dicious alterations have been made in the house itself since the last season, among which we would particularly notice the removal of that cumbrous projection called the sounding board, and the insertion of looking-glass into the pannels which surround the boxes. The effect of the change is to give a much lighter and more elegant appear ance to the whole; and as we could hear just as well as before the sounding board was displaced, there was nothing to counteract the increased pleasure of the eye, which is perhaps as fastidious a critic as any other of the senses.

We attended this theatre on June 17, the second night of performance, to witness the debut of a young lady as Polly in the "Beggars' Opera." The entertainment of the evening was prefaced with the introductory Extravaganza, the "Bill of Fare," which is constructed in such a way, as to exhibit nearly the whole of the company. The frame of it is simple enough. Sam Strutt, a provincial manager, advertises for actors, who are to attend him at Hoaxley's Hotel, dressed in character. Sam Stingo,an inn-keeper, makes known his want of a set of servants in precisely the same way, and with the same initials. Thus tempted, it becomes the business of one of those professed jokers, who exist for our amusement on the stage, and our annoyance off it, to direct all the applicants to the wrong S. S. What follows may be easily imagined, the broadest farce, equivoque, and confusion, to the dropping of the curtain. With respect to acting, there is but little to be said, but that little is good. Terry represented the provincial manager, who is evidently the Tate Wilkinson of Mathews,-a manager of the old full dress school, in whose mouth some pleasant quaintnesses upon actors and acting, the advantages of small over large theatres, and so on, are put with tolerable felicity. Oxberry is all

breadth in the inn-keeper; and contrives to find out, very characteristically, that play-houses are pestilential places, because they keep people out of publichouses. The rest of the humour consists in the showing off of the actors and actresses applying for engagements; in which Mrs. Chatterley becomes the "actress of all work," and displays considerable versatility; but to say the truth, that path has been worn to death, and we are becoming accordingly weary ofit. Not so the audience in general, who seemed perfectly satisfied. Upon the whole, this trifle may pass as an opening specimen of frolic; but it is scarcely worthy of a theatre, which has been peculiarly happy in these pleading, apologistical, and introductory pieces of theatrical humour, from the merry days of Foote, down to the very skirts of the now existing age of melo-drama and spectacle.

Of the "Beggars' Opera" we shall say little, except that setting aside the singing, which he leaves out, Mr. Terry is the very best Peachum we ever saw. Of the Macheath of Madame Vestris it is unnecessary to say any thing, it is so well known; it was as harmonious and spirited as ever.. The young lady who made her first appearance as Polly, possesses considerable natural requisites in respect both to person and voice; but we apprehend that considerable practice is necessary to render her adequate to Polly, in a metropolis which boasts of Miss Stephens. Still, there was quite enough displayed to evince the necessary capability, if not the positive acquirement; and as the Haymarket Theatre has never aimed, and indeed ought not to aim at the highest operatical performances, Miss Grenville is likely to prove an immediate acquisition to its boards. By the way, Mrs. Jones, although a little too plump, is a very excellent Lucy.

CONCERT. life, proceeded from her matchless vocal organ.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 20. Various clauses of the Marriage Act were passed, with amendments, moved by Lord Redesdale.

FRIDAY, JUNE 21.

The Duke of Portland moved the second reading of the bill for the relief of the Catholic Peers, and observed, that the Catholic Peers having sat in that House in the turbulent period, from the 5th of Elizabeth to the 13th of Charles II. it was impossible to suppose that any danger could arise from their sitting in the House during this more enlightened age.-Lord Colchester said, that the army and navy had now been opened to the Catholics, with benefit to the State, and he earnestly hoped, that the civil honours and employments of the Constitution should be diffused as freely amongst the Catholic as they were amongst the Protestant Dissenters; but as the present bill, he thought, would tend to revive political animosities, he moved, that the bill be read this day three months.-Lord Erskine supported the bill, and the Lord Chancellor opposed it.-Lord Grey argued in its favour, on the fact and experience of Catholic Peers having been members of the House from Henry VIII. to the 13th of Charles II. and on the grounds, that the motives of the Legislature in excluding them from the House at that period, no longer existed. -Lord Liverpool opposed the bill, and argued on the inconsistency of granting such a benefit to Catholic Peers, without extending it to Catholic Commoners.Lords Holland and Grenville supported the bill, and Lord Redesdale opposed it. For the bill, 129; against it, 179; majority against the bill, 42.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House having adjourned from Friday, May 24, to Thursday, May 30, met on Thursday the 30th, when Mr. Stuart Wortley presented a petition from the clothiers of Yorkshire, praying for the repeal of the duty on foreign wool.-Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Abercromby presented a petition, praying that the bill for altering the law for empannelling Scotch juries should pass into a law.

FRIDAY, MAY 31.

A petition was presented against altering the laws as to the number of partners in country banks, when Mr,

Grenfell exposed, that the Bank of England had within the last twenty-five years derived a profit of more than twenty-five millions, exclusive of a dividend of 7 per cent.-Mr. Ricardo observed, that it was natural for the Bank to make as large a profit as possible, but the error lay in the government's making such improvident bargains with the company. Mr. Monck observed, that the transactions between the go

vernment and the bank were similar to those between spendthrifts and usurers;

the extravagance of government compelling ministers to submit to the terms which the bank imposed.-Mr. Wynn stated that the India Company consented to the private trade to India being carried on in vessels of less than three hundred and fifty tons, but that the company objected to the opening of the China trade to private traders.-Petitions were presented, praying a protection to West India planters, by continuing the duties on the importation of East India sugars-and other petitions praying that ad valorem duties might be levied on sugar without any distinction as to their coming from the East or West Indies.-Mr. Scarlett's Poor Removal Bill was thrown out by a inajority of 88 to 66.

MONDAY, JUNE 3.

Mr. Coke presented a petition from an hundred of Norfolk, praying for a reform in parliament which would discontinue the present practice of overtaxing the country for the purpose of influencing the members of the House.

of its strength of language.-The Re-The petition was rejected on account port upon the Half-pay Annuity Scheme was voted with an amendment, proposed by Mr. Grenfell, that the commissioners of the Sinking Fund should buy the annuities from the annuity trustees. On a conversation being introduced upon the New Corn Bill, a clause was introduced for allowing the foreign corn now warehoused in this country to be ground and bonded for exportation. Proposals for raising the importation price to 75s. and for lowering it to 65s. were successively rejected.

table.-Mr. Hume stated, that in consequence of Mr. Daly withdrawing his motion, relative to Irish tithes, he should bring the measure before the House. He traced the insurrections of the Irish to the tithe system, and argued upon the immense sums withdrawn from the poor by the clergy, who never saw their parishes, but lived entirely away from Ireland. Out of 1,270 benefices, only 770 clergymen were resident on their benefices. The late Bishop of Derry was absent twenty years from Ireland. The Irish Episcopacy possessed twoelevenths of the whole property of Ireland, and possessed more than all the Bishops of the Continent put together. Spain and Portugal, the most bigotted of countries, had diminished their tithes ; France had abolished her's; and the greater part of Italy gave only 1-20th instead of a tenth to the clergy; and in Sweden and Denmark the provision was only 1-30th. He moved for an inquiry into the value of the Church pro moved an amendment, pledging the perty of Ireland. Sir John Newport House to a suppression of the tithe system.-Mr. Peel moved the previous question. For the amendment, 65; for the previous question, 72; majority, 7, FRIDAY, JUNE 21.

Mr. Wallace moved, that the Warehousing Bill be read this day three months. He stated his intention of bringing it forward next Session. One hundred thousand pounds were voted for employing the poor in Ireland.

JAS. DRUMMOND and Co. and referred to PERRY, 25, St. Swithin's-lane; and also the persons undernamed, or using the firms of

MACKENZIE and Co. 16, Walbrook,

LEWIS and Co. merchants, 42, Great Tower-street, and

J. LEARY, tailor, Fenchurch-street, are reported to this Society as improper to be proposed to be balloted for as members thereof: and that

JAMES CANT, lately mentioned, now keeps a cheesemongers shop in Cow Crossstreet ;-and

ANDREW THOMPSON, and

Mrs. BAKEWELL, both several times mentioned, now live at 169, Tooley-street,