The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-03-10


dImly discern important future events
DIVORCE AND PoPULARIrY-FANNY KKMBLE AND
NED FoRREsT,-We publish, in another CO.
lumn, Mrs. Forests reply to the petition of
her husband, Edwin Forrest, now awaitins:
the action of the Senate of Pennsylvania. The
tenor ofthe document Is digni6ed and pathetic,
and will awaken sympathy for the accused. How
the matter will end 1t is difficult to foretel bat
one thing Is certain-somebody will seriously
regret that Mr.. Forrest has been constrained, by
any cause or purpose, to proceed 30 far in thiy
business.
All this is a queer business. Yet from recens
events, we begin to think that divorce and popula.
nty must 60 hand IN hand in these ecstatie days.
Every one remembers the solemn sentimental
sensation produced upon the Intellectual classes
every where, by that extraordinary event In fashion,
able life consequent upon Mr. Buffers divorce from
his better half, Fanny Kemble Her letters, her
mIsfortunes, including those Of her husband, were
published and read all over the country. Every
ones mouth was full of Fanny Kemble and her d.
vor.e-mix.d, however, with pie and potatoes.
What was the consequence She immediate
ly assumed her old position before the public,
and commenced career Of popularity, by her read
ings of Shakespeare, which Is unnvaled in the his
tory OF dramatic entertainments. She was fol-
lowed, admired, complimented and adored, includ.
ing the dollars IN all quarters. She has been
raj times round the country, and makes here, in
few days and nights, her third or fourth appear
ance, in her capacity as delineator and reader Of
Shakespeare. The same enthusiasm, originating in
the notoriety produced by the divorce, attends her
| footsteps wherever she goes.
We rather think that Mr. Forrest is about follow
| ing up the same line of tactics During the youth
| ful part of his existence he acquired great dra-
matte reputation, made money, and exhausted the
whole round Of popular applause and enthusiasm.
Fired and satiated with popularity, he is now pre-
| pairing 10 GENE forward In some new position, but
whether philosopher, statesman, divine, revo-
lutonist, or reader Of Shakespeare, we do not
know. AS preliminary step to the coming
events in his remarkable life, he fnds cause to.
pick highly sentlmentalquarrel with his beautiful
and intelligent wife, and goes before the Legisla
ture Of Pennsylvania to demand divorce from the
bonds of mairimory, from causes too numerous to
mention, as auctloneers sometimes say, in selling
old furniture or old creckery. Accounts from
Harrisburg are very favorable to his prospects,
The latest intelligence, from friendly quarter.
| (riendly to Forrest,) as follows So
HaHRrsBuRc, March 9, 1850.
The Forrest divorce came up before the Judi
cary Committee this afternoon. The evidence Is ssi6
TO be Of the positive character and 1t Is thought
that the csmmites will report favoraby to the prayer
| OF the petitioner.
| p s-The replication Of Mrs. Edwin Forrest Is In
the hands Of the Judiciary Committee but really don't
| smoupt to much. 1t was drawn up by Mr. O'Conor
Of Nsw York. who IL esteemed perfect steel trap
ia his profession bat has not manifested any great deal
Of talent iD this production IL IL full of tender
psas, and nothing The lady asserts that she has
| not pecuniaIy means 20 follow her husband into
another State follow her defence and then states
that If she had she would not Mrs Forrest de-
clued examining her husbands witnesses In
York.
Should Mr.. Forrest succeed in his purpose, that
of efiecpg legal divorce, he may retire to some
shady residence on the Hudson river and there pre-
pare to come on, in his and mere important cha
racter, IN that career in which he is fulfilling his
destiny, before he leaves this sublunary scene and
takes up his respectable quarters In Greenwood
Cemetery or Fonthill Abbey burying ground. We
therefore expect to see him pursue a course, and
attain popularity, starting from the grievances
Of his domestic life, that viii not only equal, bu.
outsirip that Of his predecessor in these modern
tactcs-the SUI generis, Fanny Kemble. So-go
ahead with divorce and popularity.