The National Register.
London, England, 1816-10-21 00:00:00

DRURY I.4NE.

Saturday, Miss Keppel made her appearance in the
character of lioseUa,,in Love in a Village. She sang
several of the songs with considerable taste and powers
of execution. Her voice is sweet, but not powerful ;
anti her stvle ot• singing in general too much orna-
mented. She has considerable knowledge of music, and
facility of execution ; but she is rather too lavish in her
display of them. Her graces are too redundant r when
this defect, however, is a little curtailed, she will be a
very creditable acquisition to the vocal part of this
company.
We cannot say much for Mr. T. Cooke. There is
something essentially vulgar in all that he does.
Mrs. Bland acted Madge with her usual naieette,
and sang the Songs with much sweetness.
After the Opera followed a new piece of the Melo-
drame species, called The Walch Dim!, or Quito's Gate.
Very little is necessary to be said of it, for it differs
very little from the ordinary run of its predecessors:—
some handsome scenery ; some pretty music; some
files of Spanish grenadiers ; with some very good act-
ing by Miss Kelly and Mr. Wallack, form the attrac-
tions of the piece, and procured it a tolerable reception
with the Public. The Plot is flimsy enough, and such
Ls it is not worth detailing. We are heartily sick
of this eternal propagation of the Melodrama; breed
—a mongrel species of drama which we should
be most happy to see exterminated, to make a
little more room for legitimate Comedy and Tragedy.
The present specimen has rather more interest than
many of the sort, but there is a great deal too much
stabbing and startling our nerves with pistols, and
similar other pitiful means of producing effect, and
setting on "a quantity of barren spectators," to scream
and faint. We should be glad if Melo-Dnunatists
would appeal to our feelings rather than to our senses.
We do not anticipate any very splendid success to this
piece ;—nor, in truth, does it deserve it.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.

The Duke of York has appointed the Rev. lard Owen, M.A.
late of Trinity College, Cambridge, one of his Royal Highness's
Domestic Chaplains.
Dr. Short is presented to the Prebendary of Westminster, vacant
by the death of the Rev. Dr. BelL
Oxronn, OCT. —Thursday last, the Rev. Thomas Lee, D.D.
President of Trinity College, having heat previously nominated by
Lord Grenville, Chancellor of the University, to be his Vice Chan-
cellor for the ensuing year, was in full or/avocation, invested with
that Aim; after which, the Vice-Chancellor nominated his Pro-
Vice-Chancellors. viz, the Rev. Whitt' on Landon, D.D. Prov 8 t
of Worcester College; the Rev. John Cole, D.l). Rector of Exeter
College; the Rev. Frodslitun Hotlgsoo, D.D. Principal of Brazen-
nose ('ollege; and the Rev. George William 1141, 0.1). Master of
Pembroke College.
Wednesday. the Rev. Augustus arigstocke, B.A. Scholar of Jesus
College, was elected Fellow, and Mr. Rice Hughes, Scholar of that
Society.
00 Thursday, the first day of Michaelmas Term, the following
Gentlemen were admitted to degrees:—
MASTER OF ARTS.--ReT. Edward Bellamy, of St. John's
College.
BATCHELOR:4 OF ARTS.—MT. William Edmeads, of St. Alban's
Hall; Hon. William Thomas Homer Fox Straingways, of Christ
Courth; Mr. Jantes Charnock, and Mr. George Hammond, of Mer.
ma College.
Yestenlay, the Rev. John Timbrill, of Worcester College, was
admitted Doctor in Divinity; Rev. Richard Stevens, of Brazen-
nose College, Batchelor of Divinity; Rev. William Knight, of Bohol
College, Master of Arts.
At an Ordination lately held by the Lord Bishop of Chester, the
following Gentlemen Were ordained:—
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Ds:atoNs.—C. Burton, St. John's College; Gilbert Ainslie, B.A.
Pembroke Hall; H. Towndron Bull, B.A.Pernbroke College, Cam-
bridge. _ _

l'At t Etrrq.—Rev. John Ili
.;;,, Hunt. M.A. Trinity College; Rev.
H. Robinson, B.A. Emanuel College, Ctunbritlge-

An advertisement in a French Paper carries sentiment
nearly as fur as we think it can well go. A Lady who
has lost a dog, announces that she will give "Of) francs
to any one who brings it back to her, for though the dog
is very ugly, she loves it dearly !
There is another alvertisement offering a salary for
a person versed in poetry, and able to leach it.—On
which the Paris Editor remarks pleasantly, that no one
after this will venture to say that poetry is a trade by
which a man cannot get bread.

Barnet—This celebrated pedestrian has accomplishcd
his task of 1500 milts in 33 days. His success having
been proclaimed, he was chaired amidst a large assem-
blage of people. The ceremony being over, lie proposed
to walk five miles as a treat, us he said, just to stretch
his legs. He looks better in health, and appears in
every respect more competent to complete a similar task,
than at the commencement of his undertaking. He has
made an offer of a large bet, on his own account, to
walk as many miles as he is years old, viz. 72, in
one day.
Extraordinary Feat.—A few days since a young man
ascended the lofty steeple of St. Nicholas church, in
Bristol,for the purpose of taking down the weather-cock,
to repair its defects. The simplicity of the scaffolding
which he made use of excited ❑niversal admiration.—
It consisted of two poles, carried out from two of the
apertures about midway up the steeple, across which two
planks were laid, and from thence he ascended by a
ladder, con lined to the steeple, by spiral ropes. The
most perilous part of the perthrmance xvits a leap which
he was actually obliged to make, from the top of the
ladder, to catch hold of the iron cross. Had he failed !
But the idea is too horrid fer contemplation. He suc-
ceeded, however, and then seating himself astride, took
off the cock, which he waved over his head in triumph
two or three times, and then descended with his prize.

Carter and Oliver.—The late contest between -these
pugilists, at Carlisle, has excited uncommon attention
through the country, and it still forms a principal theme
of conversation in the North. The Gentlemen, who
backed Carter presented him with 50 guineas, in addition
to the hundred guineas for which he fimght. Both the
pugilists have proceeded to Edinburgh ; they had an
interview at Harwick, where the conqueror condoled
with the conquered in the genuine British spirit, and
the battle ended, they were enemies no longer. Oliver
recovers as rapidly as can be expected from the nature
of his wounds. Many of the Southern Gentl-men lett
Carlisle last week without recollecting their engagements
and some of the Nark leis carried ME the money which
they received for the admission of horses and estrriages
into the field where the battle was fought. A match
is in agitation between Carter and Cribb, to be fought
in tlri North in May next. Betting in that part of the
country is rather in favour of Carter, in cunsequenec
of the corpulence of Cribb, and it is not thought he can
be brought into a proper state in so short a time with-
out injuring both his s!rwigth and constitution.
AMERICAN NOTIONS OF TILE Tenr.--The following
paragraph is extracted from a New York paper :
" Volt K (Penn.) Sept.3.—ln defiance of the law prohibit-
ing horse races, several were run at Hanover and near this
place ; the consequences of which have been, me man was
in.tantly killed by his horse running near a tree. This on-
fortnnate victim to his own vice anti fully left a widow and
family of children. At another race the running horse broke
his leg, and dashed his rider to the ground, who remained
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