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coaches. Vestris is fluttering round Ireland, while her clever rival. 

 Miss Sidney, is playing " The Widow Bewitched" in her room. It is 

 recorded in language not imworthy of the theme, that " The son of 

 JMomus, Liston, has been nibbling at the glittering bait which Madame 

 Vestris threw out to join her " Olympic Games" next winter ; but it 

 was only a nibble — no bite ! He is wealthy— and might have thought 

 it infra dig. to quit the major for the minor. Cent, per cent, was a strong 

 temptation; but it was resisted, and the monarch of Farce will resume 

 his station at Drury-lane — engaging to play three nights a week, at £30, 

 a week, in preference to performing in three pieces every night at sixty 

 pounds per week. 



Miss Phillips, as tall, as mild, and as undisturbed as ever by the fall of 

 thrones and heroes, is gone to play tragedy in the west; and Miss E. 

 Tree, the pretty, the clever, and the lady-like, is gone to the ]\Iilton- 

 street theatre, into whatever known part of the earth that may be. We 

 presume somewhere in the east. But whether of the metropolis, of 

 IMadrid, or the land of the Mogul, passes our knowledge. We wish her 

 safe back in the civilized world again. 



Captain Polhill, who, as we have said, intends to make Drury-lane de- 

 cidedly operatic, has for that purpose engaged the two Woods ; the an- 

 nouncement characteristically declaring, that he intends to lop off many 

 other branches of the establishment — in consequence of which several of 

 the performers are taking their leaves. 



The world has probably forgotten little Clara Fisher, who has been a 

 girl of five years old these twenty years, and who may be therefore con- 

 gratulated upon her prospect of seeing out the whole living and coming 

 generation, before she escapes from her teens. But we are told that her 

 father, who, unsustained in this perpetual youth, acknowledges that he 

 grows old — 



" The venerable Frederick Fisher, (father of Miss Clara Fisher, in his 

 71st year, has at length yielded to the earnest entreaties of his family, and 

 intends starting for New York about the middle of August. He will take with 

 him a variety of models, executed by himself with great accuracy, and illus- 

 trative of the buildings in which the immortal bard commenced his early and 

 auspicious career." 



A famous name has just been lost to tragedy. Siddons died on 

 Wednesday, June 8. 



Siddons was the most extraordinary actress within memory, and, from 

 all tradition of previous powers, was probably the finest performer that 

 ever appeared on the British stage — we might even say, the finest on the 

 European stage. From all that has been recorded of the various talents 

 of the famous actresses who preceded her, she seems to have combined 

 all their claims — her person commanding, her voice thi? richest, most 

 sonorous, and most dignified that it was possible to conceive ; her coun- 

 tenance one of magnificent beauty ; her gestures classic in the highest 

 degree ; and her concepticm of character altogether unrivalled in her 

 time. She, suddenly, not merely distanced all competition, but extin- 

 guished all hope of rivalry Her Queen Catherine, Lady Constance, 

 Sirs. Beverly, and Lady ^lacbeth were perfection. Her JMrs. Beverly 

 has tlirown whole theatres into an agony of tears ; for such was the 

 touching power of her voice, and her singular talent for penetrating the 

 heart, tliat a single word, a sim])le gesture, or even a glance lias often 

 convulsed an audience. Her Lady Macbeth exhibited the grandest dis- 



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