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ADELPHI THEATRE.

Office of the Director-General of the Medical Department of
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The Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High _Admiral
attire United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give
notice that on THURSDAY, the 7th March next,.at One o'clock,
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Contract for• supplying all such quantities of all or any of the fol-
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MR. BENTLEY'S NEW NOVELS,
TO BE HAD AT ALL THE LIBRARIES.

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My Precious Betsy ! Why the name alone is
almost sufficient to secure the success of a one-act
farce, and when that farce i 3 produced at the Adelphi,
and performed by Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford,
Mr. Worrell, Miss Emma Harding, and Mrs. Frank
Matthews, its success must be certain—and such
was the case last night. My Precious Betsy
is Mrs. Bobtail (Miss Emma Harding) and Fhe is
the "precious Betsy" of Mr. Bobtail (Mr. Wright),
a tallow-chandler at Southampton. Betsy had once
lived as servant to a Doctor Brown, and the doctor,
at his death, leaves her a legacy. This goosi luck,
however, is the source of an Iliad of woes to Betsy
and • her husband. Their neighbour Wagtail
(P. Bedford), envious of their wealth, determines to
destroy their happiness by insinuating in the Southamp-
ton Paul Pry that the affection of the defunct Brown
for Betsy was not altogether of a platonic character;
this rouses the jealousy of Bobtail, and our
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(Mr. Worrell). The vagaries of Wright a*:
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lago, may be imagined ; they kept the house in a
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for his precious Betsy. Mr. Worrell acted the
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Matthews, as Mrs. Wagtail, the wife of the author of
all the mischief, to whom the jealous, wrathful, and
destructive Bobtail makes love, by way of reprisal,
.was richly comic. .The house, as usual, was
crammed.

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The NOMAIES of the WEST.

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others.

SAINT LEGER ; or, The Threads of Life.

• VIII.
REDBIJRN ; His First Voyage. By HERMAN MELVILLE,
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PARLIAMENTARY 1)1 VISIONS,

(From the Yotes and Proceediligs of the House of Commons.,
MONDAY, FEB. le.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
Motion made, and Question proposed, " That upon Thurs-
day, the 11th day of April neat, and every alternate Thurs-
day following, Orders of the. Day have precedence of Notices
of Motions :" Amendment proposed, to leave out from the
word " every" to the end of the Questior, is order to add
the won's " Thursday following, Orders
precedence of otiees of Motions; but that
the Day have
at the right shall
not be reserved to her Majesty's Ministers of placing Go-
vernment Orders at the head of the list," instead thereof:—
Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand
part of the Question." The House divided :
MAJORITY—AYES, 140.

Adair, Hugh E.
Adair, R.A.
Alcock, Thomas
Anson, Colonel
Arkwright, G.
Armstrong, Sir A.
Baines, M. T.
Baring, H. B.
Barnard, E. G.
Berkeley. C. L. G.
Bernal, Ralph
Blair, Stephen
Bouverie, E. P.
Bowles, Admiral
Bromley, Robert
Brotherton, J.
Brown, W.
Burke, Sir T. J.
Busfeild,Wlßiana
Cardwell, E.
Cayley, E. S.
Charteris, Francis
Clay, James
Clay, Sir
Clerk Sir G.
Colebrooke, Sir T.
Corbally, M. E.
Cowper, W. F.
Cubitt, William
Davie, Sir Henry
Dawson, T. V.
Divett, E.
Dodd, George
Douglas, Sir C.
Drummond, Henry
Drummond, Home
Duncan, George
Duncuft, John
Dundas, Sir David
Dunne, F. P.
Du Pre, C. G.
Ebrington Lord
Ellice, Edward
Elliot, John E.
Ferrer, James
Fergus, John
Ferguson, Sir R.
Fordyce, A. D.

Forster, M. O'Brien, Timothy
French, F.
,„,. Ogle, S. C. j:N,_:
Gladstone, W. Z. Ord, W. "--""`
(10elburn. Henry Pakington, Sir J.
' Grace, 0. D. Palmerston, Via.
Granger, T. C. Parker, John
Greene, Thomas Patten, W.
Grey, Sir G. • Peel, Sir Robert
Guest, Sir J. Peel, Colonel
Gwyn, Rowel Peel, Frederick
Harris, Richard Pendarves, E. W.
nestle, Archibald Pilkington, James
Hawes, Benjamin Plowden, W. H.
Hayter, W. G. Portal, Melville
"leadlam, Thomas Power, Dr.
Heneage, G. H. Power, Nicholas
Hodges, T. L. Pugh. David
Hornby, John Rich, Henry
Howard, C. W. • Roebuck, J. A.
Hutt, William Rocnißy, Sir John
Inglis, Sir R. Russell, Lord J.
Jermyn, Earl Sandars, George
Jervis, Sir John Scrope, G. P.
Jones, Captain Seymour, Lord
Keppel, G. T. Simeon, John
Labouchere,, Henry Smith, R. V.
Lacy, H. C. Smyth, John G.
Langston, J. H. b'my the, George
Lascelles, E Somers,fj. P.
Lascelles, W. S. Somerville, Sir W.
Lemon, Sir Charles Sotheron, T. H. S.
Lewis, George C. Stansficid, W. R.
Littleton, E. R. . Stanton, W. 11.
Loch, James Staunton, Sir G.
Mackinnon, W. Theslger,:Sir F.
M'Taggart, Sir J. Thornely, T.
leNaghten, Sir E. Trelawny, J. S.
Meagher, Thomas Vane, Lord H.
Mahon, Viscount Villiers, Viseoun.
Mangles, R. D. Waddington, David
Martin, John Wall, C. B. _::
Masterman, John Walpole, Spencer
Matheson, Colonel Willoughby, Sir H.
Molesworth, Sir W. Wrightson, W. B.
Morgan, 0.
Morison, Sir W. TELLERS.
.Morris, David Turnell, H.
Norreys, Lord Grey, R. W.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.
A new three-act tragedy, entitled The Noble Heart,
was produced here last evening, in the most perfect
manner, both as regards acting and mise en scene,
and with, consequently, the most brilliant success.
The author is Mr. G. H. Lewes, a gentleman well
known for his intimate acquaintance with, and
thorough appreciation of, the great works of the
great Spanish dramatists—works which Corneille
thought it not beneath him to adapt to the French
stage, and which our own dramatists of the Elizabethan
age studied as models of dramatic composition. The
Noble Heart bearr, as might have been expected,
evident traces of the favourite studies of its author.
The plot. is extremely simple, but at the same time
striking ; and Mr. Lewes has most judiciously
avoided the introduction of any underplot, so that
the whole interest concentrates itself on the principal
personages, and is never once broken. The hero,
Don Gomez de la Vega (Mr. G. V. Brooke), is a
Spanish nobleman, proud, chivalrous, and with the
most romantic notions of honour. He is about fifty
years of age, but still susceptible of love. He sees
• duanna (Mrs. Mowatt), the daughter of a merchant,
and loves ber. He struggles long against this, in his
opinion, degrading passion ; but at length the pride
of the haughty Hidalgo gives way, and in spite of
the warnings of Hermann (Mr. Ryder), an old
monk, who urges him to quit the world and retire to
a convent, Don Gomez demands the hand of Juanna
of her father. Juanna, however, loves another, but
he is far away ; ber father is on the verge of bank-
ruptcy ; she can save him from a prison
by accepting the hand of Gomez, and she makes
a sacrifice of herself to serve her father. Don Leon
(Mr. Davenport), the son of Don Gomez, returns
from the wars on the day of his father's marriage. He
is met by the monk Hermann, and informed that his
father is about to degrade himself by marrying the
daughter of a merchant. Instead of being indignant,
as the monk had expected, Don Leon is delighted,
for lie too loves a merchant's daughter, and now Don
Gomez cannot refuse to make him happy. Her
name, asks Hermann ; Juannr, is the reply—yes,
that same Juanna who is his father's bride is Leon's

MINORITY—NOES, 3S.
ifastie, Alexander Scholefleld, W.
Henley, J. W. Sibtt orp, Colonel
Herries, John C. Sidney, Alderman
Renshaw, James Smith, J. Benjamin
Locke, Joseph Spooner, Richard
Lushington, C. Stafford, Augustus
M'Gregor, John Thompson, Colonel
Manners, Lord J. Waddington, H. S.
Moffatt, George Wawn, J. T.
Mowatt, Francis Willcox, Brodie
Newdegate, C. N.
Connor, Feargtut
I'acke, C. W.
Palmer, Robert

Anstey, Thomas C.
Berestord. William
Boldero, Henry

Breutridge, Richard
Bright, John

Buck, 1,. W.
Chotterton, Colonel
Disraeli. B.

Evans, Sir De Lacy
Fox, W. J.
Fuller, A. E.
Gibson, T. M.
Gooch, E. S.
Hardcastle, J. A.

TELLIES.

flume, J.
torbes, W.

Main Question pat. The House divided :
MAJORITY—AYES, 143.
French, F. Ord,' William
Gladstone, W. E. Pakington. Sir J. S.
Glyn, G. C. Palmer, Robert
Goulburn, Henry Palmerston, Viscoun
Granger, T. C. Parker, John
Greene Thomas Patten, J. W.
Grey, Sir G. Peel,.Sir Robert
Guest, Sir John Peel, Frederick
Hallyburton, Lord J. Pendarves, Edward
Harris, Richard Perfect, Robert
Hastie, Archibald Plowden, W. H.
'Hawes, Benj. Portal, Melville
Hayter, W. G. Power, Dr.
Heneage, G. H. W. Power, Pt leholas
Hervey, Lord A. Pugh, David
Heyworth, L. Rich, Henry
Dodges, T. L. ' Roebuck, J. A.
Howard, Lord E. Romilly, Sir John
Howard, C.W. Russell, Lord JOll.ll
Humphery, Aid. Sanders, George
Hutt, William Scrope, G. P.
Inglis, Sir R. H. Shell, It. L.
Jermyn, Earl Shelburne, Earl of
Jervis, Sir John Simeon, Johu
Keppel, G. T. Smith, Vernon
Labouchere, Henry Smythe, George
Lacy, H. C. Somers, J. P.
Langston, J. H. Somerville, Sir W.
Lemon, Sir C. Sotheron, T. H. S.
Lewis, G. C. Stanstield, W. R.
Loch, James Stanton, W. S.
Mackinnon, W. A. Staunton, Sir G.
M`Naghten, Sir E. Stuart, H.
M 'Taggart, Sir J. Thesiger, Sir F.
Meagher, Thomas Thornely, Thomas
Mallon, Lord. Trelawny, J. S.
Mangles, R. D. Villiers, Viscount' i
Martin, J. Wall, C. B.
Mastennan, John Walpole, S. H.
Matheson, Colonel Wellesley, Lord C.
Maule, Fox Williamson, Sir H.
Molesworth, Siry. Willoughby, Sir IL
Morgan, 0, Wood, W. P.
Morison, SIe.NV, Wrightion, W. B.
Morris, David Wyvill, M.
Mulgrave, Earl •
Norreys, Lord TIMMS.
O'Brien, Timothy Tull:tell, Henry
Ogle. S. C. , G:ey, R. W.

love. He is about to rush into the church to prevent
the nuptials, when the organ peals forth and the
wedding procession appears leaving the church. Leon
and J uanna recognise each other ; he flies from
her presence, but is followed by his father,
who would fain introduce his son to his
bride. In the next scene Juanna and Leon
meet alone. He is at first silent, but at length re-
proaches her bitterly with her falsehood, but when
he has heard from her how she had been forced into
this marriage to save her father he relents, and she
fal's into his arms, when recollecting she is his
father's bride, he leads her off, for though
her heart is his her hand is another's.
Gomez has witnessed the latter part of this last scene,
and enters agonized to madness with jealousy and
fury ; his servant Lissardo has also witnessed it, and
Gomez threatens him with vengeance if he dare dis-
close aught that he has seen, and then
dispatches him after Don Leon to demand his
instant attendance. Don Leon comes, and Gomez,
refusing to hear him, works himself up to such a
pitch of frenzy that, drawing his sword, he disowns
Leon as his son, and insists on his drawing and engag-
ing in dead ly combat. At this point Juanna enters, and,
placing herself between the father and son,
relates the truth. Bowed down to the earth with
grief and horror, Gomez joins their hands, declares that
he will obtain trom the Pope a dispensation to enable
them to marry, and retires himself with Hermann to
the cloister. The Gomez of Mr. G. V. Brooke is
The
of the most powerful pieces of acting ever seen.
fhe whole of the last scene was sublime. Never
has the agony of wounded pride, of outraged
affection, and of disappointed love been more vividly,
more heartrendingly depicted, than by Mr. G.V. Brooke
in the scene immediately following the discovery of
his wife's supposed infidelity, and never has the hurri-
cane of rage, the madness of concentrated fury been
more powerfully delineated than by Mr. G. V. Brooke
in the . scene which immediately follows with Don
Leon. It. is only equalled by Edmund lican's last
scene in Sir Giles' Overreach. The contrast between
the. torrent of passion in these scenes and the
touching pathos and tenderness of the closing scene
which immediately follows was appreciated by Mr.
G. V. Brooke with the taste of a scholar,' and ren-
dered with the genius of a poet. Mr. Davenport's
Leon was a fine manly, chivalrous performance,
and Mrs. Mowatt's Juanna was full of tenderness and
beauty—it was an embodied poem. The piece was
mounted in the most perfect manner, the scenery was
beautiful,' and the costumes superb ; the bridal pro-
cession was gorgeous. The principal artistes were
called before the curtain at the conclusion, and there
were loud calls for the author, who walked across the
stage, and was greeted with loud applause. The house
was exceedingly well attended.

Adair, R. Shatto
Alcock, Thomas
Anson, Colonel
Armstrong, Slr A.
tlalnes M. T.

arl ag, 11. It.

Barnard, L. G.
Berkeley, Henry F.
Berkeley, C. L. G.
Bernal, Ralph
Blair, Stephen

Bowles, Admiral
Brothertou, Joseph
Brown, W.

Burke, Sir T. J.
Busfeild, W.

Cardwell, Edward

Carter, John B.
Castlereagh, Pis.
Cayley, Edward S.
Charteris, Francis
Clay, James

Clay, Sir W.
Corbally,M. E.

Cowper, W. F
Cubitt, William
Davie, Sir H.

DawsOn, T. V.

Denison; J. E.

Divett, Edward
Douglas, Sir C.
Drummond, Henry
Drummond, Home
Duncan, George
Duncuft, John
Dundas, Admiral
Dundas, Sir David
Dunne, Francis P.
Du Pre, C. G.
Ebrington, Viscount
Ellice, Edward

Elliot, J. E.

Enfield, Lord

Farrar, James

Fergus, John.

Itz-p at' rick , J W.
Foley, John H.
Fordyce, A. D.

Forster, Mathew

MINORITY—NOES, 47. '
uccord, Sir H. Scott, F.
Hardcastle, 'J. A. Sibthorp, Colonel
Hastie, Alexander Sidney, Alder=ll Berries, J. C. Smith, J. B. ....a
Hudson, George Spooner, R.
Kershaw, James Stafford, A.
Lushington, Charles Stuart, Lord Dudley
M'Gregor, John Start, H. G.
Manners, Lord J. Thompson, Colonel
Milnes, R. M. Wadnn, H. SS.
Moffatt, George Wawndi, J. T.
liowatt, Francis Wilcox, Brodie
Newdegate, N. Wyld, James
O'Connor, Feargus
Facke, C. W. TELLIIII. .
Ricardo, J. L. Hume, Joseph
Scholeneld, William Beresford, William

Adair, llugh E.
dirkwright, George
Boldero, 11. G.
Bouverie, E. P.
Brentridge, Richard
Bright, John
Chattert on, Colonel
Dick, Quintin
Disraeli, B.
Evans, Sir Do. Lacy
Forbes,
Fox,
Fuller, A. E.
Gibson, T. M.
Gooch, E. S.
Gore, W. 0.
Gwyn, Howol

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PLYMOUTHJohn Hay, C. 8., Commodore of the first class, on his
appointment
Fin. 17.----The flag of Captain Lord
'as Commodore-Superintendent of the
Devonport Dockyard, was this morning hoisted on
board her Majesty's ship Agincourt, in Hamoaze, and
was duly saluted by the Impregnable and by the
batteries on Mount Wise.
In the Sound----The Hermes steamer, Commander
Fishbourne, and the Dart brigantine, Second-Master-
Commander M'Clure, which arrived from Ports-
mouth on Thursday, bound to the Cape of Good
Hope; the Stromboli steam-frigate, Commander
Lord A. Beauclerk, from a cruise in the Channel ;
and the Gladiator steam-ship, Captain John Adams,
bound with the mails to Madeira and the coast of
Africa. She waits the repairs of her tender, the
Jackal steamer, which will not probably be COM-
pleted at the dockyard before Thursday.
Wind, N .W. ; variable.

THE Nxw NAVAL NOVBLIST.—The author of the
new tale of the sea, " The Petrel," bids fair to take rank
as the first of his class. "We cannot but consider,"
says the Morning Post, " that the reading public are
very much indebted to Mr. Colburn for their introduc-
tion to a writer who, by his skill in depicting life on the
ocean,
will, we doubt not, supply the place in nautical
literature which has become vacant by the death of the
lamented Captain Marryat. This author's life of the
ship is equally dashing, forcible, and free. True, in
these volumes there are errors of style and general ar-
rangement, but for a first offering we know of few others
of me class to which it belongs, which in powerful de-.
scription and refined humour could compete with it.
The author writes like a regular ' salt.' Sea life has
been with him no harboar-haunting, steam-running ser-
vice. He tells of iron-bound shores, of coral islands,
and of ocean caves, as a true monster of the deep. The
scene of his work is highly novel and interesting. In-
deed the whole cruize of the Petrel is in itself a narra-
tive of vivid interest, the descriptions having a reality
that makes it appear that we are rather reading of some
true voyage than a romance. The author of ' The
Petrel' is, we !relieve, Admiral Fisher, who commanded
at the blockade of Alexandria in 1840."
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—We learn that Mr. Grinnel,
one of the merchant shipowners of New York, and for-
merly a Member of Congress, has augmented his former
subscription of .5,000 dollars towards the fitting out of
an expedition to prcceed in search of Sir John Frank-
lin's party, to the princely donation of 15,000 dollars. It
is intended that two small vessels of 160 and of 60 tons
iespectively shall proceed to Barrow's Straits in May
next; and it es calculated that the cost of such an expe-
dition will not be more than 25,000 dollars.

SAVINGS' BANK DEFAULTER.—The investigation
into the affairs of the Aylesbury Savings' Bank has just
been completed. The amount of defalcations by Stratton
has been summed up, and has reached the sum of 1,068/.
The secretary of the bank (Mr. James) has, we aro in-
formed, paid into the hands of the treasurer 5001., to
meet any claims that may ultimately fall upon him.
NEW GREEN PEA!.—A small parcel of this early
luxury has been received by Messrs. Keeling and Hunt,
by the Pa,cha steamer, from Lisbon, bearing as fresh an
appearance at if grown in England.

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but, like a true poet, he prefers being an alien to his
father's heart and a disinherited outcast, to giving up
his love dream, and actuated by a friend he marries
Margaret, flies to London, and becomes the clerk of
one Gripeall, a scrivener. On the other hand, Sybil
his sister, while a neglected school-girl, ignorant
cf her destiny, is enamoured of La .Roque,
a ruined spendthrift, whose life is an enigma, and
whose parentage is a mystery, but with the improve-
ment in her fortunes comes a change in her fe gs
for ber former lover. Viewing her former love
"An erap y folly,
A dream—a fantasy—a schoolboy fame,' •
she bids La Roque not to meet her more, or o meet
her only as a stranger. His passion, however, is not
so easily cooled, nor is he quite satisfied of her sin-
cerity ind ismissing him, and he determines still to
pursue his suia by strategy and disguises. Mean-
while a new character conies upon the scene in Lord
Overbury, and La Roque gets introduced to Sir
Archibald Harcourt as the friend of that nobleman,
who, having taken a fancy to him, refreshes his thread-
bare coat, and makes hirii his half buffoon,
half society. To test the sincerity of Sybil
he makes love to Eve, and her pride thus
attacked, and her jealously aroused, she in
her turn, for the sake of revenge, falls in with her
father's plans, and consents to play the part of Lord
Overbury'a fiancee. This succeeds in arousing the
jealousy of 141, Roque, and he hastens to the metro-
polis to seek counsel ot" her brother. Here he learns
that Gripeall has suddenly" ahuflled off this mortal coil,"
and while assisting, albeit, to arrange the deceased
lawyer's papers, he chances to fall upon a document
which clears up the mystery of his birth, and proves
him to be the victim of Lord Overbury, his uncle,
who has usurped his title and fortune. Armed with
this treasure, he hurries back to the seat of Sir
Areleibtritt -steroids-Mgthe Mayer, looms to'-Lora
Overbury, be bargains with him to conceal the fraud
for a time if his Lordship will consent to follow his
directions in dealing with Sybil. lie gets Lord
Overbury and Sybil to sign a marriage contract,
which the latter does at a moment when
her jealousy is at its height, and then,
to keep up the deception, he demands the hand of
Eve of Sir Archibald. The solicitation is scornfully
refused, and La Roque is ordered to quit the mansion
"as a base-born child of passion and of shame,"
which lead to a challenge and a meeting. La Roque
is wounded in the contest, and it is told to Sybil that
his wounds have resulted in death. Too late Sybil dis-
covered that she has sacrificed her happiness to pride,
and, repenting of the past, she wreaks her vengeance
upon Eve, who has been made the innocent tool of
La Roque ; and then, finding that La Roque never
loved Eve, she resolves to abandon Lord Overbury
and seek solace in seclusion. Bereft of his children,
Sir Archibald turns to Eve far consolation, and says
to her—

"Litter', Eve,
I pave sworn an oath to wed no other wife,
But can'st thou love me? Wilt thou stay beside me.
Though they flout thee as a heartless child,
By a rich dotard bought?"

Leaving her to consider this strange offer, she reflects
thus—

" His vow to wed no more—his emphasis
On worldly scorns, that I might brave for him;
The quick, bewildered rapture of his speech;
His strange embrace,—his sudden breaking-off,—
Like one who hares his purpose V) be guessed;—
Admit no doubt; or, if doubt be, so small,
I might as wisely nurse it, as untwine
One shred of gossamer to chain the streams
When Wii.ter brings down ruin from the hills
0, and is thin your world ! your ancient name,
Your honour, your protection?—Fare thee well,
Walin of enchantment and of agony,
I have tarried here too long.—lint I have limbs
To fly withal—a heart to he it me up!"
Accordingly, she flies to the metropolis, and finds
shelter beneath Albert's rod', whither also Sir Archi-
bald follows, in answer to a communication sum-
moning him to the death-bed of his son. He arrives
in time to learn that La Rcque, whose dissolution is a
fiction, and Sybil, his daughter, are reconciled. La
Roque throws off all disguise, and disclosing himself
to be the real Lord Overbury, he preserves the honour
of his name by allowing his uncle to escape to a fo-
reign land. Having previously, however, met with
Eve, and become informed of the ambiguous nature
of her guardian's proposal, he taxes Sir Archibald of
his villany, when it happily transpires that Eve has
misinterpreted his meaning. He wanted her not to
give up the world at the expense of virtue, but to
shut her ears to its taunts when she became the wife
of a man so much her senior; and Eve, who really
loves her guardian, at once accepts his hand and
heart. There remains now only two actors in the
drama to be disposed of, namely, Albert and Mar-
garet. La Roque, interceding with Sir Archibald in
her behalf, urges him to forgive them, but there his
vow stands in the way. How is he to get rid of this
without forswearing himself ? La Roque urges—

"There is still
A voice more deep than reason or than prayer!
The heart's own voice, that speaks in starry night,
In the pearled morning, in the liar) of noon,
Whenever man id holiest in the band
01 man's Creator—whispering in his ear
There are no wrongs forgiveness cannot reach,
There are no vows of vengeance past recall'
If you have heard this voice, obey it now!"
This reasoning overcomes Sir Archibald's scruples of
conscience, and the play terminates with a reconcilia-
tion between the father and son. Such is a brief
outline of the main incidents of the drama. It is
smoothly and here and there elegantly written, but the
dialogue is decidedly too long; occasionally it is fanciful
and passionate, but its success depends more upon the
plot and the acting than upon the poetry. It was
gracefully cast and well sustained throughout.
Madam Ponisi threw much feeling into the part of
Sybil, while Mies R. Malcolm, as the innocent,
gentle, unsophisticated Eve, was eloquently touching,
reading the language of her author with exquisite
taste and pathos. Mr. Mead • gave a highly finished
portraiture of Sir Archibald Harcourt, and was ably
seconded by Mr. Creswick, as the impassioned and
reckless La Roque. Albert, the son, Lord Overbury,
and Jeremy, the Steward, found admirable represen-
tatives in Messrs. Raymond, Collier, and Fitzroy.
Nor must we omit mentioning the little part of
Margaret, played by Miss Laporte with much skill
and ability. The author, in the preface to the play,
warmly acknowledges the good offices he has met with
at the hands of all who have assisted in producing
his work, and, certainly, they well merited it, for
nothing could surpass the exertions of the actors to
secure its success, nor could it have been placed upon
the stage with more care or elaboration. The
scenery and dresses were truly splendid, realising
the princely magnificence of an English nobleman's
estate of the period of good Queen Bess. It was
enthusiastically applauded from be i gto end,
and, at the close, the author, Mr . Mirk ,we
believe the musical critic of th um, loomed and
bowed his gratitude from ' ox, while Mr.
Creswick, who seemed' no' ess delighted at the
triumph of the clever aspirant for dramatic fame,
announced the play for repetition until further notice
amidst a renewed burst of applause.