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and bathed in perspiration to be called on again In their books, without exception almost, they never tak e
and again before the curtain,—the pit rising to him.
any women with them, and invariably refuse the hospit-
able and generous:present of female slaves, which are made
After the play, most of the audience left, a compli-
on an average about four times a week. Vau Arnburgh
went to the actor which we cannot do better than can subdue anything but conundrums, and so gave it up.
follow by leaving out any details regarding Tippoo has no respect for the African elephant, which he
" The Spectre Bridegroom," a by no means bad predicts will eventually kill all its keep :rs, besides dis -
farce, and very well acted, though not over gracing 'the professions.' Is now travelling in the West,
strongly cast. It will be seen by the end and, wrapped in the rich stuffs of Ind and Orient, proudly
of the bill that our old clever and conceited friend lea,d,lialAn lEitteri stream of gold a mile long.
,
BUCKIANA: is the oldest dramatic functionary
Elliston had got up a spectacle at this time called on the stage, with a few trifling exceptions. To hire the
(4 The Coronation," in which, with all the airs of a discovery of the marvellous properties of soap-lather for
perfect mimic, he impersonated George the Fourth, expressing rage is to bo attributed. Ho lit upon the idea
and he was not really unlike that great man in per- by rehearsing Richard in his bedroom, while cleansing his
son as well as in many traits of character. We do not teeth with the dentifrice advertised in our columns. Such
mean this as a compliment but doubtless in those resultsl, can only be achieved by a pure devotion to art.
, the lather on at once, but was at first laughed at.
d
days it would have been taken as one by this Pro-Persevered, however, until the soap was more regarded
tean artiste. The procession hal a considerable sue- than the quality of the play. Mr. Buchanan is supported
cess, but Kean, as he called to Richmond—" Come by his daughter Virginia mostly, but would doubtless con-
forth and singly face me," singly and signally out- sent to play Othello to Risturi'S Deedemona if he was
pressed by a large number of respectable and paying
faced it ; and fit he should, for it was intellect,
genius and talent versus pageant.—Racing Times popio. Is worth forty thousand dollars, principally made
out of forfeits and fines of the little people iu his coin-
and Amateur Dramatic Chronicle. pany. If he gets down on an actor he inveigles hire into
playing Richmond, and then in the fire and fervour of
hichard he gluts the vengeance of the ro-norsoless
Buchanan. This is a very shifty dodge, as there are no
legal consequences to be feared. Great artists must not
be held responsible by the law, or their landladies, or their
washerwomen, for anything they do. If they
.are, what
becomes of Art? Why, it is crushed to earth, of course,
and, unlike Truth, it can't get up again. That
is the reason there are so many crushed actors
in the profession ?' There aro to-day hundreds of gifted
young men and women in 'the profession' who
are announcing, My lord, the carriage waits,' and My
lady, tea is ready,' who should be declaiming the
rounded periods and glowing lines of Hamlet, Coriolanua,
Claude Melnote, hichelieu, and Mrs. Haller. Mr. Bu-
chanan is truly devoted to art. He nev©r makes any
money by his engagements, but works hard at draw-poker
that he may support the dignity and expense of manage-
rial eclat and responsibility. Is very fine-looking, digni-
fied in demeanour, Roman countenance, irascible in tem-
per, slightly gouty, eats nails, believes in himself and
Virginia, writes a tolerably good newspaper card (as
Lieutenant Hill will probably learn to his cost), and is a.
finer fencer than Lord George_Benticuk. [We would not
be surprised if the Lieutenant discovrs that Mr. Buchanan
possesses a thorough knowledge of single-stick exercise.
—ED.]

IS MR. WADE IN 711 E PRESIDENTIAL

SUCCESSION?

(From the Anglo-American noes.)
The question raised by the National I fitelligencer,

whether Mr. Wade is in the succession, in the event

of the President being deposed, has been much dis-
cussed. The argument given in that journal is
attributed to no less a person than the Chief Jus-
tice himself, though the main point is a merequibble.
Last week we quoted the article of the Constitu-
tion providing for such vacancies. The word used
is "officer," and on that the point hinges. Tech-
nically it is said that neither the President of the
Senate nor the Speaker of the House is an officer,
and if this holds, neither Mr. Wade nor Mr.

Colfax are eligible. By a law of Congress it is
provided that when the elected President and
Vice-President ate removed or disqualified,
the officer presiding in the Senate shall assume the
office, and failing him the Speaker of the house of
Representatives. But it is alleged that this law is
unconstitutional. The fact is, that the President's
example has been contagious, and every culprit con-
demned, and every law that militates against the
freedom and property, no matter how acquired,
of the citizen is declared by the injured in-
dividual to be unconstitutional. Indeed the
Supreme Court will have to be set up as masons
set up a sieve for sifting, into which the Acts
passed by the Legislature must be thrown and
shaken, and the big unpalatable lumps jerked back
into the Capitol. It is alleged that both Wade and
Colfax are Congressmen, and the Constitution pro-
vides that no officer of the United States shall serve
as a Congressman while in office, therefore neither
Wade nor. Colfax are officers, and consequently are
ineligible. Even were they officers, as Congress-
men they cannot serve as President or Vice-Presi-
dent yet, as Congressmen only, are they in the suc-
cession. A Congressman may be expelled, but can-
not be impeached, and any Congressman selected
to act as President could not be impeached, while
the Constitution provides that the President can be
impeached, and thus the question is argued. The
Vice-President elected by the people is, ex officio,
President of the Senate, and therefore he is a Con-
gressman, as he sits in the Senate, and gives
a casting vote when numbers are even. He
is clearly au officer, and Andrew Johnson, in
virtue of being such an officer, succeeded to the
Presidency ; nor can we see why Mr. Wade, who
succeeded Mr. Johnson, should be barred from the
higher post if it became vacant. Mr. Johnson
ceased to sit in the Senate when he became Presi-
dent, and Mr. Wade would also cease to be a Con-
gressman if he succeeded. A man is not rendered
ineligible for any office by being a Congressman :
he simply vacates the one position and takes up the
other, losing the privileges he before enjoyed and
assuming the responsibilities of his office. The
Constitution lays down who are ineligible for
the Presidency—a man under thirty-five years
of age, or not a native of the United
States, or being born in the county, and over 35 if
he has not resided in the United States for the pre-
ceding 14 years ; but it does not say that a Con-
gressman is ineligible, and if it did, it is a barrier
easily removed by resigning his Representative
functions. On looking over Dr. Evans's work we
find that an appeal can be male to the country for
the election of a President, iu case of the removal
by death or other causes of both the President and
Vice-President, for which election the day fixed is the
first Wednesday of the December following, or if
this is too close a date, the same d ty of the follow-
ing year. This certainly does not ail in the pre-
sent emergency, considering that the regular ilec-
don must come off on the first Wednesday of next
December, whether Andrew Johnson is deposed or
not. The question is, who is to act in the mean-
time ; and the attempt is made to show that it
must be one of the two great functionaries—the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or the mili-
tary officer Commanding-in-chief. There is
nothing in the Constitution indicating either
of these officers, while it is clear that Con-
gress is authorised to designate the person,
and that it has designated that person by
enacting that the President of the Senate shall
succeed ; and if he be ineligible, by reason of age,
place of birth, or the required length of residence
within the States, then the Speaker of the House
shall discharge the functions till the next Presiden-
tial election. If there be no Constitutional prece-
dent, in any emergency such questions are sure to
suggest themselves to some minds, and to assume
an importance they do not possess; but Congress
will give little heed to them, and we would like to
know who is going to dispute the right of Ben
Wade to the chair, if it becomes vacant.

MERCANTILE SHIP NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, April 17.—Arrived, the Denmark, screw
steamer, from Now York; the Nile, from Mobile; the
China, screw steamer, from New York. Sailed, the Sevo-
rige, for New York. April 18.—Arrived, the Cremorne,
from Galveston ; the Chancellor, from Mobile. Sailed,
the Java, screw steamer, for new York. OFF THE NEEDLES,
Aprill6.—Arrived, Borussia, screw steamer, from New York.
BrusToL,Aprill7.—Arrived, J. H. Epping, from New York.
SHIELDS, Aprill7. —Sailed, Edwin and Lizzie, for New York
CARDIFF, April 17.—Sailed, the F. A. Sander, for New
York. BROOMIELAW, April 17.—Sailed, the United King-
dom, for New York. CLYDE, April 17.—Arrived, the Ca-
ledonian, screw steamer, from New York. QUEENSTOWN,
April 18.—The Annie, from New Orleans to Liverpool, re-
ported as having put in here with damage, had carried
away foremast head and mizen topmast, sails, &c., and had
thrown part of cargo overboard. She has been towed to a
dockyard off Cora. Arrived, the Aim, from Bahia ; the
Florence, from Matanzas ; the China, steamer, from NOW
York, and left for Liverpool. NEW YORK, April B.—The
Edwin and Eva, British schooner, from Turk's Island to
this port, which put into Kingston, Jamaica, March 8,
leaky, has since been condemned and ordered to be sold.
April 7.—The Stamboul, British ship, from Mobile to
Liverpool, which ran ashore March 4 near the Memory
Rock, discharged 23 bales, which were taken as salvage
by the• wreckers previous to getting off (see above vessel
arrived at Liverpool April 9). April B.—The Fleetwing,
British brig, from Matanzas to Boston, put into Nassau,
N.P., in March, leaking, and had discharged on the
30th of April for repairs. The Halicore, of New-
castle, from Blyth to Sagua, la Grande, struck near
Morant Bay March 5, and went to pieces: crew saved.
DEAL, April 19.—Arrived, the Solent, from New York.
LivERTooL, April 18—Arrived, the Mexican, from New
Orleans, the Chancellor from Mobile, and the Ronochan
from Mobile. Sailed, the Java for New York, the North-
ampton for Bath, U. S. April 20.—Arrived, the Berkeley
Castle for New Orleans, the Hampden from Savannah, the
Curlew, tho Baden, and the Beausito from New Orleans,
the City of Washington (steamer) from Now York, the
Sea from Mobile, the Pleiades and the Zatland from NeW
Orleans. BRISTOL, April 19.—Arrived, the Jesse from
Savannah. FALMOUTH, April 20.—Arrived, the Apollo
from New York. CLYDE, April 20.—Arrived, the Mobile,
the Curlew, the Baden, the Beausite, and the Pleiades
from New Orleans, and the Sea from Philadelphia.
QUEENSTOWN April 18.—Arrived, the Victor, from New
York, fur Dublin, with loss of rudder, bulwarks, &T. OFF
CROOKISAVEN, April 29.—Arrived, the City of Washing'
ton, steamer, from Ratifax, N.B. Naw Yonx, April 18.--
Th., Albert Gallatin, fur Liverpool, has been burnt, and
sunk in Mobile Bair. CUSTOM HOUSE, April 20.—Entered
outwards,. the C 11s, for New York. VESSELS SPOKEN
WITH.—The
screw steamer, London to New
York, April 13, lat. 4J N. long. 29 W. ; the Carrie E.
Wright, Liverpool to Baltimore, March 20, lat. 41 N. long'
37 W ; tha Joseph Fisk, Mobile to Liverpool, April 1, lat.
37 N. longl7 W. DEAL, April 20—Arrived, the Blida, trout
Baltimore. LIVERPOJL, April 20—Arrived, the Sea and the
Philadelphiaa, from Mobile, not the Sea from Philadelphia,
nor the Motile from Now Orleans, as reported before.
April 21 —Arrived, the Mary Ann from Now Orleans, the
Caravan and the Flying Foam from Mobile, the Palmyra
(steamer) from New York, the Breeze from Galveston•
bailed, the Colorado (screw steamer) and the Tariffs
(screw steamer) for New York. CowEs, April 20—Arrived,
the Hansa, screw steamer, from New York, with 510,506
for Eugland, and $11,352 for France, and left for Bremen.
Off CROOKRAVEN, April 20—Arrived, the City of Antwerp,
screw steamer, from New York; left on the 11th. SO
FRANCISCO, March 13.—The Viscata, hence to Liverpool,.
which went ashore off this port en the Bth March, bad
when sold some wheat on board, supposed to be shoat
400 tons, which was sold at the same time for $4,70.
HONOLULU, Feb. 26.—The Flying Dart, arrived here Feb. 9:
from Tahiti, reports the arrival there of an English vessel
which bad been wrecked two or three months previously
„
on Starbucks Island. The master of the Flying Dart had
omitted to write down the name of the wrecked vow'",
and all that can be learned is that she was chartered In
San Francisco, loaded timber at Puget Sound, and. left her
loading port about August for Sydney, She had long and
peculiar name, and wassail to be of 800 or 900 tons burden.
NEW YORK, April 9.—The Ida C., British brig, which
loaded at Cienfugos with molasses, for Portland, has been
detained by the authorities, who will probably be ordered
to discharge owing to a robbery by the crew. The Este;
lana, British brig, from Matanzas, &c., for Boston, wen
ashore on the 7th of April at Long Point, near Province:
town, and bilged; the tide ebbing and flowing into
her
the cargo will be saved in a damaged state- The Seagull'
steamer, has been burnt on Lake Michigan ; 50 lives wO"9
lost. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—TIiO WyerniUg,
delphia to Liverpool, April 4, lat.. 58 N., long. 72 W. ;,:
steamer of the Anchor liue. bound': west, April 16, lat. v..
N., long. 33 W. ; the Heimann, 'Southampton to Isle"
York, April 17.

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Births.
BAYLIFr —On the 27th inst., at Donerd House, Hereforil
shire, the wife of Capt. llayliff, 100th Regituent, of ib
daughter. nts
BENSTED—On the 28th inst., at Longfield Court, v-°-
Mrs. Henry Bensted, of a son.
PELLATT - On the 28th inst., at The Green, Banbury,tl/e
wife of D. P. Pellatt, Esq., solioitor, of a son.
Marriages.
rett,
Cox Bucx--- On the 28th inst., at the parish nbu' 13,
Barnes, Cecil Cox, Esq., of Digby House, Hammorstuit
to Mary, eldest daughter of the late John H. Buck,
M.A., of Blundell's School, Tiverton.
LEEmixo—MASON-- On the 28th inst., at St. John the
Baptist Catholic Church, Brighton, Charles 1,00,1ur,„:
Esq., of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, to Isnt°
fourth daughter of Mathew Mason, En., of PorLh'
place, Brighton.

Deaths,
BEALE —On the 26th inst., Mr. John B a
Beale. of Larkll3ll:
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rise, Clapham, and 68, Union-street, Southwark, sge
ConBETT—On the 28th inst., at Addlestane, Stirre;"
Pitt Cobbett, Esq., aged 64.
HEALEY --On tho 26th inst., at Seal borough, Ifealoir
Esq., of Ashby Decoy Cottage, Lincolnshire, agod .41,0
RA I.NSFORD —On the 28th inst., Hanburc, sixth son of 1;i30
late Richard Itaynsford, Brevet-Major-General of '
H.E.1.C.5., and of Henlow Grange, Bedfordshire. y
00,
SAssom —On the 29th inst., at 34, Alwyne-road,
-
bury, Joseph Sansom, clerk to Mr. Justice 1;-°`iti-
-

agea.s7. -
TOWNEND --On the 27th inst., at, Hulme, Manchester, Wl3l.
Townend, Esq., aged 84 . of
WILLTA.ms—On the 27th inst., John H. Williamf, S'"
18, Cumberland-terrace, Ragent's-park, agod 57L.............

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