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SUN QFFIcE, Six o'Clock.

SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 22d inst.
On the Saturday previous the Duke of Valencia
gave a grand dinner on the occasion of the anniver-
,:ary of the birth of the Princess of the Asturias.
All the Ministers were present, with the Corps
Diplomatique, M. Martinez de la Rosa, Mon, Gon-
zales Bravo, Urtistondo, the Duke of Rivas, and
other distinguished persons. The Marquis de
Turgot proposed a tLast in Spanish to the Queer,
the King, and the Princess of the Asturias. Gen.
Narvaez then proposed a toast to the Sovereigns of
all the nations tales of Spain.'
The question relating to the liberty of the press
was to be discussed at a Cabinet Council.

The Esperanza recommends the Absolutist party
to take part in the municipal elections.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —(This Day.)

MANSION-HOUSE.

WHOLESALE FORGERY.—THE SAWARD GANG.—jag.
Anderson, a middle-aged man, was placed at the bar
on remand, before the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman
Wire, charged with forging and uttering a bill of ex-
change for 1,0001., with intent to defraud Messrs.
Heywood and Co., bankers, 4, Lombard-street, on the
14th June last.
The prisoner is believed to have been a friend and
associate of two men, named Hoodwink and Atwell,
who were tried at the October ,sessions of the Central
Criminal Court for forgery, found guilty, and sentenced
to transportation for life. The prisoner was privately
examined on the 20th, and is the person referred to in
the examination of Saward, which took place yesterday.
Mr. Mulling, solicitor to the committee of bankers,
appeared to prosecute.
The evidence taken at the private examination was
then read over. It stAted'that on the 11'.h Denerobt r
the prisoner went to the house of William Roberts, of

Oak-road, St. John's-wood, a bath-chair proprietor, and

asked him to go with a message into the city. Ho con-
sented, and the prisoner appointed to meet him at the
tavern near Lord's cricket-ground in a quarter of an
hour, where he was going to have a glass of ale. He
accordingly went there at the appointed time, and found
the prisoner in the parlour, who gave him a cheque for
77/. 134. 2d., dated 11th December, 1856, drawn upon
Messrs. Hankey and Co., by Messrs. Thomas Down•
end and Co. He was to present it at the bank,
and have four ten-pound notes and the rest in gold,
and met him again at the same tavern about two hours
from that time : that being the time the witness calcu-
lated it would take him to go to the city and return with
the money. Witness presented the check, and shortly
afterwards returned to St. John's-wood, taking a police-
man with him in consequence of what was said to him
at the banking house. The prisoner did not keep his
appointment, and witness did not see turn again until he
identified him amongst a number of others in Newgate.

Mr. Grierson's evidence was to the effect that the
check in question was a forgery.
Mr. Mudins said that be aid not propose to-clay to go
further with that case, but to open two others, and then
ask for a further remand. He called

Thomas Mitchinton, who deposed that on Saturday,
the 16. h of August last, he was boots at the White Hart
Hotel, in Bishopsgate street. In the coffee room he stw
the prisoner, who gave him a cheque to get changed for
501. It was dated 16th August, 1856, and was drawn
on Messrs. Hankey and Co., and signed "per pro Smith
and Knight, Daniel Baldwin." Witness was to bring
three 101. notes, and 201. in gold. He went to the bank,
obtained the money, and took it into the coffee roow,
but the prisoner was not there. He returned in about
five minutes, when witness gave him the money, and he
gave witness 3s. for his trouble.

George English, boots at the Four Swans, Bishops.
gate-street, deposed that on Saturday, August the 16th,
he saw the prisoner in the coffee-room of that hotel, and
he asked him to get a check changed for 1001. at Messrs.
Hankey's. He gave witness a check for 1001. drawn
on Messrs. Hankey and Co., and signed in the name of
Baldwin. He was to bring six 10/. notes and the re-
mainder in gold. Witness went to the bank and ob-
tained the money, and returned with it to the coffee-room
of the hotel, when he found the prisoner had left. About
five minutes after the prisoner returned, when witness
gave him the naoney, and he gave witness 2s. for his
trouble.

Mr. Grierson, cashier to Messrs. Hankey. and Co.,
deposed that Messrs. Smith and Knight kept an ac-
count at their bank, and that Mr. Baldwin had authority
to draw checks for them ; he paid the check produced,
and from what he had since beard he believed them to
be forgeries. He abated the number of the notes given
in exchange. On Monday, the 18th August, another
check was presented for 1001., which, however, was
not paid.
Mr. Mullins said that was all the evidence be shruld
offer to-day, and asked for a further remand till next
Saturday.
The Lord Mayor—Shall you then have any other
charges to prefer against the prisoner ?
Mr. Mullins—Oh, yes ! There will be endless charges
brought against him.

Tue prisoner, who was undefended and declined say-
ng anything, was remanded till Saturday next.

MARLBOROUGH-STREE r.

AN EXPENSIVE LETTER.-Mr. John Fortescue, a
merchant in the city, was brought before Mr. Bingham,
on the following charge.

Charles Wyatt, a waiter at Quinn's oyster rooms, No.
40, Haymarket, stated that about ten o'clock on the
previous night the defendant and another gentleman
entered the rooms and ordered two mutton chops. While
they were being cooked he saw the defendant go up to
the looking-glass, which was over the fire-place, and
with a ring, which he held in his hand, scratch in the
middle of the glass a large letter " H." Witness re.
naonstrated with the defendant, and told him he had
spoilt the glass, and must pay for the damage, which
would be 51. This the defendant refused to do, and in
consequence was given into custody.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, said the glass
was scrawled all over with names, and he, in the fun
of the moment, thought there would be no harm in
his writing a large "H " after the name of " Bill
Sykes."

In reply to Mr. Bingham, the waiter said there
might be nine other names scratched on the glass be-
sides the defendant's " H."

Mr. Bingham said that altered the case, for if the
letter scrawled on the glass had been the first and
only one, he should have ordered the defendant to pay
the full of it ; but as there were nine other names
and letters on the glass, he (Mr. Bingham) could not,
for the sake of justice, order him to pay more than
his share, viz., 10s.
The money was at once paid.

CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENTS.

DRURY-LINE THEATRE.

A glorious pantomime at Old Drury is quite a matter of
course on Boxing•night—as much a matter of course thero
and then as a bunch of mistletoe at Christmas, as pancakes
on Shrove Tuesday, or a fat goose at Michaelmas ! Parti-
cularly with Mr. E. L. Blanchard as the author of the
Fairy Introduction—E. L. Blanchard, already the beloved
and idolised among the boys and girls of England as tho
writer of " Harlequin Hudibras," " Humming-top,'
" Jack and Gill," the "Seven Ages of Man," and all
sorts of delightful glorifications of Nursery Rhyme and
Reason !

There is fair cause to anticipate that " See Saw Mar-
gery Daw, or Harlequin Holiday and the Island of Ups
and Downs," is destined to enjoy as long a lease of exist-
ence and as wide-spread a popularity as any of its imme-
diate predecessors. To record that the house "was crammed
to the ceiling" is almost superfluous, since when, within
the memory of the oldest pantomime-goer, was Old Drury
not "crammed to the ceiling" on such an auspicious occa-
sion ? The plum-pudding of the entertainment was pre-
ceded last night by a light fricassee, represented by the
comedietta of Simpson and C 0.," which sharpened rather
than allayed the appetite, and served as a stimulus for the
enjoyment of what was to follow.
The plot of the introduction proceeds, as we have
hinted, from the fertile imagination of Mr. E.
L. Blanchard, to whom the regions of metapho-
rical burlesque are a natural clement and mon-
strous pasteboard heads as much " a feeling" as " high
mountains" to the poet. The time-honoured nursery
rhymes upon which it is founded ara put to symbolical
uses, and a moral lesson is endeavoured to ha imparted.
The curtain rises upon a " decoration" intended to suggest
the globe, across the surface of which is cast an enormous

"see-paw," at either end of which is a group, tho one sig.

nificative of wealth and abun,iance, the other of squalid
poverty and rags. A clever device of mechanism meta-
morphoses Wealth into Poverty, aad vice vcrsd, according
to whichever end of the see-saw happens to be uppermost ;
and thus are shadowed forth the " Ups and Downs of
life," to reconcile which constitutes the quasi philosophic
purport of the masque. The appearance of Holiday, the
Genius of the Season (Hiss M. Stanley), in his emble-
matical car" cuts short a dialogue between " Up" and
" Down." Snubbed, of course, by "Up," who is a snob,
and approached by " Dawn" with befitting humility,
Halidiq proffers some excellent counsel to the opposing
parties, and just as everything is settled to the universal
satisfaction arrives Dame Necessity (gra Selby), who
claims from Holiday her annual tribute iu the shape of a
Christmas pantomime. Holiday invites all the pers )nage,
to his abode in the Green Bower of Mistletoe, and here,
after a grand ballet, the subject of the pantomime
is arranged. Margery Daw (Madame Boleno), daughter of
g Huggamugga, of the region of " Sixes and Sevens,"
is a very idle young princess, who will do nothing but
tyrannise over her household and oppress her father's sub-
jects. Butt Dame Necessity is resolved to admonish her,
and sUclidenly transforms the palace, the scene of her es-
capades, into a humble cottage, where Margery is com-
pelled to do all the menial offices herself, and either to
cook her own dinner or to go without. She selects the
latter alternative. Not content with this, however, Ne-
cessity insists upon some other proof of reformation, and,
summoning an enchanted work box, from which issue in
rapid succession all the implements of woman's industry,
leaves Margery with a task to accomplish, which she pre-

sently achieves, in the shape of an elaborate piece of
needlework. Satisfied with the result, Necessity conducts
her newly-made proselyte in a " silkworm car" to the
habitation of Labour, who welcomes her as a convert to hiF
principles, and presents her with Holiday as a recom-
pence.

The scene of Holiday's " Winter Garden" and that of the-
" Fairy Factory of Fancy" are, though totally different in
style, equally to be admired. The latter is one of those
magnificent and gradually unfolding tableaux in which
Mr. W. Beverley has no rival. The audience were en-

chanted with both, and not only recalled the gifted pain-
ter, but Mr. Smith, the manager. The sudden metamor-
phosis of the gorgeous palace interior of King Huggamugga
into the "cottage of Neceisity," too, was admirably con-
hived, and effected with great rapidity. The ballet was
first-rate. •

In the harlequinade there is a real em,barras de richesses.
The transformation takes place at the " Fairy Factory of
Fancy," where, in the twinkling of an eye, Monsieur Holi-

day and MadameNecessityfurnish no less than two harle.

quins, MM. Deulin and Veroni ; two clowns, Messrs. Flex-
more and Boleno ; two pantaloons, Messrs. Barnes and
Tanner ; two columbines, Madame Boleno and Miss Honey;
two sprites, grown up, the Messrs. Elliott; and two sprit( 8,
diminutive—a "gent," or lover, Mr. Halforcl ; and a." gro

tesque," M. Auriol. With the many accomplishments of
Mr. Flexmore, who is capable of almolt anything, from

dancing polkas on ladders and spades to the mere common-
place somersault, wo could not but regard the extraordi-
nary evolutions of the sprites, and even the neat and

finished tours de force of M. Auriol, as superfluous. The
concluding tableau, " Holiday's Fsiry Home," formed a

glittering and splendid. climax.. The audience was one of
the noisiest as well as one of the largest ever assembled in
a theatre; but the "gods" were happily not loss benign
than obstro erous, so that everything passed off with un-

disturbed hilarity from the moment the curtain rose upon
the first scene of the pantomime.

LYCEUM THEATRE.

The entertaintneutscommeuced with " Willi un Tell,"
in which Mr. Dillon supported the character of the here
with his accustomed ability. The silerice of the audience
during its performance was only broken by frequent ap-
plause.

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" William Tell" being' succeeded by a new Christmas
piece, a combination cf burlesque and pantomime, ei -
titled " Conrad and Medora; or, Harlequin Corsair, and
the Little Fairy at the Bottom of the See."
The introduction, which is a travestie of Byron's " Cor-
sair," is founded perhaps more immediately upon the ballet
which was produced last summer in Paris, and subse-
quently at her Majesty's Theatre in London. It is very
pleasantly and smartly written, and is from the pan of
Mr. W. Brough. The doggrel is particularly smooth, and
the puns are both good and plentiful. Miss Woolgar
played Conrad with considerable spirit, and in her make-
up and general conception had evidently studied Byron's
description of the Corsair :

" There was a laughing devil in his sneer
That raised emotions both of rage and fear."
Mrs. Dillon was a very charming Medora, Mr. Toole mad,
a desperate Birbanto, and Mrs. B. White a sufficiently
stately and attractive Gulnare.
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The harlequinade which followed upon the transforma•
tion was lively and merry in the extreme. Mr. T.
Matthews, one of the clowns, gave us an admirable seren•
ade for example, and assisted to form a most amusing trio
with two cocks of the Cochin China breed ; while s
double hornpipe, of a novel and peculiar character,was per-
formed by Messrs. J. and H. Marshall, who accompanied
themselves upon two violins, each one playing upon the
violin of the other in a truly extraordinary manner—a feat
which elicited eery general applause. Mr. H. Marshall also
(the clown) gave in the same scene the Picco solo of the
Carnival de Venice, on Picco's pipe, in the true style of
the celebrated Sardinian minstrel. The imitation is re-
markably clear, and drew down the warm approbation of
the audience. There were two most graceful columbines
in the persons of Miss Clara Morgan and Miss Ladd, a good
pantaloon in Mr. Stilt, and three wonderful whalebone
sprites n o Brothers Nelson.

The tricks all worked to admiration ; no "hitch" of any
description ccurred, and although perhaps a trifle too long
the pantomime '-`ay be pronounced to have been perfectly
successful. Er lently neither trouble nor expense has
been spared in its production, and that it will be an im-
mense favourite with the public there can be no question.

artistic feeling; not produced from violent contrasts and
common-place effects, but is picturesque and delicate. The
grand fairy scene near the opening ; a beautiful moonlight,
cold and truthful; and the transformation scene, which is
fanciful and graceful, with the two babes supported on
fragile boughs, and surrounded with graceful groups, with
the swans in front, and a landscape, most delicately
painted. The Harlequinade was lively, as were some of
the scenes, particularly that of a fair. Altogether, " The
Babes in the Wood" will maintain the credit this house has
obtained for truly elegant pantomime, and doubtless it
will give delight for many weeks, both to the largo and
small children who delight in the pretty, the picturesque,
and the droll. The house was crowded to excess, and
the audience manifested their approbation by calling for
the author and artist, and bestowing generally their
unmingled approbation.