The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-03 00:00:00

THE TWO KEANS.

We know that Garrick and Kemble were, in
their days, at the head of the dramatic profession,
but of their comparative merits we have only the
opinions of critics, which have ever been, and in all
probability will ever be, in favour of the retiring or
retired actor. According to the few who remember
both the Deans, the son never had the ability of the
father, no more than the father ever attained the
excellence of John Kemble, in the notion of their
common hearers. If such general preference of
Ipreleceslors b,, right, arti3tie must be sadly in
decay, and therefore we are ja:Aided in withholding
belief from such verlets. Actors, singers, and
musicians are but expocents of the works of others,
leaving no lasting trace behind of their own excel-
knee. It is the inevitable misfortune of their pro-
fession, and vain, in these days, wcul•i be
ail attempts to draw a parallel between the
dramatic excellence of father and son. Such,.
ho'vcver, is not our purpose, but, on the
moral to be derived from their lives, and on the
lesson to be drawn from the dauntless energy of
I both, we would rapidly treat.

Edmund Kean, the father, was the son of a scene
carpenter, born in 1787, his mother being the
daughter of George Saville Carey, a dramatic writer,
and gran'daughter of Henry Carey, a more cele-
brated theatrical author and musical composer.
From the low position of his parents, Edmund was
introduced on the stage when quite a child, and at the
young age of thirteen joined a provincial company.
For years he lived and travelled in the background
of the profession, now in England, now in Scotland,
now in Ireland. He did the general work of the
straggling unknown, in tragedy, opera, farce, and
pantomime; tutored in all by his own genius only,
and upheld in distress by faith in the result of
his own perseverance. His failures are unrecorded,
for they were burried unnoticed in the provinces, and
therefore unlike those of his son, whose performances
were patent to the London public from the first ill
success in the character of Norval to his triumph in
that of Hamlet. The son, Charles, appealed re-
peatedly till he obtained a favourable verdict on
the metropolitan boards. The father, Edmund
'Kean, burst like an unexpected meteor on the thea-
trical public, for his very patrons had but
little faith in his success. He, indeed, was but a
desperate experiment of a failing management, and
Drury Lane was not half filled to witness his first
representation, which a critic of the period thus de-
scribes:—" There came on a small man, with an
Italian face and fatal eye, harsh of voice, abrupt
and angular in action. But his style was new ;
there was the decision, the inspiration of genius in
his look, tone, and bearing; and the attention of
the audience soon ripened into enthusiasm." It was
the starting post of a great career, and justly might
he exclaim, on his return home that night, " Mary,
our fortune is founded ; you shall have a carriage,
and Charley shall go to Eton !"—Charley being then
three years old. That the programme was not com-
pleted was only due to his dissoluteness and extra-
vagance. Strange to say, however, at the same period
of life, at the comparatively early age of twenty-seven,
father and son became popular tragedians in London,
the one in 1814, the other in 1838, and both through
years of study and perseverance. The father was
literally nursed and educated on the stage ; the son
selected it as alllems of support for his discarded
mother. To her theboy clung; for her he abandoned
Eton at the age of sixteen years. The elder Kean
succeeded John Kemble as actor alone, for his low
habits pievented him from acquiring any standing
in society. Not so the younger ican, for whilst
education fitted him for companionship with the
scholar, his gentlemanly bearing and high moral
conduct, suited him for the best and highest society
of the land. Enthusiastic in his profession, Charles
Kean soared,
as manager, above pecuniary con-
siderations, and placed the works of our great bard
on the stage in a style that far eclipsed the examples
of his worthy predecessor, Macready. His whole
life was indeed one to reverence and to emulate,
not merely for its untiring perseverance, but for
its moral. worth as son, husband, and friend ; and
known professionally, as otherwise, to our great
colonies and the kindred states of America, it is
not England alone will mourn his untimely loss,
but wherever the language of Shakespeare is
spoken.—Racing Times and Amateur Dramatic
Chronicle.

We are informed that it is proposed to offer the
post of Financial Member of Council in India to Sir R.
Temple, lately Commissioner of the Central Provinces,
and now Resident at Hyderabad. Sir Richard Temple has
filled various important posts in the Civil Service of India,
and has earned a high reputation. He was also selected
by the late Mr. Wilson as his assistant in the Financial
Departztal and they rendered Tory great orrice g.

Court.

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LOSS OF LW • GI
The metropolis was visited on Dy S
heavy gale, which continued to rag, fury
throughout the night, and almost attained to the violence
of a perfect hurricane on the following morning. Indeed,
it was not till late on Saturday afternoon that the tempest
began perceptibly to abate, after having wrought an
amount of havoc to life, limb, and property which would
not seem to have been equalled for many long years past.
On the Thames the damage done to shipping has been
great, and several persons in charge of the river craft have
perished. Some reports give the number drowned at from
sixteen to eighteen souls. The catalogue of houses un-
roofed, chimney stacks and signboards blown down,
windows dashed in and similar casualties, attended
in many cases with serious injury to the person,
and in not a few more with fatal results, is exceed.
ingly heavy. The district of Bow seems to have
suffered severely from the effects of the hurricane.
At the dyeworks of Messrs. Farnan and Sons, Old
Ford, a shaft fell, shortly after one o'clock on Saturday
afternoon, upon the roof of one of the workshops, causing
the death of three women and injuring several others.
The upper portion of the shaft fell straight through the
roof, the brickwork scattering in the room beneath, in
which a great many women were working, and carrying
away the floor and part of the walls. Women, roofing,
and flooring were all heaped together upon the basement,
and when assistance was procured and the rnbbish and
bricks partially cleared away, the dead body of Isabella
M`Cermack, a married woman, aged 44 years, was drawn
out from under a rafter in a fearfully mutilated state.
Next was discovered underneath the debris Elizabeth
Thomson, aged 40 years, a married woman, living at 9,
Summer-street, Bow. Both her legs were fractured, and
severe contusions were upon almost every part of her
body. She was still alive, and was at once conveyed to
the London Hospital, but she expired five minutes after
her arrival there. At the eastern part of the basement the
body of Grace Drenning, aged 33, married, and living at
14, Spring-street, Bow, was found covered with bricks and
rubbish. Mrs. Drenning, who was dead, was sister to
Mrs. M'Cormack, who also lost her life by this melancholy
accident. The other sufferers who were at work in the
room when the shaft fell were Elizabeth Furnace, aged -
1 0 ; Mary Furnace, 40; Elizabeth Turner, 78 -, Elizabah
yield, 70 ; and Mary Marshall, aged 74 years. These poor
women, like those who were killed, were covered with dust
and rubbish, and were scarcely recognisable. All were
suffering from severe contusions ; one had her thigh frac.
tured, and three received a serious shock to the nervous
system. They were taken to the London Hospital, where
every attention was paid them by Mr. F. M. Mackenzie,
the house-surgeon. It is considered by the medical men
that the older women are in a very precarious condition.
At Old Ford, Mr. Carman, surgeon, of Bow, rendered
every assistance in his power to the women as they were
taken out. The buildings at the dyeworks are evidently
old, and a shaft may now be seen elevated above them,
having a bend in it and iron staybars attached to it. In
Shadwell the gable-end of a house, in which a family
named Mumford lived, was blown down. John Mumford
and his children—John, aged 12 years, and Eliza, aged 9
months —were sitting in a room upstairs at the time.
Mumford jumped out of a window and injured his back,
and his son, who at the time was carrying his little sister,
received several contusions from the bricks. Tire infant
was much cut about the head. Mumford was attended as
an out-patient at the London Hospital, and the children
remain in at present.

In the City, at No. 1, Prince's-place, Coleman-street, an
Immense stack of chimneys, the brickwork of which
weighed nine tons, was blown down. It fell on the roof
almost in a mass, and brought down two-thirds of it into
the upper rooms of the house. In these rooms were three
children—Thomas William Myall, aged 9, Lucy-Elizabeth,
his sister, and Emily Banks, a girl of 14, who was engaged
minding the baby. The baby was killed on the spot.
Some of the rafters, falling so as to form a sort of pent-
house from the mantleshelf to the flooring right over the
girl Banks, saved her life, but she was injured, though
not seriously, by being struck with portions of bricks anal
tiles. The boy escaped unhurt. A block of brickwork
weighing half a ton fell within four inches of the little
girl's head. Her escape was something miraculous. It
was thought she had been killed, until, to the surprise of
those who entered the building, she crawled out from
among the rubbish. The house where the accident took
place is one of a row said to be 200 years old.

The Strand did not escape the ravages of the gale, for
~everal sheets of glass in the Charing-cross Hotel and
Railway Station were demolished, and it was with no
little difficulty that cabs could be brought with passengers
to the entrance gates. One of the 'public cabriolets was
blown over, and the driver pitched headforemost into the
road, but he escaped with slight injury ; the passengers,
however, were not quite so fortunate, as they were much
shaken, and one gentleman received a compound fracture
of the left clavicle.

It would be impossible to give a tithe of the minor acci-
dents arising in all parts of the metropolis from the fury
of the storm.

In Brunswick-road, Camberwell, a number of second-
rate houses have been recently erected; the outbuildings
are covered with zinc or lead, and the wind, getting under
the metal, forced it off the roofs, and notwithstanding its
great 'eight, it was driven through the air a distance of
thirty yards, when it fell upon a small cottage, the pro-
perty of Mr. Wyatt, and forced in the roof, severely
injuring a young girl namel Hannah Godsall, who was
also obliged to be removed to the hospital.

Among other damages occasioned by the gale a largo
new building at Mr. Spurgeon's Orphanage, Stockwell,
built by voluntary subscriptions, and which had cost £6OO,
was totally demolished, the materials alone remaining.

At the Crystal Palace the damage was but slight, and
confined almost entirely to the flat roof over the Entian

The hurricane was felt with some severity among the
shipping at Woolwich. A coal brig, laden, was working
her way up the river, and when off the dockyard she was
struck amidships by a light vessel, and went down, and
now lies in about four fathoms of water on the North
Woolwich shore.

In the neighbourhood of Windsor the gale blew down
;niildings and tore up by the roots many fine oaks, elms,
and beech trees in the Forest and the Home Park. The
telegraph wires being destroyed, the messages have to be
sent part of the way by train. So great and destructive a
hurricane has not being witnessed in the neighbourhood of
Windsor for many years past.

In the port and harbour of Chatham every precaution
was taken on board the vessels of war and other ships to
enable them to ride out the gale at their anchorage. In
the river two barges, both deeply laden, foundered, the
whole of the 'crew fortunately escaping. The damage oc-
casioned by the gale has been of a serious character, and
numerous casualties are reported. During the height
the hurricane the wind blew down a considerable
portion of the lofty boundary wall at the Chatham Con-
vict Prison, St. Mary's, at the part adjoining the Royal En.
gineer store-yard, makinga completebreachof about 300 ft.
in length in that structure. The wind at the same time
caught a portion:of the wall at the Royal Marine Barracks,
I,djoining the dockyard, which it blew down. At Brompton
a thick stack of chimneys was blown down, carrying away.
in its fall a portion of two buildings, the inmates !scapulg
injury in an almost miraculous manner. At the time the
gale was raging with the greatest fury the wind caught
the rtpifliq; of iv o. T bunaing slip in Chatham dockyard,
the thick zinc covering of which, for a considerable extent,
being twisted up and carried away like so much paper. In
consequence of the high sea running at Sheerness, no boats
were allowed to leave any of the ships for the shore
during the day.

In Liverpool the storm was probably of unprecedented
severity. It has certainly not been equalled during this
generation. Here and there chimney-pots and slates
strewed the streets, and occasionally a whole stack was
throWn over. At 11, Harrington-street (Messrs. Swindon
and Hodges, law-stationers) the chimney-stack was blown
over, and falling through, the rubbish severely injured
two young men, named Hodges and Gill, apprentices, and
made a complete wreck of the room. Gill was dangerously
hurt about the head and was removed to the infirmary.
At the office of Messrs. Satterfield and Fox, Rumford-
place, the chimney was blown over, and falling through
the roof, two clerks and a boy were hurt, one of them
seriously. An unoccupied house near one of the docks
was unroofed. About eleven o'clock in the forenoon the
entire roof of the large building in Crosshall.street, oceu.
pied by Messrs. Rankin and Co., ironfouiulers, was com-
pletely blown down and carried away by the violence of
the storm. In Grafton-street, Toxteth Park, Samuel
Hough, a coal dealer, was standing in his yard shortly
after noon, when a chimney-pot struck him on the head,
killing him on the spot. The river throughout the whole
of Saturday presented a scene of wild and exciting
grandeur. So rough was the weather that all except the
Woodside and Seacombe ferry-boats were obligede to
iceasejer
running, and even they could not keep
ttiiiren
rrilias
Majesty's ship Viper, which is anehoirraed
off
stage, began during the morning to
to drift towards the stage. Fortunately 'her
re
a nh
cando steam,ra ald
the West Hoyle an , crew
schooner was reported on
and was able to work her way further into theß river.k. A
saved by the Point of Ayr Lifeboat.

Mr. A. S. Finlay, M.P. for Argyllshire, has
issued an address announcing his intention of resigning his
seat. The Scotsman states that the Marquis of Lorne will
be the Liberal candidate.

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Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING will be performed the Comedy of THE
HYPOCRITE. Mr. Phelps; Messrs. Edmund Phelps, Charles
Warner, J. Rouse, W. C. Temple, F. Moreland; Mrs. Hermann
Vezlu, Mrs. 11. VandenhofT, Miss Kate Harfleur.
After which, the Drury Lane annual grand Christmas
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FA\V FEE If 0 P 1351 ; or, Harlequin Jack the Giant
Killer.
Morning, Performance every Wednesday and Satur-
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THEATRE: ROYAL, HA YMARKET.
Sole Lessee, Mr.' Buckstone.
TIUS r.r.n.:lr:va, THE BROKEN-HEARTED CLUB. Mr.
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To he followed by A WIFE WELL WON. Messrs. Sothern,
Bit;:kstone, Howe, Kendal, Rogers, Braid, AVeathersby, &c., and
Robinson.
After which, AN UTTER PERVERSION OF THE
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Weathersby, Johnson, &c.; Mesdames Burke, Wright, Dalton,

HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
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Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon.
DIES EVENING, UP FOR THE CATTLE SHOW.
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ROYAL PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE.
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Last Nights.
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Dram Is, THE COLLEEN BAWN and THE STREETS OF
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Messrs. Dominick Murray, J. G. Shore, G. F. Neville, IL For-
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Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7.

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QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, Feb. 3, HE'S A LUNATIC. Mr. John
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J. Byron's New and Original Domestic Drama, in Three Acts,
entitled DEARER THAN LIFE. Michael Garner, Mr. J. L.
Toole.
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or, TRUE TO THE CORPS. The Scenery by Messrs. W. and
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TINS EVENING, at 7, OLD SALT: Messrs. Emery, James.
an I 13,1 ford; Mesdames N. Moore and Gwynne.

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After which will be produced a Grand Christmas Operatic
Oriental Extravaganza " THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD." Messrs.
Thorne, James, Turner, Murray; Mesdames A. Swanborough,
Johstone, Harland, Holt, IS ewton, &c.
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