The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-27 00:00:00

EDINBURGH MEA

We bad a middling supply
which sold heavily at last we

MARKET.--llec. 23.
)f Oatmeal at to-day's market,
!k's prices.
Per Stone of 141 b. Imp.
First Oatmeal £0 2 2
Second ditto
Barleymeal (I 1 10
Peasemeal 0 1 10
s.-2d, ISs.-3d, 205.-I'eall 265.

Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp.
First Oatmeal .C2 0 0
Second ditto 1 IS 0
Barleymeal 1 15 0
Peasemeal I 12 0
Pot Earley—No. 1, per cwt. 15

GLASGOW CORN MARKET.--Vec. 21.
At this day's market little business was done. Wheat
dull. Oats steady. Barley rather cheaper.
Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. a. d. Oats, per 2641 b. a. d. a. d.
British, old 4O 0t043 0 Irish 22 Oto 250
-- new 3B 0 41 0 British 23 0 26 0
Canada, free 4l 0 43 0 Beans, per 2601 b.
Irish
Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish ..
20 0 210
English 0 0 Pease, &•ottish ... 19 0 21 0
Scottish 32 6 310 Oatmeal,perllolb. 21.0 22 0
Irish 3O 0 32 0 Flour, per 2.8016.... 60 0 63 0

We learn from Port Santa Maria, that on the
30th tilt. a shower of stones fell in that town during the
space of two hours, by which great damage vas done to
the houses. The stones in general were as big as eggs, and
the quantity so great, that they lay in the street to the depth
of four feet, and completely obstructed the circulatisn.—
Pa ris Paper

Although very few months have elapsed since
the departure of this expedition from France,
several valuable relics of antiquity have already
been forwarded as presents to the friends of the
gentlemen composing it. These are said to con-
sist chiefly of fragments of small statues, tablets
of hieroglyphics, and a few specimens of papyrus,
reported to have been discovered in a situation
where this kind of record could not have been
expected. We do not hear, however, of any
official transmission from the expedition, beyond
a list of the objects already attainable, with an
estimate of the probable expense of sending them
to France, and the amount required for the ac-
quisition-of some valu able articles, which the
parties have not ventured to purchase without
further instructions from the Government, or
the Academy of Sciences. In all the letters
hitherto received from the members of the expe-
dition, the hospitality of the Pacha, and of the
different Egyptian authorities, in the places
through which they have passed, has been highly
extolled, and the Pacha has signified his inten-
tion of sending by them, on their return to
France, some splendid presentslas tokens of his
desire to maintain a friendly relation with the
French Government. It would appear from one
of the unpublished letters of M. Lenormand,
that, notwithstanding the liberal researches of the
late Mr. Salt, the British consul-general in
Egypt, and the effbrts made of late by English-
men of refined taste and splendid fortunes, a rich
mine of antiquity yet remains to be explored in
the interior. The last letter received from M.
Champollion was dated on the 2d or 3d of
October, at which time, we understand, the ex-
pedition had quitted Cairo, for the purpose of
prosecuting their researches at a place some few
leagues distant from that city ; but we find no-
thing published from the pen of this gentleman
of a later date than the 27th of September,
when he was at Cairo in perfect health, as well
us his colleagues,—a circumstance which he at-
tributes in a great degree to the thick and heavy
clothing they wore, according to the fashion of
the country, and which kept them in profuse but
beneficial Ferspirations. The expedition left
Alexandria on the 14th of September, and pro-
ceeded on their journey by the canal of_ Man-
moudieh, which was cut upon a plan laid down
by French engineers, and is partly in the direc-
tion of the ancient canal of Alexandria, but
much less circuitous. On the 16th, M. Cham-
pollion arrived at the ruins of Sais, where he
found an Egyptian necropolis built of unbaked
bricks, and several fragments of funereal em-
blems. On passing the gateway of the principal
enclosure, he found enormous blocks of stone,
89 feet in height, which resembled rocks torn
from their beds by some convidSion of nature.
Is
tirinti
chtei
ocnesn tort!
unbaked this
Egyptian bricks, sixteen
great enclosure were con-
inches long by seven in width, and five in thick-
ness. These also were the remains of a necro-
polis, and explained, says M. Champollion,
what had frequently embarrassed him,—viz.,
how the towns of Lower Egypt, situated at a
distance from the 'mountains, disposed of their
mummies. This second necropolis of Sais, in
which there still remained several floors of fune-
real chambers, is stated to be 1,400 French feet,
nearly the third of an'English mile in length,
and 500 in width. In several of the 'chambers
there were found vases of baked clay, which had
contained the intestines of the dead, and in the
bottom of one of them was discovered a quan-
thy of bitumen. To the right and left of this neero-
polls were mounds, in which were discovered frag-
ments of rose-coloured, gray, and. red granite,
and of the white marble called marble of The-
bes. The dimensions of the great wall in which
these edifices were enclosed are extraordinary.
The parallelogram, whose small sides are of not
less than 1,440 feet, and the large of 2,160
feet, has a circuit of more than 7,000 feet.
The height of this wall may be estimated at
eighty feet in length, and fifty-four feet in thick-
ness. This gigantic circumvallation appeared
to M. Champollion to have enclosed only the
principal sacred edifices of Sais. • All those • of

WisßEAcii, DEC. 21.—0 n Thursday even-
ing, the 10th, at about a quarter past ten o'clock, William
and Henry Terrington, cousins, (sons of farmeis at Wal-
soken,) were returning home from Wisheach, when on
entering the foot fields near Walsoken church, they saw
two men coining in a direction opposite, and upon getting
within about fifty yards' distance, they saw them throw
something down, and then met them. The Terringtons
asked them who they had been plundering, and they gave
no answer. As soou, however, as the youths got to the
afciinesdeia overtely turnedthe
grou roundi a
spot where they saw the men throw something down, they
found a hag and a slop containing nearly the whole of afresh-
slaughtered sheep. They immediately m
gate,in pursuit of the
Mitch, road, and men and
they came up to them, and taxed
them with stealing mutton, " and," said they, " here we
are, two and two; meet us like men, and if you can beat us,
go your way and take your mutton with you; if you
cannot, we will certainly take you." Fighting followed
in earnest, when Woods, one of the men, called out for his
knife. William Terrington said, "If that be what you
mean, then I'll get my knife too (he had not one in his
pocket), and we will go stab for stab." They still con-
tinued scuffling, and the youth was wounded in his thigh,
and felt the fellow jobbing at him in all directions.
This outrage gave him additional courage, and he said to
his cousin, " Henry, Henry, he has stabbed me, and I will
now kill or be killed." By some means or other he hail
lost his knife. After a Very severe contest, however, the
men gave in awl agreed to go with the Terringtons where
they chose, and the brave youths, each hold of his man by
' the collar, went in the direction of the Bell Inn, at Wel-
soken. The woundtsl William was faint from over-exertion
and loss of blood, and he several times thought he should
have been obliged to have given in. On passing the house
of Mr. Jolly, the drover (from whose flock they had taken
the sheep, it being the property of Mr. Wootten), it was
proposed to, call him np, but the men objected to this, and
upon the 'Terringtons persisting, a second and severe strug-
gle ensued. Henry and kis man fortunately fell against a
post, and by his putting one arm round the past, and the
other about his man, be held him until Mr. Jolly came
clown, and they then took them captives to the inn, and
left them in the custody of Mr. Anthony, the constable.
On the following morning they were examined before the
Rev. Atwood Lake, the rector of Walton, and finally com-
mitted for trial, and on Saturday they were taken from
Wisbeach gaol to Norwich Castle, for their winter-quarters.
In addition to the stabs in William Tcrrington's thigh, be
was wounded between his ribs, and had it not been for his
pocket-book, which the knife penetrated, this wound would
no doubt have been fatal: there were several other cuts in
his coat and waistcoat. One of the prisoners belongs to
Wisbeach parish, the other to Walton ; their names are
12 tler and Woods. Since writing the above, we have
been informed that a subscription was entered into at the
tithe-feast of the Rev. -- Hankerson, of Walpole St.
Peter's (besides one that is on foot in the hands of Mr.
Morley and Mr. Catlin, of Walsoken), on Monday, the
22d, and that the sum of 201. was collected for the two
Terringtons.—Staniford News.

EXECUTIONS AT CHELMSFORD.

(From the Chelmsford Chronicle of yesterday.)
At nine o'clock this morning the following

victs suffered in front of the New Prison :

.'Michael C'ashon and John Brien, for the violent
. assault upon their employer, Mr. William Green-
hill, at East Ham ; and Robert -Oades, for horse-
stealing.
Cashon is 25 years of age, was horn at Tippe-
rary, in Ireland, where his father lives ; has a wife,
and one child about fifteen months old, living at
Bristol, but he is ignorant of the means by which
they are supported.; this man can neither write nor
read.

John Brien is 26 years of age, was born at Water-
ford; he has a father, but is ignorant as to his resi-
dence ;' he is a single man, equally ignorant as his
tompanion in crime.
Robert Oades, according to the statement he gave
when lie entered the prison, is 33 years of age ; was
born at Egham, in Surrey; said he had a wife and
seven children, the oldest 17 years of age, the
youngest 17 months ; that he had been confined in
Kingston gaol, charged with being an necessary in
horFx-stealing. He refused to state where his fa-
mily resided, but it has since transpired that his
wife (who is a very decently dressed and well-be-
haved person) some time since kept a chandler's
shop at Chigwell, but had of late been living-with
her husband at Reading, in Berkshire. Oades can
both write and read ; he has been frequently visited
by his wife, fire of his children, and his brothers.
The Irishmen have been attended by two Catho-
lic priests ; they seem resigned to their fate, and
haves from the hour of condemnation, manifested
much contrition, not entertaining the least hopes of
a commutation of their punishment for the offence,
which, indeed, was of so sanguinary a description,
as to demand the sacrifice of their lives to the in-
jured laws both of God and man. It has been ob-
served, that it is not possible for these men to stiffer
in proportion to the venerable gentleman who so
providentially escaped their murderous hands, with
the power of bringing them to justice.
We are happy in being able to state that Oades
has shown, at intervals, a better sense of his situa-
tion. His wife took her farewell of him on Wed-
nesday evening ; the circumstance brought on a great
struggle, which even his hardened mind found great
difficulty in cdntending with. He vaned after his
wife repeatedly, and, when out of eight, threw him-
self down upon his bed, where he appeared to
suffer much. He has since said that he was sorry
he had not paid greater attention to the exhortations
of the chaplain, and yesterday, during a most im-
pressive discourse, he was observed to shed tears.
—The text was particularly appropriate to his case,
being from the first chaptar of St. Luke, verse 79 :
—" To give light to them that sit in darkness, and
in the shadow of death, to guide our feet unto the
way of peace." • As Oades walked from the chapel
lie said to his fellow-prisoners, " Good bye, good
bye, good lads."
During Thursday night the prisoners were con-
stantly attended by persons who read and prayed
with them ; and at an early hour yesterday morning
the Rev. Chaplain and Mr. Neale, to whom they ex-
pressed their deep gratitude, visited them. At six
o'clock the new drop was erected on the roof of the
prison ; at eight the prisoners were removed into
separate cells, attended by the different Clergymen.
Oades was then so feeble as to be obliged to be
supported on each side ; be nevertheless joined fre-
quently in prayer. At nine the ceremony of pinion-
ing the wretched men was performed—the awful
procession proceeded from that part of the prison
across the yard to the lodge, Cashon and Brien
walking with the two Catholic Clergymen, and
Oades supported by two men, and attended by the
Chaplain. At half-past nine, Foxon, the executioner
from Newgate, appeared on the drop, and in a short
time he was followed by the criminals, who were
placed under the fatal, beam ; and the signal being
given during the reading of the Burial Service, the
tinhappi men were launched into eternity, appa-
rently without a struggle.
While the executioner was pinioning Cashoti's
hands, he exclaimed, " Pull them tighter; you may
as well tie them as tight as you can, and mind I
don't suffer much." He was first on the drop ; and
in the midst of a prayer he broke off, and said,
" You have not put the knot right." He after-
wards complained that tile knot ought to he under
his.ear, not his chin. The Rev. Mr. Foley having
assured him that all was right, he concluded his
prayer, and then resigned himself into the hands of
the executioner. After hanging the usual time, the
bodies were cat down : that of *hake will be deliver-
ed to his brother; the other two bodies will be in-
terred at Springfield.
Mr. Goulding, a very active police officer, from
Reading, in Berkshire, who apprehended' Oades,
then assuming the name of Hunt, visited him yes-
terday. The prisoner declined giving hiin any in-
formation; his conversation consisted chiefly in as-
serting that he was a murdered mail. Nearly twenty
applications have been made by persons for infor-
mation, to neither of which would he:pay the least
attention.

Cashon and Brien, notwithstanding they denied
the crime when first apprehended, pleaded guilty
when placed at the bar for trial. The humane mo-
tives of the Learned Judge in urging the prisoners a
second time to retract their plea, have been produc-
tive of some severe animadversions. "At this stage
of the proceedings, (says the author of them,) when
to doubt the guilt of the prisoners was impossible-
-when the whole Court must have been tilled with
horror at the ferocity displayed towards a feeble and
unresisting old man, Mr. Justice Vaughan again
addresses the prisoners, and urges them to retract
their plea. The prisoners, however, appear to have
had a somewhat more clear perception of right and
wrong than the Judge ; and Cashon repeating the
plea, said, " It is my first offence; but I know I am
guilty, and I will not die with a lie in my mouth."
The evidence having been concluded, the prisoners
were informed by the Judge that to spare their lives
was impossible, and he besought them to employ the
few days remaining to them in prayer and repentance.
When will the monstrous absurdity and even im-
moral tendency of this practice be perceived by our
lawyers ? When will it be felt that the real
object of judicial proceedings, is to maintain
the right and to punish wrong—not to bold
the balance between punishment and impunity,
or to give the offender against the law a
chance of escaping if. he can ? Never, whilst the
maxims of common sense are made to give way to
the sophistries of special pleading, and the niceties of
technical forms. Religion instructs us that cons
fession is the sinner's duty, and reason tells us that
it is the surest possible evidence of, guilt. If there
be any thing of merit in it than can mitigate the
punishment of the offender, in God's name let him
have the benefit of it : if the safety of society re-
quired the enforcement of the utmost rigour of the
law, let not the culprit's last days be deprived of the
moral grace which attaches to contrition, by putting
a ' lie into his mouth.' If Mr. Baron Vaughan's ad-
vice had prevailed with the prisoners, and by means
of any technical loop-hole, an acquittal had en.
sued, would not the world have justly held the
Judge responsible for any mischief which might
have arisen from setting the ruffians at large again ?"
No less than 22 prisoners have been committed
to the New Gaol since the 19th instant, making a
grand total now confined of 260, all of whom iw.r-
took of the usual Christmas prison dinner given yes-
terday.

The thermometer fell in the course of Thurs-
day night from near 50 to 34, being a difference of sixteen
degrees.

A plan has been proposed for making a com-
plete change in the road from Gloucester to Monmouth, so
as to entirely avoid several very loug and steep hills, called
the May Hills. This, if carried into effect, would mate-
rially expedite the communication between L-indon and
South Wales, and make a difference of at least half an hour
iu tke oilival of the wail ip that part of the coaxal,

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1828.

The letter of the Duke of WELLINGTON to
Dr. CURTIS, which we published in our yester-
day's columns, has occasioned the most extraor-
dinary sensation throughout Ireland. It is
there looked on as altogether favourable to
Emancipation, has astonished Mr.O'CoNNELL,
electrified the Association, and called forth from

fie different Liberal Journals, the most unqua-

lifted expressions of satisfaction. The passage
which the Catholics seem most to rely on, is

that wherein his Grace asserts his earnest wish
that the Question should be settled, from a firm
conviction that such settlement is essential
to the welfare of the State. And most
justly we conceive, is reliance to be placed
on this passage. It has proceeded volun-:
tarily from one of the most powerful Minis-
ters that England has ever known, ar.d though it
be subsequently qualified a little by the. confes-
sion of the writer that he sees " no prospect of
such a settlement," yet when we come to
reflect upon the whole bearing of the letter,
in connection with the conversion of Mr.
DAWSON, the rumoured apostacy of Mr.
PEEL, which even the staunchest of that
gentleman's supporters have not ventured
to contradict, the failure of the Brunswick
Clubs, and their late sulky show of mode-
ration—there can be but one opinion on the
subject, viz.—that the Duke of WELLINGTON
both as a man and as a Minister, is zealous for
Catholic Emancipation.
This point conceded, it follows that Eman-
cipation must be obtained. Even when the
Duke was comparatively insecure in his seat, he
had influence enough (by taking, in our opinion,
an undue advantage) to 'overthrow the Liberals.
Surely then, when he is now firmly fixed in the
good opinion of his Colleagues and the country, he
can succeed in his endeavours to obtain Eman-
cipation—especially when all the intelligence and
good feeling of the kingdom is with him.

The French Papers contain some i►rmation
from the East, indicative of the Emperor of
RUSSIA'S determination to prosecute the war
next Spring. For this purpose his Imperial
MAJESTY has refused Count WITTGENSTEIN
permission to visit his estate, because it is abso-
lutely necessary that he should remain at his
post to organise the Army. According to
these accounts the Russians have still a body of
from 30 to 40,000 men on the right bank of the,
Danube. This, if true, completely falsifies the
reports of the total destruction of the Russian ,

Army in Bulgaria. Indeed we apprehend, that
bad as the condition of the Russians has been,
it has been made still worse by wilful misrepre-

scntation.

Private letters from Vienna state, that ac-
cording to the information brought by the Turkey
Mail on the 17th, it was understood that the
GRAND SEIGNIOR would not listen to any pro-
, posalsfor peace—nor would he accede to the paci-
fication of Greece through the interposition of the
Allied Powers. The most flaming accounts were
published at Constantinople of the enormous losses
sustained by the Russians in their retreat from
Shumla, and other points of the seat of war. If the
SULTAN hopes to be as successful in the next
campaign as in the present, he is likely to find
himself much mistaken. His present good is
much more attributable to the gross mismanage-
ment of the Russians than to any good ge-
neralship on the part of his own people. The
Turks have merely endured a passive virtue at
best—they have not performed any signal feat—
nor dared to meet the Russians boldly in the
field of battle. 'Under these circumstances the
SULTAN will do wisely not to hazard too
much, but to rest satisfied with his good fortune.

The obstinacy of the SULTAN is said to have
had the effect of lowering the Metalliques to
941. Gold at Vienna was in great demand for

Turkey.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.

FROM LLOYD'S.

DRAT, DEC. 26.—Wind S.—Arrived the Cicero,
from Quebec. The outward-bound remain.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 26.---Wind S.--Arrived his
Majesty's ship Zebra, from the Mediterranean.
FALMOUTH,DEc. 25.---Wind W.N.W. to W.S.W.
Sailed his Majesty's ship Pallas, with sealed orders;
his Majesty'sship Challenger, for New south Wales;
the Zephyr packet, for Rio Janeiro, &c. ; the Sky-
lark packet, for St. Domingo, Jamaica, &c.; the
Princess Elizabeth packet, for the Leeward Islands;
the Sandwich packet, for Lisbon ; the Elizabeth,
Holmes, for Smyrna; and the Solace, Cross, for St.
M i cha el's.

PooLE, Dm:. 26.---Arrived the Neptune, Martin,
from St. Andrew's, N. B.; Syren, Roe, and Ruby,
Roe, from Netvfoundland.
BRISTOL, Dm:. 26.---Arrived the Tom Cod, from
Africa ; Eolns, Cutcliffe, from New York ; Sarah,
Nicholson, from Messina; John and Henry, Brown,
from St. Michael's ; and Mary and Sally, from
Lisbon.

The Samuel, Whitbread, from Quebec to Lon-
don, abandoned at sea, was driven on shore the 21st
inst. on the coast of Galway, and went to pieces;
most of the cargo expected to be saved.
The Riga, Barclay, from Riga to London, driven
on shore at. Lister, near Fahrsund the 3d inst., and
it was feared would be lost with cargo; crew saved.
The Syrragus, Smith, from Riga to London, was
totally wrecked the 3d inst., on Lister, near Fahrsund ;
crew saved, and most of the cargo expected to be
saved.

THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWlitr.il CLOCZ.

For some time after the commencement of busi-
ness this morning the English Funds remained nearly
stationary, and Consols were, for the first hour,
87ft a ; after this period the market became heavy,
and an evident disposition was shewn to a decline
in price, which, being followed by a very heavy sale
of Reduced for Tuesday next, caused them to go
down to 874, but a trifling re-action has since made
them 87i, and the market continues to look un-
healthy. India Bonds are 70 2; and Exchequer
Bills, 70 pm.

In the Foreign Funds there has been nothing of
importance transacted ; Brazilian Bonds are 63i ;
Buenos Ayres, 48 ; Portuguese remain quite
stationary at .53f ; and Russian, 944 f.
There is nothing new to state in the Mining specu-
lations, nor any alteration in prices.
Three per Cent. Consols, shut ; Ditto, for Account,
871- ; India Bonds, 70 2 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 70 pm.
kouxrux.—Braxilian, 631 I ; Buenos Ayres, 48 1;
Milan, 24 5; Colombian, 23 1 ; Danish, 62+ 3;
French, Five per Cent. 106+ 7+; Three per Cent. 74 1;,.
Greek, 161 Ce 17; Mexican, Five per Cent., 25 6 ; Ditto,
Six per nt., 32+ ; Peruvian, 18/ )9 ; Portu-
guese, 53+ I ; Russian, 951 ; Spanish, 10 +.
Mricits.—Anglo Mexican, 771 5_ die. ; Brazilian, 36 8
pm. ; Bolanos, 70 90 pm. ; Colombian, 11/ 101 dis. ;
Real Del Monte, 150 per share; United Mexican, 231
21 die.

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols remain 87k, rather sellers, but scarcely
any business.

It is our painful duty to-notice the rumours which
exist of the final stoppage of the Banking-house,
which has been for some time the subject of reports
in the City. It is added that one of the partners is
said to have taken himself out of the way with a very
large amount.

Despatches were brought by a King's Mes-
senger yesterday evening for the Earl of Aberdeen, from
the Right Hon. Stratford Canning. The meesenger ar-
rived at the Foreign Office between five and six o'clock,
and also brought despatches for Sir G. Murray, from Sir
F. Adam, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands. The Earl of Aberdeen, after the arrival of the
despatches; proceeded to the residence of the Duke of Wel-
lington, in Downing-street, and had a conference with his
Grace,

The King's Christmas bounty was distributed
on Monday and Tuesday to 800 aged men and women, at
the Almonry-office, Whitehall, by Mr. Hanley, the Secre-
tary to the Lord High Almoner.

The Spanish Minister, on a special mission,
and the French Charge d'Affaires, had interviews yesterday
with the Earl of Aberdeen, at The office of the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Secretary Peel visited the Duke of Wel-
lington yesterday at the Treasury.
It is rumoured in the fashionable circles of
this neighbourhood, tbst the Bev. Earl Nelson is about to
lead to the hymeneal altar the relict of the late Bar-
low, Esq., son of Sir R. Barlow, of Canterbury.—Kent
' Herald.

A report prevails, which,. we trust, will prove
unfounded, that a sailing-boat, having upwards of twenty
persons on board, was lost on her passage from Kinvarra bo
Galway, and that all on board unhappily perished.— Con-
naught Journal.

it is understood that the Duke of Welling.
ton has an intention of reducing the number of the Com-
missioners of Excise.

The Marquis de Barbacena: dined on Wed-
nesday,-at Windsor, with the King, and every thing augurs
well, whether the change has been, wrought by the Mi.
guelites' Violent conduct, the belief of his death, or the
miscarriage of Lord Strangferd's mission. The strong re-
semblance which the young Queen bore to the Princess
Charlotte had a most striking effect upon his 141ajesty.-
-Times.

The birth of a son and heir to the noble
House of Gower has been the signal of rejoicing at New-
pd.—Shrewsbury Chronicle,

THE PANTOMIMES.

COVENT•GARDEN.

The day after Christmas—dear to youth for
two things—Christmas-boxes and Pantomimes,
was ushered in yesterday in the metropolis, with
additional joy, both on account of the fine
weather and the absence of any prevailing
calamity of a domestic or political nature.
Everything betokened happiness throughout
London—and this happiness was concentrated
in Covent-garden Theatre to a pitch of mad-
dening ecstacy. After the stupid play of
Jane Shore, the Pantomime was introduc-
ed. . But before we eescribe the pleasures
of the evening, we cannot help express-
ing our great surprise that the Managers of
our Theatres should persist in giving the play,
which nobody cares'about, before the great and
indeed the only attraction of the evening—the
Pantomimd. It is bad policy, bad management, and
we think detrimental to the interests ofthe theatre.

If pleasure be the aim of the Managers in bring.

ing forward Pantomimes, why not make that
pleasure perfect by ushering the source of delight
as early as possible before the audience ?
Nol9ody goes to see the play, but to trait for the
Pantomime. A play is a tedious tax upon the
patience of the audience, and is defensible
upon no principle of good taste or good po-
licy with which we are acquainted. Young
people are most anxious to see the Pan-
tomimes, and their comfort, as well as that of
their friends, would surely be best consulted by
being able to go home at tcn o'clock instead of
waiting till that period before the Panto-
mime commences—and then trudging home
at midnight. We would strongly recommend
to the Managers of theatres to make the experi-
ment for a fortnight at least, of beginning with
the Pantomime. It would be to their own profit,

and conducive to the public advantage. Those
who chose to stay out a Play after the Panto.
mime might wait, but they would be like trees
in the wilderness—few and far asunder.
The new pantomime at this theatre is founded
on the nursery story of Littlellted Riding-hood,
and in some degree upon a French melodrame

called La Rose &Amour, which was very popu-
lar here and in Paris some years ago. No pan-
tomime can be orthodox which does not begin

with a Conjuror ; and Mr. Farley, who knows the
rules of his art too well to break so important a
one, has introduced a wizard, whose misshapen
son, Humpo, has fallen in love with Rose (Miss
EGAN)—not the little Rose of the story, but a
beautiful young peasant, who has turned the
heads of half the country. The parental affec-
tion of the Conjuror induces him to favour
his son's passion ; and he does this in a way
which none but a wizard would think of, by
changing him into a wolf. •Mr. PARSLOE acts
this beast rery ingeniously ; his movements
and his figure are rather more like a bear's, and
his resemblance to that meritorious public per-
former who climbs up the pole at the Zoological
Society's gardens is so close, that it must be the
result of imitation ; it is nevertheless very curious,
Rose has two other lovers, one a Fat Miller of
Roues► (Mr. BL ANCHARD), and the other
the favoured one, Colin (Mr. EI.LAR), his ap-
prentice. She passes through Rouen in her way
to her Grandmother's cottage, and here an amus-
ing scene ensues with the Miller and his Man.
Colin clears the field of his rival by fastening to
his belt the rope by which the sacks of corn are
craned into the granary. and the fat man is hoisted
aloft to the great content of the lovers, and the
infinite amusement of the audience, who seemed
to relish this practical joke as much as any of the
tricks in the pantomime. Rose proceeds on her
journey, followed by both her lovers, and watched
by the wolf, who, disappointed ofseizing her, in her
way through the forest, reaches the cottage before
her, gains admittance in the old way, and doers not
eat up the grandmother (young GRIMALDI),
which, considering their relative dimensions,
might be difficult, even in a pantomime, but
frightens her out of bed; and dresses himself in
the old woman's night-cap. Rose then arrives, and
nearly falls a prey to the wolf, when Colin and his
fat master arrive and rescue her. The wolf's
papa saves him from the danger which threatens

him, and the Genius of the Rose takes Rose and
Colin under her protection. The metamor-
phoses then ensue. 'Rose and Colin arc Colum-
bine and Harlequin, the Miller is Pantaloon,the
Grandmother Clown, and the Wolf becomes a

nondescript character, new to the pantomimes,
called Blanc et Noir, with which title his party-
coloured dress corresponds. The wizard bestows
upon him a magic girdle, which enables him to
change his shape at pleasure--a privilege of
which, however, he makes but little use. In

this character Mr. PARSLOE displays some feats
of extraordinary activity.

The other actors of the scene were as success-
ful in their several avocations. GRIMALDI as
Clown, BLANCHARD as Pantaloon, ELLAR as
Harlequin, and Miss EGAN as Columbine. We
have not space to-day to enter into a de-
tail of the various tricks and oomicalities
of the evening, but the whole went off with
decided success. The scenes were in general
very well painted—some of them with the most
gorgeous exuberance—and produced a very
striking effect. Robert's moving panorama
of the Russian army's march to Turkey
was painted with all the variety incident to so
important and sadly-diversified subject. " Last
scene of all"—the
Palace of ROSCS—was
unusually brilliant and effective. The home
v
and the pantomime announced for
‘a
s crowded,
evening with most cordial ap-
plause.
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