The Portuguese ambassador, from Worthing, was here several days, last week. His excellency regularly attends divine service, in the Roman catholic chapel, in High-street, on Sundays.

Lady Blenfield, and lady Charlotte Denys, are at the Old Ship. Lord Leslie has left us for Portsmouth.

Scrase Dickens, esq. one of our lords of the manor, has returned to his seat, at Yapton, in this county, from Brussels and Dover. Sir W. and lady Jane Houstoun, from the continent, are also returned to their seat, Avisford, near Arundel.

The deserved estimation in which Mr. Brunton and family are held in general, and by the inhabitants of this town and district in particular, will, at once, shew the motive which induced us to extract the following account of the West London theatre, from "The British Monitor," viz:

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"West London Theatre.-This theatre (if it is not misprision of treason in the eyes of the managers of the winter establishments to notice the minor theatres) has opened for the season, under the management and direction of Mr. Brunton, formerly of Coventgarden, and who deserves the encouragement and patronage of all lovers of the drama. This we say sincerely, for our readers know that we are not to be taxed with too great a portion of Optimism, and they also know that no paid for pnff paragraphs appear in our columns.

Mr.

Brunton himself is an excellent performer, and has besides engaged a very good company, well adapted for opera, comedy, and melo-drame. But the starthe bright star of this establishment, is the fascinating Miss Brunton, who some few years back, performed for two seasons at Covent-garden, but was dismissed from that establishment for Mrs. Davison and Mrs. Chatterley. The former was once a very superior actress, but as she advances in years she cannot feel offended when we say, that Miss Brunton now takes the lead; and surely no one will compare Mrs. Chatterley to Miss Brunton.

But theatrical managers cater for the public, which they know is volage. Since Miss Brunton quitted Covent-garden we had not seen her, till last week. at her father's establishment, when she performed Lady Racket, in Three Weeks after Marriage, which they call at this theatre, "What we must all come to," in a most fascinating and elegant style-When Lady Racket invites Sir Charles to come to bed, and refuses, one cannot help feeling astonished at his refusal. Who could resist such an invitation? But we believe that there are in real life many Ladies Racket as lovely as Miss Brunton, and many a husband as morose as Sir Charles. Shame!→→ Eternal shame on the managers of our winter theatres, for not having engaged an actress, who in her line stands unrivalled."

At a late monthly meeting of our local body of commissioners, the chair was occupied by Mr. Elliott. A copy of the resolutions passed on the 20th was then demanded for the magistrates, but as the letter of requisition was addressed to T. Attree, esq. the commissioners' clerk, and not to the commissioners directly, it was not read to be proceeded npon. In the course of business, Mr. Elliott, feeling a reluctance to put the question, that the appeal, on the part of Mills, the beadle, against a conviction for neglect of duty, should be supported by the commissioners, resigned the chair to the high constable, when the question was put, and unanimously carried. The cause of Mr. Elliott's objection, as above noticed, we feel at a loss to account for, and for this reason, that the circumstances of the conviction named, involved a specific promise to the bench, that the said appeal should be made, and be, by the commissioners, upheld it would scarcely have been consistent with common propriety, therefore, if the assembled commissioners, on the above occasion, had refused to ratify the promise which had been officially made by their clerk and the reverse of any conclusive result must have followed. The schism between the two constituted authorities, both of whom we equally respect, we ardently hope and trust, is near its termination.

Fredric Cooper, esq. con

junctively with T. Attree, esq. was appointed the clerk of the commissioners, at the above meeting.

At our bench of magistrates a person named Stone, was lately amerced in the mitigated penalty of 10s. under Mr. Martins's act of parliament, for ill-treating a horse. The defendant had been in the employ of Mr. Hughes, the owner of the "Coronation" fly carriage, and who deposed, that the said Hughes, and one Haycock, had treated the poor animal in question, much more cruelly than what he had done, and, in truth, from his shewing, such actually appeared to have been the case. The time, limited by the act, ten days, for the commencement of process to ensure punishment, in the event of such barbarities, however, had expired, and which alone saved the individuals named from the extreme consequences of the law. It was particularly requested of the individuals present connected with the press, by the bench, that the affair should be made public.

On Wednesday, the workmen began boring the sand opposite the New-steyne, for the introduction of the piles for the Chain Pier, which attracted the curiosity of many who essembled on the beach to witness the operations.

Thirty-four applications were made for the establishment of new public houses in this town, at the annual licensing day, at the Old Ship, last week. The existing licenses were all renew

ed-but of the number mentioned, in addition, only nine were successful. Upon some causes of alledged misrepresentation, at the above sitting, the magistrates will again meet upon the subject, this day, Monday.

The Local Catch and Glee Club, at the Golden Cross, on Tuesday, had, by far, the most numerous attendance of the year. The celebrity which now marks this society, we are free to say, is deserved, and its regular process and judicious management, give the best promise of future success, and that its present enviable character will be permanent. Inciedon, and Gibbon, are among the most constant in attendance of its subscribing members.

We shall shortly have to notice, upon an extensive plan of elegant public accommodation, the particulars of an arrangement which is making, at the expense of some thousands of sterling currency, to establish a species of " Dandylion" here, upon a principle similar to that at Margate, but of dimensions more spacious and proportionate to our superior population. The Level and slope of the Downs to the north, is the site chosen.

On Thursday, a servant of Mr. Stead, in endeavouring to stop a runaway horse, in a gig, was

struck down, and his arm, about the elbow, badly fractured. A locked-jaw followed the accident, and the poor man expired on Friday.

A private gaming house, in a public fashionable situation here, has been forcibly entered, and stripped of its pickpocketting apparatus, by our officers of the police-but as no persons were detected at play, the Vagrant Act could not be brought into desired operation.

A fellow, a mendicant, we believe, who gave in his name George Murray, for using obscene language to females, has, under the Vagrant Act, been committed, for reforming exercise, to the tread mill, at Lewes, for one month.

To-morrow, entire desertion of the old poor house will take place, for the new and capacious establishment for paupers, the Church-down.

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On Monday last, a lad, while carrying a hod of mortar up a ladder in Regency-square, struck the implement against a putlog, and being thereby thrown from the ladder, fell to a considerable depth, and unfortunately fractured his leg. It is remarkable that most of the numerous accidents which have happened in this square, have occurred on a Monday!