Obituary.

of the Tower . He married Lucy , daughter of Thomas , Lord Pelham , and sister and heir of the then Duke of Newcastle . He loft a son , Avho eventually inherited the earldom , and who was fortunate enough to obtain for his relative , the duke , a fresh patent of his dukedom with remainder to himself . It is in consequence of this alliance that the Newcastle famil }' to the present day

, , bear the double name of Pelham-Clinton . The nobleman who thusfirst combined in his person the names , moneys , aud ^ estates of tho ; Pelhams and the Clintons , Avas the great grandfather of the nobleman whose life closed last Tuesday . The late duke married iu November , 1832 , the Lady Susan Harriot Catherine Hamilton-Douglas ,

onlydaughter of the late Duke of Hamilton and Brandon , but the marriage Avas not a happy one , and it ended in a separation , and eventually a divorce . His Grace had five children by this union—a daughter , Lady Susan Charlotte , now the widow of Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest , and four sons , of Avhom the eldest , Henry Pelham Alexander , Earl of Lincoln , succeeds to the title as sixth duke . The new duke Avas born in 1834 , and married in 1861 Henrietta Adela , daughter and heir of the late Henry

Thomas Hope , Esq ., of Deepdene , Surrey . There is issue one son , now Earl of Lincoln , who was born on the 28 th ult . His grace , who is an officer in the Royal Sherwood Rangers and a deputy lieutenant for Notts , sat as M . P . for tho borough of Newark from 1857 to 1859 . Ho contested Nottingham unsuccessfully in December , 1861 .

The late duke was a privy councillor in England and also in Ireland , one of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster , Lord Warden of the Stannaries , and Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotnlornm of Nottinghamshire , Avhich offices fall by his decease to the disposal of Lord Palmerston . His grace was initiated iu the Apollo University Lodge ,

Oxford ( No . 357 , late 460 ) , on the 12 th March , 1832 , and on the 14 th of May , 1860 , Avas , hy the desire of the Masons of Notts , amongst whom he was very popular , appointed Prov . G . Master of Nottinghamshire , and had only just begun to take an active part in the business of the Order when he Avas attacked by that illness Avhich has unhappily proved fatal . The present duke was also initiated in the Apollo University Lodge .

Bro. John Hollins, P.M. And Treas. 169, W.M. 147.

BRO . JOHN HOLLINS , P . M . AND TREAS . 169 , W . M . 147 .

This esteemed brother Avas initiated about seven years ago in the Temperance Lodge , and in 1860 , he served the office of Master of that lodge , and Avas elected Treasurer twice in succession . He afterwards joiued the Crystal Palace Lodge , and remained a member of it for two or three years . He joined the Lodge of Justice four years ago , and was installed as W . M . last January . He

was exalted into Royal Arch Masonry iu the Domatic Chapter , and when the Temperance Chapter was founded was the first J , and was exalted H , but was too ill to occupy his position in the chapter . He Avas a builder hy profession . He was cut off in the prime of life—his age being only forty-two . He has left a widow and family to deplore their irreparable loss . He ivas greatly esteemed and respected by all who kneAV him , and his loss Avill be greatly felt by all the members of the Craft who knew him .

Public Amusements.

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS .

DRURT LANE THEATRE . The revived play of " Cymbeline , " and the return to the stage of Miss Helen Fancit , brought together on Monday evening a very numerous and fashionable assemblage . The audience Avas not only a notable one on

numerical grounds , but as comprising a large proportion of playgyers AVIIO evidently came Avifch " cherished remembrances of a pleasant theatrical past , the occasion was invested with all the interest that belongs to a reawakening- of agreeable associations . An actress who revisits in maturity the stage from which she retired in her youthrequires to be attended by a train of her

, former admirers , in order to give a proper assurance of the position that she previously held on the boards , and rarely has the re-entry of a popular favourite been more fitly accompanied or more heartily welcomed . Miss Helen Faucit could have chosen no character more likely to recal a train of pleasant reminisences than Imogen . It was in the embodiment of this type of feminine excellence

that her abilities Avere first fully displayed , and among all Shakespeare ' s heroines it would be difficult to mention one that subjects the poAver of the performer to a severer test . It Avas as Imogen that the young actress , Avho has so rapidly gained the favour of the town , gave the earliest proof of being freed from mannerisms Avhich had clearly indicated the conventional school in which she

had been trained . It was then , trusting more to the impulses of nature than the misguiding suggestions of tutors in stage-craft , that her emotions found a new channel for their expression , and the result Avas a performance replete Avith true feeling , and characterised by a poetic grace and charming simplicity which left no attribute of the character unrepresented . It was not , of course ,

to be expected , even by those who , in the permanence of the first impression , had forgotten the lapse of time giving the best proof of its durability , that in resuming the part after so long an interval the actress could revive the freshness of the fascinations which had belonged to it in the days of the memorable Macready management . Experience has proverbially to be dearly purchased , and on the stage especially it is frequently only attained after the sacrifice in exchange of many valuable physical adA-antages . In the earlier scenes of the play a

spectator might have recognised the difficulty of recovering the control of an art Avhich has been for some time interrupted in its habitual exercise ; but as the action advanced the actress regained much of her wonted SAvay over the hearts of the audience , and with the boy ' s dress Avas again assumed that gracefulness of aspect and earnestness of expression which in other days had enlisted

so thoroughly the sympathies of the public . The play , so peculiarly adopted to exhibit in full employment the talents of an efficient company , Avas in all its prominent parts well represented , aud Mr . Phelps again gives the strongest interpretation of the trusting love and the torturing belief in ' its betrayal , which the relying , the revenging , and the ultimately repentant Leonatus

Fosthumus is called upon to depict . Mr . Oreswielc , as the crafty Iaehimo , does not attempt to convey the idea of the subtle Italian Avho is spurred to his fiendish enterprise by malice alone , and Avhich , as once illustrated ,

converted the character into another Iago , but he wisely adopts the style of later representatives , and exhibits the bold-faced libertine more as the voluptuary than the villain . Laughingly incredulous of that female virtue existing under northern skies Avhich , in his own sunnier clime , he has failed to discover , Iaehimo may be supposed to entertain the project as a mere trial of skill to solve

an existing doubt , and from this point of view Mr . Oreswick rendered the part with excellent effect . To the judicious delivery of Mr . Henry Marstou the fine speeches that are allotted to the banished lord , Belarius , were appropriately assigned , and those were given with a declamatory diguity that commanded the reverential attention of the auditory . The supposed sons of the

disguised nobleman , Gidderius and Arviragus , Avere endowed Avith the requisite youthful and chivalric spirit by Mr . G . F . Neville and Mr . Warde ; and their real father , Cymbeline , found a sonorous and characteristically rugged representative of the British King in Mr . A . Rayner . The faithful servitor ,