The death of Mrs. Glover, a few days spina& given
a melancholy in- terest to the benefit which she took at Drury rano Theatre yesterday week. Professionally speaking, she has died at the summit of glory. The chief actors from all the leading establishments contributed to the attrac- tions of the benefit, and the audience who honoured the " farewell " com- pletely crowded a theatre which no manager has of late years been able to fill. The obvious ill-health of the venerable actress while performing the part of Mre. Malaprop in the Rivals, her inability to speak an address which had been written for her, and above all, her appearance when she was shown in a chair to receive the greetings of the enthusiastic multi- tude, rendered the intelligence of her death, on Tuesday, less startling than it would otherwise have been. In a pecuniary point of view, we believe, the project of the benefit, with concomitant subscriptions, has proved successful almost beyond precedent The proximity of the death and benefit remind us of the decease of Mr. Kenney last year, under simi- lar circumstances.
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