eminent artists for the judgment and skill with which it has been executed. The stage doors are white and gold, with large gilt figures over each. The ceiling over the pit represents the sky, and is supported by four large eagles. An elegant new drop curtain, represents a distant view; the whole of the dresses, decorations, and scenery are entirely new; the latter executed by six of the most eminent artists in the kingdom. Twenty-two superb chandeliers give brilliancy to the whole, producing an inconceivable grandeur of effect.

At the rising of the curtain, Mrs. T. Dibdin presented herself, and her Address was received with enthusiastic applause. The several pieces of the house-warming or Peasant's Pic Nic, the Sicilian, and Chevy Chace, followed, and were represented by excellent performers.

"Who's the Murderer? or, a Tale of the 12th century," was produced on Monday the 15th inst.-It is taken from a true tale in the reign of one of our Henry's. The interest, which is highly wrought, chiefly depends on a superstitious custom of those days. An ordeal, which exposed the accuser and accused

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

to touch the murdered corpse, is the test by which innocence and guilt are manifested. This was exemplified in a manner awfully affecting.-In Chevy Chase," Mr. Bologna reminds us of the undaunted spirit and martial hardihood of The Douglas: Mr. Grant, as Old Kinlochie, was highly characteristic of the Scotch warrior: and the whole is historically descriptive of feudal heroism. The corps de ballet, headed by Miss Tree, Miss Smythers, Miss Simpson, Miss Hart, and Mr. Giroux, is very superior to any thing ever seen on these boards. The scenery is beautiful and classical; the dresses magnificent; and the acting good. -The improvements, as we understand, have cost the present proprietor upwards of three thousand pounds; but his liberality is rewarded in the display of select company which every evening grace his boxes.-The Dibdin family have long contributed by their talents to the entertainment of the town; and we sincerely hope that this splendid effort on the part of Mr. T. Dibdin may be honoured with that ef fectual reward which will eventually enable him to exclaim with Gil BlasInveni portum-spes et fortuna valete!

Beneath that arch with fav'ring tide,
A lonely boatman seem'd to glide,
Till in Queenhithe's pellucid quay,
Safe on his silent oars he lay,
And, trembling, to the crystal wave
His soft and secret burden gave.
"Sudden it plung'd, and slowly sank-
The calm wave rippled to the bank ;"
And all its tenfold wrappers sleep
Among those treasures of the deep
Which ruby-finger'd nymphs of Thame
From justice and excisemen claim.
*Dark Bertram from his ware-room flies,
Nor turns upon the Change his eyes:
Not thus he look'd when in his way
The precious bale from Indus lay.
'Tis said he goes to seek a lock
More sure than that which guards his
stock;

For faithless hands have stolen all
That most he priz'd- his newest shawl!
That shawl's large size 'twere vain to tell,
But look on that of Bond-street belle,
It will assist thy fancy well:
So large, so measurelessly wide,
'Twas camel's hair on ev'ry side;
Yea, camel's hair!—and should they say
That shawl was spun near Tyne or Tay,
By honour! I would answer-nay !

* This seems to be the sequel of the 24 Tradition.

And when with hyacinthine hue
It grac'd my lady's vesture new,
On her might nabobs gaze, and own
Her form deserv'd an eastern throne!
As in the ball's capacious room,
The glossy pride of Delhi's loom
From yellow camels of Cashmere,
Adorns the winter of the year;
So Beauty wraps the heart of man
(The cold as snows of Astracan)
In many a soft and tangled fold
Of mimic silk and seeming gold;
But seen too oft at rout or ball,
Woe waits the Lady and the Shawl;
For ev'ry touch that woos their stay
Will wear their brightest hues away,
Till in neglected corners thrown,
The Shawl and Lady fade unknown!

November's days have number'd nine,
And civic Chiefs are met to dine:
The foremost sheriff fills his place,
Conspicuous by his jocund face;
The rest in length'ning throng the while
Come slowly thro' the long defile.
The board a mountain-fabric bears,
While famish'd gazers croud their chairs,
And theirs shall be a feast to night
Shall tempt them till to-morrow's light!
Amidst, a turtle's vast tureen
Has shrunk before their onset keen,
And left a chasm wide and bare
For pyes that come to perish there.—
Each side the middle-dish there lay
Small scatter'd fragments of the fray
By mighty chiefs and elders riven
From fish of sea and fowls of heav'n,
For where is he that hath beheld
Their famine at a feast dispell'd?
"But who is yon, whose eager fork
Far flashes in its deadly work?
'Tis betis he-I know him now-
I know him by his shaggy brow!
I know him by his felon look,
Tho' in a citizen's peruke!
'Tis be! - well met before the ball!
The faithless friend that stole my Shawl!
He stole my shawl-the very best!
And, worse than faithless,-drown'd the
rest!"-

Dark Bertram spake-and as he said
A bottle whistled by his head.

With weapon shiver'd to the hilt,
Yet dripping with the sauce he spilt,
Still fix'd upon the sever'd joint
Which quivers on its faithful point;
His bag dislodg'd with sudden whirl,
And cleft in twain its firmest curl;
His robe in rents unnumber'd riven,
His back to earth, his feet to heaven,
Fall'n Bertram lies - his finger end
Still pointing at his faithless friend,
While o'er hin stands that friend with
brow

As bruis'd as his that bled below!

*

To cheat the softest hearts are prone, But such may cheat themselves alone;

Too timid others' wealth to grudge,
Too meek to meet or brave a judge;
But only mighty hearts can feel
The glorious pride which bids them-
STEAL:

And if an empty purse they bear,
Let those who fill their own beware!-
The keenest pangs that felons find

Are rapture to the "dreary void,
The tranquil dullness of the mind,

The waste of feelings unemploy'd !"
We pant for joys we cannot share,
Content-'tis monstrous woe to bear,
And souls in vile oblivion left
Must fly at last for ease-to theft.
For who can bear to leave behind
A gorgeous banquet, tho' he's din'd?
Who would not then demand of fate
To eat, yet not to know he ate?
The mind that broods in patient ease

Is like the bear in Norway's cave; The snows around their captive freeze, 'Till in his living grave

One sole and scant relief he draws,
By self instruction from his paws-
Thus are the meek in spirit lost
Or hid, like Norway bears, in frost.
"Think not I took thy shawl for gold-
No, Bertram, no-it is not sold-
Alas! the seller first must buy:
I only watch'd, and wish'd to try,
But could not ;-for my empty purse
Was wasted as 'tis now-or worse.
Take back thy shawl, or take my life,
I care not, if I please my wife.
She wish'd a mantle from Cashmere,
As something welcome, new, and dear:
She wish'd it then-she wish'd it still-
Her wish was stronger than my will-
Waste not thy wonderment-her tongue
Is mightier than e'er poet sung!
For then, I tell thee, Bertram, then,
I heard her yes, she talk'd again-
And I, before the morn, was seen
That beaten spouse which thou hast been!
She rag'd-I dare not tell thee how,
But look, 'tis written on my brow!
There read of woman's hand the pow'r
In traces lasting to this hour!
I cannot if I would be blest-
I want no paradise but rest!-
They tell thee in the waters roll
The bale thou hadst-the bale I stole ;
If true-if in thy civic chair
Thou mean'st to cite me to the may'r,
O spread thy mighty mandate o'er
My wife, who then will chide no more!
Or send me o'er the broadest sea-
But, friends or foes, whate'er ye be,
In mercy, send her not with me;
Or farther hence transport my soul
Than tongues can reach, or wives con-
troul!"

He scap'd-and of his name and race
Left not a token or a trace,
Save what we spinsters must not say,
Who watch'd him on his dying day;
And this is all we ever heard

Of him he robb'd, or her he fear'd.

draws;

To your lov'd parents filial, gentle, kind, Be the best hope and comfort of their mind; Observe their precepts, and obey His laws,

Go, my young friends, enjoy the breezy shore,

Where blithe Hygeia spreads her balmy store,

And gives new vigour to the infant frame;

For you may all her roseate treasures glow, For you, her life-inspiring zephyrs blow,

That fan and renovate the vital flame.

Go then, and all your harmless sports pursue;

-Yet keep this salutary truth in view; Virtue's sure boon is health of mind and heart.

Without this blessing all our joys are vain,
All our terrestrial prospects toil and pain-
Nor earth, nor seas, nor air, can happi-
ness impart.
H. G. W.

So sweet Humility in charms array'd, Retiring from the sunshine, seeks the shade,

And there diffuses odours round the scene. She blooms unmindful of her own bright charms,

And every breath of flattery alarms;

She shuns the noise and bustle of the gay, And lives secluded from their erring

CATHOLIC CLAIMS.

RIDAY, June 21.-Lord Donough

nary speech, moved a resolution, pledging the House next sessions to the consideration of the disabling statutes, with a view of affording relief to the Catholics.-Earl Bathurst, Lords Redesdale, Eldon, and Longford, opposed the motion-the Duke of Sussex, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanhope, and the Bishop of Norwich, supported it.The subject having been so frequently discussed, there was no novelty of argument. The decision was remarkable in consequence of the majority of the Lords present being in favour of the resolution, which, with the aid of proxies, was rejected only by four. The numbers were for the resolution, Contents 40, Proxies 29; total 69-Not contents 37, Proxies 36; total 73.-Majority against the motion only 4. SATURDAY, June 22.-The Royal Assent was declared by commission to the following public and private Bills:-The Irish National Debt Bill; the Madder Duties' Bill; the Irish Yeoman Cavalry Bill; the Miners' Offences Bill; the Silver Coinage Bill; the Soldiers and Sailors' Trade Bill; the Millbank Penitentiary Bill, &c. The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Montrose, and Lord Shaftesbury.

MONDAY, June 24.-Counsel were heard against the Gas Light Bill: Lords Harrowby and Lauderdale pledged themselves to oppose it in the Committee.

The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Irish Paper Bill, the Rape Seed Ball, the Sugar Bill, and South Sea Bill,

TUESDAY, June 25.-The Royal Assent was given by commission to the Naval Stores Bill, the Oil of Vitriol Accounts Bill, the Vice-Admiral Courts Bill, the Newfoundland Passage Bill, the Holyhead Harbour Bill, the Bristol Small Debts Bill, and Abdy's Divorce Bill.

WEDNESDAY, June 26.-The Roval Asent was given by commission to the Bank Capital Bill, the unclaimed Dividends Bill,

HOUSE OF

FICE TREASURER OF IRELAND'S SALARY.

MONDAY, June 17.- Mr. Ponsonby

[ONDAY, June 17.-Mr. Pousonby

House very shortly, as the reasons against the uncalled for and large salary of 3,5001, a year appeared so strong. He had already proposed to fill the blank with 2,0001, a year; and he was convinced that out of that House there were none in England who understood the matter, and nobody in Ireland

SATURDAY, June 29.-Judgment was given in three appeals.

In a Committee on the Salmon Fishery Bill, counsel were heard.-The Lord Chancellor stated, that on Monday, on the third reading, he should move some amendments, which he deemed it necessary should be made before the Bill received the sanction of their lordships.

The Elgin Marble Bill, the Hydrometer Bill, and several others, were read a third time and passed.

MONDAY, July 1.-The Royal Assent was given by commission to the following Bills:-Paper Duty Bill, Loan Charges, Irish and English Exchequers Consolidation, Irish Spirit Trade Bill, Scots Spirits Distillation Bill, English Stamp Duties, the Claremont Estate Bill, the Spirits and Beer Licences, the Silk Duties, Habeas Corpus Amendment Bill, the Tanners Regulation Bill, the Irish Spirit Licences Bill, the Cornwall Coals Bill, American Passengers Bill, the Smuggling Prevention Bill, the Elgin Marbles Bill, the Gaol Fees Abolition Bill, the Oil and Blubber Bill, Mutiny Bill, Naval Officers Half Pay Bill, the Convicts return Bill, Irish Militia Pay and Clothing Bill, the Clergy Farms Bill, the Inland Coal Trade Bill, Irish Insolvent Debtors Bill, the English Insolvent Debtors, the Small Coals Bill. Shoreham Harbour Bill, the New Street Bill, the Poor Regulation Bill, the Windsor Forest, the Vagrant's Act, Watch and Ward Bill, the Glasgow Road Bill, and several others. The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Redesdale.

surers, till the Trish parliament in 1795 instituted a board of treasury. It was now proposed to have only one vice-treasurer to do all the duties incumbent on the office. The House then divided on Mr. Ponsonby's amendment-Ayes, 100; Noes, 98; majority in favour of the amendment, 2.— When the result was announced, it was received with loud and continued cheering.

In a Committee of the whole House, the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed resolutions for granting various sums: among these were 10,2531. for the charges of the British Museum; 8001. for defraying the expense of removing the Elgin marbles from the place where they now were, and 1,7001. for erecting à temporary building to receive them. The sums of 50,000 for foreign or secret service money; 75,000. for the Caledonian canal ; and 20,000l. for making bridges and roads in the highlands of Scotland, excited from their continuauce and magnitude great opposition, and which occasioned ministers to withdraw one resolution, granting 20,0467, to the Royal Naval Assylum.

TUESDAY, June 18.-Mr. Brand presented petitions from Aberdeen and other places praying for a Reform in the representation of Parliament. The honourable member expressed himself in favour of the object of the petition, as did the Marquis of Tavistock and Mr. Bennet.-Mr. Curwen thought parliamentary reform still more necessary now, as the people might soon be called upon for fresh and great sacrifices. Mr. Brougham said the petition had his good wishes. The cause of parliamentary reform was opposed by some, was deserted by others, and betrayed by a third party, whose folly and violence were disgusting; but he could not believe them to be a large party.-Mr. Smith said he had belonged to all the societies which professed to have in view the promotion of this object, and he hoped yet to live to give a successful vote on the question.

Mr. Brougham, in moving for the production of papers respecting certain negotia tions that had been entered into with the Dey of Algiers, reprobated the conduct of Lord Exmouth, who, with a fleet under his orders, had negociated a treaty highly disgraceful to this country, as it sanctioned the ransom of captives, and stipulated the payment of an annual sum, on the part of the Neapolitan and Sardinian governments, on the promise that no more captures should be made. All states not parties to this treaty were now to be plundered without redress, and there had in consequence been an increase of depredation on the Roman and Tuscan coasts.-Sir T. Acland, Lord Cochrane, Messrs. W. Smith, and Ward, said, that an end ought to be put to these atroci. ties.

Lord Castlereagh having said that ministers shortly expected information, Mr. Brougham agreed to withdraw his motion,

SLAVE TRADE.

WEDNESDAY, June 19. Mr. Wilber force, after an affecting exordium, said, that the slave population of the West Indies had a peculiar claim to our regard. For 200 years we had brought them from their native home-we had planted them in the Western hemisphere, for the purposes of our aggrandisement and wealth-we owed them in an especial degree our protection, and there could be no difference of opinion as to the obligation imposed on us to afford it. In the associations of the planters, every thing tends to render the negro an object of degradation-his colour-bis language, an imperfect mimickry of our own, and the very habits of self abasement which slavery itself produces. Every where, except in the West Indies, they were a prolific race. There, great numbers were lost every year, from being under-fed and over-worked, From all he had heard, he entertained a high opinion of their industry and capacity. The insurrection at Barbadoes might be traced to other causes-perhaps to the managers of estates, who did not inuch conselt the feelings or comforts of the slaves as io our other colonies, and they pressed upon the rights of that degraded race with a weight which they felt intolerable. He had been charged by an hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Marryat) with fanaticism. If to profess humanity to our fellow-creatures, and to endeavour with zeal to carry into execution whatever measures lay in his power for promoting their welfare, were the hon. gentleman's definition of fanaticism, he was afraid that he was a most incurable fanatic. (Hear, hear, and a laugk.) If he really was a fanatic in the cause of the abolition, he was glad to think he was one in so good a company (hear, hear). The honourable gentleman had been a little louder, more zealous, and more abusive of late-á circumstance which he (Mr. W.) ascribed to his agency. (Cries of hear.) If all that he had heard were true, he doubted whether or not the acceptance of this appointment might not operate as an exclusion from the house, and he had once thought of bringing the matter before parliament. The hon. gentleman then moved for papers respecting the illicit importation of slaves into Jamaica; and sat down amidst laud cheering, which lasted several minutesMr. N. Pallmer submitted that it was the first duty of the legislature to quiet rather than exasperate the alarms which had taken place amongst the colonists, and with this view he should propose an amendment to the following effect:--That an address be presented to the Prince-Regent, praying that he would be pleased to issue instruetions to the governors of our West Indian islands, that they should proclaim to the slave population his highest displeasure at the late insurrection, ascribable to the false and mischievous opinion that orders had