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..~~_. • . 815 1 % AC:* C ". 0- 4°. vvilbe • 41111111 16 --.... / 4tor, 13 • 1 11111114 .,. , f a , c (14.4.4^ Wr,. " 14 , 'I I V ••.; • "" 4 1 •-"." 1 0, 0' 7) ; %It. Ro n .. 41111 P. /z 6„, THE WHITTJNGTON FREEHOLD . ESTATE AND COLLIERY COMPANY (Limited.) Registered pursuant to the Joint-Stock Companies Act, 1856-7, by which the liability of Shareholders is limited to their subscriptibns. - Capital £60,000, in 12,000 shares of £5 each. - Deposit on application £1 per share, and £1 on allotment, but no further call will be made until after 12 mouths, when the remainder will be called at intervals of not less than six months, as and when required. DIRECTORS. John Brown, Esq., Rose Hill, Chesterfield, Director of the Union Bank, Sheffield. Henry Rangeley, Esq., Unston Ironworks, Sheffield. William Tuxford, Esq., 106, Upper Thames-street, London. P. R. Pierce, Esq., Whittington, Chesterfield. Robert Simpson, Esq., 4, Charlotte-row, London, Blaina Ironworks, Monmouthshire. John Stanton, Esq., M.D., Upper George-street, Bryanstone square. Wm. Henry Brook, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Railway. - BANKERS. Messrs. Smith, Payne and Smith, London.• Messrs. Crompton, Newton and Co., Chesterfield. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Tucker, Greville and Tucker, 28, St. Swithins's-lane. William. Clayton, Esq., Solicitor, Chesterfield. • AUDITORS. Messrs. Harding, Pullein and Co., Public Accountants, Loth bury, London. Mr. Henry Osborne, Chesterfield Bank. BROKERS. ..... London—Messrs. Scrutton and Son, 81, Old Broad-street. Sheffield—Messrs. F. E. and S. Smith, George-street. Leeds -T. E. Phut, Park-row. Liverpool—Messrs. Theakstone and Hargreaves, India buildings ; and J. W: S. May, Dale-street. Manchester—Messrs. Johnson and Son, Stock Exchange. Bristol—Mr. John Kempson Thomas. SECRETARY-Mr. H. R. Downman. Offices- 27A., Bucklersbury - This Company has been formed for the purchase of the Freehold Landed Estate of 152 acres, together with the Ma chinery, Plant, and the Coal, Ironstone, and Minerals, there under, as also under 119 acres of land adjoining, embracing five seams of first-rate coal, together nearly 900 acres, adapted for house, gas, coke, and manufacturing purposes. The property is situated in the parish of Whittington, near Chesterfield, on a branch of the Midland Railway, and near the Chesterfield Canal. The colliery is raising above 750 tons per week, which is con tracted for by highly respectable firms, whilst the machinery is capable of raising 1,000 tons per week, and as soon as the lower seams are reached, the outlay for which is provided for in the capital of £60,000, at least 2,000 tons per week, inde pendently of the ironstone, will be raised. The present returns from the Land, Colliery, and Iron stone, after all deductions, will give a net profit of 16 per cent. to the Shareholders ; and when the workings are ex tended (within two years) nearly double that profit may be relied on. )13 , the arrangements .for the purchase, £20,000 remain on Mortgage over a period of years, and not more than £2 will be called up for the first twelve months', and £2 during the second year, beyond which it is not expected further calls Will be made. Full particulars. together with the valuations and estimates of Messrs. Jeffcoek and Walker, Haslehurst, and others, and the calculations of an experienced Mineral Agent, will appear in the prospectus, which, with Forms of Application, may be had-at the Offices of the Company, and the respective Solici tors and Brokers, to whom applications for 9 Shares are to be addressed. WHITTINGTON - FREEHOLD ESTATE AND COLLIERY COMPANY (Limited) • Notice is Hereby Given; That NO APPLICATION FOR RILARES in this Company will be received after WEDNES DAY next, the 30th instant. H. R. DOWNMAN, Secretary. Offices of the Company, 27A, Bucklersbury, March 22, 1859. THE NORTHFLEET DOCKS and LONDON QUAYS COM ?ANY, LIMITED. OFFICES -10, CANNON-STEET, LONDON, B.C. CAPITAL £1,500,000, IN 75,000 SHARES OF £2O EACH. With power to the Directors at any time to increase the Capital to £2,000,000, according to the requirements of the Company, by the issue of 25,000 Shares of £2O each, which will be offered in the first instance to the then .existing Share holders. Deposit £2los. per Share, £1 of which is to be paid on ap plication. DIRECTORS. s _Chairman—The Right Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, MP. Deputy -Chairman—James Nugent Daniell, Esq. (Chairman of the Blackwall, and Tilbury and Southend Railways). . Sir James D. Elphinstone, Bart., M.P., Portsmouth William H. Furlonge, Esq. (Messrs. Magalhaens, Reap, and Co.), 75, Mark-lane, City. Lord Alfred Hervey, M.P., 6, St. James's- square. Patrick Douglas Hadow, Esq. (Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company). .ear-Admiral Sir George R. Lambert, K.C.8., Norbiton place, Kingston, Surrey. John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Lebaster-gardens, Hyde-park. ._Lieutenant-Colonel Neville, 5, John-street , Berkeley - square. 4obert Pulsford, Esq , 58, Upper Belgrave-street, Bel,grave- square. ueoN'e Edgar Ranking, Esq. (Messrs. John Ranking and Uo.), 11, St. Helen's-place. Ilenry Tootal, Esq. (Chairman of North and South Western Railway Junction, and Deputy-Chairman of the Shrop shire,_ Union Railway and Canal Company). Francis Wright, Esq., Butterley Iron Works, and Osmaston Manor, Derbyshire. (With power to add to their number). Joseph Barber, Esq., Brewer's Quay, Lower Thames-street, will join the- Board after the formal transfer of his pro perty to the Company. CONSULTING ENGINEER—John Hawkshaw, Esq., 33, Great George-street, Westminster. ENGINEER—Sir Charles Fox, 8, New-street, Spring-gardens. BANKERS—Messrs. Currie and Co.; 29, Cornhill, and the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury. SOLICITORS—Messrs. W. Murray, Son, and Hutchins, 11, 111 10KERS—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, 29, Threadneedle- street. SECRETARY—James Le Geyt Daniell, Esq. The oNect of the NORTHFLEET DOCKS and LONDON QUAYS COMPANY (Limited), is to provide the Port of London with the following, among other, important „ad vantages: DRY DOCKS capable of receiving Ships of the largest mag nitude, which at present cannot be accommodated in any Dock in the Thames. INCREASED WET DOCK ACCOMMODATION, the want of which compels steamers and other vessels, especially those of the larger class, to avoid the Port of London. DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH EXISTING RAIL WAYS, thereby securing to Merchants and Shippers the direct conveyance of imports and exports to and from any part of Great Britain without the delay and expense of 'Cartage, wharfage, and lighterage in transit. FLANS AND ESTIMATES a the whole undertaking have been carefully prepared, and have been investigated by a Committee appointed for that purpose. The Reports of the Engineers show a sum of £2,003,000 will be sufficient to carry out the undertaking in its integrity, leaving an ample margin for the purchase of the properties ; and the Engineers have named to the Directors eminent Contrac tors, who are willing to take and guarantee the execution of all the works within the estimates. It is intended, however, to construct the works at Northfleet by gradual operations, according to the requirements of Commerce, and it is not expected that more than £1,250,000 will be called up within the first eighteen months ; no call to ,ex ceed £2 10s. per share. IMMEDIATE REVENUE.—An unusual feature in this en terprise is that an immediate revenue will accrue to the Company from the business carried on at the Quays and Warehouses in London, and the operations of the exist ing Dry Dock and Engineering Plant and Machinery at Northfleet, as well as from the sale of chalk and flints, Which will enable the Company, during the construction of the works, to declare a dividend upon the Calls as pp a id up. I'ROAPECTIVE REVENUE.—The important commercial advantages to be derived from the several objects which the undertaking comprehends, and the comparatively small outlay required, lead the Directors to expect, under ... a system of low charges, returns ofno ordinary profit. In the event of the Directors not deeming it advisable to pro ceed, the deposit win be returned to the Shareholders, less the Preliminary Expenses, which will not under any circumstances exceed Five Shillings per Share. Applications for Shares to be made to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company; to the Brokers, Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, 29, Threadneedle-street, London ; also to John B. Neilson, Esq., Liverpool ; William Mewburn, Esq., Manchester ; Nathaniel Lee, Esq., Birmingham ; Thomas Parkinson, Esq., and Harry Hughlings, Esq., Halifax ; Messrs . M'Ewan and Auld, Glasgow ; - William Bell, Esq., Edinburgh ; John Dubedat, Esq., Dublin, from all of whom detailed Prospectuses and. Forms of Application for Shares may be obtained. THORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.—Every person having an interest in domestic or farm animals should obtain a supply of this celebrated and economical food, which will prove invaluable during the approaching Reason. For keeping horses in good condition it is unequal led. Pigs fatten with surprising rapidity upon it, and their flesh 'increases in flavour and value. Cowkeepers will find great advantage in the increased quantity and improved qua lity of the milk during its use. All animals are benefited by It. A pamphlet on this interesting subject, accompanied by Testimonials from the principal Nobility, Gentry, and A Culturists, forwarded on application. In casks containing 448 feeds (measures enclosed), price 508., carriage paid to any Itailway Station in the United Kingdom. Post-office orders Payable to Joseph Thorley, 77, Newg!tte-street, London. N.B.—The public are cautioned against being imposed upon by worthless imitations. AN ACT OF GRATITUDE.-20,000 Copies of . a Medical Book for Gratuitous Circulation.—A NER VOus SUFFERER having been effectually cured of nervous de bility, loss of memory, dimness of sight, lassitude, and indi- Restion, resulting from the early errors of youth, by following the instructions given in a Medical Work he considers it his duty, in gratitude to the author, and for the benefit of others, to publish the means used. He, will therefore send free, secure from observation, on receipt of a directed envelope, and two stamps to prepay postage, a copy of the book, con taining every information required. Address, James Wal lace, Esq., Wilford-house, Burton-crescent, Tavistock-squaro, London, W.C. NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Oljlce Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacie Pharmacien de Paris. Imperial. College of 31e- dicine, Vienna. 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Newly revised and enlarged Edition, copiously illustrated. "The best book of its class yet pro duced."—lllustrated News. London : Longman and Co. On Thursday next will be published, M 0 0 RE'S LALLA ROOKH, Copyright Edition, complete for ONE SHILLING, with Portrait of the Author : Bein the First Part of the People's Edition of Thomas Moore's Poetical Works, includ ing the Author's Autobiographical Prefaces, Notes, and other last Additions, to be completed in Ten Parts, monthly, price ls. each. London : Longman, Brown, and Co., Paternoster-row, Now ready, post Bvo, price 10s. Gd., cloth, ALADY'S ESCAPE from GIVALIOR, and LIFE in the Fort of AGRA during the MUTINIES 0(1857. By Mrs. COOPLAND. " This book is valuable as a contribution to the history of the great Indian rebellion. The description of the retreat at Gwalior was a desideratum, and must ever be read with in terest."—Athenmum. The merit of this book is its truth. 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The cared and anxieties of management had need to be occasionally relieved by some more agreeable result of the heavy and harassing responsibilities that attach themselves to the position of lessee of a metropolitan theatre, and certainly one of the most gratifying . and encouraging testimonies ever afforded to tho well-directed zeal and enterprise of a theatrical manager was that evinced on Wednes day last, when upwards of a hundred personal friends of Mr. Benjamin Webster invited him to a complimentary dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern, to congratulate him on the successful opening of the new Royal Adelphi, and to acknowledge, on the' part of the public, the vast improvements he had effected in the arrangements for the accommodation of the audience. It was a well-timed and a well developed expression of gthat feeling which has been gradually strengthening amongst all those who, since Christmas, have experienced and appre ciated the advantages to be enjoyed in the new structure • and whilst the graceful manner in which the compliment was conveyed, must to the re cipient have materially heightened its value, the sentiments expressed on the occasion will be found such as will be widely responded to by many who could take no personal share in the proceedings. The Hon. Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Ber keley, M.P., presided upon the occasion, with the guest of the evening seated on his right hand, sup ported by Meisrs. R. Bell, Boisselier, Consul Gene ral of France, H. Ingram, M.P., Dr. Rowe, Mark Lemon, A. Arcedeckne, B. Billings, Thos. Land seer, T. J. Jerwood, Frederic Ledger, Z. Watkins, J. Reddish, Josh. Lavender, Charles Morgan, Paul Bedford, W. Jerrold, P. Cunningham, H. Mayhew, Hy. Bradbury, Pearpoint, Tom Brooke, T. B. Simpson, A. Dickens, J. G. Moore, Fred. Dickens, Floris, W: Stone, Hollingshead, Maddox, J. Mitchell, Dr. Shorthouse, H. G. Day, T. M. Nel ion, B. Childs, Bowring, H. G. Robinson, Wm. S. Webster A. Mellon, Cole, T. S. Burton, J. L. Toole, J. Douglass, E. Yates, W. Harrington, W. It. S. Markwell, G. White, Addison, M'Cleafi, W. P. Sams, D. B. Raw, R. Churchill, Dr. Fletcher, J. Defries, R. Wood, Stiff, W. S. Johnson, Penticost, P. Egan, G. Boxall, C. Liddle, C. H. Beckin,gham, J. Scott, R. Nicholson, Ward, Thirlwall, G. R. Braid, W. Smith, Byron, Thos. Bacon, Mitchell (of Bristol), W. Webster (of Sheffield), Benj. Wooster, jun., 8.A., J. Povey, &c._ The - following were absent, through indisposi tion or professional engagements :—Mr. H. A. Merewetber, Q.C. ; Mr. Edwin James, Q.C.; Sheriff Gordon ' of Edinburgh ; M r . Ball an ti ne , Q.C. •, Mr. H. Hawkins, Q.C. ; Rev. E. Moore, Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. Theodore Martin, Mr. C. Manby, Mr. Keeley, Mr. E. T. Smith, Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Creswick, Mr. T. R. Chute (lessee of Bath and Bristol), Mr. Simpson (Birmingham), Mr. H. Wyatt, &c. The magnificent banquet having been done full justice to—the cloth removed—and grace most beautifully chanted by the singers, The CHAIRMAN (who was received with loud applause) rose and said : Gentlemen, I need not tell you what the first toast will be • but it is the for tune of those who preside at dinners during this reign to propose a toast which is universally popu lar. (Hear, hear.) When I look back, as lam enabled to do, to two reigns, I can remember that this toast would not be received in the way in which I expect the toast I have to give will be re ceived. I remember in the reign of George the Fourth to have seen turned-down glasses. I can remember, in the reign of William the Fourth, to have seen the toast " damned with faint applause." But for the last 21 years I have never seen the toast received except with enthusiasm. (Hear, hear.) Englishmen know when they have a con• stitutional monarch, and if they ever had a consti tutional monarch they are blessed with one in Queen Victoria. (Applause.) • I expect that the toast I have to give will be received, more particu larly in this assembly, with favour, more so, per haps, than in almost any other assembly in which it may be proposed—(hear, hear)—because you have not only a constitutional monarch, but a monarch inclined to the drama. (Applause.) Gen tlemen, there are circumstances which I could men tion—l am not sure whether reporters are present — that would not, perhaps, be very agreeable in certain high quarters. I could refer to the beneficence which marks her character, more especially as applied to dramatic art. You have lately lost an old friend in poor Harley. Ido not know whether it is generally known, but Harley's sister, after her b ro th er ' s death, was the recipient of great favours from the monarch, who took care to provide for her. Let us, then, drink the health of her Majesty, with those honours which the toast so eminently deserves. (Cheers.) The toast having been. drunk with befitting enthusiasm, " God save the Queen" was sung by Miss It. Isaacs, Miss Ransford, Miss Cole ; Messrs. Genge, Winn, T. Williams, &c. Tiie . CHAIIIMAN—If you: please, gentlemen, we will drink " His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal family." Glee by Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Miss Ransford, &c. The CHAIRMAN—I have now the honour to pro pose to you our two glorious services, the Army and Navy. (Cheers.) lam sure they require nothing to be said from me. You have had the record of their duties before you of late years so repeatedly and so gloriously that not a word is required to commend the toast. I give you " The Army and Navy." Ido not know whom lam to call upon in connection with the toast. If Mr. Childs does not respond, however, there is Mr. Arcedeckne, the Com modore of the Yacht Club. (Cheers and laughter.) The toast having been (hunk, Mr. BORLACE CHILDS, in responding, said—l feel highly flattered, sir, that you have associated my name with a toast which so well deserves the high encomiums passed upon it, and alsq the response which it has met with. ' When I came here this evening I had no idea that I should have played so conspicuous a part as I am playing at this moment; but although I feel that the toast might fall into safer hands, I certainly shall not flinch from the duty which you have imposed upon me. Recent events are so fresh in your memory that I feel it would be a useless occupation of your time were I to descant upo?i the noble deeds of our brave army. I might allude to the noble ascent of the Alma, and the dogged and determined resist ance of our glorious guards at Inkerman, and to the brilliant but fatal charge ofßalaclava. I might refer you, gentlemen, to our noble little band in the East. say " little" because it is small compared with the great mass of the population that it has had to contend with. They are far from home, beneath the burning sun, surrounded by the most desperate fanaticism that can possibly exist. Our brave fel.. lows there have crushed and destroyed that which threatened to be one of the most terrific and fright ful events which could disgrace the annals of humanity. We send our armies abroad to fight our battles for us ; we send them to protect our foreign and our colonial possessions. But we have also an army at home, and I have no doubt it will be at all times prepared to defend our homes and our hearths, our wives and our children, from the attack of any invading force that might have the temerity to attempt a landing upon our shores. To that con stitutional force of this country I am proud to say I belong. Although lam not in the executive de partment, I am one of the concomitants of the force, and we all know that the doctors on these occasions fight in the rear ; at the same time their services are always . acceptable. And I say, on these occasions, should it ever occur that you re quire the services of the force, you will find, I trust, that we are quite equal to the emergencies that may arise. I have the honour of belonging to a corps celebrated in history, which is regarded as a remnant of the old train bands of London. We are indebted to those bands for the Commonwealth in the time of Cromwell, and also for the Restora tion. We are also celebrated in song as well as in history. There is no gentlemen present who has not- heard - of the celebrated John Gilpin and his ride. " A train-band captain eke was he, Of famous London town." (Applause.) On behalf of the army, and that branch of lit to which I belong, I beg to return you our most sincere thanks. Loud calls were then made for " the Commodore," to which, after some reluctance, Mr. Arcedeckne yielded, and his rising was greeted with a great deal of cheering. As soon as silence was restored, and everybody had settled himself in his seat, in the expectation of hearing one of the Commodore's humorous and lively speeches, Mr. Arcedeckne, in .his quaint way, exclaimed, " It's all nonsense, you know," and immediately resumed his seat. Im• mense laughter ensued at this sudden and unex pected termination to the hopes of the company. Song—:" The Guard Ship," by Mr. Winn. The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the toast of the evening, and as this seemed to be generally , known, his rising was the signal for a loud and pro longed round of applause. He said—Gentlemen, it is very evident that my work in the next toast is half done for me. I see the preparation for that toast in the plaudits which even its approach meets with. It is for me to announce, then, that the pre sent is what m a y be called the toast f the evening. (Loud cheers.) The toast is " Benjamin Webster, and Success to the New Adelphi." (Renewed ap plause.) Ido not think, gentlemen, I should be much out of order if, in calling upon you to drink this toast, I regard his merits, whether as an actor, a manager, or a man. (Cheers.) I will not begin after the manner of old Defoe in "Robinson Crusoe," and say that Webster was born in the city of York, of poor but respectable parents. (Laughter and cheers.) lam content that he was born. (Cheers.) I am content to believe that so good a man had good parents. (Cheers.) I proceed at once to speak of him in the first of those characters to which I have referred—as an actor. As an actor I think Mr. Webster has trod in very diversified paths. I be lieve his practice has been in all branches of the drama. In the country I have reason to think he studied both the tragic and the comic muse. I have no doubt he has been the Richard the Third, the Hamlet, and the Macbeth of country places, much to the edification of the inhabitants. I have no doubt in his early days he fought terrific broad sword combats, two up and two down—(laughter) —thrust and parried in the cavern of horrors over the dreadful abyss in the Castle of Bloodmansdoff. (Laughter and cheers.) No doubt, there he shocked the inhabitants of the country towns, and probably at that time shocking himself. I find Mr. Webster in London about the year 1818, if my records are right, and I believe he disappeared after a short visit to London. But I need not dwell upon that ; suffice it to say that since ho took possession of the metropolitan boards his course has been onwards and upwards. It has been stated to me, which I might have mentioned, in addi tion to these various lines of business which I have described, that he actually has performed the prin cipal parts in the harlequinade—Harlequin, Clown, and Pantaloon ; and they say he has rather a lean ing to that kind of business, only that he has dis covered lately that much higher persons have taken hold of that line of character, and, according to the faithful chronicles of Punch, he cannot hope to compete with John Bright—(laughter)—Lord John Russell, and Lord Palmerston. (Cheers and laugh ter.) There is another and more potent reason I am thinking why he should not try that line of business at present, because if he did he might drive the Rev. Dr. Close, of Carlisle, to fall down on his knees, as he has lately described the effect produced by the Pantomimes on that reverend gentleman. A passing word to Dr. Close and his illiberality. If he were driven upon his knees, to use his own expression, by the account brought by the papers of the performance of Pantomimes, query, when he had got into that humble position whether it might not be better to pray against the sins of hypocrisy. (Hear.) However, gentlemen, Mr. Webster's course has been onwards and upwards. Now, I would not draw a comparison between Mr. Webster and other actors ; I would spare his blushes on that head. But while we continually go to the theatre to see our favomities ; to see the man who in clubs would be familiarly called Old Buck; to see little Keeler ; to see Wright ; to see Compton ; and I might add the name of an honourable friend of mine, a veteran whom I see before me, Paul Bedford—(loud cheers, which " little Paul" acknowledged by rising and bowing); while we go to see these favourites—Buck stone, Wright, Bedford, Compton, and so forth, when we go to see Webster it is not to see him, but the character he performs. (Loud cheers.) The others may be admirable; we go to see them, and we return with aching sides from the performance. But to Mr. Webster is due, and the whole profession will accord it, he has less individuality and more versatility in his performance than any man on the stage (Loud cheers.) I would say more only that he sits here, and I shall pass from the actor to the manager. Mr. Webster assumed the sceptre at the Haymarket Theatre when her Majesty assumed her sceptre to rule over these realms, in 1837,1 think; and I find that Mr. Webster's lesseeship of the Haymarket is the longest on re cord. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The theatre never could be kept open more than four months when Mr. Webster took it, and he made long seasons. , Mr. Webster expended £60,000, I find, in rent, while he was manager of the Haymarket Theatre, and his expense in repairs could not have been less than £13,000. But Mr. Webster did something more to entitle him to your consideration as a ma nager. He expended £30,000 in paying dramatic writers ; as I take it, the largest sum of money ever paid by one manager, and certainly exceeding all the sums of money paid by his contemporaries. After a certain period I find Mr. Webster manager lat the Adelphi, the old Adelphi, and there he took the reins of government, certainly under disadvan tageous circumstances, for he had the prestige of and Yates, to say nothing of the elder Mathews, to succeed. Well, the Adelphi in those days, with all their talent, was only kept open six months. But what has been the case under Mr. Webster's management ? We do not inquire how long the Adelphi was to be kept open, the astonishing thing was that it was never closed. (Cheers.) And when you consider the incalculable advantage that keeping a theatre open so many months must be to the poorer portion of the profes sion, certainly the profession is indebted to Mr. Webster for something. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, after Mr. Webster had prosperously managed the Adelphi a number of years, it seemed that the old Adelphi was doomed to die, and under Mr. Web ster's management it died the death of the expiring swan, for it went out in music. The last effort of Mr. Webster was to produce actuallyat the Adel phi a work of art by the celebrated writer Boildi eu , " Le' Caliph de Bagdad." And witnessing the effo r t s made by that company under their manager, it was to me a source or astonishment that any company could so work together, and produce a wor k suc h as that of Boildieu, with the effect seen at the Adelphi. Yet it was done, and I think I see, in this room, the talented leader (Mr. Thirlwall) who con- PRICE 4 D . STAMPED, SD. ducted the little band to victory. (Cheers.) Now, I think I have made outthe claims of Mr. Webster as a manager, and I approach his claims as a man. I ask you, gentlemen, who kno w him, was Mr. Webster ever backward in the cause of charity ? Did he ever forget in his prosperity, the better feelings of ad versity? Did he ever fail to apply the knowledge he had acquired ? Did he ever fail to apply those feelings which might have keen softened in adver sity, to the good of his fellow men ? (Cheers.) It may fairly be said of Mr. Webster that he has ex emplified that great principle that man to man should bring relief. Look at his conduct in endea vouring to procure advantages for the profession to which he belongs. Look at his conduct as regards Dulwich College. That lam at least enabled to speak of personally, because, in a public character, Mr. Webster has, more than once, applied to me for aid in his endeavours. Then, there are the several dramatic funds to which Mr. Webster has applied himself, and in which he has been the life and soul. (Cheers.) Well, then, gentlemen, whether as an actor, whether as a manager, or whether a s a man , I submit to you that we have here before us an example to his fellow men. (Loud cheers.) Let actors study as closely and intensely their profession as Mr. Webster has done, Let managers bring prudence -to the management of their theatres, and liberality at the same time. (Hear, hear.) Let the actor and the manager never forget in prosperity the duty he owes to his fellow men. On these grounds, gentlemen I claim your sympathy for Benjamin Webster. I drink his health, and you will do the same with that feeling that an honest man deserves under the circumstances in which he stands placed before you. (Loud cheers.) The toast was drunk with rapturous applause, with three times three, and one cheer more, which was designated a special fire. Song, " Home, sweet home," Miss Roden. Mr. BET4JAMIN WEBSTER was received with deaf ening cheers, the whole company rising. He said— Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, this is a most anxious occasion to the, for I unfeignedly feel perfectly in adequate to the task of thanking you sufficiently for the encomiums, the warmth of feeling, and the ho nour you have conferred upon me. To have expressed a desire to shun the felicitations of success would have exhibited a weakness as foreign to my nature as want of nerve to confront the chances of a failure. It would have been a sentiment that might have been construed into being more exclusively vain than sincerely modest, and ill repay the generous qualities of each and all who have appeared here. This evidence of success is not less grateful to me than hopeful for the English Stage. It assures me that the efforts to discharge with integrity my responsible duty to the public and the drama have not been in vain. (Cheers.) It is believed that every man during his earthly pil grimage has at least one opportunity of grasping fame or fortune, but it is given to few to receive such an ovation of true and unvarnished friendly appreciation. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, the mark of honour you have this day set upon the actor and the manager must ensure respect for the class to which I belong ; and every step towards respectability is an upward advance in the eyes of the world, and raises us above our defamers, especially those who would " damn us all on one side, like an ill-roasted egg." You have heard to-night that we have close observers of the wrong side of our picture from Rottendean to Carlisle—(loud laughter and cheers) —but, thank heaven, there are higher minded Churchmen—and one has offered us land for our College—(cheers)—who are superior to' such vulgar prejudices, and practise what they preach—charity to all mankind. (Cheers.) It was not ill said of the celebrated French actress Dejazet, when she at tracted crowds in the straitlaced town of Geneva " Art is greater than tradition." Gentlemen, the hon. chairman has thought some phases in my worldly movements worthy of mention; and if perseverance can give courage to o th ers t o s t r i ve against adverse fortune, I have at least done some good. I have drunk deep of the bitter cup of the actor's chequered life. My career has been most varied and precarious ; often on the confines of despair, sans friend, sans food, s ans ever ythi ng . From boyhood to ripening manhood each step has been beset with difficulties and stutnblingblocks ; but I unflinchingly climbed to my present position, and this banquet of congratulation amply rewards me for all my trouble. (Loud cheers.) To the player who has to win his way to fortune—and how few attain it—there are three important periods. There is the hopeful time of youth, when twenty is the golden age of life, when " Never despair" is the motto, and all seems gilded in the bright future with riches, honours, and applause. There is the anxious time of middle age. when the hoped-for goal of youth seems fading from the view, when it Is necessary to count the milestones on the road of life, and the means whereby to live, and provide for those who arc dependent on you are in suppo sition:- Then there is furrowed, white•haired age, with perhaps the only one comfort of having done their duty, and done their best through what hard course it may have been, and whether with good or ill success. There is no trodden path to dramatic fame either in acting or writing, and yet the un tiring zeal with which it is sought is marvellous. I left a home almost of luxury for the sock and buskin, and I was often with scarcely a shoe to my foot, and frequently without a meal for my inward man. But my first love for the art was such that it would never allow me to repent, and to confess that my notions of the profession were erratic, for my thin condition was accompanied by a light heart. (Laughter and cheers.) Hunger, instead of turning my steps homewards, seemed to sharpen my wit and increase my power of endurance, and I pushed on. Yet I was more favoured than many others of the followers of Thespis, and the cart of Thespis was in my young ambition higher than the chariot of the conqueror. I had three strings to my bow. If I lacked employment as an actor my fiddle was my friend in need, and the orchestra was my home of refuge—(laughter and cheers)—from which Terpsichore would sometimes lure me to assume the motley garb of Harlequin. Perhaps it may interest you to know, and it does me very much to inform you, that the first stage I ever trod upon as an actor was that of the Warwick theatre, and I believe a greater guy Warwick never wit nessed. (Laughter.) I dare say many good plays have been murdered there, and I have lately heard that it is to be converted into a slaughter-house. (Laughter.) "To what base uses may we not re turn." (Laughter and cheers.) However, there I thought my fortune was made, for my triple quali ties were practically illustrated ; and, to reverse Mrs. Malaprop's figure of speech, I was one single gentleman rolled into three. (A laugh.) I was Thessalus and the mob in " Alexander the Great ;" I was first and second violin in th e orc h es t ra ; an d Harlequin in the pantomime of " Whittington and his Cat," all three in one evening, and all for 235. a week, one great coat cover i ng e Grecian and the mime for the charms of music between the acts. (Loud laughter.) From there, a barn, that " hotbed of genins," as Elliston used to term it, opened its door at Bromsgrove. There I was the entire band, for the musicians of the town were dissenters. (Laughter.) However, the ingenuity of the mana ger turned their loss to his profit, for he converted the orchestra into a private box for the squires of the neighbourhood, and I—the band—played be hind the curtain—(roars of laughter)—besides dancing melancholy hornpipes without music, except an occasional charitable whistler in the gallery — (renewed laughter)—and .singing doleful comic songs unaccompanied. However, variety was pleas ing, especially pleasing to me, and I executed my task upon ultimately a share of one and sixpence a week, and I assure you I was never happier in my life. (Cheers.) My first appearance in print was with my dear, old, and lamented friends, Douglas Jerrold and Laman Blanchard, in magazines and cheap literature, published by a theatrical book seller named Duncombe. How big with fate wer e those days. But youth dreams of the future, and age of the past. At 10 years old I was ambitious of authorship, and wrote a pantomime called " Har lequin Soldier," and made all the trick s . The gun that was to shoot the deserter c h ange d into an umbrella, and his coffin into a boat, in which he and Columbine escaped—(a.laugh)-----little dreaming then that I should ever be an actor. But the child's idea was father to the man's destiny. After-ex perience has taught me that d rama ti c com p os ition is the most fascinating and yet the most difficult to attain perfection in. The author must have a great knowledge of human nature, "miraculously con versing," to use the words of Shirley, " with all mankind." It is not a very flattering fact for our self- esteem that the English stage of late years owes much of its existence to our prolific and witty neighbours, the French dramatists and novelists. This should not be with the host of fine and great original talent which this country now boasts. I would say to the purveyors of the stage, with Mon tesquieu, that if you always translate you will never be translated, that you will first die in quarto and die again in duodecimo. While lam on this theme I may, perhaps, be pardoned for thinking that if the actor cannot lire without the author, the actor is the indispensable Complement, the alter ego of the dramatic author. In regarding the intimate cohesion of the two separate intelligences as the generative principle of every truly CONTRACT FOR GOLD LACE. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset-place, 2eth March, 1859. • THE COMMISSIONERS for 'EXECUTING THE OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, DO, HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that. on THURS DAY, the 14th April next, 'at half-past One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract tfor supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, all such GOLD LACE as shall from time to time be demanded, under a Contract for Twelve Months certain, and further until the expiration of Three Months' warning. A pattern of the Lace, and the conditions of the revised contract may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained' on application at the said effice. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten der. for Gold Lace," and must also be delivered at Somerset place. STEAM COMMUNICATION ' BETWEEN L, • IRELAND AND AMERICA. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steam-ship Company's steam-ship "CITY OF MANCHESTER," 2,109 tons, Captain J. KENNEDY, will sail from BELFAST for NEW YORK, on WEDNESDAY, 6th April next, calling at CORK (Queenstown), which Port she will leave for NEW YORK direct, on FRIDAY, Bth April. Freight on Fine Goods £3 per ton of 40 cubic feet; Coarse Goods by agreement. Passage Money—Cabin l5 Guineas. Steerage 6 Guineas. Further sailing's will appear in a future advertisement, For further particulars apply in Belfast to John M'Kee, 10.3, Victoria-street ; in Queenstown, to C. and W. D. Sey mour and Co.; in Liverpool, to William Inman, 62 and 63, Tower-buildings South, 22, Water-street;, and in London, to Eives and Macey, 61, King William-street, London-Bridge. E.C. GUAMAN'FIRE COM' JJ LIFE ASSURANCE ANY, treet, London, E.C. ;TORS. ?ENS, Esq., Chairman. • . Esq., Deputy-Chairman. John Martin, Esq., M.P. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. Sir Godfrey J. Thomas, Bart. John Thornton, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq, No. 11, Lombard-st DIREC HENRY HULSE BEB JOHN G. HUBBARD, John Dixon, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke,Esq Sir W. M. T. Firpihar:Bart., Di. P. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. John Harvey, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. John Loch, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. " I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq. Thomas Tallemach, Esq., Secretary.—Samuel. Brown, Esq., 'Actuary LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER TIIE PnovisioNs OF AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to future In surers Four-fifths of the Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. The next division of Profits will be declared in June, 1860, when all Participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year at Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to share in the Profits. At the Five Divisions of Profits made by thi a Company, the total Reversionary Bonuses added to the Policies have exceeded £013,000. At the last valuation, at Christmas, 1854, the Assurances in force amounted to upwards of £4,240,000, the I acome from the Life Branch in 1854 was more than £200,000, and the Life As surance Fund (independent of the Guarantee Capital) exceeded £1,700,000. FOREIGN RISKS.—The Extra Premiums required for the East and West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the United States of America, have been materially reduced. INVALID LIVES. —Persons who are not In such sound health as would enable them to insure their Liver; at the Tabular Premiums, may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, provided such Policies shall have.been effected a suffi cient time to have attained in each case a value not under £5O. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of re ceived and registered. • MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for Policy Stamps. Notice is Ijereby Given, That Fire Policies which expire at Lady Day must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall- Mall, or with the Company's Agents' throughout the King dom, otherwise they become void. Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are acbnitted by this Company. LONDON CRYSTAL PALACE, REGENT CIRCUS. OXFORD-STREET and GREAT FORT LAND-STREET. This magnificent building is NOW OPEN to the public, for the SALE of all kinds of USEFUL and FANCY ARTICLES. The Photographic Establishment, Aviary, Conservatory, General Refreshment Room, and Ladies' Privltte Refresh ment Room, with Retiring Room attached, are replete in their several departments. ADMISSION FREE. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, High Holborn, formerly Casino de Venice.—This establish ment, pre-eminently distinguished for the elegance and matchless beauty of its decorations, combined with the per fection of its management, is OPEN every EVENING. The celebrated band, under the direction of Mr. W. M. Packer, plays a nightly varied selection of the Most approved classical and modern music. Doors open at half-past 8 ; overture at 9 ; closing at 12 punctually. Admission ls. N.B.—Mr. W M. Packer's grand Annual Benefit Bal Masque is fixed for Thursday, 17th March. ARGYLL-ROOMS,Windmill-street, Piccadilly. These popular and celebrated rooms are open every evening,with R. R. Bignell's Grand Orchestra, conducted by that great composer, Mons. Antony Lamotte, of Paris. Leader, Charles Hall. Mons. Boulcourt, the celebrated cornet a-piston player, performs nightl3r, with other talented artistes. Selections from Rigoletto, Ii Trovatore, La Traviata, Huguenots, Robert le Diable, and the new opera Martha. Manager, R. R. Bignell. Doors open at half-past 8, close ten minutes before 12. Admission, ls. to Promenade. N.B.—All applications for the above band for Concerts and Balls, to be made to Mr. William Price, treasurer, at the Rooms. A LHAMBRA PALACE-A BULL FIGHT - 7- A SPANISH BULL FIGHT. This gorgeous pageant, so long in preparation by Messrs. HOWES and CUSHING, will be produced on MONDAY, March 28th, and continue during the WEEK, and ending their SEASON in LONDON. The Californian performers having acted as principals in a Bull-fight in America for up wards of 100 nights, will undertake the same exploits in Lon don. Not the slightest danger or annoyance need be appre hended by the audience, as the same admirable order and caution will be preserved by the proprietors, which has dis tinguished all their undertakings, and made their establish ment so popular hi England. The regular Equestrian per formances, the same as last week, will be produced in addition to the Bull-fight, which takes place Morning and Evening. Two Performances Daily at two and quarter before:Eight p.m. Pit, 18. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Reserved Seats, 35.; Stalls, 55.; Private Boxes, £2 2s. Children under Nine years of age, half-price. Gallery, 6d. VINEGAR. Patronised by her Majesty's Government.—CONDY'S PATENT PURE CONCEN TRATED MALT VlNEGAR.—Families, by using this de licious Vinegar, insure purity, and effect a saving of 60 per cent. See Report of Dr. Letheby, City Officer of Health ;hr Hassall, of the " Lancet" Commission, and others. Sold by the Trade, in bottles labelled and capsuled. Whalesale, 63, King William-street, London-bridge, E.C.—Six Quart Sample sent free to any Railway for 3s. 6d. n...._. v --z__—e_ IN EV; S PAPER .--...---• ~--7 ~ . eat scenic effect, [I annot conceive - st,e, ~., -;, or and author existi without tliie'.commttn - -',` 1,-; , , df thought and purpose, which-in -reility mustatee;% 4 2 f ."'. , ~ 4 , \ 4 ) the condition of great works. (Cheers.) With.,„ -„") .1 writing and exponents, the Diegita, properly,-0; „tY,4 4 / admim:tered, might with propriety be Urine], the; C-, ',;• 14 5 , people's school, for plays imperceptiblp-c yes iii; 0 struction and a knowl e d ge o f many thingtaiwhicit "' it would be difficult to make comprehensible in the ordinary way.; such as the inner and outer life of all nations in all times--their customs, manners, arts, laws, arms, honour, moral courage, intrepidity, glory, vice rendered odious, and virtue commended. Emulation makes the auditors choose the better side, and memory repeats to them those lessons which they have seen exemplified. (Cheers.) What can philosophy teach so forcibly as this vividly ap- i pealing to every sense. Perhaps one of the most . • gratifying events of my life has been associated with the formation of the Royal D ramatic:College— (loud cheers)—of which I hope to see before many weeks the foundation-stone laid. It has grown out ,of the actors's wealthy charity, God's gift at Dulwich, where I was denied a corner for the poor player, or a crumb from the rich table which the actor's means supplied. (Loud cheers.) This new institution, gentlemen will be one of the noblest works of this charitable country—(hear, hear)—and with her Most Gracious Majesty's ready-and liberal patronage, must su ccee d. (Cheers.) We hope and we trust we shall live to see this building grow and flourish, not only upon the land that will be given to us, but in the hearts of the • people who estimate the, Drama as it ought to be estimated. Our funds are flourishing ; the lands that are offered are of the best; and to show our integrity of purpose, the books of the College are open to all at all times. Each subscriber's name is therein enrolled for the inspection of friends or enemies, if any such could be found. My last act, which has been the great desire of my life, and for which I have studied more than thirty years, is accomplished in the building of a theatre i which I think I may venture to assert has satisfied the requirements of the day. (Cheers.) No one can imagine the difficulties I have ha to contend with in obtaining the land, for every foot I was obliged to purchase at what is. called a " fancy price," my intentions having been known or guessed at. 'My first boyish piece of architecture was building a theatre, in which I produced a melodrama, " The Mille r and his Men," painting all the scenery, making the mill, the boat, the explosion, and the figures to work to my heart's delight. This was a great difficulty then, but I overcame it, as I have this. The press, my always steadfast friend, and the public, have lauded the efforts; but among many of the congratulations that have reached me, there is one that has pleased me, perhaps, more than any other, for it shows that my care for those whose means are not capable of luxury have appreciated my effort to provide some thing like it for them. With your permission I will read the letter, suppressing the name : " Sir,—Permit a poor clerk to congratulate you on being - tbe first manager who has ventured to make his patrons comfortable. I visited your new theatre the other evening. and though only the • occupant, with my wife, of the gallery stalls, was much gratified that even there comfort and civility prevailed. I am sure such a wholesome change from what the theatre going public have been subject to cannot fail to meet with the success it deserves, and which I heartily wish you. " Trusting you will pardon this intrusion," &c. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, it is my pride that you approve of my work and its arrangements. To those friends who started this complimentary fete and to those who have so readily responded to the call, I owe a deep debt . of grateful acknowledgment. The letters I have received from those compelled to absent themselves are flattering beyond parallel. In fact, I hardly knew who Benjamin Webster was, or that he was so much cared for, until to-day. I beg leave to express thankful obligations to the Hon. Mr. Berkeley, for presiding on this occasion, leaving the stern duties of the senate and itamvsti fying acts—(a laugh)—to do honour to one whose acts are of the mimic world. (Cheers.) I fear - I have too poorly expressed my high estimation of this, to me, eventful occasion. "lam no orator," as Brutus is ;. " I am poor even in thanks, but I thank you." Quintillian says the heart is the foun tain of eloquence. This I beg leave to question, for my heart is brimful of thanks, but I have not words to express them. When I look around I seem to see each hand held out to me in the reality of friendship—(cheers)--and as the tyrant wished . that all human kind had but one head, that her: might exterminate it at a blow, and as the poet wished that all womankind had hut one mouth, that with one kiss he might embrace them all, so I wish that_ all your hands were joined in one, that I might grasp it with my heart in mine, and prove the,: sincerity of my gratitude. Mr. 'Webster resumed his seat amidst hearty cheering, which continued for some minutes. Song—" Love rules the palace," Miss Ransford. Dr. GEORGE ROBERT ROWE said he was most unexpectedly called upon to exercise a privilege of which he felt highly proud. After the eloquent address which had been delivered he felt that any observations of his own would fall heavily upon their ears ; but, happily, the toast he had to pro pose required but little eulogium. It was one in which their hearts were deeply entwined. After the admirable manner in which the duties of the chair had been performed little need be said to commend the toast to their reception. They were aware of the distinguished family to which the chairman be longed, and of the patronage they had long shed over the drama. The name of Berkeley would long be remembered, not only in the annalsof the drama but in the annals of freedom, and he was sure that in their noble chairman " his life was gentle, and the elements so mixed up in him that Nature might stand and say aloud to all the world, This is a man!" (Cheers.) With regard to their excellent friend Mr. Webster, he was sure they all admired the zeal and anxiety he displayed for the prosperity of the Dra matic College. Under his auspices, and the auspices of those who were associated with him, there could be little doubt of the success of the undertaking. He would not trespass longer upon their attention, but would ask them to join him most cordially in drinking " The health of the Chairman,". and would conclude with the words of the Immortal Bard— " May you live happily, ~ ifa3:3oliTyears be longer than I have time to tell. Beloved, and ever loving may your rule be, and when old Time shall take you to its ends may you and Goodness fill up one monu ment." Song by Miss Rebecca Isaacs, "Norah Creina," which was encored, and followed by " Logic o' Buchan." The CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, it is my duty to return you thanks for the very complimentary men tion of my name by Dr. Rowe. I can only say that I am here to fulfil a very pleasurable duty. To one who is fond of dramatic literature, to pay respect and honour to the actor and the manager who are worthy of the name, must be a labour of love. That has been my labour to-night. The labour has been a pleasure. I can only say that he is now worthily installed in one of the prettiest temples of the Drama I think I ever saw—(cheers)--and it ap pears to me, from a cursory observation, that there is a new audience springing up. (Hear.) It appears to me, speaking with all reverence of the old audi ence at the Adelphi, that there is more soap and water to be found there, and less of the bouquet do corderoy. (Laughter.) .It appears that there is a better taste in the audience ; and although that species of the drama which seems to hav e been so much in fashion lately, but which.' think most per nicious, that of burlesque, has held its hold on the stage at the Anelphi so long, and at other theatres, I hope, under the auspices of our friend, a better style of drama and writing may take their place. It may be very easy for actors to gain applause by such classical allusions as that about " cutting their sticks," and " going it like bricks," yet nevertheless, I am sure there are writers enough in this country, and I am sure I have proved to you that sitting on my right hand there is a patron of writers--and I do hope and trust that, with a better audience, a better style of writing may find its way into that theatre. I have no doubt it will. L thank you most sincerely for the honour you have done me in drinking my health. I can only say, when my feeble aid can begiven to the best ends of the drama, it shall never be wanting. (Cheers.) All among the barley." Pour-part song—" Mr. P. CUNNINGHAM rose and said—After the well-considered and well-expressed eulogium upon a great actor which has been expressed by your chairman to-night, what am I to say about the toast which is intrusted to me. lAfter the very eloquent reply given by our friend, Mr. Webster, oar guest to-night, what am I to say ? Mr. Webster's apology, if I may so call it, in the old sense of the words by Colly Cibber, was a noble defence of his own life and his own conduct. Gentlemen, I love the stage: I was not brought up upon it, but I wa s brought up on "orders" on it. My father was a friend of Dr. Black, of the Morning Chrorficle, and he gave me a great many orders, when I was a boy, to go and see the great actors. Now, since orders have been put down, and. Government has been very kind to me, I can afford'to pay for my self, and I go to see them still. Itis said that boyitit recollections of the stage cling to one ev er afterwards , and that you prefer the actors and actresses whom you have seen in your youth to those whom you have seen in your laterite. Now, upon my word, I have altered. I recollect many actors and ac tresses, and I must say that seeing them through orders is one thing, but seeing them through money is a deuced sight better. (Laughter.) I have been looking over some books that I have of the stage, and I have been thinking that our friend Mr. Webster is a very remarkable man in the history of the stage. He has done many great works con fleeted with the maintenance and the revival of the ~.~ G REY HAIR RESTORED TO ITS NATURAL COLOUR. Neuralgia, N ervous Headache, Rheumatism, and Stiff Joints Cured by P. 31. HERRING'S PATENT MAGNETIC BRUSHES, 10s. and 15s. Grey Hair and Baldness PREVENTED by F. M. 11: 8 Patent Preventive Brush. Price 4s. and ss. 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