The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-25 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
The eminent PANTOMIME THEATRE, and the FIRST PANTO-
MIME COMPANY.
TO-MORROW EVENING

Will be performed Balfe's Opera, entitled THE BONDMAN.
Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; 3forliere,
Mr. Honicastle ; La Valliere, Mr. Galli ; Ardenford, Mr. Harrison ;
Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer ; Grisette,
3iiss Rebecca Isaacs.
After which will be produced the Grand Comic Christmas Panto-
mime, be:ng a mixture of the historical and legendary, entitled
HARLEQUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. The
Overture and Music composed by Mr. R. Hughes; the new and ex-
tensive Scenery by Mr. Grieve, Mr. Telbin, and numerous as-
sistants ; the Tricks and Transformations by Mr. Blamire ; the Ma-
chidery by Mr. R. Sloman ; the Dresses by Mrs. Bovey, Mrs. Balls,
and a host of auxiliaries. The whole produced under the superin-
tendence of Mr. W. West.
Scene 1. ABODE OF KALTBA, THE ENCHANTRESS.—Date and lo-
cality not exactly known, but considered by the Antiquarian Society
to have teen discovered " somehow or other," " some time or other,"
near " somewhere or ether " Kalyba (the Enchantress, not by Balfe,
mistress of all the elements, except those of " Arithmetic," having
quite miscalculated her power), Mr. H. Horncastle ; Fiends and Fu-
ries (illustrating a common expression of speech, with anything but
a common expression of countenance), Messrs. J. W, Morgan, Burt,
Connell, and H. Payne; Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, (the four Ele-
ments, with a strong love of mischief), by Dealers in each ; the
March of Intellect (travelling " ineog." as." Young England," a true
bit of British blood, by Intellect out of Industry, dam by Science,
out of Perseverance, has never been beaten, and can be matched
against anything), Miss Annie Payne.—How the March of Intellect
pays a " flying visit" to Kalyba ; and how, being empowered by the
Committee on National Education, he gives the old lady sudden no-
tice to quit, by as suddenly changing the premises to
Scene 2. INTERIOR or INFANT ScHooL.—Schoolmaster, Mr. Big-
wig, who, at the request of his " Illustrious Visitor," gives the boys
a half-holiday on the occasion.
Scene 3. EXTERIOR AND BABBACAN OF COVENTRY CASTLE.
The Earl of Coventry (Lord High Steward of England, and his own
into the bargain), Mr. Mazzoni; the Countess of Coventry (a good
housewife, and supposed to have been the inventor of the ce*ebrated
" Coventry Cake"), Miss Haines ; Head Nurse (with a good character
from her last place), Mr. Cheel ; Master George (afterwards cele-
brated for a battle he fought with a dragon, but at present without
any knowledge of " arms," except his nurse's), Miss Marks ; Masters
Andrew, David. Patrick, Denis, James, Anthony (very youthful
knights, but destined, with their " cousin George," to astonish the
natives by and by as " The Seven Champions of Christendom"), Mas-
ters Coyle, Savell, Dix, Welsh, Desborg, Francis.—How the youthful
St. George is feted on his birth-day—how he makes his" first," and
nearly his " last " appearance is public on the occasion—how his
" cousins " Andrew, David, Patrick, Denis, James, and Anthony
come to a ish him many happy returns of the day—and how Kalyba
shows her " love of children" by taking the " whole brood under
her wing."
NOTICE.—" Nothinge material to our historic" occurring during
a period of fifteen ye-irs, the author trusts that the audience will al-
low him to cut it, and come again to
Scene 4. KALTBA'S HOrSE OF CORRECTION—St. George of Eng-
land (a rum'un to look at, but a rare'un to go), Mr. W. H. Payne ;
St. Andrew of Scotland, St. David of Wales, St. Patrick of Ireland,
St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, it. Anthony of Italy (all
pretty much of the same kidney'.) Mr. Heath, Mr. Deuglaa, Mr.
Marks, Mr. Chapino, Mr. Sanger, Mr. J. Haynes.—How St. George
and his broqler champions (considerably grown since their last ap-
pearance in public) arc kept in durance vile, and on " very short
commons" by Kalyba—how Kalyba pops her affections on St. George,
who " can't abide her"—in short, how—but we won't anticipate—
merely observing, that the upshot is the Downfall of Kalyba, and
the Emancipation of the Seven Champions of Christendom
Scene 5. DovEn ROADS.—IIow the Seven Champions of Christen.
dom set out for their respective destinations—" the management
having, in the handsomest manner," made special arrangements for
that purpose with the various " Metropolitan Conveyance Com-
panies."

AMERICAN NEWS

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING

The packet ship Europe, Captain Furber, has just
entered the river. Her accounts are of the Ist inst.

They add little to the intelligence received by the
last mail-steamer.
A frightful steam-boat collision had occurred on
the Mississippi, about seven miles above Natchez, on
the 21st ult. ; 20 or 30 lives were lost, and about the
same number were miserably scalded.

Nothing new had occurred in the political news.
No later accounts from the Rio Grande, Vera Cruz,
or Canada.

The commercial accounts add nothing to our last
reports. The commercial article of the New York
Herald of the Ist, dated Nov. 30, six P.M., quotes the
rate of exchange at 106 to 1061 premium.

THE CAPTURE OF TAMPICO.
" United States steamer Spitfire, before the
Town of Tampico, Nov. 14, 1846.
_ _

" Sir,—l have the honour to inform the depart-
ment, that I entered the river of Tampico this
morning, with all the small vessels of the squadron,
and a strong detachment of seamen and marines from
the Cumberland, Mississippi, St. Mary's, Princeton,
and Porpoise.

" On my arrival at the city I was met by a depu-
tation from the citizens, offering the surrender of the
place, on condition that their laws, institutions, and
property should be respected.

"I will hold the place as long as possible. Its im-
portance requires that a garrison of SOO or 600 men
should be sent to occupy it as speedily as possible.
To obtain this object I have dispatched Commodore
Perny to Matamoros to make arrangements with
General Patterson to have a force without delay.
"As I deem it important the Mississippi should
sail without delay, I must defer a more particular
statement to another opportunity.
" I have the honour to be, very respectfully, your
obedient servant,

"D. CONNOR, Commanding Squadron
`Hon. J. Y. Mason, Secretary of the Navy,

Washington."

FLANDERS MAIL.

ERCSSEL9, DEC. 21.-Sir George Hamilton Seymour,
Minister Plenipotentiary of the Queen of England is ex
petted at Brussels shortly, to have his audience of leave
of their Majesties. Sir George is appointed Ambassador
to the Queen of Portugal, as successor to Lord lloward
de Walden, who is appointed in the same quality at the
Court of Brussels.

The Chamber of Representatives continue in the dis-
cussion of the articles of the budget of the Interior, and
was engaged to-day on the 11th shaper, relative to agri-
culture. The proposal of the central section for grant
ing 220,000 francs was adopted by the Chamber.
The third article of the 11th chapter (274,000 francs
for the encouragement of agricillture) was the subject of
a debate which was not concluded on the question, whe-
ther it was proper or not to encourage, by bounties, the
cultivation of madder. Messrs. Corswaren, Osy, and
Desmet were in favour of granting bounties, which were
opposed by Messrs. llopschrnutt and Vanien Steen, wh(
considered the cultivation of madder as impossible in
Belgium. The Chamber will decide t o-morrow. At the
commencement of the sitting, M. de Garcie presented
his report on the Project of Law for granting a provi-
sional credit of five millions to the war department. This
report will be discussed to-morrow.

In the same sitting, the Chamber adopted unanimous,
the project of law which authorises the Government

exempt from importation duty salt, used for the feeding of
cattle or as manure for the land. The senate, in its sit-
ting to-day, after hearing several reports, adopted the
project of law relative to the contingent of the army for
1847. It then entered on the general details of the
budget of ways and means. On this weasion, several
members made many useful remarks. The discussion
closed, and the article is to be voted to- morrow.
Their Majesty's the King and Qaeen will return from
Paris before New Year's day.
The price of wheat has again risen at Brussels, and
this circumstance excites the murmurs of the lower
classes. The rise in the price of wheat in Brussels
market during the two last weeks was -only 20 centimes
per half hectolitre, ending Friday, Dec- 11, and the fol-
lowing day bread rose one centime per kilogramme. Last
Friday, the 18th Dec., there was a rise of 29 centimes
per half hectolitre on wheat, and a fall of 17 centimes on
I rye. Bread rove again one centime. The price of bread
of the third quality is now 40 centimes per kilogramme
at Brussels. This is as dear as in the scarcity of 1816.
A letter from 01 leans of the 16th says—" For these
ten days the snow covers the whole pro since of Luxem-
burg, and in some places to the depth of several yards.
The roads are blocked up, and carriages are delayed for at
least 10 hours en the road from Liege. and Namur to
Arlan. In the direction of Boulogne and SedoT the
the night. " Wolves appear lugreat i,uiubers this year
in the province of Luxemburg. The cold is intense,
and suspends all labour. This increases: the privations
of the working classes, and will augment. them yet more
if it should be prolonged. This season is totally different
from that of the winter 1845, it is, therefore, feared in
the Ardenne., that the distress will be still. greater than
last year, though the potato crop has been more favour-
able than it was last season.

GALICIAN FRONTIERS, DEC. 12.—Accounts from
Vienna state that Count Flahant has presented the
French protest against the incorporation of Cracow. It
is said that the three protesting Powers will, in the
course of this month, draw up a second justification and
declaration on the question of Cracow, to be presented
to the Cabinets of London and Paris, which will after-
wards be published in the public journals. The nego-
tiations between Prussia and Austria, respecting the
commerce and the custom duties on the frontiers of
Silesia and Cracow, are said not to have yet led to any
result.