Star. — London, England, 1830-12-28 00:00:00

I , OR EIG V INTELLIG ENCE. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (Front the Manger' des Chasubres, dated Sunday.) SAINT LAURENT (DEPARTAIENT OF THE VAR),Dae. 15. (Correspondence of the Massager.) " The garrison of Nice is composed of two regiments of infantry, and a company of light cavalry. As for the pos sibility of keeping down public opinion much longer, I think it is difficult. " Every body (so my friends write to me) remembers that they were once Frenchmen, and aho would not be proud to he under the paternal, liberal, and eminently legal govern ment of Louis Philip I. ? " We often speak of France,—we long for her,—we ad dress all our wishes to her,—may she one day send us hers! " We sympathise with the nations who feel the value of liberty ; of course our thoughts are directed to Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, and above all France. " It is reported that the Austrians are advancing towards Piedmont. I imagine you will interfere if it should be ne genial!. The people of July have nothing to fear from the oppressors of Italy. " A letter from Bellingzona, of December 7, contains the following details, of which we, however, by no means war rant the authenticity : " ' Terror is at its height in the city of Turin. A small fort is building on the Monte to bombard the city in case of an insurrection. Cannon are planted in the principal streets, and gunners bivouac about their guns. " The King of Sardinia has quitted Genoa to return to Turin. The Genoese have offered him a pension of a mil lion and a half to obtain the independence of the ancient republic. The King, refusing this offer, has ordered the arrest of a number of Genoese citizens, who have been imprisoned in the citidal of Alexandria, the fortress of Fe nestrelles, and the castle of Ivree. It is affirmed that, Charles Felix intends to abdicate in favour of the Duke of Modena.' The following extracts from the Dutch papers, which arrived last night, require no comment THE HAGUE, Dec. 23. " According to accounts from various quarters, the loan for 1830 is subscribed with the greatest readiness and zeal. It is said that two-thirds are already paid, though the whole amount is not required before the end of January next. This is another proof of the sentiments which now animate the inhabitants of the old provinces. " Last Monday a few Belgian brigands appeared at Chaam, in North Brabant, who, however, soon retired after having regaled themselves with beer and gin. " On Tuesday 250 Belgian volunteers with some officers posted themselves in Barle Nassau, on the Dutch territory. Lieutenant-General Van Geen immediately caused all com munication with Bade to be interrupted, probably because that village is wholly out of the military line. " General Dibbets, Governor of the citadel of Maastricht, reports, that having learned that the inhabitants of Vise had detained two ships with oats and one with coals coming to Maestricht, he had by way of reprisal stopped two waggons with tobacco, going from Venloo to Liege, and had caused the goods to be deposited in the entrepot. " FRANKFORT, Dec. 21. " An article, dated Cracow, the 10th of December, gives the following particulars of the state of things in Poland : " The Provisional Government of Warsaw has assured all the envoys of foreign Powers, in a circular letter, that their persons and property are placed under the protection of the Polish nation, and that they need not entertain any ap prehension ; that the Government will earnestly endeavour to cause the change effected in the kingdom of Poland to be considered as having no connexion whatever with the pro vinces that formerly belonged to Poland, and that it will oppose all attempts that may be made to cause an insurrec tion in Posen or in Gallicia.' "AMSTERDAM, Dec. 23.—FUNDS.--Actual debt, 21 per cent. 33 to 38i ; deferred ditto, to 2 ; Amort Syndic, 41 per cent. 62 to 63i ; ditto, ditto, 3i per cent, 49i to 50i.—Dutch papers, Dec. 25 SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. liseau).--The advocates of the ballot, who quote the elections at the Bank and the India House in their favour, could not hit upon instances leas applicable to their argument. At the Bank, we believe, no cont•s,d election has taken place within the memory of man ; and though at the India House the elections take place by ballot, every vote both previously and at the time of the Election, is as well known as if It were proclaimed at a hustings. Those who have seen the canvassing Lists of the candidates and their friends must know that nearly every vote Is, before the election, reduced almost to a moral certainty, the very few which are marked "doubtful' being usually reduced to scarcely any before the period of the contest arrives. AU that the ballot in this case does is to act as a cloak to a few broken promises. - - Onnowicez.—We can scarcely yet contemplate calmly the history of the past week in Paris, with the fearful crisis which threatened to sweep away all the institutions most favourable to human happiness. and, by the destruction of property and the annihilation of law, to plunge France and Europe from a high state of civilization and refine ment, into all the horrors of anarchy and barbarism. From all the ac. counts which have reached us, we think there can be little doubt that a detestable conspiracy had been formed by the enemies of freedom and of order, to take advantage of the popular feeling against that wretched tool POLIONAC and his Colleagues, and, under the etext of taking vengeance on them, to rouse all the worst passions of the mob to the work of plunder and devastation, and so texture the reign of the Jesuits and a military despotism. We know that the furious and infatuated adherents of the Old Regime have adopted as their creed " de tesces du seal viendra le bidne," and that the means they must take for the accomplishment of their object is simply to push things on to anarchy; that will produce despotism, which will bring back the Duc de Bordeaux. To the folly and wickedness of this design it is in vain to seek to open their eyes ; but we cannot enough rejoice that their atrocious purpose has been baffled, and that the recent events in Paris, and the success of King Louis Philippe's government, in keeping down tu mult and enforcing obedience to the laws, have strengthened the present order of things in France, and confirmed the power df the Citiaen-Xing and his Government. We are well persuaded that our own ministers share this joyful feeling in common with us, and all classes of the com munity in this country and that the result of the events of last week is considered as having most propitiously determined the future condi tion of France, and given a triumph to constitutional order and to freedom, over democratic anarchy and despotism. The personal excl.- nom of the King appear to have mainly contributed, with the admirable conduct and unparalleled zeal and firmness of the National Guard, in the accomplishment of this glorious end. Cnsoxim.s.--It is well remarked by the poet Cowper, when speak ing of a sermon of Paley's, that the Church of England possessed the advantage of having Clergy for all descriptions of people—the higher for the rich, and the lower for the poor : that there ought, in that cue, to be three or four Clergymen in every parish. The Clergy, be added, were to be found often enough in the houses of the rich, but Ihey seldom knew anything of their poor parishioners. But a heavier charge lies against the Church of England than thin. While the Pa num exerted themselves to the utmost to promote the instruc tion of the poor, the Church of England unfortunately set itself against the instruction of the poor i which it seems to have considered incompatible with the authority to whch it laid claim. All who promoted Sunday Schools were persecuted by the Clergy. When the Lord Chancellor first devoted himself to the promotion of Education, the Clergy, with hardly an exception, were opposed to him. They resisted Rdseadon to the last, and only changed their system when it was in= re. von its spread. In the last speech which th e Lord sole when in the Hous of Commons, on the subject of irohnetiso r lis idled to the great change which had taken place in the esotinsolo of the Clergy, since the commencement of his labours. In Scotland, webfoot n the same manna the encouragement Of discouragement of edomelsoor the Presbyterians or the Church of England had the ascendancy. Thee is striking passage on this subject in the evidence given by Dr. admen. uefore the Committee on the Stated the Poor in Ireland. " In I of the 16th century (he says), there was a very diciest wr a ___wwww,_ than instruction in the parishes of Scotland, and it is 4....ididir img country at that time was in a very healthy nerd ondision a Veer restoration, the act for the oessbn e ha n g of riochiniThitheifi was repealed, and then. usiss &Mow le Wawa, fiateptie, era Me S eatig r•Pidisaux• which face du to what may be 'sinned Religion Wars, that /wed for nearly Chitty lewiut from the disorder and tering knee of that period, along with the suspension of parochial education, the population seems to have deteriorated very rapidly."—After quoting the well-known desaiistion by Fletcher, of Saltoun, of the frightful state of Scotland in lea, he " It appears from very distinct historical documeto, that such a state of things subsided almost per sawn, very suddenly indeed, when the population had leave to repose from the religious persecutions, and the parochial system of education was again general. They wete besides plied from Sabbath to Sabbath by an efficient and acceptable Clergy, in consequence of which the transformation appears to have been quite marvellous." If England is now the first in Arts, we owe this chiefly to the Dissenters. There is a curious and instructive volume published in 1816 by Israel Worley, in which he shows that the manufactures of Great Britain have been " foe the most pan established and supported by the Protestant Dissenters." The Dissenters never neglected edu cation, and hence throughout England, wherever Dissenters are found, the people will also be found to be less stupid and brutal. Timas.—When it appears that in 1797 the whole expense of the Trea sury was 44,0001. and that in 18211 it was 80,0001. that at the former period the Foreign.office cost 34,0001. and in the latter 85,0001. the Colonial-office, at the same periods respectively, 94901. and 39,0801. — when, finally, we discover that the half-pay and ishrhs in all our public departments (the pay of army, navy, and orison, of course, not in cluded), was in 1797 1,370,0001. and in 18871,180,8N1—as nearly as possible an increase of two to one; while the number of persons em ployed in the said departments had increased from 18,000 to 24,000 only, or in the roportion of 11 to B—it is clear that, without goin g into th e gnestion whetiter the augmentation of persons was or was not too great, the income enjoyed by each was, in a very large proportion, higher— higher, also, than couM at all be justified by .ny real progress in the scale of prices. We repeat, first, that retrenchment is good for the sake of economy, because we are sure that It may be rendered productive of some relief to the public ; 2d, that it is good as a security against cor ruption, seeing that the money wasted is given for the support of mea. surer adverse to thetublic weal ; 3d, that it is good as a peace-off e ring to the justly irrita ted minds of men, and a bond of kindness and concord between the Crown and nation. CnitontCLE.—The Church drew from the Puritans and their de. ecendants most of the men who conferred lustre on the body. Light foot, Wilkins Tillotson, Butler, Seeker, Stilllogileet, &c . will always be her principal ornaments. atterly, since the value of her high places has become so enormous, interest and not merit has almost ex. ' exclusively enjoyed her chief benefices. The Church, by a singular retribution, is now paying the penalty of her narrow policy. The ignorance, and consequent degradation of the peasantry, enabled the farmers and the landlords to throw part of their support on the parish funds--a system which, when once introduced, must of necessity be continued, from the superabundance of labour which it produces. The chief object of the farmer at first was to make the tithe.owner pay more than his fair share of the rates for the support of the poor. But oppression has its limits; and these limits have been passed, It seems, with the agricultural labourers. Stupid and ignorant as they are, they have succeeded in obtaining by compulsion from their employers a into of allowance, which the latter can only continue by a general strike against the Church. The determination to resist the payment of tithes has been universally taken, and it is well understood that a permanent arrangement between the land and tithe-holders is now inevitable. At present the clergy are in a truly pitiable situation. They suffer, however, from the opposi tion of their predecessors to the instruction of the people—Possessing, as they have long done, the ear of all influential persons in the country, the power of establishing, or pretending the establishment of schools for the people, being altogether with them—The result shows how completely they misunderstood the true interests of the Church.— Kindness always begets kindness. The people are never ungrateful towards those superiors who display consideration for them. Had the clergy been as familiar with the humble cottage as with the lordly man sion, and raised the condition of their flocks, they would now have been in possession of general esteem instead of being looked on generally with 11l wilL LITERATURE. That Christmas is a period of retrospection and of reckoning is too well known to many in this metropolis We Ind, like others, that we are sadly in arras in this department of our journal; and as we are unwilling to carry over our debts into the new year, we shall endeavour in this, and the ensuing days of the nld one, to clear them off, and thus gain credit for another score. We have before, more than once, called our readers' attention to the series of " Divines of the Church of England," now in course of monthly publication, by Mr. VALPT. The works of BaraLocit are just completed; and we have already two volumes of BARROW before us. The work is edited by the Bev. T. & Breves, B.D. of Emmanuel College. The Sermons are neatly, and yet most legibly printed. After each discourse is an analysis or summary of it; and at the commencement of the week of each author, is an original biogra phical memoir. The digestion of a wise and good man, placed in oar hands, very early in life, a volume of seven sermons, by ISAAC Baum.", on Content ment. The volume was published by Dr. BARROW'S father in 1678. We have, ever since we read this excellent volume, considered ISAAC %many as a writer whose works we w ould place next our Bible With the acuteness of a great mathematician. be united a taste, if not a genius, for poetry ; and his sermons display mote of the latter, than the former. They are not the austere, logical disquisitions of a school.. man ; but the oratorical, yet sometimes exuberantly eloquent harangue. of the ardent orator. At the same time, there is enough of exact res•on' : to discover in their author, the mathematician ; and thicedm.xt , tre of poetry and mathematics, in the mind of the author, bas occasioned his sermons to be differently appreciated. Le Cr.sac is generally correctly descriptive of BARROW'S merits, when he says:—" Les sermons de set autcur sent plutot des usit6s ou des dissertations mutes, que de simples harangues." We conceive that emancipating such works, as the sermons of Ban - Row from the state prison of their folio editions, and placing them in the accessible, and elegant form, we are now reviewing, is bringing them into new life, and performing a valuable service to the present generation; who would not be the worse, in our opinion, of reading such works, a little more frequently than is at present the fashion.— The Biography of Baaaow, affixed to the Edition, is by far the best we have perused. Mr. HUORIS has rendered it new in its details; and entertaining, by the introduction into it, of all the matter of a biographical character to be found in Dr. Basiow's Latin poetry. The Doctor had travelled; and had related his travelling incidents and remarks in his poetry ; which, it appears, all his biogra. phers, before Mr. Hughes, had been too indolent to raise from their quarry. We cannot conclude without recommending this work to sil l whoare forming a library, and to families who still see the importance of keeping good books on their table. The terrific monosyllables' A Swing,' were used in the reign of George 111. by the opposition, as a toast, on ac count of the initials of the Cabinet Ministers names at that time, viz —Amherst, Sandwich, Weymouth, Jenkinson, North, and Germaine.— The Cambrian. Captain Edward Galway, the oldest of a list of six Post- Captains, submitted by Sir Jas. Graham to Lord Anglesey, the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has been appointed to the command of the Royal Charlotte yatcht ; in attendance upon the Lord Lieutenant. The ten years service to entitle a naval officer's widow to receive a pension, is allowed to include any service while ac tually attached to a ship in commission. An East India order for 6,000 pieces, and other work in hand, gives employment to the Norwich weavers during the winter months. The Skaiting Club had their first meeting on the Serpen tine River in Hyde-park, yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock. It is composed of the best akaiters in town , and the ipem ' hers are distinguished by wearing a small model ' of a s kit in silver suspended from the button-hole. They have regular servants belonging to the club, and a tent, which will be pitched on the ice to-day. The club will now meet daily at two o'clock, near the Receiving-house, in Hyde-park. Gus RA LTA a, Dec. 6.—The muter of the Sicilian brig Colombia, just arrived from Rio Janeiro, reports that on the 25th of October, he was spoken by his Majesty's brig Falcon, six or seven days from Ascension, bound to Bermuda, and informed that a pirate ship of fifty guns bad been cap tured by a British frigate, in company with the Falcon, after a severe engagement, in which the British ships lost 22 killed, and the pirate 100: the pirate had been carried to Ascension, where the survivors of her crew, 200 in number, had been hanged. TAR THEATRAS. DRUKY-LANE. After the tragedy of Jane Shore, the new CluisUnas pantomime, under the title of Davy loses, or Harlequin and Mother Caroy'el Chickens, was last night produced. The opening scenes, in which the mischievous tricks of Mother Corey and her winged brood are pour. trayed, contain a laughable burlesque on the nautical drama of Btaele.l ey d Satan, which is ridiculed in a pleasant and good.humoured manner. Captain Creeetree (Mr. T. BLANCMAILD), who has persecuted Blaok-ey'd tam, se called from a hideous discolours. don of one of her eyes, is by Mother Carey transformed into Pan taloon; while Stout William (Mr. goyim.), who is any thing but the beau ideal of a sailor, Is translated by the Genius of the Polar Star into Harlequin, and supplied with a pair of Colombian, in the persons of Misses ILintrwr and Basin. Two odd fish, John Dory (Mr. /Wormer), and Mellor fiturgeets (Mr. B. J. PaasLos, the watery friends of Mother Carey.) are converted into elownajand these magic changes having been affected, the harlequins& begins. The pantomime is very unequal in its attractions; part of it is sufficiently lively and spirited, but no inconsiderable portion of it must be condemn. ed as dull and tiresome...a ground of complaint which the audience did not fail to notice. The tricks and transformations are neither numerous nor curious ; but whatever was attempted was managed with skill and adroitness. The dancing, by Mr. HowILL, as Harlopes, and the rival Columbines, was extremely animated. So me of the figures weirs pace. resti gniets liarly light, airy, and pieta ue. BLANIRAILD'II POWS/4M may challenge comparison with any of the kind which the stage has possessed for many years. It is rep with fanciful frail& 5017TRZY makes a tolerably good Clown, but PaisLox is a fliers posturamaster, sufficiently active. but possessing not a single grain of comic humour. The music, by Mr. It. thrones, is, in the highest degree, common. place. There is one movement in the overture, which, had it not been Christmas time, would infallibly have sent the audience to sleep. Some of the scenery, especially that which is painted by Mr. AWDIZWII, is pretty ; but the great attraction, and that which, in our opinion, has saved the Pantomime, ill Mr. STANIIIILD'S admirable Diorama. It mains of a series of views, descriptive of the pts of the Simplon, corn. niencing with the town of Sion in the Valals, and terminating with I Il Lego Maggiore. It is difficult to conceive, but such is the fact, how it was poseible for Mr. Stanfield, in the course of nine days, to produce so extensive and delightful a work. Every part of It bears the vigorous impress of a master.hand. Scenes of sunshine and of storm—of rural and of architectural beauty—are treated with equal skill. The valley of the Rhone is admirably painted ; but the concluding scene, 11 Lago Maggiore, transcends, for splendour of effect, any effort in dla branch of art that we have ever seen. It is, indeed, a most lovely picture. The diorama, as it passed in review Wore the audience, was most warmly applauded. COVENT-GARDEN. The approved good rule which has made pantomimes as indispensa ble as puddings at Christmas, was observed at this theatre; and a new pantomime, called Harlequin Pal and Harkquin Bat, or the Giant's Causeway, was produced. It is impossible not to feel a certain mis giving when we are called upon to pronounce a critical opinion upon pantomimes. The time was, when such a performance, how. ever bad, had no fault in our eyes ; artl we are induced sometimes to distrust our judgment, and to refer the disappointment which we feel at the modern versions of hariequinades, to the change that stealing years will bring about on all of us, rather than to any falling off in the exhibitions themselves. Unless, however, time has beguiled us of our power of discriminating in a matter at once so nice and so important, we must bear testimony to that which was brought out at this Theatre last night, being one of the least meritorious that we have lately seen. The announcement of it had raised our expecta tions somewhat higher than usual. The advertisements in the play bills, that there was to he " a speaking opening." and the emphatic large letters in which that advertisement was printed, had led us to be lieve that some attempt was to be made which would revive those entertainments which have,rot former periods, been so deservedly attractive, and which this species of Drama is still as capable as it ever was known to be, of making worthy of the public patronage. In France, for a long series of years, a succession of far cical representations, a c:ted by the dramatis persona of the old panto. mimes—the Arlequin, Plerat, Mesorelin, Searamouehe, ac. were not only highly popular, but achieved one of the most important and use ful purposes of the drama, in correcting, by the wholsome castigation of irresistible ridicule, the prevailing follies in morals, taste, literature, and fashion. At a later period, the persecutions which the monopolist theatres of Paris exercised against their active and enterprising but unprivileged rivals, gave rise to similar productions, in which the efforts to which the authors and actors were driven, in ceder to evade the strict letter of the ordinances against them, were so inge. nious and novel, that they utterly defeated the tyrannical designs of the favoured patentees , with all the aid of a despotk °Government to bac' them. The Arkguta Deucalion of Piton, is one among many sp nuns of this kind of writing a hich have outlived the day for which —ley were created, and the history of the French stage, with reference to them generally, would form an amusing, and, as matters now stand between our patent and minor theatres, not an unprofitable, chapter. AU this, however, we confess, doss not immediately belong to the question of the merits of Hartaynin Pat, excepting to show that the latter might hue been made much better than it is, if the eminent authors the task of writing (!) pantomimes is intrusted, befog co, • own lack of invention, would exercise the ..,se--the only one that can excuse dulness such as theirs; ^ . ilty whichcannot give anything of their own, at least purloin dir m that - has been done by their betters. We are ;) able to tell of what the story of this pantomime consists Th • teed to be a laudable custom. of printing little books, container ;• , tritind of shadowy outline of the business of pantomime s, by wh'egoise was enabled sometimes to guess at the " no-meaning" of 1 , 0 .1 0 ,„, ame. practice has been dis used, and the or n+ women and ourselves are greatly lasers by the omission. Th.' us of these books went, upon a recent occasion, far beyond thstiffe which they were designed, and enabled a manager of Jew:Mooring theatre to avail himself of the benevolent pro .stone; of the Bankrupt Act, under the name of a bookseller, he proving, to the satisfaction of the Lord Chancellor, that he was a trader,in these wares, when, without it, he must have resorted to sonic other, perhaps less convenient, method of dealing with his cre ditors.) In the absence then, of these useful manuals, all that we can tell of the plot of the pantomime is, that it relates to the troubled woes of the renowned Brian Bereinke, and of his squire,Rhadennisthus Mailingar (Mr. Poiret), for Nona and Kathken, the first of whom is abducted, according to the manner of Ireland, by O'Roirk, King of Ulster, and the latter is assailed by an unworthy bag. piper, one Mr. M'Drone. With the assistance of St. Patrick and of the cudgel of 0%1(W/begat, and of the spells of the Queen of the Fairies, the faithful lovers are preserved from the persecution of their foes, and to reward them for their virtues, O'Mtalingar is transformed to !far kquin, Ms Kathleen to Coluntbine, O'Roirk to Pantaloon, and The Piper to Clown. The ordinary round of changes of scenes and deluge then commences, the Clown commits a number of larcenies and other indictable offences, in which he is abetted by the Pantaloon, and by the time they are perfectly exhausted, the intervention of th e Fai ries puts an end to their whirligig pastimes. There was not much novelty, DOT mom ingenuity, in the tricks and transformations, and, with the exception of the Pantaloon's body being perforated by a red-hot poker, and his back rubbed with cabbage laves, titer which he dearn he never felt so well in all his life before, we do not remember any allusion to the lying follies of the day. The greater part of the scenery le very well executed. These of the Giant's Causeway, and O'Rak's Castle, by Mr. Grieve, and the Banshee's Ravine, hi' Murroogies Keep, and the Lakes of Killarney, by Mr. Roberts, were the best. The moving panorama, consisting of Windsor..parl, Portsmouth-harbour, and Brighton. seen by night Winds the sea, is by no means so good as most of the late exhibitions of a similar kind. The Introduction of a ship in full sail is, however, enough to save this part of the representation from very heavy censure, and is an extremely clever thing et the kind. Upon the whole, we do not think the Pentomhne is a sucessefol one; Mr. Power did all he could to make the early part of it amusing, and succeeded as far as the materials he bad to deal with pentium' him. The Columbine was a Mimi Joinrevortn, a debutante, as active as any Columbine could be, but not so graceful as a Columbine ought to be. The Penslaloon is the best that les perhaps ever been seen; and as fee tbe Clown, Mr. PauLo, is as good as the rest,—better than most of his com ; but, alas ! the real Clown departed with poor Grimaldi, and we fear the spirit of pantomime is departed along with him. ADICLPHI THEATRE. However prevalent may be the feeling that the else of the large theatres the intellectual enjoyment of tragedy and comedy, their s r -- area and magnificent decorations are to themselves a sit. perb sight, and they add to the enjoyment of operas, whilst tbey soften the extravagance of the nrelo-druns, and are almost iodispeuntUe to the effect of pantomimes. In a small theatre the pesteborard face, the stuffed limbs, the prepense fall, the sbmnbling gait, and mincing step. of pan. tomime are too palpable to admit of delusions, whilst the tricks are anti cipated, and the machinery of the changes is detected. Pantomime, therefore, labours under great disadvantages in a small theatre, but these like the inherent defects of French tragedy , quicken the invention of the authors, and stimulate the exertions those who have to per. I form. It is for this reason peobably that the Adeiphi Theatre has, on severe' ocensions, produced pantomimes more full of satire and humour than those brought out by its larger rivals. The entertainment got up for the holyday children of the present Christmas, and for the children of a larger growth, is scarcely of equal merit to mai elite procarems. It hacks the intellect, and is &kiwi of the inessmat Made and novelty of incident which are the soul of •pantomime. Them are, however; several good hits at passing events. The scene with a view of a great monee-trap.makees fie, with of the cab to destroy hie traps or sesehinery they put them oat of eo n Pk*. NU; %Wolk* the Ling at the Cats, Alba his eauthige in marring* to whoever will cure him of his Wad. Rees, and when the eamestal doctor converts hie closed eyes into two most reeplerabb green goggles, be lotuses him the re. ward, dedialog that as a Um be is absolute and omalpotent, and he asks, what Is equivalent to, i• Nayl not do what I like with my own r A Adry, homiest, is the raffia' reformer, who converts Grimalkin, the rat-catcher, the eye-curer. and Grintalkin's daughter, to Cola.. Use, Harlequin, the Clown and Pallidloom, after whit!' they go through the usual scenes of pantomimes, utittl magic closes the -.ay with the union of Harfevuin and Columbine. The piece i. d, fi, is -lit of novelty, but sevens' of the changes are good, and at.at,y ut .I.e scenes for so small a theatre are excellent. The postures and feats strength and agility were deservedly rewarded with applause, and the Harlequin, Clown, and Peistaloon, acqu itted themselves with dex terity. It was the Col um bi ne ' s B rat ormanee in that character. The biped cats, or lords in waiting, of honour, and grooms of the chamber of Grimm/kiss / Court, showed much of humour in their feline faces. There sea t = change of a barrel of oysters into a bowl of punch with glasses, and a good figure of a fat woman without a bead, with another made up of musical instruments, and one composed of pots and pans, all the three being locomotive, if not /Animate. We cannot, however, cite the pantomime as one of the moat successful of its elms. SURREY l t r aTTlt E. This Theatre opened for the winter season last night. In the short period which has elapsed since it was closed the interior of the house has been newly decorated, and presents a very pretty appearance. With the exception of a pantomimes thing not to be dispensed with at this season—the pieces represented last night were not novelties, and there fore call for no observations, a chcumstance which relieves us from a difficulty, for the audience were so uproariously impatient to behold their favourite entertainment, that we should be extremely puzzled to give an account of what It. The pantomime was called the New Year's G if t , or preceded Juck of Newbury. It' we re. member rightly, the individual who has furnished a Title for this Pantomime, was a journeyman Clothier residing at Newbury, in the time of Queen Elisabeth, whom: good behat iour, assisted by his good loots, recommended him to the netiee of a rich young wi dow in that town. Jock married the widow, and became one of the t manufacturers in the place. Be did some s e r v i ce to the state greatest by being mainly instrumental in putting down an insurrection in the neighbourhood, and on the occasion of Elizabeth visiting Newbury he evinced his respect and loyalty by covering the street through which tht! Queen passed with broad-cloth. Some of these incidents are introduce,: into the pantomime ; at all events the most important of them are._.. namely, Jack's courtship of the widow, and their ultimate union. The first part of the entertainment, before Jack and his wife are transformed into Harlequin and Colsunbine, is very amusing. The latter part re sembles all other pantomimes. The performers knock themselves about and commit all kinds of mischief for the amusement of the lookers on, And the gratification ct the audience is always proportionate to the de gree of apparent wickedness which is perpetratt.ti before them. It is curious, but one feels it to be true, that a single trait of kindness, an act of benevolence on the part of the Clown, would thetitably ruin the best pantomime that ever was written. The audience could be as much startled at it as to tee Richard the Third die quietly in bed with a prayer-book in his hand. So well satisfied are pantomime writers on this bead, that no one of them, within our recollection, has ever heralded the experiment. If the hero of pantomime feeds a child, it is with scalding oil; if he applies a plaster to a broken head, it is compos:d of Cayenne pepper and caustic ; and if he undertakes to draw a tooth, he breaks the jaw of his patient with a pair of red hot tongs. Some of the tricks in Jack of Newbury were ingenious and laughable. Many others faded to produce effect, owing to the machinery being out of order, or rather to its not having yet been got into order. The audience ex pressed their disapprobation at this in the course of the piece, but at the conclusion that applause was hearty and unanimous. The action of the pantomime was materially assisted by some pretty and spir.ted music by Mr Blewitt. COBURG THEATRE. The pantomime produced at this theatre last night was entitled Harlequin Silver Penny ; and is tounded on the well-known nursery tale describing the difficulties an obi womao has to encounter in taking home he pig, the purchase of a silver penny. The pantomime is got up with a great deal of spirit, and exhibits 140111 C very clever tricks. To. wards the dose a splendid panoramic tour is represented ; in which the spectators are treated with views of Bruges, Ghent, Alalicea , and Ant werp, with the late conflagration of the latter city. The scenic portion of this pantomime deserves particular praise. The curtain fell amidst applause and disapprobation, of which the former, however, greatly pre ponderated, and the pantomime was announced for fepeution. We think it, however, right to mention, that this disapprobation was the consequence of the Clown', declining to sing some song which was loudly called for durir ; •• - r .presentation of the entertainment. - - BA DI. LThilliTLL& The a , . -t this Ultima Thule of the theatrical world was yes terday c% , presented with a nautical and rather warlike entertain. meat . known to posterity by the captivating title of Tice Skimmer o .• ; or, the Water Witch. To detail the plot of this we suspect would have puzzled Pascal himself, notwithstanding his extraordinary powers of memory, and certainly requires a degree al analytical acumen to which we by no means pretend. Let it then be taken for granted, that it was not deficient in any of the 'admix melodramatic requisites, front the first flourish of Nn Portant to the final sulphureous combustion of red and blue biases, and that a commendable regard to poetical justice win., as usual, observed in the conduct of the catastrophe. The diffi culty of adequately distinguishing between the supernatural or demo. niac agents, and the absolute matter-of-fact dramatis persona of sot It pieces, also constitutes no inconsiderable obstacle to the proper dissec tion of the story. The formidable display of weapons of all dimensions, together with the corresponding military paraphernalia, would induce the inference that the arsenal of this establishment is far from being the least important of its scenic departments. It is but fair to add, that the management cannot be considered at all parsimonious of conflagrations, doubtless presuming on their peculiar resources against any undue en croachment of what has been once or twice poetically designated " the devouring element." An interlude was produced, for the special purpose of gratifying the rising generation with an exhibition of that primitive, but on the stage somewhat novel, pastime, entitled, " Blindman's Buff;" and it seemed abundantly to fulfil its design, for not a few of the little folk appeared nothing loth to participate In the business of the scene. After the custon'ary complement of hornpipes, reels, &c. had contributed to the amusement of an audi ence not very fastidious in their taste, the patriarchal pantomime o f Mother Goose was brought forward with all the pomp and circum stance to be expected from the ad cc:Flimflam grandiloquent* of the announcement. The reputation of the " public cha racter" is, however, so widely diffused and so as to admit of our dispensing with a statement all their itolLy bli tielt has rendered her an object of so much enviable celebrity. Ms OUP tainments, we have no doubt, will be more successfully represented hereafter than they could have been Testerday evening, in ss they were by the obstreperous hilarity of the season, whiel4 w Oated more than one downright pugilistic melee during what was apparently intended to be the most touching part of the performance. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Id*ua Awns This Day.--Dvblin ; 1; Waterford, 1 ; Holland, 1 i France, 1. DEAL. Dac. 117.—Wind 8.8. E. steady Wen. DOVER. Dec. O.—Arrived the Anna Johanna, Hale bock, Iran Tenerife. Pool.; Dec. 27.—Arrived the Jane, Brown, from Newfoundland. C..tooter. Dec. 26 —Arrived the Fawcett, Pratt, (root Itlebeboeto. POITSUOVIII • Dec. 27.—Wind B. to 8.9. W. - 1.1,1117001., ilsc. e6.—Arrived the Industry, Lodge, trust Mn.i slick'. Oacwar, Dec. CS.—Arrived the ',nutters, Simpson, and Concord, Gregory, from Quebec. The Henry, Holland, from Goole to Leaden, was wrecked near Wintertoo oo Friday. The mate and three of the crew save d. The Anna, from Newcastle to Hamburgb, was driven on shore near Munddey on Saturday night. waterlogged. Crew saved. The Unica, Honig, from &. Thomas's to Hamburgh, was totally lost in the Elbe 19th Met. Crew and part of the cargo saved. RAMAT, Les OF MAP, Dec. IL—Part of the larboard quarter of a vessel, from IS to SO feet In length, copper bolted, sod apparently that of a steamer, was driven in yesterday, a link to the southward of Ms town • and many small pieces of wreck have washed on c h ore f or some m iles to the northward. Tun LATE ROYAL FAMILY OF FRANCE.--.-Le Temps says, " Whilst the numerous creditors of Charles the Tenth (menace that monarch in England with arrest, judicial pro ceedings have been taken in France against his son, the ex- Dauphin, for debts which be owes there. In 1827 the Dai phin rented a large estate of M. Lombard, at Montgeron, near the forest of Senart, where the former used 'employ himself in shooting. There were 15 years of the lease unexpired when the events of July took place. The Dauphin having been driven from France, a sale of his furniture and estates was about to take plate, to which M. Lombard opposed legal objections. in order to insure the payment of his rent. 111. Lomba r d also cited to appear before the first Chamber of the Tribunal " Louis Antoine, Duke of Angouletne, now without domicile or known residence in France, or, in default, to pay the sum of 80,0001." A similar step was taken by the proprietor of another estate with respect to the Dachas de Berri, but she put a stop to the proceedings by _paying the son demanded." Mn. MARTIN'S Am—The officers of the Society against Cruelty to Animals last week charged three drovers. Nos. 270, 361, and 498, and two hackney coachmen, Nos. 970 and 366, with various acts of aggravated cruelty ; some of whom were lined ; but the drovers 270 and 361, we are sorry to observe, have escaped, owing to the reality, oe, to what is still more common, the pretence of having woes fable badges. de fr. d.