The National Register.
London, England, 1820-08-28 00:00:00

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.

Un Trnitsday night Free and Easy was performed
beline the hew piece, Patent .Siusons. 'rite Litter enter-
tainment is a witty omit''t to relay the I) ury•lau:
.Nlanage:. sr me of his cull: ice to the tlyitity of hills MOW!
Theatre, as the laie proprietor of the Olyinp:c has
t••ruted it. It opens with an Address delivered by Mi,u
Kelly, en costume as the Comic Muse : its oltject is to
contrast the ad VilllilgeS Or 14111111 Toter Ives with the ilitli-
colties to wh.cit tile larger WWII subject the filler eiiilrtS
of acting. l'itcit thllows Harley, as the distressed ma-
nager of a Summer Theatre, dISCUSSIIIa, with happy
tueltiluess, the emptiness of the boxes, aild the famine
of the company. Ile is assailed by iiitlefroti perhirmeis
for an account, if not of Ms receipts, of Mr. low spans;
and he aims', rs them all by a lamentation that a Summer
Theatre is not a %V inter Theatre, where a winter season
his 110 W included a sommer. Ile is ci.4ited by the
CilOrtl, dressed as .Itadu:nib•s gang, and Lads them
with a parody of their song:--

" Hark ! I hear no sound of conches,
" D,til i one approaches,"

He then falls asleep, talking of the good old tint::
when players could k themselves out of gaol, :114
dozes away, portion:icing the name of Garrick. 'I he
scene draws. awl exhibits Garlick standing between
Tragedy and Comedy, as to Reynold's picture. Garrick
itbtscends and awakens Itte Jlanager, %%ha do s liontaxe
to the illus.rions shale. But wiwn he 11..3 nine to
recover his speech, he expresses his surprise that Garrick
looks so tall. The part is played by Wrench. The
words easily applied—' Why I thought you tragedy
chaps always rill Shull." %vhICII produced much
clapping, was answered by " They now rot as fung—
us Mey can !" Garrick proceeds to detail the contrivances
nemsary to popularity. iliay be prebtoited tiut they
ate not without reference to the present disputation.—
" 'rake all opporiumws of ',meaning yourself as a
speechmaker beiore tile house." "Bolt how shall 1 find
occdsiott r " Uri, ninliinz easier; send a cheek-tatter
to whistle auto' 4; the gods, and thin come for want,
entreating, the eentlemen in the two-shilling. gallery to
stiffer you to address the tientlenteit in the one-soil h•hz ;
teach the audience criticism ; them, &c. ;stmt
your performances till polinu falls sick under you; taut
in your playbills a call fur your tradesmens' accounts
when they are not due, that :hey may not be
paid when they are ; sum' at your pit-door with a stop-
watch, and cLeck the tune of every arrival. Extend
your winter into summer, and triumph to the results of
of your expeirment to the dependeitts on the Sommer
Theatre. (It was in 'Mimed that those were 175
families.) Print your great actor's name in great cha-
racters. 11 you are poor, ridicule 0t1in5...13 being pour:
and if you are deep, lay hard upon them for conniog,
&c. All this was received with alternate hissing aim
applause, as the triends of tither Theatre happened to
be peculiarly towtherl. 'lite last s•.tclie introdoced au
assemblage (Attie characters of the Eiglish Opera heal-
ing banners with the urines of the principal pin form-
ances, and fiitatly jonting in chorus. Toe piece is a
mere burlesque ; boa, for (me of its rapid preparation, it
implies industry and ingenuity

The present proceedings against her Majesty recta
to our mind a circumstance which happened a few
years ago at ‘Vigan, in Lancashire. A poor man,
who was very obnoxious to the wealthier part of the
population of that town, was tried at the Quarter
Sessions fbr a misdemeanour. After hearing evidence
on both sides, and also a very learned and impartial
bumming up from the Chairman, the Jury were or-
dered to withdraw to consider of their verdict. After
a quarter of an hour's consultation they returned, awl
the Foreman (a Ea. substantial Burgher) said, "No!
tf leave Town."
COPPER MI N E.—A bout six months ago, a loimurer
employed in cutting a drain on the farm of Lorick.
in Galloway, the property of Mr. Murray, of
Broughton, discovered apparently a rich vein of
copper ore. A short time afterwards the mine,
was let to a company in Cornwall, who lately com-
menced workii:g widt great spirit, and last week
shipped a cargo of ore (upwards of .10 tons) on
board the sloop Sampson, fur Llanelly, Carmarthen-
sldre.

It was a favourite maxim of the late professor
Porson, that " ott in in forgot what it was hls ia-
terest to MalUilbcr "-- accounts thr the

peculiar rntruory of Theodore 1aj0..; i—he is urn
paid for rernendxsing oily thing in i‘tV•Ali ‘.l.- the
Queen !

Most persons assimilate in their ideas the duties of an
Italian Courier with those of au English Footman,—To
undeceive such persons we state the following facts.—
An English widow, and her fainity of dawahters, the
eldest nearly grown up, went to Italy to piss some lime
Nitre; and resolving to coidOrm to the Italian ciotomv,
iiirm leaving Eicaland they discharged their English
servants, and en ;aged au Italian Courier, and with. an
English governess travelled in their own eat stage. The
courier acted as protector, guide, interpreter, steward,
%alet, and lady's Ens:(l, At an Italian inn he first , hops:
the lied-looms in the saloon. termed there the pill, and
fixed ins own next adjoining the ladies; he then CX.F.
mines the beds, gives out the bed-linen, and sees the
tieds made, in which men in general assist, or make
theinvelves. Ile orders the dniner, the ladies not know-
ing what is coming until it appears; lie discharges all
hills of expense, mid in the morning he goes into the
ladies' bed-rooms, mkt they have risen, and while they
arc 111 the 1.00.11, lie collects the bed and other linens
packs it tip, or goes it out for wasuing. If the ladies
ling from their lira-route, no one inters that lie had
been upon a criminal errand ; so &lit:seta are the ser-
vices 0: au Enalisti Motinan, who would fully justiry the
ordmary cases dwelt upon wi:h so imr:ll empnasis by
t;le accusing counsel, it ha were seen in an English inn
shut in win) pia mistr, 3., in her tont-chamber. Nutpick
criminal inference is however made in Italy, front the
well known familiar services aid taha it courier pertimins.
It is conddently asserted in Paris, that one of the
objects of the last audience which Prince Esterhazy,
the Austrian Atubit::sador to our Court, had with
his Majesty, was to snake known to the King of
England that the five years imprisonment of lkina-
parte, agreed on in 18:5, having expired, Austria
would no longer be u party to Ida detention.
We understand that it is determined to diminish
the expense of the establishment at St. Helena.—
Sir Hudson Lowe, and all the land forces, are to
recalled, and in future the island is to be gar-
risoned by marines, and the cominand of the station
to be e tt usted to an Admiral.

A short time ago, a person with a bag of salt on
an ass, under the plea of the animal's being tired,
um) its being late in the night, begged permission to
to leave the salt at a baker's at Birmingham, Lin-
colnshire ; this being perceived by a splenetic neigh-
bour, he gave intOrmation to the excise-officer, who,
as the salt was not accompanied with a permit, seized
it. The rase came on a few days ago, bethre the
magistrates, at the instance of the Board of Excise,
awl the tradesman, who very foolishly suffered
judgment to go by default, was fined one hundred
guineas ! As it was a very general opinion among
the inhabitants of Birmingham, that the baker had
nut any intention of defrauding any one, many hun-
dreds of them of both saxes, assembled on Saturday
evening last, and placing an effigy of the informer,
together with a bag of salt, on an ass, paraded him
through the town ; and after a severe flagallation;
he was hanged and barut in the market-place, amidst
the must uproarious eclat

'the cause in which Marquis Chohnondeley and
Mrs. Darner are plaintifk, and La.d Clinton defend-
ant, came on bethre the Master of the Roils titr
judgment on the Bth and 16th inst. when his Ho-
nour declared that the late Lord Clinton, us heir-
at-law of Samuel Rolle, took an estate in fee sim-
ple under the deed of August, 1781, executed by
George, Earl of Oxford; that the Bill was imper-
fixt, by the reason of the present Earl of Oxford
not having been made a party in respect of the
Dorset estates; that Marquis Chohnondeley had in
no event any interest in the estates in question ; and
that if either the Marquis or Mrs. Darner ever had
any title, they were barred by the statute of limi-
tations. The Muster thereupon dismissed the Bill.
A few days ago a melancholy accident happened
in Leeds, As Mr. Joseph Jackson, a promising
young man, the son of Mr. Robert Jackson, a cloth-
dresser, was adjusting one of the straps on a machine
at his fathers gig-mill, in the Leyland;, his arm
was caught by the strap, and in a moment he was
drawn into the revolving machine, which could nut
be stopped till it had mangled his limbs in a muntic.r
too shocking fin. description. When extricated trout
his dreadful situation, some faint signs of stlil
remained ;, but in two hours after Ice had been
conveyed to the house of his agonized parents, he
breathed his last.

To desll•og Coferpillars.—A gardener at Glasgow
has a mode of fiestioying caterpillars, which he dis-
covered he accident. A piece of woollen rig had
been blown by the wind into a currant bush, and
when taken out was found covered wit!' these leaf=
devouring insects. He immediately placed pieces of
woollen cloth in every bush in his garden, and
found the next day that tha caterpillars had univer-
sally taken to them for shelter. It this way he
destroys many thousands every morning.
On Friday a female child, three years of age, fell
out of is two-pair of stairs window in Cow-cross,
and was taken up dreadfully bruisecl, but none of
her bones were broken. She cried at the time to
her mother to liirgive her, and that she would never
do it :.gain. She was taken to the hospital in a
cradle. She ran to the window to see sonic dancing
do,,s and the seat. being low, ~sbe fell out before, she
Was umovered.

VARA. Of .
Nto evil. New liags.per ewt.
I . 21 10, to .11 10, Sussex 2i 10, to 31 Ii
Nee. l'itekei,, per cis t.
Kt:tit . 3' 5, to 51 0. I . 91 0, to 101
Nil to 31 IS, Si 104 to 71 Ce