The New Strand has added to its attractions the pleasing
pain of A Night of Suspense; which Mrs. STIRLING passes in the torments of jealousy, compressed into a short half-hour. It is one of those slight but clever French pieces, a monodrama, which entirely depends upon the talent of the performer to keep alive the attention of the audience : in this Mrs. STIRLING IS completely successful. She personates a jealous wife, angry with her husband for not taking her to a ball, and suspicious of his motives for leaving her at home: she sits up all night "nursing her wrath to keep it warm," and feeding her jealousy with such scanty fuel as the contents of a secret drawer afford. The gradual heighten- ing of the wife's passion, until it attains the customary climax a fit of hysterics, and the sudden revulsion of feeling when the light of day shows the presumed proofs of her husband's infidelity to be evidences of his constancy and tenderness, are expressed in a way to be ex- tremely effective. Miss FANNY TERNAN has been play ing in the Four Mowbrays. She is a very clever child; but the mechanism of her acting becomes very ap- parent in a second performance. Mr. HAMMOND has returned to these boards again, and resumed his popular part of the Nigger Othello in the burlesque ; in which he is seconded with humour and cleverness by Mr. A. WIGAN as the Irish Ingo.
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