20 NOVEMBER 1852, Page 12

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Although the shops were for the most part dosed on Thursday, and there was no post-office delivery in the latter part of the day, the theatri- cal managers evidently deemed themselves emancipated from the general rule, and the various houses remained open without an exception. At the Princess's, however, the occasion was marked by the delivery of a monody on the death of Wellington. Mr. I. W. Marston was the poet, and Mrs. Charles Kean the oratress. The monody is a neat composition, much resembling a complimentary leading article put into verse ; and as it was admirably spoken by the lady, who had attired herself in black, and taken her station by a large bust of the Duke, it produced an im- posing effect.