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THEATRICALS. 



[December, 



now sufficiently acquainted with the leading southern fea- 

 tures to know where to cut through to regain the ships. 



The lady bear and her cubs paid another very short 

 visit, but, alarmed by the slamming of a door, made off 

 to the south-west. 



On the 21st, our shortest or no day, the seamen of 

 the 'Pioneer' and 'Assistance' performed 'Hamlet' and the 

 ' Scapegrace.' The performance was, as far as we could 

 hear, good : but some doubt as to the scenery, the pre- 

 ponderance of clouds at three feet above the stage, re- 

 sulting from the condensation of the breath of the audi- 

 ence, rendering the busts of the actors barely visible, 

 and thus, at all events, adding to their confidence, as no 

 blush could be detected. 



H.M.8. ASSISTANCE. *** 



UNDEB THE DISTINGUISHED PATHOHAGE OF 



CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD BELCHER, C.B. 



COMMANDER G. H. EICHARDS, the Manager (and now Sole Proprie- 

 tor) of the Queen's Arctic Theatre, has the satisfaction of acquainting 

 the Nobility and Gentry of North Cornwall and the neighbouring county 

 of Northumberland that he has just arrived from the very POLE itself, 

 accompanied by a C'OBPS DRAMATIQTJE never equalled in this or 



