enamoured. We scarcely need to add, that Miss Kelly's performances of this character (three times a week) have been received with the unanimous applause of large audiences. Mr. Charles Kemble plays the part of Romeo, and if his excellent acting of this character were not well known to the public, perhaps it would be sufficient to say that his Romeo is worthy of such a Juliet-indeed, we think he is now surpassing his for mer fame in this character.

We have also to congratulate this Theatre on the return of Mr. Macready, who made his first appear ance this season in the character of Othello. He was received with enthusiastic applause by a genteel, though not numerous audience. Mr. Charles Kemble admirably represented Cassio, and Miss Foote's Desdemona was gentle, tender, and affecting, and gave us more pleasure than we expected.

Another Debutante, from Dublin, has also graced this Theatre since our last account.-Miss Lacy made her first appearance in the character of Isabella, and during the previous part of her performance, did not, we think, exhibit those powers which she so successfully exerted during the last two scenes. Her soliloquy, after she had received the ring from Biron, was delivered with great truth of nature; and the subsequent interview with him, whom she believed to have been dead, was in a very high degree affecting. The joy at his re-appearance, swiftly fol lowed by the grief consequent on the recollection of her second marriage, was expressed with much force. Her action, her utterance,

and her countenance throughout the whole of this scene, touched the minds of her auditors most sensibly. -It was enthusiastically applauded. The scene over the dead body of Biron, and that with which the tra gedy concludes, were also finely represented. In the last two Acts, Miss Lacy displayed a mind exquisitely attuned to the tragic scene. Her feelings seem to be strongly aroused and excited. Miss Lacy has also performed the part of Mrs. Haller in The Stranger. Her per formance possessed very great merit, and disclosed traits of an acute and vigorous intellect. The little gaiety that appertains to the character was distinguished by the easy and ele gant familiarity of polished life; and the deep remorse, the incurable sorrow, of the unhappy penitent, bore the powerful impress of truth and nature. The discovery of her guilt to the Countess, and the con cluding interview with her husband, were beautifully pathetic. Her pers formance was, throughout, honoured with the most fervent applause. Miss Lacy has also performed the character of Jane Shore, and her per formance has added considerably to her theatrical reputation. She de lineated most pathetically the sor rows of the unhappy mistress of Edward. The honest passion which Gloster's proposition excites, and which calls forth a benediction on the head of Hastings, was expressed most forcibly. The whole of this scene excited fervent applause. * Mr. Charles Kemble played Hastings with much ability. His first scene with Alicia deserves the highest encomium.

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ill in the prison at Milan, and yet they refused to allow his wife to attend on him." The Countess Confalioneri was threatened with imprisonment, because she refused to inform against her husband! The lady of an advocate at Modena was confined five months, for having courageously swallowed a little piece of paper, which she thought might compromise her husband, when his house was searched for papers by the police. No man is safe who has Voltaire, Locke, or Rousseau in his library. All the Lancasterian schools are suppressed, literary institutions, schools of rhetoric, and even agri cultural societies, abolished. The funds belonging to Academies for promoting the Fine Arts are partly confiscated.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius on the 21st and 22d of October, was the most tremendous known since 1794, when the town of Torre del Greco was partly destroyed. A new crater opened; the air was darkened for days with showers of ashes; and torrents of lava, both from the old and new craters, a mile broad, poured forth upon the adjacent country, and laid waste 100 acres of land. At night, the blaze of fire from three or more cones, is described as being awfully grand, and the roaring of the mountain was tremendous. The lava set fire to and consumed a forest at Trebase. The people of all the towns adjacent were in the utmost consternation, and universally fled their habitations, taking their most valuable goods. At Naples itself, on the 25th, though the fire seemed spent, yet such was the state of the atmosphere in consequence of the wind blowing the ashes from Vesuvius, that it was dark at mid-day, and umbrellas were absolutely neces

trial, as the affair of the 7th of July is still the subject of investigation; and the Fiscal, Senor Paredos, has issued writs of arrest against all the late ministers, who are nick-named the pasteleros (the pastry-cooks.)

General Espinosa has stormed and captured the Fort of Trati, the principal post of the rebels after Urgel. Quesada, the insurgent general, has been defeated and his corps destroyed at Los Arcos. He afterwards passed the Pyrenees, an almost solitary fugitive, and as soon as he reached Bayonne, he went to the house of the Commander-in-chief of the French army of observation.

The following is the official account of the capture of Castelfollit, a strong-hold of the rebels, garrisoned by 500 men :→→→

At last, after seven days' siege, and a very obstinate resistance, Cas telfollit is, with all its forts, in the possession of the constitutional troops.

FRANCISCO ESPOZ Y MINA. "Head-quarters, Heights of Castelfollit, "Oct. 24, 3 o'clock, A.M."

The rebels attempted to recover Castelfollit, and in consequence a great battle was fought on the 26th ult. between D'Erolles and Mina, at Tora, near Castelfollit, in which the former was signally defeated. The number of the Army of the Faith is said to have amounted to 5,000 men. -The Barcelona Gazette states the battle to have cost Mina comparatively few men.

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Balaguer, another fortified post of the insurgents, has fallen into the hands of Mina, the constitutional general. The Army of the Faith marched out by one gate as the conqueror entered by another. bel regency, in consequence, has quitted Urgel, and removed to Puycerda, close to the French territory. It is supposed that Mina must have entered at Seo d'Urgel, because the families of the Marquis of Mataflorida and of the Governor of Urgel, had arrived with all their effects at Mirra, a village of Catalonia, near to the French frontiers. Alarm is at its height in the Army of the Faith, the soldiers deserting by hundreds, and the troops at Puycerda were shut up in barracks under the fear of a general desertion. In order

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"to convince foreigners of the he roic patriotism of the Spanish people," the augmentation of the army proposed by the Minister (30,000 foot, and 7,000 horse) was voted unanimously.

GREECE.Accounts from Semlin, of November 2, quote advices from Larissa of October 18th, stating that a corps of 8000 Albanians, whom Chourschid Pacha had posted in advance of Larissa, the capital of Thessaly, deserted in a body to the Greeks, and left Chourschid in such a situation, that he was obliged to abandon Larissa. The intelligence from Arta of the same date, is also favourable to the Greeks. The tribes of Albanians in that neighbourhood had declared for the cause of liberty, and when the Pacha of Arta was defeated by Prince Marocordato and shut up in Arta, they rose, and joined the Greek besiegers.

Letters from Trieste state, that a considerable corps of Grecian troops had penetrated into the southern parts of Thessaly, where they attacked and entirely defeated the Turkish army commanded by Chourschid Pacha, who, by the able conduct of the Grecian general, Bozzaris, was afterwards forced to take refuge in Macedonia.

The Turks at Athens have lately pulled down a part of the celebrated Parthenon, for the sake of the lead which is employed in the junction of the stones; and the ground is, in consequence, strewed with fragments of sculpture and architecture. What masters for Greece are those barbarians!

FRANCE.-The rumour of a war between this country and Spain, has been the cause of most ruinous fluctuations in the funds of the principal countries in Europe. The panic, however, has been dispelled by the pacific accounts of the Congress at Verona; which is at any rate too wise to enter into a crusade against Spanish liberty under present circumstances. And however the French Army of observation may appear to threaten the Spanish frontier, no hostile measures can be undertaken against Spain, without immediate personal danger to Ferdinand; and a very little political sagacity is requisite to foretel, in case of such an event, the entire removal of the Bourbons of France as well as of Spain.

A number of French and German officers have lately returned to Marseilles from the Morea. They all agree in rendering tribute to the heroism of the Greeks, but declare they were obliged to leave that peninsula from the severe privations they underwent; having frequently had nothing more than a piece of black bread and a few olives to subsist upon for several days together. They had many rencounters with the Turks, in most of which the latter evinced a considerable degree of cowardice, although better armed and equipped than their opponents. During the last few months upwards of 600 French and Germans have taken their passage from this port for the Morea; and there are now upwards of 400 Germans on their way for the same purpose, the first division of which has arrived. The necessary means for their journey are supplied by the subscriptions set on foot for assistance of the Greeks.

In the elections the Royalists have been eminently successful. M. Benjamin Constant is not re-elected, but in his place another opposition candidate, a M. Rousseau, to whom Ministers gave their aid. The department of the North, which elects eight Deputies for the Colleges of Arrondissement, and had seven Liberals in the last session, will not have one in the present. In the last session the second series had fortyfour Liberals; in the next they will not have more than a dozen. M. de la Fayette has been returned. 10

Bayonne is crowded with Spanish emigrants, who continue to arrive in great numbers, but they still consist of priests and monks, with very few men of landed property.

On the 19th November, the Tribunal of Correctional Police condemned M. Benjamin Constant to one month's imprisonment, a fine of 500 francs, and costs, for his letter in answer to the personal calumnies of M. Maugin, Procureur du Roi at Poitiers.

On the 20th, the trial of Colonel Fabvier, Colonel Deutzel, Marque (medical student) and M. Latouche, charged with an attempt to release from prison the four youths lately executed at Paris, was concluded. Colonel Deutzel admitted his intention to have liberated them, but denied any share in the execution of

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pected to take place on the 12th of October.

CHILI.-At the meeting and installation of the National Congress at Santiago on the 23d, the Supreme Director, Don Bernardo O'Higgins, attended, and formally resigned the Directorship, in a patriotic speech. The President, in behalf of the Congress, replied, and tendered the office to his Excellency, who graciously accepted it again at the hands of the Representatives of the people. During the illuminations at night, a transparency exhibited the arms of Chili, and on each side of them, portraits of the Director and Lord Cochrane. Under the latter were the words, Long live the Admiral, who left his own country to protect the liberty and independence of Chili !"

The last agricultural operations have been principally directed to getting in the seed wheat, for which the season has proved favourable. The showery weather has given a regular plant on early sown. The dibbling system generally practised, manifests, this season, a decided superiority over that of broad cast, or even that of the drill. The corn markets are somewhat better for prime samples of wheat and barley. The crop of potatoes turns out better than was looked for, from the long drought of the summer.

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turnips, particularly through Norfolk and other eastern districts, have improved so much in growth through the month as to appear a full average crop. Coleseed and other green feed are also

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equally promising in produce. Hay continues low in price from its great abundance. The grass counties abound in feed from the late serviceable rains. The wool market continues dull, except for fine Merino and Down fleeces, for which rather better prices can be obtained. Smithfield has abounded with every thing under the denomination of beef, which necessity has sent up in a half fat state. The supplies of mutton, lamb, and pig-pork have been equally large. Lean stock in beasts have fallen more than 25 per cent. within the last month or two. Store sheep are brisk in sale, and something higher from the general improvemeut in the green crops.

COTTON-The Cotton market is in a very languid state, yet there are no sellers at any reduction; the purchases in bond, 210 Surat ordinary 54., fair 5gd., good fair 6d., and very good 61d.; 50 Madras 57d. good fair; 300 Bengals 51d. fair, to 5d. good fair; good 57d., very good 61d.; and duty paid, 44 Demerara and Berbice good fair 91 d. and 9 d.; and 10 West India fair 8d.

COFFEE. The public sales of Coffee last week were considerable: the British Plantation descriptions, with the

exception of Berbice and Demerara, which were 2s. a 3s. per cwt. lower: sold freely and at rather bigher prices, the two latter have for a length of time rated much higher than the other qualities; good ordinary St. Domingo in casks and in bags sold at 94s. 6d. and 95s. 6d. in considerable parcels. Towards the close of the market last week, the accounts from Antwerp were so very favourable that St. Domingo Coffee became in great request by private con

traet.

The public sale of Coffee this forenoon, 203 bags St. Domingo, went off freely, fully 2s. per cwt. higher than last week, ordinary to good ordinary realising 95s. a 97s.

SUGAR. The low brown Sugars last week were rather pressed upon the market, and the holders were so anxious to effect sales, that prices a shade lower were submitted to; the quantity of good and fine samples offering were inconsiderable, and the previous currency was fully supported.

This forenoon the market remained heavy, and the prices of low browns must be stated at a small reduction. There are very few good Sugars on show; several of the holders have withdrawn their Sugars for the present, on account of the languid state of trade. -The deliveries from the West-India & Docks have materially fallen off, compared with the delivery of the preceding year.

CORN.-The supplies of Wheat to yesterday's market were confined to the samples by land carriage from Essex and Kent, as the late stormy weather prevented the arrivals by water; the market was, however, heavy, at a general decline of 1s. per quarter. -There were scarcely any parcels of Barley fresh in; fine qualities would have sold freely at the former currency, but the buyers were not eager to purchase, as they anticipate large arrivals when the wind changes. The purchases of Oats last week were so very extensive, that although the supplies at market yesterday were very limited, yet the trade was heavy, and rather lower. Beans were dull at the previous currency-Grey Peas were 1s. higher; in White there was no alteration Rapeseed was dull at the decline off Il. a 21. per last.-There was more demand for Linseed, and the fine descriptions were ls. a 2s. higher.

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RUM, BRANDY, and HOLLAN DS,——— Brandies are very firm, but there is no improvement in the prices,Rums are heavy, but no reduction in the currency can be stated. In Geneva there is no alteration.

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HEMP, FLAX, and TALLOW-The price of yellow candle Tallow declined last week to 37s., but there has been since a small improvement in the demand and in the currency, the market must, however, still be stated heavy; yellow candle Tallow to-day 39s. The request for Hemp has been rather limited, and purchases could be made on rather lower terms-In Flax there is no alteration.

FRUIT. The new Spanish and French Fruit went off heavily, and only a small portion was sold; the old Patrass Currants were disposed of by private contract; the butts and a few of the carroteels old Currants were sold at the prices stated. There are several arrivals of new Figs and Smyrna Fruit, and two parcels of new Denia and Valentia.

OILS.-Ths quantity of Greenland Oil taken by the extensive speculators, it is reported, has been disposed of to an eminent House at about 251-This circumstance has a favourable effect, the trade declined buying in the anticipation that the whole would be thrown upon the market; there are now buyers 261. a 271.-Seed Oils are also held with more firmness.

NAVAL STORES.-About 400 barrels of Rough Turpentine are reported to be sold at 16s.-Spirits are also lower. -In Tar, Pitch, or Rosin, there is no alteration.

TOBACCO-The brisk demand for Tobacco which we have lately noticed has subsided; the purchases for the last week are inconsiderable.