The Alcestis of Euripides...
The Times, 1824-09-27T00:00:00

. The Alcestis of Euripides is preparing at Readinig Schiool for the triennial visitationi by the Vice-Chancellor and the heads of St. Johni's aind All Souls' Colleges, Oxford, in October. Trhe Earl, and Countess Bathiurst arrivedI at WVind(sor oni Saturdlay after-noon, on a visit to the Kinig. Mr. D)rafl'cn, a Kinig's mi-essenger, was senit off' on Satur-' dlay niighit from the Colonlial-office, Downing-street,iil despatches for Aniconia. Oni Fridlay last, LordI Viscounit Palm-erstoni arrived at his seat, at. Breladlands, for thie season: his Lordship is j rist returnied from Ireland. The Paris papers were not publishedI oni Thlursday, in consequence of thait being the day appo,inted for the remioval of' the bodly of his late Majesty from) the ri'mleries to the church of St. Denis. Trhe town of Callington was all stir a-nil buistle on- Titiurs'. day wek, n exectatio 0 f tke arrival et Lorrd Bridlport, whose agens hve eenver acivethee fr sme imepas,, in opposition to te peset Mmbes,ad aso o te nw pTrOn, Alrl. Ebeisezer Sir stle Coper as,by rst,cupping, aind blisters, al- mostrecoere fro th effcts f hs acidet, and is expected in thie Borough next wcek.-[ ancet. MNr. Bidder, the D)evonshire youith, whbo was so muchi adImircd for hiis originial powers of calculation, and whio lhas been since educated at Ed inbuirgh, is appointed to a situation in the Ord- nance department, uinder Mlajor Colby, and is to accompany hima, as we are infonmed, to Ireland, on the trigonometrical survey of thiat Ikingdiom, 'I'he Frenchl papers conitain a private letter fromi M. Du- perre, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, Comm-andler of the Royal corvette La Coquiette, now on a voyage of circumniavigation, wvhich states, that aftler having visited the i'sland of Otahieite, in the Sotith Sea, fie lIadl quittedl it on the 22d of' May, 1823. Atler further navigatiRg in the spirit of his inttrucdons, tie corvetie was moored in safety at Am- boyna on the 27th of September followinig. At theilatest dateofrthe rlespatches, namely, the 14th of October last, Ooinniodore Dupterre was iiaking arrangements to visit Port Jackson, in New H4olland. Extraet from a letter of the 8th Sept., fromn Leghorn : Yesterday a vessel arrived hiere in twenty-fouir dlays from- Con- stantinople, and in nineteen from the Darda'nelles, the Captain of wtmic deposed at the office of Heallth, that the Turkish fleet hiad bieem beaten by that of the Gireeks, the very inoment it was about leaving Mlitylene for Sanmos. The Greeks with their fire-ships burned three Turkish frigates, and took two brigs of war, and the rest of the Turkish fleet was separatedI and dispersed in the environs or Mitylenle, and many, transports had experienced conisiderable da- matge ; the trool a wtmiih were on hostel htad perished. The satne captain said tritat the plague made great ravages at Constantinople. _Ptvenintg paper. TPhe ex-Emperor Iturbide paised throughi thisg towni a f'ew moniths ago Onl his route to Plymsouth, where lite embarked. Wihile hiere, he intrusred two of his female chIldren to tite Cathiolic establishment5 artjoining this town, to be edlucated in that respect- able seminiary.- Taunton paper. Accounts, by the last Swedisha mail, in a letter frotn Up- land, state, clhat a peasant girl has been imitating Prince fHohenlohec, and working miracles. Shie has, however, been cited to appear be- fore thie High Consistorial Court, in order to give an account of hier.. self. Ye-sterday morning., the Right Rev. Christophier, the Lnrd Bishop of Jamaica, preachetd Ate annuail sermion for the be. llelit of tie" Greenwich National School of Educationi anid Indus- try for (UrIe," to a numerous congregation, at thie parish church of Greenwich, when a' liberal sunm was collected in aid of the funids of the institution. T Iwo spots are at present visible on the dIisk of the Stit,. One is of cossiderable extent, anid was on Friday sitriatedi ott the northerni limib, at a dlistance of about one-third of thec sunt's dianse- ter from the edge of the limb. The othier, of inferior magntd,i oni the souithern limnb. ntd,i Thle Act ofl Parliamenit for repe2litig the Stamp Duties on law proceedings takes effect on ttie lOtti of' October next. Stamps rendlered useless may be sgnt to ttime headi Stamnp-office, anid ex - chaniged for other stamps, within six montht; from thiat dlate. Th'le -Norwvich Gratidi Musiical Festival termi-niatedI oil Sa- turdlay, by the perforismance of a gratnd selection of sacred rous,ic. An apology was made fat MAiss Carew'si hoareenes. It is suppoteed ittat thist festival bas caused an expenditure during ttie last week at Nor- Trime tolls upon the Bath ttirtripike, trust wvere oni 'atur- dlaY let by auction to Mr. Wiilliamti Pairsons, of Shawlord, near 13eekineton, for 14,1401. per annum, being an advatnce upots tite y-e. cpa oflat year of 1,'1411. ! The Bathi city tollst are to he taken b) the same lessee aLt a Droportionate advanre.-..faul flcral,?. D)ierd at Clielsea,I onl Suntday last, after a sliort illniess, whiceh brotight oni an inflamimation ot' the bowelsc, that tertuitiated hiis lif'e, Ifenry Cooper, Esq., barrister, in 'lite vigour of life, and( with the fairest prosp,ect of rising in his profession. He was fiteld in rthe highest regard by a largzecircle af friends, whio deceply regret hiis loss. We are sorry to say he has left behiindl him atlarge fainily mt'.terly ut,- provitledI for._Sunda,1l paper. C!IE-LTE'NI-IAM, Sept. 2R4.-This mornitig Mr. Alick, whio wvithi hiis wife atid tlaughiter have beeni residling, htere some tuine, went into the gardeni of the liotel where lio resimles, and dlirectedl his conch,- mian to bring the carriage roundt to tite front dloor, wic hen efell dlownl aid instantlyexpired. A surgeon immediately attended, but all as- sistance was useless, as thec vital spark liad ileca. Thte distress of his famiily is very great. The Earl amid Countess of Coventry arrivedl bere on Wetdnesday evening f'rom WVorceetershiire. Ini coniseqiuence of the recent expo,sL~ of tie nefhriorse Proceedings so miuchi time subject of conversation, numenrous applica- rionts have, it is said, been made at the Bank, bv parties htavittg: iro- perty in the fund in rime nsatmes of trustees, for an inspection of tite books, in ordler to relieve their miinds from tlite alarmn arisittg fromn the transactionsi allutded to. WVe are requested by Mr. John-lVatson, juls., the aseout oftrim St' G7eorge steamn-packet, hi1ving between Liverpocl aird Dul,- tin, to state, that the paragraph whlirit appearedt in ouir paperof Mol-n day, asserting that twensty men were washecl overboard from the above packet on Mlotiday se'nnigltt, is totallv witliout fotinda:ion, the whole of hier passengers litaving beeti landed in perfect safety, after a passag,'e of little inore than fifteen hotrirs. 'I'lhe followinig letter appears in the Brig/dlon Herald re- lative. to the afflair between the Earl of St.-r anid a Mlr. Ty-ni: "Sir,-ln a paragraph which appeared in the public papers, headed Sitngulatr Occurrence,' a misrepresentation lias taken place, whiich I am desirous of correctitig. It is stated rttat AlIr. Ty-ni professed himseclf to bring forward a person thiat was pres4ent at the time thte circumstance occurred withi the Earl of St-r, burt that lie was ulti- niate-ly unable so to dlo, now the reverse was the fart, as his Lord'. ship well knew thte onlty personsi present are sinice dtead, anid on this grounid it was that it wa-s offered to be submitted to any gen- tleman of the London clubsamltich his L-ordship might wish to iiaye niominated. This offer his Lrdship refused ; ast also to give that satisfaction whiichi, as a last alternative, was then demandled, anid was twivce repeatedoas4also fur lils ioat meeting Mfr. T. "Sept. 18, '1824. "~W. T." GoETIILr,-The following acdounit of the cause of Goethie's desertion of the Germnan theatre, in whiich lie tocdk so in- tense an interest, is extracted from a recent Toutr it G'erinalnp " For ime-arly five years he has deserted what. used to be the scene of his greatest glory. By the weight of hiii reputation and director- shiip, he had established such a despotism~ that the spectators would have deemed it treasion to-mtpptaudi befo're, oethc had given fromi his box the signal of approbation. Y'et a dlog and a woman could drive buin from the theatre andi the world. Mlost people know the French inielodramne, 7'he Porest of Bloindy, or the' Dog of St. Aebr.F~. The piece became a tenmporary favourite in Germany, as wellI as in Franc.e; for it was something new to see a mastifF' play the part of a tragic hero. An attemipt was mauie to hiave it represejited in WVei- mair. Goethe, who, after the death, of Schiller, reigned absolute monarch of thie theatre, resis(tecl the desi,~n with vehemi-ence; lie es- teemed it a profanation of' the stage, which he and-his brethrenl hadl raised to the rank of the purest in Germany, that it should bc pal'. tutedI by dumb men, noisy spectacle, and thie barkings of a mastiff, taught to pull a bell by tyig a sausage to the bell-rope. But his opoiinvwas in vaini; the pirincipal actress insisted that the piece solbeperformed ; and this lady has long possessed peculiar sources of influence over the Grand Dukte, The dog made hiis debut, and Goetlie his exit ; the latter immediately resigned the direction of the theatre, which hie has never since entered, arid took advan- tage of this good pretext to withdraw into the inore retired life wtmich he hias since lived." On Friday night, dttring the performance of Is hie Jea-' lous9 at the Englsh Oisera-house, an individual is the side boxes, in the midst of thle laughiter excited by the admiirable performance of Mfiss Kelly and WVrench, forgot to tae care of his bat, and it fell Into the pit'. The moment he perceived the serious loss which he ihad sustained, considering generosiity in that Instance to bee true policy, he called out aloud, "1I will give sixpence to anyge,stleynan who will bring-up my hat." Such, howyever, is the state of affluence to which the country has arrived, that no genitleman sought to avail himself of this silvr Oportunity, and the owner of rte hat was obliged. to go down for it himself. During the performance. of the farce of Sinepsonr and Co. a't the Liverpool Theatre, on Tuesdavy night last, a great noise phrenvailed behind the scenes; insomhuch 'that Mlr. Terrv, who was thnon the stage; as Peer Sinmpson, edesisted from re~eating that which.was "1set down for him," and called oat withi Stentorian vehemence,- SM-ae ! The auidience was astonished, few knowing the quarter froiA 'which the previous noise proceeded ; but 3Mr. Terry cari:e to thsefront of the stage, tand -'in a few words explained the cause of his inadtrtMent exclamation, riemarking n. n tbc dif- clytosay niotbhirmz'of the unpleasantes- ne hc an act.r laboared., who in the perfonmaocc of his duity to tle public was dis- tracte-d and inierrupted bystioise made behind the scenes by persons unconn,ected -with the thea-trc', whose introducetion could net, for inany reasons, he sufficiently calidenined. Three distinct roands of applauise foll1owed this appilalto the audiencet, and the farce.procceded withoat 'fur.ther Interruiption.