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H•MBURGB, JOLT 11426;11;;a: SC; two months, 39 I.
ST. PETEASIIII SIGH, JULT 5.-10 11-32.
LEmstc, Jur.: 15.—Three months, 6 211.1.
V1499A, JULY 9.—Three months, 'J 79.

A General Assembly of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane Pro-
prietors was held at the saloon of the Theatre, at two o'clock on
Saturday, to receive the annual seat ..mcnt of the accounts from the The Hereditary Prince of Prussia arrived at Brussels op
Wednesday evening.
Cthnomseiiiwithteco: aanccdo
n
craft, M.P. was called to the Chair.
trodieolgecttoAr‘o"utittion"e flontidn,"ahnenruc'affillcyeniretiinret—helllrr calo-f The Duke of York left town on Saturday morning for
reside Et the King's Palace.
tßheepootktitecetfotfhetbse
ushl.7olitnntitsateied, Brighton for about a mouth. His Royal Highness will
The Duchess of Kent attended divine service yesterday,
well calculated to give general satisfaction.
twhhaTiteithlehce(O.SmiecripArleinsteda3rl;:wp.oaruatifidtceurrealasrmdarteitlaahgteion a the affairs of the concern,
Mr. Du st w then read the following Report:— and heard a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Kuper.
On Saturday evening Prince Leopold and the Duchess
'REPORT OF THE BUB-COMMITTEE TO THE GENERAL coo.
SUTTEE, JFLY 23, 1825. of Kent honoured the Italian Opera House with their pee-
The Sub-Committee have again the satisfaction to submit to senee.
the General Committee a brief account of the arrangement of the Yesterday morning Prince Leopold, attended by Si;
(4eneral Assembly. The Report will be confirmed hy the pro-
concerns of the Company. which have taken place since the last Henry Seaton, attended divine service at Si. Phillip't
in strunga that the
Mr. Oakly. They have great satisfaction
auction of the accounts, which hove been regularly audited by
It seems that Mrs. Coutis has had no intentions what,
Chapel, Waterloo-place.
rent due from the Lessee has been regularly paid ; and in addi- ever of a union with Lord Burford, now Duke of St. AL
lion to which, he has made the deposit of 2,0001., according to the ban's, as his Grace is engaged to Lady Georgians North,
covenants of the lease, towards the rent for the ensuing year. The d. a.ur ter of the Earl of Guilford ; and that Mrs. Couto in.
Sub-Committee cannot omit to notice the great improvement in the
ee
value of the stock of wardrobe, scenery, Ike. arising from thep
unsparing
expense with which the lessee has produced- the enter. I
!!' sto resent her withl
do honour to all parties 10000/. on her marri e. This
ag
wi,--Sunday Times.
tainments of the past :.eason, and which they trust will be even- Romisit RELICS.—A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, of
tually met by the patronage of the public. The Sub-Committee
trust, that the outlay for the improvement effected in Vine.ar- the 19th July, says—" The septennial fete of the relics
continues to attract vast crowds. On Sunday, between
yard will meet the sanction of the General Committee. the
advantages to the proprietary are evident, as it raises the value of
r
four and ten o'clock in the morning, above forty thousand
the houses contiguous, which are vested in the Company, and se. pilgrims entered the city."
cures a free and more convenient passage to the public. The Sub- Mr. James Campbell, the Bank Director, has gained
Committee also beg to submit to the General Committee, the pro- 400,000/. by the decision of the Chancellor, relative to tile
prier y of grunting repairing leases to the several tenants, by which
the impraved rent will more than compensate time proprietors will of the late Mr. Holford.
for the expense of the wall, &c. lately erected. The annuity to the We are glad to hear that two Salt Water Bathing Con:-
, .
new renters, of one shilling led threepence per night, has been paid polies are likely to form a junction, and to consolidate tnor
by regular instalments, amounting to 4,0681. 15s. to the account of speculations ; indeed, we never thought two would anent.
their Trustees, Bleows. Turton, Fallowfield„ and Snodgrass, at as an investment, p
but cue will benefit thepublic greatly,
the banking-house of Means. Ransom and Co. The second in-
stalment to the Bondholders, directed by the Act of Parliament and consequently repay the proprietors. We would to-
to be made in the present month, amounting to 3,488!. Os. Bd., commend for some of their positions Lincoln's inn-lieldm,
with interest, was raid in July last. The gradual approach to- Leicester-fields, Covent-garden Market (which latter is to
wards the extinction of all the claims upon the concern by means be removed), New Road by the Diorama, Grosvenor-place ;
of the rent, renders the labours of the Committee comparatively but wherever they are placed we shall hail them as one of
light, ard consequendy the matter of account very short. They
the greatest luxuries of the age in which we live.
have now to state, that the claims discovered to be due to the , .
Ihe new wharfs limning from Waterloo Bridge along
various creditors in 181 d, amounting to 92,C00/., hove by a regular
appropriation • ' of the funds, been reduced to 22,6111/. 2s. Bd. In the Belvidere-road, are among the more useful of receut
closing this Report, the Sub-Committee have only to request the public improvements. The wet dock, also, which has
just been excavated, will contribute greatly to the interests
attention of the Gencr.tl Committee to the annual statement of
amounts, pr paratory to its being laid before the Gerund Assent- of commerce, by facilitating the landing and warehousing
bly. At the last General Meeting the debt of the Theatre was
98,9111. Ds. 4d. The payment of the second instalment to the of goods.
Bondholder!' matte In July last, amounting with interest to The subscription for the relief of the sufferers by the late
4,2721. 18*. ild., leaves the present incurobrance upon the concern at fire in Titchfichl-street, is said to exceed the amount re-
-2200/. 3s. 3d., consisting of the following items :—Bondholder, quired by upwards of 500/.
17,4401. 3s. 81. ; unree,aimed tlivitiends, EMIL ; compositions
A case of extreme distress has been made known to the
awarded to creditors of the late Theatre, 3,9181. ; rind there is an
available balance in the hands of inc banker, of 3,11:171.31. 3d., public, by Mr. Jones, the Marshal of the King's Bench
which when applied, the extent of the claims noon the concern prison. It appears that two young ladies, of nit exception.
will be lfeolle Os. 5a., including the sum of 8721. for one year's able character and conduct, are now in that prison for debts
interest to the Bondholders. contracted by their part its, who are dead, and r,tich eke
undertook to pay out or' the proceeds of a snmall salsa'.
The CHAIRMAN then said, it was for same Gentleman to move
that the Report he adopted, fur he thought, from the nature of its
contents, it was calculated to give unanimous satisfaction. (hear.. Their aohlo undertaking was, however, fntstra;ed by mit-
hear.) In adverting to the state of their affairs, and alluding to ' fortune, and the unfeeling creditors have sent them to
the great improvement which had taken place since the present gaol. Mr. Jones has opened a subscription for them, ar
Management, it was impossible not to feel the great value of the the head of which stand the. Lord Chief Justice Abbott
services of the present Lester, Mr. Elliston, who had improved and himself. We sincerel trust that the benevolent ex-
their property to a considerable extent, who had augmented the vs- y
lue of their stock of aeenery, &c. ; and done, in every remect, with ample will be warmly followed.
a liberality which evinced his disposition to promote the general 1 /inec Cs Bina-it-Halo—The anniversary of the na-
tivity of King Robert Bruce WAS celebrated, as usual, en
interest, more than could have been expected from him by the terms .
Monday the I lth curt., under the walls of his ancient pa-
of his lease. (Hear, hear hay
b could not too highly praise Mr.
Elliston's mode of conducting their affairs. He had, during the
trimonial castle of Lochniaben, by a numerous party of lA.
last season, brought out several new pieces of very high merit ; and ,
if some of them, owing to the lateness of the season, and the ope.i dies and gentlemen from the town and neighbourhood. At
ration of the heat ant weather, had not proved, at the moment, four o'clock the company, about sixty in number, sat don u
as profitable to the 'Longer as they deserved to be, there was every Ito an excellent picnic dinner, in honour of the day. The
prove
reason to believe that then would so in the beginning and
progress of the ensuing 'vie. No better modern piece had been pro-
Honourable the Provost of the burgh in the chair—Lie ut.•
'laced, than Winiant Tell ; and when they had also Faustus, and Colonel Carruthers of Denbie, croupier. The cloth being
The Coronation (which, though not, of course, so attractive so the removed, a number of appropriate toasts followed ; ammo'
British one, was yet very splendidly got up they had before them others " The immortal meinoty of King Robert Bruce,"
proofs of the skill of the Manager, arid of his desire to make the " Sir William Wallace," &c. which were drank with that
Thee re worthy of its name, and of the public patronage.
deep feeling the men tion.of their very names must ever pro-
On the motion of Mr. Oneorest., seconded by Sit. MIT.
Cu .LL, the Report was then unaohneusly approved. duce in the bosoms of all who cherish the remembrance cf
.Ir. Rooms wished to remark, that there was one thing which I the mighty. dead. Nothing could exceed the beauty of the
had escaped the notice of their worthy Chairman, and that was, evening—one party seated at tea—another dancing below
tEe'rairte of the stoat-me castle—the splendout and degance
that in three years and a half from this period, the bialacri of the
of the scene, and the recollections of the day, gave all that
Theatre, who during the several years while the toie.manoizlng
Committee presided over their affairs, despaired of ever receiving a ! harmony and elevation of spirit which must ever aCcone
n guinea, would at that time (three years and a half hence) -receive a I
divideod in all probability of five or six percent. The debt due to pony them, and it was only when time shades of nigh:
the bondholders at this time, was 17,440 L; balance in head, descended,. that the party left the sacred ground, "whirr
3,927/. 3a. 3d.; actual debt, 13,012/. Ns. 9.t., which woeld be Bruce's turrets crumbling fall, the monument of ages paiool
away."—Gatedoe ion .111ercury. •
liquidated in three years and a half, when every debt upon the
'awn would be extinguished. (Hear, hear.)
The CHM R MAN then remarked, that a skilful architect (Mr. Ify statute 6th George IL c. 37, it was felony without
/leaflet we understood) had prepared a plan of a colonade to be benefit of clergy to destroy an ash. Dr. Ash, a great *it
erected (if approved of) at the Russell-street side of the Theatre, to anti friend.of. Swift, was once wet through with the rale.
afford shelter to the public while attending, or passing to and from and upon !ming into an inn, asked the waiter to strip off ho
carriages in wet weather. Now there was a discretionary power in
emit for hint ; upon -which the waiter started, and
the hands of the Committee, to apply pert of a certain fund to
parpares likely to improve the value of their property, and he said be
would not, for it was felony to strip an Ash. Dr. Ash tool
thought it could not be better applied than in so useful end embel. to say he would have given OW. to have been the author of
Ushlng a purpose as that which he had mentioned, always premi- that pun.
sing that, in the application of arty portion of their surplus funds, A large rattlesnake
regard should be had in the Erse instance to the due liquidation of -1- was some •
debt. AlexanErian museum. Its favourite food is the frog. A
tnhuemeabgereotfo
tibliiessesnaankimae,
allls goy. itwehyiocutingii,ew,eireevoounreeddabyuptuotni,n
A conversation Ole, rose upon the nature of the plan, a draught
of which was exhibited in the room. and sonic gentlemen suggested
that an estimate ought to be given of the expense to be incurred in Though others were freipontly given to the snake. he
effecting this improvement. This was, however, overruled, is the
they both hocaine dormant,
always spared this one—until cold weather set in, when
Tlialutran said, that if the plan were adopted, it was interdel to
proceed by public tender, anti that were they premeturely ta pub. and wee thus stowed away in
Rah the amour.: of money they would sat wade far it, they would a close e,dlne fire the winter. On the return of I,arei
bethesitenvitreten
TWlll.illanhma,evrse
.t.lilieonellu.7onof
tbhreincgoinognaudpe
powesaeitterwetlrieeysowoeirie
ftesa taken
tatfront(il the_a na Cellar,thei
ranfaanolinliabeeiitnyg enx.-
erectheadthon•opwpnerini.durbonlimioahe, feeeneerflaclter
todersthteangdeihngetai. hotivnteevreere,tetheaftthitseinewed without any abatement. This was the case again
irvernuufoornesirapTpohoiinitlnnisetTiou were
The Sub-Committee was then re-appointed for the ensuing year; u snake did not long survive.—.4lexondriun Herald.
Ilanother winter and spring. The frog, however, died. 'lle
theatre.
telt:
ma e,
the
tireooldf .
of
iier Auditors.
on
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ePtti•erseottemsonog.hothewant to live long should take up their rc-
Welsh mountains. Ann Le son, of til''
t then m :le, and apologies for absence on account of halisposi.; • i .
Thanks were also unanimously soled to the Chairmen and they
andand business,t'
Other
the Hon. Douglas Einnaird, and Mr. Suane.
107 years.
!UN ivilisge of Perthyrhod, Cormarthenshire. died lately, aged
On the vote of thanks to the Lessee. Mr. Elliaton, being also i 2119°7w }'cars. Within a mile of her late dwelling, there arc
Committee.
three persons, nhose united ages amount to