16 FEBRUARY 1856, Page 11

Actors who play for a single night and then vanish

are not common phenomena now-a-days ; but on Tuesday last it was proved at the Hay- market Theatre, that the quality of being " stage-struck " has not yet passed away from human nature. A gentleman of elderly appearance, on that memorable occasion, represented the hero in Kotzebue's Stranger, with an air of dignity that would have done honour to the official chief- tain of a parish.