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After which: NORMA, in which Mias Woolgar, Mr. Paul Bed-
ford, Mr. Wright, and Miss Reynolds will perform.
To conclude with a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas
Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE ; or, Harlequin and the King
of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Columbine, Miss Lona-
dale ; Clown. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Pantaloon, Mr. Sanders.
Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt; Leader of the
Band, Mr. lidellon.—Box-dice open from Elevon till Four. Private
Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MONSEIGNEUR; or,
PARIS IN 1720. Monseigneur Mr. Wallack ; Germaine, Mr.
Oxberry; Baseline, Miss Emma Stanley; Annette, Miss Marshall.
To be succeeded by a New Comedietta, entitled THE WIDOW
BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mrs.
Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling.
To be followed by a new Divertissement, called LE SALON
DE BAL. Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset. Miss
Marshall, Mdlle. ' Teresine, M. J. Rou.set, Mr. Marshall, and Mr.
Gilbert

After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather
Operatic Burleague Extravaganza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS
MEN. Grindotr, Mr. Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry; Kelmar,
Mr. Granby; Riber, Mr, Corri Golotz, Mr. Walton; Claudine,
Miss E. Stanley ; Ravina, Mrs. Fosbroke.
Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden,
.61Satcalg Ist Mr. Edmund BradwelL
Dress Circle, 58. ; Boxes, as. ; Pit, 21.; Galles Is. Half-price at
Nine o'clock—Dress Circle,2s. &I. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, IL; Gallery, CA.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a.Half ; Proses-
inluin Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half_
past Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock.
The Box-otilce, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingh ana.
Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the
Theatre.

IHEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM., LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
HO USE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal
Characters by Messrs. F. Vining Meadows, Diddear, F. Matthews,
Collier, Emery, Turner, and Feeley; Miss Walcott, Miss Arden,
Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley,
After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO
M•RR Y. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker,
Miss Areen, and Mrs. Wigan.
To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historic Romantic
Pantominalcal, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE
AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews;
Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, Yarneld, and Keeley ,
Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs
Usher Miss James, Miss Tamer, and Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Boxes. 45.; Upper
Boxes, Is.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ;
Upper Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony Tier
holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
Fier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private
Boxes on the Pit Tier (holdalls six persons), One Guinea.
,The Box-of icei s open from Tel; to Four o'Clock, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Grogan, Late of Covent-garden Theatre.

Nightly OverflOwsi, the Grand Christmas Holiday NoveMei, and
TYeble Rotatioh of Entertainments at
ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS,
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY.
Brilliant Success of the New Pantomime.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL FOX
HUNT; or, The Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed;
introducing unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage
and in the Circle by living Foe and real Pack of Hounds, purchased
by Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production.
Epean Races and other Sporting Features.
New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Hor,,e-
;smash p.
To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime,
called HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the
Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis;Columbine,
Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury ,
ohruiy Gilpin Mr. Wells.
Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.
Box-office open from Eleven till Fire. Lessons in the Art o Riding
by Mr. R. Smith daily.

D AVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE
As usual, the best Pantomime of the Season I A more brilliant
triumph than ever before achieved ! ! Laughter, Wonder, and
Delight !! I The First Pantemimic Performers of the Age, and
Everything New!! I!

THIS EVENING
Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End
of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Cori (from the
Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville, R Houner,
Lewis. Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. W.
Daly, and Miss Martin.
To be followed by THE WET NURSE. Supported by Jle,srs.
Neville, W. Smith, and Lewis, Miss Martin, &c.
To conclude with an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime, called
POUND*, sHILLINGS, AND PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN
Z. B. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway;
Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corn; Columbine, Miss Slaiter.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
slice, from Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE
Extraordinary Success of " Marianne: or, The Child of Charity,"
and the New Comic Pantomime.
THIS Will be repeated MARIANNE; or,EVENING the Child of Charity. Sur.
ported b• Mr. o.baldiston, Henry Howard, J. T. Johnson, T. H.
Hlggie, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E.
Terrey, and Mina Treble.
After which, an Original Extravaganza, entitled THE PALACE
OF OEN EVA. Characters by Messrs. Herbert and J. T. John-
son, Miss E. Terry, and miss Treble.
To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ; or, The Little Old Woman and
the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapino ; Clown,
Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney; Colembi'ne, dldlle
Le Cite

FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to submit a list of the EN-
GAGEMENTS, and an outline of the ARRANGEMENTS which
be has entered into for the ENSUING SEASON of FRENCH
PLAYS, which will be commenced on WEDNESDAY, JAN.
22, and which, he trusts, will be deemed worthy the distinguished
Patronage hitherto conferred upon his Theatre.
The Season will commence by the Engagement of Monsieur
I..ifont (of the Theatre des Varietes), his First Appearance ar this
Theatre, for whose performance the popular Plays of " Le Che-
valier de Saint Georges," " Le Chevalier du Guet," " Pierre le
Rouge," " Requefinette," " Pere et File, &c., &c., will 1,2
produced. Mademoiselle Nathalie (ef the Theatre du Gymnase)
will also appear conjointly with Monsieur Lafont.
After whom, the eminent Actor, Monsieur Frederick Lernaitre
(who has accepted an engagement for a limited number of Nights
Only), and Mademoiselle Clarisse, will appear, until the close of the
Season at Easter. During the Engagement of Monsieur Frede-
rick Lomaitre, the popular Plays of " Don Caesar de Bazan," arid
"Ruy Bias," by Victor Hugo, as originally performed by him with
so much success, will be produced; as well as the last New Piece
•sf the Porte St. Martin, which now excites such extraordinary
interest in Paris, and in which M. Frederick has performed for
Ten consecutive Weeks, entitled " La Dame de Saint Tropez."
After Easter, the eminent Actress, Madame Albert (engaged
for a few nights only), will appear in the Two New Comedies of
the Theatre Francais, " Une Femme a Quarante Ans,'' and " Le
Mari a Is Campagne," in addition to " Mathilde, ou la Jalouise ;"
and Marie, ou les Trois Epochs;" with other favourite Pieces of
her repertoire ; and will be succeeded by the popular Comic Actor,
Monsieur Ravel (of the Theatre du Palais Royale), who will make
his First Appearance in this Country.
The Engagement of Monsieur Ravel will be followed by those of
Mademoiselle Plessy, and Monsieur Regnier (cf the Theatre
Francais, his First Appearance in this Country). Rig intended, at
that period of the Season, to produce, under the superintendence
of Monsieur Cartigny, some of the finest Comedies of the French
age. In addition to which, Mr. Mitchell has the honour to
announce, that an entirely New Comedy will be produced, written
sneressly for the Company by the eminent French Author, Mon-
sieur Alexandre Dumas, who will be present in London to direct
the mite en scene of his New Composition.
he Favourite Actor, Monsieur Achard, is also engaged for a
few Nights, and will appear in the last New Vaudeville of Le
Gymnase, entitled " Babiole et Joblot," by Scribe, " Ywan le
Moujick," and other New Pieces, with the occasional Representa-
tion of some of the most popular Plays of that admired Actor's
repertoire.

The Season will terminate by the Engagement. of Monsieur
Areal (of the Theatre du Vaudeville), who will have the honour
of making his First Appearance at this Theatre, and during whose
Engagement the following Popular Plays, as originally performed
by Monsieur Arnal, will be produced :—" L'llornine Blase,
" L'Hureoriste," " Les Gants J.:une," " Passe Minuit," " L,
Ix Particulaire," " Renaudin de Caen," " Les
Le Poltron "
La Mansarde du Crime," " Le Bal du Grande Monde,"
The Company for the Season will be carefully selected from the
Theatres of Paris, including M. Cartigny, M. Oudinot, 111. De_
.Aarripes (of the Gymnase), M. Masquifller (of the Porte St.
Martin), M. Lienard, M. Tourillon, M. Bizot, M. Bonnet, :Mlle.
. Eliza Forgeot, Mdme. Croset, Mdlle. Mery, Mdlle. Chaplin, 3ltil:c.
Gay (of the Varietee), Mdlle. Andrea (of the Porte St. Martin),
Mdlle. Eatelle (of the Palais Royale), Mdlle. Bonval (of the Theatre
Francais), ifdlle. Valerie (of the Odeon), Mdlle. Lambert (of the
7 Varletes), &c., &c., &c.
Leader of the Orchestra, M. Burotte (for Twenty Years Second
t Chef d'Orchestre at the Theatre du Vaudeville) ; Direetrite,
Mdlle. Eliza Forgeot ; Regisseur, M. Cloup.
The Subscription will be for Forty Representations, which will
I take place on Mondays and Fridays; the Performances on Wed-
, „way Evenings will not be included in the Subscriptions, but Sub-
r talkers will be allowed to exchange either the Monday
or Friday
Evening for the Wednesday, when they may desire to do so, for
t the accontnaodation of their other engagements, an arrangement
11 which, on former Seasons, has given such general satisfaction.
Applications for Season Boxes and Stalls to be addressed to :',lr.
ifitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Same, I, St,
aznes's.street ; and Messrs, Andrews and Ebers, Bond-street.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1845,

The opening of the New Steam Navy Dock at
Portsmouth, on Saturday last, ought not to be re-
garded in the light of a mere ceremonial- in the
ordinary routine of official business. The object of
this great national work is to provide adequate ac-
commodation and facilities for the purposes of a na-
tional arm, which, from its comparatively recent
addition to the body of our naval force, and the
singular efficieney which has been already communi-
cated to it, is entitled to take rank, as the most im-
portant application of practical science to the art of
war that has been recorded in our times. Improved
gunnery in combination with steam propulsion marks,
assuredly, the most remarkable era in the history of
navigation. This combination supersedes an infinity
of simple elements of material force by material
force of far higher energy, and far less complexity
of action. The elements we speak of were subject
to the controlling power of many opposing or dis-
turbing causes, physical as well as mechanical. In
action, a line-of-battle ship the best built, equipped,
and sailed ; the beat manned and the best worked--
that ever swam, through adverse winds, heavy
ground-swells, or calms, or violent currents, has
been frequently disabled from bringing her broadside
to bear, in spite of every manoeuvre which the
nautical science of her officers could suggest, or the
ready intrepedity of her crew was prepared to exe-
cute. For similar reasons, a ship of the first or
second class might be seriously battered and knocked
about, with considerable loss of human life among
her company, by a vessel of far inferior armament,
but having the advantages of the wind, or current,
&c., in her favour. So, too, after many brilliant
actions, the fruits of victory have been snatched from
the hands of our victorious sailors, not so much by
the superior sailing qualities of the enemy's vessels,
as by the skilful tactics with which the commanders
of these latter have improved the opportunities of
escape afforded them by a light and favouring breeze,
or other circumstances assisting their evolutions—but
either not aiding, or absolutely thwarting our own.
It is clear that the easy and certain motive power
wherewith steam can now work any ship, of what-
ever tonnage, so as to bring her up on any desired
board, and place her in any position which the
scheme of the commander's operations may have
assigned her (especially with the aid of that newly-
invented and admirable machine, the Foularton
screw-propeller, which can always, and in incredibly
quick time, get her head round), it is clear that,
with the mastery of this power, a revolution in the
whole art of sailing and fighting vessels of war must
inevitably occur. A steamer gun brig, in a calm, or
in a wind baffling to the course of her mighty anta-
gonist, might sail round, and down upon a formidable
80-gun ship, and work off again—with little or no
comparative injury to herself (owing to the imprac-
ticability of promptly wearing experienced by the
eighty), but, after knocking about the bows or the
stern of the latter with almost perfect impunity. The
new great steam-frigates will not be susceptible to
the operation of such adverse and discouraging
chances as these. Their powerful machinery will set
them at defiance, and will annihilate, for the enemy,
the mere sailing probabilities of escape. In action,
the odds will be incalculably in favour of the heavier I
armament, and more rapid and more certain evolu-
tions of the steam-frigate, whether for attack or for
defence, as compared with the sailing man. of-war.
We may instance, on this subject of armament, the
effective service of her pivot-guns and the prodigious
metal and calibre of the great guns of the Terrible,
about to be launched from Woolwich Dockyard. The
event of a contest between two war-steamers of equal
armament, on this colossal scale—and assuming them
to be equally well manned and officered—it is more
difficult, and more fearful as well, to contemplate.
One should imagine that mutual annihilation would
be the probable catastrophe of such a conflict. The
question here arises, is such an advance in our know-
ledge of the theory of destruction in maritime war-
fare so desirable, that it is expedient to reduce the
results of that knowledge into immediate practical
preparation? This question we may decline to dis-
cuss, either as casuists or as moralists. As practical
men, heartily desiring the establishment of uni-
‘ersal peace, but deeply aensible of the constant
liability of nations to be involved in war
we answer the question, without hesitation, in
the affirmative. We hail the inception of the Steam
Navy Dock, therefore, at Portsmouth, and the build-
ing and launching of such war steamer frigates
as the Terrible, as satisfactory evidences that our
Board of Admiralty recognises all its vast responsibi_
lay, in times like these, for the security and gran-
deur of the British empire, so far as these are
liable, at any moment, to be attacked through
our navy. We feel that the voice of huma-
nity, as well as the vindication of these grei t
interests, demands that whenever we may be, unhap•
pily, tizain embarked in a war, we should be ade-
quately prepared to abridge its term by the tremen-
dous efficiency of our armament. The best hopes for
the permanency of peace are identified with the force
and vigour of our preparations for war. The experi-
ence of the last thirty years has amply demonstrated
that England, of all the great Powers of the civilised
world, is most to be depended on for her sincerity, as
well as her strength, in the noble capacity of the con-
servator of national peace. But this post she would
not have occupied, had she not, under the late Go-
vernment, so irresistibly shown, by :her naval
dsmonstratians, her unquestionable condition to
meet the exigencies of any war. We are well
pleased, therefore, to observe her taking the lead,
among all the maritime Powers, in the march of pre-
paration for any such calamitous exigency as a war
that must be sanguinary, we fear, whenever it shall
come, but which it is well for mankind should not be
protracted. In this matter of constructing and
equipping, and providing accommodation for a war-
steamer navy, the first-prepared combatant will also
be the best prepared. That advantage which priority
of preparation gives will receive its crowning security,
we trust, in the vigilant care of her MasesTr's Govern-
ment to continue making good that superiority of
progress which they have so well commenced, so long
as the unscrupulous jealousy of some States, or the tur•

The dissuasions in the French Chamber of Peers,
on the war with Morocco, have ende d entirely in
favour of the Minister. It is admitted on all hands
that GUIZOT,,, in his replies to the Prince of Moseowa
and the Coll.llt DE LA REDORTE, was completely
triumphant; and so forcibly did he repel unjust in-
sinuations, sia id show the wise policy of France in
concluding t:1 ie treaty of peace, that neither Count
MOLE, nor Theron DUPIN, nor one speaker of note had
courage to cc a ne to the relief of the defeated grumblers,
so convinced are the Opposition of the flee t, that their
organs have Kiven up all hopes of success in the Peers,
and trust to the Deputies, where, they say, he must
put more m( ittle into his arguments, and w here he will
have to con tend with keener weapons. They even
have the m tunness to seek for consolation in the
decay of his physical strength. " He ought to ma-
nage his stre n gth," says one of these journirls, " for he
is evidently `veering out, and we watch hial with an
anxious and c ompassionate eye, remarking !;hat, when
seated on his bench, he wears an over-excitod, flushed
countenance,. exhibits a blackness round the eyes, and
shows all the symptoms of irritation of tine larynx.
Let him, th. st •efore, spare himself, as he has spared
the Empero. c of MOROCCO. lie owes at least to
himself the s: r me care and calming treatmer it that he
has bestowed: on a barbarian." The vignur with
which this e lie Minister repels the attacks of his
opponents, sin v ws however that neither his body nor his
mind is worn out : bat what we admire chic fly in his
conduct is the Ct imperturbable spirit—that determina-
tion to rende e. justice to a 'great rival—tifiat utter
contempt for raen who call him the " Minister of the
stranger"—ar rd that generous devotion to truth which
emboldens hi at to praise England even in the midst
of her enem ties. "We are told," said he, " that
we allowed ourselves to be guided by England !
Never was a more striking contradiction given to
such a declar a.tion. What I expected to hear in this
Chamber we a quite the opposite of what the Noble
Peer has at Ivanced. What I expected was to hear
justice and I 10mage rendered to England ft vr her con-
duct toward 'a us during this war with Morocco.
England all awed that our complaints against that
country were t just and our claims moderate--that, in
fact, we ha, I a right to reparation. Tine English
Cabinet offici illy notified to Morocco that she must
not reckon oft any aid from her in case of a contest,
and recomme +tided their agents to advise the EMPEROR
to recognise Lie Government of France, und give the
required sati' Faction. Thus, on the one side, the con-
duct of the French Government was full of in-
dependence sand firmness ; and on the other, that
of England was full of moderation and justice.
This condu :at of England is proved by the in-
structions i a ued from the Admiralty instruc-
tions worth, r of a great people and a noble
ally." Queen CHRISTINA'S paper, while it admits
the ability wit h which GUIZOT conducted .the debate,
gives no cre ;to his statement respecting the Lords
of the Admiira Ity, and as a proof of the -unconquerable
hate which fl,ll imates the writer, seizes an occasion to
find fault -vvi tl i England when her conduct towards
France Was generous and magnanimoas. "But is it
true?" he as ks, "4 that the conduct of England has been
in strict con tfor mitt' with the words contained in the
dispatch of L ord ABERDEEN :to the Lords Commis-
sioners of th 13 Admiralty, and which we published on
the 13th of January. We doubt it ; but the ques-
tion of Mee
x
gloriously ois an affair, if not skilfully, at least
,to rminated ; and, as is well known, we do
not like zo re criminate for recrimination's sake, it is
quite enough to be obliged to do so in oz 'der to repel
unjust attaclo t. We, therefore, omit furt her remarks,
merely declria ing that we can easily pat -don magna-
nimity can ia I to excess towards a cowl
.uered state ;
but what s pe ; cannot forgive is the eN cess of corn-