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October 15, 1853.] TS1 LEASER. %W$
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"A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM" AT SADLEHS' ...
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HEALTH OF LONDON" DURING THE WEEK. A THO...
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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. O...
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Cnmtitmini Mairs.
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MONEY MAKKIOT AND CITY INTIOLIJaENC'E. F...
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The Discarded Son, (And Some Small Gossi...
moral courage , as tie Colonel gripes Ms wounded arm , endeavouring to detect his identity , was a fine bit of representative inastery . Keel ^ j , in the part of a funny Lancer , corpulent and conjugal , was what Eeeley cannot fail to be , no matter what the part ; and Mrs . Keeley lent her immense popularity and iniinitable way of fetching out the faintest colour of a joke , to a part neither interesting , nor altogether unfamiliar to the P Besides this piece , there is a novelty in the shape of Shakspeare ' s Midsummer Niahfs Dream , revived by Mr . Phelps , of which another hand will trace flie description ; and there is also the Princess ' s theatre , re-opened for its season , with all the pomp and weariness of Sardanapalus , not to mention the Rivals , cast with the " entire weakness of the company . " The Adelphi , with its happy knack of apropos , has also produced a new piece de eirconstance—a , lively farce on Motel Charges , written by the active and successful Selbv . I couldn't ' . get to see the farce myself , but
hear that the audience " roared" at it . If you are desirous of converting yourself into a temporary " sucking dove , " you can go and do so , and save me a criticism . Wigan opens the Olympic on Monday next ; and Mathews the Lyceum on the Monday succeeding that . As a bit of theatrical gossip , you maV ; be glad to know that Wright is engaged at tiie Lyceum ; and that G . V . Brooke has sold himself for four years to American speculators , who pay him 16 , 000 £ ., and do for him what he would never do for himself , placard and puff him into a reputation . James Anderson , I hear , has also made a bargain of the same sort . You will see that Barnum will have Charles Kean at last ! Titian .
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"A Midsummer Night's Dream" At Sadlehs' ...
"A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM" AT SADLEHS' WELLS . PBOBABiY / there were not a dozen p ersons in the crowded audience at Sadlers' Wells the other night who did not go there with a purpose , more or less distinct , of solving two problems—how the Midsummer Night ' s Dream , for many * years known to mere playgoers as a musical spectacle , was to be restored to its original forhi by a conscientiously Shaksperean manager j and how Phelps himself would reach the ultima tlmle , the very stretch , and nethermost Bottom , of Shaksperean farce . To-say that the essentials of an actor include a power of personation , may seem about as
original and profound a truth , as that an actor ought to know how to act . How often does he ? This one quality is , beyond all manner of doubt , the rarest © n the stage ; and if we say that as many as half a dozen of our professional actors have it , perhaps we shall be contradicted . For our part , we were glad to find that such an actor as Phelps had undertaken to play Bottom the Weaver . Fuseli would not have dreamt of omitting the fools and clowns from his Shakspeare portraits ; and , in an art which does not present many analogies with painting , we do recognise some parallel with the labours of a Fuseli in this movement of Phelps towards completing his Shaksperean series .
The piece was eiarefully , not extravagantly mounted . In the Athenian " sets" and groupings there was not so prodigal a display as Phelps gave us in Timon of Athens . It was in the fairy scenes that the liberal taste of his management was most conspicuous , and here , indeed , there is much to praise . The Times , in an excellent paper , has'anticipated our remark , that an effect of mist Was gained by the simple means of dressing the whole crowd of fairy forms in green , the exact colour of the foliage . This plan of rendering the objects in themselves indistinct , instead of obscuring them with a medium , will be recognised by practical artists as the more natural process , by which the common trick of " scumbling" is avoided . Could Oberon and Titaniahave been played by children , as were all the fairy court , we should have liked them better . The young gentleman
, Master Artis , who played TucJc , and played him so well that he gained a unanimous " call" at the end , was fearfully arid wonderfully made up , looking as if he had tumbled out , a very loose leaf indeed , from Doyle "hysbookof scraps . " Down to his dormouse shoes , he was fairy born and bred . The other characters were , as Falstaff says , " mortal men , mortal men "—and women . It would be cheapening courtesy to notice any of them , beside Phelps . The picture he gave will be forgotten by no one who has once seen it . Bating a hardness we did not expect , such as one perceives when a painter of ( technical ) high art takes—not , indeed , to the grotesque , like iuseli , but to what is generally understood by the " comic , " his acting was a delightful surprise . This hardness may have been the result of a first night's anxiety ; and nothing would seem more
credible to us than that it has by this time disappeared . His most marvellous touch was in waking from the charmed sleep , during which his ass's head has been removed by JPuck . We pass the technical minutiEe , admirable in their way , suck as clutching dreamily at the space where the long ears have been , sqtiinting down in search of the Hairy nostrils , and drawing in his breath to try the effect of an involuntary bray . The struggle of stupidity to fix the receding images of a s , trange and diml y beautiful vision , was at once humorous and pathetic . Finely appreciated , too , was the very natural conclusion of Bottom ' s difficulty ; his takin ° " sudden refuge in the idea that it was " past the wit of man to say what
this dream was . " The downright nonsense oi the " tedious brief tragedy " was , of course , quite in another order of fun . It set the house in a roar from the commencement , and kept them roaring till the end , which came so much too soon for an influential party in the gallery , that they were very near having it all over again . It should be observed , by the way , that the Sadlers' Wells gallery lias grown rather formidable in its habit of audible criticism , and by no means appears to hold in opinion with- the generous duke TJieseus regarding actors , that " the best in this kind are but shadows , and the worst are no worse , if Imagination amend them . " ' Q .
Health Of London" During The Week. A Tho...
HEALTH OF LONDON" DURING THE WEEK . A THOtTBAND and one deaths were registered . in London , in the week that ended on Saturday . In tho ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52 the average number was 952 , which , if raised according to increase of population , becomes 1047 . The mortality from all causes , therefore , differs little from the usual amount at this season . Scai'latina was fatal last week to 57 children , and in some instances it appears to have been aggravated by local caused . Diarrhoea carried off 71 persons , which is nearly the same as in JDhe previous week ; all the cases , excopt 20 , were amongst children . Cholera g ives decided indications of a disposition to increase ; in three previous weeks the fatal cases were 1 C , 29 , 47 ; last week they rose to ( 50 , of which 29 occurred to males , 37 to females . Tho majority of the deaths wore amongst persons of middle age ; 20 occurred under 16 years of age , 36 at 15 and under 00 years , 4 at 60 years and upwards . In tho corresponding week of 1848 , soon after the epidemic of that period niade its appearance in London , tho number of deaths from cholera was 30 ; in the corresponding week of 1849 , when it , was passing away , the number was 110 . Tho CO cases of last week wero thus divided over the metropolis : —In the West Districts 9 , in the North 6 , in the Central 2 , in the East 8 , and on the South side of tho Thames 42 . It is admitted that diarrhoea generally precedes cholera , and that diarrhoea ' should never bo neglected for a single hour in a time cti' epidemic cholera . If it bo established that tho latter disoase is invariably , or almost invariably pi ^ eceded by a woll-defined stage 01 illness , which is amonablo to medical treatment , it will at once allay alarm , and be a most important addition to the resources of the medical art . Last week tho births of 727 boys and 048 girls , in all 1375 children , woro registered in London . In tho e'i ght corresponding wcoIim of the years 1846-52 the average number was 1270 . At tho Itoyal Observatory , Greenwich , tho mean 'height *>» tho bnromoior in tho week was 29-514 in . Tim mean temperature wns 48 . 0 dogs , whioh is 4 degn . below tho average ° t tho same weok in 38 years . Tho moan difference between tho dew-point temperature and air tomporaturo was U'O dogs . With reference to fchb case of tho mate of the Anna Christina , reportod last week oh a coho of cholera without any prcmomiory symptoms , Dr . Maoloughlin \ yites as follows : "— " I havo boon to IJlaekwall ; the vessel is gone ; but I havo soon tho two modioal gontlomon who attended the luato , and from thorn 1 learn that tho man wn « taken ill at 2 o ' clock in tho morning , and that ono of them saw Kim ftt 7 o ' elock , praicribod for tho symptoms which ho noticed , out mado no -inquiry into tho previous state of heulth , (>/" hi * patient . Tho second medical gentleman Haw tho iriiit ' o « t 1 () o ' clock ; an fcho pntiont was 11 foreigner ho qucKtiionod •> nn through an interpreter , and ho wan told that tlu / mnn Was in perfect ; health up to 2 o'clock , but ho did not , nslc him whether the upaHins , vomiting , and purging had come ° tt simultaneouHl y nfc two o'clock , ov whether thero waa first ft pai nless diarrhoea , and after » few houra spasms , and then collapse . "
Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. O...
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 6 th of October , at Culzean Castle , Ayrshire , the Marchionass of Ailsa .- a son . Ou the 9 th , at 26 , Bedford-place , Kensington , the wife of G . H . Lewes , Esq .: a daughter . On the 11 th , at 32 , Wilton-place , Belgrave-square , the wife of Giulio Buono , Esq .: a son . On the 13 th , at 108 , Canibrid ^ c-ntrect , Warwick-square , London , the wife of Captain George Elliot , K . N .: a daughter . At Okehampton , the wife of tho ltev . Horace W . Thrupp , of a son . MARRIAGES . On the 10 th of September , at Christ Church , Enling-, Captain E . Champion , of Lyme , United States , to Ellen , only daughter of the late Edward Bland , Esq ., of London . On tho 4 th of October , at Earl's Croomc , John Gaspard Fanshawe , Enq ., oldest son of the Rev . T . L . Fanshnwo , of Parsloea , Essex , and vicar of Daponham , to Harbara Frederica Heau . jolois , third daughter of the lion . William Coventry , of Earl's Croornocourt , Worcester . On tho Oth , at tho pariah church , Clifton , Herbert Francis Mackworth , Esq ., eldest won of the Into Herbert Miiokworth , Esq ., of the Poplars , Wellingborout'li , Northamptonshire , to Julia Henrietta , only daughter of tho late Colonel Kir I % by Maekworth , Bart ., of d Ion Usko , Monmouthshire . On tho 11 th , at St . Mary ' s , Hornscy , Charles Evans , Esq ., of Grav ' fi-inn-squnre , and Hiffhtfate , to Ellen , youngest dau ^ htor of tho lato James Hooman , Esq ., of Franehe , near Kidderminster . On tho 11 th , at St . Mary , Magdalene ' s Church , Oxford , tho Rev . C W 1 * Crawfnrd A . M ., second son of Robert Crnwlurd , Esq ., of Saint-hiil , East Grinstcnd , Sushcx , to Mary , fourth daughter of J . A . Oprle , M . D . Regius Profesaor of Mediclno in tho University of Oxford . DEATHS . On Jhe l ! tth of May , off Auckland , New Zealand , by the upsetting of his bout Liotena ' nt C . T . Ilutchinson , Royal Engineers , eldest son of Captain Hutehinson , R . N ., of Hertford , apod twenty-five . Ou the 3 « tU of Septomher , at Monk stow n-honse , nour Dublin , Katharine , Dowager Vincountess Uuillamoro , aged Heventy-oight . On tli « 2 nd of Ootobor , Captiiin Leon Jablonskl , of London . On tho 3 rd , at Torquay ; Margaret , wife of John Hornby , Ksq ., late M . I ' , lor Maoklnmio , and daughter of J , ho Rev . O . JHrd , at Chollevton , NorThumbevlnnd , aged thirty eight . On tho Uth , at Kensington Paluee , Miss Charlotte StephenKon , youngcHt and only surviving sinter of tho late Major-General Kir Benjamin Htephenson . On ) thoHlh , suddenly , at ( . lencjuoioh , N . H ., the row donee <> r his brother , tho Right Hon . Kdward KHice , M . P ., Captain Aloxnuder Elltoo , It N ., ControIUu-- (« eiun-al of CoasKJuurd . On tho Hlh , at Leamington , Bholto Charlotte , widow , llrst , of the Into Minor-General I ' ritiglo , and , secondly , of tho late Stmrnrt U . Inglis , l' 5 sq ., and daughter of tho Into Sir John Halkott , of 1 'it' nrruno , llart ., agod Bovunty-nino .,
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MONEY MAKKIOT AND CITY INTIOLIJaENC'E . Friday Evening , Ootobor It , IHRli . Tun KeUInwent of tho tw . tmnt has passed oil" quietly enough , heavy backwardations -on Consols have been paid , which goes to prove Unit II , is a heavy bear account . Yesterday , Connols were done for money at 1 ) 2 , but for tho next account at 01 ; There was aomo btiliof during tho early part of yesterday that the Bank dirootwa might again ralno tho rato of discount , but the mooting passed oil" without any alteration in tho pronont rate . Next week porlmi > H nuiy toll » different story . All Railway HhurCH have been
flat throughout the week—except French shares , and they hold their own . Money is still tight , but it varies from day to day , so feverish is the state of the market . Thy belief that some dotintte result must come of the Turkish declaration of war , and so settle things one way or the other , gains ground . In the foreign securities there has been but little alteration . Mexican and Spanish are a shade weaker . Russian Bonds show great nrnmot-s considering' tho ticklish state of matters . Peruvian-ti per ecu * . Actives have been done at 71 . Mining shares are still dull—saino with Land Companies and Ii : ink—^ save Oriental Banks , whcie there has been a rise of ono or two pounds pi ; r shire . Consols close at four o ' clock at 92 J-, 923 ; London and North Western , 102 J , 103 } ; Great Western , 80- } , 80 $ ; South Western , 75 77 ; Great Southern and Western of Ireland , 100 , 102 ; EaBtdrn Counties , llg-, 11-J ; South Eastern , 58 , 50 ; York North , 45 46-Leeds , 62 , G' 2-fr ; Edinburgh nnd Glasgow , 51 ) , 01 ; Caledonians ' 40 , 60 ; Oxford and Worcester , 30 , 3 S ; Berwieks , 01 $ , C 2 J Great Northerns , 74 . > , 751 ; Northorn of France , 33 } , 33 $ ; Straslmrir M ) f 3 GJ ; Lyons , 25 J , 2 « 2 j Orleans , 45 , 47 ; Rouens , 30 , 41 Great Central France j , 1 pm . ; Grand Trunk of Canada , 4 i , Rl dia - Australian Agricultural , 31 , 33 ; Peel Rivers , £ , J dis . ; North British Australian Land nnd Loan Company , i dis ., J pm . ; Scottish Investment Company , lg , ft pm . ; South Australian Land 32 34 ; Viin Dieman ' s Lund , 1 ( 5 , 1 (»; Agua Fiius , £ , j pm . ; Nowrcau Monde , , | J ; West Mariponi , 2 , } dia . ; Carorw Creek , { dis par Quartz ltook , i dis ., 1 pm . ; Union of Austrulian Bank , ( 15 , ( 17-Austrulinn London Chartered Bank , % dis ., $ pm . ; Scoltiih ditto ditto , 2 } , 1 * dis . ; Oriental Jftmk , 41 , 45 . CORN MARKET . Mark Lano , Friday , October 14 , 1853 . During tho last few days a considerable supply of Wheat has arrived from tho Baltic ports , and the trade which during the week had been very quiet , wm still more so to-day ; b uyeiH holding on" in tho expectation of prices giving w / iy before th <; supply can be disposed of . The holders generally , however , entertain too good an opinion of the value of Wheat to jivchs sales , and the t'onse , queneo is that u very moderate amount of biiHinosH has been done at prices Is . to 2 h . below those of this day week . There is alHi > a ( jroi ) d supply of Archangel Oatn , and those are 1 h . cheaper than last week . Barley , Bonns , and Pouh fully maintained the former value .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 15, 1853, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15101853/page/21/
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