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

CHARLES MATBE WS AT BOSTON.

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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 bla'6 in theatricals, and
rarely sit a piece through, may be seen in their seats
throughout the performance—a compliment to Mr.
Mathews, which marks 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 accoaaplishmetts 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 snore auspic'iuu, day, a welcome
and an when 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 mast the publics 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 19 years ago, I first crossed the Atlantic, and '
popped upon a pecuniary crisis in New York, and now
in 1857 I have bad 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 the 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 Gd. to the gallery of the Surrey
Theatre. At last, out of curiosity, he got into conver-
sation with him. How is it,' said be that you, who
appear to be a very poor man, can afford to come and
pay your money here night alter night, when one would
think you had barely enough to keep life and soul to-
gether at home? ' That's it,' said I come here
out of economy ! (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 expen,e of 2s. or as. at the least; while
here I get warmed, lighted, lodged, and amused, with
plenty of good company around me, and all for Gd.'
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
I may carry away with me the conviction that the suc-
cess I have now 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-UP OF JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.-JUSTICE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.-At a meeting in the winding
up of this company's affairs, Mr. Beasley, the official
manager, exhibited his accounts, which showed that
about 8571. 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 7s. 6J. in the
pound (in addition to a previous one of 55.) to be paid
to the creditors of the company. Mr. H. Harris, soli-
citor 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 why he signed the
deed for so many shares, whioh he now sought to repu-
diate, made the somewhat singular admission that he I
signed the document "for amusement."
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It is, generally thought thit , re •
in our huge metropolis. We 1
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the world ; spite of snaoke;:fog, btisdl.
river, we enjoy excellent health ; OuiNparkvis aft
lupplied with the best provisions oflEe country; ;
all the. luxuries of the Continent find their way to "
our vaults ; we have the most perfect police, system.
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thit his Yerliseti devised ;:--With these 2 and 'a thou- j
sandother advantages, what more ran we want, and
what is thereto complain of ? We have one great f,
misery, and itisbecoming intolerable—it is at times
even sufficient to destroy all the other comferts 'of
our hit,—andMake an inhabitant of the most luturi- -
°us 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 are af-
flicted every hour of the day, and almost every hour
of the night, with a succession of excruciating noises,
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. f ,devils and human • wretehei for ever lost.
In all seriousness, it is impossible to exaggerate
this nuisance. There are persons who regard the •
complaints of those who suffer from this mode sof
torture with ridicule rather than commisFration.
Happy. men who are deaf as adders and can afford
to laugh ! They have ruled us too long, and 4 is
time that, in spite of the caricatures of Hogarth,
we should protest against a nuisance which is every
day becoming more serious, and front which there
is absolutely no protection save by farther legisla-
tive enactmertt. There is no protection, we say,
for the ear is the most helpless faculty we have.
It is at once the weakest and the Most wonderful, s
the most ethereal and the most persecuted of our
senses. It is a matter of choice whether vie 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 list that sleeps at night ;. it is the first that,
wakes in the morning ;. and, as it is capable of more
intense enjoyment tn any other, so also it is liable
to more exquisite suffering. A sense thus delicately
constituted we subjeCt day ind -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 affect Londoners with a chronic irritation
which is destructive of health s Q well as of pleasure,
but also to convey to stringers their invariable idea
of the metropolis, expressed in that ndme-suggestive
of • deafening noises and meaningless clamour—
Babel. .

Now, the point to be observed is, - that all the
wont nuisances of the kind to which we allude are
quite unnecessary. It would ba well if we could
avoid the crash of the vehicles that, rolling like a
battery of thunderbolts along our principal tho-
roughfare., 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 s'oue. Unfortunately,
the noise of the vehicles is inevitable; 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 stieete,
whether iu Belgravia, Ty burnia, 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 one there is something of a rhythmic
movement—it suggests the roaring of the waves
as they break ou till 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 rattle,' past there
comes the cry of "B er !" then of "Milk 1" suddenly
an organ breaks upon the scene ; then a shout of
"Baudboxes !" then of " Baskets !" then-the organ
again ; it is the turn of the old clothesmau next ;
after him comes a Lascar beating on a drum ; the
strains 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 band creates discord upon
system, and as it grows towards dusk a host of
" roaring vagabonds" line the streets, shouting ones
against the other—" Important news from India I"
—"Relief of Lucknow !"—" Glorious 'victory of
' General Havelock I" 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 ? Does it bring solace to the soul of
Jeames ? 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
1 froin the smoke itself, what must Bloomsbury and
Fitzroy squares endure ? There seems no relief, for
on 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 Belgravians, 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 a
whim, for 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 mori
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 if., 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.--r
, Times.

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_HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
JIILL LEN'S CONCERTS.
MDLLE. JETTY TREFFZ THIS EVENING.
The Indian Quadrille and General Havelock's Triumphal
March, dedicated to the Heroes of India, is in active re-
hearsal, and will be produced on Thursday next, Nov. 12.
Prices of Admission—Promenade, is ; Upper Boxes, ls. ;
Gallery, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Private Boxes, 10s.
6d. and upwards.
Prospectuses, with full particulars, may be heel at the Box-
office of the Theatre ; of all the principal libraries ; and at
Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street.
The Concert ►ill commence at Eight o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with
a new Comedy, entitled AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Princi-
pal characters by Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale,
W. Farren, Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mrs. Buckingham White,
an Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
After which, LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS.
To be followed by THE STAR OF ANDALUSIA.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the

- - evening), ds. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d. Second price. R. d
Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes . . 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0
Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery .., 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.
LAST WEEK BUT TWO OF THE TEMPEST.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Skakspere's Play of
THE TEMPEST.
Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST.

THEATRE ROYAL, A DEL PHI.
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the popular drama
of THE GREEN BUSHES, in which Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul
Bedford, and Madame Celeste will perform.
After which, an original Apropos Sketch, entitled THE
DRAPERY QUESTION ; or, Who's for India I Messrs.
Wright, P. Bedford, C. Selby; Miss M. Wilton and Miss
Mary Keeley.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr.
Dillon.—Under the joint management of
Miss LOUISA PINE and Mr. W. HARRISON,
THIS EVENING, wlll be performed the celebrated opera
TROVATORE.
To conclude with (sth time) a new Farce, entitled A
PAIR OF PIGEONS. Mr. G. Honey and Miss Cuthbert.
Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 Ils. 6d. ;
Stalls, 6s, ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.;
Gallery, Is.—Tke Bex Office is now open daily, from 11 to
5, wider the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun.

STRAND THEATRE.—THIS EVENING,
will be performed

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THE GENTLEMAN OPPOSITE.
After which, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. John
Peerybingle, Mr. Emery; Dot, Miss M. A. Victor; Bertha,
Miss Herbert. .

To conclude with TAKE THAT GIRL AWAY. Mr,
Tilbury, Mr, Leicester Buckingham, and Miss Herbert

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Commence at Seven. Stalls. 3s. ; Boxes, 25.; Pit, ls.;
Gallery 6d. ; Private Boxes, 11. Is.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Robson and Emden.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the comedietta, en-
titled A SUBTERFUGE. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. G. Vining,
and Mr. G. Murray.
Followed by the new comedy, called LEADING STRINGS.
Messrs. Addison, G. Vining, H. Wigan ; Miss Marston and
Mrs. Emden (late Miss Somers).
After which, HEADS OR FAILS. Messrs. Addison, G.
Vining, H. Cooper ; Mrs. Stirling, Misses Wyndham and
S wanborongh.