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~✓ /L ~. lil .=~ 7 7 / 7 r -- . ~ /~~ ~- .-~opr-~"~~, GUINNESS AND CO.'S EXTRA STOUT. No. 5, Adelaide-place, London-bridge, (Opposite Fishmongers' Hall), December 28,1835. BRlNGMe ssrs. G and N N M E S O S L S I O N N I E s , a n s d o 1 C c C , s o it s s T i g o n u e T e s ben o inform the Trade, and their Friends in general, that they h =vu en - loved frim No. 79, Lower Thames-street, to the more conve nient Promises in Adelaide-plaee, which include the extensive Vaults.formed by the Laud Arches of London-bridge. W. and M. return their- sineere thanks for the liberal support they have met with both in Town and CoVry ; and assure their. Friends that with the great increase of. power and plant at the Brewery; together with - their now increased means of Storage in London, they shall be able at all times, and at the shdrtest notice, to supply the article of full age and flavour, notwithstanding the greatly increased demand. Sold also in high eondi Agents, who are furnished with the signatures of the Brewery, viz S. W. Daukes, Exeter Hall Vaults, Exeter-street, Strand. R. B. Child, 45, Leicester- square. M. B. 'Foster, Castle-street, Ox- lion in Bottle, by W. and M.'s label for each bottle, containirg Charles Barnsdall, Nottingham. Henry Doncaster and Co., Slief- • Robert Dawber, Lincoln. William Everett, Chelmsford. Thomas Fuller, Louth. Alfred Fielder, Alton. W. and A. B." Gray, Northamp ford-street. James Watts and Co., Lincoln's- Inn-fields. Wylie and Clark, New-eourt, Crutehed Friars. W. W. Bonney, Knightsbridge. H., G., and W. Ridley, Ipswich. Joseph Ashby, Staines. C. Heron and Co., Uxbridge. John Brooke, Margate. James Brice, Pontefract. Brown and Sen, Brighton. Samuel Crawley and Co., St. ton. Geo. Howard, Hemelhempstead. Joseph King, York. W. Manning and Son, Bedford. Edward Neal, Tunbridge Wells. Daniel Pearman, Luton. William Rose, Kettering. John Ripsley and Co., nuit. William Cox, Derby. Francis Allerston, Bridlington. Albans. James Chailen, Odiham. N.B.—Agents are wanted in Annlication to be made to W. an, paid). a few districts not yet supplied. El M., as above (if by lottor, po.t EXETER, PLYMOUTH, AND DEVONPORT RAILWAY. VT a MEETING of the PROVISIONAL 11. COMMITTEES on FninAy, the 4th December, 1835, It was unanimously Resolved :-- That a MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS to this undertaking be held at Plymouth, on WEDNESDAY, the 13th day of 'January, 1836, at the Mechanics' institute, at Noon, for the purpose of re ceiving a Report from the said Committee, and for appointing Directors to conduct the affairs of the Company. THOMAS GILL, Chairman. CROWN COMMERCIAL, INN, STAMFORD. tPALMER begs respectfully to thank those • numerous Commercial Gentlemen. and others, who have so kindly favoured him with their support at the above Inn, during the last two years and a . half, and informs them and the Public, that his House is replete with every comfort and convenience, the greater part of his Furniture, Linen, ftc. &c., being - newly bought when he entered on the above Inn. He-is happy to inform them that the Crown has continued, dur ing.his tenancy, as it was for many previous years, the Head Com mercial Inn, and he hopes that those who had withdrawn their cus tom from feelings which can now no longer exist (Mr. Horner hav ing relinquished his occupation as an innkeeper), will favour him with their patronage and support: - • Stamford, Dec 23d, 1835. tINCHEASE OF INCOME.—PROFITABLE AGENCY. A GENTS continue to be APPOINTED in _I:X. London and Country Towns (where there are no Grocers dealing with the Establishment) by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, for the SALE of their celebrated TEAS.—(of sees, No. 9, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate.) They are packed in leaden eanisters, from an ounce to a pound, and labelled with the price on each:package. The fac-simile of the Secretary is at tached to secure their delivery free from adulteration. But little trouble is occasioned by the sale. Any respectable tradesman may engage in it with advantage ; he promotes, indeed, his own busi ness by this valuable appendage. The License is only lls. ; the very trade an amusement; and, from an outlay of 201. to 501., many, during the last ten years, have realized incomes of from. 50/. to 100/. per annum, without one shilling let or loss. Appli cation: to be made to CHARLES HANCOCK, Secretary. E CONOMICAL WINES and SPIRITS, for Public Institutions, Charitable Purposes, &c., warranted genuine, and of as sound and invigorating quality as those of high prices, for cash only : Port Wine £6O per pipe, 103. 6d. per gal., 225. per dozen. Sherry Madeira 6O per pipe, 14s. 6d. 365. Cape Brandy, 245. ; Rum, 12s. ; Gin, Bs. per gallon. GEO. HENEKEY, and COMPY. Gray's Inn Wine Establishment, 23, High Holborn, London. ONSIEUR MALLAN and SONS, Surgeon Dentists, 32, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMS BURY, and at No. 9, HALF MOON-STREET, PICCA DILLY, Proprietors of the MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM FOR FILLING DECAYED TEETH, without Heat or Pressure, and INCORRODIBLE ARTIFICIAL TEETH, FIXED WITH OUT WIRES OR OTHER LIGATURES, grateful for tiro nigh and extensive patronage which has so eminently distinguished their professional exertions since their arrival in the British Me tropolis, respectfully announce to their Friends and the Public in general, that they still continue to restore DECAYED TEETH, with their celebrated MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM, so univer sally recommended by the Faculty of London and Paris. The operation of Filling Teeth is performed in a few seconds ' without th• slightest pain, heat, or pressure. They also FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, in a manner singularly efficacious, and SUPPLY WHOLE sr PARTIAL SETS of TEETH formed of theulsove INCORRODIBLE MINERAL, el: of Natural Substances,without Wire or Other Ligatures—guaranteed to answer every purpose for Articulating and Masticating. The Faculty are respectfully invited to witness the successful remit of the Mineral Succedaneum. Charges as in Paris. 32, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMSBURY, and 9, HALF MOON-STREET, PICCADILLY. CAUTION. WHEREAS many persons, both in London and throughout the country, have announced for sale certain Spi7its which they call Brandy, and to which they have attached the term " PATENT," without having any just or legal right or title so to do :—and, whereas tho only Brandy in England which is secured by Patent Right, is that made by ourselves ; and the illegal use of the term "PATENT" by others, and the frequent substitution of spurious and inferior articles for the Genuine Patent Brandy, ,tend grossly to deceive the Public, and to raise prejudices highly injurious to our interest ;—and finding that such fraudulent proieidings could not be sufficiently checked by the Caveats entered by us at the Patent Office, which confer red the right of Patent, and by virtue of which our Brandy was designated as " BETTS'S PATENT FRENCH DISTILLED BRANDY," we have been induced, for the more effectual protec tion of the public and ourselves, to take out his Majesty's Royal Letters Patent : —and We do hereby give Public Notice, That all persons who may sell any Brandy to which they shall, in any manner, apply " the word Patent,' the words ' Letters Patent,' or the words By the King's Patent,' or any words of the , like kind, meaning, or import," the said Brandy " not having been purchased from us," or 'for the sale of which they have not " our licence or consent in writing," will, without further notice, be pro ceeded against for the recovery of the Penalties thereby incurred. JOHN THOMAS BETTS and Co. French Brandy Distillery, 7, Smithfield-bars, London, Dec. 23, 1835. TO PRINTERS, STATIONERS, BOOKSELLERS, &c. PYRE and SONS, of Derby, respectfully inform the Public that they have received instructions from the Assignees of Mr. S. T. PROBETT, to Sell by Auction, with out reserve, and free from Auction Duty, on the Premises, the Al bion Printing-office, Curzon-street, Derby, on MONDAY, the 4th of January, 1836, and eight following days, Sunday excepted, each morning at half-past ten o'clock, the whole of the valuable Stock in-Trade, by far the greater part of which is entirely new. It eomprehonds 35 cwt. of type, from Great Primer to Pearl, by . Thorowgood and other celebrated founders ; Ifopkinson's demy and foolscap printing presses, by Barrett, and Athol binding press, wooden binding and swing lay-cutting presses, large cylinder ruling machine, iron imposing table, engine-planed by Fox, of Derby ; finished and unfinisheepublications, copyright, 400 reams of paper, 1,000 Westley's embossed covers, 30,000 Pyke's quills, 7,000 copy books, 800 account and other books in forrell, &c., Reeves's co lours, Reeves's and Cumberland pencils, 30 pieces of printed and embossed cloth, 800 leather skins, 200 skins of parchment, with proportionate quantities of other materials, fixtures, tools, &c. _ ARRANGEMENT OF SALE. Monday, Jab. 4. Paper, quills, card, millboard. Tuesday, —5. Copy, account, and memorandum books. Wednesday, 6. Printing and Athol presses, type, flowers, wood cuts, stereotype, 7. Printing materials, printing -fixtures, ink. Friday, —B. Skins, Westley's covers, parchment, marbled Thursday, stereotype foundry, paper. Saturday, —9. Binder's materials, cloth, gold, warehouse, and binder's fixtures, weighing machine. Monday, —ll. Finished and unfinished publications, Copy right, miscellanies. Tuesday, —l2. Reeves's Colours, pencils, wax, steel pens, sponge, rubber, &c. Catalogues, with specimens of the type, flowers and wood cuts, will be ready eight days prior to the sale, and may be had of Messrs. Thorowgood and Co., type founders, London ; at Aris's Gazette Office, Birmingham ; the Guardian Office, Manchester ; Mercury Office, Liverpool; Review Office, Nottingham ; Iris Office, Sheffield • Chronicle Office, Leicester ; Advertiser Office, Stafford ; and of Auctioneers. Full-street, Derby. NE RVOUS DEBILITY, &c.—ME DICAL. ETHICS.—The following works will serve as guides and monitors to all who may feel interested in their perusal :-1. The 2Egis of Life presents an extended view of the causes and effects of self-abuse, intemperance, and libertiniSm, as tending to produce debility and nervous irritation. '2. The Syphilist recommends it self to the serious notice of the man of pleasure when suffering under the constitutional effects of syphilis, &c. 3. .Hygeiana is addressed to the reserved and sensitive female, who may possess in this work a confidential adviser under the most delicate circumstan ces; even where the hopes of maternity have been long delayed. Testimonials : " These books can be safely recoinmended, as well for the moral truths they contain as for the extensive and suc cessful result of the author's experience."—London Morning Jour nal: "We agree with the editor of the London Morning Journal, and ,recommend Mr. Goss's publications for general perusal."...._ 'Edinburgh Weekly Paper. " The precepts contained in this work are interesting and useful."—Edinburgh Paper. " This publics ion, while it neither spares the aged voluptuary, nor the youthful prodigal, offers to both the most important advantages "—Glasgow Paper. " This work (Ifygeiana) is properly called an analysis of some female complaints it is written in a very peculiar style of moral admonition."—DublinMorningJournal. " These works have passed through twenty editions; they combine utility and simplicity, and we recommend t.hvm accordingly."—Dublin Weekly Journal. The above may be had of Sherwood and Co., Paternoster-row ; Porter,•72, Grafton-street, Dublin ; ,1•2, Calton-street, Edinburgh ; 86, Trongate, Glasgow ; and all booksellers. Price ss. each.— ilessrs. Goss and Co. may be consulted every day, at. their horise and patients in the remotest parts of the country can be treated successfully, on th.seribing minutely the case, and enclosing a re mittance for advice and medicine, which can be forwarded to any part of the world. 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EAST INDIA HOUSE, OCT. 14, 1835. qpHE COURT.of DIRECTORS of the EAST _IL INDIA COMPANY de hereby give Notice, That the TRANSFER BOOKS of the said COMPANY'S STOCK will be SHUT on THunsnaT, the 3d December next, at Three e'Cloelc,,and OPENED again on THURSDAY, the 14th January, 1836; and That the WARRANTS for the DIVIDEND on the said STOCK, payable en the 6th January, 1836, under the 11th Sec tion of the Act of the 3d and 4th William IV., Cap. 85, will be ready to be delivered on that day. J. D. DICKINSON, Assistant Secretary. CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S NEW WORK. In 3 vols. post Bvo., JAPHET IN SEARCH OF A FATHER. By th• Author of " Peter Simple," " Jacob Faithful," &e. Saunders and Otley, Conduit-street, Hanover-square. , MR. LODGE'S PEERAGE FOR 183 G, from the Personal Communications of the Nobility cor rected throughout to the present date IS NOW READY in One Volume, bound and lettered, price 16s. Also Mr. LODGE'S GENEALOGY of the BRITISH PEERAGE. With Plates of the Arms. Saunders and Otley, Conduit-street, Hanover-square. This day was published, in foolscap Bvo., with Vignette, price 6s. cloth, Vol. 11. of a I STORY OF G,REECE By the Rev. C. THIRLWALL, Trin. Coll. Carnb. To be - completed in Fire Volumes.' ." Being Vol. LXXIV. of • • DR. LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOP 2 EDIA. Published Dec. 1, HISTORY of ROME (12 Vols. ), Vol. 11. London : L9ngur.an and Co. ; and John Taylor. USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING FRENCH NEW YEAR'S GIFT. On the Ist of January will be published, price 6s. bound in cloth, The Third Volume of E C AMEL,E 0 N. The object of this journal belly , to familiarise the English reader with the purest French idioms and modes of empressioib it will be found of great assistance to the Student, and enable him in a com paratively short time, to speak the language with fluency and ele gance. Published in Weekly Numbers, price 2d., and in Monthly Parts. • H. Hooper, 13, Pall Mall East. Reduction of Price from Three Shillings and Sixpence to Half a Crown. T HE COURT MAGAZINE and BELLE ASSEMBLEE. The COURT MAGAZINE, already exhibiting in its pages articles which entitle it to rank, independent of its fashionable character, with the leading Monthly sMagazines, the Proprietor is anxious to place it upon the same level of general reading, and, as an earnest of his intention, at •nce announces a reduction in its price, on the Ist of 'January, From Three Shillings and Sixrence to Half a Crown, a reduction which he hopes to accompany with an increase in its value. In order to give complete effect to this design, the proprietor has arranged with manr of the first writers of the (lay, so as to re ceive a continuance of contributions of a high order of talent. The Embellishments will embrace, as usual, Portraits of this Female Nobility, Landscapes of the Seats of the . - Nobility, and English and Forein.Costumes. Every care will be taken to render this department perfect, and as a guarantee for exertions which will be made, the proprietor has the satisfaction to announce, that a series of Portraits from paint:- ings by Sir T. Lawrence is in preparation, and will be produced, from time to time, in the forthcoming Numbers. . A Critical History of the Literature of the Month, Music,' Fine Arts, the Opera, Theatres, &c., will also be given, and occa sionally an ORIGINAL SONG SET TO MUSIC BY THE EDITOR. London: Edward Churton, Public Library, 26, Holles-street. THEATRES. DRURY-L ANE. At this theatre, after The Siege of Rochelle and The Jewess, Whittington and his Cat were again introduced to tread the stage for public amusement. Whittington is repre sented as the servant or apprentice of Fitzwarren, a London merchant, who is fitting out a ship for the coast of Africa. All the members of his family send out their ventures, but Whittington has nothing to risk Hut his carroty Tom Cat, which he reluctantly places in the hands of the Captain. The Vessel sailS and arrives in Africa, at the kingdom of a monarcli of the name of Longobarobonio, where the cat is of such signal service in destroying rats, by which the natives are overrun, that the 'animal is purchased at a price which renders Whit tiligton one of the richest men in the English capital. In the interval; however, Whittington, driven by Dame Suet from his home and his sweetheart (for he had fallen in love with hi s master's . daughter), wanders in the neighbourhood of London, and is recalled by hearinr , old Bow Bells sound, as he imaghted, " Turn . again W"hittington, Lord Mayor of London." He turns again, finds what his cat-venture had produced, and re-makes love to Alice Fitzwarren. He is opposed in his suit by Alderman Gobble and his son, Master Addlepate Gobble, and as Fitzwarren is disposed to favour the pretensions of the latter, notwithstanding the newly ac quired wealth of Whittington, the aid of a certain fairy, named the Genius of Industry, is required on, behalf of Whittington. Whittington (ia the earlier scenes a part is given to Miss Poole) is converted into Harlequin) ( Ellar), Alice into Co lumbine ( Miss G. Reckic), and Alderman Gobble, his son, and Dame Suet, the cook, into Pantaloon and two Clowns. Of old, Grimaldi, the "fair idea" .as Southey calls it, of &Owns, had the part of Damo Suet ; on Saturday it was in the hands of Mr. T. Matthews, who is certainly clever in his way. There waa a good deal of variety of scenery ; we had the aerial ship, lately exhibited, and fOr aught we know, still exhibited at Kensington, in which Pantaloon and the two Clowns embarked and were conveyed (for no other reason, we suppose, than that the scene wos ready painted) to Ulswatcr Lake, in Cumberland; getting a good view of the late departed and lamented comet on their way. Thence they return to London with all speed by land conveyance, and find them selves at the new Beulah Spa, near Norwood. The rair road to the moon whiCh was exhibited is not by any means an original idea; but it was well employed, and the different trains on their way to their destination through the sky, had at least a novel effect. The last scene represents the Lord Mayor's show by water. CO VENT- GARDEN. On Saturday night, after The Carmelites and The Bronze Horse, a new pantomime was produced at this theatre, called Harlequin Guy Fawkes. The piece opens with the accus tomed preparation of preternatural beings, clad in radiance and beauty, as Columbine generally is, or in grotesque and ludi crous masquerade. After some tender interviews between young Lord 111 \ onteagle and Columbine, Grumblegloom, the Genius of Discontent, is seen descending in a fiery car, fJr the purpose of exciting to the deed of horror of which Guy Fawkes is to be made the agent. He is attended by his fa. liar agent, Mischief,- and by - a host of Blue Devils, Groan, Howl, Mumble, and Growl, and a numerous cortege of Imps. The Car of Discontent is, of course, a blazing one, sur mounted by two fiery dragons. It was hailed with shouts of applause, and the familiar agent, Mischief, flitted through the air at his call with the graceful velocity of a hawk. The fiends are seen busily occupied in preparing powder for Guy, which, being in 'a state of readiness, and deposited under the Parlia ment House, that worthy personage himself is introduced in triumph seated upon a crazy chair of state, and accompanied as he usually is upon the sth of November. Columbine and Pan taloon, Harlequin and Clown, now shuffle off their coils, and the capering, the grimace, and tumbling commence. The scenic views are numerous, and in general are well executed. The locality of all of them is metropolitan, .or very nearly so, not extending beyond Hammersmith—Westminster Abbey, and Hall, the House of Lords, Greenwich Hospital, the Ob servatory, the Rail-road, the dome of St. Paul's, the Gar deners' ground near Hammersmith, &c. The tricks and trans formations are numerous, and were, for a first display', very successful in the working. The wand of Harlequin and the thiefish propensities of the Clown, made very frequent and very laughable use of an archery warehouse, a butcher's shop, and other places of business. The Columbine, Clown, - Pantaloon, and Harlequin were all excellent, and the mechanical trans formations arc very creditable to the contriver. The panto mime was successful, and the house crowded. ENGLISH OPERA HO USE. CHURTON'S ILLUSTRATED BIBLE. On the Ist of January, 1836, will be published, in Medium Bvo., No. 1., Price Three Pence, to be continued Weekly, And, on the Ist of February, Part 1., Price One Shilling, to be continued Monthly until its Completion, THE HOhY BIBLE, WITH NOTES, By the Rev. H. CAUNTER, B.D. Illustrated with One Hundred and Forty-four Engravings, From Drawings by R. WEST ALL, Esq., R. A. , and J. MARTIN, Esq. TO THE PUBLIC. NX apology can be necessary for presenting to the Public a New Edition of the Holy Bible ; it will therefore be sufficient' to mention the principal object in view in the present publication. There being no good editions of the Bible with notes, except those oltieh are sold at so high a price as to exclude the middling and poorer classes from having access to them, the first aim is to supply what has long been felt to be It serious desideratum. The notes by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, 8.D., will be exclusively explanatory ; some idea may be formed f their extent, when it is stated that they will contain as much matter as three ordinary sized octavo volumes, they will be written in a plain and concise wanner, so as to be intelligible to all classes of readers. The Illustrations (in number one hundred and forty four) will be from Drawings by P,..Westall, R.A.,'Esq. and J. Martin, Esq. the celebrated painter of Belshazzar's Feast. The Work will be published in Weekly Numbers, containing tivo Engravings, and twelve pages of Letter=press, at the low price of three pence , each Number, and will be completed in seventy-two, forming one splendid octavo volume. London ; Edward Churton, 26, Holles-street. OLYMPIC. At this house, on Saturday evening, a new mythological burletta was the attraction for the holyday play-goers. It is entitled the Olympic Pic--Nic, and, like other pic-nics, con sists of a farrago of ingredients. The best thing in it is the scenery, by Mr. Hilliard, and the dresses, by Misses Glover and Ireland, beyond which there is little to praise. The act ing of Madame; herself,, and of Bland, was however good ; and they did all that could be done to render the pic-nic of 'the gods on the stage palateable to the gods in the gallery, and the mortals in the pit and boxes. The plot, as may be supposed, is an interpolation in mythology, somewhat ludi crous, but not sufficiently so to secure the ..long loud laugh sincere," which generally bespeaks the unqualified satisfaction of Christmas auditors.. There is throughout the dialogue a resuscitation of dead puns, and an attempt at wit, which is tiresome, and makes that worse which is not of itself good for much. The Helenisms of St. Giles's and Billingsgate arc detestable in the mouths of pretty women, and the substitu tion of street slang for genuine repartee is in bad taste, and cannot too soon be expunged from dramatic dialogue. There arc some redeeming qualities in the burletta, and amongst them the taper legs - and gossamer wings with which the stage is crowded, are the best. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. On Saturday night there were, according to the modern practice of almost all theatres, three pieces, and as a matter of invariable usage, the anniversary of St. Stephen the Martyr must be graced by a new performance, eminently gorgeous and, above all things, noisy,—crintson and gold, blue and silver, "feathers and miniver and velvet," a forest of wooden spears, a multitude of dancing girls, and an elephant or two, are all excellent in their way : however, noise is most impor tant, " sound and fury, signifying— ;" but why should they be expected to signify anything? • And we must do the new burletta at the St. James's the justice to say, that neither in noise -nor otherwise did it signify more than might be expected of a Christmas piece. It is precisely • what it ought to be—very - pleasing to the eye, not at all dis agreeable:to Any other sense, in nowise offensive to good taste, most judiciously brief, founded on a talc as familiar to school boys as the birch used to' be, having - sonic' pleasant music, • pretty tricks, and machinery, with admirable dancing, and two characters, at all events, •to make those laugh who have the i care of little people at theatres in vacation. The opening scene of I?asselas,-which is the title of the burletta, presents the King of Abyssinia on his throne during one of his annual visits to the Happy Valley, with all its inhabitants in their hob - day suits collected at his court. The effect of this must be quite to the taste of the sight-seeker. The mode by.whieh the Prince and his sister escape from the felicity of their confine ment is, instead of the old tunnel plan, by which we might have been introduced to that under the Thames, a more recent in vention of a great projector, a certain Mr. Jim. crack. Mrs. Selby -was very good in Miss M'Drawley, the female apostle of " the greatest happiness principle," Mr. Mitchell eNcellent as Jimcrack, 'and the others very fair. The concluding scene was as usual splendid, and the burletta given out for repetition amidst the warmest applause. ADEL PHI. The leading novelty at this favourite little theatre on Sa turday night was a nondescript sort of performance, entitled ill the bills of the night " a new, gorgeous, and splendid cha racteristic Christmas spectaele, called The Elfin Queen," followed by TA•Masque of ilarlequin. The characters in the first portion of the spectacle are all fairies, and the plot,-if plot it may be called, depends upon the loves, of Nyniphaliu (the Elfin Queen) and Prince 'Gossamer. As to the harle quinade, the tricks, which usually constitute the most im portant part, were few in number, stale, and poor•in device and The performances here. on Saturday, began with the comedy in five acts of John Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside, and then succeeded the new and splendid comic pantomime. The well known song of " The King of the Cannibal Islands " is the foundation of the pantomime, which has been produced with the most splbndidNcenery, dresses, and decorations, and it is called Ilohee Pokee Wankee Funs, or Harlequin and the King of the Cannibal Islands. The Cannibal King, after wards one of the Clowns VIC. Mande 's) has for wife Qacen Tullinee Longeemori, who is beloved by three rebel chiefs ; the Cannibal King, in jealousy, cuts off her head, and sustains a terrific conflict with the army of the rebel chiefs, whom he also makes undergo decapitation, and the " change " then takes place, when there ensues a series 'of tricks and transfor mations, which require to be seen tU he appreciated. • There were some succcssiul hits, such as the " Silver Cradle," with tne motto " Wean-abler ; " the " Orange Merchant," Mr. Q. Cumber," " Chalk Farm," (six o'clock), &c. Mr. Nelson Lee was Harlequin ; Mddlc. Lconi, Columbine ; Mr. Blan chard, Pantaloon ; M.. Manders, one of the Clowns, and Mr. Sylvester the other, who highly deserved the surname of the " Flying Air Diver." PRICE 7D. execution. Indeed it was almost impossible to discover the meaning, much less the wit, of the various incidents. The best satirical hit was at the 'Aerial Ship. The Ship represents Moe- Ilall's dock-yard. The Monsieur having succeeded in filling his money-bags at the expense of our credulity, sticks al) a notice that the ship cannot possibly ascend, in conscquenec rif an escape—an escape not of gas, hoever, but of the pro jector himself, who takes that. opportunity of making oil frith his gains. In order that the people may not be d:sappoihted the Clowns steal a gigantic rocket 50,000 mile!3 in range, which they fix on tJ the car, and then fire the train, much to the consternation of the passengers, who find that, like many a scheme of more pretension, though it began with a great bounce, it ended at last in nothing but smoke. Gibson was the Harlequin. Brown the Pantaloon, King and Sanders the Clowns, and Misses Lane and Griffiths the Columbines. The pantomime concluded with a splendid scene and an exhibition of fireworks, which restored the good humour of the audience, and saved it from the sentence o condemnation by which it was at One time evidently threatened. In the Dream at Sea, the introductory piece of the evening, Mrs. Stirling made her first appearance here in the character of Biddy Nuts, vice Mrs. Nisbett, who has returned to the Queen's. Theatre. She has a good person, i 3 accustomed to stage business, appears to be sensible and lively, and will doubtless prove an acquisition to the theatre. •Q UEEN'S. This theatre was opened on Saturday evening, under the management of Mrs. Nisbett. Three novelties were produced with success—the first was a comic drama, under the title of Patrick the Foreigner ; o.r the Knight for a Day. The hero of the piece, art unconscious Patlauder, with a twist of the tongtic peculiar to hiS countrymen; being shipwrecked on the coast of Northumberland on St. Patrick's day, obtains the cognomen of " Patrick the Foreigner." The piece is smartly written, and the acting throUghout good. Jones, however, did not appear quite at home is the Itisl.man the brogue evidently bothered him.. The deservedly high reputation that Mr. - Jones enjoyed in Edinburgh in perso nating the finished gentleman (a line of character in which he canuot be excelled), induces us to . hope for the plea sure of witnessing hint in apart better adapted to his talents than %Patrick the Foreigner. • The clever piece that followed, is from the pen of Mr. W. Collier, and is founded on a para graph which appeared in the Post a few days since, and ran as follows The Hon. Miss King was on the field. She is distinguished for her elegant and graceful riding. She was in at the death, and was presented with the brush !" Mrs. Nisbett played admirably in the heroine,' who puzzles her lover, and triumphs over his jealousy, by assuming male attire. Mr. Parry was gentlemanly in the hero, and. Mr. Oxberry was extremely amusing. The tableaux vivants in the next piece, entitled Flowers of Loveliness, are taken from - 'Lady Blessington's charming "work of that name. _ The tableaux were well arranged, and the effect was extremely good. Mrs. Nisbett and her sister, Miss Mordaunt, as Roses, formed the principal and most attractive group. Christmas Capers, an amusing trifle, concluded the entertainments. The house was full. VICTORIA. The Manager has preserved his great attraction, The Jewess, as his opening piece The Glass Curtain, with the perfor mances of the celebiated Ramo Samee, is continudd ; after which the great Christmas Annual, the pantomime, entitled Harlequin Jack and his Eleven Brothers or Little Puck and the Magician - of the Hermitage. The nu►sery talc of " Jack and his Eleven Brothers," has been selected by Mr. Moncrieff, the author, as a material upon which to hang his pantomime, which is altogether got up on a scale quite unprecedented at a minor theatre. The number of supernumeraries, infantine and adults, is enormous; and so also is . the corps de ballet, young and old ; the music is very appropriate, by Mr. T. Hughes. We expect to hear the Manager boasting cf his haVing made a decided hit. SADLER'S WELLS. SURREY. The grand attraction of most of the theatres at this time is the-pantomime, we shall be excused therefore for passing over the performance which preceded it here on Saturday with only a'word. It was the opera of the Lord of the Isks, and as-far as we could see, was well got up. The opera was suc ceeded by the principal performance of the evening, which takes its title from the familiar nursery rythmes of Old Daddy Long Legs and Mary, Mary, quite Contrary. As is usual on such occasions, the nursery rhyme does littlo more for the story of the piece than furnish its title and a personification of " Old Daddy" himself, who strides about on enormously high stilts. . After Old Daddy is Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and Pantaloon, and after the usual succession of . acig ventures and hair-bredth 'scapes, Harlequin and Columbine are at length made happy. The tricks in this pantomime arc on the whole ingenious and well executed. The machi nist had a hit cr two at the New Poor Law Bill. One was the sudden change of a barrel of table-beer into a :tub of water gruel, and of a chest of bohea into a pump. lie was not so successful in his hit at the cometr The most attractive part of the evening's performance, and unquestionably the best executed, was a dioramic annual, as it was called, giving views of Edinburgh, Rosslyn Castle, Kelvin Grove, Dumberton Castle, and Stirling Castle, which are exccnted in a splendid manner, and do great credit to the artist, Mr. Phillips. The chief parts in the pantomime were very effectively performed. Of Mr. llonnor and Mr. Ashbury it is unnecessary to speak, as Harlequin and Panta loon : their merits are already too well known to require it. Miss Stanley is an admirable Columbine, and Mr. Herring a most excellent Clown. The house was crowded in every part. ROYAL PAVILION THEATRE. The offeling at this Theatre was Jack Straw's Castle, or Harlequin and Dame Darden. The merit displayed in the invention and getting up, belongs to Farrell, who. seems in that line no way inferior to the Prince of Pantomitnists, Farley himself. It was highly amusigr, and drew forth the incessant laughter of the andieace. • Hill, Chapino, and Toungman, as Clown, Harlequin, and Pantaloon, gave universal satisfaction. Miss Rayner is a graceful Columbine. A Pictorial Diorama was much admired. The artists have displayed great talent. WILLIAM I. or PRussiA.—The dress of the King corresponded with the simplicity of his domestic arrahgc ments. He wore alternately a civil dress or a uniform till 1719 ; after which time he always appeared in the uniform of a Colonel of the Potsdam Grenadier Guards—blue cloth, with red facings and silver lace, buff waistcoat and breaches, white linen gaiters with copper buttons, and square-toed shoes. When hunting, and in wet weather, he always wore boots. All his things were made to fit very tight. His cocked hat Wil2 bound with a narrow gold lace, and had a gilt • button without a loop, and a gold cord with two small tassels. When pursuingthe chase at Wus tcrhausen or Potsdam, his general costume was a • green hunting dress and a couteau de chasse. " The last expen sive article of his Majesty's wardrobe," says Faszmann;, "was the roquelaure or great coat, which was made of a very coarse white or blue cloth. Nay, it almost seemed as if his Majesty considered it silly and extravagant to wear a fine coat in bad weather. So careful was the King of his best home suit, that when engaged in hii Cabinet he inva riably put on a linen apron and half sleeves. He was the declared enemy of new fashions and showy attire."—Foreign Quarter/N. SPORTING.--Lord Segrave's hounds had a most extraordinary day on Wednesday. The fox was found at a small plantation within a mile of the Castle, and running through the line of woods at Hill, and twice making a cir cuit of the deep vale near the Severn below ThOrnbury and Oldbury (where the hounds had a check of about twenty minutes), was killed near Shcphcrdinc, after a run of three hours and thirty minutes. Cardinal Richelieu used to boast that he could entraat matter to send any man to a dungeon out of four or live ordinary words. One of his attendants immediately wrote upon a card, " One and two make three." " Three make only one," exclaimed the Cardinal, " It is blasphemy against our Holy Trinity. To the Bastile with him." • On Monday last, near Old Liam, a Joseph Holbinson undertook to worry 4 fellow limn ::( 1 pole-cat of the feminine - gender, or ‘vhat is commonly ca ll e d a ii,onicrt, weighing 211bs. animal was placed on a round table with a string round its neck, and the above brute worried it in twenty m inutes, for a gill of rum, and 2s. 6d. in money, whielCwas g iven to his wife. p 2d. each, witness A great number of persow, aid ed the disgraceful s,:ene. The f4ow was bitten in a most shoekia,4- m anner.—Stody rt ildvertiscr. . AN ARISTOCRAT OF NATURE.--The idle man is, in fad, the only true aristocrat of nature—others werk, he looks. on. He walks about the world with his hands in his pockets, and sees other men doing their duties in that state of life unto which it has pleased God to call them. Ile smiles to himself superior ! Yet as idleness opens his heart, and disposes it to pity, and all ether peaceful and contemplative virtues, he is sorry for them. If anything can anger hire (which is di(xieult, seeing that it requires some exertion to put oneself in a passion), but if anything e:m ruffle is to see the offensive pride which those nuisances called active people take in their miserable avo cations. To see bow they will rise at six in the marring with impertinent alacrity, as if the day could not dawn without their assistance ! To see what courtiers and syco phants they are, repdsrly attending the sun's levee, and how they will brag of their finnilianty with him, and'S'ay— " I was up with the sun this morning"—putting themselves on a par with that great luniinary, as it were, " hail fellow, wail met !" between them. Then how envious and officious they are ; they take delight in entering. the chamber of the id!o man, who is harmlessly_ and virtuously asleep at noon day, and wake hiM from his calm slumbers with the noisy assurance, that • they " have been stirring since si!: o'clock !" .Slihing ! what an employment fdr any thing above the capacity of a 'spoon ! 13ut this barbarous custom of theirs is but .a slight infliction compared with other malicious devices which they.calplay against the harm less objects of their hatred—the idle man.—ne Keepsoke. A GREEK CiutisTstAs:—ln Swan's • Journal of a Voyage up the Lleditetronean," is the following account of • a - Greek Christmas :—" This being Christmas Day with the Greek Catholics, ti,eir Churches are adorned in the gayest manner. There was one in Which a sort of raree show had been set up, illumined with a multitude of can dles : the subject of it was the birth of Christ, who was represented in the back ground by a little waxen figure, wrapped up in embroidery, and reclining upon an embroi dered cushion, which rested..upon another of pink and satin —this was Euilpo . sed to he the manger where our Saviour was born. Behind the irnage two paper bulls' heads looked unutterable things.' On the right was the Virgin Mary, and on the left one of the Eastern Magi. Paper clouds, in which the paper heads of numberless cherubs appeared, enveloped the whole ; Whilst from a paste-board cottage stalked a wooden monk with dogs, and sheep, and camels ; goats, lions, and lambs. The construction of these figures was chiefly Dutch ; they were intermixed with China images and miserable daubs on paper. In the centre a real foun tain, in miniature, squirted forth water to the ineffable de of crowds of prostrate worshippers." LEICESTER CCRPORATORS.—TIIC last public act of the old Corporation :nay be truly said to have given it the coop &grace in the estimation of every class of the inhabitants pretending to the 'smallest modicum of right feeling. Loud dissatisfaction at its conduct is not only felt aid expressed by its opponents, but by thou: who have been accustomed to range themselves among its admirers and supporters. "It is too bad" only conveys a faint idea of the disgust ,tvith which even !key %ler.' the proceedings of the last Common Hall: To grant penSions to one or two servants worn out with free living, might perhaps have been borne without much grumbling ; but to grant a piece of plate, value 1001., to Mr. Alderman James Rawson, for his services !—To Mr. tiurbidge, Bool.—Aldermen rnadge and Yates, pieces of plate . value 504 each—and an annuity of 501. for life to Mr. William Parsons, for'all and each of THEIR respective services=-to the Mayor, for his second year'S salarsS, '2501., and to the Town Servants 0 51. year ealt, far the §anie purpose—to do these things, we say, is indeed out-Herodiug Herod, and shows such, reek lesssos; of self-respect, and contempt for the opinions of the inhableanti of the town at large, as must at (oleo h ave earned for those who supported them the scorn and indig nation of every hooourable, right-minded person.—Leics-ster Chronicle. Cows FED ON 11'18FL-1 - qr. Brooke, in his travels in Lapland, mentions a fact at which 'the English farmers will be mach surprised, viz., that the cattle in Lapland, or Finn:ark, are uniformly fed on fish. His surprise at the 5:111.c time will not be lestened, when he heirs that the animals not only devour this kind of food with the great est eagerness, but thrive and do well upon it. It appears that diesse dung, when it can be pro Cured, is also boiled up with the fish bones, and greedily eaten by the cattle, in Lapland and Norway. As the process by which the food is prepared for'the cattle is curious, it may not be unin teresting to the English farmer to read the account. About five o'clock in the evening, a large iron pot is regularly plaeed on th e kit c hen fire, partly fined with water, into which is immersed a large quantity of fishes' heads and bones, with the addition of some hay ; and this is to boil gently for some time, till a kind of fish soup is prepared. The pot is then • taken to the cow-house by the mai&ser rant, and its contents are placed before the animals by being poured in their mangers. I was much surprised to observe the extreme relish and greediness with which they devoured this ; both sheep and cows appeared equally fond of it. The milk is of a remarkably rich flavour, and the beef aml mutton are very good. • . . SUICIDE IN CIIINA.—TIV.! frequent, tecurrence of suicide in Canton is at the Siii:te iota a Proer and . a cot:se m:nee of the demoralizaficm which so generally exists ; it is •;t Inelaneltory demonstration of the weakness, both Mental an I hosiiis', whieh prevails oolong the inhabitants. A silly zunhition to " make light, of life" has crept among them ; and 4 . l ,:atnost ins4uilicant'causZ!s fr6quentiv occasion the Corn initsioti of ‘zscif-cle,;tructiou. 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Two men, lately employed in raising gravel at Whit tingham in this county, discovered, about twenty inches be low the surface of the ground, the bones of a full-grown fe 'male, and of a child, which appeared to have been buried about fifteen or twenty years ago. The discovery has ex cited great consternation, there being no record or recollec tion of any murder, or sudden disappearance of any person,. about that time.—Salopian Journal. EXECUTION IN FRANCE.—The Journal de Con lances gives an account of the execution of a young woman in that town on the 12th instant, and relates some circumstances connected with it which are of interest at a time. when so stroag a feeling prevails in favour of the abolition of capital punishment. The name of the culprit was Piel, and she was convicted, with her mother, of causing death by poiscn. In consequence, however, of some favourable circumstances in. the case of the mother, her sentence was commuted. The execution was to have taken place at the usual hour, twelve o'clock in the day, but it was delayed several hours, in consequence of the difficulty of finding any workman to erect the guillotine, for although a great many applications were made, the most tempting,offers met with refusal. When the unfortu nate .young woman was first informed that her death was near, she did not display much emotion, but only burst into tears. The executioner went into her cell at eleven o'clock on the morning of the execution, to perform the usual ceremony of cutting off the hair, and while he was doing this she sobbed loudly, and protested her inno cence. Although it was an intensely cold day, the crowd assembled was immense, and they had been waiting several hours to witness the horrid spectacle. The culprit went all the way from the prison on foot. She was extremely pale, and appeared almost insensible. At her trial she ex hibited the greatest effrontery and violence, but her as surance bad now completely forsaken her. When She ar rived at the scaffold, she became so faint that the execu tioner was compelled to assist her up the steps. When she was about to be strapped upon that portion of the guillotine which slides under the axe, she screamed out, " Oh, my God," and became so violent that it was found necessary to use considerable force to place her in the pro per; position ; at length all the arrangements were com pleted, the axe fell, and her head rolled upon the scaffold. " MONARCHY Or THE MIDDLE CLASSES."— Mr. Henry Lytton Bulwer's new work, under this title, is a continuation of his popular work on France. In the present publication be treats of the existing state of politics in that country, of the Court of Louis PhilFppe, of the li terature of the day, of the domestic manners of the Pari sians, of French jurisprudence, &c., all of which subjects are enlivened by numerous personal anecdotes and curious facts, which a long residence in Paris,. under circumstances unusually favourable for observation, brought under his no tice'. To much sound and valuable information the present volumes unite the entertaining qualities and brilliant style of the writer. GALLANT CONDUCT ON THE PART OF A FE MALE.—On Saturday night last, an attempt was made to rob the house of Mr. James Webster, at Natland, near this town. One of the servant-girls had been a little later than usual.in seeking her pillow, in consequence of a part ing interview with her lover, who next day was about to leave the neighbourhood for a distant part of the kingdom. Some time during the evening a. noise, as if of the breaking of glass, was heard, which excited a little alarm, but led to no investigation. The Moment having arrived when the lover must leave, he was accompanied a few yards from the door by the young woman. On her return to the kitchen, the first sight she beheld was a hulking fellow, with soot begrimed faced, and with a lighted candle in his hand, walking towards the interior part of the house. On hear ing, a foot, the fellow stopped, turned round, and stared upon the young woman who had so inopportunely intruded upon his midnight labours. .In a• moment, however, he made a dart towards the door, as if to escape, ; to prevent which the girl laid hold of him, and called out lustily. A struggle ensued, and the noise having reached the ears of the young woman's sweetheart, he returned ; the sound of his footstep naturally increased the sable visitor's efforts to be released ; but still the young woman retained. fast hold of his clothes. At length, however, the fellow broke away, leaving the hinder patt of his nether garment in the pos session of the girl as a trophy of her spirited and coura geous conduct. The lover and the young woman proposed giving chase to the thief, when another or two of the gang came from their ,hiding places, and scampered off. They were pursued a short way, but we are sorry that neither then nor since have any of them been apprehended, and put on the road to that signal punishment which their crime so richly merits.—Kendal Mercury. - - A superstitious notion prevails in the western parts of Devonshire that at 12 o'clock at night on Christmas-eve the oxen in their stalls are always found on their knees, as in an attitude or devotion ; and that (which is still more singular) since the alteration of the style they continue to do this only on the eve of Old Christmas -day. An honest countryman, living on the edge of St. Stephen's Down, near Launceston, Cornwall, informed me, October 23, 1790, that he once, with smut others, made a trial of the truth of the above, and watching several oxen in their stalls at the above time, at 12 o'clock at night, they observed the two oldest-oxen only fall upon their knees, and, as he ex pressed it in the idiom of the country, make " a cruel moan like Christian creatures.":7--Brands Popular Antiquities. • A pantomime, entitled Ride a Cock-Horse to Banbury Cross, or Harlequin - and the Lady with Bells to -her Toes, was pro duced on Saturday, to the great delight of. the holyday visi tors. In the vicinity of Banbury proclamation is made that the mayor of that corporation had brought his daughter to the cross of the town, seated on a white horse, with the para phernalia described in the rhymes referred to, and that he promised her as a wife to the most worthy swain, a hint being given that money would be esteemed his greatest accomplish ment. Gaffer Crowsnest (Mr. Flowers) cockers up his son Jacket' (Signor Bolent)) to go to Banbury, in the hope of securing the lady. With tho same view Dame Clump urges her son Simon to put in his claim. The Crowsnests depart on their steed, which carries double ' • pbor Simon Clump is obliged to trudge it, with nothing to help him on his journey but his mother's-blessing. and a silver penny. On his way he meets with the Fairy of the Magic Well (Miss Brookes), who favours him with a sight• of the lady he is in pursuit of, which is very prettily managed. He reaches the cross just as the Mayor is about to surrender. the lady on the horse to Mr. Crowsnest, jun . . Simon Clump clams her, but offering nothing but a pledge of constancy and truth, he is about to receive rough usage from the Mayor, when the Fairy appears, and transforms Simon into Harlequin, and the two Crowsnests into Pantaloon and Clown. Estelle, the lady with bells to her toes (Miss Gilbert), descends from her white steed, equipped to perform the part of Columbine, and now the business begins. Capering, rolling, leaping, and face slapping become the order of the day, scenes follow scenes, and adventures come thick, till the fairy re-appears and a re conciliation takes place (rather inappropriately) amidst a "terrific" shower of fire. Amongst the best scenes were a cheap dancing academy, where the pupils included dustmen and coalheavers, and where the master disappears through a bole in the floor ; and the closing scene. The feats of Mr. Juan de Castro on the slack rope, and his companions, the equilibriits, excited much applause. //e ANDRIEN, THE MEDAL ENGRAVER The French papers some time ago announced the death of M. Andrien, the celebrated medal engraver, a. man highly considered as an artist. The following 'are a fey. , details of his life : M. Bertrand Andrien, Medal Engraver e Chevalier cf the Royal Order of St. Michael, and a Member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna, was barn at Bolide:lux, the 4th of Nov., 1761. At an early age he evineed a genius for engraving, and his first steps in that art pro- mised brilliant success.. At that epochs medal 'engraving. had lost the eclat it enjoyed under. VariMand Dupre. A false dry style, with stiff and incorrect designs, hati suc ceeded 'the naivete and faeility of design admired in the works of the most esteemed artists, lie had to struggle aeainst bad taste, but that - could not, deter one wliti bad cherished the beauty and Graces of the antique. Arrived very venng in Paris, his first coup announced the restorer of medal engraving, and during forty years the public saw sprirg from his hands a great variety of . productions, which the c ainoisseurs have, placed among the chefs ci'ouvres pf the namisluatique of all countries .and all times. Selected by the Government of Bonaparte to • execute medals of the most memorable events, his talents were associated with all the glorious actions which' consoled the French nation, re ligion, and arts, during their misfortunes, and when the re storation brought France to see better days, Andrien ap peared inspirod by a new ardour to enrich medallie history with works relating to the descendants of St. Louis published in the space of three years a great number of medals, aMong which we may. distinewish Minerva, seated distributing crowns, the medal of to Equestrian Statue of •Henry IV., that of the Yneeine, and that - of l'Etude ; that of the re-establishment of 1:- o• and that of France in mourning for the 20th of March, •• He finished, about a month before his - . death; the great medal that Count Cambrol de Volvie, Preleet of the Seine, ordered - him to execute • for the city of *Paris,. on the occasion of the birth of the Duke of Bandeaux. The model of this medal was presented' to the French F,tig en the .oth of September, 1822. L'lcr period he finished, it* under bodily suf.- Tering and afilietions, whiolt had caused his family and friends upwards of two years time greatest alarm. A sad preseatiment of death made him constantly believe that he was executiug his last work. Ho always thought this medal, consecrated to a city, in the bosani of which his reputation had first arisen, would to titillate nobly his career as an artist. He- wished to quit the prof:asion, and to leave to others the care of treading in - his steps. Andrien enjoyed, with well merited and ineentestible reputation, the esteem of all great artists. Honoured by the goodness of Louis the Eighteenth, who conferred on him the Order of St. Michael, beloved by' his friends and family, of which he was the joy ; his temper was amiable, and, with health, Le might have passed many happy days—but alas ! the inscrutable decrees of Pi ovidence did not order it so. This amiable and excellent man ex pired at the age of Gllycars. Poor LAWS.—To the labours and concluding re port of the Commissioners of Irish Poor Inquiry, the eyes of the country, are naturifly directed ; nor is it all cult to anticipate the. nature of the promised report—a unanimous recommendation of poor laws. The question . of " poor laws" for Ireland is not one of yesterday, although the necessity of such a measure is now more generally admitted. In the year 1640, a "bill" passed the Lords and CoMmons of Ireland which received the Royal assent, viz.—'• An Acte for the .lieliete of Poor Orphans, and such Lame Old Blinde aria, impotent Persons as are poore and not able to worke, and for the.punishment of Rogues, V:lgahonds, sturdy Beggars, and setting them to worke." This Act, embodying the wise principles of the 43d of Elizabeth—on - 41,g, as is supposed, to the unsettled state a country at the time, and the rebellion which broke out about that period—slag: r• in7e, promulgated : and from this extraordinary ornisL;ion may be traced the. direful misery and destitation of the great mass of the people of 'this country. The Irish House of Commons subsequently evinced a strong desire to lessen the grievances of the poor, by passing various acts for the maintenance of houses of industry ; and subsequently also, in November 1 772. Dublia Freeman, NEW WORK BY LADY ISABELLA ST. JOHN. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo. MR S. CLEVEI, AND AND THE ST. CLAIRS. By Lady ISABELLA ST. JOHN. Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street. This day, in 3 vols. post Svo., by the Author of " British Aim.- rica," &c. Y N , 0 T E-B 0 0 K. If there's a hole in a' your coats, " I red ye tent it i " A chiel's amang ye takin' Notes, " And faith he'll prcnt it !" John INlacrone, St. James's-square.