The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1824-10-15 00:00:00

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If, will he performed lid* foam lorete, hr.) shakspeareN rowed? 44 TIIK MESHY WIVES DE WINDNOW. 91r John Faloner. Mr. lhowton; Justice SiestDever, Mr. Younger: Manor %lender, Mr. Dailey ; Ford. Mr. runner; Fenton. Mr. Maimed. TLr Mre Ford. Mwiaote %%nor's: Anne Pass. %Iles Povey. 10 olismlug ore the 'riveter 44 Motile Intreelneeet, le-My Selertions entirely from shakepeare: —Song. • With thew fair ou tttttt or's Joy,. al. pase .1106 —s, u hen It 1., the listen( idebt•—• Marg. • I:nehled axe— Duet, • Lowe like s sh.olow de—Duet, • All teat ',Merle—Song, • C.gue moiling hole' .I)mA. .1 know a lane'—Song. •When lueM d44w ' When &doh. loott•---ClAirui% 'Trip. trip awar— floale, • Away, sway, make holiday. After whkh. SNF.F.TiIe: %TITS AND WIVES. Admiral Franklyn. Mr. Williams; chiseled, Mr. Vlnlnpl Kasiforet. Mr. aielroeet 1111, lewkadny. Mr. 1-1444041. I:mgenia. Mrs. T. HUD Lame, Madame keetriet %mem Mr.. I.orrwk. To-morrow. The Hood to Moan. "rwouid puzzle •Catt,ilarel. with other Kastt rtsinnisints. NEW SURREY TREATRE. Thle present FRIDAY., Out. 15. wale will be presented Kele-Dranse. THE K1E111 , 1%; Dr. THE INDIAN PIRATE'S VESSEL. After wbkh. THE Coolt t tw I TIIC REDDING DINNER. ""b• I ( the 0,0E4 Yr. Herring. To rewind. with DER FRElselltil Or. THE DEMON OC II tl Wol.rs isI.EN AND Tilt SLVEN Nui.l.E.rs. The !tourism PIM% commenced publishing yesterday morning at live o'clock. LONDON, FRI DAV, Ottuuut IS, 1816. The financial prosperity of the country has all'ect!il the journalists, whose hominess is carping, in a very ptculiar, awl in some iustants•s even an alarming r. 'flue Chronicle just noticesl the subject in a pararraplt of twenty lines. The Editor was fully occupied with the more important questions arisinA from a street row, and could not condescend to waste a word on the revenue. lle saw it W 35 improving, and he therefore 111.itiOCtiVely WHOA from it to read a lecture uu the constitutional duties or watchmen and night constables. The cannot lower its lofty carriage to the discussion of subjects an unworthy of the attention of the " leading journal of Europe." A reluctant admission of facts that could not lie disputed, was therefore extorted from the Editor. lie cavilled as notch as he could ; but, upon the whole, lie could not avoid the conclusion, that the mecum., as well as the !talon itself, was prospering. Yesterday, however, he seems to have repented his unwilling candour, and rents • his rage with univaial bitterness agaimt those who bow more warmly applauded T•l:at he himself calls " the course ' of Ministers in the path of good sense and Ilis paroxysm of ill-temper deprives him of all sense of reason and propriety, and he rushes on. llis annmonists with blind fury, aiming at them blows which only moil with tenfold forc e upon himself. Ile begins by com plaining that the friends of Ministets should not be satis fied with the " faint praise - bestowed on the illinisterial ;emissive's of finance ; and lie then proceeds to thew that I‘linisters deserve nu ma whatever, thou, It he hail just before stew" his readiness to give them " reasonable appro bation," and lie tinnily makes a round and audacious asser tion, that the finam ial accounts " afford no ground for gratitude or exultation." What, it will be asked, doer he then deny the accuracy of the &collations ? Does he point out any fallacy in the statements ? Does he contend that the increased consumption of excisable articles toes not manifest au increase of domestic comfort and general prosperity among the people ? liees he show that the policy, by which peace has been preserved with honour, watt unwisely adopted ? 'hoes he argue that the taxes that have been reduced were not those which ought to have been sekvted ? No; but lie is violently incensed with " some items which have been scraped together from the public offices prioritising to give the amount of taxes reduced within the last five yews." Are these items incorrectly souped together? Ile does not pretend that they are; but he alleges that it is " despicable" to state that eight millions and a half of taxes have been reduced within Ilse last four years, when three niillions were imposed, " one year before these boasted reductions.' Why this statement is " despicable," the dogmatist dos; net attempt to slow. It is despicable, he says, soul there he haves his Lssertion to its fate. 'rhe object of the state anent we gave yesterday was to prove that within the last' four years, since the reduction of eight millions and a-iialf of taxes, there had been an increase of nearly six millions on the unrepealed taxes. Then, retorts this candid and amiable reasoner, " the relief from taxes s • much preached about, is rather nornitml than real." This wretched en deavour to hoodwiuk the public is indeed " despicable?. What, sluts he suppose that he has any reader, among all those who have been " led " by his lucubration', that does tiot distinguish between the productiveniss of taxation. resulting from the growing eonsumption of the people. and Rom the aggravation of the public lourthens? 11oes he forget ;that he himself said on iVeduesday, viz.— " that the redaction of duties will become a fruitful spring not only of relief and prosperity to the nation, but the surest methoil of increasing the amount of the very taxes thus nominally diminishes'?" How ought we to ella racterise this paltry sophistry? Perhaps by no term bores than that which he has himself supplied : "it is despi. cable." nut lie repeats, though eight millions and a halt have been reduced since IWO, three millions were imposed the year previous. Admitted; but that fart does net in the slightest degree overthrow or shake the other, ail. that se since the repeal of the eight million:, and a half, the mi g branches of the revenue have inereavil neatly six millions ;—an increase, be it observed, ' , suiting entirely from the increased consumption of excisable comintalWe: AM ►o the imposition of the tine:: tnifinus of tax( sin I. l'+, it might be shewit, if it were requisite, that the itece.;si . .y for that measure originated in the too great and su ad,. l , re duction of the public revenue by the repeal of the prop , rty tax. The single question, however, for preseat diseussion is, whether the financial retur n s for the last quarter roan that the country is prosperous or the reverse. Ifliett w. see the revenue rising nearly to its former amount, after a mint - lion of eight millions and a half in four years, see con clude that we have the best evidence of the spy' ad of comfort and happiness through every class of society. What better criterion can be established ? Hut, if we arc prosperous, let us not he too boisterous in our joy ; it offends the ears o , those to whom no sic is like that of inivery. Then should be no bounds to our abuse of Alinisters when things go wrong ; but, when all is right, it is equally dear that they deserve no praise. This is the creed of faction ; and it is supporttal by a system of arithmetical logic equallee only by the good temper and tomcat feeling with which tin writer on whom we are commenting, assaults those win differ from him. Ile winds up his ammonia admirably " If the income," he tells us, " of the nation, sever. years ago, was two huttared millions, paying sixty million, of taxes, to-day it would he h.ss than one hundred one forty millions, !haying fifty millions of taxes." Not con tent with thus confounding himself and confusing hi readers, he proceeds, with a mock importance that is tnal, ludicrous, to stultify the whole English nation, as if i knew not when to complain or to be content, but as they received the rue from the printing-office in Illackfriana " In this," says he, " we were not hitherto disposed to tell the pevie Mat they had any eause . hr complaint." Indecil! and so the whole kingdom is at last let into the secret !!! These few lines are really worth the Sybil's page, for no people can he in a state so pitable as to have a Mist' for complaint, and not know it!! 'truly thankful ought we to be for this important disclosure. We should have been sorely puzzled to guess to what provocative we owed it that this knowledge is vouchsafed to us; but we art spared all vain conjecture; the whippers-in of Downing street, it seems, have lengthened their lash, and Printing_ house-square will no longer hush up the matter; " now that these whippers-in of Dowating-street are driving vs, are do assert, that there is nu ground . fir gratitude or env,- Ghost of Mother Red-cap, what a timely discovery !! How might we, flc people, have rejoiced, and what a fatal sense miwlit we have had of our supposed blessings, hail it Dot been thus divulged to us, from such high outherily, that there was no ground fur us either to exult or be grateul ! What a marvelously wise Journalist, to be thus able to tell a whole people what they should think, and how they should fe2l, on all matters of State! T,irice happy people, to whom it is given to have so much brains under a bob wig in Blackfriars ! We doubt not but that the people will he duly sensible of this inestimable benefit, and will receive all future dictates with becoming reverence. " Oh teach us, for we trust in you. 7rll NI. Sl* l'occ.e.woowLe—du." The French Papers of iVednesilay last Mate that by ar rivals from Constantinople of the 11th ult. it is said that a grvot earthquake has nearly destroyed Jernsalcut—that the ancient Temple of Solomon and the 111ofralue of Omar have l c n thrown into ruins and the Holy S:pulchre cast dian. We are admonished by an indignant correspondent that we committed a dreadful blunder yesterday, in stating that the death of Iturbide was nightly enacted at the Surrey theatre. It was at the Coburg theatre that the Mexican Emperor was resuscitated for the Iwnefit of the manager, and fur a few evenings only the revived adventurer " strutted and fri Hid his hour upon the stage." The closing price of the French reales on Tuesday was 1 nit f. So e. for money, and 102 f. 70 c. fur the end of the mouth. This fall is inteeibed to the Maaitear having an nounced that the indemnity ta the emigrants will amount to eleven l ire-1 millions of francs. calculating the value of their property at the prices at which it was sold by the Repoblicans. The private letters from Spain give the most frightful picture of the state of that country. At Valentia and tor i!ova there had been serious disturbasic,s, and it is even said, that many French soldiers have been arrested and itn pritiontsl by the Royalist volunteers. Mr. Illaquicre, the agent of the Greek Committee, who arrived on Monday, in the Amphitrite, which has been performing quarantine in Stangate Creek, was expected in town yesterday afternoon. Mr. Blaquiere is accompanied by • Greek youths, who are cosmic here fur education. There were ten, but one of them died three weeks ago, from an imprudence in bathing when hot. Thedespatches frem the Greek Government, of which Mr. Rlaquiere was the bearer, were sent to the Greek Deputies on Wed nesday. Extract of a letter dated Buenos Ayres, July al : "'There is nothing new of any particular interext ; we are anxioes for intelligetice from Lima. to know what pmgress Rolivar has made against the old Spaniards • vet it is so far distant from us that the consequence of the Spaniards being in Lima is not so great as it may appear, so long as they rtypeet foreign property, and allow the trade we re quire of them. Every one feels confident of Bolivar's early success in his attack against his adversary ; indeed the root of patriotism having once began to shout, it will gradually grow there, in spite of every efilot to eradicate it. Every thing goes on well here, and we have a firm and honest Governor, who is very active in the support of all just laws. There may a rumour get abroad with you, that we have hail some broils here,_ but they are without foun dation, and it origination only from the me • • g of a Colonel frost a militia corps ; we had no disturbance, tier was there ever the intention of any." Considerable anxiety prevaged in the City the whole of yesterday, respecting the lam of the 17ortes packet, from New York, which passed Holyhead on the 11th. Brokers were underwriting her at six guineas, at Lloyd's, where the books exhibited a great number of losses by the gale of Tuesday. The followini information was received, in the course of the day, at des New England f7all'ee-homie : •• LIIIXINOOL. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11.—WInd N.E. fresh. The rarket-ship New Turk, has not arrived, but is ex peeled Os-morrow's :side. " r report prevails that the Corte has bent driven on alone." Letters hare been received (ram same of the offic:rs en gaged in the capture of Rangoon. They coovey informa tion as to the snly quoit state of affairs in that city. On the day following the calque... informstion was sent to !smut-quarters, that a female of rank, called the Queen of DAN (a town opposite Rangoon). was employed in collect ing" force, which amounted at that time to near one thousand men, and was ercet:ng steckailes. In cons tplenee of this, piquet' haul been sent out by Sir .1. Varnpl'..ll, but it was not intended to attack Ihlla until the Queen had 'gam bitsl the whole of her force, in ceder that it might he cmshed at tom.. The next expedition was to he directed against Proome, the original boundary of th- ancient Bur man Emp;re. It is a larger and more populous town than itingooo, and is only defendtal by a palli-ado, with earth thrown up before it. From this ammonium., it was ex pected that consitit Fable resistance would be made, and the ''rarer to be sent for its reduction was three thousand men. No further attempts at negociation had Imam made by the Burmese, although, from one or two natives who had re turned to the town, it was understood that great conster nation reigned among the petty Chi. is in the neer bout hood. THE RRITISII PRESS PA RI S. IYROU 01'6 comazsroymnr.l ntetts, Oer, I sent you about three weeks ago a statement of the r•:.l eons:: why the I lergy were afwent from the removal of the body of Louis XVIII. from Paris to St. Denis, namely, misunderstanding between the Archbishop of Paris and the i ;rand Almoner, who refusal a seat in his carriage to the former, lievatise lie had placed on it the urn amtaining the heart of the di ecasod Monarch. No other carriage being in restlino4 for the Archbishop, lie retired in liagrin, and dismissed the WO Priests, who were to have funned part of the• procession. So explanation of this ex traordinary occurrence has hitherto been given in the French Journals till y sterday, when the Etnik at last ventured to give the fullowirg account of this affair, by which you will see the whole blame is thrown upon the I:rand Mast( r of the eeremonii s : " A single word is sufficient to put an end to the reports which are in circulation as to this transaction. We are mowed that the true cause of the absence of the Clergy was a simple misunderstanding in the order of the pro .iession, and in distributing the invitations. This mistake ;wevenwil the invitations given to the Clergy from reach ing the Archbishop of PAris. The Clergy could not take their places %illiout being invited." The futility of this excuse is palpable. You may be assured that my former explanation was perfectly correct. M. Iluyot, the architect, has been permitted to present his plan fur the triumphal arch, Dr: Eluile, at the entrance of Paris by the Champs Elysees, and has received orders to execute it without delay. The new prole! for the reduction of the interest of the reit PS, which ■pprared in the Journal Jr commerce, gives the Stockholders a choice between three propositions:— 1. The state will pay them an annuity of 1,000 francs until it shall reimburse a capital of in,ooo francs. 2. Or an annuity of 831 franca till it shall reimburse a ..tapital of 21,277 francs. S. Or, if they prefer it, the State will pay them an annuity of sun francs, till it reimburses a capital of ?.6,667 francs. So much for M. Villele's system of finance. For a sacrifice of 149 francs of annuity he offers 1,277 francs of capital ; and for the simple sacrifice of 31 francs of an nuity, an increase of 5,390 franc-sof capital. FRANKFORT PAPERS. WaIISAW, SEPT. 2!. a decree issued on the 31st of last moth, by the Prince Governor, all young men intended fur the ecclesiastical profession, and who are in the seminaries, see exempt from military service. This exemption. however, will cease. if, when they leave the se minary, they give up the intention A embracing the ecclesiastical profession. On the 19th, M. de Skansjewski was installed with great solem nity, in the Church of the Holy Cross, u Archbishop and Primate of the kingdom. 31VXICII, OCT. 2. We expect shortly the publication of a new plan oil studies for the scadendes of the kingdom ; for which purpose the Government of the Cirri's, and all the Director% of Academies, were called upon, some months ago, to send in deeded reports and proposals. A• the new plait is to be carrie I into effect in the next academic 1 year, the commencement of that year toe 1824-5, is deferred in alt the superior academies tilt the Mit November. BERLIN, OCT. 1. If ritir Government, like every one that attentively and wisely considers the interests of the several classes of citizens, as well a. the welfare of the whole State, thinks of retrenchments. and of nicx, equal distribution of the public burdens. &c. the accounts the Itsye been pciblisherl by the Ilamburgi Owrespondesit are, sta in-founded. There is no idea of the 31inister ••••r' War, Lien tenant-General Von flake, ,resigning his Alice. Ili. Eseellet cy continues to enjoy his Majesty's conlicleiter and the esteem of th .piny, and will resume his functioos as soon as his brabh, is much tisipmved, allows. Nor are the dedications of I and II p* cent to be considered as savings, they being ihtended to faint a tool for pensioning civil °Ricers. NEW STAMP ACT. This Act commenced its operation on the 10th of Oc tober last, when e. ruin duties mentioned in the Schedule annexed thereto cased; as also the duties on Commissions of Bankrupt, on Bonds on Replevy of Goods; and alsJon Copies of IVAN, or Power of Attorney, deposited in any Ecclesiastical Court. Such arrears as became payable be fore the loth of o,:tul:r are excep:ed, and subject to re covery by suits at law, pursuant to a clause in the Act. Stumps retuiered useless may he sent to the Stump Office to be exchanged for others, within six months after the loth of October, 1821. if necessary. Conunissioners may pay the diff:rence. Such Stamps may be sent to the head Office of Stamps in England, Scotland, and Ireland. The S.cliedtile to which the Act refers is of voluminous extent. and particularly notices the Stamps payable under the following heads, viz.:— In. Proceedings in the Court of Admiralty and in the Coons of the Cinque Ports. eseteining Admiralty Jurisdiction, the Iligh Court of Apire:rls in Prize Cause+, and the High Court of Dile. gate,. in Admiralty matters in England. 2,11 y. Pr-•eeilings in Eerlenitortie:d Courts, and in the High Court of Dtlegatts in Erelesiamieal minters tuf Fmgland. 3.11 y. Potteeetlings in the Count of Law and Equity at West. minuet, inehttling the Court of the Duchy of 1431.camer, and in other Court, in Imgland, and the Mikes belonging thereto; and also before the lend High Chanetllor, or the Keeper er Commit'. sinner of the custody of the Unit Seal in tnattra of Bankruptcy or !minter. 'rho Schedule No. 11. notica the Courts in Scotland (to which this Act deea nut especially refer) under one general head. The third head embraces proceedings in the Courts in Ireland. These are -Ist. Proceedings in the Court of Admiralty in Ireland. 2dly. Proceedings in the Erelesimaieal Courts. and in the High Conn of Delegates in Ecclesiastical matter. in Ireland. idly. Proceedings in the ',torts of Law and Equity in Publin, and in all other Courts in Ireland, ho/ding pia whore tin: debt or damage shall exceed 40s. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DIIITIVI PRESS. Sta—As I am some:lmes food of smoking a cigar in the open air, I cannot help, in self-dcfence, saying • few words, in trona,- quence of a strange paragraph which appeared in a morning paper of yesterday, of the litliuwing nature : " rte silly, thsguati and dangerous practice of smoking cigars in the streets oug!at to be stippeessed. A gentleman was very near being deprived of his sight a few evenings miner, in lliford-street, by coming its contact with one of these walking nuisances." This paragraph. I presume, is the produet of the editor's own ingenuity. The suggestion for legislatorial Ituerfcrence to sup press the smoking of cigars, seems to ice much in accord with the profound wisdom contained in the editorial dissertation on the Von. stitutinn in the sante ionntal this morning. I advise you, Mr. Editor, to read the reflections of this • learned Theban," on the causes that led to the " upsetting of the Parliaments of l'arthage, Greece. Bowe, and other countries." But, Sir, though I do not pre. I some to set tip my shallow judgment against this sagacious editor's, as to these skip nutticrs of historical research (I confess I never ever knew that thew had Patliaments at Carthage. ;recce, and Rome). yet I ion confident that your co.itemporary is waidering beyond the limits of i liservion when he pens his tirades against cigar wookir.t in the streets. 1 would advise his friends in future not to sacrifice to the jolly Gad in freely, as to endaager their eyesight • by coming into contact with walking ruisances" of any ktml. It they get into such a state as to suegget against a passenger with a cigar in his totoult, is will nest 1w necesssrv. for their protection, to stop all vehicles tuovicg slant; the streets,lnt by any accident they should get under the wheels of a hackney chario:. I am, Sir, Thursday Morning. A CIGAR SMOKER. A young woman, who we mulaatand is a servant in a family in Mtn:et-gardens. Brighton, in descending the steps on the north end of the Chain Pier, slipped and fell into the sea, on Sat u rday last, and, singular as it may ap pear. floated near .109 feet from the Pier. As soon as poasilde a boat Wag lows red to her assistance; when it reached her a wave struck the boat, and it passed right over her, but fortunately one of the men. at the moment she was sinkite7, suree.sled in laying hitla of her clothes with a boat-hod:. She was then taken into the host, and anti afterwards conveyed to the iteadith,r-room. She was at this time in a sm.• of total insensibility, butt proper means being adopted, animation was restored. We undet stand she is quite recovered from the indisposition occasion ed by the ae‘,llent.—Beii.U.da PASBIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis of lowthisn has left town for Dowager Lady Suf field's lest. in Norfolk. The Countess of Beauchamp has left town for Paris. The Hon. Frederick Lamb left town yesterday, for the 3larquis of Salisbury's seat, Ilatlield. lady E. Mount Edgcombe arrived yesterday at Emily, Mar. chioness of Londonderry s, in Sc. Jauces's.square, from Twick. cultism. Departures from the Royal lintel, St. James's-street :—Lady Nehlowpe, for her seat in Lincolnshire; the Rev. J. Billington, for his seat in Kent. Earl !lichee left Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-stted, yesterday, for Cheltenham. Edward Knight, Esq. Miss Knight, and Knight. Esq. ar rived yesterday at Blake's Ilutd, Jennyn-street, from their seat In Kent. Lord Charles Fitzroy arrived yesterday at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-wisre. front his seat in sloffitlk. Mr. and Mrs. Lipscombe arrived yesterday at the British Hotel, Jennyn-strett. fmni Paris. Departures yesterday from the London Hotel. Albemarle-street T. T. Drake, Esq. M.P. and Mrs. Brake, for their seat in Bucks r The Item. W. W. !hake and fancily, for the Rectory, Aineraham, 'lucks. Arrivals at Kirkham's lintel, Lower Brook-street :—Captain anti Mrs. Heaviside, front Paris; Anthony !fright, Esq., from his seat in Cambridgeshire; R. Ileskeith, Esq., from Ozford ; Mt. and Mts. Sumner, from Bath. l/epartures from the ("larendon Ilnrel, Bond-street :—Sir l'hilip Roach. Bart., fur Brighton; Sir Chariot Pole, Bart., for his seat in Hants. Arrivals at Ilivart's lintel, bower Brook-street :—George Caul field, Esq., from Paris II übert du Burgh, from Spa; the Countess of Orkney, from Berkshire. CURIOUS EPITAPHS. We select the following curimut Epitaphs from that ex cellent and amusing work, the Relics if I.ilcrulti^e, by Stephen Collett, A.M. IN ST. MICHAEL'S, CROONED-LANE. Here lyeih. wraps in clm, The tuly of iVilliant Wray ; 1 hare no more to uy. ST. MEN NET'S, PAUL'S WHARF. LOSTML HMV lies nit More, and to More than he: Oct More, anti en More ! how can that be ? Why one Mere, :cid Ho More, may well lie here alone, But here lies one Mote, and that's Mort titan we. aT fiEl.ItY, IN TORICSIIIIIC. !fere lies the hotly of tenor Frarrk /Ass, Parish clerk and grare.stone cutter, And this is writ to let you know. N'hat Frank for others used to do, la now for Frank dune by another. IN NORWICH CATHEDRAL. Here ilea the ho.ii of honest Tom Page, Who died in the 33d year of his age. IN SWANSEA 1:1111711C1I-Y•110. The body underneath this stone is, Of my late husband Jaeob Jonas, Who, when alive, was an Adonis, Ah ! well.a.day ! 0 death ! thou spoiler of fair race., Wily toolest thou hint from niy tte.braees ? How cuuliti'st thou our so many graces ? Say, tyrant, say. IX TIIE rRURCIt-T/RD OF nTTIIE. Ilia net old &her George long drew, liheale upon shoal% he caught. 'Till Death came 'waling for lox du,, G Anil made pour eorge his draught. Death lishes on through various shares; In vain it is to fret; Nor fish or fighermitn escapes 'Death's all.enclosing net. TX THE CHERCW-YARD OT Arrnrotow, TX Oivowintnt, ON A PARSON or Tot NAME OF STORE, WHO LIVED TO TUE AWE or ITO YEARS. Gland Salem's rune shall never light OD thee; For here a stone upon a Stone 1 ire. IN THE OED CIICRCII OT ALL SAINTS, IN NEWCASTLE. here lies poor ‘Vallace. The prince of good fellows, Clerk of Allhallows. And maker of bellow.. Ile bellows did make 'till the day of his truth: But he that made bellows could never make breath. IN THY curt Clt-Talln Or WESTNINSTOY, IN CUSSES, 1. Farewell, poor world ! I must be ;;one; This is no Owe for rn.:: I'll take my staff, an' travel! on, Ilopinge a better world to see. The bitter cup, that Death gave me, Is passing mend to Come to thee. One of the most ree nt arts of benevolence of Lis MF.• jesty is an order that Mr. Sadler, the vetoran aerona t should be enrolled among the brethren of the Chartet beuse, which secures to that enterprising man a c mifert able asylum for tie remainder o" his days. Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, the Duke rill! Duchess of Clarence, and the Duke of Aleiningen, arrived in town from Bushy. In the evening the Royal Duke and lhichess, and his Serene Highness, honoured Covent-gar den Theatre with their presence. The Earl and Countess of Lonsdale, accompanied by Lord Frederick Boithick and Lady, Miss Thompson, Miss Griadale, J. H. Lowther, Esq., ALP. (son of Sir John Lowther, Bart., M.l'., of Swillington). tee., arrived at 11 . 1titchaven Castle on Saturday last. We understand they purpose remaining here about a fortnight.—Whirehavee Oatetle. Mr. &alien, M.P., who is sojourning at Brighton, liar been paying a visit to Lord George Cavendish, at Compton Place ; he passed through Lewes, and called on several of the electors.—BrigiAns Paper. IVe learn from good authority that at the next general election Sir John Lowther, Bart. will retire from the re presentation of this county, and that Lord Frederick 1 Bemire): (son-in-law of the Earl of Lornelale), will he the new candidate on the yellow interest.—Carlisle Journal. A deputation of ttie freemen of Wells, consisting of Francis Drake and Robert Welsh, &tops., Mr. Jam Ful ler, and Mr. Joseph Dix, left Wells on Sunday Cur Lon don, to confer with their brother freemen there on thi , choice of members for that city at the next general elec tion. The present members, C. W. Taylor, and J. P. Tudway, &qrs., hare represented Wells, the former din ing twenty-eight years, and the latter and his uncle the last sixty-four years.—Beti Herald. The Consecration of the elegant and much-admired new Church at Ilnrton-upon-Trent took place on Friday week, by the Lord Bishop of the diocese. On Monday, the lath inst. being St. Luke's Day, the new church will he opened at Chelsea, and eons: vested by the name of St. Luke ; and, on the 311111 e day, a new pal of ten hdla, cast by Mr. 'f. Mears, in WhiteChape!, will Is opened by the Loudon Companies of Change Ringers; viz. the College Youths, and C herland Youths. The tenor is in the key of E, and weighs r 3 cwt. (not b..11-metal). Saturday the IVY. Soencer Madan, A.M. canon of Lichfield, was instituted to the vicarage of Ilatheaston. on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of ('heist Church, °shirt', voided by the death of the ILtv. Jobs: Josias Cooy bean% 'file canvass for the vacant living of St. Peter's, (.7.lrn hill, is carrying on with great activity in the city ; and the ' friends of the It'v. Mr. Wood, son of the Alderman, art., we understand, very saturnine as to the result of the con test. We stated a few slays since, tkat the tithes of this Rectory were fixed by the Fire Act at *MI. This. how t rev, is far from being the total, or even the priticipa . &force of income to the incumbent, as several houses in Cariihill (Mr. Angell, the pastry-cook's, among the num her,) are built upon the glebe, the mo t s of w hi c h, ur gi eh r , with other emoluiniaitA, make the preferment, it is said, worth a good Soo'. a year. A little glebe in that neigh bourhood is a valuable thing. We recommend to the attention of our readers. an ex cellent elementary attack, by D.E. De Lana, entitled, .4 Key to Me Sinn is;l Lan : range—a Imok extremely well cal culated to lighten doe lat,oor of histructiou. We have he al informed by a gentleman whim is jitst re turned front the neighbourhood of Banbury, that the ac count of a fatal accident f a balloon, as CPrit of from a letter which appeared in the 0110-tf .beer turf into our s emit pate, is al together a fabrication.-11Werrialosieta( ?ironic:es The disferent plate cliesti deposited at the banking-house in 11 triter's-street, have been delivered up to their owners. The s t a t e o f th a t part o f Regent-streot, between Pall mall and Piccadilly, which was Macadamized lint year, is soch as to do no great credit to the new system. THEATRES. COVENT-GARDEN. After having been performed for two months anti upw ar d s with no inconsiderable lIIICCUNS at the Lyceum, l)rr chefs was brought out lag evening at Covent-gard That there may be " too much of a goed thing," i s an admitted axiom ; and we own the renewal of tits pine appeared to us somewhat to " border on the verge" of a violation of ibis well-recognised rule. 'lowest?, it may h e said that ibis theatre was anxious to entertain the winter tiers of the metropolis with a piece of which its summer residents hail manifested an unbounded approbation. 'r ile experiment has been decidedly successful. A fulltr how. titan that of last night we have rarely witnessed, and sel dom noticed greater exertion on the part of the man age . went to produce a piece with such full and effective sup. port. Mr. Merman was the hero of the piece, who cannot truly be considered a very efficient substitute for ltraliatn, who played the part through the principal part of the last season ; but then Miss Paton played B e , and she, in the taste, style, and execution of brawls sing.: ing, is without a rival on the English, or perhaps upon any stage. There is a fulness in her voice, a suing% of sound, and a sedulously cultivated acquaintance with ths science anti the melody of music, which always render it a pleasure and an ingruction to hear her. The plot of the piece at Covent-gaolen is essentially the same as that pro. ducted at the English Opera-house. Ft r the benefit at those who either may have forgotten or not have seen it, we are induced to repeat the following brief outline of the story : The Huntsman reaper, having sold himself to the Demos of the Forest, %andel, endeavours to obtain a three years respite fine, hs doom by stthietog another huntsman, and ilia favoii-•d rival in the siff:Ttion. of Agnes, into a similar compact with the ler. ride fiend, a..d for this purpose haring, by the am/Moaner of tae wicked spirit, deprived hint of his skill In archery, upon which, be the extimand of the Sohemian Prince Mom. the hand of Agnes is to depend, Wilhelm is prevailed upon to seontipany him to tile wolfs glen, to assist him in the magical process of making scent bullets, ail' of which are to implicitly follow the will of the marksman, and the st.venth that of the wayward tit1110:.:-- . SII will achieve, The seventh deceive." It in in contrived by Caspar, that this seventh bullet shall be mot by Wilhelm, who keeps clear of at v compact, and is not made aware of its evil property. ro shoot for the bridal prize. This o. fest perdu expecte that the Demon, in the genuine spirit of his ye. Cession. wig turn it aside to the accomplishment of some dire irk. chit which will ensure the disgrace and destruction of Willitr, whereas the teiributive devil, to prove the truth of the observe:tun, we suppose, that there is in 'visit of goodness rven in things evil, causes the swift, white pigeon, which is the allotted mark, to ey across the bosom of the villain Caspar, who thus falls a sacrifice to his own diabuliam ;--the terrific %Andel instantly seizing his sinking frame in person, and bearing him off in fiery triumph .a the regions below. It is scarcely necessary to observe, that the es. taetroplic is coinyleted by the union of the lovers. Very slight arid unimportant alterations were introduced, and these principally oceu: red in the musical department of the Opera. That line aria, (Militate, nor hoe lire littering hoar. was eimittml, as was also an introduced air of Mr. Wade, which was sung at the Lyieum. The finale, at the close of the first act, was also quite altered from the origi nal music, but that which was substituted was not wanting in sufficient taste and brilliancy of composition to render it highly attractive. The most effective sc: ne, however, and the one in which Covent-garden site at immeacurahle dis tance all its minor conipt titors, was that which is termed the incantation scene. The fluttering of pinions, the mut ing of shadows, and the as•ocintion of owls, ravens, and sil birds and animals calculated to inspire terror, constituted, perhaps, the most perfectly repulsive display of diabolism ever exhibited on the stage. It met and merited the loudest applause. The overture, and thehun Pollen's song at the dose, which arc both masterly manifestations of inventive genius, were warmly applauded arid encored. The subordinate cha racters were very creditably sustained. We regretted that some of them were not more prominent, particularly that of Mr. Keeley, who appeared but for five minutes, during which five minutes he kept the audience in perfect good humour with hint and with themselves. Tile cap-trims size of this theatre, and its resources in the way of smite embellishment, gave renewed and augmented effect to the opera, beyond what we have witnessed at the various theatres at which it had been previously ',roam-ed. It was given out for repetition am'd the most unqualiiitel and un bounded expressions of approbation. A DELPH I THEATRE. This Theatre commencid its winter campaign last night, with a very splendid Melo-drama, called iraftwoßefi, tle Unhallowed Sepulchre. It is quite of the German school ; the plot is as follows :—/Cellwar is endowed by en evil spirit. with eternal !ife and endless riches. on the condi tion that he employ Loth his gifts to bad rurposes; but being, by accident, seduced into the ti 1161011 of one good act, his life is consequently changed into one of torture, from which he ran only get relieved by pm-11rings reversion of his perpetuity. Chance Lads him to Vulumii, a man ruined by his pursuits as a gamester, and reduced to the utmost verge of distress ; in him he finds a ready can didate for the posiession of riches on any tenni ; and the consent of Match, the fiend, is the only thing requisite to camplete the bargain ; this is effected by means of an in vocation, similar to that in Der Freisehetz, and fully equal to it in horror and absurdity. Valinourli, then titters on his carnv, but his first set is to fall in love with a young lady, Eleina, already betrothed to Albert, lint he contrives to en„ age his affections by means of the enchant ments of Afalde. He finds that cannot potatoes her on other terms than marriage, from the forms of which he is restricted by his engagements with the fiend. He is, bow er r, determined to brave his power, and the cereineT is !woe:riling when the enchanter appears and dinit,uhl the whole. Ile is then seized by the Inquisition and car denthed for sorcery, but he is here saved by the intrepssi tion of ilqlrk, by whom (after having undergone cartons other risks) he is at last setziil and conveyed to hell as hie victim, and Eleind iv married to Albert. It will be sea :hat this piece takes its origin from the same police. as Oct Freiychtih; and from the success which has attended the represnitation of that opera, we fear that the vent will le inundated for some time with German horrors in ail ',bolsi. The scenery of the piece is magnificent and costly. and the music is very tine, partinslarly the Invocation. We hate no doubt from the preveence of the presmt trace of the town. that this drama will be very attractive, and rspe d eece a long run, which it inu:t do to repay the point tie or the expense he has been at in getting it up; but the pt rformance must he curtailed, and we should auggest that much of the singing might he left out with advantage. particularly the serenade, which was very ridiculous. It was not over till a quarter to twelve, too late by nearly two hours. The company is a very respectable but we :link that Mr. Power should inflice a little more energy ... wo his portraiture of the villein rat:mold/. The house was crowded in el parts long before tbr , rising. of the eurtain—which is certainly a very goL tugury towards a sucemsful season. Miss Kelly makes her first appearance at the Hayman:: flicatre on Saturday. Mr. Macready, during the past wes - k, has perform! some of his principal characters at tie Liverpool Theatn• Sinclair will resume his s l titation at Covent-gari.7 'Theatre in a day of two. Ilia theatrical tour in Scothr; has been eminently successful, both as to fame and 11 1 solid accompaniment. II: is to male his fit '.t appears''` for the seasm, we understand. in a new opera. At the Mansion-house, Ilull, ou Tuesday, Rot!irt jun. E-41. banker, was admitted a freeman of tl.st t.:orporation, upon the payment of you guineas. Juin. Coca r.—Among other objectimis to this Ces:t which have been put - dialled is the resolutions of the Miehaeltnas Head Court, it is stated, " that there ate 1 , 0 less than s-vett w:11 paid clerks to conduct the husineas of a Court which tries annually alknzt thirty-thr:e cantes. - - -- taost;tltl' rat C I.IIE NC li.—The re .Ifetrt. rt. (published at Nor : castle) says—On the evening of TuoiThav setyk, some turhati:e was creati.xl near the ti catty: the zartiage attemptinA to take pr, e-il• nee of others in scratt town company fiw the ntuvaal festival. The party. how ever, who occupied the first station, was Pot &spot , p!see to the newly-.d6.vt.41 Chief Mai;iatrate, acti a little altercation, and craekiog of whips, the matter ult settled witlitiut accident by Mr. Cromlington's coach tak ,ll A its proper plac:Oast in the line. We do not knot - wheth , r this assumption of conssmuence is attribtualde to the &Ivo' . Tr his master, but in either case it W.IS mit with b:com;va s pirit and ms!itaree. t~ i k ~. I