5 DECEMBER 1829, Page 8

KEAN.

KEAN played Richard the Third, on Wednesday night, at the house that "first fostered his talent," as well and with as much vigour as he has displayed for years past. We are not now trying him by our own standard of excellence,—we are merely trying him by his former self; and we state the result, for the purpose of scouting the interested re- port that he had lost his memory and his powers. Neither has his popularity abated. He was most triumphantly received by a crowded house ; and an attempt which a party, evidently organized for that pur- pose, made to obstruct his performing, was very speedily put down by a great majority of the audience. What will Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE do now ?