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      were to continue much longer arrayed against each other in hostile bands , a positive feeling of enmity might be engendered , calculated to entail heavy calamity upon both , and to afford a spectacle over which the friends of liberty and human progress would moura in every quarter of the globe . For tlese reasons we dare not sympathize with the specious ' platform * put forth by the Republican party , that has at length revived from the comatose state in which it had quietly lain for the last quarter of a century . The candidates nominated by this party are Colonel John Charles Fremont , the " Pathfinder of the Rocky Mountains , " Judge Dayton . Personally we believ e these gentlemen to be men of considerable abilities and of estimable character . But the ruler of a great nation must be something * more than a

      coureur des prairies , or explorer of mountain ranges . He must not be a daring adventurer , but a calm , collected statesman , and the only science that will avail him is the traditional science of government . To those wlio may be curious as to the antecedents of the Republican candidate for the President ' s chair , we can recommend the perusal of Mr ; Sumcker ' s " Life of Colonel J . C . Fremont . " It is notyindeed , a particularly artistic performance , nor is the inflated style he affects muck to our taste , but his outline of facts and incidents appears to be correct and well authenticated . The chief attraction of his book , however , is Colonel Fremont ' s manly and simple narrative of his own adventures amidst the Rocky Mountains .

      Mr . Woodworth ' s little volume is merely what it professes to be , a book for : children . We wish as much could be said for the vulgar , incomprehensible effusion by the Episcopalian Clergyman . According to his own statement he was looked upon as *' a fine preacher , but not right upon the goose . " Tliis phrase is afterwards explained as the symbol of pro-slavery opinions . Not to be right upon the goose indicates abolitionist tendencies , arid consequently the Episcopalian Clergyman was not in very good order at Kickapoo . Judging from , his 'writings , we should be surprised to hear that he was popular in any quarter , and it is difficult to conceive how such senseless cacklings would be expected to benefit the Republican cause .

      Tradition , indeed , lays the Eternal City under a considerable obligation to the bird of St . Michael , but Col . Fremont ' s chance of success must be very small if it depend upon a grey goose quill from even a consecrated pinion . Mr . Hall ' s history of the past and present state of the Republican party possesses the merit of being opportune . His style , however , is so immeasurably dry that few general readers will have patience to persevere unto the end . It is , of course , a partial statement of the principles of the Republican party , which alone , according to this writer , can save the United States from disruption , anarchy , and civil war . Mr . Hall is clearly not one of the Prophets .

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      THE LYCEUM—FABIAN—MR . DILLON . Fabian , or La Mesalliance , produced at the Lyceum on Thursday evening is somewhat indifferent translation of Le Docteur Noir , one of those memorabl dramas into which that wonderful actor Frederick Lemaitre struck the life of genius and of passion . These dramas were , for the most part , mere outlines consisting of three or four bold and startling situations , filled up the i ncom parable resources of the consummate actor's invention . Given an iuferior or Let us say , a merely respectable artist , and the copy of the grand original picture becomes a daub . We do not wish to speak at all harshly of an actor who dis plays so much good intention and so much apparent feeling as Mr . Dillon and who seldom departs from a certain ease and propriety , not so common anione our melodramatic actors as to be dismissed without a word of praise : but if Mr

      Dillon has not been the particular star of his own theatre too long to believe in the sincerity of any other form of criticism than that of extravagant praise he -will pardon our impression that lie shows no signs whatever of taking rank in his art with Frederick Lemaitrb or Edmund Kean ; and that to those among the audience of Thursday who were fortunate , or unfortunate enough , to remember Pbejdericic Lemaitre ' s Docteur Noir , "the Fabian presented a contrast far from agreeable . Mr , Dillon possesses neither the physical nor the intellectual requisites for the part : he has neither tlie temperament , nor the voice , nor the freedom and elegance of action , nor the intensity of feeling , nor the power of utterance , nor the sense of pathos ( not to speak of that ' " audacity-Which belongs to genius alone , and which in Frederick would ' carry- away' tlie house ) which , are necessary to give reality to such a part and to such a drama as Fabian .

      Injudicious , but undeniably influential , advisers are doing for Mr . Dillou irliat good-natured friends' proverbially doi but we lay no claim to that character or office , and we are accustoiiied to speak as we think . If an Edmund Kean were to appear an our stage once more , he could not be praised more extravagantly than Mr . Dillon has been ; and what , we may ask , becomes of criticism or of the art , if all distinctions of merit are to be forgotten , and a well-intentioned mediocrity is to be saluted as an advent of genius ? Mr . Dillon is by no means an unpleasing actor , and whether from good sense , or from inability , he does not bellow in passionate passages , and luu quiet manner disposes the more critical portion of an audience in his favour , and tells even with the uncritical , from its novelty . But , on the other hand , he seems incapable of relief or variety in the expression of strong emotions ; and in Fabian , for example , his abuse of what may be called the hysterical method , Is almost ludicrous . Mr . Dillon takes so much pains , that we see no reason why he should not be considered an improving actor ; to call him a rising actor would , perhaps , be less accurate .

      Fabian is very handsomely put on the stage ; and the Destruction of the Bastille , with accompaniment of the Marseillaise , was richly enjoyed by the audience . After the nauseating surfeit of Partant pour la Syrie , the true national air of France was cordially welcome to many who cannot cliuni to be considered revolutionists . We cannot say much for the rest of the company who performed in Fabian , except that Mrs . Cuari . es Dillon , who looks and speaks singularly like an amateur , acts up to Mr . Dillon with laudable carefulness . We have said that this translation of Le Docteur Noir is an indifferent performance . To justify this sentence let us recal one phrase : — Pabian : ll Let me precipitate myself from yonder window . " ' Precipitate 1 is net precisely the language of a man in a rury , who is on the point of dashing himself irom a third floor . Either this translation has been done hastily and carelessly by a competent hand , or it is the work of a hand ridiculously incompetent .

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      THEATRICAL NOTES . "We have to correct a slip of the pen which we committed last week in connexion with the operatic performances at Druuy Lane . The part of teonora in II Trovatore , in which Grisi appeared for the first time on Saturday week , had been previously performed at Her Majesty ' s Theatre , not by 'Mademoiselle Piccolomini , as we inadvertently stated , but first by Mademoiselle Jenny Nev , and afterwards by Madame Bosio . The Haymarket , on Monday , produced the School Jbr Scandal , for the purpose of introducing Mr . Murdoch in the part of Charles Surface . His success was of the same kind in this as in his other performances .

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      ANEW ' E ^ TERTArNMENT . ' An addition to the rather large stock of-monologues was made on Monday evening at a new room just fitted up at No . 315 , Oxford-street . Mr . Valkntine "Vousdbn , after a career of three hundred nights at Dublin , Cork , Limerick , Belfast , Waterford , Cionmel , Liverpool , Birmingham , &c . flew oh that occasion for the first time at the loftier game of n metropolitan audience , and presented to the public what he described as " a Poly national , Mimic Entertainment , " called " The LTnity of Nations . " Now ,-Mr . Vousden is manifestly an Irishman ; and his idea of " the Unity of Nations" is to make the representative of each a veritable Paddy . " One touch of Yousden makes the whole world Pat . " It matters not whether he is personating the mythological idea of Time , or representing a German " Buy-a-broom " girl , a go-ahead Yankee , tfn English sailor

      or a Scotch Highlander—there is the unconquerable brogue , the ever-dominant Hibernicisra . To this there is only one exception—his performance of a French dancing-master , where the broken and fragmentary English , largely interspersed with the supposed character ' s native language , hides the Irish cadence and aceentuation . The Yankee is good in point of deportment and swagger , and the nasal twang : is not entirely absent ; but the Irishman is perpetually breaking through . This is a serious drawback to the success of a performance which depends for its effect solely on the power of the impersonator to assume a great variety of individualities . Some other faults must also be noted . The monologue is not written with sufficient smartness , nor with the necessary reference to London ideas and tastes ; it is too long , some of the scenes—so to speakbeing wearisomely wiredrawn ; and the English sailor is a manifest mistake , having nothing of the salt ocean savour about him , but being a sentimental gentleman , delivering himself of dreary platitudes about contentment , friendship , and universal charity , all given out in very choice English words and a

      very strong Irish accent . Mr . Vousden , however , has many excellent qnaliHT which , with a little pains , he rnay develop with good effect . S 0 Ir ^ of V ?* songs were sung with great spirit and character ; he has considerable ^ lhv * t \ power ; his changes of costume are effected ^ ith a quickness perfectly Bte ««« and he is a master of every kind of dance , flinging about his legs ^ SS X none of the shortest ) with equal grace and agility . Nothing , indeed could i rpore humorous or true than his Frenchman ' s imitation of the Galilean J , English modes of going through quadrilles , polkas , &c . What he has toiJf is variety of accentuation ; what he has to guard against are the common w vincial faults of overcolouring everything by excess of energy , and ofwPiirvii , his audience by a too great length . \ . - . wear , ying Mrs . German : Reed resumed her former ' Entertainment' on Thursday even .

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      FKOM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , November 11 . BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . - Joseph Babksley , Rowley Regis , publican . BANK UUPTS . —Abraham Jjazabixs , High-sfcreofc , Wliitocliapel , tailor—James and Bartholomew Dbllagana , Bed Lion-street , Clorkenwell , stereotype founders—Thomas P&BBBE . E , Itamsgato , plumber—Benjamin Collins , lipton , boat builder-Wi . Li . iAM Robert Lewis , lato of Jiirxningham , baby linen dealer — Robebt Marston and Geoicge JVIabston . Loicestor , manufacturers of hosiery—Jambs Barlow , Bolton-lo-Moors , papcrhangcr — John Heuon Mason , Blaydon , Durham , glass bottle manufacturer . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS .-J . Smitit , jun ., Glasgow , metal roflncr—R . Bbimer , Dun fer inline , merchant — J . Oamphkll , Glasgow , clothier —J . Pjeddie , Glasgow , leather merchant . _ ., Friday , November 1 * . BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED . — LlVlAir Bkkson £ EAboe , York-road , King ' s-cross , cement merchant — I'ttAwoia Ba . vx , St . taul's-atroot , Now North-road , builder " ~ nu 4 MirS ^ S ?« Hoywood , Lancashire , cotton spinner . wWo ^^ P --Wilu ^ snny Ruck , Xooley-street , «« n \ . S ^ . tu cheeae > nanger — Jamkb Waikinshaw , Monk-Hh £ X ° ^ h jiV on . n » a-nufa < jturer-EDWABD Gurling , Praedo ™™« ™ £ \ i xfijf *? - carPe « ter — Tuo-mas Dorkington , & « w' v « f " ' » on merchant ~ -Alfred Page . nf » t South' sw « wi " r uaro ' »*><* manufacturer-John Alhi £ , Kft r » & « * merchant-William Remvk . siwirat ? t rkmhMH 2 « V . ? ' engtncer-Wim . ia * Ciias . Btbwabx , Cambridge , tailor — JTambs Edward Lobe ,

      Cricklewood , builder — OirARLES Henry Baker and Joseph Aoitilar , Adam-strcot , Adolphi , conionfc manufacturers— John Vatas Simpson , St . Swithiii ' s-lano , City , bill broker — Geokge Hawkins , Eden-place , Old Kentroad , oilman — Robert Joseph Elms and Stiietiull Fodeh , Liverpool , commission agents-Roj ? brt MacLean , Liverpool , licensed victualler—William Pehl , Stainclill'o , Yorkshire , blanket manufacturer— John Tannkh , Cliii > - penhara , carrior—PniLiP Kelland , Baraptoii , Devonshire , miller—VVxtiLiAM Tayjcob , York , grocer—ISb-ward Bim ke . Kings Korswoll , Devonshire , clay merchant—John Wben and JiDMUNU WflEN , Charlotfco-mows , Fitzroy-squaro , bedstead manufacturers—Geouge Ledwaud , Liverpool , boiler maker — William Faikbarnb , York-road , Kin ^' s-croas , coffeo-houso keopor—ROBEB-T Jonks , IlawarUon , Flintshire , innkeeper . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . —John . Tack , Glasgow , shoemaker — Robkrx SxuvvAftr , Paisley , bookseller—Thomas Ogilvx Watson , Edinburgh—Rojjkht M'Artuuh , Glasgow , cork manufacturer—Roburt Fulton , Edlnburffh , provision morclmvjit — Jamiss Wai-laoe , Glasgow , manufacturer .

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . NI 11 THS . LLOYD . — On the 10 th iuat ., at ; i , Ilai ' owood-squaro , the wife of Horace . Lloyd , Eaq ., barrister-at-law : u sou and hoi i * . JAMESON . —On tho 10 th lust ., at 3 ) onmark-hill , Mrs . W . K . JatuoHOn : a son . MAMIIAGE . TUDWAY—PIIIPPS . — On tho ( 5 th iiwt , in the parish

      church of Wcstbury , Wilts , tho Rev . Henry Tudwy . rector of Walton-in-Gordaiio , Somerset , only surviving son of the lato John Paine Tudway , of Wells , Ksq ., mnuy years M-P . for that city , to Mary Leck . onl > y , eldest daughter of John Lewis Pnipi ) S , Esci ., of LeighUm , in tho county of Wilts . DEATHS . SMITH . —On tho Dtli insfc ., suddenly , in tho camp , AUkrshott . in the 20 th j'car of his sitfo , deeply lainoiitml , Lwut . Sydney Smith , JI . M . ' a 77 th ltcghnent , fourtli sou or tho latoBriglib Smith , Esq ., of No . 12 , Bryanston-sauarc . \ VEDGVVOOD . ~ On tho Oth hub ., at Downo , agud «!> , Mm Sarah Wedgwood , daughLor of Josinh NVodgwoodi ot Etrurin .

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      . London , Friday Evening , NovemberU , 1850 . The Bank of England Directors have been iiKain olili ( 5 «? J tj > raise tho rnto of discount to 7 per cent , on al ndvances . uoui for long or short date . Tho causes that hnvo 1 °

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1856, page 1100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2167/page/20/