The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1861.

DR. MARK AND HIS LITTLE MEN
At St. James's Hall, Regent-street and Piccadilly.
Last Concerts in London, owing to their provinc'al engage-
ments. Their next appearance will be duly announced.
Their Last Concerts in London will take place in the follow-
ing order :
THIS EVENING. FRIDAY, Jan. 18,
At Eight o'clock,

And the TWO LAST CONCERTS TO-MORROW (SATUR
DAY), at half-past Two and Eight o'clock.

Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 3s. ; Area. 2s. ; Gallery, ls. Tickets
may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old
Bond-street, W.

BUCKLEYS'.—To-night at 8. Great attraction
for the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. Grand Extra
Mid-day Performances. every Wednesday and Saturday
Afternoons at 3, and the usual Repre entation at 8 every
Evening. ST. JAMES'S HALL, Piccadilly. Stalls, 35.;
Area, 25.; Gallery, Is. Places can bwilecured at the office
from 10 till 5. 28, Piccadilly. Change of Programme.—
Crowded Houses !

MR. W. S. WOODIN'S NEW ENTERTAIN-
MENT, the CABINET of CURIOSITIES, POLY-
GRAPHIC HALL, King William-street, Charing-cross,
TO-NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING (extent Saturday), at
Eight. Private boxes, £1 Is. ; Stalls and box stalls, 3s. ;
area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, plan of the stalls may be
seen, and seats secured (without extra charge), at the Box-
office, from 10 till 4.. Morning Performance, Saturday, Jan.
12.

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION (Limited).—
Now Open with Great Novelties. Mornings, 12 to 5.
Evenings, 7 to 10.—Admission, ls. Schools, and Children
under Ten Years of Age, Half-price.

TIVANS'S Magnificent MUSIC and SUPPER
ROOMS, Covent-Garden.
MACKNEY has returned to this Establishment.
Suppers as usual after the Theatres.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. - ARGYLL
ROOMS.—GRAND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT
with the Celebrated BAND, Forty in number (established
eleven years), chosen from the Philharmonic Concerts, Royal
Italian Operas, and the Household Troops. Conducted by
Mons. Lamotte. Cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt.—Dancing
at Nine o'clock.-Is. admission.

INTENSE COLD renders the Liver and other
important Viscera torpid, and, in consequence, their
functions are not performed naturally. PA ttR'S LIFE
PILLS act as a Warm and Balsamie Apet:ent. removing
without the slightest pain or inconvenience all obstructions,
and restore the whole System to a state of Health and Com-
fort. ~.%
PAPR'S LIFE PILLS are justly esteemed a safe and
effect:ye Family Medicire, which may be resorted to at any
time with perfect confidence.
Sold in Boxes, price Is. 1./, , 2s. 9d.. and in Family Packets,
lls. each, by all Chemists a Medicine Vendors. Sole Pro-
prietors, T. ROBERTS and 0., 8, Crane-court, Fleet-street,
London.

where her masts will be taken out. The mainmast
is very defective. Her crew will probably be paid
off about the 25th inst. A considerable number of
the men have entered their names for service on
board the screw steam frigate Narcissus, 51, Cipt.
Risk, flag of Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker,
bound for the Cape of Good Hope.
The screw steam gun vessel Nimble, 5, at Devon-
port, will be placed alongside the hulk Kent to-day
(Friday), to be masted.

Preparations are being made on board•the screw
steamship Aboukir, 90, Capt. Douglas Curry, for
the removal of her main-deck guns, in place of
which she will be supplied with those of the Arm-
strong construction.

Nearly all the guns belonging to the screw steam-
ship Donegal, 101, Capt. H. Broadhead, have been
landed. It:is said they are all to be newly vented.
The river Medway, at Chatham, is now almost
entirely free from ice, and the communication be-
tween the dockyard and the ships in harbour, which
was partially suspended, has again been resumed.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lient. Herbert C. A. Brand,
to the Edinburgh ; John M. Ellis, chief engineer to
the Indus, for charge of the machinery of the
Satellite; Robert Hodge, second-class assist.-engi-
neer to the Cornwallis, for service in the Sandfly ;
William G. Hill, assist.-surg., to the Excellent ;
James Hunter, assist.lurg., to the Illustrious; John
Y. Ellis, assfst,:stiig. `to tfular liospitili W. H.
Cruice, assist.-surg., to Woolwich Hospital of
Marines ; C. B. Lamb, assist.-sung. to the Fisgard,
for Woolwich Infirmary ; Arthus Price, paymaster,
is advanced to the second class; Charles Saunders,
paymaster, advanced to the third class ; Henry H.
P. Shanks, assist.-paymaster, to the Impregnable,
as supernumerary ; Arthur Hughes, clerk, to the
Argus ; and William F. Woods, assist.-clerk, to the
Desperate.