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LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBEit 26, 1855.

(sans teeth, sans eyes, sans teeth, sans taste, sans every thing),
Mr. Centenarian.

Seventh Ago—sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every-
thing."

Sudden Talismanic Dissolving of the Snew to tho
BRIGHT REALMS OF PERPETUAL SUMMER.
Double Pantomimic Transmogrification.
The Two Harlequins ... Signor Verroui and Herr Furth.
The Two Columbines ... Mme. Bolen." and Marie Charles.
The Two Pantaloons Messrs. Tanner and Donlin Johnson.
The Two Sprites The Brothers Elliott.
The Two Clowns .. Harry Bolcno and Torn Matthews.
A SCENE OF INTEREST—TWO TO ONE—Bolono.
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Battered Peas—Cheese it—Taking the Pledge—Pop't up—
pop't in, and pop't out—Equal Divisieu—Principal and In-
terest—How to evade the Act—Betting versus Cigars—
" What's the odds so long as you're happy ?"—The Right Tip
—How to raiso the Wind—The Odde to the Hod—List, oh,
list !—Wrong to-back-her, cud no Returns—Settling Day, a
regular Settler—Gone for the Leger—ln for the Oaks— A
Bankrupt's Stock, and n Caso of Bale, concluding with a
regular Smash.

A SCENE OF INDUSTRY.—BoIeno.

A sweet Phicelflio;estythebesiPolicy—dloney and Whacks
(Wax)—Rising Steps and Steps Rising—Catching Bees all a
Hum—lt Beehoves you to Bechar° when you attack a Pee-
hive—Swarming and Warming—Enlarged Heads upon a New
Principle—Domestic Bees—Long Needles—Royal Summons
—Arrival of Queen Bee and Suite—Grand Charge—Tableau.
SCENE OF EXCITEMENT—PARIS EXHIBITION—A
CAFE BESIEGED.—DoIeno._.

The Meeting of All Nations (Russian except2d)—Fraternisa=
tion—Cordiality of the Allies—" All the Wedd's a Stage !"
—Arrival of the World and his Wife, and the whole of his
Family, commencing with their Eldest Daughter, the " Fa-
shionable World ;" followed by the " Sporting World ;" the
" Dramatic World ;" the "World upside down ;" the "Wide
World ;" the " Wicked World ;" and the " World in Arms."
Lodgings at a Premium—Not a bed to be bad—" My Lodging
is on the cold (coal) Ground"—Clown and Pantaloon go Down
to Bed—" A Sweet Good Night to all."
A SCENE OF CONFUSION (LAID IN BEDS),

"To bed, to bed"—" 'Tis when to Sleep the World retires"
—The Night Mare, which makes Clown a little hoarse—As
Thick as Three in a bed—A Night Concert, wh'_ch dis-concerts
the Lodgers— "We won't go borne till monting"—Putting
them on the Shelf—Natives and a Settler—The War Whoop,
the War Dance, and a Warming-pan Accompaniment—Fire !
Fire! Fire 1---The House in an Uproar - Speedy Exit of some
of the Lodgers, which finishes with " Confusion worse con-
founded,"

THE WEST END AND THE CITY.
Scott', Tavern, Haymarket, and Samuel Brothers, Ludgate-
hill—Measures and men—Hits and Skits at Everything and
Everything—lnns and Oats— Shoe-black Brigade —A Foliated
Gentleman—Comic Duet between the Clown and a Blacking-
Bottle —Howlett's Hair Dye—A Dyer's Material—A Dire Art
for Falsehood framed— Coloured Imitations—The Sydenham
Trousers—Height of Fashion—Genuine Malt and Hops—All-
sopp's Pals Ale—The East and the West—Scott's Lot, and a
Race for Pablic Favour.

NUMBER ONE, LONDON.
A Visit to Dakin's Tea Establishment, St. Panl's—" In to
apes est"—Bohemians and Teetotallers—Great Drawing Mate-
rials—The Magic Chest and the Enchanted Teapot—Clown
gets Tea in it, and Pantaloon gets into Hot Water in conse-
quence—Omnibus Companies on the Old System and the New
System, and the System that don't assist 'em—Strong Opposi-
tion,
and final discovery of the " Right Men in their Right
Places"—Whack, bang, flip-flap, hey, presto, and Change to
" LAST SCENE OF ALL that ends this strange eventful

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INDIAN RAILWAYS.

(From ate Daily News Correspondent.)
Having considered the future commercial pros-
pects of the railway which is to run from Calcutta
to Delhi, let us glance briefly at the military ad-
vantages this line will confer upon India.
To carry out the Government scheme of railways
throughout Hindostan, and more particularly to
extend the grand trunk lines now projected, will
undoubtedly have the effect of diminishing the
number of troops now required for the army of that
country. At present, to march a regiment from
Calcutta to the north-west provinces, is an affair
of at least three months. When the railway is
finished the corps that on Monday left the metro-
polis of Bengal will the succeeding Wednesday be
able to take its tour of duty at the former capital
of the Great Mogul. And so on in proportion,
when the line is farther extended. The endless
preparations now required when any body of sol-
diers has to be moved—the laying in of supplies at
every mile stage, the writing to collectors, the
pressing of bullocks and bullock carts into the tem-
porary service of the commissariat—all this will
bo done away with, and brigades, or even whole
divisions, will, when wanted, bo sent from ono and
of the country to another, with far less trouble and
annoyance than is now the case when a serjeaut's
party has to be despatched. With the facilities of
moving troops will naturally come the requirements
for fewer soldiers. What may be the numbers in
which a reduction can be made it is now impossible
to say, but of a certainty, when-What at pfe-sent
takes 90 days to accomplish can be done in 48
hours, India will not want so many men perpetu-
ally under arms as she now does, or at any rate
will bo able to spare more troops to keep in order
turbulent distant provinces. In whatever way
we regard it there can hardly be any doubt
of the fact that the increase of railways will lead
to the diminution of the Indian army, and con-
sequently to the increase of her revenue. The map
of Yindostan will at once point out the immense
importance of connecting nearly every town along
this line with the presidency and the seat of Go-
vernment. In a small way even the troops now
employed in putting down the Sonthal insurrection
are receiving most material help from the section
of railway already completed ; but this is as no-
thing when compared to the advantage of being
able at any moment to cowl reinforcements from
either the north-west provinces or Bengal to Ben-
arcs, the hot-bed of Hindoo fanaticism ;to points
close upon Lucknow, whore the followers of Ma-
hornet are apt at times to break out in a religious
crusade against other creeds ; to Patna, where the
executive Government has occasionally no little
trouble; or to Agra, which is within reach of all
the Gwalior districts. In short, too much import-
ance can. hardly be given to this line in a military
point of view, joining, as it will do, the distant
points of so extensive an empire, and setting free
from the monotony of garrison work troops which
will be so much better employed elsewhere.
The next line in importance is the " Great In-
dian Peninsula Railway," upon which the first lo-
comotive and train ever seen in India began to run
about two years and a half ago. The starting point
of this line is Bombay, and of it 50 miles have al-
ready been working some time. Having been the
first undertaking of the kind which solved the
question whether railways would answer in
India, this lino is deserving of peculiar notice.
The company has, properly speaking, undertaken
two lines ; but, although both will no doubt be
ultimately sanctioned, only one has as yet received
the formal ratification of the East India Govern-

ment. Both these are to diverge somewhere close to
the site of the present terminus, 50 miles from Bom-
bay; the one branch will proceed in a north-easterly
direction (ascending from the Koncan to the Ghats,
or table .land, which runs parallel with the sea
from the north to the south of India), arid,
going through a portion of the Deccan, will
thus reach Candeish, and the vast cotton
districts of Berar, whence, it is destined to join
the Calcutta line, either at Mirzapore or Allaha-
bad. It is hardly possible to compress within the
limits of a newspaper article what good this lino '
will effect to the internal commerce of India, awl
more particularly as regards the cotton exported
thence to England. Bombay sends to this country
about 25,000 tons of cotton every year, and might,
with the improved means of carriage from the in-
terior, increase this to almost any amount. At
present, what with far worse trunk roads than
could be seen in England since the days of Oliver
Cromwell, and with bye-ways which are but tracks
made by tho wheels of carts, in the provinces of
Kandeish and Berar, there is only cultivated for
cotton about ten per cent. of the land where the
plant might be grown. Throughout these districts
the civil officers of government have given it as
their opinion that, were a speedy communication
with the coast established, for ono acre on which
cotton is now grown, at least ten will be devoted
to that cultivation. At present the delay is,
owing to the bad roads, too great, and the risk of
not reaching Bombay before the rains have sot in
is too serious for the natives in the far interior to
hazard their year's subsistence upon a crop which
might, after all, turn out a dead loss. With the
Great Indian Peninsula lino complete, even as far
as Malligaum, a distance of 150 miles from Bom-
bay, the time saved in bringing cotton from Kan-
deish to that port would not be under three weeks
—enough to make or mar the fortune of the native
dealers, to whom every hour before the heavy rains
sot in is of the utmost importance. But setting
aside the extended cultivation of cotton which the
line would no doubt cause, the carriage of this
single article in the actual quantities it now reaches
the coast has been calculated will yield the rail-
way a net income of 21 per cent. ; this is without
allowing anything for the 100,000 tons of salt
which are every year sent from Bombay to the
interior, and now carried by Bringarie bullocks,
nor yet putting down the vast quantities of cloth
and other goods which annually go lay this road
towards Central India, nor yet tho opium brought
down from the Malwa districts for exportation to
Ckina. When to these certain sources of revenue
are added that arising from passenger traffic, it
will not be overrating the advantages of this line
to say that it will be second to no railway yet pro-
posed for India, whether we consider the benefits
it is likely to confer on the country or the profits
to be derived by its shareholders from the under-
taking.
The other branch of the Great Indian Peninsula
Railway is from Bombay to Poonah, in a south-
easterly direction, and thence to Sattara, Kola-
pore, Belgaum, and Dharwar to the confines of the
Madras presidency, where it will join the line in
progress from the latter place. This series of rail-
ways, connecting the two minor presidencies, will
be about 800 miles in length, and will be of great
importance to India in a military point of view.
Already are the works being completed as far as
Poonah, whilst the whole distance is expected to
be finished in about two years from this time. Tho
vast benefit to be derived by bringing within the
limits of a couple of days' transit what now takes
that number of months to accomplish is too evi-
dent to need dwelling upon here. Unfortunately
for India, we have not yet seen the last of those
occasional risings of the people which can only be
accounted for by the ignorance in which but too
many of them are yet steeped. It is true that,
year by year, these are becoming more rare, but
still it will be a long time before tie necessity for
having disposable troops at different points in the
country can be done away with. The lines now
forming from Poonah on the one side, and from
Madras on the other, will hem in between two
armies a large portion of Southern India, the
most unruly of our older provinces ; and as on the
Bengal side, so here, the work of watching cer-
tain districts, now performed by largo bodies of
troops, may be taken in hand by a comparatively
smaller number.
Nor are the commercial advantages of the coun-
try forgotten in this South Eastern line through
the Indian Peninsula. From Belgaum, Sattara,
and Poonab, there is a great and increasing inland
traffic towards Bombay, whilst throughout the
Southern Maharatta country very
large tracts of
that black soil so favourable to the growth of cotton
abound, but for want of the means of carriage
these have as yet been but little cultivated.
pße-
tween Poonah and Bombay the traffic, even at pre-
sent, seems literally never to sto the whole year
round. one can have traversed that road with-
out being surprised at the hundreds of bullock
carts and thousands of pack bullocks which appear
everlastingly plodding on, either towards the coast
or going inland to the Deccan, but heavily laden
whatever be their destination, without wondering
whence these are bound in such numbers. It is
only when we remember the immense tracts of
country—towards Ahmadnugger, the Nizam s do-
minions, Taulna, and the Godavery—to which
Poonah is, from its position, a kind of natural out-
let, that we cease to be surprised at the vast