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IT IS THE DAY, THE HOLY DAY,-A CHRISTMAS CAROL.

THE WORDS BY RICHARD RYAN,-THE MUSIC BY WILLIAM TEBBETT.

The following new Christmas Carol, with Music, is taken from that interesting and useful work, Time's Telescope for 1825. We conceive that by appropriating this article in the Kaleidoscope, we shall promote, rather than injure, the work itself, which we can recommend from an investigation of the nature of its contents.-Edit. Kal.

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Poetry.

STANZAS.

There is no such thing as forgetting possible to the mind." Rev. C. R. Maturin.

Forget! oh, when, or how, forget?

It may not, cannot be;

The brightest star of hope may set,

But when died memory?

Forget! oh, love has joys, and tears,
And hours of dark regret,

And sorrow but the more endears,
But when may love forget?
Forget! oh, never, never yet

Did love the meaning know

Of that strange word, wherein are met
All pangs and shades of woe!
Forget! the heart may withered be,
Condemned for age to mourn;
And show, like wreck on stormy sea,
Dismantled and forlorn.

But ne'er, oh, ne'er did love forget
The gone-by days and years;
And memory's deepest seal is set

On hours bedimmed with tears.

Forget! the stricken heart may pine,

Lament, forswear, disdain;

But the past can memory ne'er resign,

Hopeless the toil, and vain.

Liverpool.

LAMENT OF THE PEASANT'S DAUGHTER.

We were a simple family,

That only lov'd our Saviour's name;

That only sought his light to see,
Till thou, the cruel spoiler, came.
To share my mother's daily care,
And, when our task was o'er,
To kneel me down at evening prayer,
My grateful thanks to pour:
To tend my father's peaceful sheep,
With William, Kate, and Sue;
To smooth his couch of nightly sleep,
Was all I learned to do.

With thoughtless maids, or idle swains,
I ne'er was found to roam;
Or loiter through the flow'ry plains,
Regardless of my home.

But since the hour there entered in
Both guilt and misery,

More dreary far that home has been,
Than desert sands to me.

My father rests nor day nor night;
My mother she is dead:

My brother shuns his sister's sight,
Since all her pride has fled.

From the first hour my shame was known,

My mother rarely smil'd;

My father sorely wept alone,
But ne'er reproach'd his child.

Worn by a grief beyond all cure,

My mother pin'd away;

Think! what thy victim must endure,
To watch her day by day.

Yet day by day I labour'd on,
As I had done before;

And when my weary work was done,
My grief seemed more and more.

G.

My mother bade us all prepare,

For death was hastening fast; And one by one she called us there,

But me she called the last.

First William came, with looks of woe,

Low bent his curly head;
And fast the pearly tears did flow,
Upon his mother's bed.

The children in my arms I bore,
Beside where she did lay;

And oft she kiss'd them o'er and o'er,
And oft she tried to pray:

And oft she press'd their little hands,
And smooth'd their shining hair;
And bid them mind her last commands,
And join her dying prayer.

The shades of death were gathering fast,
And still I watch'd to see

If aught of love, might come at last,
Though but a look for me.

But no; her spirit pass'd away
To happier realms on high;
Too blest, one moment more to stay,
For one so lost as I.

Behold me now! a broken reed!
Low bending at thy feet;
Yet think not I for mercy plead,

My punishment is meet.

I ask thee not to mourn with me,
My dream of love is o'er;

That peace which I resign'd for thee,
Thou never canst restore.

Thou canst not chain the wand'ring mind,
Which thou hast taught to roam,
Without a resting place to find,

Or e'er a second home.

For idle thoughts throng in my brain,
Uncall'd, unwelcome too;

And visions that return again,
In spite of all I do.

If, when my weary father calls,
I spread his humble fare,
Perchance I think of stately halls,
And knights, and ladies fair.
When at the twilight close of day,
The children on my knee;
If I would teach them how to pray,
Oh! then I think of thee.

Our shelter'd garden, once so fair,
And deck'd with many a gem ;
Now countless weeds around it stray,
But who shall care for them?
Go to my bower of jessamine,
Behold how bleak and bare!
The leafless ruin all is this thine;

It bloom'd till thou wert there.
For all the wealth of sea and land,
I could not now be gay;

I could not join thy jovial band,
Nor laugh my hours away.

But, hark! I hear the huntsman's horn
Loud winding up the vale;
Speed, speed away this jocund morn,
Nor heed my woeful tale.

And when thou see'st the harmless hare
Spring from her covert green;

Call up thy gallant horsemen there,
A noble train I ween.

Through woods and lawns her footsteps track,
Heed not her failing breath;
But cheer afresh thy ravening pack,
And chase her down to death.
Shout then to hear her dying groans,
With triumph, and with glee;
Laugh o'er the feeble cry that moans,
So piteously to thee.

But stay not here to mock my woe,
Nor memory strive to wake;

It is enough for me to know,
That thou could'st once forsake.
Speak to the roaring tempest peace,
The winter's current stem;
But go, my tears will never cease,

Thou need'st not stay for them.

S.

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Biographical Notices.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE REV. C. R. MATURIN,

AUTHOR OF "BERTRAM," &c.

(From "La Belle Assemblee," 1820)

Charles Robert Maturin is the decendant of a French
Protestant emigrant family, and the son of a gentleman
who held, for many years, a lucrative and respectable
situation under government. He entered Trinity Col-
lege, Dublin, at the age of fifteen, and his academical
miums and a scholarship, but of prizes for composition
progress was marked not only by the attainment of pre-
and extempore speaking in the theological class. Though
his collegiate life was not without its honours, we under-
stand that he was considered, both by his tutors and his
companions, as more remarkable for indolence and me-
lancholy than for talent.

At a very early period of life, after a courtship that
literally commenced in boyhood, he married Henrietta
Kingsbury, sister to the present Archdeacon of Killala.
Like most men who marry early, he became the father of
children are rather considered as toys to sport with, than
several children, three of whom survive, at an age when
objects to be provided for in life. For several years after
his marraige he continued to reside in his father's house,
till that father's dismission from the situation which he had
held forty-seven years, with a spotless and esteemed cha-
racter, plunged the whole family into a state of horrible
distress, equalled only, perhaps, by that which occurred
in the family of the unfortunate Sutherland, though not
terminated by the same dreadful catastrophe.
Mr. Maturin, sen. during the course of a long and
respectable life, had brought up and maintained a nume-
rous family; he had married his daughters, and established
his sons. The day of his dismission he was pennyless: it
is singular, that though the commissioners of the inquiry,
who sat repeatedly on the business, pronounced this un-
fortunate gentleman wholly innocent of the charge of fraud
brought against him, he has been suffered to linger nine
notice.

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This day is published, Part IV. of

THE ANIMAL FILA
HE ANIMAL KINGDOM, described and arranged
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lation of the OSSEMENS FOSSILES of the BARON CUVIER.

In amo ancing the Continuation of the "Animal King

applied himself to his task with industry and hope.

For some time he was successful, and we have been informed that "Bertram" was written while the author had six young men residents in the house, and four who attended him for instruction daily, to all of whom his at tention was unremitting. At this period he was unfortunately induced to become security for a relation whose affairs were considerably involved the consequence was, the relation defeated his creditors by taking the benefit of the Act of Insolvency, and left the burden of his debts to those who had attempted to lighten their pressure on him.

Mr. Maturin was compelled to give up his establishment, and is since, we understand, dependent solely on his talents for subsistence.

We willingly hasten over these details of misery, and pass to what is more properly our province-the history of Mr. Matorin's literary life. His first production was "Montorio," and this was followed by the Wild Irish Boy," and the Milesian."

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Sir Walter Scott was pleased to find, or imagine, some merit in Montorio;" this was signified to Mr. Maturin. dom," and the Commencement of the "Fossil Osteolegy," the Editor has the satisfaction of stating that these Works He availed himself of it to solicit an epistolary communiwill, in future, be honoured, with occasional aid from the cation with Sir Walter Scott; and to the zealous friendBaron Cuvier himself, who has most liberally offered to com-ship, the judicious monitions, and the indefatigable patron municate to the Editor such new facts and discoveries, both age of this most excellent man, our author has been heard in existing and in fossil organization, as may arise pending gratefully to ascribe all the distinction and success he has the publication of the Works. The translation of the justly celebrated "Theory of the Earth," which forms the Introductory Discourse of the "Ossemens Fossiles," will be from the Baron's Manuscript, with important additions and cor

rections, prepared for a new edition of that work, which he

is about to publish.

subsequently enjoyed.

Excited by the success of Mr. Shiel's first tragedy of fered it to the manager of Crow-street Theatre, by whom "Adelaide" in Dublin, he wrote "Bertram," and of. Major C. Hamilton Smith, F.R.S. &c. &c. &e. with the most it was rejected in the year 1814. Mr. Maturin not posdistinguished liberality, has also gratuitously offered the use sessing any means of access to the London theatres, sufof his immense collection of original drawings, now exceed-fered the manuscript to mouider for a year and a half, ing 6000 spec'es, together with his Notes on many genera of the Mammife ous tribes. The Monograph on the Antelopes, with a great number of new species, will be from his pen, and the figures entirel from his pencil.

and then submitted it to the perusal of Sir Walter Scott; by whom it was transferred to Lord Byron, then a member of the committee of Drury-lane Theatre, and through his influence brought out at that theatre, in May, 1816, be as literal as the corresponding idioms of the two languages with an effect and popularity unparalleled since the production of "Pizarro.

No additions to the Fossil Osteology will be inserted, except those of its illustrious Author; and the translation will

will allow. The plates will be engraved, if possible, in a su-
perior style to those of the original; and the Work will be
published at a considerably less price.

It will necessarily be in quarto only.
Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, Ave Maria-lane, London.

The popularity of dramatic works is, however, proverbially transient; the moral feeling of the public was wounded by an alleged fault in the narrative, and "Ber

for the first season,

tram," after carrying all before
and being successfully represented in England, Ireland,
finally discarded from the list of stock plays.
and Scotland, and even America, is now, we believe,

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Bertram" was followed by "Manuel;" relative the failure of which we have been favoured with some c rious circumstances. When Mr. Maturin visited London, on the success of "Bertram," he was urged to en his pen for Mr. Kean in the subsequent season. He w informed that that gentleman was extremely anxious to appear in a character of hoary and decrepit distress; and that the calamitous situation of his Majesty having ren dered the representation of "Lear" improper, a private stituted for it, and would insure all the success which e character, in a state of grief and insanity, might be de talents of that great actor exerted in a character of his own selection, might be expected to command. Mr. Ma turin, accordingly, strained every nerve to realize the con ceptions of the performer, and the result was a total fil ure. This may, perhaps, be a useful lesson to the ambitious caprice of actors, and the fatal obsequimates of authors; causes to which may be ascribed the obvious and progressive deterioration of the English stage. Of" Bertram" so much has been said in praise and in it was the most successful tragedy of its day-and a dispraise, that it would be idle for us to add any thing still a powerful monument of poetical ability.

Of the private habits of character of an individual living in another country little can be learned or related but we have heard, that in private life Mr. Maturin is said to be a kind relative, an indulgent parent, and the most uxorious man breathing.

In person Mr. Maturin is tall, and formed with much elegance; and his countenance, unless when illuminated by conversation, expresses only the profoundest melan choly.-He must be now thirty-seven years old, having been born in the year 1782, though the advantages of a figure unusually slight and juvenile, give him the appear. ance of being many years younger.

The Housewife.

"Housekeeping and husbandry, if it be good,
Must love one another as cousins in blood:
The wife, too, must husband as well as the men,
Or farewel thy husbandry, do what thou can.”

ACID IN THE STOMACH.

(From the Oracle of Health.)

We cannot repeat it too often that acid, generated in the stomach, is the cause of more than the half of hur disorders. We repeat it, because we know that it is either forgotten or neglected by thousands, who suffer day, from not attending to our precepts of comfort and good t ing. Acid of some kind will be produced in the stomach. by overloading it with food or drink-by taking, etin a moderate quantity, in opposition to the roles of the Oracle, substances which are difficult of digestion, or by stopping or interrupting the process of digestion in af manner, whether that be by violent exercise after eating by indulging the emotions or passions of the mind, such as melancholy, anger, love, fear, &c.-by exposure too much heat or too much cold-every one and all ef which must withdraw the nervous energies from the stomach, where, during the process of digestion, they are indispensable. These remarks alone will enable out ders to see clearly, that in many instances they are selves the cause of all their diseases, by aiding and ing (unconsciously it may be), the production of the sod which causes them.

The substances which those who are troubled with aid in the stomach ought chiefly to avoid, are, such as ste most readily disposed to run into fermentation. All se watery, and crude vegetables are of this kind, such as greens, cabbage, cauliflower, asparagus, parsnips, carrots, furnips, Jerusalem artichokes, and every kind of salad with the exception of lettice. Fruits are almost all bad

if eaten in a green state, though apples when dressed fr sometimes be eaten with impunity. Potatoes are by far the best vegetable, yet many cannot even eat a potato without producing acidity and derangement of the sto mach.

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Of animal substances, those most disposed to become acid in the stomach, are fat, and all the young white meats, such as veal, lamb, sucking pig, chicken, &c. as may be proved by the experiment of allowing a basin of veal soup, and another of beef tea to be set aside at the same time. If you do this, you will find that the veel soup will become rapidly sour, while the beef tea will re main sweet for a considerable time. Fat is still worse in

all the Symptoms of acidity and sour belching; and after this solemn warning, those who persist to eat fat, and other things here forbidden, can have no right to complain of he consequences, and must put quietly up with the gout, gravel apoplexy, or palsy, which they bring upon themselves by disobedience to the rules of health and comfort. The drink forbidden in all such cases is hard malt liquor, tart wines, cider, or perry, and in a word, whatwer contains the adulterating leaven of an acid, which, ke power and money, rapidly propagates itself, and inreases wherever it goes. Indeed we may lay it down as disputable, that more than half of the acidities, so much omplained of, arise from some acid previously existing the drink commonly used by the patient. Even plain Water, or toast and water, when drank in too great quanLies (and almost all water-drinkers drink too much), will ead powerfully to produce acid. Milk is the worst of all iquids, for a stomach prone to acidity. The smaller the uantity of drink taken the better.

s. There is only one system of proper diet for those who
e the victims of indigestions from acidity, and that is
Ate system of Training, in which biscuit is the only
egetable substance used, and red meats, without fat,
he only animal food, with mild ale for drink We do
1ot, however, affirm that even the most rigid training
liet will always ensure a patient from acidity and its con-
equences; for if the disorder is severe, or of long stand-
ng, even the best beef and biscuit which can be eaten
ill sometimes turn sour. We are confident, however,

sat perseverance in this system will ultimately produce
e most beneficial results, and along with alkaline medi-
ne, is the only remedy for effecting a complete cure.
To prevent Chilblains.-Wear soft leather gloves and
mb's wool stockings in the approaching frosty weather.

Medical Adviser.

Miscellanies.

Divorce.-Rabbi Hillet maintained, that if a wife let
the meat be too much roasted, it was a sufficient reason
for a husband to divorce her.—Basnage's History of the
Jews.
Philosophy v. Theology.-The ancient fathers com-
plained heavily of the sect of Aristotle: and it is almost a
general complaint, that philosophy is injurious to theology
but, on the other side, it is also as certain that theology is
as injurious to philosophy:-they are two faculties which
could never justly settle their limits, did not the balance of
authority, which is always interested on the side of the
former, make the regulation —Bayle.

Repentance.-Johnnie Duncan of the Vray, who, like
other cadgers, sometimes indulged in a drop of the genuine
Kilbaigie, used on the Sunday to sit with his feet under
the grate among the ashes, with an old corn-sack over his
shoulders. This, he said, was repenting in sack-cloth and
ashes. It is said that the celebrated Scottish Teniers,
David Wilkie, intends to introduce Johnnie into his next
picture.-Linlithgow Free Press.

Women.-Francis I. of France, was the first monarch who introduced ladies at his court. He said, in a style of true gallantry-that a drawing-room without ladies was like the year without the spring, or rather like the spring without flowers.

Fontenelle being one day asked by a lord in waiting, what difference there was between a clock and a woman, instantly replied-" A clock serves to point out the hours, and a woman makes us forget them."

ance, and the original or rather revived mode of his pulpit eloquence, must strike every one who hath heard him.

It hath been said, that Edward Irving studies the portrait of the Scottish Reformer, John Knox, and decorates his bust in conformity to the fashion of that patriarch; be this as it may, he certainly does not adopt the fashion of his own times, in the disposal of his dark hair, which, by an artificial arrangement, is made to fall divided in glossy clusters over a forehead no way remarkable.

"his parted forelock manly hung Clust'ring, but not beneath his shoulders broad." the general effect of his person, and the Italian hue of his The peculiar appearance which his eyes present, add to physiognomy correspond admirably with the singular tout ensemble of this extraordinary man.

The high excitement which the London press hath provoked in the minds of the people, operates in no small degree against him as a preacher. Many went to hear him on Friday with their minds prepared for a mental repast, which no mortal preacher could have gratified. Some came away disgusted, others disappointed and astonished, but many lauding the talents of the preacher, while they argued within themselves whether the high popularity which he so hastily had acquired would endure for any length of time.

Mr. Irving claims to be a disciple of the preachers of the olden school; those hardy veterans whose manly senAdmiral Duncan's address to the officers who came on timents and their bold utterance of them brooked no reboard his ship for instructions, previous to the engage-straint, and whose vigorous manner (so the orator says) ment with Admiral de Winter, was both laconic and humorous:-"Gentlemen, you see a severe Winter approach. ing, I have only to advise you to keep up a good FIRE." -Literary Chronicle.

A gentleman of Henley-on-Thames offered a farmer, when at the market, a dinner and a bottle of wine, if he would bring him a grain of wheat on the following market-day, and double the quantity each week until that day twelvemonth. This was acceded to for the moment; but the following statement will, perhaps, satisfy those who have never entered into any similar calculations of the impossibility of fulfilling such an engagement :Amount of the number of grains, 4,503,599,627,370,495; number of bushels, 12,509,998,964; number of quarters, 1,563,749,870; number of loads, 312,749,974.

have been yearly dwindling, since the reformation, into whining cant and babyism. Mr. I. also professes simplicity, and a total divestment of ceremony; nevertheless, many doubted the sincerity of this assertion, who heard and witnessed him on Friday. The graceful action which he displayed in general, together with the formal and overcharged gestures which occasionally escaped him that day, are undeniable testimonials of his devotion to art, and prove his conviction of the necessity of exterior appearances; while he denounced affectation and dramatic effect, he stood the living personification of the object of his own accusation.

An Odd Adventure.-A New York paper details the lowing ludicrous occurrence :-"A few days ago, in is city, a gentleman from the country stopped at a barr's shop to have his hair cut, and to be shaved. Having ken off his coat, he laid it on a chair. Immediately erwards, another gentleman, also from the country, rered to be shaved, and he likewise took off his coat d laid it down. The last person was shaved first, and parted. When the former had done, and went to get is coat, it was gone. He immediately exclaimed that he as a ruined man, as he had eight or nine hundred dollars Since I had the profit of listening to Mr. Irving, in St. a his coat pocket. The apprentices and journeymen were espatched in all directions to find the other gentleman, in the last Edinburgh Review, is the following account of person and in manners; he was then much more sparing Segars-In White's Voyage to Cochin China, noticed John's Church, Glasgow, he is materially altered both in ut to no purpose. At length the barber proposed exa1ining the pockets of the remaining coat, when in one of extraordinary segars: It is of a taper form, (he says) of his gestures, not half so intolerant in his evangelical its length ten, and a half inches; diameter at the butt, or tem was found a pocket-book, containing from fourteen big end, two and a quarter inches; and at the smaller opinions, and upon the whole to my taste a better preacher. fifteen hundred dollars. About an hour afterwards, end, one and a half inches. It is composed entirely of London hath taken away from the rotundity of his coune proprietor, discovering the mistake, came back in a te of perspiration, when an exchange took place to the tobacco, in parallel compact layers, and wrapped with the tenance-multiplied his clustering ringlets, and given to tisfaction of all parties. The first shaved gentleman had largest leaves of the same plant. It is ornamented with him a theatrical air, which addeth not force to his general bands of floss silk, of various colours, which cross each me from the North River, as far as Catharine-market, other diagonally, the whole length of the cigar, and the eloquence, nor graceth the intensity of his deeper moods. efore he discovered his loss. intersections of the bands are ornamented with spangles; fire is applied to the smallest end of this unwieldy mass, and the large end is received by the mouth. One of these cigars, as may be supposed, will last you' some eight or ten days' smoking. Pipes are seldom used, except by the Chinese."

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Charles Bannister, father of John, went one night into a ffee-house, where three surgeons were present. As he atered the room, he said, with apparent concern and feelg." There has been a dreadful accident at the end of the reet!" "Accident! what is it?" said each of the surons, reaching their hats and canes. Why, a gentlean in crossing that terrible place at the end of the street s put out his leg." This was quite enough; a steeple. ase ensued, and, in ten minutes, they all returned breath. "There is no accident!" "We can't find any one!" The man has been removed!" burst at once from the isappointed doctors. "Why, probably," said Charles, the man removed himself.' "Oh, that's impossible here a leg was broken." "A leg broken!" returned Lannister, who heard, but yourselves, any thing of a roken leg? I said, a gentleman in crossing the kennel put his leg out; and how can a man cross a kennel ithout!"

The Nervous System.—A Dominie in one of the parishes this county had occasion, last week, to go a few miles to sacrament. For this purpose, he borrowed a horse from e of the farmers in the neighbourhood. The farmer, Towing that the Dominic was no horseman, sent him one this cart-horses, which for many years had not been nown to expedite his velocity beyond a walk. When the minie returned the horse, the farmer asked him if he de "canny enough ?" "Oh yes," replied the instruc of youth, "but he cocked his ears two times, and I as very much agitated!"-Linlithgow Free Press.

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Mr. Irving was at that time the humble assistant of Dr. Chalmers, and instead of being idolized by thousands, as he now is, he found a serious difficulty in securing of the approval of a scanty portion of his parochial hearers. Many a Sunday have I witnessed, when Mr. I. advanced to the pulpit, several of the regular, as well as the occasional visitors of the church, evacuate their seats and defer their devotions, until the idol of the day, Dr. Chalmers, ascended the rostrum. This was by no means an uncommon occurrence; but I think I might safely aver, that if Edward Irving, at this time of day, now that his name is emblazoned, did St. John's the honour of his services, he would find it no difficult matter to gain over to him those minions of the popular voice. Such is the power of fashion, and so utterly valueless are the voices of the many. Had Mr. Irving remained in Glasgow, he might have preached himself into his grave, and never have been noted but for a stalking cold declaimer. Good fortune ordered it otherwise; he was called to London, and with his many peculiarities, joined to an admirable voice and no mean abilities, he became the favourite, it is said, of cabinets as well as crowds. I doubt, however, if his fame

shall endure beyond his living days, save in the registers

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The Drama.

THE THEATRE.

display her utter incapability of personifying a part for
which she is not in possession of a solitary requisite, bating
the necessary assurance; and how she could have the un-
blushing effrontery to advertise her performance of this
truly feminine and purely virtuous hero, as originally

"You have not a man in all Athens, able to discharge performed by Madam Vestris," would be astonishing,
could any act of Miss Cramer's any longer surprise us.

We recently adverted to the then approaching benefit of Mr. Hooper, and now congratulate that gentleman on the result of his first appeal to the suffrage of the town; not pecuniarily, be it understood, but professionally. We gratulate him, not on the number of his auditory, but on their great respectability; not on the profit accruing to hin, individually, but on the claim he has, at length, indisputably established for himself, of a much higher situation in the theatre than he had previously appeared to hoid. As Charles Surface, Mr. Hooper shone, conspicuously, quite a different person from what we had before witnessed, or had at all anticipated of him; he was, in fine, absolutely created anew to the audience. We hold it to be thing of course that no one else of the present company will hereafter essay this character, so completely has Mr. Hooper's admirable personation of the part identified him with it, and triumphantly secured it his own. But we should not rejoice with Mr. Hooper alone, at the gratifying result of his late benefit. For although it was, to him, pregnant with incalculable professional utility, inas. much as it indicated his own personal respectability, by obviously demonstrating him to be well-informed of what is due to his character as a gentleman as well as scrupulous of marring that of his vocation, coupled, also, with being the era of his first proper introduction to the theatrical people of this place; although, we say, Mr. Hooper's benefit was thus highly advantagenus to him, the town, too, is not the least benefited party. We shall no longer have to complain, as we have done, of the very inadequate manner in which genteel comedy has been represented since the departure of Cooper, to whom the management would do well to procure as efficient a successor in the sombre, as it now appears they have had the good fortune to do in the lightened and more amiable walk of his profession.

Having seen the combined exertions of many worthies familiar to the lover of the drama, concentrated in representing the School for Scandal, we cannot eulogize over warmly the last performance of this play, as a whole. There were portions of it, however, which, to our thinking, could scarcely be surpassed. We allude more particularly to the enactment of Joseph Surface, by Mr. Vandenhoff, which, though less effective, as relates to the excitement of applause, than on previous occasions, was a happy combination of an accurate conception of his author, and the most thorough adaptation of himself to the feelings, passions, and circumstances, of the character. He was Joseph's very self. Whilst speaking of Mr. Vandenhoff, we must be permitted to bear commendatory testimony of his Leontes, in the Winter's Tale, performed for the benefit of a native artist, and a freeman of the Borough," on Wednesday, the 8th instant. Than on this especial occasion, Mr. Vandenhoff has rarely appeared to much greater advantage, which is saying not a little. His Leontes was a very beautiful piece of acting, and might be quoted as highly characteristic of the best and purest style of playing: it was energetic, chaste, discriminating, and effective. Would we could say as much of the native artist's" pencil, which we should prefer seeing successfully exercised apart from all enfranchisement, save that conferred by nature. Mr. Goore should contrast the stiffness, glare, and false-colouring of his late scenery with the ease, admirable perspective, and glow of rich mellowness that characterise Walmsley's old dropMr. Goore has taste and judgment enough to profit by the comparison; we hope, therefore, this hint may be serviceable to him.

scene.

The low ribaldry set forth in the bills, with all the pomp of cant phraseology, as Giovanni in London, has really disgusted us to very nausea. It should have been termed, properly speaking, Giovanni in Liverpool; every one would then have understood the thing. Nothing but the very highest talent in song, accompanied by the most exquisite acting, could, in any degree compensate for the fully and obscenity of the piece: and it is notorious enough to the frequenters of our theatre, that we have no opera company worthy the most trifling mention, if we except the veteran Doyle, Mrs. Aldridge, and the Benwells. One of the latter, indeed, Mr. Edward, as Simpkins, exhibits the only assumption of character in the filthy thing's whole conduct. To this gentleman, alone, is Giovanni in Liverpool indebted for its short-lived existence. Why MISS CRAMER should have selected Giovanni, obtrusively to

* Vide the newspaper puffs, which, however, are but puffs, of course, and therefore mean nothing.

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Few persons, we 'presume, will accuse us of a disposition to view the management with an eye of too placable leniency. We have earned the contrary character; whether justly or not, is not for us to determine. And, be this as it may, we do not hesitate now to laud at least one act of the managers, which, to us, seems strictly just and becoming; more especially as one of those gentlemen, in particular, has laboured under much unmerited obloquy on a subject, in itself less than insignificant-the very proper, and, as we think, commendable dismissal of Miss Cramer.

We hold the theatre to be the private property of whoever may rent it from those to whom the mere bricks and mortar belong. The performers we regard as the managers' servants, hired, like the servants of other people, for the exclusive use of those to whom they have voluntarily become subject; not to minister to the necessities of others. The Music-hall should not be dependant on the Theatre. The affairs of those employed and the employers cannot, or should not, be in any wise exposed to the rude control of a third party; much less to that of an infuriate mob, assuming to be the public.

If any of our readers knew us in propriis personis (and many of them do, without knowing it themselves) they would not require to be told that there are not living many ten men who respect the vox populi more than ourselves. So far, however, are we from acceding to the arbitrary position that players are the servants of the public alone, and that, consequently, the public have a right to choose such servants for themselves as may to them seem meet, without reference to the wishes, circumstances, or convenience of the management; so far are we from subscribing to this odious doctrine, that we deny it altogether. We deny, unequivocally, that performers are exclusively the servants of the public, and we deny, therefore, the right claimed by the public, of interfering, at pleasure, with the arrangements, disputes, or conduct of a manager and his people. Players are only the public's servants, inasmuch as they minister to the pleasure, or otherwise, of of an audience; and public interposition, in a theatre, must be confined to an expression of applause or disapprobation, in the manner sanctioned by usage of that which transpires there. It is only what may be passing on the stage that is cogniza le by the public, who cannot arrogate any dictatorial authority over the regulations of the greenroom, mode of conducting the business of the treasury, or any the least particle of what is clearly the province of the management.

Theatrical serving-gentlemen and ladies have the same efficient means of obtaining ample redress for any wrong done to them, as have other servants of every denomination, and to those known means alone should they have recourse. If any manager act iniquitously towards those he employs, he becomes amenable, not to the public, but to the same tribunals which punish other offenders. Though a manager were ever so tyrannical or capricious in the government of his theatre, though with him honour were unknown, policy despised, and all consequences madly defied, still the public could only chastise him by their absence from the seat of his oppression. But this hypothesis cannot be realized, so long as it shall remain the obvious interest of the management to engage such performers as the public will approve, and to behave to those performers so as to secure their services; which poliey, on the part of all managers, will be as durable as

their theatres.

Dec. 20.

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THE COUNCIL OF TEN.

Co Correspondents.

CHESS.-If H. H. will examine attentively the solution of
game 24, he will perceive that all the moves of the black
king are forced, and that it is therefore impossible for him
to escape checkmate in five moves, allowing the castle to
be taken, and in six, if the castle be not taken. If, at the
third move, the black king were to move to H 7, instead of
G 8, the white castle would check him at F 7, and in the
following move give checkmate at G 7.

THEATRICAL FRACASAS the affair between the Managers
and Miss Cramer is arranged, we shall decline any further
comment upon the subject.

CHESS.-We regret that A Chess Player should have incurre
the postage from Stewartstown, as on this occasion its
so little purpose. We shall here transcribe an extract fr
his note, in order to rectify the mistake into which be bas
fallen, in his solicitude to set us right.
TO THE EDITOR.
SIR,-In your paper of the 23d ult. you have given a situa
tion at Chess, in which you say, the white "ean corp
the black to check-mate him with the King's Bish
Pawn, in 11 or 12 moves" I beg leave to remark, tha
may compel him to do so in EIGHT moves; as will appe
from the annexed solution.-Yours, &c.
A CHESS-PLAYER.

Our correspondent then gives his scheme; which we

join, in order to show that he is mistaken. When th
black pawn moves to G 6, and gives check (which our e
respondent calls mate) the black king can not only era
the check, but also get a pawn by moving to H& W
first we received this correspondent's letter, we felt pretty
confident we were correct; and that Lolli was also eurrect.
This game, and some of the most ingenious stations we
have given, or have in store, are taken from an excelent
and rare Italian work, a bulky folio, in which is rected
together the best display of Chess science, which the wor
affords. If our Chess readers were aware of the tro
we have with this department, it would enhance its ra
in their estimation. In the first instance, the verbal tran
lation is to be made from the Italian, then the old ro
about phraseology is to be translated into our simple p
of notation; after which the two schemes must be chervi
an operation which must also be repeated when the se
is given. We are glad to perceive that our corresponden
Stewartstown has adopted our notation or mode of narz
the board. We have no hesitation in saying that
simplest ever devised; as an illustration of which, w
suppose a white pawn upon the square G 4, and a h
pawn on the square F. 5, and that the white pawn had
take the black pawn. According to the clumsy re
about phraseology adopted by Philidore, by Loli Sr
and others, this simple move would be thus ener
with words, "King's knight's pawn, to the opposite
bishop's fourth square," where all we should have to
the occasion would be simply "Pawn F. 5.”

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our next.

CHRISTMAS BAGATELLES.-We shall next week rec
this department; and solicit contributions.
POLITICAL ECONOMY.-We shall have much prestare
week in assigning a place in our columns to the a
sis of one of Mr. M'Culloch's most important lectures,
which we have been favoured by a correspondent, th
we shall feel further obliged if he will enable us to f
an outline of any of the other excellent leetares
M'Culloch. Our correspondent appears to possess the
talent of abridging without impairing the sense, or a
the spirit of the original.

COUNCIL OF TEN. Our critical decemviri will perceive i
we have omitted a portion of their strictures, which, E-
existing circumstances, we thought might, with pra
be dispensed with.

The tale of the "Indians Outwitted" has been received

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