The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

THE WAR MOVEMENT

In answer to:the Premier's declaration to sustain the
Uhion between Great Britain and Ireland, the United
Irishman thus concludes a diabolical article :
"Blow then, blow, ye blacksmiths' bellows! Let the stal-
wart forge-hammer rest neither by day nor yet by night ! Re-
peal' is on the anvil ; the battle of the Constitution is to be
fought in the forge first, and afterwards in the fields and in the
streets."
An extract from " Our War Department," and which
almost out -Herods anything that has get fallen from the
pen of the Irish Catiline, shall wind up this day's glean-
ings from the. United Irishman :
" A great number of people are getting serious about the
quantity of troops which the Castle organ tells us have been
for several weeks thrown into Dublin. Keep never minding
them. They are too wise to attack the city, were they ten times
as strong as they pretend to be. There is no city in Europe.
not excepting Paris or Vienna, so defensible by the citizens
as this in which we have the happiness to live. Every house
in this city is provided with a mine before it, of exquisite con-
struction for the blowing up of a squadron over head, and
at present used as a coal cellar. The cellars of houses oppo-
site to each other are often separated in narrow streets by a
wall merely—in wider streets they communicate with each
other by sewers, large and high, running from each to the
main sewer of the street. The owners of one cellar could
thus easily blow up the street right across—thereby, first,
making a mine; second, a covered way ; third, a ditch in
front of a barricade, if he chose to throw up one behind it.
Or two citizens, living opposite to each other, who fear the
attack of troops, could with great ease make an unO.er-
ground passage from one house to the other—to be used,
first, as a means of communication or escape; and, secondly,
as a mine. Indeed, our city is so strong in this respect,
that if we were a Lord-Lieutenant, which God forbid, instead
of, in parlous fear, mining round and under the castle, building
secret passages for the passage of troops, or the construction of
mines, as Lord Clarendon is now engaged in doing, we would
withdraw into the liberties, or the region about Smithfield or
the Four Courts, select a quadrangle of streets, barricade every
extremity and angle, mine the cellars, pile brick-bats and
crockery-ware and household grenades on the parapets, and
beard the lion in his den.' In such a position Lord Clarendon
might defy his own troops to take him, even should they prove
disloyal, as, indeed, they mean to do."

ST. JUDE'S CHURCH.—We understand that the Rev.
Dr. Carpenter will commence his ministerial duties in St.
Jude's Church on Sunday next.
MR. MITCHEL'S WHITE FEATHER.—This doughty
Young Irelander, who was to have put down Lord Claren-
don, smashed through Dublin Castle, and we don't know
what else, is, instead of appealing at once to the pike,
about to attempt to protect himself from his indictment
by a legal quibble. One of the members of the grand
jury who found a true bill against him is, he says, a mem-
ber of the Corporation of Dublin, and, hence, was in-
competent to try his case. ,We trust that the Irish law
officials have not been blundering, as usuld. The attempt,
however, thus to shuffle out of his dilemma is significant
enough.

THE MOST AWFUL CURSE EVER THREATENED FOR
IRELAND.—One of the priestly pike and rifle agitators of
Ireland—the Rev. Father Kenyon—at a meeting held last
week, in the parish of Templederry, gave the following
startling intimation of what would befal the people if they
did not shoulder their weapons and fight to protect Messrs.
Mitchel, Meagher, and Smith O'Brien :
" I tell you that slavery will be innate in your race, your
children will have lost the independent feeling of manhood,
your grand-children will be born with flat noses worse than the
negroes of the desert, your memory will be ignobly forgotten
as that of degenerate slaves, or, if remembered, can only be
so, coupled with execrations and curses on your apathy."
An awful doom, truly, upon the poor Irish grand-children
to be " born with flat noses," as the result of Mitchel and

EXPLOSION OF THE BOILER OF THE LUCIFER

PLEASURE YACHT,

The Lucifer left here about half-past nine on Sunday
morning, for a trial trip to Mostyn, with a party of eight
ladies and eight gentlemen, and on her return, through
Hoylake, from three to a quarter-past three, in the after-
noon, touching the bank as she came through, the sand
got into the feed pipe, and before the fires could be drawn,
or other precautions taken, an explosion took place, by
by which the boiler and middle part of the vessel were
torn to atoms. There were five females on the bow of the
vessel when the accident took place ; these fell into the
water, but were saved by the boat belonging to the vessel
by the exertions of Mr. M'Ardle and one or two more,
who kept the ladies up till another boat came to their as-
sistance. The other females and the rest of the crew were
all aft, clear of the boiler, and by this means were safe, as
this part of the vessel touched the ground, and conse-
quently was above the water. The ladies were taken to
the hotel at Hoylake, where they were immediately put to
bed, and received every attention. Greater hospitality
could not, in fact, have been shown by the landlady and
her daughter. We are happy to add that not one of the
party received the slightest personal injury. The Lucifer
is about 27 tons register burthen, and is a very fast and
beautiful vessel. She will, no doubt, be immediately re-
paired and refitted. The accident was one of those which
we must place in the category of events which are often
beyond the control or preconception of the most talented
of even those who are conversant with steam. Mr.
M'Ardle, who had command of the boat, and is, we may
add, proprietor, has had a practical experience, as a me-
chanic and engineer of steamers, for nearly a quarter of a
century, and but for the casualty of the sand getting into
the feed-pipe, all would have been as safe as in any
steamer afloat. He deeply laments the occurrence, as it
necessarily produced great alarm on board, and is thankful
to Providence that no loss of life, or injury beyond that
above, accrued from the casualty.

The United States steam-ship brought £6,000 in specie.
She met the steam-ship Hibernia, which left Liverpool
on the 25th ultimo, going into New York, on the Bth
instant.

DESPATCH.—The ship Fancuil Hall. Captain Bangs,
from New Orleans, with a cargo of 2,083 bales of cotton,
consigned to Mr. Wm. Moon, arrived on Tuesday, com-
menced discharging at one o'clock, p.m., and had all her
cargo passed through the scales at half-past five on Thurs-
day, occupying only the space of fifteen hours for the total

dic'harge

The -Medusa and Merlin, lately employed as steam-
packets between Liverpool and Dublin, and now under
the orders of Sir Charles Napier on the coast of Ireland,
are ordered to Portsmouth as soon as they can be spared,
where they are to be refitted. They are each 889 tons,
and 320-horse power. The Medusa is to be detached
first, and the other is to follow.

APPROACH or SPRlNG.—Swallows made their appear-
ance in this neighbourhood on Sunday week, the 16th,
and on Thursday last, the 20th, the sweet notes of the
cuckoo were heard in our suburbs, and have been con-
tinued morning and evening since. These arrivals are
both about ten days earlier than last year. They are
generally considered harbingers of fine weather, which we
sincerely:hope now to have.
AN AFFLUENT BEGGAR.—An Irishman was brought
before the magistrates yesterday, charged with being found
in the street, the previous day, begging. He was seen in
the Haymarket exercising his profession, and on being
taken to Bridewell and searched, the sum of 10s. lid. was
found in his pockets. Mr. Rushton said the prisoner
must go to gaol for a month, and the money found upon
him appropriated to his maintenance.
A TREAT.—We may be excused reminding. our readers
that the astronomical lecture by Mr. Fisher, in aid of the
valuable schools attached to Christ Church, will be de-
livered this evening, at the Concert-hall. Every one pre-
sent will receive some valuable and interesting informa-
tion, and will also contribute towards liquidating a debt
which presses on the benevolent exertions of the com-
mittee of the schools.

We understand that the Liverpool Church Missionary
anniversary will be held this year on Sunday, May 21st,
and following days. The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel,
the Rev. G. Smith, and the Rev. H. Powell, with others,
will attend as a deputation. Mr. Smith is the well known
author of an excellent work on China, in which country
he was lately a missionary. Mr. Powell was formerly a
missionary in Ceylon, and has been recently appointed
District Secretary for Lancashire.
THE PUBLIC BATHS.—We are glad to find that the
receipts at these establishments in Paul-street have been,
during the present month, nearly thirty per cent. above
those of the corresponding period of last year. The more
they become known, the better are they attended, and the
more highly are their benefits appreciated. Among the
parties who used the baths this month, gratuitously, were
956 children in the Corporation School, 607 children from
the Ragged School, Naylor-street, and 614 soldiers.
LIST OF CABIN' PASSENGERS per packet-ship Isaac
Wright, Capt. A. C. Marshall, from New York :—Mr.
Alexander Rankiii, lady, two children, and servant, New
York ; Mr. Joseph F. Sunger and lady, Miss Sunger,
Brooklyn ; Mr. Godfrey Pattison, lady, five children and
servant ; Dr. Grenville Pattison and lady ; Mr. Henry
K. Skilding, lady, and Miss Elizabeth H. Skilding ; Mr.
John Gillelan ; Professor William A. Norton and lady,
Delaware Cottage; Mr. Black, Mr. Denniston, Canada;
and Mr. White.

CAPTURE.—Amongst the passengers by the steamer
United States, which arrived here from America on Sa-
turday, we notice Mr. Byron, the agent to the bankers
and merchants of Great Britain. He was despatched to
America last autumn, with instructions from Messrs. For-
rester, of the Mansion-house, London, to search for and
apprehend four men who had defrauded certain banks in.
Yorkshire and Scotland. He succeeded in tracing and ar-
resting them at different places in the backwoods, 1,400
miles in the Western States.

STEALING A SACK OF OATS.—Yesterday, a man named
John Day was brought before the magistrates, charged
with stealing a sack of oats. The property belonged to
Messrs. Earle and Co., and was stolen on Wednesday last
from a warehouse in Crooked-lane. It was proved that
the prisoner removed it in a cart, and took it to a house
in Reilcross-street, where it was found. The prisoner
was apprehended at his own residence. He admitted the
offence, and said he had been led into it in consequence of
intoxication. He was committed for trial.

ROBBERY OF WEARING APPAREL.—Yesterday, a man
named Wm. Furlong was brought before Mr. Rushton,
charged with stealing wearing apparel from a man in
Marybone. The complainant alleged that he came from
Newton to see his friends, and got into the company of
the prisoner at a public-house in Marybone, where he was
robbed of his money and a bundle of wearing apparel.
The prisoner was carrying the bundle for him out of kind-
ness. It did not appear that the prisoner had taken any
active part in stealing the money. He was remanded for
further inquiry.
SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS.—YestercIay. three youths,
named John Lambert, Thomas Henry Anders, and John
Harlow, were brought before the magistrates, charged on
suspicion of attempting to steal articles' from shop doors.
It appeared that on Saturday evening the prisoners were
observed passing through several of the principal streets
in the town, and examining goods that hung at shop doors,
police officer Toole followed them, and knowing they were
persons of questionable character, took them into custody.
The prisoners had been several times convicted of felony.
They were committed to gaol far three months.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES.--In another column we
have stated that the two men convicted at Chester for
murder made an important confession. We learn that
they have acknowledged that they were the parties who
committed the robbery on the Rev. Mr. German, at Prest-
wich, near Manchester, on the 15th January last, for
which Dan. O'Brian and Michael Connolly ware tried at
the late Liverpool Assizes, and sentenced to fifteen years
transportation. The depositions were sent to Sir George
Grey on Friday night, and Mr. Atkinson and Mr. Camp-
bell Leigh are instructed to apply for the discharge of the
two latter convicts.
JUVENILE HIGHWAYMEN.—Two little boys, apparently
about ten years of ago were yesterday placed at the bar on
a charge of stealing a loaf from another boy about their
own age. The complainant, it appeared, was passing
along Netherfield-roaa on Saturday night, with the loaf
under his arm, when the prisoners made an attack upon
him, knocked him down, and endeavoured to take the
loaf, but were unable to succeed. The boy who had
charge of the loaf stood nobly in his own defence, and
eventually succeeded in getting away, when he gave in-
formation to the police. and the prisoners were appre-
hended. One of them had been previously before the
court.—Mr. Rushton ordered -them to be sent to the
overseers. _ _ _

STABBING.—A. seaman named Robert Jones wasbrought
before the magistrates, yesterday, charged with stabbing
one of his shipmates—William Rogers. Both parties be-
longed to the ship Andrew Foster, and it appeared that on
Friday night the prisoner was ill-using a man at a board-
ing-house; the complainant remonstrated with him on
the impropriety Of his conduct, and gave him a push,
when the prisoner drew a knife and stabbed him in tne
breast. The wound was not considered of a dangerous
character. The prisoner in his defence alleged that he
had been first assaulted, and drew the knife in his own
defence. He was fined £5, and in default of payment to
be imprisoned two months.
:CURTAIN LECTURES IN STORE.—An Irish emigrant, in
going in a boat, on Saturday, to get on board the ship in
which his wife and family were going with him to the
United States, being slightly elevated with whisky, drop-
ped his purse, containing forty sovereigns, into the Dock
Basin. His own wailing over the unfortunate occurrence
was, of course, sufficiently loud, and the language addressed
to him by his fond partner was anything but complimen-
tary. Epithets were showered upon him unfit for ears
polite to hear, and as, his passage being paid, he proceeded
in the vessel, the journey is likely to be the reverse of
pleasant. The grievance will most likely keep too, and
form the subject of many an evening's lecture and morn-
ing's salutation, in the land to which the poor wretch has
departed.
FATAL ACCIDENTS. —On Friday morning Richard
Morrow was driving a horse drawing a loaded waggon,
along the railway of the North Dock works, for the pur-
pose of emptying it, when he stumbled and fell down
lengthways on the rails. He caught hold of the chains,
and was drawn some distance along the road, when, un-
fortunately, his body was thrown across the rails, and
two of the waggon wheels went over him and fractured
both thighs. He was taken to the Northern Hospital,
where he died of his injuries the following day.—About
three weeks since, Henry Davies, a lad, 15 years of age,
who belonged to one of the Duke of Bridgewater's floats,
was playing in a timber yard at the Potteries, when, in
endeavouring to get a stick from under some deals, which
were piled up. three of the deals gave way and fell upon

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was ascertained his skull was fractured, of which injury
he died on Friday last.
Parties wishing to purchase or rent country houses will
meet with onnortunities by applying to Mr. Williams, o(

MRS. BUTLER'S READINGS FROM

SHAKSPEARE.

This talented lady presented us, last night, at the Col-
legiate Institution, with the first of a series of six dramatic
readings which have attracted so much notice in the me-
tropolis. The prices of admission to the institution were
raised on the occasion, to meet the considerable expense
attendant upon such an engagement. The audience, how-
ever, was a most numerous and fashionable one, shewing
at least that, if amongst a large portion of the inhabitants
of Liverpool, stage performances are not encouraged, it is
not from any want of appreciation of the mighty genius
of our great bard. The attention throughout the reading
was most marked, and the applause of the audience meted
out from time to time with great discrimination.
The play chosen for the first of the series—Macbeth—
is one, the delineation of the leading characters in which,
by the sole remaining dramatic scion of the Kemble
family, possessed peculiar interest, from the circumstance
that, as with respect to others of the plays of Shakspeare,
a difference exists amongst both critics and actors as to
the true meaning of the poet ; and that amongst the latter
are ranged the uncle and aunt of Mrs. Butler—John
Kemble and Mrs. Siddons—whose delineations of their
respective characters are opposed to the reading of the
leading tragic actress of the present day, Miss Helen
Faucit. The Macbeth of John Kemble, though a fine
impersonation, as every character in his hands must have
been, was yet but a cowering and irresolute tool in the
hands of his wife, who, as pourtrayed by Mrs. Siddons,
was a strongminded, imperious woman, void of conjugal
affection, and seeking only the gratification of her soaring
ambition. The Lady Macbeth of Miss Helen Faucit is a
totally different character ; and to meet the requirements
of the piece, her husband must be differently regarded.
We shall, perhaps, best describe the views of the latter
lady by quoting the following argument from Fletcher's
Studies of Shakspeare," a very talented critical work,
recently published, the writer of which appears to have
closely studied and appreciated Miss Faucit's admirable
reading of the play :
" It has been customary to talk of Lady Macbeth as of
a woman in whom the love of power for its own sake not
only predominates over, but almost excludes, every human
affection, every empathetic feeling. Had Shakspeare in-
tended so to represent her, he would probably have made
her the first contriver of the assassination scheme. It is
true that even Coleridge, in his " Literary Remains," de-
sires us to remark that, in her opening scene, `she evinces
no womanly life, no. wifely joy, at the return of her hus-
band, no pleased terror at the thought of his past dan-
gers.' We must, however, beg to observe, that she shews
what she knows to be far more gratifying to her husband
at that moment, the most eager and passionate sympathy
in the great master wish and purpose of his own mind. In
this epistle, be it well observed, after announcing to her
the two-fold prediction of the weird sisters, and its partial
fulfilment, he concludes :—` This have I thought good to
deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness ; that thou
mightest not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant
of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart,
and farewell. Can anything more clearly denote a tho-
rough union between this pair, in affection as well as am-
bition, than that single expression—My dearest partner
of greatness ? And, seeing that his last words to her had
contained the injunction to lay their promised greatness to
her heart as her chief subject of rejoicing, are not the first
words that she addresses to him on their meeting, the
most natural, sympathetic, and even obedient response to
the charge which he has given her ?
" Great Glamis ! worthy Cawdor !
Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!
Thy letters have transported me beyond
The ignorant present, and I feel now
The future in the instant.'

" We do maintain that there is no less of affectionate
than of ambitious feeling conveyed in these lines—nay
more, that it is her prospect of his exaltation, chiefly, that
draws from her this burst of passionate anticipation,
breathing almost a lover's ardour. Everything, we say,
concurs to show that, primarily, she cherishes the scheme
of criminal usurpation as his object—the attainment of
which, she mistakingly believes, will render him happier
as well as greater.
" She is fully aware, indeed, of the moral guiltiness of
her husband's design —that he ' would wrongly win ;,
and of the suspicion which they are likely to incur, but the
dread of which she revels by considering, What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power into ac-
count ?' Nor is she inaccessible to remorse. The very
passionateness of her wicked invocation, ' Come, come,
you spirits,' &c., is a proof of this. We have not here
the language of a cold-blooded murderess—but the vehe-
ment effort of uncontrollable desire, to silence the still,
small voice' of her human and feminine conscience. This
very violence results from the resistance of that milk of
human kindness' in her own bosom, of which she fears
the operation in her husband's breast.
" Of religious impressions, indeed, it should be care-
fully noted that she seems to have even less than her
husband.

" On the other hand, it is plain that she covets the
crown for her.husband even more eagerly than he desires
it for himself. With as great or greater vehemence of
passion than he, she has none of his excitable imagination.
Herein, we conceive, lies the second essential diffrence of
character between them ; from whence proceeds, by neces-
sary consequence, that indomitable steadiness to a pur-
pose on which her heart is once thoroughly bent, which so
perfectly contrasts with the incurably fluctuating habit of
mind in her husband. She covets for him, we say, ' the
golden round' more passionately even than he can covet
it for himself—nay, more so, it seems to us, that she
would have coveted it for her own individual brows. Free
from all the apprehensions conjured up by an irritable
fancy—from all the horrible imaginings' that beset Mac-
beth—her promptness of decision and fixedness of will are
proportioned to the intensity of desire ; so that, although
he has been the first •contnver of the scheme, she has
been the first to resolve immovably that it shall be crzried
into effect.

" Fearing that ' his nature' may shrink at the moment
of execution, she determines, if necessary, to commit the
murder with her own hand. Hence her invocation to the
spirits that tend on mortal thoughts,' to unsex' her,
&c. ; and hence that part of her reply to Macbeth's an-
nouncement of Duncan's visit :
" He that's coming
Must be provided for : and you shall put
This night's great business into any despatch ;
Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway
o and
up mast
clear—
erdom !
. Only, k
. .
To alter favour ever is to fear :
Leave all the rest to me.
" But now it is that all his previous apprehensions of
odium and of retribution rise up to his imagination against
the deed, in more terribly vivid and concentrated array ;
to oppose which he feels within him no positive stimulant
but that of pure ambition. This finally proves insufficient;
and he falls back to the counter-resolve, We will proceed
no further in this business.' But he finds, immovably
planted behind him, sarcastic reproof from the woman
whom he loves, if he loves any human being ; and, which
makes it most formidable of all, from the woman who, he
knows, devotedly loves him. Her exordium is fearful
enough :

" Was the hope drunk,
Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?
And wakes it now to look so green and pale
At what it did so freely? From this time,
Such I account thy love.'
" Then comes the bitter imputation of moral co-
wardice :

" Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour,
As thou art in desire,' &c.
" And his effort to repel the charge—
" I dare do all that may become a man ;
Who dares do more, is none'—
only serves to bring upon him, most deservedly, the wi-
thering and resistless retort :
" What beast was it, then,
That made you break this enterprise to me?
When you durst do it, then you were a man ;
And to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place
Did then adhere, and yet you would make both :
They have made themselves—and that their fitness now
Does unmake you.'

" No longer daring to plead his fear of public opinion,
Macbeth now falls back upon his last remaining ground of
objection, the possibility that their attempt may not
succeed—

" If we should fail
Her quiet reply, ' We fail,' is every way most character-
istic of the speaker—expressing that moral firmness in
herself which makes her quite prepared to endure the con-
sequences of failure—and, at the same time, conveying the
most decisive rebuke of such moral cowardice in her hus-
band as can make him recede from a purpose merely on
account of the possibility of defeat—a possibility which,
up to the very completion of their design, seems never
absent from her own mind, though she finds it necessary
to banish it from that of her husband:—
" ' But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.' "

This view of the two characters is obviously the most
poetical, and certainly the most natural; and, in our in-
terpretation of the great dramatist's works, we must ever
remember his fidelity to nature. It is borne out, more-
over, by the subsequent events of the piece. The mad-
ness of Lady Macbeth is unaccountable, if we are to view
her as the undaunted, imperious woman pourtrayed by
Mrs. biddons ; and the subsequent crime into which Mac-
beth so recklessly plunged, from no instigation of hers,
and even without her knowledge, is equally unaccountaz
ble, if we are to regard him as the originally amiable man,
whose first step •in guilt was taken to gratify the ambition
of the proud woman whom he loved. Miss Faucit's
reading is natural throughout. The madness of Lady
Macbeth is caused by the weight of remorse pressing upon
her own mind, when she sees that all her self sacrificing
efforts to sustain his spirits are made in vain ; and that,
having given up, to gratify his self-ambition, her own soul
—having aided to embark him in guilt—he is bent upon
rushing through an ocean of. blood.
It is, of course, a somewhat difficult matter from a
mere reading to arrive at the same just conclusion as to
the interpretation of the text of any play, as when we see
it acted, so much is always left by the dramatist to be
filled up by the action and expression of the player. So
far, however, as we could gather, Mrs. Butler entertains
similar views to those which are above given as those of
Miss Helen Faucit.• Her Lady Macbeth was a womanly
being, with a determination to achieve the subject which
her more irresolute husband would " wrongly win,"
whilst he paused at the effort to win, yet full of the fine
sensibilities of her sex, when not strung up to the
contemplation of the deed which had to be done. One
of the finest points, illustrative at once of the natural
gentleness of her sex, and
,of the feeling which drove
her to outrage it by the murder of Duncan, was her ren-
dering of the passage beginning, " I have given suck, and
know how tender ties," &c., which elicited hearty ap-
plause. The scene with Matheth before the banquet was
also_in accordance with this view of the character. Her

rendering of the part of Maebetl
generally true to nature.
The sleep-walking scene of Lady Macbeth was a beau-
tiful delineation, worthy of the admiration which it re-
and the celebrated dia-

qually fine

nn a critical

logue between Ross and Meeduff—in which the lader is
informed of the slaughter of his wife and family—was given
inimitably. The concluding exclamation of Illarduf,--1
" What ! all my pretty ones ! all—all--
" The chickens and the dam at one fell swoop ?'"
was perfectly electrifying.
The time and space at our disposal forbids anything
like a perfect criticism of this performance. We must
say, however, that it satisfied us—that the lairds
which Mrs. Butler has won in these readings
have been well earned—and that the public have rich
treats in store in the readings which have to follow. We
could point to many detached passages and scenes, which
we have never before heard so beautifully given, and
which could only have been so given by one possessed,
like this gifted lady, not only with the highest gifts of the
actress, but also with a mind thoroughly and intrinsical
Shakspearian. Amongst the audience present we noticed
his worship the Mayor, Elias Arnaud, Esq., and many of
the leading merchants of the town, by whom and by the
whole of her hearers Mrs. Butler was most cordially
received, and very frequently cheered throughout her
arduous task.