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actress, her manner afforded seMcieut proof.• that
her feeteres did not hold set a sbew of latellitet,
where mental powers were defective. As'tai was
a first appearance nu the Siege—and that K was
reelly so, we are well convinced—we capsule.. with
any degree of propriety. enter into a minas. review
or the abilities of the handsome debates's. Op-
pressed by the 'novelty of a situation, which even
Manly nerve trembles to encounter. it is slot sur-
prising that the young Lady..wai, prevented ,fgro
potting forth all . her pewertwarout exhibiting alt
her stores of taste. all Me @deltaic ocquiremeusit
Still, trying es her situMieir was-rhts. her Snit
oppetrifice-Miss Sltltlnitd her almost joins-i-
-diots predecease/ in the charaCtiri—shisi'iicqnitted
herself meritoriously. She exhibited' aside ldod
qualities of voice, particidady the siveVer4
Meteor?. ; end her execution, of .the . loaned air,
°' ken Mee, my hash" which was homily gosore4l6
was distinguished by simplicity sod feeling. 11*
conception of the character was joist. In the hit
scene, when she entreats &mink Saijmon to rot.
revive her porting gift. there was mock setrai!aility is
live
.autuner—and her reproaches of, Glossas, the do.
Moyer of her house sad fortunes, were given with aft
the indignant boldness of injured itinucener. The '
reception of this fair aspirate after theatrical fame.
whose fatiiily. we understand, is highly respectable, .
was adffariug in the extreme. The other dune.
jug were supported,aa .usual. Mr. PINS intro-
ducedl in the part of dewy Bertram, !d r. Moots's
well-known song of .• Love's young dream." Ile '
executed it isuderately well—e• moderately, that rm_
wished he had taken his girty 'tapper.- instead.
' of atteatirting it. Mrs. YATCII played the pert
-
Of-Meg *terrifies with "such force. There is,
in this Lady'. perfiritiance, s great deal of feeling
mixed with the wildness of She character. Thee
the green valley is strismissis seen amidst messes of
granite,relieving the prospect, • and calling the at-
Indian from sterility and billfftillital to objects
pleasing to the rye and dear to the heart. /Meanie
Simpson and Doodle Dittmar were ininsitohly
acted by Messrs. Litres and Sweetr. Mr.
BLAIICIA.111), in the drunken scene or plirkir
Giossin. and Mr. Tozamr,. as Dirk Mountie*,
were fully "'titled to .the Isteghtst ead..upplause
which they excited. -• • •

SHAICSPEARSI MMIT4IT.

Paperer yesterday obeirrao, that'll* new-fenad
portrait of SaAKSPOSIIII set, perhop with egiwll
justice, be called the portrait of Lord-lio Immo
Of Sir CDRIITOPIIZR Hama. betimur it never,
yet happened that Iwo painter* mould give to the
SSW original. things so diametrically opposite asi
Week sad erAitt heir. —Now it hes so hoppeued, thot
oar pointer has 'ideally dare this my thing. There
-m-two.undigubted original- pictures of Mute.
Queen of Seem, both panted by Zuccmaao, the
one with bLick and the other with Wehrle. ap-
proaching to yellow. Ons of these portraits is in
. the collection of the King of France, the oho is
the Doke of Dsoomsotaa's well.konwn picture,
which was esigroved by VIRTU& HILLIARD. to
whom vie newly-discovered portrait or &UR*,
PIARS is ascribed, also painted Mate Queen of
Scot.; end HORACI WALPOLE. in his anecdotes

sat to him often, sod to ha pupil, the celebrated
iSAAC OLIVII. These were purchased by tint lam
Prince of WALIII, and are auw in the King's col-
lection. Of Queen ELinsisals there ore several
portraits with different coloured hair. In those
dap, as in the present, it was the fashion for both
men and women to wear artificial hair, and from
the Qom'''. attention is her cornplealon, and to
the decorations of the toilet, it is probable her
bl•yesty possessed wigs of various colours. With-
out, therefore; contending for the truth of the
newly-discovered miniature of SIIIIMPIURR, the
concurring opinion of the eminent artists who have
seen and examined it, mid who have, no doubt,
also seen all the hitherto acknowledged portraits of
the poet, is at least prima facie evidence of its
authenticity.

The Theatre at Leicester was opened at the races,
by ELLISTOK, at advanced prices of admission.
On the rising of the curtain. some displeasure was
manifested. and an 0. P. row was likely to take
pLice; but, upon Mr. ELLISTON'S coming forward
and stating that he acted upon the spar of the oc-
casion, had brought his company fall speed, and
trusted that his 'chipping up the prim would not
be objected so during the pmts. the.sudience were
satisfied, aid the entertainments ofthe evening
-- ' ' without further intenupttab.

assured that Lard ELLIN BOROUGH has
retire from his high judicial situatiou oat
hralth. It will be a subject of sin.
r the practitioners of the King's Bettefi ,
this must able lawyer should thus re,
io person in the list of those oho ore
looked to by Ministers is qualified fee
office. The ATTORNIT•OIIN BAAL,
endowments as a professional luau are Louis
v admitted, and whose personal integrity ip
admired. labours under the infirmity of O.
* heating. which residers hien iueligible-4e,
• course of promotion, he ought to sues
advancement of a • puisne Judge se'
. constitutional objection is invincible,
can no longer be slid to be indepesq.
are to look up to the Throne ter trans
-
w evil of this is rendered sufficiently
the injury it has dose and is doing to
-the translation of Bishops degrading
into time-serving corps at the beck of Mi-
\There are lawyers of eminence. and of
-stter, who would do honour to the situ.-
Able, dignified. and constitutional die.
duties. but as they have proved them-
e inflexible in the Milltrillitlet of the
they have asserted, they are not likely to
iu the present emergency. To what a
reduced ;—(Ereairig Papir-)

We are emu
►esolved to reto
account of his
core regret to t
Court, that thi,
tire, since no F
likely to be 100
the important o
whose endowmt
venally sdmitt
equally admire
defect of knoll
sod in the fair r
teed. To the
the office, the c
The Judges ca.
dent, if they ar
lotions. The •
iiienifest the
the Churcii—tl
them into ri tin
misters. \Thew
high character,
Lion by an sbl
charge of its di
selves to be ii
prinZiPles they
I,e called ou iu
state are we res

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The epos 01401 Armararird-rthe asett Ocean.
fill dial his `re., prodeeed for several seatonv—was
lestmight p•ifeesiesC Is die pert of Lae/ Bertram.
• yeses lads append, far the Arm time ea soy
stage. -11 C•Ouleslaises is very heaetifel—.it is the
ludex of an wale and seasitive rind—and, as an