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The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury will have an assembly
t•-marrow evening, at her house in Arlington-street.
The Dowager Countess of Esse: had a select card party yester-
day evening, at her house in Hill-street, Berkeley.square.
I'lscountess Hampden had a dinner party yesterday, at her house
is Green-street, tirosvenoe.square.
Luly Caroline Bohm entertained a large party of fashionables
yesterday evening, at her house in Queen Ann-street.
Lady Eleanor Lowther had a grand card party on Monday
evening, at her house in Bruton-street, Berkeley-square.
Lady Cockerel' entertained a select party of fashionable' on
Honday evening, at her house, Terrace, Piccadilly.

MOVEMENTS.
The Earl of Abergavenny has left town, for his seat, Edridge
Castle, SUOMI.
Lord and Lady Grandey have left the St. George's Hotel, Albz.
merle-roreet, for their seat an Surrey.
Lord Stowell wired in town yesterday, front Easley Court,
Reading.
Lord Althorp has arrived at his seat, Winton 11.11, Yorkshire,
from Northamptonshire.
Colonel Frederick Culling Smith arrived yesterdAy. at Fenton's
New Hotel, Si. James's-street, from a tour. The Hon. William
Edwards has left for Suffolk.
Cowrie and family have arrived at Jordan's Hotel, St.
James'a.street, from a tour. Derrtures .—Sir John Shelley.
Bart. for his seat in Sussex; 31r. and 3lrs. Stanley and family, for

Cheltenham.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Stonier and family, from a tour ; West,
Esq. M.P. from ditto.
Arrivals at the Burlington Hotel. Old Burlington and Cork.
streets t—Admiral Sir John Dare. Bart. from Hatchet; E. Lamb
eon. E•.j. front a tour. Departures s--Captain Harcourt for St.
Econanl a, Writs; Mrs. Mastic for the East Indies.
Departures from the Bath Hotel. Arlington-street :—Mr. and
Mrs. Budd fur their seat in thf.irdshire; Captain Fraser for Ire-
land ; W. I. Petkins, Esq. for Cheltenham.
Arrivals at the Itoyal Hotel, St. Jamees-streetr—The Hon. T.
Flettnes front Belvidere; Thomas Champion. Esq. from Black-

water.
Artiv3l% at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-squat e :—Sir Alexander
and Lidy Wood, from their seat in Yorkshire ; Sir Thomas and
Lady Heathcote, from Hams.

ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.

Last night a new Operatic Romance, in three acts, was
produced at this Theatre, under the title of The Death-
fetch; vr, the Strident of Gottingen. The characters
were east as follows:—
Ebert tthe student) - - Mr. A RCHER.
liudoloh Mr. PEARNAN.
IRK,Or Von Sawn - Mr. BARTLEY.
Hal*
Meade Rothe • - . hiss PATON.
louisa Rothe - Miss !CELIA.
Martha MissGOWAID.

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The Dratle-Feleh. notwithstanding the German name;
which we have just registered, is taken from the story of
the Fetches, in the Tales of the O'Hara Family. Having
stated this, it will be of course unnecessary to enter into
the narrative of the piece, which is, in fact, nothing more
than a dramatic representation of the original tale, with a
change of scenery from Ireland, where the superstition of
the Fetch really prevails, to Germany, where it does not
prevail. This change, however, may be for the better, u
superstitions of that class are more closely associated in our
minds with the German character than with any other
At all events, whether from this or other causes, the piece
WM Germanized, and the additional and terrific supersti•
Sion of the Fetch was exported from the Emerald Isle to
find a local habitation amongst the Hartz Mountains.
With respect to the merits of the piece, it very soon be-
comes apparent that a crowded theatre is not the place
tele re the awful impression which is conjured up by the
bare idea of a Fetch can heat be realized. To those who have
listened to such tales by a fir:sido on a wintry evening,
with no other light than the flickering of the burning tut f,
while at every period of the Nurse's tale, the howling
Hut that swept the foaming waters of the Shannon, rattling
against the closed window *butters, gave awful credence
to such narratives, the announcement of such a piece
mutt have had a peculiar interest; and although ma,
tarty of years might prevent the renewal of the ter-
ror which crept in youth through every vein at the
hare r,cital, yet they would naturally expect something
like an intense interest in the representation. They would,
however, be disappointed. There is nothing dramatic
about the story, no incident, and it is consequently very
heavy. It is true that some scenes are very effective, and
it is also true that the piece was eminently successful, u far
as regarded the apparent satisfaction of the audience; but
most of its success is to be attributed to the excellent acting
of Miss Kelly, and not a little to the beauty of the scenery.
.1 great number of songs are introduce 1, and two rather
;.m; ones are given to Miss Kelly; but they are not at all
:it kd to her style of singing, and are consequently by no
smalls serviceable to the piece. Those which were allotted
t o Nlisa Paton were of a happier description, particularly
one which she accompanied on the harp—
" Awake, my life, the morn is on the hill,"
and which she gave with exquisite sweetness. The several
performers sustained their parts very effectively ; and on
tlr. Birtley's announcing the piece for repetition to-night,
the applause was actually tremendous. Still we are of
opinion that it can only run for a limited number of
nielo is.

WI NDSOR, JI: 25.—His Majesty and suite have been
on an airing to Virginia Water to-day. Yesterday the
King and suite proceeded, in two phaetot a. to leaped
tl.e Castle, about four o'clock. Mr. Wyattville was in
waiting to receive and attend the King, who was occupied
till near five o'clock in inspecting the Castle, when the
King left the Castle, proceeding through the new arch,
down the Long Walk, through the Great Park, to the
Royal Lodge.
The Duke of Yotk took his usual ride on horseback

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yesterday morning; his Royal Highness also took an airing
on Monday afternoon, in his carriage. The Princess Au-
gusta visited the Royal Duke yesterday. Mr. Macmichael
has been appointed one of his Royal Highness's physicians,
and frequently attends the Royal Duke.
The Princess Sophia Matilda left her residence in
Curzon-street yesterday, for Blackheath.
Yesterday the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Secretary Canning,
Earl Bathurst, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord
Betley, Mr. Wynn, Viscount Melville, and oth,rs of the
Cabinet Ministers, dined with the Earl of Liverpool, at his
sett at Coombe Wood, Surrey.
The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress- left town yes-
terday en suite for Oxford, where they were met by several
Aldermen and their Ladies. 'ibis day the Lord Mayor
will entertain at dinner, at the Star Inn, the Heads of
/louses, and other distinguished members of the University,
together with the Mayor and Corporation of the city. The
Lord Mayor's barge has orders to be in readiness at Oxford
on Thursday morning, n the whole of the civic party will
return by water to London, where they may be expecttil
to arrive on Saturday evening.— Alderman Sir J. Shaw,
Bart. will preside at the Mansion House, in the Lord
Mayor's absence.
The Lammas fair of Exeter, which is opened with the
ancient procession of the glove, and continues three days,
terminated on Friday last. The show of stock in general
was unusually poor, and the fair was but thinly attended,
owing to various causes, of which the general stagnation
of trade, and the uncommon dryness of the spring, are
the most obvious. There were a considerable number
of horses; but the demand for them was unusually
dull. A' few purchases, however, were made, chiefly
by dealers from Somerset and the vicinity of the me-
tropolis. The oxen brought to market looked lean and
in bad condition, which may be ascribed to the extreme
scarcity of grass. Very few sales were effected, the pros-
pect of winter feeding is so bad. Fat bullocks, however,
We-e in good demand, and sold at a fair price. The sheep
fair was uncommonly small, but exceeded the dolma, as
a. great proportion were driven away unsold. In the leather
lair both the supply and sale were slack. Calf-skins may
be quoted from 21. to 2s. 21.; close butts, I9d. to 21d. ;
English hides, Rd. to 16d. ; buffaloes, 14,111. to 154(1. ;
horse hides, 12d. to Rd. The sale of British wool seems
I° be spite annihilated, the quantity of foreign wool im-
ported Is en great. Ots the whole the fair was the slackest
ever remembered is Devonshire.

LIVERPOOL, JULY Si i.

The aspect of things in the manuficturiog districts con-
tinues gloomy. Nor can we flatter ourselves that there
will be an early improvement in the condition of the coun-
try. 'f be distress among the artisans in the interior is un-
abated; and it is, we fear, likely to increase. Several ex-
i tensive manufacturers have, it is stated, resolved to limit
the time of their workmen to only four days in the week,
in consequence of the demand for goods being almost en-
tirely suspended. When trade is in the depressed state
which this fact indicates, it is not possible that the thou-
sands of industrious men who have for several months past
been out of work, can obtain employment to enable them
to provide for their own wants and those of their families.
The prospect, it must be confessed, is sufficiently dis-
couraging. The bounty of the benevolent and humane
has done much to mitigate the sufferings of the unfortu-
nate poor; but experience has deuronstrared that private
cherry is perfectly inadequate to supply the necessities of
_all who are at present pining under horrors little short of
those of destitution. Government, we are assured, are
anxious to do all in their power to mitigate the sufferings
of the poor ; but the evil under which the country is la-
bouring is one which, we fear, " neither Kings nor Go-
, Treatments can cure." Ministers cannot give an impetus
to commerce, or revive trade, or impart motion to the
looms ; a d until commerce is quickened, trade revived, and
the looms are once more in motion, the present unexampled
1 distress in the manufacturing districts cannot undergo ally
1, sensible diminution.
As was to be expected, a variety of nostrums for the
cure of the evil have been proposed by political quacks
and unprincipled politicians. An extensive landowner
in Cumberland, Sir James Graham, has published a
pamphlet, in which he recommends a direct tax upon the
funds as the only method of alleviating the sufferings of
the country. This scheme is denounced by the Editor of
the Friday's paper, as " a project which, although it may
ere long become inevitable, can never be resorted to with-
out a dereliction of national faith and the principles of jus-
tice." This is sound morality as well as honesty, and we
should be the first to applaud the writer for his public
virtue, if there were not observations in the article which
contained this manly declaration of sentiment that make
one surip's..ms of its sincerity. For, it ought never to be
forgotten, that the Editor himself has a favourite " pro-
ject" of his own for diminishing the burdens of the coun-
try ; not, certainly, in the shape of " a direct tax upon the
funds, a project which can never he resorted to without a
dereliction of national faith and the principles oT justice;"
but in the shape of what he terms an " equitable adjust-
ment, which, were it practicable, would be perfectly fair
and honest." Let us examine the difference between Sir
James Graham's infamous project (for so our contemporary
considers it) and the " perfectly fair and honest" scheme
of the editor of the Friilay's paper himself. The object
of both is to take a slice from the property of the fund-
holder.
This Sir James would effect by imposing a direct
tax upon that property: the editor would accomplish it
by diminishing the capital of the public creditor. The
first project goes upon the principle that every species of
property should be wade to contribute to the exigencies
of the state : the second, that it is perfectly lawful to de-
prive the fundbolder of a portion, be it great or be it small,
of his particular property, whilst every other kind of pro.
perty is left untouched. In short, the Baronet would ef-
fect his object by direct taxation : the Editor, by direct
robbery. How the author of a scheme of open, barefaced
spoliation could pronounce Sir James Graham's plan one
" which can never be resorted to without a dereliction of
national faith and the principles of justice," and yet cha-
racterise his own as " perfectly fair and honest," is one of
those mental phenomena which may surprise a stranger
to the Incubratioes of the editor of Friday's paper, but
which those who are better acquainted with his writings
know to be perfectly in character.
Our contemporary is quite delighted that he has found
a " prime Tory and Orangeman" the author of a scheme
for diminishing the public burdens just as infamous as his
own. And who is this Tory and Orangeman ? Why, the
Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, a man whom the Editor of the
Friday's paper heretofore considered a madman, but whom
now, since he has published a scheme for robbing the pub-
lic creditor, he deems perfectly sane, and almost as wise a
man as himitelf. If Sir Harcourt, forgetting not merely
the principles of Toryism, but the principles of honesty
and justice, has published a scheme of spoliation, we are
sure that the Baronet, if he were sane before, must be
mad now ; and we wish our contemporary joy of such a
convert to his notions.—Lieerporef Albion.

MEETING AT KENDAL.

In consequence of the exhausted state of the funds some
time ago raised for the relief of the necessitous poor of this
town, a public meeting was held on Friday, in the Town
Hall, for the purpose of considering the best means of giv-
ing support or employment to those now out of work.
The meeting was but very thinly, though most respectably
attended ; the Mayor in the chair. It was stated by the
Secretary appointed at the last meeting, that there bad
been expended for the relief of the poor 6321. las.; of
which sum 4821. 163. had been laid out in oatmeal and po-
tatoes, 1501. in wages for breaking stones, and 101. 7s. for
hammers; that 490. had been received in subscriptions;
and dist consequently there was a balance due to the com-
mittee of 131/. 3s.—to cover which, however, they bad the
whole of the stones that had been broken. The coimnit-
tee, it was stated, had found great difficulty in disposing of
the atones ; they hail applied to some persons in Lancashire
accustome to purchase such things ; but the answer was,
they would rather buy them unbroken, for they were wanted
to employ their own poor upon. Until within the last
month, relief had been given in oatmeal and potatoes, but
since that time the money had been expended by giving
the poor employment in breaking stones; and it was men-
tioned by one of the gentlemen of the committee, as a fact
highly creditable to the poor, that though unaccustomed
to Inch labour, they had most cheerfully undertaken it.
There are now about one hundred and fifty persons em-
ployed in breaking stones, who cannot find any other
labour. Two plans of giving relief were proposed to the
meeting: the tirst was to enter into a subscription to pur-
chase provisions and other necessaries for them ; the
(Acr was to collect subscriptions, which should be con-
sidered in the nature of a loan, to be laid out in giving
tmployment in breaking stones, and returned when the
stones should be sold—the subscribers bearing their share
of any loss that might be sustained. Some of the
gentlemen wished both of the propositions to be adopt-
cal, particularly if the relief granted could be confined to
those who had not received any parochial assistance, all
the speakers expressing the strongest desire to keep up
that spirit of independence amongst the labouring poor
which was but too sure to be broken down, when indebted
for subsistence to parish relief. The plan, however, wag
objected to on the ground that, in giving this sort of relief,
it was only lessening the burthen of the poor-rates; for
that where the subscription allowance was not suffizient
for a family, and they were obliged to apply to the parish,
the Overseers only added a sum in proportion to what the
applicants had received from the charity fund. Besides
this, a great proportion of those out of employment be-
longed to other parishes ; and if the present stagnation of
trade continued (of which there appeared every probability)
it would be impossible to raise a sufficient subscription to
maintain all, particularly during the winter, when clothes
and other things would be wanted, which were not now ;
and it was therefore of consequence that those who be-
longed to other parishes should be removed as early as
possible. Every one appeared to regret the necessity of
this proceeding, but all concurred in the justice of first
providing for those who had the strongest claim to support
by being natives and parishioners. The second proposition
was therefore adopted ; and a resolution was moved and
carried, to the effect that subscriptions should be immedi-
ately entered into, for the purpose of etnploying the poor in
breaking stones, the stones to be afterwards sold for the re-
payment of the subscriptions. A very liberal subscription
was entered into in the room.
Mr. W. Wirsosi, of Netherfield, stated that a Gentle-
man bad told him, on the preceding day, that he would
advance 50/. subject to the profit er loss upon the breakage
of stones, and he had no doubt the Gentleman would be
as good as his word.
It was generally agreed that it would be necessary to
call another meeting soon, for that the present measure
could only be considered as temporary.—Kendal Chronicle.