The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-02 00:00:00

THE SUNDAY TIMES ALMANACS•

FOR 1857. E. T. SMITH.

The enterprising lessee of Drury Lane Theatre
is also, as everybody knows by this time, the inde-
fatigable proprietor of the Sunday Times news-
paper. We don't know what he may be besides—
but at any rate, there is no doubt at all about it,
that ho stands conspicuously before the metropo-
litan public in both those characters. Here, in
the latter capacity especially, namely, as a news-
paper proprietor, and yet at the same time in some
sort also as a theatrical manager and sole lessee of
a Theatre Royal, and that Theatre Royal one no
less important than the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane
—is E. T. Smith's Sunday Times Almanack.
An almanack as entirely of the Stage Stagey,
as ever Tip, in " Little Dorrit," was of the
Streets Streety. Look at it—look at the grand
tabulated calendar—in proof of this. What are
the memorabilia recorded in it ? Not according to
general wont the birth and death of poets, histo-
rians, heroes, kings, and so forth—not the anniver-
saries of great battles, of coup-d'etats, or of sangui-
nary revolutions : but, in lieu of all this, the notifi-
cation that on this particular day there was born
into the vorld, or there died out of it, such a trage-
dian, such a comedian, such a singer, such a
:lancer, such a dramatist, such a composer, such a
pl,intomimist ; that upon such a day s9cia a
Theatre was opened, that upon suebhurht,
an-
other* day such another Theatre
wasd for the.
that So-and• So the Clown a
first time upon the London Boardpsspae
and at such another time So-and-
through
leaped his last lea in . y
swing flap, in the old conv
angles
all the frequenters of the;
from tarseuch a time,
Boards,
the Harlequin
the old
. .
eniional style familiar to
rand old glorious Christ-
the histrionic tinge
mss .Pantnuaimes- Aparrti, imparted to E. T.
or flavour thus pleaslaens
2,l.lmanack the said
Smith's 8142'''clay Tliitie with an extraordinary.
Alinanack is
diversity of rep
bs't, 'lt is,
ea.7reeablo and thoroughly-
for one thing,
And for another a first-rate
iii'o•encer. Its Time Tables are
tthh:el:ror"icreesssixopfeuce) constituting a really
usefula
capital alit tirrae
ccttoiorny 1•
Parliamentary icuoteuld well be desired. It has a
as complete as
ri
a r 0 csoiVg
riocfultthuereY. Year
—and
record of
and Theatrical. The
it especially no-tod, it comprises an
rwehcoicrhd, of
whole beechui e
delightful mitclitg
P c of miscellaneous 0,. ueral, Sporting,
and invaluable
" Oraeleb"ts
information.
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The accounts from New York this week describe a
decided improvement hi the stock market. Erie Rail
95 I,
way
has advanced from 6017 ,to 62, Panama from 91 to
Reading from 77 to 82, and New York Central from
(BY SUBI.I --
MUNE AND BRITISH TEaCtItAPII.)
ra B5l to 88. Illinois Centi al remained at 115 i to 116.
Wind, NTh. GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 9.3° ' a.nd Tye rate of exchange havillg fallen to a point at which
1 cloudy. w ; tide last hoor's ebb, weather moderate, shipments of specie are unprofitable the banks were ex-
Arrived, Dec. 2-111atilda, from St. Petersburgh; tending their loans, and tho rate of discount bad declined
*1
.lier
_cent. It was not expected, 'however, that the
Wind N.W. DEAL, Tuesday, 9.26 p.m:
moderate. depn,fion. in the rate of int wistwwonld be prolonged.
Anchored
for London., Dec, I.—llhirciee Ob:rowills, from BomhaY, da that he should
According
Pierce bas proc°6,-,
^' New Orana
to .
to staWments from asbington, President
."' cede to the United of Aspinwall and
The commercial the cs ties
details by the overlandrinil yesterday ', Panama Railroad route, on each side of the route.
Sl'ates men iclpal control over the
aarne.generally satisfactory. At Calcutta there had been Panama, and strip of teriits.G.'7vermnent of New Granada
at Bombay t‘uelttowhoauvledt
jab: a theub
provement both in cotton goods and metals, and It is contemplated that the
to
,-• ;i3 „I n the sovereignt of
a fair amount of business ha d taken place at ' should be asked ri,minally
erea.r
steady prices. From China the advices describe mode- the routt, although,
it
thies Psariacttl,c,:sl,
rate activity m imported goods at C iptop„, while at same.
Shanghai an advance had been realised. A
1 stance o7thitetshilinTwithout the name

Wind N.N.W.
Arrived—Enterprise, frQr4 Aux
Cayes; Vittorioso,
Alexandria,