The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-10 00:00:00

CHABLIS MATIIEfYS AT BOSTON.

The Boston. Gazette (Oct. 4) gives the following account
of Mr. C. Mathews's engagement in that city :—" We
are happy to see that this inimitable artist remains
another week at the Boston Theatre, where he has de•
lighted all who have escaped the pecuniary pressure
which has reduced so many from affluence to a condition
requiring strict economy, and prevents that enjoyment
of amusements which is characteristic of our citizins. At
any other time, we knew that such an artist would have
filled even our large theatres, for it is not a vain boast
to assert that we possess the taste to appreciate the ex-
quisite neatness and unrivalled beauties of the style of
acting of which Mr. Mathews is the great initiator and
master. As it is, the audiences embrace nightly our best
critics; and those who are some bla4 in theatricals, and
rarely sit a piece through, may be seen in their seats
throughout the performance—a compliment to Mr.
Mathews, which masks the decided impression he has
made in this city. Years hence, we shall probably
speak of him, as those of a former generation allude
to his father as one whose genius was apparent even in
trifles, and whose accomplishments embraced every re.
quisite which tends to make the true artist. We regret
that he has visited us at such an unfortunate period, for
he would have found in a more auspicious day, a welcome
and an adieu which would have made his remembrance
of a visit to Boston one of the most agreeable episodes
of his eventful life. On Friday evening', Mr. Charles
Mathews had a fine benefit, and on being called out,
spoke as follows :—" I cannot sufficiently thank you
for the kind encouragement and support I have met
with in the city of Boston, at a moment, too, when it
was hardly to have been expected, that my appear-
ance would meet with any attention whatever, so
completely must the public mind have been occupied
with more important matters, and I cannot but feel
the more flattered by the compliment. lam some-
what unlucky in timing my visits to America. In
1838, some 11l years ago, I first crossed the Atlantic, and
popped upon a pecuniary crisis in New York, and now
in 1857 I have had the luck to pop upon another. It
seems as if my presence were doomed to bring a panic
with it—(great laughter)—but I am happy to find, at
any rate, that it has not had the effect of frightening you
out of the theatre. (Laughter and applause.) Indeed,
ladies and gentlemen, I think the best thing you can do
is to come into it as often as possible, and to divert your
mind for an hour or two from te cares of real life. In

times of difficulty, so far from its being an expensive
luxury, the theatre is about the cheapest mode you can
adopt of passing your leisure moments. (Laughter.)
During one of our hardest winters in London a poor man
was observed almost every night, to the surprise of the
money-taker, paying his 6d. to the gallery of the Surrey
Thea,trq. At last, out of curiosity, ho got into conver-
sation with him. How is it,' said he that you, who
appear to be a very :poor man, can afford to come stud
pay your money here night alter night, when one would
think you bad barely enough to keep life and soul to-
gether at home? ' That's it,' said he, I come here
out of economy I (Laughter.) It's the cheapest way I
ran spend my evening. At home I must burn fire and
candle, and have something to eat and drink for myself
and friend, at an expense of 2s. or 3s. at the least; while
here I get warmed, lighted, lodged, and amused, with
plenty of good company around me, and all for 6d.'
There was philosophy in this, ladies and gentlemen,
and I recommend it to your serious consideration.
(Much laughter.) I trust, when next I have the
pleasure of visiting you, that matters will all
have come right again, and I hope, at all events, that
1 may carry away with me the conviction that the suc-
cess I have nnw met with has been sufficient to warrant
me in the belief that you will be glad to see me again.
Meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen, I assure you that I
am most grateful for your kind and hearty welcome.
(Long and continued applause.)

WINDING-lIP OF JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.—JUSTICE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.—M a meeting in the winding
np of this company's affairs, Mr. Beasley, the official
manager, exhibited his accounts, which showed that.
about 857/. had been received from the shareholders
towards payment of outstanding liabilities, leaving 5261.
in hand Mr. Edwards, the chief clerk, directed the
account to be verified, and a dividend of• Is. 6(1. in the
pound (in addition to a previous one of 55.) to be paid
to the creditors of the company. Mr. H. Harris, soli.
citer to the estate, reported that no doubt sufficient
assets would be realised to pay a dividend of 20s. in the
pound, besides the expenses of winding up. In the course
of settling the list of shareholders liable, one of the
officers of the company, when asked wby he signed the
deed for so many shares, which ho now sought to repu-
diate, made the somewhat singular admission that he
signed the document " for amusement."

CADVIIIITIEIMENT.I SIGHT AND HEARING SPECTACLES—
POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, Rees, axe PERSPECTIVE
GLASSES.—S, and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W.
By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and ex-
traordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant
Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective
Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess
such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches,
with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons,
Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope
can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles
distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist-
coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing
powers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. -A valu-
able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket
Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and
known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every pur-
pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Country
scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They
aro invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to
sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera
Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful
powers. - Invaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the
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getic population and the most; iitly.iiyo.44. '.:-.;
the world ; spite of smoke, fo,g,aurr *6 _ Fitciis,
river, we wry excellent hcalth ; NT. inaiVits"->il„
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supplied with the best provisions ett'the'l&un4y;
all the luxuries of the Centinetit finditheir way to
our vaults ; w have the tinorit perfect poll -;e. syetete
that has yeti, :en devised ;—wii.li these, aed a thi,e-
sandce her advantages, what more can we want, and
I what is there to complain of ? We have one great
misery, and it isbecoroing intolerable—it is at times
even sufficient to destrey all the other comforts of
our lot, and make an inhabitant of the most luxuri•
ous city in the world long for the life of a savage in.
some impenetrable solitude at the sources of the
Nile, or amid the snows of Greenland. We aro af-
flicted every hour of the day, and almost every hour
of the night, with a succession of excruciating uoise3
sometimes like the shrieking of Punch, intended for
our pleasure ; sometimes like the shouting of
newsvendors, intended for our profit, but always
effective in giving to a residence in London the
character of a perpetual pilgrimage such as poor
Christian had to undertake through that Dark
Valley in which his ears were assailed with the rav-
ing and roaring, the groaning and moaning, of a.
legion of devils and human wretches for ever 10-it.
In all s,iriousness, it is impossible to exaggerate
this nuisance. There are persons who regard the►
complaints of those who suffer from this mode of
torture with ridicule rather than commis: ration.
Happy men who are deaf as adders acid can afford
to laugh ! They have ruled us too Jon.- and it is
time that, in spite of the caricatures ofnlogarlh,
we should protest against a nuisance which is every
day becoming more serious, and from which there
is absolutely no protection save by farther legisla-
tive enactment. There is no protection, we say-,
for the ear is the most helpless faculty we have.
It is at once the we..kcst and the most wonderful,
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the most ethereal and the most pereecut d. of our
senses.' It is a matter of choice whether we shall
taste or touch anything ; we can shut our eyes or
turn them away ; we can overpower one odour with •
another ; but hear we must, at all times and in all
places. It is the most acute of all our senses ;it
is the last that sleeps at night ; it is the first that
wakes in the morning ; and, as it is capable of more
intense enjoyment than any other, so also it is liable
to more exquisite suffering. A sense thus delicately
constituted we subject day and night to a torture
which is very nearly equivalent to cutting off a.
malefactor's eyelids, and then crucifying him with
his face to the sun. There is no possibility of.
escaping the din. This is the only very great and
universal nuisance in London, but it is so great as
not only to afTectLondoners with a chronic irritation
which is destructive of health t s well as of pleasure,
out also to convey to strangers their invariable idea
of the metropolis, expressed in that name suggestive
of deafening noises and meaningless clamour—
Babel.

Now, the point to be observed is, that all the
worst nuisances of the kind to which we allude are
quite unnecessary. It would be well if we could
avoid the crash of the vehicles that, rolling like a
battery of thunderbolts along our principal tho-
roughfares, seem to evoke a shriek from every stone
as they pass. We have tried wooden pavement,
iron pavement, and Macadam, and we have been
obliged again to return to stone. Unfortunately,
the noi,;e of the vehicles is inevital.le ; but it is
not of this that we complain so much as of the
cries and the music which infest the best streets,
and particularly if they are called quiet streets,
whether in Belgravia, Tyburnia, or Mayfair.
If the roar of Cheapside or Fleet-street is bad,
the clatter of some retired terrace or secluded
crescent named after one of the Marquis of
Westminster's country seats is ten times worse.
In the ono Mere is something of a rhythmic
movement—it suggests the roaring of the waves
as they break on the shore, or of the wind
rushing through a mighty forest, and in con-
sequence of its monotony we learn to forget it
at last. In the other there is that variety and
complication by which the torment renews itself
continually, and with increased violence. After
the Parcels' Delivery van has rattled past there
comes the cry of "Beer!" then of "Milk I" suddenly
an organ breaks upon the scene ; then a shout of
"Bandboxes !" then of " Baskets l" then the organ
again ; it is the turn of the old clothesman next ;
after him comes a Lascar beating on a drum ; the
straius of Ethiopian Serenaders from the public-
house round the corner soon float upon the ear ;
Punch squeaks past to add to the harmony ; the
Frenchman and his dogs set up a howling in the
distance ; a German brass baud creates discord upon
system, and as it grows towards dusk a host of

roaring vagaboudi" line the streets, shouting one
against the other—" Important news from India 1"
—"Relief of Lucknow !"—" Glorious victory of
General Havelock 1" But what of all this must be
accepted as necessary ? Who in these quiet streets
and fashionable squares has within human memory
been known to buy of a hawker, unless it be some
unhappy servant on board wages in frenzied
search of excitement while the tamily is out of
town ? And yet hawkers succeed each other in
such regular and frequent intervals that no street
is ever without one shouting at the top of a prac-
tised voice stale lettuce, or fish, or lobsters. Then
for the music, who wants it, and who pays for
it I Does it bring solace to the soul of
Jeames 1 Does it put life into the calves of
John Thomas ? It may be useful to the cook,:
in teaching her the airs of the last opera, and it
may be gratifing to Buttons to see his master
roused into !fury ; but certainly nobody else can
desire it, and not even these worthy people can de-
sire it for sixteen hours a-day.
'What, then, is to be done, at present we are
quite helpless ? If even the fashionable quarter,
the residence of our Ministers and our Parliament,
is as unable to protect itself from these nuisances as
from the smoke itself, what must Bloomsbury and
Fitzroy squares endues ? There seems no relief, for
ou Saturday last at Bow-street, when one of the in-
habitants of University-street, who had previously
in India suffered much from brain fever, complained
of the distress which the constant grinding of the
street organs gave him, the organ-grinder was dis-
missed merely on his promise not to play again in
the same street. Whatever may have been advis-
able in this particular case, it is evident that the
whole tribe are, as a general rule, dealt with by
far too leniently, and that the Belgraviaus, in pre-
paring a petition for Parliament praying that
these adventurers should be dealt with as beggars,
have not moved in the matter a day too soon.
They are not agitating, be it remembered, for
whim, fer an idle pleasure. There is nothing,
ge believe, which interferes so materially with
health as the privation of all rest and the mental
irritation which our street cries and music create ;
and in many parts of the town there can be
little doubt that the eternal hubbub of
hawkers and itinerant musicians is a far mere
potent cause of ill-health than the bad drainage
and universal smoke of which we hear so much.
We can trace fever and cholera directly to the want
of ventilation, to the impurity of water, or to the
presence of some noxious exhalation ; but the dis-
cordant cries of our streets affect us through the
mind, and the sinking of the nervous system, which
is attributed to excitement or over-exertion, might
often with more truth be accounted for by the want
of a really quiet home. The fact is, the Police Act
must be amended, and householders protected from
an evil which threatens to make London uninhabit-
able, for no one's profit but to supply a miserable
existence to a race who are tempted to eke out the
nefarious gains which they earn from the torture of
sober citizens by other processes which are still
more nefarious, but perhaps more easy to bear.—
Times.

DOCTOR'S COMIONS.—It is understood that a formal
application has been made to the authoritini that the
new Court of Probate, which is to be opened at the com-
rnercement of Hilary Term, 1858, should be held at
Doctors' Commons.

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CANTERBURY HALL, Westmin3ter-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ng company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, ec., viz.:—Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Mrs. Palmyre, Miss Bru-
nel!, and Madame Marietta; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr.
Renshaw, R. Grover, T. Ferranti S. Jones, J. Barker,
W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, and Mr. St.
Allayn ; Messrs. S. Collins, W. T. Critchield, and E. Mack-
nay. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master
; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at
Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY—Morn., 41 min. aft. 8--Even., 22 min. aft. 9
To-Molutow—Morn. 1 min. aft. 10—Even. 36 min aft. 10