Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1842-08-20

looking glasses Of the clouds and planets.
LATER FROM ENaLANp-The Columbia ar.
rived at Boston on the LET inat.~~tWelfe day.
and Il half from i.iVer~pool~-brings the follow
my intelligence,
The shade Of activity which by last acronatt
had been Infused into the cotton market Was
maintained, but without any advance IN prices
The teps Of thousands out Of employment
and suffering for the common neceatariea %
life, throughout the country, more particularly
IN the manufacturing districts, seem To he ir
such a state OF inhamabiIitY that Il single
spark would enkind!e b civil war or revniu.
ton among them. The following resolution
passed ri a meeting of the Anti-Corn Law
Association in Manchester, will show the
widespread discomfort that prevails .a-
Re$olred, Ihat bcLierng his roAatry 10 b.
on The ere Of a reroAutioa, and being u1ert,
mithout hope that the legislature uiH accora
justice 10 the starring millions, a requisition be
forthwith prepared, signed and forwarded &c
The members for this borough, calling upon
them (in conjunction with other liberal mem.
bers) TO offer every opposition and impeachment
to the taxation of a PROSTATE people, for the
HtI fpsV5 Va Il "A ShN-ihSlIf- htlFiuJ1d f-Iflbi
the wheels of government may be at once ar
rested through the rejection or prevention oi
votes of supply"
The locks erected at Howley, TO connect
the Mersey and Irwin, have given way, killing
six men.
The Moscow Gazette gives the particulars
of another great fire at Bolcshne-P itaievo,
which destroyed two hundred houses, with
nearly all their contents.
FfANcE-Louis Philippe has convokcd the
French Chambers, fol the purpose, it is be-
lieved, of passing a Regency Bill, This is a
subject which is now exclusively engrossing
the public mind of France, and it is one out
OF which events of the most momentous i'm
portance will grow. All parties begin to re-
gard this question as the first trial of strength.
u 1t is gravely reported that John Smith
has turned Tyler-man. We nave heard that
John stole chickens, but VIC never expected to
hear of his disgracing himself SO far as this.
q 1t was our purpose to have called at.
tentlon to the theatre this evening, but our
friend "AAons' has fortunately relieved us
from a task for which we are unprepared, by
f~avoring us with the following admirable no.
tee. We learn from various persons that the
theatre at the market-house is well worthy
attention in these dull times and this testl-
mony is eorroberated by " Allons,'' who is in
timately acquainted with the subjects on
which he SO eloquently expands.
Communicated.
TnEArnE.-We occasionally visit the the
atre, We are surprised to see SO much merit
SO ill-requited, unless Thursday night might
be considered an exception, then indeed the
house was better, but only then in the range
Of odIous comparisons. "Oh, mend it alto
gether." Go. to the play and Judge for your
selves; don't take our word merely for it,
Although We declare that Miss G.. Chapman
lent, highly spirited, closely appropriate, a
happy instance of v~Ivacity and temperance,
ever imprisoned but "neger oserstepping the
modesty Of nature" She sings, too; we do
not pretend to be connoiseurs, but we know
when we are pleased. Sometimes by the arch
ness of her lighter airs, and sometimes af-
fected by the pathos of her melting tones,
Miss T. Chapman is not SO fully pronounced,
rather because she won't than because she
can't, Her style is unpretending, natural and
SO anliable, that we could not find 1t in our
hearts to critlc'se her even if shs deserved II.
Mrs. Hamilton has improved parts naturally
fine by discipline and experience. The gen.
tlemen are all good, each in his line. The
piece of tonight is good, and ought to have a
good house ALLoHs.