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London, England, 1844-12-30 00:00:00

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Immense Holiday Attraction.
TIM EVENING will be performed Balfe's grand Opera, THE
DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK.
After which will be repeated the Grand Christmas Harlequinade,
called PUCK'S PANTOMIME ; or, Harlequin and Robinson Crusoe.
The principal characters by the unrivalled pantomime artistes,
Messrs. W. H. Payne, Wieland, T. Matthews, Howell, and Miss
Carson.
SCENE 1. An " Attic" Story. Author (in distress for many
:things, but principally for a pantomime subject), Mr. Hance ;
ruck (Envoy from the Court of King Oberon, with powers to pro-
vide the usual Christmas fun for "Children all, both great and small,"
Miss A. Payne. Ilow Puck gives new life to the author by giving
life to his attic, which occasions an extraordinary stir on the pre-
mises, and introduces an extensive circle of old acquaintances ; haw
Messrs. ruck and Author form themselves into a Coounittee of Taste,
and decide in favour of Robinson Crusoe.
SCENE 2. Coast of the island on which Crusoe was wrecked, with
the ship high ant dry, the ocean slumbering in the back ground, the
crabs, &c, wide awake in the fore ground. Robinson Crusoe, Mr.
W. 11. Payne. How Crusoe pays a morning visit to the wreck; his
private-opinion of the useful and the useless ; how he is astonished
by an unceremonious visit from the Caribee Indians, and how he de-
termines in his turn to astonish them.
SCENE 3. Interior of the island. King Paribo (Autocrat of all the
Caribees, having a passion for Princess Tooraloora, and being in a
passion with everybody- else), Mr. T. Matthews; Hankipanki (his
club-bearer, au office equivalent to mace-bearer to the Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor of London), Mr. Howell ; Prince Parramatta, after-
wards " Friday" (King Pariboo's young brother, and old rival, con-
temned to the cage during her Majesty's pleasure), Mr. Wieland ;
Princess Tooraloora (intended by Pariboo for himself, but intending
ierself for his brother), Mr. Johnson. How, preparations being made
for a Caribee Picnic, Crusoe, fired with indignation, fires a volley—
how Pariboo anti Hankipanki jump out of the frying-pan into the
.tlre, 1.e., the water.
SCENE 4.—Exterior of Cavern on Sea Shore. San Domingo Billy
(the celebrated Pacifte Shark, netted expressly for the occasion, in
hopes of his turning out " a great catch"), Mr. Longswallow. Ilow
Pariboo and Ilankipanki bolt from San Domingo Billy, and how
Billy bolts them—how Crusoe anti Friday go out fishing---how they
have a " glorious nibble"—and how, the fish being landed, lands Its
two insides—and how the exterior of the cavern naturally changes to
SCENE s.—lnterior of Cavern, with rdrd's-eye View of Robinson
Crusoe's Farm. Ilow Crusoe and Co. give the Caribecs the go-by—
how Pariboo and his warriors, to the tune of " Follow, follow over
mountain," set off in pursuit—and how it is supposed they were lost
in fog, which will account for their not arriving earlier at
SCENE 6.—The House that Crusoe built. N.B. The premises
may be viewed nightly with tickets, apply to Mr. Parsons, Box-
oMce, from ten till six. Ilow Crusoe does the honours of his but to
the great Princess and her little brothers—how he gives Friday his
first lesson in " Mrs. Glass's Domestic Cookery"—how the jollifica-
tion within is suddenly interrupted by the Indians from without ; in
chort, how the appearance of Puck leads to the disappearance of the
hut, and then to the change of the Old Wreck to the Jolly Young
Waterman and Crusoe's Departure for London-bridge.
SCENE 7. Exterior of Music Shop and Artificial Arms and Legs
Manufactory ; Duet, in two Hats, tune. " Ilere we go up, up, up, here
we go down, down, down;" Roman Gladiator versus British Gladia-
tor ; a clear stage and no favour ; patent violoncello, warranted to
play on itself grand discord.
• SCENES 8 and 9. Curriers and Fancy Loather-dressers, and Throne-
Loom in the Palace at Morocco ; how to leather Morocco and how to
dress its leather ; how to hide yourself to avoid hiding by another—
a whole skin is better than a skin in holes.
SCENE 10. Exterior of Insolvent Debtors' Prison ; Remember the
poor Debtors ; Knockers ant bells versus thieves ; Somebody's
coming; Poor debtors and heardhearted creditors; the tables sud-
denly turned by an Act of Parliament ; Change of the Premises to
SCENE 11. Baths and Washhouses for the Labouring Classes ;
" Ladies of the Round Tub :" Soap at a premium ; Mangling done
here; Arrival of " the trades of London, with their respective young-
ones ;" The bell invites us ; Wives go to dinner ; Husbands go to bath;
Boiling water versus cold water cure ; The washing-tub in a stonn,
and general confusion.
SCENE 12. Lamp and Chandelier Shop and Lodging•house ;
" Catch him who can," or Harlequin here, Harlequin there, Harle-
quin everywhere ; Bagged at last ; " Off with his head, so much for
Harlequin ;" Eight heads better Hunk one ; Patent self-lighting
Chandelier,

" The happy family we all know so well,
" The still happier family we all love so well."
SCENE 13. A Stone Quarry ; A monster meeting, with a tail and
without one ; llow to convert a blockhead into a great man ; Art
and Commerce lend their assistance to produce
SCENE 14. A most extraordinary 'Change, leading to a still more
extraordinary one, viz.,
SCENE 15. Grand emblematical and national tableau of her
3lajesty christening the Royal Exchange.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 30.
Will he Performed a Nev and Original Comedy, in Five Acts,
Called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket
Mr. S rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe•' e ; Tom Coke
Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ;
The Countess of I pion, Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthor"
Madame Vestris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia ~ennett.
After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza,
entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxorious. Mr. J.
Bland ; Princess Grancsa, Miss Jul a Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P.
Ilortpit ; Duchess Grognon, Mrs. stanley.
To conclude svi.h a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC.
TORIAL TOUR 1N SWITZERLAND.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas tout One Guinea and a.. Half each.
rckcts and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office,
(rim Ten till Five o'Clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER SO,
Will be repeated I-)3T special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.)
a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some
Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veek,
Mr. 0. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright • Tughy, Mr. Wilkin.
son ; S,r Joseph Rowley, Bart , Mr. Paul Redford ; Will Fern, Mr.
Hudson ; Richard, Mr. Selby; Meggy %Trek, Miss Forteacue; Mrs.
Chickenstalku, Mrs. Frank Matthews.
To he followed by a New Comic Operetta, called the FOX
AND THE GOOSE. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson,
Paul Bedford, and Mrs Fitzwilliam.
To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas
Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Ilailequin aid the Kii•g
of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; ('olumnine, Miss Lolls-
dale; Clown. Mr C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. San •crs.
Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Paint4r or Pitt; Leader of the
Bind, Mr. Mellon.—Box-citite open from Elevan till Four. Private
.8',X09 to he had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 30,
Will be produced an English Version of the celebrated Opera
Buffa, in Two Acts, called I'HE ITALIAN IN ALGIERS. Ihe
Music by Rossini. Mustapha, Mr. P. Corn ; Lindor, Mr. Allen
Taddeo, Nit' Leffler; Haly, Mr. Mattacks ; Isabella, Mdlle. Helen
Ccndell ; Elvira, Miss Grant ; Zu'ma, Miss Brentnall.
To be succeeded by a New Comedietta entitled THE WIDOW
BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs.
Lorimer, Mrs. Stirl.ng
After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather
Operatic Burlesque Extravag,nza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS
MEN. Giindoff; Mr Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry ; Kelmar,
Mr. Granby; Riber, Mr, Corri , Golotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine,
Miss E. Stanley; Ravina, Mrs. Foabroke.
Stage Manager, Mr. H. 1. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden,Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL
Dress Circle, 5,. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Galle Is. Half-price at
Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. ed. ; Boxes, Qs. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery,
Private Boxes. l'wo Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce-
nium Boxes, Two luineas and Doors to be opened at Hall-
vast Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock.
The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingharn,
Private Boxes and Free Admissions for tha Season to be had at the
rheetre.

"/ kIEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA-
HOUSE.
Uwder the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 30,
Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal
Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews,
Collier, Emery, Turner, and Keeley; Miss Walcott, Miss Artie.,
Miss Grove, and ',lt's. Keeley.
ARer which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO
)LARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker;
Miss Arden, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. tNoolliage.
To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Histeric4l, Romantic,
Pantomimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE
AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews;
Meadows, Wigan, Coll:er, furner, Kinloch, /amok!, and Keeley ,
Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs
Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF A 0311.s,ijION.—Baicony ir,oxes. 45.; Upper
B,sxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2F. ;
tipper Boxes, Is. (Id.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier
(holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
Pier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a..HaIL Private
Boxes on the Pit f ier (holding six persons), One Guirea,
Fre Box-office is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the dim-
flop of Br. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

Great Hit of the Equestrian Comic Pantomime at
ASTLe:Y's ROYAL. AMPHITHEATRE of. ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY.
W EVENING, 30,
ill be repeatedTHlS a New Spe:RacIe,DECEMBER entitled THE ROYAL FOX
HUNT; or, file Race-Hone and Life's Course of Man and Steed ;
astroducing unequalled Natio' al Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage
and in the Circle by living Fos and real Pack of Hounds, purchased
b, Mr. Batty of Mr Tattersall, to realise this novel production.
Lpsorn Races and other Sporting Features.
New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Dianehip.
To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime,
c. fled HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the
Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ; Columbine,
Mrs. J. W. Colver ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury.
Acting and stage.m mager, Mr. W i i 13roadfoot.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding
by Mr. K. Smith daily.
Mr. BATTY begs to a-quaint the Nob:lity, Gentry, and his
Patrons, that, in compli nce with numerous requests from the
country, and by special desire, he has formed arrangements to pre-
sent, during the Christmas Ho Way, a S ries of EQUESTRIAN
lISORNrNI4 FECES and FASHIO'NABLE DAY PERFORM-
ANCES, to commence at Half-past One, and terminate at Half-past
Three : consisting of Batty's S,,lend id 'S
.ones of Equitation in the
Circle. The first Three Morning Performances will take place
This Day, Dec.3l, Wednesday, Jars. I, and Fr day, Jan. 3.

DA VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE
As usual, the best Pantomime of the Sevon I A more brilliant
triumph than ever before achieved : I Laughter, Wonder, and
Delight !!! The First Pantomimic Performers of the Age, and
Everything New !II!
THIS EVENINO, DECEMBER 30,
Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or The End
of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corti (from the
Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. El Hughes, Neville, R Honner,
Lewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mts. IL Hof. ner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. IV.
Daly, and Miss Martin.
To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called
POUNDS, sHILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN
L. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ricgway;
Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corti; Columbine, Miss Slaiter.
Places arid Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
office, from Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
Extraordinary Success of the Ncw Comic Pantomime.
PHIS EVENING, DECEMBER 3+4
Will be produced MARIANNE; or, tho Child of Charity. Su
rot tett trr Mr. o.;baldiston, Henry Howard, J. T Johnson, T. H.
Higgie, Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent,
bliss E,
lerrey, and Miss Treble.
A fter which, the laughable Drama, entitled WILFUL MURDER.
To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ' • or, The Little Old Woman and
Lethe Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapin° ; Clown,
. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr, Coney; Columbine, Mdlle.
Vibe.

The i:11 of Cardigan has
given
away seven oxen
this season to the necessitous in the villages of Deene.
Deenethorpe, Glassth Stangon and Corby. The
Countess has also made' liberal distribution of warm
clothing and other necessaries to the poor of the district
surrounding his Lordship's estate in Northamptonshire.
Accounts have been received of the death of Plr
Scales, postmaster of Hon;-Kong.

LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1844.

The Caledonia, which effected her rapid passage
from Boston in thirteen days, arrived, yesterday
afternoon, in the Mersey, bringing, among her other
important papers, including intelligence from Mexico
and from Canada, the penultimate " Message " of the
President, Mr. TYLER. In an early period of the
month of March next the Presidential plumage of
this gentleman will disappear. It is no wonder,
therefore, if he ruffles it somewhat, and makes
a great show, previously to " moulting." The
old Roman poets had a fancy that the dying
swan, prescient of her approaching dissolution,
always sings her own requiem, by an instinct of
anticipation. Whether a flickering President, just
about to go out, can sing as harmoniously as a mori-
bund swan, we will not undertake to pronounce ; but
if the song of the expiring bird be half as long as the
"Message" of the departing Chief Magistrate, a
swan must amply make up in articulo mortis for half'
a century of taciturn existence. We have heard, in
England, of Governments, Cabinets, and Ministers
being described as composed of "squeezable mate-
rials," which, how little promising so ever before they
are subjected to the "gentle violence" of a pertinacious
badgering in Parliament, are found to yield abundantly
on the application of adequate pressure. In the
United States the chief officers of the Government
must possess a contrasted power—that of expan-
sibility. It must have required a very high pressure
to raise the steam from the few ideas which Mr.
TYLER has collected in the shape of pabulum for
the combustion of his Message to the Senatt)
into a volume of bulk enough to fill four
columns and a half of our largest London
newspapers. In point of fact, even for a document
of its class, this " Message" is unusually wordy, un-
reasonably " lengthy." But it does touch some topics
of high interest to countries on this side of the At-
lantic. Mr. TYLER adroitly felicitates " the Senate
and the House of Representatives" on the peaceful
and orderly conduct of the United States' population
in the various stages of the late election of a Presi-
dent, throughout all the districts in which the votes
of the vast Electoral College of that country
were recorded. We do not detect any over-
zealous tendency to congratulate his fellow-citizens
on the fact of not having re-elected himself; or any
self-denying admissions that they have done well it
choosing one more worthy than himself fur his suc-
cessor to the great office. He expatiates on the ex-
cellency of a political confederacy composed of many
States, each of them supreme as to the direction and
arbitriment of all matters within its own peculiar
jurisdiction, but entering with other States into a vo-
luntary compact to submit the general government of
the whole to the direction of the majority of all their
citizens, as the sense of that majority is to he
collected from the Legislative body organised by the
Federal Constitution. In a further section of hi-
Message one perceives all the bearing of the pro-
minent position which the "Election" occupies is,
his exordium. On the subject of the foreign rela-
tions of the United States, he observes, in that quaiu
phraseology which is naturalised nowhere else, the
at no former period were the apparent guarantee:
of peace among the various Powers " of that en•
lightened and important portion of the globe, Europe,"
more firmly established. Mr. President TYLER then
directs the earnest attention of Congress to the pend-
ing negotiations fur the occupation of the Oregoe
Territory, the value and importance whereof ht
warmly dilates upon, recurring at the same time tc
certain of his former messages, in which he had
urgently recommended the establishment of a susses
sion of military posts, to be occupied by soldiers in
the United States' service, on " the long line of lane
travel," for the double purpose of facilitating ano
protecting emigration thither. This point is touched
upon with some show of malicious indulgence, as it
it would prove to Congress at large a question the
more agreeable in the ratio of the disapproval with which
it might probably be regarded in this country. That
such an idea did pass through the PRESIDENT'S mind, we
may infer from the circumstance that, without having
specifically noticed the fact of the proposed Oregon
occupation having been already a matter of disagree-
ment between the United States' Government and
ours, he unconsciously proceeds to notice, in the
very next paragraph, " other matters in d!yerenct
between " them. As to one of these, the seizure of
American vessels on the coast of Africa by British
cruisers, the officers of which had acted under the
mistaken impression of such vessels having been en-
gaged in the slave trade, he is pleased to
assume that former concessions of the Bri-
tish Government have already proved that
it admits its responsibility to make good the damage
occasioned by such seizures—under one of the arti-
cles of the Washington. Treaty. With all submission,
this is a little too far and too fast. We must have
the argument before, and judgment pronounced by,
our High Court of Admiralty on each of such cases,
before we can encourage Mr. TYLER to expect that
sort of conclusion to these affairs which he affects to
look forward to. It is also possible that these cases
may become, in the ensuing session, the subject of
some inquiry by the British Parliament.
The tone of the other passages of this Message,
except those which regard the improving condition
of the public treasury, are rather lachrymose and
petulant. lie regrets that the running of the boun-
dary line between the territories of the United States
and the territories of Great Britain in North America,
—a work of such signal importance to both Powers--
has been seriously retarded, owing to the failure of
Congress to make a timely appropriation, before the
conclusion of its last session, for the expenses of
the United States' Commissioner. Then, the
enlightened policy of the Emperor NlcnoLAs in
advancing Russia in her career of civilization
and improvement (!) is spoken of in terms of equal
panegyric with the sagacious policy of "the wise
Monarch" who governs France. Belgium and Brazil
are eulogised, too, for the commercial treaties into
which they have respectively entered with the Uniteo
States. But as to Prussia, and the commercial treaty
which the American Minister had successfully ne-
gotiated at Berlin, with the Zollverein, on terms which
would have been so essentially advantageous to
the trade and manufactures of the United
States ;—again the Congress had spoiled all. Their
failure to take this treaty into consideration
within a certain prescribed term, had carried
the matter over that day, which was the utmost limit
allowed for its ratification. The "RESIDENT, how-
ever, infers that Congress would have sanctioned it
and his darling scheme of a Tariff, had they gone
into the, matter : so he has directed the negotiations
to be renewed ; but he speaks coldly of the chances of
ultimate success. Then all the negotiations of the
American Ministers severally accredited to the Go-
vernments of Mexico, New Grenada, Chili, Peru, and
to the Congress of Venezuela, fur the satisfaction
of claims preferredagainst them for compensation due
to American citizens, either still hang fire, or have
utterly failed hitherto. On the annexation of Texas,
Mr. TILLER speaks out. There is no chance of mis-
taking his notions of political independence—in the
weak ;of political power—in the strong. The doc-
trine he proclaims is of a public morality which
might put IstecnuotEe to the blush, quite as much

Within our recollection we have not known re-
corded, in so short a space of time, so many frightful
acts of outrage and violence, arising out of our
execrable Game-laws, as have been perpetrated within
the last six months, and of which the tragedy at
Croome Park forms the last acted scene. The laq
statute for the " protection," as it is called, of game,
was the labour, if we remember aright, of the pre-
sent Duke of RICHMOND. His Grace, at all events,
did not demur to its affiliation upon him in the
House of Lords. The ostensible object of the two
last Bills which underwent any considerable discus-
sion was—to legalise the sale of game. What was
their real design we suspect scarcely appears upon
their enactments, but is to be learned only from their
framers. The Duke of Iticnatotsn's exertions in
this line have been as unfortunate as theirs will in
almost every case be, who attempt to build upon a
rotten foundation. What superstructure could that
code of penalties bear, which should either command
respect or acquire permanence and solidity—a code
which was the disgrace and reproach of the land—a
bye-word among all the nations of Continental Eu-
rope whenever it was sought to prove that the gran-
deur of Britain contained within its system some
elements of active decay ? It would have better be-
come the character and dignity of the House of
Lords—it would have spoken far better for the
genuine and disinterested principles of their legisla-
tion—standing as they especially do in the capacity
of large landowners, and especially as breeders and
preservers of game—to have kicked out every Bill on
the subject of protection to game which did not go
to the root of the existing evils connected with the
laws those Bills professed to amend. The Game-
laws, as they stood at the beginning of GEORGE the
FOURTH'S reign, for example, were partial, arbitrary,
fraudulent, and oppressive. They were a premium
on treachery and perjury, by reason of their ma-
chinery touching the laying of informations and the
recovery of penalties; but being so clumsily drawn
and of such conflicting enactments, they were easily
evaded by unqualified bumpkin squires; openly defied
by sporting small attorne3 s, roue sportsmen, and
other such worthless and profligate gentry; and made
the subjects of clap-trap declamation in Parliament
by candidates for popularity and the fame of political
liberality, there, who were themselves the strictest
preservers on their own lands, the most vindictive
prosecutors at sessions, and the most inexorable ma-
gistrates at quarter sessions, whenever there was an
information to be tried for the unlawful destruction
of a hare, or a murderous assault on a pheasant.
These Agrarian Solons made up by their tendencies
to condemn, and their consistent severity on sen-
tencing, for the miserable technical deficiencies of the
statutes. The Act to legalise the sale of game was
one of the most sordid in its results—whatever its
real aim—that ever received the sanction of an as-
sembly of gentlemen of rank and fortune, surrounded
by all the proudest ancestral and historic recollec-
ions of their country. How the descendants of the
HOWARD 3, the STANLEYS, the FIELDINGS, the RUS-
SELLS, the FIENNES, and the TurroNs, could ever
have been brought to put themselves in the position
of poultry farmers for the supply of the London
dealers, we cannot imagine. It is notorious that
some of our great landed proprietors absolutely pay
the expenses of their Latta slaughters, signalised by
the presence of noble and even royal guests—by the
sale of the game victimised to those who retail them
to that large class of her MAJESTY'S subjects who
can get at no game but that which they bring down
with their own silver shot. This is an instructive
key to the solicitude and devotion with which Noble
Peers, as well as Hon. Members, attend to the busi-
ness of game-law making. It is also an instructive
lesson on the sort of compromise which pride in
high places sometimes makes with thriftiness. At
the end of the season, imagine a great landowner's
account balanced thus
DR.—To expenses of three grand battu days,
at 100/. per diem £3oo
CR.—By (so many) head of game sold this
season £3oo
Now, it is the legalised, merchantable, or commer-
cial value you have imputed to this commodity—game--
which is the great temptation to poaching. Poachers
can dispose of their plunder without difficulty, when
stewards and bailiffs can carry the same articles
to sell openly in the market In these times of pres-
sure —of diminished occupation and miserably reduced
wages—is it not too much to expect that you can put
down poaching by legislation ? The more severe your
, laws, the more determined will be their violation.
The range of the covers, the woods, and the shaughs,
the concealment of night, the excitement of the occu-
pation, to say nothing of the means of satisfying at
once the claims of hunger and the desire of making a
little money—are temptations too strong for the stal-
wart peasant who would labour, it may be, but can-
not procure employment; who would be honest if you
would only permit him to live. By every degree in
which you exercise the severity of your penal visita,-
tion on this crime—(a crime undoubtedly it Is, inas-
much as it is a gross trespass on other men's property)
—in a similar ratio yott tempt the offender to aggra-
vate his offence. You e:.aggerate violence into bleed-
Shed, assault into murder. The poacher and the game-
keeper look upon each other, not as brother men,
but as animals, the contact of whom must be fatal to
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of tempting men into crime, and punishing their crime
in blood, or the loss of their liberty for life ? The
only remedy must be found in the utter abolition of
the Game-laws, or in the treatment of poaching,
according to the modification and variety of the cir-
cumstances under which it shall be committed, as
simple trespass or as larceny. It cannot be borne
much longer that human lives shall answer for the
safe keeping of partridges and pheasants.

We learn from the lielvetie of the 24th inst., that
the Government of Lucerne has issued a decree order-
ing the re-organization of the lamisturm, " to protect
persons and property against the attack of foreign
hordes of brigands." All men able to carry arms were
to be incorporated with the landsturm, and to assemble
in the chief town of their respective districts at the
first sound, of the tocsin, and " march to destroy the
invaders." Dr. STEIGER, one of the prisoners taken

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MISS CLARA. WEBSTER.—A nearly similar acci-
dent occurred to Miss H. Curse, during the perform-
ance of the White Maid of Avenel, at the Theatre Royal
Covent-garden, some years ago, by her dress catching
fire in the last scene.
Tn rot.—' esterday Molting, a few minutes be-
'bra 12 o'clock, the metropolis and its environs were
visited with so dense a fog that, though mid-day, it had
the appearance of night. At many of the churches and
chapels it was necessary to have the lamps lighted to
enable the clergymen to proceed with the service.
The steamers and other teasels proceeding up and down
the river dropped their anchors. it being totally imposal.
ble to discern objects ten yards distant. A bout two o'clock
the wind shifted, when rain commenced, and the fog die-
persed,
TUE OFFERTORY AT lIIIRST.—Wi ark ailthoriAda
to state 3 that the steps taken by Mr. Cameron " in
giving up the use of the proper concluding portion of the
morning service, has, though not directed by the Bishop,
since received his Lordship's full sanction and approval,
in consideration of the extreme evils to be apprehended
in the parish if another course were persisted in."—
Perhstiire Chronicle.
PIGEON FLYING MATCH BY NIGHT.—On Monday
night last the following unusual and extraordinary pigeon
flying match came off between two gentlemen for the
purpose of deciding a wager :—lt appears that some
doubt existed as to the power of the pigeon travelling
through the air by night, consequently the above match
arose to test the fact. The night was somewhat cloudy,
but, notwithstanding, the match took place, attended by
a vast crowd of persons who had been attracted to the
spot. The bird was to fly st mile between the hours of
ten and eleven o'clock at night. The pigeon having been
marked in the usual way, vi as tossed at the door of the
George public-house, Gravel-lane, Southwark, where
the match was made, but was soon out of sight, reaching
its home in a few seconds in apparent ease. The bird
passed through the bolting wire of the trap into the
pigeon-loft, where it was secured by the owner, who pro-
duced the bird at the house where the match was made
under ten minutes, to the great astonishment of a large
assemblage of pigeorefanciers and others. The pigeon
alluded to is the property of Mr. T. Braddock, of Win-
chester-place, Southwark, The same bird has flown
from Windsor Ilampton Court, Gravesend, and manf
of the principrl race-courses in England in extraordinary
quick time.

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REFUSAL OF A CHURCH. RATE AT HELSTON.—On
Friday last, a meeting took place at Helston for the
purpose of making a church-rate, when a rate of a penny
in the pound was proposed and seconded ; after which an
adjournment for six months wit s carried by a large mar
iority.— Welt .Briton,