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The pit is very spacious, and the ;two galleries are
comparatively small, there not being accommodation
in the upper for more than 150 or 200 persons. The
upper gallery is divided into five compartments, and
may be thus considered .a
tier of five hoxet, with a se-.
parate door at the back to each ; these doors open into
a spacious lobby, one side of which is the back of
the gallery, and the other the exterior wall of the
theatre, with the windows into the street. The lobby
to the middle gallery beneath is similarly situated.—
One great advantage attends this construction : in
summer the doors of the galleries
.and the wincl,tws
of the lobbies being left open, the audience in those
parts cannot be oppressed by the heat, as in the for-
mer theatre. Under the gallery a row of private
boxes, constituting the third tier... They consist of
26 in number, with a private,room behind each.—
The access to these boxes is by a beaittiful siaircase,l
t ;elusively appropriated to them, and not connected
with any other part of the house, with also a lobby,
exclusively—spacious and masnificent in the extreme.
The carpeting was laid down in these boxes on Satur-
, day last; bt4 the furniture of each, and also of the
adjoining room, will be according to the taste of the
several occupants, among whom are some of the
Royal Dukes, and the learn persons of rank and
fashion in the country. The lower boxes appear to
be upon the same plan of those in the old house.—
There is an additional seat; each box will thus hold
12 persons, being three more than in the old house.
The grand staircase, from Bow-street, to the boxes, is
most superb, and, 'in extent, greatly exceeds that of
the Opera House. The front of the stage is surmoun-
ted with tl:%royal arms, and the pillars at the sides
are plain and elegant. This is the characteristic style
of the whole house. She artist appears to-have stu-
died the simplex muaditiis ; and never did artist more
completely realize the principle. An elegant sim-
plicity, equally remote from glare and glitter on
the one side, and crudity and coldness_on the other,
prevails throughout. The fronts of the boxes are of
a colour between bronze and stone, with a Chinese
dower in continuation between the tiers, and par..eni
with stars. There are no mirrors or reflectors at-
tached to the supporters, between the tiers; and the
house is lighted by glass chandeliers of a very peculiar
construction, and the effect is said to be very brilliant.
There is not a point of the house, before the cur-
tain, that does not command a complete view of the
stage; nor a point in which a word distinctly spoken
on the stage is not perfectly audible to the remotest
extremity. The stage is also adapted, in a peculiar
degree, for the display of 'scenic *procession; having
extraordinary depth in the rear, as also large spaces
at the sides, to an extent greatly exceeding those *of
the late theatre.
The artist has been also particulaily attentAte to
the comfort and accommodation of the performers.
The gentlemen's dressing-rooms are on one side, and
those of the ladies on the whet-. There are three
green-rooms, all of them on the'side of Bow-street.
The ward-robe room is spacious and superb.—in the
centre is a square table of immense size—the surface
mahogany, highly polished. The presses which line
the room are in wainscot, finished with the must ex-
quisite taste.
In the construction of this splendid edifice, the ca-
lamitous fate of the late two great winter theatres has
not been forgotten. Every means of safety against
fire, or other accident, that ingenuity (mold devise,
has been adopted. At all convenient intervals are
strong party walls, with iron doors, by which, if a
fire were to break out, it would be 'confined within
that particular compartment, and be prevented from
spreading through the house.

The fire-places are also made with the grates turning
upon a pivot, by which means the front can be moved
round to the back, and the fire is thus extinguished
without the possibility of accident. Water.ppes are
also insinuated into every part of the house, through
which they are spread like veins through the human
body. Great brass cocks, which, when turned, would
pour the contents into the house, present themselves
to the eye in the lobbies and other open places. The
flight of stairs to the upper gallery consists of 120
steps, and the number of bricks laid down in seven
months amounted to seven millions ; a circumstance
which may afford an idea of the magnitude of the
edifice, and the celerity with which it has been built.
The materials are of the best quality, and the,build-
ing is most substantial and secure. Last week its,
strength was tried by immense leaden weights, placed
on the several tiers, greatly exceeding the weight of
the most crowded audience that could be compressed
into the house, and yet the building did not, in any
point, give way in the slightest degree possibly per-
ceptible.

• Yesterday evening a fine boy, the son of Mr. Chi-
vers, a fishmonger, in Clare-court, Drury-line, fell
from a boat off Surrey-stairs ; Harry Peck, a water-
man, seeing that it was then about the top of the tide,
and that the boy's life was in the most imminent dan-
ger, boldly jumped off in his clothes, brought the boy
safe to shore, and restored him to his parents. •
Sunday evening, as Mr. Cowley, of the Pavement,
Moorfields, was coming from EAmonton on horse-
back, he came in contact with the chaise of Mr. De-
shongs on the road, the shafts of which entered his
body. He was conveyed to the nearest house, where
he died a few hours afterwards in the greatest agony.
A few days since an explosion took place in Fenton
Park colliery, near Newcastle, in which were ten men,
seven of whom lost their lives. The other three were
preserved by the laudable activity of some of their
fellow workmen. Within the last twelve months, a
simile' accident happened in the same pit, whereby
six were killed, and several severely hurt.
•• Monday night a boy belonging to a retail linen-
draper's, in Holborn, went from i.is master's shop to
bring some goods from a wholesale drapers in the
city. As he returned with his load near Fleet Market,
he became tired. A man Offered him his assistance,
giving him a new bat to hold, and taking the load to
carry it for him. In the course of a few minutes,
another man met the boy and threw a handful of
snuff in his eyes. The poor lad was then surrounded
with a set of fellows, who with a great air of simpli
city inquired of him what was the matter, and several
other questions,. usati,i' the ma with the load got
clear of

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