The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1825-12-27 00:00:00

PRI,CES OF FOREIGN STOCICS. YESTERDA V. Allileiaa Bolds 90 • French Rental 6 pet Ct. 93f. 94f. Ditto Acct. 50c. 95f. • Dramilian Beads fq 1 Exchange 25f. 15c. 25c. 10c. Ditto Acct. Brook Bonds DDSs Scrip 15 16 die Greek Bonds (1825)17 18 Bassos Ayr's Bonds 704 Ditto Acct. 174 16 eisil iam Jimspla lid 6 Alelican Bonds ' Cottitplotam Hoods 684 Ditto Bonds (11395)441 61 4 6 Ditto Ater: 8 .4 i i 8 Ditto Bonds (824) 591 6111 2 Ditto Acct. SO 4 SI 461 611 11 I i j 5 Diets Acct. 594 601 60 2 14 1 Peruvian Bonds 42 44 1 1 1 601 11 001 Russian Bonds (1622) 77 , 1 84 i banish Bonds 1021 4 9i 9 Diu* Hinds (1824) 684 981 I Ditto Acct. 784 9 Dims Acct. 59 81 - Spanish Cons. 124 i 1 1 1110 ES OF SHARES YESTERI)AV. MINES. Share. Paid. !remittal pet flare. Argls.llstiein £lOO II 2e 86 6 lOC I 1 dis Snistran /Wass/ ►OU ►ee 6 7 39 ♦ 21 di. Paseo-Pairrias Potosi, Ls Paz, Mt Peruvian 50 A Tlalpusahua.. rhitrd 31exican Ditto Now 4O 10 5; 6 8 1 $ Welch Iron and Coal 25 20 • die i i die ASSURANCr COUP•NIES. Alliance Brit:■ll and Foreign 100 10 GAS MORT •ND COLN CON!•N!C9. British L sins Oeneral IIIiCELLANtOITS. Bluish Iron lOO 2 910 di: Iredsh Rock and Patent Salt 10 N par ARGYLL ROOMS. AGRAND MASQUERADE and CARNIVAL, Un der the immediate direction of SIX NOBLEMEN. will be given at the ARGYLL ROOMS, on THURSDAY EVEN- I NIOII, December 29. The Myth reputation which these entertainments attained last year has induced the DIRECTORS to engage for the whole of the MASQUERADES to be given at the Argyll Rooms this sea son. Aced under the sanction of the ::ablemen who have honoured them with their immediate patronage, a series of Masked FETES will be brought forward, exceeding all former occuions in brilliancy, splendour, and magnificence. In apportioning the FIRST GRAND MASQUERADE for Thursday, the 29th inst. the Directors hare the pleasure to an. cleaner, that regulations have been made by which the Company will be rendered more select than hitherto. And the Nobility and Gentry arc assured that Tickets will be disposed of to none but persona of rank, fashion, or talent. Mullin of distinction who may wish to unite in the festive throng, Gentlemen of Fashion, or Ladies of the Haut Ton, desirous of partaking of the true spirit of the entertainment by sssuming ebaracters, are also informed that the annoyance and freedom of s:Lsordetly persons will be strictly guarded against, ea officers in va rious disguises will be stationed in the rooms, to secure ease and prevent interruption to the illasquers. The Directors pledge themselves that the Musueratle on Thurs. dap, the 291 . 1 inst. will be the most select, splendid, and festive en tertainment ever produced, and worthy in every respect of the in preyed taste, and the fashion and talent of the metropolis. Toe Tickets and Hopes to view the Maererade a,tply to the sub. COMlllillet, who sit daily at Mr. CIIARLLS WRIGHT'S, Opera Culonnaile, Ha market. Mr. Charles Wright is appointed by the Director* Purveyor of the Champagne and other French wines on thin occasion. Eite ifiritiott proo. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. This grenIng,TIESDAV. Dec. 27, will be performed the Opera of OCR FREIECHUTZ. Adolph, Mr. T. Cooke; Caspar Mr. Horn; Bernhard. Mr. Bedford; (Mau, Mr. Vital/ill:am. Linda, Miss Graddon ; nose. Miss Purer. After which the 111/11 Pantomime eaPodl HARLINIAN, JACK OF Al.l. FRAIHre. Marlegaln. Mr. Howell.; Pantaloon. Mr. I'. Blanehara t Clown. Mr. Southbr. Columbine, Miss Harnett. • To-morrow, The Hypocrite, and the Pantomime. COVFNT-GARDENTIiEATER. comedy ot RIAZ A 1111 1 11 P, AND . 14ANIL A WI/E. Loon. Mr. C. Emilie ; Estifanle, bliss Chester. After whteh the new Pantomime called HARLEQUIN AND THE MAGIC,: ROSE; Or, BLAU rY AND THE SEAS P. Mr. ailltifiarnittleiiill.inr,..tVMS°wn. Mt. J. B. To.rnorruw. John Bull. and the Pantomime. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Tile Second Letter of " A CALM OaszneEa," on the subject of the Silk Thule, is received, and shall appear to-morrow. The flattest' ruins commenced publishing yesterday morning al tire o'clock. LONDON, TUESDAY, Drceslnza 27, 1825. When the protection of our manufactures, by prohibi tory duties, began to be denounced as impolitic, and laws were enacted which should lay them open, under certain regulations, to foreign competition, it was easy to foretell that the agriculturists could not long escape the operation the same principles of free trade, and that the manufac turers, in their turn, would call for the abolition of the Corn Laws. They would say, naturally enoug 7 i, "If you are to have menufactuted goods cheaper, let us have pro s-111(ms lower ; that if we are to reduce—as we must—the wages of our workmen, they may be enabled to lire cheaper, in proportion to the fall in the price of their labour." And it; this there is nothing unfair, for if the principles of free trade are to be acted upon, they must be acted upon im yatially, and the husbandman must be put upon a level with the manufacturer. They must both stand or fall to gether. A more momentous subject, or one. in which the whole kingdom is more vitally interested, never came before Par liament than the abolition of the Corn Laws. All thc peat branches of our national industry are linked insepa rably with the prosperous state of agriculture,—all the great sources of our wealth and power flow from it, as from the psrect-spring. No error caii Le more fatal than that which represents the manufacturing, and the landed interest as opposed to each other. This subject presents a wide field of discussion ; we have considered it fully, and in all its hearings, but we shall not at present enter upon it. The County Meetings that have already begun to assemble will press it soon enough upon our attention. In the meantime we would remark, that thc divisions of opinion, which un happily prevail upon this great question, require that so far, as the daily Press takes part in the argument, a journal, if it furnishes nothing in the way of reason and sound ar gument, would do well to abstain, at least, from abuse and irritation. We say this with reference to die Times, Which opens the discussion by observing that, " The landed men are actually beginning their machinations for a continusnes of the In7nopoly in bread." such language tiny: excite the lower classes to acts of insult and outrage, but as to any good effect, it can have none. It may generate vindictive feelings, but it can afford no use ful information; as applied to the Agriculturists as a class in the state, it is unmanly and insidious. The subject in volves in itself enough of disunion, and the less inflam oratory matter that is introduced into it the better. e CITY, MONDAY Cyr firm. Though this was a holiday at the Bank, ye: iu order to F:ve every facility to 'he Bankers and Merchants, bills were taken in for discount, and we understand this accom modation will continue to-morrow and Wednesday. The business, transacted in Consols was extensive, and towards the close of the Market, after a few fluctuations, the priced t anOcrably improved. The opening qnotation was 821, • from which it shortly declined to 8l I, in consequence of very heavy sales by the Hebrew party. As coon as this cause ceased to operate Consols rose to 84, ar.l went on rising steadily until they reached 824. Their further advance was again checked by the same means as before, anB the sales were carried to such an extent as M I induce a fall to I. The buoyancy of die market, however, prevented this decline from continuing, and the closing price was 8211. Money continues to flow in from the country, sitl all the late letters lead us to believe there will be large sr rivals of specie from the Continent. The common expres sion to-day was that the Bankers' counters were loaded with sovereigns and notes for the country. Money is cer tainly very plentiful at the Stock Exchange. Exchequer Bills are at par for all sums under fire hundred pounds. The large bills are still at 2s. discount. India Bonds are 4s. discount to par. Three per Cent. Stock has been steady at 81i f. The Three-and-a-half per Cent. Stock 881 to 89. The accounts from the country are all favourable. A very extensive house in the Corn Trade has suspended payment. We have not heard of any other failure. In the Foreign Market the change for the better is much more observable. There was a general rise in every kind of Stock. Russian Bonds have advanced from 77! to 79, and Greek, which now sympathise with every move ment of the Russian, were 17 18. Mexican Six per Cent. closed at 69; Colombian 61 ; Brazilian 611. To Shares but little attention is yet given. There was, however, towards the close of the day some great purchases in those of die Mexican Mining Associations, attended with a material advance of price. Anglo-Mexican Shares left off at 5 premium ; and the New United at 8. THE KING. WINDSOR, Drc. 2s. Yesterday forenoon her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester paid a morning visit to her Royal Highness Princess Augusta, at Frogmore Lodge, and afterwards proceeded to the Royal Lodge. At the moment of her Royal Highness's arrival, his Majesty was about to enter his pliteton, but returned with her Royal Highness to his apartments, sending a message to his attendants that he de clined going out for the day. Her Royal Highness, after a long interview with his Majesty, and partaking of some refreshment, left the Royal Lodge for Bagshot Lodge. This forenoon his Majesty, with his household attend ants, heard divine service at the new Chapel Royal. The Rev. Dr. Sumner officiates]. Sunday night the Duke of York returned to London from dining wish the King. At an early hour yesterday morning his Royal Highness left his house in South Awl ley-street, in his travelling carriage and four, for Bel volt Castle, the seat of the Duke of Rutland, on a visit of con dolence to his Grace, where his Royal Highness is expect ed to continue about a fortnight. Sunday being Christmas Day, the Princess Augusta had a select party at dinner, at her mansion-house at Froginore, near Windsor. . . Saturday Prince Leopold arrived in London from a visit to the Earl of Verulam, at his seat in Hertfordshire. In the evening his R•>yal Highness dined with his Royal sister, the Duchess of Kent, and afterwards proceeded to his seat at Claremont. Saturday morning, at four o'clock, an express arrived it • the General Post-office in Lombard-street, addressed to the Postmaster-General, the envelope signed by Lord Viscount Strangford, and sealed with black wax. It was understood that this envelope contained a despatch for Mr. Secretary Canning, which was forwarded to the FcTejo Office. 4 Sundaj tnorning Mr. Littlewood, one of the King's fo reign messengers, arrived at the Foreign Office in Down ing -street, with despatches for Mr. Secretary Canning, from Lord Viscount Strangford, our Ambassador at the Court of Russia. Late on Friday night Mi. Hunter, jun. one of the King's messengers, arrived in Downing -street, with despatches from Sir Charles Bagot, our Ambassador at the Hague. Letters from Holland were received yesterday, dated on Friday last. The Dutch Funds have advanced four per cent. anti all other securities are also much higher than at the date of the previous letters. Th. 11,,,.h r n , that arrived yesterday merely con firm the intelligence that the Entioevor Constantine was quietly proclaimed at St. Petetsburgh on the 9th inst. and that the Grand Duke Nicholas was appointed to the com mand of the Royal Guards, with the perfect consent of the other members of the Impetial family. The late Empe ror, it seems, was seized on the 27th of November with infiammation and sore throat, and died on the Ist Decem ber, in full possession of all his faculties, and after having ordered several arrangements in contemplation of his death. Letters were yesterday received from Rio Janeiro, dated the 2d of November. They again repeat, with great con fidence, the report of Sir Charles Stuart proceeding to Buenos Aires to arrange the disputes between that Re public an the Brazil Government respecting ihe provinces ni.ar Monte Video. The adricts from Copenhagen received yesterday state that the storms were dreadful at the end of the last and beginning of this month. Eleven wrecks are said to be near Lasco : several ships have been sunk in the open sea. Of about RS ships that sailed from the Sound on the 19th and 20th ult. most, it is supposed, have pc- A letter from New York gives the following account of vessels building in that port, for the service of the new American States. A few days since I was on board the new and splendid 64 gun ship built for the Colombians. Perhaps a better or more finished ship never floated. The belaying pins are all burnished brass ; the comings of the hatches covered with copper ; her cabins of superb curled maple and mahogany. She is called the Bolivar, and, I understand, will shortly sail for South America. Three other G 4 gun ship. are on the stocks, nearly real) , for launching, also, one 24 gun ship ; and a fourth is soon to be commenced. The old steam ship, Robert Fulton, has been made into a 24 gun ship, and is truly beautiful, making a total of seven ships of war in our yards, all for foreign nations."—Ba ltimore Gazette, Non. 48. Extract of a letter from Ilavannab, Nov. l3:—" The expedition for the relief of the Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa has failed is to:o, and great fear, are therefore entertained here for the Safety of the Castle. The Admiral's ship his returned, distnasted, on her way down, and so has the Are.. Binge frigate, after having, in company with the Casilda frigate, and transports, been off the castle, where they found an enemy well arranged, and too strong to force their way into the Castle ; they, therefore, made the best of their way back to this port. In a heavy gale, soon after letting the castle, the Arethusa parted company with the Casilda, and transports there, in want of water, and a head wind; it is therefore apprehended that they have now run before the wind to Sacrificios, and given themselves up to the Mexicans, in preference to dying with thirst." The letters received yesterday from Calcutta confirm the previous intelligence respecting the indigo crops in the upper provinces, which have suffered very materially from the want of rain, and state that the crcp in Oude would not amount to half the produce of last year, unless the weather should prove particularly favourable during the remainder of the season. There had been heavy rains at the Presidency for two days, 27th and 28th July, which had every appearance of being general and extensive. The latest advice's from Prome were of the 6th of July. An absurd report had been set afloat by the Burmese, that an army of 90,000 men, commanded by the King's brother, was ma: _hing against Sir Archibald Campbell. There was no doubt of the death of the Bundoolah, but overtures had been made by the Court of Ava for peace. Fears were en tertained that the sickness at Prome would increase as the monsoon proceeded. Men and cattle were trying fast. The Shipley transport, Captain Carter, which arrived at Portsmouth the 21th inst. from Rio Janeiro, has brought over the body of Mrs. Malley (wife of the naval com mander on that station), for interment in. this country ; also a very fine hence and a mule, as a present from the Supreme Director of Chili to his Britannic Majesty. 'We understand that the Lord Mayor, on St. Thomas's Day, gave a splendid dinner to the Common Council and a large party of the inhabitantsvf-Queenhithe AVard. A report having been circulated that Lord Palmerston, in consequence of ministerial arrangements, had no inten tion of coming to the poll at the ensuing election, his Lord ship's Cambridge Committee have thought it right to state, that such report is wholly without foundation.—Cavibridge Press. - •:fit THE BRITISH PRESS. FASIIIONAB:E INTELLIGENCE. The Duke of Norfolk has arrived in town, from his seat, Forn ham, Suffolk. The Earl and Countess of Surrey hare arrived at the Marquis of Stafford's, Westhill, Surrey, from their seat, Worksop Manors, Not ti. Mr. and Mt!. Hawkins left Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, yet terday, for their seat, Bognor Park, Sussex. The Countess of Carnarvon has arrived at the Earl of Egreniont's seat. Petworth, Sitesax, from Berk.. Departures from Fenton's New Hotel. St. James-street:—Lad Bingham, for Brighton ; J. Parrett, Esq. for ditto ; Thos. Page, Esq. for his seat, Cobham ; William Duncan, Egg. for Melton Mowbray. Baron Fagel left town yesterday on a visit to the Earl and Conn teas of Pembroke, at their scat, Wilton House, Wilts. Departures from Read's Hotel, Lower Groavenor.strect :—Capt. Castle, for Bedfordshire ; Henry Conyers, Esq. for his seat, Copt Hall, Essex ; John Morehead, Esq. for Lady Morshead's 1014 Richmond Hill; J. Dodson, Esq. for Brighton. Lord Erskine has arrived at the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, from a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have left ditto for Bath. Sir Francis Burton, Bart. arrived yesterday at the London Hotel, Albemarle -street, from Ramsgate-street. Mr. anti Lady Lindsey Piga* have left ditto for their seat, near Stamford, Lincolnshire. Arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street:—Mr. and Mrs. Frankland ; Hon Mr. Somers, from a tour; Walter, Es+ from ditto. Departures from the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street :—Capt. Gardiner, R.N. for Plymouth ; J. Marsden, Esq. for Melton Mowbray; W. Unwin, Esq. for Oxford. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings entertained Lord and Lady %Valliant Russell, and a party of fiends, at dinner, nn Christ mas day, at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington-street. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stanhope entertained a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at their house in Tllney-street. Mr. and Lady An-t Coke are este:trifling a large party of dis tinguished yisiters,-during the holydays, at their seat, Holkham, Norfolk. The Alerquis and Marchioness of Salisbury are entertaining a large party of the hoot tots, at their seat, Hatfield. Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James'v-street:—C. Spurrier, EN. from Poole; Maxwell, Esq. and —fil•Clough, Esq. ; Her. Mr. Stevens ; Captain Murray. Departures :—Hon. T. Fiennes, for Brighton; Sir H. Vivian and J. Vivian, Esq. for Beechwood ; Sir H. Fine, for Lincolnshire ; J. Sparks, Esq. for Cobham ; Lord and Lady Farnham, for Devonshire. LITERATURE. The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature of the Year 1824.—Rivtagton. The historical papers and the different official documents which appear in this valuable volume, the publication ,of which has been delaye4 in order that they be procured for insertion, are sufficiently important to have justified even a still further delay, rather than that it should have appeared without them. All the details of our European history are given with great exactness ; and the same libe rality of sentiment on religious and political subject% is manifested in this as in all the preceding volumes. IVe extract, as a specimen, the following remarks, which are made with equal candour and good sense : " It must be admitted that there was something of peen liar good luck in the circumstances which brought the present Foreign Secretary and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer into power, precisely at the period when the general prospects of the State -had begun to assume a brighter aspect ; when, to use the common phrase, the corner of our difficultits had been in a manner turned, and the period of sacrifice and privation was about to be suc ceeded by general improvement in our resources, and gra dual remission of the pressure of public burdens. But we do not think that the popularity of the ministers in question is altogether ascribable to this circumstance: or that much of it is not to be directly attributed to the more enlarged and enlightened views which seem to mark the measures of the Cabinet since the period of the changes in question. That it should fall to the lot of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer to take off taxes instead of laying them on, as was the more invidious ditty of his predecessor, is no doubt to be ascribed tarircumstancea over which neither the one or the other of those Statesmen could exercise any effectual control ; but there still remains much to applaud in the greater simplicity and directness of Mr. Robinson's financial arrangement and exposition, and in the manner in which lie hri sought to make the remission of taxation co-operate towatds the revival of our fortign trade. So with respect to the more enlarged and enliT'itened system which Mr. Huskisson has introduced into our commercial and colonial policy. After admitting the full merit of his predecessors at the Board of Trade, for the opening which they had made to this important change, it must be allowed that the present I'resident has carried a spirit into those measures more decided and systematic of reform, which' promise to accomplish within no very distant period the most important revolution which our commercial history has witnessed. " In considering, under this point of view, the foreign relations of the country, we perhaps should in some mea sure invert the application of our remark ; for here it is the fashion to give Mr. Canning the credit of having di rectly reversed the general policy of his predecessOr. But in this also, as in every other case, circumstances have done more than individuals. Lord Londonderry, had he lived, whatever may have been his monarchical or aristocratical propensities, must, as the Minister of a free country, have ceased to co-operate with his friends of the Holy Alliance, from the moment of their declaration of a systematic cru sade against any attempt to introduce a more liberal system of Government into the Continental States of Europe. This disunion of policy on the part of England was, in fact, suf ficiently manifested, both in our conduct towards Naples, and still snore in the despatch in which, shortly after the outbreaking of the Spanish revolution, the late Foreign Secretary deprecated any interference on the part of the Alliance, for the interruption'or suppression of that move ment: So far the conduct of the Government was neces sarily dictated to it, both by the spirit of our own institu tions and the prevailing direction of public opinion in the country. Mr. Canning's peculiar merit, we think, lies much less in the particular course of proceeding which he has adopted in these transactions than in the language lie has used, and the principles which he has put forward in justification of that course. In saying this, we are very far from intending any depreciation of the value of his services ; on the contrary, none can rate them more highly. In these days of the almost paramount authority of public opinion, the language of the English Minister is perhaps of as much inipetlance as his measures. Our simple pretest against the invasion of Spain, grounded as it was upon a general disclaimer of the principles on which that act of aggression was professed to be founded, was a measure probably of more salutary consequence to the li berties of Europe than would have been the expedition of a fleet and army to.the assistance of the Spanish Constitu tionalists, if attributable to no other purpose than that of resisting the political preponderance which France was about to acquire in the Peninsula: It is much less by the steps which he has adopted than the tone in which he has spoken, that Mr. Canning has, to use the phrase of the French politicians, placed his country at the head of civi lization. We doubt not but that a large, powerful, and growl- 7, party, tbrouphont Europe, look up to him as the best assertor of their principles, and the most effectual protector of their rights. This is an high, but critical and ar;tious situation ; Mr. Canning, we are sure, perfectly appreciates all its importance and glory; and has hitherto manifested no want of that refined discretion and delicate precision, which is necessary to guide both his movements and his language in a position of such nice and compli cated difficulty.' THE "GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS" IN THE U2VITRD STATES. I pronounce Robert D. Richardson, senior Editor of the Louisi. awe Gazette, as a base liar, scoundrel, and a contemptible coward. New Orleans, Oct. 20, 182.5. Jou)/ Ontsoze. We, the undersigned, confirm this publication. BUT. Gnisra. P. GUILLIOT. The Louisiana Gazette contains the following : The public are requested to suspend their opinidn respecting an infamous placard, circulated the 21st instant, denouncing the se. nine Editor of this Paper, until we can set in type numerous docu. ments establishing the private character of John Gibson, as infa. mous in the highest degree—and that of B. Grime and P. Guilliot, u liars and cowards. R. I). HICHAR nsoar. Mr. Richardson is senior Editor of the Louisiana Gazetic—Mr. Gibson is one of the.Editoto of the Aron. The diploma of the degree of which had been previously conferred upon the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Baron, was yesterday presented to his Lordship, at a very full meeting of the Senatus Academicus of the Uni versity of Edinburgh. The reply of his Lordship to an approp: iate address by the Principal was most eloquent and impre. - .zive.—Edinburgh Pare?' 6f Saturduy. THEA7'RES. DRURY-LANE. Tire PA xi- 0311 M E.—Pentomime and Plumpurlding have again come into fashion together ; and we hoid him worse than an infidel who can quarrel with either. Let him be written clown an ass without benefit of clergy, and pro nounced free natant. ; so that neither the thickness of his • hide, nor Martin's Act, shall protect him from the effects of innumerable buffettings. What so proper as that " the boards" of our Theatres, minor and metropoli tan, winter and summer, should emulate " the festive boards" all over the island at this season of the year ; anti become vehicles of mirth, good things, fun, and frolic; and that a plentiful lack of thought and :11-nature, and a proportionate abundance of good cheer and good temper, should everywhere prevail ? A merry Christmas and a ' happy New Year to you all, our masters, old and young, simple as well as gentle ! Above all things, and in order that we may provide for the entertainment of all classes and ages—the Wile as well as the great world —let there be pantomime after our roast beef. Ycur pantomime is a dessert for a schoolboy, and the only comedy for an alderman ! All things arc substantia!— practiaal— tangible—even to the jokes! If it does not " ascend me into the brain," it does whit is better— descends me into the itt . r.y, and everything connected with it is etpa'ule of manual as well as visual denin [ strtl'an. Nothing is taken on trust. Harlequin pays his way with hard cash and orthodox knocks throughout. Pantaloon demonstrates his, sometimes, it must be allowed, by means of the "rule of false." Co/an/bine, if not a trifle, at least a trifler, " light as air," dances gayly as the butter fly through all the chenges and chances of her chrysalis like existence ; and the Clown, in hia own person the repre sentative of all that is roguiph and witty, identifying with himself every thing pertaining to the perfection of physical and mental alacrity, "steals the [not] noiseless tenor of his way," for he picks every men's pocket, and demolishes ever man's shins, as far as in him hes. Well and worthily then does Pantomime come in as second course to the Christ mas banquet. Your Cowl' harmonises with a fat capon— masks and mieletoe may even go together; lean and slippered PiAtaloon, by force of contrast, does rarely sit dawn to a venison pasty ; minced pies ate nought the worse for the accompaniment of music ; ham and Harlequin have more than the initial letter in common ; and a leg of mutton and a leg of Columbine, if the latter be .trot too slim, may stand'on the one footing, particularly as each is the better of capers! If Mazurier were present, with his wonderful power over back and hip, the banquet would be complete, for we might venture to knight him by the style and dignity of Sir-Loin, and place him at the foot of the table. So much for the present on the scope and tendency of this species of amusement with our opinions, on which we intend one day to favour the public at greater length, in a volume to be entitled " The Philosophy of Pantomime." Last night witnessed the representation of Yry no means the least en tertaining specimen of this kind of dramatic exercitation which it has been our lot to see at old Drury. The pre sent performance is entitled Harlequin Jack nf All Trades, and its author (the author of a pantomime!) has contented himself with a modest and modern allegory for his story, instead of seeking through the mines of ancient and remote history, true or fabulous, for the foundation of his plot. The plot of a pantomime, which is never interesting, and seldom more than a thread on which to hang the tricks and transformations of the passing show, can generally soon be told. The present instance is not a deviation from the rate. The Queen of Clubs is unhappily left to pine—like any simile that may be convenient to the reader—in widowed solitude, and re gret the decease of her sable lord. There are two aspirants for the favour of her hand (Oh, call it fair, not dark !) in the King of Hearts and Jack of all Trades. The , defunct monarch of Clubs, or rill more extriorainzry. his brazen image, takes a somewhat unusual interest in the disposal of the aforesaid hand, and steps in between the competitors in a rather critical dine and place. Jack of all Trades has a genius (the betties of harlequinades always have--the authors only Sometimes): this genius is luckily disposed to assist him, and transforms Jack into Harlequin, and his mistress into Columbine. The rival King of Hearts, whose soft empire is in the present case disputed by the refractory female Ma jesty of Club., is touched by the Genius's wand, and becomes Pantaloon. The brass statue of the `• buried Majesty" of Club. land is transmuted Imo the Clown. From this point the pantomir•.te commences; many tricks and changes, some of them ingenious, are played off—plenty of beautiful scenery is exhibited—the usual quantity of kicks and cuffings ensue—and, after a lapse of a couple of hours, and a storm at sea, the lovers are united, first re-aasunung their previous forms, in which metamorphosis they are accompanied by the remaining characters of the piece. The tricks and changes of pantomime should be so many practical jokes, and convey an idea pleasing from no s velty and appropriateness, or striking by means of the force of contrast or grotesque illustration. Iflien they sink into mere evidences of the correct calculation and clever execution of the machinist, they cease to be perfect. The best trick of last night was the change of the gouty man's Bath chair into a rolling atone and pair of bellows (the patient being lieenessed to the one, and supposed to be im pelled by the other), with the motto insctibed—" Air and Exercise.' I'erhaps the worst—we are talking of the spirit of these things—was the practical pun on the Living Skeleton—" bones may pass." 'l'he scene is in the box entrance of Drury-lane Theatre, and the announcement we have just written—" bones may pass"—is exhibited at one of the pay apertures—a man * dressed up, or undressed, to represent the Anatomic Vicante, is brought in and caused to jump through the passage! )f the scenery we can only speak in terms of the highest commendation. " The exterior of Club Pdlace," by Stan field, possesses great architectural beauties, together with the advantages of a beautiful sky and moonlight. Roberts's view of Regent-street, with Carlton House in the distance, is true to the original, and the perspective extremely well managed. But all these sink in comparison with the arc cession of panoramic paintings, entitled " nautnetabolia," Stanfield. The first of the series, which displays the launch of a ship at war at Dover, with the surrounding scenery of the cliffs, castle, &c. is extremely beautiful and faithful to nature ; and the last, representing the towing of the shipwrecked vessel into a foreign port, is about one cf the most splendid things that have) evir 'hopped even from Stanfield's pencil. The dismantled and disinasted wreck—which albeit it went out like a lends, returns quite hardship—is excellently painted ; and all the machinery of sun, clouds, waves, rocks, and breakers, are as well dune as canvass would admit of. In our enumera tion of the scenic displays which add beauty to this Pantomime, it would be injustice to omit the last scene, " the Hall of Honours: which is as brilliant as gilding and the gorgeous pencil of klarinari could make it. Ro berts's poulterer's shop in the Strand must be immediately recognized by any one accustomed to pass Exeter 'Change. It only remains to notice the music sod performers : the ori ginal part of the former is by Mr. T. Cooke, awl can occa sionallyboast some pleasing passages,like all the works of tit's camposcr. Mr. Blanchard was an excellent Pantaloon, and Mr. Southby would no doubt have vroved equally good as Clown, had he not received an injury in one of his legs, while leaping, in the early part of the pantomine, which caused him to limp throttAli thermal:ALT, apparently with much pain to himself and the humane part of the hcuse. Mr. Howell's Harlequin and Miss Barnett's Columbine are both well and favourably known to the public. Their exertions on the present occasion were such as excited the warm approbation of the spectators, and are not likely to detract from their previous merits. We would advise Mr. Fitzwilliani to give up his attempt at an imitation of Liston, in Paul Pry. He certainly did succeed in remind ing us of the great original, but it was rather in the way of contrast thau resemblance. CON'ENT-0 ARDEN. We cenfess we love Christmas—an En Christmas, with its hilarity, its good.cheer, its hospitable observances, and innocent gayeties. Amongst the latter we rank the Christmas Pantomime, and defy the most hardy libeller of our national character to deny . that John Bull can relax his features—aye, and grin broadly too, by St. Dunstan, when he visits either of our great Theatres (for say what we may in our hypercritical moods, these are the houses where pantomimes arc produced) and observes the motley crowd assembled in gapi ngexpectancy, with their honest open countenances and noisy jollity, to witness the firstypresen tation of a bolyday Pantomime. It is a rude scene, but an ani mated one, and full of national character. On these nights the Pantomime is evidently not the primary but the sole object of attraction, and whether Melpomene or her more sportive sister rules the hour preceding the arrival of the grand de sideratum, the deep sighs and melancholious wailings of the one, and " the quips, and cranks, and wreathel smiles" of the other, run a hazard of beirv; set dow n a; " weary, stale, fat, and unprofitable," by the critics R 1„, hold the sceptre en these memorable oecasiclts. Such lis t the fate of Southern's ttagetly of I sa b e ll a; or, the F „ tu .t Marriage, perform( d at this theatre last night ; a consum mation scarcely to be wondered at, when we eolisider that this piece is amongst the heaviest of those which Lip ' stage, and has lost even its t..?.tritiste worth, si nce i t Las been deprived of the charm derived from the pathrtie nity and subduing feeling so conspicuous in Mrs. Sidilon''a performance of habella, and the graceful energy which distinguished her no less talented successor, Miss O'Ntill. We make this observation without any disparagement to Miss Lacy, who is, we verily believe, the best represents. tive extant of the weeping Niebe, whose acting and gentle. " Pleasures were Bury'd, and cold in her dead hu s b an d' s grate. " With this single observation we shall d espatch the tra• getly, merely adding, that although w e are we l l inclined m to a e n a l t i i k m e a t t i e ep highly o r reference arde's to correct his perform ance of Biro's, we cannot refrain from counselling him, as m uch as possible to avoid appearing in those c haracter s w h ere flexibility of manner and pathetic delineat ion are requisite. Of this, ye, buns sat. We now come to what all seemed to consider the princi pal source of attraction—the Pantomime. It is called te a ,. lequin and the Mogiek Rose ; or, Beauty and the Bead. We suppose we should be chargeable with a gross dereliction of that duty we are disposed to pav, to the spirit which /w e , sides over such performances, it we neglected to attempt something like a description of the" programme." Azor (Mr. Ellar) Prin6s of Persia, having rejected the ha n d of Ugalena (31r..11enry) Princess 6f Persia Interior told, and the wised of magic power) she, in revenge, transformed him into the likeness of the Northern Bear (not Ursa Major), which form ebe vowed he 'Mould retain until a virgin fair should consent to unite her fate with his. The entrance to his chamber in the &cliental Palace is guarded by the Magic Rose Tree. The merchan t Scandsino (Mr. Barnes) is driven by th e v i o l ence of a storm b; seek shelter beneath a fatal roof; and remembering the month. h e made to his daughter, Beauty (31iseRomer), to bring her a rose, the only flower her garden did not possess, pluelts a branch front the Magte.Tree. The Beast rushing front it, is in the act of de. stroyinrg_ the merchant, who implore. for life, in nitre, r e his only dauhter, Beauty. The B east spares hi ts, ca a promise that tie brings her to his palace, and despatches th e merchant in a magic car to expedite his return ; meanwhile Realm, in the Orange Grove. at her father's villa, is informed In a 'Mon ui her destiny by the Genii of the Rose (Master Longhurst), and is conducted by him to the palace of Azor. Filial affection triumphs over external deformity, and bile is about to resign herself to die transformed Azor, when the malignant Ugalena appears, and again crosses Asor's joys. The Interposition of the Genii of the Row thwarts her digns, and (though unable to give the Prince his real form), changes him into the motley hero Harlequin. and Beauty to Columbine ; the other characters are also tranformed into Clown. Pantaloon, and Lover, and all are sent upon thea annual voyages anl travels. This gives occasion for the usual display of graceful agility froth tit:wit-pin and Columbine, the requisite nu.n bet of kicks an 4 cuffs to Pantaloon,. and a great nutnber of practical jokes' ` in the performan ce of which th e Cl ow; (Mr. J. S. Griffinldi) and Dandy Lover (Mr. Parsloe) were the active aggitta. Mr. Pat sloe is new, we understand, to Covent-garden boards, and fl ings about his limbs with such a wonder-stirring carelessness of all the laws of mturcular motion, that he bids fair at !cast to gain a niche in the Temple of Fame tit at to that of the "animated whale bone," Monsieur Mazurier, if he dues not live actually to pine: the wreath from the brow of that nine nights' wonder. The worst fault of Harlequin and the Magic* lion is one that perhaps in this age, when— Fancy has sported all its powers away In tales, in trifles, and in children's play, - - it is scarcely liberal to charge as a sin against a panto mime writer, we mean the introduction of some dozen tricks, as familiar to us as the names of the perfotmets. From this condemnation we must except the sports of " Greenwich Hill, on Easter Monday," the sudden trans formation of the Living Skeleton into a portly aldermanic , personage, by the simple process of filling his stomach, the ghost of the green-grocer in Covent-garden market at night, and the panoramic exhibition, which we are especially disposed to applaud, as it gives ream to hope that what is rational, and in some degree iti structive, nosy be infused into pantomimic performances without diminishing their value by lessening their effect. The scenery was generally good, and some particular seen were magnificent. The performance concluded with th following finale, but its appeal did not seem td be univer sally wed received, for the performance was rcatm!unre( amidst mingled hisses and applause. Every part of th• house was filled to overflowing:— FINALE TO HARLEQUIN AND TIM MACIICK RCS fairy_Our blagick Rose, Pray don't oppose, Tie a type of England's glory ; We just made free, From the Fairy Tree, To pluck one for our story. Chores.—Our Magick Rose, &c: C/ores.—lt you approve tonight, . The Roses red and white Shall deck our (Anistmas feast ; In our Garden here, May they long appear ! And for Beauty spare the Beast. Chorwr.—ln our tiarden, &c. ADELPIII. Last night, after the performance of The Pik!, and th interlude of Christmas Boxes, the Managers of this 'fheart "as in duty bound," presented their audience with ano pantomime, entitled the Three Golden /amps; or, Hat. lignin and Me Wi z a r d D war f. We are told that pai., toinimes, which were invented and brought to great per fccticn by the subtle Greeks, were afterwards a first.ra favourite at Rome • so much were they prized by a petiole of that city, ;hat it was once a matter of grave dou whether Bethyllus, the Harlequin of his day, and the cat: 'temporary of Cicero, were not capable of conveying many sentiments, and giving expression to as great a rare , of feeling by his pantomimic fooleries, as that distinguishc orator could by his eloquence. Were such a question be determined by a well-packed gallery of modern " gods• their decision would most unquestionably be in favour the physical eloquence of the Harlequin and his agile cos jutors. Yea, they would prefer their speaking somersets a expressive capers to the most impassioned sentences the first orator on earth. Indeed 'so strongly did this feeling ne test itself last evening, that The Pilot, which has now for: tarty-eighth time " weathered the storm." was forc:al to throw inconsiderable portion of its dialogue overboard, :nd to crowd : sail in order to appease the wrath of the " powers above." is did Mtn Colin present us with a fine specimen of a amine L. tish seaman; bootless was the patriotism of Lientrßant Barest . : The intrepidity of the one, and the- national feelings of the were forgotten In the impatience for the " new comic pantemiT: The pantomime they came to see, and the sooner they had tt better. During the performance of the two first pieces they sionafly enlivened the scene with a set-to, and it was tiot of the eilektial combatants was borne away is the car grasp of a police officer, that any thing 1:1.0 timer was At last came (the Pantomime, such is it was, the story tF this : Grimpinibo/dlito, an Eygtiao sorcerer (Mr. T. possession of " three golden lamps," in the Fare custody depends all his magic influence. The lamps arc uct stolqp, and Comatalinlzan (Mr. W. Kitby), the of icy , : Sorcerer's daughter (Miss Pincoo, is ordered by the to resign all claim to his daughter's hand, or to C.. •L lamps. Afters long search, he discovers and imams C'ec , Sorcerer ; but, unluckily for the poor lover, just as he is receive the reward of his tuitions, the lamps are 3 steott , t. m t made away with by his mo.her, bunghibus (Signor Paulo), who had chanced to intros able use to which the Sorcerer was wont to convin ti., • L stead, however, of the usual frcight of treasure, the slant' lamps, when summoned by her, twoduced huge clubs, with s hi t t b li e e y y b la o i r d e n o t tr os i t h :n la n m ie ps rei . ful N ly ow on co h n er mi t er a c n a d, th t e o batiudbintnesl:r of 1 I 'l tornlme : the lovers are, by a touch of the Sorcerer's a end, cht . n into llarlcquin and Columbine, the mother Incomes iLe and Epitomanea, the tMarcercarsfucteintn (Mr. Elliot), spens , a as Pantaloon. The usual tricks are then gone throcgh: th! are in the end found, and //askquiu, to his pest hasimis, misery as it may be," obtains; the hand of his C 4 i t yntihe. t ors ing the difficulties that are to be encountered oosa first rii. ll •• s fortnance of a pantemitne„it went off pretty well : tile ch'"V . t • sure were neither numerous nor striking, but on the whole net.: rably amusing m a person who did not consider them onh a close or critical eve. The performers exerted hmvlres! great deal of energy. The Clawn of Signor l'aulo wid .Ir. hi: Harlequin were perhaps the most successful effat.. The see owing perhaps to the limited size of the stage and the muslin. the theatre, had not the moat striking edict. The musx sprightly, and notwithstanding there were a few dissentixus , dose of the curtain, we look upon this pantomime as an s to the stock of amusements already produced this SOW al popular little theatre. The real the Su mint! fsilurc tbi: IVe pee& Co. of and Th( Of Cc day, a placed keR rim mity van tal We n neighl Mess? srts e presst Merl IV( nounc coned house yet to in fly tleme The t great been the al us, a In trust surp i Ayle Keck fiden Chrc, TI last: in f. p.:na with Ilan - Wish " At Anti