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LORD STRATFORD'S PARTING SPEECH. Before ...
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NIGHT , at Eight o ' clock .-M . WlifiJNAAvr »* vx , " ¦« v- ; ° - \ gtiFt &&* em 2 && ^ % sgJaar « ais ) pfflBrtflE ROHTTT 7 TS . JULLIEN'S ANNUAL BAL MASQUE on Monday , December 13 th . . . -
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THEATRE ROYAL , HAYMARKET . rUnder the Management of Mr . Buckstone . ) Last Seekof the Engagement of Mr . and Mrs . Charles . Matncws . Reappearance of Mr . Buc ^ one ^ and Re-engagement of ¦^ sSt ^^^^^^^ T ^^ character ) MrV Charles Mathews ; Adolphus Spanker , Mr . Bu ^ stoiie Lady Gay Spanker , Mrs . Charles Mathews . _ To be followed by the popular Spanish Ballet of THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADALQUIVER , in which Seuora Perea Nena ( who has been engaged for a limited " ^ Affffi ^ iFlBrOTlled MY MOTHER'S MAID , in which Mr . and Mrs . Charles Mathews will sustain their original characters . Concluding with ANY PORT IN A R Pf ^ RilVT Thursday and Friday , A COMEDY . THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADALQUIVER , MY MOTHER'S MAID , and ANY PORT IN A STORM . „ ¦ On Saturday , November 27 , the Benefit of Mr . Charles Mathews . Last night of the engagement of Mr . aud Mrs . Charles Mathews , as theyappcar in Dublin on Monday , 29 th . Stage- Manager , Mr . Chippendale .
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ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE . ( Lessees—Messrs . F . Robson and W . S . Bmden . ) Monday , and during the week , the performances will commence with A DOUBTFUL VICTORY . Characters by Messrs . G . Vining , W , Gordon , Mesdames To be ^ followed ' 3 J . Mollorton ' s farce of A THUMPING LEGACY . / , „ , ' « - , 01 Characters by Messrs . F . RoTason , G . CoOke , W . Gordon , H . N \ igan , and Miss Herbert . After which , A TWICE TOLD TALE . Characters by Messrs . Lewis Ball , W . Gordon , Misses Hughes and Wyndham . . _ ¦ To conclude with BOOTS AT THE SWAN . Jacob ¦ Earwig , Mr . F . Robsori . Commence at half-past seven . ^^^^^^
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THEATRE ROYAL , SADLER'S WELLS . ( Under the Management of Mr . Phelps . ) Monday . Tuesday , and Wednesday . THE BRIDAL . Melantius , Mr . Phelps ; Amintor , Mr . F . Robinson ; Arcahes , Mr . T . C . Harris ; Dcphilus , Mr . Belford ; Lysippus , Mr . C . Seyton ; Calianax , Mr . Meagreson ; Evadne , Miss Atkinson ; Aspatia , Mrs . Charles Young . _ ' ¦ Thursday and Friday , THE HYPOCRITE . Dr . Cantwell , Mr . Phelps ; Colonel Lambert , Mr . H . Marstoii ; Darnley , Mr . Belford ; Mawworra , Mr . J . W . Ray ; Seward , Mr . C Seyton ; Charlotte , Mrs . Charles Young ; Old Lady Lambert , Mrs . H . Marston ; Lady Lambert , Miss Atkinson . On Saturday , HAMLET , Hamlet , Mr . Phelps . To conclude every evening with MY OLD LUCK . Mr . Goodbody , Mr . J . W . Ray . BoxOtlice open from 11 till 3 , under the direction of Mr . Austin . ¦
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THE ROYAL GRECIAiN THEATRE , CITY ROAD . ( Sole Proprietor , Mr . B . O . Conquest . ) On Monday , November 22 nd , and during the week ( Saturday excepted ) , the performances will commence with a New Drama by Mr . T . Mead , entitled THE STORY OF A 2 UGHT , OR THE CONVICT BROTHER , in which Mr . Head will appear , in conjunction with Messrs . Sinclair , Grant , Jackson , Gillett , Manning , and the Misses Covcncys , Johnstone , and Chapman . To bo followed by tho successful Farce of THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL , in which Miss A . Conquest will appear . Soiree Dansanto at 9 o ' clock . Chef d'Orchestre , Mr . T . Berry . To conclude with THE FUGITIVES . Time , the Outbreak of the Rebellion ; plnco , India . In which Mr . G . Conquest , Grant , Jackson , and the rest of tho company will appear . At tho termination of tlio Dramatic performances a Concert in the Assembly Room . In which Mr . P . Corri , Master Haydn Corri , De Sollcs , Ooloman , Manning , Courtloy , and Misses Chapman , Halo , Johnstono , and n powerful Chorus will appear . On Saturday , A LIFERS REVENGE . MISTRESS OF THE BULL , and THE FUGITIVES .
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TVOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Xl > PATRON —II . R . H . TUB PRINCE CONSORT . — Tho SPECIAL WONDER of tho AGIO . —MOULE'S PHOTOGRAPHIC LIGHT—tho RIVALof tho 8 VN . Inhibited and Lectured on by Mr . IS . V . GARDNER , daily at Hjvlfpast Three , and Monday , Wednesday , and Friday Evenings , at Half-past Seven . MUSICAL SKETCHES of POPULAR COMPOSERS by Mr . Williams and Mian Eppy , ovary Evening in Addition to all the other Novelties and Amusonionts . MANAGING DIRBOTOR , R . I . LONGBOTTOM , Esq .
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MR . AND MRS . HOWARD PAUL'S last eight nights ( ending Nov , . 10 ; in ( heir Comic aud WuHioal Entertainment , PATCHWORK , every night ( Sa-Vin dfty 1 , » . 'J led > * , & , fc tho EGYPTIAN HALL . Piccadilly . Mr . Howard Paul will introduce a now Aniorlnnu eccentricity , ' PegKy , doar , " and Mrs . Howard Paul will continue her wonderful imitation of Mr . Sinia Kcovoh in " Come into tho garden , Maud , " which receives nightly im ovation . * Stalla , 3 s . ; Area , 2 s , ; Gallery , la . Commence at Eight . A Morning Por / ormanco ovory Suturday at Three , and alaoon '¦ Tuesday , November 2 ; $ and Nov . 30 , ^
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DR . KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM , 3 , Tlohborue-atroct , oppositotho Hayinarkot , OPEN I > AILY ( for Gontlomon only ) ' L-liOTUltlSS by Dr . SMXTON At 9 , 4 jt , and 8 o ' clock on Important and IntoroNthur Topics In oonnoxlon with ANATOMY , PHYSIOLOaV , and PATHOLOGY ( vide Programme ) . Admiauion . la . — Dr , Knhn ' s Nino Looturoa on tho Philosophy of Marriage , . « o ,, sent post froo , direct from tho Author , on tlioreoofpt of ia stump * .
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THEATRE ROYAIi , PRURY LAJVE . ( Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr . W . Harrison . ) Last week but Two of the Season . On Monday and Thursday will be produced ( ih-Btand second "times this season ) THE BOHEMIAN GIRL . Thaddeus ( his original character ) , Mr . W . Harrison ; Arhne , On T ° uesday and Friday ( 117 th , 118 th times ) , the ROSE On Wednesday , CROWN DIAMONDS . .. Conductor , Mr . Alfred Mellon . To conclude with ( each evening ) a Ballet Divertissement . Commence at half-past seven .
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The public is respectfully informed that the & ragcdy of MACBETH , can only be represented for a limited number of nights . ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATEE . ( Farewell Season of Mr . Charles Kean as Manager . ) Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , MACBETH . m Tuesday and Saturday , MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING . Thursday , KING JOHN . Preceded every evening by A FARCE .
Notices To Correspondents. No Notice Can...
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .
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SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 20 , 1858 .
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^ There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when-all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Aknoijd .
Lord Stratford's Parting Speech. Before ...
LORD STRATFORD'S PARTING SPEECH . Before taking his final leave of the Turkish Empire— -that empire which for twenty years he Las struggled so hard to save from suicide—Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has availed himself of a fitting occasion to sum up the leading principles of his policy , and to give utterance to some remarkable words of parting counsel and admonition . Hitherto the high-soulcd and intrepid spirit of the man has been , save in diplomatic correspondence , voiceless and dumb . At intervals the world has read
unmistakably his meaning in his acts , but > for the most part , those who have desired to read from afar the drift of English counsel , as given by him confidentially to the Porte , have been forced to look for the indications of it in the hostile and often heated comments of our continental rivals upon the doings of a man whom they agreed to fear and to abhor . It is hardly too much to say that for many years Lord Stratford was the real , though unacknowledged , Prime Minister of the Sultan . Redschid , Ali , Hustapha , and the rest , who by turns occupied ostensibly tho place , and drew tho pay of Grand Vizier , sometimes gave good advice and sometimes bad ,
sometimes enjoyed power and oftentimes were benumbed by their own weakness or the perplexities of their position . But the English Ambassador never hesitated , never admitted that he was at fault , never bent his head beneath the blast of despotic caprice or the locust : cloud of administrative corruption , never quailed before the cabals of continental Govommeuts against him , and , above all , never filtered in his unswerving course when threatened with desertion and disavowal by those who ought to
have supported him at homo . Yet all this time he was , by tho very necessity of his disposition , defenceless , nonius I , and debarred from , all opportunity of vindicating the profound motives of his policy to his own country , to Turkey , and to the world . Now « thut nt length his mission is fulfilled and his diplomatic day is done , ho seems to rejoiee that his tongue is loosed , and that ho may speak plain . On tho occasion of laying tho foundation-stone of the first station on the Smyrna and Aidin Railway , be .
delivered a speech highly characteristic of the man and strikingly indicative of the heretofore unex plained impulses by which he has been politically guided . The great aim he has ever had in view it all his dealings with the Porte inay be said to have been its adupission into the fraternity of European nations . He truly discerned that unless this co _ uld be effected , the existence of the Ottoman power on this side of the Bosphorus could not be of long duration . But he likewise clearly saw that to countervail the deep-rooted prejudice of Christendom against the recognition of a Mahomedan state as one among equals , it was indispensable that
Turkey should be freed from the twofold reproach of anti-Christian intolerance and p hysical barbarism . As a civilised and equitable Power , able to protect life and property , whether native or foreign , within her own confines , and capable of developing her own internal resources , so as to become Ian important customer and ally of other nations , she might possibly come to be by degrees acknowledged as one of themselves , and so obtain the moral guarantee of Europe ' s sympathy and respect for the preservation of her independence . It was with this view that so often and so earnestly the British Envoy urged upon the
Sultan the importance of putting an end to those fanatical oppressions of which his Greek and Sclave tributaries ^ meessaritly . complained , and which the emissaries of Russia were invariably too prompt to exasperate by goading their victims violently to avenge . ' Lord Stratford implored and admonished by turns the irresolute Ministers of the Sultan to risk anything and everything , rather than allow the continuance of exactions and excesses , injuries and insults , which he well knew were slowly but surely undermining the patience of Christendom . With equal energy and perseverance he strove year after year to stimulate them to the adoption of reforms m the
administrative system of the empire > and to the initiation of those great works of material improvement to which Turkey alone , of all the states of Europe , remained a stranger . He felt deeply that as long as the reproach of having slothfully abused the noblest opportunities of progress and civilisation could be justly laid at their door , it was in vain to count upon the respect and friendship of the rest of the world . Ere quitting the land of these noble-hearted labours , it was natural that he should avail himself of his new liberty to reiterate aloud what he had so long been saying in the secret chambers of the palace , and thus , ere committing the result to future history , ouce and for all to exonerate his soul .
True to the persistency which has always characterised him . Lord Stratford stoutly repeats his protest against the cause of Turkey being considered hopeless . The brave old man cannot reconcile himself to the belief that after his long life-battle in its defence he shall live to see it lost . Sooner or later , he tells the Turks , they may retrieve all and refound their dominion in security and honour , arts and arms . If they will but do justice , /¦¦
fl r ^ mr ^ v fe- * - * *^ »* ^^ ¦ v ¦« ¦ *^ « m 1 ^ rf ^ %% ^ % *!*¦» # " & *¦ « ^ fc « t I I WT f * * Tt £ fe % ^ f \ % ^ S * V / "I A Y ^^& I f \ \ f \ love mercy , work energetically , spend and develop their resources promptly , and economise their revenues frugally , all may yet go ¦ well . Only what they do , let them do quickly : — Western civilisation is knocking hard at the gates of the Levant , and if it be not allowed to win its way into regions where it has hitherto been admitted so partially , it is but too capable or forcing the passage and asserting its pretensions with little regard for anything but their satisfaction . The ambition of one Power and the fear of
another may easily give point and direction to this prevailing tendency , and in times of change and enterprise any incidental circumstance may serve far sooner than we expect to bring on , not indeed the peaceable solution of what is emphatically styled the " Eastern Question , " but that fierce struggle of partition which our ablest statesmen have long endeavoured to avert . There is an ominous force of truth in these admirable expressions which it is impossible for the most indifferent or superficial to disregard . Even while Lord Stratford generously doprcoatcs tho tone
of despondency regarding the future of Turkey , which ever since tho successful termination of tho Crimean war pervades diplomacy mid the f > ress , ho unconsciously betrays tho heaviness of its heart , and the disappointment with whioh ho is compelled to look back at the soanfy fruit of his best efforts to redcom Turkey in spite of herself . He flings his last fugot on Hie altar of hope , but the gesture and look arc tlioso of despair . Surrounded by the onterprising ngoutaand [ artificers of the first railway attempted 111 Asia Minor , the fond dream ho has so long cherished of Turkey > physioal regeneration ilits again vividly beioro his
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 20, 1858, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20111858/page/17/
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