The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-01 00:00:00

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Th. ie. , •,'• ' se, , , S-'- .• s• 1 ,: ~ • - -f•T lingsgate, and t Capital , L 1,000,000 sterling, in 20,000 shares of £.50 each. i '••••''' •- s . 025 _.. . 1 " ,'' \ \ ''''' rqr , - IT, , : rr-r- 4a - A ..e"' r -",..." ;r • _ XI per share to be paid on application and £2 per share • . '4- , )-, e e ....e ---.. 4 , 's---* • . . . Is. 07, which was / . ----- • .-s --- on allotment. Future calls not to exceed £5 per . share at s l _!*- e / 4*- I f corn fell to 3s. F intervals of not less than two months. It is not intended -4 7. --- ' , -- --*Of--- - ••••-... e .f-Lttr sm. s - - '•4 , . 1 4 -ate • AA' DRO IT , -,. V---• , ' kt, o 4l' JP Z.. .••••• • , aides speak of i to call up more than £25 per share. . ................-.... e . 0f e................. 301t. I es.. nich lasted for I DIRECTORS. .....-.m.-....0.„,55.............=.............,_ a , - - ----- Tterie it protects -- --- -- ' ni . , P R e I C: ~ , ------- ----- which forms the Verne has been S r T e A nt M a P w •El a . ements was the I j°64 Marques Braga, Esq. (Vice. Consul for Brazil), Liver • N° 21 999 THE SUN LONDON TH U RSDAY E VEN IN G JAN UARY 1, 1863 from its fellow headlands by this stupendou ib s Yt.tja l en: s s4.i; m l.:(u . et of the Crea- I pool. ' 4 - 1 N , r . g m o: e o . f it Ti t t i e ll e t e b e e tt v o i n s e ito e r f d t e h s e ce w nd o s n : mithfield by a John Chapman, Esq. (Director of the -Union Bank of _ _ ________ _______ London). Esq. (mem ,. (Arl e y, Cramp, and Co., ~ Author of "The House that Jack Built," "Peter Wilkins," ' to Maitland), and traverses its whole le Francis Cramp, VIE REVENUE FOR THE TRAIL AND QUARTER ENDING DEC. 31, 1862. Vycliffes doe- London and Oporto Robin Hood," &c. the ide a greatcmneatly excavation eavat i ci n . - e market, and James Farquhar, Esq. (Deputy Governor of the Union THE VILLAGE SCHOOL OF GOODY TWO SHOES. nt to ashes." Bank of London). Sebastian Pinto Leite, EARLY MORNING. . P. s strata which form the island of Portland arc EEq. (Messrs. Pinto Leite and ;5, would have Little Goody Two Shoes-Miss L YDIA THOMPSON. No. 1.-An Abstract of the Gross Produce of the Revenue of the 1 - ilited Kingdom, in the undermentioned Periods, ended Dec. 31, 1862, compared Brothers, London) lie wee grievi- Charles Edward Mangles, Esq. (Chairman of the Royal " This dear little Girl, whose real name was Margery - with the Corresponartag Periods of the Preceding. Year. him a pension Mail Steam Packet Company) Meanwell, once lived," &c.-Old Story. . ~ flPgw fo e:lll : :irl t el h he:tf e icit fi first time in the straight rocky wall of the diti twn his heresy, Robert Russell Notman, Esq. (Director of the South- " His kind Wife gave little Margery a nice pail of new QUARTERS ENDED "V t I:AR QUARTERS ENDED YEAR Eastern Railway of Portugal) . Shoes; and she was so pleased with them, and so fond of - -A- _____„ ery i e d , , - , ended g*edy was sue- George Barnard Townsends Esq. (Director of the South- showing them to every one she met, saying, ' Two Shoes- r iffarch 31, June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, DA...4 .31, Marc_ 9 1, June 30, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, Dec. 31, ohn Oldcastle, Eastern Railway of Portugal) Two Shoes,' that she gained the name of ' Little Goody 1862 1862 1862 1861 44:42. 1861 1861 1861 1861 1861 at regular intervals of 25 or 30 yards, and commer , was roasted Francis Morrogh Walsh, Esq. (late of Messrs. Morrogh Two Shoes.' "-Old Story. - - - :AN X about 20 feet below the surface of the ground, are a s Guildhall was Walsh and Co., Lisbon, 11, Gloucester-square, Hyde- The Raven, the Pigeon, the Cat, and the White Rabbit CUSTOMS £ X X £ 5,724,000 5,791,008 0,201,000 6,320,000 24,0341,000 5,824,000 0005,82 5,982,000 6,147,000 23,774,000 CUSTOMS, of vertical faults or gaps, about 2 feet i a t r a r l can a ls: d ; jud g ed, penetrate wide, which, a park. (her pets), Masters Quork, Coo Mew, and Bunny. EXCISE 'or, Sir Henry Bankers-The Union Bank of London. Pet Robin-Master Redbreast. STAMPS Z293,945 2,253,000 2,180,000 2,1-7,000 8,913,945 2,191,170 2,186,005 2,013,000 2,098,000 8,488,170 STAMPS. streets, by or -355,000 1,357,000 106,000 1,270,000 3,148,000 314,000 1,363,000 16,000 1,282,000 3,119,000 TAXES. Solicitors-Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, 65, Little Boy Blue (her Shepherd Swain) Miss HELEN TAXES s have been fc vinter, between • Moorgete-street, E.C. HO WARD, PROPERTY fAX 4,427,000 2,772,000 974,000 2,031,000 11454.040 4,021,000 2,568,000 991,000 3,359,000 9,962,000 PROPERTY TAX. these extraordinary clefts human bone of i long coats, and Brokera-Mesars. J. C. and C. W. Morice, 1, Warnford- Johnny Stout (the Good Boy) Mr, J. ROBINS. POST OFFICE CROWN LANDS 905,000 850,000 895,000 950,000 3,60 , ,000 895,000 825,000 870,000 910,000 3,500,000 POST OFFICE. 77,521 68,000 6,000 80,000 294521 76,000 67,000 66,479 ,00 293,470 CROWN LANDS. with those of wild boars and the bones and horns deer-not foseilieed, but with all their osseous structu after dark, cry- court, E.C. Thommy Green (the Bad Boy) Mr. G. WESTON. MISCELLANEOUS hake ere corn- Secretary-John Beaton, Esq. Day Scholars-Masters Wag, Lag, Fag, Brag, Dag, Nag, - - z.- - Temporary Offic es , 27, Comhill, E.C, Gag, Mag, Tag, &c. and Misses Nimble, Simple, Sample, TOTALS 19,606,614 18,409,904 14,600,983 18,378,928 70,996,429 18,535,986 18,398,594 14,601,232 17,088,039 68,603,851 TOTALS. the oolite the bones of saurians have been brought to e i n t e c t o te pi to etel tl y se fr l o o m we n s o t rt s h ub to str s e o sa uth. ni :vent happened . Although few countries present a more eligible field for Rumple, Whimper, ' Simper, Niminy, Piminy, &c., &c. , - perfect as if they were not 50 years old. Lower sti with sharks' teeth, shells now only found in the rn. After en- Sir Timothy Gripe (Lord of the Manor), .1 • - the establishment of a sound systernofjoint-stock banking . i so formidable than Portugal, it has hitherto been nearly destitute of this Mr. TOM MATTHEWS. Sea, huge ammonites of stone and copper, fossil trees. No. 11.-Inerease and' Decrease in the Ptriodi t tided Dee. 31, 1862, as compared. with the Corresponding Periods of near the surface, Phoenician gold coins, ancient B 1. The citizens advantage. The increase in the trade of the country, and Gras all (his Steward), Mr. SHAW. the Preceding Year. its further development by the opening of its railways Villager s-M essrs. B inn kin,W hackstraw, the weapons, Roman pottery, and the mysterious flints i London Stone - - 74-•- - bacon, Thatcher, &c., &c. . __________..._ ---- drift. All these "faults" in the strata have boon car ier Lord of the renders the introduction of suds a system a matter of th e Nine Months dad Dec. 31, 1862 ring Guildhall, utmost importance to Portugal, while it will afford a le '- timate source of profit on the capital invested for that "The room in which she taught . her scholars was very g l lora so that she could have her children stand in front of Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1862. (expired portion /10 the financial :sear) Year ended Dec. 31, 186?. filled from base to summit with solid masonry, so th l commanding purpose. her -e w ' hile she instructed them.-Old Story. - sides of the ditch, both scarp and counter-scarp, are E lead was struck The operations of the Bank of Portugal (the only one in Of the proposal made by Sir Timothy to Goody Two Shoes, - - • as smooth as a wall from end to end. It is, perhaps, I ncrease . D ecrease . . . Increas4 - Decrease. Increase, Decrease. manner. Still Lisbon) are of a very restricted nattily, affording none of and what became of it. ' - less to say that such a gigantic foss as this is unnece by Alderman the advantages belonging to the English Joint-Stock Banking system, notwithstanding which its shares com mand a premium of £ll 10s. per share. HUNTING LODGE ON THE BORDERS OF THE FOREST. The Fairy Good Nature (assuming the form of Goody x - • 10S,Q00. _ x X '''' s , X •• ' ',•,'" .798'000 £ £ 627,000 EXCISE. and would never have been attempted but that stone - t, however, he CUSTOMS EXCISE 174,080 • - 362,0 ~„ .. ~ - 262,000 CUSTOMS. voted in its formation was wanted for the Breakwate • • .. . •dry ditch of 40 feet deep by 50 feet wide would have in the streets, t In Oporto three local banks have been established within Peabody), Miss KATE SAXON. STAMPS ' . 89000 • • - ) 323 ,' , •'•-. , . .... ' 425,775 , .. STAMPS. d Cade, fleeing ' the last few years, and are all in a prosperous condition, Gamekeepers, Messrs. Popp and Bang. TAXES - .. ', - , s .12,000 ' 29.000 TAXES. of almost unusual proportions, and more than sqficii -City Tress. their shares commanding the following premiums :- Footman, Mr. Powdemob. Page, Master Buttons. PROPERTY TAX POST OFFICE - . .-s s -'73 , * , * z'• -....-- , *-- .. 0 ,....;„ 0 .5.5 . • [ 1,1e5.000 40,004 - -- -•• ~..- '' ' - k7.. __'''`'„ , in( "° ) .. • ' PROPERTY TAX PUS -ICE. •.• , ...__ .protesst-tha-VtreasS--rristqfcroovert 1. The Commercial Bank, capital £444,444 (all paid up), Housekeeper, Mrs. Chickabiddy. CROWN LANDS ~ 2,000 OWN ANDS . :: ..- - .r 9 -.L.`.‘ - 0 ' ~..'ff.• ' - '`•-.4 1 ? - ;:z...• - , ..,. Ma., . - t .____,-..-- se•- --- - - CR L , . wanted cheap stone to make the Breakwater, and, a amount of share £44, present price £l3 premium. How Little Boy Blue meets with a particular friend, and MISCELLANEOUS _; --••••• - r;055,761 MISCELLANEOUS• from the ditch round the Verne was already paid for, • 2. The Oporto Mercantile Bank, capital £333,333 all how the Squire dooms the small Birds found on his Estate -•, - - . -- :• 7 -- e., - 12,00 2,131,950 I 810,000 3,019,578 d 27000 TOTALS. naturally took as much as they could get, and in so paid RD), amount of share £44, present price Zl3 premium. to general destruction, and what ensues thereupon. . -- - 1a0r5A k r0. , ........:-.:-: . it.': --f _..1 ... .. . , ~,_______ .....-_, made the foss of the enormous dimensions we have g v v - I t 3. he Union of Oporto Bank (very recently establfs . - THE : ~__ -: : - vt - , ,01,ZIM DRPTitit 9' " - Net Increase .....£1,310,889 Net Increase.... £1,321,950 Net Increase... .£2,‘62,568 Jutting out from the main body of the fortress nit _, capital • Z 444 444 amow i t 0 oiar k •lA . • . .;• .. ' ,:- - --‘ 7- - ------ .7 - -.,' ""' - '.....5UN SET. pply of wheat, er qr advance. lan last week. ....35s to 37s ..32s to 34s .....24s to 275 see. to ng..29s to 32s ... • .26s to 30s ....22s to 24s ....42s to 45s ....--sto—s or wheat, and iness has been y wheat came re maintained. s Od to 53s Od s Od to 50s Od 3 Od to 518 Od s Od to 46s Od s Od to 56s Od 3 Od to 62s Od 3 Od to 51s Od 5 Od to 52s Od 3 Od to 37s Od ; Od to 33s Od 3 Od to 38s Od s Od to 34s Od Od to 31s Od 3 Od to 28s Od 312 d to 13d 313 d to 0813 id 3121 d to osl3d 3 Od to 46s Od 3 Od to 44s Od ; Od to 42s Od a 6d to 35s Od a Od to 388 6d 0 d tc 38s Od Od to —s Od 3 Od to 34s Od ; Od to 568 Od ; Od to 52s Od to £9 5 0 to 9 0 0 to 6 5 0 to 5 10 0 1 market. End. e. d. 18 0 18 0 16 3 16 0 17 0 17 6 16 9 . 17 3 16 0 y says :—lii iay serve as seasons must rummers visi ons of sharks, .ers. On the Lees to predict )m frosts, but that the pre- Lulf stream is islands, tem ; for it is a ep abound in resumed that firmed in this have been re atinent gene• pells of north 31y, we have scarcely add :s will hence- Lever hear of these shores, est of no one Id in the having on he general's noved on the the passage, o medical at n their arms room of the di, after four 'a. The ser remained all )e ever again morning of on. Towards lustrious in )rted outside night be car sit his fields, rbolically as- Le warm air physical and ates himself 3 at least he snow on the aal tempera wcely at all alt. Christ- Low and ice ne sherbet, the midst of -- brarruinatio 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 a 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 MIDLAND COUN TIES UNION BANKING COMPANY (Limited). Established under The Companies Act, 1862," limiting the liability of the Shareholders to the amount subscribed. Capital £1,000,000, in shares of £lOO each, with power to increase. First issue, 6,000 shares. Deposit on application, per share ; and on allotment, £2 per share. Calls not to exceed £5 and three months' interval b e t ween each call. It is not intended to call up more than £25 per share. DIRECTORS. (With power to add to their number.) Sir F. L. H. Goodricke, Bart., Wolverhampton W. F. Drought Stephens, Esq. (Director of the Metropo litan and Provincial Bank), 75, Cornhill, London F. J. Law, Esq., 2, Bedf or d- square, London Thos. S. Richardsun, Esq., Merchant, Bermondsey and Rochdale (Director of the Metropolitan and Provineial Bank), London Charles Clark, Esq., J.P., Wolverhampton Leonard Hadley, Esq., City Steam Mills, Upper Thames street, Glocester and London William Stratford Dugdale, jun. , Esq., . JP. 9 Merevale, Atherstone J. W. Cusack, Esq., 13, Lancaster-gate, Hyde-park, London. Moses Ironmonger, Esq., J.P., Wolverhampton. J. H. Lance, Esq., Director of the London and South Afri can Bank, London. Bankers—London, Metropolitan, and Provi nc i a l B a nk, Cornhill ; Wolverhampton, Sir F. L. H. Goodricke,Bart. Solicitors—London, Messrs. Ashuret, Son, and Morris, 6, Old Jewry, City ; Messrs. Kimberley and Pope, 26, Old Broad-street, City ; Wolverhampton, Messrs. Coreer and Fowler, Darlington-street. Brokers—London, Sir R. W. Carden and Son, Royal Ex change-buildings, city; Birmingham, Mr. J. W. Hamil ton, Ann-street; Wolverhampton, Mr. John Underhill. Auditors—London, George Derbyshire, Esq., Clearing house, Lombard-street, city; Birmingham, Mr. John Percival, Waterloo -street. Secretary (pro tem.)—Mr. A. F. Foster. Offices-9, Cornhill. This Company is formed for the purpose of facilitating commercial intercourse between the metropolis and the important towns of the Midland Counties. The Company's Operations will embrace the whole of the midland district, thioughout a great portion of which it is well known that the present banking accommodation is insufficient for the requirements of its increasing population and trade. In Birminghamalone only one new bank has been formed for the last 20 years ; while the 13, pulation has, in the same space of time, been nearly doubled. It mus t a l so b e b orne in mind, that Birmingham is but the centre of a densely populated mining and manufacturing district, now perhaps the wealthiest and most thriving in the whole kingdom. Throughout the entire area of this important locality the want of adequate banking accommodation is increasingly felt, and the Directors of this Company aro maturing ar rangements for dealing comprehensively with this pressing Want. The directors call attention to the admitted fact that the banking business of the country is being rapidly absorbed by joint-stock banks, while the private banks are gradually disappearing. One of the main objects of this Company will be to establish branches throughout the district, in which it is proposed to carry on business, by purchasing the interests of existing private banks. In pursuance of this object the Directors have already secured, on most advan tageous teams, the old and valuable banking connexion and premises of Sir Francis L. Holyoake Goodricke, Bart., at Wolverhampton, where they will immediately commence business, and Mr. R. Bigge, Esq., has consented to continue fr a time to superintend the affairs of the Bank. The Di rectors are thus able to offer to their shareholders the pro spect of an immediate dividend. They are also negotiating the purchase of other banks in the Midland Counties. The management of the Bank will be conducted by the Board of Directors in London, who will have the assistance and counsel of Local Boards of supervision, to be formed in the principal towns in the country w here branches are to be established—the Country Directors being also members of the London Board, and having the conduct of the local busi ness. It is not intended to carry on any banking business in the metropolis other than that arising from the agency of the country branches; but the establishment of the chief office in London will remove many of those causes of local jealousy and private interest which have, in so many &- stances, militated against the success of country banks. It will also afford greater facilities for the judicious invest ment of capital, as well as allow of a more independent con trol of the business of the Bank. It may be well to remark that the proposed system is identical with that so success fully carried out by the National and Provincial Bank of England, and by the Provincial Bank of Ireland. It is not proposed to call up more than £25 per share, the reserve of £75 affording ample security to the customers of the Bank; power will, however, be taken in the Articles of Association to increase the ca_pital by further issue of shares, when the operations of the Bank have been so extended a s to render it necessary. Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of A ssociation may be seen at the offices of the solicitors to the Company. Forms of application for shares may be obtained from the Company's brokers and solicitors, or of the secret ar y, a t th e Company's offices, No. 9, Cornhill, London. Should no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in full. Form of Application for Shares. To the Direotors of the Midland Counties Union Banking Company (Limited). Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers* the sum of --, being a Deposit of £1 per Share on --- Shares in the above Company, I request that you will allot me that number ,• and I he re by accept such shares, or any less number which may be allotted to me, subject to the Articles of Association; and I further request that my name may be placed on the Register of Shareholders for the shares so allotted. Name in full Address . Profession or Business .. Date 186 * If the amount be remitted to the Secretary by cheque, it must be crossed with the name of the Company's Bankers. The receipt will be forwarded by return of post. ITN SET. " 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. GLlpt PON, , Hatred and Malice (his attendants), Messrs. Scowl and Growl. " 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. Higbflyer. The Rook, Mr. Blackcoat. 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 BOLEN 0 (his first appearancehere these two years) and Mr. C. LAURI. Scene I.—GRAND HINT 0' NATIONAL (THEATRE) EXHIBITION OF FUN I The Meeting of all Nations—Gold Washing and Gold Finding—Armstrong's Breech-loader—the Exhibitionßells and Belles of the Exhibition—Clown rings one of the Belles --a Belle Savage—the Majolica Fountain—Clown's new Vapourizer—Cent. per Scent—Striking Two—the Exhibi • tion Club—a Medicated Vapour Bath—a Piping Bullfinch —(Raree Airs)—the Australian Obelisk makes a decided Move—a Toad in the Hole—a Long Nap (2,000 years)—a Bed in the Coal Hole—Froggy would a-Wooing go—a slid den influx of Strange Visitors and close of tho Exhibition. Scene 2.—EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF INTER NATIONAL LODGING-HOUSE. Invented and Produced by Boleno (Registered). Pantomimists—HAßßY BOLENO, Madame BOLENO. CORMACK, and TANNER. Trip Storm Nalse—Madame BOLENO and Mr. CORMACK. _ _ Landlady, Mrs. Graball ; Page, Master Bellbutton ; Housemaid, not yet engaged ; Visitors, Cabmen, Sweeps, Shoe-Black Brigade, &0., by Artists too numerous to mention. Scene 3.—SHELL-FISH SHOP, COBBLER'S STALL, AND MUSIC WAREHOUSE! Invented by Mr. D. Johnson. Pantomireists—Misses GUNNISS and Messrs. ST. MAINE, DEULIN JOHNSON, and C. LAURI. Pas Trois Mansilla Spiritu—The Misses GUNNISS and M. ST. MAINE. Scene 4—THE ISLINGTON'AGRICULTRAL HALL, AND GREAT DOG-SHOW, CAT-SHOW, AND FLOWER-SHOW. Invented and Produced by BOLENO (Registered). Pantoraimists—HAßßY BOLENO, EMMA BOLENO, CORMACK, and TANNER. Scene s —(Comic)--EXTERIOR of MARINE STORES, PUBLIC-HOUSE, AND SAILOR'S HOME. Invented by Mr. J. Cormack. C. LAURI, D. JOHNSON, ST. MAINE, and the Misses GUNNISS. Nautical Hornpipe, by M. ST. MAINE and the Misses GUNNISS. Set a thief to catch a thief—and ho will go the " whole Hog or None"—A Sailor, half Seas over, mistakes all he Sees—Old Aunt Sally proves herself, rayther— Shell Hands wanted—and secured by Hook or by Crook—An cient and Modern Warriors—Hearts of Oak—Our Ironsides (not Cromwell's) Al good metal—the great Drainage QuesliOn---Ptett7 Poll ot. Wapping—she was such a nice yottterial I wur Old Ballad, " the Lass that loved a Sailor"—" Home, home, Sweet Home"— The Sailors' Home—time to go home, but before doing so we introduce you to Last Scene.—(Danson and Sons.) ENGLAND'S GLORY AND RICHES BROUGHT BY HER OCEAN WAVES I Box-office open from Ten till Six daily. Doors open at Half. past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-L ANE . Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre, having been Re-modelled, Decorated, and Embellished in a truly magnificent and costly style, is now open. Notwithstanding the immense expenses insurred in the arrangements, the Prices of A dmission will b e as usua l , and similar to those of the principal London Theatres, viz. : —At - £2 2,3. 35 ., and £4 4s. Stalls, Gs. Dress circle, 4 s . First Circle, 3s. Private Boxes, 10s, 6d., 215., Boxes, 2s. Pit, 2s. Lower Gallery, Is. 'Upper Gallery, 6d. No Half-price. PERFORMANCEPAkN. PANTO_ MIME EVERY WEDNESDAY , A MORNING at Two o e, cloc THIS EVENING will be presented Mr. E. Falconer's Comic Drama, entitled NEXT OF KIN. Principal Characters by Messrs. S. Calhaenl, Neville, Warde, Rourke, Fredericks ; Mrs. Edmun d Fa. coner, and Miss Portman. Sinclair, After which will be produced the Great Drury-lane Annual in the f orm o f an entirely Novel, Orig inal, Bur lesque, G rotesque, Poetical, Pictorial, Pastoral, Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime entitled LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES; or, 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. Te and TELBIN, assisted by Messrs. DAYES, JONES, c, pENTON, E. LLOYDS, GRIEVE, Juu., TELBIN, Jun., and I )ANSON and SONS. The Ma chinery by Mr. T UCKER. The Costumes by Mr. MAY and Mrs. CLARKE. The Masks, Designs, and Personal A ppointments 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 Tr ansformations of the Harlequinade by Mr. BLAMIRE and Assistants. The Gas Appointments 12y Mr. HINCKLEY. The Scenes of the Harlequinade by 1_I; BOLEN°, J. CORMACK, and D. JOHNSON. The oupes, Tableaux Action and Grand Ballet, designed and t arr anged by Mr. OSCAR,BYRNE. The Overture and h. agi n e .nPosed and arranged by Mr. J. BARNARD. vv°4lll3g 14 " lat e 4 dWritt bY Et 141K4APICUABDP The Bad Boy's Compact with the Evil Genius, and what followed therefrom. rey, the wife M.'s Bengal to wife of C. Blackheath, , Mrs. Jacob HAUNT OF THE WOOD 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 Coryphies. 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. t.Thomas'st To, Esq., to tskell, Esql WOODY AVENUE, LEADING TO BUTTERCUP MEAD. St. Mark'S, :sq , of Sup' r of Captain ; the Application of the same ; and. the Charge dency upon such Charge. 7,813,545 plain James hold. eley Villas) Esq., aged ce, Chelea. JULIAN O.S. a [1,,/ 4. 1 ,, I] Greg'riEn r N.S. TAX's INCH! FULCRUM OF ARCHIMEDES. ACKERLEY v. DALTON, TURNER, & OTHERS. Marlbro'-street, late Coal-hole, Dog-set'ng grievance, with 924,490 X 21,877,706 its L'EU ra ka Gladiatorial frichkeiilk Toga' rry. The Telegraph of Ctmas-day states that Capt. Ackerley claimed £5 fine and costs, from defendants (Dalton, Tur ner, and wife, servants of George Harrow), on their being bound over to keep the peace six months, under £lO penalty, for misdemeanour, and wilful dog offence with a "Le aticmac"-p/ot intent to do injury by canine agency, on Sundays below stairs and week-nights above. The dis crepancy in R.c.iPolice reports, induces us to refer to this Park-government persecution against the plaintiff (the sup porter of Anglo-America's unpaid Income tax chief, Peter Basquet, 11t years)—for holding under his Coal Hole County court Final judgment on 1842-B's double-rent lease, now a 20-yrs title ; checkmates ' the Worksi Woods, and Forests' 1582 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 i'29 Metropolis Police Act, 3 Wm. 4, cap. 19, 15, 39, 44—gives £6 fine, and is repeated in 1861 Act, on "Offences against the person, &c., 24-25 Viet., cap. 100, sec. 4, 42, 67, 77—Garotters and Chloroformists," on mis demeanour conviction, with £5 fine, recoverable against the Stipendiary-justice--therefore in homage to our readers we refer to this case, (of Clapham Atkins City beam and scale Sydney-like title, 13 Hen. 8, in 1835 standard act), wherein the Captain (& brother Chamberlayne, by reason of the papal 9' boy Edw. 6th in-valid City grants, at age 14), as Montague kin executor of privy council by '35 act, 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, 5, Swallow-street, and Ormond-Yard, as the people's land, under no Queen's Church head assumption. t fw _ ro * meu ß th u e ss E - P u o h li e s ci h ae ß r o fo th r s r ch o i p l e d ,s to rn o i k ti o e u sa t n lr k o e y y -w m e i i n g t h i t n m lB e 3 t s er ? Cotaableso t On Luther -se mock presented in November to Indian Peter, is p p Whence, by fleas City charter, 26 Ed. 3, the Mayor Ross, the Tower—as Angl 9 Micmac flag unionist. Ernp. Charlyeszy,t f or of 21st July, 1521, by Leo X and womr Paduan intermediate supremacy in S ubm i ls 9 sF , manner, the Archer standard the land—S 1832, for Russian inch bearer. In like o n t of ius the Clergy and Dutch Loan guarantee--on 1831's Co-partner Act, for g 2 u -3 ar W an i t l Hen. 8, c 19 and 8 Eliz. c 5, for marine restraint of appeals to Rome, on la c k ice —names 25 causes —whence on 1825 Holy Alliance of Kings' abolition the Greek Peru rota-crown Protector' Lieu - Tenant Acke r l ey, ek as King John's Ist Montague 'Ta kin trust, was sworn-i n a suprme Statepivot, at Worcester's Crt. in January, 1837 by Gold stick archer-Vim. 4—whose daughter married th e Captain's nephew, by the 2nd branch of Dartmouth's Slaney le Fleming Chamberlayne, in Leicester Coke, Hun lake gate Shelley de Lisle Sydney as Fit zclarence bar'd in heraldry, like Eaton-hall Grey-hill Egerton, by Somer set' half-cast. square, W., as, li.G.L.P , e, Dowager Mare-st reett The same malicious isolating influence appears to have closed against him the doors of Junior United Service Club, on his £4,000 Co-burn discovery, and United S. Museum membership, for holding to his Duplex official duties, and cause of his civil law mixed church imprisonment at Bath, Tothill, and Merthyr Tydvil, without crime. God's are ofcillation of the pendulum in lat. 519 30 N as the 19 30 to and fro in sphere note to like polar' declina tion above (25 M) and below 29 Sept., for Poor-law and Treasury Audits year, now in 0 : :• • . style as rfiroad R. Hiever. ' It, rideth round the heavens as on a horse' for towns prefix /3* to 519 30 Pow, Bantry, Page, iirunswie. - J§M1417.11 1662. As to the armament of this place of strength, it is, just now, in the undecided state of the competition between Whitworth's and Armstrong's, impossible to say whose guns are eventually to defend it. All that the engineers know is, that the Citadel itself, without any of its outworks or East Weir batteries, will mount at least 200 guns and mortars, at least half of which number, according to pre sent estimates, will be 150-pounders. The whole p l ace is to bristle with cannon, the longest and largest which science can suggest, when it is fully armed. In fact, like Malta, it errs on the side of being rather over than under gunned— with this difference, that whereas the wide defences of Malta would require at least 25,000 men to hold them all, so com pact is the Verne that its defence might be intrusted sa f e ly to the peace garris,n against almost any force. To illustrate the almost excessive precautions taken we may mention that the south-east face of the work looks down a steep narrow valley like a funnel, leading to the little vil lage of Fortune's 'Well. It was thought possible that a mor tar vessel might run into the narrow inlet on which this valley ends, and throw a shell or two into the Citadel. The efforts, therefore, made to guard against this remote eventuality are in much the same scale as the ditch, the tanks, barracks, magazines, and, indeed, all connected with the tremendous strength of the defences. Overlooking the valley, the works have, at this point, a double flank,—that is, there aro two tiers of stone batteries and three tiers of guns of the heaviest kind. The lowest tier is a casemate battery built a la Haxo, which means with earth mounds between the stone portholes, through which 12 guns will peep. Above these is another tier of 1 2 guns in earth orem brasures lined with stone, and above these again .1 2 : row guns mounted en ba ttrbee—tbat is, simPIY Pi° alldtg valley on a fiat platform. 36 guns in all to sweeF.' an d so steep not much wider nor so long as Reg ent .street, that it is hard work to climb it I f e a nd c a ao bo mt u ai t lien h sl a o l nt f hg a e, Outside the ditch, on the soutl i ! mile from it, runs a thin,ei/rge., ° This rid b g7 t n terminating on the West i: the time which th ey oug h t q ua r ries where the co nvicts P _ it ig a mere long mound of stony to devote to la bo in which the a lli es h a d to work ground, exactly an, and not within some 40 f eet of the against the Reda though the highest ground next to it. height ohfotubsohl It was E r erne, just within the limit s o f poss ibilit y th a t an enemy ,fight get som e cover h ere, so the whole crest of the bin is to be shaved o ff 40 f eet, so as to leave t h e raw, so lid rock to be swept clear by the guns of the Cita del. In addition to all this there are to be erected here after beyond the ditch, and distant about three-quarters of a mile from the Verne, two powerful outworks at Easton and Weston. These aro to be regular little fortresses, mounting 30 or more guns each, and the positions chosen for their site are so commanding to everything but the Verne, which looks down into each of them, that both would have to be reduced by a regular siege before anything could be attempted against the Verne itself, supposing that an engineer was sanguine enough to hope to do anything but starve it out. In short, the 'Verne is made, or will be made, to dominate everything in range of cannon, to cover the harbour inside and outside the Breakwater, to com mand all parts of the island of Portland, to sweep Chesil bank, to cross fire with the great North Fort at the head of the Breakwater, and with the still more powerful fort which is being erected on the little headland c alleati L ful Nothe, which divides Portland proper fro m the be'a:l. ust bay of Weymouth. The works on this Nothe been recommenced, after having lain idly fur of gra neat 3 te ar„ This headland is to be coated with an a rmour ni of izanieuse thickness, and to a height of 60 feet above the iquare, Ed" NDREWS , Office, No. the County ` m ".'... , .... H teriea it protects of 1301 t. In i'act, the little mountain which forms the Verne has been rent away and isolated from its fellow headlands by this stupendous chasm. No perfect idea can be got of it till the visitor descends to the floor of the great excavation and traverses its whole length, which is nearly a mile. The sections of the wonderful geological strata which form the island of Portland are seen for the first time in the straight rocky wall of the ditch in all their curious variety. What is meat singular is, that at regular intervals of 25 or 30 yards, and commencing about 20 feet below the surface of the ground, are a series of vertical faults or gaps, about 2 feet wide, which, as far as can be judged, penetrate to the lowest substrata of the I is:and and traverse it completely from north to south, In these extraordinary clefts human bones have been found with those of wild boars and the bones and horns of rein deer—not fossilised, but with all their osseous structure as pet feet as if they were not 50 years old. Lower still in the oolite the hones of saurians have been brought to light with sharks' teeth, shells now only found in the lied Sea, huge ammonites of stone and copper, fossil trees, and, near the surface, Phoenician gold coins, ancient British weapons, Roman pottery, and the mysterious flints in the drift. All these " faults" in the strata have been carefully filled from base to summit with solid masonry, so that the sides of the ditch, both scarp and counter-scarp, are almost as smooth as a wall from end to end. It is, perhaps, need less to say that such a gigantic foss as this is unnecessary, and would never have been attempted but that stone exca vated in its formation was wanted for the Breakwater. A dry ditch of 40 feet deep by 50 feet wide would have been of almost unusual proportions, and more than sidgeie* 4,0„ , the Government wanted cheap stone to make tho Breakwater, and, as that from the ditch rouad the Verne was already paid for, they naturally took as much as they could get, and in so doing made the foss of the enormous dimensions we have given. Jutting out from the main body of the fortress into the ditch aro to be two bastionettes. One of these is to have eight faces mounting guns on each, so as to sweep with a murderous fire two-thirds of the whole length of the exca vation. The second bastionette is to have three faces, and placed in such a manner as while two of its guns cross fire in the ditch, the remainder of its armament commands every spot in the rest of the foss, where its curve keeps it out of reach of the more important work of the same kind, Both these bastionettes are also" pierced with loopholes in all directions for the fire of riflemen. L 2 ~~_ Vintor. It Lit to taU tia m double tiers, anti InMigie none are to be placed in casemates, all the storehonsol, hospitals, and buildings for the garrison are to be bonib- proof, as at the Verne. We have spoken of the East Weir, the steep slope which. leads from the scarped cliffs of the Verne on the harbour_ side down to the water. These slopes have been ciltawaY so as to form five powerful and well-constructed earth works, which, on a larger scale, very much resemble some'' of the more important links in the similar chain of deftnee' thrown up by the Allies round Balaklava. There are ti be, five of these batteries, the three smalleSt mounting from 'to: 7 - to 12 heavy guns each, and two large ones mounting 22 guns each—about 80 guns in all. Each of these batteries, besides being of the most solid description, is lined inside with stone, large and carefully protected magazines, and bomb-proof places to shelter the defenders from the effects of a vertical fire. From the position and different elevations, varying from 80 to 110 feet above the level of the sea, there is no part of the harbour or approach to it, whether roiled tho head of the breitkwater or through the south opening, near the small fort, which is not covered by their fire; anti quiet and inoffensive as these neat green lines of arapct and glacis appear from the sea, looking at first as if it were - intended to lay out the slopes in terrace gardens, th,pse ' , massive batteries of the East Weir would be quite as for- midable to ships attempting to enter the bay as the great works of the Verne itself. The roar of each of the work:.; 1 . left open, as they all rest upon the cliffs of the Verno it- self, With which th e y have a communication by a deep cut Eigzag: 'LP the slope, leading uuder cover to the floor of the great ditch of the citadel. in addition to all these works it was at one time suggested to form, after the manner of t breakwater, a smart w an d in the sea,•about a mile from the fort now building in the extremity of the present brcatt water, and in this ist.e.d to erect another circular granite fort of three tiers of _ 8, similar to that to be built at Spithead, This idea, however, has for the present been very wisely abandoned, and we hope will never he revived. • Apart from its stupenduous cost (and it alemild be nothing short of a million), it would, as a permanent defensive work, be utterly superfluous and unnecessary. When Ih o urc ,„ sent and intended works are a1t,0.48401LX - ettlarrtt'lmalliao:" ,Ahttatrangest fortified harbour in the world, and additi nal towers would be as entirely works of supererogation as if it were proposed to cover Gibraltar itself with 4-inch plates of iron. If anything were ever needed here it would be in the shoal waters, so as to drive an enemy's vessels as close over to the guns of the Weir, Verne, North Fort, and Nothe as possible, and a floating iron battery would amply answer this purpose. But even this latter simple defence seems superfluous when we come to remember that on any hostile fleet bold enough to enter the harbour the works we have mentioned could concentrate a fire of more than 300 of the very heaviest guns, all so elevated as to be practically out of reach of to of a fleet to reply to them, In fact, of the 300 guns more t....an one-third would be firing almost point-b:ank down upon an enetay's decks. What has and will be done is not only enough to render Portland harbour secure, but, as far as human skill and caution can foresee, absolutely invulnerable from sea or land. F or an. enemy to approach it with evil intentions would be, not figuratively but literally, to venture into the cannon' s month, Within the great enclosure of the Verne, and snugly en sconced under the green parapets of the batteries, barrack accommodation bas been built for a minimum garrison of 3,500 men ; the size and height of these casemated barracks being calculated on such a liberal scale as to give in the rooms no less than 750 cubic feet of air per inmate. The usual scale on which common barracks are built being at the rate of 350 feet per man, it follows that the peace gar. rison at the Verne can in times of danger be increased with out the slightest inconvenience from 3,500 to 10,000 men, which is really the number the place can accommodate, and which it might perhaps require to fully man all its works, though it is so strong by nature that its peace garrison could stand a siege with safety. All these barracks are bomb-proof. Their roofs are made of solid brick arches nearly 4ft. thick, over which again is a layer of concrete 2ft. thick, and coated with asphalts to keep it water-tight, then one foot of shingles to arrest the drainage, and ()Ter all Bfc. thick of solid made earth. There is nothing more difficult in casemated barracks than to keep them free from damp, and give a proper allowance of light and air without interfering with the security of the inmates. These almost irreconcilable conditions have been admirably fulfilled at the Verne. The wide skylights over the parade face of the doors give almost too much light; the floors raised 4ft. from the ground secure the soldier from damp, and give immense cellarage for provisions; while a fine corridor running the whole length of the back of the casemates, and communicating by pipes like windsails with the foss out side, gives not only ventilation but a very considerable draught when the wind blows—and it always is blowing over the heights of the Verne. The two ranges of these barracks are almost quite complete. They could all bo occupied within a month, and some in fact are occupied by small detachments. Near the barracks is already built a small bomb-proof hospital, with surgeons' quarters and stores, similarly protected; and nearer these a larger hospital, or rather a series of casemates like the barracks, is also to be erected, capable of accommodating, if need be, 500 patients. The Verne has no water supply of its own within the great ditch of the fortress. Every attempt to procure a supply by boring through the solid rock has proved fruitless. A number of tanks, each capable of holding 60,000 gallons, have therefore been formed beneath the casemates for the collection of rain -water, and, as rain is as plentiful as wind at the Verne, these are always full and always flowing away. In such an all-important matter, however, the garrison, has not, of course, been left to de pend on the eccentricities of the weather. These great re serve water •tanks have therefore been excavated in the solid rock beneath the parade ground. Each of these tanks is 80ft. long by 56ft. wide and SOft. deep, and,being covered in with the usual shot-proof roofs and the water kept from the light and air, it will remain sweet for centuries. These tanks each hold a three-months' supply for a garrison of 8,000 men at the rate of two gallons per man a day. As a matter of course these important reserve tanks are always kept full to the top, but never to be used till the emergency of a state of siege arises. The ordinary daily supply is drawn from Chine, a little village about three miles from the Verne, where there is ample water, which is pumped by a 30-horse power engine through underground pipes into the fort. By this engine, in case of a siege being imminent not only the reserve tanks of the Verne could be filled to their utmost capacity, but the rain water tanks as well, which would at the daily rate of consumption we have men tioned give more than a year's supply to the garrison, ex • elusive of the rain water which would fall during that time, and which, over a surface of sixty acres, where every precaution is adopted to catch and retain it, would probably be as much more. The expense and re serve magazines are on the same scale. There are five expense magazines, built each to hold 100 bar rels of powder, with a proportionate allowance of live shell, with one great reserve magazine cut in the rock, like the tanks, capable of containing 3,000 barrels of powder. The expense magazines are protected, in addition to walls of solid masonry 14ft. thick, with an outer covering of solid earth 18ft. thick. ^ RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES, CENTRAL WALES EXTENSION. The amount of additional capital required by this com pany in their application to Parliament for their new exten sion is £160,000, and to make working arrangements with the London and North-Western Railway. 7 No. lII.—An Account showing the Revenue and other Receipts of the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1862 ; of the Consolidated Fund for the said Quarter, together with the Surplus or Defic Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1862, viz. 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This poetry is intended to be recited at the solemn inauguration of the society, and will have for gag 46 The Arts at Marseilles," Amount applied out of the Income for the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1862, in redemption of Exchequer Deficiency Bills, for the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1862 3,429,902 Amount applied out of the Income to Supply Services, in the Quarter ended Dep 31, 1862 9,269,769 Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Dec. 31, 1862, viz. :---, Interest of the Permanent Debt £6,299,670 Terminable Debt 349,866 Interest on Exchequer Bills Interest of Deficiency Bills . , - • -1,6 i 5. - The Civil List Other Charges on Consolidated Fund Advances for Public Works, &c. Surplus Balance in Ireland beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund in Ire land, for the Quarter ended Dec 31, 1862 The Great Fortifications at Portland. PORTLAND, DEc, 29. The great Portland Breakwater is by no means the only wonderful work of human skill and ingenuity which is going on in this part of England. To quarry away a mountain and build its fragments into a submarine work is labour enough, but even this astounding effort of patient toil is equalled by the magnitude and 'importance of the work 4 in progreis at the Verne, where a tremendous head land is being shaped and hewn into one of the greatest fortresses in the world. The relative merits of these de fences as compared with those of iron-clad steam floating batteries is just now a matter of dispute among tacticians. Each party has really so many strong and able reasons to bring forward in support of its own views that the Govern ment very wisely decline to commit themselves exclusively to either, and adopt both. We are building plenty of iron clads, but at the same time we are not neglecting our land defences, which are by no means the unimportant and auxiliary defences which their opponents would make them out to be. It is quite true that steam batteries can be sent for and concentrated on any supposed point of attack, while fortifications, unless in the neighbourhood of the post of danger, are mere lumps of granite, and, as an active means of resistance against the descent of invasion, as useless as so many Druidical cromlechs. On the other hand, with movable batteries it must not be forgotten that an enemy always thinks he may elude them by decoying them on a false alarm away from the spot where the blow is to be struck—a hope which is often successful, and which we need scarcely say is never entertained with regard to for tresses Once built and armed, these grim stone sentinels are always on their posts, never to be eluded or dismayed ; and whereas a landed enemy cm afford b snap his fingers at the baffled power of all the iron frigates in the world, he must still be cautious with the fortresses—as formidable on the land as on the sea. The enemy knows they give a terrible base of operations against him, while they jeopardise his own ; they must be blockaded at sea by a fleet—avoided by circuitous marcheson land ; and even when thus avoided troops must be left behind to watch and keep their garrison, if possible, in check. We, of all people in the world, who so toiled and suffered, lavishing blood and treasure under the walls of Sebastopol, should be the last to underrate the importance of a good fortification as a check to an invading army. The lesson, however, has not been forgotten appa rently. Plymouth has been made secure ; the mouth of the Thames is virtually impregnable—a tremendous chain of forts is fast encircling Gosport and Portsmouth ; and, surelybut slowly, as becomes its magnitude and tremendous strength, the Verne at Portland, the Gibraltar of the Channel, is rising into what is probably one of the strongest citadels in the world. In spite, then, of the popular tradi tion embodied in the old song, that— " Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep," it would seem that bulwarks are now considered indispens able, and towers compact in strength and tremendous in array are rising, or have risen, along the steep in all direc tions. The vote taken two years ago for " towers and bul warks" was the largest sum taken for a single object since the days of the Irish famine, and the money was well ap propriated, and has been tolerably well spent. It is a com mon objection of economists to say that, now we have made these places so strong, an enemy will turn aside and attack elsewhere, that is precisely the purpose they were intended to answer, and for which they are built. A prudent man has an iron safe for his valuables, though he does not case his house with metal. The naval arsenals contain the very germs of our power, and need special protection accord ingly. All our great arsenals are so many national strong boxes, which must be made fire and water and foe proof, and so entirely does this consideration govern the whole subject that the tremendous works at Portland are under taken solely in anticipation of the great naval depot to be formed hereafter in its splendid harbour, It is scarcely necessary to remind our readers of the pe culiar conformation of the Bill of Portland, Both in shape and situation it almost precisely resembles Gibraltar. There are some bold steep headland hills of stone, the Breakwater stands in the place of ihe Mole, and that geological enigma, Chesil-bank, connects it with the mainland, as the neutral ground does our great Mediterranean citadel with the Spanish shore. Its height, its isolation, and the harbour it commands all pointed it out as a place for an impregnable —we had almost said an inaccessible—fortress. To the late Prince Consort is due the merit of having seen its vast be portance in this respect, as it was also owing to his enlight ened judgment that the Breakwater was begun at last, and he himself laid the foundation-stone. Portland is rising, as we have said, into a first-class fortress, of which the Verne is the great key or citadel. More compact than either Cherbourg, Cronstadt, or Sebastopol, it is more than thrice the elevation of those works from sea, and therefore so much the more unassailable from that point, while such precautions are being taken to secure it from the one or two places on which it might be threatened from the land, that it is not too much to say that when all is finished any engi neer would regard its reduction by other means than starv ing out as almost a physical impossibility. That our readers may understand how perfectly this is so we will explain what the position of the Citadel and nature of its defences are in the plainest and least technical terms that can an swer the purpose. The Verne, then, is on the extreme northern end of the island of Portland—its highest point, in fact, and quite overlooking not only the rest of the island, but every partof the harbour within and without the Break water. It is a triangular piece of ground, about 60 acres in extent, on the summit of three or four very steep rounded hills of stone, which rise to a height of some 500 feet above the level of the sea. These hills, though very steep, ar e by no means inaccessible except on the north side of the island ' which overlooks the harbour, where for a length ° L. pon . ate therefore one-third the circumference of the Verne they are n gradually anu ss' ilv s a lope, called to surround it dicular for 100 feet beneath the summit, go down to the Breakwater in a broad, .r: I' d a . p the East Weir. The first and mo st towards making the Verne impregniao a _ _ horseshoe, the two with a d ep dry ditch in the for" the f tw g m e ace of the perpen ends of the horseshoe terrains Nape mentioned as protecting it on et o b b ie sa w ee as dicular cliffs which we the north or har bour s ide above the E as t W e i r. But to s peak of this great a rti fi cial ravine as a ditch seems a b sur d. It is a ditch to wh oh a ll other fortification ditches, ancient r modern, are mere gutters. Rock s h ave b een r i ven as if b rn y a conv ulsion of nature, and nearly two millions of tons of stone blasted and quarried away to make it. Its mini mum depth is 80ft ; its minimum width 100. In some parts, as at the angles of the Citadel within it, its width is nearly 200 ft., and as the floor of this immense cutting has been kept at an even level all round the works, where there is a rise in the surface of the ground above there le aoruetimee a Meer perpendicular depth beneath the bat- A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE N ASSURANCE RPORATIO (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 JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart, Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wiimotiliolland, Esq. Robert Barclay,Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. Tohn Garratt Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. 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It will form a junction railway between the Midland line at Tewkesbury and the West Midland at Evesham, and by a junction with the Tewkesbury and Malvern line at Ash church will open a new route from Hereford and South. Wales to Evesham and London. EVESHAM AND REDDITCH. This proposed line is intended to join the Evesham and Ashchurch line at Evesham, and the Redditch branch of the Midland Railway at Redditch. INTERCOLONIAL ROYAL MAIL STEANI PACKET. The fourth ordinary meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office in Moorgate-street ; Lord C. ll;►mil ton in the chair. The report stated the regret of the directors at their in ability to lay before the shareholders any detailed accounts of the profits of the company for the last half-year, owing to the non-delivery of tho letters and advices consequent on the loss of the Colombo steamer. A telegram had been re ceived on the 15th of December announcing the total wreck of the company's steamer Lord Worsloy, but the particu lars had not. yet come to hand. The vessel Was insured for £15,006, but this would not cover the entire loss. The re sult of the company's working for the half-year ending 30th of June last showed a balance of £4,682, being greater than that of any corresponding period. The £1,682, added tl £706, the balance brought forward, made £5,388. In con sequence of the loss of the Lord Worsley the directors did not consider it prudent to recommend the declaration of the usual 7} per cent. dividend on the present occasion, but proposed the payment of a oividend, for the six months ended the 30th of June last, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax, leaving a balance of £2,SSS, The CHAIRMAN having moved the adoption of tho report, Mr. PRESTON said he was dissatisfied with the report. He did not think the affairs of the company were conducted in a businesa-like manner. He moved, as an amendment, " That a committee of shareholders be appointed to inves tigate the affairs of the company." Mr. SPENCE seconded the amendment. After considerable discussion and e xplanations from the chairman the amendment was withdrawn and the report adopted. The retiring directors were re-elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. A DAUGHTER OF VIRGINIA.—One of the .New York 2lmes correspondents writes from Acquia Crook :—" An incident which recently transpired near hero is worthy of recording, illustrating, as it does, the coolness and courage with which some of the Virginian women aro endowed. A cavalry straggler, after vainly ransacking the outbuildings of a plantation in search of corn, approached the door in which a young lady was standing, and do mended that some of the grain, which he knew was con cealed in the house, should be given him. '' We have none,' was the reply. ' Stand aside until I go in and see for my self,'f he rudely retorted, at the same time whipping out i o n its sheath a heavy Colt's revolver. No sooner dondertowan v voe, and the fair girl planted herself firmly in the doorwayi,u, fig it at small repeater from her bosom, and deliberatoslyepa .uirtivi_,Ur at the rascal's head, exclaimed, ' Approach ono , t i . troo e p o' e.• turned j baffled by such an exhibition of bravery, perhaps' the toward this house, and you are a dead mane be interasting f or him his heel and left. It may, _ l ; ice d such a summeryr him to learn that the maiden who F noa nuties is the intended of check upon his thievinil. ',,, r ;;' , and discharges h G. er pocket B. Davis, a nephew " of pi s tol with an acc ar '3cY w hich has made her famous in this locality." r wag VIOLENCE —lt Id ROBBER Dublin Loudon. w o e f lat re about to b • Wou seem as if become as unsafe at night as e years its most lonely streets have been xd . o at night ; but within the last month or so several daring robberies have been perpetrated in them —in one or two instances a process something very like garotting being employed. At the police-office, yesterday, two men named Henry Carthy and Patrick O'Keeffe (a re turned convict) were brought up, charged by Mr. J. 11. Kearney, of 29, Lower Rutland-street, with having robbed him. It appeared that on the night of tho 27th inst., at between 10 and 11 o'clock, Mr. Kearney was proceeding homewards through Lower Gardiner-street, and he saw the prisoner Carthy and O'Keeffe in company, and walking en before him. He passed them by, and Immediately after wards he was suddenly pushed off the footway I*.,y both the prisoners. Carthy gave him a violent blow on the back of the head, which knocked him down on the footway, wound ing him severely. While he was on the ground O'Keeffe seized the gold guard-chain, which was in his waistcoat pocket, and when endeavouring to take the watc h he snapped and broke the guard-chain, to which was attached a gold locket, both of which they carri ed off. Prisoners afterwards ran away together, and pros ecutor pursued them. until they were arrested. He identified the prisoners ra the parties who had assaulted hum, and the gold watt; h - chain produced as his property. The prisoners were sent for trial. THE CESSION OF GIBRALTAR.—We read in 'the _Presse of yesterday :—" Letters from Spain mention an extraordinary movement in the political world of Madrid relative to Gibraltar. The cession of the lonian Islands to Greece has awakened old hopes. The Spaniards begin to s peak of the cession of Gibraltar to Spain as a necessary consequence of the cession of the Seven Islands to Greeco. 'We should add that these hopes aro encouraged by news which the Madrid Cabinet appears to have received frora London. 'Whatever may be the present disposition of rilo English Government, such a result, sooner or later, is inevitable. Another breach in the old treaties and in the ancient diplomacy I Another recognition of the great r2rin ciple of the liberty of the seas! Another triumph o f ra tional policy I"