Star.
London, England, 1827-09-04 00:00:00

EN'CLISII OPERA HOUSE.

Last nigl.t the new Comic Piece called The Two*,
was repeated; and if I .u, bier be a tel of it,
cmd
11 a ing popularity, we this It Mr. PEA Is May co,. o
cttor.rtessillta Meissen that Isis Farce is likely to ovesconse
all the obstacle, wl ich the Critics have thrown in it,
eiNti
..daLuilanw:sketticsahr
ofac talent.,
old
ds agrnt of
it, . ;1!;0f./111- Not
t;;nNtr4arbot.al
ith ali the peculiatities that are incidental to that cla
01 beings. BAKTLIIT, as the Bow street Rimer (a
lice Otfice.N was highly entertaining. The curtailmen:s
*Wets have taken plate -ince its first performance aie
judreinas. The Overture is rich in melody, ant it is
sidom that we have heard mole t-squi.ite harmony
than it curl ai• ed in the " Eva, Soli." Indeed, the
whole of the Sung% U ens, atc. dr•peised throng' oat
the Opera, ale of the iitst order, ..nd cahoot Jail to •
nuisance the fame of e Composer.

A PoLisft LIET-D.—ZifultovAT. a p: • former
the Warsaw stage, was one of the greate.t in low comedy recorded d
to the annals of the drams. Such was the irresistikle drollery •,r
his phy.iognomy and remotes, that his appearance alone was ad.'
dent to set the audience In a rn.r of laughter. Yet, ah hobo h
could contrive to r. oder the most common:place sentinctsand the
must insipid parts highly ludicrous, his style of acting era. RrGc.4
natural and chaste, free from that ah.urd grimace which 10 .r
e.
quently passes for comic humour. Th.s actor composedmany in:
gentiles sod amusing comedies and vaud,ville., and roret,ser ob.
tabled great celebrity for his puns, anecdotes. and Noes, whidi
used to publish in a whimsical kind of journal, He died at Wane
In I di& --Literary Carotids.
ANECDOTE OF THE PRESENT DUKE OF LEINSTEL
hpHaSseiwaernar
clistins
unqitgatereinalartmizanutedzbdeuhsaimineestianrca.swiiracentaettypt.
.:rettoth
owner of this Park, I would nut assist in building my ours wan.'
said the Gentleman. " And if you were Duke of Lmorsa,"
replied his Grace, " you would have had no wall to rebuild."
It has been generally reported that Sir %Smile
SC TT, in his Lice of NAPJLIoN, has gives 5,,,,, a
~al information respecting the battle Waterlo,,
which he obtained from the Duke of WELLIsGTOS.
—Sir WALTER ter ainly did .t.y to get at some of
tlie Duke's private opinions. respecting,:hylist;y. toe vench
famtoa-b,attle;
but his Gyace's reply was merely,
peppered us most d—ly, but we peppeted them beter:
—tilargose Chronicle.
In his la e address at the F. anklin Institute at Phila.
delphia, Mr. OWEN said —" I had been accustomed to
have my three meals a..lay; but when I sent to New
Harmony, I was told by seine that two meals a-ay
would answer; and you know that I am fond of expo.
riments, so 1 began to take one meal in the morning at
seven o'clock, and another at five o'clock in the aher.
noon ; and I consider it seriously, as it regards myself,
one of the greatest discoveries that I ever made; and I
enjoyed these two Meals more than I did all the meals
th it It. ok before. So that I consider this single dis-
covery, just for myself, worth more than all the money
that I have expended there."
For the last two years the Rev. Dr. fsloome, of Clack.
mannan, has required no assistance 1 rom fishrethrenii
the Ministry, at his Sacraments. Thought he now seldom
pee aches, being very blind, yet he performed all the ewer.
cises on the F..s:-day,Catorday and Sabbath and onM-n•
day, to his parishioners, with thee sception of the evening
sermon on Sabbath, winch was preached by Mr. Cooler,
his atsistatit. The Rev. I:betas. in former dap, used
Always to mad I is discourses to his cong.egati n,•bet
now he mires out thevPaalm-to be sung, and passaged
Scripture which is the subject of discourse, and delires
his thoughts with as much freedom as ever he vas K.
custon.ed to do previous to the decay of his eye-sight.—
Stidivrir Journal.

~
'file wort`l Minister of a parish in the city o' Lines!:
acci,:entally forgot his engageme..t to mite a couple
in matrimonial bands on Tuesday morning ; and the
swain and nymph, with three couples of saint,:
attendan s, waited for his Reverence through Ce
trdious hours ; till, at a quarter past twelve, the
unlucky thwarter of their happiness rode past, quite
unconscious of his error. Much amusement ensued
from the mutual explanation, which at last terminated
by the warm-hearted divine making the amends Immo-
ralde et liberale, in bestowing a second marriage feet,
and app 'intim; the next morning for tying the indissos
liable knot. The lovely pair retired, heartily enjoying
Ichar frolic (or pretending to do so at least,) and entered
into all the usual amusLments of the wedding feast;
and on Wednesday morning consecrated their union,
which was then cel brated with the second fest:vity, by
the kind favour of the forgetful pries'.—Stockport Adcer.
In the Engli h factory at Gumbroon was an old sr,
leant of the name of Suffer. When poor Suffer, Irks
had been 50 years a servant in the factory, was on his
death-bed, the English doctor ordered him a glass d
wine. He at first refused it, saying, “ l'cannot take
it; it is forbidden in the Koran." Bat after a few mos
meats he begged the doctor to give it him, saying, as
he raised himself in ,his bed, " Give me the wine; fa
it is written in the some Tame, that you unbalieven
will be excluded from Paradise; and the experienced
50 years teaches me to prefer your society is the old
world, to any place unto which I can be advanced with
my own countrymen." He died in a few hours after
this sally.
Colsnel BEAUMONT has experienced a severe attack
of illness etLing the last week. On receiving the if)*
telligence at Scarborough, Mrs. Beaumour immedi•
ately set off for Bretton. where she found him coon'
derably recoveiel Mr. BEAUMONT, and his brother,
Captain BEAUMONT, have left Alknheads, for Bret
Hall, in con,equence of their father's illness.
Saturday afternoon, a fatal accident befel a little boy,
named Maiinington, aged about six years, who sails
at play with two other children, near the road lochs(
to Mr. Creswell's windmill, in Sussex, fell under the
wheel of a waggon laden with wheat, which passitg
over his head, killed him on the spot.
Tuesday a soldier named William Lawrence, belong.
ing to the 70th regiment of foot, spent the day a
drinking and dissolute company, and returned in a state
of intoxication to the public house at which he was
billeted, about ten o'clock on Wednesday morning,
when he went to bed, aid was soon afterwards tau'a
a corps-.
MOUEJNO RAT.—On the farm of Lyonthom, oaf
Falkirk, vier: is a remarkable instance, not only of dc''
cility, but usefulness, in a rat. It first devoured Lk'
mice caught in traps, and was afterwards seen to cat'h
.
them as they ventured from their boles, till at lene
the whole house was cleared of these vermin, excepts at_
is believed, a single one. It has frequently been set)
in pursuit of this solitary mouse, and the little fugititt!
which takes refuge behind the logic, has a part of
.i.tv
fur singed off. From the service it renders, the foil
kindly protect the rat, and it rum about and gambol'
among them on the floor withput the least uneasines.s,
It sometime( disappears for a week or ten days 10,1
is suppose.; that, in these intervals, it visits tbc 'tact
yard is its professios al capaety.—Ecutasnart.
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