The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-26 00:00:00

1 THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1864. been written expressly for this theatre by Mr. Robert &sitar, of the Olympic, for some years past the enceenftd author of the pantomimes for the Brighton Theatre. The author has formed his story from several eastern tales, as the following brief sketch of the plot will show : King Rainbow and BrilLiaotiasizna, the Fairy Queen, have under their protection a youth named Assad and a Princess !Mundial, only daughter of the King of Winkin. These young persons, through a dream, have become ena moured of each other. To separate them, the evil power, Abaddon, who loan enemy to Kiog Rainbow, having been driven from Fairyland for rebellion, forms the bronze horse, and dies away with the princess, in sight of her f►ther and his court. Assad hears of the reward off !red for the reco very of the prime's, and sets forth in the hoped finding her. He is waylaid by Abaddoo, in the guise of a wee chant, and by him imprisoned in the Magic Cave, to which the king has also been consigned. In this dilemma the fairy power assists Assad, and he is enabled to go in par. snit of Bbulbhul, on the bronze bone. The princess, in the meantime, has been conveyed to the territory of Okeipo keiwankei, a terrible emperor, who wishes to make her his wife. She is, however, ?summed by Assad, and they are about to depart, when Abaddon seizes on them both, with a view to vengeance. The timely interference of the fairy power sets all so rights, and makes the lovers happy. Mr. J. A. Cave has mounted this excellent pantomime with great taste and liberality, and has brought all his musical judgnient to bear upon the la:odium in the opening mem He plays a burlesque Emperor with great effect, end is supported by a very complete cempany. The clown, Mr. J. W. Lawrence, is a clown, and not an acrobat, and the pantomime has a most liberal allowance of real " comic business." The scenery is artistic and novel, and a new trick is introduced, in which a house, occupied by pantaloon and clown, is completely turned round, leaving them, bed stead ad all, out of doors in • snow scene, and imprisoning two burglars who bad made their near a with • sackful , f plate. Mr. C.ve n ekes good use of his large stage—the deepest in London—and the pantomime is one of the best of the 11111.00. CHRISTMAS-DAY IN THE WORKHOUSES. Four-and-twenty years have now elapsed since, under the above title, the London press first made the metropolitan ratepayers and the general public acquainted with the details relating to the ratio of pauperism wbieb each of the respective districts of the metropolis and its suburbs hail to stuitaia ; and it is a gratifying fact to be able to remark that, notwithstanding the enormous increase in the population which has taken place in every district, with the exception of the City of London, the increase of pauperism generally has by no means advanced in pro portion to the increased population during the period re ferred to. The circumstance of Christmas-day falling this year on the Sunday will doubtless have the effect of redueiag in • measure the enjoymeata which the poor, as well ea society in general, usuady devote themselves to, during the atter noon and evening of this snuiversui ; and with regard to our workhouse population, is the majority of cases it has the effect of diminishing their creature comforts ; but as will be observed by • perusal of the subjoined report there are several instances whore the parochial authorities, with • view of not depriving the poor inmates of their Sunday's meat dinner, have arranged that all the Christmas-day's festivities should be bold on " Boxing-day," and they will, in such instances, be held this day accordingly. Generally there is this year but alight ilICTS•110 over last year in toe number of poor receiving indoor relief, but there is a corresponding decrease in the out-door poor. A remarkable feature, however, is the discrepancy which exists with regard to the contract price of provisions be tween the present time and Christmas of last year. The prim of meat throughout is found to be greater, whilst bread and dour are considerably cheaper. The greatest dia. crepsocies, however, which have occurred, are in the items of potatoes, butter, and cheese, which, in some instances, vary from 10 to 15 per oat higher tbaa last year. Crry or LONDON UNION.-The City of London rnioe comprises the 96 parishes within the walla, and its population at the moms of 1861 was 45,555. The iaeaafes of the workhouse, Bow-road, exclusive of children in the Central London District Schools at Haawall, are 814 (last Christmas they were 871), viz. :-Adult tuales, 339; females, 442; children, 33. Number of out-door poor at present receiving relief, 1,8141 (last year, 1,939); able bodied, 283; not able-bodied, 867 • children, 711. This is one of the ion:some referred to in the fore going paragraph. where Christmas-day is to be kept this day (Bong-day) instead of Sunday. The fare is bread and butter and coffee for breakfast ; roast pork and beef with • pint of porter and Ilb of plum pudding to each adult, with half ea ousted tobacco to each man, and half an ounce of snuff to each woman. Tea and bread and butter extra sod fruit and sweets to the children. Sick, elder wine and extras suitable to their state of health. An entertain ment is also given on the 12th January, at the exposes of the guardians and citizens. The City of Loudon Chriatinas pudding is composed of the following ingredients :-Flour, 1501 be ; suet, 160110. ; moms, 3 cwt.; otiresata, 21 cert. ; mixed peel, bibs ; mixed spice, 31be ; ground ciunansoo, 141le ; cloves, (lb ; nutmeg, 114, &c. Contract price of provolone :-Heat, 4s. 6d, and 6.. 6d. per stops ; flour, 28s. ticl. per rack ; potatoes, st, per too ,• anger, 39e. 6d., and butter, 102 e, per cwt. Last year :- Mest, 4s. 3d. per stone ' • sugar. 3tie. ties. ; dour, 30a. 6d. ; potatoes, 51. ; butter, 82s. Decrease on indoor poor, 57 ;on outdoor poor, 78 ; total decrease, 133. Sr. MARYLasoxx.-The extent of Marylebone is 1,5 tel acres, and its population at that:memo( 1861 was 167,609, number of rateable Louses, 18,500, and its SIONIIIII/1114 Is) property tax, 950,0001. • bat by the last new sesessment of the 51iddlesee magistrate it is pow over armlike. Inmatesof the workhouse, 1,710 (lest year, 1,651e1; men, 571 ; worms, 994 ; children, 145 ; in the schools at souther', 405 ; number of outdoor poor. 2,586; total, in and out-doer poor, 4,701 ; against 4,842 in the corresponding week of last year. Cbristmea-dey fare to each adult : 41b. roast beef, with vegetables, /lb plum pudding, one pint of porter, end a pint of tea isionong and night, with oranges end nuts teethe children. The ingredients of the 3Laryleborie pudding wets iu the gram about 1,4611b5. : Flour, 420 lbs. ; suet, 31.U1b5.; raisins, 200 lbs. ; currants, 203 lbs. ; ' peel, 30 lbs. ; spice, 51bs ; ginger, 5 lbs. • eggs, 61A); salt, 10 lbs. • milk, 10 gallons ; ale, 10 gallops. Contract price of ever ywhere Flour, per sack, 28e. ; wheat, per stare, 4e. 4d. ; potatoes, per too, Wa.. , butter, 9(1.; sugar, ;Va. per cwt. lest year : dour, 30a. 6d. ; meat, 4s. 4d. ; potatoes, 68e. ; butter, 66e. ; sugar, 3.5 e. Decrease in pane as compared %Oblast year, 141. Sr. PANCRAK.-This polish not only bears the palm with respect to pommels( the largest population, but also in the maintaining the largest number of poor in the metropolis. Its population at the last census was 106,796, and its extent 2,71 G acres. I o.dour poor of work house, 1,740; at lunatic asylums, 355 ; children at Judos trial schools, Forest-gate, 167 ; at the North Surrey dis trict school, Aaisrley, 135 ; at sea-bathing ostabliobssosts. 39-total, at *spume establishments, 696; wayfarers, wanderers, and foundlings, 89; other vagrant poor, 219- total indoor-poor, 2,410 (last Christman, 2,4:.1)) ; ont.door poor, 5,466 (last year, 5.3031-total poor this year, 7,876 (last year, 7,72 i). In order that the poor shall set be deprived of their usual Sunday meat dinner the Christmas-day fare is supplied to-day, and the various balls have been tastefully decorated with evergreens, flower", &c., some of which were used at the late pare dis tribution of the North Middlesex Volunteer Rifles. The St. Pancras' Chi istmaspoddieg is of Brobdignagian proportions, weighing in the gross something like 2.291.11 be, and is com posed of the following ingredients :-Flour, 69211 e. • suet, 43015.; sugar, 2241ba.; raisins. 2661bs ; current', 2661 be.; candied peel, 561ba. ; spice, 415. ; ginger. 315. ; eggs, 1.400; ale (Huggins and Co.'s treble X),12 galls, Christmas dioner-Halfpoued of roast beef, 114 of potatoes, lib. of plum pudding, and 1 pint of porter, wish bread and butter for breakfast and supper. Adult males, loz. of tobacco, and females, who like it, half an ounce of snuff each ; children and insane, apples, oranges, ke. As se lamest*, incident connected wits this boom, the innate, by mellliS l of • pansy subscription, yesterday presented Mrs. lionises,' the matron, with • beautiful diamond and opal rise, as a small souvenir of their appreciation of that lady's kind and considerate treatment. The guardians and their friends will be present this day to witness the distaihntios of the Christmas bounty. Increase of pour, as compared with corresponding period last year. 153. Sr. 11A511**-IN •THE•FI ZEDS. -The population of the royal parish of St. Mertes is 24,140. In-door poor , .0 (last year, 389) ; men 144 ; women, TAT ; boys, 5; girls, 2 • infanta, 6. Out-doe; poor 237 (last ear, 255)-adult aides, 14 ; females, 102 • children , 12L-Chnetnowday fare: Roast beef, plum middies. sod potatoes. Distribv tees of out relief : 205 lbs. meat, 91 loaves, of bread, and 24 ors. of tea and yli sugar each person. Bt Hartia's Christmas podding. 135 lbs. of raisins, 70 lbs. currants, 13 lbs. peel, 3lte. @Mee, 5 Moos of suet, 35 lbs. sugar, 13 dozen eggs, and 1801bn. of four. leaches in poor, 19. Won LONDON Utriox. - In-door poor, 414 • farmed out, is consequence of part of the old workhous e bang palled dews, 74 ; total, 488 Vast year, 428). Outdoor poor, 1,410 (last year, 1,482). Children at London Central District School, Beam& Fare : rosollbssf, plum podding, beer, tobacco, *tuff, oranges, 3:e. Increase on in-door poor, 60 ; decrease cc out-doer poor. 72-total decrease, 12. Sr. J•sm's, WEsystiNsron.--Population at census of 1861, 35,326. Inmates of the workhouses, Poland-street, 659 (last year, 663) ; Me. 229 ; women, 372; children, 58. Children at the parochial schools, Betterecocomeme. sod /Mt Tooting, 169 ; last year, 176. Number of out-door poor, 810 ; last year, itso. The festivities of Christmas will be held this day (Moeday), and each inmate allowed Boz. baked beef, 10 re baked potatoes, and 1 pint of porter. Holidays tomorrow and Wednesday as well, and 50 aged leave of absence from three days to • fertnight to visit Maeda. Children estertaieed with oranges, apples, buns, Ste Ingredients of St. James's Christmas pudding -2201b5. raisins, 160Ibs. currants, 4215. anger, 2015. (resale, 2115. lemon real. 28011 e. flour, 315. mixed spice, 18015. suet, and 120 eggs. Decrease on in-dour poor 13, on out door poor, 40. Total decrease, 53. ST. G EoKee, II A NoVEIt•SQUARE.-Extent, 1,161 acres ; population, loot memos, 87,711 : Mendes or the workhouses in Mount-street and Little Chelsea, 589 (last year, 614) ; men, 166, women, 263, children, 140. Christ mas-day fare roast beef and baked potatoes, 14 on. plum pudding, and • pint of porter each adult ; children an allow ance of fruit. and holidays; gratuities also given on Christ mas-eve and New-year's-day. No return given as to out -1 door poor. Contract prim for meat 4e. Rd. per 815. ; flour, MADAME Tusser u's. -This moat popular rota- 3a s , 481. per sack; butter, 96e.; cheese, 648.; catnieal. 128.6 d. ifithosest has bail many edditional models within its walls per ewe; to., 2s. per lb.; and Nagar 43e. per cwt. Decrease thee the last year's holidays. and we doubt not that the on indwr_RY ...1811073, KENSINGTON. -Population, 5. as exhibition win, heretofore, prove biphly attractiv e t o . as Sr . NA • well as as liberally patronised by, the he lido folk durin the 70 40d ' 153, (melee, 188, child inmates of workhouse ' 415 (last year, 448); y g ma les, child ren, 74 ; outdoor poor , Christina@ week. la the Chamber of 11. non is a full-length a‘ l n ig e , 444, childr e n, 540, total, 1,034 (O a t Christmas, media of Muller, taken from life, and c neeted from • mat 1,057). Amount of relief in money for the week, 931., Takla by Dr. Donovan, of the Plirenol, goal School. last year. 76f. 188. 9d. Fare, 34 lbs. of roast beef, potato e s, 1 lb. of plum podding andl pint of Barclay's LreeCte-Mdlle. Beatrice, the pleasing French i porter ; children proportionately r , tobacco, snuff. fruit, de. asbesa, is engaged at the Lyceum for threeconsecutive years ' 113 children under 12 passed out at St. George's 'Wearied Shortly after Christmas " The Lady of Lyons" will be re: I School, Pl.thet The Bensioetas notate , are on this orm .4 lir, One destined to undergo the anti-Beating precool', singe presented, with Mdlle. Beatrice the Pauline, Orly enough at the instigation of that truly philanthropic Fechter as Claude Barnette. Individual from wbom the derives its name Yr. CRY,TAL PALATE.-The Palace will be opened i Basting having kin y preented to the bard of at nine o'cioak this morning, and lighted up at dusk. It will ltnaidi n n• • 10 9 •, viz o 61 ' th• a g ed inmat e s and I 5/. to the children, to be distributed by Mr. Blseliwell, th e also remain open sufficiently long to all o w o f th e visitors ! master, in the se ns e way as last year, when r. Santini gave returning at leisure. Oa Boxing-day last year 43,741 the like sum. Contract price of meat, tis. 11d. per stone • visitors attended the Palace. With the increased facilities breed, Os. 11d. per cwt. ; flour, 32a. per wok • potatoes: offersdby the railway composite, coupled with the unusually 41. 59. per too. Last year-]teat fe. 7d. ; br eed,' I Is. ; long list of spoial attractions, the numbers are this year floor . ; P °.1 " ..4 68. * dirmse on is-doerexpected to he still larger. , 33 i • as nntdoor, 177-total decrease, 210. I hiT. MATTHEW, METTINAL-GREIN.-Population at 1 last ceases 103,101. Inmates of workhouse, 1,172 (last Dm Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta year. 1,183); men. 426 ; women, 4%e ; boys. 136 ; giria. 112; Ambles reed restorer perfect digestion. strong nerves • sound out-door poor, 1,144 (last year, n 114); adults, 516; A ll & lenge healthy nver, re sleep. functional regularity, and en 628 Christmas fare A liberal supply of rout hoof, energy to the moat dis t o n rl i tl iT enfeebled. removing speedily r * sod effectually indigestion IdWirentiC habitual constipation, D. plodding. •and porter. The children after tea supptied nervous, bilious. and liver complaints • fevers. hmuorrbold , with orange, nuts, ke. It will be *bound from the fore. fliguleory, sore throote, catarrhs. colds, Infanta, noises In the g going statistics that, whilst there is but • denesse of 11 on head oad ears, rheumatisas,pt, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, the indoor poor, Haire is a large humors of 326 on the irritahtlltY, use bena• acidity , aelnitettoe. heath- number of out-door poor as compared with last Christmas. burn, headache, debility, d &relian► cramps, means, moors and This result has ro doubt orginated and bees effected in cot sicionm, nuking fits, cough. asthma. l•ronchitis. consumption, M. mop Ins.ii y. ; sequoias of th e ugdoetneate, and by so metes creditelde, ma -Du Barry and C... 77, RemaAstreet. Mal°. ; Ei s g. notoriety which the authorities of Babied-green have spa. lea dealer. and MI grace's sat eDsmista In the kuordam.- achieved for themselves during the past year, and which has ladvertiesmeet I led to • more emeriti' and liberal dirtributios of out. relief. It will be admitted on all hands, however, that the step has been one in the right direction. Total increase of poor 315. Contract price of provision : Floor per rack, 275. ' 6d. ; meat per stone of 141 k. ., Gs. sd. ;k a per lb., 2s. ; sugar per cwt.. 41s. 6d. STRAND UNION. —Popildation 44,098 ; initiates of - workhouse, Clerrelarid-street, 561) bast year ewe som ber); children at school at Edmonton, 219 (last year, 213); 108 hurtles at asylums; outdoor poor, 1,220 ( list Year 1,273). Inmates of workhouse regaled with 6 oz. boiled pork, carrots. potatoes, 12 oz. plum pudding sad 1 pint of beer, snuff and tobacco for adults, sod children according to age this day ; but on Christmsaday their sisal mat dieser. Ingredients of Christmas priddiss-200 lbs. flour, 336 lbs. fruit, 9 lb.. citron and spkw, 140 lbs. suet, and 56 lbs. sugar, mixed with 45 gallops of now milk, producing 30 puddings of about 231bs. weight each, sad of which every inmate will receive a portion cold on New Year'iday. Contract price of provisions: Bread, 10s. Id.; flour, 295. 941.; mutton. 80.; cheese, 565.; butter, 88e.; potatoes, 100 s. per ton; sugar, 445. Last year, bread, lls. 6d. ; flour, 345. • mutton, Se.; cheese, 445.; butter, 645. ; potatoes, 93e. ; :ad sugar, 365. . . ST. GEORGE'S-IN•TRZ-EAST.-Population at last minus : Males, 23,129 ; females, 25,259 ; total, 48,388 ; in mates of workhouse, 794 (last year, 809) ; ono, 225 ; women, 513; children, 56 ; also '2'79 'children it liaskat Industrial Schools ; outdoor poor, 2,069 (last year, 1,195) ; adults, 1,011 ,• &Urea, 1,0Z3. Christmas flue : 6 oz. roan beef, 16 oz. plum pudding, and 1 pint of porter each. In gredients of St. George's podding : 4 cwt. raisins and cur rants, 12/be. peel, 110th.. suet, eggs, spice, essence of lemon , Ac. Contract price of dour, 28a. per sack ; meat, 6s. 6d: per atoms (lest year, flour, 30s. moat, sa. 100). Decroin in in-door poor, 15 ; increase in outdoor poor, 74 ; total increase, 59. Tobacco, muff, sad porter, also, on Boxing day to inmate*. ST. MARY, Ntwrscrow.-Population at census of 1861, n,000; !molter of indoor poor 511 (lest Christ mas, 545); males, 178; females, 270; elkildreo, 43. The mass of the children are " farmed our at the South Me tropolitan District School at Sutton. Number of outdoor poor, 1,842 (last year, 1,677); adults, 937 ; children, 905. Christmas-day faro : Breakfast, bread and butter and tea; dinner, 6oz. roast beef and ireptables, Ilb. of plum pudding, and 1 pint of Barclay and Perkins's best ported ; toe, same as at breakfast. The St. Ihiry,g Newiogtoo Christmas. pudding weighed 818 lbs., yid was compos ed of 2401 km fault, 120 lbs. suet, 56 10n. sugar, 200 lbs. of flour, 2CO and 21b.. mixed spice. Contract price of provisions:- Beef, per stone. 4a, last year 3s. 6d. ; mutton, 5.. 6d., last year. 4s. 4d. ; flour, per sank, 28a. lid., last year, 30a. ; sugar, per cwt., 395., last year, 355. ; butter, per Owt., last year, 82s. ; cheese, 50a, last year, 45. Decrease in in-door poor, 34 ; lacrosse in out-door poor, 165 ; total increase of poor, 131. Sr. MARY MACIDALIer, BERMONDSEY.-Number of in-door poor, 688 ; lest year, 678. In the workhouse. 171 males; tansies, 280 ; children, 69. At the schools at Salton, 89 boys, 79 girls ; total, 168. The number of per sons admitted to night's lodgings during the year have been ' 3,420 in.,, 2.663 women, and 1,680 children ; of these 96 destroyed their clothes and others bad to tea furnished. Outdoor poor, 1,223 (lam year 1,166) ; adults. able bodied, 165; not able bodied, 446; ehildven, 612. Christmas-day fare : Roast pork, potatoes, and plum pudding, with a pint of Barclay's porter each to adults, and fruit, 5:e., for chil dres, for whom also entertainment, of dissolving vlews, Ice, are provided for this evening. Contract prim of provi sions-Beef, du ; mutton, 7s. 4d. pm atom, of 141b5.; butter, 98. ; chore. 48e. ; bread, 10e. 4d. per cwt. • liner, 29..m, p seek ; last year, beef and mutton, en. Bc. sod 7s. 4a. ; batter, 70a. ; cheese, 445. ; bread, 10e. Ild. ; and flour, 31.. 6d. per rack. Increase in in-door poor, 10 ; increase in out-door poor, 57 ; total laces.., 67. GREMYWICII UNION.-Inmates of workhouse , 935 (last year, 906) ; 322; women, 517 ; children, 96: Children at the Sutton schools, 297. Outdoor poor. 5.083 (last Christmas, 4,9881: adults, able-bodied, 1,192; not able-bodied, 1,552 ; children, 2,339. Amount of out relief, Chi-10tt0.% 1864, 7431. 18s. ld. • at 1863, 301/. Os. sd. Cbristmasdav fare-Roast beef a nd plum pudding, and on this day (boxing-day), another pudding made with 3 cwt. minis, 1 cwt. currents, 30 doom eggs, Ac. The dining hall was tastefully decorated with lisp lent by Messrs. Lane and Reeve, of Leadeoball-street. Bread, per cwt., lin. • flour, partook, 30e. • meat, per 141b5., 9a. ; butter, per mi., 90e. ; potatoes, per Lms, 80a. ; last year, bread, 10a. 103. ; fl our, 35. ; butter, 68e. ;as potatoes, 67.. 6d. Increase on M- I door, 29, and on out-door poor, 95; total increase, 124. WHITECH•PRI. UItION.-IDIMAtet of workhouse , 679 (last yes, 674) ; men. 244 ; women, 376 ; children, 59. The children, except those rankly and infanta, at the iodustriel echool% Forest - pie, number 237. No return given of out-door poor. Chrisitansday fare :- Eztra allowance of tea and sugar morning end evening ; ditimat-8 or. baked beef, 12 on. baked potatoes., 1 pint of Truman's porter. sod llb. pudding. Ingredients of the Whitschatiel pudding : 3501 b. flour, 1281 b. suet. 3921 b. raisins, 1121 b. currants, 141 b. peel, 11b. spice. 96 quarts milk, 72 eggs, and 361 b. sager--groes weight, 1,0291 b. In creme on 3m-door poor, 5. . . . apples, tobacco, sweets, &c., at exposes of guardians and vestry, and elm at the commencement of the new year pro- pose slyly, a funber treat, aided by a cask of elder wine from Mr. W. Neale, and • quarter teak of wine by Mr. S. Porkies. Flour, 28s. per sack ; meat, 4a per stomp ; but year, Boor TJa. ; meat, ta 4d. Lames 91. ST. ILARDARKT'A AND ST. JOHN'S, WEBTNINSTrit. —Population 68,177. Inmates of the two workbonsm, " Petty France" and at Kensington, an as follows :—Potty Femme, 175 (last year, 172) ; men 58, women 93, boys 13, girls IL In Kensingto n, 879 (last year 657); nan,l9B. women 321, boys 97, girls lil. Out-door poor, who will hare extra meat and tea and sugar, 1,762 Oast year 1,705). Outdoor relief—money, 34t. 7s. 6d. ; kind, 671. La. I Id. ; total, 102!. Os. sd. (last year, 811. 4s. Bd.) Chrisimas•day fare— Roast beef and plum piddicg ad iibause, and 1 pint of por ter. Tobacco and mud to thane who desire it, and oranges, apples, kn., to c/uldrea mid Mesh& Sm. Margaret's and St. John's : Puddings, at " Petty Frame" house. weight about 34211 n. Ingredients Flour, 561bs. ; suet, 34Ibs. ; raisins, 961bs. •, currants, 9thbs. ; sugar, ?Albs. ; eggs, 100 (941ba.); ale, 14 pinta ; milk, 18 pints; peel, 2ilbs. ; twice, 11b. ; ground ginger, ilb. Keemington house: H eight about 1,4001te. Flour, 2801 tr ; mains, :01ba ; corrupts, =4lba. ; suet, 200I1s. ; treacle, 48Iba. ; eggs, 400 ; peel, like. ; sumr,ll2lbs. ; spice, ; milk, 10 gallons ; ale, s . callons. Increase on fin-door poor, 23; on out-door poor, 5i ; total Menem, 82. HENDON UNION.-Inmates of Redhill workhouse, 127 (last Christmas, 124) ; children in the schools same as last year, 55. The supply of roast beef, of the best quality, was 220115., with potatoes, and plum pudding, lib. so each inmate, and 1 pint of ale each for dinner. The pudding was composed of 401 he. corrals, 251ba. of raisins, 21bs. of candied peal, lib. of mind spin, 301ba. of suet, and 501 be. of flour. For eveoiog enjoyment there wen also provided 3165. of tobacco, 2115. of snuff, and 36 gallons of al* for adults, and fruit, he., for children. The dining-ball was profusely decorated with evergreen, and the arms of Engles d, the arms of the Royal Navy, and a .umber of scripture devices. Hunan of poor in the house, 3. HoLoolt:f I:mos.-Population at last census, 44,861 ; inmates of cookhouse, Gray's-inn-road, 456; last year, 421; out-door poor, 1,106 ; last Christmas, 1,119 ; total poor this year, 1,562 ; last year. 1,540. lonates re ceived roast pork, potatoes, plum pudding, Mc., as much am each required. The Holborn pudding °unstated of 120th.. of flour, 140 lbs. raisins. 50 lbs. canals., 11211 e. suet, 360 eggs, 50 lbs. sugar, and 16 lbs. of spice and peel. The con tract price for meat dearer and flour cheaper than last year. /Paean in io sad out door poor, 22. Sr. MARY, IbLlßato:4.-Population at last cams, 155,291 ; present population, 160,4X0 ; inmates of workhouse, 491 • lan you, 461 ; males, 153 ; females, 3v3 ; children, 25. Then are 105 boys and 1 1 3 girls, with 10 adults, at the int ant establishment Morass, -road ; also 182 lunatics, 27 aged men, and 4 choldreo farmed out. Out-door poor, 2,402; last Christmas, 2,360. Christmas. day fare :-6 or. of cooked roast beef, free from lone, with baked potatoes and bread, Lb of rich plum pudding. and 1 pint of Truman sad Hanbory's porter, with an extra allowance of tea and sugar. Relief in mooey for week, 1451. 12a. 7d. ;in kind, 141. 18s. 9d. Conant price of pro visions -meat, p.r stone of 141ba., 7s. 6d. ; flour, per sack, 295. 6d. bread 9a. 241, butter 74.., cheese 465., and oatmeal 14s. per cwt. Last year-meat, tin. Iod. ' • dour, 31s. ; bred, 91. 11d. ; butter, 625. ; cheese, Ms. • oat meal, 15s. 6d. thorns* in in-door poor, 20 ;in out: door poor, 42 ; total imweaso, 62. ST. SATIOLR'S UNION.--Cbrietmas in this union is kept today (Monday), and the inmates are to have roast beef, plum podding, sod porter. The master gives so statistics as to number of inmates, but states, although ex traordinary quantities and quality of workhouse puddoop are given frau most districts, " he had the best pudding last year of any workhouse in London, and don't anticipate being beaten this year.", irKENTFORD UNION. -113MaLeZ, 363 (last year 390) ; mesa% ; wow. n, 115 ; children, 122 ; out-door poor, 1,620 (last year 1,629); Christmas fare, )lb. rout beef, 11b. ' pudding, lib. potatoes and 1 pint of luer each, setts tea to all, and fruit to the children. Brentford pudding-1201b% raisins, 2816 s currants, 841bs. suet, 1561ba. flour, 461bs. sugar, with up and spice ; bread baked in the horse at a cost of sd. per 41b. lost. Contract price of provision flour 30s. per sack; beef Ntl., mutton 6d., cheese 4 better 90 per lb. Decrease in in-door poor, 27 ; in out door poor, 9 ; total decrease, 36. Dills -END OLD TOW N.-Population, 80,000; area, 681 acres; houses, 11,830; rateable value to county, 191,8562. ; poor rat 6d. in the pound per quarter ; rates of psagrism shout 2) per cent. on population • inmates 684, less 56 belonging to Isnogton and West ll:oodon leaviog 626 (last you 637) ; men, 184 ; women, 310; children, 90; lunatics asylum, 33 (last year, 52) ; in workhouse. 80 (last year 78) ; casuals in the weak, 162 (last year 181) ; out-door poor, 1,062 llaat year 960) ; week's relief, 50i. sa. 4d. (last year, 481. 13a.) ; loaves given during the week, 9;2 (last year 971). Fare for inmates given this 4sy (Monday), half lb. roast beef, 11b. baked potatoes, 11b. plum.pudding, 1 pint of Mann's porter, unit, tobacco, apples, oranges, nut, toys, Sc., for children and imbeciles lhe industrial school adjoins the workhouse. and 16 of the boys form an exceedingly good brus teed, and oo Saturday the children, headed by their band, visited the Tower of Loedes, a description of which teat has bean very nicely written by one of the boys. Coo. tract price of provisions -Bread 9s. 6d., flour 28s, meat 6a. 7d., potatoes 3a. 6d., butter 975. cheese 475. 64., oat meal 125., and sugar 35a , per cat. ; le st year-bread 10x 2d., flour 31a, meat 6s. 101., potatoes 2a. 6d., butter 80x. cheese 46e., oatmeal lls. 9c1., sugar 44a. Decrease on ia-door poor 29, increase in out-door 82 ; total increase 53. ST. MART LAMBZTH.-Population, 161,908 ; inmates of workhorse, 972 (last year, 93'2) ; children in Norwood schools 360 (last year 354) ; men, 447 ; woman, 462 ; childrea, 63 ; out-door poor adults, 3,113: children, 790 • total, 3,903 (last year, 5,358). an :unseat fare, 6 oz. lost pork (cooked), 12 oz. biked potatoes, 14 oz. plum pad. dies, and owl pint of porter, with tobacco, snuff, &o, Con• tract prices : Meat. 4e. 7d. • flour, par sack, ?Ja. 6d. ; wheat, per quarter. 39 5. 6d. ; bider, 110 s. ; chews 565, per cwt.; and sada, 19s. 9d. per ton. Increase in indoor poor, 46; in outdoor poor, 645 ; total increase, 691. ST. Gin's IN THZ 679 (last year, 737) ; men, 196 ; boys, 87 ; females, 351 ; 44 ; outdoor poor, 1,051; adults, 529 ; children, 502. Chi:la mas-day fare this day (Monday) : Roast beef, llb each ; pots. toes ad libitum • plum puddles, ; porter, 1 pint; tobacco, snuff. ke. Holiday greeted oe appliestios. Price of meat. 3s. 6d. ; last year, 3s. 5d ; bread, Ns. per elm ST. Jsmes's, Curameserril.-Inmates of the workhouse, 538 (last year same number); outdoor poor, 1,260, last year 1,160. Childress at schools at Highgate. Fare : roast pork and potatoes ad lib., 11b. plum pudding and 1 pint of potter each adult ; sick and infirm, roast mutton,lrdtents, and pudding. Floor, 11301 be. • sues 1121bs, ; uns 1401ba. ; conanta, 112Ibs. ; sugar, 4011 s. ; sus, 1 . Contract prices :-Bread, 9.. 101. ' • meet, 61a. 101 ; butter, 96e. ; cheesy , 495. pee cwt. Le st year : Breed, 10s. Bd. ; meat. 535. Bd. ; butter, 701. ; cheese, 45a. Increase in oat-dine poor, 100. STarsay Uno N.—Population at last census, 66.572. la-door poor. 1,067 (Let Christmas, 1,017); males, 256 ; females. 331 ; childish, 468. Outdoor poor, 1,366 float year, 1.394) ; vagrants, 93 (lest year, 103) ;io lunatic asylums. 122 (last year, 129). Each inmate supplied with old English fare of roast beef and plum pudding, 1 plot of , tobacco sod snuff for adult., apples aod arenas porter iklreo. Contract prices :—Flour per sack, 295.; most. 141 b., 6.. 73.; bread, 9a. 73.; bolter, 100 s; cheese. 3C..; sugar, 375.; oatmeal, 115.; and potatoes, 2s. 9d. per cat. Last year : Flour, 295; bread, 10s. Id.; moat, 6e. 23.; butter, 86e.; chew!. 45.. 6d.; sugar, 445.; oatmeal. 13a.; sod potatoes, 2.r. 9d. lanais. on io-door poor, 40 ; &creole on outdoor, 26—total bicrease, 14. ST. LiON•RD, StlOßT.DlTCH.—Population at ]nit census, 129,364. limas", 766 (last year, 716); moo. 252 ; worms). 435 ; boys, 17 ; girls, 32. There are oleo :siB chil dren at the parochial establishment, Itreutwood. Out-door poor, 2.311 (last Christmas, 2.457) ; nues, 276 ; females, 946 ; children, 1,089. Out relief for week : mosey, 961. M. 9d. ; kind, 241. 12s. id. ; total, 1201. 19a. 4d. Oast year, 1321. Oa. 2d.) Fore, Ph. roast beef without bme, ills. plum pudding, brood, and 1 pint of Tromso and Hanbuils porter. Aged, tobacco and @muff ; children and imbeciles, oroultm. apples, outs, he. logredienta of Shoreditch dieg :—Raisias, 11 cwt. : currants, 1 cwt. ; flour, 4 bushels ; six sooty of eggs, eight storms of suet, with epics, he. Flour per sack, lt. 9s. 3d. ; meat, 1411.., 7s. Bd. ; butter, 41. 13e. ; cheese, 21. 9s. per ews. la 1863, Boer, 11. 10a. ; Mild. 7s. 6d. ; batter, 31. 14a. ; cheese, 21. 4s. league on in-door poor, 50 ; dates on outdoor poor, 146 ; total dr ama., 96. •- ST. GEORGE raz MARTTE SOrTHWARL—Io donv poor, 837 (last year, 807) : Males, 2re ; females, 273; children at Iditchem schools, 280; imbeciles, 76. Outdoor, 2,247 (last year, 2,039): Make 460; females, 646 ; chil dren, 1,141. Faro—Emit beet sod plum pudding ad lastuat sod porter, tobacco, sod snuff tor sped, sod fruit, with diLolviog view., &c. !remise's indoor poor 30, sad out 208 ; total Marines, 238. . . M•RT, ROT . HRRITITHR. - L-POPtilatiOn at last earns, 24,500. lomstaeof workhouse. 190 (last Christmas, 225) ; males, 66 ; females., 107 ; children, 17. The mesa of children at *he Sutton district wheels. Out-door poor, 887 (lest year 1,144). Fare to adults, 11b. roast beef, llb. pota toes, 1 pint of ale, with llb. plum . pudding, tobacco, and snuff. Children, fruit, Bc.: Nothing provided by guar dian@ for out-door poor beyond their weekly relief ; about Is. 2d, each for me., women, and children on th4.elief Decree's on indoor, 33 ; increase on out-door poor, 257 ;total inenwee, 224. H•eaNint UNloX.—lnmates of workhouse, 546 (last yeer, 566). Adult melee, 166 ; females, 214 ; children, 166. (ut-door poor, 681 (last Christina', 663). Inmates regaled with coffee and bread and butter for breakfast ; die ser, resat beef and pork, baked potatoes, 14 ounces plum pudding, l pint of Hanbary's stout, 1 ounce tobacco each male, and each female 1 mooed tea and 2 ounces of sugar ; children, oranges and apples. On the 28th, the examina tion to take place ; after which the children .111 be regaled with plum cake, oranges, mask, diseolying views, sod Christmas tree, Sm. Increase on in-door poor, 20 ; on out door poor, 18 ; total increase, 38. WANDSWORTH AND CLAPHAM UNION. POpnla tins, 70,601. Inmates, 536 (last year, 525) ; men, 249; WORMS, 237 ; children. 50; 155 children also at the Aanerly school. No return of outdoor poor. Christmas-day fare : nest beef, Ilb. potatoes, llb. plum pudding, 1 pint porter each, with tobacco and 'Duff ; sots and ranges to ' the children. Contract prices :—Meat, 7s. 7d. ; batter, 94e. ; cheese, 40s. ; flow, 28., Last year, meat, 75.; butter, 665. ; cheese, 3.0 a. ; dour, 29a. becriaos on indoor poor, 11. ST. JOHN, HAMPSTEAD. Population at last asssas. 19,104. la.door poor. 128 (last year, 151) ; males, 45 ; females, 70 ,• children, 36. Out-door poor, 122 (last year, 101) ; males, 32 ; females. 67; childres 23. The Christmas dinner in this establishment is provided for the inmates on Monday (this day), thus giving the poor people the advantage of an extra meet dinner. They will have 341 b. plum pudding, 7 on. roast meat (pnme joints), 8 cc. potatoes, ill,. breiA, and 1 pint Meux's porter. For tea and supper. an extra allowance of tea end milk, and each per son a plum cake. Care taken of the out-door poor by the Cambia Charity Trustees, who provide coals• a.eot, and clothing. Childreo at the schools of the Hendon Decrease on the in.door poor, 25 ; increase on cut-poor, 21 total decrease, 4. ST. MART, PADDINOTON..—POptiIatiOn at last Oen. ens, 75,806. Tamagni of workhouse, 410 (last Christmas, 351) ; I me,, 110; women, 167; children, 1.11. Oat-door poor, 943 (last year, 1,030). Christmas dinner: Rout rumps of beef with mashed potatoes and plum pudding, with a pint of porter or ale, at option, to each adult. Children, scoord. log to age. This day (boxhig.dav) all inmate. have oak' sad tea, the worr.ea " egg-bot," the men beer sod tobacco, and women snuff ; sad on Wednesday 'visaing cake sad tea and ants and oranges for the children. Outdoor poor Is. for each adult, sad 6d. each child, in addition to their usual weekly relief gives oo Friday last. Contract price of meat N. and butter led. per poured driver this year than last. Nemoe on in door poor, 59 ; decrease cm oat-door poor, 87; total decrease. 28. EDMONTON UNlON.—inmates, 626 (last year 596) ; able•bolied men. 95 ; women, 40 ; children, 198 ; infants, 20; old men, 155; old women, 118. Fere : Roast beef sail mutton, with vegetables, Ilb.of plum podding and 1 pint of porter each, withres, &c. Increase, 39 East . LONDON UNlON.—Population, 40,673 ; inmates of workhouse. Idomerton. 653 (last year 636); wales, 241 ; females, 377 ; children, 35 ; all latter above two years at school at lkfanwelL No return of oat-door pcor. Fare : Roast beef, plum pudding, soda pint of porter to each adult. Contract prices: Beef, ss. 10d. ; Soar. 325. ; butter, lirAß. • potatoes, 80a. ; (last year—beef, • breed, 18s. 91:1. ; flour, 31a ; batter, 80a. ; potatoes, 60 s : lamas" 17. CENTRAL LONDON DISTRICT SCHOOLN HaNwr.l.L. —The children in this establishment belonging to the City Ulnae number 849. The dietary consisted of roast beef, pork, potatoes and plum pudding, coffee, &c., in the evening. A sermon preached by the Rev. W. s. Edward', B.A. chaplain. The Christmas pudding contained 1701bs. raisins , 1801bs. currants. 168Iha. sugar, 11216. suet, 420165. flour, 1411:e, mixed peal, and 141131. spice. INDUSTRIAL SCROOLR, FOREST GATL Thew schools belong to the Whitechapel union, and contain 267 children from that union, 168 belonging to St. Pancras and 141 from Poplar union —told, 596: viz. 314 boys and 2232 girls—lasty ear, 540. Fare: Roast beef ii;id potatoes, with 12 or. pudding, for dinner, and afterwards nuts, oranges. kc. Isgredienta of Christmas pudding : Flour, WO lbs. suet, 36 lbs., aio lbs., currants, 56 Ile., candied peel, 14 lbs., mixed spice. 34 lbs., eggs, 100, sugar, 30 lbs., and milk, 4 gallons. The liiWth of the children is very good. From the foregoing it will be seen that about 30,000 or 40,000 of the metropolitan is-door poor are properly cared for at this festive season, irrespective of extra allow. &aces to many more thousands of out-door poor. The in. criese of pauperism is those parishes whore it has taken plum bas been very slight, with the exosptioa of Lam- beth, which exhibits an incre.lS of nearly 700 poor over the return of the corresponding period last year. Cilium(As Girru.—The weekly board of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray'eies.road, have received the headmen* donations of 100 guiosas from Mr. William Crawahay, of Ceversham-pork. Reeding, sad W. from Mr. E. Crape, of Ltroom House, near Kidderminster, to enable them to meet the increasing demands of the sick cod des titute poor ou the usefulness of this excellsot charity at this inclemeut Ileamo of the year. The weekly averse' of patients relieved amounts to nearly four thousand. Thera are HO beds vacant.. oo account of the want of foods'', enable the committee to give admission to the numerous patients. Flee ca BERMONDSZY.—On Saturday morning a Sr. broke out on the peomiass of • Mr„ &anion, Suffolk. pleas, Snows-fiskla. The buildings were four stories high, and severed • large epos of ground, wrangled by • nun, bre of mall houses. The premises were eatirely burnt out sad the adjoining houses'd MiIItOPOLITAII Fa:lr a te/17AL, DiYOßeafzß swam, Crrr.—The to limber of patients relieved during the week iog Dec. 24 was—Medical, 837 ; surgical, 570 ; total, LOUT,. of which 569 were maw coin ALUM IN BKILLD.—No wonder that alum is used to such an extent for Walkman bread, when we *Deader Its present eheapeem You can only insure "pun tweed - by ten ni It at home The Faculty recommend BURWICK4 BAUM rowan, Idiot the unpleasant diluteness about German Yeast, as the meet pure and perfect medium for ra i s i n It. I t Is sold everywhere la whets from spoons upwards.--Ladvertlasmeat4 ST. GILZIed, CAMBTRWELL —Population at OttlBllll of 1851, 54.668; at census of 1861, 71.489; iocresse in the 10 yeas'. 16.821. Indoor poor, 643 (lass year. 6308 ; met, atle.belled, 2; temporarily disabled. 66; aged. 92; total, 160. Womee, able, 16 ; disabled, 71 ; aged. 118; total, 206. Children io house, 52; at echool at Sutton, 223. Out door poor, 1.753 Put year, 1,675) ; adults, 922; children, 831. Outdoor sadist—mosey. 28f 14e. 10d. ; in kind, 861. 2a. 2d. ; total, 114 1 . 17.. (last year 1131. 9e. M.) Christmas tmatenout—Resat beef, plum pudding, mid 1 pint a paean at at.. Tea sad cake is the eves*. Oesagee, LAW INTELLIGENCE. METROPOLITAN COUNTY COußri. (kitting days appointed for the present week.) WE4T11135174., St, Marches-lane.—lussaa), Dec. C 7 . Wcdnts• day. IS. CRT OF LONDON. Oulldball4molidlaga.-Batarday, Dee. 31. BURIAL SOCIETY DISCLOSURES. -,___ During the greater portion of last week Mr. Wheeler, the judge of the Liverpool County Court, was eogaged in the investigation of the drain of the St. Patrick's Burial Society, on the suit of Hugh Cumber, late • member of the managing committee, who bad written to the president complaining of the way in which the society's affairs were conducted, and asking for • general meeting to have them set right. This request of Camber's had not been complied with, and, moreover, he had beer', by virtue of the powers vested in the committee, excluded from that body on the ground that he had written a commusicatios which was " injurious to the interests of the oociety." The investigation disclosed some painful and discreditable fasts. It appeared that the society has been in existence for many years, sad that it has a large number of members in all parte of the country. It. imam auiounta to 40,0001. In 1849 its affairs reached a crisis, and It became bankrupt. It was, however, revived. When Mr.l Treacy, the present secretary, was appointed he took the office at • salary of Bs. r week, but since that time his salary has bees increased to 400/. a year, with house rent, coals, and gas in addition. It was also shown that he Last recently received the gam of 100/. to indemnify him for "extra labour in London." Treacy stated that he had never made any return of his travelling expenses, but was li n the habit of placing • certain sum—say 20/.—in his pocket when he left home, and when he returned be 000ntsd how much be hod left aid entered the difference as " ex pose..." It also appeared that several agents of the society had defrauded it to a very considerable extent, but that no steps had been taken to punish them, and that they were still in the employ of, and of course at liberty to prey upon, the society. or did the accounts show bow these defi ciencies had been caused. Another point was that the pre sident (the Rev. Patrick Phelan) had demanded and bad received a salary of 100/. per annum, though there was no rule authorising such • payment; also it was stated that the printer to the society bed received during the last five years between 3,000/. and 4,0007. It further transpired that the trustees were Phelan, Treacy, end • man named Judge ; and that J edge had received various payment. as "medical officer" of the society, though be was in reality • cobbler. His Honour, after hearing the evidence adduced, said it was evident that the present machinery was quite inadequate to the government of the society. It was admitted by the counsel representing the defendants that there had sever been any duly appointed trustees, committee, or treasurer; that no audit (as directed by the rule.) bad been submitted to any general or other meeting of the society ; and that no general meetings had been duly bold. The defendants pleaded that the president and secretary were duly appointed officer,. It was finally agreed that a receiver should be appointed, sod that the case should stand adjourned until a full statement of the monetary affairs of the society could be made. It woe agreed also that Camber should in the meantime be re placed on the committee, and reinstated in all the privileges which he had previously enjoyed. MARKET& COTTON GOODS.—Msacalarrgn, Dgc.24.—On the two market days of this week basitess was netzieted • good deal by the continued advance of prices, bat taking the operations of the week in the aggregate • rather consider able basinese has been done. People appear to have quite got over the notion of pesos in America, and having coati deuce in the prolongation of the war are disposed to pur chase freely. The only check is in the advance of prices. Yarns and goods on Tuesday were id. to Id. per lb. dearer than on the previous Friday, and yeeterday had medals far ther advance of id. to Id. per lb. on the rates of Tuesday. 30's to Ws bonie trade yarn required by manufacturer. is Id. per lb. dearer than on Tuaiday. Manufacturers having sold freely between Tuesday and Friday, are buyers at this ad vance to a fair extent, although the advance operates to some extent as • check. Nebulae's:ere sold freely on Wednesday sad Thundery, and rather exteeeively where they were not disposed to hold for extreme rates. Buy's' seem unwilling to give contracts, and purchase goods only which are available for immediate shipment, or which ma be delivered very shortly for that purpose. The sales of clog. include not only shallop for India and China, but • con siderable proportion of printers, loinclotha, T clothe, and other fabrics suited to nearly all market.. WOOLLEN.—Luzs, Die. 24.—Tbore hu been little bosom's transacted in the markets this morning. Few parcels bare changed bands; tweeds, melee's', and other spriog fabrics, together with a 'prickling of hairlists, having been transferred only to a moderate utast. Bates actions Am lIARDWARE.—BranntonAn, Dec. 24.—The trade of this towa baa bees steady up to the last ; this week a good amount of butanes has been done, the tallies off havini bon very slight up to this day ; se • rule, manufacturers have p retty well worked up t he ir orders, but in a mom &fable number of instances there are a good number is hand to recommence with, so that the Christmas holidays will t• sheet. The edgetool makers have • good number of orders ors their books, sad such is the at.. in some other imoort , ut branches. The foreign trade is dull ; the met chaste' orders of lath ban been light ; the latest gives out have been on acconot of the Eastern market., the West hubris, and Australia. The American trade cootinues at • stead; sorroele say orders have been re ceived from that quarter for the last two °meths. In the adjoining district quietude is observable in almost all the principal smaufacturieg trades, but, as in other localities, this. is not the slightest evidence of dul- Dem Manufacturers have been well named epos orders, notwithstseding that the peculiar state of the iron trade has bad the effect of inducing both merchants and those who are engaged in the home trade to abstain from giving out anything which they can avoid ; there ham, however, beeps good deal doing in castiags and in malleable iron foundry; for everything coosected with rolling stock th e coders in have been and still are considerable. On the Dudley and &Am bridge side of the district trade has Mee tolerably active, and until the last week the saddlers' iron of Walsall have been fully employed. The iron trade this district matins's in a vary bad state; there are sorely any orders in, and until the mime which the puddles* and taillmee take in reference to the proposed reductioe of their wages is lithe.; no change is the coraditios of the trade can be expected. CORN.—Comannoz, D. 21.—A slow Usti*, with no altarstion in prices. D.C. 24.—. We had a moderate supply of all Norte of grain at our market this morning. There wee • slow sale, at about last week's rates, escept that oats were 3d. par bushel lower. Priste:—Wheat, white, sew, 14. to 17e. ; ditto, old. 16e. to 17s. 6d. ; red, sew. 134. to Ho. ; ditto, old, 14e. to 15e. 6d. ; barley, sew, 9a. 6d. to 10e. 6d.; ditto. old, 94. 6d. to 108. 6d. ; oats, potato, sew, 6e. to 7e. &L; ditto, old, BN, to de. 3d. ; Comm.., 71 . ea. to 71. Oot.cessria, Doc. 21.—The supply of wheat wars very mall, fair of barley, aleo of beans and per. Owing to the limited show of the former a firmness was shown. Barley moved off slowly at lad week's quotations ; other graia tu.• altered in value. GUILDFORD. Dec. 24.—The quantity of wheat M our market to-day was exceedingly small, and realised fully late values. Barley wee again in barge supply, the chief portion of which remained nosold ; sellsra however, were use die. posed to take less money. Wheat, 37e. to 475. ; Mirky, 25e. to 325. ; °ate, 19e. to .25e. ; beau. 385. to 425. ; per, 37a. to 395. LEICESTZI, Die. 24. —There wu a rather limited show of wheat, but the attendance was fair. Old white, 43a. to 45e.; new, 40s. to 42a. ; old red. 40e. to 42a. ; new, 31/e to 40a. per 30 stone. For barley the demand was improved, sad late rates were well atipported. Malting, 30s. to 34a. per qr.; grinding. 275. to 30.. per 30 stone. Oats bawls a moderate sale, and samples moved off at little or no altera tion is prices ; old, 25a. to 23a.; sew, 225. to 25e. per 24 stow,. Ntiwcatrris•cros-Trirs, Dsc. 21.—it oar market this moroing we bad • moderate show of wheat from the growers, and basis' little offer's' from the coast, • clear awe wee early effected, at an advance of le. per qr.; whilst, at the same time, a good Wainer was done in south coun try and foreign, at prices that were not previously obtain able ; choice new mouth country red commended 41s. old Scotch white, 42e, per 304th.. respectively ; whereas for medium nutria, weighing 591 1 a. per bushel, 40e.; per 50416 e. was paid. Flour wu held very firmly, with • fair steady ism:Airy. Not much peering in malt's' or griadiag barley ; the latter may be noted 6d. to le. lower. Kilt, beans, and jpeas as before. Oats in tether more deareil. The arrivals this week are: Wheat, ccestwiso, 1,1115 foreign, 3.498 qrs. Barley. coastwise. 893 ; for t i es , 1,078.; Beans, sometime, 20. Flour, erestwise, 1,682 tacks foreign, 1,000 barrels. Nommen, Doc. 24.—The ripply of wheat was tolerably good at this market today, but then is so alteratiou to sate in the state of tb trod* : prime ruling 66 ° 6 last 3146146 Z; The same may be said with regard to the barley trade, fine qualities maintaining late rates. whit* other sorts .4" dull. Little doing in oats, beau, and peas. While wheat (weighing 6311 m. to 611 b..), 445. to 45e. ; red ditto (weighing 6:3113e. to 64th..), 36e. to 385.: best mishits' barley (weighiog 53lhe. to 56th..), 30a. to 33e. • runs ditto (weighing 54Iba. to 55th..). :24. to 30a dist:Wing ditto ((weighing 521 b.. to 531b5.). 24e. to 26.. ; oats, 245. to 260. ; beans, 375. to 395. ; peas (maple), 36.. to 38.. per quarter. Floor, 26.. to 26.. 6d. per seek. bierrusonan, Dic. 24.—The show of wheat warn .sly moderate, sad therapies were to variable °audition. The demand was healthy and prior, if anything. were the tun is sellers' favour. Old white, 43e. to 46e. ; old red, 30s. to 41a ; new white, 41s. to 441. ; new red. 375. to 401 . per 36 stoma The deemed for barley wee steady. and the best qualities commanded full priori ; aew malting. Ve. to 34a. per qr. ; grinding. 25a. to 271. pr 30 stone. The oho. cid oats was not large, and prior were much the same as last week ; old 40.. to43s. ; err, 37e. to 39e. pr qr. Or roan, Dr. 24.—There was a good arrindiume at this than Earmage to-day, hat not so loony samples of wheat oaring se Owe have bra heretofore, and Tr leer week's prices wre fully maintained. although bat few buyers. Ora, hear, and peas, unless of the Brut quality, hang cn hand, and holders bad to suffer a diminution of price. Although there is so much corn in the country, yet the holders are sanguine that shortly after New Veit's.- day there will be a reaction, and that all will be dearer. It has been noticed in tine country that at present cyder is a prorating beverage, and consequently barley is not so ninth required. Oats and beans were in request. and con,. mended quite last week's prices. Flour was a steady sale, at 28e. per sack. PsYsanosouns, Dec. 21.—A larger supply of grain here today ; both wheat and barley rather dearer, while oats and beans were each Gamier to buy, some of the former were got at 6d. per qr. under last week s prices. itiunrso, Dsc. 24.—Wheat in the Exchange to-day wa s rather limited as to supply, but the condition was couside• rebly improved by the frosty weather which prevailed the few days previously. Although there was a 'town's. io the inquiries on the part of mealmen, holders exhibited a firm. nem, and M the sales that were effected the full rates of this day se'anight were without difficulty obtained. White wheat, of the beet quality, realised from 42a. to 455. ; se. eoedery descriptions, Ma. to 42a, ; and inferior, 24e. to 38s. Red wheat, fine quality, 38s. to 421. ; secondary, to 38e. ; and inferior, s2s. to 345. There was a fair show of barley, and although the best malting qualities sold with tolerable freeness, at recent rates, the intermediate arid grinding sorts experienced but little inquiry, and prier. again had a downward tendency. Finest melting parcels, 30s. to 335; secondary qualities, 2Ge. to 295. ; and plod. lag, 225. to 255. For oat. the trade was firm, arid best samples of Poland' made from 24e. to 224. ; secondary sorts, 20s. to 2.4. ; sad Tartary,l7s. to 2L. Bases were slow in et=as also were peas, but ao variation in late prices Old beans, 395. to 42a ; new. 36.. to 40s. ; peas, 35e. to 335. Flour has been a brisk trade, but prices were unaltered—viz., households, 35e. ; and seconds, 21s. per sack. RocetsMk Dec. 24.—Business was very limited. For hest kinds of wheat there was a fair demand, but other sorts were almost entirely neglected, and bollix,' exceedingly nat. The quotations for best sorts of white are 46. to 441., and red, 38s. to 401. per quarter ; secondary and inferior white, 40s. to 421. ; and red, 355. to pet quarter. In the foreign market business was dull, but to alterations were made in the terms, which are about tte same as before. Superior kinds of barley met with a steely We, and best malting lots were in request at .;2s. to per quarter, and grinding at Vs. to 25e. per quarter. There was a falling off in the demand for oats, and prices sec ingly dselined about Gd. per quarter—beet lots fetching 19s. to 225., and others IGL to 19s. per quarter. Wusercu, Dec. 24.—This being Christmas market we are bat modesstely supplied with all grain. Wheat met • better ale at the extreme prices of last weak, and f. ce in many cases made an advance of Gd. to Is. per , ir. pring oorn a dull sale, but we do tot alter our quotations. Priam to the grower :—Wbest, white, 40s. to 415., extra 44e., 631ba. per bushel ; ditto red, 36a. to ; oa t., old, la. per stows; ditto 11111 W, 10d. to Ild. ; beans, Ida. to 40s. per 19 stow. Woaczaras. Du. 24.—At this day's market there a, • fair supply of wheat, which was firmly held for raft r over last week's rates. Barley tu improved demand. 6d. per quarter dearer. Beans and peas unaltered. You, Due. 24.—The quantity of wheat on offer was or: over large. The show consisted of white sad red dekriptions. The weather has been winterly &snag the last few doss. There was a rather better inquiry, and the rates of ISA week were fully realized. New white rained from 40.. to 455. • mend, 365. to 395. per 36 stone. There was a fan demand for barley, and the show being limited late rates were fully sertaieed ; makes& 265. to 30s. per qr. ; feed sorts, 25e. to %e. per 30 stone. The demand for oats w. healthy at last week's currency ; new, 20s. to 21a. per 21 Moue. KlaccoLDT, D. N.—The weather this week continued of the same boisterous wet character it his been of late until yesterday, which was dry, inclined to frost. To-day it is frosty ; with arising barometer. At our country markets this week we bed about the usual quantity of grain offering. The better qualities of wheat and barley sold freely at last week's prime. Other qualities wen a slow sale, and the turn lower. Here, to-day, we had small supplies of wheat and barley, but good of oats. Fair male for everythieg at lest week's prices. Wheat, ANL to 40e. ; barley, 20e. to 275. ; cote, 15e. to 19e. 6d, per v. WATWORD, Dgc. 24.—We cermet report a single arrival from abroad this week, nor any material change in our re. °septa of home-grown grain. A considerable improvement has takes place in our market since this day se'senight. There is as increased inquiry for all articles of the trade, but principally Indian corn, which commands a smart ad mince on last quotations. Wheat. —All varieties somewhat stiffer in price, though not dosser. For foreign there is a better demand. Barley maintains its former value. Oata. —Rather more doing in this gran, sad an advance of 2d. to 3d. per barrel is now demanded by seller*. Indian Corn. A large quaatity has been moved off during the week at gradually impro►ing rates, until an enhancement of :xl. to Is. per barrel is now required. Flory unchanged. Imports Ibis week :—Wheat, SAS quarters. Exports this week : Wheat. it3.l barrels ; oats, 5,226 barrels ; barley, Lk bar rels ; flew, 1,021 sacks. AGRICULTURAL HALL. The Hippodrome and Circus Entertainments, which were so successful lest year under the management of Messrs. Strange and Pulleys, are to be repeated this year loader the macageweet of Mr. Price, for many years the proprietor of one of the principal circuses in Madrid. The vast spans in the body of the Agricultural Hall is arranged, as before, for steeple and Roman chariot races, and the circus is built in the centre in such a way that it can be removed in a few minutes. Fifteen or twenty thousand persona can be accommodated in the hall, and the prices are gaited to all dames. The hest performance was given on tisturday night, before a lame audience. Many of the riders are new to England, but amongst them are 100111 old favourites. Mr. Frank Pastor is still the "ate: rider " for "somersault sets," and all schools of equestrianism are well represented. The dosses are clever and amusing, there are some perform ing dogs, and there is a new lion tamer, Mr. Newcombe, with a cage full of animals. The circus performances come find, thee there I. a solo on the grandmas by Mr. Archer, followed by the hippodrome meg and processions. After the hippodrome tricks there is another solo on the organ, and the performances close with a most spirited steeple chase. This last scene terminal's with what is called "the mountain pass plop," a new arrangement of the "passage de pont," in which the riders gallop up bridges and along platforms on a level with the gallery. The band is strong, and the managers are Herr Herzog, en excellent rider, and Mr. John Henderson. During the present week there are two representations daily. ALHAMBRA. This magnificent building, which Las passed into tbo energetic beads of Mr. F. Striate, and is completely re-decorated, was mooed oa Saturday night for a full private rehearsal. It promise to be, even man thee it ever wee, the finest theatre of varieties in London. Mr. Stranges strong point is his ballet, and be has arrested a most picturesque rock scene, down which march at least • kaadred dancen dreamed in origami costume. The braid is street, and the miscellaneous witertaiements are attractive. We shell report the public opening, which will take place to-night, :e to-morrow's paper. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Professor Pepper's Christman arrangements at this highly and deservedly popular place of amusement are full of variety and attraction. The scientific lectures and experiments have been carefully arranged to nit the present festive season, and the collateral amusements have been got up almost entirely with a view of meeting the testae of the juvenile audiences. The wonders of the diving bell will, of comae, be exhibited, but it is hardly to be expected that in the present state of the thermometer, the diver—that most mysterious looking of men in armour—will often be troubled with the care of curious fellow-pameogers. The Professor's "Ghost," the speciality of the Polytechnic, the success of which has called more imitative "spirits from the vasty deep," all over the well!, than ever before obeyed the behest of necromancer, will make its impalpalill bow under new and cheating aspects. By its angle agency, assisted by an interesting running lecture from the professor, the young people will be made fa miliar with the history of "Bony Ref" and her little companion, who, wandering in a wood one day, wen so unfortunate as to tumble over a certain avaricious dwarf, who at that particular moment was busy hiding hi mosey. The perils of poor Rosy Red and her companion, occasioned by the persecutions of the dwarf, and from which they are always extricated by the interpceition of the inevitable " Good fairy," form the subjects of a series of shadowy tableaux which have all the rouednese, substantiality, and motion of living groups. The capabilities of the Mis sion are, in fact, developed to their fullest extent in mores of novel forms, and each tame with improved effect, In addition to this, there is a pictorial history of the re mowed Baron Manchausee, whose extraordinary perils and navigating are illustrated by a series of dissolving views, and elucidated by a punning commentary, which will no doubt create as many hearty laughs as the views themselves. Then we have the ieelhaustible " tub," from which eager little hands will pick gratuitous boxes of toys, and which will, we Lave no doubt, have ample reason to be satiated with its share of juvenile patronage, with all the established attractions of the Polytechnic. The novelties were all rehearsed on Saturday evening, to the satisfaction of a select and critical audience. There were, of course, a few bitches ; for example, the Btron's horse remained so long in his perilous position hanging by the bridle from the church spire es to create set ion. Marro for his safety amongst the more WOODS spectators—but the general opinion was that the arrangements were very complete, and were sore to be in full working order for boxing day, and the rest of the holidays. One feature of the programme which elicited unqualified applause was the exhibition of the unique statuary in the possession of the London Stereoscopic Company under the powerful light of lanterns, obligingly lent by the manager, Mr. Nottege. There was quite a burst of cheering as the spectators recognised their grand favourite of Ist'.2, the ▪ Readies Girl" of Magni, and Matte's hardly less popular " Sleep of Sorrow." Spence's "Finding of Moses," the Baron de Triquiti's " Edward the Sixth," and Weeks's charming " Mother's Etas." were also shown in this part of the entertainment, and all received a genuine Christmas wel come. TRAFFIC RETURNS. 1411.14313. Milo Pee- M. Told. Teed Week ending Nov N. . 14.- S ews. 1 8 4 Northern of Canada N all 733 1.144 1.216 week sorllna Dec. 9. Ortroll mad 1111wante• .. 3,671 11,13 - 41 Great Wooten of ilium& 341 11,433 11,396 THE POBT81101:TH S•moics' Holm E.—Ct Riori I•ciDENT.—A curious iocideet is just reported from the 1 Sailors Home at Portsmouth. A abort time ago • tall and handsome youth, or rather yam man, called at thee' Ren dezvous " public-house, cm the Common Hard, Porter, sad stated that he wanted to ship in any capacity. From this place be treat to the Sailon' Home, where be mailmen by the kind superintendent, Mr. Thorne, R.N., who, however, at mice suspected that hie position in society w.• far superior to that which he represented. Mr. Thorne accordingly took him into his private modem* sad treated him with great kindness and coodderatioa. The young man was one morning readies in the drawing-room when he am informed that two gentlemen were below desiring to sae him. This was a circumstance which, although unex pected, was anything but agreeable ; bet the interview took place, and it tramps:id that the yam' geatlemen was the son of a baronet reputed to be one of the wealthiest in the country, sad the eatlemee who had sought him were his uncles—oaf also a and the other a member of par liameot. The young gentleman was, of wane, immediately taken away, and Mr. Thorne was warmly thanked for his mantesy sad kindness. The superlutrodent has, within the last few days, received& very handsome sad valuable inketazd fence the father of the truant, accompanied by • letter expressing his thanks for the treatment his son re calved while at the Portsmouth Sailors' Home. SCOTCH RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.— n arrange went has just beeo concluded betwixt the board. of the Glaavw sod South Western and the Kirkondbright Rail way Companies, reader which the directors of the former take over the local hoe and all its liabilities, min back the shareholders the amount of their stock and 10s. per 10. share in addition, in lien of dividend Moos the opening of the line up to August next , when the transfer will be effected, should there be no obstacle, from shareholders or the Miura With referemos to the agreemeot for anal of the Dumfries and Lockerby Company with the aledoiliao it is understood that the sharebolders of the local line All be secured • dividend of 6 per cent. upon their stock, which has always from the opening commanded a premium in the market.—idesourph, Courant. CZYNTAL PALsos. HALF-CRLaWN &TIMIDLY, Dsc. 24.—Afakiems es riayamet, 1,467; draw by mom tickets, 2,911; tstal. 4,378. 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