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      Iv. December 5, 1851. < §P|®Lena Bella,—...

      from the clergymen dotted here and there . " Ah ! there ' s Conway , too !" and so he was , with his earnest , truly pious face— " an atheist in the church of _England ; and he says that there are scores more—he has told me their names . " There was the lady of a great lawyer , whose last child is wonderfully like young Federigo Ambrogetti , quite his dark ivory complexion and black curls ; another—her husband eminent among statesmen—of course , with the insinuating _physician at her elbow . " Ah ! there goes the

      Reverend Elkanah Smith , with his wife on one arm , and his Egeria on the other ! There is Lucrezia Borgia too , the lovely authoress , who does her romances first , and then writes them . Let me see , " cried Giulia , unconscious of the confession , there is not a single woman present—at least none that I knoiv , wdiose virtue "would bear discussion . Oh yes , —I beg her pardon , —there is Mrs . Buchanan;—ah ! and there is Mrs . Williams , too . I dare say there is more virtue than I thought at first . "

      Do not suppose that I am telling you a fiction , or dealing only in verisimilitudes . I cannot vouch for names , nor for exact details , or I might write less freely ; but I am telling you plain facts , and nothing else . Yes , in the heart of moral England , Lok has " burst his tenfold chain ; " and if you go to any great gathering , except a Bible meeting , or a party at the house of Lord Voltaire , —and I will not answer for the last , —you shall meet with titled blacklegs , ri ght honourable keepers of hareems , gentlemen and ladies with bars sinister over great escocheons , and more escocheons that ought to bear the bar , matrimonial confusions rendering it difficult to extricate the peerage from the Italian stage , ov the French green-room ; atheists and pantheists in holy orders , Roman-catholics in Anglican benefices ; and young maidens who have descendants , or have not , as the case may be .

      But society , except in the frankness of facetiae , in irresponsible epigram and repartee , ignores all this—its social gendarmerie fires over the heads of its own disorders . And all goes smoothly while ignored . Let the notorious atheist talk orthodoxy , with a transparent smile , or the outlaw Bohemien talk " morals , " and promotion is not checked . But let indiscretion forget itself into frankness , and all is wrong . The limping hyena is eaten up by its own comrades : Mrs . Windham actually fainted one day at hearing that her lover had hurt himself ; her husband was fool enough to avow his anger at her indiscreet frankness ; she was cut by

      " society , " and died a few weeks back of a broken heart . " It is melancholy for her daughters , " said Giulia , " it will be so difficult to get them into society ! " Meanwhile , the young lady who so strikingly resembles her stepfather that everybody remarks it , is an ornament to the hi ghest circles . These , I say , are facts , and I have more to tell you ; although our conversation was cut short strangely . While we were talking , Edwardes and his wife came up ; and Edwardes , who had known Giulia , and admired Sidney ' s genius , introduced his wife . Mrs . Sidney bowed coldly , drew up , turned to me , shook hands with marked contrast in the cordialit y to me , and walked oft * . The " cut" was evident ; but why ?

      Never was there a more striking spectacle than that of a noble nature rising against injury . Yseult coloured , and the tears of hurt feeling rose to her eyes ; but she stood erect , ber countenance assuming a marvellous expression of firmness and grave ingenuousness . Edwardes soon found a reason for going , and Stanhope and I went with him . " Lot us walk , " said Edwardes ; and our thoughts turned gladly from the li ghts and the perfume as we faced the wind and the stars .

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      JAG K SHE PPARD . When a man is so far not a master of his actions that lie deliberately goes to see such an "Historical Drama" ( the name is not mine , but the author ' s ) as Jack Shcppard , his friends , naturally filled with compassion , inquire into the cause . . 1 went to "see it . The cause was this . Henri . Lafoiiehe was accustomed to lay down the axiom , — " That man

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      is totally wanting in savoir vivre who , being tete-a-tete with and pretty woman for one quarter of an hour , has not obtained e ' th ° kiss or—a smack in the face . " I was alone with Louisa for more tl a quarter of an hour . I told her Latouche _' s axiom . "I perfectly with him , " she said , with a sli ght implication of sarcasm that _drov _*^ wild , for it proved me to be the grossier personnage Latouehe defi _^ Louisa ' s aunt entered at that moment , and I , taking a hurried leav f them , found myself in the Haymarket Theatre . I was not master 0 / actions , or else the very playbill would have kept me out . Onlv tl ? other day I printed for your amusement a specimen of provincial nl bills . This of the Haymarket transcends it . I can ' t afford space for 5 _T entire bill , but read this : — _tte REVIVAL of the HEAL ADELPHI JACK SHE PPARD . The great celebrity of Mus . KEELEY in her personation of Jack Shevn and of Me . PAUL BEDFORD in 'the character of Plueskin , has _iaduced tlr ' Management to revive this Popular Drama , and a The Public is respectfully requested to Notice That the Version at this Establishment ( ivhich has never been Interdicted therefore not now re-licensed ) is the

      ON LY ONE That was written by J . B . _BUCKSTONE , Esq ., And Licensed by the Lord Chamberlain . This statement is rendered necessary by the numerous unlicensed imitations th t have been acted under the same title , and in which scenes and situations have be presented to the Audience , that however harmless when followed b y the context in reading the Novel , were deemed unfit for delineation on the Stage . Tn the present adaptation all objectionable passages are carefully expunged , and whilst every care is taken to illustrate the striking incidents of the Drama , the most scrupulous may rest assured that in " adorning a tale" the great end of Dramatic Representation— " to point a moral "—has not been forgotten .

      What do you think of that for a theatre holding the rank of the Haymarket ? And to think of the old cant about " pointing a moral" as the great end of Dramatic Representation , being revived at such a juncture The only moral is— " Him as prigs wot isn't hisn , Ven lie ' s cotched will go to prisn . " [ I hope you appreciate the delicate art whieh prompted that quotation ; for quotation is an art , and a supreme one ; there was a "local _colourinc " to be preserved . Had I ventured upon a sentence from E pictetus or Tillotson , the moral would not have been clearer , and art would have been outraged . ] Jack is triumphant , beloved , feared , and ends with walking off to Tyburn . Morality is saved !

      But w hat nonsense it is to talk of morality as the great end of the Drama . The great end is amusement . And I pledge you my word Jack Sheppard attains the one end as little as the other . The acting is wretched . Mrs . Keeley , who has no greater admirer than Vivian , made some of the points in her own inimitable way ; but , either because she lias not recovered from her recent illness , or because the part is not _sxiited to her , aa a picture of the daring young housebreaker it was singularly spiritless . I was never one of tliose who could discover the

      slightest humour in Paul Bedford , and his Plueskin is , to me , one of the most melancholy exhibitions : a monument of dull vulgarity . His notion of making speeches humorous b y always repeating the sentences twice or thrice , is not conducive to general hilarity ; nor could I taste the flavour of fun in his pronouncing " Itory tories" " rowry towrics , " and _making " glories" glowries . And yet , perhaps I am absurd and hypercritical in making a remark on the subject : to those who think Jack Sheppard an endurable drama , Paul Bedford may be a humorous actor .

      Of the rest non ragioniam di lor , except to remark upon tho _strung effect produced by O . Smjth ' s degradation—I mean in a theatrical sense . Imagine O . Smith the terrible , () . Smith the Vampire , Eran ken stem , Ely ing Dutchman , Black . Ralph , thc compound of all that is Satanic and blueliery in melodrame , in the part of a timid henpecked husband . Hercules spinning af the feet of Omphale was a pretty and a loving repose , but Zamicl as Jerry Sneak shocks the theatrical sense . Vivian .

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      A _lMiiuac . —A clever man , M- ¦ , who bad run counter to the _general opinions , pronounced himself strongly against a . popular work . In all societies , he was answered , that tbe public bad conic to a very dill ' e- rent conclusion irom bis . " The public ! " be rejoined , " bow many fools must y ou collect , together to form a " how many _lools public r" _' -- Fritsci must , you collect , t _. ogetbei ' . v Magazine for Ncptenibei A Hon Mot ok I _' _liniinitna ; . tii r . ( _Jim-. at . —Tbe . iimiili- irity wbieb tbe great , Frederick of I Vussia permitted to those who lived on known . A certain g < tbis intimacy in flic the baffle oi" _Itosbac he would re tin ! to him , ¦ less , ( king , intimate _tci'innwith _naiili is well ¦ n joyed before lost , if , physic . neral who shall In highest , degree . li , said to his friend Venice , and there The thati " be practise " Ah , " replied tbe general , ' assassin . ' "•—Fraser s Mat , to tt jours assassin—ton joinx ' " . — Fraser s Magazine lor September . AND ColJNi'KV . —The Chevalier do Montbiircy a time in a provincial town ol" no note . On Town Jived lor a tunc in a provnicin his return to the capital , bisfriends wencondoling " You are him as to the wretched society , < V ( with llial flu 44 the good company ol mistaken , " cried he : quite little very when Eraser ' s , and like good company town is i vv Muga r ' _4 _'f d . jcunipany is most _-rj _^ -J _& Mfeinhcr . ' " \ " _^ _V'iSB \ U " O _10 NOK .- excellent . tut child might -M . such Turn me , seeing a _JM _* H _htfljihd urchin borne thatfbo wort a in U \ . . j . ,

      ho , maimed lor life by a kick , called the little truant towards him , and addressed him thus , " My line little fellow , never pass behind a horse without leaving between you and the animal abundant space lo escape unharmed . I promise you that in thus acting you will not travel an additional league in the whole course of your life , and r « so . — -eraser s member it is Turciuio who has told you Magazine for September . M . de Turenne , dining one day at , M . _,, . . . i c 1 ' . -r l- s , the host inquired ol bis guest il his so - —I rasa _CouitAilK . lie liUinoiguou courage was n < baffle . " Yes , 7 ver shaken " said Tun great nervous excitement ; but , there are in tbe army a great number of subaltern officers and of soldiers who experience none whatever . "—Fraser ' s Magazine for September . Tu . 10 I _' imok ok A SoNeJ . —( hibriclli asked for singing for two months 5000 ducats of the _Knijiress Catherine of Russia . " Why , " said the _Kmpress , " none of my hehl-miu'HbalH an replied l . aCabr ' u paid uffi lli , " youi Fraser'is marshals sing . " Eraser ' s _<««>!> and " ruii Kino d < tails of fhe _haffle of RuinillieH , Louis Cod Almighty bas then forgotten donefoxhim " m-M users told . it il M . bin at the commencement , of 11 " I sometimes _undergo IIIK r tbuf rate . " ' In that case , " majesty may make your field Magazine , for September . "—After h . bad learned fbo XI V . exclaimed , nil that I have _foi > Soptemboi Magazine

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1852, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11091852/page/22/