New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-21

himself retu ming the frai tissue consded to his
charge with ,'reat hole in il.
| Last Monday uight Mr.. Choate filed the Mu-
| sic Hall with an 0verfowing audience to hear
what he bad to say tcuching "The LAST DAYS Of
"tbe Poet Rogers" j did not hear him my sell.
so can pass no Judgment on the performance.
| OF course Ii was receive with rapture--for the
faith of Boston in Choate is next oniy to that in
Webster. There were il-s,oditioned persons, to
be sure, who thought it yapid, .aesuso'y, common
place, ard DOH silt walking csc. rty nat covn-
ty-snd its easryescences, like that a. glass of
| stale champagne stirred up WITT crliS of bread
-as Beau Shattery's servant saic0 his masters
Still he had tie most dear voices CT the Tultnde
with him. and he was pelted with bouquess like
sDy prima donna. Indeed, ii is moot question
vet whether Mr. CAoate or Mrs. Weed, the Sing
sg Ckambermad Of the Boston Iheater, who
took q benefit that night, had the mgge flowers.
This lady is great pet of the Boston public be-
cause of Der exceeding prettness and e7tegleries
and she Is always sure Ola humping benefit This
year the bumper was so full that il ran c~er into
the next night, for so many tickets were bought
that the plays were repeated, and half th, profits
passed to Nrs. Woods aescnnt. So that, on the
whole rather think she mast have had the better
of NJ Cboate.
Talking Of Rogers wonder that the natural
malienity Of mankind has not reproduced Byron's
lsmpoon Of hirn-the most terrible one that was
ever written BY man. believe il is not in any of
the collections of Byron's works; but it was
printed frat IN FraIer's Mcgs-ins, in one of the
earlier volumes, and since in Medwin's Life of
Shelley Nedwin says that when Rogers was
coming to visit Byron at Pisa, he put the manu-
script of this etching in aqustsrtis under the sofa
cushion on which he meant to seat, and did seat
the unconscious subject, enjoying the malicious
pleasure OF knowing that he was sitting on the
petard which would be sure one day to explode.
If you incline to reprint it, you will find 1t in Med
| wins Shelley vol. 3, p. l9l, LondOn Ed. However
many ill-natured things Rogers might have said in
his life, and they were many they were more than
paid off by that bitter satire of Byrons Byron was
a savage fellow when he undertook to pull down his
| game BY the launches. Do You remember his lines
on the Prince Regent standing between the collins
| of Henry VIII. and Charles l., in st. Georges
Chapel at Windsor, on the occasion of the ijentif-
| cation Of the body Of the latter believe that
has not vet gone into the editions of his works.
| They were for long time handed round in manu-
script and were repeated to me several years ago
| by that elegant scholar and most accomplished
gentleman the late Mr.. Peter British Consul in
| Philadelphia AS they are not long, will set
| them down here from memory. which must excuse
| errors:
| LIsEs os THE PRINCE REGENT STANDING BETWEEN
| THE coFFIgs OF HENRY VIII. AND CHARLES
| L. &C.
| Scarce worth an epiisph by Tate or Qnsrles,
| Here heartless Henry lies by headles Charles
| Beide them stands another sceptered thing,
| IL Tomp, in power, in all but name king.
| Charles 70 bis people, Henry to his 1;sv Wife
Justice ara Death bad sealed their tombs in vain:
This roy al vampire blends their blood again.
And shows a Tudor who no faith defends
A Stuait-fahless both to foes and friends
what then, tombs avail. since those diseorgs
The blood and filth of both to mold GEORGE!
| When we remember the noise which ByrOns
| inaa on sdy WaaninU ~ created ah0ut lSJR
and how the Ministry thought of bringing them be-
fore the House of Lords we can we'll imagine why
these truculent verses were kept private till better
days. Lord Peterborough would have liked
nothing better than to have sat in judgment over
them in the Rings Bench But they Overshoot
their mark and give George ~. credit for more
force of character than he had. He was an indO-
lent voluptuary, but neither cruel nor tyrant.
He never would have gone to war with his people
for his prerOgatives, and there was all the differ
ence in the world between the ways in which he
| and Henry VIII. got their wives and got rid OF
| them.
Miss Adelaide Phillips's friends here-and they
are all that know her-have heard with great
pleasure of the success which attended her debut
at tie Academy. i am confident that it will in
crease the more you hear her. Her appearances at
Philadelphia and New York were made under pecu-
larly trying circumstances. Less than a week
before her appearance in Philadelphia, her MOTHER
to whom she was tenderly and passlonately at
tached died very suddenly; and it was in the
midst of the most cruel afflictiOn that she had to
prepare herself and appear, in obedience to the
stern necessities of her profession. think her
illness on her arrival in New-York, which caused
the disappointment ofthe first night was nothing to
wonder at. And hardly think her voice or her
powers could have been in their best plight eyen
when she did appear soon after that very serious
illness. think she cal hardly fail TO improve the IA
l.: b.r Erofa Start ba
refreshment of short interval Of calm and repose
BYLES