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, . * £ YJ *? VTC GABDE *» -One of the greatest drawbacks to out-door nrteo . ing is the failure of wall fruit , too often arising from ill constructed or too rich Borders . If it js intended to renew or renovate any borders during the proem winter , immediate steps should be taken ( if not already prepared ) to ptUa supply of sound healthy loam with the turf on it ; if this is of a moderately heavy nature , a portion of the sweepings or scraping of roads may be mixed ' with it for peaches , ; nectarines , cherries and apricots ; in its natural state it will suit pnn and plums . Let the bottom of the intended border be not only well drained with pipes , to carry off the excess of water , but place a foot or 18 inches 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 rod . It these precautions are followed , there will not be much fear of Die result
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\««« i ? nsa Bennett , a young actress , new to the London stage , has aweared in the character of Sophia in " The Road to Ruin . " Her debut was most successful , and has completely assured her position in iha ' pqtimation of the public . We do not know what has been her previous career ; but , though her person , face , and voice have all the freshness and charm of youth , she is evidently no novice < m the stage , but possesses the ease and skill of a practised artist . . She is a pretty young woman , somewhat under the middle stature , with a light figure , animated and exprekssive features , and a musical voice . Her reading ' of the part was admirable , and by no means common .
Many clever actresses have made Sophia an awkward , vulgar hoyden such a person as an accomplished gentleman could not possibly fall in love with . Miss Bennett has seen the absurdity of this , and has represented . Sophia as being , what the author certainly intended- —a simple , iunocent girl , brought up in retirement , and ignorant of the world—quite a child of nature , but at the same time gifted by nature with modesty , grace , and delicacy . Miss Bennett thus made Harry Dorntoris passion for Sophia appear the most natural thing in the world , and her intelligent conception and charming performance of the character removed any objection to
the play on the score of probability . She was warmly applauded in every scene ; and when she appeared before the curtain at the end of the play she was loudly'and repeatedly cheered from every part of the house . The play altogether was very pleasantly acted . Mr . Leigh Murray s Harry Dornton was a feeling and manly performance ; Mr . Wigan ' s Goldfinch was full of vivacity , though occasionally somewhat extravagant , and verging on farce ; and Mrs . Selby was a capital Widow Warren . Mr- Stuart as Mr . Dornton , Mr . Rogers as Sulky , 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 , " received the light of stage lamps . The hero thereof , Mr . Paddington Green , head clerk of Messrs . Falcon and Buzzard , is a gentleman intoxicated with the power which he derives from his position , and with his love for a handsome countess . He tyrannizes over his inferiors in office , and he lowers himself in their opinion by his foolish passion . Hence these unhappy clerklings 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 Countess than makes progress in her affections . However , a business affair serves to account for his
presence in the house , and he does good service m 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 speedily followed by the descent of the curtain . The smartness and oddity of the dialogue point to one of ihe very best of our modem farce-writers as the author of 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 in 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 somewhat arduous tasknot through the weight , but the lightness of 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 never Vext , " which was first published in 1632 , and which is contained in Mr . Dilke ' s collection of old plays , was founded on a real incident in 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 Strype , "brought him both great wealth and honour , being
afterwards 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 of the sad and irksome place wherein poor men were imprisoned , bethought 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 ;
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 divine 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 good 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 prodigal , persecuted by his brother , the Foster par excellence ; next , his 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 magnauimous brother . A personage of consider able 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 for 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 Cotnhill , " "Wa 6 made by Mr . Planchd , and was first produced at Covent * 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 verse 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 the works even of our best Elizabethan writers , and by some occasional speeches , 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
Ting , 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 , arc precisely the same as in the story of Polycratcs- , and . Mr . Pianche , by omitting this incident , has rendered less apparent the object of the author in giving his comedy the title of " A Woman never Vexl . " 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 represented—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 Fosters 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 personce , 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 one which 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 who 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 his preface -
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YACHT RACE BETWEEN THE AMERICA AND SWERiGE SCHOONERS . , . Portsmouth , Wednesday . The match between the America and the Swedish yacht Swerige came of yesterday . It had been postpo / ied twine , 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 Ryde Pier , the course being thence to the Nab light-vessel , and round a steamer placed tweuty miles to the south of the latter . The Americawhich
, was throughout the match extremel y well handled by her crew , got a fair start nearl y 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 Swerigeahen exhibited her qualities more clearly , and commenced an interesting struggle with the America down to the steamer . She gradually gained upon her , at length comin * 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 ihe Swede getting there at 8 o ' clock . The latter part of the match , being performed in the fog and dark , could hardly be considered ascaleulated to test the merits of the two vessels , whilst the li ght wind rendered the winning of the prize more dependent on a knowledge of the set cf 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 .
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The Championship op 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 Coombes . 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 wonderfull y more decisive—the new champion of the Thames having reached the winning-post ' when at the astonishing interval of eight or ten lengths ahead of his competitor . The conqueror ' s style of rowing throughout was eminently cool and beautiful .
A * rek Library for OxFOBD . -The Oxford burgesses some time a ^ o presented a petition to the { own Council praying for the establishment of a public : library , under Mr . Lwavt ' s Act . . Upon this the council ordered a po or the burgesses ; which took place on Wednesday . The result of the poll was m favour of making the necessary rate , by a majority of 75 to 62 Suicide of a Bankbu . —James Taylor , Esq ., banker of Birrainirham , and who has generally resided at Moscly Hall , near that town commiited 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 ot his health , as he had been unwell 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-placf about five o ' clock . He went up stairs , and in a short time a'ter his body fell into the yard behind the house . It was found that he had climbed out of the attic window , and had cut his throat with a razor . A medical man xvas 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 . "
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STATISTICS j ) F THE Wjjj * I Births ahd Deaths ts the Metropolis — t ^ § boys and 653 girls , in all 1 , 350 children , were registered j n ^ ^ of E number in corresponding weeks of seven previous years \^ ' ** % The official r port says : — -in the week that ended last Sat ^" " ^ ^ ) ^ I registered in London . In the corresponding weeks of " ^ ^ ^ itis ' J average number of deaths was 930 , which with an ud . liii I **** l 8 l 2 -5 i !* l lation , and for the sake of comparison with the present y ie ° f | m . ' I Porbigx Clocks . —It appears that in the month tnn i ' WlJI bo l i 9 J 0 *** IU 6 u ( Jig c . i * I clocks to the value of 5 S 999 L were imported . ln the covres 0 " hl Sh preceding year the value was 6 , 070 ? . " ° Moil 0 [ j ! Steam Esgihbs Exported . —In tho month ended » , „ r ., ^^* nit » OIK \\\ i \ ] value of steam-engines and parts of engines exported was 3 ( $ 7 l HJ great increase on the same period of 1851 , when the vaii ' ^ ^ " fls 2 ^ Print ¦* Baths akd WASinrou 8 ES . ~ By the return of the office ' ment in Greenwich , for the quarter ending Michaelmas Wo « , ° tl 113 W (; % ' '" Ml that ii < of "to 38 , 988 , and the amount taken was 400 ! 8 s * 812 , the number of hours of washing , &c , 2 , 280 £ ; n , amount I' !' ' ***** * was 18 * . Is . 3 d ., making a total of 508 J . 9 s . 0 d . " %
New Ross . —The following important statistics , recently m - Waddy , exhibit the steadily increasing prosperity of this boro T " ^ ^ 5 It Population , Customs' Receipts . " 7 | 014 1846 1847 .. .. .. '" " U . 3 D 1 1850 .. .. .. " w . ro
1851 .. .. ' .. ' " 20 , 0 < 3 Postage . '" " 22 ' 1842 .. .. " « .. £ ft 910 1850 i > % f 0 o 1851 .. Ca ; 0 2 . . " 15 19 •< Tonnage belonging to the port of New Ross
1847 1848 " * ' 5 , 842 1849 7 . " - « Ul 1851 " " 10 , 408 Vessels Arriving .
1849-50 1850-51 * "' 33 , 001 Ions , do , 283 Pauperism in Middlesex . - ^ recently issued parliamentary m respecting poor relief , it appears that there was a decrease in the numb , paupers relieved in the quarter ended Lady-day , 1851 , oompwed with tJnt period of the preceeding year . In the Lady-day quarter of 1851 the nu , « b »' in-door paupers relieved was 26 , 049 , and in Lady-day quavter 1851 tits nurate , was 25 , 049 , whilst of out-door paupers the number was rduced from 93 uto 74 , 396 . '
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John Benett , Esq ., late M . P . for Wilts , died on Friday , in his 80 th year , after an apoplectic seizure on the previous Wednesday . He completed W « " ' ^ on the 20 th May , having been born in 1773 . Madame Blumeberg , one of the last relics of the first French Involution , d ' on Monday week , in the Widow and Orphan Asylum , at Galway , aged 86 . The Rev . Dr . Stewart , minister of the Presbyteiian Church , Broog hslwne , died at his residence , Bushylield , near that town , a few days since . . Sir Juckes Granville Juckes Clifton , Bart ., died on the 1 st inst ., at ha «•' Clifton Hall , Notts .
Count Palatine Jean Jerome Allegri , Commander of the Order of St . ( Wg the Great , and resident Minister of Austria , at the Court of Modena , died on 21 st ult . at La Mandria , his summer residence . , , The right Rev . Patrick Torry , D . D ., Bishop of St . Andrews , died od & « no at the episcopal residence , at Peterhead , in his 00 th year . , „ The Rev . Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise , Bart ., of Idswortu Park , Hants , die the 1 st inst ., at his residence in Grosvenor-square , in his 82 nd year . . The Earl Soraers died on the 5 th inst ., at his residence in Grosvenor-pl » . his 65 th year . (|]( General Count < ie Golstein died on Tensday , suddenly , of apop lexy . ! 1 " waiting-room of the Versailles Railway . . . Parl Lord Dinorbin , an idiot , the last malo of his family , died at Kin « el North Wales , on the 6 th inst . . $
„ Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Tomlerdge , Bart ., died at his residence 7 th inst . 11 Mr . Thomas Wilson , of Jeffreys-square , died on Saturday last , at 1 >>« ! ea Hackney . He was in his 85 th year . t j ^ W Vice-Admiral Bulkeley Mackworth Praed died on the Cth i »» t » n { ' 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/vm2-ncseproduct1700/page/14/
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