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': 4 , i ',. .... J . , " %.,....., ' C ': :- . 4 .44.11. -4,-. 4 0 . ,4 ' ' 4 ;• * ; s... . : :`,:i s p.lß ~,,, ' PROSPECTUS OF THE COMPAGNIE GENERALE des OMNIBUS de LONDRES (GENERAL LONDON IX OMNIBUS COMPANY.) Established in Paris, udder Acts of the 4th and 17th Decem. her, 1855, as a " Societe en commandite," by which the liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount sub scribed. Capital -Twenty-five Millions of Francs—One Million Sterling, In 250,000 Shares of 100 francs, or 41. each. In Two Series,—The First, 200,000 Shares (800,0001.) The Second, 59,010 Shares (200,0001.) The 'First Series only will be issued at present. " 411 A-Ntfi or THE COMPANY—ntenamara, Carteret, Willing, and Co. MANAGERS IN LONDON. Messrs. John Wilson, Messrs. Richard Hartley, „ John Barber, „ John Trevett. MEMBERS OF TILE COUNCIL OF SURVEILLANCE. liobert Keating, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and County Bank, London. 1 43 Comte De Lantivy, Paris. Vacossin, Administrateur de la. Compagnie d'Assuranco 11.7 r. haine, Paris. F rederic Toche,•Banquier, Paris. Elwin Chadwick, Esq., C. 8., London. kugustin Dubois, Adininistrateur des Forges de Moatataire, Paris. Ni a rmou, Direeteur-Gerant de Minion Maritime, Paris. Harrisson, Esq., London. BANKERS. In Paris Messrs. Greene and Co. In London.. The London and County Bank. 'I Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co. SOLICITORS. In Paris Mr. Petit Bergonz, Avoue au Tribunal de Pro t micro Instance. II London... Messrs. Wilkinson, Gurney, and Co. The undoubted advantages produced by the amalgamation the omnibuses of Paris have originated the plan of concen trating in ono great enterprise the several associations now Working the omnibuses of London. If in Paris this amalgamation has made the capital con beeted with it the most productive of any employed in loco motion, it is destined to produce in London effects of still treater importance. Not only will large savings bo effected in the present cost of Working the omnibuses lAndon, by a system which, t 'ejag well organised in all its details, and at the same time a mply supplying the wants of the public, will enable the Corn ;;;1''!3" to withdraw duplicate and in some cases triplicate ye 71es running over the sa me groun d a t the same time, hut ' n Vortant improvements, alike advantageous to the public and profitable to the Company, will be introduced. a X- - rarla the 4.1111 cunixt TegtgarktY in . rterN ° l ; 6 e, \stitch will confer all the advantages m that iu this reo-pect aris posesses over London, cobined with speed ; the t 4l , o ption of low scale .of charges, and the certainty that 4 "0 will bo no frequent and sudden changes in their a mount : the departures and arrivals taken place at precise i .'raes, and in accordance with a tie bill, which wi be Med monthly, on the plan of the railway time table ll s. pub- As regards the Shareholders : The receipts of the London ' t rinibuse. average 2/. 7s. a day each, and the expenses, in 'lading wear and tsar, about 2/. Is. 6d. ; this gives in the ! ' r esent state a net profit of about 100!. a year per omnibus. fi nder the improved system of working, this profit would be fiend doubt be considerably increased. The average receipts 'teach of the Paris omnibuses before the amalgamation were ' 4b ° l lt 2/, Ss. a clay; since the amalgamation their daily aver l`ge is 2/. 17s. 6d. In England, horse keep—the most expensive item con .teted with omnibuses —costs less than in Paris. The Paris Omuibas Company is liable, whenever the profits , %ch a certain. percentage on the capital, to have the annual i; 4t , to which it is subjected, increased by order of the Go tePirnent. No such power exists either with the English 4v ernment or with the municipality of London. i v The purchase of a London omnibus comprises, as in Paris, the its appurtenances, as well as the good-will or line s " of the omnibus. b In Paris the G overnmen t compe l the running of the omni buses to be nearly the same a t a ll seasons. In London, on th contrary, the omnibus proprietors can proportion the u[ the of vehicles to the season of the year and the hour " 1 the day, according to the wants of the public only. Hence 1, 4 advanta g e in London denied to the Omnibus Company n which is compelled to run as many vehicles late at 1 ,44 ht and early in the morning as in the most busy periods the day, in the winter as well as in summer. t o la Paris the outside fare is only half the inside fare. In I ., ll den they are the same, and the outside of the omnibus is ''lnueh used as the inside. 4 1 11 )e indicator, as used in the Paris omnibuses, is unknown : its adoption cannot fail to add largely to the 'eiPts of this Company. fi lls soon as the present omnibuses are unfit for use, they be replaced by others, affording more comfort and bet laccommodation to passengers. t h 4. o obtain the foregoing advant ages b o th f or th e pu bli c an d 6 shareholders of this Comp. the services of the most 11 ' tt erenced and intelligent oi a n r nibus proprietors have been red, under whose management the business of the Com- ° eB will bo conducted. - e r)ntracts have been entered into for tho purchase of the ater number of the 810 omnibuses now working in Lou -1?4, and. it is expected that arrangements for the remaining "'rtion will be completed at a very early date. The First Series of 200,000 shares only (800,000/.) will be t Zled i n th e fi rst i nstance. The cap i ta l so ra i se d w ill pay f or 8 10 omnibuses, the leases of stables, yards, and. other ° rt. : worerty requi ng red for the working the omnibuses, as well as t) ki and reserve fund. The latter, amounting to lit 200,0001., will give strength and security to the Com sTht Second Series of 50,000 shares can only be issued with munction of a General Meeting of the Shareholders of the "on_ Pany, and will be used to increase the business of the -Pany whenever circumstan ces s h a ll ren d e r it necessary. each shareholder will have the right to this Second Series shares, at the rate of one for each four of the First Series 'which he is the possessor. The duration of the Company is for 60 years. With the present imperfect system of working, each of the ;Mon omnibus e s gives an average profit estimated at 1001. annum, representing upon 810 omnibuses an annual pro -4 81,0001., which alone would. be sufficient to secure a di 'load of 10per cent, upon the 800,0001. first subscribed. Akstuning, in London, with the now system, an i ncr e ase o f Per day (instead of Sc., as has been the result of the amal 7ation in Paris) to each omnibus, the result would be, on traffic of . 810 omnibuses, an annual profit of moro than 1000/., and upon the capital of 800,0001. would-inenre a Ziend of nearly 20 per cent. T he Paris Omnibus Company is now paying at the rate of It cent, per annum. le is the intention of the Company to publish every week. `, traffi c returns. , 14 , 8 4 per cont. of the dividend of the Company will belong 'he Shareholders-1A only being appropriated to the ma khinerit. • l) lit of the capital subscribed a limited number of shares been reserved for distribution in England, and may now ',...sDplied for. qks applications for shares should bo made in tho sub sd form, und must be accompanied with a deposit of Clare with the bankers of the Company, on the number ~l h ares applied for. The remaining 3/. per share must be ' 4l Upon allot men t, on the number of shares allotted. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARP'S. the Gcrants of La Compagnie Generale des Omnibus de Londres (the General London Omnibus Company). ,` * antlemen,—l request you will allot me sharos „h t/, each in the above Company, and I engage to take the °le i er any less number that may be alloted Co me. I hare 4 ,1 the d e p os it o f 1/ . per s h are , requ i re d b y t h e prospectus, ,ne bankers of the Company, and I en gage t o p a y the re miliag 3/. upon allotment, on the number of s h ares a ll o tt e d ale. Name Profession Residence Date The ttbove application must be forwarded to the London nd eemnty Bank, with the deposit of 11. per share on the i i k 2l'aer of shares applied for, against which the bankers will fish a receipt. ,^A I3 --Forms of applications for shares may be had at the -411 Pany's Temporary Offices, 47, Old Broad-street, London. kirHEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.— Profesaor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of ,7 1 North,' respectfully announces that this THEATRE will ; 4 ' l l on WEDNESDAY NEXT, Dec. 26, under his manage- He has fortunat e ly succ ee ded i n arranging with the e L'lrectors of the Royal Italian Ope ra f or a short season, dur- Ze Which he will produce many no ve lties at this the most Z 4 gnificent Theatre in the Metropolis. On WEDNESDAY, 26, he will have the honour of presenting his Entertain -04r of MAGIC and MYSTERY, on a now a a d more ex i,74ded scal e , as p er f o rmed by him 129 times a t th e L yceum )Iheatre, before an aggregate audience of 339,000 ; to be fel ;2red by the Great National, Historic, and Chivalric PAN ipltlME,'which has been so many months in preparation of 4 t BELLE ALLIANCE ; or H ar l e quin Good Humour, and t hat Field of the Cloth of G o ld. P ro f e ssor Anderson hopes et the Nobility andthe Public will appreciate his efforts to 'llopen Covent Garden Theatre daring the Christmas season. a aociatecl as the history of the house is with so many glo .loUs recollections of Christmases that have long since passed *ay, when " The Pantomime at Covent-garden" was the `'lv• rn talk at Christmas-tide, and when to go and see it was • ranch a matter of course as to place the holly over the i ' v tritel, or hang the mistletoe in the hall. Mr. Anderson ikats that a Pantomime reproduced on the same boards—the "Dards whereon the fame of " Mother Goose" was acquired, I L" the popularity of the " Great Bed of Ware" was won, and t r oaluced.oa these beards with more attention to details and scenic effect than has ever been given to any Pantomime, : 1 11 1 11 certainly enlist the patronage, and thos e w h ose pl easan t 'merles of Covent-garden rendered to them the recognised field of Pantomimic triumph, as it will attract the visits of t hose who have heard only with cur i os ity o f th a t w hi c h Ine stage of Covent-garden can produce. A s th e R oya l talian Opera, the house for years has been the most distin thished, as it is the noblest Theatre which London pos %nes. Since it has been rebuilt and remodelled it has been , t omparatively shut up to the public genera lly. The 'theatre of Royalty, the house of fashion, the heavy expenses V its directors, have rendered it impossible to open its doors IA the usual theatrical prices. Professor Anderson now sub kits his intention (in fall confidence that it will be understood aIId duly valued by the public), to make the admission to the Theatre Royal Covent-garden the same as that charged to theatres of less pretensions and with less capabilities to ac %mmodate an audience. The whole of the magnificent bal tony recently erected after the Continental model, and a pa ; kllel to which is not to be found in any theatre in Great Bri •,:1 kin, will be retained, and present its unrivaled coup-d'oeil of beauty every evening; the admission to it will be 4s. The Pri ', Vote Boxes on the third tier will be removed to form a range V Upper Boxes unequalled by any other theatre in London ; the price of admission to which will be 2s, 6d. There will be 1 ; 1 0 pit stalls ; but the enti re o f the extensive and majestic alt, capable of holding more than 1,500 persons, will be given 'to the public at an e n t rance f ee o f 2s. The fourth tier of oozes will be completely removed, and added to the Amphi theatre, so as to constitute one immense, commodious, and most eligible gallery, the admission to which 'will be One shilling only, while it will command a view of every part of the stage, and of the stupendous and elegant house. In fact Ito attention will be spared by Mr. Anderson to render Co bent-Garden Theatre, par excellence, the house for Christmas entertainment ; nor will he forget, while consulting the con- N'enienee of the public, to supply them with the best talent that money can command for their amusement. The inducements which have led him to undertake so large a Venture have been numerous, and were he quite sure that the public would feel interested in learning them and his ar rangements for their entertainment, he would cease to speak of himself in the third person, and address them most re spectfully somewhat in this style :—Ladies and Gentlemen.— eonsidering myself deeply indebted to my generous patron s , the British publi c , w h o, a ft er severa l years of uninte rrupted favours, have recently thought fit to visit me nightly at the Lyceum Theatre, leaving use such substantial proofs of their friendship and munificence as I scarcely know what to do vvith, it seemed obviously my duty, in the commonest grati tude, to attempt something for the benefit and amusement of that public, on a scale previously unattempted either by my . t self or others. The question was—how to do it ? 'Wizards, after all, are but mortal men with restricted powers. The 11Jtb. ;11 0.! 31 is Oi 3 sold 3 solo 1 sold 7 sold .12th. .12tbs 7erfor. Od !i 8d Is 6d Od ishel 1, 61 4/1 Od 26 - 6d 3. Od Dv 0 , 1 6, Od bra Od . to 841 `,,0 101 )2.44 Od oeseodi )akerir 41.04 WWI Is 1* .!4 ' rb.Mi cedar elan 1011nOle ' .4 • Ku* '° - 1)1 1 A ma .....--- No, 19,728.] public liked to see me ; • they could see no more of me than existed. Evdn I could not make myself 'lnto two . Wizards, and as for finding another Wizard, or anybody else at all like me (though I have frequently been ridiculed for my modesty) I was bound to reject the idea as preposterous and out of the question. Could I improve my magic ? I could vary it, as I do every night; but Lb quate`iny respecied friends, the linen drapers' assistants (half price at 9 o'clock gentleman), " the quality of the article would remain the same." Could I do anything towards improving the personal comfort of my pa trons in the matter of seats, warmth, ventilation, &c. ? Can didly; I did not see much room for improvement in that di rection, though I made a memorandum of the idea as a small item to be attended to in my debt of gratitude. Would it be any use multiplying the Bottle Trick by two hundred dozen and sending away !my guests in a state of unusual exhilara tion ? No ! that would be a coarse and vulgar t admission that my friends only came to see me for what they could get. Would it be any gratification to the public if I were to stand to' be abet at by the best marksman in- London, (say my friend, Gordon Cumming) with a real non-enchanted bullet ? , I was perfectly willing to risk any sacrifice, even my life, in such a cause ; but then came the, terrible afterthought —what would be the condition of London the next day, on finding itself without a Wizard? Asa last expedient I thought —Could I give my patrons their money back I deliberated over this momentous question for some hours, and at last came to the understanding that it was impossible ! I had almost given the matter up as a bad job, and come to the dis heartening conclusion that nothing could bo done but to go on in the old course, introducing, if possible, more splendour; more novelty, more bewilderment into my tricks than for merly; making 'my theatre more like a palace—or like a home than ever. But no !—in painstaking devotion to the amusement of my patrons—in untiring exertions, iu the humblest and most energetic desire to please, I could not ilter. I had arrived, I repeat, at this desponding conclusion, when a practical, friend called upon me and throw out the following suggestion : " If you have got so much money that you don't know what to do with it, and wish to fecl rid of it 3u-ontilmaii. - fur. the amusement of the nubile, _don't you take Covent-garden ? Th ere was c e r t a i n ly something iii that. Still I hesitated a moment, when he added—" And open with a Pantomime.". Eureka ! I had found it. I wrung that practical friend's hand with fervour—took his advice—a cab— and Covent-garden Theatre within the hour. lam bound to state that tho preliminary expenses of the Covent garden Pantomime have triumphantly answered their ex pected purpose. Nevertheless, great deliberation and inge nuity were necessary, in order to bring the outlay up to the desired mark. In the first place, a subject necessitating un paralleled splendour and gorgeousness of spectacle, seen ry, and decorations was indispensable. I was some time in find ing one cf sufficient costliness, but at length decided on an Australia-California-Rothschild Koh-i-noor-Bank-of-Euglaud parlour species of pantomime —to bo entitled Ye Belle Alliance; or, Harlequin Good Humour and the Field of the Cloth of Gold. This subject was extravagant enough, in all conscience, for the most golden age of pantomime. The next question was to secure au author on appropriately ruinous terms. The name of Sterling Coin naturally suggested itself ; but that gentleman having other engagements. I cast my eyes about among the gold mines of the age's intellect, and decided upon Mr. Harris and Mr. George Augustus Sale, two jewelled ornaments to the Augustan Era of burl ,, sque literature—the riches of whose imagination would naturally call for an adequate rate of ex change in the current coin of the realm. These gentlemen I employed to write the opening for me ; and I am bound, to say, the skill and workmanship they have displayed in ham mering out and fashioning the precious ore into the daintiest shapes and devices, is worthy of a Goldsmith. My next step was to engage a scene painter, Mr. William Beverley, a gen tleman who has been rolling in gold and jewels all his life. It is needless to say that when he has been engaged it has not been for nothing ; and few will dispute the right of any pic ture he ever painted to be sot in the most sumptuous gold frame. Mr. Beverley was accordingly secured. But even now the inroads on the doomed exchequer were barely per ceptible. I looked about for the disengaged musical com poser and director, whose notes were worth most gold in the market, and was so fortunate as to comp ' to terms with Mr. Leder, whom I instructed in playful north country phrase to spare no amount of brass in his orchestral arrangements. The balance on' band was still tremendous. At this time Monsieur Guerin, from Paris, a distinguished operative in the spectacle line, relieved me of a considerable amount, by arranging the ocular department of the entertainment, so as to astonish the weakest optic nerves, and enable me to defy any other establishment to produce a pair of such gold spec. tacles ! I was compelled to mask my intentions for a while by the employment of Mr. George Ewing, a model of model lon, whose sterling talent rendered him most fitting to model my sovereigns, Henry VIII. and Francis I. The tailors' and dressmakers' bills also, of Mr. Smichera and Mrs. James, who were ordered to spare no lavishness of gold cloth, gold thread. gold lace, gold beater's skin, and what not, added to a docu ment of immeasurable length (which I speak of in my hu mourons way as the golden legend) from Mr. Priscott, the property man, or fashioner of appointments, whose charges for gold leaf, gold watches, gold rings, golden numbers, golden ointment, and golden syrup; are something fearful ; these did begin to dip somewhat deeply in what my clown facetiously terms, " the tureen of mint sauce." And when I came to calculate the enormous sums I had been tricked out of by two gentleman named Brough, another called Harris, and a third by the name of Don-ington (especially the latter) for the tricks and changes, I felt that a trick must be good indeed that called for such an intolerable quantity of change, and began to feel that my accumulated sovereigns had indeed un dergone a large amount of the process vulgarly known as sweating. I was not yet daunted—in spite of the consider. able amount I allowed Mr. B. Barnett, as ballet master, with an innumerable corptof golden-haired nymphs, to dance away with. I solicited Mr. Floxmore (stamped current as.the shining sovereign clown) in popular phrase to "tumble into' whatever salary ho liked to name. (It is needless to say that he named a goal one.) W. A. Barnes, the great transatlantic pantomimist, Mr. C. Brown, and Miss Emma Horne I engaged as pantaloon, harlequin, and columbine. It will readily be seen that each of these eminent " legs " stepped into a tole- ' cable sum. Another " little treasure," in the shape of Miss ' llarriet Gordon (who plays Good Humour in the opening), ' had to be provided for , as well as Mr. Harry Pearson, with an efficient company of comedians—each entitled to a crown in his various department. Some hundreds of supernume raries, scene shifters, carpenters, and " extras" in every de partment, who may be regarded as so many piles of " small change" in the financial scheme, were found to mount up pro digiously. Having shown the public that the money with which they have been kind enough to entrust me has been faithfully laid out for their amusement, I will proceed to describe the items of the investment. The subject of the Pantomime is one of national importance, parallel, the greatest e ven t o f thi s illustrating, o r any other bayg e an wi h t i h sthri int c he history of the two nations, THE ANGLO-FRENCH ALLIANCE 1 ---- The piece, as will be seen by an explanatory line in the bill, is entitled " A LEGEND OF THE MEETING OF THE MONARCHS." And the various circumstances which attended the meeting of Henry VIII. and Francis I. on the Field of the Cloth of Gold are so introduced as to bear on recent occurrences. The reader shall hear in what manner. Scene I.—" The Subterraneous abode of the Gnome Brita thous." Scene 2.—" The Land's End, Cornwall, with the departure of the Gnome Britanieus to France." Diorama No. 1. " The entry of the Emperor Napoleon to London." Diorama No. 2. " The visit of Victoria and Napoleon to the Tomb of Napoleon I. in tho Invalides at Paris." Scene 3.—" The Deck of the Royal Harry, 128 guns—the Departure of Henry VIII. for France." Diorama No. 3. " The Voyage from England to France." Scene 4.—" The Chateau of Francis I. at Guisnes." Scene 5.—" The Field of the Cloth of Gold, including a grand Ballet and the Great Tournament, after Holbein's cele brated picture." Scone fi.—" The Bedchamber of the Monarchs." Scene 7.—" The Farm-house of Blondettee." Scene 5.—" The immense Transformation Scene (painted ley W. Beverly) of the Abode of the Fairy Good Humour in the Realms of Eternal Starlight." - _ The concluding Scene, designed by M. Guerin, painted by Mr. W. Beverly, and on which an expenditure of many hun dred pounds has been incurred, will form a Grand Military Spectacle, representing tho " Apotheosis of England and France, with the descent of the Genius of Victory with the Coronals of Valour." The Band will be conducted by Mr. Chas. Hall, and will bo the largest in London, the performers being first-class. The extensive and complicated Machinery by Mr. H. Slo man. On Wednesday, Dec. 26, the Doors will open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. The Box-office is now open, under the direction of Mr. O'Reilly. Private Boxes (which may also be taken at the prin eipal Libraries), 3/. 35., 21. 25., ls„ and 12s. Grand Bal cony, 4s. Upper Boxes, 2s. 6d. Amphitheatre Stalls, 2s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, le. Half-price at Nine .'clock. The care of the front of the house will be committed to Mr, Hingston, who will, doubtless, endeavour to care most eour• teously for everybody. T HEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH. ActingCHARLES Manager, Mr. MATHEWS. Stage Manager, Mr. ROBERT ROBBY. The Box office open daily, from Ten till Six o'clock, under the superintendence of Mr. Edward Chatterton. The REDUCED PRICES at this Theatre as follow :—Pri vate boxes, io h o ld t wo persons, 10 s . 6d. (i s . for each person extra) ; on the grand tier, one guinea ; proscenium and stage boxes, 21. 25..; galleries, ed. and Is. ; pit, 2s. ; upper boxes, Is. 6d. ; first circle, 2s. 6d.; dress circle, 3s. MORNING PERFORMANCE EVERY WEDNESDAY, at Two o'clock. Mr, Charles Mathews in Two Piece • On WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26th ; Thursday , t b Friday, 28th; and Saturd a y, 29 th, LITTLE TODDLEKINS. Principal character by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by (first time at this theatre) TRYING IT ON, in which Mr. Charles Mathews and Miss M. Oliver will ap pear. After which will be produced an entirely Novel and Original Inductive, Instructive, Anti-Hypochondriacal, Periodical, Episodical, Magical, Tragical, Logical, Chronological, Gra phical, Chorographical, Philosophical, Cryptographical, Parabolical, Symbolical, Rhythmical, Mimical, Academical, Mechanical, Technical, Pyrotechnical, Historical, Harmo nica', Heroical, Typical, Allegorical, Metaphorical, Chime rical, Satirical, Historical, Metrical, Symmetrical, Lyrical, Musical, Practical, Poetical, Whimsical, Fantastic, and Side Shakespearean new GRAND COMIC CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, Which for many for many weeks past has engaged the ex tensive and unrivalled resources of this establishment, and which will now appear under the additional, traditional, and peculiarly suggestive title of HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE ; or, Harlequin King Nonsense ' and the Seven Ages of Man. The Seeneryientirely New, painted by and under the super intendence of Mr. William Beverley, assisted by Messrs. James, Wilson, Gonvertz, and numerous assistants. The Machinery by Mr. Tucker and assistants. The Pro perties, Decorations, &c., by Messrs. Needham, Glindon, and others. The Tricks by Messrs. Roe and assistants. The Choregraphic Arrangements under the direction of Madame Louise, The Masks and Personal Appointments designed and executed by the celebrated Dykwynkyn, Artist in Panto mimic Physiolognomy, and Photographic Delineator of Elves, Sprites, and Goblins to the Court of Fairy Land. The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr. J. IL LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMI3Eit , 25. 1855. Tully. The Comic Scenes by Harry Boleno, Glindan, and E. L. Blanchard. The Grotesque Burlesque Opening in vented and written by E. L. Blanchard, Author of " Harle quin " King Humming•top," " Jack and Jill," &c. ; and the whole arranged andprodueed under the super intendence of Mr. Robert Mosby.' First of die Seven Ages---a The Infant." HALL OF NURSERY RHYMES, ' In the dominions of King Nonsense. Heroes of Nursery Literature. Jack Sprat, Mr. Eatnofat ; Sin;ple Simon, Mr. Tom Noddy ; Little Jack Horner, Master Plummy • Little Bo Poop, Miss Fortywinks ; Little Tommy Tucker, Master Singsong; Hurnpty Dumpty, Mr; Eggshell ; Little Boy Blue, Master Blowhorn ; Old Mother Hubbard, Mrs. Leaveabone ; The Cat and the Fiddle (from an original Kit-cat Portrait), by a distinguished Player; King Nonsense (the Ruler of a great many Lines), Mr. Glindon ; Spirit of Common Sense (on an occasional visit), Miss Fanny Reeves; Baby in Cradle, Little Toddlekins ; Routine and'Redtape (banished to Noodledom), Messrs. Musty and Rusty ; Old Friends and New Faces— " They have their Exits and their Entrances.." Second Ago—" The School Boy." " Then the whining school-boy with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school." VV VILLAGE OF PRETTYWELL, with distant view of the Village Church and surrounding country. —Early Morning. Young Hopeful (afterwards Harlequin), Signor Verroni ; Hobbedvhbv (his schoolfellow—aftemuds Clown) Harry Bo leno ; Dr. Birch (the Village Schoolmaster—afterwards Pan taloon), Mr. G. Tanner; His Pupils, Masters Fagg, Bragg, Wagg, Nagg, Lage, Magg, Stagg, and Tagg ; Rosa (Ward to " The Justice," and afterwards Columbine), Madame Bolcno ; Miss Starch, Governess at " Mrs. Howdydo's Establishment for Young Ladies," in the Village of Pretty well-cum-Thankye). Miss Buckram ; Her Pupils—Misses Prattle, Rattle, Giggle, Sniggle, Goggle, Joggle, Fangle, Dangle, Sidle, Ogla, Romp, Flirt, Slypuss, and Simperwell ; Hobson (the Village Carrier), yfr. Pnckcr ; Bun-woman, Mrs. Goody. - 'Sums summed up somehow—ichool Ftirms and Ceretnniirni, Lessons not Lessened, an Cartoons for Young England—The Plum Cake and the Seedy Schoolmaster - Working the Oracle and Playing the Truant— How Young Hopefulwants to catch a Fish, and how Hobbedyhoy contrives to hook it—How the Schoolmaster tries the rod, and how well somebody catches it—How ou oga c You ie s, n E g s hopeful o b o l t o w o s o m h e i s s o o u w t na ll t u w m o pe , t o , a t n ir d o t t h o o e —a Game at Cricket and Dr. Birch bowled out. Third Age— " The Lover." " Then the Lover, Sighing like furnace with woful ballad Made to his Mistress's eyebrow." BLACKSMITH'S FORGE AND ROAD-SIDE INN (Sunset). Hobb and Sobb (the Village Blacksmiths), Messrs. Batter and Clatter ; afterwards Sprites, The Brothers Elliot; Doublestout (Mine Host of the " Leather Bottle), Mr. Ada narf ; Cuminsir (Head Waiter), Mr. Readytongue ; Yesser and Noser (his Assistants), Messrs. Cut and Run ; Cook, Mr. Bastewell; Boots, Mr. Tizzy ; Chambermaid, Miss Bobaday ; Serjeant Kite (a Recruiting Officer—afterwards Pantaloon), Deulin Johnson ; The Justice" (ono of the " Great Un paid"—afterwards Clown), Tom Matthews ; Flipper and Flunkey (his Footman) Messrs. Cringe and Crawley ; Re cruits, Messrs. Gawky, Gaby, Grimm, Glumm, Gabble, and Grinaway ; Fifer, Mr. Tootle ; Drummer, Mr. Rowdydow ; Clodhopper and Chawbacon (Agricultural Labourers), Messrs. Bumpkin and Joskyn. The sparks from the anvil amorous and hammer-us--The Iron struck whilst it is hot—The Lover's Sonnet—The Jus tice's tongue, and course of True Love—neither running smoth—" List, list, oh, list !"—which he does—The conse quences thereof, and how Seijeant Kite, being the Author of a great Military Work, gets a good Review. Fourth Age—" The Soldier." " Then a Soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation, even in the eannon's mouth." OLD ABBEY RUINS (Evening). The Trysting Place and the Lover's Reverie—" Oh, there's nothing half so sweet in life as Love's young dream." " Dream on, good youth, and show the world awake, The wondrous cheago that only love can make." The Spirit of Love, Miss Wadham—Cupid (her Messenger), Master Mischief. Hope, Joy, Desire, Happiness, Truth, Delight, Rapture, Romance, &c., by Misses Richa r d son , B. Ri c h ar d son , L. Honey, &c. Rapid, Mechanical, and Marvellous Scenic, Metamorphosis, revealing THE ABODE OF LOVE. Illumined by the Electric Light of Ono Hundred Bright Eyes. Grand Ballot d'Amour —Principal Dancer, Miss Rosina Wright, assisted by Mdlles. Therese, Marian Loes, kc. . . Fifth Age—" The Justice." " And then the Justice, In fair round belly, with good capon lined, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so ho plays his part." JUSTICE lIALL IN THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, TWI LIGHT. Farmer Whackstraw, Mr. Grumblowell ; Constable, Mr. Hardstaff; Villagers, Messrs, Gape, Grin, Stare, Shiver, Tremble, Delve, die. A memorable Sentence and a recent Period put to it —The Country Squire and the Effects of a great Cause—How the Justice loses his Heir, and how the Fugitives become bawled after. Sixth Age —" The Loan and Slippered Pantaloon." The Ruined Cottage of Old Age—Winter—Firelight. Old Ago (sans tooth, sans eyes, sans teeth, sans taste, sane everything), Mr. Centenarian. Seventh Ago —sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing." - Sudden Talismanic Dissolving of the Snow to the BRIGHT REALMS OF PERPETUAL SUMMER. Double Pantomimic Transmogrification. The Two Harlequins ... Signor Vorroii and Herr Forth, The Two Columbines Mme. Boleno and Mario Charles. The Two Pantaloons Messrs. Tanner and Denliu Johnson. The Two Sprites ... The Brothers Elliott. The Two Clowns Harry Boleno and Tom Matthews. A SCENE OF INTEREST—TWO TO ONE—Boleno. Buttered Peas—Cheese it—Taking the Pledge—Pop't up— pop't in, and pop't out—Equal Division—Principal and In terest—How to evade the Act—Betting versus Cigars— " What's the odds so long as you're happy ?"—The Right Tip —How to raise the Wind—The Odds to the Hod—List, oh, list !—Wrong to-back-her, and no Returns—Settling Day, a regular Settler—Gone for the Leger—ln for the Oaks—A Bankrupt's Stock, and a Case of Bale, concluding with a regular Smash. A SCENE OF INDUSTRY.—BoIeno. A sweet Place--Honesty the best Polioy—Honey and Whacks (Wax)—Rising Steps and Steps Rising—Catching Bees all a Hum—lt Beehoves you to Beehave when you attack a Bee hive—Swarming and Warming—Enlarged Heads upon a Now Principle—Domestic Bees—Long Needles—Royal Summons —Arrival of Queen Bee and Suite—Grand Charge—Tableau. SCENE OF EXCITEMENT—PARIS EXHIBITION—A CAFE BESIEGED.—BoIeno. The Meeting of All Nations (Russian excepted)—Fraternisa tion—Cordiality of the Allies--" All the World's a Stage I" —Arrival of the World and his Wife, and the whole of his Family, commencing with their Eldest Daughter, the " Fa shionable World ;" followed by the " Sporting World ;" the " Dramatic World ;" the " World upside down ;" the "Wide World;" the " Wicked World ;" and the " World in Arms." Lodgings at a Premium —Not a bed to be had—" My Lodging is on the c o ld ( coa l) G round " —Clown and Pantaloon go Down to Bed—" A Sweet Good Ni g ht to all." A SCENE OF CONFUSIO N (LAID IN BEDS). "To bed, to bed"—"'Ti s w h en to Sloop the World retires " —The Night Mare, whi c h ma k es Clown a little hoarse— A s Thick as Three in a bed—A Night Concert, whi c h dis-coneorts the Lodgers— "We w on 't go h ome till morning"—Patting them on the Shelf—Natives and a Settler—The War Whoop, the War Dance, and a Warming -pan Accompaniment—Fire ! Fire! Fire !—The Hous e i n an U proar - Speedy Exit of some of the Lodgers, which finishes with " Confusion worse con founded." THE WEST END AND THE CITY. Scott's Tavern, Haymarket, and Samuel Brothers, Ludgate hill—Measures and men—Hits and Skits at Everything and Everything—lnns and Outs— Shoe-black Brigade—A Polished Gentleman—Comie Duet between the Clown and a Blacking- Bottle —Howlett's Hair Dye—A Dyer's Material—A Dire Art for Falsehood framed— Coloured Imitations—The Sydenham Trousers—Height of Fashion—Genuine Malt and Hops—All sopp's Pal* Ale—The East and the West—Scott's Lot, and a Race for Public Favour. NUMBER ONE, LONDON. A Visit to Dakin's Tea Establishment, St. Paul's—" In to spec ear—Bohemians and Teetotallers —Great Drawing Mate rials—The Magic Chest and the Enchanted Teapot—Clown gets Tea in it, and Pantaloon gets into Hot Water in conse quence—Omnibus Companies on the Old System and the New System, and the System that don't assist 'em—Strong Opposi tion, and final discovery of the " Right Men in their Right Places"—Whack, bang, flip-flap, hey, presto, and Change to " LAST SCENE OF ALL that ends this strange eventful History." Doors open at Half-past Six, and commence at Seven. The Third Edition.—Just published, price 55., by post, free, be. 6d. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORREICEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From the German of Dr. PICAFORD. With an Introduction by the Editor, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. ".Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his pmver to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers,' and 'Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and i f this book could find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize-- much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spormatorrhosa, and to plami:the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good." London: 11. Bather°, 219. Regent-street. PUBLICATIONS. This day is published, price Is. 6,1., A, CATECHISM of PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE. liy HENRY STEPHEN'a, E.R.S.E., Author of the " Book of tiro Farm." Illustrated with numerous Engravings. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Thi day is publishe'i. price Is., THE TRANS-C A UCASIAN PROVINCES the PROPER, FIELD of OPERATION for a CHRISTIAN ARMY ; being a Second Edition of " The Coming Campaign." By LAURENCE OLIVILANT, "Author of " The Rus'ian Shores of the Black Sea." With a Preface to this Edition, viT,tten from the eat of Wan', and Map. _ _ _ William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Now publishing, in 2,600 pages Imp er i a l Octavo, price 3's., THE POST OFFICE LONDON DIREC TORY FOR 1856.—Most gratifying Reviews of the huge volume have appeared in all the leading Metropo litan Journals, of which only very short extracts can be hore quoted. " In short, this work contains all that can reasonably be required in a Directory, and much more, probably, than was ever found i❑ one before. It may be safely referred to for information upon everything connected with the metropolis and the elements which constitute its wealth and importance." —Times, Dec, 8, 1855. The Poet Office London Directory is indeed a triumph of energy, enterprise, and combined talents of many orders, to which, upon reflection, every one will be ready to assign the merit it deserves."—fforning Advertiser, Nov. 12, 1855. " There has been competition, but it has passed away; for the Post Office Directory has been too carefulljr and soda lonely edited, too prompt in its intelligence, too simple in its plan, and too judicious in its classifications, to admit of suc cessful rivalry."—Morning Herald, Noy. 12, 185.75., 5411.,,u3disperiFghls... necessity, not oily in the soulttlig houses of the mercantile part of the community, but also in the halls of the great and fashionable.”--Aforning Chronicle, Nov. 10, 1855. " The Post-Office Directory' has made its appomanee this year without a rival in the field ; but the absence of compe tition does not appear to have led the publishers to bestow less care upon the preparation of the work."—Morning Post, Nov. 30,1855. . In a metropolis so vast as London a correct guide is in valuable, and this book, dealing not only with the commer cial classes, but with all the residents in London, supplies a daily need."- —Daily Xews, Dec. 17, 1855. " A wonderful work, becoming every successive year more and more wonderful —altogether the hugest and the most accurate of all our popular compilations-- at once official, com mercial, peatl} legal, political, and topographical I"— Sun, Nov. 10, 1855. " On the whole, the extent and quality of the information contained in the volume has, as far as we know, never been equalled in a publication of the kind."--Olobe, Nov. 15, 1855. " The Post Office London Directory —The annual wonder, the title of which we have prefixed, has just appeared, and, on the present occasion, it has appeared without a rival, hav ing in this year driven every competitor from the field. Even they who, like ourselves, dislike monopoly, acknowledge the justice of monopoly fairly won by decided excellence."—Stan dard, Nov. 16, 1855. " The fame of Kelly's Loudon Directory is toe well esta blished, its pretensions to what it professes too thoroughly justified, and its comprehensiveness too immense, to admit of any other consequence than disastrous loss to the speculator ! who would blindly hope to supplant it."—Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, Nov. 23, 1855. " Even as there is no city in the world which can compare with the metropolis as the abode of aristocracy and com merce, so it is equally beyond dispute that there is but ono Directory.' "—Church and State Gazette, Nov. 16, 1855. " Tho whole work exhibits a mass of accurate information that is truly wonderful to contemplate."--Atlas, November 17, 1855. "There is an old joke about the man who sat down pa tiently to read through a dictionary, and complained of the variety of its subjects. What would he have said to the rest Office Directory of 1856,' with its pregnant lino about everybody, every trade, every profession, and every idler in this huge wen of mortality who can write himself down re spectable !"—Bell's Weekly Messenger, Nov. 17, 1855. " If any one would really understand is what consists the strengths of London, let him study the 'Post Office Directory.' " —Britannia-, November 17, 1855. " The opponent ef the production before ns has ceased to exist, it appearing that, even after the eallection of the infor mation for next year, and the work being in type, the sale would he insufficient to repay the mere expense of printing. The Post Office Directory' is now alone in the field, but wo are glad to see that the exertions of the proprietors are undiminished."--Court Journal, November 17, 1855. " The Post Office Directory' has become a work of na tional importance. It has been said we could not afford to lose our Times —the same observation applies to our Post Office Directory.' "—Herapath's Journal, Nov. 17, 1855. " The proprietors of this work have now the field to them selves ; but that they have not relaxed in their exertions on that account is fully evident from the completeness of the Directory for the coming year."—lllustrated London News, November 17, 1855. " Still swelling its dimensions as the ever-increasing area of the vast metropolis increases, this bulky volume presents itself as an annual visitor on our library table."—John Bull, November 17, 1855. " In noticing in all its details, in the most favourable man ner, this valuable and highly successful volume, we may casually remark that the year 1856 will witness its publica tion unopposed by attempted competition—a work of similar character, thy:;h by no Moans equal ..rreittn.es. Of ar rangement and detail, having, after an ephemeral existence, entailing enormous loss to its projectors, been at length aban doned. This was-wreetilt which, we think, might have been easily foreseen ; for it appears to as beyond question that the sale of so exclusive and peculiar a work as the London Di rectory will never repay the expense of preparing two such publications, which, if accurate, must be counterparts of each other."—Mining Journal, November 17, 1655. " Extent, variety, and accuracy of information, so far as wo have had occasion to test it, is n o t th e on ly feature of the book. Its production is a typographical curiosity."— Spectator, November 17, 1855. " This wonderful volume is a proof that the work of orga nisation and administration can bo performed by Englishmen with such admirable completeness as to amount to perfection itself. Kelly's Directory was always unrivalled, but it is now without a competitor, and we never expect to see another enter the lists."—Era, November 18, 1855 , " The Post Office London Directory for the year 1856, a copy of which wo have just received, is certainly one of the literary phenomena of the age. For an increase in its bulk we have no wish. It is now a gigantic tome, although its style of binding renders it easy of use." —Sunday Times, November, IS, 1855. " The fine map that accompanies it embraces an increased area, and considerable additions have been made to the book. It enjoys a deserved reputation never achieved by any work ! of its class, and London may bo proud of its standard di rectory."-117eekly Times, November 18, 1855. " Every householder in London, whether in trade, and every person belonging to any profession, or employed in the service of the Crown, has an opportunity of testing for him self the accuracy ef the work, and we believe that the result of their inquiry will lead them to concur with us in the opinion that the Post Otjice Directory is ono •f the marvels of the present age."—Observer, November 19, 1855. " We can conceive of no better representation of the super ficies, as there is certainly no better guide to the contents of London than the Directory jest named, now the only publica tion of the kind. —Nonconformist, Nov. 21, 1855. " As we, in common with most people, prophesied would happen, so it has come to pass. The rival Directory has given up a battle in which victory was scarcely to be icon. But what of the future of this wonderful book I As it lies en its side it stands already some two hands high, and t o spread out the map implies the covering of an ordinary ble."— Examiner November 24, 1855. "Since fast year, a fruitless attempt to establish second London Directory' has been wisely abandoned. There is no room for a rival work of this magnitude being published with profit ; and this publication has the prestige of having been established above half a century .'—Literary Gazette, No vember 24, 1855. - It is a wonderful achievement, however we regard it, and its daily and hourly utility alone is sufficient Ito recommend it to every hotel, office, shop, and place of business." — Weekly Dispatch, November 25, 1855. "We have tested the lateness of the period up o which it has been corrected, by referring to changes within our own knowledge, and wo are bound to say that in every case we have found that the Directory has recorded the change, al though some of them have been of very recent ccurrence." —Leader, December 1, 1855. " Any commendation on our part of this invaluable and universally-known volume would bo utterly superfluous. The accuracy, fulness, clear and careful printing are humid all praise ; and it thoroughly deserves the monopoly it has achieved. A large and excellent map of London is prefixed, adding not a little to its general usefulness."— Economist, December 8, 1855. " The attempt to establish a rival Directory, though pro secuted with great enterprise, has failed. The undertaking was a hopeless, almost as impossible, one. Publications of this magnitude can rarely be produced at a start--they re quire years for their growth and development." Press, De cember S. 1855. Kelly and Co., 10, 20, and 21, Old Boswell:court ; and all Booksellers. CAOUTCHOUC COMBS.-M. FANVELLE LEBAR It F., 10, Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, Inven tor of the India Rubber Combs, has obtained a k first-class Medal at the Universal Expostron. The Jury, wishing to recompense the signal services rendered by Messrs. Favrot and Desruelles, assistants to the above-named gentleman, have presented each of them with a medal of the second-class. THE SU N, TO ARRIVE THE SAME EVENING, supplied to any STATION on tly, FASTER COUNTIES RAILWAY, Carriage Free, by CLAYTON and. SON, General Newspaper and Advertising Agents, 265, Strand, London. m R. A c B o E r 1 1 , 1 N SMITH DA v jive is and I o o l\ - 1 . r YLA\at 3 and 8 o'clock. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC. - CHRISTMAS HOLM &YS.—The second part »f the Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, with new and hemtiful dissolving Pictures, and &serf, lion, with songs, by G. L. Borne. Esq. Laughable Phantasmagoria P:ffocts, by Messrs. Carpenter and Westley. Series of astonishing Conjuring Tricks and Delusions, by Mr. Burinain. Brilliant Popular. Lectures on Flame, Fire, and Combustion, by J. IL I'epner, Esq. 10,000 ornaments will be given away to the juvenile .visiters from the Giant Christmas Tree during the holidays. ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE.—Reduction in Price. —HARRINGTON, PARKER, and CO., Wine and neer Merchants, 55i, Pall-Mall, are new receiving orders for the October Brewinc.re of the above celebrated Ale, in Casks of 18 Gallons and up wards, at thu reduced price. Also for ALLSOPFS PALE ALE IN BOTTLE, Quarts, Pints, and Half-pints, Imperial measure. 5!,( 2 , Pall-mall, Oct. 20, 1855. PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause of MA JOKE against MARKE, the creditors of MEDLEY BASTARD MARKE, late of Plymouth, in the county of Devon, Esquire, who died In or about the month o' February, 1505, are, by their solicitors, on or before the first day co February, 1115 , 3, to come hi and prove their Debts or Claims at the Chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. bursday, the 7th day of February 1856, at Three o'clock in the afternoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudi catlnz upon the claims. Dated this 21st day of December, 1855. CHAS. PUGH, Cider Clerk. 11. COWLARD, 14. Lincoln's-inn-fields, agent for GURNEY and LETHBRIDGE COWLARD, of Launceston, Cornwall, Plaintiff's Solicitors. pURSUANT to au Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in a Cause of Henry Wilson against Richard Baker Leslie, the Creditors of GEORGE HARRISON, late of N 0.51, Paradise-row, and of No. 15, Robert-street, in the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, in the Comity of Middlesex, t , llow chandler, who died in or about the month of August, 1843, are by their solicitors, on or before the 22d day of January, 1856, to come in and prove their debts or claims at the chambers of Vice-Chancellor Kinder ley, No. 3, Stone buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the beneflt of the said order. Monday, the 28th day of January, 1856, at Noon, at the said Cham bers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 22d day of December, 1855. (Signed) CHARLE'i PUGH, Chief Clerk. T. F. CREW, 33, Essex-street, Strand, Plaintiff's Solicitor. CHILBLAINS (broken or not), frost bites, wounds, scalds. burns, tic doulourcax, lumbago, rheumatism, &c., cured by JONES'S MINERAL COMPOUND. So many various cures have been effected by tuis preparation that it is called by those who have henefitted by it a won , terful discovery. Sold in bottles, Is. lbd., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and Bs., at Brlige's sarsaparilla depot, 270, Regent-street. STAR PACKETS from the TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND, 9, 2. BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the following Trains from Fonchurch-street, 10%, 3 1 4, Weather permit. tinz. The Packets will call at the Roaherville, Greenhlthe, Purace and North Woolwich Piers. To or (rue. Gravesend and London•• •• •• ..•• 10d. .. 10. 2d. „ taravesend and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. Os. Dd. Frith and London-- ...... •• • .... Bd. .. Os. 10d Frith and Blackwell or W001wich...... 6d. .. Os. Bd. etw eon Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd. October 23,1851. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. TRIESEMAR.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and on the 11th June following was made perpetual, against Joseph Franklin and others, to restrain them, ander a penalty of one thou sand pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESE3fAR, is a remedy for Relaxation. Spermatorrhsea, , and Exhaustion of the System, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those persons who are prevented entering the married state by the consequences of early errors it is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, effectually, in the short space of three da llo. 2, ys, completely and entirely eradicates all traces o f th ose Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs lave so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR, No. 3, is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which unfortunately the Engiish physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, and of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table without their use being suspected. Sold in tin cases at I Is. each, free by post, 20. extra, divided lute separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Laßemand, Roux, &e.,3144—T0 he had Wholestde and Retail in London of Johnston, 65 Cunha' ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, Ox ford-street ;R. 11. Ingham, druggist, 46, M arket-street, Manchester ; H. Bradbury, bookseller, Deanegate, Bolton u J. Priestly, chemist, 0, Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland -street, Dublin; Winnell, bookseller LUgh-street, Birmingham. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. THE most appropriate Offerings for this Season of Festivity are tkore which tend to the promotion of Health and Personal Attraction. None can be more acceptable than ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, for imparting a transcendent lnstre to the Hair, and sustaining it in decorative charm. ROWLA.NDS' RALTDOR Imparts a radiant bloom to the cheek, and a delicacy and softness to the hands, arms, and neck ; and ROW LANDS' (MONT°, or Pearl Dentifrice, bestows on the Teeth a pearl-like whiteness, and renders the Breath sweet and pure. —‘ _ The patronage of Royalty throughout.Eurepe, their general use by rank and fashion, and the universall►•known efilcacy of these articles, give them a celebrity unparalleled. ***Beware of spurious imitations !! ! Sold by A. ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. COMMITTAL OF THE FEMALE IMPOS- TErz AT CANTRIEBURY. CANTERMITRY, Monday.—At the St. Augustine's petty sessions, before Edward Foss, Esq., and other county justices, the rival of Alice Gray, Mary Eliza Tre maine, with ntany other aliases, has just been committed to prison for two months, on the charge of obtaining board, lodging, and money under false pretences, at the parish of Ospring,e, on the 7th inst. From the statement of Superintendent Waker, of the Kent constabulary, and a pile of letters which he had received since the remand of the prisoner, it appears that for the last fifteen years she has run a career of imposition, under ♦arious characters—that of a con vert to Romanism being a favourite one. Her real name is Tremaine, and she is the natural daughter of a gentleman of the name of Chippendale, who placed her at a boarding school in the north of England, from which place she ran away when hardly 15 years of age, and immediately commenced a course of life of so gross a nature as to cause her friends tp discard her. Her mother was burnt to death. In 1843 she obtained access into the house of Major A. A. Young, of the Coast Guard, at Sheringham, Cromer, while his family were residing at Whitmore, Staffordshire, where she remained for six weeks, when the imposition was discovered, and she left, and proceeded to Liverpool. In 1846 this imposter was taken to the office of the Men &city Society, in London, under the name of Mary Hal lawap, and represented that she had been a nursery go verness, but was in great distress, in consequence of having been thrown out of employ. Inquiry was insti tuted, and it was ascertained that she was one of the greatest adepts at fraud in the metropolis. Two years afterward-, in IS4B, she was found apparently in a fit in Liverpool, and plaoed in a seminary by a lady residing in that town, where she subsequently committed a felony, and was imprisoned for nine months in the Liverpool Borough Gaol. Some little time afterwards she made her appearance at Darlington, where she was found in the streets in great distress. Joseph Pease, the quaker, hear ing of her c3ndition, placed her in a good school, where she remained for about nine months, and then ran away. In 1852 she succeeded in imnosing upon a Mr. Rogers, at Norwich, and a Mrs. Wiseman, at Tivetshall, near Stole, Norfolk, and was taken before the magistrates, but disebargesi, as the offence could not be clearly made out against her. She had then, according to her state ment, run away from her father's house, for the purpose of being married, belt had missed her suitor. In October of the same year we find her in custody of the county police at Bedford, on charges of obtaining money under false pretences, in the name of Matilda Jane Callaway nook, Lyle, Dale, and Chippendale, In July, 1853, she was sentenced to fourteen days in Windsor gaol, having obtained things under false pretences, represent ing that she had just arrived from Australia, and was in search of her sister, a member of the Baptist deno mination of that town. At another period of the same year, the ♦icar of Trumpington plaoed her in a private asylum, with the view of effecting her reformation, when she confessed to a great deal of deceit and imposture, and pretended to be desirous of abandoning her then mode of life. This turned out, however, only another of her schemes of imposition. The early part of 1854 found " Mary Eliza" at Dover and Canterbury, running away from her father, a bap tist, who wished her to join that persuasion ; but she rather inclined to the church of Rome, and was then in search of a convent. She then wended her way to Der byshire, and under pretence that she was the daughter of Dr. Hoek, of Leeds, obtained access to the house of Mr. Smedley, near Matlock, and was treated very kindly for about three months. Ia the following November the kindness of Mr. Pease was repaid by the impostor repre- senting herself as his daughter, obliged to leave home because she wished to be married to a gentleman not be longing to the Society of Friends. For that offence she was imprisoned in Northallerton House of Correction for three months. During the past summer her "ladyship" wa s boarded and lodged in the house of a London missionary for three months, when she suddenly disappeared, taking with her several articles belonging to her benefactor. After visiting Oxford, the workhouse, the gaol, and seve ral private houses, "Mary Jane" proceeded to Henley on-Thames, from which place she was sent to Oxford Gaol for throe weeks. It would appear that she then wended her way to Canterbury. In addition to the above facts, it may be stated that she has been placed in a great number of asylums and schools. The magistrates ordered her to be imprisoned with hard labour for two months as a rogue and vagabond. 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A soiree was held in the Assembly-rooms, Leith, on Friday, which the Lord Advocate end several other gen tlemeo attended, by invitation. The chair was occupied by Provost Taylor, of Leith ; and there were also on the platform several of the magistrates and councillors of the burgh, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Mr. sheriff Loean, the Rev. Dr. ,Stevenson, the Rev. Dr. Harper, and other clergymen, Mr. Gibson Thompson, Mr. D. Thom, Mr. W. Lindsay, &e. The hall was tilled by a most respectable assert - Naze. The Lotto ADvocATE said he had been requested to say a few words on the " Responsibilities of the British Parliament," a topic which was somewhat grave and weighty at a meeting like this, which had been convened for social, and not for political or electioneering pur poses. Redid not mean to make a constitutional spt cob en the privileges of Parliament. He would rather look at the position of a representative in relation to his constituents, as at the present day and the pre zent crisis of affairs. He had been four years in Parlia ment, and ho could assure the audience that it was a very neculiar and remarkable assemblage. It had many sin - eular and curious characteristics which no body of Inert who ever met possessed in an equal degree. There was 'n the atmosphere which pervaded the whole place that before which meanneot and hypoctisy could not stand ; and there was in it a sense and instinct of honour which withstood at once any attempt at double dealing or false hood. There was a touchstone there. One could not say where it was ; but so sure as the false metal rung, su curdy was its resonance heard in that house. There was ao place where pretension or hollowness was more epeetlily cted than there. It was a place she e comparatively Ability was second to bone ;ty, and where a man who was honest and earnest in his purpose, and had made himself , naster of his sulject, was always certain of a hearing, .c here the more flashy, and probably more clever, man, who intruded himself into matters with which he u as but superficially acquainted, or with which he had nothing to do, would not command an audience for a quarter of en hour. Therein he thought lay the wonderful influ ence of the House of Commons, or rather here was the true reflex and reverberation of the free government of this country. It showed how truly there percolated through the constituencies of the true genuine ore of free constitutional government., and as long as that tem perament belonged to that house, thovgli it might fluc tuate in men of talent and thought, having the genius of Pitt and Fox in one generation, and comparatively little ability in another, yet as tang as there were these true instincts in the representatives of the people, so long, they might depesid upon it, free institutions and free governments would flourish in this land. The Lord Advocate then proceeded to characterise various classes of members, as for instance, those that spoke to the re porters, the members who spoke on everything (and he he had only known one man who spoke on every thing with a knowledge of everything, namely, Joseph Hume), and the members who feared their constituencies, of whom he hoped lie was not one. His lordship then re ferred to the subject of the war. He said a year had passed since last he had been among his constituents at any public demonstration. A t this time last year, Alma, flalaklava, and Inkerruan were past, and on the back of these glorious but atiil calamitous days there came that long dreary winter where wee heard from time to time o those gallant troops wasting under an enemy more inglo rious but mere disastrous than Russia ever was. A year bad passed since then—a year of great events. Our army then stood before Sebastopol (it was now within it), and in the prospect of a second visit from the icy hand of a Crimean winter. He believed they did not congratulate themselves too soon in saying that, in every essential respect, the position of the army would be entirely re versed, and that our countrymen in the Crimea would spend their Christmas in comparative plenty. He did not think, though a member of the Government, that he claimed too much for Lord Palmerston and Lord Panmure when he said that the state in which the troops now found themselves was such as to entitle these noble lords to the gratitude of the country. (Renewed applause.) There were some men of talent and respecta bility—but constituting a very small minority—in the country, who thought there were no reasons for ourgoing to war, and that we might have allowed Turkey and Russia to fight the battle out, and they have pointed, not without reason, to the horrors of war and to the de solation it carried into many happy houses. This was all very true ; but might not this war be the very means of keeping the invader from our own shores ? For years no foreign foe had planted his foot upon this land, just be cause the world knew we were able to protect ourselves; but were we to throw away our means of self-protection on mere speculation as to the pacific inclinations of the world, we should run the risk of horrors too dreadful to contemplate. He believed we were not a day too soon in' i entering upon the war, for if we had allowed Russia to take Constantinople, to augment her fleet within the Black Sea (of which she would then have been the un controlled mistress, to improve her navy as she had im proved her artillery), and to strengthen her fleets Aft Ake had done tier if the one should be' as unknown in this country as the other was—and if then at some convenient time when, perhaps, our relations with the Continent were not so agreeable as they ware now, she had come down upon our shores, where would we have been if we had reduced our war establishments to the level which some pacificators some years ago would have wished ? When he heard men speaking of this war as of a bootless expenditure of human life, he, on the other hand, felt that we were now fighting on more advantageous terms to ourselves the very battle we should have had to fight if we had waited till the Rus sians had landed in the Forth or Thames. And though no statesman, no lover of his country could for a mo ment wish that war should continue, for it was fraught with many evils, still he would say this, that if we had not struck the blow when we did it would soon have been too late. He wished no evil to Russia, for Russia contained many valiant, many eminent, many well in formed and educated men ; but he believed we were new fighting for all that was near and dear to us, for our own liberty, and for the liberties of Europe. Therefore, dreadful as the struggle might be, and the shorter the less dreadful, the more we put forth our strength now the less we should have to do it hereafter. He rejoiced to think that, though we had sustained many hardships, and though many hardships might be to come, the na tional spirit of the people had not flinched an inch, or liven way one jot. He believed the feeling of the people was still more intensely now than at the first that we must carry on the war with vigour and effect. He had spoken of the responsibilities of Parliament, and w h en he looked back on the past session, he was free to say that he did not regard it with any great amount of complacency. His feeling was that the people of this country had shown a clearer and better discernment in some respects than their representatives. He quite agreed that Parliament should always be jealous of Government, and more especially when they were engaged in carrying on a great war ; but, on the whole, it appeared to him that Parliament had not raised this country, in tke estima tion of Europe by the way in which it had dealt with this grat question of the war. That was not a subject on which he liked to sneak ; but, as he was called to speak upon it among h;tt constituency, he thought the best way was to say plainly what he thought about it. This time last year there was a very great outcry made as to the state of our troops in the Crimea, and there was, unhappily, too great reason for the representations given of their condition, which first, he believed, had transpired through the chan nels of the press, but he had always thought that a most unworthy and most disingenuous use was made of these unfortunate facts. There was, no doubt, a great deal to require amendments in the various departments, every one knew that before the war began ; but WAS it possible to imagine that we could transport such an enormous number of men to an unknown region, without find ing that a great deal of the most necessary things had e t t undersrt violenceai hl been unforeseen and unprovided fort (H ear, h ear.) Lord Aberdeen went out of office. L or d Ab erdeen longer the Minister te w fevoa h er rd o t w) to leis dn] Lord swearsved; thus b n u o t he should do a gr s his country. honest that t n d he y. believed served A nw b n e r :Ministerdf e e e e l a n tsgoehhadadivde everbh e e e n not as had had in some matters a great deal of intercourse with that noble lord, particularly in business connected with Scotland ; and in all his dealings with him he had found in him nothing but the most - - open, straightforward, and candid conduct ; and he (the Lord Advocate) was satis fied that, whatever went wrong with the a dministration of the war during his Government, his only anxiety and wish was to carry on the war with vigour and effect. (Cheers.) No doubt gr e at disasters came upon us ; but what he c a ll e d t h e ungenero us and unjust applicati on of these fact s was this—that there was a kind of political trading carried on in the misfortunes of the country. It was, he thou g ht, ungen erous and unjust to load the men e who happened to be at the head of affairs w dispassionate blame of misfortunes which must, to t a em ny en t inevitable. onlooker, have appeared to a g h r a e d a our allies fared For, he would just ask how* t that it was nothing If those men who would insis h th • ht but maladministration, and not avmg those rig men in the right places, that gave our rise allies,t9 all who had scenes thenes of misery, could have shown that h good fortune not to be subjected to those particular caus es o f maladministration, had come better off, that wo uld have gone a far way to show that their statements were well founded ; but he did not b elieve that there was the slightest difference between the two armies in that respect. He believed that the Crimean winter had overtaken both unprepared, and unprepared because there were no means of making preparation. It seemed to him unworthy of a great nation, and not the spirit in which a groat contest should be conducted, that on the first re verse we were not only to lose heart, but to turn round and accuse those who had the conduct of affairs with im becility, weakness, or connivance with the enemy. He did not think the people generally went along with that feeling, and he thought nothing could be more disastrous to a great enterprise than that, before we had planted our standard on the enemy's citadel, we should fall out as to who was to blame for this or that reverse. The Lord Advocate then referred to the power and influence of the press, and to the responsibility that rested on those who wielded its power. He said he could not help regretting to think how much individual character had been assailed—how much the very character of the nation itself for some time had been lowered —by writ . ings in the public press on the subject of this war. The instance of Lord Raglan was sufficient iu itself to justify that observation. Sir Colin Campbell had but lately been made the eulject of a dieperaging article in one of the public prints, and in a very few days the imputa tions there made had to be unreservedly retracted. The general now commanding in the C r i mea h a d the one day been the subject of disparaging, remarks, an the other the subject of an elaborate euloginrn coming from the same quarter. When he remembered all these , thin k s, 1 e ti.o lit this cotn';ry should Leep the swi ll tenour of its way undisturbed by these eternal fine tuations of sentiment and opinion. They were ussfn. guides to show how the wind blew, but it would neve do if the character and reputation of our offictre and soldiers were to denend on the voice of so very fluctu ating a tribunal. He read the other day that Kars had been taken owing to the supineness of our War Minister. Our War Minist er cou ld not, he thought, be accused of supineness. Ho b a d b een at his poet from day to day, and . he had borne 71! against the cr us hi ng anxieties of his position with a spirit th a t h o thought 'deserved well of his country ; and it was most unju s t f or any wr i ter to make this statement, in total i gnorance, as we yet were of the circumstances in which K ars f e ll , or as to whether it could have been relieved or n o t, or who was the party that could have relieved it. But s o it wee, the moment that there was any chance of a little pnblic rumour run. ning in the direction against the War -office because of some little di-aster, up came this straw to see how the wind blow, the chance being, however, that in a short time all this would have to be unsaid. This was not tho way to manage a great war, to begin at the first reverse to abuse our generals and statesmen ; neither was this the spirit of the peephe, for he did not think that among the grea t body of the people there was the slightest sympathy with those fluctuating and premature expressions of opinion. • Pa sing from this subject i e might hav e a ' • lulled to many questions of domestic interest, were nat these all absorbed in the greater topic of the war. In regard to education, he had had a long battle to fight. He would not say who had been right and who wrong in this matter; he would only say this— that in the edu cation of the people, which was but a corner of the great social subjects which were preying on our atten• tion, the enemy he found the most difficult to encounter was indifference. If he could only arouse his country. men to a sense of the absolute necessity of doing some thing in this great work, we should soon hare an educa- tion scheme, whether more in favour of the established church or of the dissenters but few would care, could we only , ecure to every chill in the country a common education. (ipplause ) The proceedings then terminated. THE SCARBRO' .HOTEL, LEEDS, CLOSE TO THE MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION. T B. FLEISCHMANN, having renewed the t..fi Lease, and considerably enlarged his Hotel, in soliciting tutus favours and gratefully acknowledging the distinguished patronage he has the honour to possess, begs to announce that, in addition to his Family and Coffee-room business. he has opened a. SECOND-CLASS COFFEE-ROOM, the ehargea in which depart ment will be strictly commercial. [ PRICE 4D. STAMPED 6D• THE MEMORY OP THE BRAVE. ( From the Manchester Examiner.) There will by this time be few men in Manchester who can afford a shilling at noonday, or a sixpence at eventide, who will not have visited that seat of war at the Exchange Rooms, which has been created by the belligerent qualitie3 of Mr. Roger Fenton and Messrs. I Agnew and Son. After having read about the Crimea for the last 1S months, and had it served up in &l sorts of ways by all sorts of writer=, from the dashing plume of Mr. Russell to the little drnnimer-boy writing un• grammatically to his mother ; after having beheld it in the gros3 4 , 11 every description of map, from the exact scale of Mr. Wyld, who for some time seems to have been poised in the air like an intelligent roc, and sent ofF slips of the peninsula, like copy for the press —to those extemporised productions which have left it du bious which was the land and which wag the sea ; which have made a scrawl of the land and a spraw of the ocean, and put in the corner a make-pretence scale, like an in fant piece of music—after all these efforts, praiseworthy some of them, let us hope remunerative all of them, is it not a relief to turn to pictures which no eloquent Rus sell can gild or distort, but which recommend them selves at once as the true delineations of nature, aided by the delicate attentions of art ? The winter of our dis content—and who will ever forget that last fearful wins ter, when " England's dear boys" were all supposed t'a be decaying on those deathly hill sides—has now been replaced by more genial times. Sunshine has come again, and whilst it has gladdened the hearts, f the heroes themselves, it has been enlisted by Mr. Fenton and Mr. Agnew to give the scenes of the great drama, and to picture for England and France some groups of ineniwhose memory shall be green when artist, and heroes, and writers are gone, and only the great orb himself remains shining over our graves. It is a wonderful exhibition. Toe pictures, notwithstanding their unerring exactness, are to us, at least, far more suggestive than those which, com ing from the simple imagining of ordinary artists, would seem to draw more largely on the conception. That " Val ley of the Shadow of Death," for instance, with its grim outlines of hills, and interlying pavement of iron missiles what an angry, venge f u l , remorseless, and yet tranquil ' picture is that ! Those cannon balls lying there in all sorts of ugly heaps, were they all harmless, or, after hissing and chirping with merry and bloody intent down the valley, did they beat a victim fat, and so have lived not in vain t Several of those dead rotundities wore to us the B.M• blance of disappointed messengers. They seemed huddled together, like men in disgrace as faithless servants. Others looked more hopeful, as much as to say, "Give us another chance, seud us back home, we are hirelings that love not home— but give us another chance, and we'll go with a smash. This valley is cold—oh for a rush at stone walls." Then the dim light between the hills ; it looks as if the wing of death had caused the dimness, and was brooding and flapping there still. This valley, with its marvellous suggestiveness, seems to us far mere gloomy than that memorable Cathcart's Hill, on which are groped the tumuli of the unfortunate brave, with their eloquent columns and sacred symbols, solemn, but cheerful, in their noble repose. We think of him whose name has made a history of that hill, and who fell amongst the brushwood of Inkernian. sve rejoice that this scene is one of the best in the collection, and that when, in after times, the great fight of the sth of No vember is talked ever, Mr. Fenton will have the honour of illuminating and vivifying the narrative. We antici pate the still unbosomed years, and the time when the boy, whose bright face was turned up but yesterday to the rows of Crimean photographs, will have donned con siderable spectacles, and become the oracle of his circle. For did he not participate in the primal grief and subse quent triumphs of the Crimean struggle ? Does he not remember hearing the guns fired when Sebastopol fell ! Can he not recall his feelings when he road in the Times of the cool courage of General Windham, who walked about unscathed at the Redan amidst a storm of shot 1 His head is bent over a portefeuille of prints—and such a nosegay of a girl is bending over both, with other boys and girls around listening to the story of the great Russian war. Then will the illustrated lecture commence ; and as the prints are turned up, papa will become an enthusiastic Tacitus. And will tke audience be simply listeners ? Will that nosegay of a girl fail to observe what a dear good old man Lord Raglan looks ? and wont she think how she should like to have worked him a pair of slippers, which is the young lady's tribute to aged worth ? Is it quite impossible that an inquisitive urchin may ask whether Marshal Pelissier was in the habit of biting anybody, or why he allowed his barber to cut his hair so short ? Can we quite ensure ourselves that the same urchin will not confound the Zouaves with warlike females, until his ideas bo properly sup pressed and classified by Tacitus ! We may coneeive of groups of this sort many a Christmas hence, and we think in Exchange-street at present we could pick out the preci-e pictures which will form the centre of those groups. For these are things which men feel inclined to have for themselves, that they may be looked at often, and talked about frequently. It was formerly difficult to enter a licensed victualler's establishment without being "entreated" to a representation of the battle of Water loo, a representation which had arisen from the teeming brain of some spirited artist, to whom, given guns, ground, ani cannons, and a dead private in the fore ground, and the Duke on horseback, apparently sitting for a statue, forthwith sprung up Waterloo—•a fine work of imagination truly, but as much like Waterloo, as Peterloo, or hullabaloo, or any other of that class of events. It will be a delightful reform in the interior of village inns to find Mr. Fenton usurping the functions of imaginative artists, and giving to all who travel by land or by water a t rue presentment o f th e p er sona or places designed. Th ere are some f aces i n the collection that it would do a man good to look at, even were they not associated with d ee ds of high emprise. We have men tioned Lord R ag l an , who, in itiis group of the "Council in the society of of War," l oo k s like a foreigners whom he delights kind to honour. Let everyone note well the portrait of Gen. Estcourt, as that of a well descended British chief. We stopped for some moments before Gen. Sir De Lacy Evans, who looks as if he meant m i sc hi e f, and if mischief were to be done it must be dune, and lie would see that it was done well. Close by Sir Richard England, with a martial moustache and handsome face, confronts the visitor, and says, physiog nomiea H y , "Am I the man the Times wo u ld ma k e me out, or do you think I shall white-feather it in the hour of danger ?" Then there are the groups of minor cele brities, and yet scarcely minor, for some of the colonels, with their attendant boys, have names already high in the roll of fame—some of them too already on that black list which terminates all earthly endeavour. As to the pith and manliness of Englishmen being on the wane, look at them, gentlemen, as they are grouped before you, and tell the maligning theorist who w r it es such stuff that he is —well, then, a theorist. Why there are shoulder and limb and muscle, all strong and active, a n d piloted by a w as strong and muscular, which leaves doubt to the newspapers, and has no doubt before the ene my. What man may dare, they will dare—they eat and drink round that jovial camp table, and to-morrow they die. To-morrow, in that group, one drinking born the less will he held up for Queen and country, and the girl he left behind him. A few months hence, in that pretty village church, in that dear old English shire, a little tablet will appear —and so requieseat I Second-class Staff- Surgeon Daniel J. Doherty, on being relieved from duty, will p r oceed to Portsmouth to embark o n b oar d the Thames on Wednesday, in medical charge of detachments. TUE COAL T TRADE._SIIIELDS, Thursday Afternoon. —A large fleet of light c olliers, several hundred sail, have arrived i n th e no rthern coal ports during the past two days. Many of them have been five and six weeks on their passage down, and the arrival in port of so large a number of seamen will materially add to the comfurt of many a home during Christmas time. In consequence of the heavy sea breaking on the coast several disasters have occurred to the vessels attempting to run for th e harbour. Five vessels, two brigs, and three sc h ooners, are ashore at the mouth of the Tyne. The crews were rescued without any great difficulty, and at Sunderland the Lovely Nelly, of Lyme, the Exchange al° op, of Yar mouth, the brig Edward and Sarah, from London, the brig Ford, of London, the brig Bolt, from drove northward of the harbour and came— . London all ashore. It is reported that four lives have been lost. Several light vessels, seeing the heavy sea on the coast and the crowd ing in of the fleet, ran to the north, where they Rill ? seek s shelter in some of the bays. A been experienced to the southward oefrythe heavy Humber, has been and Offend vessels have been telegraphed as ashore. ertsda .R 17 . Is . 1$ *rigs IS mei be 4.. le (vie 14 tA• An noes, oc Dere Plifr 0 of