Star.
London, England, 1816-05-29 00:00:00

THE ENGLISH OPERA.

The following names of established and provincial
celebrity, are amongst the list of the New English
Opera House Company :
Mr. BA It TLIT and Mr. WA LIMN" of Drury-lane Theatre ; the
Messrs Sneer, irons Duhlial Mr. BROADOUIST, WO Of Covent
Garden Theatre • Mr. and Mrs. W. Cuarruat.sr, and Mr.
GOIitERT, from 'Bath; Mr. kussatt, from Edinburgh; Mr.
WILKINSON, from Norwich; Mr. LANCASTER, from Swamies.;
Mr. ISA RNITT, from Portsmouth; Mr. Gains, late of the Hay.
market.Thestre; Master Barnet. Messrs. Wheatley, Nichols,
5. Jones, Glaniloie, Hudson, Isaacs, Herbert, liming, Ri-
chardson, Salter, Huckell, r.c. from various provincial and
21610 r Theatres.
Miss KKLLY, of Drury-lane Theatre; Miss 1.. KiLLT, late of
that Theatre; Mrs. t ensuit, from Edinburgh; Mrs. Lao um's,
Mrs. GRolft. MIS. PINCOTT, &c. and Miss Maitre, a ynuog
Lady, who is to make-her first appearance on any stage, and who
is already well known and highly admired in the musical world,
as &pup lof Mt. W SIMI. Mr. Stage Manager;
Mr. W cLse, Director of the Musical Departmcat ; Mr. W:
PattsoN' Leader of the Baud.
The'l'neatre opens on Tuesday the 25th of June,
with the Opera of Artaxerxes ; Mat:dose. Miss Matiaic.

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RAMSGATE. HAM •

Arrived bet night from Ostend the Wiper 'inch % CVO&
MINTSR bra over Sir.Ostasim 5T1133110% and several
other passengers. The Eclipse had a line run, having made the
passage to England in about seven hours and a half. The Lively
packet, Captain ATLIISIVIV, will sail for Ostend this evening
with passenger-upwards of thirty are waiting at the different
inns to go over. Two packets are Ettingwp bare in very great
style for the Calais trade. and will start in.*, cosine of nest
week, to convey passengers between this port sad that, and from
the numerous local advantages which Ramose, pesseeses,it is es=
petted vie WWI make the Calais passage as quid". as trolls Dover,
or any other port.

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BOXING.

A fine day's play took place yesterday at Coo tnbe
Warren, between no less than six candidates for
prizes. • The chief attraction, however, was a novelle
exhibition, never before, we believe, exhibited in this
country, between Joseph Steltlumon, so named. and
Sam. Robinson, (both men of colour) for 4.ogs. They
had both been vanquished by Carter in less than three
months, and they had disputed each other's gams, which
Meddling persons had interfered with, for the sake of
bringing them together. The fact is, Carter. was
more than forty minutes beating Stevenson, when he
subdued Robinson in less than half the time. The
latter, however, had beat Croxley, the sailor, a very
good ruffian, and he was backed to win, 2 to I. The
seconds were. Richmond and Harry .Harmer for Ste-
venson, and Oliver and Shelton for Robinson.
The number of rounds. and the various evolutions
in the fight, render it impossible to enter into a detail
of them, • which would occupy several columns, we
therefore convey it to our Readers in a general way.
In the first round Robinson made play short,,and was lilt on
the bead, hut be bored in upon his adversary. who fought on the
retreat till he got to the ropes. Stevenson recovered his stand
and run his adversary down. After this first salute the men got
to hard fighting. The object of Joseph seemed to be to bit with
his left hand and get away, as Carter had done to him. He stood
over his adversary, and we. successful in this rnanceuvre in the
4th, and sth rounds. Rubinson was not long enough to reach
him, bat when in he planted hits of more avail than left handed
flipping. This was particularly exemplified in the sth, 7th, 12th,
12th, letkand 20th rounds. Both became distressed about the
14th round, and much determined fighting, if not of the killing
kind, was *twine Stevenson seemed to have lost the strength of
moderate left handed hitting in the eighth round, and he had the
worst of in-fighting upon all occasions. Notwithstanding this he
had height, and In throwing in almost every close he proved him-
self the strongest man. Robinson bled first In the third round,
but in the fourth lie knocked Stevenson down. Robinson had
planted sonic severe body blows, and In the Slit round be plan-
ted one in the wind, and it was thouglo all was over. The 25th
round, Stevenson met another discomfiture by a severe kooci-
down blow on the jugular vein, which set his bead psalm-singing,
as was evident from his harmlessness in the neat round. Steven-
son bad no chance of turning the tide afterwards, and he was beat
la the 67th round, having given in several times previously, which
Ms seconds heeded not. Stevenson was much best about the
body, but neither were hurt much on the head. The struggle
listed en hour and twelve minutes.
A second battle was fought betwixt Randall, a
man of nine stone, known to but few in the ring, and
Borrock, a promising child of Israel, and a reputed
good man. Randall is the best light fighter that has
been seen since the days of O'Donnil. He bits with
the velocity of a Belcher, with both hands, stops a. le
Cribb, makes good breaks, tune: them in, executes like
a (Alden, and is all complete. His adversary. a
Jew, web a tried good man ; but he beat him in 12
minutes-6 to 4 on the winner.

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The third fight took place between two novices,
good young ones. They made good play, aad got
well beat.
The fourth fight was the first of the day of the
fa igball order. Caleb Baldwin, the veteran, and long
the Westminster Champion, beat a young Black.
The fifth fight was between two Blacks, who had
been canvassing the merits of their teapot brethren
and a sixth, between two countrymen, concluded the
sport at the setting sue.

To-morrow Morning at Nine .'Clock the State
Lottery begins Drawing, being the Third and Lao
Day, when the largest Sum that was ever obtainable
in any Lottery by a single Ticket, may fall to some
favourite of Fortune (Sir, Th;usand Pounds), for
such will be the case, should the First-drawn Prize
above ea be £30,000, as it will then double its anoint,
and be entitled to another Prize of the same mart'.
tude ; the odds against this event are but trifling, and
we understand that ea:ions bets have been laid deter-
minable upon it.
As an opportunity of gaining by Oka TIMM;
Sixty Thousand Pounds in Money, may not again occur,
W EBB'S Offices, 9, Cornhill. and 17, Ludgate-street,
will remain Open until Eleven o'Clock To-night ;
and while a Ticket or Share can be procured, they
may be purchased at either of the above Offices.—
, The Wheel goes round at Nine To-morrow Morning.
Tile certainty of the First-drawn above 825 being en-
titled to One of the £30,000 Prizes, and the probes•
bay of its gaining Dour, has created an-extraordinary
interest in the Day's Drawing ; and that those Two
Grand Prises will be sold by Writs has been pre-
dicted by many persons. who consider the sale of
No. 3,134, a Prize of £5OOO, on Wednesday last, at
his Offices, as the precursor of greater good foi tune
which awaits those who make their purchases there
in the course of this day.
A singular phenomenon in vegetable physiology
was lately discovered in Kilbarchan, in the garden et
Mr. Wm. Aitken, vintner.. A thorn, 7 inches in cir-
cumference, is growing from the stem of a large and
thriving plane three i Above the thorn, several feet
from the ground, is a large piece of granite indented
from the tree. As there is no probability that art has
in this ease been employed in producing these results,
the cause of this curious anomaly in vegetable eco-
nomy is very problematical.
Di:MADAMS OF A PUS= IN Hunt Llano—
Among the extraordinary and unprecedented occur-
rences, happening in these eventful times, may be
enumerated the degradation which an Officer °thigh
rank experienced, not long since, for dishonourable
conduct, proved at the bar of public opinion, as well
as that of justice. To our great surprise we now
learn. that another distinguished Officer (Apse. name
has been contiaually before our eyes, in print) is
shortly to be publicly disgraced—he is to be stripped
.of ell kir Isontun —and his lame struck out of the
Army list. The judicial exposition of the offending
party is abandoned, the necessary proofs being Wan-
,ting ; but enough is known to jdstify the conduct of
th, highei powers, and at the setae time demon-
strate, that neither titles nor riches can screen offen-
' dens from Merited punishment. The reported nature
of the greseitt of enee we mast decline stating.