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when la salute Guillotine was in full play , and heads fell like leaves before the terrible breath of the atrocious Fduquier . The parts of Colette Dubois ^ a victim of aristocratic crime in the < irst epoch , and her surviving sister , the Citoyehne ThSrese Defarge , \ vho directs retributive action in the second and third , sue played , now imposingly / now pathetically , by Madame Celeste . The vice and fashion of a wicked courtier , the Marquis de St . Eoremonde i are no less completely delineated by Mr . Walter Lacy , whose toilette scene in Act I- ( or , as we called it , Tableau II ., ) is as gooda thingof its kind a ? might be looked for at the Frahcais . Miss Kate Saville , with but little opportunity for display , is graceful and expressive as Zucie Manette ; and Mr . James Viniri g ¦ s ^ well-Hconceived but overwrought study of the liberated Bastille prisoner
Dr . Manette , in the same act , -will , when considerably compressed , * be recognised as pathetic , and no doubt become vei y effective . Jeremiah Crunchen ; of whom one is disposed on his every appearance to ejaculate , " Que diable allait-il ¦ faire ? & c .. "\ is neither a successful nor an agreeable excrescence ; yet not on the low comedian , Mr . Rouse—very clever in his way , but on the eminent author or his still more eminent abettor , be the blame , if any , of his inappropriateness . The mise eit scene is admirable . Had we space we ¦ - ¦ migrlit ¦ dilate upon the completely appointed old chamber of the introduction , the elegant salon of St . Evremonde , the cabaret of St . Antoine , with its costume
and dance a la Carmagnole ; and the clever revival scene of the Revolutionary Tribunal will , we opine , create a sensation among the million , who , if tley have heard of the Keign of Terror , have 3 et no deeply-graven conception of its horrors . All these detached mdrceaux reveal the taste of the manageress ; some of them the histrionic ability of the company and , when the author has applied , in his department , a little judicious surgery in the way of excision here and dovetailing there , a degree of unity will result , that may ensure for Mr . Taylor ' s drama a popularity worthy that of Mr . Dickens ' s noveU At the HAYiiABKET , Miss Amy Sedgwick has reappeared as
Mrs , Halter in " The Stranger , " a play—let the critics say what they will—of great atid enduring-popularity . We , not long ago , hinted in these columns that in a practical age like the present , the manager ' s best chances lay in full-flavoured pathos or bathos , it was immaterial which ; and here is a case in point . A week ' s run of " The Stranger" at a West End Theatre is a sign of the dramatic times . The Hay market audiences are as liberal of their tears to the sorrows _ of Mrs . Hitller . as they are of their laughter to Mr . Chippendale and Mr . Compton , and subsequently to the pantomime .
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122 The Leader arid Saturday Analyst . J ^ eb . 4 , 1863 .
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PARLIAMENT . rpIJE public business of last Friday was more than usually - »• important . In the Lords notice was given by Lord Duncannon of his intention to raise the question of the probable bearing of the newly sprung up practice of turning the Theatres into places of worship on Sundays . Lord Ellen borough having very pertinently drawn ' attention . to . the delay in distributing the India prize money , the Duke of Argyll in excuse said Government had not yet been put in possession of the value of the " loot , " but expected to have orer from India the information shortly . A very important return was moved for by Lord Brougham , on the subject of the quantity of cotton imported from various parts ' of' the world . Tlie motion was only made as the
readiest means of drawing attention to the question of encouraging the growth of cotton in our o \ yn colonies , a » d thus rendering ourselves comparatively independent of our transatlantic , neighbours , and their " domestic institution . " The Duke of Newcastle it is to be hoped intended more than a mere official reply when ho said that Government proposed to give the production of cotton in our own possessions the utmost encouragement . The Bishop of Oxford , Lord Overstone , and Lord Wodjehouse spoke practically and to the point on this most important subject . Lord Normanby , who is evidently resolved that his pavliimientnvy light shall not be hid under a bushel , put a question on the subject of a rumour relative to the cession of Njce and Savoy by Sardinia to France , Lord
Granvillk , as the mouthpiece of the Ministry , had received no information on that subject , and 1 > road ) y intimated that France was in full possession of the objections of Her Majesty ' s Government to any such annexation . —Monday was productive of the introduction and discussion of move than one question of vitail importance . The Criminal Law Consolidation whs inaugurated by the Lord Chancellor laying on the table no less than seven bills to effect this object . Lord Chelmsford carried the first ) reading of the Abolition of Grand Jury Bill . The quotation of the disturbances at St . George ' s in the East whs brought on by the Bi . ihop of London ,
who , with great simplicity , inquired what coula be done or was intended to be done by Government to preserve the pence in the church . The right reverend prolate nnd his predecessor arc accused—it need not bo said with what trujth- —of being indirectly iicceflHory to these disturbances , from their want of firmness in dealing with , ov rather in tampering with , the clerical originator , Earl Ghanville Imew of no other xncaus than n free exercise of the policeman ' s trumrhcon , which lind been put tit the service of the ? Tniotarinn clorgymnn . On the motion of thq Duke of Maryborough the ro-appointuunt of the Committee on Church Raitos was unnctioned . —Tuesday > v « a comparativel y unimportant , na fur MB public business wna concerned . Lord Brougham , however ,
obtained leavetb introduce a bill on the Transfer of land and Registration of Titles . —Last Friday ' s business in the Commons was short , but serious Mr . Edwin James ventilated the question of right of appeal iai criminal cases , by a reference to the Shiethurattrial . Sir C . Lewis vindicated the course he had adopted iirthat , memorable case , though whether with complete success or not must be left to the : decision ot the judicious public . Mr . M . Milnes having brought under notice those inconceivable and accumulating barbarities and murders practised on board American ships , was assuredbj Lord J . Russell , that negotiations on the subject were now in progress with the American Government . Mr . Darby Griffith ' s question , with relation to the designs of France on Savoy , elicited the strongremark from Lord J . Russell , that he did not believe there wns
any truth in the statement , that the French . Emperor entertained tlie designs attributed to him . A bi'l for the Better Management of Highways was the means of extracting a notiee of future opposition from Mr . Bright . —Monday had its matters of special interest . The St . George ' s-in-the-East riots were brought on the tapis by-Mr . Butler , who asked Sir C . Lewis if Government intended to bring in any measure oh the subject . Sir C . Lewis acknowledged that Government intended to do nothing beyond lending the assistance of the police force to Mr . Bryan King to protect him and his Puseyite parishioners . No change in the doctrinal part of the Prayer Book was contemplated , but possibly something might be done with the Rubric , so as to give Bishops more power to deal with ceremonial offences and novelties . Mr . Danbt Seymour declared
tliat he would himself bring in a bill on the subject , if Government delayed to deal with the scandal . Mr . H ^ fiuld wen t direct to the point . The people of England had endured this nuisance long enough . If psendo-protestant clergymen—really popish priests in disguise-r continued to receive protestaiit money and fill prbtestant pulpits , the people of England would very soon take the law into their own hands . Mr . Crawford endeavoured to draw from the Chancellor of the Exchequer a declaration of the views of tbe Government relative to the contemplated changes in the French tariff . The Chancellor of the Exchequek , too wary to be caught , stated that on Monday next the Budget wbujd be brought forward , and then Government would let the country know what hSd been determined upon with respect to the contemplated French commercial reforms . —After the Annuity Tax Abolition ( Edinburgh )
Bill had , received its share of attention , Sir G . G . Lewis brought m a Bill for the better regulation of the Corporation of London , founded on the report and recommendations of the select committee . Mr . Atbton described the Bill as a " little trumpery measure , " and complained that it left out of sight the Corporation tax on coals . After spin © debate , in which Mr . W . Williams , Mr . Alderman Cubitt , Mr . John Locke , and Sir W . Farquhar joined— the Bill was brought in . The Chancellor of the Exchequer obtained leave to bring in a Bill on the subject of the packet a , « d telegraph contracts . The original question arose out of political and party motives , and , of course , the proposition of the Chancellor of the in that irit Sir
Exchequer was dealt with partially sp by J . Pakington , Sir F . T . Baking , Lord J . Mannjies , Mr , Bernai . Osborne—the originator of the question ^ Sir J . Northcote , and other hon . members . The motion was agreed to . Tuesday was members' night , in which private motions and bills were freely brought forward , The motion of most importance was that of Mr . W . S . Lindsay , which asked the House for a select committee to inquire into the operation of the burthens and restrictions affecting mercantile shipping . Mr . Lindsay , by the accidental priority of his motion , took the wind out of the sails of Mr . Crawford , who was intrusted by the General Shipowners' Society with their petition for a select committee . The curious part of this business is that neither of the hon . members profess to represent the real vjews of
the British shipowners . Mr , Lindsay's advocacy is warmly and not over courteously repudiated by the shipping interest , aud Mr . Crawford's countenaince is only secured under conditions prescribed by the lion , member himself . After an unavailing effort on the part of Mr . D . Seymour to get the area of the inquiry enlarged , Mr . M . Gibson , on the part of Government , agreed to the . xnotion . ' Several important bills were introduced and allowed , as a matter of course , to proceed through the first stage . Mr . MuLtOR ' s Corrupt Practices Bill , « nd his Amendment of the Election Petition Bill ; Mr . Slaney ' s Bill , Local Kate Improvement Bill , Mr . ScnoLKriELD ' a Bill to protect articles of food from aidultevjition , were amongst . the . most prominent . On Wednesday , Mr . McMaiion ' s Bill to allow Appeal in Criminal Cases was discussed at length , and ilnnlly thrown out . The other business was pro fur md , and not otherwise of public interest . —On Thursday , in the Commons , the
important subject of the annexation of Savoy to Prance was again introduced by Mr . Disraeli , who asked whethor the noble lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs intended to lay before the House the communications which had taken place with reference to tho alleged proposal on the part of France to annex Stivoy and jTjce , —Lord j , Kussell said that he had communicated with our Ambassador in France , and had given the subject of the production of these papers his gravest consideration , but it would not beadvifinble to produce the documents referred to by Mj » Disraeli . Ho 8 b « ted that in Julv last Mr . Harris commuuieutod w > t » Count Walkwski respoctinyr tho supposed intention of France t <> carry out ( l ) o annexation , find had received a reply of n , most satisfactory character , to tho effect that no such intention existed on tho purt of the Emperor of the Fronch . On the receipt of thia announce " m « nt , the British Government directed a dosputol ) to bo forwordeil to the Fronch Government , expressing the gratification that was felt by the executive of this country at tlio intollig-onco received .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 4, 1860, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04021860/page/22/
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