Spurious coin is increasing, notwithstanding that no less than one
hundred and thirty convictions have taken place during the past year.
The Vauxhall balloon ascended from Paris on Monday morning; and after a voyage of fifty minutes, was let down about twenty-five miles from Paris.
In good time we put the frequenters of the King's Theatre on their guard against the insolent attempt of a certain Frenchman, who ham come to London for the express purpose of organizing the system of elaqueurs, which has proved so offensive, and at the same time so power- ful, in Paris. Every person acquainted with theatrical life in the French capital, particularly at the Academie Royale, knows that these fellows have the means of raising or depressing the reputation of an artist, of forcing a bad piece on an unwilling audience, or of carrying through one of a very doubtful nature. They act under a chief, who taxes the treasury of the theatre, or the pocket of the performers, for his benefit and theirs ; and no artist, however distinguished his reputation may be, can venture to defy them. Sometimes they are retained by the artist who meditates a grand coup, and the next night they are hired by the management to bring down the pride of the conceited person whom they have just raised into importance ; now they are at the orders of the writer of a vaudeville, and the week after they are in the pay of his rival. In short, they have become a perfect nuisance. The public loudly complain, but it is impossible to get lid of them. 'That abominable system does this Frenchman propose to organise bete; and he has the coolness to make applications for employment to the persons who usually are interested in the management of the ha. ran Opera. He gives the theatre the preference in the first instance ; but if his terms are not acceded to, he will devote himself exclusively to the service of the performers.—Morning Post.
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