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This costly work also contains comeplete estimates for furnishing on the following revised Butl A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten-roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed ditto 191 ll 0 2o nether with a Crice List of purified lsedding, and a mass of alnable information to all requiring household furniture, carpets ' or bedding. References kindly permitted to Cleruy baen and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern. Southampton, Chichester. Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, l'Zyde, Plymouth, Hells, Oxford. Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington. Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Alban's, Worcoster, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great Britain. bridge COB (SETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford , London, S.E, THE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). (The Directors reserve to hemselves the right of changing the name of the Company.) To be incorporated undrr "The Companies Act, 1862," by Which the Liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of share z. Capital £1,000,000, in 20,000 Shares of £5O. First issue, 10,000 shares. Deposit on application £1 per share, and £2 on allotment. No future call to exceed £5 Per share, and at inter. ale of not less than three months. It is not intended to call up more than £2O per share. DIRECTORS. GeorEze Walter Constable ' :iis - q76le - s - srs. Henderson and Con- stable', Cannon-street. George Denny, Esq. (Messrs. George Denny and Co.), Great St. Helen's. William Little, Esq., Director of the Cape Town Railway. Wm. WArthur, Esq. (of the firm of Wm. and Alexander 3 PArthur, Australian Merchants), 46, Moorgate-street. P.•J. Sargood, Esq. (Messrs. Sargood, Katz, and Sargood), London and Melbourne. Th - mas Shenherd Richardson, Esq., Director of the Buenos Ayres and River Plate Bank, James Thompson, Esq. (Messrs. Le Gros Thompson and ro ), Gutter-lane. *Hugh Fraser Sandeman, Esq. *Richd. Manners Sanderson, Esq. Messrs. Sandeman & Co. *Samuel Baker, Pg. _ -7 * COMmittee of Management ;BANKERS. Tho London and Westminster Banic. ,, SOLICITORS. Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick. BROKERS. James Shepherd,.Esq. ' Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane. Messrs. Sandeman and Dobree, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings. Offices—No. 4, Abehurch-lsne. PROSPECTUS In forming this Company tii; Directors have secured the ft-operation of Messrs. Sandeman and Co.. of Abchurch-lane. Whose well-known and long-established business it is the object of this Compar y to take up and develope. The Company will conduct all the operations of ordinary discount business. The terms on which the business of Messrs. Sandeman and Co. has been purchased justify the Directors in anticipating a profit of at least 10 per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital. The Company will take possession of the premises now oc cupied by Messrs. Sandeman and Co., as from the Ist day of January, ant the business of the Company will commence from that day. No promotion money has or will be paid, and the expenses will be strictly confined to the necessary payments. Prospectuses and forms of applications for shares may be ob•ained at the Offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and of the Solicitors. In the event of no allotment being made the deposits will be returned in full ; should a less number of shares be al lotted than are applied for, the deposit will be made avail able toward• the payment on allotment, and the balance, if any, returned to the applicant. FORM OF APPLIUTION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Consolida 4 ed Discount Company (Limited). Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers the sum of £ , I request you to allot me shares in the Consolidated Discount Company (Limited), end I hereby agree to become a member of the Society, and to accept such shares, or any less number that may he allotted to me ; and I request you to place my name on the Register c f Members in respect of the shares allotted to me. - - I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant. Name in full . Address .. Usual signature Date CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE IS - HEREBY GIVEN, that no APPLICATIONS for SHARES in this Compa , ,y will be received after WED. NESDAY next, the 30th instant. By order. Temporary Offices, 4, Abchnrch-lane, E.O , Dec. 24, 1863. NORTH BRITTSH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—SPECIAL NOTICE. This Company is now prepared to ISSUE POLICIES for Mercantile Insurances in the Port of London at the reduced scale of rates. Particulars may be had at the Offices, 28, Threadneedle- Street. SPECIAL NOTICE, THE BOOKS OF THE NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY, For the Year 18G3, close on 31st December. Life Policies effected on or before that date will rank for an additional Year's Bonus in comparison to later entrants. During— - the Four Years preceding last Division of Profits (1858), the 4 ompany issued 1,595 Life Policies, assuring £1.221,603 During the Four suc ceding Years the number o f Li!e Polices issued amounted to 3,168, and the Sums assured to £2,22',522 BEING AN INCREASE OF 82 PER CENT. The SIXTH SEPTENNIAL DIVISION of the COM PANY'S PROFITS will take place on 31st December, 1865. - THE WHOLE PROFITS WHICH HAVE ACCUMU -I,k TED SINCE nisi' DECEMBER, 1858, WILL THEN RE DIVIDED, AND NINETY PER CENT. ALLOCATED AMONG THE ASSURED ON THE PARTICIPATING SCALE. CERTIFICATES of INDISPUTABILI ry granted, and every facility offered to Insurers. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Insuran-es granted both at Home and Abroad on the most liberal terms. Forms of Proposal and every infor nation will be given at the Head Office, or any of the Company's Agents. By order. F. W. LANCE, Secretary. Londcn, November, 18M. HEAD OFFICES: tB, Threadneedle-street. 4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury, 4DINE TTR GII 64 West-end Office , Princes-terlo-strpeet.lac, Pall-mall. , Prie LONDON.. THE ONLY OFFICE WHOSE BONDS AND POLICIES OF GUARANTEE ARE ACCEPTED BY /RE TREASURY, CUSTOMS, INLAND REVENUE, GENERAL POST -OFFICE, 'WAR, ADMIRALTY, HOME, COLONIAL, INDIA, AND OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. T HE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. DIRECTORS IN LONDON. RENRY WICKHAM WICKHAM, Esq., M.P., Chairman. John Cheetham, Esq., Staleybridge. John Field, Esq., Warnford-court. City. Charles Forster, Esq., M.P. for Walsall. Richard Francis George, Fact , Bath. Henry H. Harrison, Esq., Hamilton-place, St. John's•wood. Thoma s C. Hayward, Esq., Minories and Highbury. John Hedgine, Esq., Cavendish Club James Edward Thronnell, Esq., Wolverton. C. W. 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DIRECTORS. . - ot Holland, E sq. R o b er t Barclay, Esq. of Leven and Melville. Henry Bainbridge , Es q. John Garratt Cattlev, Esq. Ch as . j„. Manning, sq. Mark Currie Close , Es q . Henr y Nelson, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Hon. Josceline W. Percy. 'Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, E Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, , Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. RiversdaleW. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. PobE, Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.: William Wallace, Esq. Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. NOTICE. The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of STt I h RE January. E5l IS tail ing due at C hristmas will expire on FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms. Insurance s against Fire on Merehandize in the docks and Warehouses in the Port of London are accepted at the late reduced rates of Premium. FARMING-STOCK. —No extra chs.r ge i s made for the use of a Steam Thrashing Machine. The Reversionary Bonus on British Life Policies has ave raged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the su m assured. the Premiums E qu i va l en t reductions have been made in Payable by persons who pr eferred that form of The divisions of Profit take placo every Five y ears. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured o n one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured — Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to th e average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. NOTHING IMPOS SIBLE. —The greatest and most useful invention of the d a y , AGIJA AMAREL LA. Messrs. 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'*-------, i r c tin on each other crue l t i es wh i ch wou ld b e disgrace ful interfere e w . t h T he vigour. time has come good fttiolinitferienfflee inflicted and n to o a deal depends on the firmness and decision of the magistrates before whom King and Heenan will appear; and without wishing any unnecessary hardships to be inflicted on two courageous pugilists, w e cermet help believing that the magistrates in question will not be worthy of t heir office unless the penalty be sharp, decisive, and, final. SPECTATOR.—Tue Fitzger :Id divorce suit, besides amusing the town for a week, has done a substan tial service. It has revealed to the public a defect in English divorce law long since patent to lawyers, and which may be productive of almost infinite mis chief. It is open to anybody from jealousy, or hatred, or blindness, or the hope of extortion, to include any innocent person, man or woman, among the co - respondents in a divorce suit, and so either permanently damage their characters or inflict a crushing amount of annoyance and anxiety. So long as the liability was felt only by men, other men well aware how leniently such offences are judged might afford t o shrug their shoulders and congratulate themselves that nobody had any handle on them ; but the introduction of a woman into the same situation alters the aspect of affairs. Th e most unscrupulous are apt to grow savage when their own wives are attacked in public, and the mischief having occurred in one case, we may fairly expect some effort to modify the law. The cruel wrong endured by one of the parties in this singular suit, singular if only as exposing the persistent ignorance of the public on the subject of legal cruelty, is not attributabl e to the Divorce Court. She would have suffered it just as much under the old procedure, and without - so prompt a relief ; but it is due to a defect in the law itself. A greater wrong effected through legal forms it would be difficult to imagine. Major Fitzgerald, son of Lord William Fitzgerald, and an officer of some dis tinction, having earned the Victoria Cross in 'Crimea, married in 1857 Miss Georgiana Bettis worth. The major had little but his pay and hi s debts, the lady between twenty and thirty thousand pounds, and the marriage on the husband's side al most avowedly made for money. Such matches end every day more happily than they deserve, but in this instance the bridegroom was disappointed, or thought he was disappointed, of some of the money promised; the bride looked after her property with penurious cue and vigilance, and both parties wore on the evidence of high and uncontrolled temper. The major snubbed his wife, according to het evis deuce, after the most unpardonable manner ; ac cording to his, with the kind of" chaff" women can never understand or bear. Mrs. Fitzgerald, es time went on, became more and more irritated; the loss of a child, which she attributes to his language, and everybody else apparently to bad medical ad vice, aggravated the disunion, and at last the wife, tired out by reflections on her person, whether good humoured or not, accused the husband of infidelity. She fixed, as the Mrs. Naggletons of society do fix, on the lady her husband best knew, a Mrs. Mallet, wife of Mr. Mallet, holding an appointment in the Foreign Office, who, to his misfortune, had been a kind friend to Major Fitz gerald. Taxed for whole years on end with inti macy with this lady, threatened with the loss of all he had married to obtain, and badgered out of his wits, Major Fitzgerald, as he says in a letter published in the Times, went temporarily out of his mind—a statement which, unusual as it is, seems the only one which explains the facts, and which is supported by medical evidence. In this condition he wrote letters to his wife admitting the truth of her accusation, and, all efforts at reconcisiation fail ing, she brought her action for cruelty and adultery. For months Mrs. Mallet's name remained on the file as co-respondent in a case in which a Major on the Staff, a man of the class against whom society always presumes, and in whose favour it usually condones, such charges, was also implicated. For all that time none but the intimate friends of the accused family had any means whatever of know ing whether any portion of the implied charge was, or was not, in any degree true. The only thing they were certain of was the bitter, but unavailing wrath of her husband, who, though willing to go all lengths in his wife's defence, had not even a right to a hearing within the Court. So bad is the law that he had not even the right to send counsel into the Court, to promise the complete refutation he and his friends knew that it was in hie power to adduce. At last the trial came on, Mrs. Fitzgerald gave her evidence, the letters were produced, and the plaintiff's side, and that alone, appeared in the mere of the following day. For twenty-four hours, at least, Mr. and Mrs. Mallet must have suffered torture ; but, fortunately, the law left them one solitary chance. It was open to counsel, though not compulsory on counsel, to place them in the box, and to bring forward evidence they had collected in disproof of the charge. Had Mrs. Mallet been, as hundreds of women would have Leen, half-killed or wholly killed by appearance before a public court in order to rebut such a slander, even this chance might have failed. As it was, through a concurrence of favouring circumstances and the for titude of the witnesses, the truth was for once made clear. There was not a particle of evidence worth one straw to justify any imputation of any sort or kind, except that Mr. Mallet had the misfortune to be on friendly terms with a man subject to halluci nations, and to lend him, through his wife, £25. It was not a mere break-down of evidence leaving still a shade of suspicion. There was counter-evidence as complete as it is possible for evidence of a nega tive ever to be, accounting for almost every mcment of Mrs, Mallet's time, and so deeply did that lady's bearing impress the jury that they refused to hear plaintiff's counsel or Judge's summing-up, and at once, as 'by acclamation, exonerated the accused. SATURDAY REVIEW.—The politicians of old days were not expected to stump. Extra-Parliamentary utterances are an invention of modern times. The older view of a Member of Parliament's functions was limited to the assembly which he was sent to join. His constituents troubled themselves princi pally about his votes—that is to say, if he sat for a constituency which took any interest in political matters beyond that which could be expressed in the coin of the realm. If he chose to indulge in utterances of any kind within the walls of Parlia ment, it was entirely by his own choice, and for the purpose of pushing his own way in the world. A totally different conception of the character now prevails. For some time an idea appears to gave gained ground among the constituencies, the . t it m s ei is part of the duties of every 'amber of Paraltut.east to take care that his name shall appears imprac occasionally, in the debates. The PhY elbee:n obvious ticability of this pretension must have divide the to any one who would take the trouble to the House of number of hours at the disposal b e s it contains. Commons by the number of lk!ear r difficulty made In course of time, this practice s accepted. Instead itself felt, and a compromise wa Commons, where the of speaking in the House offastidious, most constitu audience is impatient and a oratory they expect encies are now conten t that the 11 be executed, for their own from their member she during the recess, Thi, edification and diversion, undoubtedly tends to 8 arrangement, which _ isprobably the origin the time of Parliament,_ origin of of autumn stnm • ng. the modern system go through Members of Parliamentcrutablemany vexations ror the sake of the inscrutable . pleasure of writing name, two letters after their that one misery more or less is not of much importance.. It would be a s e vil if this obligation of exhibiting during serious e recess tended nu b t h e re dd to lessen the ra er of candidates for the privilege of gratuitously performing it. Bat in England, the charm of standing one round higher on the social ladder than your neighbours is so irresistible that, if -- a memb er of Parliame nt were o bliged to dance upon his head for the am usement of his constituents, it i s that men of probable for tune and independence would be form to assure the spectators that the.time devoted to the feat was the proudest mo ment of thei r lives. Nor that the can it be said t practice d o e s a ny injury to the ordinary race of mem b er s of Parliament. Their st Y le °f orat • ite safe from deterioration. U nfortunately, orator qu imperious usage ex urt nately, however, the even the tends to andconsequently includes all ke a share in the moat eminent men who have ta u on them the habit administration of the E m p ire. of platform eloqu ence has a decidedly d etrimental ff°ct. As th e House of Commons is about the best, so a platform y far the wo rst , sc hool of oratory. It has been we ll is b- said that ser mons would be free from most of the defects that a re laid to their were only liable to a reply. It charge if the cleurmgyan zeal and virtue to supply the requires superb which would be imposed by the fear salutary check , The platform has all the vices of the of criticism. pulpits a to a license in point of facts and prin „ples which is special to itself. Few public men are ci sufficiently masters of themselves to resist the tempta tion which is held out by the impossibility of a reply, and by the peculiar impressibility of their audience. The knowledge that a practised debater is prepar ing to pick to pieces a speaker's reasoning, and to scrutinise his facts, the moment he has sat down, enforces a caution in the selection and treatment of topics which self-imposed scruples will not entirely replace. The consequence is, that orators who are fond of starring it in the provinces are generally THE SUN, 1` 1X _MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1863 WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER T HE PANTOMIMES ? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup at EVANS', Covent-garden. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i 4 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the prinipal towns in England ; or wholesale at S, GREAT WINDMILL-STRERT, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinahan's LL Whisky." THE best TROUSERS for gentlemen to wear are those made by ELSTOB, of 60, New Bond-street They are neither so low in price as to necessitate their being carelessly put together, nor so dear as to gain only the wealthy purchasers. "In medio tutisimus ibis." ELSTOB'S TROUSERS, TWENTY-ONE SHILLINGS ROYAL ALHAMBRA.-MORNING PER. FORMANCES EVERY DAY at Two, at the ALHAM BRA, during the CHRISTMAS WEEK. A RGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Hay market. NOTICE. —M. JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS will be continued nightly at the above elegant rooms. Admission ls. Conductor— M. JULLIEN. Solo Performers—Messrs. Mosca, Tyler, King, M'Kenney, Snelling, Sloman, Progratski, Baker, &o. Manager, M. GRENET. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.—Alabaster Powder, and the Magnetic Rock Dew Water from Sahara. Cir cassian Bloom, Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These costly and inimitable toilet preparations render the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond comparison.—Can be had only at Madame RACHEL'S, 47A, New Bond-street, where she can be consulted daily. All communications are strictly confidential. DEAFNESS. —The SOUND MAGNIFIER INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits into the ear, not perceptible, removes singing noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, Kin ;'s-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. 'Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALE S,K.G President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. The numerous and urgent appeals of the sick poor for ad mission compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of the affluent and humane, as the medical officers are daily obliged to treat ,as out-patients many distres Aug cases which. with more adequate funds, they would gladly admit into the wards. The premises of the Hospital are capable of containing 500 beds. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on voluntary coi itributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasuree, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Co , utts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W :Maras, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; Masterman «nd Co. ; T. Barned and Co., Liverpool ; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary. THE EMBELLISHMENTS OF PARIS, commenced in 1848 by the works necessary for the junction of the Tuileries with the Louvre, have been on a gigantic scale. The greatest undertaking bas been the continuation of the Rue de Rivoli onwards to the Rue St. Antoine, the disen• gagement of the Hotel de Ville, and the opening of the square around the old Gothic tower of St. Jacques la Bou cherie. The next stupendous improvement has been the Boulevard Sebastopol, which runs north and south, as the Rue de Rivoli runs east and west, each being some two miles long and straight on end, except where the Boule vard Sebastopol twists across the Place du Chatelet and the Seine. The final cost of the Rue de Rivoli will be upwards of two millions sterling, and of the Boulevard Sebastopol more than two millions and a quarter. The other leading improvements and the sums granted by the State since 1852 towards the embellishment of Paris are as follows :—Boule vard de Strasbourg 3,149,0001, Palais de l'lndustrie 14,880,0001, Hotel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 4,500,000 i, repairs of Historical Monuments 2,170,000 f, Palace of the Elysee 1,400,0001, Hippodrome of Longchamp 1,500,0001, Tomb of Napoleon I. 865,0001, Ponts des lava lidos, d'Jeno et d'Areole 4,250,000 f, Cathedral of Paris (Notre Dune), 3,500,000 f, Barracks 7,850,0001 2 Monument to Marsha/ Ney 50,0001, New Opera House 28,000,000 f, construction of the Isle des Cygnes, 428,0001, Grand Works (law of 1858) 60,000,000f —making, with 62,500,0001f0r the junction of t 1 to Palaces of the Louvre and the Tuileries up to 1858, and i.aeluding 36,000,000 f for the Boulevard Sebas topol, a total t rum of 225,000,0001, or, in round numbers, nine millions t aerling, exclusive of the contributions of the Municipality. The Relies Centrales cost about a million sterling, and the new Boulevard Malesherbes will cost the city £1,2C0,000. Altogether the State and the Munici- Tality of Paris have either actually spent or incurred lia bilities amounting in the aggregate to between seventeen and eighteen :millions sterling. AIiELIC I ,I' , IDANGERED.—We presume the church wardens of St. Swithin's, London Stine, Cannon street, are the proper authorities to appeal to with regard to the preservati on of the most interesting relic now existing of the Reiman occupation of this island. In such a position as Lone.on SI one now occupies it is, notwithstanding the charact erietic and well-designed case Wren gave it in 1680, exposed to ;injury at the hands of mischievous and stupid persor ,s. Q elite reeently some fragments have been knocked off, Ol io long 7 and a shorter freshly fractured surface being expos. ed,she wing bright and clean spaces, ten and four inches long and thl !ee or four broad, upon the otherwise smooth, time-worn, ; end brown mass. Care ought to be taken that this mischievous trick is not repeated, or, before long, the mere boulder that= remains of the great stone, pitched upright," t he.t Stow mentions as standing on the south side of Canu , on-street (it was removed to the kerb on the north side v i 1742, condemned by the churchwardens to destine lion • in 1798, but saved by Mr. Malden, and placed, as now, age inst the church wall of St. Swithin's) and will become a t hing of the past. Then will be lost the laps milliari lug which Camden thought to be the central mile stone m ! the Romans, and to which Str3 pe gave a still earlier origin, whirl t is mentioned in charters of A.thelstan's and he Ste phenN time, again in 1198, a reference to which by Ho (inched IVO borrowed by Shakespere, and which ought to be most precious to the citizens.—Athenouni. Homo vales Tea is choice and strong, moderate ',IL price, a a d wholesome to use. These advantages have mewed b r tb is Tea a general preference. It is sold in Packets by 2,28'0 Agents, STATE OP TRADE. 26. c — ee ' d r i h n e gl d y em go a o n d d de scriptionstfhorrouagllhout B aR Nsi, of f Y coal c is ex the South Yorkshire coal district, and the pits are doing quite as much business as they can—in fact, some collieries aro unable to supply all the orders forwarded to them. Gas coal and Silkstoae house coal are both in demand, and steam coals are just now in full inquiry, especially in London. The Deane and Dove Canal Navigation is carrying a large tonnage to Keadby. Altogether, trade may be quoted as good for the time of the year, though this week the Christmas holidays have somewhat interfered with the transaction of business. Prices since our last quotations have advanced for some de scriptions of house coal—Old Silkstones are quoted from 7s. to 7s. 6d.. (at the pit's mouth) per ton ; Silkstone gas coals, 6s. 6d. to 75.; Worsborough park house coal, 4s. 3d. ; Worsborough ditto, 55.; Elsecar and Hoyland and other coals remain at last quotations. Ccle rules about 6s. 3d. per ton ; steam coal from the neighbourhood of Worsborough, 68. 3d. ; malting coke, 6s. 3d.; brick coal, 2s. 3d. to 45.6 d. per ton. BIRMINGHAM, 26th.—The trade of this town has continued in a very satisfactory state up to the end of the quarter, and manufacturers in most of the principal trades have a considerable number of orders on hand, so that the Christmas holidays will in all probabilitybe shorter than usual. The gun trade is the only one of all the important branches of our manufactures in which any degree of slackness is felt, as so far as it is concerned the depression is very great, manufacturers who have stocks on hand being unable to sell at the lowest prices. On the other hand, the metal trades are busy, the rolling mills have been on at full time, and the edge-toolmakers, wiredrawers, lamp and chandelier makers, and hollow-ware manufacturers are all well engaged. The electro-plating business has been so brisk of late that workmen in that branch have been in demand. The merchants have given out very few orders, but they have a good number in hand, and as the money market bids fair to be easier, it is not likely that these will be withheld from the manufacturers beyond the first or second week in the new year. The demand for the material is good —a proof of the healthy condition of trade generally. The iron trade of this district has been as buoyant as it now is for many years; it is antici pated that the advance to be declared on finished iron at the preliminary meeting to be held next Thursday will be not less than 30s. per ton. It has been announced this week that arrangements have been made for the transfer of the celebrated Patent Shaft Axle Company's works, at Wendesbury, to Messrs. Lloyd, Foster, and Co. BRADFORD, 26th.—There is no change to report in the wool and worsted trade, Places of business are generally closed to-day, and the town has quite a holiday appearance. Very little if any business is done in either wool, worsted yarns, or pieces ; and quotations remain as they were—very firm. DUNDEE, 25th.—The reduction of one per cent. in the Bank rate had its effect on the market to-day, and rather a better feeling existed. Although this was Christmas and a Bank holiday, there was a moderate extent of business done in some depart ments. Flax, tow, and cedilla were quiet, few sales being reported, and prices nominally as before. Jute was more inquired for, and some business done in fine and medium qualities at prices scarcely obtain able on Tuesday. Some spinners made a fair amount of sales to-day, manufatturers showing more dispo sition for business than on last market day. Prices have not given way further since then, but they cannot be quoted higher. The demand for linens continues very good for the season of the year, and orders are daily placed for the better class of goods (Forfar, Brechin, Arbroath, and Fifeshire fabrics), and Hessians, at paying prices. Stockings are not so much wanted as they were, but most makers are yet working to order, and do not feel the dulness. The foreig❑ advicos to hand do not vary much from those formerly received. HALIFAX, 26th.—Christmas week has brought more than the average business, though there is nothing like so many transactions as will take place in a week or two. The general tone of the woollen and carpet branches is sound, especially the latter. Wool keeps up its price, and spinners will only buy small lots, though convinced that there is not much probability of its soon becoming cheaper. HUDDERSFIELD, 26th.—To all appearances our merchants have had little to do this week which would impede them in their annual stock taking and balancing. Few buyers have been here, and the in quiry has only been for goods inferior in make or damaged in condition which might be purchaseable for nominal sums. There has not, however, been much done even in this huckstering line, In the warehouses attention is chiefly given to Bedford and woollen cords, for which there is still a rage, and nothing like sufficient stock to meet it. Notwith standing the external quietness, it is satisfactory to know .that all the manufacturers are fully employed for the home trade of the coming spring. LEEDS, 26th.—To-day both the cloth halls and all the warehouses in the woollen trade are closed. Thursday was made thelast market of the week,and then business was unimportant, as most of the houses are now closely engaged in balancing. We have no thing new to report with respect to next season's goods. The demand for patterns is not yet over. Actual deliveries will shortly begin. It is not expected terms will then be more favourable to buyers than they have been for some time past. Some few London houses have already agreed upon their selections, The most favourite desig ns appear to be plain and checked light coloured thin-meltons. These and plain black cloths are the goods chiefly dealt in with a view to the spring and summer demand. Manufacturers throughout the town and adjacency are busy, and altogether business is in a fair state, while prospects are certainly brighter than they wore last Christmas. LEICESTER, 26th.—The past has been rather a quiet week in the hosiery trade, but still there has been an average amount of business doing in most departments of goods. The workpeople, both in the town and the country districts, are well employed for the time of the year. There are no stocks of hosiery on hand. The yarn market is firm, and prices remain very high, spinners holding out for extreme rates. There is no material change in wool, the market for which remains quiet. MANCHESTER, 26th.—To-day places of business connected with the yarn and cloth trade have been closed,and two holidays in the week have necessarily interfered a good deal with the amount of transac tions. Up to Thursday buyers were indisposed to operate, and the transactions were few, with prices in favour of sellers. On Thursday the easier rates adopted by the Bank gave a little more firmness to sellers, but it was not the regular market-day, emit many sellers as well as buyers failed to put in an a ppearance on 'Change. " Some decline in price," sa y Messrs. Pender in their circular for the Over land Mail, "has been established during the past fortnight in all classes of goods, though it is less noticeable in the case of India cloths, in consequence generally of the smallness of stocks. Printing cloths have declined ls. 6d. to 2s. per piece from the highest point, and about the middle of the month there was a considerable demand for them." China shirtings, figured and brocad e s hi r ti ngs an d d amas ks have also been in limited rc quest during the past fort night, and have shared in the decline of prices which has been common to nearly allfabrics. 40-inch India shirting, n3adapollams,: jacconets, and mulls have been comparatively less affected in prices, and were consequently among the fabrics for which manufac turers were disposed to ask rather firmer rates after the action of the Bank on Thursday. Yarns had been declining generally till Thursday, when spin ners in some cases asked .Id. above the rates of the day before, but business left off dull. NEWCASTLE ON-TYNE, 26th.—The pits have been Working full time, and there has been an amply supply of coals for shipment. Coasting freights have fallen from Bs. 3d. per ton to 7s. 72d. for Loa.. don, in consequence of the arrival of a few ships and the mild state of the weather. The general freight-market, however, h as not shown much variation. Coal freights to Havre are quoted to day at £lO 106. ; Boulogne, £8 17, , . 6d. ; Alicante, £27; Trieste, £29 ; Venice, £3l ; Genoa, £29 ; Alexandra, £3l ; and Constantinople, £27 per keel. The demand for iron keeps very brisk in the north, with prices rising. The manufacturirg trade of the district is exceedingly good, with very hope. ful prospects for the spring. The reports of the loss of north country shipping still continue, and the amount of liability for which the insurance clubs are responsible is serious. All the ports from Whitby to Blyth will suffer equally, and as the in surances in the north are conducted upon the mutual principle, shipowners being their own underwriters, the owners who have ships afloat will have to make good the losses, and the averages will be heavy. NORWICH, 26th.—This, as may be readily ima gined, has been a broken week. The shoe trade, however, is spoken of more hopefully than for some time past. The manufacturing business of the city is not very active r although some little movement is shortly anticipated on spring account. With refe rence to the allusion made under this head a week since to the Norwich and London Accident and Casualty Insurance Association, it appears that the number ofpolicies issued in the seven years ending August 31, 1863, was 18,103, instead of 10,103, as printed. PiM PAIR. INTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the WELLINGTON Is CLOSED for repairs, &c., and will be RE-OPENED on THURSDAY, the 31st December next, at 5 o'clock p.m. By order, JOHN CATES, Manager. The Wellington, Vt. James's-street. Entrance, 60, Piccadilly, W. December 25, 1863. 91 H 0 X F 0 It I) , 6 , OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, by Sir H. bishop; also, from L A FO RZ A. DEL DES i INO— Verdi ; by the fol lowing talented artistes .—Miss es 'Russell, Townley, Fitz- Henry, VI , slmsley, Tyrrell, and Ellison ; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, (Szc. Solos on the Violin by VIOTTI COLLINS, the cele brated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, by Herr SCHALKENBACH, the Inventor. Comedy, by ITNSWORTH ("or any other man "), Euryene, W. Randall,W. T. Critchfield, T. Maclagan, George Hutchen son, and the marvellous Gymnasts, Messrs. Berri, Leach, and Foster. THIS EVENING, will be produced, supported by the entire comany, a new and original Cantata, entitled "King Christmas," written by Litchfield Moseley, Esq., and com posed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the establishment. Director, Mr. F. Jong,hmans. „THE GHOST CLUB” at the CANTERBURY HALL.—New and Interesting Spectral Tableaux.—Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to announce that, throuc:h the medium of Professor Pepper's World of Shadows, a "GHOST CLUB" is nightly held at the CAN TERBURY HALL. The object of the Club is not the re peopling of the Haunted Houses of London; but, through the agency of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient) pictures of the drama of real life, both in its serious and mirthful aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux, to recall, and still further impress on the mind, some of the teachings or pleasantries of the best wr;ters. At pre sent, the two orders of Slavery—the Slavery of the South, and the "White" Slavery of a more boastful civilisation, receive emphatic illustration ; and these life pictures will be rapidly replaced by others. The pages of Shakspere and the elcer Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, Ingoldsby, Dickens, &c., &c., wil, in turns, furnish subjects for illustrat , on. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Marshall, and George Hutchenson. OYAL ALHAMBRA.—Greet Treat during the Christmas Holidays.—FRANCONI'S CIRQUE IMPERIAL.—This, the only thoroughly organised Circus Company in London, comprises the first artistes, selected from the best known Continental Troupes, including Male and Female Equetrians, Gymnasts, Acrobats, and Clowns. The Stud consists of highly-trained Trick and Menage Horses, unrivalled in any establishment in Europe. Crowded audiences nightly attend this splendi A entertainment, now renewed with unwonted splendour. Enthusiastic reception of M. Jules Perez, from Madrid, the greatest Bare-backed Rider ever seen, whose wonderful pert ormances create a pro found sensation. Second week of Professor Case, the Slack Wire Performer, of World-wide Renown, Arthur and Ber trand, the most amusing and marvellous of Clowns, together with a host of varied talent a 1 unequalled in their respective spheres. Morning Performances Daily, during the ensuing Christmas Week, at Two o'Clcck ; Evening, at Half-past Seven. Admission—Reserved seats, es.; Stalls and Balcony, 2 s. ; Pit and Promenade, is. ; Gallery, 6d. Private boxes, to hold six persons, 21s. ROYAL ALHAMBRA. - JULES PEREZ EVERY EVENING at the ALHAMBRA. . - .•••••• .. ,-, , •_ T'-iet 4, ' , v .'" ''-'' ' •, • , . 5 1 - . A I :, ___,, , ,:... A , 0-11 , - itti,. „ j a, . 4 t-' l -__ °l ' •- . ~. i, „46 tEI 4-4 ' - ' ' ' " - - ' ':- ‘ 11 (•f;-#4v.; ,„ t,, ..,,,,,„„ T - ak c. ... ..,...i. - IL- 4 ) , , - , 7 ~ , z-- , - , , ki„ ..... 1........_ ,-......2*, -4- sp , , , 0 , ~ .1.., ....milk. ~,, _ 4.„......—.. -; , , s D IE r • s .e , .w , 4 •le 4 0 1 0 ... • -Ditorr. ' ' i ' V- - --- ' ilk ......e- -4 • SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. EXAMINER.—The question really interesting the country is whether Sergeant Lilley was treated justly, not the narrow issue whether the severity exceeded what was necessary to the purpose of his confinement. Was the man wronged ? Was any right of a soldier contravened in the confinement which hastened his end? The article of war limit ing duration of an untried man's imprisonment is the main safeguard of the soldier's liberty; it is to him what the habeas corpus is to the civilian. This important law was violated in Lilley's case. Colonel Crawley's defence in that respect, as in others, is " Macbeth's "Thou canst not say I did it!" The arrest was commenced by him without any infraction of military law, but it was continued by the direction of General Farrell indefinitely, and afterwards of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir - Win. Mansfield, in contravention of the articles of war. We have advisedly used the word direction instead of authority, because those Generals had no autho rity to set aside or nullify one of the articles of war framed for the Government of the army, and to control the highest as well as the lowest in the service. The notion in Colonel Crawley's mind was that he had to deal with a mutiny. There had been mutiny in India, so mutiny was always to be apprehended in India. There had been mutiny in native forces, so mutiny was likely to break out in an English regiment. '[he question in his mind, as he avers, was mutiny or no mutiny, because, forsooth, Mr. Smales had written an in discreet letter, and three sergeants bad read some proceedings the publication of which was forbid den. In one of Dickens's novels two characters go on the stage representing a general rebellion. Here we have three sergeants bringin g a regiment within a step of mutiny , thou gh the corps was sound, the discipline intact. But nevertheless " the crisis had arrived, the danger w as immi nent !" The Colonel was in a dream, or in a passion, and made mountains of mole hills. It is a highly significant fact, that to clear Colonel Crawley's character no less than seven reputations must be destroyed. Four officers and three ser geants must be believed wanting in truth and duty, in order that he may stand fair in the eyes of the world. We cannot join in the praise that has been given to the defence. In the conduct of it there was, indeed, much of the Old Bailey cleverness, and a success in disposing of it. As for the con cluding speech, which has been strangely admired, it was tawdrily rhetorical, and in the prevailing taste of works of sensation. Such passages as these seem borrowed from the p enn y deal ers in fine writing:—" How in the dark and drea ry night of calumny and wrong have I longe d for th e day wh e n the truth might be legitimately known, and when the foul vapours of malice and falsehood a% could dis solve like a morning mist before the sun !" Some parts of his speech are more gravely reprehensible, for instance, his insoltnt remark upon a statement of Mr. Smales's," I think it just possible that upon this occasion Mr. Smales told the truth." Now it has been her Majesty's pleasure to reinstate Mr. Smales in her service, a reparation which certainly would not have been made if Mr. Smales had been void of truth, and therefore unworthy of her Com mission and a place amongst men of honour. Th e insult strikes higher than the restored paymaster. And the man who deals in such foul imputations mouths about libellers a nd calumn y . From such outbursts it is ea s y to un derstond what be must have be en in his re g i ment. He has, however, been acquitted, honourably ac quitted, and will resume a command for which he has shown such rare qualifications. But here the matter cannot rest. The question evaded must be raised, whether or not a wrong was done to Lilley, and whether the articles of war do or do not protect a good soldier against injustice. If it can be shown that a court martial could not have been assembled to try the prisoners, well and good, but they were detained by direction of the two Generals without any view to trial, and for another purpose. At the meeting of Parliament more will be heard of this question, and of the soldiers' rights involved in it. LONDON REVIEW. —Summary justice seems likely to overtake those violators of the law, Messrs. Heenan and King. The magistrates of the county in which they fought seem resolved not to let the matter drop to the ground. They are quite right, Even bad laws ought to be kept, and the law which prohibits the brutality of prize fights deserves especial conservation. The practice is itself demoral ising—the training, as has been shown by the Lancet, is often thoroughly prejudicial to health— and though Messrs. Heenan and King themselves may not be worse than their ordinary associates, there is no doubt that the prize ring is full of ruffians and vagabonds belonging to all classes of society. Bell's Life, the chosen organ of prize fighters, has more than once seemed thoroughly ashamed of its mission. The champions of England and America themselves, who have nearly killed one another for the amusement of a degraded and sensation--hunting mob, know pretty accurately and measurepretty well the depth of theirdegradation. WhatMr.Thos.Sayers feels upon the subject may be judged by the reso lution he at one time formed of retiring definitely from the Ring—a resolution which he has not seemingly been man enough to keep. Heenan while in training at Brighton expressed himself in no light language of the occupation in which he is engaged. "Isn't a bloody and brutal thing," he is reported to have said, " a man like me to be getting ready to stand up and knock another man about for some money ?" Tha scene at the railway station on the morning of the fight was thoroughly of a piece with past experience, though the strenuous efforts made by the Company, and favoured possibly by the police, put it out of the power of the very poorest ruffians to be present at the fight. The character of prize fighting may be estimated by the history of the police-courts the next day. To foreign nations it perhaps appears incredible that, in de fiance of the la w, such rude and violent exhibitions should with impunity take place on each occasioon when it pleases the noble patrons of the sper..t a t _ . back one man's muscles against the musclesulodt not other. They would conclude (and they `gir t o ., es be far wrong in cobcluding) that the faularlei ea w s r ly " the Executive. Ordinary law breaker In the case reached by the strong arm of justic.e.gilant as their of a street row the police ar e as in i to be, and the native slowness of pace perm its he v rizefighter scowls severity which winks at the p taints of this grimly at the pickpock et. _ T the Ring reply that it does description the advocates of of the morality of the does not do to be in advance ia which is as lu icrous as a pro age—a proposition w Either the immoral age i s position well can be. right or the moral law is r i g ht. If the a ge is not all means the penalties w rong, abolish by unimpeachabl e , and But if the law is unimpeachable, and its defiers belong to the scum and l ees of so ciety respectively, let the law stand, and let the age learn to obey or to submit to the fitting p un i s h men t. That gentlemen and scholars should dare still to uphold a practice oondemned by law and morality alike, is enough to discourage most men. The efforts of a minority must, however, prove quickly impotent before thesociety. common opinion of Why is prize fighting worse than cock -fighting on Shrove Tuesday ? Both are * e ns equally equally national, and equally table orts. The cock isreputa esp has been successfully taken under the wing of the Legislature ; but human beings are still allowed and encouraged—in the Legiolature'o despite—to prac. V /: -: . ~ , ~ . 0 ... . i , z p.. i c :;,‘,,4 ri 1 e 4 .. . . . ~ ( - / 01r. -/ 7e•L' '-i (7 NEWSPA P E R . _--, -''• Wiß o le#,,,, \ , - •zcz---Ais.G7G kr.M.,, * v . i. , ' „:=4. Z 1 . distinguished for comiatting themselves. A‘ 7 „..•;t. ~ before a provincial audience is generally i . .-:- =-. . . _...... dilemma, that he must be either incautious or tile a some. Something exciting, is necesssiy to totem the attention of some hundreds' or thousands of half.educ a t e d hearers. Even Lord Pahnerston does not threaten the Emperor of the French so broadly in the 'l ouse o f Cnamons as when. he speaks to a crowd of gapi ng b um pkins; and the difference be, Commons tween Mr. Bright in Parliament and Mr. Bright in the presence of a mob is notorious, end has been very lately illustrated. It is a pity that a formal division of labour cannot be introduced. If Ministers and es-Ministers oever spoke in the_ recess, and the rest of the members never spoke in the Session, all the evils of both periods would be avoided. The statesmen would never " Intuit themselves; and the proceedings of the Home of Commons would b© mu c h li ve li er t h an they are. But even that rti. , e would fail to meet the case of Mr. Bright and his coadjutors, who are, perhaps, gaeater sinners m thie respect than all the fist of the members put together. • ./ -v \ %ç ç S \ l ~j~ PRICE..... -..4d. ST A.MPED ....sd. FRENCH THEATRICALS, FnANCAIS.—The question has been asked before now, How is it that clever men can write such bad comedies Of the " how" we can say n , ,thing, but of the fact that they can and do so write there is no doubt whatever, an d in ad dition to many proofs of the possession of that faculty past, present, and—we fear—to come, by men o f talent, we may b o ldl y c i te M. J u les Sandeau's " Maison de Penar van," brought out here a few nights since. The author is known as one of the best and most elegant writers of the day as a novelist, having produced several works which hold a high place in the estimation of the best judges, both for his power of creating an interest in the mind of the reader, and those rarer qualities of taste and style in which he is immeasurably superior to most writers of the modern school, whose popularity is frequently owing to the vio lence and vulgar exaggerations of their manner of writing. A comedy, however, is one thing and a roman another ; and certain it is that M. Sandeau's play of "La Maison do Penarvan is a poor affair. While his novel is excellent." The scene is laid in Brittany, where stands the ruined clateau of the Penarvans, a noble loyalist family, who have freely - their vast given their lives and their Te r ajth .. to aid ihe,miuse of the Monarchy against' the Republic'. Of pos sessions there remains but a dilapitated castle, and of the great and numerous family but one surviving daughter Renee, whose spirit and courage, however—solitary, poor and friendless as she is—glow as ardently for the good old perishing cause as in the brightest days of its prosperity. The last of her race, she is determined never to change her name, but to die a Penarvaa. In the meantime po vert y and distress are gathering round her, and she is comp e ll e d to part w i th port i ons o f h er land to supply th e vu l gar ne cessities of lif e . , I n this strait she discovers that a relati ve belongin g to a she th oug h t dead, is still living, a species of country squire, has notn, who younger branch of the Penarvans, whom grain of the chivalry of his family, in his composition, and has willingly abjured all connection with nobility. This doughty personage, Paul de Penarvan, is about to marry th e pretty daughter of a miller, one Mi chaud, a genuine son of liberty as it flourished in 1793, when the noble Renee, horror-struck at the intended de gradation,gchdteau, and, acquainting him with the death lYseeks an int erview with him in the vici nity the resolves t o prevent it if possible, and so eocf°r her doifu brothers on 'the field of La 'Vendee, de livers him the deeds which constitute him the head of the family. The beauty of his fair visitant at once puts an end to the chance of the miller's daughter, and — not to prolong the story too much—in the next act we find him the husband of the poor heiress. Anything like love for such a man is of course out of the question, but she makes use of his means to aid the royal cause, not only with his purse, but actually in person, and one of the best scenes is that in which he reluctantly dons his spurs and other warlike paraphernalia to take the field amonghis wife's friends against the Reptblic, with whom lie his real sym pathies. He is dangerously wounded in his first battle, and the natural tenderness of woman's heart towards a suffering husband finally leads to a reconciliation between them, and the audience are left to hope (if they can) that the nobl e high-spirited woman, who had borne so much for the sak e of early principles, may ultimately find happiness in her ' union with a man that has none. Such Is the outline, and only an outline, of this play, many of the details which serve for the filling up of the picture being ornitted for the pe t - :- pose of abridgment, for its extreme heaviness and length on the stage rather leads to the fear that one account of 'it rather partakes of the sin of the original; Its' general effect on the public led to a display of censidfirable oppo sition on the first and second represektatidhs. 'And here ' we have to note a fact of singularly raie,Occurrence at this.. theatre—to wit, that the acting was not of the character iics public are here accustomed to. Without being bad, it was not first-rate, yet there was no apparent ,want of zeal or, t care, but the performers seemed nearly all misplaced. 'The:: ungracious riile of Paul, for instance, ,would *teem, to, I** , quire distinction of manner and deportment to redeem itsi disagreeable features. It was given.to. M, Got, a most ex- , '.,eallent comedian, and we believe :only &Went in•lthe' graceful qualities just named.- *So with M. Prevost, so with the young actor Coquelin, who played the miller, for which he is unmisthkably too juvenile, all the stage arti- fleas to produce the appearance of age being thrown away up,m his plain and youthful features. Mme. Plessy, as Mlle. de Penarvan, looked, dressed, and acted beautifully. In the first scene with her cousin her costume and general appearance so strongly resembled the best portraits of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette as to strike every beholder. With this exception and that of M. Mirecour, who gave the little part of an aristocratic lacquey of old times with wonderful gusto, none of the performers seemed at home in their parts—a drawback that considerably impaired the effects of the piece, which, however, we could not help thinking under the hands of Eugene Scribe would have made an amusing and attractive comedy, a title to which at present it really possesses no claim. By the way. the sub ject seems, all things considered, a curious one to select for performance in the Court theatre—for the piece had the quantity of real hap honour to be chosen for representation at Compiegne before the gueits of the Emperor, previous to its produc tion at the Frangais. It was received with favour, but of the quietest kind. PALAIS-ROYAL —A pleasant little piece, called ci L e Pifferaro," has been brought out here. Two persons, cep _ - v pi el n s e i s n s g to in , meet with q th u e ee s r m w al o l rld of ours b t e he fo s un tre d et i s n up thi on s one of the wandering Italians just named, whose doleful melodies are but too well known to the public, and one lays a wager that this poor fellow, with his infernal music, bright eyes, and ever -laughing face, cannot possibly be among ra ther philosophical miserable. He loses, of course—but f rom this 1 hi ca l point rises the material of th ephiosop farce, which is enlivened by two or three agreeable airs, Spiritedly sung by B er thelet, who ha s become q uite a favourite , anreceived. with genuine plaudits. VARIZIESe—AII amusing trine, not at all remarkable by its novelty, has been received here with laughter, . called "L'lnfortanee Caroline." Mdlle. Alphonsine and Dupuis in the principal characters contributed a full share to its SUCCeSS. 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