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Colonist, Issue 19, 25 December 1857, Page 2

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: THE THEATRE. PABttlciriiAß praise is due to our theatrical friends for the improved manner in they enacted The Lady of Lyons on Tuesday. The salient points of each character were well delineated, nor did the interest of the piece flag throughout, as was testified by the bursts of applause,—frequent and opportune. > The enthusiasm of Claude, the wounded pride of Pauline, the inoffensive and amusing air of the fop Glavis, and the craft of the designing and detestable JBeauseant, was excellently pourtrayed, and. in fine contrast with the manly veteran Dumas, and the sordid father and mother the Deschapelles. '■'-' :: ,' In the cottage scene we were particularly struck with [the fervour and regret with whicn Claude absolves his wife from the s contract; and in the street scene, fifth act, with the deep pathos in which he rendered these words—" Forget her ? —Yes! for Death remembers not." . , We sum up the rest in one comprehensive line, and say, the Amateurs; acquitted themselves most creditably. The termination of the fourth and fifth acts were, to pur taste, a little too noisy, we regret to say ;-but in the ardour of elocution such outbursts are sometimes inadvertent. The evening's amusement concluded with Perfection, which was substituted for A Day after ,thbjFair. We were sorry to observe the pleasure of the evening slightly interrupted by the indisposition of Miss Seymour, a circumstance to be regretted, as she succeeds in and to Perfection. The music was carried through with more than usual Spirit and variety, the house was well attended though not crowded, and we are glad to find these entertainments so well appreciated by evidently attentive audiences, G/AtJ^ioN. —On Saturday last, a respectable tradesman in this town pointed out to us a spot where some children had recently been playing with fire under a weather-boarded house! Fortunately their (to them) amusement was quickly put a stop to by the timely application of a little water, A* this season of the year, when everything around is! [so dry, and so much combustible matter which may readily be ignited, it. behoves all to be extremely cautious, and not let children obtain either fire or matches, or the result may be frightful. Tbja snows the positive necessity for pbtain-ing^anrfi-engihe,and the formation .01 a brigade to meet an "emergency, or it may b« too late. A Word to the wise is sufficient..

Law.—ln the case of Partlett v.- C&nticieerj on the West Coastj it was lately decided^ that where the defendant, the putative father of a. bastard child, had made payments to the plaintiff, the mother, for its support, and he afterwards had refused to continue, and had given distinct notice of his intention to discontinue, the further .malntenance, no action for the arrears was, nlaintainable against the defendant at the mother's suit. . : Inebriates.—On Tuesday, at the Police Office,. John Thompson, labourer, and Charles Phillips, digger, were charged with drunkenness and assaulting D. Sinclair, Esq., and were each fined :£i and costs. Marriage in High Life.—ln our list of marriages celebrated in New South Walesa there is one possessing Deculiar interest. The bridegroom is. a peer of England—the bride, we believe, a native-bom Australian. The former is the Right Honorable George Edward, Lord Audley—the latter, Emily, second daughter of 'the V late Sur-veyor-General of the colony of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, knight. The creation of the baron of Audley dates as far back as the year 1297. The present "baron is George . Edward Thicknesse-Toucnet, son of the 'Nineteenth baron, by the eldest daughter of Sir Ross Donelly, lately deceased. He was born 1817, and succeeded his father in 1837. Sir John Touchet, a distini guished soldier in the time of Edward 111., mar--ried the heiress of the barony of Audley; and Captain Philip Tliicknesse married, in.i 74 the heiress of the Touchets.. The ancient family of Audley were batons by tenure before the reign of Henry 111., butt the existing peerage dates from the earliest writ of summons. His : lordship Js seat is Sandridge Park, Wilts.r7- Australian and New Zealand Gazette. \* , . ~ -.'< -. ■;, ;v . : '_,-,- ■• ■ ■ ■.-. ■ \ ■..'.:. -,!:■' \ .! • ■''■.' '■ . If prudence cannot always prevent misfortune^: it may. do much in disappointmg itsi effects* At a conyocatioh held in Oxford, lately^ the Rev. Dr. Hume, D.C.L., and the Rev. Thomas Cowan, M.A., both of Liverpool, England, were admitted ad eundetn. . . -