The Sun. — London, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

~r PROSPECTUS OF THE COMPAGNIE GENERALE do OMNIBUS de LONDRES (GENERAL LONDON OMNIBUS COMPANY.) Established in Paris, under Acts of tbe 4th and 17th Decem ber, 18.55, as a " Societe en commandite," by which the liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount sub soribed: 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.) Tho Second, 50,000 Shares (200,0001.) The First Series only will be issued at present. OBRANTS OF TUE COMPANY—Maciaamara,, Carteret, Willing, and Co. 21.01.02 as ni LONDON. Messrs. John Wilson, -Messrs. Richard Hartley, „ John Barber, I „ John Trevett. =HUES OF THE COUNCIL OF SURVEILLANCE: Robert • Keating, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and County Bank, London. Le Comte De Lantivy, Paris. Vacossin, Administratenr de la Compagnie d'Assurance l'Ur- baine, Paria.- Frederic Tocbe, Bauquier, Paris. Edwin Chadwick, Esq., C. 8., London. Augustin Dubois, Administrateur des Forges de Moutataire, Paris. Marziou, Direoteur-Geraut de l'Union Maritime, Paris. Th. Harrisson, Esq., London. ILLS HERS. ..Messrs. Greene and Co. The London and Comity Bank. In Loudon_ { Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co. SOLICITORS. In Paris Mr. Petit Borgons, Avoue au Tribunal de Pre miere Instance. In London 11039113. Wilkinson, Gurney, and Co: The undoubted advantages produced by the amalgamation of the omnibuses of Paris have originated the plan of concen trating is one great enterprise the several associations now working the omnibuses of London. If in Paris this amalgamation has made the capital con nected with it the most productive of any employed in loco motion, it is destined to produce in London effects of still greater importance. Not only will large savings be effeoted in the present cost of working the omnibuses of London, by a system which, being well organised in all its details, and at the same time amply supplying the wants of the public, will enable the Com pany to withdraw duplicate and in some cases triplicate ve hicles running over the same ground at the same time, but important improvements, alike advantageous to the public and profitable to the Company, will be introduced. As regards the public : A complete regularity in the ser vice, which will confer all the advantages that in this respect Paris possesses over London, combined with speed ; the adoption of a low scale of charges, and the certainty that there will be no frequent and sudden changes in their amount : the departures and arrivals taken place at precise times, and in accordance with a time bill, which will be pub lished monthly, on the plan of the railway time tablel. A 3 regards/ the Shareholders : The receipts o the London omnibuses average 2/. 7s, a day each, and the expenses, in cluding wear and tear, abOut !l, le, 6d. ; this gives in the present state a net profit of about 100/. a year per omnibus. Under the improved system of working, this profit would be yond doubt be considerably increased. The average receipts of each of the Paris omnibuses before the amalgamation were about 21. Bs. a day ; since the amalgamation their daily aver age is 21. 17s. 6d. In England, horse keep—the mast expensive item con nected with omnibuses —costs less than in Paris. In Paris The Paris Omnibus Company is liable, whenever the profits reach a certain percentage on the capital, to have the annual tax, to which it is subjected, increased by order of the Go vernment. No such power exists either with the English Government or with the municipality of London. The purchase of a London omnibus comprises, as in Paris, the omnibus, its appurtenances, as well as the good-will or " times" of the omnibus. In Paris the Government compel the running of the omni buses to be nearly the same at all seasons, In London, on the contrary, the omnibus proprietors can proportion the number of vehicles to the season of the year and the hour of the day, according to the ,wants of the public only. Honee as advantage in London denied to the Oinnibus Company n Paris, whichis compelled to run as many vehicles - late at night and early in the morning as in the most busy periods of the day, in the winter as well as iu summer. In Paris the outside fare is only half the inside fare. In London they are the same; and the outside of the omnibus is as much used as the inside. The indicator, as used in the Paris omnibuses, is unknown in London : its adoption cannot fail to add largely to the receipts of this Company. As soon as the present omnibuses are unfit for use, they will be replaced by others, affording more comfort and bet ter accommodation to passengers. _ To obtain the foregoing advantages both for the public and the shareholders of this Company, the services of the most experienced and intelligent omnibus proprietors have been secured, under whose management the business of the Com pany will be conducted. Contracts have been entered into for the purchase of the greater number of the 810 omnibuses now working in Lon don, and it is expected that arrangements for the remaining portion will be completed at a very early date. The Firit Series of 200,000 shares only (800,0001.) will be issued in the first instance. The capital so raised will pay for the-810 omnibuses, the leases of stables, yards, and other property minima for the working the omnibuses, as well as for a working and reserve fund. The latter, amounting to about 200,0001., will give strength and security to the Com pany. The Second Series of 50,000 shares can only be issued with the sanction of a General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company, and will be used to increase the business of the Company whenever circumstances shall render it necessary., Each shareholder will have the right to this Second Seriea of shares, at - the rate of one for each four of the First Series of which he is the possessor. The duration of the Company is for 60 years. With the present imperfect system of working, each of the Loudon omnibuses gives an average profit estimated at 100/. per annum, representing upon 810 omnibuses an annual pro fit of 81,0001., which alone would be sufficient to secure a di vidend of 10 per cent, upon the 800,000/. first subscribed. Assuming, in London, with the new system, an increase of Si. per day (instead of Bs., as has been the result of the amal: gamation in Paris) to , each omnibus, the result would be, on the traffic -of 810 omnibuses, an annual profit of more than 150,0001., and upon the capital of 800,0001. would insure a dividend of nearly 20 per cent. The Paris Omnibus Company is now paying at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum. It is the intention of the Company to publish every week the traffic returns. 98i per cent. of the dividend of the Company will belong to the Shareholders---li only being appropriated to the ma nagement. Out of the capital subscribed a limited number of shares have been reserved for distribution in England, and may now be applied for. The applications for shares should be made in the sub joined form, and must be accompanied with a deposit of 1/. per share with the bankers of the Company, on the number of shares applied for. The remaining 3/. per share must be paid upon allotment, on the number of shares allotted. - • FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARI& . . To the Gamuts of La Compagnie Generale des Omnibus de Londres (the General London Omnibus Company). Gentlemen, —I request you will allot me shares of 41. each in the above Company, and I engage to take the same, er any less number that may be alloted to me. I have paid the deposit of 11. per share, required by the prospectus, to the bankers of the Company, and I engage to pay the re maining 3/. upon allotment, on the number of shares allotted to me. Name Profession .. Residence Date 1 The above application must be forwarded to the London and County Bank, with the deposit of 1/. per share on the number of shares applied for, against which the bankers will furnish a receipt. N.B.—Forms of applications for shares may be had at the Company's Temporary Offices, 47, Old Broad-street, London. J.HEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. — Profesaor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, respectfully announces that this THEATRE will open on WEDNESDAY NEXT, Dec. 26, under his manage ment. He has fortunately suoceedoil in arranging with the Directors of the Royal Italian Opera for a short season, dur ing which he will produce many novelties at this the most magnificent Theatre in the Metropolis. On WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26, he will have the honour of presenting his Entertain 2nenr of MAGIC and MYSTERY, on a new and more ex tended scale, as performed by him 129 times at the Lyceum Theatre, before an aggregate audience of 339,000 ; to be fol lowed by the Great National, Historic, and Chivalric PAN TOMIME, which has been so many months in preparation of the BELLE ALLIANCE; or Harlequin IGood Humour, and the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Professor Anderson hopes that the Nobility and the Public will appreciate his efforts to open Covent Garden Theatre during the Christmas season. Associated as the history of the house is with so many glo rions recollections of Christmases that have long since passed sway, when " The Pantomime at Covent-garden" was the town talk at Christmas-tide, and when to go and see it was as - much a matter of course as to place the holly over the mantel, or hang the mistletoe in the hall. Mr. Anderson trusts that a Pantomime reproduced onthe same boards—the boards whereon the fame of " Mother Goose" was acquired, and the popularity of the " Greatßed of Ware" was won, and produced ea these beards with more attention to details and to scenic effect than has ever been given to any Pantomime, will certainly enlist the patronage, and those whose pleasant memories of Covent-garden rendered to them the recognised field of Pantomimic triumph, as it will attract the visits of these who have heard only with curiosity of that which the stage of Covent-garden can produce. As the Royal Italian Opera, the house for years has been the most distin guished, as it is the noblest Theatre which London pos- SOWS. Since it has been rebuilt and remodelled it has been comparatively shut up to the public generally. The Theatre of Royalty, the house of fashion, the heavy expenses of its directors, have rendered it impossible to open its doors at the usual theatrical prices. Professor Anderson now sub mits his intention (in fall confidence that it will be understood and 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 commodate an audience. The whole of the magnificent bal cony recently erected after the Continental model, and a pa rallel to which is not to be found in any theatre in Great Bri tain, will be retained, and present its unrivalled coup-d'ceil of beauty every evening; the admission to it will be 4s. The Pri vate Boxes on the third tier will be removed to form a range of Upper Boxes unequalled by any other theatre in' London ; the price of admission to which will be 2s. 6d. There will be no pit stalls ; but the entire of the extensive and majestic capableof holding more than 1,500 persons, will be given to the public at an entrance fee of 2s. The fourth tier of boxes will be completely removed, and added to the Amphi theatre, r as to constitute one immense, comm odious, and mo st eligible gallery, the admission to which will be One shilling only, while it will command's view of every part of the stage, and of the stupendous and elegant house. In fact no attention will be spared by Mr. Anderson to render Co vent-Garden Theatre, par excellen ce , Entertainment ; nor the house for Christ mas will he forget, consulting the con venience of the public, to supply th em with t h e b es t talent that money aen command for their am usement. The inducements which have led him to undertake so large a-tenture 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 a d dres s them most re spectfully somewhat in this style: — L adles an d Gentlemen— Considering myself deeply indebted to my generous patrons, the British public, who, after several y ears of u ninterrupted favours, have recently thought fit to visit me nightly a t t h e Lyceum Theatre, leaving me such substantial proofs of their friendship and munificence as I scarcely know what to d o with, 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. self or others. The question was—how to do it ? Wizards, after all, are but mortal men with restricted powers. The ~~-~~ ~, '~~Yt~a~: J ; ~:Ttt' . t~~ . a...: No. 19,728.] public liked to see me ; they could see no more of me than existed. Even I could not make myself into 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 to quote my respected 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 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 he shot 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 lit.), 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? As alait 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 bp 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, in the humblest and most energetic desire to please, I could not alter. I had arrived, I repeat, at this desponding conclusion, when a practical friend called upon me and threw out the following suggestion ; " If you have got so much, money that yon don't know what to do with it, and wish to ged rid of it in one lump 'for the amusement of the Public, why don't you take Covent-garden ? There was certainly something in 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 the preliminary expenses of the Covent garden Pantomime have triumphantly answered their ex _Deeted 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, scentry, 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-England 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 an 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, o jewelled ornaments to the Augustan Era of burlesque 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 daintie it 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 railing 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 set in the most sumptuous gold frame. Mr. Beverley was accordingly secured. But even now the inroads on the doomed exchequer wore 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 come to terms with Mr. Loder, whom I instructed in playful north country phrase to spare no amount of brass in his orchestral arrangements. The balance on hand 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 produe3 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 lers, whose sterling talent rendered him most fitting to model my sovereigns, Henry VIII. and Francis I. The tailors' and dressmakers' bills also, of Mr. Smiehers 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 mourous 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 tut) 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 Dorrington (especially the latter) for the tricks and changes; r 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. Baniett, as ballet master, with au innumerable corps of golden-haired nymphs, to dance away with. I solicited Mr. Flexmore (stamped current as the shining sovereign clown) in popular phrase to "tumble into" whatever salary be liked to name. (It is needless to say that be named a . . goad one.) W. A. Barges, the great transatlantic pantomimist, lkfr..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 labia seta. Azzothor '• Ill Able troazzuro," lu the shape of Miss Harriet 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, 1 illustrating, by an historic parallel, the greatest event of this or any other age within the history of the two nations, THE ANGLO-FRENCH ALLIANCE 1 Th e pieee, as will be seen by an explanatory line in the bill, a entitled " A LEGEND OF THEONARQHS MEETING OF THE M." 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- Dicus." Scene 2.—" The Land's End, Cornwall, with the departure of the Gnome Britanicus 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 the 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 6.---" The Field of the Cloth of Gold, including a grand Ballet and the Great Tournament, after Holbein's cele brated picture." Scene 6.—" The Bedchamber.of the Monarchs." Scene 7.—" The Farm-house of Blondettee." Scene B.—" The immense Transformation Scene (painted by 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 incuiTed, will form a Grand Military Spectacle, representing the " Apotheosis of England and p ra tice, with the descent of th 4 Genius of Victory with the Coronals of Valour." The Band will be conducted by Mr. Chas. Hall, and will be the largest in Louden, the performers being first-class. The extensive and complicated Machinery by Mr. H. Sle• man. On Wednesday, Dec. 26, the Doors will open at Half-past Sii, 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 cipal Libraries), 31. 35., 2/, 25., 1/. Is., and 12s. Grand Bal cony, 4s. Upper Boxes, 2s. 6d. Amphitheatre Stalls, 2s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, le. Half-price at Nine o'clock. The care of the front of the house will bo committed to Mr. llingston, who will, doubtless, endeavour to care most cour te•usly_ for everybody. T HEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH. Acting Manager, Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS. Stago Manager, Mr. tOBERT ROXBY. The Box office open daily, froia Ten till Six o'clock, under the superintendence of Mr. Edward Chatterton. The REDUCED PRICES at this Theatre as follow vete boxes, to hold two persons, 10s. 6d. (as. for each person extra); on the grand tier, ofie Oiled ; proscenium and stage boxes, 2/, 25.; galleries, ed. and IS. ; pit, 2s. ; upper boxes, Is. 6d. ; first circle, 2e. 6d.; dress circle, 38. MORNING PERFORMANCE EVERY WEDNESDAY, at Twe o'clock. Mr. Charles Mathews in Two Piece On WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26th ; Thursday 1111, Friday, 28th; and Saturday, 29th, LITTLE TODDLEKINS. Prineipal character by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthew T s, e a b n e d fo m ll i osaw hi ed . by oll v (fi er r . sttime at this theatre) TRYING IT ON, in which Mr. Charles Mathews and Miss M. Oliver will ap pear. After r which will be p ro d uce d an entirely l Novel and Original Inductive, Instructive, Logical, Chronological, Periodical, Episodical, Magical, Tragical,Anti-E1 Lo Gra phical, Chorographical, Philosophical, Parabolical, Symbolical, Rhythmical, Mechanical, Technical, Pyrotechnical, Historical, Academical, Harmo ideal, Heroical, Typioal, Alle g ori ca l, M e t aphorical, Chime rical, Satirical, Historical, Metrical, Sy mme t r i cal, Lyrical, Musical, Practical, Poetical; Whimsical, F an t ast i c, 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 Y DIDDLE DIDDLE ; or, Harlequin King Nonsense and the Seven Ages of Man. The Seenerylentirely New, painted by and under the super intendence of Mr. William Beverley, assisted by Messrs. James, Wilson, Gonipertz, and numerous assistants. The Machineryby Mr. Tucker and assistants. The Pro perties, Decorations, &e., by Messrs. Needham, Glindon, and others. The Tricks by Messrs. Roe and assistants. The Choregraphic Arrangements ender 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,thlPourt of Fairy Land. The • Overture and Music composed - and Arranged by Mr. J. H. ..p ,;.:••• /"' / • _,--1-41--- Z- - Gr (--- .gf-----1--" 1 - ; ~.•.''.•'''.? , ~ , , . \ .: , 1 , •i ,- 719 P '';'::.' - — r, 1 . , 4 rf -. •,. ~-fhit4 '`..weee 4 , 4 ~, • VA, Illik) .' '..*, ;:), * 4i',.i. 4 .N.t.d , ...,,t - ‘''' , 4l - '4. , , if , - ,„_ ‘.,,. ''' k ' '• •& '."' ' v 's'k.'ik --... elk ' . ll -- 1 ' ' "'- -9 '' , , , t. , jiv e • . 4 ., ... ./ • . _ ~ , ,..- 1 . 1 ,: iJ r .0. . 0 4 ~. " .42 .: ,-,. ----' • 4 .° 4, 4 7' 4 1,4i agn e ....' --- cr', - k - ' 4,1 ''' 0, ,. 4 , - -. AIL 0• 2,.,, , „ • : if , WO' 'Y ` . .liroie,..r tv rly ' ~,.._ ! \ , ~ ' %. Z i e 4,,,, .--4%' 1,, ,' 1 gr,, , -,,,.. 411 I , ,ill , .....,„:40,-,,, ~., on . ~,,,, ~ , ,„.. • k , - , , -- 4 - ;co 1\ ::'• P .. . 3 . R / -' - ',0r3 4 '. - .t • - 1 - 4 :':::: 4 -: :. ce ,A [, ' ft -, ~,,t,--, ~.. s la4' ._... LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15. 1855, Tully. The Comic Scenes by Harry Boleno, Glinden, and E. L. Blanchard. The Grotesque Burlesque Opening in vented and written by E. L. Blanchard, Author of " Harle quin Hudibras," " King Huraming•top," " Jack and Jill," &c. ; and the whole arranged and produced under the super intendence of Mr. Robert Roxby. First of the Seven Ages—" The Infant." HALL OF NURSERY RHYMES, In the dominions of King Nonsense. Heroes of Nursery Literature. Jack Sprat, Mr. Eatnofat ; Simple Simon, Mr. Tom Noddy ; Little Jack Horner, Master Plummy • Little Bo Peop, Miss Fortywinks ; Little Tommy Tucker, Master Singsong ; Humpty 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 Noodlodom), Messrs. Musty and Rusty; Old Friends and New Faces— " They have their Exifs and their Entrances.." Second Age—" The School Boy." " Then the whining school-boy with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school." VILLAGE OF PRETTYWELL, . _ with distant view of the Village Church and surrounding country. —Early Morning. . Young Hopeful (afterwards Harlequin), Signor Verroni ; Hobbedyhoy (his schoolfellow—afterwards Clown) Harry Bo len° ; Dr. Birch (the Village Schoolmaster—afterwards Pan taloon), Mr. G. Tanner; His Pupils, Masters Fagg, Bragg, Wagg, Nagg, Lags, Magg, Stagg, and Tagg ; Rosa (Ward to " The Justice," and afterwards Columbine), Madame Boleno ; Miss Starch, Governess at " Mrs. Howdydo's Establishment for Young Ladies," in the Village of Prettywell-cum-Thankye). Miss Buckram; Her Pupils—Misses Prattle, Rattle, Giggle, Sniggle, Goggle, Joggle, Fangle, Dangle, Sidle, Ogle, Romp, Flirt, Slypuss, and Simporwell ; Hobsoa (the Village Carrier), Mr. Packer ; Bun-woman, Mrs. Goody. Sums summed up somehow—School Forms and Ceremonies, Lessons not Lessened, and 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 Young Hopeful blows his own t rum p e t, an d th e Young Ladies' Establishmeut comes out AlLtwc, to, tw.c. , t4o. —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 Nobb (the Village Blacksmiths), Messrs. Batter and Clatter ; afterwards Sprites, Tho Brothers Elliot; Doublestout (Mine Host of the " Leather Bottle), Mr. Arfa 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" (one 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 ho does—The conse quences thereof, and how Serjeant Kite, being the Author of a great Military Work, gets' a good Review. Fourth Ago—" The Soldier." " Then a Soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded tike 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 champ that only love can make." The Spirit of Love, Miss Wadham—Cupid (her Messenger), PUBLICATIONS. This day is published. price Is. 6d., A CATECHISM of PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE. By lIIINISY STEPHEN', F.R.S.E., Author of the " Book of thei Farm." Illustrated with numerous Engravings. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Thi , day is published, price THE TRANS-CAUCASIAN PROVINCES the PROPER FIELD of QPERA.TION for a CHRISTIAN ARMY ; being a Second Edition of " The Coming Campaign." By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, " Author of "Tie Russian Shores of the Black Sea." With a Preface to this Edition, written from the Seat of War, and Map. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. CAOUTCHOUC COMBS.—M. PANVELLE DELEBA RR E, 10, Boulevard Bonne Nouyelle, Paris, Inven tor of the 'Adis Rubber Combs; has obtained a First-class Medal at the Universal Exposition. Tho jury, wishing to recompense the signal services rendered by Messrs. Favitt and Desruelies, assistants to the above-named gentleman, have presented each of them with a medal ofthe second-class. THE SU N, TO ARRIVE THE SAME EVENING, supplied to any STATION on the EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY, Carriage Free, by CLAYTON and SON, General Newspaper and Advertising Agents, 265, Strand, London. MR. ALBERT SMITH will give his MONT BLANC on WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, .and FRIDAY, at 3 and 8 o'clock. EgypUan Hall, Piccadilly. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC. - CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—The second part of the Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, with new and beautiful dissolving Pictures, and descrip tion, with songs, by G. L. Horne, Esq. Laughable Phantaimagoria Effects, by Messrs. Carpenter and Westley. Series of astonishing Conjuring Tricks and Delusions, by Mr. Burmain. Brilliant Popular Lectures on Flax.), Fire, end Combustion, by J. H. Pepper, Esq. 10,000 ornaments will be given away to the juvenile visitors from the Giant Christmas Tree during the holidays. ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE.—Reduction in Price. —HARRINGTON, PARKER, and CO., Wine and 'leer Merchants, 531, Pall-Mall, are now receiving orders for the October Brewings of the above celebrated Ale, in Casks Of 18 Gallons and up wards, at the reduced price. Also for ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE IN BOTTLE, Quarts. Pints, and Half-pints, Imperial measure. 5%, Pail-mall, Oct. 20, 1855. • • PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court .of Chancery, made in a cause of MARKE against MARKE, the creditors of SEDLEY BASTARD MARKE, late of Plymouth, dinthetemintrorDeeetaz.eatire.,, month February, 1355, art4*by theirsolielterr, on or aefore ea* wee4%ye44 Februarf.-18.56, te , :,conle-in and Wave tiratr-Debts or Claims at the • Chambers of the Vltce-Chaneeltur Sir Richard Turin Kinderaley, No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Tursday, the 7th day of February 1856, at Three o'clock in the afternoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudi cating upon the claims. Dated this 21st day of December, 1855. CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. 11. COWLARD, 14, Lincoln's-inn-fields, agent for GURNEY and LETHBRIDGE CO WLARD, of Launceston, Cornwall, Plaintiff's Solicitors. PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, mare in a Cause of Henry Wilson against Richard Baker Leslie, the Creditors of GEORGE HARRISON, late of No. 51, Paradise-row, and of No. 15, Robert-street, in the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, tallow chandler, who died in or about the month et' 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 th,e chambers of Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, No. 3, Stone buildings, Lincoln's-Inn, Middlesex, or In default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said order. Monday, the 23th day of January, 1856, at Noon, at the said Cham bers, is appoint e 1 ler hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Hated this 22d day of December, 1855. (Signed) CHARLEY Chief Clerk. T. F. CREW, 33, Essex-street, Strand, Plaintiff's Solicitor. CHILBLAINS (broken or not), frost bites, wounds, scalds, burns, tic doulourenx, lumbago, rheumatism, &c., cured by JONES'S MINERAL COMPOUND. So many various cures have ben effected by this preparation that it is called by those who have benotltted by it a wonderful discovery. Sold in bottles, Is. 14(1., 2s_ 9,1., 4s. 6d., and Bs., at Bridge's sarsaparilla depot, 270, Regent•street. Master Mischief. Hope, Joy, Desire, Happiness, Truth, Delight, Rapture, Romance, &c., by Misses Richardson, E. Richardson, L. Honey, &c. _ . Rapid, Mechanical, and Marvellous Scenic Metamorphosis, revealing THE ABODE OF LOVE. Illumined by the Electric Light of One Hundred Bright Eyes. Grand Ballet d'Amour—Principal Dancer, Miss Rosina Wright, assisted by Mdlles. Therese, Marian Lees, &c. 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 he plays his part." JUSTICE HALL IN THE OLD MANOR HOUSE, TWILIGHT. Farmer Whackstraw, Mr. Grumblewell ; Constable, Mr. Hardstaff; Villagers, Messrs, Gape, Grin, Stare, Shiver, Tremble, Delve, &e. 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 Lean and Slippered Pantaloon." The Ruined Cottage of Old Age—Winter—Firelight. Old Age (sans teeth, sans eyes, sans teeth, sans taste, sans everything), Mr. Centenarian. Seventh Age—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 Verroni and Herr Furth. The Two Cohn - alines ... Mme. Bolono and Marie Charles. Mit Two Pantaloons Messrs. Tanner and Donlin Johnson. The Two Sprites The Brothers Elliott. The Two Clowns Harry Boleno and Tom Matthews. A SCENE OF INTEREST—TWO TO ONE—Bolono. Buttered Peas—Cheese it—Taking the Pledge—Pop% 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 Bcehoves you to Beehave when you attack a Bee hive—Swarming and Warming—Enlarged Heads upon a New 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 !" —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 bo had—" My Lodging is on the cold (coal) Ground" —Clown and Pantaloon go Down to Bed—" A Sweet Good Night to all." A SCENE OF CONFUSION (LAID IN BEDS). "To bed, to bed"—" 'Tis when to Sleep the World retires" —The Night Mare, which makes Clown a little hoarse—As Thick as Three in a bed—A Night Concert, which dis-conoerts the Lodgers—" We won't go borne till mon:lisle—Putting them on the Shelf—Natives and a Settler—The War Whoop, the War Dance, and a Warming -pan Accompaniment—Fire ! Firo! Fire !—The House in an Uproar - 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 Gentlemaa—Comic 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—lll. sopp's Pale 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 apes est"—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 ou the Old System and the New System, and the System that don't assist 'ern—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 61., by post, free, as. 6d. ON TRUE dz FALSE SPERMATORRIICEA, 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. PICKPORD. `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 p3wor to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' and ' Medical Friends, are mercilessly exposed; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who suffer 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 lees 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 Spermatorrhosa, and to place the treat.. meet upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore likely to do much good." , London: li. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. 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, under 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. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, ......_ , , is a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrhooa, and Exhaustion of tho 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. fRIESENAIi, No. 2, offectuallY, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of those 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. Takiii is the great Continental Remedy for AR, that class Of Disorders, which unfortunately the English 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 lie, each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided ante separate doses, as administered I,y Valpean, Lallemanel, Roux, 30.,&c.—T0 be had Wholesale and Retail in London et Johnston, 61 Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford- s t reet; and Sanger, 150, Ox ford-street;R. 11. Ingbara, druggist, 46. M ar k et - street, Manchester ; H. Bradbury, bookseller, Deanegate, Bolton ; J. Pr i estly, chemist, 52, Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street, bookseller Dublin; bookseller High-meet, Birmingham. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY . last published, price , illustrated with oases; free by post for 26 24 " stamps, NERVOUS DEBILITY; Its c ause s, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper- Practical Observations on a safer and inatorrhcca, with more swcessiol mode of treatment of the diseiLsas of the Generative System, obtained by the use: of the Microscope in detecting and listinguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of eery variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, es comes, accident, or climate. followed by practical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, tiervorts Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhcea, &c. To which are added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre cautionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, lad on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on diese important disorders. By SAMUEL LA'MERT 87, BEDFORD-SQUA IE, LONDON. Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, w hi c h have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know, that there are I Principles of personal management which cannot be violated without ' incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-Indulgence, how these penalties nay be mitigated, hew the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional ierangcment to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. limo Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive practice In the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have unfortunately been too generally confided to the care of ignorant oninirics, who Inflict groat injury on those who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had price 28, of Mears. Sher wood and Co., 23, Paternester-row ; ?Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Horne, 10, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or free by post for • stamps to any address from the Author's residents, 37, Bed fo• d -square. At home for consultation dallylkonie levea till two, and from Six ill eight. t Now publishing, in 2,600 pages Imperial Octavo, price 365., THE POST OFFICE ' LON D ON DIREC TORY FOR 1856,-Most gratifying Reviews of the huge volume have appeared in all the loading Metropo litan Journals, of which only very short extracts can be here quoted. " In short, this work contains all that can reasonably be required in a Directory, and much more, probably, than was ever found in one before, It may be safely referred to for information upon everything connected with the metropolis and the elements which constitute its wealth and itnportauce." —Times, Dec. 8, 1855. The Post O f fice London Directory 'it Indeed a triumph of energy, enterprise, and combined talents of many orders, to which, upon reflection, every one will be ready to assign tho merit it deserves."—Morning Advertiser, Nov. 12, 1855. " There has been competition, but it has passed away; for the Post O f fice Directory has been teo carefully and sedu lously edited, too prompt in its intelligence, toe simple in its plan, and too judicious in its classifications, to admit of suc cessful rivalry."—Morning Herald, Nov. 12, 1855. "An indispensable necessity, not only in the counting houses of the mercantile part of the community, but also iu the halls of the great and fashionable."—Morning Chronicle,. Nov. 16, 1855. " The Post-Office Directory' has madolts appeal anee this year'without a rival in the field; but the almance of compe tition does not appear to have led the ' üb/ishers to bestow less care upon the prepa ra tion AtArtvor 4 ,, Iftv; 307185 M In a metropolis so vast as London it correct guide 18,1 n. valuable, and this book, dealing not only with the commer cial classes, but with all the residents in London, supplies a daily need."- -Daily News, 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, R 949.1 legal, political, and topographical !"—Sun, Nov. 10, 1865.. —The annual wonder, " On the whole, the extent and quality of the information contained in the volume has, as far as we know, never been prefixed, hats just appeared, and, equalled in a publication of t,he kind."--Globe, Nov. 15, 1855. the " t g it l le e o P r o w at hi lr h c w e eLho have 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 wou by decided excellonce."—Stan. dard, Nov. 16, 1855. " The fame of Kelly's London. Directory is too 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, 1355. " 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 one Directory.' "—Church and State Gazette, Nov. 16, 1855. "The 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 Post Office Directory of 1856,' with its pregnant lino ab o ut 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 ono would really understand in what consists the strength of London, let him study the Post Office Directory.' " —Britannia, November 17, 1855. " The opponent of the production before us has ceased to exist, it appearing that, even after the collection of the infor mation for next year, and the work being in type, th e sa l e would be insufficient to repay the mere expense of printing. The Post Office Directory' is now alone in the field, but we are glad to see that the exertions of the proprietors aro 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 Vines 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 au annual visitor on our library table."—John Bull, November 17, 1855. " In noticing in all its details, in the most favourable man lier, this valuable and highly successful volume, we may casually remark that the year 1855 will witness its publica tion unopposed by attempted competition—a' work of similar diameter, though by no means equal in correctness of ar rangement and detail, having, after an ephemeral existence, entailing enormous loss to its projectors, been at length aban doned. This was a result 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 accurat e , mus t b e coun t er p ar t s of each other."—Miming Journal, November 17, 1555. " E 'tent, variety, and accuracy of information, so far as we have had occasion to test it, i s no t th e only feature of the book. Its production is a typographical euriosity."— Spectator, November 17, 1855. " This wonderful volume is a proof that the work of orga nisation and administration can be 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 we 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 uow a gigantie tome, although its style of binding renders it easy of use—Sunday Timm, November, 18, 1855. " The due mat) that accompanies it embraces an incroased area, and considerable additions have been made to the book. It e. joys a deserved reputation never achieved by any work of its class, and London may bo proud of its standard di rectory."—Weekly 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 of the work, and we believe that the result of their inquiry will lead them to concur with us in the opinion that the Post Office _Directory is one of the marvels of the present age."—Observer, November 19, 1855. " We can conceive of no better representation of the super fieies, as there is certainly no better guide to the contents of London than the Directory just named, now the only publica tion of the kind. —2 Vonconformist, 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 won. But what of the future of this wonderful book ? As it lies on 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 last 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. "Wo have tested the lateness of the period up o which it has been corrected, by referring to changes within our own knowledge, and we are bound to say that in every case wo have found that the Directory has recorded the change, al though some of them have been of very recent ccurreuce." —Leader, December 1, 1855. " Any commendation on our part of this invaluable and universally-known volume would be utterly superfluous. Tho accuracy, fulness, clear and careful printing are beyond 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 au impossible, ono. Publications of this magnitude can rarely be produced at a start—they re quire years for their growth and development." Press, De cember 8, 1855. Kelly and Co., 19, 20, and 21, Old Boswell-court; and all Booksellers. • THE SCARBRO' HOTEL, LEEDS, CLOSE TO THE MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION. B. FLEISCHMANN, having renewed the effi • Lease, and considerably enlarged his Betel, in soliciting future 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 charges In which depart ment will be strictly commercial. STAR PACKETS from the TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND, 9, 2. oft , ' BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the following Trains from Fenehurch-street.lo4, wedther permit ting. The Packets will call at the Rashervills, Oreenhithe, Purtleet and North Woolwich Piers. To or Loeb tiruvniena &nu London •....... 10.1. 2i. „ k.revesen,l and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. losf. „ Frith and Loradon•—• •• . Frith sn 1 Blackwell or Woolwich..., .. ed. .. Oa. Bd. tot vg.en Oieves.nd and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd. Octacr 23, 1855. CURISTMAS PRESENTS. HE most appropriate Off er i ng s f or thi s S eason T of Festivity are tkote which tend to the promotion of Health and Personal Attraction. Nene can be more acceptable than ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, for imparting a transcendent lustre to the Hair, and sustaining it in decorative charm. ROWLANDA' KALTDOR imparts a radiant ',loom to the cheek, and a delicacy and softness to the hands, arms, and neck ; and ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, bestows on the Teeth a pearl-like whiteness, and renders the Breath sweet and pure. The patronage of Royalty throughout Europe, their general use by rank avid fashion, and the universally•knonn efficacy of these articles, give them a celebrity unparalleled. *** Beware of spurious imitations !! ! Sold by A. ROWLA.ND and SONS, 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfliaters. COMMITTAL OF ' THR FEMALE IMPOS TER AT CANTIMBURT. CANTERBURY, 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 many other aliases, has just been committed to prison for two months, ou the charge of obtaining board, lodging, and money under false pretences, at the parish of Ospringe, on the 7th inst. From time 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 various 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 a; 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 weekte when the imposition was discovered, and she left, and proceeded to Liverpool. In 184 G this imposter was taken to the office of the Men dicity Society, in London, under the name of Mary Hal lawap, and represented that she had been a nursery go verness, lint was in great distress, in consequence of having been thrown out of employ. Inquiry was inqi tuted, and it was ascertained that she was oee of the greatest adepts at fraud in the metropolis. TNO years afterward=, in 1848, she was found apparently in a fit iu Liverpool, and placed 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 c,ndition, placed her in a good school, where she remained for about nine months, and then ran away. In 1852 she succeeded in imuosing upon a Mr. Rogers, at Norwich, and a Mrs. Wiseman, at Tivetshall, near Soule, Norfolk, and was taken before the magistrates, but dischargeal, as the offence could not be clearly made out against her. She hat then, according to her state ment, run away from her father's house, for the purpose of being married, but 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 vicar of Trumpington placed 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. Is 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 offetice she was imprisoned in Northallerton House of Correction for three mouths. During the past summer her "ladyship" was boarded and lodged in the house of a London missionary for three months, when she suddenly disappea re d , tak i ng 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 three weeks. It would appear that she then wended her way to Cante r b ury. 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Guidicy, Smyrna; and H. Hoods, Malta. A , a • Mat ..sere. 4• erth nubs' [ PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• THE LORD ADVOCATE ON THE PARLIA MENT AND THE WAR. A soiree was held in the Assembly-rooms, Leith, on Friday, which the Lord Advocate and several other gen tlemen 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 Loran, the Rev. Dr. Stevenson, the Rev. Dr. Harper, and other clergymen, Mr. Gibson Thompson, Mr. D. Thom, Mr. W. Lindsay, &c. The ball was filled by a most respectable assemblage. The LORD ADVOCATE said he bad 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 bad beau convened for social, and not for political or electioneering per poies. He did not mean to make a constitutional speech on 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 sent crisis of affairs. He had been four years in Parlia ment, and he could assure the audience that it was a very peculiar and remarkable assemblage. It had many sin - ;ular and curious characteristics which no body of men who ever met possessed in an equal degree. There was in the atmosphere which pervaded the whole place that before which meanness and hypocrisy 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, so surely was its resonance heard in that house. There was no place wherepretension or hollowness was more speedily detected than there. It was a place wbee comparatively ability was second to honesty, and where a man who was honest and earnest in his purpose, and had made himself master of his subject, was always certain of a hearing, where the more flashy, and probably more clever, man, who intruded himself into matters with which lie was but superficially acquainted, or with which he had nothing to do, would not command an audience for a quarter of infiu- enee of theifouse of Commons, or rather, herateWase the true reflex and reverberation of the free - Feelience:c this country. It showed how trury 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, though 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 long as there were these true instincts in the representatives of the people, so long, they might &Teed upon it, free institutions and free goys rnrnents 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 he was net one. His lordship then re ferred to the suljsct of the war. He said a bear had passed einco last he had been among his constituents at any public demonstration. t this time last year, Alma, leislaklava, and Inkerman were past, and on the back of these glorious but still calamitous days there came that long dreary winter where was beard from time to time o those gallant troops wasting under an enemy more inglo rious but mere disastrous than Russia ever was. A year had 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 herneelvee too soon in saying that, in every essential respect, the position of the army would be entirely re versed, and that our countrymen in tho 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 Palmer ten and Lord Panmure when he said that the state in which the troops now found themselves wns such as to entitle these noble lords to the gratitude of the country. (Renewed applause ) There were some men of talent and respect:), hility—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, tot without reason, to the horrors of war and to the de solation it carried into malty happy homes. 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 rue the risk of horrors too dreadful to contemplate. He believed we wore not a day too soon in/entering upon the war, for if we had allowed Russia to take Constantinople, to augment her fleet within the Black Sea (of which the would then have been the un controlled mistress, to improve her navy as the hest im proved her artillery), and to strengthen her fleets as she bed done her fortresses—and 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 wore now, she had come down upon our shores, where would me 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 lets we should have to do it hereafter. He rejoiced to think that, though we had sustained many hardships, and thoueli many hardships might be to come, the na tional spirit of the people had not flinched an inch, or given 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 when be looked back on the past session, he was free to say that he did not regard it with any great amount nE complacency. His feeling was that the people of this country had shown a ()tearer and better discernment in some respects than their representatives. He quite agree , 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 the estima tion of Europe by the way in which it had dealt with this grat question of the war. That was not a subject ou which he liked to speak ; but, as he was called to speak upon it among 1 . 4 . ;9 constituency, he thought the best way was to sty 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 been unforeseen and unprovided fort Hear, hear.) Lord Aberdeen went out of office. Lord Aberdeen was thus no longer the Minister under whom he served ; but he should do great violence to his own feelings did he not say that he believed Lord Aberdeen to have been.as honest and straightforward a 'Minister as hail ever served his country. (Hears) He 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 nothin g b u t t h e most open, stra i g htforward, and candid condu c t ; and he (the Lord Advocate) was satis fied that, whatever went wrong with the administration of the war during his Government, his only anxiety and wish was to carry on the war with vigour and effect. ut (Cheers.) N o d ou b t grea t disasters came upon of sid but what he ca ll e d t h e ungene rous and unjust political these fa c t s was t hi s —that there was o ‘ f the country. Its l trading c arr i e d on in the misfortunes was, he thought, un generous and bead of affairs with the and unjust to load the men who h a pp ene d to be at the blame of misfortunes which must, to any dispassionate onlooker, have red to a great extent inevitable. For, he would at u p st ea ask how had our allies fared If those men w ho would insist that it was nothing nd not having the right I dministration, a but ma a thatgave rise to all those scenes men in the right places, g of misery, could have shown that our allies, who had the good fortune not to be subjected to those particular caus es of maladmin nitration, had come better off, th a t would have gone a far way to s ho w that their statements were well founded ; but he did not believe 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 great 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 wo 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 bad been lowered—by writ ings in the public press on the subject of this war. The instance of Lord R ag l an was sufficient in itself to justify Teflon. Sir Colin Campbell had but . .he subject of a disparaging article in one of the public prints, and in a very few days the impute• tions there made had to be unreservedly retracted„ The general now commanding in the Crimea had the one day been the subject of disparaging remarks, an the other the subject of an elaborate enlogium coming from the same quarter. When he remembered all these things, be thought this country should keep the even tenour of its way undisturbed by these eternal flue tuations of sentiment and opinion. They were usefu guides to show how the wind blew, but it would neve do if the character and reputation of our officers 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 Minister could not, he thought, be accused of supineness. He ' bet. at his post from day to day, and he had borne up .g.i . the crushing anxieties of his position with a spirit the de thought deserved well of his country ; and it was most unjust for any writer to make this statement, in total ignorance, as we yet were, of the circumstances in which Kars fell, or as to whether it could have been relieved or not, or who was the party that could have relieved it. But so it was, the moment that there was any chance of a little public rumour run ning in the direction against the War-office because of some little disaster, up came this straw to see how the wind blew, the chance being, however, that in a short time all this would have to be unsaid. This was not the 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 people, for he did not think that among the great body of the people there was the slightest sympathy with those fluctuating and preLature expressions of opinion. Passing from this subject he might have ale luded to many questions of domestic interest, were not these all absorbed in the greater topic of the war. In regard to education, he bad 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 pressing on out atten• tion, the enemy he found the most difficult to seccelnter was indifference. If ho could only arouse his country men to a sense of the absolute necessity of doing some thing in this great work, we should soon have an educa tion .scheme, whether more in favour of the established church or of the dissenters but few would care, could we only secure to every child in the country a common education. (Applause.) The proceedings then terminated. THE MEMORY OP THE BRA YE. ( From the Manchester Examiner.) There will by this time be few men in Manchester who csu afford a shilling at noonday, or a sixpence at eventide' Who . wiltenaliteerilrepetT,. Mil - Oat of war at rfit:cet;aiig . e ROO/liV : lit ' hett"Wist-seeister_Clsy , the 4 ee t . belligerent qeelities of Mr. tierge - 'S;;ltee. 'it Messrs. -.- Agnew and Son. After having read about the Crimea for the last 18 months, and had it served up in all sorts of ways by all sorts of writer=, from the dashing plume of Mr. Russell to the little drummer-boy writing un graniniatically to his mother ; after having beheld it in the gross en 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 roe, and sent off slips of the peninsula, like copy for the press —to those extemporised productions which have left it du bioui which was the land and which was 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 fault piece of music—after all those 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, hut 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 win ter, when " England's dear boys" were all supposed is be dechying - iiii those deathly hill sides—has now been replaced by more genial times. Sunshine has c nue again, and whilst it has gladdened the hearts of the heroes themselves, it has been enlisted by Mr. Fenton and Mr. Agnew to give the scenes of the great drama, and to picture fur England and France seme groups of men;whose memory shall be green when artist, and heroes, and writers are gone, and only the great crb himself remains shining over our graves. It is a wonderful exhibition. The pictures, notwithstanding their unerring exactness, ere to us, at least, far more suggestive than those which, com ing front the simple imagining of ordinary artists, would seemto draw inure large:y on the conception. That " Val ley of the Shadow of Death," far instance, with its grim outlines of hills, and interlying pavement oriron missiles, what an angry, vengeful, remorseless, and yet tranquil lecture is that ! Those cannon balls lying there in all sorts of ugly heaps, were they all harmless, or, after hissing and chirping with merry an d bl oo d y i ntent down the valley, did they heat a victim flat, and so have lived not in vain I Several of those dead rotundities wore to us the sem• blanee of disappointed messengers. They seemed huddled together, like men in di'grace as faithless servants. ()theirs looked more hopeful, as much as t i say, "Give us attother chance, send us back home, we are h'relinge 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 1 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 more glohtny than that memorable Cathcart's Hill, on which are groped the tumuli of the unfortunate brave, with their eloquent columns and sacred symbols, solemn, I but cheerful, in their nobl e repose. W e t hi nk of bins whose nettle has made a history of that hill, and who fell amongst the brushwood of Inkerman. We 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 rowe 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 read in the Times of the cool courage of General Windham, who walked about unscathed at the Redan amidst a storm of shot 'I His head is bent over a portefeaille 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 groat Russian war. Then will the illustrated lecture commence ; and at the prints are turned up, papa will become an enthusiastic Tacitue. And will the 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 Glowed his barber to mi t t his hair so short ? Can we quite ensure ourselves that the same urchin will not confound the Zeuaves with warlike females, until his ideas be properly sup pressed and classified by Tacitue I We may conceive of groups of this sort many a Christmas hence, and we think in Exchange-street at present we could pick out the preei.e pictures which will form the centre of those groups. For these are things which risen feel inclined_ to have for themselves, that they may be looked at often, and talked about frequently. It was formerly difficult te enter a licensed victriller'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, aul cautions, and a dead private in the fore ground, and the D u k e on horseback, apparently sitting for a statue, forthwith sprung up Waterloo-ea fine work of imagin a ti on t ru l y, but as much like Waterloo, as Peterloo, o r h u ll a b aloo, or any other of t h at c l ass o f events. It will be a delightful reform in the interior.ii ofof village inns to find Mr. Fenton usurping the func b tie laud s imaginative artists, and giving to all who travel o o d r e s b i y rne water d. T a il e t r r o u e a ro s o ipresentmentfaces o in f the ho persons or o r il a a t ce i places collection not would do a man good to look at, .e o ven Wew have y associated with deeds of hif o h t e h m e p g r r i o s up of the " Council men tioned Lord Raglan, who, in old squire in the society of of War," looks il l e . delights to honour. Let everyone British chief. We stopped for some moments fnoorteeigwn'eelrlstlwiehrortrait of Gen. Estcourt, as that of a well descended before Gen. Sir De Lacy Evans, who looks as if he meant m ischief, and if mischief were to be done it must b e I 'ne , nd he would see that it was done well. Clo se b y ( Sir Richard England, with a martial moustache and handsome face, confronts the visitor, and says, physiog nomically, "Am I the man the Times would make 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 writes such stuff that lie is —well, then, a theorist. Why there are shoulder and limb and muscle, all strong and active, and piloted by a will-as strong and muscular, which leaves doubt to the newspapers, and has lc) doubt before the enemy. What man may dare, they will d are — t h ey eat and drink round that jovial camp table, aud to-morrow they die. To-morrow, in that group, one drinking born the less will be 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 requieB"4/ Second-class Staff-Surgeon Daniel J. Doherty , on being r e li eve d f rom duty, will proceed to Portsmouth to embark on board the Thames on IVednesday, in medical charge of detachments. THE COAL TEADE.—SHIELDS, Thursday Afternoon. —A. large fleet of light colliers, several hundred sail, during have arrived in the northern coal ports the past two days. Many of them have been five and six weeks on their pass age down, and the arrival in port of so larg e a number of seamen will materially add to the comfort o f man y a home during Christmas time. In consequence of the heavy sea breaking on the coast several disaster, have octuirred to the vessels attempting to run for the harbour. Five vessels, two brigs, and three schooners, are ashore at the mouth of the Tyne. The crews were rescued without say great difficulty, and at Sunderland the Lovely Nelly, of Lyme, the Exchange M oor) , o f Yar mouth, the brig Edward and Sarah, from London, the brig Ford, of London, the brig B o lt , from London —all drove northward of the harbour and came ashore. It is reported that four lives have been lost, Several light vessels, seeing the heavy sea on the coas t and the crowd ing in of the fleet, ran to the north, whe re they will seek shelter in some of the bays. A very heavy gale has been experienced to the southward of th e Humber, and several vessels have b een telegraphed a.* ashore. n-`~.J . :leek ,~. i