It remained for Mr Tavares to place before them an interpretation of the part which, deserves to be called really ex cellent, alike iv conception and execution, though in the latter respect it was marred, as was his Hamlet on Monday evening, by worse than inferior support. The drama is a heavy one, it is true, and taxes to the utmost the resources of even a strong company, but we think it might have been generally much better managed than it was last night by even a company which, to - say the very least, is comparatively weak, especially for the production of Shakspeai'ian tragedies. With one or two exceptions, the drama ■was poorly dressed and mounted, several of the actors were far Jfrom perfect in their parts, Othello notably so, and the mechanical 'arrangements were simply exe crable from'first to last. Under such circum- j sttiuces n.s wo have described, and with a host of small yet vexatious drawbacks besides, which we have neither space nor inclination to enumerate, Mr Tavares might well have been excused if he had made a comparative failure, or even failed altogther. But, spoilt I

as several of his best scenes were, his lago as a whole fully bore out the reputation he has achieved -where critics have no mercy and audiences will not tolerats mediocrity. His reading of the part differs in several essential features from most that we have seen, but in nearly all cases where there is a marked departure from the traditions of the stage we recognise improvements. We have never before felt so completely satis fied with the interpretation of the great scene between lago and Othello, in which the mind, of the latter i 3 poisoned. Miss Surtees' im personation of the " gentle " Desdemona was exactly what we expected it would be — simple, graceful, unaffected, natural, and therefore what the great dramatist intended. Mr "Wolfe's Othello was not passable. Mr Musgrave's Brabantio might have been, and with that gentleman's undoubted abilities ought to have been, much better than it was. Mr "White is not equal to Cassio, and Mr Inglis must improve greatly before he can play even so small a part as Rodcrigo creditably. To-night -we are to have " Still Waters Run Deep," with Mr Tavares as Mildinay, and Miss Surtees as Mrs MHdmay. British and Foreign Bible Society. 