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which she is certainly not yet fit. And in this
!pect we maintain that her advance in the right.-
li has been far greater during the last four years
rthrorrenzmt the-previous half century.

COMPAGNIE GENERALE des OMNIBUS
de LONDRES (GENERAL LONDON
OMNIBUS COMPANY.)
Established in Paris, under Acts of the 4th and 17th Decem-
ber, 1855, as a " Societe en commandite," by which the
liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount sub-
scribed.
Capital—Twenty-flve Millions of Francs—One Million Sterling,
In 250,006 Shares of 100 francs, or 41. each.
Ia Two Series.—The First, 200,000 Shares (800,000/.)
The Second, 50,000 Shares (200,0000
The First Series only will be issued at present.
GBRANTs or TUB CO3oANT—Macnamara, Carteret, Willing,
and Co.
MANAGERs IN LONDON.
Messrs. John Wilson, I Messrs. Richard Hartley,
- „ John Barber, „ John Trevett.
MEMBERf3 OF THE COUNCIL OF SURVEILLANCE.
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County Bank, London.
Le Comte De Lantivy, Paris.
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baine, Paris.
Frederic Toche' Banquier, Paris.
Edwin Chadwick, Esq., C. 8., London.
Augustin Dubois, Administrateur des Forges de Moatataire,
Paris.
Manion Direoteur-Gerrit de P Union Maritime, Paris.
Th. Harriseon, Esq., London.
BIOMES.
In Paris .........Messrs. Greene and Co.
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I Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co..
SOLICITORS.
In Paris Mr. Petit Bergonz, Moue au Tribunal de Pre-
miere Instance.
In London Messrs. Wilkinson, Gurney, and Co.
The applicatienis for shares must be accomranied with a
deposit of 11. per share with the bankers of the Company on
the number of shares applied for. The remaining 31. per
share must be paid upon allotment, on the number of shares
allotted
Forms of application for shares may be had at the Com-
pany's Temporary Offices, 47, Old Broad-street, London.

No. 19,70.]

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pantomimist, Mr. C. Brown, and Miss Emma Horne I engaged
as pantaloon, harlequin, and columbine. 'lt will readily be
seen that each of these, eminent " legs " stepped into a tole-
rable sum. Another " little treasure," in the shape of Miss
Harriet Gordon (who plays Good Humour in the opening),
had to be provided for, as well as Mr; Harry Pearson, with
an efficient company of comedians each entitled to a crown
in his various . department. Some hundreds •of supernume-
raries, scone shifters, carpenters, and " extras" in every de-
partment, who may bo regarded as so many piles of " small
change" in the financial scheme, were found to mount up pro-
digiously. Having shown the public that the meaty with
which they hays been kind enough to entrust me has been
faithfully laid out for their amusement, I will proceed to
describe the items of the investment. -
The subject of the Pantomime is one of national importance,
illustrating, by an historic' arallel, the greatest event of this
or any other age within the history of the two nations,
THE ANGLO-FRENCH A LLIANCE I

amount of traffic even now to be found on-the one J,
only good road of Western India. All this of course
argues well for the future prospects of the Great
Indian Peninsula Railway. , 1
We have one more great trunk line tornotiee, i
which is in some respects of greater importance
than any of the others already destlribed—namely,
the Bombay, Baroda, and. Central India Railway.
If Lord Dalhousie is to be taken as.an authority
on railway matters, the. Bombay and Baroda line. l
is one which will confer the greatest benefits-upon i
the country ; and, after- a careful perusalof the '
various minutes and papers connected with, the f
projected undertaking, we aro bound to acknow- t
ledge that his lordship has arrived at a just Conclu- 3
sion respecting it. If concurrent testimony of its -,,r
value and importance to the trade of India were ",
wanting, we might record the fact of theManehester ;
Chamber of Commerce having memorialised' the s
Court of Directors, to the effeckthat this railway may t
be extended and sanctioned throughout without de- b
lay. The intended course of this line is from Bombay b
along the coast to Surat, thence into the province ti
of Guzerat—called from its fertility " the garden c
of India"—to Baroda, Ahmedabad, and the fin- . d
mense cotton districts, whence the name of
" Surats," so well known in the English cotton Id)
market, is derived. From. Baroda, the Ineis to 0
extend either by Neemuch, and so through Ra'poo-
tana to Delhi, or along the Nerbudda and by Jub-
bulpore to Agra. At one or other of these points
it will join the Calcutta and North West lice. The y
whole distance is upwards of 1,500 miles, but as yet, tl
the formal sanotion of Leadenhall-street has only I
been received for the section from Surat to Baroda
and Ahmedabad, which will be about 200, milee in ,
length ; although from the expressed opinion of the
Governor-General, of the Governor of Bombay, 'of 7
Mr. Lumsden, member of council at that presi- ,s_l
dency, the members of the Supreme Council of "'
India, and of the Manchester Chamber of Corn- e`
merce, we cannot help arriving at the-conclusion' 11,
that the section along the road from Boinbay to 8;
Surat, in length about 200 miles, will also be 01
sanctioned and commenced upon forthwith. w
In the whole history of Indian railways UP t 6 o
the present time, this stopping short at Surat, and f,,
not at once sanctioning the line from Bomb ty all w
the way to Baroda, is almost the only blame that p
can be laid upon the Court of East India Direc-
tors. In his minute upon the subject, Lord Dal- (1'
housie distinctly states—" A railway commencing n'
at Surat, and connecting the line in Hindostan L
with the western coast, would no doubt be a great al
advantage in itself ; but it would form no part of e,
the system of railways which the Government has
in contemplation, and would not give to it the d,
military and political advantages which it aims at
securing." Further on, in the same paper, Ni kali 0:
alluding to the line along the coast being sane :oiled ni
and carried out, he writes :—" If the design of
the Government shall be executed. in its integrity, 9,
troops may be brought from England by the lu
shortest possible route to Bombay, for whichever 9
of three presidencies they may be intended, and
n',
may be fowarded upon a continuous system of d,
railways to whatever station they may be destined 8,
to occupy ; so also recruits and invalids may, by
the operation of such a continuous system, be a
sent on their way easily, quickly, healthily, and AI
cheaply."
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And, to quote again from the same authority; tl
" A line stopping short at Surat would not connect
the Bengal lines with those of Bombay, nor with
those of Madras. The break of 200 miles thus in-
tervening would effectually destroy that continuity
of communication by which the troops of one presi-
dency would be readily made available for use in
the remotest parts of another presidency, so that
the several armies in India should become practi-
cally interchangeable, and the military power of
the Government should be increased tenfold."

INNS OF COV.IO'.

'he Council of Legal Education have `issued, the fol-
•'g rules for the public examination of the atndenta
m
nary term, 1856 :

s an inducement for students to propose themselves
examination, studentships shall be founded of 50 gui-
le
s per annum each, to continue for a period ef three
re re, and one such staintship shall be conferred on the
11 t distinguished student at each public examination ;
in , further, the examiners shall select and certify tae
la es of three other students who shall have passed the
se t best examinations ; and the Inns of Court to which
al students belong may, if desired, dispense with any
;a s, not exceeding two, that may remain to be keFt
)3, such students previously to their being called to the
. Provided that the examiners shall not be obliged
o onfer or grant any studentship or certificate, unless
shall be of opinion that the examination of the stu-
le is they select has been such-as entitles them thereto.
t every call to the bar those students who have
IL el a public examination, and either obtained a stu-
e tship or a certificate of honour, sha:l rank in seniority
✓ r all other students who shall be called on the same
da .

The piece, as will be seen by an explanatory line in the bill,
is entitled• . •
"A LEGEND OF THE MEETING OF THE
MONARCHS." .
And the vaiious eireumgences which attended the meeting of
Henry VIII. and Francis I. on the Field of the Cloth of Gold
arc so introduced as to bear on recent occurrences. The
reader shall hear in what manner.
Scene 1.---" The Subterraneous abode of the Gnome Brits:
Dieu." -

Scene 2.—" The Land's End, Cornwall, with The departure
of the Gnome Britanicua to France."

COMPAGNIE GENER:ILE des OMNIBUS
de LONDRES.

Diorama No. 1.
London."
Diorama No. 2. " The visit of Vietoria•and Napoleon to
the Tomb of Napoleon I. in the Invalideei at Paris.".
Scene 3.—" The Deck of the Royal Harry, 128 guns—,the
Departure of Henry VIII. for France." • •
Diorama No, 3. " The Voyage from England to France."
Scene 4.—". The Chateau of Francis 1. at Gaieties•"
Scene 6:—" The Field of the Cloth.pf gold/ including a
grand Ballet and the Great Tournament, after Ilobein's cele-
brated picture."
Scene 6.—" The Bedchamber of the Monarchs."
Scene 7.—" The Farm-house of Blondettee."
Scene B.—" The immense Transformation Scene (painted
by W. Beverly) of. the Abode of the Fairy Good Humour in
the Realms of Eternal Starlight."

" The entry: of the Emporial. Napoleon to

No Application for Shares can be received later than Satnr.
clay next, the 29th inst.
Company's Offices, 47, Old Broad-street,
Dec. 24, 1855.

o students shall be eligible to be called to the bar
h. shall not either have attended during one whole
e., the lectures of two of the readers, or have satisfac-
Dr ly passed a public examination.
ZIT ES FOR THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES
• • a HONOURS OR' CERTIFICATES, ENTITLING STUDENTS
BE CALLED TO THE BAR.
n examination will be held in next Hilary Term, to
rh h a student of any of the Inns of Court who is de-
r. us of becoming• a candidate for a studentship or
o ince, or of obtaining a certificate of fitness for being
d -d to the bar, will be admissible.
ach student proposing to submit himself for exami-
at on will be required to enter his name at the trea-
ur office of the Inn of Court to which he belongs on
efore Tuesday, the Ist day of January next, and he
61 further bo required to state in writing whether his
lbj ct in offering himself for examination is to compete
or studentship or other honourable distinction ;or
vh•ther he is merely desirous of obtaining a certificate,
,re hid-nary-to-a-call to'-the bar.
he examination will commence on Tuesday, the Bth
a of January next, and will be continued on the Wed-
Les ;ay and Thursday following.
I will take place in the Benchers' reading-room of
.in o'n's Inn ; and the doors will be closed 10 minutes
ft: the time appointed for the commencement of the
xa . ination.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN,—
Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of
the North, respectfully announces that this THEATRE will
Open THIS EVENING, December 26, under his manage-
ment. He has fortunately succeeded in arranging with the,
Directors of the Royal Italian Opera for a short season, dur-
ing which he will produce many novelties at this the most
magnificent Theatre in the Metropolis. Tuts EVENING,
Dec. 26, he will have the honour of presenting his Entertain-
ment of MAGIC and MYSTERY, on a sew and more ex-
tended scale, as performed by him 129 times at the Lyceum
Theatre, before an aggregate audience of 339,000 ; to be fol-
lowed by the Groat National, Historic, and Chivalric PAN-
TOMIME, which has been so many months in preparation of
the BELLE ALLIANCE; or, Harlequin Good Humour, and
the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Professor Anderson hopes
that the Nobility and the Public will appreciate his efforts to
open Covent Garden Theatre during the Christmas season.
Associated as the history of the house is with so many glo-
rious recollections of Christmases that have long since passed
away, when " The Pantomime at Covent-garden" was the
town talk at Christmas-tide, and when to go and see it was
as much a matter of course as to place the holly over the
mantel, or hang the mistletoe in the hall. Mr. Anderson
trusts that a Pantomime reproduced on the same boards—the
boards whereon the fame of " Mother Goose" was acquired,
and the popularity of the " Great Bed of Ware" was won, and
produced on these beards with more attention to details and
to scenic effect than has ever been given to any Pantomime,
will certainly enlist the patronage, and those whose pleasant
Memories of Covent-garden rendered to them the recognised
field of Pantomimic triumph, as it will attract the visits of
those who have heard only with curiosity of that which
the stage of Covent-garden can produce. As the Royal
Italian Opera, the house for years has been the most distin-
Euished, as it is the noblest Theatre which London pos-
_

The concluding Scene, designed by M. Guerin, painted by
Mr. W. Beverly, and on which an expenditure of many hun.
dred pounds has been incurred, will form a Grand Military
Spectacle, representing the " Apotheosis of England and
France, with the descent of the Genius of Victory with the
Coronals of Valour."

The Band will be conducted by Mr. Chas. Hall, and will be
the largest in London, the performers being first-class.
The extensire and. complicated, Machinery by' mt. H. Sle-
man.

On Wednesday,, Dee. 26, the Doors will open at Half-past
Six, commenoe at Seven.

The Box-office is now open, under the direction of Mr.
O'Reilly. Private Boxes (which may also be taken at the prin-
cipal Libraries), 31. 35., 21. 25.,11. li., and 12s. Grand Bal-
cony, 45., Upper Boxes, 2s. 6d. Amphitheatre Stalls, 2s. Pit,
2s. Gallery, Iv. •
Doers open at half-past Mx ; commence at seven. Half.
price at Nine o'clock.
The care of the front of the house will be committed to Mr.
llingston, who will, doubtless, endeavour to care most cour-
teously for everybody.

The examination by printed questions will be cot.
[lliad in the following order :
tesday morning, the Bth of January, at half-past 9,
is onstitutional Law and Legal History ; in the aftez•
won, at half past 1, on Equity.
Wednesday morning, the 9th of January, at half-past
, an Common Law ; in the afternoon, at half past 1, on
he Law of Real Property, &c.
Thursday morning, the 10th of January, at half-past
i, tn Jurisprudence and the Civil Law ; in the after-
too , at half-past 1, a paper will be given to the Btu-
li
en s including questions bearing upon all the foregoing
sib ects of examination.
a oral examinations will be conducted in the same
ird r, during the same hours, and on the same subjects
oi hose a'ready marked out for the examination by
)ri ted questions, except that on Thursday afternoon
he e will be no oral examination.

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aesses. Since it has been rebuilt and remodelled it has been
comparatively shut up to the public generally. The
Theatre of Royalty, the house of fashion, the heavy expenses
of its directors, have rendered it impossible to open its doors
at the usual theatrical prices. Professor Anderson now sub-
mits his intention (in fall confidence that it will be understood
and duly valued by the public), to make the admission to the
Theatre• Royal Covent-garden the same as that charged to
theatres of lees pretensions and with less capabilities to ac-
commodate an audience. The whole of the magnificent bal-
cony recently erected after the Continental model, and a pa-
rallel to which is not to be found in any theatre in Great Bri-
tain, will be retained, and present its unrivalled coup-d'ceil of
beauty every evening; the admission to it will be 4s. The Pri-
vate Boxes en the third tier will be removed to form a range
Of Upper Boxes unequalled by any ether theatre in London ;
the price of admission to which will be 2s. 6d. There will be
bo pit stalls ; but the entire of the extensive and majestic
Pit, capable of holding more than 1,500 persons, will be given
to the public at an entranoe fee of 2s. The fourth tier of
bozos will be completely removed, and added to the Amphi-
theatre, so as to constitute one immense, commodious, and
most eligible gallery, the admission to which will bo One
Shilling oily, while it will command a view of every part of
the stege, and of the stupendous and elegant house. In fact
no attention will be spared by Mr. Anderson to render Co-
bent-Garden Theatre, par excellence, the house for Christmas
Entertainment ; nor will ho forget, while consulting the con-
venience of the public, to supply them with the best talent
that money can command for their amusement.
The inducements which have led him to undertake so large
a venture have been numerous, and were he quite sure that
the public would feel interested in learning them and his ar-
l'angements for their entertainment; he would cease to speak
of himself in the third person, and address them most re-
Ineetfully somewhat in this style:—Ladies and Gentlemen—
Considering myself deeply indebted to my generous patrons,
the British public; who, after several years of uninterrupted
fsvonrsi.have recently thought fit to visit me nightly, at the
Lyceum Theatre, leaving me such substantial proofs of their
friendship and munificence as I scarcely know what to do
with, it seemed obviously ray duty, in the commonest grati-
tilde, to attempt something for the benefit and amusement of
that public, on a scale previously unattempted either by my-
self or others. The question was—how to do it ? Wizards,
after all, are but mortal men with restricted powers. The
Public liked to see me ' • they could see no more of me than
existed. Even I could not make myself into two Wizards,
and as for finding another Wizard, or anybody else at all like
in, (though I have frequently, been ridiculed for my modesty)
was bound to reject the idea as preposterous and out of the
question. Could I improve my magic I could vary it, as I
do every night; but to quote my respected friends, the linen-
drapers' assistants (half price at 9 o'clock gentleman), " the
quality of the article would remain the same." Could I do
anything towards improving the personal comfort of my pa-
trons in the matter of seats, warmth, ventilation, dm 7 Can-
didly, I did not see ranch room for improvement in that di-
rection, though I made a memorandum of the idea as a small
Item to be attended to in my debt of gratitude. Would it be
buy use multiplying the Bottle Trick by two hundred dozen
bud sending away my guests in a state orunusual exhilara-
tion No 1 that would be a coarse and vulgar admission
that my friends only came to see me for what they could get.
Would it be any gratification to the public it I were to
stand to be shot at by the best marksman in London,
(say my friend, Gordon Cumming) with a real non-enchanted
ballet ? I was perfectly willing to risk any sacrifice, even my
111, in such a cause ; but then came the terrible afterthought
--what would 'be the condition of London the next day, on
finding itself without a Wizard? As a last expedient I thought

he oral examination of each student will be cor.
du`ed apart from the other students ; and the character
of that examination will vary according as the student
is a' candidate for honours or a studentship, or desires
silly to obtain a certificate.
he oral examination and printed questions will be
founded on the books below mentionel ; regard being
had) however, to the particular object with a view to
which the student presents himself for examination.
In determining the question whether a student has
pasSed the examination in such a manner as to entitle
hicri to be called to the bar, the examiners will prim-
pally have regard to the general knowledge of law and
jurisprudence which be has displayed.
4 student may present himself at any number of ex-
aminations, until he shall have obtained a certificate.
Any student who shall obtain a certificate may pre•
sent himself a second time for examination as a can-
didate for the studentship, but only at one of the
thrrie examinations immediately succeeding that at
whilch he shall have obtained such certificate, provided
that if any student FO presenting himself shall not sue.
cced in obtaining the studentship his name shall not al)•
peat. in the net.
Students who have kept more than 11 terms shall not
be admitted to an examination for the studentship.
The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal HiAtory
proposes to examine on the following subjects • -
Ile will expect the candidates for honours in the en-
suing examination to have mastered the chapters in
" Hallam's Constitutional History," which contains the
reigns of the House of Stuart, of Queen Anne, and of
George I. and , George 'IL ; the chapter on treason in
" Forster's Canon Law;" the chapter in " Stephen's
Mackstone " on the same subject ; the history of our
testaire ntary law, the volumes of " Rapin " and "Tin.
dal's Continuation" during the same roign.
He will also expect them to be well acluainted with the
State trials during that perioe.
He will expect the candidates for a pass to answer any
general question on the leading facts in English history,
to he well acquainted with the 11th, 12th, and 16th
chapters of "Hal'an's Constitutional History," and with
the trials of Russell, Sydney, and Lord D. lareere.
The Reader on Equity proposes to examine in the
follow ing books :-
1. " Smith's Manual of Equity Jurisprudence ;"
" Mitt,r 1 on the Pleadings in the Court of Chancery."
Introduction :—Chap. 1, sec. 1 and 2 ; chap. 2, sec. 2,
part 1 (the first three pages) ; chap. 2, see. 2, part 2
(the first two pages) ; chap, 2, sec. 2, part 8 ; chap. 3.
The "Act for the Improvement of•the Jurisdiction of
Equity," 15 and 16 Vic., chap. 86.
2. The Cases and Notes contained in the first volume
of "White and Tudor's Leading Cases," and the Cases
of "Aldrich v. Cooper," and "Rees v. Barrington,"
with the notes to those cases in the second volume.

In the above paragraph is comprised the pith of
that policy which has hitherto so wisely governed,
the councils of India in railway matters.
It should be borne in' mind by those interested
in the subject of India being improved by railway
intercommunication, that although a seaport, Surat
is as such entirely shut up during the monsoon or,
rainy season, which extends over four months of
the year ; and that, therefore, for the line to stop
short at that town would be to lose fully two-thirds
of the benefits which the railway is likely to confer
upon the inlorlor. But, as we maid bcfutu, LLu
Governor-General and all the Indian authorities
being in its favour, we have no doubt whatever of
its immediate sanction by the Court of Directors,
more particularly when we remember that the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce has memorialised
for its being carried out forthwith. To sum up the
advantages of the scheme when fully carried out,
we cannot do bettor than quote once more from the
minutes of Lord Dalhousie, as laid before the House
of Ccrnimons list session :

"I, for my part, am unable to see anything in the
present known condition of Surat, or in the plans which
have been conceived for it, which would enable it to com-
pete with Bombay as a shipping port if a railway existed
to the latter harbour ; we knew that at present Surat is
a port of very inferior quality. Dining one season of the
year it is wholly inaccessible to shipping. Its situation
must make it at all timrs more perilous, and by no ex-
ertions of science or art can it ever be rendered com-
parable with the harbour at Bombay. How inferior it
now is, and how little hope there can be of ever making
it a successful harbour, except at an enormous expendi-
ture of time and money, appears to me to be manifest
from Col. Kennedy's own report, which, in support of
his railway scheme, contains two large collateral schemes
for the improvement of Surat, the one of which has for
its object to remove from the town the inundations
which annually accumulate where there ought to be dry
ground, while the other is designed to remove from the
harbour the ground which annually accumulates where
there ought to be deep water. Looking, then, to these
facts and admissions upon record, I am unable to believe
that Surat will ever be made a good shipping port. I
can as little persuade myself that if a railway should be
formed from Surat to Bombay, goods will leave the line
of railway at Surat in order to be carried thence at a
cheaper rate by sea in country craft to Bombay. Taking
the figures as they are given in these papers, I am unable
to adthit the probability that exporters of cotton or
opium or other produce of Guzerat or Central India, which
shall be conveyed on the railway from the place of pro-
duce to Surat, will sacrifice the greater security, the
greater regularity, the greater rapidity of conveyance
afforded by the railway, and will there transfer their
goods to coasting craft to be carried on them to Bombay,
even though the quoted difference of cost of carriage now
existing should not be lessened by the tariff of the
railway company, which in such case would most pro-
bably be done. Wherefore, seeing no probability
of extraordinary cost in the construction of a line
from Bombay to Surat ; unable to receive the conviction
that Surat will ever be made an eligible shipping port,
and equally unable to believe that goods brought from
the interior, and intended for shipment at Bombay,
would be diverted from the railway to the coasting craft
at Surat by such economy of conveyance as is illegal ;
further, bearing in mind that the certainty of a large
passenger traffic is admitted, I am not prepared to as-
sent to the opinion that a line from Bombay to Surat is
an impolitic or imprudent scheme, even in a commercial
point of view.
And now we have given a short, although doubt-
less an incomplete, history of the different grand
trunk lines of India. Two short railways--or at
least short in comparison to the immense under-
takings we have made mention of—remain to
bo noticed. The first of these is the Madrasßailway,
which is destined, in the first place, to connect
that presidency with the south-west—the oppo-
site—coast of India, and also to, join the Bom-
bay frontier with Madras. The first of these
branches will proceed vast Arcot, Seringapatam,
and Trichinopoly, to Coimbatoor, on the Maim•
bar, thus placing in communication all theth
l
most important towns in South India. Theeng
of this line will be about 300 miles, of which 50
have been finished, and for some time past in work-
ing order. We may confidently expect that, three
years hence, the whole of that tract of country
where Wellington and Baird gained So many of
their Indian laurels, will be intersected with a
railway from east to west.
The other branch of this line, which is to join
the Madras frontier with Bombay, via Belgaum,
Sahara ,and Poonah has already been noticed.
One more of the Indian railways remains to be
noticed ere we conclude. The last, but certainly
not the least in importance, we have upon our list
is that of Scinde. This line has been formally
sanctioned ; its length will be about 120 miles, and
its destination from Kurrachee—a port destined to
rival Bombay, and even Calcutta itself—to the In-
dus. Our space will not allow us to enter into
details connected with the undertaking ; suffice it
to say that, in importance to the province in which
it is to work, in a judicious selection of the line,
and in sound conclusions respecting the large and
increasing traffic which will find its way to and
from Kurrachee by this means, the Scinde railway
is second to none in India.

- - - - .
Could I give my patrons their money back ? I deliberated
over this, momentous question for some hours, and at last
same to the understanding that it was impossible I I had
almost given the matter•up as a bad job, and come to the dis-
heartening conclusion that nothing could be done but to go
on in the old course, introducing, if possible, more splendour,
More novelty, more bewilderment into my tricks than for-
merly; making my theatre more like a palace—or like a
home—than ever. But no !—in painstaking devotion to the
amusement of my patrons—in untiring exertions, in the
humblest and most energetic desire to please, I could not
eater. I had arrived, I repeat, at this desponding conclusion,
when a practical friend called upon me and threw out the
following suggestion : " If you have got so much money that
Yon don't know what to do with it, and wish to ged rid of it
hi one lump for the amusement of the public, why don't you
take Covent-gardesi ? There was certainly something in that.
still I hesitated a moment, when he added—" And open
, with a Pantomime." Eureka ! I had found it. I wrung
that practical friend's hand with fervour—took his advice—a
,ceb—and Covent-garden Theatre within the hour. I am
bound to state that the preliminary expenses of the Covent-
garden Pantomime have triumphantly answered their ex-
, Pected purpose. Nevertheless, great deliberation and inge-
nuity were necessary, in order to bring the outlay up to the
• desired mark. In the first place, a subject necessitating un-
Paralleled splendour and gorgeousness of spectacle, scenery,
and decorations was Indispensable. I was some time in find-
ing one of sufficient costliness, but at length decided on an
Australia-California-Rothschild Koh-i-noor-Bank-of-England-
Parlour species of pantomime—to bo entitled Ye Belle
Alliance; or, Harlequin Good Humour and the Field
of the Cloth of Gold. This subject was extravagant
enough, in all conscience, for the most golden age o f
Pentominae. The next question was to secure an author
en appropriately ruinous terms. The name of Sterling
Coin naturally suggested itself ; but that gentleman having
• other engagements. I cast my eyes about among the gold
Mines of the age's intellect, and decided upon Mr. Harris
and Mr. George Augustus Sale, two jewelled ornaments to
the Augustan Era of burlesque literature—the riches of whose
imagination would naturally call for an adequate rate of ex-
change in the current coin of the realm. Those gentlemen I
employed to write the opening for me ; and I am bound to
lay, the skill and workmanship they have displayed in ham-
mering out and fashioning the precious ore into the daintie it
shapes and devices, is worthy of a Goldsmith. My next step
1
Was to engage a scene painter, Mr. William Beverley, a gen-
tleman who has bfen railing in gold and jewels all his life. It
, 15 needless to say that When he has been engaged it has not
boot for nothing ; and few will dispute the right of any pie:
ture he ever painted to be set in the most sumptuous gold
frame. Mr. Beverley was accordingly secured. But even
low the inroads on the doomed exchequer were barely per-
ceptible. I looked about for the disengaged musical com-
poser and director, whose notes were worth most gold in the
Market, and was 80 fortunate as to come to terms with Mr.
Loder, whom I instructed in playful north country phrase to
emit no amount of brass in his orchestral arrangements.
The balance on band was still tremendous, At this time
Monsieur Guerin, from Paris, a distinguished operative in the
spectacle line, relived me of a considerable amount, by
arranging the ocular department of the entertainment, so as
to astonish the weakest optic nerves, and enable me to defy
any other establishment to produce a pair of such geld spec-
tacles ! I was compelled to mask my intentions for a while
1 by the employment of Mr. George Ewing, a model of model-
lers, whose sterling talent rendered him most fitting to model
4 My sovereigns, Henry VIII. and Francis L The tailors' and
i dressmakers' bills also, of Mr. Smithers and Mrs.Jarnes' who
a Were ordered to spare no lavinlinees of gold cloth, gold thread,
1 gold lace,gold beater's skin, and what not, added to a docu-
.' length •
, Brent of immeasurable(which I speak of in my hu-
'l Mourous way as the golden legend) from Mr. Priscott, the
property man, or fashioner of appointments, whose charges
for gold leaf, gold watches, gold rings, golden numbers, golden
. ointment, and golden syrup, are something fearful ; these did
begin to dip somewhat deeply in what my clown facetiously
terms, " the tureen of mint sauce." And when I came to i
• calculate the enormous sums I had been tricked out of by two
• Ilentleinan named Brough, another called Harris, and a third
• by the name of Dorrington (especially the latter) for the
tricks and changes, I felt that a trick must be good indeed
• that caned for such an intolerable quantity of change, and
began to feel that my accumulated sovereigns had indeed un-
dergone a large amount of the process vulgarly known as
sweating. I was not yet daunted—in spite of the consider-
able amount I allowed Mr. B. Barnett, as ballot master, with
an innumerable corps of golden-haired nymphs, to dance away
with. I solicited Mr. Flexmore (stamped current as the
Shining sovereign clown) in popular phrase to "tumble into"
whatever salary he liked to narne. (It is needless to say that
he named a goad one.) W. A.3arhe6s tlio great transatlantic

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CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO THE POOR._ Yesterday morning
upwards of 200 poor families were supplied with a good
Christmas dinner of beef and bread, besides coals, at the
Rev. J. B. Brown's chapel in the Olayland's-road, Ken-
nington. It was the result of a voluntary subscription
among the congregation, which amounted to between
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with the chapel, but seleoted from the industrious
poor in the district. Similar distributions of meat,
bread, and coals took place at Clapham, Brixton, and
Newington,

The hasty sketch which this and the two
previous
papers have given of railway enterprise in India—,
its present status and future prospects—is no doubt
faulty. To the best of his ability the' writer has-
sought to interest others in what, to him, 'soems d
question of vital importance to Ilindostan. Un-
connected in any way with either Indian railways
or the East India Company—not even a share-
holder in any of o_,e Ara, and to hia inisfortigiel