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On the prees4 - L- -", t. `..,-. al l Ot t ,. ~ ,111 6 , .= - V.- r - •' occasion upwards of 800 sat down to a sumptuous repast t :..; --- , Ng ~......._' -, (/ ', , ,,f,'" qa , . 4 . 0" - _-.' ' 1- 47 , "I ..., ...,-,-,... . . . ,--. ' , - - -L-4...0 _.G.D. 4. '"•'' l' L T I • '' ~.., 0 1 6,2, ci , -P1 oft r'4 l 2 o 't 4 OIT• '.A.• -P "i Sc- • (4111117: v ir ~,,,- , -:, f ell + in the Town-hall. a s 4-1,: :'-- ..,,, ... - - 81. sv .1-.. , r,,, ti i , ..,. , t,,,,40' ,It. .-e , ' ...,--, ad - _c Th s ublisT 4 EATßE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. mard's, SO Lessee for the Christmas Pantomime, Mr. J. H. ANDERSON. TIONS. • 4144111 a success of the great Pantomime of the Field of the re, Dundee. Cloth of Gold. Triumph of the real Clown FLEXMORE. ow - NIGHT an improved and more extensive and more . lie arrangement of MAGIC and MYSTERY by Professor ERSON, the Great wizard of the North, as recently 411 1 him at the Royal Lyceum Tkeatre, 112 consecutive ZS. ~.t itations, and before an aggregate audience of 300,309 LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JAN UA.RY 3, 1856. No. 19,736.] [PRIgE 4D. .STAMPED SD• I a large luarter. ad sales 00 ins and Pel/ London—The Russians set the Thanes on fire—Foreign Fruits and British Stuffs—Odd Importation of Boar's Grease—Sar dinians and Zouaves—The Illustrated London News—The Humours of Good Humour. THE APOTHEOSIS OF YE BELLE ALLIANCE, Designedlby M. Guerin. ENGLAND AND FRANCE. Mourners at One Altar—Victors on One Throne. The Coro nation with the Coronals of Valour by tho Genius of Victory. till—Measures and men—Hits and Skits at Everything and Everything—lnns and Outs— Shoe-black Brigade—A Polished Gentleman—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—Tho Sydenham Trousers—Height of Fashion—Genuine Malt and Hops—All sopp's Pale Ale—The East and the West—Scott's Lot, and a Race for Public Favour. PUBLICATIONS. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the llbrarles, in 2 vols., 211.. A U R A GI- A Y.. A NOVEL. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. incline .. NUMBER ONE, LONDON. A Visit to Dakin's Tea Establishment, St. Paul's—" In to spes 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 on the Old System and the New System, and the System that don't assist 'em—Strong Opposi tion, and final discovery of the " Right Mon 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, ite) .... r sack , ic. 29, 1851 at 778 9 1 --- 4 :, 47s Ell 381 lo 60. ld MORNING PERFORMANCE, on SATURDAY, Jan. 5, at Now ready, Illustrated with Two Maps, at all the booksellers and circulating libraries, Two o'clock. Treasurer, Mr. Bing stow, to whom the Superintendence of the Auditorium has been entrusted. The Box-office is now open, under the direction of Mr. O'Reilly. Private Boxes (which may also be taken at the pria eipal Libraries), 31. 35., 2/. 25., 11. ls., and 12s. Grand Bal cony, 4s. Upper Boxes, 2s. 6d. Amphitheatre Stalls, 2s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, is. Half-price at Nine o'clock. Balcony, 35.; Upper Boxes, ls. 6d. Pit, ls.; Gallery, 6.1. • INSIDE' SEBASTOPOL. Chapman and Hall, Piccadilly,. Horse power. 800 300 This Day, Two Volumes, Post Octavo, w i th A Trap, 16e„ L ETTERS fr c o u m ßA, t a h nd e UNITED STATES, CANADA, By the lion, AMELIA.. 11-MURRAY. London : Jbbn W. Parker and Son, West Strand. Gans. Horse power. 2 60 2 60 2 le fannl decline._ 1 Margaret Manly Mastiff in;liere 4 . rket alcog T HEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH. EAST INDIA 110 USE, 2) JANUARY, 1856. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held at their House in Leadenhalbstreet, oa WEDNESDAY, the 9th April next, for Ito Election of Five Directors for six years, and that by the operation of the Act of 16th and 17th Vic., cap 95, JOON HARVEY ASTELL, ELLIOT MAGNAORTEN, Esq., Ross DONNELLY MANGLES, Esq., M.P., CIIASLEs MILLS, Esq., and MARTIN TUCKER SMITH, Esq., M.P., whose term of service will expire on the said 9 1 / 1 9f April, are, under the 7th section of the Act, immediately re-eligible. JAME 3 C. ME LVILL, Secretary. Mayflower Mistletoe Nightingale Opossum Parthian and black flack Sea..• raburgh a and Arco' 1 Partridge Peacock Pheasant Pickle Plover ............. gaborg and 1 1 "' . . o conclud e with the Grand, National, Historical, and !a lrie PANTOMIME, which has been so long in Prepare.- . and on the Production of which se large an expense has ineurred, of YE BELLE ALLIANCE; or, RLEQUIN GOOD HUMOUR AND YE FIELDE OF YE CLOTHE OF GOLDE ; ng a LEGEND of the MEETING of the MONARCHS. " It was a marvellous sweete and goodlye sight to see those ° Princes, iu the flowere of their age, in the height of their gthe and in the dignitie of their manlye beautye, corn ding two great Nations, that bade been so long rivals and Mies, instead of leading hostile armies to desolate and ,I'o3re, meet in th a t peace f u l va ll eye, an d em b rac e like Olethere, in th e s i ghts of the choice nobilitie of either l an d . " Ole roniclers LIVIth P antomime invented, arranged, and produced by Mr. i d t rria. with the same attention to Scenery, Costumes, ~ fleets which has chara c t er i se d the productions of " Ri ketto,e "II Trovatere," " L'Etoile du Nord," and the °l ' OPeras lately produced at this, the recognised chief tre in Europe for Spectacular Display. The entirely New Most elaborate Scenery Painted by and under the Super udence of Mr. WILLIAM BEVERLEY, assisted by 8 . Cuthbert, C. Adams, W. Shalders, W. Glover, and LaerOus Assistants. The Openin, written by Mr. George : ."st ns Sala. The Music composed by Mr. Loder (who has gingly lent his aid on account of the Pantomime being need at this' Theatre). The Ballet and Incidental ee aarranged by Mr. Benjamin Barnett. The Comic Tricks ente byte Brothers Brough, Mr. A. Harris, and • William Dorrington. The New Spectacular Designs by Gby Mruerin. of Paris. The Eitensive and Complicated Ma .H. Sion= and numerous Assistants. The OH , and Ultra-Grotesque Masks by Mr. G. Ewing. The el and Costly Properties by Mr. Prescott, assisted by Mr. e land. The Ladies' Costumes by Mrs. James. assisted by ' '''anehamp. The Gentlemen's Costumes by Mr. Smithers, te b_ 7 Mr. Lawrence. The Armoury Department by i ron. The Chappellerie by Mrs. Walker. Copyist, ' l4 erton. Prompter, Mr. Rance. Perruquier, Mr. Rick of Brydges-street, Covent-garden. The Novel Gas etuents by - Mr. Palmer and Assistants. The Whole h n otion being under the Immediate Superint en d ence o f ,124, A. 11A.RRIS. S I. CAVERNS OP THE cene GNOME ERITANNICUS IN SUBTERRANEANUSSIA. 7 °4 - 1 1\—iBtltanpjm, (0.. fine old English Gnome), o . ne of 611 me, bearing - a close resemblance to the Old .Lem an r• IL _ • fully answering to his ; a . pur . e un wrated British Spirit, strongly opposed to anything in t he of Foreign Wines, French Brandy, and great in his be uabile Beer, 'Baccy, Beef, and Boxing—Mr. John Neville. des Diablotines, by Mesdemoiselles E. Honey, t) Arlington, Cleveland, Granville, Losh, Brown, Page, , hOse, Kendall, Martinez, Gosselin, Turtle, Ford, 4ei rt, Ranee, and Clare. [tent Gnomes —Blue Fire, Mr. Williams ; Phosph orris •Aunuels ; Candescentington, M r . A. Smith ; Match- Lr• Saunders Ignisfatty, :Ifr. \roller ; Cratervomit, M Mr. Spindle ; a Torchlight, after ; Blazeton, Mr. Parkes ; Sulphurite, Mr. Topham het", Paxman ; Gassington, Mr. B. Brown ; Crater r• Simkins ; Hotspark, Mr. J. Jones; Illuminoso ; .-eY; Nitrebank, Mr. Pratt. 4IE A Scene 11. ' 111 • 41 -1-YS END, CORN WALL, WITH THE CAR d t r OF THE DRAGONS. kiv —un lonr--a familiar spirit, whose familiarity is con . - h i : to the very revers Pantocontempt. The prettiest page m 11°I° vollime of themime)—Miss Harriet Gordon. Ttrp Diorama —No. 1. EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S ARRIVAL IN le GenerSl h.) •om whit' Port switched. And his Enthusiastic Reception. Diorama —No. 2. trEt`T 'VICTORIA'S VISIT TO NAPOLEON'S , arcrool .. • , erpool .., TOMB, o,:iLve In the R o t el dee Inv alides at Paris. ietsr ttit:ht•ithae the last R emem b rance quench • English and the Freich !" dhamptor ithaMPO r ' Mr ...• Rt L I D Scone 111. 0 -.CI( OF " THE GREAT HARRY," FOUR -118 Q t , - DECKER, 114 (the first English Man•of-War). The vessel lying 11 E R alenglicle the Quay at Dover, with Bs o 41/41MATION OF HENRY THE EIGHTH. is•• t,,,,r 7 th e Bighth (a stout monarch, of middle age, residing i te --4 elre at No. 1, Westminster, ' whose idea was that Pessible to have too much of a good thing, or a good te."--'4.- dues wife being a good thing, he thought goodkine d ee 'Ts he had the better. Himself being a , lie f a iTinglY made as extensive as possible in the person wrett y , pftil re P r esentative)—Mr. Harry Pearson. loman he g tte ?Pet(Pag e to King Henry VIII.) —Master . 4 ids o f 1 1 ° f England —Mr. Jones. . ~,, ~ be Bedchamber to the English Queen—Mesdlles. ' pin Bedchamber • aNin a i w', anY, Pansy, and Lily. pin i ,..,5Y (a nautical gentleman much accustome 3 d i t r o y..fi e - rE Tuder % i n seas of , t_-., s . p r i taail " r r zi beaten (commanderseaman,who glory,") vide Shakespore— . of the Great Harry), a who—paradoxical as it may appear °t , al low himself to be beaten by the weather, and t• b 11L n I I "Needs must when the Old Harry Drives W• ..,,,,,,,,...,.,. --To ....‘ ;,j ra towline, Mr. Silver • Jack Halyards, Mr. Up hrel Foremast, Mr. Partingt'on ; Bob Holystone, Mr. 't ; Joe S heetanchor, Mr. T. B. Smith ; Davy Docks, etrield: Ted 'Prunchion, Mr. Freby ; Tim Towrope, ilietust;bpiek Longboat, Mr. Barry ; Peter Stanchion, io' 'it Figurehead, Mr. Solomon ; Hal Hammock, VeY; Charles Caboose, Mr. White ; Sam Sailcloth, I . 1 4 4 . I p a geat Northpole, Mr. Fredericks ; Bill Bunt .* 'mouth •• 1 ret ..•• •i; [than' ptot thatuptor ( 1 4 ter .• •• •• jotl thamplo r 'pt ions port,r thamptorl .9 thaniptonl' thamptol thamptov cr 'Or ..••.•, thaniptorii 11.kmptoS ion ..• •• er .....•• hannpton,!, l nouth •• head •1 3 ,, hampton hampton , , rpoot tiarnptel I' Diorama—No. 3. PROM ENGLAND TO FRANCE, with A STORM at SEA. Scene IV. " E RICA OF THE CHATEAU OF FRANCIS I. rk le . l 'Between Guisnes and Ardennes. 11,, N . B 1. - -- - (Next door neighbour of the aforesaid Henry I '4 ° T., Westminster, but who himself " didn't quite est minster" for an obvious reason—" he lived t'other lu. t ho Water.") A monarch of the same age as Henry, 4 1 7 a rlY of the same size ; joint author (with Henry ilUriginal plot of the gorgeous LE' Drama, YE BELC E, now re p resente d f or t h e fi rs t ti me in a complete „ eolitl:o. Theatre of European Politics. A monarch with If' nose (who, i n consequence, a l wa y s l oo ks s h arp ) — • %alders. Nes Fitzjerald, Bennett, St. Clair, 4Ar ( a veston, E. G avos t on , Prince, &c., &c. 414 n e . Firmboisy.—(Lord Grand Chamberlain to the itite-" I g) -- Mr. H. C ar i es . 4 11 of France. —Mr. Gough. Ipb °f the Bed-Chamber of the French Queen.—Mesdles. Coutrepoint, Rideaufin, Oreillerine. Scene V. i tt PIM FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD, htllucing a Grand Pas de Rosiere, by Miss Emma Home. etu oiselles Hicks, E. Honey, G osse li n, R anoe, K en d a ll , h r r. Bose, Arlington, Losh, Gregory, Turtle, Ford, ' P age, Rouse, Brown, St. Clair, Granville, Wood- Tressider. Courtiers. —Norfolk, Mr. Raba. Suffolk, Mr. Ab v Rockingham, Mr. Jay. Rutland, Mr. Andrews. Cum p4,ll Mr. Sphinx. Northumberland, Mr. Co x . E ssex, M r. Sussex, Mr. Thomas. hA t t: ti oh Courtiers.—Chateau Margeaux, Mr. Thompson. 1 411 -x Lafitte, Mr. Rivers, Bordeaux, Mr. Abby. St. J u l- A." 'LI% Charles.' St. Estafot, Mr. Reynolds. Bourgoy - ne, Mr. Be Chablis, Mr. Tower. De Champagne, Mr. Scott. "u TOURNAMENT of the FIELD of the CLOTH of • GOLD. it li olbiou's celebrated Picture in Hampton Court Palace.) Scene VI. gel• ' 011tAND CORRIDOR IN THB CHATEAU, T,„ n ,. beart•r e "," I,7 l caot to the Bed-chamber of the Monarchs. An Apl e t 'b i le "Le Normandy Lassies, Six Feet Two Inches in their cargo of 'b, Clogs. 201 of Scene VII. THE OUTSIDE OF BLONDETTE'S FARM. o7 li ndette b (a village Rosier° so purely innocent, that she hit i i ., ° • -a rm In having three lovers at a time, two of them t a ""„ tl ,F B )—Miss Emma Horne. dat,T;ucot—a rustic youth, whose name being translated 4,,,.:V i er's Dictionary") s i gn ifi e s " Poppy." He is, never ki,7 th e reverse of S o p or ific, being particularly wide tb: ale is one of the three lovers alluded to, who does CPPenito be 'a king, and takes his measures accordingly) o.4trown. hampta xis part' larnpton iampton His ports, lamptoP tainvten malls Will llr on of the 'V be deIIPOC arket b 6 6; ver than 110 Wing , 3s. Y o rkihire , . ° Ardi ' )utch J Console rhreo poi 3th Jan. .0, 6 per il ? O. 324 - 7 .. 0 Watorfol 2l ,o l i—lrish P • AMP N e t er Biz 04 :e out 0 11 rince'6•At; effect 14 ; 0 al mesl o 6 o he con_t_l2,l,,il . J. J 11 ,f r ih ssvenad work o° o r r great !'O6 not untli a pil the first ,r Dry collo 0, is anko4 ll he build' Scene VIII. The Abode of the Fairy Queen in sg t GOLDEN GROVES OF GOOD HUMOUR. q e ?c ry Queen. (By Mr. Wm. Beverley.) Miss E. Thorne. 4 t] • General Transformation, 4 441 1 0 11 i: Mr. C. BROWN. W. A. BARNES. Rik 01345 (The Transatlantic, Pantomimist.) I tia ' Miss EMMA HORNE. Th GREAT Abtrr ,„'"••••••••••••••••••••••••• '"ARATION • BUILDINGS,e TURMERIC-ROW, FLEXMORE. REDLEAD-SQUARE. C 4428 Of Ale aid a Stomach-ache for 4d. -Genuine double -111)pt-8;t°11t—Up to Snuff and down to Pepper—How the ki,„ ~."ea—Surest upoi Sugar. All pickles to believe in ik i" --utl alk-f.Arra Dairy—Cows T. Pumps—Gunpowder 6. ' tp,' 1),1 6 warranted to go Off"—Pale Ale peculiarities. 'kil l Quassia, Mr. Wyatt; Strychnine, Mr. Scott; Blue li.e4tr. Carter • Oxyplumbi, Mr. Strangeways: hter l terr °r of '.4 Times"—The Lancinations of the t cev...,„ The I ZARD'A )3 w aek Crosses in Red Lead-square. LABORATORY IN THE CHATEAU DE k ME t 'HISTOPHILES, HELIGOLAND. Ikkjie Somersaults--The Bewitched Ottoman - The Dragon k4, l43lo—The lnextinguishable Inexhaustable, UnstoPPer ' 00-a-head B ~, , - " loo,' ~ ,„ ..._ Bottle—" e— . ~ _ Reward, who'll Shoot a k it kra , --The Blunderbuss of Botheration—Bursting of the EN 8 Bnat—Small Wizards made to order, Pattern Pi:e- I litZg l ijekast way to Nowhere—How to make Harlequins ay to Crush the Crushers. k„_,.. THE NEW CASTLE OF BALMORAL. . . trod in the Highlands —Pipers and Pastoralities— V!ld Reel, introducing a grand Flexmorean Medley -The i t Ir. of Inexhaustibility and Universality—The Incaptnr ,, Olequin— Very " fowl" proceedings—The Seductive (I 14, . c hair--,Strange Birds ins Cage. ‘TO (14 1, R)4A KERs, ESTABLISHMENT CHRONOMETI- I ith' VI LLE—MILLINERS' ESTABLISHMENT , BON- Ith:VILLE L.... BELLHANGERS' ESTABLISHMENT, 11:LLEVILLE 1tt,14,6 from Scotland—Cab Fares and Mayne Force —The t ), ,;,..'1e11s of the Age—What's o'clock—" The Clock strikes 'llt s*-l ior? to Ring a Belle_Umbrella Courtship—Who's pi,t, /iceitziatter I—Early Closing As sociation—" Love Laughs m ks 6111 ithe"—La Yarsoviana—The Strike of Belles against 'torsos 16#' , the wi fe" the Wife °! ountess s l4. ' nes fonftli.,o to ' Hor i l ga wrier, v our-equ i 'f: I Stepoo' nitb, EAV Iyds-V II ' ay, of St• Marles iS - ' gf Sir G. J''''' (~ f 3, late °f )mpest, of e.wingtion" Grand Equestrian Feats, by Signor Flesmerini. HIGH -STREET, SPIRIT-SQUARE . 1 4! Ap ar tments to Let. Roll f or B reak f ast —The Organised N Risame Pa. ot;re il'unch's P oc k et B oo k—P a tent Perambul a t ors- Ast )tlrce ql,estrian Feats—Policemen and Cooks — Monsieur 31'i.;;411-round Collars and Punch's Coats—The quickest tbo Coal -cellar—Spirit Rapping Extraordinary. Q Iipn A b iI I•DRESSER'S, FILTER MANUFACTORY -413'S PARCEL WAREHOUSE, ANDgNEWS p h „ VENDER. of Old Father Thames—The lavasien..ef daugho r Norfolk ,* ?co. 11 1 , minty °' nll 13/10 for. 12106 1 for. 0106 4 • 00100 3 150, 0d t .... .. I ign ... . 0010 .... .. --a Od ' TESTHAD II ... •• •• •••• 0 .1 •••••••• .. ...... •••• •••••••••••: ....••.••. •••••••••"...1 • ....... , , ......... '. ..... . • • ••-, va... • • • •,;,1 50 days' 01F;. T F 11:11,LIC ,1 ,11 d in Bsuli id Coin •• dlars •• are .. 11 • • Acting Manager, Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS. Stage Manager, Mr. ROBERT ROXBY. The Box office open daily, from Ten till Six O'clock, under the superintendence of Mr. Edward Chatterton. The REDUCED PRICES at this Theatre as follow :—Pri vate boxes, to hold two persons, 10s. 6d. (Es. for each person extra); on the grand tier, one guinea ; proscenium and stage boxes, 2/. 25.; galleries, Rd, and ls. ; pit, 2s. ; upper boxes, Is. 6d. ; first circle, 2s. 6d.; dress circle, 3s. MORNING PERFORMANCE EVERY WEDNESDAY, at Two o'clock. Mr. Charles Mathews in Two Pieces. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE GREAT GUN TRICK. After whieh will be produced an entirely Novel and Original Inductive, Instructive, Anti-Hypochondriacal, Periodical, Episodical, Magical, Tragical, Logical, Chronological, Gra phical, Chorographical, Philosophical, Cryptographical, Parabolical, Symbolical, Rhythmical, Mimical, Academical, Mechanical, Technical, Pyrotechnical, Historical,-Harmo nical, Heroical, Typical, Allegorical, Metaphorical, Chime .rical,..Satirical,-Historical, Metrical, Symmetrical, 'Lyrical, 'Musical, Practical, Poetical, Whimsical, Fantastic, and Side Shakespearean now GRAND COMIC CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, Which for many for many weeks past has engaged the ex tensive and unrivalled resources of this establishment, and which will now appear under the additional, traditional, and peculiarly suggestive title of HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE ; or, Harlequin King Nonsense and the Seven Ages of Man. The Scenery entirely New, painted by and under the super ' intendence of Mr. William Beverley, assisted by Messrs. James, Wilson, Gompertz, and numerous assistants. The Machinery by Mr. Tucker and assistants. The Pro perties, Decorations, die., by Messrs. Needham, Glindon, and others. The Tricks by Messrs. Roe and assistants. The Chorog,raphic Arrangements under the direction of Madame Louise. The Masks and Personal Appointments designed and executed by the celebrated Dykwynkyn, Artist in Panto mimic Physiolognomy, and Photographic Delineator of Elves, Sprites, and Goblins to the Court of Fairy Laud. The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr. J. H. Tully. The Comic Scenes by Harry Boleno, Glindon, and E. L. Blanchard. The Grotesque Burlesque Opening in vented and written by E. L. Blanchard, Author of " Harle quin Hudibras," " King Humming-top," " Jack and Jill," ; 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 Peep, 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 Noodledom), Messrs. Musty and Rusty ; Old Friends and New Faces " They have their Exits 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 leno ; Dr. Birch (the Village Schoolmaster—afterwards Pan taloon), Mr. G. Tanner; His Pupils, Masters Fagg, Bragg, Wagg, Nagg, Larg, Magg, Stagg, and Tagg ; Rosa (Ward to " The Justice," and afterwards Columbine), Madame Bolono ; Miss Starch, Governess at " Mrs. Howdydo's Establishment for Young Ladies," in the Village of Prottywell-cum-Thankye). Miss Buckram; Her Pupils—Misses Prattle, Rattle, Giggle, Snigglo, Goggle, Joggle, Fangle, Dangle, Sidle, Ogle, Romp, Flirt, Slypuss, and Simperwell ; Hobson (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 hew Hobbedyhoy contrives to hook it—How the Schoolmaster tries the rod, and how Well somebody catches it—How Young Hopeful blows his own trumpet, and the Young Ladies' Establishment comes out all two, to, two too --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, The 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. Bastewoll ; 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 he does—The conse quences thereof, and how Serjeant Kite, being the Author of a great Military Work, gets a good Review. Fourth Age—" The Soldier." " Then a Soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation, even in the cannon's mouth." OLD ABBEY RUINS (Evening). The Trysting Place and tho Lover's Reverie—" Oh, there's won on ar , o g u o s o good youth, ange t nothing half so swee t i n li fe as L ove ' s young dream." Dream h an at d o s ni h y ow lo t T h e e c w at c l ir m ld ak a e w&, The The Spirit of Love, Miss Wadham—Cupid (her Messenger), Master Mischief. Hope, Joy, Desire, Romance, dte., Misses Richardson, E. Richardson, I Happine ss , T rut h , D elig h t, R apture and Marvellous S cenic Metamorphosis, :. 1 1Zi e d Y , ' ZChanical, revealing THE ABODE OF LOVE. Illumined by the Electric Light of One Hundred Bright Eyes. Grand Ballet d'Amour—Principal Dancer, Miss Rasing Wright, assisted by Mdlles. Therese, Marian Lees, s m , 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, 4te. 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, seas 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 Columbines ... Mme. Boleno and Marie Charles, The Two Pantaloons Messrs. Tanner and Deulin Johnson. Tho Two Sprites .. The Brothers Elliott. The Two Clowns - Harry Boleno and Torn Matthews. A SCENE OF INTEREST—TWO TO ONE—Boleno. Buttered Peas —Cheese it—Taking the Pledge—Pop't up— pop't in, and pop't out—Equal Division—Principal and In terest—How to evade the Act—Betting versus Cigars— ., what's the odds so long as you're happy ?"—The Right Tip —How to raise the Wind—The Odds to the Hod—List, oh, list !—Wrong to - back-her, and no Returns—Settling Day, a regular Settler—Gone for the Leger—ln for the Oaks- A Bankrupt's Stock, and a Case of Bale, concluding with h a regular Smash. A SCENE OF INDUSTRY.—BoIeno. A sweet Place--Honesty the best Policy—Honey and Whacks (Wax) —Rising Steps and Steps Rising—Catching Bees all a Hum—lt Beehoves you to Beehave when you attack a Bee hive —Swarming and Wa r ming —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.—BoIeito. 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 " Dramatie World ;" the " World upside down ;" the "Wide World;" the " Wicked World ;" a nd the " W orld in Arms." Lodgings ison the cold at a (coal) o a Premium—Not Ground"—Clown a o ibedowtou and be had—" My Lodging Pantaloon go Down to Bed—" A Sweet Good Night to all." A SCENE OF CONFUSION (LAID IN BEDS). "To bed, to bed"—"'Tin 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 d i s-concerts the Lodgers—" We won't go borne till morning"—Putting them on the Shelf—Natives and a Settler—The War Whoop, the War Dance, and a Warming-pan Accompaniment—Fir e Fire! 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- THE SCARBRO' HOTEL, LEEDS, CLOSR TO THE MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION. üB. FLEISCHMANN , having renewed the • Lease, and considerably enlarged his Hotel, 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-roorn business, he has opened a SECOND-CLASS COFFEE-ROOM, the charges in which depart ment will be strictly commercial. ;. • SMITH'S MONT BL AN C, TO-NIGHT, and every evening (except Saturday), at a o'clock, and Tuesday, Thursday, and , aturday Mornings at 3. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; gallery, Is. —Egyptian Hall,-Piccadilly. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LA URENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter Season. Primipal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcourt.—Doors open at S. Admission one Laurent's new Varsoviana every night. - Wt. W. S. WOODITS OLIO of ODDITIES, IVJL illustrated by 50 instantaneous Metamorphoses of Toles, Character, and Costume, and a moving Panorama of the beautiful Lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland, every evening, at S. A representation of the celebrated tragedienne, Mlle. R echel, as Camille In Les boraces, with other new feattires, have been added to the above entertainment. During the Christmas Holidays Mr. W. S. Woodin will give a morning performance on Saturday, Jan. 5. — Polygraphic-hall, King William street, Charing-cross. CONTRACT FOR BRITISH OAK TIMBER, THICKSTUFF, PLANK, AND TREENAILS. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 3d Jan., 1856. spHE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the sth February next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying 18,230 Loads of BRITISH OAK TIMBER (rough contents, but to be delivered in a rough or sided state, as the said Commissioners shall direct), 6,420 Loads of BRITISH OAK, TIIICKSTUFF, and PLANK, and 1,170,010 BRITISH OAK TREENAILS. To be delivered at her Majesty's several Dockyards by the 31st December, 1858, at prices including all carriage and other expenses. A Tender may be made for the whole Contract, or for the quantities required for any one or more of the yards, but not for less than the fu;l quantities of Timber, Thickstuff, Plank, and Treenails required for any one yard. A form of the tender, showing the distribution, sidings, and dimen sions of the Timber, Thickstuff, Plank, and Treenails, and all oilier necessary particulars, may be had on application to this office by letter or otherwise. No tender will be received after two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, nnloss the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tender for British Oak," and must also be delNered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter ,igned by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 20,0001. for the due performance of the whole contract, or in a due proportion for a part only. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. OFFICES--ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL. Octavius Wigram, Esq., Governor. George Pearkes Barclay, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., Deputy-Governor. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq. rohn Garrett Cattley, Esq. Alexander Colvin, Esq. Charles John Manning, Esq. Hen. John T. Leslie Melville. Henry Nelson, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq. . . Edward Maxwell Daniel, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Alexander Drace. Esq. Itiversdale Wm. Orenfell, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. James Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Zsci. Sir John Henry Telly, Alexander P. Prevost, Esq. Abraham Georg_a Robarts, Esq. Charles Ittititnson, Esq. William Sons% Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Charles Baring Young. Esq. MEDICAL ItErvanv,--Samuel Solly, ESQ., F.R.S. Notice.—The naval ftfteen days allowed for payment of Fire L're rabims falling due at Christmas will expire on the Sth January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Cor poration on advantageous terms. The Assured are exempt from the liabilities of partnership, and rayment of their claims is guaranteed by a large invested capital stock. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation in profits, or, at lower rremtums, without such participation. The Reversionary BONUS on Life Policies has averaged 2 per Cent. per annum on the sum assured, or 46 per cent. en the Premiums paid. Any snm not excee ling 10,0001. may be assured en one Life. The Corporation bears the cost of Policy Stamps and Medical Fees, and requires no entrance-money. The Assured are subject to no expense but the Premium. No extra charge is made for service in the militia within the United Kingdom. LOANS are granted on Life Policies to their full values. This Corporation affords all the advantages of modern practice, with the stability of an office safely constituted under Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament, and tested by the experience of nearly a century and a half. There is but one older life office in existence. _ ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. JOHN A. HIGHANI. Actuary and Secretary. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. THE most appropriate Offerings for this Season of Festivity are those which tend to the promotion of Health and Personal Attraction. None can be more acceptable than ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, for imparting a transcendent lustre to the Hair, and ststaialug It fu decorative charm. ROWLANDS' KALTDOR Imparts a radiant bloom 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 tliroughout Europe, their general use by rank aad fashion, and the universally-known efficacy of these articles, give them a celebrity unparalleled. *** Beware of spurious imitations II ! Sold by A. ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by Chemistsiand:PerthmerS. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. TRIESEMA_R.—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 Modic!ne, which is protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de Pnarmacie do Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienaa. TRIESEMAR, No. I, is a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrlima, , and Exhaustion of the ay(tem, 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. TRIES MAR, No. 2, e factually, in the snort space of three days, completely and entirely e•adicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebe hive so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of tho health of a vast portion of tho population. TRIESEMAR, No. 3, is the great Continental Remedy for 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 I ls. each, free by post, 29, extra, divided int* separate doses, as administered Valpeau, Laliemand, Roux, kc., &c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Johnston, 68 Cornhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, I Ox ford-street ; R. H. Ingham, druggist, 46, Market-street, Manchester; 11, ilad bookseller, Deansge.te, Bolton ; Priestly, chemist, 52, Lord-rstreheutrY, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street, Dublin ; Winnall. bookseller, High-stree , Birmingham . illustrated with eases; tree by post for 26 T.TE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. stamps Just published. Price ERVOUS DEB ILITY; Its Cames, Symptoms, and Cure. —.An Essay on Sper matorrhees, with Practical Observations on a safer and more successful mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative System, obtained by the use: of the Microscope in detecting and lisfin7;ulshing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of every variety of complaint , whet her arisi ng from solitary habits, t s h p e erm tre a a to tmrreh n ai t a, &c. To which of Impuissance, N' Lee3SES, accident, or climate , fol lowed b y p r actical remarks, founded L'nerytwonenstliebyieliaty, years' are added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre cautionary hints on the evils emanating fr o m empirical practice, Local per W ien ea ce kne in es, and on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on these important disorders. By SAMUEL LA'MEBT M.D. 37, BEDFORD-SQU A LE, LONDON, Dsctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member 01 the University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &e., &e. Tue essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man coed, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any c,ther class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its pernsal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of haying hazarded the health. happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It is absolutely necessary that all man should know, that there arc ,irinciples of personal management which cannot bo violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeo , .: the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties a ty be mitigated, hew the sting of their bitterness may be removed, how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, at there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional ,rangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. rum Author has for a eerie; of years been engaged in an extensive actice in the treatment of these delicate eompiaints, which have niortunately been too generally confided tt the care of ignorant emoiries, who indict great injury on those who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had price 25, of Messrs. Sher wood and Co., 23, Paternsster-row ; Hannay, G 3, Oxford-street ; Herne, 19, Leicester-square; Mann, Cornhill; or free by pout for to stoups to any address from the Author's residence. 37, Boa- I ford-square. _ Ati;Oin — efor consultation daily from elcir 4 till two. and from slx till eight. C B o a t Charter.—T t h t e 3 n lar t : ehrceagpisittaelreodrin this country, on aid OF BRITISH NORTH AMl4fuo ik, EARGY DIVILIiEND at the rate a will W be ree p:: hereLy give notice, that a lIALF-Y nk, Incorporated by Royal able s! x to par vo c e e n p t r . o p p e r r i e a t n o r n s u o ul f p o i after the hib day of u nory next, at the office of the Corporation, No. 7, St. nelen . z,placie, Bt.shopsgateiistreet, between tho hours of Ten and Four. j in lc s L ts o n p t sth se and the .. No transfer can be mado between the 15th proximo, as the books mu:t be closed during that p eriod. By order'ef the Court. 7, St. 11c:ell's-place, Lon.lott A , t 6 h ß D l e li c A , 1 1 8 1 55 D. i _ 1 7 =- 111[E XI OA N AMERICAN COMPANY. 'unary, between the hours f hoz i n e e o a m n d e t e a tx x - , The TWENTY-FIRST DIVIDEND ocenen7,afrsehellol e p a e np r I tt i i h a r or e ene o . n or th a t e t e rh shires e o l f , t t h h i jearei Secretary. Form.; for clahning the Dividend may be obtai ne d b y the share , holders on application at the office. HYDR CLARKE. 17, Qracechurch-street, 12th December, 1555. STEAM POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA. powners. as announce d In addition to the renewal of the clipp er contract for Laboucher e , i o n n t e h y e e p a r os w t- i o t fa h c tl e te n L o : i v: e rr ) f oo s l it is understood, is about actively to inau gurate his a sh tu i rday, M r. pre sidency of the colonial department by at last causing the issue of a definitive and bona fide advertisement for ten ders for direct steam postal communication with A.us tralia, the want of which has so long been a source of well-founded exasperation in the colonies and of reproach to the home Government. The advertisement for th ese tenders may be expected every day. The on l y L ondon companies that can really compete for thi s i mportant service are two. First, the Royal West I n di a Mail, whosea llwhence, nowboats in t a with connection c h e al the h t distance, ePanama namely to Aspin wall, Railway, they carry on a constantly increasing com merce with the whole of the west coast of South America, and incidentally also with Australia, with which there is considerable intercourse by way of Valparaiso, Callao, Coquimbo, Guayaquil, and other Chilian and Peruvian ports, as well as San Francisco. Secondly, the Penin sular and Oriental, whose boats also run a great part of the way, but nearly in a precisely opposite direction. Both t'tese associations have immense resources, and no company of inferior magnitude, or in posse ss i on o f less ma in th e s h ape of mu advantages as to occupation of portion of th e route, oan virtually dispute the ground with them. If th ey are wise they will not dispute it with each other, Th ere i s plenty t o u t a r l o i o n m j n f r o io r u b s o r t i h v , al w ry i t . h T o h u i t s anything thein cause whyth ere has been no steam service with Australia for se long a time back, and why, when it was attempted, the service was so inadequately performed, with such trumpery boats, and under such wretched management, th a t th e system broke down, and recourse was again bad, per force, to clippers, greatly to the disgust of the colo nists, who were and are most willing and anxious to pay liberally for what they have every right to expect from the advanced state of steam navigation in this country. If Mr. Labouchere will act in a manner worthy of his commercial antecedents, and with a full sense of the re sponsibility now placed upon him in this respect, he may, by means of these companies alone, secure a re gular fortnightly despatch and receipt of Australian let ters, irrespective of the advantages offered by the Liver pool Steam Line of Messrs. Gibbs and Bright, owners of the Great Britain and the Royal Charter. We under stand that a Liverpool firm have purchased the charter of the lately dissolved Direct Australian Steam Naviga tion Company, of London, who, had they got theli ca pital, intended yenning their vessels to Aspinwall, in connection with the Panama Railway, the direct route ; but failing to obtain funds, and the patience of the share holders being exhausted by the incertitude attaching to the proceedings of the Government, the undertaking has merely gone to swell the wreck of Australian steam en terprise. To what purpose the Liverpool firm mean to thin the charter they have purchased we are unable to say ; but, for the present, at all events, they are not, nor for a long time can they be, in a condition to tender for the contract now about to be opened. We have explained, on a former occasion, that the public can alone be efficiently served, let, by allowing the Peninsular and Oriental to take mails, every alter nate fortnight, by their long . proposed route, originally advocated by Waghorn v i a Singapor e and Sydney, which not only would not disturb, b u t W ould greatly enhance, existing Anglo.lndian-Austral i n t erest , ; an d , 201 y, by allowing the West India Comp any to take the mails overy fortnight via Panama, a route not only much the shortest and speediest, but the only one wh i ch would afford direct communication with New Zoalaad, it being one of the features of this plan to have a blanch steamer at Auckland, to proceed immediately toMelbourne orSydnay, as the case might he, on the arrival of the steamer from Panama, ot route for Sydney or Melbourne. The public, at all events, are in a far better condition than they were since the question was last bandied about from the Admiralty to the Treasury, and from the Treasury to the Colonial-office ; and when no one functionary amongst them had the least idea of the nature of the transit across the isthmus. Even the late Sir W. Moles worth, who was supposed to have made all colonial, and especially all Australian, matters a peculiar study, be came aware only a short time , before his death, that the , railway was much more than projected," as he seemed to think. Were he alive new, h e would , d oubtless, esti mate the full significance to which it m i g h t be converted by us in our relations with Central America, and the purpose to which it is being converted by the United State& The Pacific Mail Steam-ship Company have just made arrangements with the Government of the United States to convey 85 0 troops t o San F ranc i sco, f or which purpose a steamer left New York on the 11th for Old Point Comfort, where the men were tak en on board the following day. They w ere to be conveyed to Aspinwall, and thence over the Isth mus of Panama, the railway company receiving 20,000 d o ll ars f or this portion of the service. This is the first time the railway has been used for military purposes it , and the rapidity with which enable s the American Government to land troop' on any part of the west coast, contrasted with the long and tedious passage roun d th e Horn, renders it as important in apoliti ca l as i n a commercial point of view. In the latter respect, the progress of the company appears to b e retarded only by the difficulty experienced at present i n sending ship. meets to their destination in the Pacific. Several pro jects are now in contemplation to remedy this difficulty. One of them is immediately to be entered upon. A screw steamer, of about 4 00 tons , capacity for merchandise, now lying in the Bay of Panama, has b een taken up for the coasting trade, and will on her first trip northward on the 4th of January, touch at the ports between Panama and Nicaragua. An agent will go i n h er f or purpose of disseminatinginformation among the mer chants and others along the coast. On the return voyage she will touch et the game ports ag a i n, and will pro bably convey to Panama a full cargo of the produce of the country. She will make a !e cen d tr i p up the coast, and, if the enterprise meets with encouragement, she will he kept in that trade. A project i s also in non. templetion to run a steamer on the south-west coast, in connection with the railway ;. and these additi ona l freighting facilities in the Pacific will, it is expected, lead to an enormous increase in the business of the line. The passenger tragic continues satisfactory, every steamer running between New York and Aspinwall be• ing crowded ; but a temporary fallin g off may be ex pected in this branch of revenue, as a consequence of the recent reduction of fares by the Nicaragua, route, which, however, will be closely followed by the mail line via Panama. The Nicaragua Company has been receiving 300,000 dole, per annum from the other, on the sole con dition that the fares by both should be the same, and such subsidy gave them 25 per cent. on the value of their stock ; but this arrangement they have now t erm i na t e d , in the hope, it would seem, of i ncr easing their share of the traffic, nine-tenths of which has hitherto been en joyed by the mail train, owing to th e greater ce l erity and safety afforded by the railway portio n of the Panama route. -- Liverpool Albion. TUE LATE DUKE DE SoTolinYoß.—Th e demise, under painful Circumstances, of the Due de Sotomayor, revives in our mind some recollections of English history. It appears that he had long been suffering from an attack of gout, and his end was unfortunately the result of suicide. The Due de Sctomayfn was the individual who, as Foreign Minister of Spai sent awa y our Am bassador at t wen ty-four hours .notice. The Due de Sotomayor was th e i n timate friend of Narvaez, ex-Prime Minister of Spain. lie was for many years Ambassador in London and Paris, and was a man of great diploma tic knowledge. We have certainly bad transactions with some Spanish Ministers of celebrity—Narvaez, Sotomayor, and Isturitz, the author of the Spanish Marriage, one of the great abortions of Louis Philippe. The following ships and vessels have been added to the fleet (or are in course of building for that purpose) since the first of January, 1855 : STEAM LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIPS. Gun?. Horse power. Guns , Donegal lOl 800 Victor Emmanuel.... 90 .STEAM FRIGATES AND CORVETTES. Guns. Horse Guns. power. Bacchante A riadne 3l 300 Pcaorus Diadem 3O 80Q1 STEAM iIIJN-VESSELS. Guns, horse I power. 200 350 350 350 160 160 2 (1 0 200 200 2 00 2 00 2 00 2 00 2 00 200 2 00 60 60 60 60 GO 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 60 Lapwing , 6 Nimrod . 6 Roebuok., ...... 6 ViQtor .......... 6 Weser ....6 Recruit,,,,. 6 Alacrity ...... 4 A ssurance . 1 4 Cormorant 4 Coromandel 4 Osprey 4 Renard niugalove p.arrowltwk- 4 Surprise Vigilant..... 4 Wanderer Albacone 2 Amelia Azov Banterer Beacon Beaver Blazer 13ouneer 2 Brave ........ 2 Brazen . 2 Buffalo ......... 2 . Bullfinch Bullfrog 2 Bustard 2 Camel 2 60 I Carnation 2 60 Spey Caroline Cabin 2 Codohaffer 2 Confounde r . 2 Crocus . Delight 2 Dove 2 Earnest Erne Escort Fervent 2 F1y........, 2 Foam 2 Forrester Forward Goldfinch Griper . 2 Growler 2 Hasty 2 Haughty . 2 Havoc Herring 2 Highlander.,... 2 Hyaena Insolent 2 Julia Kertch Leveret 2 Lively 2 Louisa Mackerel The Abundance, screw a, The Bruiser, iron screw al The Bustler, paddle-whee power. The Chaaseur, screw steam smithy. The Gulnare, surveying tender. The Hearty, paddle-wheel steam tug-vessel, 100-horse power. The Helen Faucit, paddle-wheel steam-vessel. The }Jasper, screw steam store-ship, 120-horse power. The Indian, surveying vessel. The Landrail, paddle-wheel steam tug-vessel. The Mullet, paddle-wheel steam tug-vessel. The Nimble, paddle-wheel steam tag-vessel. The Pera, iron screw steam lighter. The Redpole, paddle-wheel steam tug-vessel. The Steady, paddle-wheel steam tug-vessel. The Sultana, paddle-wheel steam tug-vessel. The Wallace, iron paddle-wheel steam tug-vessel, 100- horse power. GO GO GO GO Prompt rr o rojo r ram p e j o rps i o . : s e e .. 22 : Quail 2 Rainbow . 2 Raven 2 Redbreuat 2 Ripple . 2 Rocket n ow 2 Sandfly • ':•••••• 2 Savage ... . . ..„ .2 Seagull Sepoy 2 Shamrock 2 Sh ldrake Skipjack • Spanker Spey Spider 2 Staunch Surly Swan Thrasher Tickler Tilbury Violet Wave Whiting Wolf Angler Ant ...... Blossom : Cheerful Chub .... Daisy ... Decoy.... Dwarf .. Fidget ~ Gadfly .. Garland . Gnat Midge, g Nettle Onyx Pert Pet Rambler Tiny :am-vessel (flour-mill). GO GO 60 60 eam-vessel (flour mill). 1 steam tug-vessel, 100-horse The Wye, screw steam tank-vessel, 100-horse power. The above are only such as have been put upon the Nary List during the past year ; but we believe there are as many more in hand and about to be added during the present. The list here given displays a few novelties —32-gun frigates with the power of 131-gun three deckers ! Surely there must be an awful waste of power in such an apportionment. All gun-I;eits from the Ist of January instant are to be independent commands and commissioned as such, not as tenders to other ships, as laet year ; each will have a crew of 86 men and officers. This will create much more emulation than the old system, and more desire to do valuable service. All ships having more than four lieutenants are to be reduced one, as there is a deficiency of actual officers of that grade. All 50-gun frigates are to have commanders added to their staff. Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir G. Seymour, 1C.C.8., G.C.H., commenced his duties as Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth yesterday. He went on board his flag ship, the V ictory, and was received with the usual honours by Captain Gordon and officers ; he afterwards embarked on the steam-tender Fire Queen, and steamed round the fleet at Spithead, whence he steamed into harbsur and made a similar cursory inspection. The steam-transport Indiana, No. 147, embarked at Portsmouth dockyard on Tuesday a large quantity of stores for various draughts of regiments which she was embarking yesterday, and will complete to-day, for ser vice in the East. After the 31st of December last all naval officers' pay bills are ordered to be drawn "seven days after sight," instead of " three days," as heretofore—a change which will be both an inconvenience and a loss to the officer, as the merchants charge discount now, which we are in formed they did not do before. The officers of the Pearl, Devastation, and Intrepid, lying in Woolwich basin, have joined in large numbers, but, in consequence of the increased demand to man the numerous gun-boats and other vessels now fitting out there, a great difficulty is experienced in raising the necessary crews. The gun-boat service is progressing rapidly, all the labourers in that department being em ployed extra hours. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—G-. F. Parker, Naval Instructor to the Conqueror • Ebenezer Waymouth, Acting-Cl er k t o the Impregnable ' • Arthur Hughes, As s i s t an t-Cl er k t o the Seahorse ; Godfrey Foster, Assistant-Clerk to the Devastation; Charles H. Stone, Assistant-Clerk to the Victory ; Edward Tindall, Assistant• Clerk to the Water loo ; Albert Oiler, Assistant-Clerk to the Fisgard ; and George B. Westcott, Assistant-Clerk to the Impreg nable. The recruiting for the Army in Glasgow and the out stations (exclusive of Edinburgh) has been unprecedent edly successful in the year 1855, just closed. During the year the following numbers of men have been medi cally inspected by the staff surgeon resident in that city, viz :—Jan. 675 ; Feb., 654 ; March, 979 ; April, 653 ; May, 698 ; June, 445 ; July, 554; Aug. 307; Sept., 261; Oct., 363 ; Nov., 569; Dec., 514. Total, 6,672. These include the recruits from the Hon. East India Com pany. Of this large number, as near as may be, 5,000 were passed, and sent at once to join the ranks of the British army. The above does not include the enlist ments for the militia. The 21st compa❑y of Royal Sappers and Miners, at Woolwich, is under orders to proceed to Aldershott, where they will be employed under Lieut.-General Sir Frederick Smith, K.C.8., G.C.H. SO non-commissioned officers and privates of the same corps will leave Wool wich on Friday for Chatham. Other draughts are like wise preparing for removal to the same place. The head quarters of the Sappers and Millers will most probably be transferred from Woolwich to Chatham in a short tune, but nothing has been officially received on the sub ject up to the present moment at Woolwich. The non-commissioned officers of the Royal Sappers and Miners of Woolwich and Chatham assembled on Monday last at Woolwich, and presented to Serjeant- Major Bradford, on obtaining his commission as Quar termaster on the augmentation of the corps, a handsome silver vase, or large double-handed cup. A further augmentation is ordered to be made in the Royal Regiment of Artillery—namely, 1 serjeant, 1 bombardier, and 14 gunners to each company, making a total of 1,792 men. A company of Royal Sappers and Miners left Bromp ton on Tuesday by the 9 o'clock p.m. train, en roz.te for the Crimea. The men appeared in high spirits. THE ADMIRALTY AND COLLISIONS AT SEA. During the past two months—the most dangerous in the year to shipping upon the north-east coast—there has been an alarming increase of collisions between ves sels at sea, and a considerable loss of property and life. The lights ordered by the Admiralty to be hoisted by vessels at sea are not deemed satisfactory by medical men, and the following memorial to the beard is in course of signature by the shipmasters of the Tyne : "To THE HON. THE COMMISSIONERS FOR EiECUTING THE OFFICE OF LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. "The humble metncrial of the undersigned master ma riners of, and trading at, the port of Shields, " Showeth,—That your memorialists, in their capacity of master mariners, have constantly entrusted to their skill and management ships and cargoes of considerable value, and also to their care the lives of a great number of seamen. " That, as the law at present exists, your memorialists are compelled in navigating their ships to abide by cer tain regulations framed by your hon. board, that be. tween sunset and sunrise all sailing vessels, when under sail or being towed, shall show a bright light to any vessel they may approach, or which may be approach• Flirt lug them • also when at anc h or s h a ll h ave a constant brigh light at the mast-head. " Your memorialists humbly show unto your lordships that, after a trial of the regulations above referred to, for four years, your memorialists have found from expe rience that the light referred to in such regulations has has not been conducive to the sad proposed, of prevent ing collisions, but, on the contrary, has greatly increased such risk, the bright light having the 'effect of rendering the hull, rigging, and general outline of the vessel invi sible, and rendering it impossible to calculate whether the light is a cable's length or a mile distant, whether it is on board of a ship at anchor or under Way, whether she is Nailing before the wind, or on what tack she is sailing —under which circumstances of doubt and uncer tainty, in endeavouring to avoid collision, the measures then taken often lead to fatal results. "That the bright light required . to be exhibited by vessels at anchor in roadsteads and fairways seriously interferes with the regular Trinity lights, causing in many cases the lights on board the ship at anchor to be mistaken for the Channel marks, leading navigators into dangerous error. "That your memorialists are deeply impreased with the inadequacy of th e present regulations, and humbly lay the matter before your Lordships, in order that it may please your Lordships to cause an inquiry to be made, and such resolutions framed as year Lordships may deem meet. With a view to such proceedings, your memorialists humbly suggest rules to be made to the following effect, which your memorialists consider, from the experience they have had, will be conductive to the safer navigation of vessels in the dark : " That the use of the constant bright light be discon tinued ; and, instead thereof, that signal lights be used by vessels approaching each other, as a green light by ships on the starboard tack, and a bright light by ves sels witk the wind free or bearing away, the ship exhi biting a bright light taking the responsibility of keeping., clear, the other vessel keeping her course. Tliat steam ;Twig should answer . the signals of btlier -vessei.oby: showine- a bright light ; and when the signal has been answer-7d, that the sailing vessel shall steadily pursue her course, leaving the steam-vessel to clear her. "And your memorialists further humbly suggest unto your Lordships that, as an approaching ship may always be sea' from a ship at anther in sufficient time to give warning to keep clear, that the anchored ship should ex hibit a yellow light to the approaching ship in order to call attention, continuing exhibiting it till answered by a bright light, when both may be withdrawn. " And your memorialists, finally, humbly suggest that in a fog at sea signals by sound should be used to indi cate the position and action of the vessels—one sound to represent the starboard tack, another the port tack, an other when the ship is before wind, and another distinct sound when at anchor." DECREASE OF AMERICAN IMMIGRATION. (From the New York Times.) It is estimated by persons familiar with the rate of immigration that if the average be no greater the next six months than the past, there will be a falling off in 1856 of some 150,000 to 180,000 in the number of fo reigners arriving on our shores. This is a weighty fact, and deserves - careful consideration from those who, in business or morals, are speculating on the future of our country. Probably 80,000 of those who stay at home are Germans ; the rest of the deficit is made up almost en ;irely of Irish. If each of these immigrants had con sumed or spent $4 in New York as he passed through, 't would make a difference next year to the city of some $700,000 in income. If each had possessed, in ready money, the average which the returns from Castle Gar den show at present—namely, about sBo—it would diminish the import of specie into the country by about $13,500,000 ; money which is not even an exchange, but is so much clear addition of wealth. Then all these people consume our products ; they rent our houses, they wear our clothes, they eat our corn, wheat, and rye ; our beef, mutton, and fish ; they buy our timber and brick, our iron and coal ; they read our books, and papers, and magazines. Setting down the average cost of living as $2 a week to each man, woman, and child—which would be a low estimate—and sup posing that they, at least, earn all they consume by their labour, we have a loss next year to the producers of the country—to the farmers, the grocers, the build ers, the clothiers, the houseowners, the brickmakers, the coal-miners, the editors and booksellers—of $17,000,000. If these estimates be correct, we have a direct loss next year to the country in this decrease of immigration of over $30,000,000. We cannot easily appreciate this loss until we take some corresponding destruction of value in our wore apparent wealth. People do not readily see loss and gain on a great scale. It has taken centuries to make the mass understand that a farthing or a penny duty on a pound of some foreign article imported is an im mense lose to their own pockets. Texas was thought a valuable acquisition by many in its rich farms, though we paid a round price for it ; yet the value of all the farms in Texas, and Arkansas be sides, is no greater than the value lost by this year's decrease of iminigrat:on. New York and Pennsylvania boast themselves of rich crops of wheat, but the whole worth of their crops, if no greater than in 1850, would be $2,000,000 short of the worth to us of those imint grslits who stay at home for a single year. It would seem a fearful blow to the country, if by war, or fire, or any calamity, our whole exported manufactures—all these to cherish which we have been paying duties so long—should suddenly be utterly destroyed ; yet the loss would be $4,000,010 less, taking the value in 1854, than the loss, this year, from impeded immigration. The quick destruction of all the flour and corn and the pro ducts of agriculture, which we usually export, which bring wealth to so many thousands, would be but a little greater than the destruction, this year, of value imported by the immigrants. If one-third of the cotton 'crop of last year had been lost, what lamentations would have re-echoed irons one end of the Union to the other ! How many would have been bankrupt ; how many would bare felt poorer ! Or, if the whole Indian corn crop last year of New England, New York, New Jer sey' Pennsylvania, Delawa re , M ary l an d, an d t h e dis trict of Columbia bad perished, what a jeremiad of mourning would have arisen ! To appoint a new fast would have been the least which our governors could do. Yet the first of these supposed losses is no greater, and the last is less, than what we shall silently bear this year from decreased immigration. Will not some good Know-nothing governor institute a fast ! The country will feel the deep injury done to its pros perity by this diminution of immigration, even if it does not see its source. Every man who owns tenement houses, the shipbuilder, the shipowner, the cheap grocer, the butcher, the railway companies, the thousands who own stock in them, will feel it. The householder will pay higher soon for his carpenter, his plumber, his painter ; the house-mistress must after a time give more for her cook or her laundress. The farmer must offer higher wages to his men, and put a higher price on his cattle, his milk, his potatoes, and wheat. Less new land will be broken, and those who heist) invested in Western lots must be disappointed in their plans. Busi ness at the great depots of commerce in the West will be less active, because there are fewer hands to help it. Not so many railroads, or canals, or steamboats, or flat boats will be built, because there is less travelling over them, and less labour at hand to build them. The cost of new cities, of schools, churches, stores, and &welling houses will be greatly increased, because there are fewer workmen, at higher rates. Each professional man must, after a time, feel this ; the client can pay less ; the church-goer less ; the patient less. High wages to labouring men are not in themselves necessarily an ad vantage : they depend on their relation to the value of food, clothing, and means of living. With fewer hands to labour in this country every article of living would be more expensive, while the impeding and stoppage of busi ness would not be compensated by the higher rates to the welling man. The wellbeing of each class in a country like this depends on the well-being of every other. If the workman gets $4 a-day who before got $2 be gains nothing if his bread and clothing cost double ; aid he lcses, if there are just half the means for business enterprises as there w ere before. There will be less work for him, and all that he uses will cost more. Under this falling off of immigration will cease some thing of that almost incredible spring of enterprise and prosperity which has thus far characterised our commu nities. It will thus be seen that this wonderful progress was not a mysterious blessing conferred by an unexplain able Providence, or altogether the fruit of the old Scan dinavian and Saxon blood. It will be found not alto gether due to our rich virgin soil, or our wide territo r y, or our deep rivers, or entirely to ou r Puritan industry, I or our Republican Government , or our isolated position. We shall see, then, perhaps too late, or perhaps after a deep depression of every branch of industry and com merce, that those squalid imbruted Irishmen, landing in tatters or homespun ; these foreign, guttural, garlicy Germans, with their nut-brown facas and broad shoul ders ; these conceited Englishmen and hairy French men, these out o'elbows Scotchmen and sharp-eyed Welshmen and rag-picking Italians, all bad some part, and no small part, in building up this grand structure of our prosperity. We shall feel then—and that at no dis tant time—that we depend on them as well as they on u s ; that their bard -earned florins and sovereigns, their tough hands and brawny muscles, even their very patience of drudgery and disagreeable work, are all rich impor tations to our national wealth. We shall then see in every dirty shipload poured forth upon our docks, not so many intruders, or idlers, or beggars, or dependents, but so much invaluable addition to the riches of the country. And perhaps then, also, as we have missed the ready ingenuity, the cheerful toil, the natural waste, the social happiness of these foreign artisans—as we have seen that our oountry was becom ing less a blessing to humanity—depressed and degraded —than to the Anglo-Saxon races, we may be ready to welcome the poor foreign labourer with a more humane and a broader charity, feeling that both were placed by Providence to be of good to each other. If this result finally comes of our diminished immigra- 1 tion then we shall not so much regret it. N. A. Brunner; coronet for the ' ' ; returning county and city of Oxford, presided. Amongst the cola. pany were, the Right Hon. E. C ar d we ll, M . P ., th e - - Mayor of Oxford, Ald ermen S a dl er , D u dl ey, Towle, an 4 Spiers, several members of the town council, th e N. A, of the G ran d L o d ge o f E ng l an d , & c. & o. M r. Langston, ' M•P'-• Wee unable to be present owing to ill ness . 0 4 thanks for the city m em b ers , mr, incgurnaminvinx said—Gentlemen,—lt is always sa interesting occasion when another year has fallen betty,* the scythe of time to reflect (upon the experience of 'the • past, either 0 good or of evil, and to look forward to ills hopes and duties of the year on which we are enter. ing. If this be the case on ordinary occasions, when we are carrying perhaps our commerc i a l a d vances, or ons legal reforms, or the st ep th a t we h ave ta k es to pro mote the comfort, and following on the comfort, the spread of educed( a and int e lli gence among all 11.eillse the u ofnderthese .people circumstances, if, I say, it bean interesting occasion rcumstances, it is still more interesting to feel that to be the case on the present occasion. On looking back upon the year that has closed, and looking forward to those great cardinal events which may distinguish the year that is to come, I will be careful not to inkier) those rules by whi e V we are bound when we become members of this order • but it is no infringement of those rules to think o f the heroism which the year 1855 has written on the impar tial page of hiatory— (hear)—the heroism of Englishmen of every class, with that refinement of Christian e-iuoa- tion which has caused mercy on the field of battle, end which has elevated the character of the British soldier in every . respect in which that character could be bon-. oured. Nor, gentlemen, has it been to our sex alone that the year 1855 has added a wreath of eternal honour. The names of many English women ought to live in history in connection with the events recorded of the year 1855. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, you have been re minded that there has been a break in the horizon— whether it be the break in the clouds which portends** final clearing of the sky, or whether it be the deceptive glare which encourages a transient hope, which follows the outbreak of the gale, it is not for any man in the country at this time to say. The question at the present moment, so far as we aro informed, rests in other hands. I dare say that I express your unanimous feelings in trusting that it may produce that love, that satisfaction, that permanent pacification of Europe which may lead iu future years to a lengthened andlappy peace ; :but if. that should not unhappily be the case, then let us hope that at least when the whole narrative comes to be laid before Eng'aed and the world, the conduct of this country and her attics may stand in honourable relief, and that the continuance of hostilities may be found to rest with him who was the original aggressor. (Cheers.) Sure I ate that you will address yourselves to the question with the determination and truth which will enable you to come to a right opinion, and that the foes of this country may at all times know that this country contains within • itself the indomitable energy which has raised it to its • present perfect or. Gentlemen, if that should be the case, the sacrifices which have already been made shall end in a consummation so much to be desired, the highest blessings will be conferred on Europa and on mankind. We shall then have disposed of that diffi cult question, the realities of the Christian races of this enlightened world. We shall have seen opened to uni. . heart of Europe from the Suabian forest to the Euzine versa' traffic that great river which flows through the Sea. We shall have seen laid open to humanising civi lisation and the Christian influence of commerce the most beautiful regions of the teeming East—regions re lated in Grecian tales and medueval history, which we are probably, if we live long enough, to see attain, in connection with British commerce, a greater degree of • usefulness and a more enduring reputation than anything which they have attai n ed i n f ormer times. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, if that consummation sho u ld arr i ve , we can not doubt that Eng std will pursue that policy by which slie has lways bean characterised—not less first in peace than successful in war—and while continuing the triumph of a pacific courage over all those regions, where she is the mediator of untold blessings to them, while'she will be advancing immeasurably to the development of her own wealth and power—as the year 1853 was the greatest year that British commerce has ever known—so welmay hope and believe that the prosperity already attained is but the type, the outline of a greater degree of prosperity and power ; of that full outline which she is determined, under the blessing of God, to accomplish. It is probable then, that remembering the experience of the past, and that as she possesses the most heroin sol diers, so it will always be her pleasure to maintain her army and fleets in that state of constant efficiency be coming the greatest, the wealthiest, the most powerful country in the world. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, the issue of the great question appears to rest at the present moment with the decision of the Czar in Russia, but whatever may be the case, I do not think it is in the power of hostile countries to disturb us in our career of domestic progress. Therefore I hope, gentlemen, that the year we are about to enter may be re garded by us with hopeful feelings—with feelings of an earnest desire and a confident expectation that when we meet again in this place we may be per mitted to congratulate ourselves on ,the many events which may characterise it, tending to elevate this coun try in the scale of nations, and to promote the internal tranquillity and the happiness and prosperity of this free and generous people. The hon. gentleman sat down amidst loud cheers. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, JAN. 2. Messrs. Robert Freeland and Brother, in reviewing the state of the Manchester market during the past month and year, report : "Our market has not presented any new feature during the past month. The demand for both goods and yarns has continued very active tbroughout the month, and a large amount of business has been done. Stocks, with few exceptions, are very light, and considerable contracts 'have been entered into for future delivery. The staples more particularly adapted for India and China have been most in request, and an advance of from 2 to 3 per cent. has now to be given fur shirtings and madapollams, and fully 1 per cent, more for yarns. For other sorts quo. tations are without alteration. "The past year has been a very unsatisfactory ono to the spinners and manufacturers of this district. At no period has the margin been so small betwixt the price of the raw material and that of the manufactured article. In the early part of the year many of the mills, though working full time, had part of the machinery lying idle. Again, in August and Septem ber, the Blackburn manufacturers set the example of working short time, but were not followed in other districts ; and row, in Manchester, a number of the spinners have taken the opportunity to close their mills in order to an adjustment of wages. All these circumstances lead us to the conviction that the margin allowed for cost of production and profit has been too small for a healbty trade to the millowner. The men. chant, on the other haul, has had to encounter glutted markets in every quarter of this world, and has been compelled to exercise the greatest caution in making his purchases. " In the months of January, February, and March there was very little buying, considering the season of the year, and a gloomy feeling prevailed ; but at the beginning of April, India and China purchases were made to a large extent, induced chiefly by the increased facilities offered in discounting bills. The Bank of Eng land reduced its rate on the sth of that mouth from 5 to 41 per cent. ; on the 3d of May to 4 per cent., and again on the 14th of June to 31 per cent. To this easy state' of the money market (as indicated by the action of the bank) may be ascribed the extraordi nary speculation in cotton, which in one month—from the end of April to the beginning of June—advanced about 11d. per lb. Unfortunately for the spinners they became participators in the excitement, but were not followed by the foreign merchants, who withdrew en tirely from the market ; the consequence was a recoil in June and July of id. per lb. in Liverpool, and in August business was resumed in Manchester to a fair extent at moderate rates. September also promised well, but the upward movement on the part of the Bank acted as a check. Notwithstanding this, the amount of business done in October was large, prices having declined sufficiently to induce buyers of good means to operate freely. The same kind of business has continued throughout November and December, and we close the year with stocks considerably lighter upon the whole than they generally have been at the same period, "The exports for December show very favourably as compared with those for (the other months of the year, being 100,894 packages of cotton goods and yarns shipped from all English ports, which is considerably over the average, as may be seen by the following state ment:— January 77,425 February March 68,593 April May... June July August September 81,117 October November 106,292 December Total for the year 1,017,178 "By reference to the annexed talole of exports, the exact quantities sent to each separate entrepot may be ascertained, but the following classification exhibits the general result at a glance : Yarns. Piece Goods. East Indies 20•7 23.5 China Australia o'o 1 . 8 Central and South America P 3 18'8 North America West Indies ... o'o 4'2 Coast of Africa Turkey, Egypt, and Levant 9.0 10'0 Germany and Holland 37'4 2'6 Other European States 23.0 9 . 0 " The cotton-market has been steady throughout the month, and prices are quoted the same as at the close of November. There is no disposition on the part of con sumers to increase their stocics at present, as they may expect shortly to have a much better choice, although perhaps a little or no concesdion in price. " The yarn market has been very active ; the Greeks haying bought largely. For India and China consi derable purchases have also S een made, and our quota tions are about !d. per lb. Higher than at the close of November. " The goods market has be on upon the whole remark ably healthy. 40-inch shirti rigs have again advanced 3d. per piece. Madapollams fully lid. per piece. 9.Bth shirtings are very firm in price. Jacconets, though held in considerable quantitifes, are without alteration. Domestics and long-cloths r* ther difficult of sale, but no yielding in quotations. T-ejoths of the better sorts in good demand, and, in some i astances, lid. per piece ad- Vance has had to be given."' THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK QUADRILLES. Theqe spirited dances are founded upon the fanurito " The Postman's Knock." Words bby y L. M. Tuoartnifn Akiut.l W. T. WRIMITON. Price, illustrated, 2s Gd. N ow a i uu r n , every. where. The melody of the song is elegantly Wczked into a capital figure, and gives its own joyous character: to the whole set. People are never tired of dancing to the same composer's popular " GIPSY QUADRILLES ;" and these Postman'a Kno.k Quadrilles afford an admirable companion act. Robert Cocks cud Co., New Berlington-street ; and all Musicsellers.