9 AUGUST 1856, Page 11

Mr. W. Cooke's horses begin to tread on classic ground.

In other words, the ordinary acting version of Richard the Third has been produced in a compressed form at Astley's Amphitheatre. Bosworth field grows more animated from the equestrian character of the turmoil; and Richard's horse, "White Surrey," is seen as well as talked about; but still the play is not absolutely sacrificed to the ends of hippodrame. 'Mr. Holloway isa much better Gloster than might have been expected in the Houy n m district of Lambeth ; and the public seems disposed to admire the language of Shakspere as much as the docility of the quadrupeds.