The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-03 00:00:00

JUVENILE BALI. AT THE PAVILION, Italollll.v.

The Ball at the Palace on Thursday evening, tickets of
invitation to which hid been issued the day before, the
said tickets raper...tine, that the progenies. ()like parties
invited, were- expel ted to he present at i., was of a tr..o,
spienstid I hararter ; and to enjoy the pleasures of width,
the following distingoished personages, exansice or their
blooming oft-pring, had alighted front their esrriages,
tie Pavili n, before nine o'clock, vis:—The children of the
Duke and Duchess of Redford —(their Graces were Inds&
ed in the invitation, but were absent ; a similar cause it
duces us to mention the absence of Lord Arden anti Mips
Percival)—the earl and Countess Cowper and family,
tthe Earl and Countess of Chichester and fato,',7,
the Dowager Lilly Brownlaw and family, 1,4 i
and Lady Unyder, Etc. Etc. 84... About elerea
o'clock, the liveniles of the splendid throng, nearly
an hundred in mutter, partook of. an elegant supper, an-3
lovely and interesting was the scene presentel, when with
buoyant spirits and smiling faces, they had taken the:,
sets at the table. This repast was served up in Om
tir twing room, swath of the Rotunda or Saloon.
tinted Concert Room was used as the hall room on his
resplendent ereasion, and in which the pleasures of the
graceful exercise were pursued until nearly three o'thck
yesterday morning. His Majesty never appeared in better
health, and seemed delighted with the cheerful groups
by whom he nas surrounded.—(ilriglams Herald.)

Yesterday s Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the.following Commanders took loave
of the Court, previous to departing for their respective
destinations. viz.:—Captain George Weltdead,of the lieno,4
Harris—St Helena, Bencoolen, and China; Captain Ida;
Shep►per I, Berwickshire —Bengal and Chine ; and Captain
Archibald Henry Campbell, Duke of York, fur Bombay aid
Cj ita.

Yesterday his Excellency Daron Werther, Ea, .v
traordinary and Minister Pienip itentiary of his Majegty
the King of Prussia, jointly with Mr. N. M. Rothsenild,
and accompanied by Mr. Green, Notary Public, casreiled
and deposited in the Bank of England the amaunt of
18,000/. in apecial bonds, negotiated by Mr. N. M. It in,
schild in 182'2, being the second half of the sum fistsd tar
the redemption of -bonds in the first year, and also
saving of the interest on the 17,50;1/. in special
redeemed on the Ist of July last.
The Widows' Pensions (Commis% iriat Departm-ei
which became due the 2-ith ult. ate now iu roam
p tynient.
The Head Quarters division of the 73d Regiment of In
fantry w:11 arrive at Castlebar this day.
In the last number of the Enropeanllogazine. there i.,
excellent article upon M rs. GEM ASt'n Tragedy, TheVespei
of Pat.-roan, which our readers may recollect was ca:
demur d at Covent Garden on its first night of reprel-ni
tion. The critic justly pays the highest tribute of appheh
to that excellent and l'elervedly popular wires.,
11 KELLT, and he exposes the arcane of toe thealti,
criticisms of the press,showing the disineensto a
and palpable absurdity of one weekly literary publican
which, after c ondetnning the play as inhere .tly '
beyouil all possibility of success, inconsistently att
its failure to Mi•S F.•II. KELLY'S performance Of Curate,
We fasts that in tragediis, as in philosophy, ex nihitu
fit, and Miss IC ct.t.7, with all her ori•
genius, and her exquisite delineation of natural pi
would find it difficult to cleane a cbaract •r of interest
of faliselote "nullity. But lie must have been a very nrei.
gent observer who did taut perreise, what the SEuroui
Magazine, and several of the Newspapers have so jnstly
probated—that Miss Kew,' was hissed by a party
house, upon evidently a precoocerted plan, and without'
relation whatever to her performance. The gOteral se'
of an audience may be overpowered by a ceotrivanre
this sort, but we need not say that the public till I
allow faction and iterieme to deprive them of the er.
sent of histrionic merit, and will not !offer an eseel
actress, and a young and exemplary Lady to be
victim of mere cabal. Consist• ring the vicissitudes
the mit dillieul act of a professionallafe,arearesurpi
that the gentlemen and talks of the stage do not ci
the • traria of the not nag, vs and ta ate eo eeeeee on causes}
the most dastardly an I cruel practise so freortentty resat
of forming. parties in a theatre to ruin the hart
young a pirauts to ptitilie honour,. What, for locale'
wined be the ft... Logs of bliss Loci ,or of any other aches
who, to the disgust and diffidence itiseprable frui
histrionic exertions, labours under the appalling app.•
hensions of some poll placed in the house to overtime!
her efforts by malignant interruptions anal hisses.
trust that such plots a. e never the contrivances of att..
themselves, and much leas of actresses. The emariatiiii
of professional rivalvliip, we hope, are less denionlae..l
.altliouo toe seroeuNir a young 'actress no the Dabla
Stage, who was notoriAta fur her shameful rucaracirs
of this sort.
Tur 0 as- o; THICATTIF.--411 COliSepleflee of tills eireant
tittle Thriktrr* being cloyed abruptly, and without any prr%l..,
notice, on Vrerterail ty varintirt of funiouri sre anwt
as to the cause. We hear that the facts are simply these-Ar
Ettniton, of IA/ kiln Ike present Proprietor holds the Immo
ate rent of 001. a week, not Lein; paid for Meuse of the T:ve
agreeably to the articles of the conteuct, sent on that .vo,
Ilug in' question his own money takers, demanding to he aim*,
sto receive the money at the doors for the smart of read.
The Committee, Messrs. Renne:t, Power, and Kearns, real
to permit this, ou the groonds that the netivil receipts for mi.
time pest have heel, scarcely suneleat even to cover the ft ,
cud the performers in that eiiiu wo lid be throwing twos Ova
time, their exertious, and their utilities, withwit receisior
single farthing, return, the house in euuiego. wee erns are T
sarily ciosed.
• Tticeoutt.—A correspondent or the Moaniog CI
Ni e totrects an error in the acroni tot toe present Cutr
;which.- appeared in t ott paper a few says IV). It •
stated that the C onset is the scowl predi. t d by Haller
whereat, In fact, that tnetnorable.Cuinet hat ine it period
Ift yepra tad some nronthe,- was first observed in the It
aitistirr'essivety in tie years 1591. 16,7, 11152,
amid its retain m,y be
..exlmclelAn 15,11 .1 iota
whii,4l .Ctroitiotneri niast anoioeisly look form aid. V
writer Proceed! to observe that. 66 has an opini
es to what Clew the p.reseat.very ireraarkable nos is;
.nothing- being, known yet' of its eleciente, it is hen,
neier, to skite conjecture', atllieb, if . they test, out ,
false.•asily divert thole astray who 'are in pursuit
troth, lie then sahjcins, " The present warm and tzar
anitableweather 11 attributed to the Comet, but a labor'
ezawsinktind of journals which I have made will
beii ni ont in the conjecture that the presence ti Come,
It enanented with any particular sorts of wither 1,41
ever ."
• On Tuesday ge.'nnight, lust before the Istinr of cOna:Ben'il
he play at the Exeter Theatre, a alight entptosion of gas NO.
place, but no material damage wsssQtaalotted. On exinvir,"
lion, it was found that ellaut the leaden conducting pipes. be'
nestirthellourinc of the gallery, had Steen eatro; through b 1
rauss.-and Were being no vent Or the escapist, jas, it had!,
OPOniates( so eedo ot rt. 9an Hie qn.n,ity of art(Ogen s !ii
Wing otcoutlit to it, an explosion was the nittandeoeseottem
Inv glint beam numerous marks 9t this task' teeth ; :tad
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*Oliva in search of water, it is couelaited that SS was in this iP'
smote the object of search; its ',water •pipeelpaolited it. Mr.
Ifrunten has discontinued the gas, lied will 111.futhre l eta our
-theatre witlf patent titilliMps. and * elktoadies,—..—(iomarus
Viatrier.) . ,
. PgariotaTprodit..tas.--At the last sittiorof the Manlir.
.ing Committee pf the. Mechanics'-, Institution, cols of 111
members (Mr. tar tiros) exhilsitrl a pane of i•omew•D
40M0%! 'Ones, perforated oomplesely through, and nearly
lof a eireoiar form, witiotottbe glass being,. ss it tecir
Attarrd; ke assured us it was done with
imobre; • poach, 'and banataer on ga aaril.-7(.llcehtoi's'
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• IMPORTANT LAW QUESTION:
%Sitar:reit o.Conitsiir.t.: • . •• •
This was inemetion npan a writ of equity for as suissam•
Int of dieniages,andiniolves the gotestion,whetiter swatts-
wan la liable for- the rent and other contracts-tiop_his
there alai. • •
Mr. JessorVated-the ease fair the plaintiff; the prideipal
fiefs of which *vela the following condensid stilt-entente—
'f he plaintiff is a lady residing at WalthaM:Abbey,Sied has
be in the habit-of letting out hulgiwirs.•Ori allay:named
is the declaration, a respectably attired foundecame to
like her lodgingt, foe which, she agreed's% •is weekly
rental of 3s. ; shegive her name Mary Wood. • -Shortly
r.ter her entry the defendant ease to visit her, and ;coati-
cue I so to do, end payed the first and second weeks' rent,j
amounting to 6s. Other payments were made, !seise:
coently,that reduced the balance to 51. se.; the subject ph this
action. The defendant had along time Isidore cohabited
with this female, and she bad been delivered of a child.—
'Dis showed an intercourse* bad existed ; and the plaintiff
iontended that the defendant having liquidated-the beg
ttro weeks, which was in proof, and moreover eufferell the
female to use his name—was liable to the 'arrears of rent,
Mitch, for the time site was in the house, would •amount
to considerably more titan the sum laid in'thedecla•
Winn ; kat 51. Si. • was -admitted to • be due.—
Here it Was ialliapensablf requisite that Miss
Wood should be called an evidence for the plaiptit
!pie stepped-ter ttrestrnerater hex with thegreeteet teleethweer
all sat swore. She stated that slyMeould not swear, bat the
defendant bad breakfasted there at times.
By the liaanter.—Certeinly he had slept there once or
taice—and gave witness money for payment of the rent.
The defendant considered himself wholly exonerated from
the payteentof any of Miss Wood's debts, inasmuch that be
had never given an undertaking to pay them. •
The Sheriff said it was a question of law, that rested en-
tirely for the Jury to decide upon. Ife considered as it was
proof, that the defendant had paid 'for his choice the two
first weeks. That was sulacient to render .hint liable; add
moreover the law holds a titan liable in many cases even for
taking the name, because by that he countenances her actions.
The Jury discussed the subject among themselves, and ulti-
mately held the defendant liable, by giving a verdict fur the
kmintill; it. Is. •