The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-01

Theatrical and Mluslcal.
Pax THEArRE.-To-night Mr.. Collins takes benefit,
and presents for the occasion bill worthy or good
house. and there 10 but little doubt that large audi
snce will assemble to cheer him and derive amusement
for themselves and fndeed they seek amusement they
cannot do than attend the Park this evening
Mr. Collins will appear In three OF his best chsraosrs
and Mr. Pacide in two Of his The entertainments open
With "The White Horse Of the Psppers,"in which Mr.
Collins appears Gerald Pepper, and sings I'm rant
ing roaring bladen The second piece will be The
Irish Ambassador This piece alonss worthy Of visit
certainly not to he sxceed IT, indeed his equal In the
character be found in the country Ia this piece
the evening is to be the Nervous Man and the Man Of
Nerve,n In which the beneficiary will appear Mr.
Mcshane, and sing new version Of The widow Ma
creen The pieces all well cast, and WILL without
doubt be well performed Let there be crowded benches
Mr. e. deserves 1t.
BowERr THEATRE.-Ths Naiad Qussn'' Is now be-
ing performed at the Bowery theatre with the same
splendid costumes scenery &c. and with the splen
did which characterized Its first
We cannot speak too highly Of the grace and agility Of
Miss Julia Turnbull who personates the Nsisd Queen.
She Is indeed every inch Queen and at the time
beautiful, modest, end accomplished danseuse. There
scenes In this piecs truly beautiful and fairy
like, sush would please and crafty all The scenery
the general manner In which the piece ia put the
stage reflects credit all concerned II will be- repeat
ed to.nisht with tho drama Of Gsandfsthsr White
principal part The remaining characters are we'll cast
The ballet Of the Gsslle," In which Miss Turnbsl
will appear In preparation and will soon be produced
CHATHAM THEArRE-Ths house was tolerably well
filed Monday evening, to witness the debut Of Nor
mon Elder, named Adams. The step this gentleman
has taken Is rather to be regretted should live
by the Gospel he breaches It, Besides the old adase
"Bstwxt two stools' &C., may be verified in bis
The attempt Of novice is often tolerated and ap-
plsuded Though beneath mediocry) while after efforts
sotsr subjects the asprsnt to the SCOTS and
r. to h.t On MIR XSSsms
mistaken his He has taken the advice Of Hamlet
to the player. in the strotsst SENSE scarcely utsrDg
word Without an accompanying action. His gait
ing to crush them The hrst tire. passed Oh with
pitt who generally fat In such Matters had evil
IDENTIFY reserved Themselves Ia Booth) for the last two
applause It never before happy lot to witness
the broad farce OF the closing His grace the
Duke of Norfolk, Johnson) with his back to the au
dienoe seemed contending for the palm-his reading
general stage business perfectly original One
instance will sufacs, Wis: "Unlsss their famine saves
swords that labor morrows oi light em too
their ruin which received with immense roars-to
the great qualification Of his grace "aer the battle
let young Stanley die" and why after i then" was
strangely enough spoken by Richard. This was per-
haps, by way Of oscillations upon Norfolk who
occasion fancied himself personatng Richard By the
",
the of clapping his thumb TO his nose in
tain peculiar manner at his exit His grace should be
above these plebeian notions Shakespeare never in
tendedit Perhaps his grace elevated at his brilliant
reception, ana fancisd himself out OF sight. The
remaining characters wore repectaby sustained -
Richards army, howevor, instead of trebling Rich
mond's, consisted Of four privates only and could
scarce expect to gain victory, especially when,
instead Of following their leader, they made their exit
In opposite direction. For 1t must be borne In mind,
that military tactics had not at that early period attain
ed that perfection which has crowned our gallant little
army With much glory. At the fall Of the curt ain,
Richard called out, when regular lecture was de-.
vered somewhat in the following style =" Ladies and
gentemenUnder the very peculiar circumstances un-
de- which appear before you this evening" thank you
for .nd attention. The circumstsnces-I know a
gre 1y people are prrjudiced against the stage
But, and gentlemen. many preachers will quote
Shsksp palm it of to their ignorant hearers for
their Ian suage Well, some religious people
here | will just state that am opposed to gambling
to mo mean large gambling! went when was .
boy to see the "Gsmsstsr saw stukely the villain
him out Of every thing wfss Jewels he finally died
In prison. Want that moral lesson? saw virtue
rewarded, and vice crushed We metimes have to kill
virtue and send 1t to Heaven to get ts reward rather
soon. But resolved never to gamble and I've kept
my promise. don't think 1t wrong to come here and
rscits have offers in writing Of 1900 1000 dollars to
preach certain doctrines but Jesus Christ didn't send
his apostles to preach for MONEY am willing to do as
they did work at tent making play other honest
but ths. hiding affair in boston they can't 60 that
Well I'm engaged for one night more.ony one. sx-
night; IN try and alter things for the better
just come. and I'll tell you all about that cow
hiding 4 THANK all for y1ur Kind :.
dsdy rich. what shall We do with MsxiOo' Ate,
doing Richard last night, and "dopg t brown" the
the cal was hal made. He detailed the circumstance
that induced him appear the stage which were to
raise funds TO pay some money he owed and which he
lost in editing paper two-thankad the audiences
for the honor conferred ON him. spoke strongly Of
the Duke Of Norfolk Of the previous evening, and
that last evening" detailed the events that LEO
to that COW hiding affair which were so rich that W.
give them briefly appears that certain editor
name undertook to publish c,rtain sermon, which h
said was verbatim es the Elder delivered it. at certain
time 1t was correct and Elder gave the edito
notice, that he would, a certain day, covhde him
He did So being thereto advised by his better hall
and gave him thirty-fvs lashes well laid on, will
| Q certain cowhids, aud he would do 1t again
religion or no religion He defended the Thsspia,
profession from the charge Of laEiness, and sale
hat many Of the persons with .nsir three or lou
do that he knew 1t by experience lat the same tim
| putting and blowing after his exercise preceding hi
tinct from the world the world has made 1t and
the profession He concluded by saying that he hoped
the present audience would see him In new characte
on Sunday evening, and In f,w days afterwards b.
congratulated himself in the anticipation that Richar
would be himself again. the boards of theatre Tn
gsther with the shortpess Of the time that has elapsed
since he made his debut in his new character, in
cline to be merciful to him In Justice to him
however, cannot refrain from advising him tina
that susterity and that chaun-ing voice must -b
altered before he hope to rank high in his newly
adopted profession. They become camp meetings very
WELL but are not any advantage to him neither d.
they confer pleasure his audience, on the boards Of
theatre We willing to make all due allowances fo
the force Of habit. and therefore take the liberty
pointing out what consider barriers to his reaching
the position Of Kean Gsrrick, to which he evil
IDENTIFY aspires The bill tonight at the Chatham 4
very good See 1t under the Amusement head.
CIBcus-BowERY AMPHIrHEATRE This is the las