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There is not much theatrical news this week . Videna has been -withdrawn from the bills of the Martiebone Theatbe , and another " legitimate drama , " called Love and Loyalty , has taken its place . It is possibly the result of a morbid fondness for melodramas—but we became physically incapable of going to see Love and Loyally the moment we heard that the period of the play was the period of tie Civil War in England . We can put upin the way of business—with a considerable quantity of stage conventionality . Dances of happy peasants—Adelphi felons returned from transportation , and accomplices they are obliged to bribe— " legitimate" old guardians who are in love with " sterling" young wards—the lover , with long tirades , who will ll take the stage" at the end of every sentence of clap-trap in his dialogue—the low-comedy drunkenness which never gets higher than the actor ' s legs—the charming young country girl with the ringlets , and the doll ' s hat always on one side of her head—the virtuous old man with the grey stockings , the broad beaver , the stick , and the incessant tendency to sit down
, Sigh , and tell stories—all these persons and things , and many more , we have put up with , and are prepared to put up with again . But like the barber in Nicholas Nickleby , -we must " draw the line somewhere . " And we have drawn it now , for some years past , at the civil war ( in plays ) . When we heard that we might see a Cavalier and a Puritan maiden , mutually attached , in love andLoyalty , and when we were further told that the dialogue was formed on the model of the peculiar " Elizabethan" jargon first introduced to the notice of the English public by Mr . Sheridan Knowles , we resolved to report the production of Love and Loyalty , but on no account to go and see it . We announce to our readers , therefore , that the play has been produced —we beg to inform them that the play-bills describe it as a great successand we entreat any of them who have " healthy" sympathies with the " legitimate" ( or jog-trot ) drama to go and witness the performance immediatel .
y If we could say more than this for Love and Loyalty we would ; but it is the jnisfortune of our peculiar position that we really can ' t . The Beulah Spa has been revived at the Olympic Theatbe , and has afforded the company another opportunity of distinguishing itself—Mrs . "Wigan , especially , having shown to the greatest advantage . But we know already that the company contains some of the best actors in London—and we know also that Mrs . Wigan , in her own peculiar line , is an ad- , mirable actress . What we want to see at the Olympic is , not the revival of old farces of middling merit for the sake of exhibiting particular actors in particular parts , but the production of new plays of some literary consequence and some dramatic interest , to raise Mr . "VVigan ' s management at the
Our readers will be glad to hear that Mr . Samuel Lover has completed a little one-act play , addressed to present war interests , called The Sentinel of the Alma . The piece is to be produced at the Haymarket , with Mr . Hudson for the hero .
Olympic to the place in public opinion which it ought to occupy . There is nothing he may not do—no liigh position he may not take , if he ( and his company ) please . But he will find it sadly against his true interests ( and theirs ) if he offers the public any more such revivals as the Beulah Spa .
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miOM . THE LONDON GAZETTE . 1 ucsday , November l < t . BANKRUPTS . —Hbnky Bois , T ' onohurch-streot , and Addiscom bo-road , Oroydon , merchant—William ' . Furnish , Bow-lano , Choapsido , tailor ' s trimming koIIoj—IUjjbakl UlONTi , * Grait JSlarl borough-street , and Vrincos-streot , Hauovor-squaro , sculptor—John Wijui-ky , Hi ^ h-street , Borough , cabinetmaker—John IIknry JJanjcs , Little Quoon-stroot , Holborn , ongvaver—Pu'jt . k Caothi ., 1 .. Long-acre , coaohmakor — John Bkovn , Winolu ; sfcor , carpenter— Samukl Obi ^ EH , Granfje-road , Jtarmondsuy , leather factor — John IiAMiMtiiTPain , Church-terrace , and Aldonhiun-stroot . St . Pancras-roiid , and Acton-place , linsniKKo-wells-road , builder ~ S-Amuei , BAII . KV , iJavios-striHst , Uorkoloy-squaro , hotolltoopor—lioiiJSHT Thomas , W ardour-street , Oxford-Htreot , tool makor — John JJknnistt llurtntrcct , Uloomsb .. r , y , avtists' brunh nianurnuturar— . Tohn Ojlay , WodncNbury , bricklayer—John itosKKY , Coventry , llconsod victualler—Thomas "Walkjsr Lindop , Oaimock , Statlbrduhiro , cattle dealer— HistyKY J ' kukb , Liverpool , porter niomhant—QKonais TIoYi . K and J on n TATTauiHAJ-ii ., "Whitowoll Bottom , near Nowahui'oh , Lnnciwhiro , uotlun nmnufiuMiurors—J asiks Drown , Miohaht , Bkown , anil Niciioi . ISwiffs , Jlouk Wcarmouih , Durhiun . buildum . I SCOTCH SKQUMSTitATIONS .-A . L . Ki . MbLiis , Auchtormwehty , Tjlwulolnn — J . Bo ^ viio , Glasgow , commisMlou merchant—M . 1 ' AVi . oit , or J ) oiSA . Jif . > HON , A . ljordt ! on , innkeeper —D . Fjusjsh , sou ,, JJlngwall , hardware morchunt — D . BnuuARi ) , Cairo , ltauuooh , mull contnwtoi— . 1 . M'Cai . i . um , Glasgow , umlth—A . XnoMi'aoN , Kothwull , Lanarkahiro , oontraotor . 1 ' riduy , November 17 . BANKRUPTS . — Thomas Wiinn , Culluiu-Htniot , dlnlillor -JAMBa Warwick Woomikiivih , MarUii ' . i-lano , Cannon-I otroot , uhlpownor-lloiiKitv 1 ' i . ioixiU , Croydon , ( Surrey , Kj-ocor and browor—Wiixiam Auhtin , OolchoHlwr , Enm . ' * , wholomilfi Ki'ocor ~ Quarxhh OloKiuNUHn , Qiusmi-atruot , Ooldon-miuaro , vlotuallor — Ohahmcm Lamdoi / hjv . JLpijk Ditton , Surrey , barKo-bulldo * and ( lontrnclor -Thomam Skj . iiy and Kii . as Nouton , Town Mailing , Kcnl , Mfrlveiii . TH 1 -Thomas Oakdnvhi . ! ,, 1 ' ark-torrnoo , Hnumitirtmilth , I pluinber and Khur . hr—VninmniOK Wiiitk , lOwol ) , Murrey , I uud Nortli-wtroel , ( Jhelaoa , browor ~ -G « o » ujK J > ijn » , Huslicy
Green , Kent , grocer and chcosomoiiKer— Grorgk Edward Fordygk , Anstey ' s-row , plumber—Jawus Johnson , Winchester , Surrey , buildor— Thomas Lawranch , liunding , Berks , draper—Citari . kb IMki . em , lJirmingliam , biiker—Jontf Hatks and Edwakd Bowkk , Leicester , spinners—HmvABD Ei-dikg , Donington , Lincoln , linondraper — Samuel Moore , Trowbridpo , Wilts , ( jrocer —Wiw . iam Grainoer the younger , Wnkefleld , York , porter merchant —GnopGE Lonqmork and James Lonomork , Manchester , provision merchants—Geohok Deanis and rituDKitiCK Youle , Liverpool , merchants .
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* The latest story -we have heard , is of a . bet between two lions at the Juukoy <; iub , of which a certain enlcvement was the subject , of an indignant brother , and of a challenge . At this point our deponent ceaseth .
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SCKAPS . The other day Mdlle . Rachel was very properly compelled by the Civil Tribunal to resume the rehearsals of M . Legouve ' s tragedy of Medea . We cannot , we confess , feel much antecedent sympathy for M . Legouve ' s heroine , and the objections of Mdlle , Eachel ' s brilliant and witty advocate to a part at once so truculent , and so stale had inuch of reason and of good sense . It appears to us almost a confession of weakness to write a tragedy on Medea , in 1854 , and ' the public who are now condemned to hear that Crimean lady slaughtering her children in the coulisses , would , perhaps , have been spared an infliction if justice had not triumphed before the Civil Tribunal , and Mdlle . EaeheFs unpardonable caprices had been condoned . Still , as a question of principle , for the same reason that makes us regret the facile acquiescence of the Imperial government in the caprices of Mdlle . Cruvelli , we rejoice in the vindication of the rights of authors in the person of M . JLegouvo , It now appears , that in virtue of the decision in his
favour , M . Legouve called on the administration of the Theatre IPrancais to fix a time for commencing the rehearsals , but M . Houssaye , the director refused to ~ ? * . ny da y- Accordingly , M . Legouve' summoned M . Houssaye before the Civil Tribunal to show cause for his refusal . The advocate of the theatre asked for a postponement for a week , but M . Iiegouve " s advocate insisted that the case should be gone into at once . The Tribunal fixed the hearing for Friday ( yesterday ) . A propos of Mdlle . Sophia Cruvelli , whether her mysterious disappearance was an affair of the heart , or of " capital letters" in the bills of the Opera or of compulsive admiration in high places , or a mere tiff with the manager , or whatever other of the hundred inventions of scandalous and idle sources we may select , * one thing is certain . The apology for this prodigal daughter by the ° ™« P £ « only equalled by Moliere ' s " ' - Et vozld pourquoi votrefille esi muette . " MdUe . Cruvelh ran away , and sent a commissionnaireto tell the management of the Opera she had flown : the letter miscarried- Mdlle . Cruvelli , sick of her escapade , desires to return repentant , hut is afraid to appear until her absence has been felt . As we write , we believe she has re-appeared in the HutruenotM Verdi brings back his new opera , and even Meyerbeer ' s Africaine , is once more whispered of for next June , if the International Exhibition is not deferred to more tranquil times . Meantime the success of M . Gounod ' Nonne Sanqlante is decided : but it is a success of reputation to the rather than of" " hiiw is ^ iai Acvui ^ j JI V / i
composer , vosue . — xr— - —«• - ' **«• •*« j ^ vstpw *} . UXACVI * UlilAC A new play de circonstance , by M . Scribe , of which no less a personage than Catherine the Second of Russia is the heroine , has been accepted and put in rehearsal at the Francais . The title of the play is La Tzurine . Mdlle . Rachel will be the Catherine : a part which , if M . Scribe aspires to be historically accurate , will tax all the resources even of the celebrated tragedienne . M . Bressant will , it is understood , be the Potemkin , or as a French critic announces , un JPotem-/ iin quelconque . A new drama , by Madame George Sand , LeJoueur de Violon , is in rehearsal at the Ambigu , for Bocage .
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M . Alexandra Dumas has lately produced a drama in five acts and six tableaux at the Qdeon . The title of this drama is Conscience : the principal character is played by Laferrifere , an actor of considerable power in pas-# . H . J ^ ff if , t - f - ~ - _ ___ r — _ _ , . ^ , ^__ _ -w _^ . ^ r ^^ ^^ | w ^^» ^^ 4 1 ^ VWfcJ sibnat
e expression , -with an occasional tendency to extravagance in gesticu lation , but of decided intelligence . According to Ms invariable custom ., M . Alexandt-e'Dumas announced his drama with a strong preliminary puff in his own journal , and , as usual , attacked his always indulgent ; critics with all the asperity of a conscience anticipating a just verdict . The natural and proper consequence of this presumption is , that the has brought he glasshouse . about his ears in the shape of very lenient but effective reproofs irom the critics -whose sting he had taken the questionable precaution to draw . In his grand Monte-L'hristo manner , M . . Dumas mentions , quite by the way , that , having been requested by Laferriere to write him a part , lie had read through the plays of the German actor-dramatist Ifiland , and . as the
result of his researches , had written the drama of Conscience in a week or ten days . He read the play to the actors ; its reception was icy ; it -was an utter failure . He pocketed the failure and the play , and was off to Brussels again ; but , at the earnest request of Laferriere , he consented to leave the at
manuscript the actor ' s disposal . JM . de Fiennes , in . the Siecle , corrects this free and easy- account as follows : —M . Dumas cannot read German ; Illland ' s numerous plays have never been translated , excepting a certain trilogy which ( fifteen acts in all ) an unknown dramatic manipulator had placed as so much raw material in the plastic hands of Alexandre Dumas , who was deep in tbeir perusal just when Laferriere asked him . for a part . " Here was a part : two tableaux a day , or fifteen tableaux in a week , are a bagatelle for Monte-Christo . The play was done : it was read : it was a failure— " too German , perhaps , " maliciously hints the critic . M . Dumas returned to Brussels ; Laferriere goes to an experienced " manipulator / ' M . Lockroy ; and it is M . Lockroy who recasts the drama of Conscience , and , in a word , makes it " possible" for acting . Conscience is a success — for Lafbrrifere and the Ooeon . Whether it is a success for the conscience of M . Dumas , we cannot say ; but our readers will agree with us that a dramatist of so easy a conscience should hesitate to criticise his critics—in advance . A caution to followers at homo .
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MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . I'Yitliiy KvonliiKi November 17 , MiM . Consols havo been drooping nil tho wook , tho iiown from 5 obu » tO {> ol boiiiKHtill niiMJitislHotory , and tho poHitioit of tho army i « nNflmmjd to bo moat critical . Added to all thin thoro has btum n comwloto panic ) in tlm Turkish Kix \> nr ( , ' ent . Scrip mnrkot . Oim heavy " Hull" Hpooulator having fuilort , uourly 40 , 000 / . of tho slock hiw boon thrown on tliu murkot , ami tho 3 to « k lias boon Uono aH low i \ m r » . s ]> out t > i' a now loan bojug ncBotiatod , or a now stock nruntctf in « r « l « jr to furiiihli mouoy to carry on tho wiir , would h < m ; iii inovilahlo . Mining nhai'oH havo bw . n but Hfrnroly duall in . iMiU no vory great iilturntionM in prloos , Cr , yHtal 1 'aluoon ari ; hUII Hat . 'J'U < J next account will bo a Irvlnn onn for hoiiuj of tl » i Bulls who havo uontrivod to tide over tliia account ., uiiIohh wo hiivo ( looitkxlly iinprovod adcountH from tho Urhxioa . ConaolH oronod , i > 2 , l )« A i cIonIiik priooH , OlU . tMJ . Rim » iau r > pur cunt ., 1 ) 0 , 1 ( 7 . TurklHluipoi'ciMit ., ( 1 , Odin . ; cloMiiiK prl « o ,
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Novembee 18 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 1101
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 18, 1854, page 1101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2065/page/21/
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