The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-06

Snake charming, yceped the a6che, winds up this |
part, whilst No. 5, after battery of Scotch Irish,
Welsh and English military airs, tags with thunder
and lightnngly vigorous march named after Gene |
raj Havelock, while the chorus and the instrument
talsts (the great conductor HIMSELF, whose mouth
pieces are dsengaged declam three verses in praise
Of our brave General Conquest, roaring of cannons,
echoes Of the same noisy detonators shifting the foe
galantry, nations love. glory and fame, ind ed
truly warlike resume. OF course Rule Britar o;a
and "'God Save the Queen give the finishing touch.
1t was encored; whereupon Monsieur JUL zen was
sublime and quite up to 1.-THE occasion, ie che npnor
tunity. In a perfect Celestial style forbade IA
useless task) his audience to ever breathe, and
placing one hand upon his seat of life This heart, of
cOnrse) with the other he POI ntea to private box,
exclaimng-" She is here the wife of that brave
and gallant man. Lady He yelock is among u.s. ladies
and gentlemen" The densey packed thousands
took breath and md gave tongue He then called for
and gentemenD thee cheers for his lady and three
more for his daughters. We opine that not an organ
| of speech was silent Lady HavelOck and her
daughters came gracefully to the front OF their box,
and bowed. On his gilded chair Monsieur Julien
reclined back as If he had taken Delhi and relieved
| Lucknow Lady Haveock was better star than
Jetty Trefftz last evening.
We have, ALSO the following account of the latest
novelties:-
We dramatic critics had hard racing time of it
last evening. new French farce at the Princess,
tthe future ieue ie yideau of the Shaksperean
| plays,) new French drama for the rentye of Mr..
| BENJAMIN Webster, at the Adelphi, a middle
piece, and some original music at Jullien's. The
| Tempest" has had glorious run of some hundred
| night at the Princess. The new farce is named
"a Case of Conscience" in English and in French,
"Astu tue lie Mandarin" II an an impossible
occurs in the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau,
where "a case Of conscience" is suggested in the
style that the moral philosophers Of old used to embo
dy in the fable of "Gyges and his Ring" as, for in
4 stance. nv touching a sDrinp in EurOne.
we could, ike the NEUROLOGICAL old lady with her
scissors, cut off the thread of life Of mandarin in
the Celestial empire, and so become d la miauet his
heir at law-this too without the possibility of any
suspicion the knowledge Of the victims personal
appearance. ring at the street door is the medium
| employed in this case and forthwith John China
man not only shufles OFF this morta coil but pocket
| book at the same moment Qaden with fmses) falls
at the tuggee, that is, the telpuers feet To fol-
low the plot further were useless task,
david Fisher s'e and F. Cooke and Msa MaT
ray made the little piece successful, not to omit
honorable mention of very pretty set scene repre-
senting gravel walk OF an "lnn of Court" with
Linden tress and the porter's sentry box. AT the
Adelphi, the drama was of fantastical, diabolcal
and regionsb elowish character, being free line
for line translation of Messeurs Brisebarre and
Ehus' la Legend de lHomme Sans Tete," under
the literal title of the "Headless Man." To arrive
at notion of the plot, just on'nium gatherumize
don Giovanni and Schiller's "Robbers"-then
take therefrom all that is good in both, and
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following entr'acte pop his mob on again, so
| that in act three he may be entire man again.
1t was capitally well put upon the stage, and the
| audience were uncOmmony good for the first
two acts, but when the hrorors upon horrors
worked up, or rather down to the great hall and coun
Gil chamber of the evil himself, during fife day
or extra griling OCCASION their patience at the
length of its tether and cackling became unani-
nous. However, Mr. Webster and Madame Celeste
general favorites, that the fall of the cur
tain the sibiatons gave place to calls for the lessee
and the directress.
| Mr. John Mitchell's Opera Bufa Italiana has been
very fashonably and fully attended. 1t is rumored
(Mrs. Seymour having declined further negotiation)
that Mr.. and Mrs. Kelley and Mr.. Albert Smith are
TO be the future proprietors and managers of the lit
| tie Strand theatre. Mr. Lumley, wherever he goes
is always even more successful with Mdle. Piccolo
mini and Signor Ginglini than be was with Jenny
Lind and Gardoni Mr.. Tom IAylor's new comedy
| is drawing good houses at the Haymarket, and the
same may in truth he said of Balfes opera at the
| Lyceum.
The plot of Tom Taylor's comedy of IAN
Unequal Match which has been quite successful at
the Haymarket, thus:-The object of the author,
indicated by his title of IAN Unequal Match is to
show the danger, in social point of view, of a
union between two persons in widely different ranks
of life. Harry Arnclre, (fr. W. Farren,) younger
branch of an aristocratc family, Tilted by Mrs. Mon
tresor, (Mrs. Buckingham White,) a fashionable
coquette, retires to remote part Of the country,
where he devotes himself to artistic pursuits, and
falls in love with Hester Grazebrook, miss Amy
Sedgwick), the lovely daughter Of an honest black
smith. Charmed no less by her beauty than by her
nnsophsticated manners, he offers her his hand. not
knowing that his uncle had died suddenly. and left
him heir to baronetcy and large estates The intel
| ligence does not however, alter his resolutions; he
still declares his intention to marry Hester and TO
raise her to his own rank in society. Eighteen
months eapse, and we find Sir Harry and Lady Arm
clife returned to their home, after prolonged con-
| tinental tour and we perceive that Sir Hary-sur-
| rounded by his fashionable friends, and influenced
| by the artful suggestions of Mrs. Montresor his
Hamq--hgeamqs and no
cause his wife still preserves her rustic
manners, and Questionable habit of
not concealing her feelings or opinions. An Incl.
pent disease of the chest and the urgent orders of
his physician determine Sir Harry to pass a few
months at q German spa; but to avoid alarming his
wife, he pleads some pressing business on the Cont
nent, and leaves her rather abruptly to lament his
absence Hester, who fancies that he has been ured
away by Mrs. Montresor Of whom she is Jealous and
who has, in fact, managed TO meet Sir Harry Arm
clie at Ems makes up her mind to foil her rival at
| her own weapons In the twelve months which sue
ceeds her husbands departure she applies herself so
| diligently to acquire those accomplishments and
artificial manners which her husband seemed to
think indispensable in her position that, when she
| follows him to the little German watering place
where he has taken mp his quarters she literally
POUNDS him by the alteration which has taken place
in her. She Is longer the innocent, artless girl.
all truth and affection, but finished coquette-bold,
brilliant and heartless-who receives the attentions
Of a small German duke, with fashionable compo-
sure Finally, by turning his own weapons on her
husband, and repeating his precepts, drawn from the
text book Of polished society, she Furnishes him for
his weakness, triumphs over her rival, and wins
back rejoicing husband to his true faith. There il
an underplot for Blackstone and Compton. II may
| be funny, but ii is not at all original.
The Kilkenny Moderator publishes the following
among the answers TO correspondents, in its last
| number -
"R sends us tho following curious old Kilkenny play
bin, dating previously the formation Of the far famed
company OF gentlemen amateurs but evidently relating
| performances In the same theatre
| A COMICAL PLAY BILL.
| mi or KnKxSyy THEATRE ROYAL
| BY his Maies,ys Company Of Comedians.
(The last night because the Company To morrow 70
| Waterford)
On Saturday, May IL, 1923,
Will be performed, by command of several respectable
people IN this learned metropolis, for the benefit Of Mr..
| kearns,