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By the Writers of " Punch." King John, Mr. W. H. Payne; Harlequin, Mr. J. Ridgway; Pan taloon, Mr. Garden ; Columbine, Mrs. J. Ridgway ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes is., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 23, Will be repeated the Comedietta of A CURE FOR LOVE. Fells Trimmer, Esq., Mr. W. Farren ; Richard Sadgrovs, Esq., Mr. Buckstone. Mrs. Felix Trimmer, Mrs. Malone 14yen.bpd ; .3.11r5. Major Browne, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Miss Bitterton, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, THE DOWAGER. Lord Alfred Lyndsay, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Dowager Countess of Tresilian, Madame Vestris. To be followed by the Drama of THE BASTILE. Louis Quatorze, Mr. I-I. }loll; Fricandeau, Mr. Webster; the Duchess de Montbazon, Miss Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma dame Celeste. To conclude with a Grand Comical 13urlesque Bur letta, called RiQUET, WITH THE TUFT. Prince Riquet, with the Tuft, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Green-horn the Great, kir. James Bland; Prince Finikin, Miss Charles ; The Princess Emeralds, Madame Vestris. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD -STREET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 28, Will be produced a New Domestic Drama, entitled SHE'S NOT TO BLAME, in which Miss Amelia Mercer, from the Theatre Royal, York, will make her First Appearance in London. After which, THE WELSH RABBIT. The Principal Characters by Mr. J. S. Balls, Mr. Salter, and Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with a New Fairs , burlesque burletta, entitled THE YELLOW DWARF. Principal characters by Mr. Oxberry, Mrs. Anderson, Miss Noel, Madle. Melanie Duval, and 11. Deneze, who will make their first appearance in this country in the incidental ballet. Places anti Private Boxes to be bad at the Theatre, and at all the princ•pal Libraries. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPFIL THIS EVENING, DEC. 2S, Will be repeated the new Burletta, entitled THE MER CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford. Wright, Maynard, ~Vtelan 1, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brook s , an d M rs . P . Grattan. After •,,hich. a New Farce, called YANKEE NOTES FOR ENGLISH CIRCULATION. Principal Characters by Mr. Rice (th e ce l e b rated representative of Negro Character), Mes , r;. Wright, Wilkinson, Maynarcl, Mesdames H. P. Grat tan, H. Beverley, and Chaplin. To conclude %Zit") a New Christmas Pantomime, called THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD; or, HARLEQUIN AND 'OBODY. Harlequin, Mr. Frampton ; Anti •Clown (No body),. M ieland ; Cl own, M r. 11 . B ever l y; Pantaloon, Sanders Co umbine, Miss Rollin. Boaes, ti Plt, 2s. ; Gallery, h. Doors open at half-past commerce at seven o'clock. • D A V IDGE'.i ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. 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Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 27. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 44 ; Highest, 52 : Noon, 4' BAROMETER, 29.04.—W1ND, S.W. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 38 minutes after 10 Evening l7 minutes after 11. , • s 1.3 ) . 4, „ Alr" 7 : r.:4 • Zte nu, LONDON : WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 28, 1842 A paragraph has gone round of the papers, sportively asserting that the Duke of BUCKING HAM has offered a reward for the discovery of any new argument in ifavour of the Corn-law. Several arguments have, in consequence, been suggested, but it is not said whether they were regarded as noire], and, therefore, entitled to the reward. Though the monopolists may not have succeeded in that object, they have certainly pointed out a forcible, if not a new, argument against the law. The Mark-lane Express has this passage, which must be full of terror for the landowners:— The demand which has been created by deficient harvests during the last four years has given a stimu lus to the growth of wheat upon the Continent; and if there should be an abundant harvest generally next year, we should not be surprised to see wheat at as low a price as in 1835. In this view we are confirmed by the Banker's Circular of the 16th inst. :—" The four or five consecutive years of large exports of grain from all parts of the continent of Europe and all the shores of the Mediterranean and its connecting seas eastward to England, have so stimulated produc tion that corn is likely to ba in excess beyond the power of consumption of the population of Europe for some years to come, and prices consequently low. There is, for example, a marsh in the neighbourhood of Leghorn, 30 miles in length, which a few years since grew scarcely a blade of corn—so unhealthy that the peasants were allowed to cultivate patches of it without paying any rent, now covered with the finest wheat possible." Now what has .been the stimulus to that pro duction, not at home, but abroad ? Obviously the high price of wheat in England, which is not a natural price, the result of the increase of our population, and the deficiency of the home supply, but of the Corn-law. The sliding-scale was expressly intended to raise the price, and limit the foreigner's advantage ; but he has always been able, except last year, in consequence of the unexpectedly early and bounteous harvest, to introduce the bulk of his corn at a nominal, or very low duty. The foreigner, therefore, who grows his corn, as the Post continually assures us, at a very little cost, has continually obtained for it, when we wanted any, the high, artificial prices of England. Hence the landowners of Mecklenburgh—and we shall not soon forget seeing one of them, as he went across to Ham burgh, most complacently handling a purse heavy with English gold—Tuscany, the Crimea, and Poland, have in some years realised pro digious gains, which have stimulated cultivation in those countries. Now were there no Corn law, the price here would not rise at any time so much above the level of price on the Continent ; the stimulus of our growing population would be first felt at home ; and till all that our own cultivators could supply had been consumed, none would be brought across the ocean. That the price of grain should rule somewhat higher here than on the Continent, from the density of our population, and its rapid increase, is natural; but the great excess of price which tempts at times, and at times rewards, foreign cultivation, is the result of our enactments. But what are the elements of the law-made high price of England, or of what is it made up ? First an artificial value is given to land, and the farmer must promise, before he begins to culti vate, to pay an exorbitant rent for the use of it. , He must pay more for all his seed-corn and the food of his animals. He must pay more in poor and county rates. He must pay more for wages —for the increased rent is paid on the food of his labourers ; and his increased expenses, in order to bring corn to market, caused by the law, constitute the elements of its high price in England. Thus the Corn-law subjects the Eng lish farmer to heavy charges, from which the foreigner is wholly exempt, who nevertheless gets as high a price for his wheat, when he can import it, in the English market as the English farmer. Hence the Corn-laws operate imme diately as a premium for foreigners to cultivate corn for our market. We know that their after consequences, in putting an end to trade, operate in the contrary sense and abroad as well as at home, they carry with them all the curses of a great system of gambling, and now make men wild with hope, and anon make them mad with despair. The Mark-lane Express, in common with other journals, blames public men for not ad hering to the law. That is unjust. Public men have maintained the law as long as they possi bly could, and at an expense of national misery which is now, and ever will be, a terrible re proach to them. The Whigs did not meddle with it till they were compelled, and the strong est condemnation of the Corn-law repealers pronounced by any statesman proceeded from the mouth of Lord MELBOURNE. Sir R. PEEL, too, was reluctant to take the subject in hand but he could not help himself; though his man ner of handling it would have been a disgrace even to that ingenious youth, Mr. GLADSTONE, had he been the author of the new sliding-scale. If he touch it again, as touch it he must, parti cularly with the prospect of the price of wheat falling even lower than it was in 183:5, it will not bpeeoopfle v hi ‘ s ho ownfree will, but on co m p u l s i on . Th e expect that such a law, or any simi lar law can be maintained, are far more to blame than the s t atesman who opens his eyes to facts, yields to the pressure of circumstances, and abro gates a law of which he is at length convinced that it inflicts a grievous injury on very per sons it was intended to benefit. It is real folly to ask and strive to preserve such a law, and real wisdom to resolve—as it must be given to give it up instantly - . Those who talk and write about encourage ment to agriculture, who discuss at interminable length the 'operation of manures, and yet never carry their ideas beyond the dunghill and the grim tide-waiter keeping out foreign corn, seem to us to have most mole-tike views of the ques- tion. The best manure is not to be found in the farm-yard, but in the city. It is the increase of customers. The best encouragement for agri culture is not duty on corn, but the increase of the demand. The best system of dlrainage is the growth of towns, which carries away superfluous hands from the land, and supplies the means of carrying away superfluous moisture. If Sir R. _ . PEEL wishes to have our fields manured, encou rage agriculture, and prevent the threatened fall of the price of agricultural prod uce below the level of 18.35, he will, on the meeting of Parlia ment, abolish restrictions on trade, and allow the manufacturing and commercial reoptilation to find employment and prosperity. A Morning Contemporary yesterday gave a sketch of the policy of LOUIS PHILIPPE, of I which this is the substance. Fearing for his throne in the years immediately succeeding the Revolution, that Kiug assiduously courted the friendship of England, and was anxious to con clude with her sonic treaty to which the North ern Courts should not be parties. In 1834 the situation of Portugal and Spain sup pied an op portunity to form such a treaty, and. the Quad ruple Treaty was concluded. But - Louts PHIL LIPPE never meant to execute that treaty, and promoted sedition and rebellion against the Go vernment, and promoted war anti, bloodshed in the land he had pledged himself to protect, by allowing Don CARLOS to make F ranee tire basis of operations against his trusting ally. Having this treaty, he used it to brib4: the Northern Powers to favour him, and ph Aged. himself, if they would countenance him, t hat he would n of keep his engagements with us. In defiance .of his treaty, therefore, he sou; ;ht. to establistC, TAR SUN, LONDON, despotism in Spain, and overthrow his own ally. Defeated in this nefarious scheme, he re solved, cost what it might, to marry the young Queen of SPAIN to a BOURBON. In working out this new plan, he has employed strata gems to produce disturbance and insurrection in Spain ; he has fomented civil war, and been the real author of the carnage at Barcelona. That is the summary of the article in the Morn ing Chronicle, and no man was ever accused of more deceit and of greater cowardice and wick edness. He is charged with deceiving Spain, and protracting there all the horrors of war; with deceiving England, and risking, but for the good sense of the people, a European war; with deceiving the Northern Powers, inasmuch as he wished to make them, unknowingly, the abettors of his designs on the young QUEEN ; and he is charged, while he sits in his easy chair, or lies in his down and silk-curtained bed, or paces his terrace under the security of his own guards— not braving the war, nor inflamed, by a long flat tered ambition, like BONAPARTE-with planning and promoting the worst of all crimes, sedition, without a just cause, and civil war amongst a distinct people. The world can supply no ex ample of more complicated treachery and greater poltroonery. In any other journal such remarks might be of trifling importance. They might be described as the tirade of some ill-informed, rabid demo. crat, or as the outpourings of some furious, dis appointed pretender. But it is generally said that Lord PALMERSTON writes these articles for the Chronicle, or causes them to be written. They are, therefore, Lord PALMERSTON'S charges —who is perfectly well acquainted with all the secrets of those transactions—against Lours PHILIPPE. They are the picture of a statesman painted by a statesman. They make us acquainted with the motives of statesmen, and serve to explain the intemperance of the person over-reached, for which England has had to suffer, and the turpitude of the person over-reaching. They display to us the true character of the men the people are required almost to worship. Looking at the indescribable mass of misery, the extor tion, the plunder, the coercion, the innumerable restraints and punishments the Louis PHILIPPES inflict on mankind in every age and country, we doubt whether a more important truth than this of statesmen being totally unworthy of obe- dience, confidence, and trust—of their being some of the worst men in existence, were ever revealed or discovered. It is impossible to allow such charges to pass unnoticed into oblivion. The honour of the French nation is deeply involved in them. Will they tolerate being made the instruments, for no national object, of such treachery and cold. blooded cruelty? The honour of human nature is involved in them. Shall moral, religious, righteous, God fearing n►en continue to reve- rence such an incarnation of wickedness? Al reflecting and serious persons--all the French na. tion—must call loudly, and repeatedly for the re. futation of these charges; fur, it' not refitted, they must, from their own love of' good, from their respect for virtue, cast off all reverence for such men. It is a minor matter, but it deserves to be noted, because it will interest par ties, that it will be impossible. as long as these charges are ascribed without contradiction to Lord PALMERSTON, and remain unrefuted by Louts PHILIPPE, that the former should ever hold an office in our Government while the latter is on the Throne of France. The inhabitants of the United States, if we are to judge from the annual Message delivered by the PRESIDENT, are a very religious people. That high functionary, to whatever party he may belong, never subjects himself to the imputation made by Sir ROBERT INGLIS against the MEL BOURNE Government, but devoutly offers up thanks, in the name of the people, for the mania fold mercies conferred on them as a nation. The Message this year is peculiarly marked in this respect. "We have continued reason," says he, "to express our profound gratitude to the great CREATOR of all things, for numberless benefits conferred upon us as a people." And after enumerating some of these benefits, adds, "Such are the circumstances under which you now assemble in your respective Chambers, and which should lead us to unite in praise and thanksgiving to that GREAT BEING who made us, and who preserves us as a nation." After such a solemn preamble, we expected some se vere admonitions respecting the sins of the people, and especially those two great national sins, Slavery and " Repudiation." Not the slightest rebuke of these great crimes escapes from his lips ; and though he laments in the most lugubrious strains the want of money and the want of credit, he forgets to lament the sufferings brought upon thousands of families in England and France by a system of fraud and bad faith unexampled in modern times. Even France, when driven to madness by the profligacy of her rulers, and the total ruin of her finances, did not, like certain States, forget justice and honour, but. paid according to her means. For the Americans there is no such excuse as poverty or bad goverment; for, according to the PRESIDENT, it is a land blessed with genial seasons—the granaries are filled with abundance—the neces saries of life abound in every direction, and it is the best governed country in the world. This omission is the more remarkable, as, in almost the same breath in which he alludes to want of credit, he emphatically de• clares that the credit of a Government is the very soul of a Government itself—a principle of vitality, without which all its movements are languid, and all its operations embarrassed. The first great duty, therefore, he had to perform was to enjoin upon the people the only course for re medying the evil. Heshould have taken his text from the inspired writings, which he has evidently read with care, and said " Pay that which thou owest." " Thou shalt not covet any tiling that is thy neighbour's." " Owe no man any thing." The Giver of all Good to whom he so devoutly pours out thanksgivings cannot fail to punish deeds which are contrary to the principles of morality and the dictates of true religion ; and that nation which sets them at defiance, how ever powerful, cannot escape, any more than a private individual, from the consequences of such crimes. The punishment in fact has com menced. Credit is gone, trade is paralysed, and universal reproach now attaches to the whole American nation. They have ample means; n e e i y n ttloms make r fraudulentlyrailroads o a b n ta d i n c e a d n aennd atibleledinotl comfortstitese improve exte ns i ve tracts of territory ; and while means, awnesl,l many n the o of tei neces sariesrthey'doe;ilviefetlie from unfortunate creditors are pining in want and broken-hearted. Indignation against such con duct, and the manner in which the Chief Magis trate of a great country has passed over it, is loudly expressed in all quarters. Let the Ame rican Congress, therefore, look to its true inte rests, and wipe away the disgrace. Improve ments in one State benefit all those around it; the debt of each of them becomes the debt of the community; and common sense and common justice demand that Congress should recognise it as such. There are many honourable and able men in that assembly, and we therefore confi dently trust that the subject will be brought for ward this session; and that a country which boasts of its liberty, its wealth, and its religion, will re move a stigma which now effectually excludes it from the pale of civilized nations. As we observed on Al iriday, Lord MANNERS'S pamphlet, entitled " A Plea for National Holi days," is more to be commended for its good in tentions, than the snacity which dictated it. When we glanced over two or three of its earlier pages, we began to fancy that his Lord ship's views would be very likely to accord with our own, on the subject of holidays, inasmuch as we are no advocatesfor—what the Spectator aptly calls—" the all work and no play system," but hold that occasional recreation is abso lutely indispensable to the mind's health as well as the body's; we soon found, however, abundant cause to differ with the Noble Lord, for if be recommend an increase in the number of public holidays, it is not so much with a view of the people's welfare, as to the aggrandisement of the Church. He seems to imagine, with the Puseyites, t'iat she has not half power enough, and accordingly he would increase that power by every ingenious contrivance pos sible. Hence his lament for the pau city of holidays, and his recommendation that their number should be increased, so that— we quote his own words—" the poor and labour ing population of England may be restored to the beneficent and venerable sway"of Mother Church. Now we have no desire to see this ancient dame exercising more influence over the minds of the poor than she at present exercises, for we cannot but remember that she has almost invariably been an enemy to freedom of thought, and has made a point of exerting her authority with a view to keep the popular mind in a state of " fat, contented ignorance." "We have abun dant reason to hope," observes Lord JOHN MAN NERS, " that were the observance of Sain.s-days services encouraged, rather than discouraged by modern laws and habits, not only would our churches be filled with humble worshippers, but the poor and needy would feel in many little and unsuspected ways, far more than they can feel now, that the Church is indeed to thenz a mother —an endless well of comfort and consolation, running over with blessings, temporal and eternal, alike in the heats of Lammas or the snows of Christmas." This is a mere flourish of speech, which means something or nothing, just according to the reader's fancy. The allusion, in particular, to the probability of the Church's proving a mo ther to the poor, is a special instance of rigma role. She may exhibit herself to them as a grandmother, with all the indolence and imbe cility of old age; but we think it very unlikely that she will ever give them proofs of her ma ternal relationship to them, by evincing. any ex cessive solicitude respecting their spiritual and temporal interests. The intelligence from Barcelona is to the 18th, but is generally without interest. The REGENT, who was still at Sarnia, had shown great le niency towards the insurgents, and had set at berty almost every civilian. The war contribu tion, too, was to be reduced from 800,000 to 400,000 dollars. The following telegraphic dis patch, from the French frontier, has been re ceived:— " PERPIGNAN, DEC. 23. " General Seoane, the new Captain-General, ar rived at Barcelona on the 20th. General Van Halen was to leave on the 22d, with the Regent. A delay of a week had been granted for the payment of the contribution. " The Foreign Consuls, including the English one, have offered a public dinner to the French Consul and to the Commandant and staff of the French and naval force." WEDNESDAY MORN- DECEMBER 2s, 1842. COURT CIRCrLAR. WINDSOR, TUBSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al bert enjoyed their usual early walk in the Home Park, this morning; afterwards his Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, Mr. George Edward Anson, a n d Captain Francis Seymour. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an airing to-day. The Rev. Lord W. and Lady Russell will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner circle this even ing. Covers are laid for fifteen. The Royal dinner party is also expected to include Viscount and Vis countess Canning, Hon. Miss Lister, Hon. Miss Lid dell, Sir H. Wheatley, Captain Francis Seymour, Marquis of Ormonde, Hon. C. A. Murray, Captain Meynell, and the Equerries in Waiting on the Queen and the Prince. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester on Monday, at Gloucester House. The Duchess of Cambridge after wards returned to her residence, at Kew. The Duke of Cambridge paid a visit to her Royal High ness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Glouces ter House. Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador, visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Foreign-office. His Excellency the Turkish Ambas sador transacted business yesterday, at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Viscount Canning arrived in town yesterday morn ing from Windsor Castle. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. BOAST V. SMITH AND SHIELDS. SIR,—My attention having been called to your re port of this case of the 14th inst., and having some time since been, and also my wife being, patients of Mr. Boast, I feel called upon to state, lest my wife might be considered as the Mrs. Cox cutting so prominent a figure in such report, that the real name of that lady is Cock. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, Dover-road, Dec. 17. JAMES COX. A CHRISTMAS PlE. — The host and hostess of an hotel in Whitby have provided a Christmas standing pie for their friends, and those commercials who may be destined to spend this festive season under their hospitable roof, of the following prodigious dimensions and contents :--It is oval shaped, beautifully illus trated with devices cut in pastry, emblematical of the season ; measures 84 inches round, extreme length 30 inches, w idth 21 inches, an d h e i g ht o f t h e crust nine inches. It contains four stones of flour and 121bs. of butter and suet, a brace of pheasants, a brace of partridges, two geese, two rabbits, ten chickens, -six ducks, two tongues, one turkey, an d 61bs. of lam—York Paper. EXPLOSION AT LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday morn ing last, abMilf past six o'clo c k, a v i o l en t exp l os i on took place Vols rave' s resin -works, Hill-street, Toxteth-part. The shock was so violent as to break every pane of glass en the premises, while most of the windows in the neighbourhood were more or less damaged, several of them having their frames broken. By energetic and judicious measures, the fire was ex tinguished before the arrival of the fire-police. The Earl of Eglinton has been elected president of the Caledonian Hunt for the ensuing year, vacant by the retirement, in rotation, of the Marquis of Breadal bane. MORPETIT, Dec. 2 4.—Intelligence has been re ceived in this town this afternoon of an aecithnt which has befallen Mr. Richard Hodgson, the Member for Berwick, at or near Brinkburn Priory, distant about nine miles hence, the residence of Major Cadogan. The report is to the effect that whilst Mr. Hodgson and Major Cadogan were shooting this afternoon on the estate at Brickburn, the former received a gun .shot wound in the leg, by the accidental discharge ofMajor Cadogan's gun. htIiRDER, OR HOMICIDE, AT RUTHERGLEN.—From the number of depredations which have of late been committed on the potatoe-pitsof the farmers in various quarters around the city, it has been the practice to set a watch upon them during the night. On Thurs day night, a man named John APl3ride farm servant with Mr. Mason, at I3ulloch' s Mill, i n the neighbour hood of Ruthergien, was sent out with a gun to watch the pits on the farm. About two o'clock on Friday morning I\FBride discovered three men busily em ployed in helping themselves from one of the pits, on which he gave the alarm, and the parties instantly took to their heels. The man, M'Bride, then fired after them, but, from the darkness of the morning, place they mwashere aged t t he oget out of sight. On examining the men had been, it was found that three sacks which th e t hi eves h a d l e f t conta i ne d up wards of twelve pecks. About daylight, some children going for milk discovered the dead body of a man lying in a field, about 220 yards distant from the pit at which the thieves had been scared; and the alarm being given, a gentleman, who was passing at the time, generously paid the hire of a cart, and had the body conveyed to Rutherglen Court Hall. The ground around where the body was lying was found saturated with blood, from several wounds in the man's arm, inflicted by the small shot, which had severely grazed i! - .; the shot had also entered other parts of the body. The deceased is an old veteran, wanting the left arm, blind of the left eve, and of wretched appearance. He has been recognised as a person named John Allan, residing about Havannah-street. On the information reaching Rutherglen MTH& was apprehended and lodged in gaol there, from whence he has been brought to Glasgow prison. We understand that the Sheriff directed an examination of the body to be made by Drs. Easton and Al‘Grigor on Saturday.—Glasgow Argus. CORN-LAws.--W e understand that Mr. Acland, whose lectures produc2cl so strong an impression in Scotland at this time last year, is again about to visit this quarter of the kingdom on a mission from the Anti-Corn-law League. Mr. Acland will, we believe, commence by delivering lectures in this city, and is afterwards to visit several towns throughout Scotland, which he was formerly unable to overtake.—Glasgow Argus. Workmen are engaged in laying down wooden pavement round the Bank of England, in Thread needle-street. TRAFFIC BETWEEN IPSWICH AND LONDON: " ' Last week, the Orwell steamer carried not less than 5,000 turkeys, geese, &c., to the metropolis.— w Ipswh Ex. press. Miss Hamblin has been tried for murder, for hay ing stabbed a Mr. Ewing in the theatre at Mobile, and acquitted.—New York Tribune. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The English Stocks have received some support from the improved tone of feeling exhibited at Paris in reference to the Barcelona affair, but very little speculation is going on. Consols closed at 93 3 to 938 ; Exchequer Bills at 555. premium ; and the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities (the Old) at 101*. There was an apparent disposition to do business in most of the Foreign Securities, and the quotations generally improved. Spanish Five per Cents. left off at 19, and the Three per Cents. at 25. Portuguese Converted were 33:1, and the Three per Cents. 24*. Mexican Bonds were rather better, being 31- to 318; Chilian were 744- ; Buenos Ayres, '25 ; Brazilian, 714; Peruvian, 18A.; Russian Stock was firm at 1131 to 1i 31 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 528 to Altogether the Foreign Market was most buoyant and animated. Since this morning the only bargains in the Share Market have been in South Eastern and Dover at 27* discount, and in Australasia Bank at 131 prem. It is satisfactory to notice that the Exchanges were again more in our favour. These were the rates given this afternoon :—Paris, 25f. 92ic. to 97c.; Hamburgh, 13 111 to 12; Antwerp, 12 54 to 12 6 ; Frankfort, 1521 to 1 ; Amsterdam, 12 61 ; and Trieste, 10 2. (From The Sun of Last Night.) Yesterday having been a general holiday at Liver pool, no business was done in either the Cotton or Share market. Two new plans, just laid before the Government at Madrid, for furnishing it with funds to carry on the administration with vigour, and to effect judicious re • ductions in the expenditure, have just become known in the City, where they attract a good deal of atten tion, and lead to general discussion among all parties interested in the affairs of Spain. Withregard to the proposition for advancing one mil lion sterling upon the security of the Almaden mines, and 500,0001. subsequently, there may he something feasible • in this, but the other proposition for guaranteeing the payment of the interest on the three per cent. debt, provided more three per cent. stock to the amount of 5,000,0001. is created, and given as collateral security to the capitalists, so binding them selves, is of a most dangerous tendency, notwith standing the proviso that the new stock should only be issued in case of a failure of its en gagements on the part of the Spanish Go vernment, and then not at a lower price than 35. Those acquainted with the financial affairs of govern ments are well aware of the temptation, when the coffers are low, of breaking through contracts, and raising money by issues of stock when once there is a supply of such on hand; and if the object be to im prove the security of the present creditors, nothing more fatal could, we think, be resolved upon than to hold such a rod in terrorein over their unfortunate heads as the contingent issue of 5,000,000/. of stock. The Almaden mines may be let well, and are quite sufficient security in themselves, but that a few rich stockjobbers prefer the plan most likely to put money in their own pockets. Free trade principles, we hope, are spreading in America, as it is stated in the accounts received yes terday, that among other objections to the existing laws, which regulate commerce with other nations, it has been urged that the want of sufficiently discrimi nating impositions, are the cause of great and dispro portionate increase in the employment of foreign ves sels in the transportation of American produce. The proportion of United States goods exported in British vessels to Great Britain direct, declined from one third to one-fourth, while the proportion carried in the vessels of the north of Europe, which are not sub ject to onerous taxation at home, has largely in (*leased. The vessels of the Hanse towns curry now 200 per cent. of that carried in American vessels, in stead of 15 per cent. as in 1821. This is the only Power which has the advantage of the United States, in the international trade ; and it arises partly from the absurd treaty which admits vessels of all nations to sail under the Hanseatic tiag, but mostly from the fact, that in consequence " of the absence of all taxation at home, those vessels can be built and sailed cheaper than those of the United States ; and the increasing quantity of cotton to be carried creates a demand for tonnage, which they can supply cheaper than the American ship builder, whose Government has imposed upon him a tax of five dollars per ton, to protect the manufac turers of iron, cordage, &c. These common com mercial principles have infinitely more to do with the increase or diminution of American trade, than the dreams of small political lawyers, whose most subtle paper schemes are set at naught by tradingingenuity." The market for the public securities has been firm, though business continues very restricted. The broker acting for the Savings' Bank Commissioners has taken the usual amount in Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities at 941. Consols are 934 to 93* .for the opening. Exchequer Bills realised 525. to •545. premium. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 101* to 101/ ; and the Old Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 101 to 101*. The Canada Debentures have been done at 1+ premium. In the Foreign Stocks the leading feature has been the dabbling of a few jobbers of influence in the Spa nish investments, upon the strength of the " grand new and original pantomime," said to be in prepara tion for exhibiting more tricks in the finance line, and building up a famous treasury, not of cards, but of something equally fragile, Three per Cent. Bonds, to the amount of 5,000,000/. The Actives have touched 184 to 191 ; and the Three per Cents. 244 to 258; Portuguese Bonds are firm, the New at 40 ; and the Converted, 338 ; Mexican Stock has realised only 311, but Brazilian has improved to 711 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted at 521. The Railway Shares have been very dull, but are not lower in price. Edinburgh and Glasgow now realise * discount ; Great Western, New, 141 pre mium ; Brighton Loan Notes, 1 premium ; Paris and Rouen, 6 premium ; and South Eastern Scrip, 2+ dis PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 24. Three per Cent. Consols Ditto, New, 1830. Bank Stock ... BOURSE--PARIS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24. First Highest ~ ..owest Last Price. Price Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 118 95... 119 ... 118 90... 119 Four per Cents. 101 50... 101 50... 101 50... 101 50 Threes . 78 60... 78 65... 78 55.. 78 65 Bank of France 3315 ...3320 ...3315 ...3320 Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5080 —.5080 —.5080 —5OBO Belgian Bank, 1811 108') ...10b4) ...1080 _lOBO Belgian Fives lo3} ... 103* .. 1031 ... 103} 1840 103 i ... 104 103 i ... 104 Spanish Active. . 231 ... 23 ... 231 ... 231 Passive 4 ... 4 ... 4 ... 4 Neapolitan Roman lo4k ... 104 i ... 104 k 1041 RAILWAY SHARES St. Germain B4O ... 840 840 ... 849 Versailles, L.B ll3 75... 115 113 75... 'l5 R.B 2BO ... 285 ... 280 285 Rouen ... .... 640 ... 655 ... 640 652 50 Orleans. 621 25... 625 621 25... 625 Strasburg to Bale 202 50... 202 50... 202 50... 202 50 CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. !India Stock — pm Ditto Bonds (Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities — Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 55 ,m Ditto 5001_ .. 54 Ditto Small ..... . 55 fin Bank Stock for Acct. India Stock for Ofig... Consols for Opg. 93i ! FUNDS. iPortuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto !Prussian, 5 per cent — Russian, 5 pei cent 1134 !Ditto, Metallic ...... . 'Spanish, 5 per cent., l9 Ditto, Deferred.... . French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Exchange —f —c French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 2i per cent....... 52i Ditto, 5 per cent. .. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons 3i per Cent. New 3i per Cent Cent New 5 per Cen. Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 Jan. 166 U r3REiGD 4nstrian, 5 per cent Belgian, per cent Brazilian Bonds... Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. 25 Chilian, 6 per cent. 74i Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 Cuba'Bonds, 6 per cent. Danish, 3 per cent — Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 3li Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825,6 per ct. , . . SHARES. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... ... ___. Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) Great Western, (64 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) _ Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) .. ..... Paris and Rouen (20 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ...., 224 Ditto Scrip (20 'mid) COURSE OF' EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 si r Gibraltar .. Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 9 Genoa Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 $0 Palermo, per oz 124 Ditto, 3 months 26 5 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 10 Rio Janeiro 25 Frankfort on Maine ...152i 'Bahia Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 361 /Buenos Ayres — Berlin... Vienna, eiTqc. 11. 3 M lO 2 Philadelphia 4d Trieste, ditto lO 3 .PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid Cadiz Bilbao Barcelona 96 'New Dollars... ......... 0 4 9 1 } Seville ;Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 11i THE CHINESE llEnoEs.—At the meetin g o f th e Limerick Corporation last week, Alderman Watson gave notice of a motion of thanks to the gallant officers, natives of Limerick, who distinguished themselves in China, namely—Sir Hugh Gough, Captain Bourchier, and Major Sergeant and his son, 18th Royal Irish. Councillor N. Kelly suggested that; as Limerick had ever been distinguished by the gallantry of its ladies, the name of Lady Sale should be included. Alderman Watson said he would do so with great pleasure, and he read an extract from the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Spencer's sermon in support of his views respecting the China treaty.—Limerick Paper. Stinetimmia “Agift AND la) Ur 4p tu to " Who runs may rend.' roistExGx. Madrid accounts indicate the dissolution of the Cortes as inevitable, and a modification of the Minis try as likely. Nothing, however, is certain on this subject till the return of the Regent. Letters from Athens of the 7th inst. announce that the new Minister of Finance, M. Lillevergo, having become insane, the King had not yet been able to supply his place. All those to whom his Majesty had offered that department refused to accept it. "The Treasury," say these letters, "is in a state of bank ruptcy; the public functionaries have not been paid for the last three months. A crisis is fast approaching in Greece." The Leipsic Gazette of the 20th inst. states, that notwithstanding it is more than a year since a Royal ordinance appeared at Berlin limiting the power of the censors of the public press, no mitigation of their severity had ensued. Accounts from Alexandria of the 6th inst. state, that Mehemet Ali was still in Lower Egypt, and not expected to return to Alexandria for some time. His son, Ibraham Pacha, had arrived at Cairo. The mortality continued among the cattle. The Pacha, it is said, inteads to purchase the Great Western to convert her into a steam-frigate. PLTSZIO OPINION. Iu reference to the President's Message, the Times says :—" We have seldom had occasion to peruse a document in which the feebleness of the individual by whom it is promulgated, and the foibles of the people to whom it is addressed, are more conspicuously dis played than they are in the last Message of the Presi dent of the United States. To assert that the Ame rican States under their free and wise institutions are rapidly advancing towards the consummation, of the high destiny which an over-ruling Providence seems to have marked out for them'—that the Ame ricans have a Government, the strongest in the world, because emanating from the popular will, and firmly rooted in the affections of a great and free people, and whose fidelity to its engagements has never been questioned'—and that the name of General Jack son was placed, by the defence of New Orleans, amongst those of the greatest captains of the age'— is to provoke a smile throughout the civilized earth, and to speak in a tone which is the more ludicrous, because it is contrasted with the humiliating facts which even this pompous discourse cannot altogether conceal or contradict. 'With some few exceptions, there is hardly a paragraph in this Message which does not convey some arrogant assumption very ill-suited to the present condition of American so ciety and American credit ; and, however reluctant we may be to pass a severe or unfavourable judg ment on the concerns of our friends on the other side of the Atlantic, it is impossible to withhold the expression of our dissent from many of the propositions laid down by President Tyler for the edification of the Congress and the nation. The part, however, of the President's Message which will excite the greatest interest in this country, as well as in .the United States, is that which relates to the state of the finances of the Union. From the estimates which it contains, it would appear that the principal defalcation in the revenue is expected to arise on the present quarter. Indeed, if these round statements are to be relied upon, the decrease in the Customs for the fourth quarter is equal to the whole anticipated decrease on the revenue of the year. Our limits, forbid us to enter to-day upon the discussion of the scheme which, under the name of a national exchequer, is put forward with the hope of improving the currency and retrieving the credit of the country But, whatever be the merits of the project, it can hardly be doubted that no such scheme can be suc cessfully carried into execution, except by a Govern ment and a party of overwhelming and incontestible power. That power, it is needless to add, Mr. Tyler and his friends never possessed; and already the ap proaching elections of Congress and of the future President have roused political feeling in America to a height which must at least suspend all effectual legislation on these important subjects." The Herald thus speaks of the American President, Tyler The present positi on o f P res id ent Tyler is most singular; accidentally elevated to the Presiden tial office, when therein he quickly deprived himself of the support of the party by which he .had been elected to the Vice-Presidency —and if, his motive for deserting the Whigs were to secure his re-election by the Democrats he has failed to secure their support, and the Whigs appear to be still numerically the stronger party in Congress had they,a chief , to com bine and govern them. The Presidentis now isolated from both parties, and is furiously attacked by the ultras of either ; possessed of a strong will, decided personal opinions and unbounded courage, and un fettered by party connection s , h e . has shaken party combinations in the Union to their foundation with.; out gaining personal advantages, and the certainty that under no probable contingency will Mr. Tyler be re-elected makes his presidency one of more than ordinary struggle in the republic, and of tumult, cons fusion, disorder and intrigue i n C ongress. The misery of all this is, that during this preparation fot the next presidential election, this violence, this dis cord, and these intrigues, national questions of the utmost importance and principles, full of future hap piness or wretchedness, are in agitation ; and the ne cessities of the country do not produce one man of commanding intellect or superior intelligence. To us, distant spectators indeed, bad as Mr, Tyler's op ponents assert him to be, there seems as much, pro bably more, sterling good sense in his views, than in those of any other politician in the Union." The Post has the following remarks, suggested by the American President's Message:" With respect to the new American tariff and the probabilities of its early modification, it may be right for us to utter a word or two of caution to English manufacturers. There is no doubt that the free trade party in the States was in a majority at the late State elections, and that a re-action has set in against the opinions, on the strength of which President Harrison was elected. But we must not calculate too confidently that, therefore, the next President will be a Locofoco President, and that Congress will abolish the import duties. Political re-actions, we beg- to observe are (taking the widest range) things of about semi annual occurrence in America ; and no man knows how many there will be between this year of grace and the next presidential election at the close of 1844. Another important consideration is, that the Democratic party is divided within itself. Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Van Buren are already an nounced as rival candidates on that interest, and even Mr. Tyler himself may try his chance on the same professions. Disputes of this kind are usually settled by a convention of delegates, a majority of whom fix on the man who is to stand.' But it is now ru moured that whether Calhoun or Van Buren be the one chosen, the friends of the other will not abide the decision ;and thus, though in an absolute majority, it is just possible that the Democrats, after all, will not bring in their man, and that some one favourable to protection will be elected. This, of course, is merely problematical; but we thought it only fair to state the facts of the case, that our merchants and manu facturers, engaged in the American trade, may form their own judgments, and watch the progress of events." MONEY-TRADE -COMMERCE. On Saturday next the Liverpool cotton-brokers make up their annual statement of imports, &c. of cotton during the year, from January to December ; from sources at hand it appears in the imports there has been an increase this year of 69,968 bales, and in the exports, 18,680 bales : the increase for consumption is about 600 bales weekly. It is calculated that if the opium trade were en tirely suppressed, there would be an actual loss of 15,000,000 or 16,000,000 dollars per annum as re gards the direct trade with China; besides several millions more for which produce is obtained in the Archipelago. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. A new police-court is about to be erected at the Newington end of Kennington-lane, and is intended to relieve the Union-hall Magistrates, and it is to have a new district assigned to it. The cost of the site will be 6001., and the contractor is to complete it by March, 1844. _ _ LAW' AND POLICE. John Frederick Fulford was charged at Lambeth street with stealing 401. in notes and silver from his employer, Mr. Robert Norrish, baker, Ratcliffe-high way. He was fully committed. Michael Barret, a coal-whipper, was charged at the Thames-office with beating several policemen of the K division in a very brutal manner, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. X um ARTS. A handsome monument was last week erected to the memory of Mungo Park, the enterprising tra veller, in the burial-place of the family at Galashiels. The inscription is—"ln Momory of Mungo Park, the celebrated African Traveller, who perished in the Interior of Africa in 1805, aged 35; also, Mungo Park, of the 11.E.1.C.5." A white marble statue of Mme. Malibran has just been placed in the mausoleum which M. de Beriot had erected in the Cemetery of Lacken, to the memory of the celebrated cantatrice. TELEATIZICAL. The drama in Manchester has been revived, by the opening of the Theatre Royal, under the manage ment of Air. Robert Roxby, a comedian of consider able talent. Shakspeare's play of As You Like It began tke campaign on Saturday. CO URT—FASMION.A.IILE. Viscount and Viscountess Howick, and the Earl of Durham and the Ladies Lambton, have arrived at Howick Hall, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Grey, from Lambton Castle. The Marquis of Granby, M.P. has returned to Belvoir Castle,from a visit to the Marquis and Mar chionesi of Exeter at Burghley House, near Staniford. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness leave . Castle Howard, the seat of the Earl of Carlisle, early in the ensuing week, for Woburn Abbey, to honour the Duke and Duchess of Bedford with their company. • The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn haire, a select party assembled at Barons Court, County Tyrone. Lord A. St. Maur has joined the hunt at Melton Mowbray. Lord William Lennox has left town for Goodwood, to join the party assembled there for the Christmas holidays. IVITSCELLANEOTTS. Upwards of 30,001' persons visited the British Museum on Monday, being twice as many as came the last Boxing-day, when the numbers were 14,600. The Royal Polytechnic Institution was visited by not less than 5,000 holiday-folks. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Arne's opera of Artaxerxes was performed at this theatre last evening, for the purpose of giving A A. Shaw an opportunity of appearing in a thoroughlY English opera. Her Artaxerxes must have convinced the musical public that her claim to be considered the English prima donna, par excellence, rests not Irs. alone upon her proficiency in the modern Italian school of music, b u t upon her thorough knowledg e of her art, a knowledge not confined to the compo sitions of any single school, for she has shown that she is as capable of appreciating and elaborating t he beauties of Arne an d th e older composers as those ot Rossini and the moderni. Her Artaxerxes is, with out comparison, the finest On the stage. She threw an energy and a dignity into the part to which w e have hitherto "been unaccustomed ; the words als° were articulated with a distinctness of enun ciation which rendered every syllable distin ctl y audible ; while, at th e same time the intonation 'Na s rich, and the m us i c g i ven with the most perfect taste, feeling, and correc t ness. U nt il last evefl , intirls had no idea of the capabilities of the part ' - :1. 4 - taxerxes. The exquisite feeling and mellifluous ness of tone with which she gave the air:." I arc Semira, lovely maid," was most deservedly aPP lau 7h e The great triumph of the night, h owe ver, was beautiful melody "In infancy our hopeiliti d , i fe ,2 6 : f Mrs. Alfred Shaw entered thoroughly intolit7 . l - Titi r the composer, and in this beautifully f exhibited a tenderness of feeling and a correctness taste which have never been surpassed. There vit/3 no straining after effect, no endeavour to introdac e f , ornaments, no attempt at showing off the powe rs ° f the singer at th e ex p ense o f t h e mus i c, b ut t h e tide ° melody was suffered to flow on uninterruptedly ell e and rich, and full. The audience listened enraptured silence until the conclusion of the air' and then ther e was one l ou d an d en thusiastic , call for its repetition. Mrs. Alfred Shaw ha u added immensely t o h er a l rea d y hi g h fame by her performa nce o f A r t axerxes. Sh e i s no t only the most mellifluous contralto, and the most accomplis he singer, but also the most finished musician of the day. Miss Rainforth was the Mandane, and her's VVA S r a Mandane e ver y way wort h y o f t h e A r t ax erxes e' Mrs. Alfred Sh aw . W e reco ll ect seeing Miss Rainforth in thi s c h arac t er some t w o year since, and cannot b u t congra t u l a t e her ", the marked i m p rovemen t w hi c h s h e ex hibited lint night. Her M an d ane i s now one o f t h e best on with the stage, and no t on l y did s h e s i ng t h e m usic taste, feeling, and correctness, but she acted the pa rt admirably. In the celebrated bravura, " 31°11 4 e away," her acting was of a very high order. -i ith song of the part, " The soldier tired," was given with great power, chastened and controlled by exquisite taste and judgment. Let Miss Rainforth go on ~. she has begun, and she will achieve for herseu a name and a fame equal to that of fl y . compeers. Har r i son , as Artabanes, wasi:ptvh-e's unequal; he gave th e a i r, " B e h o ld e° uite dismal strand," exce ll en tl y we ll ; the mus i c was q bu t within his compass, and he did full justice to it' he. in " Thy father! away,' renounce the soft claim, failed, manifestly from want of power. i n Brabat 3 Ti r, quartett, Mild as the moonb eam s," he and r ed Mai:vers, who was th e A r b aces r endered most efficient supp or t t o M rs. Alfred Sh llNiv and Miss Rainforth, but to the ladies ale"' is due the credit of having made the opera g°, 1 , 1 ,,,, with the eclat with which it went off last mght• mise en scene was f au ltl ess . A t the fa ll o f the curtal n e - Mrs. Alfr e d Sh aw was loudly called for, and sh made her appearance, le a di ng on Miss Rainfort h . th share th e h onours . B o th l a di es were 'greeted %whilr that applause which their exer ti ons h a d De r s merited. Bunn's pleasant int er l u de o f My Neighbour Wife followed, a n d P u nch' s g l or i ous pan t o mime °°11 ; eluded the e ven i ng ' s en t er t a i nments. Th e house vv7 crammed before the rising-of the curtain • • . .v.vrf i4hZ ADELPHL , The wren/lancet, en Monday at this,pmelar place r of,ptblic ftniuSeinent, commenced,with 'the- burletta 0 , 3 1 the Merchant and his Clerks, which has already ha a successful run. of some nights. Mr. Rice, the' ort" ginat " Jim Crow," then made his boW in ' a 'new farce; from the pen of Mr. Sterling, Notes for English. Circulati on . - Th e piece was , x cr course, written especially f or .Mr. Rice, an d the e e hibition of his peculiar powers. en titled Yanlite:. The character 1 Th e assumes is that of a nigger help at. at Saratoga Springs, and his name Julius -Cwsat Washington Hickory Dick. He is enamoured of on e Miss Zip Coon (Mrs. Grattan), a mulatto help in the! boarding-, ouse same establishment, and the humour of the piece chiefly con s i s t s i n th e d ro ll resu l ts o f the jealous ,v with which his black bosom is excited by the atten tions which the copper-coloured object of his devo tion receives at the hands of several inmates of the boarding.. house, and in the manner in which he insinuates him" self into the secrets of the ladies and gentlemen in q ues c i tion.• These p r i nc i pa ll y cons i st o f M r . Bilberry W r a (Wilkinson), a "lib e rty" b oy , an d l oco -foco ; Timo th y Pippin, alias Silas Solomon Sprowl, Sen. (Wrig ht) ' a down east er , an d a hyperbolically vulgar Yankee,, Major Do w bi gg i n , of the United States army, Sprov l jun., Miss Em ma Wad (Miss Chaplin), &c. thing in the s h a p e o f an i nten d e d p l ot i s wo rked ow by these resp ec ti ve p ersonages, un d er var i ou s Pllate s ,, of transatlantic charact er; a runawa y h u sband meet' a runaway . wif e a t th e S pr i ngs, w h o b r ib es his privertf: to aid her in a sc h eme b y w hi c h th e America'i 3 1 sj, t is to elope w ith Mi ss W a d, an d so frath ; , all this was entirely subservient to th.e sole an simple purpos e o f a ff or di ng " th e n; gger" every possible vantage-ground for the disp',ay ti on of his cer tainly most amusing and inimitabl. e re presenta of the peculiar attributes, r.ienners, C huckle s ' and giggles of a "no common " gentien lar : of the African species of our varied geti The farce wa s f o ll owe d b y a new pantom i me . The Children in the Wood, or Harlequin The opening was good, the incidents were well air ' ranged, and the scenic effects were more than nos effective. " Nobody" was played by Mr. Wil t ; Nobod.q. who gave ample proof that he was somebodY• „„ H. Beverley was the Clown. This gentleman n" s ' vast deal of humour, the result of imagination ni ..4 , 1 long experience, and was quite at home in his P f , The Harlequin was Mr. Frampton, the Pantaloon Sanders, and the Columbine, Miss Bullen, whom played well. The piece is good in its 4:1 " . " but, like most others of the present day, wan , cur: tailment and compression. There are some • good jokes and some tolerably good political hits, and te will appear m ore b r illi ant f rom b e i ng shortened. else house was a perfect crowd--every seat and eve r , place for standing being fully occupied. MARYLEBONE. This place of entertainment, after having beefl re ,.."; fitted and decorated, opened on Monday to the lovers; melodrama, and forms one of the provided minor theatres. The entertainments Maid '''.. , evening's amusement were The Saxe , n Maid; a me ' v ' n ' ' and dissolving panorama • and. ...ii rrAg Harlequin and the New ' Huse that Jack Bunt- - - tale of Maid is a drama . of the Victoria school--a tt e e of abused affectior, abduction and revenfi i .e. l u r principal charaP:Lers were' supported by Mr a Free 2ssr • , ei ., and Stirlir -gl with Mesdames Campbei:i and 01- the ville, who were the heroes and hP,roines of c , p' ::co. This piece, afrer some r l .lelaY) Iv a !, su ed. Mother Bouchs; or. ceeded by the Views. The Mother Bunch was played. by Mr. Attvve,u.,n After the transformations he a d taken Once, the i T ed commenced. The tricks, tl%ough not new, are ea;,... 1. 1 . 5 on with an active spirit of: bustle, which ne ver -.- moment allows the merrir.bent to flag.. If the laughterce, and delight of the Pu'ager portinu of the audio__ and smiles of the elder, are tokens of success, the P f 7 i , Pantomime foliovv_d. tomime of this theatre was; eminently so, and bid s t wo to have a successful run.. It er:ds, as usual, i n , t i p ./ happiness of the lover; and tb.e splendour °r ues ,. scenery. The wonderful Arabi 8. - ... e introduced , w" ot $ its of strength and grace of attitude, adde d n w as little to the success of the evening. The theatre _.r, lull, and th e audience passesl, to a ppearance, a w e ' j and agreeable evening. MR• WILSO;N's SCOTTISH EN TO Since the TAIMMENTS. 101 l i rs London 1a• enthusiastic reception of Mr. WI h o 1 „,.. zr >t season, the anticipation of all circles d ,.., lip?i t s el e ." r i in etroll s i r y A"'isten oil the alert for his retain to the laving sung hy special order before MA.1,,„1.: , when a refined Court had been in Scotland; after having been encored by r'il - toi . t i p-, melodies, and the rafters of the ancient Cla" 1 / . ga t nad once again rang to the sweetness of a tenor tttit rivals a Rizzio's in witchery—Monday ►gain brottaia this favourite vocalist to the t same room w hpre be " at before held "Nights wi' Bur ns," when he poured ° 13 ,1 the bright wine of that po .?,t for his audience, a,,, caused their countenances t( ) grow rosy with b l ee d - delighted 1,,1113 sure. As the full luxuries o f Italian song have .oe translated curing the past se: ;son into an intelligl