POSTSCRIPT. ON MONDAY, Oor. 10. THE following are extracts from the French papers of Friday, ཧཱ peace and "Madrid, Sept. 26. "The Minister of Grace and Justice has just issued two tranquillity of the whole kingdom. The first, addressed to circular notes, which cannot fail to consolidate the the Archbishops and Bishops, says-the heart of his Majesty has been affected on learning that in some churches the pulpit has been abused, to maintain hatred and private rehenceforth only words of peace be heard in the temple of venge. His Majesty calls on the prelates to take care that God; and as protector of the Catholic religion, his Majesty threatens with severe punishment every ecclesiastic who shall be convicted in future, of having abused the sacred character of the Ministry, to keep up hatred and discord. The second, addressed to the supreme judicial authorities in the province, orders them to stop all proceedings for political transgressions, and to set the accused at liberty, whose number is already extremely reduced. many "The consultative junta of the Government was installed yesterday. As the number of the members is not yet comthe junta could not divide itself into sections, but the memplete, and of those already named are in the provinces, bers who are at Madrid will nevertheless continue to meet and to forward the preliminary proceedings. The attention of the public is now turned to the amnesty, which it is said will be published the 13th of October instead of the 1st, which tions but of some persons who will be designated by their was proposed. It is said this amnesty will have no excep then, if the feelings generated under such a state of things, for disseminating the work at a cheap rate, that these misand which, from prejudice and habit, had become a second guided men may be brought under the laws, from being disanature, had all at once been eradicated, or that the passing of bused of their prejudices.Scotsman. a law, which seemed to emancipate them from all restraint, should not be followed temporarily by some unpleasant consequences consequences, however, which should be ascribed, not to the passing of the new law, but to the embittered feelings generated under the old. The proper cure is patience, firmness, enlightenment. It is impossible that the bulk of our population can ever be combined for the purpose of raising wages, reducing the hours of labour, or putting down machinery. It is impossible that any considerable number of individuals can long be of opinion that such objects are attainable by combination. They must speedily come to perceive that wages must depend on the proportion which the absolute number of hands that can work, bears to the demand for labour; that the former depends on their own habits, their foresight, the standard of living which they have adopted for themselves; the latter on the amount of capital in a country. Without capital there can be no employment, beyond that of collecting, or battling, in savage wildness, for the spontaneous products of the soil. Without capital there can be no demand for labour-no wages; and all combinations-while they impoverish the artisans have a tendency to destroy capital, and, if persevered in to any great extent, must and will drive it out of the country. The artisans must speedily perceive that, in forming their combinations, they are literally cutting their own throats. What has attracted so much capital to his country, and enabled us to accumulate so much for ourselves, but the security of property-the freedom of industry? But render property insecure, and trade uncertain, by the forcible interference of operatives with industry and the wages of industry, and capital, to which we owe every thing, will speedily take wings, and leave us in poverty, and without employment. Absorb all profit in wages, and no capital will thenceforth be employed. Leave wages free, and capitalists will give as high wages as they can, that is, they will be led by the natural and necessary effects of competition, to give all the wages which can be given, without reducing profits in this country below what they are in others, when it would immediately be their interest to transfer their capital to France, the Netherlands, or America. Even supposing a lucrative branch of manufacture to be discovered and commenced for the first time, the principle of gaining by extension of the manufacture on the part of the discoverer, and of a desire to share in the profits on the part of competitors, would speedily raise wages until profits reached their natural levelbeyond which they cannot be permanently carried-and any attempt, on the part of workmen, to carry them beyond this level, must end in the destruction or transfer of capital, and, as It is with great pain we have to record the failure of two a necessary consequence, in the reduction of wages, and a respectable banking establishments in our neighbourhood. The deterioration of condition. The labouring classes cannot be Kingsbridge bank (Messrs Square, Prideaux, and Co.) stopcheated out of their due wages. They are secured in these ped payment yesterday se'nnight, and the alarm occasioned by the nature of things. And they can only raise wages by by this circumstance spread with rapidity through the country. providence of conduct by taking care that capital shall ac- An immediate and unexampled run took place on every bank cumulate in a higher ratio than they increase in numbers. without distinction in this town, at Devonport, and in fact This is the only method by which—in the added skill, and throughout the south of Devon. This spirit was further exaggregate demand for labour-they can diminish their work-cited on Saturday, when it was known that the firm of Messrs ing hours, and improve their condition. The blindness which leads them to combine must soon disappear, and with it the errors which lead to crime. We are for dealing with them leniently for allowing the laws to continue as they are, and for interfering in no case until crime has actually been committed, Let the law then be administered firmly, but, not even then, vindictively; and if precautionary measures are to be taken, let this be done, not in a spirit of irritation and defiance, but of mildness and humanity. If the government do not suffer itself to be hurried away, by weak, designing, or blood-thirsty alarmists, all will soon be well; and instead of employing spies or agitators-police and soldiery-let them pay an Economist for writing a popular treatise, and hawkers names." "Corunna, Sept. 21. "The expedition for the Havannah has not yet sailed from Ferrol. The General has fixed the 1st of October for its departure, but it is probable there will be a new delay. A great part of the young men who were pressed have been set at liberty." 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Clarendon, with all his superiority to the rest of the Court, argues this question after all like a lawyer. The No. XXVII. CLARENDON'S HISTORY OF THE REBELLION. King is his client, the people the defendants, and the most liberal PARLIAMENT HOURs. The old parliament hours were from eight concession he makes is, that both have equal rights. But by his own o'clock in the morning till twelve at noon. Afterwards, during the account, the people were in the right in this great quarrel. disputes of the House with Charles, Clarendon mentions a debate that Their representatives, no doubt, sometimes committed great faults; lasted till after nine o'clock at night, which, he says, was the latest and, what was worse, mean ones. They had not escaped the ever known, except that upon the Remonstrance. In his life, an contagion of court example, and the cried-up craft of King James. But account is given of a bill, in which the Duke of Buckingham took so the great question had now come up; of the many against the few. much interest, that, "contrary to his custom of coming into the It was the few who began it; they would have trampled the many House, indeed of not rising till eleven of the clock, and seldom stay- into the dust for ever; and the many had a right to bring them ing above a quarter of an hour, except upon some affairs which he to their proper senses and situations. The King up to this period has concerned himself in, he was now always present with the first in a always averred, and still avers that he never intended to make war on morning, and stayed till the last at night, for the debate often held the Parliament. He solemnly protested it. And yet Clarendon now from the morning till four o'clock in the afternoon, and sometimes till says, as an excuse to those who reproached the King with not making candles were brought in." It was thought late to meet at ten. "It is war, that the fact was, he had no means of making it, not a barrel of hard to tell," says Hume, in a note on the reign of Elizabeth, "why, powder, nor musket, nor money; but that he expected all these necesall over the world, as the age becomes more luxurious, the hours be-saries with impatience from the Queen. (See Book 5, in various places come later. Is it the crowd of amusements that push on the hours towards the end.) The Parliament had notice of all these secret wishes gradually? or are the people of fashion better pleased with the and manoeuvres; and yet both Clarendon and his Master are consecrecy and silence of nocturnal hours, when the industrious vulgar stantly reproaching them for not putting faith in their pretences ! are all gone to rest? In rude ages, men have few amusements or occu- GORING'S INFINITE HYPOCRISY, WHICH CLARENDON SEEMS TO pations but what daylight affords them." These are undoubtedly ADMIRE.-" Colonel Goring came, upon the summons, with that unamong the causes; but the progress of commerce should be added. dauntedness, that all clouds of distrust immediately vanished, insomuch In proportion as traders and merchants become of importance, their as no man presumed to whisper the least jealousy of him; which he hours must be considered; and they like to have as many of these as observing, came to the House of Commons, of which he was a mempossible at a time. The rakes of Charles the Second's time, and the ber; and, having sat a day or two patiently, as if he expected some rich merchants of the ensuing reigns, became alike the encouragers of charge, in the end he stood up, with a countenance full of modesty, late hours; and fashion compelled what such opposite causes had and yet not without a mixture of anger (as he could help himself begun. Parliaments now are in the habit of sitting up all night, and with all the insinuations of doubt, or fear, or shame, or simplicity in much worse they are for it. Their heads are muddled with wine; his face, that might gain belief, to a greater degree than I ever saw another line of separation is drawn between them and the people; any man; and could seem the most confounded when he was best and the spirit of dissipation, of fashion, and of money-getting, alike prepared, and the most out of countenance when he was best resolved, conspire to render them sorry guardians of public liberty. The true and to want words and the habit of speaking, when they flowed from spirit of a House of Commons is now to be found in a few members no man with greater power) and told them, " that he had been sent inside, and in those who canvass their actions out of doors. The for by them, upon some information given against him, and that, though great diffusion of knowledge and inquiry has rendered the represented he believed the charge being so ridiculous, they might have received, by superior to their representatives. Consider even the bodily vigour, their own particular inquiry, satisfaction; yet the discourses that had been the physical manliness of the old Parliament men who procured us used, and his being sent for in that manner, had begot some prejudice our liberties, and then see what a poor set of shattered men of the to him in his reputation; which, if he could not preserve, he should world we have now for their successors, body as well as mind. And be less able to do them service; and therefore desired that he might these two things are very apt to go together in men of public have leave (though very unskilful, and unfit to speak in so wise and action, whether for good or evil. A solitary student, who does his judicious an assembly) to present to them the state and condition of best, may have something to say in behalf of his infirmities; but how that place under his command, and then he doubted not but to give are a parcel of drinking, gambling, nervous, and gouty men, to wage them full satisfaction in those particulars, which possibly had made war with corruption at two o'clock in the morning? some impression on them to his disadvantage; that he was far from taking it ill from those, who had given any information against him ; for what he had done, and must do, might give some umbrage to well-affected persons, who knew not the grounds and reasons that induced him so to do; but that if any such person would, at any time, resort to him, he would clearly inform them of whatever motives he had; and would be glad of their advice and assistance for the better doing thereof." Then he took notice of every particular that had been publicly said against him, or privately whispered, and gave such plausible answers to the whole, intermingling sharp taunts, and scorns, to what had been said of him, with pretty application of himself and flattery to the men that spake it, concluding," that they well knew in what esteem he stood with others; so that if, by his ill carriage, he should forfeit the good opinion of that House, upon which he only depended, and to whose service he entirely devoted himself, he were madder than his friends took him to be, and must be as unpitied in any misery that could befall him, as his enemy would be glad to see." With which, as innocently and unaffectedly uttered as can be imagined, he got so general an applause with the whole House, that not without some little apology for troubling him, they desired him again to repair to his government, and to finish those works, which were necessary for the safety of the place; and gratified him with consenting to all the propositions he made in behalf of his garrison, and paid him a good sum of money' for their arrears; with which, and being privately assured (which was indeed resolved on) that he should be Lieutenant-General when it should be formed, he departed again to Portsmouth; in the mean time assuring his Majesty, by those who were trusted between them, "that he would be speedily in a posture to make his declaration for his service, as he should be required;" which he was forced to do. NOTIONS OF REGAL PROPERTY.-The King asks, (Book 5) "What title any subject of his kingdom had to his house and land, that he had not to his town of Hull?" Compare this with the story of the house and grounds which he forced a man to part with, and then read the following passage from our author's own pen : "A man shall not unprofitably spend his contemplation, that, upon this occasion, considers the method of God's justice (à method terribly remarkable in many passages and upon many persons, which we shall be compelled to remember in this discourse) that the same principles, and the same application of those principles, should be used to wresting all sovereign power from the crown, which the crown had a little before made use of for extending its authority and power beyond its bounds, to the prejudice of the just rights of the subject. A supposed necessity was then thought ground enough to create a power, and a bare averment of that necessity, to beget a practice, to impose what they thought convenient upon the subject, by writs of shipmoney never before known: and a supposed necessity now, and a bare averment of that necessity, is as confidently and more fatally concluded a good ground to exclude the crown from the use of any power, by an ordihance never before heard of, and the same maxim of salus populi uprema lex, which had been used to the infringing the liberty of the one, made use of for destroying the rights of the other." That it was ridiculous in one encroaching individual, or his court, to ise the maxim of salus populi for his own advantage, in contradistincion to theirs, is evident; but it is not so evident that it was absurd or vicious in the people themselves to use the same maxim against the ncroachments of the individual: and by Clarendon's acknowledgment n many places, however he may contradict it in others, the people t large were really as much at issue with the King as their sooner than he was provided for, though not sooner than he had reason to expect. P. 43. Being however the most active and trust-worthy among the captains of the city guard, he was the person to whom the magistrate entrusted the command of the soldiers." P. 48. "A white handkerchief was thrust into the muzzle of the piece, and returned unsoiled or blackened.” of many persons, and those of respectability, who deposed positively to the Ibid." The jury had the difficult duty of balancing the positive evidence prisoner's commanding his soldiers to fire." P.151." And which certainly indicated no partiality for the party against whom they were launched." P. 155. "Her Grecian-shaped head was profusely rich in waving ringlets of brown hair, which, confined by a blue snood of silk, and shading a laughing Hebe countenance, seemed the picture of health, P. 156. "Yet there were points in Effie's character, which gate ris not only to strange doubt and anxiety on the part of Douce David Deans, whose ideas were rigid, as may easily be supposed, upon the subject d youthful amusements, but even of serious apprehension to her more indulgent sister." P. 185. The effect of the interview upon Butler's nerves, shaken u they were at the time by the horrors of the preceding night, were greater than his understanding warranted or his pride cared to submit to." VOL. II. p. 30. “ Which were only expressed when they became to intense for suppression or concealment." Goring afterwards surrendered Portsmouth back again to the Parliament, but was still trusted by any body whom he chose to deceive, and went lying and cheating on all sides of him. It is impossible, in spite of one's indignation, not to admire the talents which he so pervered; but it is desirable in a writer who affects integrity like Clarendon, that the indignation should be more prominent than he P. 81. "He passed therefore through the narrow and partly covered has chosen to take it. Besides, a great deal of our admiration of passage leading from the north-west end of the Parliament square." such men is diminished, if we reflect, that they very likely succeed in P. 83. Having wasted more time in a second fruitless attempt to deceiving so many others, not because they are more clever than many seek out his legal friend and adviser, he thought it time to leave the city." of them, but because they possess one accomplishment the less,- P. 87. “It was afterwards remarked, as a singular instance of prenamely, a sense of moral beauty. I suspect (which is extremely pro-dence and precaution, singularly combined with audacity," &c. P. 133. " bable) that Goring very specially deceived Clarendon himself; who Feelings, through which the female sex (the more deserving then became willing to think as highly as possible of a man that had part of them at least) is more easily attached." P. 136. “ And was wont to end his daily saunter by calling at the over-reached him; for it is difficult not to see that his tendency, after cottage of Wood-end." all, is to value intellect and political dexterity above every other consideration. He confounded too often the instrument with its work. In Book 8. is a capital summary of the character of Goring. Clarendon excels in portraits. He has here painted two sovereign debauchees to the life. PORTRAITS OF TWO DEBAUCHE ES-GORING AND WILMOT.pleasure, and contentment." "Cloring, who was now General of the Horse, was no more gracious to Prince Rupert, than Wilmot had been; had all the others' faults, and wanted his regularity, and preserving his respect with the officers. Wilmot loved debauchery, but shut it out from his business; never neglected that, and rarely miscarried in it. Goring had a much better understanding, and a sharper wit (except in the very exercise of debauchery, and then the other was inspired) a much keener courage and presentness of mind in danger. Wilmot discerned it farther off, and because he could not behave himself so well in it, commonly prevented, or warily declined it; and never drank when he was within distance of an enemy: Goring was not able to resist the temptation when he was in the middle of them, nor would decline it to obtain a victory: as in one of those fits, he had suffered the horse to escape out of Cornwall; and the most signal misfortunes in his life in war, had their rise from that uncontrolable license. Neither of them valued their promises, professions, or friendships, according to any rules of honour or integrity; but Wilmot violated them the less willingly, and never but for some great benefit or convenience to himself. Goring without scruple, out of humour, or for wit's sake; and loved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and then expose him to public mirth for having been cozened: therefore he had always fewer friends than the other, but more company; for no man had wit that pleased the company better. The ambition of both was unlimited, and so equally incapable of being contented; and both unrestrained by any respect to good nature or justice, from pursuing the satisfaction thereof: yet Wilmot had more scruples from religion to startle him, and would not have attained his end by any gross or foul act of wickedness. Goring could have passed through pleasantly, and would without hesitation have broken any trust, or done any act of treachery to have satisfied an ordinary passion or appetite; and in truth, wanted nothing but industry (for he had wit, and courage, and understanding, and ambition, uncontrolled by any fear of God or man) to have been as eminent and successful in the highest attempt of wickedness, as any man of the age he lived in or before. Of all his qualifications, dissimulation was his master-piece, in which he so much excelled, that men were not ordinarily ashamed or out of countenance with being deceived but twice by him." There is a Bacchanalian "Health to Goring" in the Poems of Robert Herrick. If any charitable person wishes to find an excuse for Lord Rochester, let him know, if he does not know it already, that Wilmot was his father. LITERARY NOTICE. BAD ENGLISH IN THE SCOTCH NOVELS. "We desire our readers to take notice that there is not a single sentence of common English."-The JOHN BULL. THE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. VOL. I. p. 27. "And therefore fit to accommodate a great number of spectators, such as are usually assembled by this melancholy spectacle." P. 38. "The youth however had a wild and irreclaimable propensity to dissipation." P. 39. "A body of about one hundred and twenty soldiers, divided into three companies, and regularly armed, clothed, and embodied." P. 40. Were neither by birth, education, or former habits, trained to endure the insults of the mob," &c. P. 41. "The narrative containing these frail memorials of the old town guard of Edinburgh, may perhaps only come to light when all memory of the institution has faded away," &c. | P. 32. “The memory of whose crimes are preserved in the variou edicts," &c. P. 39. "She paused and looked to the moon, now rising broad on the north-west." P. 84. The late object of her terror, who became at that moment, though she could not well assign a reasonable cause, rather the cause of her interest." P. 87. "It was fortunate for Jeanie, in an emergency like the present. that she possessed presence of mind and courage, so soon as the first hy of surprise enabled her to rally her recollection." P. 144. " At length these moments of constraint were removed.” P. 145. "He watched his daughter with a faultering and indecisi look, until she looked back upon him with a look of unutterable anguish. P. 155. "Her cheek, at first so deadly pale, began gradually to be overspread with a faint blush, which increased so fast, that when agony of shame she strove to conceal her face, her temples, her brow over, became of the deepest crimson." her neck, and all that her slender fingers and small palms could u VOL. III. p. 7. " And to bear no very ardent or overbearing affectis even to her." flourish, that the grove seemed enamelled with their crimson and whits P. 101. "But with fruit-trees, so many of which were at this time it blossoms." P. 102. “She made the less opposition, that Madge had intimated that this," &c. Ibid." And bring her dress, soiled and disordered as it was, into suc order as the place and circumstances admitted." P. 116. "But these incongruities of architecture were so graduated and happily mingled, that the eye, far from being displeased with the combinations of various styles, saw nothing but what was interesting in the varied and intricate pile which they displayed. Fruit-trees displayed the southern wall, outer stair-cases, various places of entrance, a ca nation of roofs and chimnies of different ages, united to render the fre not indeed beautiful or grand, but intricate, perplexed, or to use Price's appropriate phrase, picturesque." P. 134. She was not entitled to withhold from him, whether on be sister's account or her own, the fatal account of the consequences of the crime which he had committed." P. 175. "Besides, the Duke of Argyll's independent and somewh haughty mode of expressing himself in Parliament and acting in pat were ill calculated to attract royal favour." VOL. IV. p. 3. "With a well-stocked garden in front, bounded by the small river, which was partly visible from the windows, partly cealed by the bushes, trees, and bounding hedge.” P. 128. “The beautiful scene of headlands and capes and bays around them, with the broad blue chains of mountains, were dimly visible in the moonlight." P. 169. “Donacha dhu-na-Dunaigh kept his distance for some time come; and though his distant exploits were frequently spoken of,” đʊ P. 205. "Whoever is distinguished by rank or office, in or near capital, usually attends the morning levees of the Lord Commiss and walk with him in procession, &c. P. 211. "To Scotland therefore came Sir George Staunton, kavg parted with his lady at Glasgow," &c." THEATRICAL EXAMINER. As we reserved ourselves for an inspection of the merits of Mr BOOTH in Richard III, we insert the following communication from an intelligent correspondent; with whose sentiments (setting aside the specific performance described, which we did not see) we generally agree. KEAN has undoubtedly succumbed to personal and party enmity, fighting under the masked battery of morality. Recklessly supplying some of the most mean and merciless of mankind with materials which operate on the honest feelings of the great number, who are much more versed in appearances than in principles, he has been driven from the British stage by a species of jargon, insidiously and unfairly connecting conduct with talents; and implying a deficiency of the one from the imprudence of the other. Should his Grace of WELLINGTON once more take the field, it would be quite as reasonable to impeach his soldierly abilities, in compliment to the "grand moral lessons" contained in the disclosures of Miss Harriette WILSON. With respect to the observations of our correspondent, on the scenic and mechanical department of this theatre, we can only observe, that the faults complained of occur too frequently to be concealed, and obviously arising (as he justly adds) from any thing but niggardliness; to mention it, in addition to being a public duty, is rather friendly than otherwise: DRURY LANE. On Saturday the 8th, Mr BOOTH made his second debut on the London boards, after a professional residence of some years in America, whither he retired from a stormy opposition that was raised against him on account of his vaccillating conduct respecting an engagement, by which, owing to some manoeuvring (not to say juggling), on the part of one or other house, both claimed him as their servant. Mr BOOTH at that time was very young; and I always thought that, for want perhaps of a mature decision on his own part, he fell a sacrifice to the carte-and-tierce policy of the rival houses. Mr BOOTH acted perfectly right in leaving the country, but perhaps he has been equally judicious in stepping into Mr KEAN's shoes-who, by the way, should have kept his ground, and shown his contempt for those people who in the same breath hooted him and applauded Miss FOOTE. Mr KEAN triumphed over one vulgar bullying antagonist, and would in time have shut the mouth of the other.-To pass on to the subject of the present article: Mr BOOTH selected the part of Brutus in Mr HOWARD PAYNE'S Tragedy of that name; but before an opinion can be safely pronounced as to his chance of permanent success, he must be seen in some characters of greater merit and interest. In the present instance, nearly the whole specimen is satisfactory; and parts of the performance were highly gratifying. Some of the daily critics have complained of his "ranting" in the scene where he curses Tarquinius. Under such an excitement he should rant; and if, in addition, he could have torn the ground from under the ravisher, he would not have outraged the dictates of nature. Any delivery short of a "whirlwind of passion" would, in such a cause, have been tameness. "The last scene of all" was the touchstone of the character; and some portions of that scene were very powerfully given. It is useless attempting to detract from his merit, by calling him a disciple in the school of KEAN: he is so; but he is not his mimic. He is in short an able man: and doubtless, if permanently engaged, would prove an acquisition to the theatre. There seems to be a lamentable want of energy in the management at this house. The mob were as orderly as a congregation of famished methodists. The gates of Rome were pushed down by Mr ELLISTON'S livery servant, and not a citizen presented himself to convey a hint that the dilapidation was effected by an infuriate mob; a few soldiers, it is true, walked in, after a decent pause, in" orderly time;" while a little red fire flickered in one corner of the stage, as if blushing to be mistaken for a conflagration. A squib, vice a thunderbolt, which was ordained to knock old Tarquin off his perch, fizzed its "ineffectual fire," and the afore-mentioned livery servant was despatched to elbow the stony old Roman off his horse. I have no desire to insinuate an invidious comparison, but to rouse the managers by thrusting a good example before them, in observing the superior management of these matters at Covent Garden. Even the enemies of the Drury Lane establishment (if they have any, and I cannot see why they should) will not charge them with niggardliness, for they are frequently profuse; but their "operatives" in the scenic department sadly want either skill, promptitude, or efficient superintendence: and the omission should be looked to. We will not close this article without adding our decided approbation of Mr BOOTH's modesty, good sense, and transatlantic sturdiness, " in deelining the honour" of being called out, to come and put his hand to his heart, and bow six and thirty times because he had done his best, and had played well. We attended the second appearance of Mr BOOTH, on Thursday evening, in the arduous representation of Richard III. Brought into close comparison with an actor who has so decidedly made that character his own, the object as well as the ambition of the attempt is reminds us of the Icarian flight spoken of in the play itself. In comobvious; and regarding it in this point of view alone, it forcibly mon candour, however, it ought not to be thus exclusively considered. KEAN having been driven from the stage by Morality-Oh SHERIDAN, of what a large class is thy Joseph Surface the representative !— it is reasonable that his place be filled by as much kindred talent as abilities to become a candidate on the occasion. His performance of can be procured; and Mr BOOTH undoubtedly possesses sufficient this evening was generally respectable, occasionally very happy, and sometimes, we think, in the approach after novelty, misconceptive. He evidently laid by in the first three acts, with a view to be more adequate to the two remaining ones; and in consequence a something of tameness was for some time apparent, which strangely contrasted with the accusation of rant on the preceding Saturday. His scene with Lady Anne was good, but we must not think of KEAN at the time; and every now and then some very happy hits were made; but the tent and combat scene Mr BоoтH displayed considerable energy, on the whole the performance wanted a stronger general stamen. In disfigured only now and then by those rocks in the way of candidate tragedians, entitled "new readings." This able actor, for certainly he may be called so, is however very unfortunate in his position with regard to KEAN: if he imitate him he is an imitator, if not, then he is much of it is owing to his embracing the theoretic style of the expanot KEAN. It appears to us, in regard to this alleged imitation, that triated actor, rather than to an imitation of his specific performance, and that the involuntary resemblance is still more aided by a person and voice exhibiting similar peculiarities and deficiencies, in a more eminent degree. We might illustrate our observation by comparing several passages in Richard in which they resemble, and others in which they differ; but as it appears that Mr BOOTH is not permanently engaged at this house, it is scarcely necessary. On the present occasion he met once or twice with a slight mark of disapprobation, but on the other hand he was much more warmly applauded. Having admitted a little censure on some scenic defects in a previous performance, it is but justice to observe that nothing could be better managed than this department on the present occasion, or be more beautiful and appropriate than the scenery assigned to Richard III at Drury Lane. Q. COVENT GARden. We understand that in addition to the very fine Organ, erected under the stage of this house, the managers have placed upon the establishment, in the sole capacity of organist, a professional gentleman who, from all that we have heard of him, is likely both to advance their interests and do credit to their discernment. Mr WARDE has appeared this week in the characters of Rob Roy, and of Old Foster in A Woman Never Vert, and we suppose it is intended to try him in all the characters usually assigned to YOUNG and MACREADY. We have also to attend to a new and, as we are told, very promising Mary Cop. ADELPHI. This popular little theatre opened on Monday last, under the manage nent of Messrs. TERRY and YATES, who appear before the public in the double character of Proprietors and Managers. The junction of two able actors in a concern of this description naturally excited much public attention, and the house was crowded at an early hour, a great number being unable to obtain admission before the rising of the curtain. The promised novelties were, an introduc tory piece, entitled, Our opening Day, and a minor comedy from the pen, we believe, of Mr MONCRIEFF. In the former, the new managers and most of the actors came forward in their own characters, as having just got immerged in stage business, and under the full influence of the hopes and fears so natural to the situation. Much cannot be expected from introductory whimsicalities of this class; but there are a few favourable hits on the present occasion which told well. JOHN REEVE, for instance, was pleasant enough as Peter Corcoran, the poet of the "fancy;" and contrived to make us know the original of the sketch with considerable humour. What better pleased ourselves, however, was the character of Underrate, a retainer of the newspapers, who does the stage the honour of attending to its movements, for the instruction and entertainment of the town. This person, after telling Mr TERRY that he is sure to be ruined, observes by the way that he will do what he can with the press, and of course, as a quid pro quo, a private box will doubtless be at the service of Mrs. U. and family. We declare, in plain and downright sincerity, that we regard this little stroke of satire as altogether fair and well-directed, having reason to know that several low-minded persons of this description, with the conduct and principles of so many footpads, have held up their powers of annoyance, like cocked pistols, to theatrical proprietors, with a view of extorting the most unreasonable conces |