The Sun. — 1844-12-11 (London, England)

EAT RE ROYAL, DUBLIN. O n (Abridged from the Dublin Evening Packet.) At rThurBclsY evening last the tragedy of the Gamester sketiePresented, Mr. and Mrs. Kean supporting the relily," Characters of Beverley and Mrs. Beverley, and No‘-alcaft that of Stukely. Mr. C. Kean's personal tafer,ments are above those of his father, but strikingly Lehi to those of J. Kemble. Slight, neat, and scarcely Neutrag the middle height, his direction is plainly to the Stiltllll and the polished. His features declare at the edit glance his intellectual vigour and nervous irritantoe,', Itis eye discourses. He is great in those chaIlic -8 of Shakspeare in which his father excell?d—in hard •-•, and Hamlet especially—in Massinger s Sir ewer' which he exhibits the same fearful 11 -1,4. he vanquishes the obstacles nature has e,11`.1 to him in Macbeth by the force of mind. vtliallst hasten at once to that display of his ability tepee' as we esteem it, constitutes the supreme excel% am acting—the part of Beverley. Here we have ritthel arnPle of a talent which neither Kemble nor his softri)ossessed—the portraiture of domestic life—of a stele noble nature betrayed, deformed, and brought to tinie.l4,6B ruin, and the last and most awful catastrophe— Ilighly as we have praised the performance of 41$114Dfaares tragedy,- we are not afraid to award still kemler are to that of Moore's. The attributes of Mr. titb:;ahaeting in both were the same. The same absorptitCe same identity. But this grand distinction mayNo 'cr. In Beverley one and the same fatal passion. ,t`l°Us of v.ariug its shades only according to the gradstinsery by which its indulgence overwhelmns its. 'apse Paroxysm follows paroxysm—remorse and re-4011.' Pathos and passion, alternate in fearful succesNine put in the conduct of these gradations the tetit4rt'Y art of the actor is displayed. Never, we will eiv,zt° affirm, has there been so powerful, so terrific -"thition of ruin and desperation as in the lice)Uf the third act, where, after the total destruc-1°11„ Beverley's last hope, he rushes from the, eh it-Curil of the gaming-house. We never witnessed. ~-I)4o°lonment of all personal regards, such bursts. ii-N,,l)nate invective, such a blending of distortion and ,ZBso ;:°° in the features, such hoarse and horrifying: -4°,1 atrit,":"" of tone and inflexion, such a conflict of the ;1.4 a4rible emotions. The test was the sympathy of z,emi,,,,'"ee, which not even this stormy vehemence in -41141,"test degree interrupted. The last effects were l'alete touching. The scene, a prison—the persons, IPro',4, sister, and a friend—the incidents, a hope and geti -"`Se of happiness restored—the author and the r4t,d„°°lned by adespair so dread as even to. forbid the, fitt ;-o"uree of the wretche 1, appeal to Divine mercy, nTting the commission of suicide and closing in g..."!/ LI these in rapid evolution presented a comb.ina% °lstntelerably harassing yet of an interest so rivet-I,l4ttlient,,`tt We have never, to our recollection, seen— tlfr' or personally experienced an effect so awful.. ft,"" iftIVB may add one peculiar trait. A medical man, *-riessed the performance, said to the writer of death title Kean must have watched the progress of tlou 80Y Poison. It is utterly incredible that an imitativej minutely, so terribly accurate, could have been. I;,elkierunt from actual observation.' But enough— the not need any recital of the other varieties.h lutturttsf Dean we have no more to say, than that her touch; and delicate delineations of the tender an uttill4Draet;:l)li:e:iments of female character have stood and. -1114 as far above all challenge as they do above all  helohß