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    Sept. 22, 1860J The Saturday Analyst and...

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    Record Of The Week. Home And Coiioisrial...

    Ualph is charged with having made away with Rathbone , and Us sudden , death in a paroxism of excited feeling places him . beyond th reach of all earthly troubles . Mr , Creswick personates the doubl character of Ralph Ghxston and Clement Ttcdhbone , the duplicate here <> f the piece , with great spirit , versatility , and graphic power . Tin funny character of the piece is Jem Maggbt 3 , an idiot , who follow ; Halph with hardly the intelligence , though even more than the iidelitj of a dog , and who-is represented by Mr . G . Rice with considerable drollery and comic humour . The plot of the second piece , " The Veteran and his Son , " is in this wise : —Colonel Delormc wants his sor ' Victor to be married to his niece Blanche , and to settle down as ar agriculturist , but the girl , as a matter of course , wants anybody but whom she is wanted to have , and with the deplorable caprice too often exhibited , has her affections trapped by the gaudy livery of a young jackadandy officer . Master Victor , in order to " cut out" his rival , turns soldier himself , and having committed a more than average amount of legitimate murders , obtains a captaincy , and is rewarded with his cousin Ulanche in marriage , she having been left in the lurch by her quondam lover , who has taken up with an Arab sweetheart . The " grand spectacular " portion of the drama belongs lo the part that is laid in Algeria , where in addition to . the heroes and heroines already mentioned , who are continually engaged in enacting a truly awful account oi" heroism , we stumble over another "funny character " in the shape of a cockney blackguard , who had first seen the light within the sound ofJBow bells , but whom capricious fortune has transported to another quarter of the globe , and transformed into a G-rand Vizier—Bar-Bi-Kan—personated with a degree of mirth-compelling power by Mr . C . Rice , that the audience evidently consider quite irresistible , and in which they are not far out . The part of Victor is excellently surtained by Mr . Shepherd , who endows it with the highest amount of vigour and movement . The dresses , stage effects , scenery , properties , & c , are all first-rate , and both pieces are" produced in a style highly creditable to the management . The audience eonsisted of dense human masses wedged into every atom of space that pit , boxes , and gallery afforded , and wmi-h seemed quite explosive with delight and enthusiasm . . Maetieboxe Theatre . — Mr . Gave , the enterprising lessee of this convenient theatre , having set his house in order in the sense of thoroughly redecorating and renovating it in a style to which the term . " magnificent" is certainly not inapprojjiate , opened the season on Monday with a . new ' and telling drama in three acts . Mr . W . Travei-s , well-known as an actor and dramatist , has succeeded in working up' the perilous adventures , hair-breadth escapes , and final doom of " Cartouche , the French Housebreaker , " into a most effective play with , a most impressive moral , . shewing that the instinct of selfpreservation operating among men on a large scale almost infallibly causes it to come to pass that " crime receives its punishment , " at the end of even the most successful career of guilt . The leading parts are appropriately and efficiently iilled by Mr . W , Travers himself , who enacts the hero of the piece ( Carlouche ) , Mr . W . Shalders , Pierre Bobilet , a guard Bourgeois ; Mr . Harry Bolton , Oribiehon , the French Blueskin ; Miss E : Barnett , Zoulse , Cartouche ' s Iriile ; Miss H . Love , Eugene de G-randlicw ; and Miss Lizzy Marshall , Can-Can . There are no less than twenty dramatis personm , enumerated nomination ( besides the usual concomitants of soldiers , & c , & c ) , including Cartouche's gang , in which we find a number of desperate specimens of tho " dangerous classes , " under tho characteristic soubriquets of the Lion , the Wolf , the Tiger , the Bear , the I ^ errer , the Eel , and not the " talking , " but the " sucking" Fish , which we would advise the proprietory of tho deceased " talker" to try and catch without delay . Of the success of tho piece , from the crowded audiences it ' is drawing , there can be no question . Tho other piece given wns Mr . Edward Stirling's drama of the " ¦ ¦ "White Slavc , " * in which Mr , J . F . Young sustained the character of Bill Bullsei / u and JElinore was represented " by Miss IT . Love . The new scenery ( by Mr . W . Shaldurs ) , stago properties and effects , are all appropriate and excellent . T CASTmtif OruitA-IIousE .- —It is now a mouth sinco the opera in its highest and most completo form was inaugurated as a permanency at what , in its primitive state , and beforoits rehabilitation , had boen known as the Theatre Royal Pavilion , and wo nro thcroforo now in a position to judge of its status and prospects . To do this we should take an opera of avorugo merits and attractions ( not performed for the first time so as to draw in respect of tho circumstance of novelty ) , and with tho usual stock-oasl ; of tho company . In those elements wo have the fair medium data upon which-to form n judgment , and wo find them all concurring last Wednesday evening . Tho oporu was tho English version of " Sonnumbula , " it was not a first performance . The artistes who appoured have boon ploying over ainuo tho house openod , in this and other works . It was cast us follows : —Tho Sleep-walker , Madame Lancia ; tilnlno , Mr . Parkinson j Lisa , Miss Long ; Count Jlorlol /' o , Mr . Rosanthal ; Afessio , Mi . O . Summers . Such are tho premises ; the conclusion a house orowdod from pit to gullory s tho nmss of fuoos soon from the proscenium boxos being almost as thick and quito as delighted and enthusiastic as on tho oponing night ; , which shews tlwt tho multitudes who then assomliled wove not drawn together merely by the novelty of Mr . Douglass ' s enterprise . Tho opera wus excellently porforniod . Madumo Lunoia ' s vocal and histrionic powers soom ruther to bo freshened nnd invigorutod , by inooasjmt work , thun futiiniod or impuirod . Miss Long in this us in tho oilier pioocH in which wo hnvo soon her , doos her port well and shows good tnst nnd judgment . Mr . Pm-kinson's voice , reminding us in Umbra of the " English Rubini . " Sims Reevofl , wns haui'd to groat advantage his holding note in " Now w > Gently , " ( . 13 Hut ) , corning out ) jmro , rial / wnd sonorous , elicited a etpnn of applause , mid was followed by a unanimous nnd decisive encore . Miultuno LunH ' ri ' a aria at the ? Jluato , "Do not Mingle , " wuh wi cqnul success , and her acting throughout as well us hor Binding woro oliarneiiiriuod by tho highest qualilios of an operatic iirtist . Mr . lioaontlml was a gentlemanly Covnt , nnd made tho most of a part in which there is bo littfo to do j and Mr . Suminors wos a vory droll und nrnuaing Af / issio . In the private boxes , nmong other visitors of hoto , xio obeorvod Mdlle .

    ii Parepa , vrlxo seemed much interested in the performances , and accorded e them a-degree of attention- to which from the excellence that charace ¦ " terised them , they wore certainly entitled . , ¦ ' ' ? . Mr . Q . W . MAinrx ' s Piuze Gjlees and National Pabt Son & s . — a . Mr . Cr . ¦ "W . Martin has established a high reputation as a Composer of , 3 and as Laving obtained prizes for , glees , madrigals , and part songs , r which unquestionably rank among the most perfect specimens of the ? kind ever written . He is also well-known for his skill and aptitude in 5 organising choirs on a scale of gigantic magnitude . Indeed , he is i now vigorously prosecuting the formation , of a national choir which for l its collossal proportions will not have an equal in the world . On Safcur-; day last a performance of Mr . Martin ' s compositions and arrangements i took place at the Crystal Palace , when the choir numbered 2 , 000 voices , ; male and female . The original compositions given were " The Cuckoo , " " The Army and Navy , " " The Hemlock Tree" ( words by Longfellow ) , i " Defence not Defiance , " " The Evening Star , " "All hail ! Thou lovely Queen of Night , " " Is she not beautiful , " " Our Saxon fathers , " " The Bille ,. " " The Volunteer's choral March . " The adaptations . consisted of'Auld Lang Syne , " "The last Eose of Summer , " " Scots wha ha , " "liule Britannia , " and the " National Anthem , " with which the performances terminated . There was an immense audience , who applauded heartily throughout , and joined in chorus with the last two pieces . The re-demanded pieces were numeroas , but not all those encored were repeated , for the performance was continued without the usual interval for rest , and towards the latter half the choir and their indefatigable leader may be supposed to have been somewhat tired . Mr . Martin received an " ovation , " both on taking his place and on retiring , when the choir ' cheered him heartily , waving hats and handkerchiefs . The elfectof the massive volumes of sound issuing from 2 , 000 well exercised throats at once was grand and overpowering . Some of the melodies , the " Hemlock Tree , " and "The Evening Star " in particular , . are beautiful in the extreme . It will be interesting to Volunteers and the public generally , to know that Mr . G-. W . Martin is now organising a choir of several hundred Volunteers , for the purpose of introducing the practice of singing choral inarches when on the march . A great meeting of Volunteers on the subject will shortly be held in either the Floral or Exeter . Hall , and subsequently at the Crystal Palace . No Volunteers will be admitted on these occasions unless in uniform ; , and Volunteers interested in this movement , can send their names to Mr . Martin , at liis publishers , Cramer and Co ., or Addison and Co ., Regent-street . , . The . Xevv Pictuee of the " Presentation isr the Temple . "A new painting , by Mr . Robert Dowling , of the " Presentation in the Temple " is now on view , at Messrs . H . J . Betjemann & Sons , 28 , Oxford-street . Mr . Dowling , we undex-stand , is but young as a man , and still younger as an artist , at least in years ; but to judge from the present work his talents have decidedly attained a very considerable , if a very precocious , maturity . Having passed the greater part of his life in Australia , in pursuits altogether unconnected with the vocation of wliich ho bids fair to become a distinguished master , he returned to : England , and it is only , as we understand , within the last three , years that he has taken to his present profession . Such proficiency as the present works exhibits , aclueved in so short a period , gives token of no ordinary genius , while it evinces indefatigable powers of study and application . The drawing and the colouring are alike excellent . The grouping is dexterously and effectively managed , the contrasts of tho faces , the figures , the attitudes are admirable , and the ensemble of the work eonsidered in its totality , as well as the details in their mil lute particulars , will command no stinted measure of praise . Simeon with the infant JTcsus resting on his left arm , while the right haud and fapo are ruised towards heaven , as in the act of prayer , and tho Virgin with clasped hands , and an expression of mingled reverence , joy , and sadness depicted in hor countenance , may bo supposed listening to the ominous words " Yea , and a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also ! " The effects producable by a judicious management of light and sho . de aro seen in tho white beard and under robe of Simepn and tho child ' s dross . Josoph , with the birds for sacrifice , forms a prominent figuro in the group , as does also Anna the prophetess ; the positions and attitudes of these four figures being nicely adjusted and bulanood . The national characteristics of physiognomy aro well and faithfully preserved , as seen in tho Nubian and the Greek towards tho loft . Self righteousness and self-assertion , not to say solf'ooneoit , with a materialistic boldness and a dash of sensuality , and a keen penotruting scepticism , are well blended and contrasted in the Pharisee and Saduuooo , who aro among tho lookors on , and fill up tho spaoo but ween tho Virgin and tho Prophet ; and disappointed selfcatooiu , verging upon a spiteful envy , set oJi' by tho uncognato sentimont of eager curiosity , uro poiii'troyed in tho countenances of the two women on tho right , Wo boliovo Mr . Dowling is engaged on another work , of which considerable expectations may bo formed , for from what ho has ulrcudy accomplished , there is reason to infer that he will become a really great painter .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 22, 1860, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22091860/page/15/