HAYMARKET THEATRE.-The Co...
The Times, 1824-10-20T00:00:00

HAYMARKET TilEATRE.-Th1c Comedy of T1he Rivals was played at this housc last night, and two new candidates for Lon on engagement appeared in thc parts of David and ralklamd. It is rather late in the season now to be criticising fresh actors at summer theatres; Mlr. Dtff(from Edinburgh), who played David i8 an endurable actor without anv considerable pretensions; Dlr. Raymond (from Birminghamn), who performed Falkland, mnust have mistaken his own powers in ever attempting the stage at all. Coaches go off for Birmingham at all hours of the day and nighit -and a word to the wise (a man miay be wise without being an actor) should be enough. The comedy, in mnost other respects, was well, in some pointA excellently, perfbrmed. Liston's Acres is well known: we never saw him play it better. DIiss Kelly did ly- dia !ang,lish most pleasantly and unaffectedly; she would have plaved all tie female characters in the piece, from ilfr.-. Afalaprop to Jr lia, and have been entertaining in all of them. Dowton's act. ng in .Sir Ant Whay Absolitte would l have been better, if he had co- quctted less; but it was atn a(dmirable performance as it was ; and if he will only act plainly and straiglit-forwardlv, as he lias been used to do, it will very long, vwe suspect, be an unrivalled one. CEtELSeA.-After the consecration of the new church on Mlonday, tilc principal inhabitants dined togethier, Thos. Hoblyn, Esq., in the chair. Nothing could exceedI the harmony of the mect. ing, anti all assembled exulted in the idcea, not only in the parish of Chelsea possessing such a fine specimen of Gothic architecturc,but inasmuclh as it would be an honour to the nation at large. They may well exult, as Dlr. Savage lias given in this lesign an example of good taste ill that species of arcllitecture whicil is truly Christian, and moreover has revived, after a lapse of soMe centuries, the art which was supposed to be lost of constructing a stone arched ceiling, similar to that of King's Callege chapel, Cambridge. The inilabit- ants of Chelsea may well be proud of their good fortutic in the sclec- tion of such a design and such an architect- Dr. Thomnpson of Sloane- strecet,in a speechl replete witl feeling an(d good taste, expreFsed the gra- titide and thanks of himself and the inhabitants of Chelsea to Air. Savage, congratulating him on the conmpletion of his l.tbours, and wishing him every future success ans liappiness. This was received by acclamation ; anti Ar. Savage's ltea'th was drank warmly and enthusiastically withi three tines threc. J ir. Savage, whose feelings were evidently irfuch affected by this testimony of admiration, re. plied with conciseness and clegance, thankinig the committee for their cordial co-operation, and lie spoke hiighily of the intciligence good taste, and k indness, with whiich the several Mlembers at all times aitded Itis exertions, wititotit Wvhich the church would probably not even now have been completed. Yester(lay morning at six o'clock, a banker's parcel, di- recterl to the house of Sir P. Pole and Co., was stolen from the coach-o/lice at Mlaidstone. The person who was intrustmed with it left it for a moment on the counter of the coach-office, anti on re- turning he found it bad disappeared. An a:annq was immediately giveni, butt we understand not tile slightest trace of thc thieves was obtained. An express was inminediately sent to town, and applica- tion was made to Alr. Brown, the City Alarehal, anti mcasures were promptly taken to stop the payneilt of the bills. The parcel was from the bank of Dflesrs. Ednionds and Co., Ataidstone, and con- sisted of the sumi of 1,5181. If;s, in ca-h or different country notes, 4,4671. in draughts payable at sighit, and 7,2021. Os. 6d. bills, in the whole 13,1881. 5s. 6d. A melanciloly antl fatal accidenit occurred to the gamee- keeper of Sir T. D. Aclattd, Bart., at Holmcote, Somerset, on Monday last. In going over a liedgce ie missed his hold, antd in fallinz turneti his gun (whicil he lia(l placed on the hedge with the muzzle towards the ext field) in the (irection of his body, and it imme(liately exploded, lodting the contents in his side; the piecc was not cocked wheni placed on thle hedge, bstt probably became so in turningover; the poor fellow lived buti two hours after the acci- (lent; lie was a most excellent servant, egteemaecl by his master, and beloved by all the neighbourhood..-Sheorborne lcrcur,,. A fire broke out at the cottage of Mr. Povah, Homertois, on Tttesday last, in the middle of the day, which destroved the same and most of the furniture. Therc can be no doubt, ttc acci- tlent arose from a practice too comilmon among buildlers-of placing timber in the chimnicy improperly secured. WVhen George III. anld his Qtteen visited the camp) at War1cy, in Essex, in 1778, they fixed their head-quarters at Lord Petre's, at Thorndon-place. The magnificence with which the no- ble peer received his Royal guests may be inferred ftom the expenses of tlhree days, which amnounted to 12,0001. The following illustration of tlte occasional consequences of compound fracture is particularly characteristic atid interesting. It is taken front the last Lecture of Sir. Ahernethy, as published in Thte Lancet :_" Local injury or irritation frequently produces a state of delirium, in which a man is utterly unconscious of his situation, goes on imagining things, as in a (drcam, and acting in consequence of sech imaginations. D)elirium often takes place in consequence of an accidcRt of no very momlentotts kintd ; it mnay occur without fever, or it may be accompanied with that irritative sympathetic which I de- scribed to you in the last lecture, and whiiel is often the I last stage of all, that closes the sad eventful history' of a compound fracture. Delirium seents to be a very curious affectioti: in this state a man is quite unconscious of his discase; he will give rational answers to any question you put to him,' when you rouse hin; andl then goes on imagining, as we do in dreatms, and acting in consequence of those imaginations. People who are delirious and ruffcr pain, have gene- rally usneasy dreams; but delirious patients seenl often to have un- disturbed and even pleasant-dreams. I remember a man with conm- pound fracture in this hospital, whose leg *ras in a horrible state of sloughing, and wlho had delirium in this state. I have roused hilil and said, I Thomas, what is the matter vith you ? how do you do t1 le would reply; ' Pretty hearty; thank ye; nothinig is the mlstter with me: how do-you do ? He wotsid then go on dreaming of otis thing or another. I have listened at his bed-side, and I anm s ure ths dreams vrere often of a pleasant kind. lic met old acquaintances in his dreams; people wvhom lie rei'iembered leang sytnc; his former cooi- panions, his kindred and relations, and lie cxpressed his delight at secing them. fie appeared to be holding pleasant conversation witi them and would exclaim every now and then, 'That's a gooti one ' ' W31, I never heard a better joke,' and so on. It is a curious cir- cumstance, that all consciousness of suffering is thus cut oa; as it were, from the body; and is cannot but be regardell as a very bettc- r ilent effect of Nature's operations, thatextremity of sufferingshould :hus bring with it its antidote. I have seen fits of direct mania pro. duced. by loeal disease; only last year, a case of this kind occurrecc in this hospital. I rememnber particularly inquiring into the history of one mlust, who was seized with a fit of ineanmity in consequence of a fracture of the leg, with a view of ascertaining whether any of his family had ever been affected with insanity,' and I could not fhnd that there were atny.''