Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-28 00:00:00

alliance between his only son, the handsonie Prince
heart,c and a wealthy spinster Princess, his ward, whose
charms were buried in her money-bags. Like many modern
match-makers, his Majesty speedily made the 'ais—c-iivery that
his task was more difficult than he had imagined; for
elthpy.l4 thr intended bride was quite willing, the bridegroom
elect expressed adecided objection to the alliance. Finding
his son so obstinate that threats and entreaties alike failed to
turn him from his anti-matrimonial purpose, the King de-
vised a.ounning Mime, by whipli,he hopqd,,to overcome „the
scruplei4f, of his son., and. entrap him into wedlock witl.f the
by-ne-mganalit-autiftil Princess. Having an. ungallant:idea
that the fair sex were wholly and without exception addicted
to the looking-glass. (those in which they could see their own
faces; having been' invented dbout that time), he despatched the
Prince upon his travels, and obtained his royal promise that it
-he returned without having discovered a fair maiden who bad
never beheld her face in a gla,ss, hemouldtlien,aceepttlie prof
fered hand of the obnoxious Prineese.• -'Vreeeeding upon his
naval and apparently hopeless miasion, the Prince had almost
resigned himself to despair, when, wearied and dispirited, he
reached an enchanted forest, and, by the aid of certain good
fairies who dwelt therein, hew ,a-enabled to discover the object
of his search in the person of little Snow-white, a woad nymph,
who, together with her companions, had net only-never seen
their own faces in a glass, but had never seen the face of oni
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 oncp
gitifteii-' With he ibetiutA and the maiden was not slow to
reciprocate the sentiment.

`.lleir future was probably appzatme-.-but history is obli-
vious of their subsequent career. CertaLu learned antiquarians,
_whese special ruissionis to. altempt.to make ppop!o believe-that
the musty records of past and gone are of-mare iinportance to
the living oresent than the stirring "eventt of the existing gene-
ration, or the onward advancement of the future, are of ohiuieit

that the ancient kingdon of. Faraway has -bi•en diSeA,sied
beneath the Gem:iv/in Sands, end a Limited .Liability schniie is
in contemplation for-explorirkg that highly attractive lecalitY.
By others it is 'canteiidea that Hilbre Island covers.tho,defundt
.kiagilona4.and this -supposition is enegiiraged.brilhaxecent.dii-
covery of a fossil, bearing a strong resemblance to a missing
toothpick, formerly the property • Ming Squander. Other

equally learned pundits aie Of miinion,thast Farat-ay is buried
in oblivion, and that it never existed an; -where but in the
inventive imagination of a needy author

TRANWORMATION.

Harlequin Mr. W. Waite Pantaloon • Mr. E. Lauri
Clown liEr„ Power. I Columbine Miss M`Ointy

. „ On Saturday next, December 31st,
A GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE t
of the PANTOMIME. .17
Doors open at Half-past One o'clock, commencing at Two

kdmi6sion

—Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit,

Gallery, la

Dobrs Opened at Half-past Six, and the Performances corn-
mence at Ses en o'clock precisely.
The Box-office is Open from Ten to Three, for seeming
Seats in the Dress Circle and taking Private Boxes, which may
be had under the direction of Mr. George Weston.