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ASTLEY’s AMPHITHEATRE.
This beautiful summer Theatre was opened on Monday for the season, under all the favourable auspices which the celebration of the modern Saturnalia never fails to furnish. The house presented a series of light but elegant decorations, exceedingly in accordance with this period of the year; and we are happy to remark that the spirited exertions of the Proprietors were rewarded by a most overflowing audience. The principal attraction was a grand melo-dramatic spectacle, entitled, The Secret Mine: the scenery of which really reflects very considerable credit on the artists. The piece itself is by no means deficient in interest, abounding as it does with the usual accompaniments of guns and pistols, falling rocks, blue fires, and all the horrors of gunpowder. The fable is slight, but the interest is well sustained throughout.—The horsemanship which followed the melo-drame, was distinguished by every thing which is elegant or graceful in equestrianism.—The scenery of the pantomime, called Hogarth’s Apprentices, is very pretty; and the pantomime itself was hailed with reiterated acclamations, by the more sedate as well as the more juvenile part of the audience. There as an uninterrupted series of boxing-matches in the pit and
