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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING FILE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-Genera's Weekly Return.)

The deaths registered in London in the week
that ended last Saturday were 1,269 ; they exhibit
an increase, which is not v ery considerable, on
those of the two previous weeks. In the corre-
sponding weeks of ten previous years the average
number was 1,205, which, with a correction for
increase of population, becomes 1,326. Notwith-
standing the remarkable cold of last week the
deaths were less by 57 than the number which
would have been returned under the average rate
of mortality; but the effects of the severe weather
will probably be seen in future returns.
Of the seven most important zymotic diseases,
only whooping-cough shows a decided increase on
the number of the preceding week ; it arose from
43 to 61. Scarlatina and typhus show a decrease.
Four children died from measles in the sub-district
of St. Mary, Paddington. Three died from scarla-
tina in the sub-district of Chelsea, South, 4 in St.
John's, Westminster, 3 in West Hackney, 3 iq the
sub-district of Hackney-road, 3 in Camberwell. As
regards the results of the last two weeks bronchitis
increased but slightly—viz., from 139 to 146 ; pneu-
monia decreased from 97 to 89. The deaths from
pulmonary complaints, in which class the last,men-
tioned diseases are the chief contributors, were last
week 270, the corrected average of corresponding
weeks being 301.
There were seven deaths from burns and scalds.
Three children died from their clothes taking fire—
the daughter of a labourer, aged eight years; the
daughter of a tailor, aged five years ; and the son
of a jeweller, aged five years. A tanner's labourer,
aged 18 years, died by falling into a pit containing
boiling water. Eight infants were suffocated in
bed. A woman in St. Luke's Workhouse, aged 45
years, was choked by large pieces of bread which
she had attempted to swallow. Two men died from
starvation—a blacksmith, aged 62 years, at 2,
King's Head-court, Shoreditch, on the 10th inst. ;
and a carpenter, aged 54, at 5, Brick-lane, City-
road, on the 22d inst. A woman died of ele-
phantiasis.
Last week the births of 877 boys and 903 girls, in
all 1,780 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59
the average number was 1,519.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.585 in.
The readings fell from 30.10 in. on Sunday to 29 26
in. on Wednesday. The mean temperature of the
air in the week was 32.1 deg, which is 7.2 deg
below the average of the same week in 43 years (as
determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily
temperature was below the average throughout the
week, and on Thursday it: was 10. deg below the
average, and on the two preceding days the amount
of depression was nearly as great. The highest point
attained in the week by the thermometer in the
shade was 41 deg on Sunday ; the lowest point was
24 deg on Wednesday, or 8 deg below the freezing
point of water. The range of temperature in the
week was, therefore, 17 deg. The mean daily range
was 6.9 deg. The range on Saturday was only
3.8 deg. The difference between the mean dew-
point temperature and air temperature was 3.3
deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air
was 88, complete saturation being represented by
100. On Wednesday a thermometer on the grass
fell to 13 deg. The wind generally blew from a
north or north-westerly point. The rain or melted
snow measured was 2.loths of an inch. The mean
temperature of the water of the Thames was 39.6 deg.

FELONY BY A SHEFFIELD MANUFACTURER.—
At the Sheffield Town Hall, yesterday, John Pacey, a
master saw manniacturer, was charged with felony. The
prisoner, it appears, had been in the habit of attending the
public baths in that town, where for some time past felonies
had been committed from the garments of the bathers
hanging on the walls. The prisoner was suspected, and
on Thursday evening was watched, and detected with his
hand in the pocket of one of the garments. A watch which
had been stolen on the previous night was traced to his
possession. The prisoner is respectably connected, and for
the defence it was urged he is in an unsound state of mind,
and has given himself up to drinking habits. The prisoner
was recently a sufferer to a great extent by the defaulting
Birmingham bankrupt, Plirnley Edwards, and this circum-
stance appears to have thrown him out of his regular
habits. He employs between fifty and sixty men. The
prisoner was remanded on condition that his friends place
him under medical examination, with a view to his being
taken care of.—Areinellester Examiner.

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now also placed in instantaneous communication
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with each other. Such important results as these
have been brought about principally by the per-
fection to which Professor Wheatstone has brought
his Universal Telegraph.
This instrument is so simple in its construction
that any person who can read and
.spell can be
taught in half an hour to use it with certainty.
With a few days' practice a very considerable
rapidity can be acquired in sending messages.
Without such en instrument as this a trained estab-
lishment of clerks would be necessary to work the
telegraph. By its aid the owner of the telegraph
or any person of ordinary education can use it with
scarcely any training.

The universal telegraph consists of two parts or
instruments, the telegraph itself and another called
the communicator. The telegraph with all the ap-
paratus fat-working it is contained in a small box,
much smaller than a lady's work box. It has a
handle like that of a barrel organ in front of it. On
the upper surface there is a disc or clock face. This
face instead of having the hours marked round its
circumference has its 30 equal divisions on its outer
edge marked by the letters of the alphabet, three
stops, and a cross. The inner row has the nine digits
and zero repeated twice. There is a hand like the
hour hand of a clock,which is made by the mechanism
hereafter to be described to point to these letters,
stops, or figures, at the will of the operator. Round
this lettered disc are 30 keys, like those of an ac-
cordion, which can be depressed by the finger, one
for each letter or sign. Such is the external ap-
pearance of the telegraph. It is not much larger
than an ordinary ship's chronometer. The commu-
nicator is something like a watch, a little larger
indeed, fixed on a stand, in convenient position for
observing the dial; it rests on a small stand, which
contains the apparatus for working an alarum bell.
The face of the communicator has 30 divisions like
the telegraph, with its double circle of letters and
figures, and its moveable hand or index.

The instrument is worked in the following man-
ner. We will say that there is two sets of 'these
instruments, one at the Queen's printers, the other
in the House of Commons. A single wire is fastened
at the Printer's to the water pipes of the establish-
ment, or else attached to a plate of metal buried in
the earth, this wire is made to pass through both
the telegraph and communicator at the Printer's;
it is then carried through the air to the Houses of
Parliament. There it passes through another tele-
graph and communicator, and is then buried in the
earth or attached to some pipes which are in con-
nection with the ground. On the box which sup-
ports each of the communicators there is a pointer
which can be turned by hand so as to point to either
of two letters, A and T, on the right and left hand.
When the instrument is not in use both of these
pointers should point to the letter A. Supposing,
now, a message is to be sent. All you have to do is
to turn the handle of one of the telegraphs ; the
alarums at both stations immediately sounded. This
calls the attention of the clerk or operator at the
other station. He then replies by turning the handle
of his telegraph, when both alarums are sounded
for a second time.

Now, both sender and receiver turn the pointer
at the base of their communicators to the T. Be-
fore sending the message, the pointers of all four
instruments should stand at the cross marked on
the upper portions of their dials. If they do not,
the operators have a simple means for setting them
right. This setting being made if necessary, the
sender spells out his message by touching or de-
pressing each key of his telegraph with his left
hand, which stands opposite to the letters to be
spelt in succession while he steadily turns the
handle of his instrument with his right hand. He
will then see the hand of his communicator turn in
succession to each of these letters, and pause until
he depresses the next letter. The index of the
communicator of the receiver of the message moves
in the same way, and•he also spells the words he
receives. The word finished, the sender depresses
the key opposite his cross and the communicator
shows the receiver that a word is spelt. He
acknowledges the receipt of it, and that he under-
stands it by turning the handle of his telegraph
and depressing the key opposite to the cross, so as
to make the hands of both communicators pass
through a complete revolution. If any letter or
sign is to be repeated in succession in spelling a
word, it is necessary to depress for an instant an
adjacent key, and then to depress that opposite the
letter to be repeated before the indices or hands of
the instruments have pointed to the letter.

This is the simple method of using the instrument.
It possesses this great advantage for private pur-
posei, that it requires no galvanic apparatus, with
corrosive acids, and requiring great skill in its
successful preparation for use. There are no fumes
to be avoided, no trouble and risk in amalgamating •
plates. A simple coil apparatus and a magnet en-
closed in the telegraph box do all the work of the
electric ariel, without risk of getting out of order
or being deranged. As the principles of electric
telegraphy are now becoming so popular, some of
our readers may be interested in knowing something
of the mode of operation of this beautifulinstrument
of Professor Wheatstone. When the handle of one
of the telegraphs is turned, it causes an axis in the
instrument to revolve. Attached to this axis are
two equal arms; each of these arms has suspended
or fixed perpendicularly to its extremity a bundle
of soft iron wire. Round each of these bundles or
cores of soft iron a considerable quantity of fine
insolated wire is wound like a silk or thread round
a bobbin. The wire round these two bobbins is
continuous. These two bobbins therefore turn
round with every revolution of the axis to which
they are attached. At every revolution the cores of
both these bobbins pass over the poles of a horse-
shoe permanent magnet. Every time they pass over
the poles of the magnet the core of the bobbin pass-
ing over is magnetised; and magnetism induces or
sets up a current of electricity through the wire of
the bobbin. In this way, by simply turning the
handle of the machine opposite, currents or pulses
of electricity are sent through the wires of the bob-
bins by the momentary action of the poles of the
magnet. When the indices at the base of the two
communicators are set at A, the currents of electri-
city so set up pass through the alarum:of the sender
to that of the receiver, and return by the earth. A
most ingenious mechanical and electromagnetic
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attract two of the poles or extremities of the mag-
netic needles and repel the other two ; the effect

of the two attractions and two repulsions of the
needles being to rotate the axis to which they are
fixed. This axis communicates by an escape-
ment wheel a step by step motion to the hand
of the communicator instrument for every
current
of electricity sent through the wire of its bobbins.
We will now suppose the instruments with all their
indicators pointing to the cross. The handle of
one of the telegraphs is turned, for every revolu-
tion of the handle the magnet in the telegraph sets
up a current in the bobbins within the telegraph,
but these currents all pass by a short circuit
through the instrument and the earth; we now
depress a key opposite to some letter, the depression
of this key alters the electrical circuit, and all the
currents are now sent through the telegraph wire,
both communicators, and the earth. For every
current transmitted—these currents being in succes-
sione in different directions—the hand of the tele-
graph of the sender, and the hands of both commu-
nicators, are made to advance step by step till the
letter opposite the depressed key is arrived at. The
instant this
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telegraph alters the circuit, the current no longer
passes through the telegraph wire and the commu-
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Another key is now depressed by the sender, a beau-
tiful piece of mechanism the depregsion of
this key to elevate the key last depressed, puts the
instrument in circuit with the wire and the indi-
cators, the hands move on step by step till the letter
opposite the depressed key is reached, when the
circuit is again altered, and the hands stand still-
till another key is depressed, and so on for the
whole message. Those who have been used for
some time to this instrument, and have become
quick both in sending and receiving a message,
have been enabled to transmit 100 letters per
minute.
We have been thus minute in our description of
this universal telegraph, because we feel certain it
will play an important part lathe popularisation of
the use of telegraphy. It was used by the Emperor
Napoleon at Solferino, and will shortly be used on
the railways of Australia.

The extent to which the application of telegraphy
is likely to be carried out has rendered prominent
another want, Not only an instrument for com-
municating messages, but a private road through
which they may be sent. This has induced the
formation of a company now applying for an act of
Parliament for their incorporation under the name
of the Universal Telegraph Company. Professor
Wheatstone hes discovered that for moderate
distances, say for 20 miles, his electric road only
requires a copper wire about the thickness of
an ordinary piece of cotton thread. Thirty such
wires, each covered with a thin coating of india-
rubber and linen, can be combined into a cable
about the thickness of the little finger. Thus 30
private electric roads, perfectly insulated from each
other, can be combined in one rope, not very much
thicker than the wires now used for electric ways
along the sides of our railways. This marks another
great stride in telegraphy—the substitution of
indiarubber for gutta percha as an insulator. For
this we are indebted to the energy, skill, and per-
severance of Messrs. Silver and Co., who have suc-
ceeded in demonstrating to the best telegraphists
that they can manufacture an indiarubber insula-
tion for wires which shall make us independent of
the constant failure of gutta percha as an insulator.
With gutta percha the insulation of this cable of
30 small wires would have been impossible. The
heat to which the cable must be subject even in our
summer as it passes over our house-tops would melt
the gutta percha and destroy the insulation. The
insulation of indiarubber is not only superior to
gutta percha, but it resists the heat which would
entirely melt the latter.
The Universal Telegraph Company propose to
connect all parts of London and other great towns
by a system of triangulation. The town will be
divided into a series of equal triangles, the side of
each being a mile in length. Each point of the
triangle will be united to another by one of these
cables containing 30 or 60 insulated wires. These
cables will be supported by posts on the tope of
houses or other large buildings, 200 feet apart.
To prevent the cable from injury from stretch-
ing, it will be suspended from two strong iron
wires passing from post to post. At each of the
posts, as well as the angular stations at the extre-
mities of the mile of rope or cable, each separate
wire will pass through little numbered canals of
ebonite. If any accident happens to any particular
wire, it can be discovered where the fault lies by
testing from post to post. The wires being num-
bered and registered, the private person wishing to
rent a wire can have it conveyed to his two stations
from the post nearest to them. That this system is
likely to meet with immediate adoption in many in-
stances we have no doubt. Between thirty and
forty firms and public bodies in Glasgow have
already made application to the company for the
rent of wires. The city police stations in London
will use the wires of the company instead of their
own temporary one as soon as it is established.
Mr. Reuter, so well known in connexion with tele-
grams, has already united his private offices in
Finsbury-square with his city offices. No doubt a
great variety of public offices as well as private
persons will gladly avail themselves of this mode of
obtaining private telegraphic communication.
We believe the company propose to rent their
wires at the rate of four pounds per mile for a year,
undertaking to keep the wires in order, and at all
times to ensure telegraphic communication. The
hirer of the wire may use any instrument he pleases.
If he wishes it, however, they will let him one of
Professor Wheatstone's Universal Telegraphs,
Alarum, and Indicator for £6 a year, or a pair of
them for £l2, This includes keeping the instru-
ments in perfect working order. Thus, for instance,
a merchant or manufacturer can have private tele-
graphic communication between two stations a mile
apart for £l6 a year. The insulated cable being
suspended from uncovered iron wires, and these
wires being connected with the leads and iron
pipes of the houses to which their supporting posts
are attached, lightning cannot pass through the in-
sulated wire to the house in which it is introduced.
The network of supporting wires will, in point of
fact, act as a great system of lightning conductors,
and ensure the safety of the houses over which they
pass.
That the system of the compound rope and the
smallconducting wires will answer, we saw demon-
strated by Mr. Holmes, the consulting engineer of
the proposed company, at Mr, Reuter's on Friday
last. We also saw the successful application
of the
small conductor to Mr. Wheatstone's Automatic
Printing Telegraph. This telegraph is intended for
the speedy transmission
strip
of messages through lines
where economy of time in the use of the line is of
great importance. The
of
dotses son g
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to
is
punched out in a series
ribbon of paper. The cypher used is so similar to
that of the Morse system, which is now the
uni-
versal telegraphic alphabet on the continent and
message
a be
of narrowsent
America, that a person conversant with the one can
immediately read the other. The Morse alphabet
represents every letter by a line or a dot, or the
combination of these, not exceeding four for every
letter. Wheatstone uses a dot on
the upper part
of the ribbon for Morse's line, and a dot below for
Morse's dot. To punch these dots he uses a small
instrument with three keys, which are depressed by
a pressure of the finger. The ribbon of paper is
introduced at the top of the instrument; every
time one of the keys is depressed it punches a hole
through the ribbon, and moves it a space forward ;
when the same or another key is depressed another
hole is punched, and the paper again moved for-
ward to receive another perforation. One key
answers for Morse's line or dash, another for his
dot, and the third or middle one is used for spac-
ing. This spacing obviates a difficulty in the Morse
system of telegraphing. . g The Morse system is

always tile: in connected n with a telegraphic in-
strument. The ciSerenee betweentthe printing of
a line or a dot is determin ed by the time the ling% er
lon the Morse system re,
irr4R en the key of the t ransmitting instruraent.
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lion of musical time, a
perception of which many people are
Besidesdeficient.usin using
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automatic system does not cam-13 a waste of the
time of the telegraphic line.
'When the message is punched out On the ribbon,
this ribbon forms, as it were, a continuoug jacquard
pattern. This is now introduced into the trans-
mitting instrument. By turning a hanale the per-
rth meen holderst
three springs attached to all
iiirftted ribbon passes at a uniform rate' , through
centre of
oSt as each space comes thron‘gh the
axis in connexion with the handle rise up, onlVi- one
of these three can rise through the paper, batons*
there will only be one perforitiml presented at .the
same time. If a spring pass through one of Vie
upper holes of the strip, a current of ekctricity L's
made by the mechanical arrangement attached
this spring to pass through the telegraph wit:e tv a
distant station ; if a spring passes through th e
lower hole an opposite current is produced ; lastly.,
if the middle spring pass through an opening ncse
current is sent.
At the receiving station there is a recording or
printing apparatus. A thin strip of paper is madei
by clock-work to pass through the printing appa,
ratus when a message is to be received. This ap-
paratus has two series of eleetromagnetic apparatus
similar to those used in the communicator of the*
universal instrilmcTlts. _They.are so arranged, how.
ever, that the axes to which t:.40 permiihmit magMts
are attached are moved, the one ailsocti-ibr
current in one direction, and the other only for a
current in the opposite direction. To each of these
axes a small pen or style is attached. These styles
when depressed each pass through a small hole in
the bottom of a reservoir filled with Indian ink.
These holes are so small that capillary attraction
prevents the flow of the ink through them unleso it
is carried by the depression of the style. Now, the
electromagnets cause one of these styles to be de'
pressed for a current in one direction, the other style-
for that in the opposite ; the ribbon
passing under-
the reservoir of ink by the motion of the clockwork
has a dot made at top or bottom, according'
Asa
dot
perforated through the top or bottom of the ribbon
passes at the same time through the transmitting
apparatus. Some idea of the speed with which this'automatic printing telegraph can forward messages
may be estimated when we state that a column of
newspaper print, such as that of a Parliamentary
debate, can be transmitted 200 miles in about 20
minutes. We are rejoiced to see that Professor
Wheatstone, who took such a distinguished position
in the first introduction of the telegraph, still keeps
foremost in the race of telegraphic progress.

THE BRIGHTON ANTI-HOTEL COMPANY
11 (Limited).
Capital, D 75,000, in Shares of D 5 each. Deposit D 1 per
Share.
Incorporated under the Common Sense Act, which ex-
pressly limits the liability of each Shareholder in the
degree of his prudence and acuteness.
DIRECTORS.
NICHOLAS NOBODIE, Esq, Chairman.
Thomas Brown, Esq. John Smith, Esq.
P. Green, Esq. John Doe, Esq,
John Jones, Esq. Richard Roe, Esq.
James Robinson, Esq.
Auditors—Solicitors—Brokers—Secretary.
The aforesaid having observed the advertisement of an
extraordinary Prospectus bearing a title not unlike the
heading of this present, together with the names o f sundaidry
persons "unknown to fame," and seeing that the s
Prospectus may in some instances be mistaken by the un-
wary for a serious and practical project have resolved
be
to
and do hereby propound a few inquirieq which
calculated to convince the most credulous of the jocular and
delusive nature thereof.
1. Had those persons unknown to fame, whose names
occupy the same honourable position as do the names of
our respected directors, John Doe, Richard Doe, &e., at the
time of publishing the said Prospectus of the " Brighton
Hotel Company," possession of, or any sort of legal claim
to land whereon the professed Hotel could be built
'2. Is it possible that business men could be in earnest
in
proposing to carry into effect a project including purchase
of land on the sea frontage of central Brighton, and the
construction of a building. advertised to contain " two hun-
dred bedrooms, apartments 'with bed and bath rooms en
suite, dining-rooms, coffee-room, salon library (sic), ladies'
coffee-room, reading-room, music-room, billiard-room,
smoking-room, hot, cold, and vapour baths," with the
furniture and appurtenances essential thereto for the sum
of £75,000 ?
3. And if the foregoing could be "done for the money,"
would the freehold tenement found and furnished for the
sum of £75,000—considering that unlike other commercial
undertakings operated in by a company capable of indefinite
extension, hotel business is confined at its utmost opportu-
nity to four walls soon occupied—require for its profitable
administration eight directors, one architect, two auditors,
solicitors, brokers, and secretary ?
4. On what authority is it stated in aforesaid pro-
spectus that the ability of the said " Company" " to
pay largo dividends is fortified by the fact that the Great
Western Hotel Company has paid dividends of 25 per
cent. per annum out of actual net profits, and that the
Euston and Victoria Hotels, and other similar companies,
have also paid unusually large dividends ?"£2ss it not,
rather, true that the once published profit of per cent.
of the Great Western Hotel was taken on the small private
capital, less than £lO,OOO, of the Committee, whilst the
enormous investment of Great Western Shareholders'
money on the building and furniture was set off at 4 per
cent., no aceount being taken of the land, which belonged
to the railway company ? Again, that the Easton. Hotels
wee for years in a bankrupt state ? Further, can the
specialators concerned in said Prospectus adduce
conducted
of authentic
evidence that any hotel in the United Kingdom
by a company not established by the money
railway
shareholders nor fed by a railway terminus has been a
success ?
5. Even if it could be shown that an h otel at a metropo-
litan railway terminus hadfoerinats p
board of directors, itc., management,sluceedessthfuelsuitability o a
would that prove the same "
w ith regard to an hotel in the
town of a " watering-place, where, at the best, the profit-
able plentitude of business occurs only during ten or twelve
weeks of the year?
6. Finally, though all the rest were granted, what evi-
dence is there, precedent, professed or presumptive, of the
qualifications of the "Directors" named in the said pros-
bymeto ex,arcise
the mo effi
ney of cientlshareholders ? the functions ofMay hotel keepers
means ofthey not
possibly be more competent as share dealers ?

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH.
NO TIC E. —The Lessee retpectfully informs the Nobility,
Patrons, and Supporters of this elegant Theatre, that,
" FOR THE FIRST TIME," he will attempt a Grand
Pantomime. The greatest care has been takn to produce
and make it suitable to the taste of children. Every objec-
tionable matter has been omitted in the Harlequinado,
which has always been considered too long and tedious,
and the Lessee has studied the tastes of the junior branches
of society, for whom, at this season of the year, this par-
ticular entertainment is produced.
There will be Morning Perfirmances of the Pantemime
on Saturdays, December 29, Janiary 5 and 12, at Two
o'clock precisely.
On Wednesday, Boxing-day, December 26th, 1860, and
eve.'ry evening during the week, an original. Opera, entitled,
QUEEN TOPAZE.
Raphael (a Captain)
Annibal Barbiano (a Rich Vane-
Mr. SANTLEY.
thin)
Francatrippa I (Gipsies) f Mr. PATSY.
1 Mr TERROTT

Fritellino etr. - •
Gritti . Mr. BARTLEMAN.
Zeno Mr. BEALE.
Loredano (Young Venetian Mr. ST. ALBYN.
Manfred Nobles) Mr. BAKER.
Bembo Mr. THONIPSON.
Topaze (a Gipsy)
Countess Filomela ALESSANDRI
Hostess of an Inn
Nobles, Ladies, Male and Female Gipsies.
The scene is laid at Venice, 1512.
After which (the first ever represented at her Majesty's
Theatre) will be produced, an entirely New and Original
Grand Musical, Magical, and Comical Burlesque Ballet
Pantomime, founded on one of the most popular of our Old
National Stories, and entitled
HARLEQUIN AND TOM THUMB ;
OR, MERLIN THE MAGICIAN AND THE GOOD
FAIRIES OF TEE COURT OF KING ARTHUR.
The Scenery, entirely new, under the superintendence of
Mr. WILLIAM BEVERLEY. Artists, Mr. CHARLES
BREW, Mr. SANDERS, &c., &c., &c. The Overture,
Choruses, and the whole of the Music cmposed by J. H.
TULLY. The Libretto by Mr. E. L. oBLANCHARD,
and the whole produced under the direction of Mr. ROBERT
ROXBY, assisted by Mr. R. PHILLIPS. The Panto-
mimic Physiognimy and Designs for:the Dresses by DYK-
WYNKYN. The Machinery by Mr. Tucker. The Tricks
and Properties by Mr. -NEEDHAM, Mr. GLINDON, and
Mr. H. ADAMS. The Costumes by Miss DICKINSON
and Mons. LAURI. The Harlequinade by the LAURI
FAMILY.
INTERIOR OF GAFFER THUMB'S COTTAGE.
Gaffer Thumb.
Goody Thumb. . Mrs. Linden.
Merlin (the Wizard of the Early Ages, and Professor of
Parlour Magic) .. Mr. Dixon.
Hocus Focus, Popalorum, Shixtum Stixtum, Cockalerum
Jig (his Four Familiars)
Masters Quick, Pass, Fly, and Begone.
om Thumb (" The abridgement of all that pleasing in
man." Engaged especially for Juvenile Patrons)
Miss LILIA ROSS.
Schoolboys.. Masters Hop, Skip, Jump, Trap, Bat, Ball,
Chevy, &c., &c.
" The famous magician Merlin, being once in a dark
orest, when he wanted food and rest called at a poor man's
cottage. The Good Dame grieved, and shed many tears,
because she was• so lonely all day long, as she and her
husband wanted a little child to keep them company. 'My
husband,' quoth she, would be happy if he had but a child
no bigger than his thumb,' and so-."--Legend of
Thomas Thumb.

ROSEWATER LAKE AND ROMANTIC HAUNT
OF THE FAIRIES.
Rosalie (Queen of the Fairies) Miss Mason.
Frangipanni, Musk, Petcheuli, Verbena, Heliotrope, Ron-
doletta, Violet, Moss Rose, Sweetbriar, Eglantine, Car-
nation, Bergamont Jasmin, Myrtle, Lavender, Eau de
Cologne, &c., &c.
Attendants, Toilet Fairies Mdlles.
" And he danced with the young Fairies, whose eyes
were like diamonds and whose hair was like silver thread,
and whose skin was white and smooth like ivory, and they
gave him wine made of the sweet smelling wild flowers."—

The Legend.
GAFFER THUMB'S COTTAGE.
Tom the Tinker.. — . Mr. Solderwell.
" Once he got into a playfellow's bag of cherry stones,
and was shaken almost to death for his tricks ; and another
time ho fell into -a large batter pudding, and the pudding
was put to boil. but he kicked about in it so violently that
his mother thought some evil spirit was in the pot, so she
gave it to the Tinker, when ."—The Legend.
FARM YARD AND DISTANT COUNTRY.

"Another time hi-3 mother tie• him to a thistle, whilst
she milked the Cow, and the Cow did eat the thistle, but he
kicked about so in the Cow's throat that he was soon up
again in his mother's apron ; when a great Crow

The Legend.
TURRETS AND TERRACE OF GIANT'S CASTLE.
Hurlothrumbo (the Giant) Mr. Feefawfoluro.
" The Crow dropped him on the top of the Giant's Castle,
when the Giant swallowed him, but he was soon glad to give
him up. and he fell into the sea where —"—The Legend.
IBANQUETING HALL IN THE PALACE OF
KING ARTHUR. _

Ring Arthur ("He was a goodly King." Minstrel of the
Period) Mr. E. St. Albyn.
Ri's Cook Mr. Kitchener.
Its Scullion
„
His Knights
(his _Daughter) Miss Highbury Barnes.
i'l Knights of the Round Table by distinguished repre-
sentat•
inz
acne of the. days of ancient chivalry, and illustrat-
a Dar,_
.....giKnight, a Short Knight, a Green Knight,
Knight, a Wet Knight, a Baron Knight, a Box-
ing&c. The Discovery! The Recovery I
And the cB;t4cc.,
ti 3ry name is ;strophe !
Om Thumb from the fairies I come.
TV hen King Arthur shone,: this Court was my own.
In flo he ( 0
14,-111,4;l
him
I was knighted ;
Did PI
never hear of by
Thomas Thumb ?"
Metrical Legend.

17,.an.F.,,inp,, to
THE CfIAMISLEOI‘.gp
'XPLE OF THE FAIRIES.
."1-
GRAND :11AG
Harlequin. -“r. J. Lar• Colr.ne,
Mr. H. Lauri.
I Miss Jenny Lauri.
Clown, Mr. C. Lluri.
. Sprites by tb7,celetobra:ittiaieTa9bs.
--Et doors open at
NOTICE,—Daring the
Half-past Six, commence at. seven o'clock.
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THEATRE ROYAL, PTlCltlir .
Lessee, Mr. r. T. S3IETIT. LANE.
NOTICE.—The Lessee has much pleasure announcing
his Ninth. Pantomime at this national establishment. Every
care has been bestowed on it to make it suitable to the
ast
of his patron.% who have honoured the thcatre with their
presence, anti. have pronounced the Pantomimes under his
management sUperior to any produced. Great objections
have been rnada. as to the length of the comic scenes in
pantomime. Tb is.' has also undergone the necessary prun-
ing., and the pant oininie will be so arranged as to leave
ves
off
at Half-past Eleven, that the audience may avail themsel
of the late Trains. 'The Lessee, having selected Wednes-
day morning for eight years for his morning performance,
begs to inform his friends the Pantomime will commence
every Wednesday at two o'clock.
Ito-engag,ement of Mr. al 'd Mrs. CHARL 17, S MATHEWS.
On WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26. 1860, and during the week,
her Majesty's servants perform a new Comedy, in
two acts, entitled
THE ADVENTURES OF ,A. BILLET-DOUR.

Principal Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr.
Tilbury, Vrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs, Frank Matthews,
Miss E. Arden, Miss H. Howard, &c.
After which the new Grand Comic Christmas Annual,
hich, for a considerable time having engrossed the atten-
tion of every department, will be produced on a scale of
unprecedented magnitude and magnificence, under the
title of
PETER IVILKINS ; or, HARLEQUIN and the FLY-
Founded WOMEN of the LOA-DSTONE ISLAND.
on, the most remarkable and kaAutifal romance
.

THEATR,!:-itUYAL. H.AYIVIAUKFT.
T,psqee, Mr. J. B. Baekstone.

On WEDNESDAY (Boxing Night) SHE STOOPS TO
CONQUER. Tony bumpkin, Mr. Blackstone; Young Mar-
low, Mr. Howe ; Miss Hardcastle, Miss Fanny Stirling (her
first appearance here)..
After which, a new Pantomime, QUEEN LADYBIRD
AND TIER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the un-
rivalled Leclercqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright.

wit.o, 'we at 7

LP() "i" .1.. I. (' f4-`,
Timssef, and Nranat,,er, Mr. A. Harris.

On BOXING NICHT, Di C. '26, ERNESTINE. Messrs. J.
O. Shore, K. Cathcart, Basil Potter ; 'Mesdames Heath, Car-
lotta Lech-req, Weston, and Murray.
Atter Which, a new rliristmas comical pantomime, entitled
11(111INSON CRITSOE • or, Harlequin Friday, and the King
of the Paribbe Islands': in which Monsieur Espinosa and
will la
e. Marie Dumilatre of the principal cantinental theatres,
Near. Clown' Air. A. F. A F Forrest.

-3,t D HI, P 1,11 ,
N sot,. Peonrieto i:\V
THEATRE-ROYAL.
War de
CU.,TOMER. Messrs, J.
T 0 -3ro BP ow, iT,:;,(I Msnager, Mr. 13enl. Webster.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and
Thorne.
Atter which, THE COLLEEN
e ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
BAWN. D. Boucicault, D.
Fisher, Billinf.tOn, Falconer,
miss A ves Robertson, Miss Stephenson C. J. Smith, Romer.
Mrs. Chatterley. Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
To conclude with a new Burlesque -.
Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith—T
OF, HUE
BEARD F , ;OM A NEw.''xptr4LTNazanza, entitled
BLUE
Messrs. .T. L.
pen at halt-past 6—Commence at 7
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and 1. Thorne. ; Miss Woolgar,
-office open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
oxoxes, ; Family Boxes, 41.
Balcony, 45. ; Front Circle Stalls, is.;
ROOTS
Privates o
Orchestra Stalls, . ;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, la ; Gallery, rxi.
__. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith;