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London, England, 1850-12-25 00:00:00

smoke which every one must have experienced who
has witnessed the extinction of a fire by water. The
spectators were not numerous, owing, probably, to
the unpromising foggy weather. Altogether the
experiment was well worth seeing.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lesseu sind M
Wanager, Old Brant On.
TO-MORRO

Will be performed EVERT-1
ONI4 HAS HIS FAULT.
After which a new translation of THE SECOND CALENDAR
and the QUEEN of BEAUTY who had the Fight with the Genie.
Principal characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Selby, Lebarr, Buckstone,
Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Mrs. Fitzwilltam, Miss P. Herton, and Miss
A. Romer.
To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Peter White, Mr. H. Bedford.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
TO-MORROW
Will be performed a new and original Drama, entitled JESSIE
GRAY. Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Boyce, 0. Smith, P. Bed-
ford, Madame Celeste, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam.
To be followed by a new Extravaganza called LA TARANTULA ;
or, the Spider King. Characters by Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, 0.
Smith, Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, Madame
Celeste, &c.
To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOR.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley.
TO-MORROW
Will be performed THE S CRINGER. The Stranger, Mr. C.
Kean ; Mrs Haller. Mrs. C. Kean.
After which a new Comic Christmas Pantomime, called ALONZO
THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR IMOGENE ; or, Harlequin and the
Baron all covered with .kwels and Gold. Clown, Mr. Flexmore ;
Harlequin, Mr. Corrnack ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine,
Miss Carlotta Le Clercq.
Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr.
hta,singlasun ; of whom also places may he taken at the Box-office,
Oxford-street, from Eleven till Four o'clock.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management Of Madame Vestria.
sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews.
TO-MORROW
Will be periermed

THE HANDSOME HUSBAND.
After which an entirely new and ofg'nal Fairy Extravaganza,
to be called KING CHARMING ; or, the Blue ;Bird of raradise.
Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Horncastle, Suter,
Bellingham, and Honner ; Madame Vestris, Mrs. Frank Matthews,
Miss Ellis, Mrs. C. Horn, Miss St. George, and Miss Martindale.
To conclude with
THE RINGDOVES.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Re-engagement of Er. G. V. Brooke.
TO-MORROW -
Will be performed THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.
To conclude with PRINCE BONUS ; or, The Romance of the
Nose.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE
Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
Extraordinary series of attractive novelties.
TO-MORROW
The Grand new Spectacle of KENNILR ORTH; or the Golden Days
of the Virgin Queen. with new and costly costumes.
Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle, introducing
the Magnificent Stud and Company of unequalled Artistes, also, for
the first time in England, 31. Ghelia, with his three highly-trained
Steeds, 31. Nicole Page, the great Barrel Fquilibrist, and the B. o-
thi rs Francisco, from the Hippodrome, Paris.
To conclude with an entirely new and original grand historical
Equestrian Christmas Pantomime, written expressly for this Theatre,
by the author of " Bluff King Hal," to he entitled
HARLEQUIN AND O'DONOGHUE ;

or, The White Horse of Killarney.
To say that this Equestrian Pantomime will be superbly
" mounted," is to say no more than must be expected ; coming, as
it does, surrounded with such favourable auspices.
It has been said by some authors, that &Donoghue (but I don't
know who) was a good Prince of Ireland; who, eschewing whiskey,
was always chewing water, and kicking his eels (heels) at the bot-
tom of the Lake of Killarney, excepting once a year when, flndin.;
himself taken with a swimming in the head, he would pop up to the
surface, and mounting his charger, would charge her to gallop across
the Lake. Many expected that so much galloping would have
thrown him in'o a galloping consumption ; but such has not proved
the case, for some assert that not only he, but his Horse too, is "still
alive and kicking." This hard galloping, or Galloparding, always
occurred on the Eve of May-Day. The description of him is that he
was tall—but not at all too tall—that he was handsome, and would
hand some whatever they desired—that kis appearance was even in
the light of Day—that of an Electroplated Knight; for he was
covered all over with a thin Coat of Sliver—this Coat he could
never wear out, because he was always at home. Bat now to the
Pantomime :

SCENE THE FIRST.
THE GLEN OF MISCHIEF.
The Hag of Mischief, over a Peat Fire, is still trying to elicit from
an Illicit Still the Evil Spirit of Ireland, in the form of WHISKEY :
who, though still in the Still, won't be still, but " busts his biler,'
and stands confessed the POTEEN !
This powerful Spirit is sent by the Hag of Mischief, under the
disguise of Paddy Carey, to tempt and ruin the followers of " Father
Mathew" and the "Water Cure," whom, she says, are the especial
favourites of the " Water Drinking_ Fool," O'Donogime. Whiskej
34 ears he'll de her bidding, for p4li fire them with drank. by
making them as drunk as blaieST Vsch:ef parts from Whiskey
with " a drop in her eye," litte+Whiskey is not so affected ; fur he is
sure that where Whiskey is, Milihief won't be far off.

SCENE TUB SECJND.
THE LAKE OF KILLARNEY.
The entrance to the Mansion of Lord Bullfrog is on one side, on
the other a little inn. It being in Ireland, the sign was to have
been " a Bull," but " bulls" not being in fashion at present, it has
been changed to the " Queen's Head." It being May-Day Eve, the
Fairies of the Lake are seen dancing and strewing flowers on the
water, as if sweetly 31•AdaMiZing the road, preparatory to the ap-
pearance of
O'DONOGIIITE ON HIS WHITE HORSE.
He gallops across the Lake, says much that is well worth hearing,
puts on the habit of a Beggar, and, " 0 Charming May," what a
time for making a little love ; se think the fair Kathleen and her
Lover Dermot Astore, but instead of making a little, they make a
great deal. She relieves the Beggars wants, and than wants to
have a little more love. It has long since been an established fact,
that eren Cupid, who can change any man into a goose, sometimes
has his own " goose eooked," and so it proves now, for Lord Bull-
frog's Cookey, discovering the Lovers, flares up, a " broil" ensue=,
and all are thrown into a perfect " stew." At this critical moment,
Lord Bullfrog, with his jovial companions, return from the chase.
Lady Bullfrog (to see her is to love her), with her interesting little
family, comes to meet him. Sne files into her husband's arms—and
thus (as many married ladies have dune before) stands "in arms
against her husband." Lord Bullfrog is enraged with the Lovers,
.01:901.ralte,frantolaiLip, I;i.iLle.bt, he seizes his only friend, his
is restored. Lord Bullfrog, being determined to get rid of his plavue
of a daughter, pa's her up as " a Prize," which makes her look very
" blank," as he exclaims
Whoe'er to-morrow brings the f iirest steed,
The one the' le Ts the best, has greatest .p ed ;
Shall have fair Kathleen—yes, <he and all her t:n,

So try your lucky, and let the heat Horse win.
All disperse, leaving Dermot alone w,th his Horse, by whose aid,
he feels certa,n to win his heart's dearest hone. But, alas I " the
course of tru: love never id run smooth." Whiskey comes in the
way, and whi•ks away his senses—then his money—and, at last, his
Horse ; Wh skey mounts the Horse, and, se'ting up a horse laugh,
gallops off with it. Dermot in despair oetermim s to try the
"Water Cure,'' by drowning: himself, but Is prevented by O'Dono-
ghne, who p .omises to lel.d him another h,,rse for the morrow's race,
and at on e takes to the bottom of the Lake.

SCENE THE TRIED.
THE CORAL STABLE OF THE THOUSAND STEEDS.

Here O'Donoghue's White Horse is seen quite at home enjoying
his banquet, waited upon by Ponies and Water Fairies. He is in the
prime of life. " None of your has-beens," for he " never has beans,"
but dines off his three courses like a gent. consisting of a TUREEN
of PUMP SOUP, a dish of STEWED HORSE LEECHES, and a
plateau of CORNED BEEF, the whole washed down by a bottle of
CLOVER WINE. Having a turn for taciturnity, he stands no
" chaff," and having cut his corns, has no objections to a little dance.
Dermot chooses a Horse, which, as might he expected, proves " one
in a thousand." He feels " quite up in the stirrups," and as he is
changing his clothes, he is closed in by changing the scene to

SCENE TIIE FOURTH,
THE LAUGHING FOREST.

Whiskey and 'Mischief meet again. The Evil Spirit tells the Hag
that ho has obtained Dermot's fay..urite Horse, and on it he hopes to
win the race, and thus bring Kathleen within their power. The
trees enjoy the fun, and though precious old ones, " laugh like
new 'ans."

SCENE THE FIFTH.
MAY-DAY IN THE HILLS OF KILLARNEY.
Here we And Morris Danc'ng, Running in a Sack, Grinning through
a Collar, and ether delicate amusements previous to the GREAT
TRIAL ! All the competitors seize their stirrups, and some of them
" put their foot in it." But where is Dermot ? If they start without
him, there will be a start wbh a vengeanze-. But no ! he Is coming,
and very becoming he comes. All is prepared; off they go. This
proves true enough, for many go of over their horses' necks. Der-
mot leaps his Lordship's " gate" after a " style" of his own. Whiskey
being a lad of " spirit," is not at all behind. Now for the Race,
which is to decide all ! Kathleen trembl s. Whiskey must put his
strength to the proof. Kathleen takes courage, for to her Dermot is
far too winning to lose—nor does he ; but Whiskey getting possession
of Kathleen and the Fairy Steed, flies off with her. All censterna-
tion—" Pursue, pursue."

SCENE TEE SIXTH.
THE PIRSUIT THROUGH THE LAUGHING FOREST.

O'Donoghue again befriends Dermot, by lending him his own Whits
Horse—Cooky has mounted her Arabian. Steed, which, clever as
she thought him, proves a perfect ass.

SCENE THE SEVENTH.
THE LAKE OF KILLARNEY (as before).
_ .

The Evil Spirit and Kathleen fly across. '
The Horse knows his
own stable, so vanishes beneath the Lake, and thus water overcomes
the power of Whiskey. Dermet, on O'Donoghue's White Horse,
lies to the rescue of his love, and brings her safely to land again—
when, as might be expected, Dermot is clanged to Harlequin, Kath-
leen to Columbine, Lord Bullfrog to Pantaloon, and lalousabella
Brisket, the Fat C. ok, to Clown. What follows comes after, and
the Harleylnade begins.
CHARACTERS IN THE OPENING.
SPIRITS.

O'Donoghue (the Fairy Prince of Killarney's Lake).
Coralina (First Fairy).
Waterlily (Second Fairy).
Fairies of the Lake.

Poteen (the Evil Spirit of treland, commonly known as Whiskey).
The Hag of Mischief (the Jenny Lir d of Bad Spirit-).
Her Attendants—Murder, Forgery, &c.
MORTALS.
Dermot Astore (afterwards Harlequin), Mr. W. H. Harvey.
Lord Bullfrog (afterwards Clown). Mr. J. Henderson, his first ap-
pearance in London in that character.
Biousabella Brisket (afterwards Clown), Mr. Rivolti.
Kathleen (afterwards Columbine), Mrs. W. H. Harvey.
Lady Bullfrog, Miss Bullfrog, Miss Weezy Peezy Bullfrog, Master
Brobdignag Bullfrog, the Baby.

Box-efllou open from Eleven till Four.
Stage -Manager, Mr. T. Thompson.

. TlT4l,l.gt, BE
hLeairt
s'AkeMtchite.s
oCriErd.finttoLviErB)o3Ht
huaLnt.hmad veaNeDErL.—With
,
~_
the skill, I,7nowledge, and taste of a travelled and accom-
plished ar'tist, Mr. Charles Hullmandel arrived in Eagland
from a continental sojourn of some years, and, in 1818, first
set tr„ in Great Marlborough-street, a lithographic press or
two for the reproduction of his own sketches. So many and
so eager were the requests of his friends, artists and ama-
teurs of high note, for the use of his presses, that he con-
ceived and carried out the idea of devoting his whole time
and attention to lithography. Senefelder had invented the
method of printing a tint over a black and white impression,
so as to imitate a drawing on tinted paper with raised lights :
but it was reserved for Mr. Hullmandel to make the process
of real value, by discovering the means of graduating the
tint, which great improvement prepared the way for, and
gave rise to those splendid folio works by Stanfield, Roberts,
Prout, Nash, Haghe, llarding, &c. His next step was the
application of lithography, about 1822, to printing in colours,
which he carried to considerable perfection, and the first
specimen of which, representing the paintings on the interior
of an Egyptian tomb, was, we believe, published by Messrs.
Longman and Co. His attention was then directed to ac-
quiring the means of printing drawings made on the stone
with a brush and liquid ink, alter the manner of Indian ink
or sepia drawings, and which the French authorities in litho-
graphy had pronounced impracticable, and for the discovery
of which his late Majesty Louis Philippe had offered a reward.
dr. Hullmandel's energetic and investigating mind, however,
triumphed over all obstacles: success was achieved; he de-
served, claimed, and received the reward ; and the invention,
which he entitled Lithetint, he soon after patented. The
introduction of the use of the "stump" on stone, and the
discovery of a peculiar method of preparation of the drawing
so executed, was his next improvement, and afforded to
artists a far easier, quicker, and more beautiful means of mul-
be fore be en
c by h 1
il • hands. His remains were interred, attended
tia
-
, .s, n the cemetery at Highgate, on the 21st ult., and
:.nelvabb.kelg regretted as a talented, upright, and honour-
able_ wirk.--Bui/der.
libmirbettoLy TIDINGS FROM CALIFORNIA: Mrs
Hindmarsted the Post-office, Belford, has received a letter
from her hap and, Captain Hindmarsh, master of the ship
laranny,, of risterpool, now at California, in which Captain H.
—ltates that on making inquiry concerning Messrs. William
anchlayries Dinning, sons of henry Pinning, Esq., formerly
-:".,..;11tW0.N.0and Newlands, he learned that these young gentle-
``,‘- ntek,bit'il lately gone to the gold mines, and that one of them
lied' died of sickness and the other had been shot by the
Indians, the body having been found two days after the mur-
I
der had been committed.—Berwick Warder.

Obetnino
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1850.

Christmas, among all its joyful recollections, calls also
vividly to mind a multitude of solemn and sorrowful
considerations. It brings to remembrance, for ex-
ample, the wants of the pauper and of the poorer
classes generally throughout the multitude. It is the
thought of their many severe sufferings and priva-
tions that elicits at this particular season of the year
those chlritable efforts at alleviation which are con-
spicuous, we rejoice to think, mare or less, through-
out the length and breadth of England. Never, per-
haps, has there been greater need for the exercise of
this benevolence than at the present period, the mise-
ries of poverty and destitution being peculiarly rife
just now among a large class of the industrious popu •
lation. That such should be the case in these times
of boasted advancement and visible activity is a fact
deserving something more than an incidental
scrutiny—remembering, as we cannot fail to
do, the vaunting notions latterly more loudly than
ever promulgated, the notions built up upon the fas-
cinating supposition of human perfectibility. Until
very recently, the belief had become widely disse-
minated that an epoch, but little less celestial in its
character than the fabulous " age of gold," was
drawing near, and that mankind were really about
to have an actual foretaste of the millennium: People
looked merely for the approach of one earnestly
demanded, but confidently expected individual, whose
energies were to realize what had been so long in
preparation—and this personage they designated with
a profound significance—the Coming Man. Even the
language of the ballad-monger was distorted into
something little short of poetic prophecy, the " Good
• 11
nounced. The spears were at length to be beaten
into reaping-hooks, and the swords into ploughshares.
Fraternity was no longer to be a simple watchword,
but the verb of a great era of beneficence,
love, and brotherhood. Out of these ima-
ginings sprang into existence the modern schemes
of Socialism, Communism, and other fantastic isms
and schisms too preposterous to enumerate. The
projects which had been sketched out luminously by
the pencils of FOURIER and OWEN, were rendered yet
more dazzling by the pyrotechnic metaphysics of a
CADET and a PRUDHON. The accents of these
men were honeyed for the most part, and the pictures
drawn by them of the future state of the globe ex-
quisite, encouraging, and beautiful. Sometimes they
startled the whole social world with one of their
daring and witty utterances, as when the great Com-
munistic Apostle proclaimed, "La Propriete c' est le
vol !" But these were merely the momentary ebulli-
tions of their secret atheism, and of their silent
blasphemies—their lips otherwise breathing only words
of ravishing sweetness and fascination.
An interval—and the insanity of all these
infatuated ideas became manifest in the ten-
fold, we might almost say ,the ten-thou-
sandfold increase of crime, penury, bloodshed,
inhumanity, and every degree and species of abomina-
tion. The streets of the great city, called by some
the metropolis of fashion, and by others the capital of
civilization, ran red with the blood of its citizens,
fighting for the preservation of morality, of order,
of family, against the enemies of all three—enemies,
too, inspired with the ferocity of savages and the
implacability of fiends. Scarcely bad we ceased
chaunting our hymns of joy at the approach of the
imaginary period of happiness, when jeremiads were
raised over the return of a disastrous epoch of dark-
ness and debasement. Wars and rumours of wars
convulsed the entire continent. Conspiracies of the
most dastardly character were detected. Crimes of
the most heinous description were perpetrated. The
gloomiest times ever recorded in the annals of
Christendom were rivalled in the nineteenth century
in countries the most renowned for their so-called en-
lightenment. The darker passions of the race of man
again boiled up from the very dregs of the community.
As much brutality, and impiety, and vice, and licenti-
ousness as the world had ever before known were visi-
ble in the chief cities of Europe ; and this, moreover,
at the very eve of the stupendous change predicated
by the day-dreamers already particularised. Misera-
ble prophets of evil, announcing unconsciously the
advent of new and unexampled calamities by the very
utterance of their wild and exaggerated boasts of
Regeneration ! Shortsighted pursuivants of woe
and misfortune, hinting the approach of suffering by
the ill-timed exultations ! Two or three winters have
rolled by since the dissipation of this charming but
illusory vision, and the community is still doomed to
those inequalities of position which are erroneously
regarded as being a curse instead of a blessing—in-
equalities which it was foolishly imagined were to be
smoothed away, or at least ameliorated. Eighteen
hundred and fifty years have been distinguished
by the coming of the divine festival of
Christmas, and still at this eighteen-hundred.
and-fiftieth anniversary, as at any of its
predecessors, the people of the earth are still distin-
guished by the unequal distribution of wealth, some
classes being lapped in luxury and others in destitu-
tion. The continuance and the universality of the
system referred to ought, instead of exciting senti-
ments of repining or indignation, only to produce one
single sentiment, that of resignation to the will of
PROVIDENCE, the humbler portions of the social
fabric bearing their weight with self-possession, and I
the loftier yielding proofs of their practical cominisera
Lion. Happily with the inequalities ordained by the
CREATOR—the inequalities falsely reprobated by the
Communists—He has imparted in the breasts of hie
creatures the purer and holier feelings of charity, 111
feelings which (our heart leaps to think it) are never
more widely or more spontaneously manifested then
at this festive season of Christmas.

It is now more than four years since Mr. Jorm
GEORGE PEIILLIMORE —whose recent philanthropic
interference on behalf of the oppressed and cruelly
persecuted JANE WILLIIRED has brought his name
into a position so prominent and so honourable—
directed the public attention to the palpable defects of

* "Utter to the Lord Chancellor on the Reform of
the Law." By John George Phillimore. London, 1846.
James Ridgway, Piccadilly.
t "'Thoughts on Law Reform." By John George
Phillimore. London, 1847. W. Benning and Co., Fleet-
street.

" Letter to Lord Campbell on Reforms in the Com-
mon Law; with a Letter to the Government of India on
the same subject" By Sir Erskine Perry, Chief Justice
of her Majesty's Supreme Court, Bombay.

DEATH OF MR. ARMSTROING, A.M.—Mr. Arm-
strong, A.M., one of the resident masters of Trinity College,
Dublin, and who for some time past held the situation of ac-
countant and keeper of the deeds and muniments in the
Incumbered Court, died suddenly of apoplexy on the
22d inst.

THE DIRECT LINCOLN, EAST RETFORD, AND
SHEFFIELD RAILWAY. - Mr. •.,2oulby, the official manager
appointed to inquire into the management and present posi-
tion of this company's affairs, has just made his report thereon
to the Master, from which it appears that he cannot get the
books and papers of the company necessary to enable him to
wind it up from Messrs. Miller and Carr, the solicitors, who
claim on them a lien of 2,0)01. Mr. Shuttlewortb, one of
the directors, has given up all the books; but Mr. Bevan, the
promoter, says he has none, and that all the letters of alot-
nient were destroyed. It appears that no list of the pro-
visional directors was registered at the office, notwithstand-
ing the requirements of the Act, and this is accounted for by
the office business at the time being so great as to cause it to
be overlooked.

OXFORD, WORC ESI ER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON
RAILWAY.—The terms upon which these works will be com-
pleted is by the issue of 1,100,0001. of Six per Cent. Pre-
ference Stock and Debentures to take precedence of the other
capital of the company. Lord Ward is to be the new chair-
man. The directors do not consider the agreement with the
Great Western Company as binding.