The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-25 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL ARR ANC; dITENTS.

The three vacant Garters in the gift of Lord
PALMERSTON have been conferred upon the Dukes
,f WELLINGTON and NORFOLK, and the Earl of
UARROWBY.

Mr. HAYTER is to be made a Baronet.
M. GRIFFITIES, the distinguished Irish civil
engineer, is also to be made a Baronet.
On Friday a Privy Council will be held, at which
the resignations of the late Administration will be
completed, and the new Ministers will receive the
seals of office.

On that day
also Parliament will adjourn for
about ten days to aff ,rd timq for the elections.

AVOTHER OANAi-D OF TIII "TIMES."

The great morning organ, professing to be so
well-informed as to the Minsterial appointments;
has announced for the last two days that Major J.
STUART WORTLET was tO be the TJtrier Secretary
!or War. Thin was a mere invention of our great
contemporary. By no one else was the honourable
member for Honiton ever thought of.
The only offer ever made to till the office was to
Viscount HA.RDINGE, by whom it was immediately
accepted.

We are als) enabled to state that the Duke of
BEAUFORT has accepted the office of Master of the
Horse,

PRINCESI'S THEATRE.

The revival of " Louis the Eleventh" last night, after
an interval of two years, afforded Mr. Cliar'es Kean an
Opportunity of displaying one of his elaborate and
poit-hed impersonations. Perfect alike in perception
end execution, his performance was without spot or
blemish. fle euccesded in completely identifying hicuseF
for the time being with the hypocritical, suspicious, and
jowar.lly tyrant, at all times rea ly to commit ant
atrocity, but striving to keep his accounts square witi
(leaven, by an affectation of piety, largely combined with
orperstition. We saw before us not the actor, but the
man, the cold-blooded miscreant, only to be influenesd '
by selfish fear, such as Scott delineated, and Casinier
Do LA Vigne elaborated. The part was to a certain
exteet an ungracious one, for villany is ever repulsive,
bat Mr. Kean disregarded all such considerations, and
consciention,ly interpreted the varied feelings by wLich
the king was actuated, and concentrated the entire in-
terest on one that would otlrer wise be detested. It was
the force of character, the terrible impress of the werk-
L 1,4: of the mind. We felt that he was indeed " holding
the mirror rap to nature"—that Louis the Eleventh was
re-uscitatspi and appeared corporeally before us, " 4:04
est celare artem," and never was the rule more clearly oa
' more powerfally illustrated !
Mr. Kean had in one respect a great advantage. The
part was purely his own, 113 was net trammelled by
existing COD vontionalities. It was his original part, and
we fancy no living artist will eirive to carpets with him
therein. There were no different readings, no tradi-
tional points, to embarrass the judgment or to enable the
laudator Imports acti to depreciate him by a comparison
with some halt-forgo!ten hero of his mere
vigorous youth and fresher feeling. The oharge
of plagiarism could not be fabiicated, the would-be critic
as deprived cf the most potent instrument of his craft.
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of any kind. It is almost needless to sav that the house
,cps; crowded in every part. Tile wonderful exhibition
was thoroughly appreciated, and enthusiastic applause
greeted the most telling pointy.
A. contemporary (the Times) truly declares that "The
'kill with which Louis is exhibited is aided to that of
the portrait painter who produces a likeness accurate
(lowa to every wrinkle on the face and every button on
the coat, with this remarkable distinction, that the thea-
trical portrait is accomplished without a `sitting' of the
person for whom it is intended. The ability to conjure
up such a compound of human weakness, human wicked-
ness, and human elevernese,- without no much as an
secant or a movement that mars its reality, is alone
sufficient to stamp Mr. Charles Kean as a master in the
histrionic art."
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