Star.
London, England, 1820-02-29 00:00:00

NEW ARGYLL ROOMS.

This splendid and elegant suit of Rooms was
opened last night by the Royal Harmonic Institu-
tion with a Grand Concert, which was numerously
and fashionably attended. In the Concert Room there
could not be less than 700 persons, independently of
a numerous orchestra. This room is of striking pro-
portion, and well adapted for sound. The sides are or-
namented with six Corinthian pilasters each, one end
it occupied by the orchestra, and the other by four
rows of boxes, five in each row; the centre box, intended
for his MAIRsTY, was hung with mourning. The
Selection of Music for the evening was front the best
Masters. Mt: J. B. CRAMER gave a fine Piano-forte
Concerto of his own composition, in a style of exe-
cution worthy of his great reputation. The Vocal
department was strongly filled : Mrs. SALMON, Sig-
nora.Coa nt, Miss STEPHENS, BRAHAM, KNYVETT,
and WALSH, all took part in it. The whole of the per-
formance met with the most rapturous approbation.

LYC,

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Mr. MATHEWS last night resumed his comical
labours, and very successfully entertained a mime.'
rous and elegant audience with Something New. If
it be laughter (as some philosophers have gravely
contended), that chiefly distinguishes men from the
brute creation, the humourist we have mentioned has
done much to ennoble our nature. The whole of his
entertainment of last night was highly diverting;
many of his points were distinguished by original
Whim, and some were excellent.

The business of the evening opened with a well'
timed electioneering address, in which Mr. MA Maws
described himself to stand in the situation of a can-
didate soliciting the suffrages of hii -friends for the
third titre, and he followed this up with a string of
laughable promises, of the great things he would
do if their voices should be in his favour. This was
very well relished, and he then proceeded to amuse
his visitors with the eccentricities of his Country
Cousins, who come to town to see the sights, and
impose upon him the agreeable task of :hewing them
the lions. We cannot follow him and them through
their droll career ; but it will at once be seen that
the idea is good in itself, and, followed up as it is
with great gaiety and humour, in the varieties which
it is made to introduce, we anticipate that the pre-
sent entertainment will be little less attractive than
those which commanded such universal attention in
the two last years. The farcical nothingness of the
Scotch woman's stories is now felicitously transferred
to a Dr. Prolix, who is eminently amusing from his
manner of putting off, as original, some of the most
hackneyed Joe Miller's ; and, from the pomp with
which he goes through recitals, that off the stage
would be tiresome enough, but which here become
singularly pungent, from the circumstance of their
being transcendantly pointless. Mr. MATHEWS if
anxious not to be viewed as indulging in malignant
mimickry, and professes only to school those habits
which are acquired through negligence and affec-
tation. We accordingly recognize, in the course of
his performance, several individuals of ridiculous
celebrity, and among them the hubble-bubble of iti-
nerant orators. A. blundering French Tourist is
introduced with considerable effect ; and the trial
of Patrick Row, with the speeches of Counsel, and
the remarks of Justice Metaphor, a very sapient per-
sonage, before whom the cause is tried, was honoured
with thunders of applause. The comic songs were
so much approved, that the performer was repeat-
edly in danger of being encored, but, on reflection,
the majority of the audience opposed their own call
for the repetition of them. Some good satirical
touches occur in the course of the performance.—
The Gas Company gets a fair rub on the parsimo•
nious supply of light which they afford their cus-
tomers; and the follies and peculiarities of all classes
ate hit at in succession, front the fine lady who
starves those she has invited to her rout, down us
the humble exhibitor of the curiosities in St. Paul's
Church, and, the waiter at the Chapter.
The Third Part, or that which is the substitute for
a farce to the foregoing play, shews off the varieties
of the actor in something like a regular drama, and
Mr. MATUZWS personates the following- characters t

Alderman Bisckaback, in the Chair (surfeTted).
Tribune, his maiden Sister, at the table (studious).
Snap, one orthe Livery.
Sysor Canzoneeri, Singing Master.
Matilda Iladarback, his Pupil.
Melly Magog, a Patagonian Nurse.
Aliethissakes a Youthful Watchman.
Dicky Gaul; , a posthumous Barber.
This arduous task he performs with a degree of
rapidity and skill that is truly astonishing, and he
often takes the audience completely by surprise*
bursting upon them in a new shape, and from a new
quarter, when they feel quite certain that he has re-
mained all the time before them in some character
previously assumed. Shouts of unqualified appro-
bation requited his exertions at the end, and we be-
lieve the only complaint heard in the Theatre was
suggested by the unexpected lateness of the hour at
which the performance terminated.

We are desired to correct a statement which apa
peared in our Paper yesterday. It sliduld have been
mews. HAZARD and Co. . Xl4 5 10
Mr. CAnadta. - - - 14 5 10
And as the above parties bid the same sum they were
declared joint Contractors for the Lottery..
Saturday se'nnight, as the pupils of the Rev. J.
WARNFORD,Of Mickleham, near Dorking, Surrey,wer e
amusing themselves with the various sports of the
play-ground, an arrow, neither bolted nor barbed,
was playfully aimed at a lad, named MOSELY (only
son of a Gentleman of that name, residing at Leather.
head), and struck him below the knee : he was ob-
served to look extremely ill, and was carried into the
house, when it appeared that a nerve had been injured,
by which lock jaw was almost instantly produced,
and, notwithstanding the most eminent medical a.-
sisrance, he expired in less than 24 hours. The grief
of his parents can be better conceived than descrthed.
INTERSSUNG ANICDOTE.—When the late Duke de
BIRRI was nearly expiring, he mentioned to his wife
that he had two children born in England and one
in France, and whom he wished her to tike care of.
The moment she was removed from the body she de-
sired to see the children, and on their being brought
to her she cut off some of her h..ir, and giving .a lock
to each of them, and also one to her own little laughter, she said they were sisters and brothers, and chat
she would be their %ether. The Princess then went
to St. Cloud, and took the children with her. •

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