The Express. — London, England, 1857-12-26 00:00:00

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Walks, Calmos-almat ; al Satiated, Hatiachel- 1111•1 i ' ',MUM ZOPPNITOW, Oxlim4r6ssi, bear% Jr. 6.t LiTioil Fab. 5 at 11. it Ilaftliall.alisst. lkd., Co; s- lbsll, Old read.efteal ; st rig., Gramm, 0111•11 , -Anail. Zia °Mel.. Way, N Issliler, Jul. 9 at li, apt Falt. 11 st 1. at We, Backs sad lbsdked•apw aid Baskt. Nsethiasp lia°4- Ns ; ii: MEW, Sur. Oink. gni. Tomos 'tines. Millt= i tltir, ha. 9 si 12i, sod I •As 111. at II•1•, limrs. Mrs Nofbafrbullilip, Isloo;;; , IL rig.. DisbildlvinoL iloorst Term. ta1.411•4•1‘. Iberarmi, deem ha. 5aftp ! ; . 1.....4. • 7at Ili, sad PM al I, al sue. ISM '- Sod mil Co., Paliapalmat, Climpida ; off. mtg., ileasisbaketati. WaLIAS Sunorm, Sal Camoaloast, 011;/, sal Om% 1244 St. Owletierbiomma, Illna Inas Sormairna, 017 inarelmat, Jos. Pab.4l et -great. flolo., sal Oa.. Commmil War Milibly Minclarlaao off Jams Wali tatamns hil as se eh .rd , d;. 111• Ma„ ryes& laanArer, ea 1, mil Fab. 11 at Ili, at Iladmiollettera. law" Margitratiewsi, City ; mtg., Comm, Alawarsaltarg. WILLIAM BMA ar i gralt k a lt , U=4= Ma, Piaollor4 awl Maas, laarhamplis, amid Hair am Alm Diasa ; at rag., Kinasor, Nominalism. Tiara. log, Monaghan, maddso Sahlar, Jan 14. i Fab 4, at 104, at Illmighanilimit WM at Nottingham 110.....1 . 114 Salmi s Naillogbart ; of. rig., Hearin 14 Joas Porran — ThliTflarNal, 1144111sibm. lace mosallian tam. lan. 14 mil PM 4. at 144, at Sirming.ffm Som4 held at N SoL, Como, Monis.= ; rag.. Hams, J Aim Baszia., amputmllistanor, laa. I I Pa. 2. u 11, at Wad Omit. Ste.. &Man and Saa, &SW ; Thom at , ammo% &Mal as Tatum' .4 Jolla Sanaa', taandwell, assz Itaamool, minalhatams, Jas. 4 and P.O. I, 1 11 1. 11, SM., NaMonas gag flagrant, BMW ; at amig.„ liMkr, WiLti II Honorma., Ttalkoldm azalea opkoar, Jaa. 11 at 12, mil 7116.11 it 1 it Leads Court Sol, Eastwood, Tolmorik Leeds ; at naafi., Ham, Lasha. Ho .t IT MOM AuoH, Tair ia„ oortnener, Jab and Fa • . 11, Leas Osool. Mackin" Leo& ; it Y. Win Romer Tillie, dyer, as 4 111 11.. t lme l O i tt Sob., lath sad laa Law, M; ad Nod isrwfik, lava ;se rag, Tam lestAit. iSIOTOPM Tovismi nod Timm Tam" Webs- Tab&lnk arm, Jae 111 sad Isl. U. 11. st Cout Sit, ft/vet, Loa; at sag., Teem Snow Smarm, P 1.,, Yokolke, kdoilas-b.• =lf IS sad Tab. IS, OMNI Ledo Coen. Soli Took NA lag and Berwick Ludo ; mut, ZIP. lamb. ismass Lawn Dam, Limped, Alp tool" ha. 3 1, id 11, et Lhorpool Cost lab., FORIWW sad Clemdm I, sad Comer, Liwormal ; at r ag ., TOM, 86111,11 HOAR" IDWASD la WWI roa c h ,ALSI mass limion, law 6 led at foodowoll wd Co., Um pool ; 1164, ispooL JANIS Illowons C LIv doitos HOWARD, ANION, dlk orantrimon, Jim 4 owl Yob. I, at 12, al Ussobroo Cook 11164., finidl and Os., IlLoodoollokl OH mtg., Amor otir. Jaws Ilsonne,, lisloAd &kW sad Doe" Dorbriko, Wham Jaw IS obi Pa. 1, el L. at Iloadortm Comie. Akin% Ilkaridam ; Prossr, Ilium* Dian June Dam, Ishmerm sw 1 16 2 7a .ami liseummig i V : a l NAL: esseas MA Pak Tot a ta ab l asilis whart. col 11. at a I Masshirtat CUM. SAL. 'Weed seml Imam. ; it swig, l'Att. Km dram _ Wawa; Ilawasw Ihons, Bleawllt Wat/a this owl Wm J_. $ II ea Pa a* I. w N0WN14141.1180 Omewl. Saillmr wad C•.„ Dalkaaw, ma -Tam ; la silo. liwpwaripw .mriaurrozemtlivr,LlD. Da IL Cumuli 3;is - WA3II. Orilird-;;;4, Blockva, Dra l .t4. Imo; One Wawa" PAZW, Limped, gip _asses& _ Dm U. liva,s Ciaucassuann, lardrwrir, .sic . sen 9-60. Ilk IL Ilvar J. , N. Mare, Chest Bt. Er 1 : 1 . 5 08Y . 6 2 .4 Itabowir. is. is. L T 0611909181. =lisered vielembr—Ja. .Y. ler" "41 -7 . be % icsallie. *Air mon66--Jia. ILL Draw, Iloadasseer, morcer—Nb. 2. 'T. 19. !rake, WI dor modhowit N 9. J. Peerawcetb, Caber, L T. Trek 160 11,694•, Edbesdk tropor—PaL Doris, 16- 901 9= L balcher—telp. 9. It. F. Ihrlso, 11•111.016, tim ber nurniiimurs DIBBOLVID. S. Ntenseme end J. imam, Traten. Limhim emir Ws-l. J. Wogrend F. Per B•h-onsoetl, Bed- Aesennineeire—T. IL kris J. and W. P. Anita, Ciedimoyelnle Weatiietee, dein— Biker wed B. Cash ion Tillimeasl Ned WO/86/I.lfirsabirs, cotton mosulee -11111•Fil. WIWit,,W. Hoak ad W. Birk., Lonnie, id heibie, tor and Ague anninkitne, ao kr se rigida & Willebt—T.Hickeed nal& fteletc _neeeColt-otrost, Lim bers. tides—W. Beene SOIL Bin Bikeohcod. Iron koddldra—C. Chinas. end W.V. & Benter, C hold, et rtot, Beencederf, otheen—J.llbM 11 W d . h iciaolte, Itorhdald, l i lereridos, tee desion—J. U . A. litudilift, sad 0. dAoh•O, Holsartkesd Torkehne. woollen Cleth ineadootnwe—i. Deb end W. . Wheelie, am dell-strat, Winn% witilei kw blicatt tosaithinem —P. Wool sad C. Nelli Own. kolekriein•—•. I. Baton sod W. Aar, Y ctrl nen elinte—E. Bud end - T. Man pooore—Ci. Besq l . i. l% ' W. amild lr. R. itneer, end W.I. imenteee ell the al C. Tyler, We., c 4 , _111•), . NON, id A.W. sox" win iii la Inanel—T. Pod tad H. Tad, Oxford ian& aid einiteerien--& O. Lockl'edloy, entiltele—T. Bier of J. P. Aline, Old Twillegese, pa tunes--1. H. Bicknell and & W. Bak& lecotheisoken. ori Wellionbo no" end Wadi.= awl Closter, ClaniederL inenieten—W. C. BMA mil IL. • Booker, BendlieL Tillie. =for the Nab 4 aim warp— I . Avery ail J. IL 1, Cherinvems, Weenninoter, saes. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Hotrain Nangiiitou, Edinburgh, poor, Daa. 29, at Deradle ant Linea Room, Edinburgh. Jen* Drone', Obegow, kande factor, Jan. 2, at Sao Faosity Hal,_olasgarr. Joan T ut u , Coatbridge, .pint darter, Dee. 29, et the Nasky Hall, °Lwow. Taman' If nag ez.4llAlabargh, Seabee, Dia. st Cowan sad Lyca's Rocain, Idlnburgh. aI,COND-HAND PI h ANOFORTEB.--CRAMER oe , =ALS, .24 lawi a sorrow a n e=tr a tMe: bf nal allamod Wow 1110•6060. VHS DAILY t4BWS : LONDON MOWING %, i fes= l ": ll. b. " I r. 4 .lieri= :Leon led el %Vena eel miss d lb Noma ases—is ibommes. of lb •• morsomi is the wis4 mmvo nme erommold Inimmers AwmArl Is So iv. 111,Mr. ml summom madm-10 .yam M A. wi nriORIMON 1111WS ID LVI AND uir•wrws AA isidetwoly soly W of la Os hAkm km b molls. • a m mgm Owlead mod V) TUB OIL LILT M NO MOM% 41 1rISEVADI ALL OMINSITI AOIIIIIIIIIDIMIN NY Mop oMprine.awl W Immo Mos NAV an Mr cay et fil emAmsumelft I mANNOW id Oldl7 lasesaike. milmed Do • ew e= mil= em 4." F O W. . . . ....... .......- ....-_... . -. to - ce — enrond et try brad* eg eorm i llielerides ; a el r ear le ILI ear7ll7==.ll "" :=M4 w gem be weal* *I el • Merl rem limo ribber Ida. os aegleadr. *MS Se sem* ors S s male% 11s. los *Milo Pled* Ars* Pr INOOLVEIfT rrrniossai AT rwlo4 0. NlllllMScipillll4Nli la Ogielegoin‘ Toomee lill, taw-1k IL finneddie maw iiher-T. nape, Jimioneowig i d of km alb riesinis• l• Os Toner of B. 111•••=ingenni, MOW dada-a Iftinionso dog Resoway. ha nil imp adnr-0. Pim" Now liess. onlhollmi-T. Shim ft Plnairy, Sellsr-4. Onlinnhp. Whig, _Pislonsoser:Voinghlor =. ITh= l aese, ". lank Ogg .rosee, Immager-4 . Nii••norsog Ohl z - =2 411miaineeleonyn, My, Wins( albs limpor-A. J. R. Amen, ILtieniunne. Chohnostl, ineeilw-4. Ilmilmi% robes. oam. In% eha=_ . higeher-0. Wlnlig 011ineweb L ili. City, wean IL Pieslyike, oft, 01401 OIMINFOMOSti likessabam mine--I. Meshing, Irldieshgel mid. lingoi vilosiller-fi.Jallef, Ifsenese. Ong Cessainig-igneg, met leilir--0. Wset, lisemorksy, gresod i• • siesioni C Zt .: C ai lborr es4 Lieseleser-iiik behor-J. row, piekis hesho-C, llinielsrs, ag., lirenewi nv inesog Isdifierbsni• b litioona. TeinsirOinsig beilier-J. i = l. rpm* sob driver-11 Weil, regg rille"& j:iniguna lliPat arlig-T. Middles% Skew Illiliihke:=• i imhig ork.s-J. Deana, Kinofilm& rad, ma ihoisr7...lhosiga, O C Mi e DVDS. Ha/Illy hvs, lllihnosm, IMO" —Lt gOrMooll se lb. 75., ow W et Whitmore; Barns Ist dividend at la dd., Dee. 30, eaterriat Wedarday, at Iderwaeo, LirepteE CIMILEIS TIO? Jrna ma, thwarter. art Cannon-alvell Peat, City, mew maim, rwatertare—lie dividend adl u tz. 12, and any earicart Toothy, at Fowl% 111 Jar W mow, Morrao, Crank', niattatacdring athwar— t.' dividrd ot 2a. I Id., Jaa. 12, sad any enteeraer Saw day, at Friers, Marin...ter. ISAAC AM 10111/1 KIRA SAID?, CSAISIS, alisseriene—lat divideed et ne., Dr. 26. sad any eabseprat /.terry, et Baker's, Newcastle. aim-Tyne. DIVIDENDS. Jas. 72. W. floe, Bisbonagainntreet Without. City, eta- Negro race. We may, as a nation of shopkeepers, doser—Jea. 19. C. Branprtn, Greenwich and Deneßmi, sometimes think too much of the sale of cotton, but Kest, gower—Jaa. 18. J. Cannel, Gatterlana, Ctty, cut. if we do not set so high a value on glory se our n e i g h- Stung owebooonses---Jaa. IS. E. Whits, NVW Cora Bs then"... Wwit•lotte; Stratford, Foam and Glob. wham, bourn, we have at all events the fortitude to e n d ure wrote eon towhees —Jsa. IS. C. Devon, Crosby-row, the inconvenience' of dear sugar without attempting W worth-root. sad Q4llllll . 4butiellsgs. ltalshtabrkise, pro vince merthaat—Jaa. 16. T. Na.l4,JBs,Orpat 1,1‘,...1t to cheapen it at the expense of Africa, or by the sacri- Soutliwsek, trum maker—Jas. 16. 1. Wltsught, thiebey flee of morality. Ilistb, Herd...l6lrue, borodrapnr—.lsa. 11. H. Carter, Worthros, Sanwa, teller--Jen, M. J. a r .b y , y ee .b eii . No recent act of the QCEE4'3 Government will walk, Lembeth, buildor—Jaa. IS. I. Lovelock and T. For- receive more general approbation than that of sending eser. Dwyer-lull, City. GM Ileemeirm, Seevey, indai ni kt., . . .Or i IVINUSTONZ out in • suitable steamer, properly mrsuiciasore—J... IL J. Cons Ombra Norflk tailor • ' —Jen. It T. Seraborme, Frillerstesot, Clisesside, ware- equipped, to explore the Zambesi river. It is shire houssesem—Jso. 16. J. F. Gawk Mewl* spathe... 7— One to his long e spent' nee of the interior et Southern Jr. 111. J. B. Tomo Leonine* Pomeesey•lsmi. City, ebio inewar--Jas. 16. O. i•Mdkn Cam KA mar ft...ouch, Africa — to his arduous and painful journey s f rom th e 14 ."*. ...• ...WU griaaat 815 . 20 . 1 - Blau , , T.Oner. Bechuana country to Luanda on the went coast, and Devesokb*, Wilder. CZETIIICAT ES le b granted, nalem COMO to shows to from Loanda across the continent to Gl:Ullmane on Ys conduey ea tilt dey of momitio. the east coast—to his remarkable influence over the h.' 15 . 3 . at Bhultaet H 4 aßthaat Cm" — native mind wherever he went, to his knowledge of Jr. 16. T. Dey, DOA, Km; Metuallew—Jaa.l6. J. M.Vaa Winkle. Poultry, City. omen keoper—Jan. 16. 8. Freud, native languages, to his eminently practical habits frGene* Wettore-trea, Boblbeilea. botlare—Jas. 15 . F. B of observation, to his sensible views of the connexion '*".. 2.. Alesan Q' Tar, butid lrlens at ikmn ond, Pka. Cosbrral lialad" l, P".— broicar— jaa. between commerce and Christianity, that the scr nim. 1.5. T. Tayhor. Blaelibimk, Lao 'mem—Jan. 16. vices of such a man in this great field of enterprise Wine, Ilish-wreet, Nebo, cent weercbsat—Jsa. 16. s h ou ld b e continued. It has been assigned to Dr. et:use sad T. R. Hamm listemnemreisi, and Thiele, etadordabire. lanky rsakent—Jsn. 16. J. Faith. Camkb4 LIVIIItMTOSZ to discover a great internal water, to toed. Wtiterad. *tonne* welvbeat—. l la. 1 3 . 3 . erase a great continent for the first time, to conciliate filtrawl, victualer—Jon 16. W. Hardlog, Lewisham Mersey Knit, bailer—J.. IS. J. Stamm, IP. tribes hitherto unknown and unheard of, to find in stem, St. Georgola-therliast, ewe chemiller— J.. the centre of Africa a healthful and salubrious ell. "1ab."... B".""l"bmbim•lhvkU ' a" m ate , and to 1 the descent of agreat seat —Jas. Is . 3. Words, Cosdalt-stasol, Herover.equare, "Bw — Js. 13 . B. &Wel, Inzekla-kas, Combat, mining river to the sea. We hesitate to give our aunt to IMO of the more sanguine entiaipatione Dr 7 rillnfOorons has formed, bat no ow can appe als sod esteem more highly the heroism of the MD Or the sueoess of the 'traveller. And if Dr. LIVINGSTONE has achieved these great results as an unaided simple missionary, how much more is he likely to accomplish at the head of an expedition carrying with it the authority, the influence, and the power of the British Government, everywhere re eognised in Africa as the friend of its inhabitants P The contrast between the African policy of the English and French Governments is not more striking than the contrast between the Western and Eastern Coasts of Africa. At the present time our entire trade with the Western Coast of Africa, in clusive of gold and the ground nuts we carry to France and Germany, may fairly be estimated at four millions sterling a year. Our commerce with the Eastern Coast of Africa, exclusive of our own pee immions to the extreme *oath, is considerably leis than 20,0001. a year. Probably that of Portugal, with its own settlements on the Eastern Coast, is larger than our commerce ; but it does not admit of a doubt that the whole trade of this coast is utterly insignificant as compared with the great and profit able commerce of the Western Coast of Africa. For this remarkable inferiority and difference there are many reasons. Amongst them is, however, a power fal one of which there is sow every reason to expect the removal. The Portuguese have long been settled at, and have long claimed sovereignty over, the points of the coat most favourable for com merce between Delages Bay and Caps Delagdo. Thence they at one time carried on an im mense Blare trade with Brazil, and during its con ' tinuance they excluded, by every pos►ible means, all foreign legitimate trade. The African Slave trade having, however, entirely ceased in Brazil, this policy of jealousy and isolation has become hurtful, instead of beneficial, to the Portuguese settlements. But of late the Government of the young King of POITCOAL has had the sense to lee that if its Atli ' can pemmican, now almost the only relic of its Smarr tessuaarine greatness, are again to become of value and importance, it must be by enoontuginll lawful and not illicit commerce. The consequence is a complete change in the African policy of Per , tugal. On the West Coast, Loanda has ceased to bee, scourge and a misfortune to the interior; it is no longer a depot for the slave hunts and wan of the tribes of Central Africa. Al Dr. LIVINGSTONE Jour ; nsyed eastward from Loanda, he found many evi , deuces that the Portuguese had betaken themselves , to cultivation, and were becoming collectors of pro : dace, not of men ; and throughout his remarks on the Portuguese pessamiess he pays only a jest tri bute to the altered views and objects of the Portu guese authorities. On the East Coast, Portugal has in the same spirit already made Mosarabique a free port, and opened it to the gage of all nations ; and one important malt of Dr. Livrieo ; cross's past discoveries and present expedition may reasonably be expected to be the application of the same policy to Quilimane, the Portuguese , mouth of the Zambesi river, which be is about to j ascend. The extent to which Portugal claims—or the authority on which she rests her pretensions to— the sovereignty of the Zambesi river is not known. But as it is by English enterprise that the muss and capabilities of the river have been brought prominently under the consider►tion of Europe, and as it will be at the cost of the English nation that the problem of its navigability by steam will be solved, it is obviously the duty of the British ' Government to come to some understanding on this subject with the Cabinet of Lisbon. The Portuguese have three settlements along the lower banks of the Zambesi—Mataro, Bens, and Tete, the last at which, Dr. Ltrinoseows sap, "hue been the sal- " vation of Portuguese power in this quarter," boa! the strength, such as it is, of the fort. By means of it the Portuguese have been able to main tain themselves against the wars which the attempts of their ancestors to depopulate the sur rounding country in order to supply Brasil with labour, brought upon them ; and the Zambesi being broad and deep from Tete downwards, thus far the Portuguese have preserved a free acmes into the interior. Beyond Tete, however, that freedom of access is supposed to be barred by rapids in the river. The chief difficulties of the Zambesi are relieved to be I at its mouths end at the rapids, neither of which has Dr. LIVINGSTONE yet examined; and the obstacles offered by them will be the chief problems to he solved by the present expedition. Should they be found not to be great or insurmountable,the Zambesi will be an easy and an inexpensive route into an in. termting—though not the principal or most impor. tant—distriet of Central Africa; and by its agency— men setting aside those visions of great ostton, sager, and coffee production, in which we do not participate —a very considerable commerce may be established, and many useful missionary settlements be founded. Hitherto the Slave Trade hal separated the interior from the cost; but now that the Slave Trade has ceased, it may be possible to convert the Zambesi to the ems for which nature intended it. The facility with which Dr. Lineations travelled is the more central regions, the invariable hospitality and friend ship he met with, the constant invitations he had from every village he entered to trade, indicate a desire for intercourse and commerce which encou rage the happiest anticipations, if we only leave them to take a natural course, and do not attempt to force them into unknown and operose channel,. But concurrently with Dr. LIVINGSTONE'S expedi tion some general and common policy ought to be adopted by the English and Portuguese Govern ments to utilise in every way that is possible the further discoveries which Dr. LIVINGSTONE may make. The interest which his Majesty Dom Psoso V. takes in the expedition which will leave England next month ought to make this a comparatively light and easy task. But unhappily there still are powerful Slave Trading interests in Portugal which desire to keep English commerce out of the African settlements and rivers of that country. On the whole, however, the present is a propitious time for coming to an arrangement; and Lord CLARENDON could not better indicate t h e importance which Eng- land attributes to the expedition confided to Dr. Ltvitroexonx, or to his appearance in the 'Zambesi river as the representative of the British Govern- ment, than by entering into some definite relations with Portugal for the purpose of opening up Central Africa by its means to the commerce and civilisation of Europe. DEATH OF TILL COUNTESS (DOWAGEI NELSON.— We regret to leant the Counter Praise Naar dkd soddenly at Paris on Tuesday last. The dammed coantra, Mud, one third daughter of the We Roar-Admire' 81r Robert Barlow, K.C.8., and was widow of 26,. Ulric Barlow, when she marled, sacredly, 28th ?l e l= 1829 Wallow lira Earl Nara, only surviv i ng brother of i the mmortal hero of Tisfalriat. Horatio Relent, she berg that aohieraa's owed wi de. After the death of Reel Nelson, Is F 111311, the cruder monied, thirdly, 7th FelonFelonry, , Mr. Gawp T. Knight, who survives her ry, Tao Ray. Mi. Citii.—Mr. Caird was inducted tale the New Park Chid yesterday (Thundery). The Dr. WTeggart perelead std prealdad on the occasion. to the Wigan Ur rang vaishase r sal the Prerytery of OW , Sow were enterodeid by the muggers of tho church to din ar la the Corporation Hafl. Nr. Coird will be iutrodred I to his near congregare oa flarlsy by the Rwer. Norman Macleod of the Barasy.—Okapee Daily Mail. TEE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER'' 26, 1857. gbe QLourte WINDSOR, Daa. The Prince of Leiningen arrived yesterday on a vials, sad dined with bat Majesty in the evening. Prints Alfred arrived from Alverbank, ettaided by Lieutenant Cowell, R.E. _ . The Queen end Prince Coehart, the niece of Wales, the Primers Royal, Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, Princess Bekaa, ths Duchess of Kent, and the Prince of Letningen, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household attended Divine Service this morning in the private chapel. The lion. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor performed the Service, sad administered the Holy Sacrament. The band of the Royal Horse Guards wee in attedanos during the royal dinner party in the Cutts yesterday, and performed the Overture, " Lodoiaka," Duet, " Vepree Mediums" Verdi. Quadrille, " Juno" Descriptive Fantasia, " Ocean Voyage" Bohme. °elope, " Malakoff " Lamont. Her Majesty's private band afterwards played in the drawing-room Overture, " Le Philtre " Lieder otute Warta Meodelaeohn. Selections, " Rigoletto " Bolero, " Fanehannette " Meetings of the Cambridge University Cocendesionare were had on Tuesday, the 22nd , Wedineeday, the itihd and Thursday, the 24th, et 6, Addphl•teeeoe. Tim Cour miselonere geesent were—The Bishop of Cheater, Lord Stanley. M.P., the Right Bcm. gir Lawrence Peel, the Right Hoe. M. T. Baines, M.P., the Dun of Ely, and the Rev. Dr. Venghan. The Zeit of Berlin publishes the arrangements decided on, relative to the journey home of Prince Fredric William of Prussia end the Primer Royal of England miter their marriage. Their royal hightteeme will emirs& at London on the 2nd February, on hosed the royal watt, for Antwerp, and will pans the 3rd at the Court of 'transit. They will sleep on the 4th at Cologne, on the 6th at Magdebearg, and will reach Potsdam on the 6th. They wm May at Hanover a few hours. From Potsdam they will proceed to the Chateau of Charlottenbourg whew. they will make their solemn entry into Berlin on the Bth. His Excellency Ferukh Khan and suite left Cla ridge's Hotel yesterday morning, in open carriages, foe Sidearm, where bin Racenary visited the Crystal Palama The Duke and Dachas, of Sutherland have a large Melly cads 'rambled at Trentham for the Chrirna• holi days. Aram the company staying with the noble duke and dacha. are the Duke end Duchess of Argyll, the Marquia sad Marchioness of Stafford, the Earl of Carliala, the Bari sad Lady Constance Grosvenor, and Lords Albert and Eceald Larson Garr. The Doke and Duchess of Richmond have a select family &de at the deal mat, Goodwood, Sum:, where the newel pieties of the use will be prolonged until alter Twelfth Night. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are entertaining a badly thole et Hadratnton. Th;Dake of Rutland's party at Belvoir Cutle, Licestenblis, is mined to the members of the family. The Marquis of Lansdowne has a namerous party emanated at Bowood Path, Who, where the greatest hospitality will reign during the festive 1101•112 . The Earl and Countess of insalburne and family, Count and Countess de Flahault and Hon. His. Rip/instate Flahault, sad Hon J. K. and Lady Louisa Howard are staying with the vener able marquis, who will receive a snooession of visitors and the 7th pavzhno. _ _ The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury an riesiviag company at Baraaake Lodi% arr Marlbaralk.. . The Earl and Countess of Derby have a family drab sammbied st Knowsley Pork, sear Liverpool. The Earl and Counter of Westmoreland are passim the holidays at Aptborps, Northamptonahire, sur rounded by a ssisrt circle of Means sad friends. . The laxl and Counter Cawdor are entertaining • family circle at their seat In Wales. The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere and Viscount sad Viscountess Emlyn are of the circle. The Earl and Countess of Harrowby's party at Beradoa Hall, Statbralttre, is milked to a family obeli. The Earl and Comatose of Hardwieke have a *het party et Wiutpole Hail, Clusbrklgeibire. The Earl and Countess of Abergavenny are at Birlbur Kano; Kest, eurtounded by a largo Emily circle. The boapitalition el the wax will be kept up than alter Ike "good old English" custom, nail attar We 6th maim°. The Earl and Countses of Stanhope have a party net at Chersitick Park, mar tieveaoaka, for the Christmas holidays. _ _ Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley are surrounded by s Isms family dxN al A Worley Park, Cboabire. The Right Hoe. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood have also a nozooroas family circle at likklotoa Hall, Tortola». The Right Hon. Sir Francis and Lady Arabella Isitsg have a said party at Stratton Park, Rasta, fur tho holidays. The Right Hon. W. E. and Mn. Gladstone and a select puiy hare congregated at Halyard= Castle, Er Stephen Olynne's seat Ia Flintehire, but owing to the recent demise of a much lamented member at the fatally, the cus tomary beepitalities will this year be dispensed with. Lieutenant-Colonel James, R.E., Superintendent of the Ordnance Surrey, has bean appointed Director of the Coaeolidated Topographical Department of the War-olloe, which is to include the topographical branch of the Quer _ termaeter-Generare-othoe, none Guards, the Ordosnes Surrey, end the topographical daps< established by the Duke of Newcastle in the War Department.—Prew. The meetings of scientific societies during the leaning week ars:—Monday—lsatitute of Actuaries, 7. " On the Vella of We Annuities yielding a gloss Rate of Interest, the Capital to reproduce the Purchase Mosey being invested at another Rate," by Mr. Wilholt. Friday— Ardis°logical Institute, 4. Saturday—Aslatic., 2. A new fortnightly European illustrated Art- Revise is announced for the beginning of the year in Paris. The title will he GISMO dos Burr Arts, Courtin Zemke"; its I' Art it dr to Obtrierite. The distinguishing characteristic will he a special est correspondence ben all parte of Europe. The Jerrold " In Memoriam" in sufficient to secure an annuity, we (Mon "'god Loans News) are told, of 1201. a year for Mrs. Jenvld and her unearned daughter, and the survivor of the two. A work of interest to every man of English blood la In the press, sad will be shortly (*eye the Atlio seem) given to the public under the unction of 81r John Romilly. TMe is a catalogue (compiled by Mr. T. Dodo Hardy, of the Record•oftice) of all existing materials toe the History of England from the earliest time to the final dose of the wars of the noses on the accession of Henry the Eig hth — the point at s hick modern history bogies. The Illustrated London News states that the Aides of the We Mr. Crater ere very numerous, "full of mysteries of state, and matters of moment in politics and literature." When the public is likely to see say portion of these memoirs left in MS. Mr. Crabtree executors have not yet decided : . . _ M. Louis Blane's appeal against the Marquis of Normanby will not—the Leader says—be a mere refutation, but a disclosure of history as Illustrated by t h e " Year of Revolution." M. Louie Blanc tells of hie visit to the pri mmer of Ham in '4l, and of his relations with that dialin guiehed foreigner in London. After the events of Jena, 1843, If. Louie Blear, proscribed and chased oat of Frazee, stayed a shc rt time at an hotel in Jermyn-street. The very Bret visit of condolence from his friends was one from the Fremont Emperor of the French, who burst into the room—to my he walked would &truly describe hie generous fervour— and, embracing the expatriated member of the Provisional Government, exclaimed, " Ah, lea mitirablee I ila von. oat peoserit I " M. Louis Blanc will publish, it appears, for the fret time, a variety of similar reridnimencee. A Lubeck letter of the 22nd says :—" Commercial teeseactions here ere still in a state of complete prostration. The conditions on which the Bank of Prussia is to advanoe 1300,000 Rulers to the town are not settled, but it is hoped that the transaction will be speedily armagol." SACRED HARMONIC S. OCIETT.-llsydn's Creation will be produced on Friday, the Bth Jeatwry, when Mr. Sims Reeves makes his Brat appearance this mem We (Athenoum) understand that some of the foreign singer, who went in " the AV to America, with the hopes of gleaning a golden harvest there, kegs shandy returned—public music having hem virtually Ilibuied by the " sashes•' on every aids of beak sad 1,11111601111111, end miscalatord odke. eb, expreoo. oftelloarisit loluedel km . TY Ispree,. Melba limbs Sut be se tbs Oen. Mi. flowafirease. by TessOWS . a ir.' lip git pelilmeilm. ivon ... •=n%/ 1 1700 3 11 . —Mi Mao* COMM• ponsmOm_■ESOP NO 11/T Whom INS WOOD; aro , Da OMMI ?Wm,. N 11 m 1• 11•Mo, • and O. Ii• loimo, ram WOM—Omoom •O T. PllllO2llBl. Tins Enmirk TIM COLMAN tltol7ll/[.—Vis armed amide passrems, Inaba MAZISQIII3 W MTN 041?; at, tie PTISIA• 110whe Ree.read low POI dolmethin. Mama Ogimaik, Heim aril Pun.: 30. C. &ha" We Kw Tom —Opoi pa I 110111111 IT. Tres ivmei N. THIIIIONITNOOS. limn.MOW awl wi g Mum N. Ebro* rd Warw.—AM PUMAS Mal; :C . oft Gore sail J.N. Maas alk•Of • WA. *Mem sal Mad ; Wilimoss.—corroweri blevis HIGH WATS" AT WIDOW BILIDOII. Too Dar—Mamma, IL Aftemals. 1116 T•Neeray— Yoram I 4 N.........411mre5.1eh. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26 WEIL! the French Government are engaged in pwchasing Negroes on the West Coast of Africa. and reviving—in violation of the solitary clause in the Treaty of 1846, which still subsists—the African Slave Trade, the English Government have resolved to send Dr. LivivOSTONS on a voyage of discovery up the river Zambesi, on the East Court. This, however, is not the only expedition England has at present on hand to add to the world's geo- graphical knowledge of Central Africa, to expiate the navigation of its great arterial rivers, to form re lations with cartage tribes to Africa, to excite them to habits of systematic industry, to develop the re marete el the canary, and to pave the way far Cavities Minims, which Dr. LIIINOSTONZ shows are always meet successful when preceded by trade. Dr. BLAIR= is now ascending the QUOTTI4 penetrat ing ►y its waters into the heart and mysteries of Negri:stand, attempting to conciliate the Pelletal', whose remarkable progress southward tram the Senegal is the most remarkable femur. of the modern history of Africa, and binding by treaties and engage ments all the tribes on the borders of the main and tribatary streams to abandon that Slave Trade which Imperial Fraace has lately taken to. In North Africa, too, German travellers, in the employment of the British Government, have ranged through whole circuits of native states previously unknown, examined and studied their organisation, mustered their politics and relations with each other, followed their wan and slave-hunts, ascertained their commercial capabilities, assured them of the interest England takes in their welfare and happiness, abated somewhat, let us trust, them fanatical Marisalmsn prejudices which rage strongest on the Northern aheive of the Mediterranean and the interior con nected therewith, and have exhibited that " touch of Nature" which " makes the whole world kin." These efforts of England to components for the wrongs Christendom has inflicted on Africa, and to bring that continent within the influences of modem European society, stand in marked contrast with the resolution of the French Government, and the proceedings of its agents, to renew the desolation and perpetuate the misery of the CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS. LYCEUM. Mindful of the old proverb which warns us to " Take Sim• by the forelock," the Lyceum manager has this year commenced it. Christmas season on Christmas Eve, instead of as usual waiting for the close of the time honoured " Boxing-day," when the pockets of all our young folks sr traditionally supposed to be so many little Califor rilse, welting only to be explored by the enterprising theatri cal geologints of the great metropolis. An innovation in so pars a matter involves a grave responsibility, and may peseikly be attended with serious results. For, suppose that. instead of attending to the projection of the great culinary alchemy of the year, our thrifty housewives should, by the Raul blandishments of the eductive Mr. Charles Dillon and his brother managers, be induced to neglect the preparation of the Christmas turkey, or, more awful still, of the Christina& pudding, the conse quences would be aa much beyond any mortal powers of speculations& is the penalty Incurrci by • refractory member of parliament when the speaker is aa • last resource obliged to " name him" to the house. If we were @eked what would probably become of our fair friends under such extraordinary circumstances, we could only reply with the late Mr. Man ner. Sutton, when questioned se to the probable fate of a "named" member, " Heaven only knows." But whatever may lavish.= the result an regarded yesterday's beating, the dbet on the Lyceum treasury on Thursday evening was of the moot encouraging possible character, as the house was crammed from floor to ceiling, while the ruddy complexlma el the juvenile audience showed that they were princi pally visitors from the country fresh for • London treat. Them was another Innovation in which Mr. Brunet was the eulprit—and he is an old sinner in the same way—end that was the appropriation of one of the most beautiful poems in our language to the purposes of pantomime and burlesque. It may be fair, but it certainly is cruel, thus mercilessly to topple down our literary household gods, and mix up with our reminiscence. of the graceful and the ideal those images of absurdity, however fumy, setting as it were the lyre of Apollo to playing "Pop goes the yowl." That Mr. Slough does his work well—better than any of his contemporaries, except the veteran Pleaded, who, by the way, never Imbued farther within the sowed pm dads than the territory of Madam D'Aillnere—is only an aggravation of his alma. Were he • mere clammy Wein darer, dull a. well as Merafilli, he would only excite our indignation, and our mind-world would female intact ; but he is intolerably smart, vigorous, ad clever, has as many puns in his repertoire as Abulcsaern, of Baaeora, had sequins In his inexhaustible bide, and codes us laugh at his beck, in spite of our cou nt:ben* our recollirctiona, and our notions of the dignity of the bays. Is It not too bed, for instance, that our beautiful Lalla ltookh, to whom every one who can appreciate female loveliness hem vowed a lifelong devotion, should be made to do duty as a Columbine in the shell, and, borrowing her prosody from Mra. Clamp, to my she "judgm a Peri, by speriences," to dance • spasmodic manourke, end to pun reddesely upon a chest of tea ? Again, Fadl•deen, our own Failledam, the model of a diplomatist and courtier, with all the flame of a Palmerston, and the placid gravity of an Aberdeen, to be realised to our physical Mica by Mr. Calluiem, in a turban of about nine feet in diameter, and wearing • gigantic crinoline bstened under his armpits Fenimore, too, sometimes It in true a little prosy, but always unexceptionably sentimental, has he not a hard fate In being trandormed into • wandering minstrel, like him of Beulah Bps, the only redeeming cimumatanoe being hie permation hydra. Alfred Mellon, who could not be ungr•odel or ab surd, tithe tried? But the public like it; and so, having thus protested, we mast submit, and proceed to detail how he this Me has executed his clover sacrilege. Lelia Raab ; er, Me hitless, sad Ms Peri, opens with& vast expanse of &lightens • before which the banished Peri mourns in spangled muslin for her well-known repulsion from Paradise. She es:cents her griefs in a shower of distracted pun., which maks the audience laugh, while the is absorbed in grief, and then the smoke disperser, and she sees as in • vision " A discreet Peri Prince's," surrounded by fair immortals, who rate her In Mr Brongh's most vigorous doggrel for her many faults and transgressions, at the same time indicate the campaign of repentance through which she must win her way back to Paradise. She loves a mortal, Fenimore; she must give him up. Its I. beloved by Lelia Rookh. She must contrive their union. Lally Soak is threatened with persecution by filar lambed, "not found in the poem," • ilerworehipeer ; and she must counteract all his =stigmata machi nations. All this she undertakes to do, but with a few wry faces ; and then the burlesque begins to move. We have Lila Rookh to her boudoir, murmur ing fa couplets of ingenious rhythm her wish to he married, and Forearm making himself particularly agreeable with his poetry and guitar. Rae Fadladeen enters, disturbs the lovers, sad the sore changes to the court of Aurungesbe, whets embeasies from Cashman and " far Cathay " tender presents and matrimonial proposal to the capricious or tether preoccupied Princess. One sovereign eke infuses became she hears he mokee, the envoy of an other admits that his meter goes beyond sherbet in his pote ncies, and from a third, no clear undemanding can be de tailed as to whether he can dispense with a latch key. Under these circumstances there occurs what Mr. Dlar•eli would eall a complication, and as a "cloths the great King sends his daughter on a country excursion Into the Khyber Pam, or something exceedingly like our deocriptiono of that plea sant locality. Fadladeen watches over the Princes., and Fermiers furtively makes love to her under his very now, while the incidents of the journey give opportunity for the splendours of the spectacle. Khmer:died and his Ghebers are continuity on the track of the travellers, leer ratty planning imprimis, but as immanently frustrated by the banished immortal, who is area the right Peri la the right place, and ultimately guides the whole party in safety to the happy gardens of her Queen. Here an erlairrisseswitt Oakes place Feramore the Minstrel becomes Fere:more the King, marries Lalla Rookh, and forthwith transfers hi. mantle to Mr. Tom Matthew., who shows himself worthy of It by singing " Hot Codlins" with more than his usual pathos sad expression. The remaining trandonnations then take place, and the piece Sabha with the ordinary old-fashioned, noisy, catgut-scraping, perpetually dancing herlegeinade. Mr. Brough's jokes give place to those of the carpenter, and the whitom sententious Fadladeen is content to tumble by proxy as Pantaloon. If we were to east the horoscope of the piece hum the in dications afforded by its reception on the first night's repre sentation, we should augur for it a lengthened end triumphant success. The puns rattled off in an noessaing fusillade, and were all received by the audience with the merriest tokens of acceptance. The majority of them were really good, and of the rest the tuteees wee so positively stroctous as to mute even more laughter than the others. The dialogue never flagged for • moment, end therefore there was no time nor inclination to be hypereritkel on any particular portions. The intention wt' to make the medium merry at Cheist meatide, and the ever mewed peals of laughter showed that the author had achieved a reel sums. And bin mirth inspirations were well caught op by the reformat., who never allowed one " paper pellet of the brain" to miss fire, while in the maw of two of the adore additional pungency wee frequently given by the what manner of delivery. The two most prominent charaMers were filled by 1t,,. Alfred Mellon (Mite Woolgur), as Feramora and Mr. Took, as Khorsembed. Of the first it is sufficient fore London public to learn that she fully sustained her reputation both ea a minstrel and a prince, it being hard to my in which capacity she looked or acted best. Mr. Toole imparted en amount of comic ferocity to the interpolated cha racter of Khorstunbad,which made it one of the great feature of the piece. His misanthropic longings for an opportunity of doing " something diabolical," and his severance to his captors that them would be no nee in pardoning him, as he should be just se bad on the following night, were inimi table in their way, and indicated his rapid rise in a branch of the mimetic art which he may be said to have made his own. People already begin to dem comparisons between this young setae and Robson, and that alone is something ; but their styles us essentially different, although both tend ing to produce the same result, i. s. continuous laughter and succomito bursts of applause from their respective publics. Mrs. Charlm Dillon made a graceful L 44 Rooth ; and Mr.. Buckingham White, a dashing leader of the fire worship pers. Mr. Calbeem wee pompons enough, bat hard, ea Fadladeen, end of the remaining &Arleta* the meet notice able were the banished Pen of Kiss Eliza Webb, t irbeftnefe of fair promise, and the "Discreet Princess" of Mies Marta Tetuan. The latter lady had little to do, bat looked bewitch ing— a task which nature enabled her to petlorm entirely to the 'Minimalist of the audience. Of the scenery and appointments., which in pions 103 L.U. Rookh form one of the mein attractions, too much can hardly be said hi praise of thew gorgeousness and general effect, Mr. Fenton, it is true, cannot paint a fairy tableau with the groin and eabanstiess fancy of Beverley ; nor • rural leadsceps with the rieh tints end teeneparent •too► panne of Cation; tan in the production of eel scene' of taw. dun Oriental window' he stands at the head of theatrics' artiste, and may, In his achievement of this year, fairly sot competidon at defence. His triumph on Thursday Pistu wee the great sore of the transformation, which, in spits ,f the bitches inseparohls from a fat public working, threw tk a endience into a perfect paroxysm of delight and Msg. ration. At fest it displayed the golden aloons of the Pees pekoe, which, gradually opening in the mums introduced by Madams Violets in her gorgeous butlesiv ia, disclosed long rows of the fair guardians of the pekoe stud. hag winged and rootionlese on hundreds of glittering podee tale. Then, when the audience were nearly exhausted sp. clouding this effect, another expansion of the scene folloset, laying bare the whole breadth and depth of the stage. En o , mons lustre' of dazzling crystal, blaring with light, d e . scemded from the roof, and all round ran row upon row of shining " dregs drcles," corniced with the same gin. toting material, and crowded with the Peri ae and resplendent as gold and silver, pink and asare, downs and feathers, and their own good looks could make them. The illuminated glue filled n o eye with a perfect sea of prismatic colour, and it was h. bowing under a zones of visual intoxication that the audiosn made the house ring again with succeseive bursts of Appian.. The artist and manager ware at the end of this some both celled before the curtain, and received the warmest [elicita. dons of the house. Of the harlequinade that followed, it not be necessary to say much. The piece would have hen complete without it, and its elect was only to produce s mom of incongruity and tedium. The children had too little of the clown and the tumbling, and the elders too lunch, and so it may be said of the newly-invented fusion of burlesque and pantomime, that however " great in its separate end. lances," It is not ptomaine, even If " wonderful in its comfit. Wien." STRAND. This theatre, following the example of the Lyceum, produced Its pontorairso on Christmu-era Hort,. • , . pin Novelty, aid the Prison who loaf her heart, is as title of what Kr. LAWNS," Bridogbam, the author, de slignatee "an original burlesque pantomime." That it pa. SIMS some feature ot originality is tumnestionable, for it le • pantomime with • morel, in which the chief pantomime character talks sontlinent, exposes, in jingling rhymes, the tricks et trade, together with the more reprehensible 'windbag of joint stock conmenk., and denounces the follies sod sicced the ego generally, In many " wise saws and modem instances." There le an introductoryact, in which the bard the-curtain eta at the theatre are introduced; and eons of the difikoldes of managership without means illustrated Then we have • barleupes wherein • model Chinese emperor, one Too-she-bi-srf, le first made happy by a daughter, end then made miserable by the abstraction of her heart, which I ersehirroles fairy purloins; it to presumed merely to that how perfectly well humanity, especially the female part of it, may got on without that superfluous appendage. And "fist these comes the harlequinade, where the recovery of the la t besot is the task which, performed, is to entitle " lads. gain Novelty" to the pceesssion of both it sad its ease. la the burlesque act there is some pretty scenery, and in a elies loges, mire with bed puns, the motel and phyoical sew eerily of Englishmen over Rtusisita, nigger', and Yeakeic dliburers. Moroces, end all other foreigners, is impend upon the audience set IS4I4IIIWW, to be somewhat . - unceremoniously contradicted by the etymons ef jobitutock bank swindles and limited liability humbugs, got up for the purpose of cheating the =wiry, which en po• minently brought forward in act or part thethird. The dela. of what Le usually the merriest part of s pantomime moil be insufferable but that the monotony is relieved by the az , trsordinary Fedor mantes of • 6-foot individual, under the =Merlons nuts of the Red Man of Agar (Query Oust ?) tutors his wiry body and limbs about in a man ner which would lead to the supposition that he is only di► toady related to the germ hoesu ; an mewing ballet in sexes by • family of juveniles (the Lamberts), and some very good dewing by Male. Dean, and mss or two decently ring parodies by Miss Craven, who takes the put of Novelty in the Introduction and Burlesque, and Novelty lisrlequin is the pantomimic part. The actors could scarcely be laid to be well up in their parts ; and several hitches in sesoeshilling confirmed the idea that It was rather a reheeresl than • performance that we were witnessing. The audience, however, exhibited considerable patience, and it mu only when a complete failure of the .• set " of the leat moans occurred that there was the slightest symptom cl dieronteet. But the author appeared even more annoyed than the audience, for he rushed upon the stage and de nounced actors, soasseldfters, and everybody who bad any. thing to do with this first night's representation. The eassternation which resulted from this unrehasned some Effected manager and actors to so great • degree that the lost plea set down in the bill—Us., the furs of Mr. cod Nra WAire--was omitted, much to the annoyance of the gallery part of the audience, who, probably influenced by the morel principle inculcated by the author of the panto mime, loudly demanded the return of the entire admission racasy. PANTOMIMES. Pantomime among the ancients was a species of entertainment wherein tha levers] passions were * exposed by gestures and attitude'. The Greeks introduood panto. mime in their choruses, some of the actors dancing sad gesticulating, accompanied by music, whilst others rang. The Romano had sieges dramatic representations, consisting of dance and gesture only, styled " WWI° pantomimorum," and some of their actors obtained a high degree of excellence In the art. Pantomime dames were originally introduced among the Greeks and seem to hare bad much action: but the Romans appear to hare been the first who rendered by moans of gesture the sense of a regular plot. The =Cleat pentotnimists did not make uae of the modem class face, but gasttalttsd with maaks, in the same manner se thelothar comedians. To each piece it wu customary to glee the don of the mask, am we in modern plays prefix the manes of the characters ; hence, dramatis perraner —usage d the drama—is now underetood to mean " persona of the drama." Pantomime acting, accompanied by music, seems to bare been in use among the Chinese, Fenian, and other Oriental people from the most remote period. After the death et Augustus, pantomimes made further progress, and continued with little interruption a favourite entertainment among the Romans for nearly two centuries. Pantomime, were origi nally rendered by a single performer ; and we read of one of Nero's court executing the amours of blare and Venus is dumb declamation, without any muskal accompaniment. They were afterwards represented by entire troupes. The buffooneries performed by the Spaniards appear tellers mach resembled the pantomimic exhibitions of the ancients, as did the dumb-farces of France in the 16th century, is which the actors, without speakinr, were understood by means of human telegraphy. As soon as these seem sp• pealed, we are told, labels (the like of which are now in an at unlicensed homes, and, in theatrical phraseology, known is " flags") fell down successively from the ceiling upon their heads; these were fllled with couplets of songs, sniffs is large character , the tunes of which were played by the music, and the words read and sung by the pit The performer, daring the time, made gestures agreeable to the words. Pantomime continued to linger in Italy for some yeas; it, however, made but little progress in England before the commencement of the eighteenth century, when it impelled only in the form of a ballet, and hem been described sea thing called an entertainment, which ended m usual with s grand dance—generally the best part of it." Colley Cibte informs us that at that period, us order to" give evert demist some improvement, end to make it something moo than motion without meaning, the feble of Mao and Venus was formed into • connected presents . lion of dances In character." He also wide` We generally made use of these pantomimes tort is for crutches to our weakest playa." These exhibitions was not received without some opposition. The fret tr guise pantomime introduced among us was Kr kquits Sorcerer with the Lora of Pinto and Prism pine, fur which we are indebted to Mr. John Ea, a popular performer of the hero of the " magic lath." It was produced at the theatre in Lincoln's-inn-flelda • 1726, Mr. Rich playing Harlequin under the sunned met of Lun. Mr. Rich acquired both fame and fortune by pantomimes, in the " monnting " of which he spored neiths timenor expense. It is said that more than athoneand poen& were aometimm expended in the decorations of his lurk quinadee, the success of which was greatly enhanced by the assistance of the celebrated George Lambert, tbo founder it the memorable Bed-steak Club, who was engaged as sects artist; and it was at Rich's theatre the effect of stage • 2 " •7 and machinery was first seen in full splendour. Mr. Ithl dosed his earthly earner in 1761, subsequent to obi& period pantomimes increased rapidly in petal' la 1766, Mr. Love composed The Homed ; reran et Rhodes, which was produced at DeurriOt Its success, we learn from "Victors History of the Thelma was " Welly owing to the reports our newepaPers 11' I ap M ap act