The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-18 00:00:00

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Hest • ... ....... 3,524,832
Public deposits (in-
cluding Ewliequer,
Commissio .ers of
National Debt, Sav-

Government securities

(includg:DeadWeight
Annuity) .. • •
Other Securities •... • • 29,264,940
Notes ..... . • •
Gold and Silver Coin 525,120

ings' Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 6,944,352
Other deposits
Seven Day and other
Bills ...... .... •• • • 893,756

£40,993,366
M, IIi.4,RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Ditted the 17th day of Dec., 1857.

£10,993,366

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, come
puud from the returns made iu the week ending Dec.
15, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : s. d.
From the British Possessions in America 26 1
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius..."
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 26 101
Average of the above descriptions.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tats DAT.
-msterdam 11 18 Gibraltar ...... •• • •
three months .. 12 214 Leghorn ..... 30 70
gater‘laria ............ 12 2y6 Genoa
Intwerp .............. 25 80 - Milan
Brussels 25 • •
Zlaroburgh •• •• •• •• •• 13 12'4, Naples •• • • .. 40%
Alums ...• •••••••• •• .• • • Palermo .• • •
Paris ••.• • • • • ••• •••••••• 25 50 ; 51omlna •• • ... 122 k
Do. three mouths . •• 26 85 'Usher .... ..•• 5114
Maneilba 26 90 !Oporto ................524
Boarae.kax . ..... .' Rio Janeiro ..... • • • •• ••
Frankfort-on-llaine 122 ilitionos Ayres •• • •

Berlin ................

New Yori,frO days' eight

Viouna,••••• • • • • • • • • re 11 10
rric5t0.......,••••.... 11 12
Pete:lb:its ............ 33%
Ractril 47%
47%
Illreolona
. ..

Philadelphia ..
OF BULLION, PER OZ:
Foreign Gold in Bars .£3 17 9
i'ortugal Gold Coin • • 0 0 0
Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
New Dollars • • 0 0 0
Silver in bare ...... 0 5 2%

El AY MA IiKET THEATRE.

The Pantomime at this legitimate house is
entitled The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood : or,
Harlequin and the Spiteful Fairy, which will
erribrace all the incidents of the well-knowa
story. The King and Queen that lived once, and
who had been married many years without having
any children—the beautiful baby that was at
last born to them—the invitation to all the
fairi( s to stand godmothers to the Princess at
her christening—the unfortunate omission of negleot.
ing to invite a Spiteful Old Fairy, who was
supposed to be dead, or under the iniuence of
some spell the good 'o gifts given to the young
Princess by seven of her fairy godmothers—the ' ar.
rival of the Spiteful Fairy, who throws the
court into dismay, by declaring that when the
Princess grew to be a young woman she would
prick her hand with a spindle and die of the
wound—the rejoinder of a friendly fairy, the
principal godmother, that she would so arrange the
matter that the Princess should not die, when
wounded by the spindle, but only sleep a hundred years,
at the end of which a king's son would come and
wake her—the proclamation issued by the Xing
abolishing the use of spindles throughout the
land—the growing up of the Princess till she
was sixteen—her arrival with her parents and the
court at a summer palace—her slipping away from
'them and finding an old woman spinning—her trying to
spin herself—her wounding her hand, as foretold,
and falling to sleep for a hundred years—
the Friendly Fairy causing a wood to grow up and en.
close the palace, and the Princess sleeping for a cen.
tury ; and with her, to keep her company, all the
maids of honour, gentlemen, officers, stewards,
cooks, scullions, running footmen, guards, por-
ters, pages, and valets the passing away of
the one hundred years, and a young Prince finding
out the wood, while hunting, and penetrating into the
palace—his waking the Sleeping Beauty, and all her
attendants—the Princess and the Prince falling
mutually in love at first sight, with the interference at
the Spiteful Old Fairy who vows to do hersworst to destroy their happineos—the arrival of one
of the fairy godmothers of the Princess to pro.
tect her—the constancy of the Prince being tried by
the Friendly Fairy becoming Columbine, and using
all her arts and graces to turn him from the Princess
—the Prince becoming Harlequin, and the Princess
following him through the world—the Spiteful Old
Fairy's resolve that the Prince and Princess shall
not escape her—the changing herself into Pant*.
loon, and one of her familiars„ into Clown, with the
final triumph of the Prince and Princess, who are made
happy by the Friendly Fairy. The scenery of this fairy
story will be painted by Mr. William Calcott, who
has achieved so much fame in all the pantomimes
produced at this house. Messrs. Morris and
O'Connor give their aid to the scenes of the hark,.
quinade. The Leclerq family have been expressly en.
gaged for this Christmas entertainment, And will make
their first appearance at the Haymarket. Louisa
Leclerq (sister of toe popular Carlotta) will sustain the
character of the Sleeping Beauty, and appear
throughout the harlequinade. Mr. ArthurLeclerq,7il
be the Harlequin • Fanny Wright the Friendly 1 airy
and the Columbine ; Mr. Mackay, Pantaloon and Mr,
ive due effect to
Charles Leclerq the Clown. To I g
Mi..Buckstone has leased
tshoemomeclahragneicapl changes, Mr.
the Haymarket,
formerly known as Lang's Shooting Gallery, and
premises adjoining adj
which will now become a portion of the theatre. The
alteration in the prices of admission have caused so muck
satisfaction to the public, to give more accommodation
to the frequenters of the lower gallery on and after boxing
night, the upper gallery will be abolished, and the entire
space, converted into one spacious gallery. The acme
fr the pit to the upper boxes will from that night be
so arranged that stairs from the lobby of the pit will be
constructed to admit the audience at once to the upper
boxes who may wish to go there. It is also determined
that in the scenes of the harlequinade the system of
waking them the medium of advertisements will be
utterly discarded.