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GEOLOGY..— King's College, London. Professor TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a. COURSE of LECTURES on GEOLOGY, on Friday morn ing, January 27th, at nine o'clock. They will be continued on each succeeding Wednesday and Friday, at the sa me hour. Fee, £2 12s. '6d IL W. JELF, D.D., Principal, THE CO RNHILL MAGAZINE. • Edited by W. M. THACKERAY. No. 2 (for FEBRUARY), Will be published on Friday, the 27th inst., Price ONE SHILLING, With Two Illustrations. CONTENTS 1. Nil Nisi Boum. 2. Invasion Panics. 3. To Goldenhair (from Horace). By Thomas Hood. 4. Pramley P arsonage . Chapter IV. A Matter o f C onscience. Chapter V. Amantium irm amoris integratio. Chapter VI. Mr. Harold Smith's Lecture. 5. Tithonus. By Alfred Tennyson. 6. William Hogarth, Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher, Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time. 1. Little Boy Ilogarth. -Unspoken Dialogue. By R. Monckton Milnes. (With an Illustration.) Studies in Animal Life, Chapter 11. 9 Curious if True (Extract from a Letter from Richard hittingham, Esq.) .Life among the Lighthouses. 11.Lovel, the - Widower. Chapter IT. In which Miss Prior is kept at the Door. (With an Illustration.) 12. An Essay without End. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., a, Cornhill, H 0 Y A I, ENGLISH OPERA COVENT-GAP.DEN. Under the management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, VICTOIIINE. Messrs. Santley, IL Haigh, H. Ccrri, G. Honey, Walworth, &o. Misses Parepa, Conductor, Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the new grand pantomime, called PUSS IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden Palms. Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Payne, P. Barnes, Tallien, Infants Lauri, and Miss Clara Morgan. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 10 minutes to 7. THEA TRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS. Miss Reynolds. After which, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto- Mime, VALENTINE'S DAY; or, harlequin and the Fairy of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled Leclereqs. trHEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.- Sole Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste. Last Nights of the Spanish Dancer, Isabel Cubas. THIS EVENING, the popular Drama of ST. MARY'S EVE. Madeline (her original character) Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Eir travavanza and Pantomime, KING THRUSHBEA.RI), the LITTLE PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. 11. Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosino. Commence at 7. ' Mr. Tom Taylor's New Historical Drama, founded on Mr. Charles Dickens's work, "A Tale of Two Cities," is post. poned until Monday. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. Re-eng,agement of the Wonderful Dancer, Mons. Espinosa. First appearance of Mdlle. Marietta Rosetta, Principal Dan sense of La Scala, Milan ; and the Delapierre Family. These highly-talented Children will appear every night. The Royal Princess's Rifles on parade every evening. THIS EVENING, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. After which, a new Christmas burlesque pantomime, by H. J. Byron, called SACK THE GIANT KILLER ; or, Harle quin King Art:iur and the Knights of the Round Table. Jack, Miss Louise Keeley—Harlequin, Mr. Cormack*- Panta _oon, Mr. Paulo—Columbine, Miss Caroline Adams—Clown, Ur. A. F. Forrest. NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reproduction of THE DEAD HEART, with all its power ful effects. THIS EVENING, TIIE DEAD HEART. Messrs. B. Webster, J. L. Toole, David Fisher, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Billington, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly. After which THE NYMPHS OF THE LURLkYBERG ; or, The Knight and the Naiades. Messrs. Toole, Bedford, Eburne, Smith, Powell, Romer, Miss Woolgar, C. Webb, K. Keay, Laidlaw. Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Office open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats, nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment are strictly prohibited. Aotinz Manager —Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THI3 EVENING the performances will eommenee with PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Messrs. 11. T. Craven an& J. Francis, Mesdames Murray and Eliza Arden. After which, a new Tragic Ballet, entitled MY NAME IS NORVAL. Supported by C. Young, Barrett, Miss Lydia Thompson, Clara St. Casse, Followed by a new sketch, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. Miss Wyndham and Mr. H. T. Craven. To conclude with the new pantomime of PUNCH AND JUDY. Introducing Miss Lydia Thompson and the Corps de Ballet. Clown, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pantaloon, and the wonderful Performing Dogs. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-oMce open from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform ante commences at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Last Five Weeks of Mr. W. Cooke's Season. TII IS EVEN ING, the New Spectacular Drama by Mr. R. Phillips, TIIF, EMPEROR'S DECREE, with full stud of Horses and great effects.—Scenes in the Circle by Astley's world-renowned Equstrians, terminating with the Eques trian, Operatical, and Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TOM MOODY ; or, Old Towler thelluntsman and the God dess Diana ; Diana, with Songs, Miss Jacobs.—Costly and dazzling Transi ormation Scene.—harlequin, M. Richarde ; Columbine, Mdlle. Mazoni ; Clown, M. Ililderbrandt ; Pan taloon, Mr. I'. Abbot -A family of Sprites - Epsom Races by Living Jockies and real Ponies, with ring and Stage com bined. Commence at 7. Grand Morning . Performances of the Pantomime on Satur day, Jan. 28, and Saturdays, Feb. 4 and 11, at Two o'clock each day. Mr. uo4 Ice respectfully intimates his Farewell Benefit will take place on Monday, Jan. 80. CANTERB UR Y HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING. Sterndale Bennett's MAY QUEEN. And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINO RA 11. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Pine Arts Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant sights of the metropolis. - ROSA BON FIFER'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE FAI It is now added to the already magnificent Collection of Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATIIER.—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 26, 1860.:f THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 45—highest since noon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during the night. 40—this day at noon. BAROMETER-20.85; rising rapidly. WIND, Morning N.W., now South-Westerly ; light, with dull frosty weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 59m.—Afternoon, 4h. 15m. To-MORROW.-Morning, 4h. 30m.—Afternoon, 4b. 45m. On Monday, then, the 20th of February, the Bedford Architect is to lay the first stone of his " broader and firmer basis " for the Parliamentary representation of the people. There will, no doubt, be an ample attendance to witness the ceremony ; though we fear it will be very much like a Queen's Speech, telling us merely what we have all long anticipated. There is, however, something of the wonder-loving even about us sober Englishmen ; and when a great matter has long been kept a pro found secret, it seems as if we could hardly help half-hoping to the last that some little and agree able surprise is in reserve for us. In the present case, we well know that the greatest surprise would be, not so much the marvel itself, as to have Lord Jous RUSSELL for the wonder-worker. However excellent any quite untried scheme might demonstrably be, it would be a positive objection with him that it had not a side blacked or mossy with time, which he could turn outside to make it look as like as possible to the rest. ." Br oa d an d fi rm, " t h ese are t o b e th e wa t c h wor d s tlll th e 20 t h ; and what, our readers w i ll say, can a jaurnalist fi n d to comment on i n t h ese t wo adjec . tires. Lord SouN, we are sure (for of course he drew up the clause), must have chuckled with de light to think how he had put the subject into her Majesty's mouth without giving the tiresome P gen tlemen of the press opp ortunity for cculatio or for criticism. All turns, however, on ' t 1 whether he used the word; r s " honourable," and 4 , learned," and " gallant," and " noble," are appli e d i n Parlia ment to memo ers, to lawyers, to soldiers, or to peers' sons, or whether he meant bona fide to pre sent the real characteristics of his forthcoming bill. Our Rep resentation ought to have a "broad and firm basic;." Any Reform Bill ought to make it so ; there fo re, as all lawyers are learned, ani all soldiers aro gallant, so all Reform Bills must be assumed to o bserve the laws of political architec ture, and to make a representation " broad and firm." We incl however, to the view that Lord , ..4 : 7 ....i.;.i.' . t 6 ' .7.,., - 47.z - -- - x,,,i - , , - , 4 - ~,,, 4,,L -7- , ~,,... . 4 ,. . , 40 , E/,,, ~ 41. ' 4 T•Ai 14 C ).- , . I.IIF - '' T ~,, - . , P . - ''' - . -,- ' 444,, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 26, 1860. JOHN'S clause was intended by him not for routine ,anguag,e merely ; he thinks his bill will give us a " broader and firmer basis,','for the superstruc ture, which, resting on the people, is carried up through the Commons and the Lords and cul minates in the Crown. That it will be much broader probably few of us have any hope. Cer tainly it will not be much broader than that pro posed by Mr. DISRAELI last year. The six pounds' rental, as Mr. BRIGHT and his friends have shown, will largely add to the electors in constituencies already large—just where the increased breadth is least wanted—while in the small country towns, where " influence" has the election at command, it wj,ll add but slightly to the numbers. Of what avail will it be to form a " broader basis" for Man chester or Birmingham, for Marylebone or the Tower Hamlets, while the Thetfords and Arundels are left with constituencies as narrow as ever ? constituencies which have not the smallest title to be the basis of as large a portion of the House of Commons as those of the vast boroughs just men tioned. Possibly Lord JOHN may essay to make the petty boroughs into petty counties—that,how ever, is but a scheme for making constituencies of the most manageable class. constituencies in which the squires and parsons will be the real electors — the narrowest of all constituencies. We take leave to doubt, therefore, whether in the boroughs, as a whole, we shall receive from the hands of the noble lord availably broader con stituencies. They will be broader only where they are now broad enough. Still more will this be the case with the counties. Mr. DISRAELI'S franchise last year will, we presume, be Lord JOHN'S. It will double the county constituencies, some say. Be it so. But we deny that it will really give a " broader basis" to our representation there. The county electors will still be the great landed pro prietors. The THIRTY THOUSAND of the Duko of BEDFORD class will still be the real county consti tuency—not a thousand real electors to each county, nor anything like it! As reasonably propose to give greater breadth to the representation in the Southern States of America by increasing the num ber of slaves, as to effect it in the counties by enabling greater numbers to poll, for the same landlord's nominees. No one acquainted with the country districts can doubt that extension of fran chise is but extension of subserviency. The truth is, it is childish to affect to talk of increasing " breadth and firmness," while the quality of the material you build with is over looked. Stone that will crush with the suparin cumbent weight adds nothing to the strength of a building or of a buttress. We clearly need, as the first element of representation—security that every vote shall:represent the voter's own opinion. To over look this is as absurd as for any manufacturer to overlook the quality of his raw material, or for an architect to employ Bath stone where granite is re quired. Lord JOHN'S bill, we prediet, will utterly fail here. It will make a show of what he promises, but a show only. We speak our deliberate convic tion when we say that he is not one whit, really, in advance of Lord DERBY as a Parliamentary Re former. We know this may seem strong language, but we mean it. He is not one whit more willing than Lord DERBY-Ist, To surrender the trumpery nomination boroughs, because they are aristocratic boroughs. 2dly. To render the voter perfectly in_ dependent of landlord and of other control. We were present yesterday at an important meeting of the:Council of the Ballot Society, and the testimony of gentlemen, both from boroughs and counties, was that without the ballot an extension of the suffrage would be an almost unmitigated evil. We cannot doubt it. Lord JOHN'S will be a bill which will attempt to create a " broader and firmer basis" from materials which have already got the electoral dry rot. H the discussion yesterday in the House of Com mons was merely cursory, it was also eminently and significantly discursive. It resembled some what a sound familiar, we may presume, to the gallant member for Southwark—the sharpening of cutlasses. It was the revcillee of party—a prelimi nary flourish of trumpets that must have thrilled to the heart of many an old political war-charger among the ranks of the confronting belligerents. If we examine more carefully into the record of that first afternoon sitting in the Parliamentary session of 18G0, we may readily detect here and there distinct indications that already the heat of debate is beginning to generate what Mr. TEN NYSON finely calls, in true Homeric phrase, "drops of onset." The exceeding, not to say suspi cious, politeness of the preceding evening was fairly thrown aside yesterday in several instances. And if the principal knights on entering the lists upon that first meeting of mere pageantry and com pliment, which annually inaugurates our legisla tive tournay at Westminster, may be described as having done so, as it were, with vizors raised and with a smiling obeisance from each to his future antago nist--upon the second gathering lances were being fitted firmly in rest, thong tightened, and the barred vizors locked down (like the spiteful lady's reticule in DICKENS) " with a snap like a bite." There are portents upon all hands of many a fierce en counter already actively in preparation. The only difficulty now appears to be the difficulty of selec tion. Which plea for a deadly struggle shall have precedence ? The Chinese War ? The Treaty of Commerce? The Italian Question? The Budget? The Reform of Parliament ? Each has advocates for its being taken immediately and seriously into consideration. All are instantaneously ac cepted by the House as themes having a very great deal indeed to be said upon both sides, pro et contra. Ministers have (in this profusion of topics upon which Government and Opposition will inevitably in legal phraseology join issue with each other) at once to decide " the order of their going," and having done so, to impart to each the motive power " to go." Of course, as the Prime Minister observed very justly last evening—" It is impossible for the Government to satisfy the wishes and opinions of all the members as to the course of public business. The right hon. gentleman (Mr. Hoasmast) and others who agree with -him are desirous that the Reform Bill should be the first measure proposed. The hon. and gallant member for Westminster attaches great importance to an early discussion of questions connected with China. Other members think that the treaty concluded with France, in volving the interests of our commercial system, ought to be the first measure taken in this house. Other members attach great importance to the general review of our finances, and hope the Chancellor of the Exchequer will take an early op portunity to bring on his Budget." Wherefore, observes Lord PALM ERSTON at the close of this suc cinct resume of the Ministerial difficulty as to the arrangement, at the very outset of the session, of the mere ordering or sequence of public business— "lt is impossible for her MAJESTY'S Government tosatisfy equally the wishes and opinions of all, and the chances are that it will be found that the course we have pursued is the one which, on the whole, is best suited to bring the deliberations of the house to a satisfactory and useful result." Upon the perfect reasonableness of all this it were needless to expatiate. It must be obvious, surely, upon , THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1860, second thoughts, to the most perverse, to the most obtuse, to the most cross-grained partisan upon the side of the Opposition, whether seated below the gangway or upon the back benehes immediately confronting her MAJESTY'S Government. The difficulties of administration, the toils of ad -11 ministration in this country, are altogether to nu merous and too onerous in themselves not to render fair play the right of any, of every successive Government. Whether that meed of fair play was honestly, manfully, and generously dealt out last year to the late administration is not now the question. Besides—our views upon that point we have long since, and earnestly enough, articulated. The question at this moment is—as it was a twelve month since—shall Ministers be dealt with fairly, frankly, and magnanimously ? The very denial of all this (in 1859) to their an tagonists, by the present occupants of the Treasury Bench when their relative positions in regard to Mr. Speaker were distinctly reversed—only renders it now more than over desirable that fair play should, in truth, be once more accorded to her MAJESTY'S Government. Grievous, indeed, would it be to the national interests, and little else could it by pos sibility be but an outrage to the national character, were it in any way likely that the tactics of the Opposition in the earlier part of the session of 1859 would be adopted as a precedent. The past is past. Political parties have changed places in the House of Commons. The Tory Reformers, or enlightened Conservatives, have, without any dero gation to their own dignity, been removed from the Bide of the Government to the side upon which they proved, for example, during the Crimean war anything but a factious, on the contrary, we will say without an instant's hesitation, an eminently patriotic Opposition. While the many-coloured Coalition opposite—the Coalition which consented, a twelvemonth back, at the instance of • the author of the notorious Whig " dodge" to push their opponents from the seat of power in a pcll mell scramble for the occupancy of those seats by themselves—Whigs, Radicals, Peelites, Canningites, Peace-at-any-Price-ites sit there cheek by jowl upon the benches they covetted ! Prepared, moreover,to do battle with all corners manfully, upon any plea, it matters little what,a Treaty or aCongress, Italy or China, Reform' or Finance—provided only they may receive what they would not give— " A clear stage and no favour "—in other words, just honest, simple English Fairplay. This they at least, we rest assured, will have. And that they will have it, we rejoice to know, for again we say it—Fairplay is the right of every British Administration. It is satisfactory then to be aware at once that the Ministerial arrangements for the course of public business will in no way be interfered with. Everything will be taken into account in due time and in properly ordered sequence. Our principal solicitude in regard to the conduct of public business in this seemly and per fectly constitutional fashion, having reference to the revision as soon as possible of the singularly one-sided Commercial Treaty between France and England ! To the prosecution of the new Chinese war as rapidly and energetically as may be in any way practicable ! To the balancing of the national accounts as speedily as can be in any manner con trived, in no hair-splitting, or specious,or merely stop gap Financial Statement! To the unfolding of a policy in regard to Italy, such as may tend to secure the happiness, instead of ensuring the yet further deso lation of that beautiful peninsula! And last, but not by any means least, to the submission to the House of Commons not later than the tOth of February, of a bold and comprehensive, and not a mere shuffling or piecemeal I scheme for a Reform in the national Representa tion ! One malign influence it is impossible not to recognise already as operating adversely to the popular interests in the councils of the Coalition. Allusion is made of course to the peace-at-any-price school of politicians. To what else than that—allied though its leaders are so intimately with the noble and beneficent Free Trade principles—to what other influence than that can be attributed the palsy foreshadowed to the Chinese expedition, through an ominous sentence in the Speech from the Throne ? To .what else do we owe the disgracefully one sided character (for 18 months to come) of the new commercial treaty between France and England, now about to be formally submitted to Parliament for its approval ? Peace-at-any-Price ! Remember the designation. Is this the Price ? All these mercantile concessions to France during the next year and a half, without any reciprocation of advantages from our Imperial Neighbour ! All this possibility of eating l(off China) humble pie— that has been cooked in the murderous Are kindled (was it by Russia ?) in that treacherous and das tardly Peiho ambuscade ! If anything like this, say we, is the Trice to be paid by England in the East and .in the West, at the bidding of the Peace at-any-Price mongers—away with the Coalition ! The publication by the Messrs. BLACKWOOD of the two remarkable volumes* in which Mr. LAU RENCE OLIPHANT gives us the narrative of Lord ELGIN'S mission, in '57,'58, and '59, to the Chinese and Japanese Governments, marks at once a new starting point in our own knowledge and a new epoch in the general development of Asiatic civili sation. It is like the opening of a grand bivalve gateway to the East—letting a flood of light through the mists of obscurity and ignorance hitherto ob structing our view of those vast and remote regions, regions comprising within them very nearly one moiety of the vast aggregate of this earth's popula tion. The narrator, as such, possesses to that end a variety of rare and admirable qualifications. He is already widely known as a keen observer even in this peculiar age of keen observers. Already, though as yet apparently, and, as his readers will all hope, but in the early part of his career he has travelled to the north, to the south, to the east, to the west, as but few have travelled, even in this peculiar age of rapid and incessant locomotion. Talk of BELZONI in Egypt, of BRUCE in Abyssinia, or of those earlier men of enterprise who consumed a lifetime in penetrating into one single country, and then returned homewards with stories hardly less surprising than the records of LEMUEL GUL• LIVER, mariner : histories as veracious as the after dinner anecdotes of Major LONGBOW, as the ac count of the personal adventures of Major GEo- HEGAN, or as the autobiographic memorabilia of the brazen-faced and brazen-voiced Baron MUN CHAUSEN Why, Mr. OLIPHANT, during the last half-dozen years, has been—with his eves open and his vigilance ever on the alert—where has he not been Ito has traversed the umbrageous wilds of Minnesota in the far west of the great North Ame rican continent. He has wandered over the Steppes of Russia. lie entered and scrutinised—immediately plc)" to the great Crimean war—the world-famous fortress and arsenal of Sebastopol. lie travelled far and wide elsewhere along the borders of the Black Sea among the warlike tribes of the Caucasus. Lastly, it fortunately so happened that Mr. OLIPHANT accompanied the Earl of ELGIN'S me morable expedition to China and Japan, in 185/ - - - 1858-1859, in the responsible and confidential capacity of the Noble Lord's Private Secretary. It is from the notes and diaries accumulated by him during that mission that our indefatigable traveller has built up this singular, we believe we are strictly accurate in terming it this perfectly unique literary monument. The production about which we are now writing is here alluded to in our leading columns rather thari in those customarily devoted to literary criti cism, because we cannot but regard the literary merits of the work, great though those undoubt edly are, as having been altogether surpassed by its political importance. More especially have the volumes an interest and a weight in the political world at the present moment, when we are but just now in the very act of embarking upon our third and most momentous war with the Chinese, a war the result of which must vitally affect the past policy of Lord ELeaN, and our future relations with both the Chinese and Ja panese populations. Not a statesman, not a journalist, not a politician of any shade or colour, not any one of those about to be entrusted at the seat of war with either naval, or military, or diplo matic responsibility, but would do wisely to exa mine the lucid and brilliant record of Lord ELGIN'S three years' mission, for which we are indebted to the clear intelligence and the skilful and rapid hand of Mr. LAURENCE OLIPHANT, his lordship's Private Secretary. It were beside our purpose at the present moment to do more than direct particular attention to volumes abounding in timely and valu• able occasionally from its import invaluable infor mation. A little later on—it might perchance be to morrow, it would in every event bo at our ear liest opportunity—we may find occasion to revert to these volumes, examining some of their contents more in detail. As it is, our object is now simply, but very earnestly, to recommend these two really noble volumes,embellished by maps and photographs, and a profusion of miscellaneous illustrations, to the consideration of all lettered Englishmen—but most of all to those who would read aright the genius and the character of our old foes, soon let us hope to be at length and permanently our fast friends, the Chinese. to all; no matter of what condition or dignity, eccle siastical or laical, to reveal and make known to us, and to the holy office anywhere and everywhere, within the period of a month, everything they have known or may know of offenders. " Whether they are heretics, or suspected or sup posed to be heretics, or whether they adhere to Judaism, Mahomedan or Gentle, or whether they have become apostates from the Holy Catholic faith. "Whether they have practised or are practising ) acts that may be ascribed "to an express or tacit compact with the devil," such as incantation, witchcraft, &c., prayers to discover treasures, or for other purposes of the kind, all sorts of invo cations where his name or his acts are concerned. Whether they exercise necromancy or any other magic, abusing the sacrament or the holy and blessed things. " Whether, not being priests, they have usurped with sacrilegious daring the right to celebrate mass, or to administer to the penitent. " Whether they keep or have kept secret con venticles, or reunions likely to prejudice the holy Catholic religion. Whether they have been guilty of making use of oaths against the blessed Lord, the Holy.Virbin, or the saints, or otherwise been guilty of any act against holy images. " Whether, in spite of their oaths, they have entered, or endeavoured to enter, into a contract of matrimony. The first wife living or the first hus band, they have taken a second, or attempted to do it, or have in any way interfered with the holy office of the Inquisition, or with the Bull of his Holiness Pius V. Whether they have written satires or published writings against the Pope the Sacred Col lege, superiors, ecclesiastics, or religious orders ; or composed and distributed 'writings likely to be detrimental to the holy word; or if they possess writings or prints containing heresies, or books of heretics, speaking ex-professo against religion ; or whether they read, print, or allow to print and dis tribute such things under any pretext : If they are persons who without a license have eaten, or given to eat, meat, eggs, and the like on a prohibited day ; whether they have induced a Christian to become a Jew or any other sect ; whether they have prevented a Jew or a Turk becoming baptised. We declare that those who do not denounce such acts cannot he absolved and must be excommuni cated.. On purpose that this edict shall be pub licly known, we command its publication in every church and public place, so that nobody shall remain ignorant of it and nobody evade its obedience. We charge all publishers, librarians, shopkeepers, and hotels to stick up thepresent edict in their respective places publicly, where every body can see and read it. " The first, nay the only object of the tribunal of the holy office being the glory of the Lord, the glorification of the holy faith, and the salvation of souls, we have commanded and command as above, that all those who should consider themselves guilty, or who know others to be guilty, be pre sent themselves before us or substitutes volun tarily, before being denounced by others, and to confess sincerely and honestly their errors and failings, assuring them that, " unless accused by other legitimate eecclesiastical tribunals" they will be received with a charitable heart and treated with particular mercy—a mercy so very natural to the Holy Inquisition—and they will be expedited and delivered without any expense, or any public penitence. " According to the obligations imposed upon us concerning prints or books, we expressly command that no one dare to print, import, sell, or distribute books within or without our jurisdiction, unless such books have been previously submitted to the holy office. Adhering, besides, to the edicts of the supreme tribunal of the holy office at Rome, concerning any intercourse with Hebrews, viz. cohabiting, associating, or living in familiar con tact with them,' we oommand that nobody dares to transgress such edicts, under the penalty therewith expressed and promulgated. " Given at the holy office at Pesaro, on the 15th September, 1841. " Brother FILIPPO BERTOLOTPI, Inspector- General. ANTONIO SEVERINI, Chancellor-General of the Holy Office." * Narrative of the Earl of Elg,in's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, 1858, and 1869. By Laurence Oliphant, Esq., Private Secretary to Lord Elgin. 2 vols. Bvo. William Blackwood and Sons. London and Edin burgh. 1860, LATEST NEWS. The following telegrams have been received al Mr. Reuter's office : FLORENCE, JAN. 25. The Monitore Toscano publishes an official ex planation of the reasons for the reserve manifested in the decree proclaiming the Sardinim statutes in Tuscany. The Tuscan Government only intended to reserve the organic laws of Tuscany on freedom of commerce and industry, and some other special laws. The National Parliament will decide whether those laws are to cease in Tuscany, or whether, on the contrary, they are to be extended for the com mon benefit. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. The Patrie, of this evening, gives the following as the principal points of the treaty of commeroe between France and England. The import duty on French wines will be re duced in England from 150 to 30 per cent. Silk will be admitted free. The duty on iron imported into France will be 7f. per 100 kilogrammes. Wool and cotton manufacturers will be protected by a duty not exceeding 30 per cent., which will be fixed after the termination of the enquiry. Materials of primary importance will enter France free of duty after July, 1861. The prohibitions will be removed on the Ist of October. The treaty will be executed by England, from the date of its promulgation, about the beginning of February, 1860. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. M. Thouvenel, yesterday, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, took the usual oath to the Emperor. The ad interim direction of Foreign Affairs, confided to M. Baroche, has now ceased. The Speech of the Queen of England on opening Parliament was transmitted to Paris by telegraph in the exceedingly short time of 42 minutes. The document, being divided into three parts, was com mitted each to a separate wire, the first words being sent off at 33 minutes past one, and the last at a quarter past two. TIIE BOURSE, Jan. 25.—The market continues heavy. Threes after having been done at 68f. 60c., declined to 68f. 40c., and are now at 68f. 55c. Mobilier varied from 760 f. to 757 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 890 f. to 895 f. ; Orleans, 1,355 f. to 1,360 f.; Northern, 900 f. to 905 f. ; Southern, 502 f. 50c. to 505 f. Austrian, 513 f. 75c. to 511 f. 25e. ; Lombard, 555 f. to 552 f. 50e. The following were the last quo tations:— 0 per Cents. .... 97 Do. end month .. 97 3 per Cents 6B 65 Do. end month 6B 65 Bank Shares. 2830 Credit Mobilier .. 757 50 Do. Account ..... 755 Credit Foncier 750 Belgian 4} Piedmontese (5) Roman Bl 25 Austrian Spanish Throes Home Debt 43k RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern 907 50 .. 907 50 New ditto 822 60 .. 825 Lyons and Mediterranean 895 .. 895 Geneva 5lO 507 50 Southern Western 575 575 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 6c. ; money, 25f. Sc.; three months, paper, 24f. 91c. ; money, 24f. 90c. CENTRAL ITALY. A letter from Florence, dated Jan. 20, says : Yesterday Prince Alfred left Florence, to return to Leghorn, where the Euryalus is stationed for the present. lam glad to inform you that on entering the harbour of Leghorn she returned the national salute, a circumstance which has been the topic of much conversation in this town. Political news is rather scanty to-day, but general regret prevails here on account of the sad intelligence of poor Poerio's dangerous illness. In consequence of this momentary dearth, I cannot do better than send you the grotesque, half Chinese, half mediaeval edict of the Holy Inquisition just found at Bologna. Who can read this document without shuddering at the idea that a poor population have been for long years under the demoralising action of such dark and iniquitous power! An Englishman could be hardly brought to believe that in our century a man who calls himself a minister of the God of peace and mercy could find the courage to publish and sign such a revolting document. " We, brother Filippo Bertolotti, of the order of preachers, professor of theology in the towns of Pesaro, Rimini, Fano, Pennabilli, and the sur rounding places, inquisitor-general of the holy apostolic see, and especially appointed against heretical depravity : " Ateording to the charge imposed upon us by this holy office wo desire to maintain the Catholic faith pure from every heretical contagion ; but it being manifest that many, from malice, disobe dience and ignorance are slack in fulfilling their duty to denounce such crimes to the holy office, giv ing thus cause to great inconvenience and errors, not only against good morals but expressly against the Catholic faith, We, who are bound to take the glory of the Lord to heart, and to promulgate and preserve the holy faith, to watch over the salvation , command accordingly, under pain of of excommunicationthesouls and other penalties - of the Pontiff, THE FRENCH BUDGET. The Moniteur of yesterday contains the financial report of M. Magne to the Emperor. The Minister congratulates himself that the state of the treasury is flourishing. The arrears, which were 886 millions of francs, do not now exceed 660 millions. • The Minister says that he has communicated to the Council of State the documents necessary for the preparation of the budget of 1861. The following are his remarks on this part of the report : These documents would lead us to anticipate an excess of revenue equal to about three millions: Your Majesty, wishing to encourage national pro duction and to place industry in a state more advan tageous for competition, has conceived a vast pro gramme of internal reforms, among which figures the release of raw materials and certain articles of great consumption from duty. The reduction of the duties might entail a disturbance in the balance of the budget ; but your Majesty, so rightly desir ing to preserve our finances from all injury and to maintain good order in the budgets, proposes to compensate the momEntary loss that the treasury will experience by the resource of the sinking fund. As I said to your Majesty in my report of 1857, " to produce its full effect, the sinking fund ought to result from a positive excess of income. If it be otherwise the money it absorbs will occasion a deficit in the budget. The deficit increases the floating debt, which latter ends sooner or later in the creation of consols," that is to say, the sinking fund in this case, instead of extinguishing the public debt, tends to increase it at a loss to the trea sury. Consequently, however good in itself—however just and wise the sinking fund may be, as a measure of foresight especially, as a check upon and obsta cle against the increase of the expenditure, it is intelligible that its action may be suspended in the presence of an inevitable deficit. But, since the sinking fund is of itself a guarantee of order, your Majesty would not resign yourself to this sacrifice, though only temporary, save in a case of absolute necessity. lam convinced that you will be happy to maintain it in activity, should the loss to the treasury be capable of being compensated, wholly ' or in part, either by the progressive amount derived from the taxes, or by savings effected in the public expenditure. Nothing, in fact, is impossible with the lasting peace of which your Majesty holds out the hope in your programme. Economy keeps in reserve abun dant resources, and in a country like France, pre pared as it now is, it would be difficult to estimate too highly what may be produced by c onfidence in the fature. To sum up, Sire—The era of peace inaugurated by the programme traced out in your Majesty's letter to the Minister of State opens under the fol lowing financial conditions : The excess on the debit side of the old budgets is reduced from 886 to 660 millions. The budgets of 1855, 1866, 1857 are balanced without deficit. The budget of 1858, though deprived of all ex traneous aid and charged with the expenses of the Chinese war and of the public works, ends, never• theless, in an excess of income by more than 12 millions. The fl )ating debt, which threatened to go beyond a milliard, is already reduced to 750 millions, and placed in presence of disposable resources, which within a very brie f period will make it sink below 700 millions. The Treasury bonds, which in 1858 had reached the sum of 345 millions, now hardly amount to 136 millions, and the interest lowered from 4 to 21 per cent. The treasury, notwithstanding the considerable reimbursements it has already effected on the float ing debt, is in a state now for meeting all the ordi nary and extraordinary current demands, for the office was closed yesterday at Paris with 251 mil lions in cash, and 150 millions in notes. The taxes and indirect revenues advance so steadily that the gravest circumstances have scarcely been able to produce a check, and have yielded, since the commencement of this reign, an increase that sur passes, not including the new imports, the enormous and really characteristic sum of 268 millions. The special commerce of France with foreign nations has increased during the same period at the rate of about 80 per cent. The monetary circulation has been enriched by nearly one milliard and 500 millions, arising from the difference between the exports and imports of the precious metals. The Bank of France is provided with a metallic fund of 551 millions, and enabled on this basis to extend the circulation sufficiently so as to promote largely the development of commercial operations. The Bourse has been reorganised, and affords to the public greater guarantees, without depriving business of legitimate facilities and the necessary intermediate agents. If, owing to the wise foresight of your Majesty, and to the marvellous fertility of the country, it has been possible to obtain this favourable situation in the midst of the complications, wars, scarcities, crises of every kind, that for five years have im peded the financial services of the state, is it not permitted to hope that, with peace and the like prudence, the general progress will not be arrested, and that the sacifices about to be imposed on the treasury in favour of agriculture, commerce, and industry, will not fail to receive compensations that will maintain the good state of the finances ? THE BALLOT. Last evening a numerously attended public meet ing was held at the Whittington Club, Arundel street, Strand, with a view to the consideration of the best means of bringing the question of the ballot before the House of Commons ; the Hon. F. Berke ley, M.P., in the chair. On the platform were Mr. C. E. Whitehurst, Mr. Wyld, M.P., Mr. Ayrton, M.P., Mr. W. Lawson, M.P., the Hon. W. F. Campbell, M.P., Mr. G. H. Whalley, M.P., Gen. F. P. Thompson, Mr. S. Nodes, Mr. W. Wilk' (Carlisle), Mr. Sergeant Gaselee, Mr. Sergeant Storks, Mr. W. A. Smith, Mr. S. Tulk, Mr. W. E. Dawes, Mr. S. Elliott (Plymouth), and other gen tlemen interested in the movement. The CHAIRMAN said, the meeting had been con vened by the committee of the Ballot Society for the purpose of inviting the attention of the gentle men of the metropolis to the question of the ballot. It was not so much his province to address them on that subject as to direct their proceedings. The gentlemen who would address them that evening would explain the state of things as they existed at present. There had been a meeting of the council of the Ballot Society, who had come to the conelu sion, in conjunction with a large number of consti tuencies, to bring the question before the House of Commons, and also before the House of Lords. The great council of the nation, the House of Commons, merely performed duties which were delegated to them, and it was their intention to bring the ques tion before them at the earliest opportunity to test the members of the present house as to the manner in which they performed their duty in respect to a question without which no reform would be perfect. The great principle of elections should be that the elector, whatsoever his quality might be, should be enabled to go to the poll, remain there, and return free, with no punishment awaiting him. He con gratulated the meeting on the advantages they had gained by discussion, and referred to the Times, the vast ability of which he was prepared to admit, but against which they had to struggle on the present question, but he did not see that they were in any way shaken. He believed that nothing could carry the measure but the majesty of the people, and ft was necessary for them to speak out. A body of gentlemen might use their utmost endeavours to bring the question to a sxceessful issue, but they were of little use without the support of the body of the people. He would not enlarge upon the sub ject further, as they were about to be addressed by a member of one of the largest constituencies of this great country. Mr. AYRTON, M.P., said he had been invited by the Ballot Society to address them that evening, and he considered that occasion a very opportune one. So long as it continued a part of our Government that everything should be discussed out of doors, the council of the Ballot Society had adopted a wise course in inviting discussion. After referring to the views of the Whigs of 1831, which were their views now, ho said if the ballot were necessary then how much more necessary was it now ? It was a great political inheritance, and every one must be aware of its principle; it came in with the Saxons, and there was no change pro posed that was not constitutional. They were not radicals nor revolutionists, but desired to give effect to the ancient principles cf the constitution. Inti midation was the earlier foam in which freedom of election had beeß attacked; then Governments be came more settled, and the last phase came in with William 111., and the last change in the constitu tion. The great contractors, professional men who came in then, found that they had opportunities of jobbing and intriguing ; then came tippling and treating, and the member got the great places and his supporters got the small ones. The last phase of political corruption was that of buying the voters. The borough was either bought wholesale, patron, voters, and all, or else it was purchased re tail. Then stringent acts were passed, and almost everything connected with an election was rendered the subject of legislative enactment. Still bribery prevailed, and a plan was at length adopted which was to prevent anything of the kind—that was by the appointment of an election auditor. The most recent scheme was that of the declaration. Having pointed out what he conceived to be the fallacies of this plan, he went on to say that he did not see why the scheme they proposed should be considered as something so very startling and novel. Was there anything so extravagantly new in it ? Its principle was not new, and its operation was cha racterised by simplicity ; the mode of taking votes was eminently simple and perfectly pure. The best thing was that the voter should not be ex posed to annoyance in giving his vote or after wards. The ballot might not be a nostrum that would cure everything, but it would diminish an acknowledged evil, and would deal with intimida tion, one of the greatest evils to which an elector could be subject. He reviewed at considerable length the evils of the present system of voting which the adoption of the ballot would remove, and concluded by urging on the meeting the adoption of the measures best calculated to insure the attain ment of the object they had in view. Mr. W. F. CAMPBELL said he had come down there to-night, not to deliver arguments in favour of the ballot, but to protest against the doctrine which had been broached, where it could least have been anticipated, that reformers ought to pass by the opportunity afforded by the impendi a n s g a mea sure of the Government on or g anic change, to be law, silent on the ballot until that measure was and to support it, however devoid it was of all concessions to the object they had most at heart, passions t a nd had met that night to urge upon the publi c . The doctrine was condemned at once by reason and. ex perience. Reason pointed out that after an or ganic change had been thus effected, the of the country would flow for some ti me in other channels ; and if they wai ted the Government had carried a bill without w the s ballot, they would wait until the e arpubliNew altogether deaf upon that subject. avowed purpose of a change in the Reforym, t Act he an d now among all parties in the Legislature was to close discussion, to put an end to agitation, keep all other changes at a distance on this topic. Now then for experience. Before 1831 the vindi cation of the ballot was as ripe as it was at present. In 1832 reformers might as easily have carried it as they did put an end to the existence of either G 1 spare aattownt the orue would (I Government h Old av Sarum. eeen Awhis p e r f rom Birming ham of thatsufficient day th ey e y n t t hepoint. had th e o_ fortunate and mistaken generosity to waive it, force hoping to have it b y the of the new la w Thewhe n world the satiated t i a a r t o e s d e .What was the result ? these topics. New questions crowded upon a d Parliament. Not all the p i u o b i sl c lw s ot p ir i k te r iilt remarkable e o u t di a t erudition, n, acumen of Mr. Gale— notplishments of Sir W. the aene t e t m enius and authority of of the chairman who sat theree intodenfaigtihgta—blhealdabboeuerisi Lord Macaulay —not all th e able to move the House of Commons on the subject. Once more a crisis had arisen ; once more our re presentative arrangements would be opened ; once more it was in their power to get the Ballot or to want it. Would they again commit the fatal error heihad pointed to ? Would they again let the tido pass by, and only launch their vessel on them a u i d d d e y d strand it left behind it ? Fortune never those who refused to aid themselves. And in a case they would deserve th e humiliation suchhich which they courted. If, however, they desired to be moderate and tender to the Government, for whom he had himself a great esteem, their moderation and forbearance might assume a - wiser and safer course than that against which he had protested. They might re solve upon a proposition calculated to secure the eventual adoption of the ballot in every town and county of the kingdom, but so limited and guarded in the outset that the Government would not be restrained by any of their previous delberations from conceding it. He had already laid before the world a proposition of that character. If it met with the approbation of reformers, it was in their power to extort it ; for it was in their power to say to Government, " Your measure shall not be carried without some arrangement on the question of the ballot, and here is an arrangement you are all at liberty to take, and none of you are pledged against it." As regards the whole topic, it had been long ago exhausted by the distinguished men he had re ferred to. They know that Lord Macaulay in his youth had gained a lasting reputation by the speeches in which he vindicated the Reform Bill. Soon after 1832 he went to India for five years. When he came back the House of Commons listened with eager curiosity to the fervency and eloquence of the voice which had before so powerfully touches them. The ballot was the first cause to which those accents were devoted. On June 13, 1839, althouffh the general supporter of a Cabinet opposed to it, he gave the vast resources of his mind to entice the House of Commons to adopt it. His speech had never been refuted, and, what was better still, had never been retracted. And who had a better right to point out the first amendment which the Act of 1832 ought to receive than the person who, if that act should ever pass away, would yet have rendered it immortal by the splendour Of his advocacy ? The public grief was fixed upon his tomb. The public admiration elung about his memory. Activity and ability were busy in devising monuments, and busts, and statues to his honour. But by far the most satis: factory memorial you can raise to departed merit is to act upon its counsel, and. give effect to its convictions. It was far better for great men to live in the institutions than it would be in the temples of their country. And if in the Abbey you gave his frame a place ofr•st, you could not decently refuse his mind a habitation in the statute-book. in conclusion, he had ventured to point out the case against which reformers ought to protest, and to explain the course by which a speedy triumph on the question of the ballot might be open to them• And if he took no further part upon the theme, by their kindness he should feel that he had bee" enabled to discharge his duty to the public. Mr. WYLD was there as one of the 235 members of the House of Commons who had voted for the ballot, and he was there to ask them, not merely to pass resolutions and listen to speeches, which might perhaps be forgotten, but to make evert effort in their power to affix the ballot to the pro' posed Reform Bill. There was an American pro verb, " First know you are right, and then 10 ahead." if the suffrage were extended without the ballot to a class who wanted protection more ago any other class, it would be a curse instead of A blessing. If Government would assent to a perm' sive ballot, it would be best to adopt it ; for once the Government were pledged to the ballot in alt form, they would be sure to get it complete at last. Mr. WASHINGTON WILKS, who spoke as a riv presentative man, being well acquainted with some of the most populous districts in England, said he read in the papers that Lord Brougham, on the first night of this session, declared that he Inta, found no response in the north when he spoke 01 reform. He was afraid that was because he did not speak loud enough. The voice of Henri Brougham never spoke aloud to the men of the north on the subject of reform and failed to get e response. It was only the muffled voice of the ex-Chancellor that obtained no response fre e ; the iron voices of those iron men. (Cheers.) He himself had attended many meetings in the north, and had found one universal answer to every allusion to reform—" Manhood sus frage or the ballot." Lord Brougham ha d admitted that there was a great deal of indir nation excited by certain recent cases of corret tion. Well, no one could help feeling indignation e t ; those disclosures ; but it was not against the In ns who were bribed, bad as they were, nor agoie,:s those who bribed them, worse as they were, against the system, which allows, or almost co pels such things. (Cheers.) Commissions had f e e found usel ess t o c h ec k b r ib er y, an d indeed thought them unconstitutional. If a man woe cused of breaking the law let him be tried bi t* jury, and not send three gentlemen in horsehoirois hold a sort of French tribunal on him. But,:oly indictment was difficult, It was exceeding l 4;,l the and the result uncer t a i n . Th e b a ll o t aff ord only solution. It *would step in not between a briber and the bribed, but between the briber ae . „, the voting place. He cou ld th en no l onger f o llow up his victim to see that he kept his contract. No,, the bargain made in the dark was f u lfill e d in t"' light ; make it dark all through, and it would not b e made at all. Some working men thought that if e l l had manhood suffrage they could carry their orf, candidates, and they should not then want the be;„ lot. He did not believe it. The present sys made the elections so dear that a working man C Oe_ no , not get into Parliament. The ballot was so inexr sive that it might almost be said to cost notinef Now there were many men, even C o nservative . ' in the house who would be glad to see two or th r e e r s real working men in the house. He believed t h e whole house would welcome two or three, but thet a would be very much alarmed if a large n u mber Wei to get in. (Cheers and laughter.) After sonie ther observations, Mr. Wilks sat down amidst 1 0 and general applause. The CHAIRMAN then announced that the meeting would be adjourned until February, and due n ot i ce would be given of the speakers who would attend' Th e proceedings then terminated. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA. The revival last night of Auber's ever-fresh on. delightful " C rown D i amonds " re i ntroduced to al' public Miss Lousia Pyne and Mr. W. Harris () ; who both app eare d to have der i ved much benefit from their recent rest of more than five weeks' dan: tion. Mis s L ou i sa Pyne, who on first coming u P°t 4 the stage w as we l comed w i th several roun d s 0i u nanimous and enthusiastic appl ause , sang sparklin g and vivacious music of Catarina ef oi masterly better th an usual ; for, to the unerring skil l on . finish by which her vocalisation is invilT i ably distingui s h e d was un it e d an amoun t o f p hysic; force s uc h as Miss Pyne, overworked as she gen , rally is a t C ovent Garden Theatre, cannot a I W AP command. All requisite breadth of tone in the sustale cii _ notes, brilli ancy , an d j oyous sp i r it, no l ess tilt mechanical perfection in the florid passages, `ge l ; again present to enchant the ear, and realise general r esu lt suc h as certa i n l y no other soprev" , now before the public could surpass. Miss Lo u i sa P yne was energet i ca ll y suppa— ,•+e(l by Mr. Harrison, who, as Don Henrique, displayr; uncommon zeal and animation. He, too, was WW I / applauded throughout the opera. The other characters were ably sustained, Al ) Mr. Alfred M e ll on con d uc t e d th e b an d w i t h all 91"" well-known spirit and skill. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Ever since Mr. E. T. Smith became lessee of 0 0 . national place of amusement, pantomime has be_t" his especial favourite, and great, to an almost uP O ,. precedented extent, has been his success in t' t, production of that highly attractive entertainreet o To his great many successes he has now to add h ip Christmas tribute for 1859, " Jack and the Be ; ; Stalk ; or, Harlequin Leap Year." Every ni g h since its production the theatre has been crowded excess, and ample as are the dimensions of Old Dog: accommodation for all who nightly congregate Ou r side the doors, bravin g th e i nc l emency o f the o , e lo son, has been utterly impossible. Hi s remarke",. success, without doubt, is mainly owing to O' n f great care Mr. Smith has devoted to this specie o 4 entertainment; for in the present, as in all his pantomimes, is to be found combined mod er n :f burlesque, extra vaganza , acro b a ti c f ea t s, b a llet the highest pretension, mingled with all the e11,, f4 ; racteristic drollerie s o f the old harlequinade, whole being set off by scenery, costume, and deco rs tions of the most beautiful and gorgeous descr j r tion. The morning performances have been so 0 0 1; ful that the pant o mi me i s t o b e performed CO" Wednesday, at two p.m., until further notice. ASTLEY'S AMP_HITHEATEE. Next Monday, the 30th instant, Mr. Willi!: Cooke, the enterprising lessee of Astley's At phitheatre, takes his retiring benefit, a'," r which evening the manag e m en t of this : b p nowned place of amusement passes into t o hands of his sons. Setting aside the attracticy nature of the entertainments selected for the ° C o sion, such an event would most certainly dram immense audience, for the habitues of Astleys all be anxious to testify to Mr. Cooke their a i d ration of the manner in which he has cond u ct s the theatre since he became lessee. Roy On 1 Wes an hi l bil an Ini till eel rat pri Th ma rat Cer 4} 1111 1 Bra Itre the C4l to i on tl to tits No r i Caw 0 4711 mitt rs tal W es Orb:, . lik, I Per 4- rti Itu si 1 Ur, It e left ( Majt Ti 'Yeate artiv TI Panic St• j ?alai T 1 in to , TI dote