Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1839-09-24

panHaHd they draw very GOOD houses.
The total receipts Of these FIVE theatres for last
week was S3O,OO
VAN AMBuRaH AT PORTE .Sr. MA.rIN.-The an
nouncement that the celebrated Van Amburgh, whose
really extraordinary power over the most herce and
hitherto tameless denizens Of the forest had long
since preceded him from the banks OF the Thames,
was appear this theatre Friday night, IN the
midst of his savage familiars, was quite an event
among all ranks of sight hunters nPars, eager TO see
the man to whom the most ferocious tigers are but
crouching slaves and under whose piercing eye the
monarch Of the brute creation feels his mighty spirit
cowed and overmastered. When, however, the
crowds arrived at the doors the evening In qnes
ton oninous band across the afiiche acquainted
them that their curiosity was not to be grained Tor
that night In fact, the authorities, who probably
had been introduced TO private audience OF Mr. Van
Amburgh's friends, found reason to apprehend that,
though the best possible terms with that gentle
man himself they had yet been sufficiently long
period resident in France to have quite learned the
bsnsfances due ca Partisan public, and feared that
i'll fastened door, ortoo wide an aperture petwecn
the bars Of their cage, might have given room Tor an
intimacy between the animals and their admiring
spectators the Of agreeable to the latter.
He strikes and excites the most savage Of them by
blows, until their rage becomes terrible to witness
when at the first amicaple motion, or friendly pat
from his hand, they exhibit the tap,encss, and even
cordality, OF a favorite domestic animal. spec
tacle more curiously interesting, and at the same
time terrible, il is nearly impossible to imagine
The terror, we should state, arises wholly from the
contemplation OF the enormous strength and tre-
mendoss proportions Of most OF the animals, the
length Of whose teeth and claws made more than one
of the audience not little grateful for the cautious
vigilance Of the police, although the calm security
Of Van Amburgh and his complete command over
the animals necessarily prevents any thing like seri
alarm.
PATENT Woop PAvEMEsr.-Besides the Old Bal
ley-which IL now being paved according to this pa
tent-contracts have been entered into for paving
with wood the Strand, Piccadilly, and Berkeley
square. The experiment IN Oxford street shows that
scarcely any wear o. tear takes place, and daily use
renders IL more solid and, consequently, durable.
Among its obvious advantages may be mentioned its
simplicity in laying down, and the facility with
which repairs can be effected. II should be gener-
ally sssd here.
Parliamentary PRISrING.-It appears by a re-
turn Land before the House Of Commons that the
House has expended for printing Parliamentary pa
pers, within the last eight sessions only, no less
sum than 373,ll6i. IS. I'd.
LrraoeRApHy IN ESeLASp has laboured under the
disadvantages of competing with the WORKS al nu-
merous body Of clever engravers and OF hndng CON-
paratively few original artists sufficiently expert in
the Of the crayon, ia enable them to avail them
selves Of the facilities il offers in multiplying their
own productions. Haghe, the most accomplished and
prolific Of photographic draughtsmen, and who con-
poses on the stone, the Gaucis Scharf,
Carbonnier, dnd others who were among the first 10
adopt the art in this country foreigners also we
have now. however, the Fairbanks, Sharp, barnard,
Picker, Walton. Morton, Weld Taylor, Childs, l..
Dickinson, and many more of our own country
men, who have given. an English character to the
art by the freedom OF their style and the depth OF
color and picturesque effect, a'
The late lessee Of Drury lane Theatre, from whose
degrading control the theatre happily released
published day or two since, reply TO the state.
nent of Mr. George bins, relative 10 the heavy
amount OF rent due, fppantly touching upon the
charge by iumating that he had left in the theatre
property which had "cest him several thousand
pounds, and that the committee wonld not have
let the house to him if they could have rot an.
other Icssee--which we should presume IL true
Mr. Robins replies to the asthor Of the Bartholo-
new fair exhibition" by saying" pass by the
falsehood the vulgarty Of his notable production,
and arntent myselfby observing that the debt due
and the secretery, at the public meeting, to be ia
2iH; and as prefer their statement, l shall con-