22 NOVEMBER 1856, Page 9

At Astley's, there is an equestrian version of Dyed, constructed

much on the same principle as the Surrey melodrama,—that is to say, the avenging Negro is made more of a doer and less of a talker than in the novel. The submersion of Tom Gordon's followers in the swamp, while riding in pursuit of the fugitive slaves, is the chief feature of the piece considered as an exhibition of equine dmility.