Star.
London, England, 1826-01-10 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

Macbeth was played last night—the part of Medea
by a Gentleman, it being his first aprearance in Lon.
don. The debutante, with.ut giving proof of veryemi-
nent abilities, deserves the praise due to ease and manli-
ness of deportment, ant general justness of conception.
The scene in which Lady Macbeth urges the murder of
Duncan was played naturally, and the final resolution
taken with a,befirting effort t. to bend up each corporeal'
:yent to the terrible feat." In the dagger scene, and
that which follows the murder of Duncan, there was no
imitation of any preceding performer, nor any undue
straining after effect. It was sensible, straight-forward
acting, not without some touches of a more elevated
character. In the banquet scene he played with force,
and went through the troublesome interview with the
witches a; well as most of his predecessors: In the last
act, the beautiful expresions of melancholy and disgust
we,e feebly g;Ttn, but the more stirring passages were
not without effect. On the whole, the effort of the new
performer was highly creditable to his intelligence and
good taste; and, without fixing his rank on the London
hoards, it establishes his claim to further opportunities
for acquiring distinction. .Miss LACY played Lady.
Macbeth with diligence and clearness.

Letters from M ••ssina of the 17th December, amongst
other information, mention the loss of the 11 bernia on
the 9th, on the coast of Calabria. The crew were
saved, but the
,ship and cargo were totally lost.
Letters received from Amsterdam, dated 6th instant,
state, that the Convulsion in the money market had
sub.ided, trade had resumed its usual channels, and the
value of money had fallen to the old standard of three
and tour per cent. per annum. During the alarm only,
two failures rif any consequence took place in Holland.
A letter has been receives' from an Officer belonging
t- the Ariel, v hick sailed from Falmouth a few months,
s'nce, lor Mexico,, under the command of Lieutenane
DILLON, which conveys the melancholy information,
that Lieutenant Dita.ota and his son were unfortunately
drowned by the upsetting of a boat. The Lieutenant
has left a widow and seven children unprovided for.
Letters from Trieste of the 22d December, are re-
ceived; they ate silent as to the affairs of Turkey and
Greece, and are confined to commercial information.
They state that for ordinary coffee there had been much
m re demand within the last few days, and that two
Austrian ships were then loading for the port of Lon-
don, the cargo of which consisted chiefly .cf Hingariaa
kenip, an article, ve believe, little known in our markets.
• The arguments on the Deccan prize cause corn•
menced yesterday, before the Lords of the Treasury,
and Mr. Hammon was heard in part, on behalf-of Sir
T. HrsLor and the Army of the Deccan. The argu-
went turned entirely on the dry legal question, whether
possession was essenti d to capture ?
We understand, that a number of the power-loom
factories in this city and neighbourhOodo are to com-
mence working at half-tine on Monday next. In the
present state of the market, this is, certainly, a very
prudential measure.—Glrogote Carrier, Jots. 7.
Two men have been perambulating the villages in
East Kent, and with unblushing'effrontery walked into
the various shops, and announced they were "sent by
authority" to alter their weights and measures to the
new standard. They soon bus;ed themselves for some
little time about the weights, &c. and then demanded
a fee of 10s. which in most instances was paid.
R. Hilton, a boy about eleven years of age, having
on Saturday week spent his week's wages at a public-
house in Stafford, was turned out of doors by his ex-
asperated father, who lives in the neighbourhood of
Lane-end, and was obliged to seek shelter and lodging
in a new unfinished building, in which he was lound on
Monday morning in a most pitiable condition, without
much sign of life. The poor lad shortly after expired,
and the Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of—" Died
by the inclemency of the weather."
The 2'2d ult. a boy named Charles Collis, aged 15,
in the employ of Stephen Whitehouse, brickmaker, was
sent to the mouth of a pit at Oldbury, near Durham,
)vel to fetch some fire. It being dark, he mis-
'y and fell down the shaft, 161 yards deep,
:cluing any material injury.
cial agencies for the new American States
ing on the Continent. We learn by letters
Akron on the Maine, that M. Gorostiza, the
Consul-General at Brussels, has appointed as
duty in the western provinces of Prussia, Mr
Becher, Director of the Rhenish West India Com.
vAherfeld, and that his appointment has. been
by the. Minister of the Interior at Berlin.
see another European Power, though fearful
a direct recognition of the indeforndence of
ilonies of Spain, tacitly securing to itself the
s'ul a setamerciAlimesFpurse With those rich
and following, in effect' lite example set b)

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