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THE SCHOOLBOY'S DREAM.
A JOKE FOR TILE JUVENILES. -
Not many days back, Mr. Archibald Spa. ii
Received a long note fro n his little son John.
This letter was penned in a singular style,
And doubtless will cause my young readers to smile.
The epistle runs thus :
" Dear Pants and Mamma.
I'm happy to hear you're so well as you are ;
The thoughts of returning (though strange it may seem(,
Have caused your delighted boy, Johnny, to dream.
Methought Bother night that you gave a fine party,
And hailed my reiurn in a manner most hearty.
he party invited consisted of many ;
Toni, Harry, and ,`.lick, and Percival Penny ;
And William, and Thomas, and Philip, and Frank,
And Master Mat Middleton, all en the prank ;
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And Master George Gordon, remarkably dressy;
And Walter, and Willoughby, T tus, and Tim,
And Samson and Simon, in very good trim ;
And Juilus, Anthony, Robert, and Wat,
And many more names which I fear I've forgot.
And methought in my singular dream there were none
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Such elegant tunics, such stylish hussars,
We looked like the galaxy studded wills stars.
And inethought we shouted with glorious noise,
E. Moses and Son are the men for the boys.
No doubt after this Messrs. Moses,will don
Your very affectionate Son, JOHNNY SPONN."
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m One halt the world are desolately single, and the ether
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DETENTION OF MAIL CONTRACT PACKETS
ABROAD.—In consequence of the numerous detention,
of the mail contract packets abroad, the Lords of the
Admiralty have just hotted instructions to the naval
officers having charge of her Majesty's mails on board
such packets, that they are on no account to suffer the
packets to be detained in future beyond the time stipu-
lated in the contracts, without a written order from the
Commander-in•Chiet or senior officer of a navel station,
the governor of a colony or dependency, or a represen-
tative of her Majesty. A verbal order to detain a mail
contract packet from an of the above authorities must
not in future be attended to. _

-- -
A LONDO'N MERCLIAICT.—We slept at Soverein's
Inn. Seeing a small shop over the way, I went into it,
and found it kept by a late London merchant. " I was
not always in this way," ho - said: " I frequented the
Stock Exchange for twenty-five years, and drank my
bottle of wino every day alter dinner." I thought if he
had omitted the latter "custom of an afternoon." he
might not now be in the pine-woods of Lake Erie.—Sir
J. Alexander's "Acadie."

two children. Mr. Wightman, the surgeon, who at-
tended the prisoner when he was confined owing to
his spine being injured, gave instructions to the family
to keep their eye 4 upon him, as he was not fit to be
trusted, his mind being affected, and he might do
himself an injury. The little boy and girl were found
dead in the garden, their heads dreadfully beaten,
death having been effected with a thick piece of wood.
The prisoner's brother and mother spoke to his
affection for the children previous to the injury he
received, and deposed that he was apprehensive of
coming to want, and was afraid of robbers entering
the house by night.

Mr. W. Anderson, surgeon to York Castle, was
called, and deposed that he visited the prisoner about
an hour after he entered the prison. He was then
quite insane, and had been so ever since. At times
he was most violent in his demeanour, requiring two
or three persons to restrain him. In his ►pinion the
mental affliction under which the prisoner was suffer-
ing might have arisen from the injury to the spine
producing inflammation of the brain.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL summed up, observing that
after the evidence of Mr. Anderson and the other tes-
timony in the case, there could be no doubt of the
insanity of the prisoner, and that he was not therefore
accountable for the act he had committed. It would,
therefore, be the duty of the jury to return a verdict
of not guilty on the ground of insanity, and the Court
would order the prisoner to be detained in safe custody
during her Majesty's pleasure.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty on the
ground of insanity; and the prisoner was then re-
moved.

During the trial he occasionally wept, and at other
times he evinced an air of indifference, and stared va-
cantly around him. It appeared that previous to this
malady the prisoner was a teacher in the Sabbath
school, and bore an excellent character.

John Cryer was indicted for having, at Gargrave,
on the 19th of October last, feloniously cut and
wounded William Beecroft, with intent to murder
him.

Mr. Otter conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Dighy
Seymour defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutor, who is only 16
years of age, resides with his two sisters and two
brothers at argrave, the prisoner living next door.
About seven o'clock on the 19th of October, as the
prosecutor and his sister were returning from
work at the mill where they were employed,
the prosecutor observed that his shoe was
untied, and as he was stooping down to
tie it, the prisoner, having an axe in his hand, rushed
out of the house in a great fury and struck the prose-
cutor a violent blow on the side of the head with the
edge of the axe. This rendered him insensible; and,
on being sent home, a surgeon was sent for, who
dressed the wound, which was of a serious and dan-
gerous character, having made a fissure in the skull.
It was endeavoured to be shown that constant quarrels
had taken place between the two families.
Mr. Digby Seymour addressed the jury for the
defendant.

Verdict—Guilty.
Sentence of death recorded.
(Before Mr. Justice WILLTAMS.)
William Mellor, John Farrar, Walter Whiteley,
Joseph Wood the elder, Joseph Wood the younger,
and James Bailey, were indicted—the three first with
having, on the 9th of January, at Huddersfield, stolen
a truss, con'aining five pieces of woollen cloth, the
property of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Campany. The two Woods and Bailey were
charged with inciting the three first-named to commit
the felony.
Mr. Hale, Mr. Overend, and Mr. Pickering con.
ducted the prosecution; Mr. Hardy defended Joseph
Wood the younger, Bailey, and Farrar ; Mr. Dearsley
defended Mellor and Whiteley ; Joseph Wood the
elder was undefended.

It appeared that, on the 9th of January last, the
firm of Longhead and Liddell sent a parcel to the
Huddersfield station for Messrs. Anderson and
Thorburn, of Manchester, but that place it never
reached. When the parcel arrived at the Huddersfield
station Whiteley weighed it. and Mellor called it off to
a clerk in the office. Mellor called it off by the right
direction, but then thrust it aside, changed the di-
rection, and then called it over again to the direction
of "James Bailey, Hallifax ; to be le ft till called for."
A man of the name of Yates, in the employ of the
company, who came before 11-1) jury in the
character of an accomplice, proved that after the
truss was called over it was placed by Farrar on the

Mr. OVEREND addressed the jury for the prisoner,
and contended that upon the evidence of the mother
of the child the prisoner had behaved kindly and
affectionately towards it. He could not deny that
the berries had been given to the child, but only for
the purpose of playing with.
His LORDSHIP commenced his summing up to the
jury.

OYEUBND here suggested to his Lordship that
the poison being so wrapped up or surrounded by a
pod that it could not, according to the evidence of
Mr. Price, the surgeon, be injurious, and not being
injurious in its very condition, it could not be inju-
rious to the body of the child, such an administering
would not satisfy the statute.
Mr. Mawr said that it was a noxious thing which
was administered, and that if it was so wrapped up
that it would not be injurious, yet its being a noxious
thing, if it were administered with intent to kill,
was sufficient.

His Lonmuir regretted that the point of law had
not been argued, as it was one for grave considera-
tion. By its not having been alluded to during the
trial he had considered that the prisoner's counsel had
not deemed it necessary to raise it. He would, how-
ever, take the opinion of the jury whether the sub-
stance was administered by the prisoner with intent
to kill the child; and if they should be of opinion that
the prisoner did so, then he should direct them to re-
turn a verdict of guilty, and reserve the point for the
consideration of the judges.
The jury retired for about twenty minutes, and re-
turned, bringing in a verdict of Guilty.
Sentence deferred.

ALDERMHN AND COMMON COUNCILMEN.—In the
new Act of Parliament for the government of the city
of London, which will be enforced on Friday next in
the election of common councilmen, there is a provision
in reference to the disqualification of aldermen and
common councilmen. According to the 9th section of
the Act (12th and 13th Victoria, chap. 94 local) if any
person holding the office of alderman or common coun-
cilman for the city ef London shall declare himself, or
shall be declared, bankrupt or insolvent, or shall apply
to take the benefit of any Act for the relief of insolvent
debtors, or shall make any composition with his creditors,
or shall altogether absent himself from his duty for more
than six calendar months consecutively, unless prevented
by illness or other reasonable cause; or shall be convicted
of fraud or of any crime, then, and in every such case,
such person shall thereupon immediately become disqua-
lified, and shall cease to hold the office of, alderman or
common councilman, as the case may be; and the Court
of Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London shall
thereupon forthwith adjudge the said office to be vacant;
but any person becoming disqualified and ceasing to hold
such office by 'reason of having made any composition
with his creditors shall, on payment of his debts in full,
bo capable (if otherwise qualified) of being re-elected
to such office. All acts done before an alderman or
common councilman shall be disqualified shall be as
valid as if the party bad not been disqualified.
SERIOUS CHARGE AOAINST AN OFFICER 01' MA-
RINES.—On Thursday last, Charles Pyne, Second-Lieu-
tenant of the Royal Marines, stationed at Stonehouse,
was brought before the magistrates at Stonehouse, and
committed for trial at the next assize fur the county of
Devon, under the following circumstances. About twig
months since a child of fourteen years of age, named
Ellen Barrett, the daughter of a poor woman residing
in Devonport, was invited by a woman to come to the
Marine Barracks on the following morning. The child
fullo.ved her directions, and, on arriving at the bar.
racks, she was met by the female, who took her to the
room of the prisoner. Mr() the three had breakfast
together ; and immediately afterwards prisoner locked
the door, and criminally assaulted the girl. On the
application of Mr. J. E. Elworthy, the solicitor fir the
prisoner, the magistrates agreed to accept bail for the
appearance of the prisoner, himself in 2004 and two
sureties in 1001.

A Doc's OBSEQUIES.—The Yorkshireman says—
"lt has come to our knowledge that nearly 501. have
been expended by a gentleman, formerly a Member of
Parliament, in the funeral obsequies of his dog Pincher,
which had been long ailing. The veterinary surgeon
made a post•mortem examination; the undertaker made,
not an elm coffin covered with ordinary black cloth, but
with real velvet, silver•headed nails and handles, and a
solid silver plate, on which was engraved, " Pincher, for
nine years the attaohed and faithful dog of W. G., Esq.,
obiit 10th of October, 1849!"

No. 849, private Edward Ball, charged, first, with
breaking out of the barracks when confined thereto,
at Nottingham, on the 14-h of October; secondly,
with escaping from a party by whom he had been
captured the same night., and not returning until the
16th of the same month; thirdly, with using insub
ordinate language to Sergeant•Mej ir Davis, on the
14th, and saying, " You are no man, Sergeant
Major," or words to that effect.
From the evidence it sierned that the prisoner wa
one of (hose who esciped from the Gate public-house
at the'tinie Sergeant- Major Davis was endeavouring
to capture some of the absentees, on the evening they
left the barra.4iii. On leaving the public house te
went a circuit round Linton, and was at ltsdtord, in
the vicinity of the barracks, when a second picket
observed him and gave chive. He ran down Derby-
road, and entered Nottingham market place, when
Sergeant-Major Davis and his party met him. Both
pickets pursued the prisoner up Park-street, when he
took refuge in Mr. Shuttle worth's passage, which was
very dark at the time. tie was observed to enter by
two policemen, who gave information to the pursuing
pickets, the commanders of which ordered the police-
men to follow with their lights turned on. They
then entered themselves, followed by their men,
when the prisoner was observed lying on the ground
at the top of the passage. Lieutenant Whitby
ordered his party to handcuff him ; when the prisoner
said, "I will go peaceably, but will die rather than
be handcuffed." Sergeant-Major Davis cried to his
party, "If he stirs, cut him down !" and suiting the
action to the word, he cut the prisoner across the
head with his word, and Corporal Sturgess at the
same moment thrust the point of his sword into the
prisoner's mouth. " Then it was," said the prisoner
in his defence, " that I made use of some remark to
the effect that they were not using me as a fellow-
soldier, or as a man." lie was,- however, secured,
and given in charge to a small party, whose vigilance
he eluded at the Park-coruer, a dark place, and a
second time escaped, not returning to barracks until
two days afterwards.

The prisoner's age is 27 years, length of service
hree years, character indifferent.

Guilty of all the charges. To be imprisoned and
kept to bard labour for 12 calendar months.

During the late unhappy troubles, a great propor-
tion of the men composing two troops of the 3d
Dragoon Guards have been punished for insubordi-
nation and misconduct in one way or another; three
have been tried by general courts-martial, thirteen
by district courts, about thirty were disposed of sum-
marily, being ordered various periods of heavy kit
drill, &c., two were fined by the Nottingham magis-
trate, and one escaped.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur, to whose illegal order
for confinement of the troops to barracks the Duke of
Wellington has attributed the wide spread spirit of
insubordination which followed, is under peremptory
orders, it is stated in the regiment, to dispose of his
commission by the 10th of March next.

All the offenders sentenced to imprisonment have
been removed to the military gaol at Weedon.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.

On Saturday a Commission of Lunacy was
opened at the Green Man Tavern, Bethnal-green,
before Mr. Winslow and a jury, to inquire into
the state of mind of Miss Mary Anne Smith, at
present an inmate of Mr. Warburton's establishment,
" White house," Bethnal-green. Miss Smith, who
is 72 years of age, and of lady-like appearance, was
present at her own request throughout the inquiry,
and conducted herself with great propriety, though
she at times smiled ironically when her more peculiar
delusions were referred to. She is sister to the late
Robert Smith, the Whitesmith, of Great St. Andrew's
street, Seven Dials, who was said, at his death, to
have been worth 400,0001. It appeared, from the
evidence, that Miss Smith was entitled to property
worth 11,0001., and since 1841 she exhibited increas-
ing symptoms of insanity. bhe was in the habit of
bringing home old bones and grass to strew over her
rooms, fancying that she could thus convert them
into meadows. Sometimes she imagined that she
was a queen, and demanded carriages and atten
dants befitting royalty. She was fond of masque
rading, sometimes in tawdry tinsel, and sometimes
in the austere rubes of a nun. he. had
no idea of the value of money, and squal,dered all
she o ?al obtain in drink, toys, &c., and often re-
mained sleeping in low places. She wished at one
time to marry Prince Albert, and at Brother the
Lord Chancellor, and frequently expressed a wish to
give Lord Brougham a " basting." On hearing of
the death of the Queen Dowager, she said she could
have prolonged the royal lady's life to 100 years by
virtue of spells; and she boasted that she was able to
raise the dead. Another of her delusions was that
she had been engaged as premiere daaseuse at the
Opera.
Dr. Southey depos'd that she WRB incapable of
managing her affairs.
Miss Smith was examined by the Comnis,ioner,
and exhibited great shrewdnes in her answers She
generally denied that she was subject to the delusions
stated by the witnesses.
The COAIMISSIONEIL asked her if she had the power
of raising spirits, and she excited a laugh by reply-
ing—" No ; but I feel the necessity of having the
spirits sometimes aised."

I. Actual tonnage.... 575
I - The Hon. Lady Cape!, wife of Admiral the Hon.
Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.8., Commanderein Chief,
performed the principal part in the ceremony of
launching by drinking " Success to the Argus, and
may she add another laurel to the British navy," in
the usual manner, in the presence of a select assem-
blage_ of spectators, the state of the weather preventing
the collection of a large party. Rear- Admiral
Prescott was too much indisposed to attend, but, we
are happy to add, is progressing favourably towards
convalescence. The vessel glided off the stocks very
gracefully, and took to her future element With great
éclat. She is to be fitted with engines of 300 horse
power (paddle), by Messrs. Penn and Son, of
Greenwich.
The Fairy royal yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus
Fitzciarence, G.C.H., embarked her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent at the Clarence yard yesterday
afternoon, at half-past two o'clock, and conveyed her
to Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty and Prince
Albert. The . Commander in-Chief received the
illustrious Duchess, and the Victory fired the usual
salute. All other ceremonies were dispensed with by
her Royal Highness.
Mr. H. Cradcck is appointed extra assistant mas-
ter shipwright in this dockyard, until a vacancy
may occur, that officer having been informed by the
Tonnage Committee that his services are no longer
required.
We are informed it is proposed to lengthen the
after body of the Edinburgh, 72, at this port, similar
to La Hogue, for a steam guard ship. This " little
job" will cost about 15,000/.
IN POET AND PITTING.
In Harbour—The 'Victory and Illustrious, flag-
ships; the Excellent, gunnery ship; the Blenheim,
steam guard ship; the Contest, 12, fitting for sea ;
the Rolla apprentices' brig lying up for the winter;
the Fairy, Elfin. and Portsmouth yachts, the Flamer
packet, and the Echo tug.
In Dock—The Britannia 120, the Daantless 24,
the Fantome 12, Lily 12, the Fox 42, the Devasta-
tion and Penelope steam vessels—all refitting
In the Basin—The Princess Charlotte 104, the
Actaeon 26, and the Sprightly and Bee steam vessels.
In the Steam Basin—The Ajax 60, the Birken-
head troop steamer, the Sidon 20, the Victoria and
Albert, the Urgent, the Pike, Asp, and Blazer.
Building—Tile Royal Frederick, 120, Prince of
%Vales, 120, Princess Royal, 92; the Argus and
Furious steam sloops.
PLYmouTtr, DEC. 14 —Her M.jesty's steam fri-
gate Stromboli, Commander Lord A. W. .13eauclerk,
went into Blrtipool yesterday, to relit. She is to have
a new set of forerigging.
The Archer steam-vessel, on arrival from Woolwich,
.s to be commissioned.
The G,entanner emigrant-ship, be!onging to
lessrs H) d-., Hodge, arid C )., which came in here
.1n the 10th inst. at six r M., Via.; towed into dock on
the 110., at nine A.m., when all the emigrants were
iiisemkirked and conveyed in a steamer to the depot.
The ship's repairs were t xcente:l during the night of
the 11th, and at three A M. on the morning of the 12 It
.he was und eied. By noon the emigrants were
re embarked, und at three rre on the same day,
through the active agency of Metars. Lu.combe,
Driscoll, and Co., she w4s outside the brebknater,
proceeding to her destination. The reason for such
extraordinary dispatch is that she conveys very im-
portant advices to the Cape of Good Hope.
The ba-que Lida •cl Thornton, Captain Thomas
Maxwell, arrived here yesterday ; left Batavia August
1, and St. Helene, October 1. No men-of war at St.
Helena, but in passing Ascension, on the 6th, ob-
served at anchor there a double banked frigate, ap-
parently an 80• gun ship. The Richard Thornton has
a full cargo of sugars and spices, two cassowaries in
good condition for the Zoological -gardens, and several
choice fruit-trees from Java, some nutmeg-trees, and
a ramoutan.
WOOLWICH, DEC. 15.—Captain Richard Collin-
son, C.B. (1842), to command the Enterprise, fitting
at IVoolaich, to proceed to the Sandwich Islands
ruund Cape Horn, and ultimately to Behring'a Straits,
if requisite, in search of Captain Sir John Franklin
and the officers and crews of the Erebus and Terror
discovery ships.
Lieutenants—George A. Phayre (1843) and John
J. Barnard (1847) to the Enterprise.
Surgeon—Robert Anderson (1846) to the Enter-
pese.

Assistant Surgeons—W. T. Wilson (1846) to de
Contest, at Portsmouth, and Edward Adams (1847)
to the Enterprise.
Clerk in Charge—Edward Whitehead (1846) to
the Enterprise.
Second Master—Francis Skead (1846), to the En-.
terprise.
Captain Collinson, C. 8., who hoisted his I (indent
on the Enterprise at Woolwich toelay, was Lieutenant
of the Wellesley, in the operations against Canton,
and attached to the surveying department at the cap-
ture of that city in 1841. The gathnt officer com-
manded the Bentinck at the taking of Amoy and
Chinghae in the same year, and the Plover at the
capture of the Woosung and Shanghae, and in the
operations in the Yai g-tae-lcang in 1842.
Lieutenant John J. Barnard, Su-goon Robert An-
derson, and Assistant Surgeon .c.dward Adams served
in the Investigator, commanded by Captain B rd, in
the recent expedition in search of Captain Sir J..hn
Franklin's party. Clerk-in-charge Edward White..
head served in the Enterprise, under utiptain Sir
James Clarke Rosa, in the same searching expedition
16.—The Agamemnon, 80-gun frigate, try
dered to be built at this dockyard, to be fitted with
a screw-propeller, is to have her frame put up by
contract, and the sum of 2,0001. is agreed on for the
frame-work, which is to be finished by the 31st of
March next. The repairs required for the bottom of
the slip are nearly completed.
The Desperate steam-sloop is to be taken to the
East India Dock to morrow to have her engines put
in by Maudslay; Son, and Field.
The Advice steam-vessel brought- up fifty non-
commissioned officers and privates of the pensioners'
corps from Tilbury Fort, and they embarked at the
Royal Arsenal on board the Eliza hired convict ship,
to serve as a convict guard, and they will ultimately
become settlers in Australia. Sixteen convicts were
taken from the warrior convict ship on Thursday
morning, when they came up to go on shore to work,
and immediately went on board the Eliza. The
vessel dropped down to Gravesend the same evening,
and remains there until she is better ventilated than
at present. Six shipwrights have been at work all
day to day (Sunday) in Woolwich Dockyard, and
will proceed on board the Eliza to-morrow at
Gravesend, to have her finished and ready to sail on
Tuesday.

SISIUGGLING.--iLtr Alajes•y's revenue cutter Vigi-
lant, Captain &chard G captured, op( Friday
night lust, in Sea ltlach in the Thames, a spritsail barge,
,bout sixty tons burden, havieg on board a crew of live
persors, aid t< c. n raband cargo,.consisting of 280 bales
of tobfc 10, about 501 b. each, cone( sled under straw
don her cock. The barge was proceeding up ths
river in the usual wanner as a coaster with str,,bv for
the London market; and had the smugglers beee
sue-
ces ain escaping the proactive force, between tix an
s-van tons of tobacco would have been run, an t •
Exchequer thereby lost th- amount of duty. W. •1 ye
this to be the largest seizure of tobacco that ha i•t'
,u the .1 homes for the past thirty years.
THE RECENT Lois OF THE SOUTH SHIELDS
LIFE BOAT —The !.ufferrts by this lamentable affair have
left se, entt en wives, foe: au.ong them krty-six chil ten.
It wi.s tf“- fir i accident that ever occurre at that ;.r,rt
y .ik, hlats since they were tir.t. invent • in
1791. The one that met a ith the accident bad been
to6ted for six years.—Sunderland Herald.

INTERESTING LITERARY CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
Now ready, 2 vols., with Illustrations, 21s. bound,
LIVES of the PRINCESSES
OF ENGLAND.
By MRS. EVERETT GREEN.
Editor of the "Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladlemes."et com-
" A valuable addition to the historical library, and forms a
panion for the work of Miss Strickland, to which indeed it is an indis-
pensable addition. The author has executed her task with great
skill and fidelity. There is a graceful combination of sound historl-
sal erudition with an air of romance and adventure that is highly
pleasing."—Britannia.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

ALEDONIAN SOCIETY' OF LONDON.
CALEDONIAN
The ANNIVERSARY BALL will take place at the HanoTer-
square Rooms on THURSDAY, January 31, 1830.
k Lists of the Stewards may be obtained of the Hon. Secretary, 15,
King William-street, City.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, ;•ele T•essee and Manager, Old Brompton.
THIS EVENIN. C+.
Will be performed an entirely new and original Play, entitled THE
LOVING WOMAN. Wielfert, Mr. Howe ; Rosen, Mr. C. Kean ;
Hermann, Mr. J. Wallack; Max, Mr. H. Vandenhoff; °Willa, Mrs.
C. Kean.
To be followed by a new Comedy, entitled THE SERIOUS FA-
MILY. Characters by Messrs. Webster, J. Wallack, Buckstone ;
Mrs W. Clifford. Miss Reynolds, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
To conclude with BOX AND COX.
After which a new Farce entitled THE LAUGHING HYENA.
To conclude with an original Farce called THE GUARDIAN
ANGEL. Mr. Dulcimer, Mr. Keeley; Moggy Snaggs, Mrs. Keeley.
The Box-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer.

TIIEATEX ROYAL, APELPIII.
under the
Tlll3ion
of Madame Celeste.
EVENING,
Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW
.10PSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed-
ford, 0. Smith ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar.
To be followed by an entirely new Extrayaganza, entitled DO-
MESTIC ECONOMY. John Grimly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grumley.
Mrs. F. Matthews.
To conclude with a new slippery sketch called MRS. BIJNBURT'S
tPOONS. Mr. Ilighbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford; Bob Twinks,
Mr . Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Bunbtary, Mrs. F.
Matthews; Mrs. Highbury Barnes, Miss Brooks.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Yeetris.
Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed NOT A BAD JUDGE.
To be followed by DELICATE GROUND.
After which HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR.
To conclude with RAISING THE WIND.
Dress Boxes, 55.: tipper Boxes, 4a.; 25.; Gallery, le., No
half-price to any part of the house.
All applications for Private Boxes mast to made to Mr. Aileron, lb,
New Bond-street.

PRINCESS'S THEATILE.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed a new and original comic Opera called MINA
Principal characters by Messrs. W. Harrison, Weiss, Corti, Wynn
Mrs. Weiss, and Miss Louisa Pyne.
After which the Extravaganza of THE FIRST NIGHT.
To conclude, with A MODEL OF A WIFE.

ASTLE CS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
THIS EVEN NO,
Mr. BATTY has great pleasant in announcing that he has sue.
mailed in engaging Mademoiselle ANOELE, from the Hippodrome,
Paris, and who is the first Equestrian of the day, with her highly-
trained Steeds, " Senora" and " Bertram." Mademoiselle Angels is
the same Lady that rode the celebrated English Steeplechase Mare
"Angela" over twenty-eight feet of water. She will slprtly make
her appearance at Istley's Ampitheatre.
Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in announcing that ho has engaged
Madlle. Codoni, the most graceful performer °a the Tight Rope in
Europe, who will appear every Evening.
The performance will commence at a Quarter to Segel, with a
Grand Spectacle and wondrous Scenes in the Circle.
The attractions for the Christmas Holidays will comprise a grand
Spectacle entitled The Knight of the Eagle Creste or the Tourney of
Love, in which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear; and a grand Equestrian
Comic Pantomime, by Nelson Lee.
Box-elks open from Eleven till roar.
stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

111tH WATER AT LONDON BIUDGII.
This DAT —,.orning, 24 min. after 3 I Evening,
41 min. after 3
T •-Yfonitow —Morning, 37 min. after 3 I ETex,ng, 11 min. after 4

Tli WEATHER.--Sew Onacz, DEc. 16.
THERMONETSR, Lowest, 44; Highest, 55; NOON 51
BAROMETER, 30.
WIND &W.—Morning, dull ; Afternoon, fine.
DEc. 17.
TdERMOMETBR, Lowest, 44; Highest, 45, Noon 51

BAROMETER, 29.7.
WIND Westerly—fine sunshiny weather.

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