Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-28 00:00:00

ARGUMENT.

Ever so long age there existed a remote little kingdom in
the realms of Extravagance called Faraway, which, at the
Primitive period to which this story refers, was governed by a
crafty and tyrannical monarch, yclept Squander, whose reckless
and unchecked expenditure (book-keeping being then unknown
and auditors never dreamt of,) had plunged his little king-
dom and his wretched subjects into an abject state of poverty
and want. In order to repl,nish' his empty coffers, and
to stop the murmurs of his impoverished followers, King
Vander • conceived , the idea of effecting a matrimonial
alliance between his only son, the handsome Prince Golden-
heart, and a wealthy spinster Princess, ward, whose
charms were buried in her inenerbags. Like' many modern
liiiiiatch'-maksers, his Majesty speedily, made the discovery teat
alZhotask was more 'difficult than he had imagined; for
elect expressed
the intcnded bride was quite willing, the bridegroom
tarnobstinate
expressed a decided objection to the alliance. 'Finding
turns6n}23o obstinate that threats and entreaties alike failed to
vised his anti-matrimonial 'ptirpose, the King de-
scruro, Cunning scheme, by which he hoped too ercome the
bv of his son, and entrap him into ,wedlock with the
til,:f7,7lneans beautiful Princess. Having an ungallant idea
t the 'fair sex were wholly and without exception addicted
° the looking-glass (thOse, in. which they could see their own
i tees, having been invented about that time), he despatched the
, Prince upon his travels, and obtained his royal promise that if
he returned without having' discovered a fair maiden who had
never beheld her face in a glass, he would then accept the prof-
'Sled hand of the obnoxious Princess. Proceeding upon his
novel and apparently hopeless mission, the Prince had almost
cached
himself to despair, when, wearied and dispirited, he
I'ached an enchanted forest, and, by the aid of certain good
'allies who dwelt therein, he w .s enabled to discover the object
of his search in the person of little Snow-white, a wood nymph,
vO, together with her companions, had not only never seen
their own faces in a glass, but had never seen the face of one
Man until the arrival of Prince Golden-heart in their abode,
Which was a sequestered dell on the borders of Fairyland.
The Prince. overjoyed by his wonderful discovery, was at once
sinittea with her beauty, and the maiden was not slow to
reciprocate the sentiment.
Their future 'was probably a happy one-;.-but history is obli-
vious of their subsequent career. Certain learned antiquarians,
whose special mission is to attempt to make people believe that
the musty records of past and gone are of more importance to
the living Present than the stirring events of the existing gene-
ration, or the onward advancement of the future, are of opinion
that the ancient kingdon of Faraway has been discovered
beneath the Goodwin Sands, and a Limited Liability scheme is
in contemplation for exploring that highly attractive locality.
By others it is contended that Hilbre Island covers the defunct
kingdom, and this supposition is encouraged by the recent dis-
covery of a fossil, bearing a strong rese hblance to a missing
toothpick, formerly the property of King Squander. Other
equally learned pundits are of opinion that Faraway is buried
in oblivion, and that it never existed an; where but in the
inventive imagination of a needy author.

TRANSFORMATION.
Harlequin Mr. W. Waite I Pantaloon Mr. E. Lauri
Clown Mr. Power Columbine Migs M'Ginty

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