The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-26 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING; DECEMBEIt 16. 1855.

(sans teeth, sans eyes, sans teeth, sons taste, sans every thing),
Mr: Centenarian.
Seventh Ago—sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every-
thing."
Sudden Talismanic Dissolving of the 'Snow to the
BRIGHT REALMS OF PERPETUAL SUMMER.
Double Pantomimic Transmogrification.
The Two Harlequins ... Signor Verroni and Herr Furth.
The Two Columbines Mme. Bolen and Marie Charles.
Tho Two Pantaloons Messrs. Tanner and Doulin Johnson.
The Two Sprites ... The Brothers Elliott.
The Two Clowns ... Harry Boleno and Tom. Matthews.
A SCENE OF INTEREST—TWO TO ONE—Boleno.
Buttered Peas—Cheese it—Taking the Pledge—Pop't up—
pop't in, and pop't out—Equal Division—Principal and In-
terest—How to evade the Act—Betting versus Cigars—
" What's the odds so long as you're happy I"—Tbe Right Tip
—How to raise the Wind—The Odds to the Hod—List, oh,
list I—Wrong to-back-her, and no Returns—Settling Day, a
regular Settler—Gone for the Leger—ln for the Oaks— A
Bankrupt's Stock, and a Caso of Bale, concluding with a
regular SMash.

A SCENE OF INDUSTRY.—BoIeno.
A sweet Place—Honesty the best Policy—Honey and Whacks
(Wax)—Rising Steps and Steps Rising—Catching Bees all a
Hum—lt Beebovos you to Beehare when you attack a Bee-
bive—Svrarining 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.—BoIeno.
The Meeting of All Nations (Russian excepted)—Fraternisa-
tion—Cordiality of the Allies—" All the World'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;" followod 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 Premtum—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 CONF'USION'(LAID IN BEDS).
" To bed, to bed"—" 'Tifi 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, which dis-concerts
the Lodgers—" We won't go home till morning"—Putting
them on the Shelf—Natives and a Settler—The War Whoop,
the War Dance, and a Warming-pan Accompaniment—Fire !
Fire! Fire I—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's Tavern, Haymarket, and Samuel Brothers, Ludgate.
hill—Measures and men—Hitt and Skits at Everything and
Everything—Inns and Outs— Shoe-black Brigade—A Polished
Gentleman—Comic Duet between the Clown and a Blacking.
Bottle —Hovrlett's Hair Dye—A Dyer's Material—A Diro Art
for Falsehood framed— Coloured Imitations—The Sydenham
Trousers—Height of Fashion—Genuine Malt and Hops—All.
sopp's Pale Ale—The East and the West—Scott's Lot, and a
Race for Pithlic Favour.

NUMBR ONE, .
A Visit to Dakin's Tea EstablishmentLONDO, St. Paul's—" In to
epos est"—Bohemians and Teetotallers—Groat 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 or ALL that ends this strange eventful
History."
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Chancery, male in a cause of MARKT: against 'MARKS,
the creditors of SEDLEY BASTARD MARKE, late of Plymouth,
In the county of Devon, Esquire, who died in or about the month of
February, 1855, are, by their solicitors, on or before the first day of
February, lane, to come in and prove their Debts or Claims at the
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Thursday, the 7th day of February 1866, at Three o'clock in the
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Dated this 21st day of December, 1855.
CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
11. COWLARD, 14. Lincoln's-inn-flelds, agent for GURNEY
and LETHBRIDGE COWLARD, of Launceston, Cornwall,
Plaintiff's Solicitors.

PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a Cause of Henry Wilson against Richard
Baker Leslie, the Creditors of GEORGE HARRISON, late of No. 51,
Paradise-row, and of No. 15, Robert-street, in the parish of St. Luke,
Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, tallow chandler, who died in or
about the month of August, 1843, are by their solicitors, on or before
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be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said order.
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ENLISTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES.

The Boston Interication- al Journal has an article
exculpating Mr. Crampton from having violated or
intended to violate the neutrality laws of the
United States. The Journal says :
We have said that Mr. Crampton took the opinion of
a high legal authority of the United States, and sent
that opinion to the different Consuls. The following is
the circular accompanying that opinion. It will most
forcibly strike the mind of every reader how anxiously
he sought to make all persons respect the law in this
business :

Washington, March 11, 1855.
Mr. Crampton to her Majesty's Consuls at New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Norfolk, and New
Orleans.

Sir,—l enclose for your information and guidance the
copy of an opinion which I have caused to be drawn up
by an eminent American lawyer, in regard to the bearing
of the neutrality laws of the United States upon the
subject of my de4patch on the Ist of December last.
You will bear in mind that, however desirous her Ma-
jesty's Government may be to obtain recruits, they are
still more anxious that the laws of the United States
should be scrupulously observed. I am consequently
instructed to recommend to you the utmost caution iu
order that no cause of complaint on this ground be given
the United States Government.
I would particularly draw your attention to that clause
of the act of 1818, which renders it penal to "hire or
retain" any person to go beyond the limits or jurisdic-
tion of the United States with intent to be enlisted.
But notwithstanding all efforts to prevent infractions
of the law, persons who had volunteered their services to
persuade men to proceed to Halifax, had, without autho-
rity from any one, gone to improper lengths, partly from
their zeal and partly from their not understanding the
nature of the business, which was not to " enlist, hire,
or retain," but to give advice to what point volunteers
could go to enlist with legality and propriety. Mr.
Crampton, to put an end to such irregularities, at length
undertook the long journey to Canada and to Nova
Scotia, to put matters right, and at the last place he
issued the following instructions :
Memoranda for the guidance of those who are to make
known to persons in the United States the terms and
conditions upon which recruits will bo received into the
British army :
1. Those parties who may go to Buffalo, Detroit, or
Cleveland for this purpose, must clearly understand
that they must carefully refrain from anything which
would constitute a violation of the laws of the United
States.

2. They must, therefore, avoid any act which might bear
the appearance of recruiting within the jurisdiction of the
United States for a foreign service, or of hiring or re-
taining anybody to leave that jurisdiction with the in•
tent to enlist in the service of a foreign power.
[Both these acts are illegal by the act of Congress of
1818, sec. 2.]
4. There must bo no collection, embodiment of men,
or organisation whatever attempted Within that jurisdic-
tion.

5, No promises of contracts, written or verbal, on the
subject of enlistment, must be entered into with any per-
son within that jui:isdic,,lon.

Ths informati':,n to ho giVen will be simply that, to
those desiring to enlist in the British army) facilities will
be afforded for no doing on their crcsaing the line into
British territory, and the talus offered by the British
Government may be stated as matter of information
only, writ not as implying any promise or engagement
on the, part of those supplying such information, so long
at Yeast as they remain within American jurisdiction.
7. It is essential to success that no assemblage of the
parsons should take place at beer-houses or other similar
Places of entertainment, for the purpose of devising mea-
sures far enlisting : and the parties should scrupulously
avoid resorting to this or similar means of disseminating
the desired information, inasmuoh as the attention of the
American authorities would not fail to be called to such

.. .. ~ . ... ....
proceedings, which would, undoubtedly, be regarded by
them as au attempt to carry on recruiting for a foreign
power within the limits of the United States ; and ti
must certainly be borne in mind that the institution or
legal proceedings against any of the parties is question,
wren if they were to elude the penalty, would be fatal
to the success of the enlistment itself.

1 8. Should the strict observance of these points be
neglected, and the parties thereby involve themselves in
Aifficulty, they are hereby distinctly apprised that they
n wet expect no sort of aid or assistance from the British
G °Torment—this government would be compelled by
th s plearest dictates of international duty to disavow
th,- ';.- proceedings, and would, moreover, be absolved
...4."
from all engagements contingent upon the success of the
..;parties in
.(,,`'tailing by legal means soldiers for her Bri-
tannic I‘l.c.jes+:l.o army.

INDIAN RAILWAYS.

(From the 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 sel-
diem 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
be done away with, and brigades, or even whole
divisions, will, when wanted, be sent from one end
of the countryAo another, with far less trouble and
annoyance than is now the -case -when' a serjeant's
party has to be ilespatched. With the facilitied 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 present
takes 90 days to accomplish can be done in 48
hours, Italia will not want so many mon perpetu-
ally under arms as she now does, or at any rate
will be 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 Kindostan 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 a;ready completed ; but this is as no-
thing when compared to the advantage of being
able at any moment to send reinforcements from
either the north-west provinces or Bengal to Ben-
area, the hot-bed of Hindoo fanaticism ; to points
close upon Lucknow, where the followers of Ma-
i 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-
Alice can hardly be given to this line in a military
point of view, joining, as it will de, the distant
points of so extensive an empire, and setting free
from the monotony of garrison work troops which
Rill be so much better employed elsewhere.
The next line in importance is the " Great In-
Han Peninsula Railway," upon which the first lo-
comotive and train ever seen iu India began to run
'bout two years and a half ago. The starting point
of this lino 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 line 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), and,
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 Allalia-
bad. It is hardly possible to compress withiu the
limits of a newspaper article what good this line
will effect to the internal commerce of India, and
more particularly as regards the cotton exported
thence to England. Bombay sends to this country
about 23,000 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 (lays of Oliver
Cromwell, and with bye-ways which aro but tracks
made by the wheels of carts, in the provinces of
Kaudeish 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 one 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 set in
is too serious for the natives iu 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 line complete, oven 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
set 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 2f 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 by this road
towards Central India, nor yet the opium brought
down from the Malwa districts for exportation to
China. 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, *here it will join the line in
progress from the latter place. This serials of rail-
ways, connecting the two minor presidencies, will
be about 800 miles la 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. The
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-booming more rare, but
still it will bo a long time before the 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 oer-
tain districts) note performed by large 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 lino through
the Indian Peninsula. From Belgautn, Sattara,
and Poonah, 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. Be-
tween Poonah and Bombay the traffic, even at pre-
sent, seems literally never to stop the whole year
round. No 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 Niza m's do-
minions, Taulna, and the G'odavery—to, which
Poonah is, from its position, a kind of natuzgl out-
let, that we cease to be ourprised at the 'fast