Star. — London, England, 1822-10-31 00:00:00

THE ARMY. The uniform of the Light Horse Volunteers is to be changed from the scarlet and silver to blue and silver, exactly similar to the 18th Hussars, excepting they will wear the chaco and plume in lieu of the fur cap. This change will certainly much add to their military appearance. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Captains were sworn into the com mand of their respective ships, viz.—Herefordshire, Captain Wl!Aram Hors; Farquharson, Captain Wrwair Caurcesuarta, for Bombay and China. The Resolution, EVANS, from Toughal to Portsmouth, was wrecked on the 2341 instant, in Rocky Bay, coast of Ireland. The master and mate drowned. FALMOUTH, OCT. 29.—Light airs from the Northward.—Ar rived the Ann, Wiretasts, from Mevagissey for Venice. Sailed the Manly, for St. Vincent's; Surrey, RAINS, for New South Wales ; Rachael and Fame, for Bilboa ; Swift, for St. Michael's ; Jean, CUMMING% for Odessa; Oporto packet, CHARLTON, for Pernambuco; and Fortitude, for Lisbon. Arrived off the port, the Chance, Fosse, from Leghorn. PoaysMourw, OCT. 50.—Wind SAE—Arrived the Brilliant, GREFICWICH, from Gibraltar; and the Emily, Russet.c, from tbe South Seas for London. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 29.—Wind N.W. and towards the evening light airs from the S.—The Stockholm, RICHARD, and Older nemung, were the only vessels that brought up in the Sound last night, the rest having kept at sea ; and this morning these vessels likewise got under weigh, and are now, with the whole of the outward-bound, out of sight. DEAL, OCT. 30.—WindS.S.W.- Came down from the River, the Catherine, Bowes, for Lima; Underwood, Ittittxctox, for Demerara; Donald, GAFF, for Havannah ; Magnet, GRANT, for Cape Coast Castle; Fortitude, FOOT, for Lisbon; Caledonia, RAE, for Oporto ; Manly, Buanrrr, for Berbice ; Renewal, CROSSA ATME, for Barbadoes ; Symmetry, Monne, for Genoa ; Earl of Wellington, SIMPSON, for Curacoa : Larch, TATLOR, for Malta; and Killingbeck, SMITH, for Antigua. Gurnisstv, OCT. 29.—Arrived the Diligent, from St. Maloe's, having on board the crew of the ship Hibernia, of Bilfast, Pon lan, Master; which ship, on the Gth of October, was struck by a sea, in lat. 49. long. 25. which so disabled her, that she became quite a wreck. The crew had been three days and nights in the rigging, when they were taken out by a French brig, which landed them at St. Brie= Cusrost-house, OCIOBER W.—Ships Entered Inwards : The Trusty, from Bilboa; Monarch, from Petersburgh; Robert, from Gijon ; Sir William Curtis, from Calais; Mars, front i lull ; Jean, from Seville ; Robert and Sarah, from Harnburgh ; Marshal Blucher, from Rotterdam ; Jane, from Petersburgh ; Duke of Kcnt, from Rotterdam ; the Singleton, from Stangate Creek ; Triton, from Belfast ; Two Brothers, from Waterford ; Alpha, from Hamburgh ; Heroes, from Calais; and the George, front Bordeaux.—Cleared Outwards: The Orwell, for St. VW cent..,: Ocean, for Honduras; Valiant, for Jamaica; Activite, for Havre; Po, for Calais; and the Blucher, for Cadiz. rativso—At New York, the America, Wallace; and the Crlrie, Knap, from Liverpool; Friends, Choate, from the Clyde ; and Balance, Bennett, from Petersburgh. At Boston, Mount Vernon, Hawes, from Liverpool. At Virginia, Missionary, Dunney, from Liverpool. At Baltimore, Massasort, Sutton, from Liverpool ; and Cora, Miller, front Belfast. At Aber deen, Daphne, Barclay, from Bourdeaux. At Hull, Wolga, Brovn, front Petersburgh; and the Harmony, Sawyer, from CALEDONIAN CANAL. ISVERNESS, OCT. 24.—After a labour of nearly twenty years, snd an expenditure of about £900,000 on this great national un- Eh-taking, the country will feel a great degree of satisfaction in hearing of the completion of it. At ten o'clock yesterday morn ing the Lochness steam yacht, accompanied by two smacks, de part,d from the locks of Muirtown on the first voyage through the canal, amidst the loud and enthusiastic cheerineof a great concourse of people, and the firing of cannon. The morning was peculiarly favourable, although rather calm. There was scarcely a breath of wind to disperse the smoke, which ascended unbroken after the firing of the guns. The banks of the canal were crowded with spectators, a great number of whom accompanied the party front the Muirtown Locks to the Bridge of Bught. The band of the Inverness-shire militia went on board at Doch garrach Lock, and immediately played the national air of" Goo save the King." As a minute examination of the most remark able features of the canal will be gone into, it is not expected that the party will arrive at Fort William before this evening: and it is their intention to return to this town to-morrow night. They will be met at rack Oich by the Comet steam boat. The Lochness steam boat passed through Loch Dochfour at ten mi nutes before one o'clock, on her tirst voyage through the C.de. douian Canal, the band playing, and a salute fired in passing Dochfour, which was answered by Mr. BAILLID'S people on shore by loud cheering, and a salutefrom a number of small arms. The supply of fresh herrings at Billingsgate, this morning, was greater than it has been this season. They were sold at 2s. per hundred. Tuesday afternoon, as the Duke of Beaufort steam packet was proceeding down the river Avon, it was met by a small boat, in which were four men and a female, when, by some mismanagement, the boat coming directly under the bow of the steam vessel, was instantly crushed to atoms, and one of the men was drowned ; the remainder were picked up by a boat that chanced to be passing. Some of the masts in the King's dock-yards are l three feet in diameter, and 40 yards in length. These long firs are such conductors of sound, that a watch placed against one end may be heard to beat very distinctly by an ear applied to the other end. Letters have been received from Madras, stating that considerable alarm had been excited there by the discovery of a plot, which had for its object the massacre of all the Faringus (Europeans), that the flag of the PROPHET might wave undisturbed from Delhi to Cape Cormorin. A Subidar of the 66th Re giment, and of the Bth Cavalry, it appears, found in flammatory papers, and immediately conveyed them to the Commanding Officers. Various motives are assigned for these blood-thirsty intentions. They are partly, attributed to religious infatuation ; but it seems that hard measures had been tesorted to for raking the revenue, which had caused great dissatis faction among the natives. The most dreadful charges of infanticide have been establihhed against a midwife at Zuuguy, in France. This wretch used to admit females in a state of preg nancy to her house, and for a certain reward under took to carry the children to the Hospital, but inva riably murdered them. The police, upon getting iilfOrMation of the circumstance, repaired to the scene blood, and in her garden found buried the bodies of several murdered innocents. She has been sent to prison to take her trial for the crime. Yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, the parish officers of St. Mary, Islington, received information that a man was found in a field near Canonbury House, supposed to have been murdered. On arriving at the spot they found the man quite dead, and pre senting a shocking spectacle. He appeared to have been taken out of the river by some person and left in the field; his pockets were turned inside out. He appears to have been in the water some time. He was dressed in a black coat and waistcoat, blue trow sers, black stockings, and shoes, and is about thirty years of age, and six feet high. He is lying at Islington Church to be owned. THEATRES. DittrltY-LANI.--The Tragedy of Macbeth was per formed at this House last night. Mr. Yours°, in Macbeth, acquitted himself with his usual ability ; the agitation of his scene immediately after the murder, where he shews Macckar to the chamber of Duncan, was very spirited, and the banquet scene was selected for the particular honour of three rounds of applause. Mrs. W. Wzsfa Lady Macbeth was more striking than might have been expected, from her peculiar turn of mind and feeling in a character so masculine and terrific. Mr. COOPEN as Macduff, was very ef fective, especially in the fine scene where he is in formed of the slaughter of his family. There was an improvement in the chorusses, by the introduction of some principal singers in the vocal parts. COVENT-GARDEN.—The Comedy of the Wonder was repeated last night in place of the Clandestine Marriage, which was postponed in consequence of the indisposition of Mrs. DAVENPORT. The Clan destine Marriage was itself to have been substituted for the Opera of Artaxerxes, the postponement of which was occasioned by the illness of Miss PATON, so that two Ladies of this Company, and each of importance lin her respective line, are now on the sick list. The Comedy went off with great spirit, and was followed by the new Farce of the kith Tutor, which seemed to increase in attraction.—The House was well attended. ROYAL WEST LONDON THEATRE.--MORday, CIS DER'S Comedy of " She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not," was brought out at this Theatre as a Burletta, under the title of " The Female Impostors." The fascinating heroine of the Piece, Miss BRUNTON, in Hypolita, delighted a crowded and elegant auditory, and received most justly reiterated plaudits. In male attire she has no equal at present on the Stage. Her figure, symmetrically formed, enables her to add ad ditional charms to that character, and her naiveté and comic humour should be witnessed, to conceive the delights this unrivalled young actress is capable of exciting. TEAR •im's FEAR. FROM THE MUSEUM; OR, RECORD OF LITERATURE. Oh, bid no more those eyes of blue Turn on my once enraptur'd sight ; Who thinks they speak a language true May gaze on thee with fond light ! Yet he, by sad experience taught, Mow false, how fickle is thy heart, The look, that seem'd with kindness fraught, Shall hate and curse the coquet's art ! But such o'er me thy magic spell, These lips shall no harsh word express; My changing looks alone shall tell, Thy frown and smile can blast or bless! Then turn no more those spell-skill'd eyes On Love, that, struck with doubts, is dead; Lest thou, a witness of my sighs, Spite of thy scorn, a tear-drop shad ! And, see, it falls !—oh, let me take This omen of thy heart's distress, That comes, Love's fever'd thirst to slake, Like manna in the wilderness ! The crystal drop, that on thine eyes Now hangs, from Love shall banish Fear, And thus I drown Suspicion's lies, By kissing off the tell-truth tear ! • • Earl SPENCER left town yesterday on a visit to Mr. and Lady ANN COKE, at their seat, in Norfolk. Colonel and Lady ELEANOR LOWTHER have arrived on a visit to Colonel ALoxc►roa, at his seat, Fis3ehead, Northamptonshire, from the Earl of LONSDALeS seat, Lowther, Westmoreland. Departures from Warne's Hotel, Conduit•street :—Mr. and Mrs. UssoaNE, for Worthing ; Mr. and Mrs. STANLEY, for Salis bury; Miss BETIMES, and Miss Duuas, for Wrothatu, Kent; Colonels MILLS, for Blandford. The Silver Medal of the Inner Leven Golfing Society was played for on Tuesday, the Ist inst. and, after a keen contest, was won by Mr. Alexander Wallace, Parkhill ; after which twenty-five Gentlemen sat down to dinner in the Society's Hall, and spent the evening In the greatest conviviality. Sunday se'nnight, a remarkable electrical pheno menon was exhibited at Perth, between nine and ten o'clock in the morning, in the house of Mr. JOHN RAMSAY, fishing-tackle-maker, High-street. As Mrs. RAMSAY sat by the fireside, she was disturbed by a loud rumbling noise descending the chimney. (The house is three stories high, and Mrs. RAMSAY'S is the lowest.) Starting back, she was instantly surrounded by a flame; and an explosion having taken place, the room was filled with smoke and sulphureous vapour. The fluid shattered two panes of glass in a back win dow, and scattered the fragments to a distance of ten or twelve feet. The polished wires of several new bird-cages in the room were covered as if with rust, by the action of the fluid before it escaped. The noise was heard at a considerable distance, and threw the neighbourhood into great agitation. Mrs. RAMSAY sustained no personal injury. The good people of Shropshire are in great hopes of a contested Election for the County, an event which has not occurred for upwards of a century; the last contests in that county being in the years 1710, 1713, 1714, and 1722. At present only one candidate has declared himself, but eight others are named as aspiring to the honour. Mr. SCARLETT has declared himself a candidate for the representation of the University of Cambridge. Mr. OWRN.—This Gentleman has visited the Duke of LEINSTER, at Carton, and has had interviews with several of the Nobility and Gentry in Dublin and its vicinity, relative to the introduction of his system into Ireland. A Public Meeting will be assembled as soon as circumstances will admit, when Mr. Owen will explain bis views, in a manner, we trust, satisfac tory to all who are not viilfully blind.—Dublin Paper. Last night, at eight o'clock, fourteen male trans ports, who are sentenced for life, were removed from Newgate by the Nelson Portsmouth coach, in order to be put on board a vessel for New South Wales. They were strongly guarded, are mostly young men, and their conduct was very orderly. Yesterday forenoon, a very impudent robbery was committed at the house of Mr. James Lahey, Nor wich-roads Kennington. The servant girl went out on some errand to a shop in the neighbourhood, leaving the door unlatched, and only just closed, andl during her short absence some thief entered and took from the parlour a writing-desk, containing 70 so vereigns, a 101. note, six silver spoons, and some me morandums. The thief contrived, for the present, most effectually to elude pursuit. MR.: BUNT . LiBEBATION. . • - • ---- • =TRACT OP A LETTER FROM ILCHISTER, TWILLVZ O'CLOCK, TUIDIDAY NIGHT. The term of Mr. Hunt's severe imprisonment has at this hour expired, and as the last sound of the Castle clock had tolled twelve, the stir was illumi nated by a volley of fireworks, rockets, &c. which were discharged from a field adjoining this town, and gave a signal to Mr. Hayward, of Mudford, a place four miles digakt, to make ltis neighbourhood re sound with the glad tidings, as loud as the roar of a few cannon planted on his demesne could effect that purpose. Cannon, it was said, would also be dis charged in this town, but an imitation of their noise was only conveyed by the explosion of some gun powder which was plugged in the hollow of an anvil. Notwithstanding the expected assemblage of persons to grace to-morrow's procession, present appearances do not indicate any great popular effervescence. Sir Charles Wolseley, and Mr. Northmore, of Exeter, ar rived early in th e d ay : t h ey are t h e suret i es of Mr. Hunt, and will accompany him in his barouche to morrow. It was expected that the principal would have left the jail at midnight, as Sir Charles Wolseley did at Abingdon; but he will not, however, quit his prison abode until eight o'clock to-morrow morning. Various rumours were afloat in the course of the evening, of expected detainers for debt against him, the lodgement of which would impede, if not alto gether obstruct, the arrangements for the procession to-morrow, as the Sheriff resides sixteen or seventeen miles from the town, and the intervening time would not admit of the necessary communication with him to relieve the prisoner from the present operation of legal process. But for these rumours it would seem there has been no foundation; for when the doors of the jail were locked at ten o'clock this night, no de tainer was lodged with the keeper, Mr. Hardy, and nothing but a regular caption can impede his exit from the prison at the regulated hour in the morn ing. At half-past eight o'clock he will be drawn from the jail to the Castle Inn in a barouche, where he will partake of a public breakfast; after which, with banners and bands of music, he will proceed in full procession to Somerton, where he will stop, it seems, and inspect some ingenious clocks manufac tured by a resident at that place. He will then open his Court Leet, and put Mr. Northmore in possession of some lands upon his manor, which confers a right of voting in the county, and he will afterwards par take of a public dinner at the George Inn. On Friday morning he means to proceed through Shepton Mallet to Frome, and from thence through Warminster on his road to Middleton Cottage, near Andover. Several Addresses will be presented to him in the course of his journey, and a large silver flagon and salver have just arrived at the Castle Inn, the elegance of the workmanship of which was most striking. The following inscription, emblazoned on their surface is not less elegant: " TO Tilt PATRIOT N. HUNT, 131 Q. " The inflexible, the persevering, the undaunted champion of the tights and liberties .f his fellow men, this flagon is presented by the people .f Somerset, on the S•th of October, 1822, the joyful day of his liberation from a cruel and unjust incarceration .f two years and six months in the county jail of Somerset, since appropriately named Ikhester Bastile, as a great memorial of the just sense they entertain of his unparalleled and successful ex ertions in the cause of humanity and freedom—exertions which brought to light the most fiend-like practices, and the most diabo lical acts of persecution and torture, together with the most wanton and wasteful expenditure of the county money, long sanctioned by the Court's negligence, whose duty it was to have protected a prisoner from cruelty and imprisonment, and the rate payers of the county from plunder." Signed by the Committee. The inscription on the salver is—" To the patriotic friend of the people, H. Hunt, Esq. this salver, belonging to and accom panying the flagon, is presented by the undersigned Committee on behalf of the People of the County of Somerset, on the 30th of October, 1822, the day of his liberation from Ilchester Bastile. On it they proudly record their just abhorrence of the cruel, vindictive, and oppressive sentence which consigned him to a dungeon for two years and six months, and to which unjust in carceration were superadded by the local authorities, restrictions at which humanity shuddered, the sympathies of the people were roused. At the sound of their indignant voice the inmost door of the dungeon flew open, the jailer was dismissed, disgraced, abashed, and confounded ; the jail was ordered to be razed to the ground, and Somerset redeemed her character." Very few persons have arrived here tonight, but bonfires are now blazing on the hills, and it is an nounced that numbers v►ill enter the town to-morrow. A partial illumination took place last night, in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, in the houses of the friends of Mr. HUNT, in consequence of his liberation from prison. Saturday night, some sacrilegious fellows entered the interior of St. Werburgh's Church, in Derby. and committed the most wanton and extensive mischief. The Bible on the desk of the Minister, which was a handsome folio, nearly new, was cut through the back, the leaves cut and torn out, and on the front of the cover an expression of gross indecency was scored, apparently with a knife or other sharp instru ment. Both the Church grayer-books were mutilated in a similar manner. The pews in the galleries were, almost without exception, stripped of their linings, which were cut and torn in the most shameful man ner; the hassocks and cushions were cut open, and their contents strewed in all directions ; and the Prayer-books, Bibles, &c. destroyed, and thrown about in the greatest confusion. The curtains of the pews were also cut in pieces, and left hanging in tat tered fragments. Various other depredations and in decencies were committed, and the whole presented a perfect scene of devastation. No trace has yet been discovered of the perpetrators of this act of wanton profligacy. Late on Tuesday evening, as Mr. JASPER JONES, a Serjeant in the Guards, was proceeding across Hyde Park from Cumberland-gate, he was attacked by some women, who managed to rob him of his watch and seals, with which they succeeded in making their escape. Information of the robbery, and a de scription of the thieves, were lodged yesterday before the Magistrates of Marlborough -street, to whom it was also stated, that the greatest excesses, and the most daring outrages, are nightly committing in the Parks and at Cumberland-gate, by strong bands of the worst description of prostitutes, who defy the watchmen, and actually before their faces commit the most indecent nuisances and outrageous assaults, as they can escape with great facility through the opening where the new grand gate is building, from Oxford-street into the Park, and should they by any , chance be pursued, by dodging among the trees they succeed in getting clear off. /~ • SPORTI.VG INTELLIGENCE. NE*AIARKET THIRD OCTOBER OR HOUGHTOR MEETING, 1 EMIL IVZIMEIOAT, ocrossa 30. Subscription Plate of £5O, for 2-yr-olds, carrying 611. lib. and 5-yr-olds, ilsti 101 b. T. Y.C. Mr. Wyndhasn's b. f. by Bustard, 2 yrs old - - 1 Colonel Synge% b. f. by Whalebone, 2 yrr old - 2 Mr. Roger.'. br. 1. by SeUm, 2 yrs old - - s Mr. Crockford's b. c. by Selim, a yrs old - • 4 6 to 9 agar Mr. Wyndham's f. Lord Jersey's Prophet, Sit. 61b. beat Mr. Williamson's Hu. riet, Sit. T. Y.C. 100 gs. h. ft. -6 to 4on Prophet. A Gold Cup, value 630 gs. by a Subscription of 15gs, each, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. T. Y.C. Lord Exeter's Athenian, 5 yrs old, est. - . 1 Lord Jersey's Prophet, 4 yrs old, Sat. - _ Mr. Wyndham's Robin Hood , .5 yrs old, est. Sib. - 3 Mr. Udney's Bumeelde, 6 yrs old, Mt. 131 b. Mr. Crockford's c. by Se li m, 3 yrs old, fist. Sib. Mr: Williamson's Harriet, 3 yrs old, lit. 81b. . p 4 The Judge placed but three. 2to 1 apt Athenian-3 to 2 apt Prophet-2 to 1 apt Robin Hood. THE WELLAND HUNT RACES—Ocv. 29. Hunters' Stakes of 15gs. each, to be rode by tientlemen Owners, carrying 126 t. Two miles. Major Harrison's Dipthong Mr. Joliffe's Louisa Mr. IL MeUhles Frantic Mr. Roger..' Dreadnought Mr. Pearson's Gambler 6 to 4 on the winner. Sweepstakes of sgs. each, with 20 added. Mr. Coulson's Frederick - - Mr. Harrison's Goldfinder Si: started ; no betting. 1 1 5 2 5 3 2 4 4 dr THE TWO TROTTING MATCHES FOR THREE HUNDRED SOVEREIGNS EACH. Mr. Wxu.s's roan mare, of 16 hands, started yesterday in Ash ted Park, to trot over a two-mile circle, sixteen miles and a half, in an hour, carrying feather weight. The mape performed as follows: min. sec. min. sec. First two miles - 7 10 Seventh - - 8 54 Second - - 7 20 Eighth - - 8 12 Third - - 7 14 Half Mile - 4 50 Fourth - - 7 22 Fifth - - 7 50 Sixth - - 8 0 T•tal 59 0 The next Match was to do eight miles in half an hour over the same ground, with a galloway under 14 bands, belonging to Mr. Furzeman. This was won easily, with more than two mi. nutes to spare. Betting was sto 2 against both winning. SPORTING EXTRA. The following match, for 500 sovereigns was made at the Lambton Park Meeting, between Mr. WNIHAII and Mr. Joists :Slims. Mr. William's Hookey Walker, rode by Major HRALIT, against Mr. Alu.ts's Little John, rode by the owner, three miles across the country, the first open day in February. The ground to be chosen by any Gentleman named by Mr. WITHAM, out of the county, within eight miles of Melton; but not to be nat.ied to either of the parties until the morning of running. Day to be named by Sir DILLINGHAM GRAHAM, Bart. At Holywell Hunt Meeting Sir T. !dorm, Bart. refused 800 'guineas for Princess Royal, by Castrell, four years old; and 500 guineas for Mercandotti, by Maley, two years old. KILMANY COURSING CLUB.—FI FE v. ANGUS. The matches taken on at last Kilmany Meeting were decided on Wednesday, the 16th inst. when Mr. G. Aitken's black dog, Wellington, beat Mr. Douglas's yellow bitch, Lady ; Mr. Mel drum's black dog beat Mr. Douglas's white dog. The matches were thus decided in favour of Fife. EXTRAORDINARY FOX CHACE On the 17th inst. about seven in the morning, the well-known staunch fox-hounds, the property of R. H. Jamcous, Esq. of Lanharran House, Glamorganshire, ankennelled a fine old fox at Margam Woods, and after running him three hours anti five minutes without a check, a computed distance of at least 30 miles, was killed in grand style near Coytrehene, the seat of M. P. TRTHERNE, Esq. at whose hospitable mansion the numerous field of sportsmen were most bountifully regaled. This astonish ing inhabitant of Margam Woods weighed 261bs. and measured five feet seven inches from the end of the nose to the tip of the brush, which honourable badge was carried off by the owner of the pack. MATCH TO NOTTINGHAM. Mr. ABERNETHY, the Amateur North-countryman, completed his match to go to Nottingham from me, in 90 hours , romilKsingsland,yes fora terda yesterday. It was to go the ground on foot,bet 246 of 100 sovereigns only; and for another bet of 50 sovereigns, that he did 135 miles in the first 48 hours. He won both Its easily, and arrived at Kingsland yesterday, one hour and ten minutes within the given time, and but little fatigued. This is beating the Powells, the Barclays, Wests, &c. by much odds. Mr. Asintsrruv travelled 140 miles in the first two days, halt ing six hours only. UNION HALI..—SZIZURK Or A TROOP Or PLAYERS AND A WUOLE Aunsowco.—The Office and its neighbourhood were crowded yesterday, in consequence of the apprehension of a whole troop of players and their audience, consisting of eight of the former, and about one hundred and fifty of the latter, men, women, and children. The table of the Office was covered with dramatic apparatus, daggers, gold and silver decorati.ms, glit tering clothes, thunder, rain, and wigs, &c. &c. The Players, of whom the most pT.oininent in the Company were James Lee and John Lee, great in the tragic department, and John Ryan, the prop of the establishment in the comic line, and ('atheiae Lee and Jentinsa Royk, the one excelling in the " terrible," and the other " soft as the shepherd's pipe upon the mountain" were put to the bar in their professional habiliments. As the company was rather limited, those who sustained the principal characters in the play were obliged to appear in the farce, a regulation which answered the double purpose of being economical, and putting to the test the merits of the performers, and it was while the latter entertainment was going on that the police burst in upon the assembled multitude. It appeared that a great variety of complaints had been made by the inhabitants of the Kent-road, and the respectable neigh bourhood round about, against " certain scenes" that were ex hibited at an old floor cloth manufactory, in Manning-place, which had been lately converted into a Temple for the Muses ; that the temple was nightly violated by the presence of pick pockets, and females who united another character to that of thief, and that, in short, the place was rather a habitation for the Furies than for the pupils of Apollo. Hall, the officer, stated, that he had procured tickets of ad mission, with the words " Dentine dirige MS" upon them, which he took to mean " Admit the bearer immediately ;" and that he sent two officers at an early hour to have a look-out upon what was going on inside. Jane Shore was the first piece, and when that commenced the house presented a very flourish ing appearance. Twopence was the general charge for a seat, but a penny was seldom refused, until the Manager found that there was more taste in Surrey than some of his brethren in a different sort of building had experienced. Witness and Mr. Staples, the Clerk of the Office, went at eight o'clock, and first took bold of the door-keeper, who consented to betray his em ployer and the whole house, which had at the time 500 inmates, upon condition of being spared himself amid the general condem nation. Hall proceeded with his guide under the audience,. whit were seated aloft on benches, and enjoying themselves. The scene was enlivened by the bawling of children, the scolding of women, and the swearing of the men. Several dogs too had got admission, and added to the variety of the scene. hall having crept along until he arrived at the stage, suddenly stood before the multitude with a drawn cutlers in his hand. There were two characters on the stage, Akdor Sturgeon and Jacob Jon* (Mr. Lee and Mr. Ryan), at the time, and the Major was re lating his adventures when seized by the collar. The players made no resistance, but the audience endeavoured to get away. All were, however, secured. There was a dance above stairs, and those below scarcely heard a word on account of the noise. The dancers were taken into custody, to the joy of the audience. Mr. Lee, the Manager, said he did nut think he was violating the law when he played. He had been a Clerk in the City, but the badness of the times compelled him to take to the DT44117‘ The Magistrate ordered all the nude player+ to find ban, end advised them to apply to licensed theatres, and not emboli to go about like vagabonds. The women were discharged. • , Mr. A 1.1.X11 was a long thaw employed in examining the au dience part. Those who gave a good account of theniseleds be discharged with a reprimand • but those who were known &saw picioos character+ he sent to briaton I 1