The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-11-30 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEAT'RE.
Thls Evening, WEDNESDAY. Noe. 30, will be performed the Comic
Opera
THE WAGER; or, THEof MIDNIGHT HOUR.
The principal Characters by Messrs. DON OM, Horn, J. Russell,
Marley. layleure, and Bedford; Mimes Kelly and Cubist; and bin.

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After which the Musical Farce a
THE ADOPTED CHILD.
Michael, Mr. Wallack ; Record, Mr. Knight, Nell, Mre. Orpr.
To conclude with the Farce of
THE SLEEP-WALKEN.
Sown°, Mr. J. Russell; Alibi, Mr. nlyktUrf.
To-morrow, The School for Scandal, and The Innkeeper's Daughter.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
TUs Evening, W EDNESDAY, N0v.30, will be performed the Orem of
CLARI.
The Dote Vivaldi, Mr. Powers Rolamn, Mr. Fawcett: Jocuso. Mr.
fluruiet; Geronto, Mr. Keeley; Nimpedo, Mr. Meadows. Choi,
Miss Paton; Vesplua, Miss Love.

After which (4th time) a new Piece called
THE SCA PE-GOAT.
The Character' by Mean. Blanchard. Groper. W. Farren, and
Meadows; Misses Jones and A. Jones.
To conclude with the Melo-Drama of
JOCK°.
THE BRAZILIAN MONKEY.
The principal Characters by Messrs. Connor. Meadows, and Keeley;
and Miami Gardner and J. Scott.
Jocko, Monsieur Meunier.
To-morrow, The Rink, The 'cape-Goat, snd The Padlock.

ADELPHI THEATRE, STRAND.
This EveninI,%IEDNESDAY, N0v.30, will be presented the Nautical
Melo-Dramatle Burletta of
THE PILOT;
Or, A TALE OP THE SE %.
The Masks] Characters by Messrs. Terry, Yates, T. P. Cooke, aid
J. Reeve; and Mrs. Fltzwilliam.
After which the favourite Flurletts of
ALL AT COVENTRY I
Timothy, Mr. Wrench; Lively. Mr. J. Reeve.
To eonclude with the Comic Heroic Operatic; Tragic Pantomimic
Burlesque Burletta Spectacular Extravaganza of
DON GIOVANNI I
Or, A SPECTRE ON HORSEBACK.
Don Giovanni, Mrs. Fitzwilliam I Dun Guzman. and Ghoet of him-
self. Mr. T. P. Cooke; Dor. Octavio, lir. Foster; Leporello, Hr. J.
Reeve. Donna Anna, Mho Roden.

The Bs 'TISK Posts COMITIVICNI publishing yesterday morn-
ing as dye o'clock.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, Novxmicz 30, 1895.

Last night we received New York Papers to the 9th inst.
They supply us with no political intelligence from the
United States. The people of New York had for several
days been occupied with the preparations for the opening of
the great canal from Lake Erie. The ceremony was per-
formed on the .sth inst. In another part of the paper our
readers will find an abridged account of the proceedings on
that day.
The friends of General JACKSON are already taking
Measures to insure his success in the next struggle for the
Presidency, in 1829. The Legislature of Tennessee have
formally nominated him as a candidate, and he has there-
fore deemed it proper to resign his seat in the Senate of the
United States.

The news from Spanish America is not important. A
destructive malady prevailed in the city of Mexico, by
which it was asserted 200 persons were carried oft' daily.
The Mexican squadron lying at Sacrificios was making
ready at the close cf September to attack the Spanish fleet,
which was hourly expected to arrive with supplies for San
Juan d'Ulloa. The garrison was sickly and famishing,
and, unless speedily relieved, would be obliged to surrender.
By the latest advices from Lima, it seems that the garrison
of Callao is in much the same condition. The splendid
entertainment recently given by RODIL to Sir Meaasy
MAxwar.t was a display made purely for effect. The fall
of these two fortresses, which cannot now be long de-
ferred, will complete the perfect deliverance of the Ame-
rican Continent from the presence of a single individual
owing or professing allegiance to the King of SPAIN. The
extracts relative to the New States will be found in a pre-
ceding column. We subjoin an interesting commercial
paragraph -
Naw ORLICANS, OCT. 4.
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Cerexow.—With the exception of one small transaction, which
took place some weeks put, to close a concern, there hare not been
any sales since the 15th of August. We do not know of any
article more dull at present, or for which there is less inquiry—and
are again compelled to omit quotations; neither, indeed, have
we proper or sufficient data to hazard a decided opinion as to the
nominal value of this staple commodity. The arrivals of the
new crop this season have been only 105 bales, whilst on this day
last year they were 711 bales, making 606 bales in favour of last
season. In correcting the stock this week, we found precisely 400
bales over our former statement, which is added to previous import.,
a part of which (stock on hand) is on ship. board, and will soon be
on its way to market. It is still uncertain at what price the market
will open, and opinions vary according to conflicting interests. Of
the present crop, so far, we have much to expect as to an abundant
one, reports of the rot and caterpillar to the contrary notwithstand.
ing ; nevertheless there is a sufficiency of time for considerable de.
struction by storms and otherwise tee the picking season closes.

NEW YORE, Not•. 6.
Parcrs or• STOCEo.—United States' Sixes, 1813, 100 A-1814,
1024 to 1024-1813, 1041—Four and a half, 1832, 04 to 991—Cor-
poration Sixes, 101. flanks—United States-113, sales.

Our national literature was perhaps never more at the
flood than at this moment, nor was there ever a time when
readers were more general or books of value in greater re-
quest. And yet the Morning Herald, as if ambitious of
making new discoveries, informs the public in its columns
of yesterday, that "THE BOOESELLING TRADE was never
known to be in so depressed a state as at the present time.
The Bank of England has refused for the last three weeks
to discount any bookseller's hill." Now we can positively
affirm that this libellous assertion is utterly unfounded.
Booksellers' bills, as such, have not been, in any one in-
stance, refused, but have been discounted with as much
readiness as ever. We stated in our paper of yesterday one
of the leading causes which have compelled the Bank, in its
own defence, to restrict its discounts, independently of the
sound policy which justified that measure, as connected
with the limitation of the paper currency.
" Nothing," this journal continues, "can be more confir-
matory of the falling off in the bookselling business than
the fact of the two principal booksellers, CONSTABLE and
MURRAY, having become NUMBER PUBLISHERS."
This is truly a marvellous sample of logical induction.--
Because the demand for works of merit is so extensive,
among persons of' every class, as not only to encourage the
publication of entire works of the most expensive kind, but
to create a great sale for them when published in parts ;
and because periodical works, which are necessarily brought
out in numbers, have become so important a branch of Bri-
tish literature, that booksellers of the very first repute arc
engaged in their publication, therefore it is in proof that
the demand for works of literature is on the decline, or—in
the elegant language of this great LoNGINe9—" the hook-
selling business is falling off." Now it may be averred,
without fear of contradiction, that the bookselling tra:lc has
doubled within the last six or seven years. A work, how-
ever
expensive, if it has merit, is purchased with an
avidity that, till of late years, was unexampled. We might
produce a catalogue of instances, from every bookseller of
eminence ; but one fact may suffice :—Messrs. LONGMAN
recently published Moons's Life of Sheridan, in one vo-
lume 4t0., at the price of three guineas—and, at the end
of three days, of the whole edition of one thousand copies,
not a single copy was left ! A notable result this of the de-
clining demand for literature, and of an expiring trade!!
But the Herald, in the depth of its wisdom, not only
affirms that the book trade never was so depressed, and
that the Bank of England will not discount a bookseller's
bill ; it proceeds to reveal the secret of all this decay of bu-
siness and extinction of credit. The putilic arc shown in a
very few words bow this sad catastrophe has been brought

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