Star.
London, England, 1824-12-02 00:00:00

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. The Opera of ,The. &qv of, Belgrade was, last night
performei in a very effecttse style. Mr. Sam, whose
met its as asoucert.singtr Are.well icnawn to the toway
appeared for the first. time. in. the united capacity„of
actor at,pcl vocalist, as the representative, of the Seraskier.
His performance was received in the. ron.t flatterint!
manner ; and certainly the api.latt,e which was bestowe4
on it was uot.greater,,than ;it deserved., M 4. SAPIO'S
vnice.i.: a Fine tenor, full of...skives! and,erpression ; his
ja.toto is hold, and. his 'its le, like that of, Mr. KRAIIA
ia ff trid.. lie ontiis nool.portnnity of embellishing the
ell iginal theme With the glace'cof,art, and umnestinn.
ably he introduces his endiellishlients,v Ult. the taste 4'f
a practised musician. We have rarely heard the 1,0.,e
and the L.ilj sang, ith so much hsptitiful expres>ion. ,It
was loudly encored, and it.richly meshed that honour.
In the duet with I illav Whets thy /most. in the air My
heart with Lore is beating, and in Mr. T. Coolie's set e-
vade, the sa•ne delicacy of feeling And felicity of ex-
pres!iou were preserved.. Miss GRADDON, who im-
prnres every time she perfot ms, sang the airs allotted
to Kothep bee with great ability.. Her concluding song,
in the hi avur I -style, was very spirited. Miss STEPHENS
was a de:ightful Litia. Her duet v ith Leopold—a dia•
racier admirably sustained by Mr. lIARLEY—was beau-
tifully playful. We scarcely imagined that Miss STE.
PIHINS could unite so much comic humour with so mach
exottisite harmony. The minor characters were wea
cast, and the wh.tlet performance was received, by a very
crowded house, with great satisfaction.

AMA RICAN FUN.

Mathews, in his amusing Trip to America, notices
the claim of a Mr. Raventop, on the part of the Ame-
ricans, to genu-ine fun, and in proof of it relates the
stalest Joe Millers possible. The following are better
specimen, but the authors of the jokes do not adpear to
be AmerTcans. They are from
.a New York Paper:
A Gentleman, a few days since, with a handsome pair
of whiskers, stop; ed at a barber's shop in Philadelphia
get shaved. Tire barber _proceeded to shave but a
short time, when the Gentleman discovered, to his ut- '
ter 'astonishment, that the barber had taken off one of
whiskers. " Zounds and fury, what have you taken
off my whisker for, you rascal?" exclaimed the Uentle-
man, as he rose to chastise the barber. " Vi, sare, de
Mat quis La Fayette year no rriskar," replied the knight
of the razor, with the utmost composure and self-im-
portance, indicating a conscious triumph.
The day after our Races, an honest Hibernian, whose
face, " flushed with a purple grace," sufficiently evinced
his love for the dear stuff of ould Ireland, called to a
landlord, with all the native impudence imaginable, for
a tickler of the best whiskey,.which, after he had swal-
lowed, he with great composure told the landlord he
had no money to pay for ; the landlord, justly incensed
at his_ immeasurable share of Republican independence,
told him he ought to have informed him of that before
he drank. " Why, my jewel," sail Pat, " I tried that
wilt your• next door neighbour, and the devil the drop
he'd let me have ; and so I had no mind to be taken in
a second time, d'ye see." Two wags present thinking it
too good a joke to be Jost, prOdUced the follcAving, and
released Pat, by liquidating his claim :
Pat roar'd like a lord for his gill,
And swiped it )ust like it was honey;
ilia when call'd on to settle hii bill,
Quite coolly replied, " I've no money !"

0 why did'nt you say so before,
You rascal, bow dare you deceive me?'
" Qh, faith, Sir, I try•'d that next door,
But the devil a drop would they give me !"

SPURTING INTELLIGENCE.