The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-06 00:00:00

THE CHARGES AGAINST MR. MURRAY.

Mr. WYLD asked the noble lord the Secretary for
Foreign Affairs if ho had seen a statement in the Morning
Post charging the Assistant Under-Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs with malversation of office.
Lord STANLEY said he had seen the statement, and
he was very glad that he had an opportunity of stating
that the assertion that the Assistant Under-Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs levied tolls upon those with
whom he cane in contact was simply and absolutely un-
founded. (Hear, hear.) If the charge related to the
agency of the Foreign-office, that had been abolished, and
Mr. Murray received no other emolument than his
salary. Ho could only say he regretted that a
respectable journal should have made such a statement
without inquiring. With respect to the statement that
had been made that papers had been kept back from the
head of the department was the fact. He was certain
no papers ever camo back from him, and with respect
to the document referred to, Lord Russell must
have seen it, as the cover of it bore the mark of the noble
lord, but it was quite open to the noble earl not to read its
contents.

Mr. LAYARD said he had to bear his testimony to
the high character of Mr. Murray. With respect
to the letter in question, he had never seen it,
and be had spoken to Earl Russell on the sub-
ject. The covering of the despatch was dated 12th
of February. The arrangement of the business at the
Foreign Office was divided between two Under Secretaries,
the permanent and the political, and the letter, he should
imagine, had been sent to Mr. llammond, as his
duty to dispose of all matters relative to the East. Ile
could only say ho had never seen the letter, and if the
noble earl had seen it he did not think it required his
attention, and it had accordingly been sent to the India

Mr. OSBORNE said the onus of this business rested
with the Foreign Office, and wo had been plunged into as
expensive war through the bungling which had taken place
during the time his hon. friend was Under-Secretary. Wo
were embarking in war without knowing what it was
about. The war had been brought about because King
Theodore's letter had not receive 1 proper attention. What
had become of that letter ? Nobody had seen it ; but it
had now been answered ; but by whom ? (Hear, hear.)
The fact was, had there been no Foreign-office there
would have been no war.

Colon l SYKES said it was now sought to fix this mat-
ter on the Indian Office, but he had to say on behalf
of Mr. Kay that the letter ' had been sent
over to the India Office and laid on the
desk, and the presumption was that it had been an-
swered by the Foreign-office, and was only sent to the
India-office for the personal information. No opi-
nion of the officer was asked when the letter
WAS sent, and therefore the fair inference was,
it had been fully attended. However, after three years
King Theodore had got an answer to his letter, and the
postage of it 'would cost the country between four and five
millions of money, to raiso which the income-tax had to
be increased, and he thought that that circumstance would
make people think more about it than they otherwise
would.

Mr. OTWAY said the great error of the present expe-
dition was that it was boing carried on on too large a
scale, and that it would in the and result in failure.
Mr. NE WDEGATE again referred to the statement
the hon. member for Southwark had made respecting Dr.
Beke.

Mr. LAYARD said it was ridiculous to say that the
Abyssinian war had been brought about by no answer
being sent to King Theodore's letter. It had in fact
nothing to do with it. With respect to the imputation that
he had shown the utmost indifference to the fate of Mr.
Sterne, because ho had had a private quarrel with him, he
could only say that such a charge was most unjust.
With respect to some of the observations he had
made in the debate, he must say that if he
had made any statement which was unjust,
either as it affected Dr. Bake or Mr. Sterne, he could only
say he regretted it, and he wished to withdraw the observa-
tions, with explanation that if he had made them he had
been led into it by his endeavour to protect the character
of Mr. Rassam from undue calumny.
Sir G. BO WYER said it was clear Consul Cameron had
no business in Abyssinia. If he went there he was a
wrong-doer, and if he got into prison it was his own fault,
and there was no necessity to send another envoy to pro-
cure his release.

Mr. AYRTON remarked that it was not to ho assumed
that the house had expressed an approval of the policy of
the expedition.
Sir S. NORTHCOTE- observed that, it was not con-
venient to discuss the general policy of the expedition
without notice, but ho answered ono or two of the points
which had been raised, and particularly with regard to the
number of forces which ho said the home government had
sanctioned.
The motion was then wilhdi awn.

Mr. HUNT moved that the contract entered into with
Mr. W. Cunard for the conveyance of mails between Hali-
fax, Bermuda, and St. Thomas be approved. The sum to
be given he said.was £19,500 a year, and power was given
to the Postmaster-General to require another station to be
used instead of St. Thomas. _ _

Mr. Alderman LUSK asked why the service could not
be carried on by the Government vessols.
Mr. CORRY replied that two vessels would have to bo
built, and the wear and tear and wages would amount to
£25,000 a year.
Tho motion was agreed to.
Bills were introduced by Mr. Walpolo to make further
provision for the good government and extension of cer-
tain public schools in England; and by Lord R. Montagu
for the establishment of a foreign cattle market for the
metropolis, and for other purposes connected therewith.
The house adjourned at five minutos to seven o'clock.

Foreign Mail Pack©t Lists

MAILS DUE.

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Ditto, by Yrenoh packet Deo. 4
Cape Yards. by Brazil packet ...... . Dec. 4.
Cape of Good live. Ascension, and St. Lielena De 3 29.
China, Penang, and Singapore. via Sou; hampton Dee. 20
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Falkland Islands Dec. 4.
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Ditto, via Marseil es
Malta, Egypt, dm Dec. 14
Ditto, Marseilles Dec. %.
Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via
Southampton Dec.'.o
Ditt,), Marseilles Dec. 11.
Newfoundland Dec. 13
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The approaching sersion of Congress is likely to
become memorable for tie number of financial
measures submitted to its discussion. The Ties-
tions of currency contraction, of payment of he
national debt, of fr.rther greenback issues, and of
the sub,titution of greenbacks for the notes cf
national banks, will all be brought up for decision
at an catty day ; l,ut, unlike the many financial
measures passed during the last six years, those now
to be brought forward are being discussed in ad-
vance of Congress, and there is a fair chance that
we shall thus be saved from further legislative cru-
dities such as now afflict us. The National Bank
Act is one of the many specimens of the blundering
legislation sometimes extracted from Congress by
ignorance, cupidity, and party zeal. Under the
provisions of that Act many honourable men have
organised national banks in all parts of the country,
and have invested in them time, money, character,
and ability. The investment has generally proved
a very profitable one, mainly owing to the privi-
lege given to these banks to issue paper money,
the now well- known national bank currency.
This currency was at first very popular every-
where, but latterly public opinion has some-
what changed, and it has come to be generally
understood that this currency, while very profit-
able to the banks is also very expensive to the
people ; hence the proposition recently made, and
certain to be urged upon Congress, to substitute
greenbacks for the national bank currency, seems
to be received with almost universal favour. It would
seem natural that the owners of national banks
should feel aggrieved at an attempt to deprive them
of valuable privileges conferred upon them by law,
and should use every legitimate means to defeat it ;
but the only open attempt so far made to defend
their position, the letter of their great leader, Mr.
Jay Cooke, is so thoroughly specious, laboured, and
unsound that it has had no effect upon the public
beyond convincing it that the position of the banks
admits of no defence. The question is, however,
far from being as simple as the public generally
seems disposed to consider it.
Stripped of all its technicalities, the case stands
precisely as follows : When the greenbacks or United
States currency were first issued, it was generally
understood that they were a temporary expedient
only, that they were, in the phraseology of the
times, emphatically a " war measure," and that with
the end of the war the existence of the greenbacks
was to come to an end likewise. An irredeemable
paper currency was entirely antagonistic to the
general feeling and judgment of the country; and
although, in the total absence of all currency at the
time the Act was passed, the legal tenders or green-
backs were received as an inestimable blessing, yet
there has been no time since when the sober
thought of the people has not looked upon them as
intruders to be expelled as soon as possible, and has
not reverted with natural longing to the promised
return to specie payments and a currency redeem-
able in coin. This desirable result, among others,
it was thought could and would be obtained through
the national banks. They were to be allowed to
issue bank-notes or currency to the amount of three
hundred millions (the amount of currency which it
was supposed would be required in times of peace),
and these notes they were bound to redeem on de-
mand in " legal-tender" currency. As long as
there were greenbacks in circulation, the national
banks could redeem their notes in that kind of
" legal-tender." But the supply of greenbacks
was to be, and is now being, rapidly reduced by
contraction. A time will soon come when there will
be no longer any greenbacks out, and then the na-
tional banks will be compelled to redeem their notes
in the only kind of " legal-tender" left, viz., gold
and silver coin, and thus specie payments were to
be restored. n order to have ample security that
the banks would, according to agreement, redeem
the notes so issued when called upon, they were
required to purchase and deposit in the Treasury at
Washington an arnountof United States bowls equal
to or a little larger than the amount of currency they
were allowed to issue. These bonds of course belong to
the banks, although temporarily pledged to the U nited
States Treasury, and the interest accruing on them
is regularly paid to the banks as it would be to any
other owner. There seems at first sight nothing
objectionable in this, but there is neverthelets
much.

The original founders of a national bank contri-
bute in greenbacks a otpital of a million dollars.
Wit h these greenbacks they buy a million of bonds;
the bonds are deposited in Washington, where they
draw 6 par cent. interest in coin, or 7 per cent.
interest on its capital, the same as any other
capitalist who invests his money in bonds; but the
bank in addition receives from the Treasury a
million of national bank-bills, which are money in
all parts of the United States, and which the bank
can loan in Wall-street or anywhere else for another
7 per cent. per annum. It is evident that capital
invested in a national bank gets a double rate of
interest—one seven per cent. from the people who
borrow its bills, and another seven per cent. from
the United States Treasury for interest on the bonds
deposited with it. The seven per cent. paid by the
Treasury is, of course, paid by the people at large,
and it is this interest, amounting to over twenty
millions of dollars per annum, which it is proposed
to save by substituting greenbacks for the notes of
the national banks. If, instead of selling to the
national banks the three hundred millions of bonds,
against Irhich they are authorised to issue their
currency, the Treasury had in the first instance
issued three hundred millions of its own currency—
greenbacks—it is evident that there would have
been no more currency out and no less than there
is now, that the total of the national debt would
have been no larger than it is now, bat that three
hundred millions more of that debt would have been
free of interest instead of costing, as they now do,
over twenty millions of dollars annually, which are
taken from the people by taxation to be put in the
pockets of the national bank stockholders. This
is the great error, the great wrong, of the National
Bank Act, and the all but unanimous voice of the
country demands that the error should be corrected
and the wrong redressed.

As matters now stand, a one-dollar national bank
note is nothing more than a promise to pay a one-
dollar
greenback on demand. The popular argument
is, that if the greenback itself is, as it must be, pre- 1
ferable to any promise to furnish it, no matter how
substantial or well-secured, and the greenback, the
actual thing, can be had without cost to the people,
it is a self-evident absurdity to make the people pay a
heavy tax for somebody's promise to furnish that
greenback on demand. The argument, we take it, !
is unanswerable. But the remedial measure, so '
readily deduced from this argument, to substitute
greenbacks for the national notes, to let the cheap
actual thing promised take the place of the expen-
sive promise, is more open to objection.
In the first place, the practical execution of the
measure is fraught with great and serious difficulty.
The bonds deposited in the Treasury certainly be-
long to the banks. Congress may withdraw the
right to issue currency against these bonds, but it
cannot compel the banks to sell them. It is true,
if the banks are deprived of their currency they
may be forced to sell their bonds from want of
money, but they will then sell them in the open
market and get the current price, which is
far above the nominal par value of the bonds. if
the Government declares its willingness to buy the
bonds of the banks at market price, who is to fix
that price, and which market price is to be taken
that of the day when the law is passed, or that of
the day when the bank surrenders its currency, or
that of any other day ? And if the Government
buys these bonds at market price, paying the heavy
premium on them (what injustice to other bond-
holders !), why should the bonds of the banks alone
bo redeemed ? Or if the banks are compelled or
allowed to sell their bonds in the open market, what
disastrous fluctuations would result from the sudden
or even gradual sale of such an immense additional
amount of securities, what loss would result to the
banks and to a thousand other innocent holders !
It is very easy to say the banks shall call in their
currency, but do they control it? It is in the hands
of the people, who want it for their daily business
transactions, and who will not take the trouble to pre-
sent it for redemption, unless compelled by a threat
of depreciation. And what effect would it have
on the business of the country if the national cur-
rency were suddenly threatened with depreciation ?
Why every bank and private banker, every mer-
chant or retail dealer, every manufacturer in the
United States would be bankrupt in less than a
mouth, and thousands of people thrown out of em-
ployment and brought to the verge of starvation.
A cry of distress runs through the land at Mr.
M'Culloch's persistent contraction of four millions
a month ; but to compel redemption of the national
currency is equal to contraction of three hundred
millions in a day. We could fill a column with the
enumeration of practical difficulties in the
way of
the measure proposed, tut practical difficulties
rarely trouble Yiaionaries and demagogues.

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the Danish settlements of St. Thoinas and St. Johri
lave been ceded to the United States. The harbour of
Thomas, as the Times points out, has one of the worst
rreputations in the world. It is a nest of fever. All that
is said of the convenience of its position, the security of
'the port, and the excellence of the accommodation may
be true enough, but, for all that, the pert itself is as deadly
as any river's mouth on the coast'of Africa. One would
have thought that the recent hurricanes must have swept
any place clear of infection, at least for a time ; but the
Tamar, which left St. Thomas a fortnight after the
tempest, and which arrived on Tuesday evening. had
twenty-four cases of fever and seven deaths on her
voyage home. That she brought this fever from St.
Thomas is beyond question, but she reports, aiogit-
laxly enough, that there was no fever in the Hand.
It is not in the island, ner even, apparently, in the town
itself, that the pestilence is generated, but Inertly in the
harbour. If there is yellow fever anywhere- an.l this
year it has been terribly epidemic—the plague is sure to
be found among the shipping at St. Thomas. Unfortu-
nately, the place is a port of call for our mail steamers,
and the waste of life is cruel in the extreme. The mail
ships go into the harbour to coal, and when they leave the
coal wharf they carry away the fever. The regular. or,
at least, the periodical mortality arising from this cause
amounts to a tax levied on life. So afflicting are the
results that it has recently been proposed to change the
coaling station, and to substitute a port which, if some-
what less convenient, may at anyratebeless fatal to health.
That this suggestion was justifiable we do not deny, but
now, before the natural advantages of St. Thomas are
surrendered, it would be advisable to wait and see what
may be done under the new administration of the port
and island. The Americans are more energetic, more
enterprising, and more restless than the Danes ; in fact,
they resemble no people so much as the Danes of a thou.
sand years ago. We may probably trust these modern
northmen to make St. Thomas healthy as well as convey
nient, if healthy it can be made. Its conveniences areto
obvious that we cannot afford to sacrifice them unnecessa-
rily. It was not made the port of call arbitrarily or by acci-
dent, but entirely through its natural attractions, If these
advantages are to be inevitably neutralised by the fatality
of the place, the question of profit and loss may be
judiciously entertained, britlt -appears to us that there is
no necessity in the conclusion, and that the Americans
are exceedingly likely to demonstrate the facts. They
will be gratified with their new acquisition, they will be
on their mettle in turning it to the best account, they have
inexhaustible means, and great experience. General
Bltler, whatever else. he may have done, did keep New
Orleans free from fever for a whole season, and we hope to
find that somebody no less active will do much or more.
for St. Thomas.

In looking at the work which has characterised the pro-
ceedings of Parliament during its brief autumn sitting,
the Post remarks that perhaps the most noticeable fact
which may be observed is the moderate and cautious tone
of Mr. Gladstone, and the support he has on more than
one occasion given to the Ministers. This was to be
remarked particularly in the discussion of the Fenian
executions. When some members were pressing on the
Government a different view of an alteration in the
power of appeal to the Crown to that which
was offered by the Home Secretary, Mr. Glad-
stone threw the weight of his opinion on the
side of the Government in a clear and decided tone,
and no doubt by this act strengthened the decision of the
House. The actual results of this unusual meeting of
Parliament have been the sanction of the two Houses to
the war in Abyssinia and the imposition of increased
taxation on the people. It has been decided that the
course adopted with reference to the captives was the only
one open, and the House of Commons has provided the
necessary supplies. But this is not the last debate we
shall have on Abyssinia ; the next will be certain to pro-
voke more discussion and greater interest, as its impor-
tance and its consequences becomes more and more

conspicuous.
The Herald, in reviewing the proceedings in the Lords
and Commons on Thursday night, says that the debates
were so far satisfactory that they shewed the members of
both Houses to be unanimous in their approval of the
Government in the manner in which the arrange.
ments for -the Abyssinian expedition have been made.
These arrangements were criticised, indeed, by one
member in each House. The speeches of Lord Ellenbo-
rough and Mr. Osborne were made in so different a tone
that they can scarcely be compared or treated with equal
respect. The vast experience in such matters of the man
who was formerly Governor-G eneral of India gives a value
to his warnings and a weight to his opinions, invests theta
with a character altogether different from that of the
frivolous objections advanced by the civilian in the Lower
hours, who would feel that he was out of his clement if
he were not finding fault, and who is never so happy as
when constituting a minority of one on some question
which arouses the deep sympathy of the mass of hes
felloW-countrymen.
In noticing the reception of Mr. Charles Dickens in the
United States, the Standard observes :—lt is an incident
of interest illustrating the nature of American sentiment,
after, though not in any way connected with, the late civil
war. We arc informed that almost the entire press have
given him a friendly welcome, that he excites a social en-
thusiasm wherever he goes, that his readings are antici-
pated with eager curiosity, and that not an echo remains
of the denunciation which once pursued his name
on account of a book he wrote twenty-five years
ago. We are glad to hear all this. It speaks
well for the American nation, and well for their
guest. There may be, in the demonstration provided
for our popular novelist, a good deal of the lionising ele--
ment, of vulgar condescension to success, of clap-trap,
and tuft-hunting. Nevertheless, it is perfectly certain
that there was a time when, in a country where a hundred
years ago a book by a native writer was a rarity, Mr.
Dickens would have encountered a different greeting from
Americans. And there is something worthy of note in
these changes of public feeling and personal amenities.
May we not hope, in fact, that the people of the United
States are growing out of their jealous and captious sen-
sibility to our criticisms ? Many a source of argument,
of contention, and of annoyance remains open, it is true,
between the two countries ; but a better aspect is obser-
va'sle in their commentaries upon one another.
The Telegraph throws off a light little leader on the
alleged decadence of our most cherished Christmas cus-
toms. Kissing, it is said, goes by favour, but " mistletoe
is an article of commerce." At least such is the assertion
of a contemporary, who also informs us that 114 tons of
mistletoe have been sent out of Herefordshire in ono
season. Tons ! It is a sum in the rule of three —or in
this case the rule of two—how many kisses go to the ton?
Perhaps there was a time when the mistletoe sanc-
tioned kissing, but we fear that golden age is passed ; for
no matter how the pleasant-looking branches may deco.
rate London chandeliers, faint hearts are too many,
and our fair ladies far too cold, to allow the old
Druid emblem to have any power. Whoever saw a lady
permitting under the mistletoe a salute she would not
have sanctioned without it ! In Ireland the mistletoe is
unknown, and yet kissing goes on ; and probably a day
will dome in England when the sacred branches shall dis-
appear. But then, as Cobden said, "We are not Con-
servative, but Chinese." Look at Valentine's Day. Of
all possible ways of making love, or even of pleasing
children, sending valentines is the most expensive. Yet
it flourishes ; there are London houses that do nothing all
the year round but make valentineS, consuming thousands
of pounds' worth of tinselled and perforated paper ; and
every year more are sent. As to the other old custom
supposed to thrive under the mistletoe, we fear its public
use is hopelessly gone, until some bold spirit introduces
kissing by competitive examination as a reform on the
present system, remarkable as it is for gross favouritism.
and admitted though not unblushing monopoly.

THE RECENT HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES.--
The hydrographer to the Admiralty has issued circulars,
requesting all the information which captains of vessels
which were in the West Indian seas during the hurricane
of the 29th October can afford, in order that the charts of
the hurricane district in the West Indies which are now
being prepared may be completed with greater fullness
and accuracy. The chief points of information desired aro
the ship's position, direction and force of the wind, the
state of the sea, or swell, the registrations of the bare•
meter, and the temperature of the air and the sea.
PROPOSED TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL.—A series of
conferences has just closed at the East Central Coffee.
house, Jewin-street, on the subject of erecting a Tem-
perance College Hospital, &c., where the sick may be
cured without the use of stimulants. A statement pre-
sented to the meeting last held by Mr. Richardson
averred that the project was intended to obviate the hin-
drance to the temperance cause by medical prescription
of alcoholic stimulants, and that at the present time
hundreds of the sick poor are rejected from the hospitals
simply from want of room. The proposal was to levy a
shilling from every teetotaller in the United Kingdom,
which would enable the provisional committee to take at
once a suitable house in the centre of London, and to fit
it up as a temporary hospital until a permanent one could
be erected. Dr. McLaurin°, from Canada, approved the
project ; and the conference adopted the recommendations
of the provisional committee, based on the resolution
unanimously passed, viz.:—" That this conference is cf
opinion that the time has come for the friends of tempe-
rance to erect a hospital for themselves, where all diseases
common to mankind may be cured without the aid of
alcoholic poisons." An address, asking Mr. Samuel
Morley to become the president of the hospital, was also
carried ; and Mr. J. W. Richardson has undertaken the
Ulf) dattitit 2t.lnigarY fie re

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE,
LAST FIVE NIGHTS.
Titiens in "
TO-MORROW (SATURDAY) EVENING, Dec.
7.
Beethoven's OptTa,
FIDEL 10.

LAST WEEK.
Positively the Lest Night bnt Three.
Millie. Titiens end 'Mle. Clara Louise Kellogg.
MONDAY Next, December 9,
IL DON GIOVANNI.

Last Night but Two.—Mdlle. Titiens.
Tuesday next, Dec. 10 (by genera] desire), Verdi's Opera
iL T lio VAT 01t1.1

Last Night but One.
Btmefit of Millie. Kellogg.--Thursday next, Di•cember 12.

Titictri and 'Mlle. Clara Louise Kellogg.
First Act, LA TUAVIAT A ; First Act, F DELIO ; First
Act, LIND 1 DI CIIAMOUNI.
Commence at Eight o'clock.
Stall,;, 15s. ; Dress Circle, 10s. 6d.; Upper Circle, ss. ;
Pit, 55.; Gallery, 2s. Private Boxes, from One Guinea
and upwards.
Box-office of the Theatre open daily.

firiIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE
_IL Solo Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. 11. Chattorton.

TRIUMPHANT AND BRILLIANT SUCCESS.
The Carnival of Venice, at the conclusion of the first
act, has been unanimously pronounced by the press and
the public to be one of the grandest spectacular effects ever
witnessed on the stage.
THIS EVENING, her Majesty's servants will perform
the new Romantic Play, in 4 Acts, entitled THE DOGE
OF VENICE, adapted by Bayle Bernard from Lord
Byron's Tragedy of " Marino Faliere," with additions from
the Play of " Marino," by Casimer de la Vigne, and
Musically Illustrated by Selections from the Operas of
" Marino " by Donizetti, and the "Duo Foscaro " and
"Bravo "of Verdi and Mercadante, with New and Magni-
ficent Scenery by. Mr. Wm. Beverley. The music selected
and arrarged by Mr. J. H. Tully. The dances and panto-
mimic action devised by Mr. J. Cormack. The costumes
and masks invented by Mr. R. W. Keene. The play
will be produced under the direction of Mr. Edward
Stirling. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, Messrs. J.
U. Cowper, 11. Sinclair, E. Phelps, Barrett, James John-
stone, C. Warner, W. M'lntyre, C. Harcourt, Webb, F.
M)reland, &c.; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Grattan, &c.
Increased orchestra and numerous chorus.
To conclude with each evening THE LADIES' CLUB.
Mesdames Beatrix Shirley, Kate Harfleur, Grattan, Huds-
peth, L. Wilmot, Mrs. H. Vandenheff ; Messrs. J. Rouse,
Barrett, Harcourt, etc.
Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7 o'clock.
Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily.

QUEEN'S T 1-lEA TR E, Long-acre.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
T HIS EVENING the performances will commence with
(at 7 o'clock) HE'S A LUNATIC.
After which (by particular desire), the celebrated co-
medy, by Tom Taylor, Esc! called STILL WATERS
HUN DEEP. Principal characters by Messrs. Alfred
Wigan, W. H. Stephens, C. Wyndham, W. N. 'Perrot, C
Seyton, Miss E. Teriy, and Mrs. Alfred Wigan.
To conclude with the Comic Drama of THE FIRST
NIGHT. Achille Talma Dufard (a French actor), Mr.
Alfred Wigan.

NEW QUEEN'S THEATRE - ROYAL,
.I_ll MR. and MRS. ALFRED WitiAN Every Evening.

RO YA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE
Sole Lessen and Manager, Mr. Vining.

THIS EVENING, THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
Dion Boucicault; Messrs. Dominick Murray, E. Atkins,
G. F. Nevile, J. G. Shore, H. Mellon, Gresham ; Miss
Elsworthy, Miss E. Barnett, 3lrs. Addie, and Mrs. Pion
Boucicault. The wild scenery of Kerry and the Water
Cave have besn painted by Mr. F. Lloyds and assistants.
The Drama precsded by A LITTLE FLIRTATION,
and followed by NO. 1, ROUND THE CORNER.
Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7.
N.B.— Due notice will be given of the next representa-
tion of ARR.A.II-N.t-POGUE.

THEATRE ROYAL,HAYMARKET,
Sole Lessen and Manager, Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE WINNING CARD. Mr.
ompton.
After which, BROTHER SAM. Messrs. Sothern,
Buckstone, Compton, Johnstone, &c.; Mesdames Chip-
pendale, Robertgon, Lewin, Arc.
To conclude with MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Mr. Chip-
pendale, Mr. Howe; Mrs. Chippendale, &c.
Commence at Seven.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Fechter.
THIS EVENING, at Eight, ROMEO AND JULIET.
Romeo, Miss Vestvali ; Mercutio, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Friar
Laurence, Mr. Ryder ; Nurse, Mrs. Marston ; Juliet, Miss
Billy Palener.
Preceded by, at Seven, PERFECTION. Messrs. J.
Neville, Dalton, J. Francis; and Miss Maud Shelley.

IFS OYAL STRAND THEATRE
111 i Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh.

TINS EVENINGot 7, NOTHING TO NURSE. Mr,
Thorne; Miss Newton.

After which, a New Comedy, KIND TO A FAULT.
Messrs. Parselle, Belford, and Turner ; Mesdames John-
stone, Gwynne, and Hughes.
To conclude with Byron's WILLIAM FELL WITH A
VENGEANCE. Messrs. James and Fenton ; Mesdames
Holt and Weathersby.

OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE
lv New Management.
Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan.

THIS EVENING, FROM GRAVE TO GAY. Messrs.
H. Neville, H. Wigan, Addison, and C. Mathews ; Mes-
dames L. Moore and Stirling.
Followed by IF I HAD A THOUSAND A-YEAR.
Messrs. H. Wigan, Cooper, C. Mathews, and Farrell ; Mes-
dames L. Moore and St. Henry.
To conclude with MY WIFE'S BONNET. Messrs.
R. Soutar, H. Cooper, and J. G. Taylor; Mesdames L.
Moore and E. Ferret].
Commence at Seven.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
j. Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon.

THIS EVENING, at 7, MAN IS NOT PERFECT,
NOR WOMAN NEITHER. Messrs. G. Belmore, J. G.
Taylor, C. 11. Stephenson, Miss E. Pitt, and Mrs. Alfred
Mellon.
After which, 39th time, MAUD'S PERIL. Messrs.
Billington, G. Belinore, Ashley, Eburne, C. J. Smith ; Miss
Herbert, Mrs. Billington, Miss Emily Pitt.
To conclude with THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS.
Mr. G. Belinore, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Harris, Miss
Nelly Harris, &c.

HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL
-solo proprietor and manager, Mr. Sefton Percy.

THIS EVENING, at 7, the highly succesiful D.-aura of
FOR LOVE. Mesdames Stephens, Ilcurade, 0. Saunders;
Messrs. Montague, Price, Widdicomb.
At 9, Burnand's new Burlesque, MARY TURNER; or,
Thu VY'icions Willin and Wietorious Wirtue. Mesdames
Fanny Josephs, Saunders, Wilmore, Clinton, &c.; Messrs.
Robins, Montague, Garden, Wilmot, itc. Magnificent new
scenery, dresses, and appointments.

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