Star.
London, England, 1826-11-17 00:00:00

ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE

The admirers of comic talent ;Welcratified at end-
ing their old favourite, MATIIEWS, 44 AtHome" here
last evening with his 41 Trip to America," one of the
richest (if nut the richest) worceaus he has yet produced.
His delineatiou of character and manners is so correct

and striking, and his subjects so various and amusing,
that we know not which of them most to admire; we
are patriotic with Gexeral Jaelaws, laugh with Aoki
Tophase, and weep for poor lifensielir Mallet ; while
we follow him through his round of adventures and
description without being allowed a moment's respite
for our fatigued muscles. His droll portrait of the cool
Ameritan landlord was laughable in the extreme, and
seemed to be more than ever enjoyed by the audience.
In the course of the Lecture, Mr. MATHEWS remarked,
that it was said by some persons that he had been too
severe on our Transatlantic brethren ; but he begged to
assure them, he had endeavoured to give, and' he
trusted he had succeeded in giving, a faithful and im-
partial delineation. The House was well attended.

Wednesday a Meeting of the Inhabitants of Liver-
pool was held in the Town Mall, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the expediency of presenting
petitions to the Legisliture, for the repeal of the Corn
Laws, or their modification ; and the object of the
Meeting, after some discussion, was carried.
Monday, a young man of the name of Fres4, and of
very respectable appearance and connexions, was ex-
amined before Thos. Charles and John Bradley, Estirs.
the Bailiffs of the Borough of Cardiff, on a charge of
having forged the names of Messrs. R. I. and A. Hill,
ironmasters at that place, to a bill for 4101. 81.6 d. It ap-
pears that this young man had supplied the iron-masters
at Cardiff and Newport, with several cargoes of ore from
Whitehaven, and having received large sems in pay-
ment, it is supposed that the knowledge he acquired of
the signatures of these Gentlemen induced him to make
the attempt for whichhe is now imprisoned. On Monday,
the 6th inst. he took the bill in question to the banking
establishment of Messts.Guest, Lewis,and Co. at Cardiff,
and the signature was so well imitated. that the junior
clef k, the only one then present, did not hesitate to dis-
count it. In the course of the evening the cashier, observ-
ing something suspicious about the bill, determined upon
shewing it to the parties whose names it bore, and upon
being shewn to those Gentlemen, they immediately pro-
flounced it a forgery. A pursuit was then commenced,
and on Wednesday evening the prisoner was appre-
hended at the Dowlais Inn, near Merthyr. On being
taken, he begged to know if it was possible to compro-
mise ; said he would give up all she money he had re-
ceived for the bill if his escape will permitted; that am-
bition and good nature had been his rain ; that if the
charge was pressed he was a Stead mnd. At his very
earnest solic cation, the cashier, accompanied by another
clerk of Messrs. Guest, Lewis, and Co. crossed the coun-
try with him to Swansea, and upon his arrival there, he
requested that the object of ther visit should not be men-
tioned to the Gentleman he had sent for, a Mr. Jones, a
solicitor at that place. When he came, the prisoner told
him he had overdrawn his hawking account at Cardiff,
and was then under arrest for it, and requested he,
would immediately let him have what remained of the
money • he had sent him on Monday. Mr. Jones then
told him it had been applied in the way he had di•
rected—part of it had been'sent to pay the workmen at
a colliery at Lougher, and the remainder, a bill for
2001. had been paid into the banking-house of Messrs.,
Walters and Co. as a cover for a bill purporting to be
drawn at Birmingham, which they had discounted for
him, of and which they afterwards doubted the ge•
nuineness.—The prisoner was then brought on to Car-
diff, and on the Friday and Saturday his mind was so
agitated, that the painful examination was spared him
till the Monday morning, at which time the charge was
regularly entered into. The facts being clearly proved,
the. Magistrates immediately committed him to the
county ga 1 till next Monday, on which day further
charges will be brought forward.
• It may be necessary here to state, that ea receiving the messy
at the Bank at Cardiff, be immediately forwarded it, to Bereneell•
which accounts for his desire to go there.