Astley's Amphitheatre.
inc cncci cutertaninens preuuz uuug AZI jIII:.aJuscens Df thir theatre, is a " new grand nlulitary," andso fos*h, "1 Spec- tacle," entitled. The Battle of tatcr!'oo. The a2thor is said to be i MIr. Amherst, and he is deacribedaathe author .several popMU!r pieces: nor can we wonder at his populatity; fob, coniidering tbe exploits concerning which he treats, his text is of + surptising and delightful brevitv. " Actions speak looder thanr wQrds," and a plain story is soon told. Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington severally array their forces, and in half adozers sentr:nceiinspirit the staff to a due heroic senseof the quarrel: the rest isklore by vollqs of musketry, minigledl with red and blue fires. A little 'mummerr betwixt Mefolly Maloy, " a cha,acter well known tos the 92d.regi- ment," and the soup-eating Frenth, allows thA armAes to advance from the affair of Lignv to the fight of Qastre-Bras.*iadfrom, thence, onward to the field of Waterloo. All the rest- is dobic tb tbe Ii.>;' The brave successor of the unfortunato-House of Brxenswicksblows us to our faces the very manner of hit death. -The '42d regiment boach and de~plov in a field of barlev. Tliete is 4! the adeath of Saw, the ;ife. Guardsman-the field .of' battle b mwoon.light_ Beonapatte meoralizing and taking: snu. ft'f - witS ergth.'tellinB Flemish peasant-an anmmunitio.wtaggorie orp fre, Atvgether with a most wastetal and inconvenient explosionot gurpowder; be, tbre which last, we should propose that a eu. qui pent Rag should be put out, that th1e asbhxstics- mght have i better chance to avoid sufFocation. It is celtto:describe thc total, except by saying that the newspsperabf thatbcn6rnentous pe. riod are here dramatized with episodes pickedip from miltary con- versation. The scenery is unusually grod antI the 4sruringof the forces leaves the Artillery-ground in smirablys behbd. But upon this last point, no wonder; for the play.bill inticntc' that the troops were represented by " picked Watedoo-men .''intito tlus we would add that the horses of the cavalry behiivedite as wel as if teev hba been in the fight with theif ridere. Te peculiar at- tractiun in the line of horsemaanship is the perfoimancj m Mr. Du- crow, which certainly outruns imagination. tlis-firsteDtrcould be compared to nothing but the swiftness of the widiid hiseeued as litde to need the saiddle to sunport his-feet. He is-the tnost expert gaceful, and surprising jerformer- yet i henog The whole of the entertainmenls vwentoffwith thnndp? ofa1plau5e, from a house overflowing, b-ut not actually brUhiaa*l ASTLVEY'S A -MPTHTg-- -