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PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS
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THE THEATRES. HA YMARKET. ™- -n ,„ -R^nn...
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YACHT RACE BETWEEN THE AMERICA AND SWERI...
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The Championship of the Thames.—Thomas C...
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STATISTICS OF THE WB^
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Births and Deaths m the Metropolis. —las...
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GARDENING CALENDAR. Hardy Fruit Garden,—...
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GUIDE TO THE LECTURE ROOM. Literary Inst...
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DEATHS. John Beneit, Esq., late M.P. for...
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158 I P Jtp P Toew. [Ooto^ 16
158 I P JTP TOEW . [ Ooto ^
Public Amusements
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS
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THE THEATRES . HA YMARKET . ™ - -n , „ -R ^ nnPtt a young actress , new to the London stage , has Mias B ^ Be ^ ay | > « The Roadto Ruin -Her appeared m the cnar completely assured her position debut was f ^^^ wie . We do not know what has been in the estimation ot the pun . ^ TSieSS cW of jouOi , L » W ^? no novice on S ^ SSSwb the ease and skill , of a practised artist . She tSvvoune woman , somewhat under the . middle stature , with ^ X & rSated and expressive features , and a musical voice . nfieSoi the part was admirable , and by no means common . S L tYl ! i arrises have made Sophia an awkward , vulgar Manv rlever actresses nave maut ; o ^«< , <« i a v ^ v . *^ ,
—o-hoX ^ cl a person as an accomplished gentleman could not voSy faU in love with . Miss Bennett has seen the absurdity of £ and has represented Sylvia as being , what the au hor certainly SS £ - « rii £ ple , innoc 8 nt girl , brought up in retirement , and Snorant of the world-quite a child of nature , but at the same time Sby nl 7 e % iih modesty , grace , and delicacy . Miss Bennett thufmade * Mm Dornton ' s passion for Sophia appear-the most nZrS tMnfL tlie world , and her intelligent conception and cSmg performance of the character removed any objection to SaVon the score of probability . She was warmly applauded in eve / yTcene and when she appeared before the curtain at the end JtKav she was loudly and " repeatedly cheered from every part of the hous ^ The P lay altogether was very pleasantly acted Mr . ? pEE MWa Sarri Dornton was a feeling and manly per . formanc ^ Mr W * &&& : ** W of vivacity , though otSntliv sJmewhlt extravagant , arid yerging on farce ; and / Mrs , SSS Widow Warren . Mr . Stuart as Mr . Dornton , Mr Rogers as ** , and Mr . Lambert as Silky , sustained their parts ¦
with good sense and propriety . „ , ,, « , On Saturday evening a slight , harmless little farce , called "The Woman I Adore , - reived the light of stage lamps . The hero thereof , Mr . Paddington Green , head clerk of Men * ,. Falcon and SarVis a gentleman intoxicated with tha power which he derives from his position , and with his love for a handsome coun ess . He tyrannizes over his inferiors in office , and he lowers himself m these unhappy clerk
their opinion by his foolish passion . Hence - lings prepare a letter , purporting to . come from the fair aristocrat and inviting Green to a ball . By this contrivance they have the double pleasure of hoaxing the despot , and getting him out of the way . Of course he goes to the ball in ridiculously fashionable attire , and rather disgusts the Cwntess than makes progress m \ ex affections . However , a business affair serves to account for his in
presence in the house , and he does good service detecting a swindler , who was on the point of victimizing both the lady and her aunt The story of the scamp ' s machinations is not a little vague and obscure , so that we lightly pass over the details of the campaign , and come to the result , which is speedtty followed , by the descent of the curtain . The smartness and oddity of the dialogue point to one of the very best of our modern farce-writers , as the juthpr ot this piece : but , if the indication be right , we must add that this is by no means one of the very best of his farces . Excessive , slightness and considerable obscurity do not meet well together m the compass
of a dramatic trifle . Mr . Buckstone was irresistibly droll , and in the first scene had full scope for his humour , but as the piece progressed it was discoverable that he had a sorr ^ vhat arduous tasknot through the weight . but the lightness oi his burden . We might imagine Atlas with an air-balloon upon his shoulders . The piece was followed by unmixed , but feeble , applause .
SADLER'S WELLS . William Rowley's " New Wonder ; or , a Woman neverJext , " which was first published in 1632 , and which is contained in Mr . Dilke ' s collection of old plays , was founded on a real incident m city history . Strype records that one Stephen Foster , a prisoner in Ludgate , attracted the notice of a rich widow as he was crying for ; alms at the gate . She released him , and , as his fortunes improved , ultimately married him . " Her riches and his industry , continues and honour after
Strype , " brought him both great wealth , being - wards no less than Sir Stephen Foster , Lord Mayor of the honourable city of London ; yet whilst he lived in this great honour ^ and dignity he forgot not the place of his captivity , but , mindful ot the sad and irksome place wherein poor men were imprisoned , bejhougnt himself of enlarging it , to make it a little more delightful and pleasant for those who in aftertimes should be imprisoned and shut up therein . And , in order thereunto , he acquainted his lady with this his pious purpose and intention , in whom likewise he found so affable and willing a mind to do good to the poor , that she promised
to expend as much as he should do for the carrying on of the work j and , having possessions adjoining thereunto , they caused to be erected and built the rooms and places following—that is to say , the paper-house , the porch , the watch-hall , the upper and lower lumbries , the cellar , the long ward , and the chapel for divme service . " This pious work , which was performed in 1454 , seems as ¦ unpromising a dramatic subject as could be imagined , and the interest which attached to it when Ludgate still existed as a prison might be supposed to vanish altogether now that the old gate has no
other record in the eyes of the multitude than in the names of the hill and street adjoining St . Paul's . Nevertheless , old Mr . Rowley , whom Mr . Gifford calls a third-class dramatist , has made of the story a « rood practical play , which can even excite sympathy in this nineteenth century , and , what is most curious , he has accomplished this without any complexity of plot , doing little more with the fact of which he treated beyond the assembling together of a number of persons who might very naturally be connected with the history of the Ludgate improvement . Stephen Foster is first shown as a proexcellencenexthis
digal , persecuted by his brother , the Foster par ; , fortunes are improved by his marriage with a rich widow , who , never having been " vext" { i . e ., known a misfortune ) in her life , resolves to try the effect of a bad husband ; then comes his reformation as the immediate consequence of his marriage ; and , finally , he is placed on so high a pedestal by a happy combination of good luck and industry , that he is made sheriff of London , and is an important personage on the King ' s visit to the city , which occurs as a sort of pageant at the end of the play . In the meanwhile , the elder Foster has been ruined by an unfortunate speculation , and becomes in his
turn a prisoner in Ludgate , whence he is at last released by his magnanimous brother . A personage of considerable moral interest is obtained by providing the elder Foster with an amiable son , who first incurs his father ' s anger by relieving his uncle , and afterwards offends his uncle by relieving his father , though the anger of Stephen proves but transient and is in a great measure feigned . The introduction of a young city heiress as a proper match lor Robert Foster ,
a couple of ridiculous suitors , one of whom is of the Master Slender breed , and the termagant wife of the elder Foster , who stands in contrast to the placid widow , serve to make up the dramatic picture . These additional characters produce scenes rather than incidents , and thus , as we have said , the old story of John Howard ' s civic predecessor in the work of prison reform is most simply told . The version of Rowley ' s play which is revived at Sadler ' s Wells , under the title of " A Woman never Vext ; or , The Widow of Cornhill , " was made by Mr . Planche , and was first produced at Coyent-garden Theatre in 1824 . Mr . Planche was , on the . whole , temperate in the
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work of adaptation . He smoothed down into melodious blank yerse the barbarous metre of Rowley , which , in its utter irreducibleness to any law of scansion , evidently drove Mr . Dilke almost to despair . He omitted much of that witless indecency which is so foul a blot on tlie works even of our best Elizabethan writers , and by some occasionalspeeches , he heightened the tone of Robert ' s character , so as to clothe him with additional interest . The general structure of the play he has left unaltered in any material point , though there is one of Rowley ' s incidents which , we think , might as well have been retained . In the old play , the widow having lost a
ring , finds it in the belly of a fish which has been bought for dinner , and it is the discovery , that she cannot be " vext" even in this trifle that drives her to seek a refuge from her even course of joy in the arms of a spendthrift husband . The moral principle by which she is actuated , as well as the means of setting it forth , are precisely the same as in the story of Polycrates ; and Mr . Planche , by omitting this incident , has rendered less apparent the object of the author in giving his comedy the title of " A Woman never Vext . " For the understanding of the merits of this play a perusal in the closet is not sufficient . The reader will rise from a crude , clumsy
work unredeemed by any of those passages of poetical beauty which will often shine out from five acts of Elizabethan rubbish , bright as the late Mr . Wordsworth ' s one star in a dark sky . But when the piece is efficiently representeoV-and it is efficiently represented at Sadler ' s Wells—innumerable-merits at once peep out , and we discover that old Rowley had in him that art which seems peculiar to the Elizabethan writers , of hitting the unsophisticated minds of Englishmen . Old Foster is neither more nor less than a compound of old brute and old ? fool , causelessly calling down imprecations on his son ' s head , and causelessly relenting in the midst of his curses ;
but , nevertheless , if the situations in which he appears do not appeal to the intellect , they at any rate touch the sympathies of the audience , and the forcible inculcation of the Christian doctrine of forgiveness is thoroughly appreciated * notwithstanding the rudeness of the teacher . The exchange of banter between the rival suitors of Mistress Jane , which has so much in common with what in modern vulgar parlance is termed " chaffing , " and the sharp shrewishness of the elder Foster ' s wife elicits the heartiest demonstrations of mirth from the least conventional portion of the audience , who here find reproduced the style of wit which is still vernacular and the domestic
broil . which disturbs the harmony of the humbler roof . The manner in which the play is acted does the greatest credit to the performers themselves and to the discipline under which they are trained . Mr . Phelps , the head of the house dejure and de facto , is not in the list of dramatis persona , nor ,- indeed , does the play contain a part worthy of his present position . But his Spirit is visible in the excellent working of his \ corps , in the harmony of their co-operation , and in the aptness with which they adopt the conventional humour of the Elizabethan period ., It is needless to particularize any single actor
when all succeed so well in preserving a satisfactory level , and when the play is onewhieh rather demands a general feeling of artistical fellowship than calls forth an exhibition of individual talent . Quite enough is it to state that the performance of Rowley ' s crude old play at Sadler ' s Wells is enough to afford a striking proof of the advantage of a zealous , well-disciplined working company . It should be observed that Mr . Planche ' s substitution of Henry VI . for Henry III . as the King ^ yho visits the city is a correction ' of a manifest , error ( probably a misprint ) in the original edition of this play , to which Mr , Dilke calls attention in Ms preface .
Yacht Race Between The America And Sweri...
YACHT RACE BETWEEN THE AMERICA AND SWERIGE SCHOONERS . Portsmouth , Wednesday . The match between lhe America and the Swedish yacht Swerige came of yesterday . It had been postponed twice , owing to the sbsence off sufficient wind , and would have again been put off" yesterday had not the parties become impatient of waiting . The start took place at about a quarter past eleven , from off Hyde Pier , the course being thence to the Nab light-vessel , and round a steamer
placed tweuty miles to the south of the latter . The America , which was throughout the match extremely well handled . by her crew , got a fair start nearly three minutes sooner than her opponent , of which she made good advantage , the wind being light , and about north-easterly , the run to the Nab was not very exciting . By her good- start , however , the America was enabled to round that vessel first , and getting a leading wind , she began to further gain on the Swede , ' until the latter succeeded in also making the lightship . The Swerige then exhibited her , qualities more clearly , and commenced an interesting struggle with the America , down to ihe steamer . She gradually gained upon her , at length coming up
with and passing by her . The Swede rounded the steam vessel at 3 . 32 p . m ., and the America at 3 . 35 . Some long and tedious reaches had now to be made back to the Nab , in the course of which a fog set in , which did not improve the matter , but in the midst of which the America gained an advantage , and rounding the Nab , arrived at Ryde about 20 minutes sooner than the Swede , getting there at 8 o ' clock . The latter part of the match , being performed in the fog and dark , could hardly be . considered as calculated to test the merits of the two vessels , whilst the light wind rendered the winning of the prize more dependent on a knowledge of the set of the tide and currents than almost anything else .
The America and the Swerige are of the same schooner build and general rig , but the latter vessel some 30 tons heavier of the two .
The Championship Of The Thames.—Thomas C...
The Championship of the Thames . —Thomas Coles Is again the winner of the Belt—having on Thursday afternoon at about twenty minutes after two o ' clock p . m . ( for the second time within a few months ) defeated the long-victorious Robert Ooombes . "Upon the last occasion the race between the same eminent athletes was won by a comparatively short distance . On Thursday , the triumph of Coles was wonderfully more decisive—the new champion of the Thames having reached ^ the wimring « post when at the astpnishing interval of eight or ten lengths ahead of his competitor . The conqueror ' s style of rowing , throughout was eminently cool and beautiful .
A Free Library bob Oxford . —The Oxford burgesses some time ago presented a petition to the Town Council praying for the establishment of a public library , under Mr . Ewart ' s Act . Upon this the council ordered a poll of the burgesses ; which took place on Wednesday . The result of the poll was in favour of making the necessary rate , by a majority of 75 to 62 Suicide of a Banker . —James Taylor , Esq ., banker of Birmingham , and who has generally resided at Mosely Hall , near that town committed suicide at Brighton on Friday . Mr . Taylor , who was seventy-one years of age , had gone to Brighton about a month ago for the benefit of his health , as he had been umveli for some months
past . Since his arrival in Brighton he had been in very low spirits and on Friday afternoon he took a drive with his wife and son , and returned to his residence in Cavendish-place about five o ' clock . He went up stairs , and in a short time alter his body fell into the yard behind the house . It was found that he had climbed out of the a ttic window , \ and had cut his throat with a razor . A medical man w : as . immediately sent for , but ' his services-were of no avail the unfortunate man was quite dead . On Saturday an inquest was held on the body at the Bedford Hotel , and the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity . "
Statistics Of The Wb^
STATISTICS OF THE WB ^
Births And Deaths M The Metropolis. —Las...
Births and Deaths m the Metropolis . —last wee - boys and . 653 girls , in all 1 , 350 children , were registered in lIm * ^ (&• number in corresponding weeks of seven previous years > 18 ,, ' ^ kt b i The official report says . —in the week that ended last Satuwlay ^ i ** , \ registered in London . In tlie corresponding weeks of ten vp ' .. ti ° lls W average number of deaths was 036 , which with an addition for' h lation , and for the sake of comparison with the present return n ^ ° '" ^ Foreign Cxocks . —It appears that in the month endwi < u , 3 (> ' > cu "W 5 th ult r clocks to the value of 5 , 9997 . were imported . In the correspond- „ . rei 8 n preceding year the value was Q , 07 Ql . D peri 0 ( l of t | 1 P
Steam Engines Exported . —In th « month ended the 5 th u ? f value of steam-engines and parts of engines exported Wqe ™ ~ , n , ' ° ^ N ' •' " ''• i Wll ' ipli great increase on tlie same period of 1851 , when the value was r r ^ •" Baths and Washhouses . —By the return of the officers of ti - ' ment in Greenwich , for the quarter ending Michaelmas we find ti * is' 1 " mu Hint tho nin t of to 38 , 988 , and the amount taken was mi . g n 812 , the number of hours of washing , & c , 2 , 2 so ^ j ihe amount i \ - " ' ^^ was 182 . Is . 3 d ., making a total of 508 ? . 9 s . 9 d . S ^ wi » c ) i
] Sew Ross . —The following important statistics , recently nubr Waddy , exhibit the steadily increasing prosperity of this borouMi- * ' Population , ., • 7 041 Customs' Iteceipts . 1846 .. .. ..
1847 .. - ' 1850 .. - ^ 1851 ., " y « t , , " 22 , 007 Postage .
lit £ S 6 S Mo * ° * " •* " 53 G 6 I ) SJ "" G 5 ; i 0 0 1801 . .. .. ... .. 8151 g T « nnag « belonging to the port of New Tioss . '" " " * " .. - , Qln 1848 t > < J mo t ¦
... ... , mi 10 , 408 1851 " 9 , 300 Vessels Arriving .
1849-50 ••• ' 33 , 001 ions m 0 ' . » . do-83 Pauperism in Mibdlesex .-Iii the recently issued parliamentary j , apei respecting poor relief , it appears that there was a decrease in Hie nuraks «( paupers relieved in the quarter ended lady-day , 1851 , compared with the like period of the preceeding year . In the Lady-day quarter of 1851 the immtor ol in-door paupers relieved was 26 , 1 ) 49 , and in Lady-day quarter 1851 tile mimbsi was 25 , 049 , whilst of out-door paupers the number was reduced from 1 ) 3 m to 74 , 396 .
Gardening Calendar. Hardy Fruit Garden,—...
GARDENING CALENDAR . Hardy Fruit Garden , —One of the greatest drawbacks to out-door garden-Ing is the failure of wall fruit , too often arising from ill constructed or too rich borders . If it is intended to renew or renovate any borders during the present winter , immediate steps should be taken ( if not already prepared ) to procure ; i supply of sound healthy loam with the turf on it ; if this is of a moderately Iieavy nature , a portion of the sweepings or scraping of roads may be mixed " with it for peaches , ( nectarlnes , cherries and apricots ; in its natural state it will suit pears and plums . Let the bottom of tbe intended border be not only well drained with pipes , to carry off the excess of waterbut place a foot or 18 indies of
, rubble beneath the compost , which need not'be more than 18 inches deep for peaches and apricots , and two feet for plums , pears , & c . The borders should have a good slope from the wall to the walk , and dung of no kind should be used . If these precautions are followed , there will not be much fear of the result . Ground for orchard or fruit tree quarters intended for planting this season should be trenched , and a dressing of short dung may be well mixed with the soil in digging , more particularly for raspberries , gooseberries , and other small fruit . The first point , however , will be thorough drainage , if there is the least indication of springs , or a retentive subsoil . -- Gardiner ? Chronicle .
Guide To The Lecture Room. Literary Inst...
GUIDE TO THE LECTURE ROOM . Literary Institution , John-street , Fitzroy-squarc : —Friday evenings [ 8 j a Discussion . — -Oct . 17 th [ 7 ] , Robert Cooper , " Doctrine of a Future State . " Hall of Science , City Road . —Oct . 17 th [ 7 ] , Thomas Cooper , " Life and Cte " racier of the Duke of Wellington . " National Hall , 254 , High Holbonu—Oct . 17 th [ 7 ] , P . W , Perfitt , " Henry Ireton . " t South London Hall , Webber-street , Blackfrioars-road . —Oct . 17 th [? £ ] Charier " Southwell , " Justification of tlie Reformation . " Areopagus Coffee and Reading Room , 59 , Church-lane , TOiitechapel . —Every Sunday , Monday , and Wednesday [ 8 ] , a Lecture or Discussion .
Commercial Hall , Philpot-street , Commercial-road , East . —Oct . 17 th [ 11 a . m . ] Charles Southwell will lecture . —Theological Discussions every Sunday evening , [ 7 ] Tuesday [ 8 ] , Thursday [ 8 ] , and Saturday [ 8 ] . ' White Horse , Hare-street , Bethnal Green . —A Lecture and Discussion erery Sunday evening at 8 o ' clock . Progressionist Hall , Cheapside , Leeds . —Oct . 17 th [&|] , a Lecture . Eclectic Institute , 14 , GartMand-streefc , Glasgow—Oct . 17 th [< $ , a Lecture . Secular Institution , Charles-street , Old Garratt , Manchester . —Oct . 17 th [ 0 > mJ a Lecture . Odd-Fellows' Hall , Thornton-rood , Bradford . —Every Sunday evening [( $ Mr , Brown will lecture .
Deaths. John Beneit, Esq., Late M.P. For...
DEATHS . John Beneit , Esq ., late M . P . for Wilts , died on Friday , in his 80 th J « ar , aim an apoplectic seizure on the previous Wednesday . He completed his 70 th je » on the 20 th May , having been born in 1773 . Madame Blumeberg , one of the last relics of the first French Revolution , died on Monday week , in the Widow and Orphan Asylum , at Galway , aged 80 . The Rev . Dr . Stewart , minister of the Presbyterian Church , Broajhshane , died at his residence , Bushyfield , near that town , a few days sfnee . Sir Juckes Granville Juekes Clifton , Bart ., died on the 1 st inst ., at his seat , Clifton Hall , Notts .
Count Palatine Jean Jerome Allegri , Commander of the Order of St . Gregory 1 the Great , and resident Minister of Austria , at the Court of Modena , died on Uie te 21 st ult . at La Mandria , his summer residence . The right Rev . Patrick Torry , D . D ., Bishop of St . Andrews , died od Sunday , y , at the episcopal residence , at Peterhead , in his Oflth year . The Rev . Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise , Bart ., of Idsworth Park , Hants , died oh jb tlie 1 st inst ., at his residence in Grosvenor-square , in his 82 nd year . The Earl Somers died on the 5 th inst . } at his residence in Grosvenor-p lace , u u his 65 th year .
General Count de Golstein died on Teusday , suddenly , of apoplexy , ! in waiting-room of the Versailles Railway . „ ,. ,. Lord Dinorbin , an idiot , the last male of his family , died at Kinmel l « ' North Wales , on the 6 th inst . , . „ . Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Tourlerdge , Bart ., died at his residence on 7 th inst . . . Mr . Thomas Wilson , of Jeffrey ' s-square , died on Saturday last , at his sea { in < ir Hackney . He was in his 85 th year . Aclon m Vice-Admiral Bulkeley Mackworth Praed died on the 6 th instant , at *« . Castle , Cornwall , at the advanced age of 82 years .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1852, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_16101852/page/14/
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