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The greatest novelty of the evening was a 

 young Australian actress, to whom the drama 

 was as much a novelty as she became to us 

 this evening ; and consequently she had no me- 

 dium of comparison by which her judgment 

 could be directed. Her predominant fault was a 

 want of feeling. In the very affecting scene, 

 where poor Henry, long supposed to be lost, 

 returns to his beloved and disconsolate Caroline 

 • — he was in ranting raptures, while she re- 

 ceived him in the most hard-hearted manner 

 that can be conceived, uttered the expressions 

 placed by the author into her -mouth as a mere 

 matter of course ; and, as the unfeeling crea- 

 ture evidently showed that she neither felt nor 

 understood the sentiments uttered, it proved 

 no affecting scene either to actors or auditors. 

 However, "Advance Australia;" the lady and 

 the colony, we thought, are both young. As 

 for the rest of the corps, they too often mistook 

 indecency for wit, and probably by so doing 

 they pleased the majority of their audience ; if 

 so, both parties would be satisfied. The pit 

 contained those usually seen in the galleries of 

 the theatre at home ; and squabbles, threats, 

 and actual combats, served to amuse some, and 

 discipline others ; and the various scenes and 

 expressions in both pit and boxes excited in our 



