New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-01

Az Ex-AcrREss IN THE House. OF LoRDs.-Whle
the Duke of Cambridge speaking TO the merits OF
the gallant old Somerset rumor ran about the oar,
crowded with members of the Lower House and other
notabilites that " somebody was coming-a some
body whom almost everybody would be startled and
delighted 10 behold Presently enters that beas ideal
of courtie soldier, Black Rod, SIR Augustus Clifford,
bearing on his arm his old Bandon Trend end neigh
bor and his IDOL and the idol ofhuadreds OF thousands
before ever he or she saw Bandon, to wit, Lady
WrxOn Becher the actual muse OF the drama N our
time-the unpaTagoned Miss o Neil. AT the mention
of her uame and the sight OF her person. the ALDERMAN
NJ P.'s WHO clustered round the bar, proved their
affinity to the Ghebris and became hre-worshipers,
aduTeTs of she sun. setting though be, and not
hugenie herself in ell her Imperial charms which IN
deed closely resembe what Lady Beehers were at
the same age, could command half the admlranon
evoked by this appariiion the Peers boards
OF the only Juliet" ever seen by any but the
ind's eye outside the page Of Shakespeare What
thoughts were not cotiured up Pockei-handker-
chiefs at play houses have gone out since she was
.'IsaIa' and " Belviders," and Jane Shore" and
as Tor laughter in the Like places, nobody knows the
meaning OF il since her Widow CHERRY was last
seen. OF course every one who saw her on Tuesday
had something TO say of what they had either seen or
heard of her; and divers the old tales revived,
including the wtll known one of Conway, who, play
il Romeo" in Dublin and being very tall, end the
balcony being very low that he almost looked down
M Cd II, when he had to excaim on, that were
"c.oye upon that hand that 1 might touch that
cheek was addressed by an unsopusticared native
of the Green Isle in the gallery thus; Get out with
yer blaney; why the divi don't you touch her,
then, and not be preaching Parson SAKE all night
thelel" This was many, many years ago-wo tor
the time She is now some six and sixty, but does not
look an hour more than fifty, and still retans much OF
The expression of face which rendered her
previously mnitabe in the portrayal OF the
afe, ions as distinguished from the mere tragic pas
sons for even the Slddons votaries confessed that
In all the softer emotions the essential feminine beauty
of Miss O'Nell rendered her the very impersonaiion
OF the sentiment she expressed Probably no woman
ever Il Oh the stoge in modern times who 40 entirely
escaued the voice of calumny; and that, no doubt
tenos 10 enhance the traditional esteem in which the
memory of her professional greatness is held. She
| might have been countess, with the devices OF q
princess; but she content to be the wife OF a
baronet. whose widow she il, and with whom she
long hveJ as happily 10 domestic retirement es she
had done brilliantly IN the eyes of the pubc for her
emouments for some years before she retired (which
she did wi bout FAREWELL from twelve TO dfteen
thousand per AMMAN, end would have been as much
mon had there been railways then as there are now,
which permit the multiplication of oneself it were.
for managerial purposes" Liverpool Albion