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tthe precedioi *roam. and sitnire as 'bangle his
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words came (Finn the bottom of on empty barrel.
MN Urania a pretty girl—atitt, having very Mile
tb do, supported her part well. MO. 1440011.`iti
played the elute-Irter of Laura. with a good dead of
vivacifp—blit, its our judgmesit. fluor
would have made it infinitely move ausitems.
Mn..,. Fivernes. BAINARD, and GAWIE
their paid very lairly.
The piece asitiouticid for repetition amidst
shwa of " ilrafts*P'

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BRIGIITOILA Mir EL.
An ioteregt?ng Novel, _ma
y=—'
hrighton," has
been jest published.

THB STIEYN E.
The following is an Extract from the Preface to
Me new Satirical Novel :
* There lase veti . of publication so Murk read mid so
Math abused IN novels curtaining sketches from real life ;
pet, we will venture to my, that wo species of. publitsrtimi
ii more awful to die morals and vaulter* of eociely. The
*eau( be exhibited before the public in a contemptible,
Or • laughable or as odious point of view, server, perhaps,
as the only duck to fully, depravity, sad crime mattitsg those
*bore an exalted station has enabled to transgrites with im-
pettily. Those whose pockets are nut injured lOU Of
character, those who are nut reduced to want or beggary hy
the commission of a misdeed, have nothing whatever to with-
bold them frosa infringing upon -public &eon's% but the
fear of cashing public diagram That diatratv, therein?,
which I. the most public, meat secesiarity be the Most
anxious!, sad the Press atone car bestow exteraire publicity.
" That the Press may carry its executive Mittens Wks far,
le indubitable; but here the law interposes, sad NM chastiser
becomes the chastised. When a work, however, goes out be-
yinni the pate of the law, and depicts characters slot by
by
▪ but by feature, how can the original be diseureteil,
melees the iikesea be just ! and if the likelier' be just, it is
the fault of tin origami that it has proved Orly and disgust-
ing. Nothing is mire conducive to our own good cooduct
them the restocks witieh we hear our fellatio make on the
bad eendret of others. A book is only the printed mover-
*alien of an individual; and surely, if it be useful to aai-
neadvert orally opus those who pass before us in the walk
of lire, it cannot but be still swear to criticise them through
• more effectual cluum• I. People talk of IN. impropriety
of censoring publicly. But where consists the mighty differs
race between savior, so all your arqnsintauces, that such a
man has beers guilty of meek a fully, moil letting them know
the rircionstante through the medium of a book ?

" In fine, the ' Fltritif st dasigals fold tontubilrir wriais;
Ma alternately been the motto of almost every writer, from
Arittophanes to Colmar. Copious, therefore, if nut propriety,
unctions decorous personalities; and, after all, is Mimes
not decided to be improper by lie written. law, custom is
the only law by whose decision we must be iletermised.
With such as impreasioo." ruminate tie aullso4 " has
She following work bees composed—with oath a eurvietkun
we have placed the fashionable vices au.l foibles of the day
is a+ mirthful a point of view as possible ; tu.l, although
the backlogs may be a little changed, or the ciresiumtaores
transposed; althringli die unities of time and place luny he
altered or iulerrupled ; yet thereof diameter, sod its head-
ing features, bare been studiously preserved."

The Countess of FIARDiRICRE kit towel a few
dajs siace for Paris.
The Hon. F. S. DOUGLAS, M.P. is returned to
town from Suir.,t it.
G. PURLING, E.'''. arrived ors Tuesday. at his
house in Hertford-street. May-fair, from Sir Wu.
l'Aarca's seat, in Suffolk.
G. Powt4gy. E'q. is arrived at his house in
Grotivenur•squate„ from his seat, Melding /fall,
Suffolk.
Mr. and Mrs. Dawson and family are arrived at
their house in Manchester-square, trotu St. Leo-
'Msd's Hill. near 11'itielsor.
C. C. GittvtLi.s. Esq. arrived on Tuesday at
the Waterloo lintel, 3erinyn-street, from l'aris.
The Duke of Davoastirag returns to tows, tin
the I Ith ni t. He has net keen at Lord GRORGE
CATENDISII.S rot opo.ma of a month ; but is now
entertaining his ilist I sigut,lieel friends at Chatsworth,
in Derbyshire. where open bowie, ea Usual. is kept.
The tour which the Doke made was through York-
dare.
General Norms. whose death we recanted on
Monday, was third sots of that well-knoisie public
character, Sir PLETCHER NORTON, many `eats
Speaker of the !loose of Cot 1111 l ems, and first Lord
GRANTLIT. by GRACE, the eldest tlaii,...liter of Sir
W. CHAPPLI, Knight, one of the 3uaigis of the
Court of littin's Bench. late lion. CNA PPLE
Nuasuo represented the Borough of Guildford, iii
Surrey, iu several successive Parliaments; and. be-
sides being Colonel of she sGth regiment, was Go-
vernor of Clutrlemont Foot. iii Ireland. which milt-
Lary *insidious are now in the disposal of
At Lynn Theatre, on Monday se'imight, the
tragedy of Macbeth. with the melodrama of the
Bold Buccaneers, or I:obinson Cemeat, were re-
prewided for the benefit of Mr. Bono TON, Ilin
Manager. 'cheer was 1 l,nllinnt audience, and the
performance went oil with great eclat. Toe part
of Macbeth was undertaken liy a Gentleman of the
neighbourhood of Norwich, who spoke an excellent
Prologue, written by himself for the occasion.
The Tliney Thousand Pound Prize, drawn
Thursday, the 4611 i ult, we find was mild by BISN.
is Sixteen Risteenth Munro ; sod we are happy to leers it
has been well dintrihated. Oen Sisteratb is the property of
two nisistmemats, is Cornball; sew sixteenth belongs to •
butcher's boy, at Haeltaey ; ens sixtarsitts. mole servings at
Cisowsw ; one olateralls, • joarseyasaa tailor, at Lambeth;
oar sisteenth, in a fatuity, Clare -twirl. Drary-lane; one
Sixteenth, a Orb, at the White Hart. Thetford; ens six-
teenth, • joariwyman baker, Useeeinl; ewe iiateesth, a
farmer, at Ps/henna, Wales ; sue sixteenth to Norwich; one
sixteenth to Dublin ; one sixteenth so Edinhargh; ewe six-
treats tN Fos. Carawall ; one sixteenth to Liverpool • am
ennead' to Plyntooth; use sixteenth Bristol; Owl one
sixteenth hi Maielstimse.— HUH .1•0 wild in the orchid Lot.
ell the Wine yet denoted. and 14 other CSpitab—.
Neill Thai 'tiny the Lottery finishes, when the Two Prises
of 30,000/. sad 34 other Capitals, mast be drawn.
'fhe Young English Lions whelped at the Mena-
gerie, Exeter 'Change, so for from partaking of she
feroriusu spirit of their liable Mee soil Dams are eve. are
dueiie than the tamest of uur English dogs ; Sad it is really
c.uriuus to eee bow quiescently they receive the fondling
fatware* of bodies and Children of both Kati. At Dias
'.'clock, when th. ) are fed, is COMMON with the large cal-
leo ius of other ~..ha nnintain at this depot, it is sdnaisbias,
isdetil, lu lee the snowiest somber of visllaats, and it at.
lusupbir lulu.' a rare ormetasity of •ppre-
bmiug the e..rreetraess of Burros of Natural History.
Norwich Cons Market was but thinly otteuded on
Nast price. were rather on die advance.
—The Code Market was well *applied with lean
Senn, homebred., mid some good Devon*, all of
*lnch, from the eery great demand for stock. met a
ft.tl) safe. The sheep-pens were also well tilled.