinion, which you have given me the right to
cherish, for any favour or advancement that the more privi-
leged in station could receive.—(Great cheering.) I really
am too much oppressed, too much overcome, to attempt to
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rising actors may keep the loftiest look, may hold the most
elevated views of the duties of their calling.—(Hear, hear,
and cheers.) I would hope that they will strive to elevate
their art, and siaso to raise themselves above the level of the
player's easy life to public regard and distinction by a faith-
ful ministry to the genius of our incomparable ShAspere.—
(Cheers.) To effect this creditable purpose they must bring
resolute energy and unfaltering labour to their work ; they
' must be content "to spurn delights and live laborious
days;" they must remember that whateer is excellent in
art must spring from labour and endurance.
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—(Loud applause.) This, gentlemen, I can assure you, was
the doctrine of our own Siddons and of the great Telma—
(Hear, hear)—and this is the faith I have held as one of
their humblest disciples. Of my direction of the two:patent
theatres, on which my friend has so kindly dilated, I wish
to say but little. The preamble of their patents recites, as
a condition of their grant, that the theatres shall he insti-
tuted for the promotion of virtue, and to be instructive to the
human race. I think these are the words. I can only say
that it was my ambition, to the best of my ability, to obey
that injunction —(Hear, hear, and cheers)—and, believing
in the principle that property has its duties as well as its
rights, I conceived that the proprietors should have co-
operated with me.—(Loud and general cries of " Hear,
hear.") They thought otherwise, and I was reluctantly
compelled to relinquish, on disadvantageous terms, my
half-achieved enterprise. Others will take up this uncom-
pleted work, and if inquiry were set on foot for one best
qualified to undertake the task, I should seek him in
the theatre which, by eight years' labour, he has, from
the most degraded condition, raised high in public estima-
tion, not only as regards the intelligence and respectability
of his audiences, but by the learned and tasteful spirit of his
nroductions.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I shall not detain you
longer. All that I could desire, and far more than I ever
could expect, you have conferred upon me in the honour you
have done me to-day. It will be a memory that must remain
as an actual possession to me and mine which nothing in life
can take from us. The repetition of thanks adds little to
their force, and, therefore, deeply as I am already obliged to
you, I must draw still further on your indulgence. You
have had faith in my. zeal for your service; you will, I am
sure, continue that faith in my gratitude for the value you
have set upon it. Wi▪ th a heart more full than the glass I
hold, I return you my most grateful thanks, and have the
honour of drinking all your healths.
(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 mustsay
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
requisites, was a presidenti who, less by his social position—
which might come by inheritance, or by his fortune—which
might be adventitiously won or accidentally lost—(A laugh)
—than by his comprehensive 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 him were no
Wednesday night,
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import and a comfort—to
thatpresent
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son—verythem, which had for many years proved and charmed
B.las once served.—
re whether it was a
them, and to which they had looked for en elevated re-
lief from the labours of their lives, faded from their sight
for ever.—(Cheers.) He would not stop to inquire whether
stop to Gil
their guest might or might not have looked forward, through
• rather too long a period for them, to some remote and distant
time when be might possibly bear some far-ofi likeness to a
certaina ug h
t(Laughter.)
. ) SpanishN oArrwchoublisdhhoe to inquire Archbishop whom
reasonable disposition in the audience of Wednesday to seize
upon the words—

The CHAIRMAN said, they were honoured by the presence
of the representative of a country to which they were in-
debted for the profoundest analytical criticisms of Shakspere
—he alluded to the Prussian Minister, Chevalier Bunsen—
(Cheers)—and he begged to propose, " The German expo-
nents of Shakspere," in connexion with that distinguished
individual.
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. Ile is not a true German who does not gratefully
acknowledge that fact.—(Cheers.) When, after one century
of bloody internal wars, and another of benumbment, about
bO 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, Lessing arose, and in pure classical German proved
that our models must be looked for somewhere else, and par-
ticularly in the dramatic art. Lessing pointed to two great
constellations—the Athenian theatre and William Shakspere.
He did more -he united with a great and genial actor,
Schroeder, at llamburgh, 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. .iEschylus, and Sophocles, and
William Shakspere for ever !—(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 Sbakspere 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 bl 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 yorurl
and the world's greatest dramatist—the voice of our gra.te:
and reverent love to our saving and inspiring
your pardon for having been so prolix on this point,
Sir, I confess I have never been
able to understand how one can love " ,‘..ihakspere's Plays"
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" 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
how in his own mind he mainly connected that occasion
with the present. When he looked round on the vast assem-
blage of Wednesday, and observed the huge pit hushed into
stillness on the rising of the curtain, and when he saw the
misty surging gallery, where men in their shirtsleeves were
at first striking out their arms like strong swimmers—
(Laughter)—become still water in 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 here to-night they undertook to represent something
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 to the half-un-
dressed gentleman— (Great laughter)—who was biding his
time for taking some refreshment in the hick 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 )--ind 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 'right 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 be
was so bright an ornament, and never condescending to
shuffle it oil and leave it outside State rooms, as a Mussul-
man might leave his slippers outside a mosque.—(Laughter.)
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actor is infinitely more necessary to reproduce the author's
idea of a play than a good musical director is required fur
the understanding of a great musical composition. You can
set tunes and harmonies to notes, but not words and sentences
to declamation. And what can you prescribe for action?
The great actor is the real 'hypophetes of the prophet, the
best interpreter of his meaning, and nothing less than his
whole person, his body, mind, and soul are required for per-
forming that great 'task. In the age in which welive it is
not the question whether we are to have a national theatre.
or not. The question only is, whether the theatre is to be
conducted by libretto-makers and mechanical or mercantile
managers, or whether it is to be regulated by first-rate men
both of intellect and of moral courage. The question is
whether we shall allow it to be disgraced into a slave of
fashion and low amusement, or whether it is to be upheld
as a high intellectual and moral school, nourished by thin
best feelings of the nation, or worthy of the support of an
enlightened national Government. Gentlemen, I think we
all agree about this alternative. It is our cordial agree-
ment on this question which has collected us also to-day
around our justly honoured guest. The German literature
and nation have long decided that question in the -same
way. I have already mentioned that Lessing allied him-
self with Schroder, the celebrated German actor of his time,
In the same manner GOethe dedicated a great part of
.his
long, laborious, mad self-devoted life to creating and main-
taining a national theatre, and so did Ludwig Tiek for many'.
years at Dresden and Berlin. 1 think that precious as their
time was it was well bestowed upon this great object ;sand I
cannot allow this occasion to pass. without mentioning a fact
directly bearing upon this occasion, that when Ludwig
Tiek was, in 1817, in London, he was struck by a young
actor then only beginning to appear before the public:
He did not see him in ,a Shaksperian play—the particular.
object of his devoted attention, but in a now forgotten
drama of the day/ a character neither attractive nor
deeply pleticaL But, nevertheless, he was struck by that
young actor in the midst of the splendid constel-
lations which then shone on the English stage. " If this
young man," Tiek says, in his dramaturgic letters of 1817,
" goes on as he has begun, he will become one of the most
emineni actors of the. age." The young man's name was
blaaready.--(Egoutl.elteert.) Gentlemen, there ,re-
maliti-tairig more Vie" payperennaltrtlfes trV-
bute of sincere admiration arid gratitude to him by whose
side I have to-day the distinguished honour to sit. HaVing
watched him attentively during the ten years I have had
the happiness to spend in this country, I do not know
whether I admire him more as the man who has made me
understand Macbeth and Hamlet—and above all Lear—
better than I ever understood them before, or as the high-
minded manager, and as the man of character who has
often staked his very existence on his great and noble object,
which was—to raise the standard of his art, to elevate the
English actor, and to purify and ennoble the national stage.
And I finally wish you joy, gentlemen, that ycu have cele-
brated the retirement of this man from the stage in a manner'
which honours both him and yourselves, and which is full of
European and universal interest ; and I conclude by express-
ing my deep-felt gratitude for having associated me with
your feelings.—(Cheers.)
Mr. W. J. Fox next rose, and said,—Mr. Chairman and
gentlemen, Shakspere has told us, through the lips of a
melancholy moralist, that " All the world's a stage ;" pro-
bably many of those 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—have felt their connexion with it; grow with
their growth as they advanced and expanded from, we'll
say, Prince Arthur 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 better than he found it, so it is the actual
achievement of our honoured guest that he leaves the stage
better than he found 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 be 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 the
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 peculiarly gifted, possessed within himself
the grand combination of all those powers. And even he
might have entrusted, without the slightest alarm, the re-
presentation of his heroes to the genius of a Macready. He
leaves the stage better than he found it, for he has 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 and 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 accurate 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. He
leaves the stage better than he found it, for, although his
own management of it was short, 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 supposition as a permanent
decline of human nature. Though there have been seasons
in which the drama has been corrupted and discouraged, it

.ILWAY INTELLIt
A;EAT NORTIIERN.—The statement of . and ex-
penditure for the half-year ending the iecember last
shows that 7.831,022/. had been recei on capital account,
including 4,800,264/. on the ordinary shares, 1,289,635/. on
preference shares, and 1,696,122/. loans on mortgage. The
expenditure amounts to 7,464,431/., including 463,2251. pre-
liminary expenses to passing of Act, 10,6821. for directors and
auditors, 21,589/. secretary-, eflicers, and clerks, 131,4661.
law and engineering, 1,511,560/. land and compensation,
4,042, 9071., works and matertals, 11,965/., machinery and
tools, 266,6861. engines and tenders, 251,5351. carrying stock,
19,290/. Foss navigatiOns rent account, 573,602/. interest on
capital and advances, 5,554/. stamps for mortgage deeds,
65,424/. to complete works of East Lincolnshire Railway, and
7,0191. on permanent way of ditto; and 78,3991. on the
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway account. The
balance remaining in band amounts to 336,590/., consisting of
249,9391. in cash, and. 86,651/. invested in South Yorkshire
and other shares. The expenditure during the half-year
amounts to 1,071,468/. The revenue account for the hail.-
year ending the 31st of December last states that 156,822/.
had been received, including 91,1611 for passengers, 27,463/.
for goods and merchandise, and 13,6451. coals and minerals ;
and 66,977/. expended, of which 6,551/. was for maintenanee
of ways and works, 24,611/ locomotive power, 27,818/.
coaching, merchandise, and station expenses, 1,272/. rates
and taxes, and 3,0811. Government duty—leaving a balance
of 89,845/. To this sum is added 7,9001, the balance front
the preceding account in June, 1850, making 97,745/. Out
of this sum is deducted 19,396/. for interest ou perpetual 5
her cent. preference capital ; 18,000/. guaranteed rent of 6 per
cent. on 600,000/.,. capital of East Lincolnshire Railway;
2,370/. ct 6 per cent. on Royston and Hitchin Railway capi-
tal of 200,000/. (being at the rate of 12,000/. per annum),
due from the 21st of October, the day of opening, to the
31st of December last; 1,2021. interest of bond debt of
East Lincolnshire; 4,223:. balance of loss on Witham Navi-
gation, leaving a balance of 52,552/. From this sum
~6,1641. is deducted for one quarter's interest, accrued from
'the 30th of September to the 31st of December last, on
1'03,454/. preference shares; and 15,8981., being one-half the

six months' interest dna (31,7970, and paid-on the 15th .
of January, 1851, on the mortgage debt of the
company, the' other -half -(15,8981.) lining charged to
capital, leaving a disposable surplus from revenue of
262189 L The revenue account of the Fossdyke and.Witha4ll
Navigation for the half-year shows a receipt of 7,0634 and
an expenditure of 11,2871., leaving a balance. of 4,2231. to
the debit of revenue account. The length of the line open
prior to the 7th of Augdst was 146 miles. On the 7th of
AugUst last the line from London to Peterborough (a
,tance of 77 miles) was opened, and on the 21st of October
the branch from Hitchin, to-Royston (13 miles) was opened,
making the total to that date 236 miles. The number of
miles run by the engines was 967,302. The consumption of
coke averaged 30.11b'. per mile run by the engines, being
2.53 d. per mile, and for the trains 2.96 d. per mile, The
working charges for the half-year were-66,9774 being 42.87
per cent. of the gross receipts, and amounting to Is. 744.
per mile per train on the 826,739 miles run by the trains.
The maintenance of way is charged on 143 miles, the other
90 miles are at present maintained by the contractor. The
original share capital now consists of 146,491 25/. shares,
250 251. shares in suspense, 45,588 A 12/. 10s. shares, and
45,538 B 12/. 10& shares. When the account is fairly ad..
justed the number of preference shares may, to a trifling ex-
tent, be more or less than 103,454.

NORFOLK.—The half-yearly meeting of this company took
place on Friday, at Guildhall-buildings, Major Tyndale in
the chair. The secretary read the advertisement convening
the meeting, and also one which stated that the business of
the meeting would be adjourned. The chairman said the
directors had deemed it advisable, in the present circum-
stances of the amalgamation scheme, to adjourn the meeting
till the 27th of March next. Major Court objected to the
adjournment, and moved an amendment, to the effect that
the business of the meeting be continued, but there being
no seconder, the adjournment was carried.
MARYPORT AND CARLISLE.—From the report to be pre-
sented to the meeting of shareholders on Wednesday, we
learn that the gross traffic of the half-year ending the 31st
December, 1850, amounts to 17,9201. is. Id. ; expenditure
15.280/. 7s. 6d. ; the disposable balance being 2,709/. 13s. sd.
6,593 12/. 10s. preference shares, bearing 4 per cent. interest,
amounting to 82,4121. 10s. have been issued and taken up,
and a corresponding amount of debenture notes and tempo-
rary loans paid off and cancelled. The balance due from
Mr. Hudson having been ascertained and agreed to, has
been paid ; and a dividend of 15s. per share is mans.
mended, being at the rate of 31. per cent. per annum, to
be paid.
EAST AND WEST YORKSHIRE.--The ordinary half-yearly
meeting of shareholders in this company was held in Leeds
on Friday. 0. W. Nell, Esq., presiding. The report stated
that the revenue account (after deducting 186/. 19s. 9d., the
balance of last half-year), showed the sum of 2,375/. Bs. Bd.
as receipts for the half-year ending 31st December last, being
an excess of 3991. I Is. 7d. over the corresponding six months
of the previous year. The report was adopted unanimously,
and a dividend of 6 per cent. per annum was declared on the
preference shares of the company.
BOLTON, BLACKBURN, CLITIIEROE, AND WEST YORKSHIRE.
—The eighth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was
held on Friday, at their station, Darwent-street. W. H.
Hornby, Esq., the chairman, presided. The Chairman re-
gretted very much that the traffic receipts had not equalled
the expectations of the directors. They anticipated that six
months after the:Clitheroe line had been opened the receipts
would have been I,oooir per week. If it had been so, the corn•
pany would have been able to have met all their engagements.
It was true that the line was not in that state of completion
which the directors could have wished, for there was only one
line of rails from Blackburn to Clitheroe, and no sidings at
any of the stations. The working expenses, since the terms
which had been agreed upon between the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, had been reduced 40 per cent., which was a great
benefit to the company. The new arrangements had not
increased the amount of traffic upon the Bolton and Black-
burn line, a fact which led him to regret that the terms of
the East Lancashire Company had been rejected. With re-
ference to the preference shares, the directors had resolved

to withdraw their original proposition, namely, that the in-
terest on those shares should be reduced from six to five per
cent. A majority of the preference shareholders had agreed
to the reduction, but still there were a number who were op-
posed to it—a number which did not warrant the directors
in carrying out their proposition—a number which might
have caused considerable opposit ion_hereater, anclArbrolt, in
addition to causing heavy legal expenses, might eventually
have proved successful. He thought the proposit on a very
fair one; for, as the line was in difficulties, it was only right
that the ilreference shareholders should bear a part of the

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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 bean 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 Aschylus. 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 hisretirement, 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 a gratifying 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. Blacready'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 from
his profession.— (Cheers.) You will then, lam surse,fbor
not much surprised if I say that I feel utterly at as
dht
agha r te.e
honours you have done me. I will not, therefore,
a of you to
which I feel to be impossible, but I earnestly entreatle,
b nor the less
words to give adequate expression of rev thatntken:fpootsr
believe that I am not the less deeply senusr,
you have con-
highly flattered, by the very signal
favour
in the desire,
ferred upon me. I confess I am
If and at the same time
ment—one more satisfactory
tharnvisv the honour to drink all
more acceptable to you
but only in the ability,
ttoo mpraekveeaancdkntho
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will permit me I will now sit
your good healths, and?
if
you will permit me I will now sit
down, for I have not atrenth te enter into any remarks upon
down, for I have not strengame
of Mts. Macready
'valet
the stage with which my
nt my doing so now, which
many personal
at another time.—(Cheering.)
• ht not influence me
might 1 arn sory to inform you that Mr.
The vHADOIAN-.Na• a moresns ectunwn suitablee
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Mr. 31ACREADY returned thanks.
Lord DUFF ERIN proposed " The Ladies."
The Chairman then vacated the chair, and the meeting
gA ocri;;;t4ti
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broke up at a quarter before twelve o'clock.
and her Family."--(Loud cheers.)

burden. Tile surplus of 3,0001. which appeared in the ac-
counts had already been appropriated to the carr‘ log on of
the works. The directors' report was then adopted.
LavEaroor, CROSBY, AND SouTiiroßy. The seventh
half yearly meeting of the proprietors of this railway took
place on Friday, at the Ciareudon Rooms, Liverpool. W.

'Earle, Esq., presided. The attendance was not very nume-
rous. The accounts for the half-year showed a balance to
the credit of revenue of 4,198/. 6s. 10d., from which the di-
rectors recommended the payment of a dividend, at the rate
of 2 per cent. for the past half-year, leaving a balance to be
carried forward of 83M1. The directors' report was adopted.
TAW VALE.—On Friday, the half-yearly general meeting
of the proprietors was held at the London Tavern ; John

Sharland, Esq., in the chair. The secretary read the report,
which stated, since the last meeting the directors had liqui-
dated 12,0001. of the liabilities, estimated at that time at
20,0001. They had also entered conditionally into a guaran-
teed contract for constructing the remaining twenty-six miles
of the line from Umberleigh to Creditor), for a sum within
the share capital of the company, namely, 441,0001.
They had also entered into a contract with Mr. Brassey for
leasing the line, for a term of seven years, determinable
however, at the option of the company, that gentleman find-
ing all plant, and paying all outgoing, at a rental of 12,0001.
per annum. A committee of the board had visited all the
principal towns in the locality of the line, to make arrange-
ments for raising the 50,000/. in shares, in land or money,
conformably with the resolutions of the special meeting of
the 28th February, 1850, as the condition on which the di-
rectors might prosecute the works. This committee had re-
cently. returned from its visit, and, owing to the landowners
not being prepared to name prices for their land, and the re-
sident committees appointed in the several towns not having
concluded their labours, the directors are unable, at this pe-
riod, to announce the entire subscription of 50,0001. They
believe they can safely announce that more than half that
sum has been accomplished, or promised, and generally they
find a great desire on every side to see the line completed, as
well as to support it as far as individual means will allow.
The receipts had been 177,471/., and the balance was 6,669/.
The report was adopted, and the thanks cf the meeting were
voted to the directors.

MANCHESTER AND SOUTIIPORT.—The half-yearly meeting
of the shareholders was held on Friday. It is one of the
companies amalgamated with the Lancashire and Yorkshire,
and takes a dividend of 1 per cent. less than that company.
Mr. Gill, chairman of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Com-
pany presided, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire dividend
having been fixed at 2 per cent., the present meeting simply
had to declare a dividend of I per cent., which they did, and
then separated.
MONELAND. —The sixth general ordinary meeting of the
shareholders of the Monkland Railway Company was held
on Thursday. at the company's office, West George-street,
John Bain, Esq., of Morriston, is the chair. The receipts
from traffic show an increase of 931.75. 10d. on the last, as
compared with the preceding half-year. The net revenue
is 8891. 9s. more than it was for the previous six months,
but it is 2641. 15s. 6d. less than the net revenue for the half-
year which ended 31st of December, 1849. The revenue
account showed a free balance of 8,241/. is. 9d. applicable
to a dividend upon the consolidated stock of the company,
and upon the six and five per cent. guaranteed shares. Thet
to
re directors recommended a dividend to be declad a be_
r
dt4ts9t. 2s.
of 31A per cent. per annum, less income-tax ;
7d., the balance of revenue, to be carried to reservean account.
The report was adopted.
KILKENNY AND GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN.--
g_ o.f this company was
On Friday, the half-yearly meeting
held in the King's Arms
nTatvheer Bridge-street, Westmin-
chair. Mr. James Eadie,.
ster, Mr. George Emery
secretary to the iread the following report The
company',meeting, have used their utmost •
directors, since lastyOUTte
the outstanding liabilities of the com-
exert.ions to
have bean compelled, very reluctantly, to com-
pany. They
dings against the shareholders in arrear,
mence legal proceedings
and several actions are now pending. It is, however, satis-
factory to state that a great proportion of the shareholders
have responded to the call made upon them by the directors.
Nothi.ng 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 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. ls. Id. ; and that the liabilities of
the company amount to 3,6971. lls. 10d. The report and
statement of recounts 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.

AMERICAN 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 a shyer at-
tached to them is about eighty ounces. Antinscription on a
silver plate indicates the presentation. The sculls will be
exhibited at the Crystal Palace during the simmer, and can-
not fail to attract much attention. Accompanying them
will be a highly-finished oar, thirty-six feet long. and two
Lilliputian sculls of the size of pens. The wood is white
ash, manufactured by Mr. Page, of New York, whose repre-
sentative, Mr. Finney, is now in___ England. The goods have
gone to Loudon, under had
world a
nd an opportunity of inspecting
Hyde-
them; ; but as " all the h
ear, the opportunity is wife" will be in Hyde-
is not lost.—Liverpool
park this y
Chronicle. . .
The Whitehaven Gas Company has declared a
dividend of four per cent. for the half-year. Same titre
ago they reduced their charges from Sc.s to 45. per 1,000
cubto feet.

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,
succentor, prebendary, or canon, together with the value of
each of such pieces of preferment, and the number of hong'
attached to them." The return contains little or nothing
which has not already appeared under a different form, except
as regards the residences in connez.ion with the several bene-
ficei inentivued.