The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-06-16

appreciate the motives which have induced your
lord.hp to offer the suggestion with which your des
patch concludes bat should most earnestly depre-
cate the change IL contemplates In the governmental
Canada. Your lordshp's REIMBURSEMENT OF that Office
which, under any circumstances would be most Sc
riou loss to her Maestys service and to the province
could not fail In the present state Of affairs to be most
injurious to the public welfare from the encouragement
which IL would give to those who have been concerned
in the violent and Illegal opposition which has been
offered to your government also feel doubt that
when the present excitement shall have subsidized you
will succeed In regaining that position OF dignied
neutrality becoming your Office, which you justly
observe Il has hitherto been your study to maintain
and from which those who are at present most
opposed to 'you will, reflection perceive that you
have been driven by no fault your part but by their
own unreasoning violence.
Relying therefore, upon your devotion to the inter-
ests Of Canada feel assured that you will not be in
taken place to retire from the high Office which the
Queen has been pleased to intrust to you and which
from the value she puts upon your past services 1t Is
her msjesty's anxious wish that you should retain
have, &c, GREY.
The Earl Of Elgn and Kncardins, sc.
The English View of the Astor Place Riot.
From the London Times, May 29j
II was but the other day that the British public
startled with the news that senseless mob excited
ment house Of principal colony, with its archives
and invaluable libraries, and had grossly insulted her
Majestys representative, on about empty and beg
carly pretext inflated the lungs of IN agator
or filed the hands Of rufian. IL certainly did not
likely soon to be followed by more marvellous and
more painful affair. Suck however, is the unhappy
purport Of the intelligence brought over with
ampled rapidity by the last mail To
English readers shall seem to speak fables when
relate, that the pretence Of utterly ground
respective admirers Of Messrs Maoready and For or
rest the theatre In which the English tragcdian
was was u, performing , has been besieged' stormed
ted mob, which did not desst till after collision with
an oyerpowering military force, In which than
| twenty lives were lost, and many seriously
wounded Certain 1t is that the most populous city Of
the New World has for u day or two exhibited the
aspect OF those European capitals which last year
successfully the scenes Of revolution and civil war.
CordoRs Of troops skfu operations guns loaded with
grape deadly discharges Of musketry barrcades car
red results that associate with ancient Rrey
ances and new constitutions In the city Of New
York they confer adventitious Importance on the
wounded vanity Of an American actor, who, having
tried TO do what living being do to the perfect
satisfaction Of an English audience and what 1t only
tolerates In two three Of age, did not do
what nobody else could do and did not attain the
ronk of the two three tolerated performers Of Shaks
To the English reader is perfectly unnecessary to
defend Mr.. Macready from the guilt Of Mr. Forests
tropp On this sid. the Atlantic IL IL will hardly be-
credited that the proprietors and editors Of London
journals have been required to send their solemn
"afhdavies' that they did not conspre against MIR.
Forrest did not take brides against him. admit In.
terested critques, or bow to Mr. Macreadys dictaton
II will hardly be credited that whole columns Of the
American papers are full Of letters u,o and CON on
the question: whether Mr. Macresdys malignity
did not pursue Mr.. Forrest from the principal to
the minor theatres, from the metropolis to the
provinces, from Great Britain to France, and from
Europe to America We will not attempt to re-
az the reyeries of n mouomania The Who'll. invcn
ton is not only groundess in fact IL Is utterly ire
concabe with the usage and taste Of this country II
Mr.. Forrest could establish his charges Of inhosptal
ity persecution, subornation and heaven knows what
against MIR. Macready, he would drive that gentleman
from every stage In this country we'll ~ from the
Opera Hou,e at New York We in England know no
such practice There is rivalry and Jealousy enough,
as there ever must be when diversty of tastes con-
wi an of init and oh
nal are allied with the m v,eres OF the
beautiful ana sublime mt tbcss insvj,aha ,,,ani,s
of feeling are confined to green rooms 10 and
as much as possibe TO the bosoms he thew manly or
fair of the rivals in this keen though graceful conpe
tition MIR Forrest has mistaken not 40 much Mr. Ma
creadv "a the dramatic and literary society NJ This
country when he imagines nm Organized stt.mpt To
depreciate his merits ema from anv man bgb in
British estimation.
Mir Forrest has no reason whatever To either
that Americans in general lie under prejudice ia this
country or that his own reception was not such as hs
dit at home entitled him 10 expect on that our ma
tive actors ENJOY special favor and protection In the
principal cities Of the United States Mr. Forrest often
PLAYS Macbeth and Lear to half filled benches and the
house only overflows when appears as champion of
the Masses in the characters Of Cade Sparacus Me-
tamora. He has become the pet of the Bowery boysu
in consequence Of the agraran spirit which breahes
through his prize but his shakpear
with which he is identified in the public opinionn 1t
has been precisely the same in this country Mr.
Forrest was admired in Metamera and il the an.
ductiye as on the soil of the savage hero that Il
not to be wondered At He was not admired in his
Shakspearian characters But MIR Forrest ought 10
know that many Others than he have tried this hgh
walk and tried il in vain To a Nacreadv or a Kean
there are tive ntv who have made aesniate nusb far
that raul and iumsd;atsiv s,,nG H. rod ,ndr
h;ttar r;d;cmIs or cbnr ;ndWarans a. ,ha,r,a.i
snnais sunec;ertiv ans,r, ~ ;,ut. IT,; ,h 49,. 40.
;aa,oms If arar;on WI, as phI ,sst ,,brrs
J.v bv ref renee 70 tho success Of Wssrs uacIett
and H;u Mrs Mowstt and Nil. Cusbman who tri
,pas snai MI 81
of native talent7 Two great London tbeatres lost
to the drama for want of enconrage,nsnt Al the
present moment we have two Italian oneras (;srman
opera and a French theatre and ii il oniv Inv the
greatest exertions that few small theatres can be
lar tongue IL MIR Macrcadv possessed The sneIl
OF popularity he would rescue Drurv-ane or
Covent Garden from horsemapsbjp German oneras
concerts bazaars and MISCELLANEOUS performances'
And as for Shakespeare is only now an then that he
has run Of public favor Last year the Queen gave