The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-26 00:00:00

gent, in iseportios to the number in family, to the deter , - Mg poor to is the parish. Sr. CLFMaNT DANIIII.—A similar issue of necessaries was glade by the parish officers to the poor in fo rd - Lan. paisted ighbourhoods of Clements and Mi Sr. riot., COTIINT-6,taDes —Every poor family re seared 1 iltbs. of coal. and supply of bread, meat, and po teems la asses of old age or infirmity, tea and sugar were added. Sr. SVPVLCIIIII.—In addition to the gifts of coals issued by the parish officers, the trustees under several wills dis tributed breed, meet, coals, and clothing to the poor, ac e:sedate to the bequests of the testators. ST. Ladies' Visiting Society directed 112Ibs. of coals to be given to each poor room-keeper resi dent in the parish; and in cases of old age er impotency, a supply of tea and sugar was iseued ; blankets and flannel', and in some instances, money was given. There gifts were independ,nSof the parochial distribution, which consisted of bread, meat, potatoes, and fuel. I'ANC:LAS.—Thu Ladies' Benevolent Association issued a large quantity of provisions and fael to the poor inhabitvots. The distribution by tho parish officer, was similar to that in St. Marylebone. ST. litany, Isumorox.—The churrhwardens and over seers distributed coals, meet, end bread amongst the poor end and Mr. Belles, of the City-roarl, gave beef and lour in proportion to the number in family td each ✓eeipien.. ST. 6E9110E. lIAvOTE9•SQUARE.—The annual gifts of soak were distributed; and Mr. thblutt and Mr. Slitter gave beet and mutton to the poor inhabitants. THE r tre.—The ward officers and parochial authorities hay, b:s a indefatigable in their endeavours to provide for the comforts of the poor inhabitants in their respective die tricts—..rge quantities of fuel and provisions having been distriba:ed iu the several precincts The muuificint be quests to the poor of the various parishes were issued in conformity with the wishes of the testators. In most of the other parishes in end around the metro polis, vials were issued to the deserving poor. THEATRES. (MOOING THE CLOWN. TO TEE EDITOR UP THE EXPRESS. Sta,—My history may be briefly told. Reared on a nobl.man's preserves, my owner had the honour to be shot by his lordship's own lueud ; and I, a comely hare's foot, was cut from my deceased parent, and presented to an actress with whom his lordship was acquainted. While iu the possessem of the actress—a charining lady—l gave many a beeutitul tint to her check; and when admirers, with bated breath, talked of her damask blush, I laughed as I lay in the rouge-pot. But these were my palmy days. When the softens of my fur was somewhat worn, my owner, with a toss of the bead, threw me aside, and I was picked up by a danseux. This lady played the part of Celumbine • and, in a moment of gratitude Ihr the spirited ' manlier in which the Clown of the seasoii aelsoneted her interests with the manager, presented me to the Nattered pods nor of the most rapacious pockets ever invented. I think, sir, the rouge deepened on my fur as 1 pavied from the delicate hand of the dancer iota the cause list of the clown. But I had no great reason to quarrel with my destiny fur some years. In the possession of the Grimaldi of the time, I have been well cared for. Far eight months of every twelve I have lain upon his daisy mantelpixe under is portrait of the celebruted Co- IlaMlkine who made such a stusatioe at Woolwich in Ih2; ; and often, in his solemn moments (tor he has very serious mono ots), he has Goebel me between his fingers, and lowed fur the approaching hosing night. Well, sir, we have contrived to jog on pretty well up to the priwat time. Every year has my possessor sung Hot willies!" to an applauding gallery ; and made his annual hit with his celebrated " Here we are'" People hove always received him with good humour. Well pometuneed seaool-boys have sat in rows MU/ grinned at that a ...br‘t,.l point where he beats the pantalouu with a ge ne. And be was warming gradually with the happy thoughts of the approaching pantomime time this year, when suddenly a letter came Crum the Lord Cliand)siain, declaring that the British clown, iu his political capacity, mast submit himself to his gurd•lllo ' s scrutiny. Ile must nn lon ier indulge in wittivisms unknown to the chief officer of her Majesty's household. The press of England requires no consents* ; but there is danger to the established order of things in the " Here we am" of the clown. Ilia lord ship, it appears, noticed certain puntical applications iu aoone lit the tricks enacted on the pantomimic singe year. They wen simplyilluetrations of urtecles that had appeared in every journalo f the kingdom; hut then, argues the Lord Chamberlain, what matters it how the joutuels discuss the castigation of a Baying, au I the doing* of a Wiseman, while the clown if gagged on these questions ? There is a forte in the chalk and ochre of the Christmas hero, of which journalism cannot boast very serious e.,tesequeneee may aria, from the display of u knout in a pantomime., wl ile no ill feeling con be engendered in Austria tiwarabe this country by the indignant thunder of the II ailing journals. No, it appears to be :eloolately ne cessary for the peace of England that the Clowns shouid be gagged. The press may do its wont against any govern ment ; but, for the safety of these realms, Mr. Fleamore must be stopped. The subtle brain of the Lord Chamber lain h.o detected deep meanings in the Ciowo's moat trivial sayings. The. yearly tight with the fiebwoman, and tie UnCtirclUOUSoll 4 manner in which the clown has been ammo tem.at to pelt the lady in epleetion with the contents of her basket, hos a political significance hostile to the cause at 'l' he goose that was u.. 1 to beat Pantaloon is a wicked and base allegory of a reply from ministers; and the discharge of bed eggs upon the heads of unulfensios pars rs by, typified treacherously the seetional batch of managerial propositions. The baker that used to coma on and tell the Clown (fur the amusement of the juvenile audience) that two and two made five, was undoubtedly, says the Chamberlain, meant to rc present the Chaeeellor of the Exchequer. The Clown, my possessor has heard, is regarded, in official quarters, as a shameful counterfeit or the Colimialtiecretary—beeause he paints a grin upon his face, when he has cawe to b• very serious .sss..4l; and makes jokes upon his stage, while his famili are in a dreadful condition behind the scenes. AU these revelations astonished me, sir, I must coal, ss. In the first place, as a timid hare's toot, I had never thought that when giving a lustrous red to my master's cheek I was laying the foundation of a seditious caricature, and that when my mast. r threw a somersault into a private house through the win 11. be repronnted the inquisitorial clauses of the in• aortas. It may have uncured to mo that where my muter stops two boys who are quarrelling about a tan, mil, having swallowed the delicacy, proceeds to ex amine the right and wrong of the combatants, re minded me of the Court of Chancery; but I never thought that the general traces, in which all Linda of poultry, meat, vegetables, and ti-h, and dirty things are thrown promiscuously about the stage was meant to represent what reporters call an animated debate " in tit: House of Common.. But then, sir, lam all humility, when I remember that a nobleman in gold and spangles frowns upon my master. This year, when my muter speaks, let his audie nee remember indulgently, if he is flat and insipid, that he is nut a free and enlightens ol ('lawn —hut that he is only the mouth-picee of the Lord Chamberlain—a sufficient earns•, it is hoped, for many platitu am, air, vety humbly, A7CLOW'N'S ILLRE'S FOOT. MATRIMONY IN M.tc 4 telll'SETTS.—The marriage returtis pre ,, ,mt some very singular facts, though comirigin • double form. During the twenty months coven.,l by the report, there were marriazes of all ages, ranging from 13 to 91. Si-octal femahs were married at the age of 13. The youngest couple married was a male of 17 and a 1, male of 14. .t male of 20 and another of 25 each married a girl of 13. One male under 20 married a female over 40, a luebelor of 21 married a widow of 42, another bachelor of 35 married a widow over 60, and still another bachelor under 40 married • widow over Instances like these are called marriage," by courtesy, we suppose. Among other oil cases, a female of 1$ married the i1•C0:44 time, anoth- r female of 59 the fifth time, and a lurk• of 30 the third time, each. But the hardest fact of all, is, that there was not gallantry enough among the bachelors of Berl-- shins for one of them to marry a widow. It may interest our fair readers to learn that, by an analysis of 21,000 mar riages, it is faund that whin a female arrives at the age of 20 years, and is unmarried, one quarter of the probabilities of her ever getting married are gone, if she passes 2.5 yeah, nearly three quarters, of •he probabilities are lost, and if she phases unmarried to the age of 30, nearly nine tenths of her chances of becoming such a blessed thing as a wife are for ever gone.—Rpriio, fhi (American) Reporter. BIROS Mitt LIGIITIIM'sES.—It is no uncommon occurrence for migratory birds to fly against the fantern - o - 1 Flamborough Lighthouse. Attracted by the glare they dash against the glass so %latently as to be either killed ou the spot or so much stunned as to incapable of further exertion. Many are tals,u in this way, but it is not often that the injury extends beyond themselves. One morning lately, however, an accident occurred which was an excep tion to the rule. About four o'clock, a.m., a duck went with such force against one of the squares as to break it, until, in the words of one of the light•keepers, " there was not a piece left as large as a person's hand." The wind was blowing fresh at the time, and, as one misfortune fre quently causes another, so in this instance the broken square might have been of the most serious consequence to the passing seaman; every light in the lantern was blown out, and it was not until after an hour's exertion that the light-keepers acre sble to get a shutter over the opening, and the lamps re-lit. The squares each measure 30 inches by 21 inches, and some idea may be formed of the power of the stroke from the consideration that the plates are a quarter of an inch thick. It is scarcely necessary to say that the unwitting aggstseoe was killed.—Eosterri Counties Herald. '"' Jh METALB.—Tbe history of tho combina tions of copper with tin and line proves of math interest, from the circumstance of the probability that all the tin 'employed by the ancients, in the formation of their bronzes, was derived from these isLuids. The Celts, which are found' in the bogs of Ireland, and also in the mines of Cornwall, are bronzes, containing, all of them, the same proportion of tin, r oil such as very generally characterises all the bronsto, whether coins or specimens of useful or ornamental mans facture, of the Greeks and the Romans. This is a point which gives great probability to the statement that the Phoenician merchants visited then islands, especially the western parts of them, for tin. The Cassiterides, or tin islands of the Weeks, there is every reason for believing, were those parts of the British Islands with which the mariners of the Mediterranean Sea were acquainted.—R. Hunt, us Art-Joirsissi. IRELAND. Tiest.m. Die. 24 The Post of this evening says:—" We learn that a letter has been received in Dublin from Mr. Wag staff, stating that it was his intention to despatch the steamer from Now York for Galway on the 23rd inst. (yeateday). In that case, the steamer would be duo in Galway on New Year's-day. It is only right to remark that there are other letters in town, stating that there is a belief in New York that Mr. Wag staffs steamer never will set out on her voyage for Galway." UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. ..;ANBRiDGE, Dec. 24.—8. A. EXAMEXAVON, 1852. —The examination for mathematical hcmairawillsommence on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 18.52, and will be carried ea according to the following plan : Tuesday, Jan. 6.—Euclid and Conics, Arithmetic, Alge bra, and Plane Trigonometry. Wednesday, Jan. 7.—Statics and Dynamics, Hydrostatics, and Optics. Thursday, Jan. B.—Newton and Astronomy. Problems in all the preceding subjects. Monday, Jan. 19.—Natural Philosophy, Pure Mathe matics. Tuesday, Jan. 20.—Easy Priblems, Natural Philosophy. Wednesday, Jau. 21.—Problems, l'ure Mathematics. Thursday, Jan. V.—Problems, Pure Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy. Friday, Jan. 23.—Pure Mathematics and Natural Philo sophy. The examination for ordinary degrees will take place on January 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, 26, and 27. There are 146 can• didates for honoursSE,LECT P and 294 REACHEES. for ordinary degrees. _ _ A Grace having passed the Senate to the following effect :1 That those to whom the Sunday afternoon toms at St. Mary's and the turns for Christmas-day and Good Friday are assigned, shall, from the beginning of October, 1851, to the end of May, 1652, provide no other substitute than such as are appointed in conformity with that grace, the fol lowing persons have been elected, each for the month to which his name is affixed Dia. October: The if deem% Lecturer. November: The Rev. Dr. Jeremie, Trinity. December : The Rev. J. Good win, Corpus Christi. 1852. January The Rev. W. E. Scudamore, St. John's. February: The Rev. J. Woolley. Emmanuel. March: The Rev. Professor Blunt, St. John's. April: The Hulsean Lecturer. May : The Rev. Hopkins, St. Catherine's. ORDINATION BY THE BISHOPOP NIANCIIESTEI ON SUNDAY LAST.—Deacon.: John Richard Baldwin, St. Been ; William Booker, St. Peter'4, Cambridge ; Walter Bradbury, Queens', Cambridge; Francis Haden Cope. St. John's, Cambridge; Philip Graham, St. Bees; Joseph Holden Johnson, St. C.ithenne Hall, Cambridge ; Thomas Openshaw, St John's, Cambridge; William Richardson, St. Bees; Henry Sayers, Trinity, Dublin; George Soden, Trinity, Dublin ; Edward Fcche Stock, St. John's, Cam bridge; George Wright Thornton, St. Bees; William Owen Williams, Queens', Cambridge. Priests; James Hadfield, St. John's Cambridge ; James Martin Kennedy, King's,London ; Ernest Augustus Lang, St. John's, Ozford ; John Nicklin, St. Bees; David Ross, Licentiate of Theology, University, Durham ; William Henry Woolrieh, Pembroke, Oxford; Brooke Fors Westcott, Trinity, Cam bridge; Henry Burgess (a literate). Rev. William Buckle, to Oakridge Perpetual Curacy, Gloucestershire ; patron, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. Rev. William Winston Curtis Hayward, to Hillesly Perpetual Curacy, Glouccstenhire ; patron, Bishop of Glouce-t .1. and Bristol. Rev. John Gylby Lonsdale, to the Readership at the Temple Church, London; patrons, the Benches of the Middle Temple (for this turn). Rev. Edward Blackburn Warren, to St. Mary Vicarage, Marlborough. Wilts, value 1001. and residence ; patron, Bishop of Sali.bury. Rev. Banks, to the Head Mastership of Ludlow Grant- MU School, Salop; patron, trustees. Rev. Bettors, to the Es ening Lectureship of St. Law rence, Ludlow, Salop. Rev. John Latham, Perpetual Curate of Little Eaton, Derbyshire, to the Canonry of Gain Miner, in Lichfield Cathedral; patron, Bishop of Lichfield. Rev. Henry ' , eaten, 8.D., Rector of All Saints, Lough borough, to be a Surrogate for the diocese of Peterborough. Rev. John Edge, to the Curacy of Fleckney, county Lei cester, diocese Peterborough. Rev. W. Wilson, to the Curacy of Isham, county North ampton, diocese Peterborough. Rev. Francis John Staiuforth, to Allhallows Staining Perpetual Curacy, London; value. 6211.; patron=, the Grocers' Company. 11ev. Mar-hall Hall Vine, to St. Mary-le-Bow, with St. Pancras, Soperlane, and Allhallows, Honey-lane, Rectory, London; value, 4,301. ; patron, Archbishop of Canterbury (fur this turn). . ____._. Pagans U ‘l. STALL of Hurst, in Chichester Cathedral ; by death of O. U. Langdon. VICAR —Oving, diocese of Chichester; by death of 0. H. Langdon. Backingh Bucks. diocese Oxford; value, 2301. and residence ; pstron, Duke of Buckingham ; Rev. H. Crowe, deceased. Itectorship of St. Paul's School, Calcutta, salary 4801. and residence, and 140/. for outfit ; patrons, 11ev. D. Wilson .uid others. Prararrab CClACT.—Shoulden, Kent, archdiocese Canterbury ; value, 280!. and residence; patron, Arch bishop of Canterbury ; Rev. M. H. Vine, promoted. MASTEIIO4III P.—Hastings l'roprietary School, Sussex, Second Mastership; salary, 70/. NAVAL. Wootatcn, Dec. 25.—The Antelope, 3, iron paddle-wheel steam-Teasel of 260-horse power, formerly employed as a mail steam-packet on the Mediterranean station, from which she was withdrawn on the substituting of the Banshee as a mail steam-packet, has undergone a thorough repair at this dockyard, and will be out of the hands of the engineers on the 26th of the Dement month, and will shortly be ready for commission . — The Triton, 3, iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel of 260-horse power, formerly employed as a mail steam-packet on the Mcditeiraneon station, from which she was withdrawn on the appoint ment of the Caradoc to that service, has been repaired here, and will be completed by the engineer department on the llth of February, ISs2.—The Trident, 6, steam-vessel of 350-horse power, lately employed in protecting the fish eries on the north coast of Scotland, has undergone a thorough repair, and will be out of the hands of the engineers about the 15th of February next. The Wildfire, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, tender to the flag ship at Sheerness, is in course of repair at this dockyard, - and will be completed by the engineers about the 11th of February, 1572.—The Greenock, 10, iron screw steam frigate of 530 horse power, at present in the inner basin at Woolwich Dockyard. has hadher engines put on board by Messrs. George and Sir John Renoir, and it is expected they will be completely adjusted and ready for getting the steam up by the Sth of January next. Mov ENTS.—PORT ROYAL, Nov. 29,-11cr Majes ty's ships Imaum, Inflexible, Alban, and schooner Bermuda, the last from Grey Town, having been relieved by Express. The crew of Bermuda were rather sickly. Arrogant and Calypso had left Port Royal for Cuba, the former on the 27th of November, and latter on the 16th. Devastation had left on the 12th to join the Admiral at Bermuda and accompany him to Ilarbadoes. Iler Majesty's ship Cum berland weir expected at Port Royal in January. Alarm left Havana for Vera Crux on the 20th of November. Persian at Windward Islands. HAVANNAII, Nov. 29. — Her 31ajesty's ship Alban unjust on the 20th, having been despatched on the 21st to rescue the crew of a vessel (name unknown) wrecked on Sevrand:a Bank, on American. Only two men were brought up by the Alban. A CIICECRWAIDEN CONVICTED OF DAMAGING THE l'annin llooaa.—At the Castle Iledingham petty session, on Tuesday hut, George Whitfield King, church warden and overseer of Ovington, near Clare, was charged with having injured the book containing the proceedings of vestry or that parish, by which he had incurred a penalty of not more than dill. or Ices than 105. Mr. Jackson, of Haverhill. appeared in support of the information ; Mr. Eami...l Clare, for defendant. It appeared from the evi dence that a person was desirous of getting his house 1 licensed for the sale of beer, and that the defendantograinst the wish of several of the patishioners, had raised the natal of the premises to qualify them for such license ; that several of the parishioners bad, in the vestry book, under the minute that the rate had been granted, signed a resolution to the effect that the assessment had been an unequal one; other parish meetings took place of a more friendly nature. at which it came to the knowledge of the parishioners that the leaf containing the two entries had been torn out by the defendant ; but as it was expected he would not assess the premises in ques tion, to qualify them for the beer license, no proceedings against him were contemplated. Subsequently, the beer house being opened, and the defendant appearing not to have kept faith with his brother ratepayers, the proceed ings were instituted. For the defence, it was attempted to be proved that the tearing out the leaf was with the cur currence of the complaining parties, and that the informa tion was laid solely in ceneequence of • spiteful feeling owing to the opening of the beer-house. The Rev. C. Gooch, the chairman, stated that the bench considered the offence clearly proved, and that he saw no extenuating cit.- I cumst ances ; but that the complainant (Mr. Thomas Chick ball) basing stated that the parishioners did not wish for the indiction of • heavy penalty, the bench adjudged de fendant to pay the penalty of 40s. and costs—Bury Post. CIII:ECII EXTENSION IN WALES.—In Very many districts in Wales, both in north and south, the spiritual wants of the people have outgrown the means of aceommo dation, and in many localities the inhabitants have deemed it necessary to take measures to provide the requisite means. At Aberystwyth it has been determined, in order to meet the necessities of the district, to undertake the erection of • Welsh church, and the proper steps have been taken ' in furtherance of the object. Nearly 1,0001. have boss subscribed. The church of St. Thomas, at Haeerford west , is to be almost rebuilt and enlarged at a cost of 1,0001. This edifice has long been in a dilapidated state, end as the accommodation afforded has been very li mited it is intended nearly to rebuild the edifice, and at the same time so to enlarge its extent as to secure • much larger Lumber of sittings. At Carnarvon likewise steps have been taken to provide for the erection of a new church, and • donation of 2001. from one individual has been made. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1851 CHRISTMAS LITERATURE AND ART. by the paters maker: good Heavens! if that were what, here and everywhere la H:4's creation, I am? And a world all dying because I am, and show myself to be, and to have long been, even that 1 John, the carriage, the car riage: swift! Let me go home in silence, to reflection, perhaps to sackcloth and ashes. This, and not amusement, %wild have profited those high-dizened pe”ous. Many "high-dizened" persons are, as usual, repre sented in the pictorial department of the Keepsake. It is pleasant to see that the aristocracies both of rank and talent rally round the fair editor, the niece and successor of the Countess of Blessington. Of the peculiar sort of Christmas books invented by Mr. Dickens we have no lack of imitators this season. That by Mr. Wilkie Collins is perhaps the best.' Mr. Wray is an actor retired to Sidbury-on the-Marsh to teach elocution. He had been appren ticed in early life to a statuary, and is seized with a longing desire to obtain a cast of Shakespere'a face from tee tomb at stratford. Ho resolves to make trial in the middle of the night, and conceals himself in the church for that purpose. It was quite dark now; and I began to feel cold and awe struck again. The only thing I could think of to keep my spirits at all, was first saying my prayers, and then quoting Shakspeare. I went at it, Annie, like a dragon; play after play—except the tragedies; I was afraid of them, in a church at night, all by myself. Well : I think I hail got half through the Midsummer Night's Dream, whispering over bit after bit of it ; when I whispered myself into a doze. Then I fell into a queer sleep ; and then I had such a dream! I dreamt that the church was full of moonlight— brighter moonlight than ever I saw awake. I walked out of the vestry ; and there were the fairies of the Midsummer, Night's Dream—all creatures like sparks of silver light— dancing round the Shakspearo bust! The moment they caught sight of me they all called out in their sweet night ingale voices—" Come along, Reuben ! sly old Reuben ! we know what you're here for, and we don't mind you a bit! You love Shakspeare, and so do we—dance, Reuben, and be happy ! Shakspeare likes an old actor ;he was an actor himself—nobody sees us! we're out for the night ! foot it, old Reuben—foot it away !" And we all danced like mad ; now, up in the air; now, down on the pavement; and now all round the bust, five hundred thousand times at least without stopping, till—Bang went the clock! and I woke up in the dark in a cold perspiration. "I'm in one, too !" gasped " Julius Censer," dabbing his brow vehemently with a ragged cotton pocket-handker chief. Well, after that dream I fell to reciting again ; and got another doze ; and had another dream—a terrible one, about ghosts and witches, that I don't recollect so well as the other. I woke up mice more, cold, and in a great fright that I'd slept away all the precious morning daylight. No! all dark still! I went into the church again, and then back to the vestry, not being able to stay there. I sup pose 1 did this a dozen times without knowing why. At last, never going to sleep again, I got somehow through the night—the night that seemed never to be done. Soon after day-break ' 1 began to walk up and down the church briskly, to keep myself warm, keeping at it fur a long time. Then, Just US I saw through the windows that the sun was rising, 1 opened my bag at last, and gut ready for work. I can tell you my hand trembled and lay ,ight grew dim-1 think the tears were in my eyes; but I dou't know why—us I first soaped the bust alt over to prevent the plaster 1 was going to put on it from sticking. Then I mixed up the plaster and water in my quart basin, taking care to leave no lumps, and finding it come us natural to me as if I had only lett the statuery's shop yesterday ; then—but, it's no use telling you, little Annie, about what you don't under stand; I'd better say ehortly I made the mould, in tour pieces, as I thought I should—two for the upper part of the face, and two for the lower. Then, having put on the outer plaster ease to h Id the mould, I pulled nil off clean toge ther, and looked, and knew that I had got a mask of Shakspe ire from the Stratford bust! He keeps his treasure in a cash-box. That is the mystery ; with this " treasure" he is supposed to be a rich man, and suffers the usual iwnalties of wealth, among others that of being robots!. The story is very pleasantly told. The author of " Olive" has not been so successful in the subject she has chosen for Christmas:l. The scene is laid in Scotland, which has no associations whatever with this season ; Christmas being no fee. tival in the Scottish church,or regraded as a holiday by the people. Neither can the ethereal imaginings of fairy land be gracefully associated with the Sto.tish dialect, which abounds in this tale. Elegance and euphony are requisite in a fairy tale, even if it be one of child stealing. The illustrations, though scratchily engrnved, arc admi rably designed and drawn by Mr. Godwin,—a new new name in this branch of art; but one manifestly destined to be soon better known. Of late years Christmas has produced, if not with the same abundance, with equal regularity, its intel lectual food as well as its creature comforts. The purveyors of beef and pudding decorate the sturdy I sirloin on the shambles, and the piquant fruits and spices in their windows, with every symbol of Christ mas that misletoe and holly can supply. In like manner, the bookseller relieves the more solid literature which lies on his counter and stands on his shelves with the dazzling colours and gilt arabesques which adorn the bindings of the Christmas ephemera. "The Com pliments of the Season" are not, as of yore, accom panied so frequently with boxes of game, barrels of " October," and poultry "from Norfolk," as with elegant emanations from the artist's atelier, the author's study. and the bookbinder's shop. These tasteful and amusing Christmas offerings arc not — wisely, we think--calculated to oppress the intellec tual faculties of the recipients, or to damage their digestion of the grosser good things of Christmas life. They arc simply meant to add such charms to the festivities and amenities of the season as art and lite rature in its mildest and most benevolent forms can furnish. Foremost amongst such present books must stand those in which the secular and more sensuous joys of the time are sought to be hallowed and softened by the selection and adornment of scriptural pas sages. The Messrs. Longmans were, we believe, the originators of that class of books. The " Ser mon on the Mount," the " Good Shunamite," the " Lord's Prayer;' &c., illuminated by the gorgeous ornamentation of the middle ages, adapted and executed by Mr. Owen Jones and Mr. Noel Humphries, set the fashion. It is followed with great success this year by Mr. John Franklin,' who has illustrated the " Parables of the Saviour " with great breadth and mastery. The man nerism is well compensated by varieties of treat ment, if not by varieties of style. Some of the designs show great proficiency in figure drawing and skilful grouping. The groups designed for the parable of the ten virgins are classi cally composed, and full of expression ; the artless cartlessnes.s of the foolish virgins being well con trasted with the diligence expressed in their wiser companions. In the second subject, the force and energy with which one of the former is endeavour ing to force open the door (" Lord, Lord, open to us!") is finely wrought. The Crucifixion at the end of the book is full of figures, all well drawn; their faces expressive of different emotions amongst the crowd, from the incredulous smile of the Pharisee to the pas+ionate grief of the two Marys. Twelve designs complete the work; and from their size they partake of an historical charac ter. They are most carefully enmraved by Messrs. Lightfoot, W. 11. Watt, Itianchar%, Joubert, Good all, and Messer. The text is printed in old English with red letters and margins, over which a biblio• maniac would gloat with rapture, and call " gorge ous." As the externals of books of this class are not too unimportant to be passed over, we must add that the binding of the work under notice is superb. In the fashionable world Christmas cannot be thoroughly kept without The lieepsake."t Upon its gilded leaves art and literature join hands, and lead the reader an agreeable dance through the mazes of graphic and poetic fancy. The volume for the present year is unusually brilliant in both respects. Dickens, Carlyle, Barry Cornwall, and Mrs. Newton Crosland are contributors. Dickens tells us in his pages that they must be read at dusk, for they are filled with a couple of appari tions embodied in one talc—a double-barrelled ghost story. The master of description tells us about a certain countenance which haunts a young married woman so hideously often in her sleep, that 11.... r hus band takes her abroad, in the hope that change of scene might change the horrible face for a pleasanter visage, or banish it from the sufferer's dreams en tirely. Her dread of seeing the face in some Italian picture during her travels is wonderfully depicted by their courier, who tells the story. At Genoa, he says: tipon my word I was fearful after this of our coming to the old palazzo, lest some ill-starred picture should happen to be there. I knew there were many there; and, as we got nearer sad nearer to the place, I wished the whole gal lery in the crater of Vesuvius. To mend the matter, it was a stormy, dismal evening when we at last approached that part of the Riviera. I thundered, and the thunder of my city and its environs, rolling Amon; the high hills, is very loud. The lizards ran in and out of the chinks in the broken stone wall of the garden, as if they were frightened; the frogs bubbled and croaked their loudest ; the sea-wind moaned, and the wet trees dripped; and the lightning— body of San Lorenzo, how it lightened ! We all know what an old palazzo in or near Genoa is— how time and the sea-air have blotted it—how the drapery painted on the outer walls has peeled off in great flakes a plaster—how the lower windows arc darkened with rusty bars of iron—how the court yard is overgrown with grass —how the outer buildings are dilapidated—how the whole pile seems devoted to ruin. Our palazzo was one of the true kind. It had been shut up close for months. Months ! —years! It had an earthy smell, like a tomb. The scent of the orange-trees on the broad back terrace, and of the lemons ripening on the wall, and of some shrubs that grew around a broken fountain, had got into the house somehow, and had never been able to get out again. There it was, in every room, an aged smell grown faint with confinement. It pined in all the cupboards and drawers. In the little rooms of communication between great rooms it wan stifling. If you turned a picture—to come back to the pictures--there it still was, clinging to the wall behind the frame, like a sort of bat. The lattice-blinds were close shut, all over the house. There were two ugly grey old women in the house to take care of it; one of them with a spindle, who stood winding and mumbling in the doorway, and who would as soon have let iu the devil as the air. Muster, mistress, la belle Caro lina, and I, went all through the palazzo. I went first, though I have named myself last, opening the windows aid the lattice blinds, and shaking down on myself splashes of rain and scraps of mortar, and now and then a dosing mos quito or a monstrous fat;blotehy, Genoese spider. When I had let the evening light into a room, master, mistress, and la bells Carolina, entered. Then we looked round at all the pictures, and I went forward again into another room. Mistress secretly had great fear of meeting with the likencu of that face—we all had ; but there was no such thing. The Madonna and Bambino, San Francisco, San Sebastiano, Venus, Santa Caterina, Angels, Brigands, Friars, Temples at Sunset, Battles, White Horses, Forests, Apostles, Doges, all my old acquaintances many times te rated )—Yes. Dark handsome man in black, reserved and secret, with black hair and grey moustache, looking fixedly at mistress out of darkness :—no. The theme chosen by Mr. Carlyle startles one as much as if we were to see a book on Short Whist advertised an from the pen of an eminent Quaker, or an essay on horse-racing by the Archbishop of Can terbury. Mr. Carlyle puts aside his historical pen and gives the sledge-hammer with which he demo lishes " shams " a rest to discourse on the Italian Opera. hear the creaking of the ponderous wheel on which he breaks that winged-fly—the Ballet ! Mr. Dickens himself appears this year in company with his disciples. One of the tenderest and moat pathetic fancies ho has ever yet, to our thinking, given forth, appears in his Christmas number of " Hou.schold Words."l In picturing " what Christmas is as we grow older," he bays: On thin day we shut out nothing ! " Pause," says a low voice. " Nothing? Think ;" " on Christmas Day, we will shut out from our fireside, nothing." " Not the shadow of a vast city where the withered leaves are lying deep:" the voice replies. " Not the slr. dow that darkens the whole globe ? Not the shadow of the city of the dead ?" Nut even that. Of all days in the year, we will turn our faces towards that city upon Christmas laiy, and from its silent hosts bring those we loved among us. city of the dead, in the blessed eame wherein we are gathered together at this time, and in the presence that is hero among us ae , cording to the premise, we will receive, and not dismiss, thy people who are dear to us. Yes. We can look upon these children angels that alight, so solemnly, so beautifully, among the living children by the tire, and can bear to think how they departed from us. Entertaining angels unawares, as the Patriarchs did, the playful children are unconscious of their guests ; but we can see them—can see a radiant arm around one favourite neck, as if there were a sculpting of that child away. Among the celestial figures there is one, a poor mis-shapes boy on earth, of a glorious beauty now, of whom his dying mother said it grieved her much to leave him here, name, for so many years as it was likely would elapse before he came to her—being such a little child. But he went quickly, and was laid upon her breast, and in her hand she leads him. There was a gallant boy who fell, far away, upon a burn ing sand beneath a burning sun, and said, "Tell them at home, with my last love, how much I could have wished to kiss them once, but that I died contented and had done my duty !" Or there was anothir, over whom they read the words, "Therefore we commit his body to the deep!" and so consigned him to the lonely ocean, and sailed on. Or there was another who lay down to his sat in the dark sha dow of great forests, and, on earth, awoke no more. 0 shall they not, from sand and sea sail forest, be brought home at such a time!" There w as a dear girl—almost a woman—never to be one —wko made a mourning Christmas in re house of joy, and went her trackless way to the silent City. Do we recollect her, worn out, faintly whiTering what could not be heard, and falling into that last sleep for weariness? 0 look upon her now! 0 look upon her beauty, her serenity, her changeless youth, her happiness! The daughter of Jairus was recalled to life, to die ; hut she, more blest, has heard the same voice, saying unto her, "Arise for ever!" We had a friend who was our friend from early days, with whom we often pictured the changes that were to come upon our lives, and merril . imagined how we would speak, and walk, and think, and talk, when we came to be old. Ills destined habitation in the City of the Dead re ceived him in his prime. Shall he be shut out from our Christmas remembrance ? Would by love have so excluded w? Lost friend, lost child, last parent, sister, brother, husband, wife, we will not no discard you! You shall bold your cherished places in our Christmas heart., and by our Christmas fires ; and in the season of immortal hope, and on the birthday of immortal mercy, we will shut out nothing ! Ilia begins Christmas in a sad key; but the melody rings out in a merrier strain as we proceed. Mr. Prupper spends a jolly Christmas in prison. The manner of that gentleman's arrest was as follows : It wits Christmas-eve; and I—my name is Prupper— was taking my walks abroad. I walked through the crowded Strand, elate, hilarious, benignant, for the feast was prepared, and the guests were bidden. Such a turkey I had ordered! Not the prize one with the ribbons—l mis trusted that; but a plump, tender, white-breasted bird, a king of turkeys. It was to he boiled with oyster-sauce ; and the rest of the Christmas dinner es...s to consist of that noble sirloin of roast beef, and that immortal cod's head and shoulders! I had bought the materials for the pudding, too, souse half-hour previously; the plums and the currants, the citron and the allspice, the flour and the eggs. I was happy. Onward, by the bright grocer's shops, thronged with pudding-purchasers . Onward, by the bookseller's, though lingering, it may be, for a moment, by the gorgeous Christ. mss books, with their bright binding, and brighterpictures. Onward, by the pastrycook's! Onward, elate, hilarious, and benignant, until, just as I stopped by a poulterer's shop, to admire the finest capon that ever Loudon or Christmas saw, a band was laid on my shoulder ! " Before our sovereign lady the Queen"—" by the grace o f God, greetiug"—" that you take the body of Thomas Prupper, and him safely keep"—" and for so doing, this shall he your warrant." These dread and significant words swam before my dazzled eyelids, dancing maniac hornpipes on a parchment slip of paper. I was to keep Christmas in no other com pany than that of the once celebrated fictitious personage, supposed to be the familiar of all persons similarly situated —loan Dos. I remembered with horror, that some fortnight previously, a lawyer's clerk deposited on my shoulder a slip of paper, which he stated to be the copy of a writ, and in which her Majesty the Queen (mixed up for the nonce with John, Lord Campbell) was pleased to command me to enter an appearance somewhere, by such a day, in order to answer The very ballet girls, with their muslin saucers round them, were perhaps little short of miraculous ; whirling and 'Mooing there in strange mad vortexes, and then suddenly fixing themeelves motionless, each upon her left or right gnat toe, with the other leg stretched out at an angle of 90 degrees—.as if you hail suddenly pricked into the floor, by one of their points, a. pair, or rather • multitudinous co hort, of mad restlessly jumping and clipping scissors, and so bidden them rest, with opened blades, and stand still, in the devil's name. A truly notable motion—marvellous, almost miraculous, were not the people there so used to it. Motion peculiar to the Opera ; perhaps the ugliest, and surely one of the most difficult, ever taught a femaie creature in this world. Nature abhors it; but Art does at least admit it to border on the impossible. One little Ceriso, or Taglioni the Second, that night when I was there, went bounding from the floor as if she had been made of Indian-rubber, or filled with hydrogen gas, and inclined by positive levity to bolt through the cei it og ; perhaps neither Semiramis nor Catherine the Second had bred herself so carefully. Such talent, and such martyrdom of training, gathered from the four winds, was now here, to do its feat and be paid for it. Regardless of expense, indeed! The purse of Fortunatus seemed to have opened itself, and the divine art of musical sound and rhythmic motion was welcomed with an explosion of all the magnificences which the other arts, fine and coarse, could achieve. For you are to think I of some Ressioi or Bellini in the rear of it, too ; to say nothing of the Stanfields, and hosts of scene-painters, machinists, en gineers, enterprisers ;—fit to have taken Gibraltar, written the History of England, or reduced Ireland into industrial regiments. had they so set their minds to it ! Alas, and of all these notable or noticeable human talents, and excellent perscrerances and energies, backed by mountains of wealth, and led by the divine art of music and rhythm vouchsafed by Heaven to them and us, what was tobc the issue here this evening? An hour's amuse ment, not amusing either, but wearisome and dreary, to a high-dizened select populace of male and female persons, who seemed to me not worth much amusing ! Could any em• have pealed into their hearts once, one true thought, and glimpse of self-vision : " High-dizened, most expensive =, aristocracy so called, or best of the world, beware, what proofs you give of betterness and bestnem !" And then the salutary paz.g of conscience in reply " A saint populate, with money in its purse, and drilled a little • "Mr. Wray's Cash-box; or, the Mask and the Mystery." Bendal. t "Alice Learmont, a Fairy Tale," by the author of " Olive," " The Head of the Family," &e., with illustra tion, by James Godwin. j Extra number for Christmas of " Household Words. ' Bradbury and Evans. • 0 The Parablcs of Our Lord," illustrated by John Franklin. Mitchell, Old Bond-streo. I " The Keepsake for 1332." Edited by Miss D. Powcr. Bogue. the plaint of somebody, who mid I owed him seine money. Now, an appearante out lieen enieta!, end ' had gone by default, and execution had been obtained against me. The sheriff of Middlesex (who is popularly, though erroneously, supposed to be incessantly running up and down in Li, bailiwick) had had a writ o ffierifacias, vulgarly termed aft. fi. against my guilds ; but heanng, or satisfying himself by adroit espionage, that I hail no goods, he had made a return of India bona. Then had he invoked the aid of a more subtle and potential instrument, likewise on parchment, called a twins ad satistaeienduen ' abbrevi ated in legal parlance into ca. sa., against mybodyThis writ he had confided to Aminadab, his man; and Amine dab, running, as he was in duty hound to do, up and down in his section of the bailiwick, had come across me, and had made me the captive of his bow and spear. lie called it, less metaphorically, " nabbing me." Mr. Aminadab (tall, aquiline-nosed, oleaginous, some what dirty; clad in a green Newmarket coat, a crimson velvet waistcoat, a purple satin neckcloth with gold flowers, two watch-guards, and four diamond rings)—Mr. Amino. dab proposed that " something should be done." Would I go to Whitecross-strett at once? or to lll.wmau's, in Cut sitar-street ? or would I just step into Pecle's coffee-house for a moment? Mr. Aminadab was perfectly polite, and indefatigably suggestive. The capture had been made in Fleet-street ; so we stepped into Peek's, and while Mr. Aminadab sipped the pint of wine which he had obligingly suggested 1 should order, I began to look my position in the face. Execution taken out for forty-five pounds nine and nine-pence. Ca. sa., a guin , a ; ft. fa., a guinea; capture, a guinea; those were all the costs as yet. Now, twine days alter I was see red with the writ, I had paid the plaintiff's lawyer, ou account, thirty pounds. In the innocence of my heart, I imagined that, by the County Court Act, I could not be arrested for the balance, it being under twenty pounds. Mr. Aminadab laughed pith contemptuous pity. "We don't do business that way," said he ; " we goes iu for the whole lot, and then you pleads your set-off, you know." The Christmas of every sort and condition of man kind is depicted in this rattling, amusing extra num ber of " Household Words." Its proper title would have been, " What Christmas is to Everybody - . To enliven and cheer the winter season with thoughts and reccllections of the flowers of summer, is au expedient as old as poetry itself. Hence we find flower books bursting into bloom at Christmas with alinost as much vigour as flower-beds open their treasures in summer. We have only room to remark on two of the species,— " The Floral Months of England,"' has for its motto: Were I, 0 G. 1,1, in ehurelite..s l a nds re maining, Far from all voice of teachers and divines; My soul would had, in flowers of thy ordaining, Priests, sermons ' shrines : and gives a pictorial kalendar of the most beautiful flowers peculiar to each month. " Floral l'oems"t peoples the petals and leaves and stems of the various flowers, with human figures, each, by its attitude and expression, illustrating a story told in verse. The idea is not happy ; neither is its execution. Of the broader sources of amusement Mr. Robert B. Brough, of theatrical burlesque fame, supplies a very good specimen.l It professes to consist of Christmas pieces for private representation, and other seasonable matter, in prose and verse. In the first page an effigy of the drawing-room stage mana ger appears before the (window) curtain to explain how the little dramas may be performed in the bay of a window for a stage, and a few candles placed on the carpet for foot-lights. "King Alfred and the Cakes," • William Tell," and " Orpheus and Euri dice," are the plays, and could be acted quite as well as charades in any private family where a taste for the drama exists. A merry Christmas without " Punch" is impos sible ; nor could the cycle of the seasons ever revolve harmoniously and pleasantly, if the end of each year did not bring Punch's Almanack.§ This year, both in literature and art, he is pre-eminent. " After me." said Metternich, " finis." So say we of Paneh. Having referred our renders to him we conclude. Nothing we can say could be so well cal culated as Mr. Punch and his Almanack to ensure our readers " a merry Christmas and a happy new year." "The Floral Months of England." Ackermanu and Co. t " Floral Poem," with pictures in the flowers. The poetry by F. W. N. Dailey, Esq. Ackermann and Co. " A Cracker of Bonbon for Christmas Parties." David Bugue, Fleet-street. § " Punch's Almanack for 1812." Bradbury and Evans. MARKETS. COTTON.—LtvEuroon, DEC. 24.—Cotton, during this week of tire days, is no lower in price ; perhaps rather tae contrary•. The actual „variation, however, is so slight as not to call for any material change in the quotations. It is not the slight advance iu the scale of prices that calls for attention at this moment, so much as the growing confi dence of most parties interested in the staple. flagon re gard to the gcn:ral well-doing of the country, and the con tinued large consumption of cotton, with the moderate scale of 4:1. ft r middling American, we look to the turn of the year with much live of it bringing about increased ac tivity. On the sulject of crop there is no new feature, and the political di.turbances in France appear to have ex haunted their force on our market. The committee of brokers place fair Uplands at dd., Mobile at 3,1., and Or- leans at OP. ; 1,740 American, 4,130 Surat, and 50 Madras have been taken on speculation ; and 1,930 American, 380 Surat, 10 Carthagena, and 10 Egyptian for export. The sales fur the week amount to 34,360 bides. HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES. NorrtNoitam, Dec. '24.—The condition of the plain hosiery trade is much the same as it has been for sonic time past, with the excep tion of silk gloves, which have much and suddenly re vived. As this manufacture employs about 1,100 frames, in the town and suburbs, the improvement is felt as a great relief. The bobbin net trade is in general in a depressed condition ; this applies equally to silk and cotton fabrics. In the black silk lace manufacture great frauds are com mitted by mixing cotton with the silk, and in others by running cotton through a pulp of waste silk, which puts a shining coat on, uhich vanishes with the air and weather. The warp lace and warp hosiery manufactures are in a better condition than the bobbin-net and plain hosiery. The new manufactuics of fancy plated warp and bobbin net fabrics, velvet lace, velvet, plush velveretts, carpets, rugs, and other goods usually made from the loom, proceed rather slowly, but we believe surely.—Nofts Rennie. CORN. —llAlenuaT, Dec. 21.—1 n eoneequenee of mar ket day being altered this weak, the attonduee herr was small, and the little btriftetta d, Ina la Fria withou: alierati in in price ; out-of. edrdition , d lamely, dull, but good dry %he d and Barley firm. Quo tations roi follow : %%beut, to. to -lc. td. per buaheL ltcuus , Ss. 6.1. to Is. 3d. Barky, 2.1 a. to Sin Oats, Ito. to 225. - - MAID,TONZ, Dec. 24.—We had a very languid sale for pals of .11 sorts to-day. Want Bold at former rates upon a good supply. Lest awn 1111 , neglected. Prices as last quoted. _ _ • ROYSTON, Dec. 24.—Corn trade flat, except in fine Bra ley, which wan senor, and Ir. dearer. All whir d (script' nua were quit. a drug. Viluat, 20.. to 21,e. per qr. Barley, 22a. to Jen Oats, ICA. to 23a. WoltlitNGToM, Dec. 24.—T0 day there was again a mall supply of grain la oar market. The armthil being good, the poles. vet• a lolly supGried in some ilk4tallC^P ; for the beet samples a flight advance na. m,Ge. Whew, Its. 61. to t9a. ed. Barley, Os. to too. Oats, 7s. Sat. to Bs. &l. Flour, $ stone, la. M. to Is. Oatmeal, Is. M. Berle:3door, la 2d. Ryeltour, Is. Id. GLASGOW, Dec. 24.—The Clyde import list for the past week contains 11 *rid arrirals cf Egyptian Wheat and Deans, 5,1 tio qrs. of the frmer, together a ith 3,600 qrs. of the hirer, having been resoled direct from Alexandra, and ,401 . qra. Wheat from Liver pool. From Canada wad United States .040 barrels I Gur, 430 qrs. Wheat, along with q: a. Praa, ware received : the Iri.h puy puha comiipting of about 2,10 P qes. Oats, and 2,289 qrs. Bens. lin Grangemouth the chief arrim:a were PIO qsa. Wheat, 2,432 qrs. Far ley, and 1,029 qtr. Oats COS , tlii4o rind 443 g re. Wheat from Den mark. We have a return of from. which will improve the nonillion of ad grain. The trade, on thew hole, had a quiet coquet during the week, without any change In the pricer. American sweet Flour beng le.. freely offered, some impor:ers pr• inning to More rather than accept of present :ow rater. This di4's market was very slen derly attended, earth:ape eery much of a bonny character, and little Lualnese Iran/Tired; but in !he dew sales of either What or Flour which took place previous ra es were obtained. Oats met a plow wee at about 3.1. par boa reduction on our hat quotations,. Feeding Bump being rather mote plentiful. Loth Secch and Irish were about cheaper. Till re was no: much Barley offering, and no change to note in ita value. WATEItrOUD, Dec. 2.1.—N0 increase can be reported in our supplier of farmers' gr tin slnee Saturday, and from abroad the irritate are limited to one cargo of Black Sea Indian Corn. The mount of business pasema in our market is very r.stactcd, and at about tke rates current lam weep. CATTLE, ISM.—Nsw,snit fat stock market on Tuesday last was eery thinly supplied with both Beasts and Sheep —store ear tban usual. Beef stabs:el late pries*, sad Button adeanoul .I. per lb. Beef Sr. 141. t es. prr stone p Mateo, bd. to 6d. per lb. At market, Beasts, 97 ; Sheep, 10... • EDINBURGH, Dee. 24.—The Sheep market was well sup plied this morning, and sales were slowly eloch d, at bwely therme s of last mark.t. Top prier, 30.; middling qualities, 40. to 3d. ; in terior ditto, 3 d. to td. par lb., sinking r Ha!e. A considerable num ber was taken oat of market unsolth The Cattle market was the well uppliod, and first-rate quality was early sold, at tally the rates of last mar.et. Top price, 7s. ; :sedan quality at 6a. to 6a. 6th ; interior ditto, Is. to 3s. GI. the Dutch mom, Waking offal.. Akw inferior animals were taken away unsaid. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S MENTAL DEFECTS.—Thus gifted and thus accomplished, Sir Robert Peel had a great deficiency ;he was without imagination. Wanting imagi nation, he wanted prescience. No one was more sagacious when dealing with the circumstances before him ; uo one penetrated the present with nitre acuteness and accuracy. His judgment was faultless, provided he had not to deal with the future. Thus it happened through his long career, that while he always was looked upon as the most prudent and the safest of leaders, he ever, after a pro- tracted display of admirable tactics, concluded his cam paign,.. by surrenderinz at discretion. lle was so adroit that he could prolong resistance even beyond its term, but so little foreseeing that often in the very triumph of his mem:earns he found himself in an untenable position. And so it came to pats that Roman catholic emancipation, par liamentary reform, and the abrogation of our commercial system, were all carried in haste or in passion, and without conditions or mitigatory arrangements.—Disracti's Life of Bentinck. RHIPPING I.VIEI.LIG pl°"T. Gait tta; la 1 - Leff. Wt. CASUALTIES. Boruwia, Diedrich, from AL mei for Dublin (previously re. ported on shore), has been pd off with nwis! : , g , , brought in here, and, being much strained and le.ky, must oe overhauled.—Elsinore, Dec. 20. Echo, for Africa, has returned into dock, with loss of asiatn mast, stanchions, &c., having been in contact with sa outward bound ship in the river.—Liverpool, D.c. 21. SEABORNE MAILS. rel Ilifrniflee that the omits ere sent from the General Poet-OEOe y the eight —and he by the moaning —despatch. IDay wbasmageal In s% what Is tut•rll INAt. nil at Office Lacdon. otoronet gn Aotcriec(ayfult.r.acket 2.4 htmerica(hyCcited *eft pick Amerte et) gbyt .StateepiLM erica ( %Veit Comet) Aleactutria• •1 Brasil ~ c ce Arm 11 I • r.liturolk via Ctairreill4 ‘Xi.e et °eta: dope Cacatantuoptio • Dec. :6 . I i.o.trio, IJan. 6 I Ka of the month IletbieLethul woad Doe.: et,iy . 9th of the swath I ftth et the otenthl 4, :otit.n.,• 3ntlBl7tboittiontb.s.,th, , I lin of tht: 'moat!. 7thl;tl.27thu7 ift,sol) et 2:,lsitt7 :La en• ,th ,thee, - • :Ara 1 i,461111 CU:Lanai ioNS a"t 71 kr,lnee (teem. Uoutlares N Isviend mar fed:s (via Aouthampt.)ll lota (via Marseille.) N lite& terratcan(via South a.: Awl: Si Plt...(ea:turecillas) Cezko et tsirk 7ll 1 iapk. 24 eApat N reciamilik Pent West In.lles West Indies tempt Its r.itar, tad N man) VI 17th of thoinhott.:•43‘.63l; ?wrier es% 71b17t127thoi &or.' I weer . Toodo7 & Wrriahr. & 17th of tho 1110111.11• 4, onhir Trite 4.; nay oth the month ~r.l,:ther itlOW:ithol month Day& . eke of the motthiduott.earia : . Saud Ith of ;north !Meer Jzo Sad ofthe. icoath!oontionapt o. Jai et% of Pr. 'met:. A.oultel.i.tol. 9, I th,l7th i lvtla,27te *3ettvoi the wrath L:1 , ,-Cr Attil3t.h2Srhof mon Darer Sthls,ll - Lithotreoo Weer IthllthArthof awn k , ..ithrti to 17th o! the month t a. A... IthiStO9thof air.r. &ova ....... J.ttt. _ Ittk ef the rrolliil dototterg r Arrived Ilea el the mind• • The man., w tbooe ereattrtei tr.ua s 4 I 4 ~) sL' cum oy vr neh nseket via ll..rvedlea, The dine'. Havre maid from 4,ndon dminir Gut own , h sill be mote up twice a weak, Tin., Wvd,torta) 11• A 'atur , l27. Css.tedingis.-31,iiii to and team Lain:urea r.a tto Cu.avd .a:es are r. ,w despatched and due hi every Auerlual ♦aIIVED Atter. -off Deel, December 24, from A Lmermsr -at Dover December 20, Dom. .tvaa-off Darer, liceemter 23 Cwarscx off Deal, Decemb r 24. ter m.. Dulles-at Gravesenct, L/ectmber 24, front INLITALD -at liri•ntel, December 23, from GCLI.ANIS -off Deal, Decemcer 21, from INAPrN VlNurrani -DI Portmarutu, Deem& r 24, from 1101.WICKL-4.4 F'almottal, o'er 23, tr.ru Mel., •tna LNDCATILIMS -at DArtmoUtD, tuber .1, Duo, 1 0114.41 I DAN--at Gravaornd, December 2), los3r -at Deal, Docember2l, fr :a... „, Jon.. KIWAI - 23, Queenstown, December LocKw.A)Ds at Queetunown ' December 23, from UN:WA- Queenstown, at Queensto, DeC , ILLAT JJ, &OM oNwAiLD -at Falmouth, becenoter 21, (rum ............L . OIDESTAI. (let AN-Off Fort•mouth, December 24, from.- .11 l' set AND Ineureten -at Southampton, Pte. 24, from .tlek Quasar or Tim Wear-at S tormbe, 1 soctuber 23. from 1 • • HA, kit-at (Amu, December 24, Irma Hooa-mdi Deal, Deer miter 24, temn 3t, • • „ Sr. Da ssuca-at Queenstown. Det ember 23 tiractxrs-at Salconthe, December .21, `rota ' • U.INT-111t CllleelletOWD, I reeember 23, hom %%emu s-at Falmouth, Derma, 23, from WALLACe.-at Queenstown, Lkcember 21, from t . Aluebee SAILED. . & one .Gu. k• .New oua ~.._., ANN men 31Ak7 , 41.001 Gravesend, December 25, to l.* Eveneats—lron Cowes, December 21, t 0...,,. ttrcr Gros Feta—from Hartleposl, December 23, t.. "tun Queens Man, December 23, to —from Sri tol, Nee-ober 25, to Gravesend, Dee. 25, to om Falmouth, December FS, to JACOlitNi—from Pont= tuth, Ite,. 11. to Massa-att.—from shwas, December 24, to ()woe OLMIMItran —horn Swansea, December 24, to . Potentate—from Falmouth, Detember 24, to Ranwara—haw Prieto', December Si ' to Ort DSO—from Falmouth, 'Member 24, to View —from Utare.entl, Deoemb. r 25, to WVULEIN4TUN —fr.= GraTtseed, lac-miter 2i, t 1 ELEM .4.4111. n Cada VEI3BELB SPOKEN WITH. Adele d (.1.4.), from Plymmul hr l'or: Adeldde, Nee. Ts, 1212 N, irm. t i.lo w., 17 day% out. Here ilea ~ Englieh barque), Nov. 21, lat. G. 33 N., lea. 23.10 W. Tae ACSTRALIAN DIGGINGS.—The following extract from a letter dated Melbourne, Aug at S:—•' .\ . thoughts are now turned towards the still greater and 1..• creasing promises of endless wealth now opening before u.. Gold, gold, as you will see and hear, is now found a:. I proved to exist in abundance in many of our ran ~ and government has already taken steps to secure this addition .1 prospect of our growing wealth and importance, by send:!, qualified persons and commis,ioners to the different locality where the mince arc known to be, thus establishing in 50.1 rights, and affording protection and assistance to all v.:, are disposed to try their fortunes in our El Dorado.' C•':::- misssoner W— is one of the numbers so employed a. •:. Pyrenees, near his own station, and samples of their • • gins' have already been received here. As yet they C. not found many ' waggon-loads,' but they have s:.ti•:i t themselves and the public beyond all doubt that the I.: CiOLIS metal does exist there. . . . But, alas, no e. : : without alloy, and we poor squatters must suffer from all these wonderful discoveries. Our men are already th , ertic; us in numbers, and oil off, to the diggings. Happily the weather has been greatly against them, and will C . JCtillll , .) fora month or two longer; but when summer return., if Ow gold continues plentiful, the fever and thirst utter it rem , : become greater and greater, and we poor squatters wi'l have a man left to look after our flocks and herds. Alna.iy this year our losses have been tearful from the long ilrom:lit. Our approaching clip will be far short of former year.—tint from the want of feed; secondly, from cur great ; and now the almost certainty of our men desertiutz upset us altogether until the great news of our gold reach , England, when, no doubt, we shall have en inertias• of emigration and labour beyond our wants. Until thou, help us! I forgot to mention many precious stones 11.aa been found." TUE ANNUITY T.LX.—We aro tad to hc:lr th.a the government are, under certain conditions, likely t eicu their consent to the scheme for the abolition of the Annuity Tax. This is of great importance, as, without that run , - , the bill, which interferes to some extent with the prop,ry of the crown. could not have been even taken into cor,i, lion by parliament.:Slntantat: [AdVeIIistRICTII.3—HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AN I . TF Lev a rola Haor.y.—Ettzact of a letter from Mr. Win. T. of ltunifor, tLard May I, ibil : — l ' To Proferwor LLuf ardy. yearn I wile etsercly afflicted with dropay; at wa and legs were so much awdll...a that I was gave anukie t. . consultid many doctors, at d tried remedy after remedy win ebtalnlng relitf, but I wto diseppointel m aU uail I tri. raluttil: pill., which I gruielu ly acknowledge hang been or JllOl of of 4 cure of my comolaint, and I am now ::. lament of etc:client health."—Sol.l by all wakes of in., throughout the cicalae," world, and at Prulttaw I. liahmetit, 211, strand, London. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTILs. CROCCII.—Dee. 21, at Bruton, Jim., Esq., of a slaughter. DI:NSNIURE.—Dee 20, at Castle-street, Mn. J. Dontroure, (41 col, FU LIGN.—Dee. 10, at Grattan-stet et, Glasgow, Ilra. D. Pahl, el a daughter. WI:GIL-Ik¢. 22, at Dublin, the wile of Cul. J. B. Gavel, of a HAMILTON.—Dec. 19, at torn-place, Glasgow, Mrs.!. , en a son. HEN r, the wife of J.Cron:h. ttY.—Dee. 21, at Wooaandsll, Lacca-h!ro, e licray, of • daughter. ABUT['.—Dee. il, at East Vaton, the wile of Dr. 111,:op, et s daughter. loLLAND.—flat. 21, at Epsom, Surrey, the w.'e of A. nand, cr a eon. llLLF.g.—Dect. 21, at 11-rwitsge-place, Leah, Mot. it. X': tt, of a daughter. ISAIiRIAGES. BELVILLE—LAST.—At et. Anitel; l oniolborn, by the rim LI. Tookull. hector, J. 11. Beleille. Eaq of t.revnwich, to IL.ra Elisabeth uic2e of S. Lost, Esq., o , B, Wes, Suffolk. • 110219ET-31 ti'Ple.—Dee. 21, at Trinity Chur.h, 31.arle'Jne bY the Rev. W. J. LuseCtle. W. Hom 'ey EN., of Sloaeb, to dub daughter of the Lite R. Hoehn, EN, of Falt.hilL FO .ITE-11ARRIS.—Dee.3 4 ' o f St. Jude's, Soothaea. by Pe Rev. J. L. Barton, II J. G. Foote, k N., of the Brioeh o:ll,ulate, CITY Town, CA., etileot non of J. Foote, EN., late 'd' ll.M. 3 - . t 13.44:. to Helen, fourth dAtgliter of th: late W. R. Harry, Yap., " • Aubyree, Southses. STAFFORD —SLATER.—Dee. 23, at Teignmouth, Neon-hire. 'Leg Conway, Stafford, Studras Retired List, to Flore.la the late C. P. Slater, N.D., and daughter of C. IL de Bel:moue, F. 40 WHITEIIEAD—BUCK3IASTER.—Der. 20, at Clapham.. 3 :!•:` - ‘ 1 . youNrest .on of T. Whitehead, Eq., of Rantega•e. to N 1,12, daughter of the toe W. Laekro.tar, EN, ti Ern.ingtos. DEATHS. AUBEIL—Dee. 22, Henry, tamn son of the Bev. C. B. Albert of Moreton Pinkney, Northacupt.nsbire, aged 12 months. BARING.—Dee. 22, at Grosvenor-cretcent, Blanche, only child Hon. and Bev. P. Baring, of Melchetiurk, aged 13. CLOWV.—Deo. 22, at Walwortb, Ann, widow of the late Mr. J. Clowe, aged n 3. CtiltßlE.—Dee. 10, 411 tub:try, Mary Amelia, relict of the late)tr. William Currie, of Welltrtghwough, Northamptewhire. EDMOND.—Dee. 21, at Antacid-place, Cliaagter, John, Infest etc of the Rev.'. Edmond. VORBEs.—Dee. 20, at Melville,: reet, Agnes Forbes, ekle4 surtivzi daughter el the late Mr. J. Forbes, Ardehylinc. Arg7 l •Aire• GORDON.—Dee. 21. at St. George's-road, Glasgow, Mies "3414 Doug:as, Lanarkshire. HART.—Dee. 21, at Clapham, Mr. J. Hart, late of }itch NS) a.trAc. Bucks, aged 73. MAC:SAUL—Dec.22, at Greenvale. Glasgow, J. Maznalr, &q., of tits Oreeweele Chemical Works. STABLE.—Dee. at Hazleten, near Cranhfook, Kent, the GM D. Stable. aged 37. Printed ant pubik,,e.l L iYiwtr .itno of No. k Loma ' street, in the Caty Printer. sr the Oicr.,o *wee to the Dredliet C t hitarist..—Fetutr, I»:ctinr+ ISSL lhC. i:l Au 4014)1 'at. I .. 1, n. iv, d U•c.l) 4!:•••• Arrirt 2 'Dee. 29 Jan. 141. pear gran' mi with celet - oval of es tett tool Al 111.4 t. bpoli BERi LONI V- took may, ton I 113 th , arr. their took Comp were Lian moot broth oocas Ali Innyt, LEV porn repro, outfit liburt and t 01le Rogiu enemy which tho su Ont. journ any of soevid arose, The of the which chair, Benja: baffles Mr. baron e t and the