The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-01 00:00:00

SOTO— i • .
I iry aspirited did he quit it. At 'Drury, after his ~
'e stood behind the scenes, and have witnessed Peers
tad m
too_e b ers of Parliament rushing to his dressing-
ul'4 to express their unbounded delight at his perform-
me ‘'e ; and have been amused more than once by seeing
e__mb
rsot the committee of manageirtent jostling againsp
al? other, in their eager haste to present negus,
mine lemon-
nd ingest, to the favoured and flattered actor. And
,waghim the sorrow—saddest spectacle of all I—to view
tun Inthis decline.- He was crossing the Tyne. a fe*
toe 2 'Mow Newcastle, in a steam ferry-boat, that plyed
Vri the opposite shores, so contrived that .a carriage
ett''' 'be driven on.and off it without requiring the cc-
di.r4lta• to alight.. A large, heavy travelling-chariot
w 4; and in it sat &thin' , .feeble-looking, little man,
I ul) in cloaks and fur. With the face I was sure
It :familiar. I bent forward, and caught the . profile.
thi as ICean. A woman of colour sat by his side. On
enshions and floor of the carriage were strewed va-
as- Play-books
_; torn, dirty, dogs'-eared, and disti-
latio
.Itrebourlennugh. He was' to act evening in a neigh-
„Do.
.g country town ; and thither, impelled by old us-
str Pns, I followed him. Alas I gazed on a wreck
remature but thorough Wreck. Voice, memory,
ilieela.gth, all were-gone. The box I sat in was, hear
exit'ntge—too near—it commanded so completely the
iiitissaotd entrance of each actor as greatly to .dispel the.
to 411 n• But on that. night its position was invaluable
ties el It enabled me to watch my' former , favourite..
1)01- 7, and throughout. Whenever ..he quitted the
Evert-s 't was in a state of thorough exhaustion. But
1%,14,? gesture was most anxiously observed, . His coin-,
!liro'r, the woman of colour, was inclose ittendanceon,
14 had evidently her fear as to the result- of the even- -
tib" gave him continually small quantities of what,
blftvared to me, strong spirit-and-water, as a temporary
p fatal stimulus. I could hews. choked her,' cried,
elitule„ce, 'for her assiduity!' The play .was the Irma
before ild he, of course,-Sir Edward Mortimer.
it n
to
sed he was voiceless from exhaustion.' Long.
Fit subject,' said I; ' for the moralist ; health,
niat-,, energies, all profusely drawn upon, and all pre-
‘,"'l'Y spent I'
1;4- would do battle with ye on that point too,' cried
; but time pressei.. In truth everything. con=
f
Nary". with that man was unprecedented; and out o
biantise• Risfriends, his haunts, his hosts, all were. ro-
droll e and eat of keeping. Was there ever anythi.ngso
h, ,as the contrast afforded to him and his habits by
•tiost, ?Hiss Hake, the little feather-dresser, with
°in h.,
cite e lodged at Exeter ? Imagine a punctilious, pre-
(/' eorrett, and rather timid old maid, of a certain age,
IN"'e,r.Y staid demeanour, and matter-of-fact habits.
k,ag,s'ile her, I say, the host of an' erratic genius like
aido
' "u'e
,and vet he lodged- with her for a very con-
hitt period. She, staid and timid as she was, liked
~',and they parted with relnetance and regret.'
"A roll enough, certainly l'
Ilcit,%`:,•n;i instructive ; for it showed the power ;Kean.
sent
"" Ten of kindling strong feelings of personal attach-
-1)e Period when those prepossessions must have
a wholly disinterested.'

he dg NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
ine sensible remarks appear in this Number
" The Censorship of the English Drama,"
d,as the majority of our readers know, is a
d -`"elegated to the. Lord Chamberlain and his
ektv
f;esteci 1.4 e Licenser. The remarks have been sug-
lo 6 by the singular circumstance, of a new comedy
141: acts; " Richlieti in Love," having been far-
teet'ititrA ffi i4ited by the ocials—after it had been
fora; ,r. hY Mr. Webster, and advertiied to be per-
iitlseg at the Haymarket—on the plea that "it was
brie
to be represented, because it, was calculated to
hto„„g the Church and State into contempt!" As .we
tie 'tot seen the piece, we cannot, of course, under-
saY how far this plea is tenable or otherwise;
can possibly imagine. Church and State to be
fror'gger of being blown to atoms by a broadside
pry; a Haymarket comedy ? The idea seems to us
itso,'",`_;4.laently absurd, and could only have insinuated
dei,m into the imagination of a man bleit by Provi-
• of4ate with the very thickest of skulls. The writer
14114 t„,. e temarks; who tells us that he has read, the pro-
li4-r4, Play, expressly states that no man in , Eng-
sitivieept the Licenser himself, could point out a
usage, situation, scene, or combination of any
Piet,„t "kuch bears such a. construction as that, on the
of which this play has been sentenced to per.
tho-" ostracism from the stage. If this- be really
it jaeaSe, the sentence of prohibition is as arbitrary as
for l'iuiculous ;. but we are not at all surprised at it,
' "baksPeare has long since assured-
us that-7-
" Man, yam man,
Dressed in a little brief authority • .
aYs such fantastic tricks before high Heaven
s„! make the angels weep."
*a " Letters from Hong-Kong and Ma. o
Macao,"
11d some diverting characteristic sketches t-
ie ctistoms and manners. The Chinaman is, it
8',48 proud of his tail, as an opera-dancer of her
used and a very favourite mode of punishment
poor "Y the English was to cut them off, when the
the toelltailed -Celestial went away as disconsolate as
lisvo;1 fable." The Chinese are also- great be-
author al omens ; "like our forefathers," says the
once -o'f they associate misfortunes with the appear-
s,igus an omets, and. pay no slight attention to all
,Lanton!Ovonders in the sky. The Governor of
for an' when I arrived there, was in deep mourning
" Marl„ee„9Pse of the Emperor's sister, the moon r
:riaPPY Returns of the Day" is a gracefully
tno,„-: ['ern, from the
,pen of akliss Eliza Cook.
hole ,r4re Within ; or, • the Confessions of a Key-
ver‘; „ contains, inter ilia, a satirical sketch of that
;4116"ornMon character, a confirmed invalid—one of
gehe,„.4l,est, teasing and irreclaimable of bores.
In
iltvairA! may be taken as a rule that all.!1 eonfirmeil
gen Are as tough as whipcord, and—to ,a
use
expression—" stick like bricks" to life. If
41Cit ,7aP,Pen also to be annuitants, they are, as a.
Course, immortal, like Godwin's St.. Lei)
st 44 e first annuitant on- record. Mrs. Trollope's
(1411/113:t:sfttell.e " Butt" is somewhat too long-winded for
We are glad to meet with Ingoldsby
Woridithe who, in " Lord of Thoulouse," exhibits his
and h.Y comic humour togreat advantage. This Lord,
tee his friend the Marquis Rigmaree, are anxious to
Prirtiviw their respictive spouses—both of whom are
kbse, aM 'pious ladies—are getting on during their
itiroieN and accordingly they go to consult a con-
ut,ost' `‘,,',11,0 delights their optics with the following
t4"'"Ying spectacle :
A sr, es from a shelf, and he pops on his head,
Alicedare sort of cap, black, and turned up with red,
eislres not a syllable more may be said ;
An 6 goes on to mutter,
rd d stutter, and sputter
W°ll3, such a's no men but Wizards dare utter.
„ DiesA
mies !—Hocus pst!cus—
sis Demon ! non eat-jokus !
i,"'
Cocolorum7Adesto !
•
Presto
km rut forth your best toe 1" sac many
more words, to repeat which wouldcho ke us,—
h:'sulif then of brimstone l—it did not last long,
could not have borne it, the smell was so strong.
A mirror is near,
If yc, So
large and so clear,
• kodil,,,Pticed such a one in a drawing-room here,
•uat ask'd fifty pounds, you'd .not say it was dear ;
't gather'd round at the words of the Seer,
Till at length as the gloom
Oti its boas subsiding, a room
Arod the
polish'd surface began to appear. _
-4•11. e vount and his comrade saw plainly before 'em,
°°til Lad Isabel called her " Sanctortan."
With
start, well they might,
kt:ltethijizith surprise at the sight, •
"I hear some lady Say, "Serve 'em right!"
. or-on one side the fire
Ala seated the Prior,
'47 t the Opposite corner a fat little Friar;
iiit4 !le side of each gentleman, easy and free,
t,laciy, as close as close well may be,
• 111'0t almost as well have been perch'd on his knee.
ear me! dear me!
*3/4n..-ISot, Why one's Isabel—she
grt , "eOPposite side's La Marquise Rigmaree !
4:: 10 judge from the spread
"tilant ,On the board; you'd have said
Arid btfie Purtie quarree had like aldermen fed,
The -`l2'w from long flaSks, with necks covered with lead.
Ylvere helping themselves to champagne,white and red.
'lobbing and nobbing.
And nodding and bobbing, ,
With many a sip
Am Nth from cup and from lip,
- 'llan a toast followed up by a "
4-1•
, • 11).—hipl—huzzay!"
The --The Count, by the way,
he sees all they're doing, Can't hear what they Sith
Notwithstanding both he ,
a„And Mar-quis Rigmaree - - •
:Th vex 'd and. excited, at what they can see, L
at
'each utters a sad word, beginning with D.

,
411 v sW OR TH' S MAGAZINE. ,
Queen
Air k:" :sr +l, " couit ,dr „r
4,,_.
.., _ insworth's story uf ....e
147,,,e raz;kes rad progress. -111 the chapter _ *s.intueriee
kce find the Duchess of MatibbrattSt
:130,01'0
i verging ' to, Its ,extinction,--dimmed
,nf
before .they
41ry star of ilkarley and his wily Co djrate, Mrs'
fti tween the
b4ll4'il. There'- is a aPilitoll scene ° Harleyi
"hess mistress,at which each
}presents and her Royal .
der!lt., when the Iznt.agonist parties abuse
41 antis_good set terms, and with
between
tilat that • d of the flmous dispute.
a heartiness of
at renlin sus
IN , spotless couple, reachem' an
tal)PrPary at Mr. St. John's is joss
....fcil,eer 41 the wits of the day, the t; reves,
ckyerly ma-
?ngatten. dan`e,,es) Addisons, Vanbrughs, &c., arse inth - the
14144`4 anKi . their - persons are described.
butt
their
Nlre,,,,aeeur.• ‘cy of a hue and cry placard
. :It life, Int'
raol4—atinn is A irwre non-entity--witeCh. Ai
abutla raillery, or- knowledge of any kind. They,,...
ernoila,e of gooo things, but they say none. "A
to which3 of
is • Stu ingenfmi piece of diablerie,
ty means
a useful Montt is attached. A young man,
Iteooulan_is of a rnag* focktipg-glass given him by an
t't‘ alt ilfL'ula, ting faarr• •
,i& ena.Ved fo see into the hearts
edit .his iriends. of course the sight is one more
4qtri" than satisfactory, for while words of honied
and a
tliare
on the lip, hate, And jealousy, and spite,
i writer el •
14
°llsand bad pas' sions are
.rankling iii the heart.
ho writer oses his legend with this serviceable ex-
-141
lII° tn-11---" wken you re tempted to hold the
,eve t --" near t h a of thoseyou wish to
II ' r'l' qf th °t e hearts "Death of the
miDer la e luicksilver." The
imitations
ellistxte ix, one a the siiunerous