The farewell benefit of Mr. W. Farren, on Monday last,
was interest- lug- as a display of universal good feeling towards a great actor, who has survived those physical capabilities that are requisite for some of the most intellectual arts,- and now honourably retires. Performers from every One of the chief metropolitan houses were employed in the varied busi- ness of the evening, as if a congress of theatrical republics could alone express the respect due to so eminent an artist. Mr. Farren himself ap- peared as Lord Ogleby, in one act of The Clandestine Marriage, which was even more than sufficient for the present measure of his strength, and then took leave of the lamp-lit world amid the acclamations of the public and the handshakings of his professional brethren, who assembled on the stage
in a body, to make open demonstration of their feelings. ,•
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