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tritkPrioi, Ace. t 6.
Thn Oratorio and Concert, undertaken by Mr.
?mil eaten, for the ptirpose of intreheing to the
Liverpool public, the eetebtated Italian singer, Sig-
nota GRAMM!, were performed on Tuesday last, to
very brilliant and crowded audience. The con-
course at the music-hall, in the evening, was greater
than we have witnessed for a number of years.
The Creation, for the seGond time at Liverplol,
was the morning's performance at the oAiagenTha-
pel, in Paradise-street, and the precision and effeet
with which it was executed, under the sole conduel
of an individual, were perfeAly astonishing. In
this weighty undertaking, Mr. YAK zwicz has most
certaiely fulfilled his engagements to the public,
with signal honour to himself, and, from what we
could hear, with universal approbation. Taking
the performances of the morning and the evening,
and reviewing them as a whole, we have no hesita-
tion in saying, that we never witnessed any thing
in the musical way which was more happy in the
design, or more perk& in the execution. During
the performance, G ASSIer sang two serious airs, in
a style of unrivalled excellence. The air of .s
Oh
Lord have miry span use!" by Peacrottsr, was
given with charafferistic sublimity, and unspeakable
effect Her voice is deep, rich, and meilow, teyond
any thing we ever heard. To us it appears to have
this rare and felicitous qualification, that arm= pleas-

ig; and harmonious combication of sounis seems
to be emitted at the Lime instant, and her transitions
from high to low, when suddenly made, strike the
ear as it proceedirg from two different persons; is
fad, this illusion is so strong, that for a considerable
time we are unwilling to gift credit to the evidence
of our senses.
Mr. SPR•T displayed his clear and energetic
voice, particularly in the recitatives, with uncom-
mon e&d ; and Miss NICHOLSON, Mrs. SALMON,
sad Mr. MLR LDITU, executed, with their usual abi.
Eq. the other principal vocal parts. Mr. Yams.
wicz, in concluding the whole, has justly added to
the great and acknowledged eminence he had at-
tained in public opinion; and Miss Ntiwor.sorr
promises to be a favourite of no common at-
traaion.

EDINBURGri, Aucurr 15.

- HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY..

Monday came on before the Court, the trial of
John Thomson, mason, lately residing at the foot of
Leith Walk, and Job's Mhos, otherwise John Nel-
ms, labourer, lately residing in South Leith, accused
of forgery, and of fraudulently uttering and vend-
log forged guinea notes of the Bank of Scotland,
knowiog them to be forged. Tire libel states the
places and times at whizli the forged notes were ut-
tered by the Prisoners, in the North Country. The
indiament also gates, that en the Sth of May the
Prisoners were apprehended at Aberdeen, and
while under examination there before a Magistrate,
two forged notes dropped from the pocket of John
Thomson, and twenty-nine forged notes were found
upon him, marked and numbered, and fifty-five
forged notes, blank in number. That some of the
said forged notes, marked and numbered, were
Ilse found on John Nilsen, kc. The prisoners pled
Noe Gettig.
After the witnesses were examined, the Lord Ad-
vocate addressed the Jury on the part of the Crown,
as did Mr. Cathcart for the prisoner Thomson, and
Mr. Bell for Nihon, after which the Lord Justice
Clerk summed up the evidence in a very impartial
manner. The Jury returoed their verdia on Tues-
day, unanimously findirg both the prisoners guilty
of tattering eight of the notes libelled, knowing them
to be forged.
The Counsel for the Pannela pleaded in arrest
of judgment, that no sentence could, pass on
the verdia, in respett that one of the Jurymen
had gone out of Cowt after they were order-
ed by the Court to inclose. but before they
&dually wore inclosed. Several persons were
examined on oath as to the faa of the Juryman's
absence, which occupied the Court the greater part
of the day. The Court are to hear Counsel on the
above point to-mot row.

Seven farms, all the property of one nobleman,
consisting of 2,203 acres, Scots measure, were
lately let, in Galloway, for the sum of 7,4401.
Thursday last, a very melaNcholy accident hap.
pened at the Marsh coal-pit, near Bri,tol. As
two men and three boys were being drawn up from
the pit, the lope, attached to the box in which they
were, broke, and precipitated them to the bottom.
The men and two of she boys were killed, and the
other boy materially injured. What renders the
accident still mere distressing, two of the unf,is -
inmate sufferers were the husband and son of a poor
woman now left destitute of support, with a family
of seven children.

On Friday last, General Murray, Commandant
of the Disuia in the neighlsom bocci of Chelmsford,
gave a Grand Ball and Sapper to the Ladiei. at
Monlsham Hall, the seat of Sir H. Mildmay. The
preparations were truly elegant and costly. The
noble ball-room, in that spacious mansion, was fitted
up for the occasion in a style of unrivalled bril-
liancy marl taste. The magnificent diamond-cut drop
chandeliers, aided by myriads of Grecian lamps, and
cliental branches, formed altogether a coup d'es4
which could not be surpassed. A pupil of the late
Mr. Calton, furnished and superintended the lights.
The lawn in the front of the house was illuminated.

The company arrived about half-past nine o'clock.
At ten precisely, General Murray opened the gall,
with the beautiful Miss M.Leod, the amiable pro-
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te,i of Lady Campbell. About 22 couple followed.
A very sumptuous supper was arranged on several
tables in the adjoining apartments, whereon covers
were placed for the whole of the company. Two
hundred and twenty persons partiwk of the enter-
tainmect. soon after one o'clock in the morning.
Dancing soon after re-commenced. and was kept
np with proper spirit until six o'clock. Two bands
of military music played delightfully ; namely,
those attached to the Ayrshire and Cambridge Mi-
litia. during the time the company far at table. The
Earl of Harawicke, and the Hon. Mr. Yorke, were
present. in full regimentals, the first as Colonel of
the Cambridge Militia, and the other as the Lieut.-
Colonel. Likewise, of the party. were Lady Camp-
bell, Lady Smith Burgess, Sir David Hunter Blair,
and Capt. Blair his brother.