A correspondent informs u...
The Times, 1824-12-16T00:00:00

A correspondent informs us, that some differences hither- to existing between the office-bearers and share-holders of the Continental Gas Comnpaniy have been adIjusted. 'I'hese differences are said to have been occasiooed by the claim of a bonus in favour of the originIal projectors of the scheme over the body of speculators by whom it wvas subsequentlv supported. '[hie present annual meeting of the Smitlhfield Club was remarkable for the cdisplay of fat oxen and Southdown sheep. The Devonshire-andl Lincolushiire brecds were in a high state of perfection. In the agricultural machinery, there was little remarkable but a sitmplification of the ma- chines for cuttinig straw. We trust that " good digestion will wait on appatite, and kealth on all" who oat this prizc beef andl muttott: but we doubt.- Oil, applied outwardly, makes man of " a cheerful countenaice :" takep inwardly, it is apt to make himn rather dingy. Yesterdlay a C'ourt of Directors wvas held at thle East Tndia House, when dhe folowing conmmanders took leave of the Court1 previous to departing for their respective destinations_-viz., Captain Mr. [H. Clsrcetue Dadrymnple, of the ship Van4Utart, antd Captain Thomas 1-faviside, of the ship Witd,sor, for Bombay a-id China. COVENT-GARDEN 1THEAT aE.-Mr. Siniclair made his lh'st appearance lbr the season at this theatre last night in the opera of Thte Cabiniet. lie was in good voice, generally, and was encore-d in several of his songs, as well as loudly grected ont his cntr~e. In the chief novelty of his performance, however, the introduction of Mloore'e " Believe me, of all those endleatrinig young charms," he was not eminently fortunate; for, though the distinctness of his enunciation gave the tvords of the poetry very preciselv, his cold uxiimpassiouicd style of singing altogether de'troyed its spirit. Rayner played t-eier, and very bad his performapce was. Aliss Paton's FlorcUta was very charmiing, borh as to actinz and singing. iUr. Duruset went thirough WtrMinsicido with a sort ot sinmlioenisli simplicity, bn't did not succeed so well as in his PqAge in Charles th e Second. Blaijchard and Mrs. Gibbs-were, as usual, very efFective in the bean. lfarqzis and the waiting-rmaid; and though the house was not so full as we have seen it on some occasions lately, the dpera seemed to give general satisfactien. It appears from a-paragraph in 'tlie Journal des Dehats, that the Dauphin of Fratica ran great risk of being killed during the last bunt in the forest of Fontainebleau. Whilt he w2as galloping al futi spged, the stag suddenly turneil and crossed him so closely, that had not his horsle mcchanically turned aside his head and S4iS neck, both he and his rider would ltave been daished to the ground and probably killed. On Friday, as a poor old nman, upwards of so years old, who travels about the coimtry ag a chair-mender, or broomdasher, was walkini alone in the dark towards Dover, near the edge of the cliff st the back of the Casile, by somid mcns be fell from the topnof the cliff (town upon the beach, a perpendicular height of '.0 or f0 feet; he u aN picked up and conv'eyed to a lodging by some of the coast blockade, and although it would seeni scarcely credible that he should escape being dashed to pieces, none of his bones were brokea, and lie is stiU alive, though tuffitringmuch from his bruises. -Keltdis GaeUtte.