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COVENT GAiRDENi TOMORROW , MONDAY—SUBSCRIPTION NIGHT . The Directors beg leave most respectfully to inform the Nobility and Gentry that in compliance with the wishes of many Subsonbers , tomorrow , Monday , June 21 , will be given as a Subscription Night in lieu of Tueaday , September 7 . All Ivories and Tickets , therefore , for Tuesday , September 7 , will bo available tomorrow , Monday . June 81 , 1853 , on which occasion will be performed Doniaettib Grand Opera , I MAETIEI ( Thb Esmbb Opeba ) . Paulina , Madame Jullienne—Severus , Signor Eonconi—Felix , Signor Marini—Nearous , Signor Stigelli—Oalisthenes , Signor Polonini—A Christian , Signor Soldi—and Polyntus , Signor Tamberlik . Composer , Director of the Music , and Conductor , Mr . Cobta . On Tuoaday next , June 22 nd , I PURITANI . ' Commence at Eight . Tickets for the Boxes , Stalls , or the Pit , may be had at the Box Office of the Theatre , and of the principal Muslosellers and Librarians .
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tfttntf ) Ptegs * Loaaoo , Mr . John Mitohbi . 1 ., 33 , Old Bond-street . On Monday Evening , Juno 21 st , the Entertainments will commence with LB MARIAGE AIT TAMBOUR . Lambert , M . Lofont—Fleur doB Pois , M . Le-vossor . After which , la M-ore Michel , au Theatre Italien , Scone Parodio Bouffe , de " LA GAZZA LADRA , " Excoutce par Monsieur Lovassor . To eonoliide with LA S < EUR DE JOORISSE . Joorisse , M . Levassor—M . Duvol , M . Roger—M . Duhamol , M . Tourillon—Oliarlotte , Mdlle . Laure—Herminio , Mdlle . Oastelli . Grande R 6 pr 6 sentation Extraordinaire , Bouffe et Comlque ftu BENEFICE DE M . LEVASSOR , MEROttEDI , JUIN 23 , 1 SB 2 . Iere Bepr 6 aentation — L * AMOUR DANS LE 8 OH 12-* V'VX , Monologue Bouil'e , on Vers et mold do couploto M . uuvaaaor , jouera 7 personnagos difliSrens . £ o Coiffeur , Un Dandy , Le Crane , Lo President , ? TT ovnaao ,. I ^ o Porruquier , Un Avooat , Un Autre Avooat .. JM . Lovasaor . Purodie'Burlesque , "LUCIA DI LAMMERMQOK , " par ¦ wvaHsor . ¦ JH ? tt } ° Piece Nouvelle , LB RAISOIR ANGLAIS , joudo par ^ Lovassor ot Fauvre . UN THE oho » LEVASSOR , Soirdo Bouffo par toua los ArUatos au TheAtro . 1 . L'Aiwr aoLKir , Poosio Nouvolto , Ddblteo par Levassor . ¦ W . Lks Own »« Paris : ou , Lob MarohandB dea Ruoa . Unind Walso , ctidntte par tous les Artistes . rir koTmura Bou » tb , Surpriao I iv . Lm RuvHiii i > b i , a Bahbk Coub , par M . Fauvro . V . Mym vhonih JJinttuHQUM pi « IlAynif , rvoo Instrumonts <«> . louots D'Enfans . Bxdoutde par tou » lea Artistes du Theatre « U orchestra Allomand . VI . Oooashb PonKA , ayoo MJrllton . Dansdo par tous lea Artlaton du Thdatre , Private Boxen and Stalls may be obtainod at tho Boyul I 4 brury , 33 , Old Boud Stroot , nnd at tho Box Office .
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M JULLIEtf'S COWCEETS D'ETE will , i commence , at the ROYAL SURKEY ZOOLOGI-( JaRDHNS , on MONDAY , JUNE astli , for One Month only . In order to render his Oonoerts D'Eto , at tlio Koyal Surrey Zoologloal Gardens , aa brilliant and attractive as hia Oonoerts D'lfiver at the Theatre Royal Drury-lano , M . Julben lias , fbr this season , soonrod the services of HiKnor Jiattealni , Horr Kconig ( exclusively ) Miaa Cicely Nott , and tho following celebrated performers on their rospontivo inatrumontH : —MM . Uauman , Lazarus . OrolII , Jarrett , Colinet , Sonnonborg , Lavingo , Engelho , Pague , Wuilo , & 0 > &o ., tho whole forming an Orohostra of One Hundred Performers . Conductor , M . Jullion . AdmlBflion , One Shilling . Tha Concerts to oommonoo a , t Half-pant Six and conclude at Half-past Nino . Grand display of Firo * worka and Eruption of Mount Etna ,
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Cfie 2 Soologtc £ * l © arlwn ^ EEGENT'S PARK , are Open to Yisitors daily . The Collection now contains upwards of 1600 Spooimens , including the Hippopotamus presented by H . H . the Viceroy of Egypt , Elephants . Rimnoobuoh , GiIiab'fbs and young , LnuoonYxand young , Ei . an » h , JUoxtbboks , Camklb . Zeiihab , Liowb , Tioehs , Jaouabs , jjb arh , Ostbiohbb , and tho Aptbbtx presented by tho Lieut .-Governor of New Zealand . AH Visitors are now admitted to Mr . Gould s Collection of Hummino Birds without any extra charge . The Band of the First Life Guards will porlorm , by permission of Colonel Hall , on every SATURDAY , at Four o clock , until further notice . „ Admission , One Shilling . On Mowdayb , Sixpbnob .
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&ogal Jtflariottftu € f > tatn 9 ADELAIDE STREET , WEST STRAND . Succession of Novelties for tho Holidays . On Monday , June 21 st , and during the week , at Eight o'clock , the performances will commence with a Scrap from Shakspearo , entitled the SIXTH ACT OF ROMEO ANl 5 JULIET After which , a Phantasmagoric Spirit Drame , entitled EOSBKIB 8 IN SPIEITS , OE , THE RIVAL TENANTS . To bo followed by the renowned performances of THE EBONY MARIONETTES ' And to conclude with the New Pantomimic Divertissement , called IL NANO MISTERIOSO DEL VILLAGIO . A Morning Performance on Wednesday and Saturday next , at Three o ' clock . Doors open half an hour before oooli Performance . Box-offloe open daily from Eleven till Five .
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( frnmau Wm $ > ST . JAMES'S THE A T It E . Sole Lessee , Mr . Johmt Mixoheil , 33 , Old Bond Street . On Tweaday next , June 22 nd , will be produced ( for the first time in this country , ) FAUST , by Goethe . . Thursday , June 24 th , an attractive Performance , in which Herr Emu Devrient will appear , being the LAST NIGHT BUT TWO of the engagement of the German Company . Mr , Mitchell respectfully announces that the Engagement of the German Company is limited to the present month of June . Prices of Admission : —Boxes , 6 s . ; Pit , 3 s .: Amphitheatre , 2 a . Private Boxes and Stalls may be obtained at Mr . MttoneU b Royal Library , 33 , Old Bond-street , and at the Box Office .
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SKETCHES and SCEATCHES . —Willis ' s Rooms . —LAST TWO NIGHTS previous to Mr . Carter Lee ' s Provincial Engagements . On Monday and Friday evenings , June Slafc and 26 th , CABTEE LEE'S . " MUSICAL NOTE-BOOK , with a PICTOEIAL DISSOLUTION by Alfred Crowquill , will be open for public inspection , for the last nights at half-past Eight . Stalls numbered , and reserved seats , 4 s . ; Unreserved Seats , 2 s , 6 d ., which may be secured at Mr . Mitchell ' s Eoyal Library , 33 , Old Bond Street .
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T ? 0 R POUT PHILIP , SYDNEY , and the Jj GOLDEN REGIONS . —The Australian Gold and General Mining and Emigration Company , 6 , Austinfriars , will dispatch ( monthly ) first-class fast-sailing SHIPS of 1000 tons , from London to Australia . The ships will be ably manned and commanded , and will carry experienced Surgeons . The Provisions , Fittings , and Ventilation will be unexceptionable , combining comfort , regularity , and economy . For freight , passage , and particulars apply to C . J . Tripe , Superintendent or Shipping , at the Company's Offices ; or to Tomlfn and Co ., 68 , Cornhill .
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STEAM TO INDIA , CHINA , &c— . Particulars of the regular Monthly Mail Steam Conveyance and of the additional lines of communication , now established by tho Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company with tho East , &o . The Company book passengers , and receive goods and paroela as heretofore for CEYLON , MADE AS , CALCUTTA , PBNANG , SINGAPORE , and HONG KONG , by their steamers , , starting from SOUTHAMPTON on the 20 th of every month , and from SUEZ on or at > out tho 8 th of the month . The next extra Steamer will be dispatched from Southampton for Alexandria on the 3 rd October next , in combination with an extra Steamer , to leave Calcutta on or about the 20 th September . Passengers may be booked , and goods and parcels forwarded by theao extra steamers to or from SOUTHAMPTON , ALEXANDEIA , ADEN , CEYLON , MADEAS , and CALCUTTA . BOMBAY . —The Company will book passengers throughout from Southampton to Bombay by their atcamera leaving England on the 20 th July , and of altornato months thereafter , such , passengers being conveyed from Aden to Bombay by their steamers appointed to loavo Bombay on the 14 th of July , nnd of alternate moatlia thereafter , and affording , in connexion with the steamers leaving Calcutta on tho 3 rd of July , and of alternate months thereafter , direct conveyance for passengers , parcels , and goods from Bombay and Western India . Pa » 9 ongorB for Bombay can also proceed by this Company ' s Stoamers of the 20 th of the month to Malta , thence to Alexandria by her Majesty's steamers , and from Suez by tho Honourable East India Company ' s stoamora . MEDITERRANEAN .-MALTA-On tho 20 th and 29 th of every month ; Constantinople—On tho 20 th of tho month . Alexandria—On tho 20 th of the month . ( The rates of passago money on theso linos havo boon materially reduced . ) SPAIN AND POETUGAL . —Vigo , Oporto , Lisbon , Cadi * , and Gibraltar , on tho 7 th , 17 th , and 27 th of tho month . N . B . —Tho Steam-nhipi of the Company now ply dvroot b «» twocn Calcutta , Ponang , Singapore , and Hong Kong , and bo » twoon Hong Kong and Shungline . For furthor information and tariffs of the Company ' s recently revisod and reduoed rates of paaange-money and freight , and for plans of the vessels , and to aouurn passages , Ao ., apply at tho Company's Offices , Wi , Loadcuhiul-stroot , London , and Oriontnl-pliioe i Southampton .
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come to the ^ nclusiori that dratnft , as a ^ poetical art , is all hut lost . The arving and gilding Of the frame have bedpme more exquisite , hut the picture it has adorned haa generally been indifferent . Pew men who can gain eminence in an other branch of literature , have recourse to dramatic writing j and even those who have made some figiire-in it , slink away as soon as they find a new opening for their talents . The laurels gained on the stage are so transient in their nature , that they fade almost as soon as they have reached the brow of the author . To train a round of applause for a single nighty to occupy a . playbill for a few weeka , and then to repose till some turn of fortune snail bring another prize of equal dime nsions , seems to be all that a dramatic author expects in the relations between himself and the public . In modern days , audiences go tothetheatre simply to
he amused , just as they would go to see a phantasmagoria , and their applause conveys no verdict that can be acceptable to a man of intellect . It simply denotes that for an hour or two they have been kept in a certain state of excitement , and it is often inconsistent with itself * We have no doubt that on many occasions when we have reported the * thunders of applause' that have accompanied the first production bf a work , and the visitor on a subsequent night has found a chilly , thin assemblage , chary of its approbation , this visitor has imagined the recorded success has existed less in fact than in our own imaginations . But the reverse has been the case . ¦ We read that in former times a triumphant first night was a victory gained . In the present day > the bouquet of the Monday may but augur the empty hench of the Saturday . ¦
" The fact is not so much that * friends' go to a theatre on certain critical occasions , for these would seldom bear up against the general voice of a house ; but the persons who attend a theatre on the first night of a new play , take with them a far less amount of judgment than they would bring to bear upon a book , a picture * or a statue . Let any student of humanity observe the hearty roiar of laughter that will be excited by a very small joke spoken on the stage , and the applause which will reward some exaggerated expression ofsentiment , and ask himself whether any parallel result would be obtained from the reader of a novel or a
magazine tide . It is no Wonder that the magnates of literature are frightened away from the Stage , when the highest honours—such as they are-r-are gained by means they would . not condescend to use . Have we enlarged our psychological knowledge through the dramatist ' s personal experience ? - —have we seen any type of actual or ideal humanity ? ' ~ have we seen the personages of history grouped together so as to give a significant visibility to the past ? These are questions which are never asked by the ordinary class of playgoers . Have we been amused , is all they ask , and they ask it in ' the same sense as if they questioned themselves after a display of fireworks .
" The chief reform that is needed in audiences and critics ( for the latter will often be more or less influenced by the former ) , would be effected by a determination to judge of theatrical productions by some other standard than that of stage conventionality . The course of literature has accumulated a large repertoire oi old dramas , from which an expression may be found for almost every position incident to humanity . Love , hatred , jealousy , ambitipn- —what you will— -can be pourtrayed by a ready writer , without the slightest knowledge of actual nature , or without more imagination than is requisite to reproduce a metaphor- —merely by
the possession of a store of stage experience . Hence , through a series of years , has arisen a sort of spurious human nature peculiar to the stage , and scarcely atjill modified by the changes in life outside the theatre walls . The conventions that exist in this imaginary world" were laid down in the midst of circumstances that no longer exists and the portraitures that in the first instance were real , because they were drawn from nature or from creative imagination , cease to ^ be so altogether when they become portraitures from other portraitures . Nor is the spirit of convention confined to one side of the lamps . The audience are as much imbued with it as the dramatic writers . The rule of comparison by which they judge
any transaction in life , or even any incident in a novel , is laid aside . They will honour a hero for expressions which , anywhere but on the stage , would suggest the notion of a strait jacket ; and they will regard a valet or an abigailas entitled to their esteem for a pert recklessness , which , if it figured in their own domicile , would earn nothing but a month ' s warning . The whole thing has declined , the acting drama has become little more than the expression of stage conventionality , and a thorough revolution of some sort is required . The conventional drama hatf been drained to the very dregs , and to have a new living dramatic literature we must begin , from a new beginning . ¦ . * : ** " The success of Mr . Bourcicault as an actor—for he made his debut as the
Fampire—was far more unequivocal than that of the piece . The attitudes were well studied , the chilly aspect was carefully made up , and the few words of dialogue were judiciously spoken , so that throughout the whole piece he fully preserved his supernatural distinctiveness . He was generally called at the fall of the curtain . "
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NOTES THEATEIOAL . In a paragraph I must group the remainder of the theatrical news of the week . Signor Bettini , a robust , or rather robustious , tenor , made his appearance at Her Majesty ' s , in JErnani , with mediocre success . Not much more can be said of Mdlle . Angiolina Bosio , who appeared at the Royal Italian Opera , in L'JSlisir d'Amove , without exciting more than tepid enthusiasm . She is pretty , graceful , and at ease on the stage . Her voice agreeable , though uncertain in its intonation , her execution facile without brilliancy . Signor Galvani , in a part Mario makes enchanting , was heard with silence , and what Mirabeau said of kings may be applied to actors— " The silence of the people is the lesson to kings . " Signor Bartolini was very incompetent to Selcore . Honconi alone carried the opera through ; anything more vivaciously , spontaneously grotesque than his Dulcamara cannotbe imagined . Miss Laura Eeene quits the Lyceum this week , and the drama at the same time . I hear she has a fine contralto voiee , and is going to Italy for study . Her part in the Chain of Events will be sustained by Miss M . Oliver . - . _ Buekstone took his benefit on Wednesday , and produced a five-act comedyy The Fotmdlings , on the occasion . I will report next week . On the same evening Henry Farren also took a benefit , and played Richelieu , for the first time . The season of benefits announces a close of the dramatic season . Hurrah ! Vivian .
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JtfkE m , 1851 ! . ] . " ¦ ' T H E LEADER . 595
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Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1852, page 595, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1940/page/23/
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