Star.
London, England, 1821-08-27 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

After the Opera of Fontainebleau, which is admi-
rably got up, a new Interlude, entitled Match-making,
was produced at this Theatre on Saturday. The story
is of course a brief one, but possesses more interest
and variety than usually belong to pieces of that class.
Mr. Matchem, an old bachelor, is possessed with the
mania of making matches for all the single people
of his acquaintance, though the greater part of them
had ended in divorce and separate maintenance.—
Ile has a large list of names destined for wedlock ;
but the chief object of his care is Lady Emily Courser,
his niece. He has projected for her an union with
Captain Belmont, a Gentleman he has never seen
since he officiated as sponsor for him, whose per-
son, therefore, is quite unknown to him. He sends
to the head-quarters of the Regiment to which he
belongs to invite him to his house, and the invita-
tion is accepted ; but Colonel Rakely the Comman-
der of the Regiment, a man of intrigue and dissi-
pation, gains sight of Belmont's letter, and in a frolic,
determines to circumvent him with his mistress.—
He employs Belmont on some service, which must
prevent, for a few days, the prosecution of his amour,
and visits Lady Emily, under the assumed name of
his inferior officer. • Unfortunately for him, Lady
Emily, disgusted with the absurd projects of her
uncle, determines to accept no lover of his proposing.
Rakely, therefore, whose character as a man of gal-
lantry would otherwise have paved the way to his
success, loses all chance by personating Belmont.—
When he is about to declare himself in his own per-
son, Belmont arrives, and, both Officers, being equally
unknown in the family, is taken for Rakely. Some
amusing equivoque arises, which leads to the dis-
covery of the'rekkl rank and pretensions of each. Bel-
mont is selected as the happy man by the capricious
Lady Emily, partly because Rakely, though under an
assumed name, had the misfortune of being first pro-
posed by her uncle, and because too, she recognizes in
him a Gentleman who had rendered her an essential-
service on some former occasion. The chief agent in
the different disguises and discoveries is Shatbte, an
old servant of Rakelys. This little Piece is entitled
to praise principally as an amusing, well-airanged
story. It met with the most decided success, for which
it is, in an eminent degree, indebted to the excellence
of the acting. Mr. TERRY, as the old bachelor, W.
JoNEs, as colonel Rakely, Mr. OXBEHRY, in Shuffle,
and Mrs. CIIATTERLBY, as Lady Emily, exerted their
talents with the best effect. The l louse was extremely
full; but owing to the new and excellent system of
ventilation adopted here, the heat was much less op-
pressive than might have been expected.

VAUXHALL.—This inimitable spot of pleasure and
useful recreation has been most elegantly and nume-
rously attended during the last week. To give a list
of the many fashionables who have added to the splen-
dour and gaiety of the tcene, would far exceed the
limits of a Newspaper. Those who have not visited
the Gardens this season can form bat an imperfect
idea of their exquisite brilliance; and those who visit
the Gardens this evening will certainly witness a spec-
tacle which they will remember with interest and
with pleasure for the remainder of their lives. A se-
ries of entertainments, surpassing in magnificence all
which have ever been presented before, are announced
by the Proprietor ; and when it is remembered that,
unlike many who promise more than they mean to
perform, he always even exceeds his promises, ex-
pectation cannot be raised too high of the splendid
scene which this evening will present, and particu-
larly as it is the last night but one of the season.
A Gentleman, a lover of good wine, on looking
into his wine-cellar the other day, where there was a
/ripe of Sherry lying near to a pipe of Madeira, dis-
covered, with great surprise, that on the head of the
Sherry pipe there were a great many long small
wor ms round the little wood peg where the cask had
been bored to taste the wine, but not one worm near
the peg of the Madeira pipe; and on inquiry of dif-
ferent wine-merchants, he finds that it is constantly
the case, that Sherry always breeds worms, but Ma-
deira does not.
In the garden of Mr. Avann, of Canterbury, is an
apple-tree which has bloomed three times during the
present year, and is now very full of fruit, which is
nearly ripe, and, at the same time bears a consider-
able deal of blossom.
basil MURDERS EXTRAORDINARY.—Everything
in Ireland appears to be killing. Irishmen are kill-
ing fellows ; Irishwomen, very devils for killing !
But what is still more curious, even a bog could not
move a little from its place without a great deal of
killing ; for it left Kill-maleacly, clroaked the road to
Kill-bride, and was finally stopped itself by the engi-
neer Kill-aly! The story of the Kern from Kill-many
going to Kill-more, is inferior to this new example.
A fire of a very singular but alarming description
was occasioned at Canewdon, on Monday last, from
the following circumstance :—A perscn, who held in
his hand a burning glass, directed a child to put a
piece of paper against a barn, upon which he brought
the sun's rays to bear in a manner which set the paper
on fire, when, that part of the barn being covered
with moss, the blaze was communicated to the thatch.
The barn and a stable adjoining were totallyconsumed.
Friday se'nnight, a young man fell from a bed-
chamber window in South Frederick-street, Dublin,
into the area. He was taken shortly afterwards to
the house of a surgeon in Dawson-street, who care-
fully examined him, and to his utter astonishment
found that no bone in his body was broken, nor even
a tooth displaced, though the side of his face was
greatly disfigured by the fall.
Wednesday, a fisherman, of the name of Howell,
advanced in years, while leaning from his bed-room
window, in George-street, Brighton, overbalanced
himself,and,falling to the ground, .vas killed on tb4poc„,
Thursday, Thomas Dyer, one of the crew
Telemachus fishing-boat of Ramsgate, lying in 'Mk.'
gate harbour, fell overboard and was drowned:
The violence of a desperate set of men in the neigh-
bourhood of Soham, in Cambridgeshire, had for a
length of time created an inconceivable sensation
Circumstances at length happily led to the detection
of the entire gang, and at the last Assizes for Cam-
bridge they were brought to trial, and all found
guilty : ten of the number were sentenced to seven
years transportation, and tke rest adjudged to receive
minor punitkments.