ADELPHI THEATRE — UTILITARIAN PASTIME.
THE firm of " Mathews, Yates, and Elephant " had on Thursday night the high honour of a visit from one of the most remarkablO men that the last thousand years has produced,—Mr. de:Rem, Baarrimai. Great indeed must have been the attraction that drew from his privacy such a man, to the crowded benches and merry face,' of the :ittle Adelphi. It must at the same lime be admitted, that tla. monarchs of that happy imperiuni, and especially the junior occupant of its triple throne, afford a more uniform exemplification of the phi losopher s principles than most of their brethren do. For where cal " the greatest happiness of the greatest number " be more suq cessfully prosecuted, than in a house which is crammed ever nigh
to the ceiling, and from which the most saturnine of the thrum retires with sides and jaws and palms tingling with the mirth he ha:
enjoyed and the applause it has compelled? Perhaps it was ; conviction of this truth that called the head of the Utilitarian' from his retreat; but we rather lean to the opinion that he was lei thither by the child-like simplicity of his heart, and that innocen gaiety of temper which has been cherished and strengthened throug a long and honourable life by a series of labours. unremillingt, directed to the promotion of social happiness. Among the fine exhibitions of human nature, we know none more worthy of cor temptation, than that of a man who retains in the extreme verge life, not only all the powers of understanding, but all the liveliness e sensibility and play of fancy that characterized his prime of manhoue This is the "renewing of youth like unto the eagle," which is spoken c by the Psalmist,—the reproduction, not of physical vigour, as is fablet of the bird, but the renovation of kindly affections. The figure of BENTHAM is almost grand. There is an amplitude an. power and simplicity in his massive features, that remind us of the tut tique busts of the Father of the Gods. Those who have not see the philosopher may form a tolerably correct idea of his head fan the common portraits of FRANKLIN, a man of kindred though inferk mind. The arrangement of the hair is similar, the contour not unlike. but in FRANKLIN the forehead has less dignity, and the lower part of visage is fuller and more pendant. III BENTHAM the spiritual portit predominates—FRANKLIN, comparatively speaking, is " of the cart earthy ; " the expression of the Englishman's countenance is tread' —of the American's reflective ; FRANKLIN might have played Seth to BENTHAM'S Adam—the one made after the image of Go' the other begotten in the likeness of men.
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