The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-05 00:00:00

THEATRE AT BALTIMORE

(From Mrs. Butler's, late Fanny Kemble, new work.)
"At half-past five, took coffee, and off to the theatre. The
play was Romeo and Juliet; the house was extremely full : they
are a delightful audience. My Romeo had gotten on a pair of
trunk breeches, that looked as if he had borrowed them from
some worthy Dutchman of a hundred years ago. Had he worn
them in New York, I could have understood it as a compliment
to the ancestry of that rood city; but here, to adopt such a cos-
tume in Romeo, was really perfectly unaccountable. They were
of a most unhappy choice of colours, too—dull, heavy-looking
blue cloth, and offensive crimson satin, all be-puckered, and be-
plaited, and be-puffed, till the young man lookel like a magical
figure growing out of a monstrous, strange-coloured melon,
beneath which. descended his unfortunate legs, thrust into a pair
of red slippers, for all the world like Grimaldi's legs en costume
for clown. The play went off pretty smoothly, except that they
broke one man's collar-bone, and nearly dislocated a woman's
shoulder by flinging the scenery about. My bed was not made
in time, and when the scene drew, half a dozen carpenters in
patched trowsers and tattered shirt-sleeves were discovered
smoothing down my pillows, and adjusting my draperies. The
last Scene is too good not to be given verbatim :
ROMEO—.- • Rise, rise, my Juliet,
And from this cave of death, this house of horror,
Quick let me snatch thee to thy Romeo's arms.
Here he pounced upon me, plucked me up in his arms like an
uncomfortable bundle, and staggered down with me.
JULIET (aside)—Oh, you've got me up horribly !—that'll
never do; let me down, pray let me down.
Rosso—There, breathe a vital spirit on thy lips,
And call thee back my soul to life and love !
JULIET (aside)—Pray put me down; you'll certainly throw
me down if you don't set me on the ground directly.
In the midst of "cruel, cursed fate," his dagger tell out of his
dress; I, embracing him tenderly, crammed it back again, be.
cause I knew I should want it at the end.
ROMEO—Tear not our heart strings thus!
They crack! they break !—Juliet ! Juliet! (dies-)
JULIET (to corpse)—Am 1 smothering you ?
Cortess (to Juliet)—Not at all; could you be so kind, do you
think, as to put my wig on again for me ?—it has fallen off.
JULIET tto corpse)—l'm afraid I can't, but I'll throw my
mus!in veil over it. You've broken the phial, haven't you ?
(Corpse nodded.)
JUI.IF.T (to corpse)—Where's your dagger ?
CORPSE (to .Juliet)—'Pon my soul, I don't know."

CITY ELECTION—Tun COMMISSION.—Notwithstanding all
the petty objections raised by the counsel and agents for the
sitting members, with the avowei object of protracting the
proceedings, the petitioners have already disqualified two hun-
dred and sixty-sit voters, being forty-three over the majority
obtained by Mr. O'Connell. This has been done upon the most
distinct proof of non-payment of one tax alone, and the same
parties thus convicted are also in arrear on the foot of the other
municipal taxes. The clearest evidence will be produced
against five hundred and sixty-nine persons, who positively had
no right to vote at the late election; so that if the progress of
the case be " slow," it has the certain merit of being also
" sure." The opposite party begin to lose their temper • but the
Commissioners, though they appear to treat them with' great
forbearance, seem disposed also to act with becoming firmness;
and have issued a declaration to the effect, that they will resist
with severe and summary punishment all future attempts to im-
pugn their motives and produce disorder in the court. Indeed
the Commissioners are bound, as well in justice to their pro-
fession as themselves, to make their authority respected.—
(Dublin Evening Mail.)
Official accounts have at length been received at the Admi-
ralty of the loss of the Firefly schooner. The Racer, which
arrived at Bermuda on the lfith of April. reported to Sir George
Cockburn that she was totally wrecked off Belize, and Lieuten-
ant Wllannell, with 22 of her crew, drowned. It has been
supposed that she had passengers on board. but no mention is
made of them.