Star.
London, England, 1817-08-20 00:00:00

ENGLISH OPERA.

A new Operetta, entitled Fire and H'ater ! was last
Sight produced. The characters and their represen-
tatives are as follow :
Captain Hurry, - - Mr. BARTLIT.
Thrif•y, - Mr. W. S. CIiATTEILIET.
Frederick, - - Mr. Waseca.
Jacob, - - Mr. WiLKINSON.
Fanny, - - - Lova.
Furbish Miss I. STEVENSON.
The structure of the Operetta is exceedingly sim-
ple. It. merit consistsin a vein of lively and bustling
incident, Atli a considerable portion of broad humour
--but the .lialogue is not marked by terseness of re-
partee or el, gance of language. Old Thrifty has, by
defaming the character of Frederick, induced Captain
Here/ to refusie his sanction to a marriage between
Frederick and his niece, Funny. Thrifty, however,
who manages Norris affairs, informs his friend that
be can pr cure a snore suitable husband for the young
lady. Hi-r uncle, anxious to be relieved from his
Z"ardim-h'il. agrees u. oiari y for- to the individual
selecte.f Theifty—and that is no other
than Thrifty Lint.elf. Hurry takes his nice? front she
boarding-school at which she had previously resided,
and she is sent along with her maid, Furbith, to
7 Arifty's house. Hither they are tusluwed by Pre.
aria during the Osence of Thrifty, wi,,, has pro-
ceeded to his lawyer. While they are mutually pro-
testirg eternal 6 ,elity, Captaia Retry arrives—and
poor Frederick es thrust into the balcony, for conceal-
ment, where he is exposed to the horror. of a storm
of thunder, lighteing, and rain, and is drenched to
the skin. Hurry, 6.ding that his friend Thrifty is
not at home, pursues him to the lawyer's, and Fre-
derick escapes from his hiding-place. Mir., now
enters, and Frederick ascends the chimney a. a place
o security Here he is in clanger of being burned
alive, 7 hip", whi) is very cold, having directed a
Ere to be made; so that the unfortunate lover passes
the twn or &al. of fire anff water, for the sake of his
mistress. Thrifty again goes out to seek the lawyer,
who, however, has been previously found by Hurry,
whom hr accomp,inies to Thrifty', residence. Here
he meets Fredericl, whose person is unknown to him,
and wiloni tie believes to be the bridegroom selected
for his niece. The marriage contract being ready, it
is immediatily signed by the parties, and old Thrifty
oa his Arrival, discovers that the mad impatience et
flurry has completely defeated his matrinismial
scheme. The eli»racter of Hurry, a being ever on
the wing—whose n;otto appears to be fg push on—
keep moving," is drawn with spirit, and was sup-
ported by Mr. Barn-Lae with great velocity of 1110.
!ion, and corresponding rapidity of utterance. Thrifty,
an 01,1 miser, afforded Air. W. S. CIIATTLICLEY a
good opportunity for the disOay of servile tolly and
petulance. Mr. WRENCH, as Frederick, depicted the
character in an easy, careless, lively manner. The
female characters have little to do. They were neatly
supp,,rteti by Miss Lova and Miss 1. STEvasisos.
Tie music is pretty—particularly a Jet etude, which
occurs early in the piece. It was well executed, and
was encored. _ _ _

The Operetta was received by a uowded house
With undivided applauve.

The following ludicrous circumstance occurred at
the Bath Court for the Recovery of Small Debts, on
Wednesday last ;—a man, who was very vociferous
in his demands to be heard, was desired by Counsellor
Gnomic:. not te be so troublesome; and his Clerk,
Mr. Guonex, ()harrying he made as much noise as if
the eleht was of greUt cunstquence ; the man replied,
" That though the debt were but vourteen pence, it
was much to he, but a shoud'nt nave axed the Court
to get it for un, hadn't the woman who was debted
to un been very abusive, and told un to go to the
airrilia hell for it, zo pleaze your worships I be coin'd
h you for it."
A wt .rehouse in Wallece-.curt, Bell-street, Glas
gow, was broken into last week, two desks therein
forced open, ..nd a London bill tor £l9B carried off.
A few days afterwards the owner of the warehouse
received, through the Post office, the following letter,
enclosing the bill stolen:
" Ma. CORMILU! BROWII-1 am nothing indebted to you
now, but eighteen pence in copper—which 1 shall honourably
ray whe.. I return twin Pelagic), Fair.—Your arrvant,
" A rustic ROHR/
" P.S. "[tinge la devilish dull otherwise I would Lot lave
taken the Copan. " w. s."
The letter is written in a feigned hand ; and, from
the address on the outside, it is obvious that the au.i
thor cannot only spell well, but that he is a very good
penman.
The Gentlemen in the neighbourhood of Andover
have agreed, on account of the leteness of the harvest,
not to shoot any game until the 20:h of September.
PIDESTRIANISX.—Eatnn, the Pedestrian, commen-
ced his task of walking from Colchester to London,
and from London to Colchester, being distant from
each other fifty two miles, which he is to continue for
twenty successive days. He starred from Colchester
on Monday morning, twenty minutes before six ; he
reached Whitham at h ill-past ten, where he break-
fasted; lie arrived at Chelmsford at one, and took
stme refreshment; he dined at three o'clock at In-
gatestone, took some refreshment again at Romford,
and arrived at the Nag's Head, facing Whitechapel
Church, twenty minutes past ten o'clock ; and started
afresh yesterday morning, twenty minutes before 'five.
Seen:tit:G. —Randal had a benefit at the Fives-
Court yes:. rday, which was well attended notwith-
standing the emptiness of the town. I'ne exhibition
between Elate and Belcher was as perfect a treat of
science as coulu have been witnessed: the nice mea-
sure trent, the skilful parries, and justness of execu-
tion, excited much applause. Owen set-to with his
pupil, Turner, but the latter has made so much pro-
gress he had the best of his master, and the tactics of
the old schoel. S.telton sliesecel off his prowess about
the head of Stringer, 111{1 herculean Yorkshireman.—
Randel displayed much science with Lazarus, the
Jew ; and the bout between Oliver and Richmond
was interesting. No new matches were made in the
Court. Letters have been received from Carlisle,
stating, that 100 guineas will be deposited for Carter
to fight the Black who beat Painter: to fight during
the Carlisle Races. They also offer to back Cooper
for a eundred to fight any one else, bar Cribb.
Tire :111sENT MAN..--Mt. As" receives a letter ;
he knows the hand-writing ; he wants to read it in
haste; it is alread) dNrit ; -strikes a light, rears a
paper, and lights a taper, but the letter is gone—he
bad used it to light the candle 1

MEL AND.

The following General Order has been received at
our Custom House :
GENERAL ORDER.
Custom house, Dublin August 14.

The Right Hoo. Robert Peel, Secretary to the Loi'd Llente•
nant, having, by his knee of the 13th last. with reference to the
letter of the Board of Treasury, dated the 19th of December last,
communicated to you In the Board's General Order of the 28th
of that mooch, No. 62, signified, that hie Excellency is of opinion
that the circumstances which induced the lords of the Treasury
to deviate, from the strict letter of the law with respect to the
admission of American 161.1 r, have ceased to operate, and that it
is expedient that the order of the Board of Treasury should hr
withdrawn, and that the law should take its course with respect
to all importations of American P.our from Great Britain, or any
port of Europe, after the expiration of one week from the date
hereof, and at the expiration of six weeks with respect to the
importation from America.
In pursuance thereof, the Board direct you to give the greatest
publicity to this communicatiou for the information of all partiv..
By order of the Commissioners,

C. ). A. IRACLI.AN.
Friday se'nnight a farmhouse on the lands of (Non-
more, Barony of Upper Connelloe, in the County of
Limerick, the estate of EDWARD SLn:nv, BAq. was
malicioulsy set on fire, and totAily consumed.
A soldier of the 81st regiment having gum-relied
with some persons in the street ut Truce on Thursday
night last, was so shockingly beaten as to produce his
death.

FATAL Drrt..—Wednesday last, between four and
five o'clock in the afternoon, a meeting took place at
Belli:slough, near Cork, between Lieut. W---, R.N. I
son of a respectable Solicitor of that City, attended
by a Lieut. R—, R. N. and Lieut. H—, R. N.
attended by a Lieut. 13—, Si Foot Guards, which
we mention with heartfelt surtow, terminated in The
death of Lieut. H--, the second ball having passed
through his heart. Mr. H. was a native of Sonar-
setshire, and son of the late Captain H. of the (Mord
Blues.—Thursday an Inqnest was held on his body,
when the Jury returned a verdict that the deceased
came by his death by a ball fired from a pistol by
Lieut. W---.

HEAD PoLICE OFFICE, DUSLIY.--TWO notorious
outlaws have been committed to Newgate, of the
names of Edgwerth and Chance (alias Byrne), who,
about two years since, escaped out of Naas gaol, and
have been ever siace infesting the neighbourhood of
the county Wicklow. They were taken in a remote
cave at Elvertown, in the county of Dublin, by the
Gentlemen of the Ballymore, Rathmore, and Bles-
ington Associations, after a desperate resistance, and
the contents of a blunderbuss (fired by Edgworth),
having unhappily wounded a Mr. Grace. The cave,
it seems, which is called the Fox Cover, was admi-
rably constructed for secrecy, but badly for defence.
The inside was deep and spacious, but the entrance
to it so small as to prevent a precipitate retreat, and
nothing bet the threat of burning them alive could
have induced them to surrender. They were brought
to tows yestetd ty morning, strongly escorted by P.
Homer, Esq. (who was principally instrumental to
their apprehension), and the other Gentlemen of the
different Associati;,,,i,

LIMERICK, AucesT 13.—The three brothers of the
r a ne of Philipps, who we stated some time since to
have been apprehended in Cork, for the murder of
L. O'Hara, in the county of Mayo, and to have been
transmitted for trial at the Spring Assizes at Castle-
ha:, postponed their trial to the Assizes at present i
holding in that town, at which they hare been found
guilty, and were ordered to be executed on Monday.'
—At the Assizes of Castlebar, on the Sth inst. 17
persons were condemned to death ; several persons for
sheep-stealing, received the same sultan:, but they
have been recommended to mercy.
Wexeoito, Au6E:sr 15.—The house of a farmer
named Kinsley, at Ballylar kin, in this county, was vi.
sited, on the 4th illitatiti by four inhuman wretches,
who placed the unfortunate man on the fire, and burn-
ed him in a shocking manner; and not content with
this act of brutality, they halt strangled him by hang-
ing, in order to extort a confession of money. The
man, however, was nut in possession of the booty they
had expected. They then plundered the house of every
article of value. W. E. Lees, EN. of Fort Falconer,
in the county of Wicklow, and Captain J. H Gowan,
succeeded in arresting lames Graham, in said county,
and committing him to our gaol, in whose custody
same of the property was found, and identified iiy
Kinsley, for the recovery of whom little hopes are en•
tenanted. The remaining part of the plunder has
been found in other places; and them is reason to ex-
pect his comrades will not be able to elude detection.
Another man, named Watson, living in the Vale of
Ovoca, was treated in a similar manner, a short time
before, by the same gang ; as they went by the same
names in both places, calling themselves Hader, Holt,
and Grant; and about tour nights previous, they also
visited a man of the name of Edmond Walsh, near
Killippe, on the borders of same county, with the like
acts of barbarity.

Thursday last a child was stolen at Kensington,
almost in the same manner as that for which Mrs.
H. Mohnen Hamilton was lately convicted at he
Old Bailey.—The wife of a bricklayer's labourer
sent her eldest daughter, about 12 years of age, out
with an infant three months old. The girl was stand-
ing talking with a play-fellow, when a Lady, dressed
in a blue silk pelisse and white lace veil, came up,
and told the girl, that she knew her mother, whose
dame she mentioned, and that she had some needle-
work she wished her to do; and requested the girl to
go home and bring her, and she would hold the child
in the mean time. The girl immediately delivered
the child, and ran honk; and the child, who had
been playing with her says, the Lady instantly got
into a chaise-cart standing near, with the help of a
man who drove it, aho merely said, 16 Down the
road r. The answer was, 's Yes ;" and they drove
off with the infant at spud. When near the tint:-
pike by Phillimore-place, the horse fell. 'file man
jumped out, and having raised the horse, setoff with
increased speed. At t this time the Lady had divested
herself of both her pelisse and veil. Nothing has
sioce been heard of the child, though every inquiry
has been made at Hammersmith and all the surround-
ing inks.
Munnica.—Monday night a silk weaver, named
Chambers, residing iu Spita;fields, had sonic alterca-
tinn with his wik ; from words they proceeded lc
; when the woman, in a fit of passion, seised
a knife, and inflicted a deep wound in his ckcst. The
neighbours found, him bleeding on the floor. He was
in that state taken to the Hospital, where yesterday
morning he expired. The woman is in custody.