Yesterday being the anniv...
The Times, 1824-07-20T00:00:00

Yesterday being tho annii.versary of the Corenation, was kept as an holyday at the Bank. Business was transacted at the Stock Exchange as usual. Consolsfor the accotintclosedatg2i. Ballasteros lhas arrived at Rochefort from Cadiz, ia a French frigate. We understand that Mr. Wilbertorce is wvell enough to take his daily rile; and in the opinion of his mc(lical attendant, has a fair prospect of sodn regaining his forner state of- health. DRURY-LANE THeATRE.-TlIe comnedy of Shte Stoops to Conquer was last night repre6ented, for the purpose of introducing Aliss J. Paton to the public, in the lively character of Miss Hard- castle. Her performance which was arch and pleasant, more than justified the praise whichlier preceding effbrt, as Letitia Hardy, had elicited. In her bar-maid scene with Youzng Marlow', she dis- played no inconsiderable portion of arch humour. In rallying Young Mfarlon,, 1 the agreeable rattle, who keeps it up with Lady Betty Buckskin tiU three in the morning," she made every point tell very efliectively. IMlr. Dowton's Elardcastle, and Alr. Elliston's Young Mario,, were excellent. ir. Harlev played Tonty Lumpkin. He created a good deal of laughter, but ne is not the Tony of D)r Goldsmith. He is too mercurial in hismovements, and too rapid in his utterance, to give us any competent idea of the over-fed, ale. guzzling, booby 'squire. he house was thinly attended. AnGVLL Roows.-Yesterday being the anniversary of H is Majesty's coronation, a grand masquerade, in commemoration of that event, took place at theArgyll.roomsin the evening. It was decidedly the best attended of any this season. The company were .lf0t?A=Yff='Vuati they aliooi spirit of the thing, many of them supporting their characters with considerable humnour, particularly some who arrived after the thea. tres were closed and others who came from the rival coronation fes. tival, celebratedI at Vauxhall-gardens. In addition to their own sources of amusement, others were provided by the proprietors. Besides instrumental bands, under the conduct of Mlr. Rowe, sta7- tioned in the different rooms, French vocl performera occasionally camne forward, and accompanied their voices on the guitar; whilst the celebrated Signor Cucchiani exhibited his very curious msecha. nical performances; to the no small astonishment of the m6tley circle by which he was surrounded. An excellenthot and cold supper.was served up. We observed several noblemen and gentlemen of ton in the room. VAUXIHALL-GARDENs.--Last night the Droprietors of these gardens, in honour of the patronage of His Aiajesty, comnie. morated the anniversary of the coronation by a grand fete prepared in a-style suited to the occasion. It was said there were illuminat. ced for this evening 14,500 additional lamps, and the blaze of beau- tiful and appropriate devices which glowed upon the eye in every direction seemed to confirm the statement. There was certainlv a greater-magnificence of effect from the illumination than we re- member to have seen on any former occasion during the season. The efforts of the proprietors were not confined to the additional number of lamDs, tor new attractions appeared to have been im- parted to the different entertainments for the night, the vocal and in- strumnental concerts were more numerous, and selected with atten. tion to the object of the fete. Eiss Witlsam and .Miss WVaite were particularly applauded. The fire-works were very tnagnificent, and seemed te shoot forth " As if their fires were beams of coming day." The pantomimic performances, and the other amusements in the bill of fare for the evening, went off (with considerable eclat. The juggler, and the rope dancing, the Fantoccini and the cosmoramas, tfurnished their seveTal attractions according to the respective tastes of the company; and the spectators, who, availing thecaselves of the fineness of the weatber, crowded to these gardens in unusual num- bers last night, appeared every-where to be occupied with the varied enter:ainmjents which were so amply provided for this fete. The attendance, considering the advanced period of the season, was very fashionable; the crowd was indeed excessive throughout the even. ing, but the arrangements in the gardens were so provident, that very little inconvenience was felt from the pressure. MISS ST. ANGE.-. We are requested to state that the Illiss Emily St. Ange, of Frith-stiret, at whoseinstance Alr. Thur_ low has been comraitted to prison from M1arlborough-street office, and who has been represented as belonging to the French theatre, is not at all related orknown to Alademoiselle St. Ange, the celebrated actress at the French theatre in Tottuerham-street. SWIMMING I\MATcH.-At eight o'clock on Sunday even- ing two men undertook to swim across the Serpentine and back for a wager of fo6dr sovereigns. One of them accomplished his task but the other on returning was seized with the cramp, and was unborlu nately drowned. Every assistance was kiven from the shore, but it proved ineffectual. AcvIDENT .0 < THlE THAMEs.-Yesterday afternloon, three young lads, apparently about 16 years of age, who had hired a boat for the aftemoon's excursion, met with an accident which had nearly proved fatal to the whole party. When opposite to the Peni- tentiary, some difference arose between them, and one namednJales - HarrisA, in the act of aiming a blow at his *ompanion, lost his balance and fell overboard. The other two, one his brother, rush- ing to-his assistance, over-balanced the boat, and thus all three must inevitably have perished. had not a waterman from the opposite shore pushed of' his boat to their assistance, and aided by a party in a pleasure boat; which by that time had arrived at the tpo,t he succeeded in rescuing the hatf-drowned sufierers from a watery grave.- Une of Lhem, whom we undetstand to beanapprep. tice to a lin&n-draper in Oxtbrd-street hmad sunk twice and was caught- by the hair of his head, just r,s he was sinking a third time, by a lady on board the pleasure boat, who was so overjoyed in the conscibusneassof having been the providential ineans of saving the life af afellow.creaturc, that atter ejaculating i'0 God ! I thank thee P' fainted away in thearms of h.er friends-. The:three lads WAere accoinpanied home by the waternla.n in ahacktiey.cooch.. - MUanaR- IN O,aroBaSHIasrft-Some aco6lnrt of' the murder of James TllilIar, thc gamekeeper of Wichwpod-for4st5 Ox- fordabire, under Lord Ohturcnill the ranlger; appeared in most of the papers three or four weeks ago. The unfortunate ma?~, it will be remembered,- was fiound dead in the forest on the morning of thle 15th of. June, and there was no doubt that hec had blent- to death f romn a w ou nrdi n itoh t I,ivh . th r oumrh wh ich. h hal A 1 , -passed-a wound which, 'of course deprived.him of the power of .moving to any 'distaiice for aid. Lord. Churchill and.5lr. Hyde, a; local magistrate, upoa. being informed .of the murder,. com. mei6cced. rn s9tive-inquiry, the result of which.. Wasy the appre. hension of'. tv- me'n,' of the . nfers of: James Pitterway and William:James, bat ni conclusive evidence ias at that time ob. tainedt against them, rnd they were dbicharged.. Lot'd Churchill then wvai.'tio $ir Richard 'Birnie, the. chief iiegistrate at Bow.. streebt,.keqlesting tliat an ekperlelCed offlcer. might be imipediately sent dow*sto assistin investigating 'the m:atterL S41mon was - dc- spatched to.the.Forest, and liavizig isite the6zpot where the mur- *der was iomnhittetb-. and-made iaquiries in the neighbourbood, he reconiniendided that Pitterway and Janvs shbould .be again taken up. This was doneanfldSalmon .;procured awarrnnitto search thcr hottses, wTlere were fdoand shares, adnd every kind of' apparatus of the mnost ingeniou. con8truciib6 for thejtakireg of game.' There,wai also .found a buflet..moiud. fJpbi tfLe spot whierethe body of 61iller was discover- a bulet'was found,'which'there can be no doubt.wks thje one whick passedItbrou?th his thigh; aiad this bullet exaftljyfitud& the mould found upon the premises of the prisoniers. SeVeral ex-: amination6 have taenplnac.and Salnmon cofntrived to get *ogeher a mass of evidence tending. to hipliicat- the prisoners n the crie with which they stand charged. The.final result has beeni, that the prison'rsare fully committeds fir trial for tlie murdei at tIe next Olxford assizes, and no less than IS witnesscs. are bound over to give.evidence. Lsrd Churchili anil rIlr. Hyde, aj well as Saln on, were indefatigable in their exertions.