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hacked as he was by the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of
her Majesty's Government. The Right Hon. Baronet de.
scribed the prisons throughout the country for the incarcera-
tion of prisoners to be miserable places, mere black-holes, unfit
for human beings to be placed in. He had himself been much
influenced by the statement of the Right Hon. Baronet,
though he knew that the prison at Bristol was not such a one
as had been described. Formerly the evil was that the debtor
was entirely at the mercy of the creditor, but now they had
gone as far wrong the other way by placing the creditor at the
mercy of the debtor. The change had been too violent and
sudden in its operation. Meetings had been held in the prin-
cipal towns in Etsgland relative to this clause, and they had
been unanimous in condemning it. Mr. Commissioner Fano
arid Mr. Connuissioner Evans had stated that it would afford a
refuge to all the rogues of the country. It was calculated
that previous to the operation of this clause fifty
millions sterliek were annually lost by insolvents, and
he thought it would be difficult to calculate what would be the
amount of increase on that sum, if the further operation of that
clause were allowed. In fact every debt under 20/. was looked
upon as a debt of honour, and the courts rather presented a point
of attraction to debtors, as affording them an easy mode of
cheating their creditors. It was strange doctrine to urge in its
favour, that it would be the means of putting an end to credit.
lie did not know how a commercial country like this could do
without the system of credit. Ile admitted that credit was
liable to abuse, but what was there that was not liable to abuse?
Theo protected the credit of the wealthy man, and he saw no
reason why they should not protect the poor man equally.
They gave every facility to the wholesale trader for the recovery
of his debts, but they turned their back upon the retail dealer.
The creditor whose debt amounts to 21/. might say with some
effect to his debtor, " pay me the 211. you owe me." But
if the debt happened to be 191., the debtor might laugh in his
face. He should like the Hononrable Baronet to define the
difference between the two. Was he to be told that the
man who was in debt 211. ought to be imprisoned, and that he
whose debts amounted only to 191. should be allowed to escape
with irapunity ? It was urged that the total absence of credit
would be conducive to the welfare and well-being of the
working classes ; but he denied this. It was, in his opinion,
highly essential that the labourer, be he manufacturing or
agricultural, should be allowed to have credit, and if they re-
fused it to him his cup of misery would be full. He con-
sidered the poor man ought to be cared for as well as the rich.
It was known that this country was deteriorating into a vitiated
state, and the effects of the Bill had been described by a
writer of the present day as having disseminated a spirit of
mistrust in both public and private life, and, in the end, it
had so enervated the energies of the people, that the popula-
tion had been led into a system of self-abandonment
as regarded running into debt. It was a notorious fact that
seven-tenths of the people anticipated their incomes. It was
useless to suppose that the extravagant expenditure of the reck-
less could be hindered, or that this class would be prevented
from incurring debt, when there were so many tradesmen
willing to give them credit, by any such measure as the 201.
clause. There was no doubt that among tradespeople there
were many individuals who would not encourage extravagant
expenditure or the incurring of debt, but he would quote the
language of the immortal bard•;Shakespere, which would show
that all would not be guided by similar rules :
“ Dart thou think, because thou'rt virtuous,
There shall be no more cakes and ale? Ay, by St. Anne,
And ginger shall be hot i' th' mouth, too."
Honesty might be found in fustian, and often was discovered
amongst the lowest classes, in whom it had sometimes been
thought was not always to be found. Under these circum-
stances, liken, he would ask, what protection was it intended to
give tradesmen ? for already every protection had been taken
from them. The tradesman must be protected, and in order to
this, the House should first make an inquiry, and that was all
he now asked. The Honourable Member then read
a paper, in which it was stated that a tradesman
had been ruined by giving credit in small sums, besides hav-
ing to pay the income-tax, for which the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer had his hand in his pocket. In fact, if any tradesman
who was obliged to give credit in sums up to 201. were not
exempt from the income-tax, he could never get on. He held
in his hand a list of many unsuccessful tradesmen, but he would
not weary the House with it ; he would merely say this, that
tradesmen were driven to discharge their workmen and to re-
dace their expenses. The nature of cases tried in small
marts, and he had several in point, was this—a small debt was
due from some pensen to a tradesman, and being desirous to re-
cover it, imprisonment being abolished, the sheriff was put
into the debtor's house. A relation, the landlord, or some
person at a distance, claimed the goods, an action was threat-
ened, and the sheriff was withdrawn. In nine cases out of ten
they would find that the sheriff was withdrawn because the
creditor preferred submitting to the first loss, rather than in-
volving himself or others in trouble, which would be entailed
upon him by taking the ease before a jury. There was
now a woman named Goole, aged ninety, confined in
Bristol gaol for a debt of 241., and who had small
auras owing to her, under 201., more than sufficient to
wryer the debt for which she was incarcerated. By the opera-
tion of the Act, the fees to officers in small courts were mate-
rially diminished, and the deficiencies in their salaries had to
come out of the Consolidated Fund. The aggregate annual
salaries of four clerks, in the Southwark Court of Requests,
was 2,241/. 103., which was created by fees. During the first
six months after the Act came into operation, there was a de-
&hearty of 7161. 18s. 4d., so that in twelve months a deficiency
of .14,432 L 169. Bd. would be created in their usual emolu-
ments, which would have to be made good out of the Conso-
lidated Fund. And as a Committee of that House appeared to
him the most fitting tribunal to inquire into the evils of which
he complained—at once the mode most dignified for the House,
and EOM enegenial to the poor and oppressed tradesman, he
trusted the Right Hon. Baronet would grant the inquiry with-
out tursitstios. If, however, the Government should object to
the appointment of the Committee, he should take the sense
of the House on the expediency of his proposition, and press
the matter to a division.
Mr. KEMBLE briefly seconded the motion.
Sir J. GRAHAM said if he understood the Hon. Gentle-
man, who had introduced the motion, aright, the object sought
to be accomplished by the Committee was how the provisions 1
of the Act, passed last session, respecting small debts, had ope-
rated upon tradesmen. If that was the object sought to be
obtained, then he did not see any good that would result from
it, as certain of the evils complained of had commanded the at-
tention of a Noble Lord of high legal acquirements (the Lord
Chancellor); and he had prepared a Bill on the subject,
which had been brought into the other House of Parliament.
The Hon. Gentleman said that his object was not to repeal the
law of last session, but to effect an improvement in it. He
(Sir James Graham) rejoiced at it, as he believed nothing
could exhibit such a want of sympathy with and indifference to
the interests of the working classes as the reenactment of im-
prisonment for small debts. The measure had, upon the
whole, worked well. No complaints had been made about
it from the great body of the people—the complaint had issued
from the tradesmen who considered themselves injured by it,
but who, he might remark, had the remedy in a great measure in
their own hands—the withholding of credit.—Hear, hear.)
He veal willing, however, to admit that there were defects in
the Aet of last session, but he denied that it was what
the Hen. Member opposite (Mr. H. Berkeley) had described
is--a piece of crude legislation. To no measure introduced
during the last 20 years had so much attention been paid, or
snore pains bestowed. The charge of indecent haste, or party
legislation was, therefore, net at all applicable to the question.
No arguments could have been adduced that were not
then fully heard upon this question ; and when he heard the
speech of the Hon. Gentleman, he expected to have beard him
conclude with some such motion as a proposition for the re-
peal of the Act of last session. His (Sir J. Graham's) own
opinion was that the present Bill was not sufficiently stringent
or summary against debtors to the amount of 201. The Lord
Chancellor had assured him that he had given his most earnest
attention to the Government Bill, and in a very few days he
hoped it would be laid before the House. Under these cir-
cumstances he hoped the House would suspend its opinion upon
the !object till they heard more of it.—(Hear.) He admitted
last session that this Bill required acme amendment and al-
terations; and having made that admission, he did hope the
House would wait until the Bill came before it in an amended
form.
Mr. PARKER said he had but very few observations to
make. He hoped the system of imprisonment would not be
revived. and thought the declaration of the Right Hen. Baronet
would be satisfactory to the House. The Bill contained a very
stringent clause, which, in his opinion, would have prevented
the occurrence of some of the evils complained of, had it been
acted upon at the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Courts.
Mr. M. PHILLIPS regretted that the Committee was not
to be appointed, because had there been a Committee the
smell tradesmen, who complained of the Bill, would have had an
opportunity of stating to the House what were the real and
practical difficulties they suffered.
Mr. HAWES said he did not wish to revive the oppression
on the debtor which had been formerly practised. He thought
the only effect of appointing the proposed Committee would be
to cushion the measure coming down from the other House of
Parliament. The country was very anxious for an improve.
meat in the measure of last session, and the appointment
of a Committee now would only impede that desirable im-
provement. He thought, therefore, that Hon. Members on
his own side of the House ought net to press the motion.—
( Hear, hear.) As to raising a debate upon the worn-out
qeseitien of imprisonment for debt, he had thought every thing
that could be said upon it had been said low,' ago. The Hon.
Member concluded by saying, he hoped the Hon. Mover would
not press his motion.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the altera'ion of im-
prisonment for debt upon final process under 2.01. had been
made because of the miseries which debtors had suffered under
the old law. He was now willing to believe from the ex-
perience he had of the present law, that the creditor was not
sufficiently protected, and if any furthee protection could be
given to him it would be most desirable ; at the same time he
would IPis meet cantieus of placing in the hands of the creditor
an arbitrary power. He hoped the Hon. Member would
erehdraw his motion. In case the measure devised in the House
of Lords did not give the desired protection to the creditor, he
would do all in his power to make it do so.—( Hear, hear. )
Mr. SPOONER hoped the Hon. Gentleman would with-
draw his motion.
Mr. BERKELEY said, he thought he could not do less
than withdraw his motion, after what had been said by the So-
licitor-General, and the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary
of State for the Home Department. He would leave the mat-
ter in the hands of the Government, with the most perfect
confidence of the result.
Colonel RSAWDON said there were some hundreds of
persons confined in prisons in Ireland, for small debts, and be
hoped the provisions of the Bill would be extended to that
Country.
• The motion was then withdrawn.
IRISH CHURCH-RATES.
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY moved that the House resolve
itself into a Committee, to take into consideration the Act 17
and 18 Car. 2, c. 7, Intituled " An Act for provision of Mi-
nisters in Cities and Corporate Towns, and making the church
of St.
ftr sAnedreen, in the iiiiburbs of the city of Dublin, presen-
tativer, with a view to the repeal of so much thereof
as relates to the payment of ministers in corporate towns in
Ireland. On looking at the census of Ireland for 1841, he
leased that in the City of Cork, the Catholics of Ireland were
irk tile ratio of six and a half to
so one, while the amount of mi-
nistere money raised there amounted to no less than 12,0001.
It was for the removal of a source of much acrimony and
heeribornine, that he now solicited the interposition of the
not only
etlos
nt hde.
Home, for the removal of a burthen obnoxious
Homan Catholics but avast proportion of Protestants
of
He was aware that when he approached this question he might
be met by the objection of the difficulty of finding a substitute
that substitute he would seek in the revenues of the Established—
C
'Church ; and in making that suggestion he was not amenable
us
, the insinuation that such a measure would divert the pro-
perty of the Protestant Church in Ireland to other and foreign
purposes. This arrangement would be at once satisfactory to
the Roman Catholics, and certainly not unjust to the Pro-
testants of the country. He would not detain the House by
any further observations, trusting that the spirit which had of
late been evinced by the Government would be carried out in
the present advantageous opportunity.
Sir H. W. BARRON seconded the motion.
Sir T. FREMANTLE did full justice to the tone and spirit
in whichfothe Hon. Member for Cork had brought forward his
'resolution, and admitted to the full the obnoxious character of
•tihe tax. But while the Government were impressed with that
conviction, and had submitted the subject to a rigid investigad
lin as well as a most anxious consideration, they ha
*at the extreme difficulty of removing these imposts, more
eescially as'no substitute could be either suggested or de-
AW. The case was not quite so bad as the Hon. Gentleman
had represented it to be. A similar tax prevailed at Edin-
bit 50 and elsewhere. He hoped, under the circumstances,
the Hon. and Teamed Gentleman would withdraw his motion.
kl,r. ROCHE thought the Government was really bound to

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find a substitute for this tax. It was very well for his Hon.
and Learned Friend on the opposite side to say that he would give
the subject his best consideration ; but they wanted something
better. They wanted to get rid of the abuse altoge: er—they
wanted a pledge that the House would deal with thi' question,
which they had admitted to be an abuse, in the present session.
An HoN. MEMBER here moved that the House be counted,
when, 40 Members not being present, the House a journed at
a Quarter to Eight o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

THURSDAY, MAY 29.
The following Bills were read a third time, and passed :
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth.
Eastern Counties Railway (Ely and Whittlesea Deviation).
Exeter and Crediton Railway.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill,—Further proceeding
on third reading resumed; amendments proposed, and re-
ferred to the Select Committee on standing Orders.

Standing Orders Committee,—Resolutions reported;
I. " That, in the case of the Claughton cum Grange (St.
John the Baptist's) Church Bill, amendments on considera-
tion of report, the amendments are of such a nature as not to
be adopted by the House without the re-commitment of the

Bill."
2. "That, in the case of the Claughton cum Grange (St.
Andrew's) Church Bill Amendments on consideration of re-
port, the amendments are of such a nature as not to be
adopted by the House without there-commitment of the Bill."
3. " That, in the case of the Sunderland, Durham, and
Auckland Union Railway Petition, the Standing Orders
ought not to be dispensed with."
4. " That in the case of the Birkenhead, Manchester, and
Cheshire Junction Railway (No. 2) petition, the Standing
Orders ought not to be dispensed with."
5. " That, in the case of the Chester, Manchester, and Li-
verpool Junction Railway petition, the Standing Orders
ought not to be dispensed with."
Report to lie on the table.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
Kendal and Windermere Railway,—Third reading, Mon-
day, June 2.
West London Railway,—Second reading, Monday, June 2.
Tottenham and Farringdon-street Extension Railway,—
Committee on Bill, Friday, June 6, at twelve.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway,—Report to be consi-
dered, Tuesday, June 3.
North British Railway,—Report to be considered, Tuesday,
June 3.
Southampton and Dorchester Railway,—Third reading,
Monday, June 2.
Midland Railways (Nottingham to Lincoln),—Third read-
ing, Monday, June 2.
Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Deviation) Rail-
way,—Committee on Bill, Friday, June 6, at twelve.
Gravesend and Rochester Railway,—Committee on Bill,
Friday, June 6, at twelve.
Guildford Junction Railway,—Report to be considered,
Monday. June 2.
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings (Hastings, Rye, and Ash-
ford Extension) Railway,—Second reading, Monday, June 2.
Select Committee on Group V. adjourned till Saturday,
May 31, at twelve.

RAILWAYS.
The following Bills are appointed to go into Committee on
Friday, June 6, at twelve o'clock :
Tottenham and Farringdon-street Extension Railway.
Gravesend and Rochester Railway.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Worcester Deviation).
The Select Committee on Group P is appointed by the
Committee of Selection to meet on Wednesday, June 4, at
twelve o'clock,tinstead of Monday, June 2.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING•
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals.-Wellington, Liddell, from Madras, off Plymouth,
sld, Feb. 10, Cape, March 30, St. Helena, April 12, Ascension,
April 17 ; Northumberland, Bird, from Madras, off Scilly,
sld, Feb. 10, Cape, March 30, St. Helena, April 12 ; William
Jardine, Lodge, from Van Dieman's Land, off Falmouth, sld,
Hobart Town, Feb. 1 ; Hamlet, Wilson, from New South
Wales, off Penzance, sld, from Sydney, Feb. 3 ; Athens,
Fordice, from Port Philip, off Falmouth, sld from Geelong,
Jan. 7 ; Bolina, Dalby, from New Zealand, off Falmouth.
Arrivals at St. Helena-Chieftain, April 3, from Angra ;
Pequena Briesbosch, from Java; Voyager, from -;
Blorenge, from Calcutta to Liverpool ; Blundell, from Cal-
cutta to West Indies; Eliza, Grange, from Coast of Africa,
and sld, 7th, to Bordeaux ; Dorothea, Dekka, from Batavia,
and sld, Bth, to Amsterdam ; Semilante, Sire, from Bourbon,
and sld to Nantes ; Lord Althorpe, Elliott, from
Calcutta, and sailed 7th to Liverpool; Ida, Silk, 7th from
Sourabaya, and sailed Bth to London; Amiens, Orange, from
Mauritius; Peruvian, 7th, from Whaling; Deux, Freres, from
Bourbon, and sailed 9th to Nantes; William Wallace, from
Calcutta ; Rapide, Bockleman, from Batavia, and sailed 9th to
Falmouth ; Josephine, Salmon, Bth from Bourbon, and sailed
9th to Bordeaux; Areta, Stewart, from Singapore; Asia,
Davidson, from Calcutta, and sailed 12th to London; Hamet,
Duthie, from Algoa Bay; Phmnix, 9th from Batavia, and
sailed 11th to Hamburgh ; Royalist, Price, from the coast of
Africa, and sailed 10th to Barbadoes ; Aden, King, 11th from
China, and sailed 12th to Liverpool ; Dorothea, Smith, from
Caleutta, and sailed to Liverpool ; Gentoo, Hollis, from Cal-
cutta ; Petite Nancy, Dufourg, from Calcutta, and sailed 12th
to Bordeaux ; Mastroom, 12th from Batavia, to Rotterdam.
Arrival at Cannanore-Bombay, Furley, April 10 from Lon-
don and Mauritius, and sailed to Bombay.
Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope.-Her Majesty's
steamer Thunderbolt, March 26, from Ichaboe ; Barry', Dixon,
28th, from Brede River ; Manilla, Lloyd, from Liverpool to
Hong-Kong.
Departures from Table Bay.-Prince Albert, March 28, to
London; Catherine, Jamieson, 27th, to Leith; Garland, to
Saldanha Bay ; Lord Hungerford, 28th, to Demerara ; Le-
ander, to Whaling.
Arrivals in Algoa Bay.-Science, March 16, from Table
Bay ; Anna Louise, 17th. from Calcutta, and sailed 20th to
Havre ; Prins Carl, from Table Bay.
Departures from Algoa Bay.-Harriet, March 16th, to
London ; Blackaller, 17th, to Mauritius.
Arrivals at Sydney, New South Wales.-Autumnus, Jan.
20th, from China; Shamrock, 26th, from Port Philip ; Water-
lily, 27th, from Hobart Town; Christina, 28th, from Port
Philip ;,Palestine, 30th, from London ; St. Übes and Bahia Star
of China, Feb. 1, from New Zealand ; Chance, 3d, from New-
castle to London.
Departures from Sydney- Victor, Morgan, Jan. 26, to Ma-
nilla; Levant, 28th, to Whaling; Garland, Grove, 29th, to
Liverpool ; James Watt, 30th, to Hobart Town ; Lowestoff,
Feb. 3, to Launceston ; Matilda, 2d, to South Seas ; Moray-
shire, to Manilla; the Eleanor, to sail sth; the Emily, New
York Packet, and Eweretta, Bth.
Arrivals at Launceston-Adelaide, Jan. 15, from London ;
Mary Hay, 16th, from London and Rio ; Agostina, 22d, from
Manilla ; Tenasserim, 21st, from Hobart Town; William,
23d, Sisters, 25th, from Sydney.
Loading at Launceston-Tasmania, Mary Hay, and Agos-
tina, for London.
Arrivals at Port Philip-Branken Moor, Jan. 18, from Lon-
don and Adelaide ; Marian Watson, lEth, from Sydney.
Departure from Port Philip-Ellen, Jan. 20, to London.
Arrival at Adelaide-William Wise, from London to Port
Philip.
Arrival at Hobart Town-Osprey, Jan. 26, from Hong Kong
and Manilla.
Arrivals at Port Nicholson, New Zealand-Augustus, Dec.
29, from Port Philip ; Lady Leigh, Jan. 2, from Sydney, and
sailed Bth to Kawan ; Sisters, 2d, from Hobart Town, and to
sail 10th for Nelson ; H.M.S. Hazard, loth, from -; Hind,
7th, from Sydney to London ; Albatross,from Hobart Town.
Arrivals at Pernambuco-British King, March 26, from
St. Helena; Tamar, 27, from Launceston, and sailed Bth
April to London ; West Indian, April 5, from Cape Dublin ;
Jones, 10th, from Sydney, and sailed 11th to London.
Departure from Pernambuco-Catherine Brown, March 25,
to Cape.
Arrivals at Ascension-Her Majesty's ship Tortoise, from
-; her Majesty's ship Heroine, from coast, and to sail in
a few days for England, touching at Sierra Leone ; Malcolm,
from Singapore ; Ellen, from Port Philip; Seven, from
Ichaboe. Her Majesty's brigs Rapid and Wasp were daily ex-
pected at Ascension, April 17. The former woad proceed to
England with pirates for trial.
Arrivals at Hong-Hong-Earl Pawls, Feb. 7, from Liver-
pool ; Strathisla, 13th, from South Sea Islands.
Departures from Hong-Kong-Mary Ann Webb, Feb. 8, to
Cork ; Surge, 11th, to London; Coromandel, 13th, to Lon-
don ; Eagle. 13th, to Bristol ; Shepherd, 13th, to London.
Arrivals at Colombo.-Sir Charles Napier, from London,
and sailed March 27, to Bombay ; Competitor, March 26.
from Bombay ; %caw, March 25, from Hobart Town; and
Adelaide, W. and M. Brown, from London.
Departure from Colombo.-Lady of the Lake, March 26, to
Kurrachee.
Arrivals at Galle.-Thomas Jones, March 13. from Co-
lombo ; Standerings, 18th, from Mauritius, and sailed 21st, to
Madras ; Scaleby Castle, 19th, from China, and Singapore,
and sailed 21st to Bombay ; Eleanor, Lancaster, 24th from
' Colombo ; Sir H. Compton, 26th, from Bombay.
Departures.-Binkang, March 18, to Singapore ; Lady Sale,
26th, to China.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
A new grand. ballet, entitled, Rosida, ou les Mines de
Syracuse, was produced here last evening, with that tri-
umphant success which attended almost every work,
operatic or choerographic, that has been produced at her
Majesty's Theatre by Mr. Lumley. The new bal-
let is, we believe, the work of St. Leon,
and it does infinite credit to the talents of its author,
who has shown that he possesses poetical feeling, a
thorough knowledge of pictorial and stage effect, and
constructive powers of a high order. Rosida (Madlle.
Cerito) is a young Sicilian girl, in love with Alman (St.
Leon), a sailor, and the first tableau of the ballet is on
the deck of a ship on a gala day. The
masts are hung with wreaths of flowers—the
sailors are rejoicing on deck—s bevy of Sici-
lian damsels, among whom is Rosida, arrive on board,
and of course a dance ensues. There is, first of all, a
most effective bullabile, and then comes the new " pas
de charactere, La Siciliene," by Cerito and St. Leon.
This is an exquisite dance. Cerito displays in it all the
pretty coquetting of a village beauty, and gives us those
arrowy rushing steps which are so peculiarly her own.
She may indeed be called " The Muse of the many
twinkling feet." Alman has been condemned to the
mines. Rosida resolves to follow him—the only method
of accomplishing this, is by assuming the disguise of
a miner—a miner's dress is brought to her, and the
pantomime of Cerito is exquisite. She dances round
the dress—she touches—flies from it alarmed, and rushes
round the stage in a series of rapid steps, so rapid that the
eye can scarcely follow the motion of her feet.
She approaches and takes it up, tries on the coat in
the most fascinating and espiegle manner imaginable,
and at length takes the dress up, and rashes off the
stage with It. The second tableau exhibits the interior
of the dark and gloomy mine. The miners descend one
by one, and proceed to their work ; among them is
Alman. He is left alone. Suddenly the mine is illu-
minated—the black masses disappear, and in their place
we see the splendid abodes of the fairies of the mine.
The Queen of the Mine appears, and encourages Alman.
ltohoemfairiesecalroasnec
eu.p , and
atihitaeo a minemost
magnificent
scenic effect, and told admirably,
He approaches to worship her, when instantly the
pristienrebgf
guised as a miner. This,n we sibealiedvees,cenidss, dithse-
first appearance of Cerito male attire, and
she certainly looks most fascinatingly in • her
miner's costume. In this tableau she
pas de mineur with St. Leon. Her
Hpantomime was dances the
expressive, her dancing delightful. The applause was,
most
of course, rapturous, and at the end of the pas there
was
a perfect shower of bouquets. The mine again becomes
a fairy palace. Again does the Queen of the Fairies and
her court appear, and poor Rosida, terrified at these
supernatural appearances, rushes from the mine. At
this late hour (for the ballet did not conclude until one
o'clock), it is impossible to follow minutely the adven-
tures of the lovers, who are, of course, at last made
hof art, It re re.
happy. The last scene is a t p
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rap