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Miss MITWORD'S tragedy is in rehearsal at
Covent-garden. As a drama, this play is represented as
more powerful than the former by the fair author, which
was acted at Drury•lane. Miss FANNY li:xxturs per-
sonates a character of peculiar Interest.
The successful debutante, Miss IN VERA nITY,
we can vouch (although it has been disputed by several of
our cetemporaries), never appeared on any stage until her
first representation of Cinderella on Tuesday last—her
only performances in public have hitherto been in three
concerts at Edinburgh, and notwithstanding she possesses
so fine Si figure, she has not reached her seventeenth year.
The Christmas Pantomime at Covent-garden
Theatre is, uwe understand, nearly ready. It opens
with a dialogue, between the popular comic actors, which
is written by a well-known dramatist. The tricks and
machinery are by the experienced persons who did the
same thing for Mother .Goose ; and the scenery is painted
by the Games's and Roseau. The Pantomime at Old
Drury has a most favourable report. it is invented by
ilanzemoax, and a portion of the scenery painted by that
unrivalled artist, srAtinsio.
Last week a considerable quantity of plate
was found in a hedge near Exeter, consisting of upwards
of rix dosen of spoons (forty of which were table), and
other articles, which had been stolen from Mr. Puler',
now resident in llath, but then living in Barnfield-eres-
cent, Exeter. The property was stolen upwards of thirty
years ago; and Captain Patters, having produced,
in proof of identity, a hand-bill published at the time, in
which the description of the articles stolen tallied exactly
with the property found, claimed and obtained the same
for his mother. •

The spirit of incendiarism has not altogether fled front
this neighbourhoild, A barn and a quantity of oats, be.
longing to Mr. Male, of Cablecet, were burnt on Thurs.,
day night, and a large barley stack, belonging to the
Rev. Dr.Webb,Vicar of Litliugton, on the following night.
A circumstance has come to my knowledge which shows
plainly how the system of regulating wages by the size of
families has operated in forcing population. In a parish in
this county a strict inquiry has been made into the state of
the I:sheering poor, and it appears there are 289 able-
- bodied labourers, of the age of IS and upwards, and in
the number. only 14.. single teen. In the same parish the
population,. since the census taken 30 years ago, has
trebled itself. Can it, then, be a matter of surprise that
the market should be overstocked with labour ? • Must we
not expect that the population will, in time, outstrip the
resources oily& country, if industrious single men have
less enjoyment of life than married men with large fami-
lies ? • A Curate of a parish assures me it is no uncommon
occurrence for parties to present themselves at the altar
Ouse united agra dernot exceed 32 years. If some check
ebt3irotgiven to this practice, we shall soon increase like
olkibbitlecin a warren, Unfortunately, the poor laws; toi
now administered, operate as a premium for idleness, and
a punishment for celibacy. If a labourer he entitled to
flee to the parish chest when his pocket is empty, it is in
vain to expect from him habits of frugality; and if he can
claim his.wedding-dinner at the hands of the overseer, and
at the same time obtain an increased rate.of wages, none
but simpletons will keep single. •Were the evil confined
to a particular-district, or. a single county,-it might easily
be grappled with ; but, by the foal-administration of the
poor laws, combined with other =see, the mischief is
spread over the whole surface of the country. The Editor
of the Bury Post, in his last Paper, gives the following
deplorable account of the state of the labouring poor in
that county :
" That very low wages are paid in many parts of the
county it is impossible to deny, and it would be useless
and injurious to conceal. There are same parishes in
which the single man must toil, or idle through the week,
for a bare subsistence on fivepence or sixpence a-day.
There are many in which a family of the average number
cannot be maintained without assistance from the rates.
There are are next to none in which thrifty husbandmen
are to be found laying up a store against the approach of
sickness or old age,"
This is a lamentable picture, but a true one. I hope
the subject will undergo the fullest investigation in Par.
liament, and that measures will be devised for arresting
the further progress of the evil. Let the farmers' bur-
diens be so far reduced, as to give them the means of em-
ploying the poor at fair wages—let the system of allowing
the poor small plots of ground for cultivation, in spade
husbandry, under proper restrictions, be generally cocoa-
raged—let the spirit of the Act of Elizabeth be adhered to,
and the poor taught to cOusider the pour laws as a provi-
sion only for sickness, infirmity, and old age—let care be
taken that those who engage in improvident marriages,
and waste their resources by acts of dissipation and intem-
perance, shall reap the bitter fruits of their own indiscre-
tier', and be deprived of paroehial assistance. Were such
measures pursued, all might be well ; but without them,
the ill-favoured kine, as in times of Pharoalt,. will destroy
the well-favoured, and civil war and famine will desolate
the laud.