ADELPHI THEATRE.-Two new ...
The Times, 1824-12-20T00:00:00

JADELPHl I1 IEATRE.ATR -rWo iew butlettas have been 7ro- diucedat this theatre lately, which nearly eacaped our notice. that ,the first should be overlooked is not very surprising; for, in sooth, it is but a 2so-n production. It is entitled The Life of an Actor rnd consists of a broad caricature of the miseries to which a wretches company of starving strollers are subjected. Amaidst an infinitude of corry attempts, there are not above two or three successful efforts 4t drolery. T be audience, bowever, seem to feel, that if a set of mnen vwill go se far as to ridiule the misfortunes of their own profes. sion for their amusement, they cannot, In mere complaisance, do less than receive the offering, although it be with a mixture of srmiles and compassion. The second piece,entitled Afore Wllanders than One, is of a very different staT.p. Through the blunders of an Irish va- Let, a suecession of the most ludicrous situations take place that can well be imagined, by which the auidience are kept in a roar from -first to last. The scene in whlch Larry gets tipsy, by makirn free with a battle of Irish whisky, which he scents out ill Mis Love.. mnore'a closet; and that in which, by having Dersonated his master In a dyingstate, he nearly procurea tbr the latter the pleasure of hav. ing .lr. Jukes's stoma.chpump forced down his throat, without knowmig wh or wherefbre, are both In the highest degree humor. ous. Air. rouer plays the Irish valet with Vreat national truth: it is decidedly the line of character to which his capabilities are pecu- lirl suited. Tlhe farce altogether is one of the pleaoantest that X have laughed'at for wome time. <>The innkeepers upon the Kentish roads have all (with one exceptions) raised the price of posting to ls. 6d. per mile. The pretext is the advance upon horse keep. The Dover road is the only one out of London that charges la. 6d. per thile. The advance of 3d. per mile ts equal to the duty paid, atid amounts to the very large surm of 3,6001. per annum, extracted from the pockets of the public travelling post upon the Dover-road.-enft fJerald.-It might be worth the consideration of the projectors of new companies to start a company for the retulation of poating: it might enrich the specula- wors and put downn rnposition. "Let us drink Lady W. L-'s health," said an En- sign, at the Guards' Club dinner the other day, when tbe reputed noble husband was present. " You have newspaper authority," said his Lordship, very indigrantly, " that It iS so; ancd now, Sir, you have mine to the contrary." Of course the fair Syren was not so toasted.-Sundqy paper. At eight o'cleck on Saturday evening,an inquest was held befora 5b r. Levis, the Coroner for the Duchy of Lanoitater, and a respectable jury, at the Plough, in Bcautort-buildings, Strand, on the body of 11 r. Robert Bowser, of Beaufort.whari, Strand, who met with his death in the following manner :-From the evidence of the witnesses who were exanmined on the occasion, it appeared that the deceased w a; a brother of Mr. Bowser, ot'the firm of Bswser and Havaley, timber-merchants, of Beaufort-.wharf, Strand, and was employedin their service. About halfpastnincon Saturdaymom. ing, while the deceased was engaged with several workmen in and near a saw-pit, on the premiscs of Messrs Bowser and Hamley, a stack of deals, 18 feet high above the level of the brink of the pit, fell on then, and the deceasedl was, uoUn being taken up, found to be quite dead. The stack of timber was about ten feet dlstant from the pit, and the workmen engaged therein escaped without any in. jury ; the other persons near the nit were, however, hurt, one of them seriously, being obliged to be led from the premises between two of the men from the adjoining wharf, who came to the spot on the accident taking place, in consequence of his legs having been se- verely braised. Thejury found a verdict of aeccldenal death. The deceased has left awlfe and three young children.