A friend of THE MIRROR in Boston lately unearthed a copy of the Boston Carpet Bag, dated Jan. 1, 1853, and in its theatrical column discovered the criticism, printed below, of a performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin at the Boston Museum. The article is of interest since it contains the names of several famous players of the time and a contemporaneous opinion of their work:

  UNCLE TOM.—This venerable individual has nightly appealed before a Boston audience for six mortal weeks, at the Boston Museum, and the same interest is manifested in the old gentleman as at the commencement of his career. The popularity of this play is owing mainly to the admirable manner in which the characters are sustained by the Museum company. Mr. Whitman's performance of Uncle Tom is one of the best delineations of character we ever saw; Keach, as George Harris, is perfect, as he is in all he undertakes; Warren as the Yankee observer of men and things in general and everything else in particular, is excessively comic, in nothing more so; Miss Gazinski, as Topsy, is the best piece of little diablerie we ever saw on the stage; Madame Radinski, as the wife of St. Clair, is a splendid impersonation of the idea of the book—that of a lady, elegant and accomplished, but enervated by indulgence and a life of indolence; Mrs. Thoman, as Aunty Vermont, with her constant attendants, the reticule and knitting work, and her prescription, is excellent. Altogether we find nothing to censure in the acting. There is much excellent scenery in the play, from the hand of Lehr, among which we may mention a moonlight scene upon the Mississippi, represented by a panorama, which surpasses anything we ever looked upon in its scenic effect. The gleaming of the moon upon the rippling waves is most admirably represented.