The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-27 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBEtt 27, 1855.

(sans teeth, sans eyes, sans teeth, sans taste, sans everythtng),
Mr. Centenarian.
Seventh Age—sans teeth, sans oyes, sans taste, sans every-
thing."

Sudden Talismanic Dissolving of the Snow to the
BRIGHT REALMS OF PERPETUAL SUMMER.
Double Pantomimic Transmogrification,
The Two Harlequins 4, Signor Verroai and Herr Furth.
The Two Columbke... Mme. Boleno and Marie Charles.
The Two Pantaloons Messrs. Tanner and Denlin 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 ?"—The Right Tip
—How to raise the Wind—The Odds to the Hod—List; oh,
list !—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 Case 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 Beehoves you to Beehave when you attack a Bee-
hive—Swarming and Warming—Enlarged Heads upon a New
Principle—Domestic Bees—Long Needles—Royal Summons
—Arrival of Queen Bee and Suite—Grand Charge—Tablean.
SCENE OF EXCITEMENT—PARIS EXHIBITION—A
CAFE BESIEGED.—BoIeno.
The Meeting of All Nations (Russian excepted)—Fraternisa•
tion—Cordiality of tho Allies—" All the Werld'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 had—" 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"—"'Tie 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 clis-concerts.
the Lodgers— "W.e veon",te,go borne till- moruing"--*Pntting
them on the Shelf—Natives and a Settler—The War Whoop,
the War Dance, and a Warming-pan Accompaniment—Fire !
Fire! Fire!—The House in an Uproar- Speedy Exit of some
of the Lodgers, which finishes with " Confusion worse con-
founded,"

MONT BLANC TO-NIGHT, at 8 o'clock, and
FRIDAY, at 3 and /5. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO
NOW OPEN for the winter season. Prin ipal Cornet
a Piston, M. Bouleourt.—Doors open at 8. Admission One Shilling.
Lanrent's new Varsovlana every night.

FENTON'S 350 PHOTOGRAPHS taken in the
CRIMEA, under the patronage of her Majesty, and with the
sanction of the Commanders-in-Chief. The Exhibition of Mr. Fen-
ton's Photographs is Removed to the New Water Colour Gallery, 53,
Pall-mall (next to the British Institution). Daily, from 10 to 5, and
in the evening from 7to 10. Admission Ono Shilling.

Here added
to Gan°neunce°N
that TWO NEW NPGICThaURsEte honour
shwe
t• his AFRICAN ENTERTAINMENT on the 26th. The subjects
will be, Ist, The Nunter's Troop of Sixteen Horses attacked by Five
Lions, painted by Harrison Weir ; 2d, A View of the River Limpopo,
with large. Herd of Hippopotami, by Richard Leitch.-222,

THE LION-SLAYER AT HOME, 232,
Piccadilly. Mr. GORDON CUMMING describes every
night, except Saturday', at Eight, what he saw and dfd in South
Africa. Morning Entertainments every Saturday at Three o'clock.
The Pictures are painted by Messrs. Richard Leitch, Harrison Weir,
George Thomas, Wolf, Charles Ileghe, and Phillips. The Music
conducted by Mr. T. Colson. Admittance, Is., 25., and 3s. The Col-
lection on view during the day from II to 6, Is. Children half price
in the reserved seats and stalls.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC. - CHRISTMAS
HOLID tYS.--The second part of the Voyages of Sindbad
the Sailor, with new and beautife dissolving Pictures, and descrip-
tion, with songs, by G. L. Horne, Esq Laughable Phantasmagoria
Effects, by Messrs. Carpenter and Vrestky. Series of astonishing
Conjuring Tricks and Delusions, by Mr. liiirmain. Brilliant Popular
Lectures on Fla.ne, Fire, and Combustion, by J. replier, Esq.
10,000 ornaments will be given away to the Juyeaile visitors from
the Giant Christmas Tree daring the holidays.

MEXICAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN
COMPANY.

The TWENTY-FM:4T DIVIDEN , of seven shillings and six-
pence per share on the shares of this Company, free of income tax,
will be paid on or after the 19th January, between the hears of
eleven and three.

Forms for claiming the Dividend may be obtained by the share-
holders on application at the office.

HYDE CLARKE, Secretary.
17, Gracechurch-street, 12th December, 1855.

PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a Cause of Henry Wilson againA 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, aro by their solicitors, on or before
the 22d day of January, 1856, to corns in and prove their debts or
claims at the chambers of Vice-Chancellor Kinder:Ay, No. 3, Stone-
buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof they sill
be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said order.
Monday, the 28th day of January, 1856, at Noon, at the said Cham-
bers, is appointed tor hearing and adjudicating upon the claims.
Dated this 22d day of December, 1855.
(Signed) CHARLE PUGH, Chief Clrrk.
T. F. CREW, 38, Es: Tx-street, Strand,
Plaintiff's Solicitor.

CHRISTMAS FRES-F.:NTS.

THE most appropriate Offerings for this Season
or Festivity are those which tend to the promotioa of Health
and Personal Attraction. None can be more acceptable than

ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL,
for imparting a transcendent lustre to the Hair, and sustaining it in
decorative charm.

ROWLANDS' FCALTDOR
imparts a radiant bloom to the check, and a delicacy and softness to
the hands, arms, and neck ; and
ROWLANDS' ODONTO,
or Pearl Dentifrice, bestows on the Teeth a pearl-like whiteness, and
renders the Areath sweet and pure.
The patronage of Royalty throughout Europe, their general use by
rank axd fashion, and the uniyersally•known efficacy of these
articles, give them a celebrity unparalleled.
.3,* Beware of spurious imitations !! ! Sold by
A. ROWLAND and SONS,
20, Batton-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfnaters.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
TRIESEMAR.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an
injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and
on the 11th June following wait made perpetual, against Joseph
Franklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou-
sand pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by
Royal Letters Patent of England, and neared by tho Seals of the
Ecole do Marinade de Paris, and the Imperial College ordiedleine,
Vienna.

TRIESEMAR, No. 1,
Is a remedy for Relaxation, Spennatorrhcea, and Exhaustion of the
Bytom, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate.
To those persons who are prevented entering the married state by
the consequences of early errors it is invaluable.

TRIESEMAR, No. 2,
effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely
eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebe
'aye so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health
,f a vast portion of the population.

TRIE'SEMAR, No. 3,
in the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which
unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in-
evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the
sarsaparilla In the world cannot remove.
TRIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, aro alike devoid of taste or smell,
and of all nauseating qualities. They may )Jr on tho toilet talk
without their use being suspected.

Sold in tin cases at l Is, each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided int,
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TIE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF TOUT FI AND MATURITY.
List published, price Is., illustrated with eases; free by poet for 26
stamps,
Nri ER VOUS DEBILITY;
11 Its Causes, symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Riper-
v,atorrhoea, with Practical Observations on a safer and more
mccesstul mode of treatment of the diseases of tho Generative
3y3tem, obtained by the rise: of the Microscope in detecting and
thp
list inguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of
svcry variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits,
excesses, accident, or climate, followed by practicalrmarksw,
founded
re.
Dr: twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance,
gervons Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhopa, &c. To which
are added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage,
3autionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice,
tad on the dsngerous remedies advocated by various writers on
these important disorders.
By SAMUEL LA'MEBT
37, BEDFORD-SQUA IE, LONDON.
D)etor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &A., &o.
The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con-
' sequences resulting itom certain habits, irregularities, and excesses,
which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man-
mood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, thaw, perhaps, any
ether class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is
particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of
their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded
the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is
entitled.

It is absolutely necessary that all men should know, that there are
principles of personal management which cannot be violated withont
Inc ming grievons penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
ti ‘e heyday of inconsiderate self-incinlgcnce, how these penalties
nay be mitigated, 11..,w the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
end how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all,
that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
lerangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure.
rho Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive
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unfortunately been too generally confided tr. the care of ignorant
emoiries, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place
faith in their pretensions.

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DEMAGOGUES IN DIPLOMACY.

(Prom the New York Herald.)

We have a maxim of doubtful morality that,
" right or wrong, we are for our country." Allow-
ing it to be a fair sample of American ideas on the
subject, it is immensely important that we should
be right on all occasions. Our institutions of
Government are the exception, and not the rule.
We are a republic, and the only real republic in the
world. We are something more :we are a demo•

cracy—we call it a representative democracy—but
no matter what it is called, as a Government we
are weak, as a people we are strong. Our real pro-
perty constitutes the primary source of our wealth,
and it employs a vast majority of our people. In
fact, ours is more an endless individual proprietor-
ship than a Government. We doubt not at all
but that our ideas and our polity are an advanced
step in the pr ogress of civilisation—that our mis-
sion is one of humanity—that our system rests
upon higher degrees of popular intelligence than
any other ; yet we are liable to suspicion, to combi-
nations against us, and, above all, to misrepresenta-
tion and abuse.
Now, then, how important a thing it is that the
public administration of the-United States should
be conducted by the highest order of talents and
statesmanship and the purest patriotism. Our
strength lies as much in the integrity of our poli-
tical leaders as in the justice of our political system
—in the honesty of its executive department as in
the equality of its laws. Constitutions and statutes
are lifeless records without persons to execute and
enforce them. These suggestions are enough to
show the importance of having not only able but
faithful men to discharge our domestic and foreign
obligations and duties. Undeniably American
statesmanship has degenerated into intrigues and
demagogical contrivances to secure personal ad-
vancement. The patriotism and wisdom of the
early- days of the Republic are known only in his-
torical records. We have been passing through
an ago of political chicanery, of selfish combina-
tions to procure the spoils of office. Already it has
become a bad time for demagogues. The great
interests of society, commerce, manufactures,
capital, and enterprise, and the growing and
advancing judgment of all cool-headed men, are
condemning them. They are the cankers of
those classes, and the great enemies of free in-
stitutions. The origin of our Government com-
mends its policy to all men ; it would draw to us the
sympathy of all men but for the selfish demagogues
who use the offices they possess for personal objects,
who pander to insane prejudices, who build up
local and national antipathies ; who, in short, live
by subverting the true purposes of our Govern-
mentto their own petty schemes of ambition and

plunder.
How well is all this illustrated by the course
pursued with the Pierce Cabinet in its intercourse
with Groat Britain. The present Administration

came into power on the Conservative element of
our system. It was those who had become dis-
gusted with agitations, with abstractions, with in-
trigues with fraud of every kind, that placed
General Pierce in power. They had sickened with
the endless policy of Van Buren, with the cease-
less fermentations of Seward, with all the radical

extremes of our country, and', plaittin, themselves
upon the constitution as the irrepealable, the sacred
compact of Union—the only true compromise be-
tween the North and the South, the East and the
West—they united to place General Pierce, who
was believed to be the truest representative of
their idea, in the Presidential office. His first
act was to organise his Cabinet, by securing in

its members an organ of every extreme opi-
nion entertained by factions. , Policy was
thus endorsed in the outset as the governing rule
of his administration ; and it must be confessed, if
he has been true in nothing else, ho has at least
been faithful to that instinct of his nature—that of
administering our domestic and foreign affairs on
the maxims of policy alone.
We had five adjourned questions with Great
Britain—Canadian reciprocity, the fishery dispute,
the Central American intervention and protecto-
rate, Dominica or Hayti, and indirectly that of
Cuba. All these matters were, in fact, mere ab-
stractions, save the latter. They were, however,
permitted periodically to alarm the great interests
of commerce, manufactures, and money, and were
very good means at each recurring election of
making political capital for needy adventurers in
our politics. They had served as the staple com-
modity for a vast number of small aspirants for
public notoriety. It was therefore not very strange
that General Pierce, whose natural instincts led
him to sympathise with them, and whose abilities
had not raised him into the ranks of statesmen,

should conceive the idea of glorifying his Adminis-
tration through their instrumentality. There was no
great friendship for Great Britain in the States. It
was easy to stir up popular indignation against
that country. Lord Clarendon was ignorant and
foolish enough to avow a purpose to set limits to
the action of our Government and people. The
time was auspicious, at all events, for General
Pierce and Marcy to sot up a congenial retail trade
on the strength of the unsettled matters in dispute.
It was manifest, too, that the controlling interest
of England and the United States demanded peace.
In fact war was impossible. It was, therefore, safe
for the demagogues of the London and Washington
Cabinets to make a little personal capital by foment-
ing disputes upon the five points of nominal con-
troversy between them.
It is obvious enough that any two enlightened
and fair men in the world might have settled these
questions in 24 hours. That they should be grouped
and closed together was also sufficiently obvious.
Governor Marcy and Lord Palmerston saw this, but
such a course neither comported with the personal
policy of the one, nor with the retail business of the
other. Palmerston was a warlike Secretary ;he
wanted the benefit of a long, sharp, spunky diplo-
matic exhibit to aid him with the aristocracy
and the East India Company in England ;
Marcy wanted it for the purpose of showing
to the American people that they had a valiant
and faithful representative in Pierce's Cabinet
of all the silly prejudices which the small-beer
politicians for years have been manufacturing in
the United States. That the matters in dispute
could have been better arranged together than
separately nobody doubted for a moment. In fact
there was nothing to settle, save that growing out
of the pretensions of England to control the destiny
of Cuba. That question was therefore made most
prominent. Soul 6 was sent to Spain ; the Ostend
Conference was got up ; a defiant programme
looking to the conquest of Cuba, with or without
war, was arranged ; commerce and capital got
frightened ; Pierce and Marcy got frightened. The
question of Cuba was something more than between
England and the United States ; it was a point to
be settled with the continental States, which de-
termined to save it from absorption by us by a little
bluster ; and they succeeded. Marcy backed out,
and in doing so he lost all the credit he gained by
the Koszta inflammation ; he proved the latter
movement to have been a trick. He rallied again
in June or July upon the enlistment business, an-
other silly abstraction, which nobody cares anything
about. It was wrong in England to remind us that
we had laws against that kind of operation, for we had
forgotten all about them ; but, with or without
such laws, the British Cabinet had no business to
establish recruiting stations in a neutral State. We
thought so, and said so, just as soon as the work
commenced, and just as it was discontinued. It
was nothing to fight about, but a capital thing to
write about, because our Government was on the
Lazarus side of the gulf.
It is not true that both England and the United
States have permitted their Governments to play
the demagogue to tickle the popular ear and to
promote the fortunes of their officials. In this
country the question of war rests with Congress.
The Executive is directed to carry on the corres-
pondence between us and other States ; but the
final adjustment of every controversy must be de-
termined by the Legislative authority. Though
this is not technically the same in England, it is
practically so. For instance, should war be pre-
cipitated upon us by the Palmerston Cabinet, there
is no doubt at all but it would bo promptly over-
thrown ; and it is not certain that the recent war-
like bluster of that Cabinet may not drive it to re-
signation. It need not be answered that Parlia-
ment sustains the present war with Russia—that
war did not excite the commercial and manufac-
turing classes against it—great central trading,
commercial and moneyed England was not alarmed
by it--these very interests that thrive on inter-
course with us.
Political parties in this country and in England
have so managed as to depress statesmanship and
promote demagoguism—so as to make politicians.
How obviously has this been the case may be seen
in the history of our democracy, in their local and
national conventions, in the policy of their nomi-
nations, and the games they have played as local
and general magistrates. General Pierce was
nominated because of his obscurity, and to enable
the political traders to shape his administration by
the charts of mere polioy. But the signs indicate