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i I7^e bodies of the councry had been denied 

 r T° ion to Mr. O'Connell, but they subsequently met 



? l *Uid before the countr y a declaration which 

 H be for ever memorable in their annals, record- 



W< T their indignant protest against the policy by which 



Ik! Government of this country was guided, and 

 nst the treatment which one of the most lllus- 



tnous of her sons had experienced, and, above all, 

 nifving on the part of the municipalities with which 



thev were' connected, that they would never be satisfied 

 . l legs than domestic legislation. When he witnessed 



that scene he felt that the real governor of Ireland was 

 in Richmond Bridewell. He ridiculed the order for ex- 

 1 dine Repeal buttons from the Castle and the Barrack, 

 and the administration generally of Lord de Grey, who, 

 he said, had been lately observed drilling the Police in 

 the Park, and teaching them to shoot Repealers after 

 the most'approved fashion of the Yorkshire yeomanry. 

 Mr O'Brien next spoke of her Majesty, and the kindly 

 sentiments which she was known to entertain towards 

 this country, but now she was not permitted to express 

 them. He referred to the Emperor of Russia, whom he 

 called the " monster Nicholas," who, he said, was a new 

 firebrand let in to vex this country. Did they want to 

 mtke a Poland of Ireland ? After sime further obser- 

 vations, he commenced reading the address to the Queen. 

 He then alluded to the rumoured resignation of Minis- 

 ters and promised the assembly that no compromise 

 should be made with the Whigs on the subject of Re- 

 peal, and that if they looked for Irish support, they must 

 be prepared to concede that measure. The address was 

 uaanimously adopted, after which, Mr. M'Nevin, bar- 

 rister, moved the suspension of the standing orders, for 

 the purpose of passing a resolution condemnatory of an 

 article in the Limerick Reporter, which exhorted Re- 

 pealers to arm themselves, and show a passive resistance 

 to the payment of rents. The younger Mr. O'Connell 

 seconded the resolution, and strongly reprobated the dan- 

 gerous excitement of the Limerick journalist. The rent 

 for the week amounted to the large sum of 3389/. 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



theatricals. 



Italian Opera. — "Don Carlos, 1 ' the new opera by 

 Signor Costa, was performed for the first time on Thurs- 

 day night, with complete success. It is a work which 

 entitles its author to a high place among the dramatic 

 composers of the modern Italian school. He has been 

 fortunate in the subject and its dramatic treatment, the 

 piece having been written by Signor Leopoldo Tarantini. 

 a distinguished poet, who has produced a lyrical tragedy of 

 much beauty and interest. The performance was excellent 

 in every respect, and at the close of the piece S. Costa 

 and Grisi were called for and welcomed with acclamations. 

 Her Majesty and Prince Albert were present, and alto- 

 gether it was a gratifying night to the composer, whose 

 success in a most difficult undertaking was complete. 



Hay/market Theatre.— The Prize Comedy.— The 

 long-anticipated prize comedy, by Mrs. Gore, «• Quid pro 

 Quo, or the Day of Dupes," which the judges selected 

 from upwards of 100 competitors, to receive the reward 

 of oOOV. promised by Mr. Webster, was brought forward 

 on Tuesday night. The anxiety to be present produced 

 a rush to all parts of the house, which was completely 

 crowded, before the curtain drew up, with a highly 

 excited audience. Boxes, pit, and gallery were on the 

 7<« vive, and manifested much impatience at a short 

 delay which took place before the orchestra commenced 

 the introductory performance. When Mr. Webster 

 came forward to speak the prologue, he was greeted with 

 tne most hearty cheers, which were repeated again and 

 again before he concluded ; and when the curtain drew 

 »P, it was evident that great pains had been taken to put 

 ne play on the stage in the most effective manner ; but 

 ~rT faefore a word was uttered some low hissing 

 Bounds from different parts of the theatre indicated the 



da^ en ? °l a h ° Stile P art y determined if possible to 

 shnwtk ^P"^ from time to time, continued to 

 I " lnen >selve 8 , and often created an uproar, as the 

 unfair"^ " 17 ° f the a «dience were indignant at such 

 "Tnr !u and 80Unds of "Disappointed authors!*' 

 xurn them out!" mingled with applause and hiss- 



The r , requentI y interrupted the progress of the play. 

 aJt-l T acters,n the comedy are the Earl of Hunsdon, 

 nnoT v ? ni8ter » < Mr - Stuart), whose whole soul is set 

 hearMp i ? 8nd P lace 5 his wife (Mrs. Clifford), a 

 Kishe^ 8 lad y° fhi ghlife; his son, an Etonian, (Mrs. 



citizen fM r dlns in im P udence and slan S * a retired 

 andeairpp* . tnckland X panting after the aristocracy, 

 (Mrs Gl v Iumate the Hunsdons; the citizen's wife 

 opposed tnVk * vu, 6 ar » good-hearted woman, entirely 

 their *erl \ anstocra tic tendencies of her husband ; 



upon he7 a n V yH (Mrs * Humb y)> P ridin 5 herself 

 (Mr. Bucks? \ S ° f decorum J a tuft-hunting captain 



a nd a relative f Wh ° act8 as toady t0 tbe Countess >' 

 tleman (Mr V ^ D ° ble fami, y> a judicious old gen- 



the characters oV?^ W . h ° 8ayS shar P thingS ' Theae *** 

 souses whn i P ,ec e, though there are other per- 



Pl°t which hd ° Ut the plot ' if that may be Called a 

 of the i)i ece ^h 01 '"" 6 to do witn tlie success or failure 

 of g a y livel p,ay ' ind eed, was rather a succ< 



Modern cha ^ 8cene8 » exhibiting several varieties u. 

 thc foibl e8 QMS?' 1 and aboundin 5 in smart allusions to 

 pected. Th i day ' tnan such a comedy as was ex- 

 8erer al small f the " Da V of Dupes" arises from 



dramatis ».i. 8trata ? ems "*»cu are played off by the 



the navy uk P a8aln8t e * Ch other A lieutenant in 

 n oble man ^a 2 the Uunsdon9 by pretending to be a 



« c ^ a bor'onl ou t oThi ^ **!*"$ by hh agent ' who 



^gn out of his hands. It will be ' 



uccession 

 es of 



the foregoing outline of the comedy, that its claim 

 to dramatic excellence consists in the multiplicity 

 of its characters, and in placing them in perplexing 

 situations. As an exhibition of English manners, which 

 was one of the objects proposed to be accomplished, 

 it is an utter failure, for not one of the characters 

 presented can be recognised in any rank of society. 

 The only moral inculcated is the injurious tendency of 

 private theatricals, and even this is managed so com- 

 pletely in burlesque as to miss its aim. In dramatic 

 interest" Quid pro Quo" is altogether wanting, and the 

 confused manner in which it terminates exhibits want of 

 skill in the playwright. Its claim to merit is some smart- 

 ness occasionally in the dialogue, and a few pointed allu- 

 sions to passing events. The audience were for a long 

 time very enduring, and succeeded in putting down the 

 attempts of the hostile party before noticed, but towards 

 the end of the third act, when the plot was becoming 

 more perplexed, without any increase of interest, and 

 even the dialogue began to flag, the malcontents became 

 more powerful. In the last scene many of those who had 

 been staunch supporters throughout relaxed in their 

 efforts, and some allusion to repetition was met with a 

 storm of " Noes " that could not be suppressed. Alter 

 this tempest had somewhat subsided, Mrs. Nisbett came 

 on to deliver the epilogue, but the uproar was renewed 

 with so much vehemence that she retreated. Mr. 

 Webster then came forward, and after having for a long 

 time vainly attempted to procure a hearing, he spoke to 

 the following effect : — * Ladies and Gentlemen — This 

 play has cost a large sum — (Uproar) — and a large sum 

 has been expended on its production. The comedy 

 was not selected by me ; it was chosen by a committee 

 of gentlemen of the highest literary talent. (No, 

 no !) All I have to request is that you will hear it to the 

 end ; then your award will be attended to." This speech 

 was received with cheers, and Mr. Webster, after retiring, 

 shortly returned, leading on Mrs. Nisbett, when the epi- 

 logue, in which Mrs. Humby took part, was listened to 

 without producing any effect, and was followed by 

 another storm. The piece may be played for a few 

 nights more, but if any judgment is to be formed of the 

 temper of an audience, the failure is unquestionable. 

 Though the hissers were resisted by applauders, the 

 latter did not attempt to call for the actors, or exhibit 

 any of the usual signs of enthusiasm in its most conven- 

 tional form. Such has been the termination of the long- 

 expected play, which has been such a costly affair to the 

 manager. He did his best to give it every advantage 

 which good scenery and good acting could afford, but the 

 play was so feeble, that no acting and no stage appoint- 

 ments could render it popular. We subjoin the names 

 of the judges who made the selection from upwards of 

 one hundred other comedies :— Charles M. Young, Esq. ; 

 E. R. Moran, Esq. ; Henry Ottley, Esq. ; J. Clarke 

 Searle, Esq. ; the Rev. Alexander Dyce ; G. P. R. 

 James, Esq. ; Charles Kemble, Esq., (chairman). 



former occasion, came forward on Monday to oppose 

 the reversal of the previous decision : — 



Ainsworth, P. 

 Berkeley, G. F. 

 Bake, M. 

 Browne, R. D. 

 Childers. J. W. 

 Clay, Sir W. 

 Cunie, R. 

 D'I>raeli, B. 

 Ellice, E. 

 Fitzwilliam G. 



Hall, Sir B. 

 Heathcote.G. J. 

 Hosk .ns. K. 

 Lead -r. J. T. 

 Lereson. Lord 

 Macauly, T. B. 

 Matheson, J. 

 M orison, (ieneral 

 Murphy, F. S. 



Pattison, J. 

 Pi pot, D. 



P .insnnby, C. F. A. 

 Ramsbottom, J. 

 Rioe, E. R. 

 Smith. B. 

 Somers. J. P. 

 Stock, Se<geaut 

 Turner, E. 



this man to be a 

 Numerous proofs 

 is shown that he 

 blame for the de- 

 Doctor discovered 



jfttttsceliaiuous* 



Analysis of Division on Mr. Miles' s Motion 

 Friday. — Majority for it 20. 



FOR— TELLERS INCLUDED. 



Liberals 182 

 Tories 61 



. 



243 



Monday, June 17. 



AGAINST— TELLERS INCLUDED. 



Liberals 15 

 Tories 203 



223 



Majority against it, 23.* 



Liberals II 



on 



less than 

 Friday. 

 246—38 more than 

 on Friday. 



257 



Liberals 196—14 more than 



on Friday. 

 Tories 39—22 less than on | Tories 



Friday. 



235 . 



The following 48 Members who had not voted with 



the Ministry on the division of Friday, assisted Sir R. 



Peel on Monday in reversing the previous decision of 



the House. Those four, whose names are printed in 



Capitals, voted on the previous occasion with Mr. Miles : — 



Masterman, J. 



Maxwell, J. P. 



Milumay, H. St. J. 



Newry, Viscount 



Patret, Lord W. 



Palmer, G. 



Powell, Colonel 



Price, R. 



Ryder, G. D. 



Sheppard, T. 



Smollett, A. 



Thompson, Aid. 



TURNOR, C. 



Vivian, J. E. 



Welle sley, Lord C. 



Wyndham, Colonel 



Ackers, J. 

 Acland, T. D. 

 Acton, Colonel 

 Antrobus, E. 

 15AGGE, W. 

 Beresford, Major 

 Buckley, E. 

 Bunbury, T. 

 Burrell, Sir C. M. 

 Charteris, F. 

 DOUGLAS, Sir H. 

 E iton, R. J. 

 Etnlyn, Viscount 



Fitzroy, H. 

 GORING, C. 

 Grogan, E. 



Hardy, J. 

 Hawkes, T. 

 Hepburn, Sir T. B. 

 Hotham, Lord 

 Houldsworth, T. 



1 1 ton, S. 



Jolliffe, Sir W. G. 

 Kemble, H. 

 Knight, F. W. 

 Law, C. E. 

 Lawson, A. 

 Legh, G. C. 

 Lopes, Sir R. 



Lvall, G. 

 Mackinnon, W. A. 



Mitchell, T. A. 



Morgan, C. 

 Pollington, Viscount 



Pringle, A. 

 Rolloton, Colonel 



seen 



from 



Marsham, Viscount 



The following 15 Members, who supported the Ministry 



on Friday, did not aid on Monday in negativing a 



deliberate decision of the House : — 

 Blandford, Marquess Estcourt, T. G. B. 

 Bright, J. Greenall, P. 



Coctirane, A. Heathcoat, J. 



Cresswell, B. Hillsborough, Earl 



Drax, J. S. W. James, Sir W. C. 



The following 37 Members, who formed part of Mr. 

 Miles's majority, withheld their aid on the subsequent 

 division, four of the number passing over to the oppo- 

 site ranks : — 



GORING, C. 

 Henley, J. W. 

 Howard, Sir R. 

 Lascelles, W. J. 



Mangles, R. D. 



Marjoribanks, S. 



Metcalfe, H. 



Muntz.G. F. 



O'Brien, A. S. 



Ossulston, Lord 



Paget, Lord A. 

 Pennant, Colonel 



BAGGE, W. 



Blewitt, R. J. 



Bodkin, W. H. 



Bailer, C. 

 Christopher, R. A. 



Clements, Vise. 



opelainl, Aid. 



Dashwood, G. H. 



Dick, Q. 



DOUGLAS, Sir H. 



Enuvistle. W. 



Fielden, W. 



Phillpotts, J. 

 Pulsford, R. 

 Rashleigh, W. 

 Repton W. J. 

 RumboUi. C. E. 

 Shirley, E. P. 

 Smith, A. 

 Taylor, E. 

 Troll. >i»e. Sir J. 

 Tl/RNOU. C. 

 Wadtlington, H. S. 



Wall, C. B. 



Murray, A. 



Had the following 11 Members, who have on other 

 occasions voted for a diminution of duties, and who have 

 been considered supporters of free trade, voted with Mr. 

 Miles on Monday, the Ministry would have been again 

 left in a minority : — 



Bouverie, E. P. Gibson, M. Ricardo, J. L. 



Cobden, R. Havier, W. G. Thornier, T. 



Ellice, W. Humphrey, Aid. Warburton, H. 

 Forstvr, M. Marsland. H. 



^* In the official List of the Division, the name of Mr. James 

 is erroneously printed among the supporters of Government, 

 when-as he really voted fol Mr. Mil- - motion. Deducting, 

 therefore, Mr. James's name from the Ministerial " noes," and 

 adding Mr. Q. Smythe's name— which was omitted irom thc 

 list— to the ayes, the actual majority obtained by GoewiMMPt 

 on Monday was 20, instead of '22, as the authorised list stated. 

 But lor the e even fret trailers, who voted with the Minister, he 

 would have been in a minority of 4. 



Colonel Stoddari and Captain Conolly. — Captain 

 Grover has received letters from Dr. Wolff, dated Meshed, 

 from the I 1th to the 24th of March. At Askarea, two 

 miles from Meshed, Dr. Wolff was met by Mullah 

 Meshiakh, the Jew of Meshed who assisted hitn in 1831, 

 when he escaped from slavery at Torbad. He was ac- 

 companied by Mohammed Ali Seraf, Colonel Stoddart's 

 agent. They had heard of his approach by the caravans. 

 This Mohammed Ali Seraf was the man through whose 

 hands passed all the letters, and the doctor says 

 11 In less than two hours I found 

 lying, treacherous scoundrel !" 

 are given of his villany, and it 

 alone, and not Colonel Sheil, is to 

 tention of the Sultan's letter. The 

 that this man had property in his possession belonging 

 to Colonel Stoddart of the value of 2000/. sterling. 

 Sir Moses Montefiore had kindly written letters to the 

 Jews of Bokhara, Samarcand, Balk, and Kokan, which 

 were to have been sent through a highly respectable 

 Jew of Meshed, named Mullah Medee; but Colonel 

 Sheil, of course, according to Colonel Stoddart's direc- 

 tion, sent them to this Mohammed Ali Seraf. Dr. 

 Wolff inquired about these letters, and found the most 

 important one, that addressed to the Jews in Bokhara, 

 still in his possession, with the seal broken. Dr. Wolff 

 took this letter, and, as it was no longer of use, he has 

 returned it to Sir M. Montefiore, through Colonel Sheil. 

 In a subsequent letter Dr. Wolff mentions that Aga 

 Abool Kasem, a respectable merchant, formerly British 

 Agent, informed him that Colonel Stoddart had sent to 

 Mohammed Ali Seraf shawls to the value of 1000/. 

 sterling, for the purpose of raising money to pay 

 for some land. The Doctor says— " 1 asked him about 

 that. He replied, that he had still the shawls in his 

 possession, and that he intends to deliver them to 

 Colonel Stoddart's sister in person ! You see by thia 

 that the fellow is a rogue." Dr. "WoIfF was to be 

 escorted by 270 Turcoman chiefs to Bokhara. He gives an 

 interesting accouut of their having been assembled in a 

 tent by the Viceroy, who showed them the letters of the 

 Sultan, the King of Persia, the English and Russian En- 

 voys, and thus addressed them :— " Here I recommend 

 to you an English Mullah, recommended to the Kings 

 of Bokhara and Khiva by four Sovereign Powers I " 

 They stroked their beards, and swore to convey him in 

 safety to Bokhara. Another chief of a caravan, named 

 Kurban, who goes to Bokhara every three months, states, 

 that Stoddart and Conolly are alive, and imprisoned in 

 the Kalai, outside Bokhara; and the Doctor says, 

 " Kukulli, a Turcoman chief, showed me a letter from 

 his brother at Bokhara, in which he states that Stoddart 

 is alive to a certainty, and his Excellency the Assoof 

 Adowla (Viceroy) of Khorassan, to whom I sent the 

 King'i courier to inquire where I should go to meet him, 

 at Madaan or Meshed, sent me word that Stoddart and 

 Conolly were alive last year." Dr. Wolff states that the 

 Saleh Mohammed who communicated to Colooel Shell 

 the report of the death of Stoddart ana Conolly 18 not 

 the Saleh Mohammed whom he knew m the year 1826. 

 He also mentions that an Ambassador from Russia had 



just arrived at Bokhara. 



Sub-marine Satiety.— -The American papers contain 

 interesting accounts of a series of experiments with anev 

 rfub-marine battery invented by Mr. Colt. The experi- 

 ments took place at Washington. The bank of the 

 river for a long distance, was lined with spectators who 

 had assembled to the number of ten thousand, exclusive 

 of those in the steamers and the small sailing cratt which 

 lav in thc river to witness the experiment. The Presi- 

 dent was on boird one of the steamers, in honour of 

 whom a salute was fired from the navy-yard on the arri- 

 val of the steam-boat nt-ar the place where the experi- 

 ment was to be made. At five o'clock the ship was put 

 in sailing condition, her sails squared to the wind, and 

 at a given signal from her commander, the cables were 

 slipped and the vessel started on her course. The cap- 

 tain and crew remained on board until within a ° ouC m ^ 

 yards of the spot where the batteries were placed. A o 



'the time of her starting a beautiful {^^Jteended 

 up at some distance from the vessel, the w-i 



Gishorne, T. , 



The following 29 Members, who did not vote on the 



more thai a hundred feet, as a signal fro.* »**"™" 



a„ things .ere then ^JZ**£7<£m 9 



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