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      A Batch Of American" Books. The Jiepvbli...

      were to continue much longer arrayed against each other in hostile bands , a positive feeling of enmity might be engendered , calculated to entail heavy calamity upon both , and to afford a spectacle over which the friends of liberty and human progress would mourn in every quarter of the globe . For these reasons we dare not sympathize with the specious ' platform' put forth by the Republican party , that has at length revived from the comatose state in which it had quietly lain for the last quarter of a century . The candidates nominated by this party are Colonel John Charles Fremont , the " Pathfinder of the Rocky Mountains , " Judge Dayton . Personally we believe these gentlemen to be men of considerable abilities and of estimable character . But the ruler of a great nation must be something more than a coureur des prairies ^ or explorer of mountain ranges- He must not be a daring adventurer , but a calm , collected statesman , and the only science that will avail him is the traditional science of government . To those who may be curious as to the antecedents of the Republican candidate for the President ' s chair , we can recommend the perusal of Mr . Smucker ' s " Life of Colonel J . C . Premont . " It is not , indeed , a particularly artistic performance , nor is the inflated style he affects much to our taste ., but bis outline of facts and incidents appears to be correct and -well authenticated . The chief attraction of his book , however , is Colonel Fremont ' s manly and simple narrative of his own adventures amidst the Rocky Mountains . Mr . Woodworth's little volume is merely what it professes to be ^ a book for children . \ V " e wish as much could , be said , for the vulgar , incomprehensible effusion by the Episcopalian Clergyman . According to his own statement he was looked upon as . " a fine preacher , but not ri g ht upon the goose . " This phrase is afterwards explained as the symbol of pro-slavery opinions . Not to be right upon the goose indicates abolitionist tendencies , and consequently the Episcopalian Clergyman was not in very good order at Kickapoo . Judging from his writings , we should be surprised , to hear that he was popular in any quarter , a . nd it is difficult to conceive how such senseless cackhugs would be expected to benefit the Republican cause . Tradition , indeed , lays th . e Eternal City under a considerable obligation to the bird of St . Michael , but Col . Fremont ' s chance of success must be very small if it depend upon a grey goose quill from , even a consecrated pinion . Mr . Hall ' s history of the past and present state of the Republican party possesses the merit of being opportune . His style , however , is so immeasurably dry that few general readers will have patience to persevere unto the end . It is ^ of co urse , a partial statement of the principles of the Republican party , -which alone , according to this writer , can saye the United States from disruption , anarchy , and civil war . Mr . Hall is clearly not one of the Prophets .

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      A Ne\V ' Entertainment.' An Addition To ...

      A NE \ V ' ENTERTAINMENT . ' An addition to the rather large stock of monologues was made on Monday evening at a new room just fitted up at No . 315 , Oxford-street . Mr . "Valentine Vousden , after a career of three hundred nights at Dublin , Cork , Limerick , BeHast , Waterford , Clonmel , Liverpool , Birmingham , & c , flew on that occasion for the first time at the loftier game of a metropolitan audience , and presented ; to the public what he described as " a Polynational , Mimic Entertainment , " called " The Unity of Nations . " Now , Mr . Vousden is manifestly an Irishman ; and hia idea of " the Unity of Nations" is to make the representative of each a veritable Paddy . " One touch of Vousden makes the whole world Pat . " It matters not whether he is personating the mythological idea of Time , or representing a German " Buy-a-broom " girl , a go-ahead Yankee , an English sailor , or a Scotch Highlander—there is the unconquerable brogue , the ever-dominant Hibernicism . To this there is only one exception—his performance of a Freflch dancing-master , where the broken and fragmentary English , largely interspersed with the supposed character ' s native language , hides the Irish cadence and accentuation . The Yankee is good in point of deportment and swagger , and the nasal twang is not entirely absent ; but tlie Irishman is perpetually breaking through . This is a serious drawback to the success of a performance which depends for its effect solely on the power of the impersonator to assume a great variety of individualities . Some other faults must aleo be noted . The monologue is not written with sufficient smartness , nor with the necessary reference to London ideas and tastes ; it is too long , some of the scenes—so to speakbeing wearisomely wiredrawn ; and the English sailor is a . manifest mistake , having nothing of the : salt ocean savour about him , but being a sentimental gentleman , delivering himself of dreary platitudes about contentment , friendship , and universal charity , all given out in . very choice English words and a

      very strong . Irish accent . Mr . Vousden , however , has many excellent mi , iif . - wluch , with a . little pains , he may develop with good effect ^ I bme ^ if if- ' songs were sung with great spirit and character ; he has considerabinhv ^ power ; has changes of costume are effected with a quickness perfectly affls ¦ and he is a master of every kind of dance , flinging- about his lees ^ wS none , of the shortest ) with equal grace and agility . Nothing iSd couldT more humorous or true than his Frenchman ' s imitation of the GalS ^ JS Lnghsh modes of gomg through quadrilles , polkas , & c . What he has to Wn is variety of accentuation ; what he has to guard against are the common tt ? vmcial faults of overcolourmg everything by excess of energy , and of werrJw , his audience l ) y a too great length . *•» . Ul wearying Mrs . German Reee » resumed her former ' Entertainment' on Thursday even-

      Fkom The London Ga.Zette. Tuesday. Novem...

      FKOM THE LONDON GA . ZETTE . Tuesday . November 11 . BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . — Joseph Babnsusy , Rowloy Regis , publican . BAN K liU PTS . —ABHA 3 IAM Lazarus , High-streot , Whitechapol , tailor — James and Bartholomew Dellagana , Retl Lion-street , Clerkon-well , stereotype rounders—Thomas Pbebbi-e , Ramagato , plumber—Benjamin Coixins , Tipton , boat builder—wiwHam Robert Lewis , late of Uirmingham , baby linen dealer — Robert Mabbton ; and Geohgkb Maestokt , Leicester , manufacturers of hosiery—• James Barlow , Bolto-n-le-Moors , paporhanger — John Hero it Mason , Blaydon , Durham , glass bottle manufacturer . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . — J . SMiTir , jun ., Glasgow , metal refiner—R , Beimeu , Dunferinlino , merchant — J . Campbell , Glasgow , clothior — J . Peddie , Glasgow , leather merchant . _ , ¦ Friday . November U . BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED . — Livian Benson fearcb , York-road , King ' s - cross , cement merchant — I'RANCiaDAVr , St . PauVa-atreot , Now North-road , builder riiS ^ r S ^ V ^ f Hoywood , Lancashire , cotton spinner . wY ^ i ™^ 8 " 1 ^ 18— Wiiwam Djenny ltucic , 'looley-strcct , « onrS ?« r ^ i , 0 ileca < lmon 8 er — James "WAiiKiNsitAYV , Monk-X ™ F ° ^ : i \ manufacturer-Edward Guuling , Prae 4-fWwJft rm « l T ?^? ' Oarpoiltor — TlIOMAS DottltlNGTON , % X « " tr ^ ' te ton > ^ QoUo n merchant - Alfred Paob , Bakor-Btroet , I ' ort man-Hquaro , boot manufacturer - John aSK o « w ' =. «»?« -chant — Williasi Rkevb . & £ &?» £ fiimhA iaia l- , ? ' © nginecr-WiLtiAM Chab . Stwabt , Cambridge , tailor — Jambs Edwajm > Losk ,

      Cricklowood , builder— Charles Henry Baker and Joseph : Aoduah , Adam-strcct , Adelptii , coment mauufaefcurors —John Vatas Simfsov , St . Swithin ' a-lane , City , bill broker —George Hawkins , Edou-place , Old Kentroad , oilman—Robert Joseph Ellis and Stketuil . l Poden , Liverpool , commission agents - Robert MacLean , Liverpool , licensed victualler— William : Fekl , Stainclitlo , Yorkshire , blanket manufacturer — John Tanner , Oliippenluun , carrier—Philii > Kelland , JJarnpton , Dovonshiro , milloi- -- William Taylor , York , grocer—Edwaud Blake , Kings Kerswcll , Devonshire , clay merchant—John When and J £ dmund Wren , Charlotte-mows , Fitzroy-sq . uaro , bedstead manufacturers—George Lkdward , Liverpool , boiler maker — William Faiubarns , York-road , KiiiK ' s-cross , coffec-houso keeper—Robert Jowes , Ha warden , Mmtsliiro , innkeopor . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . —John Jack . Glasgow , shoemaker—ItouunT Stewart , Paisley , bookseller— "Thomas © gilvjt "Watson , Edinburgh — Robert M ' Arthur , Glasgow , cork manufacturer—Robert F u lton , Edinburgh , provision merchant — James Wallacu , Glasgow , manufacturer .

      The Lyceum—Fabian—Mr. Dillon. Fabian, - ...

      THE LYCEUM—FABIAN—MR . DILLON . Fabian , - ox La Mesalliance , produced at the Lyceum on Thursday evening i * „ somewhat indifferent translation of Le Docteur Noir , one of those memnUti dramas into' yhich that wonderful actor Fred £ rick LbmaItre struck tho lift f genius and of passion . These dramas were , for the most part , mere outUm * consisting of three or four bold and startling situations , filled up by the inoom parable resources of the consummate actor ' s invention . Given an inferior nr let us say , a merely respectable artist , and the copy of the grand original Diet ' ., ro becomes a daub . We do not wish to speak at all harshly of an actor who d is play 8 so much good intention and so much apparent feeling as Mr . Dillon and who seldom departs from a certain ease and propriety , not so common anioncour melodramatic actors as to be dismissed without a word of praise ; but if Mr Dillon has not been the particular star of his own theatre too long ' to believe hi the sincerity of any other form of criticism than that of extravagant praise he will pardon our iinpression that he shows no signs whatever of taking rank in his art with Frederick LEMAiTRiB or Edmund Kean ; and that to those iunon » the audience of Thursday who were fortunate , or unfortunate enough , to remember Frederick Lemaitre's Docteur Jvo «» ythe Fabia n presented a contrast far from agreeable . Mr . Diilon possesses neither the physical nor the intellectual requisites for the part : he has neither the temperament , nor the voice , nor the freedom and elegance of action , nor the intensity of feeling , nor the power of utterance , nor the sense of pathos ( not to speak of that audacity which belongs to genius alone , and which in Frederick would ' carry away' the house ) which are necessary to give reality to such a part and to such a drama as Fabian . Injudicious , but undeniably influential , advisers are doing for Mr . Dilxoh what ' good-natured friends' proverbially do ; but we lay no claim to that character or office , and we are accustomed to speak as we think . If an Edmund Keak were to appear on bur stage once more , he could liotbs praised more extravagantly than Mr . Dillon has been ; and what , we may ask , becomes of criticism orof the art , if all distinctions of merit are to be forgotten , and a well-intentioned mediocrity is tp be saluted as an advent of genius ? Mr . Dillon is by no means an unpleasing actor , and whether from good sense , or from inability , he does not bellow in passionate passages , and his quiet manner disposes the more critical portion of an audience in his favour , and tells even with the uncritical , from its novelty . But , on the other hand , he seems incapable of relief or variety in the expression of strong emotions ; and in Fabian , for example , his abuse of wliat may be called the hysterical method , is almost ludicrous . Mr . Dillon takes so much pains , that we see no reason why he should hot be considered an improving actor ; to call him a rising actor would , perhaps , be less accurate . Fabian is very handsomely put on / the stage ; and the Destruction of the Bastille , with accompaniment of the Marseillaise , was richly enjoyed by the audience . After the nauseating surfeit of Partant pour la Syrie , the true national air of France was cordially welcome to many who cannot claim to be considered revolutionists- We cannot say much for the rest of the company who performed in Fabian , except that Mrs . Chaki . es Dillon , who looks and speaks singularly like an amateur , acts up to Mr . Dillon with laudable carefulness . We have said that this translation of Le Uocteur Noir is an indifferent performance . To justify this sentence let us recal one phrase : 'Fabian : " Let me precipitate myself from , yonder window . " ' Precipitate is not precisely the language of a man in a fury , who is on the point of dashing himself trona a third floor . Either this translation has been done hastily and carelessly by a competent hand , or it is the work of a hand ridiculously incompetent .

      Theatrical Notes. We Have To Correct A S...

      THEATRICAL NOTES . We have to correct a slip of the pen which we committed last week in connexion with the operatic performances at JDrurv Lane . The part of teonora in II Trovatore , in which Grisi appeared for the first time on Saturday week , had been previously performed at Her Majesty ' s Theatre , not by Jlademoiselle Ficcolomini , as we inadvertently stated , but first by Mademoiselle Jenny Nev , and afterwards by Madame Bosio . The IIayjiarket , on Monday , produced the School for Scandal , for the purpose of introducing Mr . Moiidocii in the part of Charles Surface . His success was of the same kind in . this as in his other performances ,

      Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. L...

      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . LLOYD . — Oa tho 10 th inst ., at 3 , Haro wood-square , the wife of lloraco Lloyd , Esq ., barristor-nt-law : a won and heir . JAMESON . —On tho 10 th insfc ., at Domnark-hill , Mrs . W . K . Jameson : a sou . MARRIAGE . TUDWAY-PIIIPrS . — On tlio Oth insfc , in tho parish

      church of Westbury , Wilts , tho Rev . Henry Tiulwnj ' i rector of Walton-in-Gordano , Somerset , only . surviving sou of tho lato John Paine Tudway , of Wells , Esq ., many years M . P . for that city , to Mary Leckoiiliy , eldest daughter of John Lewis Pnipps , Esq ., of Leigliton , in tlio county of Wilts . DEATHS . SMITH . —On tlio Oth inst ., suddenly , in tho camp , Alitarshott . in tho 20 th year of his Hgo , deo |) ly lamcnttM , l ; i « 11 - Sydney Smith , H . RI . ' s 77 th Regiment , fourth sim oi tuo lato Bright Smith . Esq ., of No . 12 , Uryaiistoii-squarc . WEDGWOOD . —On tho nth iint ., at Duwno . aged Sit , Mm Sarah Wedgwood , daughter of Josiali Wudgwood , or Etruria .

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      Cmttinerriat Main * ,

      ——^- ¦ ¦ London, Friday Evening, Novouib...

      ——^ - ¦ ¦ London , Friday Evening , Novouiber 11 , 1350 . The " Rank of England Directors liavobcou again ol ) li ^ , ' nt ' u raise tho rato -of discouut to 7 per cent , on nl advances u < h » forloiiK or abort date . Tho causes that lmvu 1 « - } .. ,. ' i measure have boon tho increasing withdrawal of nultoi "' ' tho foreign exchanges being asainHfc us . It woiiljl i > 0 " become iinnccossary for tho ' foreigner' to pay u l » ° * ! lliu l .-if lm supply of thoprecioua metal . Consols fell nearly »«'' per cent , on tlio higher rate beinicknown , but "' iv ' : " "" ,. ^ very steady at U 2 J , fl and even k bettor to-day for lJlH ; ' , ' ,. account , Foreign stocks are about tho same 1 uot A "" i s without a ftrcat amount of business doing . Jfuuiios w ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1856, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15111856/page/20/