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THE NATIONAL REGISTER:

dress was more tasteful, and her attitudes less affected ; yet
she still wanted the graceful ease of nature, and retained too
much declamatory pomp, when her voice and delivery ought
pot to have belied the sportiveness andoccasional sentimentality
of the part. She attempted less in her song. and therefore
succeeded better. Upon the whole, she gave us more satis-
faction than when we saw her last, though her most success-
ful effort did not lead us to forget Mrs. Davison's h.dy-like
superiority throughout.
Every character in this Comedy was most ably supported.
Elliston's Dc:' court presented a rich display of excellence, as
well 'as Dowton's Mr. liardq, and Mrs..flarlowe's fashionable
widow. Mrs. Orger, Miss Boyce, and Messrs. Holland,
Wallack and Barnard also exerted themselves most success-
fully.

DEC. 18.

and when he has sealed his own baseness by declaring his
love, the solemn mid swelling indignation with which she
adjures (Leaven,
‘Volud that these eyes had Ifeasflis own lightning."
and the brow of storm, the fulmivating glance, and ovel.-
awing attitude with which she adds,
" that with a look thus I might blast thee."
and crushes him to the earth, can only be surpassed by be-
ings superior to our nature.
This was not, however, her only sublime effort. Passing
over a crowd of beauties, the least of which would shine as a
diamond amongst the excellencies of all other actresses now
on the stage, we reach the scene in which, plunged from the
summit of hope into deeper ruin, and yielding to all the tor-
tures of despair at finding Bccorley, not only immured in a
dungeon, and robbed by own folly of the inheritance of
his uncle, but charged with the murder of his friend,
she suddenly sees that fried enter, and the innocence of her
husband cleared. here description must fail. To say that
a smothered scream burst from her bosom, that all her joints
seemed at once loosened, that she fell as though smitten by
a bolt from Ileaven, that her eyes flashed forth wild glances,
and that her breast laboured with convulsive hearings,
would he weak. The elfeet, however, was terrible. The
company in the,. pit rose instinctively, and the shock was
felt through the whole audience. Ilere, for the List time,
-she passed Mts. Siddons. To say that the vacant look and
hv.sterical laugh with which she closed her part deserved the
enthusiastic peals of applause and the shouts of bravo that
burst from all parts of the house, would, after this, be doubt-
ing the judgment of our readers. They may form an idea
of the immense numbets who that eight acknowledged anti
proclaimed Miss 07:eill's resistless excellence, on learning
that even before the piece began, hundreds were refused
admittance both at the pit and the boxes, through want of.
room, and that time half price visitors could not, till the
afterpicec began, penetrate beyond the lobbies.
We never saw a Tragedy better cast. Mr. Young in,
Beverfry, proved himself fully worthy of supporting Miss
O'Neill, and obtained as great a share of applause. Six
peals, also attended with shouts of bravo, followed his deli,
very of the speech
"Aye, I'll tell you of this &iced," &e.
Mr. Terry who appeared for the first time in Stakeley, displayed
great abilities and was greeted with three rounds of applause. Me.
Abbott in Lcieson was spirited and impre.sive. Mrs. Egerton ably
supported the part of Charlotte and Mi. Murray that of Jurris.

Mr. Harris, proprietor of Covent-Garden Theatre, has
presented Miss O'Neil with diamonds value 3001. ; they con-
sist of a tiara, with a cypress and laurel formed of emeralds
and rubies.
Some difference is reported to have arisen between Mr.
, 'l/4V hithread, who still superintends the affairs of Drury-Labe
Theatre, and Mr. Kean, the actor. Mr, Kean, hav►ng ab-
i seoted himself without leave, to play two nights at Brighton,
for which he received 1001. at a time when he thought his
services mi•ht be spared At Drury Lane, Mr. 'Whetbread is
said to have written a lett‘r to him, couched in the severest
teims, in which, among other passages, Mr. W. says, He
hopes that Nil.. Kean will not give him occasion to regret,
that he drew him from obscurity."

OLYMPIC PAVILION.
We understand that this theatre is going to be once mole
opened tinder the auspices of Mr. Elliston, who has obtained
a licence from the Lord eilamberlain. It has undergone
many aterations and improvements, and the company se-
lected for its performances, is reported to, contain some well
' loowu 14.Y0U1 lles of the public.

DEC. 18.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, WEIANESDAYI DEC. 14.

IEX P.titTl7 111100XF A1.T.2141 lIIIIDGFA, in re TUOMA4 LEWIS, A BANK•

ft U PT.

The whole of tl is day was occupied in the discussion of the most :in-
cular bankropiey fdr a long time or ever before argued.
The bankrupt was an attorney of Gray's ion, who, in the month of
August last, after a commission cited out against him. absconded from
this country into France, indebted in a sum of 1200,0001. loss by a
aunt of e2OOl. only, taking with him all .his accounts, papers, and
viincliers, without submitting to his commission, by which he became an
ouiliw and felon. ii addition to the guilt of embi zzlement of the mo•
of his employers to the total ruin of several widows aim orphans,-
bat more particutarly- of a Mrs. Mootham, a widow Lady, aged 75
years whose whole fortune, being 37,0001. the Bankrupt took away.
The first Petition was filed by Mr. Brook Bridges, an - attorney of
Red Lion Square, the Solicitor of the bankrupt. and an alledged creditor
Car the sum of f2o:tl. or thereabouts. Another and a second Petition
Wet • presented by a creditor, both with a view of superseding the com-
mission, on the ground that the same had been issued on the false as-
sumptism of the bankrupt being a Scrivener, which an Attorney has
been lately tided not to be.
Mi. Hart and Mr. Montague were for the supers leas, and Sir A
1'4.011, Mr. Leach, and Mr. Ware, against it.
The Lord Chancellor, after an elaborate and energetic disquisitiqn
en the Bal:row Laws, and the unprecedented nature and enormity of
the attempt by the Bankrupt's Solicitor, thus to do away such Com-
missions, indignantly dismissed both Petitions with costs.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, SATURDAY DEC IT.