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EI~ AT itE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre, hav truly magnificent and costly style, is now open. Notwithstanding the immense expenses incurred in the ar rangements, the Prices of Admission will be as usual, and similar to those of the principal London Theatres, viz.:— Private Boxes 10s, 6d , 215., £1 lls. 6d., £2 25., £3 38 ., and £4 4s. Stalls, 6s. Dress circle, 4s. First Circle, 38. Boxes, 2s. Pit, 2s. Lower Gallery, Is. Upper Gallery, 6 d. No Half-price. A MORNING PERFORMANCE - of the PANTO MIME EVERY WEDNESDAY at Two o'clock. THIS EVENING will be presented Mr. E. Falconer's Comic Drama, entitled NEXT OF KIN. Principal Characters by Messrs. S. Calhaern, H. Sinclair, Neville, Warde, Rourke, Fredericks ; Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, and Miss Portman. After which will be produced the Great Drury-lane Annual in the form of an entirely Novel , Original, Bur lesque, Grotesque, Poetical, Pictorial, Pastoral, Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime entitled LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES o r , HARLEQUIN and COCK ROBIN " Little Bird with bosom red, Welcome to my Humble Shed, Daily near my table steal, While I pick my scanty meal, Well rewarded if I spy, Pleasure in thy glancing eye."—Old Poem. The novel Effects and Extensive Scenery by Messrs. GRIEVE and TELBIN, assisted by Messrs. DAYES, JONES, C. FENTON, E. LLOYDS, GRIEVE, Jun., TELBIN, Jun., and D ANSON and SONS. The Ma chinery by Mr. TUCKER. The Costumes by Mr. MAY and Mrs. CLARKE. The Masks, Designs, and Personal Appointments by the celebrated DYK-WYN-KYN ; com pleted under his direct supervision by Messrs. GLINDON, CHALTON, and numerous Assistants. The Tricks, Pro perties, Changes, and Transformations of the Harlequinade by Mr. BLAMIRE and Assistants. The Gas Appointments by Mr. HINCKLEY. The Scenes of the Harlequinade by H. BOLENO, J. CORMACK, and D. JOHNSON. The Groupes, Tableaux, Action, and Grand Ballet, designed and arranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr. J. BARNARD. The Opening invented and written by E. L. B.JANCHARD, Author of "The House that Jack Built," "Peter Wilkins," " Robin Hood," &c. THE VILLAGE SCHOOL OF GOODY TWO SHOES. EARLY MORNING. Little Goody Two Shoes--Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. "This dear little Girl, whose real name was Margery Meanwell, once lived," &c.—Old Story. "His kind Wife gave little Margery a nice pair of new Shoes; and she was so pleased with them, and so fond of showing them to every one she met, saying, Two Shoes— Two Shoes,' that she gained the name of Little Goody Two Shoes.' "—Old Story. The Raven, the Pigeon, the Cat, and the White Rabbit (her pets), Masters Quork, Coo, Mew, and Bunny. Pet Robin—Master Redbreast. Little Boy Blue (her Shepherd Swain) Miss HELEN HOWARD. Johnny Stout (the Good Boy) Mr. J. ROBINS. Thommy Green (the Bad Boy) Mr. G. WESTON. Day Scholars—Masters Wag, Lag, Fag, Brag, Dag, Nag, Gag, Mag, Tag, &c., and Misses Nimble, Simple, Sample, Rumple, Whimper, Simper, Niminy, Piminy, &c., &c. Sir Timothy Gripe (Lord of the Manor), Mr. TOM MATTIIEWS. Graspall (his Steward), Mr. SHAW. Villagers—Messrs.Bumkin,Whackstraw,Oatcake,Chaw bacon, Thatcher, &c., &c. "The room in which she taught her scholars was very large, so that she could have her children stand in front of her while she instructed them. —Old Story. Of the proposal made by Sir Timothy to Goody Two Shoes, and what became of it. HUNTING LODGE ON THE BORDERS OF THE FOREST. The Fairy Good Nature (assuming the form of Goody Peabody), Miss KATE SAXON. Gamekeepers, Messrs. Popp and Bang. Footman, Mr. Powdernob. Page, Master Buttons. Housekeeper, Mrs. Chickabiddy. How Little Boy Blue meets with a particular friend, and how the Squire dooms the small Birds found on his Estate to general destruction, and what ensues thereupon. THE BRAMBLE BRAKE IN THE DEPTHS OF THE FOREST.—SUNSET. " When good Little Goody Two Shoes had finished her ten sets of letters, she invited a great number of her poor little Companions to meet together under an old oak tree, and there she taught them."—Old Story. The Demon Envy, Mr. GLIN CON. Hatred and Malice (his attendants), Messrs. Scowl and Growl. The Bad Boy's Compact with the Evil Genius, and what followed therefrom. HAUNT OF THE W OOD NYMPHS IN THE ENCHANTED DELL. May Miss WENT WORTH. Bluebell, Cowslip, Violet, Wild Thyme, Golden Broom, Speedwell, Daisy, Buttercup, Wood Anemone, Primrose, Colvolvulus,Wild Rose, Traveller's Joy,Celandine, Hearts ease, Fox Glove, &c, (her attendant Wild Flowers), by a host of Corypheea. Pas de Forget-me-not, Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. Pas de Double Heartsease, The Misses GUNNISS. Ballet des Bouquets, invented and arranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. WOODY AVENUE, LEADING TO BUTTERCUP MEAD. " All hail to thee, thou first of May, Sacred to merry sport and play, To wine and jest and dance and song, And mirth that lasts the whole day long." CELEBRATION OF MAY-DAY AND FESTIVAL OF THE MAY QUEEN. OUTSIDE OF LITTLE GOODY'S COTTAGE, MILL BROOK, AND ANCIENT BELFRY. " Who killed Cock Robin ? I, said the Sparrow, with my Bow and Arrow."—Old Nursery Legend. The Sparrow, Mr. Take-an-Aim. The Fly, Master Buzzy, The Fish, Mr. Gillbut. The Beetle, Mrs. Gamp. The Linnet, Master Downey. The Owl, Mr. Whit-to-Whoa. The Lark, Mr. Highflyer. The Rook, Mr. Blackeoat. The Bull, Mr. Roarer, with a Horn accompaniment. The deed done. Impressive fate of Little Cock Robin, and his marvellous restoration by Good Nature, who pro ceeds on her radiated Path of Prisms over the World. Harlequins, Mr. CORMACK and Mr. ST. MAINE. Columbines, Madame BOLENO (her first appearance here these two years) and the :Misses GUNNISS. Pantaloons, Mr. G. TANNER and Mr. DEULIN JOHNSON. Clowns, Mr. HARRY BOLENO (his first appearance here these two years) and Mr. C. LAURI. Scene L—GRAND HINT 0' NATIONAL (THEATRE) EXHIBITION OF FUN! Scene 2.—EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF INTER NA rIONAL LODGING -HOUSE. Scene 3 . —SHELL-FISH SHOP, COBBLER'S STALL, AND MUSIC WAREHOUSE! Scene 4—THE ISLINGTON AGRICULTRAL HALL, AND GREAT DOG-SHOW, CAT-SHOW, AND FLOWER -SHOW. Box-office open from Ten till Six daily. Doors open at Half. past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON. MA.LTA.-ALLIANC E ' D A GREEK -PALATINE OF CHESTER, ON JULIAN O.S. I Li 91 4. le I] Gre.q 9 nien v N.S• TAX's INCH-FULCRUM OF ARCHIMEDES, 1 ON AMERICA'S CARIB IND'N BALTIMOR' RATE, '42. Marlbro'-street Coal-hole case, Dog-set'ng grievance, with its L'EUr ka Gladiatorial Inchkeith Toga'rry. The Telegraph of Ctmas-day states that Capt. Ackerley claimed £5 fine and costs, from defendants (Dalton, Tur ner, and wife, agents of George Harrow), on their being bound over to keep tho peace six months, under £lO penalty, for misdemeanour and wilful dog o ff ence w ith a "Le Micmac" plot intent t o do injury by canine agency, on Sundays below stairs and week-nights above. The dis crepancy in u.c.iPolice reports, induces us to refer to this ¶ark-government persecution against the plaintiff (the sup porter of Angto- America's unpaid Income tax Chief, Peter Basquet, 114 years)—for holdi ng under his Coal Hole County court Final judgment on 1842-B's double -rent lease, now a 20-yrs title ; checkmates the Works Woods, and Forests' 1682 N. S- Chiliarcher Cowper of St. Mic, Corn hill's gold-key lessees' wish, by Ouster le main to regain a Primer Seisin by getting the Captain to recognize an in verted tenantcy by their lessee Batchelor building-in his Coal -hole basis without Party-wall, with intent at steam-. engine boiler HEAT—to effect cold-draft ejection.—to Tomb.). 'Think !—every day to be thy last, { Chandos. For when night-sleep comes —Life is past.' The papal }'29 Metropolis Police Act, 3 Wm. 4, cap. 19, 15, 39, 4 4—gives £5 fine, and is repeated in 1861 Act, on st Offences against the person, &c., 24-25 Viet., cap. 100, sec. 4, 42, 67, 77— Garot-Chlor'formists, and "('heater po lice fire-raisers" conviction, with £.5 fine, recoverable against Stipendiary-justice--therefore in homage to our readers we refer to this case, (of Clapham Atkins City beam and Mint scale Sydney-like, 13 Hen. 8, in 1835 standard act), wherein the Captain (& brother Chamberlayne, by reason of Jul. 3's papal! , boy Edw. 6th in-valid City grants, at age 14), as Montague kin executor of privy council by 35 H. 8, c. 1, he being sworn trustee of Brandon and Southwark's Bethlem Hospital Estates, now on St. James's Hall, as Q. Eliz. Park lodge, 6 Swallow-st., & Ormond-Yard, as the people's land, under no British Queen's Church head t assumption. * Russ-Polish Rothschild took out Troy-weight meter from the Exchequer for Pope's mitre-and-key mint in 1838 ? whence, by City charter, 26 Ed. 3, th e H ess M ayor R ose, M.P. of Southampton (Tower Ordnance Offioe-shift, for Winchester),—was mock presented in November to Indian Peter, Constable of the Tower —as Angl° Micmac flag union' The6cone-ic Parliament bather, 1843 act. -I- On Luther-set 3ty of 21-July, 1521, by Leo X and Imp. Charles IT, for Paduan intermediate supremacy in the land —Sydney was appointed the MelietaGoza Archer...,' standard inch bearer. In li r ke manner, b y 1831's Co-partner Act, No. 54, for 2.3 11 , ill. 4, caput-81, 92 , 1832, (for Russian Dutch Loan , ntee—on Submission of the Cl and Rome, on lack of jjustice--de er 25 liz. c R al ac ta , restraint of appea l s ), for marine causes. Hen. 8, cl 9 and ti e ti r i l e ey M , So, on 1825 Holy Allia , n 2, ce . Caesar Peru' rota-crown ParoKteicntgors'LatlittAiocui as King John's Ist Montague 'R/ kin trust, was sworn-in as Crt. in January, 1837 by Gold State Judge, at Worcester's stick archer-Wm. 4 [whose JORDAN - daug hter marries the Captain's nephew, by the 2nd b ra nch of Dartmouth's Blaney le Fleming Chamberlayne, in L e i ces ter Coke, Hun loke gate Shell e y de Lisle Sydney as Fit zclarence bar'd in heraldry, like Eaton-hall Egerton, by ' Somer set' half-cast],—as Malcolm 111, line of Cl are Lincoln -in% 1825-37 on Holy Lacy as P a l a ti ne o f W a l es , I re l a nd, since Alliance in Ackerly's X. mint of Chester by Indian lady r epresenting the 1820 (2d) as first Civic Christian marriage by Po m p on i a GrEecina =Plautus, 43 A.D. e dict Claudii. L.c. " As Chester's Judge—like owl alone t } ( Hugh n'd aml,—thy ' _Mau . e . O one. The same malicious isolating influence appears Club, to have closed agai ns t hi m t h e doors o f Junior United Servwe on his £4 , 0 00 Co-burn discovery fraud, an d U.S. and Museum v me mbership, f or h o ldi ng t o hi s D u pl ex official duties,_ ci il l aw cause (of his mixed church imprisonment at Bath Tothill, and Merthyr Tydvil), without crime, hs, for a d ea th r idd ance o f A c k er l ey ' s N.fndland Bal tiraore-set Maryland, of Car. 1.1631 life-trust in Cherokee IZ ATIox , 17 30.74 . g Cecil Exeter 'Change' attaint—which h Cal l'in-papist Quakers peculiar institution' claim -native by Gladstone's H s . Com. committee, 1832-37, as Georgia, whence the monastic war for LINCOLN'S word Nation. * God's arc - 0 6fcillation of pendulum in lat. 519 30 N. as the 1. 30 to & fro in sphere A'Noela to like polar * declina- Trn (abov e 25 M.) b e l ow the pole, 29 Sept., for Poor-law Treasury Audits year, now in 0 : : • • . style as Pfiroad ' •I‘ It, rideth round the heavens as on a horse' for &Avg! prefix fis to 51 0 30 flow, Bantry, flellisle, kirunawic. )40 411444 Ltmeo Warkot? Data; 7,1563, N°. 22,004, THE ANGLO•PORTUGUESE BANK. (Limited), incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1862, with limited liability. Capital, £1,000,000 sterling, in 20,000 shares of £5O each. £1 per share to be paid on application and £2 per share on allotment. Future calls not to exceed £5 per share at intervals of not less than two months. It is not intended to call up more than £25 per share. DIRECTORS. Jose Marques Braga, Esq. (Vice-Consul for Brazil) , Liver. pool John Chapman, Esq. (Director of the Union Bank of London) Francis Cramp, Esq. (Messrs. Offiey, Cramp, and Co., London and Oporto) James Farquhar, Esq. (Deputy Governor of the Union Bank of London) Sebastian Pinto Leite, Esq. (Messrs. Pinto Leite and Brothers, London) Charles_Edward Mangles, Esq. (Chairman of the Royal Mail Steam Paeket Company) Robert Russell Notman, Esq. (Director of the South- Eastern Railway of Portugal) George Barnard Townsend, Esq. (Director of the South- Eastern Railway of Portugal) Francis Morrogh Walsh, Esq. (late of Messrs. Morrogh Walsh and Co., Lisbon, 11, Gloucester-square, Hyde park. Bankers—The Union Bank of London. Solicitors—Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, 65, Moorgßte-street, E.C. Brokers—Messrs. J. C. and C. W. Morice, 1, Warnford- court, E.C. Secretary—John Beaton, Esq. Temporary Offices, 27, Cornhill, E.C, Although few countries present a more eligible field for the establishment of a sound system of joint-stock banking than Portugal, it has hitherto been nearly destitute of this advantage. The increase in the trade of the country, and its further development by the opening of its railways render the introduction of such a system a matter of the utmost importance to Portugal, whilst it will afford a legi timate source of profit on the capital invested for that purpose. The operations of the Bank of Portugal (the only one in Lisbon) are of a very restricted nature, yst its shares com mand a premium of Xll 10s. per share. In Oporto three local banks have been established within the last few years, and are all in a prosperous condition, their shares commanding the following premiums :- 1. The Commercial Bank, 291 per cent. premium. 2. The Oporto Mercantile Bank, 29} per cent. premium. 3. The Union of Oporto Bank (very recently established), 211 per cent, premium. In addition to an extensive and profitable business be tween Portugal and the United Kingdom, in Lisbon, and the provinces, large transactions constantly take place in the negotiation of paper from the Brazils, in which country it may be found desirable to establish branches. The preliminary expenses will be strictly confined to the actual disbursements attending the formation of the com pany. Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be obtained from the brokers, or the Secretary, at the tempor ary offices of the Company. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Liability Limited by Act of Parliament. £600,000 in 120,000 Shares of .£5 each. Deposit on,aliot nient, One Pound per Share. _ Guaranteed 8 per cent, by the British Government upon completion and working of the cable. CHAIRMAN. The Right Hon. JAMES STUART WORTLEY. VICE- CHAIRMAN. CURTIS M. LAMPSON, Esq. ELECTRICIAN. CROMWELL F. VARLE Y, Esq. CON SULTIN G COMMITTEE. • William Fairbairn, Esq., F.R.S., late President of the British Association. Joseph Whitworth, Esq., F.R.S. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S. Professor W. Thomson, F.R.S., of Glasgow. SECRETARY—George Saward, Esq. BANKERS. In London—Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Co., and the Bank of England. In Lancashire—The Bank of Manchester. In Ireland—The National Bank and its Branches. In Scotland—The British Linen Co. and its Branches. BROKERS Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite, 68, Old Broad -st., London. Messrs. P. Cazenove & Co., 52, Threadneedle-at., London. Prospectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may be had at the Brokers, or at the Company's Offices, 22, Old Broad-street, London. _ _ By order. GEO. SAWARD, Secretary. 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 PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOIN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. John Garratt Cattley,_ Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Alexander Drum - Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. RiversdaleW. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Robt. 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 FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Christmas will expire on 9th January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms., In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding X 15,000 may be insured on 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 the 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. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. IOYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, R.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to s dmit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mar erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts 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 Mates, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. TEETH. —By MR. ESKELL'S INVENTION (Royal Seal granted 17th July, 1860), Sets or partial Sets of Teeth, exquisitely enamelled to nature, are made and fitted in a few hours by , means of his patented soft elastic and imperishable base of the colour of the gum, to which it ad heres with wonderful tenacity, dispensing with springs or unsightly fastenings, and defying detection by tne closest observer. The peculiar attribute of Mr. Eskell's invention is, the readiness with which these teeth can be re-adapted to any change of the mouth (even by the wearer) ; and as they act independently of all disturbing causes which affect teeth of ordinary construction, they are guaranteed U. last a life time, as well as for mastication and articulation. Mr. ESKELL'S TREATISE, which fully explains hisinvention, post free for seven stamps.—lnspection of specimens and Con sultations free. Terms strictly moderate.-8, Grosvenor street, Bond-street, London; and 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mink ham. TRULYDr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS an d LIVER PILLS, pre- P a red without an y mercurial ingredient , from th reci e P gnfrer from bilious and liver complaints , wind, indigestion, •,cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who sPnems. giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appe'ite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. London, and by most druggists, lu boxes,ls. lid., and three 8, Ring William -street, Charing-cross. Sold by W. Lambert, times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. ackage, with " Willi genuine are a square the gSreCeettn'spi3ilioas and Liver Pills . LTamhebert.., engraved on stamp. COUGHS, ASTHMA, AND I NCI P I E NT C ON SIIMPTION ARE EFFECTUALLY CURED BY K.EATING'S COUGH LOZENGES, deit y recommended by the Faculty—Testimonials from the most of whom may be inspected - as the most effectual, sate, speedy, and convenient remedy for Coug h and all Disorders of the Lungs, Chest and Throat. Sold in Boxes Is. lid. ; Tins 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d. , and each.— TifomA s KEATING, Pharmaceutical Chemist,' 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Copy of a letter from the late Colonel Hawker (the well known Author on " Guns and Shooting.") Long - parish Rouse, near Whitchurch, Hants. Sir,—l cannot resist informing; you of the extraordinary effect I have experienced by taking only a few of your Lozenges. I had a cough for several weeks that defied all that had been prescribed for me ; and yet I go , completely rid of it by taking about halt a small box of your Lozenges, which I find are the only ones that relieve the cough without deranging the stomach or digestive organs.—l am, sir, your humble servant, " P. HAWSER. To Mt , Seating, 79, at* rare ChUrCIaYAINL C 1,11. ye -;. • - - (447"7"---"'" '" 41111411\\-17: itt 'n4 '4V . (9> • , • ,( • • 1 tv S" . 7 6 401 11 .G• 014 , 11 1 _411/111i4114111, 1 : • 171 °.- 111 1 : .14'° ... fi r " 0 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1863, NEW NOVEL BY DR. BREWER. On Friday, Jan. 9, in 3 vols., BEATRICE SFORZA. By DR. BREWER. Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., MISTRESS ANT) M AID. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." " A good, wholesome book, gracefully written, and as pleasant to read as it is instructive." Athenmum. Hurst and Blackett, publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CCXXV., will be Published on WEDNESDAY NEXT. CONTENTS. I. Travels in Peru. 11. Institutes for Working- Men. 111. Constitutional Government in Russia. IV. Editions of the Greek Testament. V. The Ticket-of-Leave System. VI. The Art Loan Exhibition. • VII. Life of Christopher North. VIII. The Stanhope Miscell nies. IX. Three Years of a Reform Administration. John Murray, Albemarle-street. LIVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, in FUN, every week. One Penny Now Ready, handsomely bound in Magenta cloth, gilt, price 4s. 6d. ; post free, 55., the ft IiECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with K-- , numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the following distinguished writers : W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esq. T. Hood, Esq. E. L. Blanehird, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeman, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Burnand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. H. J. Byron, Esq. &a, &e., &o. Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. CANTERBURY HALL.- THE THIRD EDITION of the celebrated Panto mimic Entertainment THE ENCHANTED HASH, thirteen characters, including Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and Pantaloon, sustained solely by Mr. E. Marshall, re-written by W. F. Vandervell, Esq., new characters and new dresses. lINSWORTH, in his renowned Speech upon all the topics of the day; and the following Comic favourites: -Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, Frank Hall, and Miss Georgina Smithson. GRAND SELECTIONS from POPULAR OPERAS, as initial, conducted by Mr. Jong,fimans. T HE 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD STREET. George Hodson's Irish Entertainment. Unsworth's great Stump Speech, "Or any other man." Eugene's burlgsque Songs and Dances. W. Randall's Comic%lities. Ciroline Parkes' I'9.l3toniT;ic - aislielCii; 7 .Little Red Riding Hood." _ . EVERY EVENING. In addit'on to Drew Dean's Flute Solos, Operatic Selections, &c., by Miss Russell, miss Townley, and Miss Oesten ; Messrs. Albert, Greene, Bernardi, &c., &c., with full Band and Chorus, Conducted by Mr. F, Jonghmans. TURNHAM'S GRAND CONCERT HALL (Sole Proprietor, Mr. JOHN TUR NHAM), EDGWARE ROAD, W. EVE ftY EVENING AT SEVEN. Operatic Selections.—Great success of John Barnett's "Mountain Sylph," with full band and Chorus—Vocal and Instrumental Solos. _ _ Comte talent—Mackney. Sam Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Bren nan, Harry Wall, West (" Or any other Man"), and Taylor. Arthur Barnes (the Champion Vaulter), Chadwick (the Parisian Grotesque), and Madame Cerito (the Great Trans formation Dancer). Admission, 6d. and is. Musical Director and Manager—Mr. CHAS. GREVILLE. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Open nightly for Promenade. There is added to the above elegant Establishment a Grand ConVersation Saloon, Reading Room, and Smoking Lounge. French, German, and English papers taken in. The musical arrangements under the direction_ of Mons. Boulcourt. The Band is composed of the best Musicians in the metro polis. Admission ls.—Manager, M. Grenet. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ; containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by innumerable superbly executed Models, illustrating every part of the Human Frame, together with a variety of highly interesting Natural Preparations, Malformations, and Mon strosities. Open daily, from 11 to 10 (for Gentlemen only). Admission One Shilling. Entrances 29, George-street, Han over-square, and 44A, Maddox-street, Regent-street, Lon don, W. Explanatory Lecture every Evening at Seven. Illus trated and Descriptive Catalogues sent, post free, for twelve stamps. Address the Secretary, as above. Charge of Manslaughter against a Midwife. Yesterday Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the deputy coroner for East Middlesex, held an inquest at the Maid and Magpie Tavern, Wellington-place, Stepney, respecting the death of Elizabeth Sullivan, aged 20 years, a married woman, lately residing at 19, Wellesley-street, near Arbour-square Police Court, who, it was alleged, had died from the improper treatment of a midwife named Batcock, of Charlotte-street, New-road, Whitechapel. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had en gaged a midwife to attend her in her confinement, for which she was to pay 7s. 6d. The deceased was delivered of a fine child on Saturday week, but soon afterwards her mother and lodgers found her suffering great pain, and groaning. They asked Mrs. Batcock if they should send for a doctor, but she replied " Oh no, she is going on comfortably." The placenta came away from the deceased piecemeal, and was destroyed by the midwife, excepting one portion which the lodger se cured and showed to a surgeon (Mr. Rose), whom the mo ther subsequently sent for. The deceased was found to be in a very dangerous condition, and Mr. Rose gave very slight hopes of her recovery. The deceased, however, never 'allied, and died at a late hour on the next night. Elizabeth Blackburn said that she lodged in the same house, and frequently asked Mrs. Batcock if she should call in a surgeon, but she said " No; there is no occasion for it." At the same time deceased was screaming with pain. Witness was certain there was something wrong in the delivery. Mrs. Batcock, the midwife, was called, and (after being duly cautioned by the Coroner) said that what she had de stroyed was by the knowledge of the parties present. The evidence at this stage of the proceedings was en tirely of a character only suitable for a medical publi • cation. By the Coroner—Had attended three lectures on mid wifery about 40 years ago, and for the last 18 years she had practised as a midwife. Never hoard the deceased pray to relieve her from pain. The mother of the deceased was re•examined by the Coroner, and contradicted in several instances the evidence of Mrs. Bateock. Other witnesses also contradicted the testimony of the midwife in many essential points. Mr. Charles Rose, surgeon, of the Mile-end-road, was examined, and said that he found the deceased in a very dangerous condition, She was sinking at that time from exhaustion. Upon feeling the pulse of the deceased he had, his suspicion that something was wrong. He pre scribed for her, and on the following day, when out on his rounds, he met Mrs. Batcock, and asked her some questions as to the state of the deceased, when she made a reply which immediately satisfied him that the deceased re quired more scientific aid. He adopted means to allay the inflammation, and relieve her of the acute pain she was suffering. He loft her, and about six o'clock on the fol lowing morning he was called in great haste. Upon reaching the house, he found such appearances that satis fied him that the placenta had not been removed. The whole of the umbilical cord had been torn away from the placenta. He took possession of it, and told the pet-bons present to show the midwife when she called. The placenta was in a state of putridity. He had no hops of the de ceased, as the condition he found her in, ho believed, would pt.,• ve fatal. He warned the friends to that effect. He had since made a post-mortem examination of the body, and he found that death arose from the want of skill in the deliverk of the deceased. The various organs of the body were generally healthy, excepting the heart, which was hard and flabby. By tlx Coroner—He believed that the deceased's life might have been saved with proper medical assistance. • The Deputy-Coroner then read over the voluminous evi dence. The . Jury, after considerable discussion, agreed to the following verdict :—" That the deceased died from inflam mation produced by the non-removal of the chief portion of the placenta, and the jurors were of opinion that Mrs. Bat cock was guilty of gross ignorance in attempting to deliver the deceased, she being not qualified ; that the raid Mrs. Batcock's conduct was highly censurable." Austria,Tuß the latter COURTEOUS.—In the wordy war amongst otehe now Wa ging between the Courts of Berlin and maintaining a Ministearuswn recent occasion Count Bismark-Schon related that o n : r r has by no means the worst of it. It is hausen, agri.evances, made the complaint that Austria was guilty of and affront towards Prussia, in answered d r r e lot an Ambassador at Berlin. " What can I do ?" Count Rechberg, in other onlyhvoted a salary for a Mi nister, the unfortu nate a"ntdhienßAustria a t t h h c l ic , rao d wn of the Chamber of habit of abiding by the decialasOna Deputies on financial questicn.i.o SPORTING INTELLII THE CHESTER CI The following are the complete Entri Cup. Yrs Accident 3 Acrobat Colt 3 Adventurer 4 A gag Alcestis Alice *Alvediston Amelia Anfield Asteroid Attaman 4 Avalanche Balham Bally Edmond 5 Barbadoes Barchottina Bathildo *Ben Webster.. 6 Bernice ...... 5 Bonny Lad.... 3 Bro. to Spring bok Brown Duchess 5 Beachy Head 4 Bellman Benjamin Berkeley 4 Black Deer 3 Blue Peter 3 Bohemia 3 Bosh Breechloader 4 Brewer, The Brighton .. 4 Brilliant 5 Buckstone Cairncastle Caller Ou •Camerino i 6 Cobbler Count Cavour 3 Canace 3 Canzonette 3 Carisbrook Catch-'em-Alive 4 Chaff Charles Fox Chere Arnie Columbine 3 Conical Contralto 3 Costa Cowley Croagh Patrick 5 Cygnet Dalesman 4 Damascus YaTlingtOn 4 I Dicta) or Doctor Syntax 53 Capt. Yrs Donne Canne.. 4 „ Double X •••• 3 Doefoot Donnybrook Dualla 3 Dulcibella ..• • 6 Du.nkeld 3 Dusk Earl of Surrey 4 East Lancashire 3 :GENCE. [es for the Chester Yrs Luscinia .Manfred Magnumßonurn 4 Mainstay Manrico . . 4 Marmion .. 3 Merry Maid .. 4 Middlewatch .. 8 Milverton Monitor Father ril O'Leary.. . 3 3 Egyptian .... 4 Monk Emily di Lona. 4M. Philippe Erin-go-Bragh. 3 Muffler Ernest 3 My Mary 4 .. 41‘rtle5 NorthornLight 6 Fitzavon 6 Oldminster .... 5 Flexmore Forester * Freeholder Gaiety 4 Pizarro (late Gardener 5 Duke Rollo). 4 Guiding Star Glance colt 3 Prince Imperial 5 Gelert Glenochty colt 3 I Plover Gorse Haddington Hartington.... 4 Queen of Spain, 4 Henham Lass.. 5 Real Jam His Excellency 3 Rhcebus .. , Investment.... 4 Roman Bee Ivanhoff ...... 5 Royal Stag 3 Jack of Hearts. 3 Sandford 3 Jack o'Newbury 3 Silkstone 4 Jealousy a Socrates J. Armstrong.. 4 Somersault Joey Jones.... 5 Springbok,Br to 3 Jacqueline colt. 3 Sister to Sage 3 Keane 4 Serf Killigrew .... a Scamander Kill or Cure .. 4 Scent,Brother to 3 King of Italy.. 3 Shepherdess King of Kent.. 5 I Stradella 4 Knave, The .. 4 Tolurno .. 4 Knutsford ... . 5 Tommy Jones.. 4 Lacydes ...... 4 T. P Cooke .. a Lady Faucon. Trojanus 3 berg ........ 3 Umpire Lady of the I s l es 3 Valentine .. Lady Superior.. 3 Vision 3 Laertes ...... 3 Venison .. 3 Loretto ...... 3 Victor 4 Lawyer, The .. 5 Via. Brignall 5 Le Marechal .. 3 Voluptas 3 Liston ........ 3 *Warminster Lady Evelyn c. 4 Watford Lizzie ........ 3 Weatherspy . • 3 Lord Clyde.... 4 1 Welcome 4 Lufra ........ 3 Z e tl an d 4 Hawksley did not name. LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING. The following are the complete Entries for the Grand National Steeplechase (Handicap) of 20 soya each, h ft, and 5 only n if l declared, 100 added. Ab out f our m i les an d a quarter. 7 t 4 ee s p u l b ec Yrs with *Alchymist Yrs Emblem. ...... a *Fanny . . .... Fearless . ..... a Foseo ........ a 'Frank ........ a Freshman .... a *Greek ...... Grid ........ 5 Inkermann a Jealousy ...... a Jerusalem .... a *Joe Maley .. Killigrew a Leighton ...... a Light of Other Days ...... Lincoln ...... a Master Bagot.. a Mauchline .... a Medora ...... a Merryman .... 6 Miss Maria .... a Moor ........ a Mutineer...... a Yrs Nosegay a Omen Orphan, The Penarth Prophet, The 6 Ravenstoned ale a Real Jam Remedium a Remunerator *Rhcebus Romeo a St. James 6 Satellite Sepoy Sinking Fund a Sir Bobby 6 Shropshire Sly Fox Soothsayer a Telegraph Thomastown Weewe s te Nell Ulsterman nde r 6 6 Anatii a Antelope .. a Arbury Auricula . . C Avalanche ... • 6 Bally Edmond 5 Bantam Birdbolt Brewer, The BritishWorkmana Black Prince BritishGrenadier6 Bridegroom Broomstick a Brownie, The 5 Bueephalus Catspaw a Chester Climax Corona 6 Cuirassier Dane, The Doubtful a Drone, The Those horses ma] out the knowledge ( time prescribed, unl Northern Light 6 I iLailer Gal ..,. a rked thus *, having been entered with their owners, will be struck out at the Less specially ordered to remain in. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The letter from an eyewitness, which will be found in this morning's impression, throws doubt on the heroic courage which has been so loudly claimed and so readily ceded to the Army of the North at the battle of Fredericksburg. The number of the Federal army, stated in the letter at 200,000, is, doubtless, considerably exaggerated, and the number of the killed and wounded, put as low as 6,000, is probably in no slight degree diminished. But nevertheless there is much pro bability in the statement that the position was not so difficult nor the attack so gallant and desperate as was at first believed. It is scarcely credible that a general, possessed even of the intelligence of the Northern commander, should continue a whole day to expend division after division in the attack of a position perfectly hopeless ; nor is it likely that an army, formed, trained, and handled as the United States army has been for the last year, should suddenly evince all the highest virtues of the soldier under a situation the most trying. These are not the men whose courage and endurance in the retreat to James River ex torted the admiration of the Prince de Joinville. Their bones are bleaching on half-a-dozen disastrous battlefields, and they have been succeeded by raw Volunteers, by substitutes to whom war is a trade, and by men dispirited by enduring mans hardships and confronting many dangers, without a symptom of ability in their Generals, or a ray of success to give them confidence in their leaders or themselves. /f this account be the true one, if the Army of the Potomac, instead of performing prodigies of valour, has exhibited, we will not say a " Carnival of cowardice," but such qualities as its defective com position and indifferent officers and commanders might not unreasonably lead us to expect, its posi tion must be regarded as exceedingly critical. It is quite evident that after the severe check received at Fredericksburg a much less force than that under the orders of General Lee on the day of the battle will be safficient to hold the lines which forbid the advance of the Federals upon Richmond, and conse quently that a portion of the Cenfederate force is set free for any service that may be required of it. This, together with the announcement that the Con federates have evacuated Winchester, in the valley of:the Shenandoah, may lead to the suspicion that some movement is intended against General Burn , side's communications, and that the winter cam paign, closed on the part of the Federalists, may possibly be opened again by some movement of the Confederates on the flank or rear of the checked and dispirited army. With affairs thus threatening in the State of New York, and uncertain on the banks of the Rappahannock, President Lincoln has little consolation at present to look for from his operations in the West. The same ill fortune which would seem to have connected itself inseparably with the Federal cause has begun to show itself there also. The Confederates have re eaptured the town of Holly Springs, and destroyed stores, munitions, and waggons to the value of half a million of dollars. They are advancing on alum bus and on Nashville, the capital of the State of Tennessee, while the condition of Gen. Grant, the Federal commander, is becoming exceedingly pre carious. The expedition of Gen. Foster in North Carolina has, after a heavy loss in four hard-fought battles, succeeded in demolishing part of a railway by no means of primary importance, and in destroying a great deal of private pro jerty , the loss'of which is more likely to irritate than to subdue its former pos sessors. Meanwhile the President finds himself in volved in a constitutional difficulty. The Western part of the State of Virginia, on the banks of the Ohio River, inhabited by a race of iron-workers and agri culturists, has always stood aloof from the rest of the State on the question of slavery. Congress had passed a bill erecting Western Virginia into a sepa rate State, and the question is, shall the President give his consent to this bill or no. Now, the bill is flagrantly illegal and utterly beyond the powers of Congress, which has no power to dismember any of the States of the Union, of which it is the agent, with limited powers, much less Virginia, the Old Sovereignty, the mother of States, out of the vast dominion of which have been carved so many thriving communities east and north of the Ohio. The measure is as impolitic as it is ille gal. The claim of the North is that a Federal Union once entered into is always binding, and by way of enforcing that principle it assumes to break in pieces, not a Federation, but an individual State, which has subsisted as a political unit for 250 years. The Republicans, who seem to have identified their party with every scheme for the destruction of the present Constitution except that which would re store peace and prosperity to the country, are loud in their assertions that the President will give his assent to this bill ; indeed, after his claim to destroy the laws and institutions of the Slave States at a single blow, this seems no very incredible stretch of authority. On the other hand, the Democratic party loudly assert that the President will with hold his consent, and thus, between the solicitations of his friends and the threats of his enemies, the unhappy President was left in a state of doubt and uncertainty such as weak men invested by accident with authority to which they are unequal can alone fully feel. As a finishing touch to this gloomy picture we have a Proclamation by the Southern President, written, as it would seem, in letters of blood. Whether elated by success, or goaded by the sense of intolerable wrong, the President at Richmond seems to have lost all patience with the proceedings of Gen. Butler and his myrmidons at New Orleans. In what is called a retaliatory Pro clamation Mr. Davis announces that Gen. Butler and his officers, if taken, shall be hanged, and a like punishment is to be inflicted on all negroes taken in arms and all Federal officers found with them. We are not acquainted with the precise acts that called forth this retaliation, though we cannot affect to be surprised at any violence which the proceed ings of such a man as Butler may have called forth. The latter clauses seem intended by way of counter blast to Mr. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The execution of these threats will produce repri sals, and if this frightful war continue we may look forward to seeing every conflict in the field fol lowed by massacres of helpless and unarmed pri soners. Any one who contemplates the prepara tions obviously making for a civil conflict within the limits of the Northern Confederacy, the con tempt of law, the disorganisation of Government, the anarchy that is springing up all around, incom petence and cowardice in the field, and the inaugu ration of a new year by the proclamation of a ser vile war on the one side, and of a policy of ruthless extermination on the other, may well ask himself, can this be the America of two years ago, where life and property and law were as sacred as they are to day among ourselves, and where the great mass of the people had no more idea than we have of the ac cumulated evils that have fallen upon them, Have they not done enough to atone for the wantonness of a too exuberant prosperity, and has not the time come when they might, without imputation on their manhood, put a stop to the monstrous evils of i which they are reciprocally the authors ? DAILY NEWS.—There is not a child in our Sun day-schools but can remember precep ts of 1101 Y Scripture which are utterly and eternally opposed to slavery. But the Lord did more to destroy that and every other form of s ocial evil than could be y t 0 i l n o o a k o flood o oof d man done by issuing any n umber of precepts by pro claiming Divine trut hs about humanity which p lace d the enormous wicke dness of slaver y light. Christiani t y has taught us 1 as an immortal bein g , and his mo ral and spiritual nature a s of an incalculable dignity and worth. Such a being cannot become the " property" of a nother. Slavery says that this nature goes for not hi n g if the man can be se i ze d an d made use f u l on a sugar plantation. " A slave," says the Loui siana Code,",is in the power of the master to whom PE10E..... ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. he belongs. The master may se ll hi m ; di s p ose of his person, his industry his labour; he can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything but which must, belong to his master." Natural justice teaches that the pretension s th us set forth are monstrous usurpation. Nobody in the world ever believed that any slave owed it as a duty to his master not to gain his freedom, by any m eans i n his power, even to the employment of force against his detainer. But our religion , by what it teaches of the nature of mall, makes slavery nothing less than impiety. It declares that man, created in the image of God, is in the highest sen se His child, created to unfold godlike faculties, and govern himself by a diN ine law written on his heart, and republished in God's Word. To seize a crea ture with such a nature and such capablities is to insult the Creator as well as to inflict social wrong. He may be ignorant and depraved, but the capa city of improvement allies him to the instructed and refined. His mind can entertain the great ideas of God, Law, Duty, Truth. Such a being was made to be an end in himself, made for his own happiness and virtue. lie cannot rightfully be a thing, a mere instrument, a chattel. No human laws can repeal or override this first ordinance, which comes direct from the Divine Throne. The rights of every individual man are laid deep in the foundations of his nature. It is because he is such a creature, and not a lower one, that he has a right to exercise and invigorate his intellect by acquiring knowledge ; to use means for bettering his condition ; to be protected by impar tial laws; to be exempt from punishment while he respects the rights of others ; to have an equivalent for his labour ; to sustain domestic relations, and enjoy the happiness which flows from them. The duty of society to the individual is to protect these rights, and develop them by repressing all wrong. But, where slavery is upheld by law, Government, instead of protecting these rights, makes them its prey. Slavery violates them all ; not incidentally, or now and then, but necessarily, systematically, and from its very nature. It denies to its victim the right of developing his best faculties ; and, what is worse, takes means, generally too effectually, while young, to prevent his ever desiring to culti vate his intellectual powers. He cannot form plans for his own good, for his time and strength belong to another. The right to acquire position by honest industry is denied him. He has no right to wife and children of which he may not be stripped at any moment at his master's pleasure. And this, wo are told, is a state of things against which the Bible has not a single text. Have those who affirm this ever asked themselves what would he gained for the cause of order, religion, and morality if their assertion were generally believed ? It may be hoped that this last manifesto of the pro-slavery party among us has not been made in vain. There must be many Christian men who, although unwilling to involve themselves without need in a judgment upon all the complicated issues of the American strife, must feel that they owe duties to their religion when its character is auda ciously attacked. Especially, the Christian churches of this country must now either speak out in plain language, or be held to acquiesce in a representa tion which will be loudly echoed from the plat forms of unbelief. We have a right to expect of them that they will not see the morality of the Holy Scripture publicly impugned with less con cern than they have shown for the spread of specu lative error. POST.—The news published in last night's Gazette challenges interest more from its official clothing than from its novelty. It is now some time since our readers were placed in possession of the intentions of this country towards the lonian Islands, and of the main objects of Mr. Elliot's mis sion to Athens. Of the many unjust suppositions hatched in the active imaginations of Continental diplomatists none was ever more unfair than that which attributed to this country the desire of hold ing fast upon an unwilling people, and of occupying the territories of the Septinsular Republic for our own ends and in virtue of our overpowering strength. The islands were committed to us as a public trust. We could resign this to no other Power, unless we could fairly guarantee the safety and validity of the conditions of our trust. It has hitherto been im possible for us to yield to the wishes expressed by the lonian Parliament for annexation to Greece, be cause Greece under King Otho was the worst go verned country in Europe, and was a standing menace to the peace and welfare of the East. The revolution has created a new aspect of affairs. We have no selfish interests to serve, no object save that of the general good. We are now informed on the one hand that Greece absolutely needs an increase of territory to enable her to place her finances on a sound bases. These islands are to her a great fiscal requirement. On the other hand, we have in but too recent memory the repeatedly-expressed long ings for annexation of the lonian Legislature. 11'e wish, for our part, not to place ourselves as an in surmountable barrier to the necessities of Greece or the aspirations of the Islanders. We therefore pro pose to accomplish what we presume to be best for the welfare of the one and the happiness of the others on the fulfilment of a few easy stipulations. Ist. The Greeks must maintain constitutional monarchy, and must choose a King to whom they can entrust their future with the approval of Europe. 2d. The Greeks must undertake to pursue a pacific policy in their external relations, and specially to refrain from all attempts at aggression upon Turkey. If these condi tions be not complied with, we shall withdraw our offer ; but, if they are frankly accepted, we shall then free, if proceed to inform the lonians that they are it shall so please them, to give a r enewed expression to their desire for annexation to Greece ; and if that wish is once more formally renewed we shall make it our duty to o btain the assent of the Powers, sig nataries of the Treaties of 1815, to the final surren der of the English protectorate. Our course is therefore clearly traced out, and is free from all the egotistical views which have so often been ascribed to us. The only doubt remaining in the matter is whether the parties principally concerned will be as innocent of selfish motives. We are credi bly informed that the step now taken by this country by no means determines the final issue of the arrangement. The Greek politicians are said to be jealous of the superior wealth and talent of the lonian aristocracy, and to be by no means dis posed to welcome with open arms the accession of new and formidable rivals for place and power. We have also yet to learn whether the Septinsular great Re public is really and truly willing to abandon the protection of the British flag. The islands, of self our sway, have enjoyed al, the blessintegso annexation to Greece government. They have risen tnosatsteaf prosperity. The retirement of the English., signifies immediate ih lac we hav e I the withdrawal also of large BUMS expended in the islands, whilst a ea h simplest for Innn in its first and sie3P l . farheavier the republic imposition of a taxation Ano ther consid erat i on which is of has yet known. very large and important signification i cls that every lonian has s h a re the immense advantage in the Levan t of being a British subject, and the islands have derived the full benefit of our treaties. Their trade will therefore ff suer by relinquishing this, and passing under the protection of Greece, whilst every individual I • ontan who has hitherto enjoyed the great p • rivi • 1 eges of the "civic Romanus" will find himself reduced to the comparatively insignifi cant position of a Greek citizen. This is, however, their own affair. We cannot see how it can be to their advantage to leave us. If, nevertheless, they choose to immolate the direct in junctions of self-interest upon the altar of " nationality," and to sacrifice the tangible benefits of the present for a prospective idea, they are at full liberty so to do. If, then, the parties principally concerned urge the cession, and if Europe sanction it, we shall surrender a trust which we have fulfilled for many years at a cost of much Mr Glad money and no little unmerited obloquy. • THE RED BOOK FOR 1863. Just published, thoroughly revised, 55., or, with an Appen dix, or Index of Names, contained in the volume, 2s. in addition, THE ROYAL KALENDAR and COURT and CITY REGIST I,R, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies, containing an improved and enlarged Peerage and Baronetage—The House of Commons, with the latest alterations The Queen's Ministers The Royal Households Government Departments—Ambassadors, Bri tish and Foreign—Navy and Army—Law and Civil Officers Ecclesiastical Establishments Universities Literary, Scientific, and Religious Societies—Charitable and Commer cial Institutions—Magistrates, Hospitals, &c. London : R. and A. Suttaby, 2, Amen-corner, and other proprietors. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863. FEBRUARY. Lincoln Nottingham Spring 3 Derby Spring Liverpool Spring lO Shrewsbury l2 AP] Newraarket Craven 6 Durham Catterick Bridge.. 8 Thirsk l4 Chester 5 Bath l2 Marlborough l4 Ascot 2 Newton . .10 Hampton lO Odiham 16 Bibury Club l7 Worcester 2 Newmarket July 7 Abingdon 14 Hungerford l6 Brightcn Brighton Club 6 Lewes Reading l2 SEPTE: Derby Summer Lichfield Leicester lO Doncaster l5 OCT , Newmarket S. 0 ..12 Lincoln Autumn 21 NOTE: Worcester 3 25 ',CH. I Doncaster Spring l7 Warwick Spring 17 Northampton .. ...... 24 Croaton Park 27 scnc.. Epsom Spring 16 Newmarket F. S ..20 York Spring 28 Salisbury AY. - - Harpenden l5 Epsom l9 Manchester 27 rE. Stockbridge lB Chelmsford 23 Newcastle 23 Carlisle rLY. Nottingham 21 Winchester 2l Goodwood 28 York August ......13 Devon and Exeter ......15 Egham 29 Brecon . 2l Monmouth 24 Manchester Autumn 25 Newmarket Ist Oct. 29 IBER. 1 Newmarket Houghton 26 :MBEIt. I Shrewsbury Autumn....l7 UST. :MBER. SPEEPLECHASING 'IXTURES FOR 1863. FEERrARY. Carmarthenshire Hunt .. 2 Aberystwith Hunt 16 Scarborough 11 Birmingham .. ..23 Reading l2 Lincoln 25 MARCH. Grand National Hunt (Market Harborough ...26 IRISH—APRIL. Kildare Hunt 15 The late Mr. John Jolly, farmer, of Enstone, Oxford, has left a legacy of 200 guineits to the National Lifeboat Institution. FATAL FALL FROM THE MARGATE CLIFF.—On Saturday last, about noon, the body of Robert Prid ham, a fly-driver, was found under the cliff near the Fort steps. The deceased was observed about the town during the morning, but nothing strange was noticed in his man ners. He went into the Crown publichouse about 12 o'clock, and there had a pint of beer and a pennyworth of bread and cheese, and afterwards up on the Fort, at the Britannia Inn, he was treated with a pint of beer by Mr. John Sony, and shortly after partaking of which he proceeded along the cliff, and, on arriving at a spot between the Sebastopol gun anpdortthioen of thesteps Fortc liff at to the the sands, spot he having lionvaehr—een carried thefence and a away during the late gale. Deceased's father and brother committed suicide, the latter about 15 years ago. An in quest was held at the Town-hall, on Monday, before W. H. Payn, Esq., coroner, and, the above facts having been deposed to, the jury returned the following verdict : That deceased came by his death by a fall from the cliff; but there is no evidence to show how he came there ; and the authorities are censurable for not taking steps to defend or protect anyone from falling over the cliff.—Kentish Gazette. DARING GAROTTE ROBBERY NEAR NOTTTN GUAM. —A daring highway robbery, accompanied with violence, took place at the village of Basford, three miles from Nottingham, on Saturday night last. Mr. Charles Brown, of Basford, left an Odd Fellows' lodge in the vil lage about half-past nine, and when within 150 yards of his own house three men suddenly rushed upon him. The fore most of the men knocked him down with a bludgeon, and the others fell upon him, seized him by the throat, and strangled him. They then dragged him from the highway, into a narrow lane, and rifled his pockets of nearly £4. Be fore leaving him the robbers kicked him violently in the side and other parts of the body, rendering him insensible. A person named Pendleton passing by soon after heard groans, and soon discovered Mr. Brown. Assistance was imme diately procured, and the unfortunate man conveyed home. No clue has yet been obtained to the perpetrators of the outrage. A bag which contained the money was found in a neighbouring field on Sunday morning. FULHAM AND HAMMERSMITH RAILWAY.—This line, as per Parliamentary plans, will start from a junction with the West London Extension, near the western abutment of the bridge that carries the existing railway over the Thames, and terminate near the Broadway, in Hammersmith, at about 40 yards in a south-westerly direc tion from the District Post-office. There will also be a continuation line running out of the former at a point on the parish boundary, between Fulham and llammersmith, about 12 chains from the Fulham-road, in a north-easterly direction, and terminating in junction with the Hammer smith and City Railway, now constructing, about 20 chains from Hammersmith Broadway. The engineering estimate Of cost is 4120,000. , • t ~~ G ~> ~. ~ 2~ ~- u ~_~; ~~~~ ~~ c~ atone will probably be able i 0 iit.oW that The sttviii to this country by the abArni.oninent of our position in the Septinsular Republic will he but little, if at all, short of 1:200,000 a year, an item which he will no doubt exceedingly rejoice to place to the credit of his budget. In a financial point of view we shall be considerable gainers, whilst we shall still more largely benefit if the contemplated arrangement be ) found to conduce to the welfare of the Hellenic kingdom and the permanent tranquillity of Eastern Europe. HERALD.—In former days it was the ambition of great men to make their country great ; to extend ber dominions by discovery, by colonisation, or by conquest ; to increase her influence, her au; hoe it c, her power, by judicious alliances, by prudent action by a vigorous assertion of her lights And dignity, and by a careful management of her material re sources. To widen the British Empire and spread the glory of the British name was the hope and the pride of English sailors, soldiers, and stat( eu le All these antiquated notions arc now dissipeeee Abroad, indeed, the old traditions still retain their States, in the sway. Russia has not one whit relaxed her aggr , :, her Austria Sive efibrts ; France is still labouring to inert te-e not her territorial possessions ; ii. desperately to every shred of her making e n I franticightn e d effortsto empire ; Prussia hankers after new recruits for her after a new capital and a better afhrrooninnyot Lincolnie ir r ;l o tie f savley b n e being remembered in history as the America, es P e r a e p s e i d e the n t million of and has s la a s e t rifi P ee r d esid n e e n a t rly et ha th lf e a Unit e d vain hope to keep together a country too wide to be ruled by one Congress and a people too deeply divided by character and institutions to live in harmony under one Government and one la*. Only in England, thanks to the wisdom of Mr. Cobden and the eloquence of Mr. Bright, we have learned to be much better than our fathers, and are doing our best to get rid of the heritage which they toiled so hard and fought so nobly to secure for us. The government under which it is our happiness to live has contrived with admirable skill to disen cumber our Sovereign from all the alliances which might entrammel her in relations of friendship or common action with any foreign Power—to alienate Russia, to insult the Scandinavian kingdoms, to disgust Austria, to substitute a marked coldness for the former cordiality of our understanding with France, and, in a word, to secure for us t h e deep dislike of one half the world and thorough distrust of the other half. The Ministers have thoughtfully taken care, each in his respective department, to deprive the country of every element of strength which might provoke the jealousy of other Stases or induce us to give vent to our sympathies by any interference in foreign quarrels, or to maintain our pride by any violent resentment of foreign aggres sion. Mr. Gladstone has with infinite pains deli. vered us from the temptation of an easy and expan sible revenue. The Admiralty has diligently avoided creating for us a really effective navy_ The Colonial office has given our colonies to understand that the sooner we can find an opportunity to cut them adrift the better it will be for them and us. Lord Russell has allowed the Americans to understand that they are at perfect liberty to burn our ships, blockade our harbours, and imprison our fellow-subjects, and that so long as he remains in power they need not fear that he shall indulge in the unholy and unpro fitable practice of retaliation. He has informed France that England abnegates her place as one of the Great Powers, and will not under any circum stances attempt to adj 'st the quarrels which dis -1 turb the peace of the world, or enforce the laws ' which regulate the intercourse of nations. Al these things have been done, and yet Mr. Bright is not satisfied. All is as nothing until the anti quated absurdity of empire is renounced. Even for this sacrifice the enthusiastic conviction of his ministerial converts suffices. The Gazette of Let night announces that the first step to the dismem berment of the British empire has been taken. Her Majesty's Government has intimated to the Provi sional Government of Greece that if the Greeks will behave well, choose a King who will keep the peace, and for a short time prove themselves fit:to be trusted with the liberty they have invariably abused, Eng land will be disposed to hand over to them the valuable possession of the lonian Islands, including the fortress of Corfu, the key of the Adriatic. The country is thus fairly committed to the final sacri fice which is demanded of her by modern enlighten ment, and which, of course, is to be in due time its own reward. Of influence, strength, and friends she has been already shorn ; she is now to be delivered from the incubus of empire. We congratulate Lord Palmerston and his colleagues on a feat hitherto unparalleled in history, and on the further achieve ments which will, of course, follow in due succes sion. Already Spain stretches out her hands to re ceive the long-coveted gift of Gibraltar ; and one of her senators actually expresses a hope that the Go vernment will not pay its debts to England anti that fortress is surrendered—to which the Govern ment replies that it does not intend to do so. It cannot be long before Italy will receive Malta, and France the many possessions we have reft from her before Canada will be annexed to the United States if anything be left to which to annex her—and India abandoned to its legitimate possessors, or to the first power which, not having imbibed the new doctrines, may think proper to seize it. And then at 'met England, without colonies, without an army or a navy, with no monument remaining of her past follies or glories but her national debt, will be happy, rich, and safe. itself a t n o a the to It may seem captioust c o ell t e ak nt e exception in manner of an act so ex glorious as the inauguration of a new policy— new not only to England, but to the world ; unprecedented, save in the annals of the decline of Rome, when province after pro vince was abandoned, much as we now propose to abandon the lonian Islands, until at last even the capital itself gave up the vain and expen-- sive luxury of independence. The lonian dema gogues found it profitable to clamour themselves into the Legislative Assembly and a salary of £lOO a year by railing against the protectorate ; but it n a t n ha c e e mab a aa n ni. d .s is by no means so certain that the respectable in ' habitants of the Seven Islands would be willing to see the protectorate abolished and cast in their lot with Greece, ill-governed, over-taxed, and overrun by bandits, as she has been ever since she obtain edt the name of independence and the shadow ° tuber y. And though we do not think thatanticiFis a sar t Austria 1- of the Adriatic trans-- Russia will have any objection to her rt eo°ursri sure let : that cation by Great Br b it a a n i d n s o t f h y ers s e e l e f e th n e tit k l e e y d to remonstrat time dominion, can we be 4 would u d i N i v ot il f l e i e n l g h l a state of chronic anxiety and periodical e warmly a fe g r a r i e n d s t i la: n o weaker arrangement which would condemn to a line of her to poli ii cy efo Nc r h e i b eh in m di a n y g d h i i s m pl s e e a lt s ' e i o rr u e r v c o ie c p ab en ly_ border wars. dents, 'which must displease some of those to whom, we are bound by treaties not yet abrogated, and which may not find favour with all Englishmen, would it not have been as well if the Foreign Secretary had sought the counsel and support of Parliament ? And has he not some reason to fear that his neglect to do so will not be easily con doned ; that support may be refused and counsel administered in the form of censure ; and that the prompt interference of the House of Commons may at once terminate his official career, and prevent the realisation of his glorious dreams of a renounced empire, an example set to the world, and a future of peaceful wealth and prosperous isolation achieved for England. THE CALAMITOUS FIRE IN SOE[O.—T 1 ) e i n quest on the bodies of the s i x young childre n of Samuel James Spencer, a porter, who lost their lives in the fire which took place at 6, Portland-street, Soho, on the 26th Dec. last, was r eopened yesterday by Mr. Bedford, the coroner, at the Vestry Hall in Pi ccadilly. Nearly all the j urymen who were sworn on the first occasion answered to th e i r name& The jury, a f ter a short consultation, statect they were of opinion that the children lost their lives in co nsequence of the fire which bad taken place ; but there w as no evidence to show the cause of the fire. They strongly censured the conduct of the turncock, Danyer,, " for not rendering that aid, when called on by the police, which we consider the duty of every man in all simile, e cases.", The inquiry then terminated. ri -57 the ,eg. 9 0 11 0 en. lee Ell* tter `.: -. v~ ~~