The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-11 00:00:00

ANNUITIES,

Annuitants participate in the profits of the Company, and receive a
rate of annuity much more favourable than can be granted by any
Company making its investments wholly is England. The Company
is enabled securely to grant these favourable terms from the advan-
tage it possesses of investing a portion of its funds at a high rate
of Interest. _

INDIA.
Tables of Premiums for Assurances on the lives of officers engaged
in civil, or in naval or military service in the East Indies and China,
may be seen et the Offices of the Company.

AGENTS IN INDIA.
Calcutta
Madras
Bombay Messrs. Skinner and Co.
Ceylon
Prospectuses and full particulars may be had at the Offices of the
Company, No. 126, Bishopsgate-street, corner of Cornhill.

Sir JAMES DUKE, Alderman, M.P.
VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
TRUSTEES.
BENJAMIN H AWES, Esq., Deputy'Chairman.
BENJAMIN BA RN ARD, Esq.
CHARLES BALDWIN, Es q.
Peculiar advantages are offered by this Company. Thus—.
Chairman.
Parties assuring the lives of others may make their policies secure,
notwithstanding the life assured may go out of the limits of Europe,
without the necessary permission a the Directors having been pre-
viously obtained.
Credit of half the premiums for the first five years allowed on po-
licies effected for the whole term of life.
On policies of five years' standing, half the amount paid, after the
firs, year's premium, may be borrowed thereon by the Assured.
Advances are also made to Assurers on real or undoubted personal
security, for terms of years, repayable by instalments.
Attention is particularly requested to the detailed Prospectuses of
the Company, which may be obtained at the Office, 18, King
William-street, City, or by letter, addressed to the Secretary.
WILLIAM R ATR AY, Actuary and Secretary.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY.
No. 11, LOMBARD-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post

office, London.
DIRECTORS.
JAMES MORRIS, Esq., Chairman.
JOHN LABOUCHERE, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Henry llulse Ilerens, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq.
John W. Buckle, Esq. George Lyall, Esq., M.P.
John Dixon, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq., M.P.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq. Robert Milford, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
John Loch, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.
A. W. Roberts, E AUDITORS.
sq I Henry Sykes Thornton, E.
Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. George Stone, Esq.
ACTUARY George
Davies, Esq., I.R.S.
In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, a Bonus was declared in June
1829, exceeding one per cent. per annum on the sums insured, on an
average of the different Ages ; and two subsequent divisions of nearly
equal amounts were made up to Christmas 1833 and Christmas 1842.
On an average of the three divisions the Reversionary Bonuses added
to the several Policies at the end of every seven years amounted to
about 27 per cent. on the total premiums paid thereon during those
seven years, and the whole amount of Bonuses allotted at the three
Septennial divisions exceeded 530,0001.
In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared
on the bth of June, upon the premiums received on all Polleies
which had been in force seven years at Christmas 1843, and the same
is now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted)
between the hours of ten and three o'clock.
Notice is hereby given, That Assurances which expire at Michael-
mas must be renewed within iitteen days at this Office, or with
St. James's-street, corner of Pall Mall ; or with the
throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become
,CA.foorint.lSpAani‘ylS'e INgoenlts,

GEORGE KETS, Secretary.

YU ISLIC NOTICE.
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CHURCH RATES.—During the last three days mucl-
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observed coming in an opposite direction, but at so short
a distance, owing to the curvature of the line at this
place, that a collision appeared inevitable. The engine-
men at once reversed the engines, and then leaped off,
and immediately afterwards they came into violent colli-
sion. Most of the butchers were stunned by the shock,
all of them being thrown with considerable force against
the partitions of the carriage. The next moment they
found themselves careering away towards Shields, the
carriage, to use the expression of one of the passengers,
flying like lightning." At once apprehensive of danger,
some of the passengers began to leap from the carriage,
and it was soon ascertained that the engine was
under sio control. Indeed the engineman and stoker
had been left behind, after jumping off, and the engine,
bounding from the collision, was running at an enormous
speed along the line towards Shields, it being a gentle
incline. By the time the train had reached the station,
between fifteen and eighteen of the passengers had
thrown themselves out, the remainder continuing in the
carriage, ready to jump out when they saw a favourable
opportunity. Fortunately, on reaching the station a
train of four or five empty carriages was standing on the
line, against which the engine drove the carriage before
it with tremendous force, carrying all forward to the
back part of the station, where a strong bulk of timber
is placed as a stopper, over which some of the carriages
were driven, whilst the whole were crushed together in
one confused mass of broken fragments. Three or four
yards behind the stopper a low wall enclose this part of
the station, and beyond the wall there is a coal depot, on
a lower level by 25 to 30 feet. One of the carriages, torn
from its frame and wheels, was left balanced on the top
of this wall. The engine, after being " brought up,"
still continued to " puff and blow," urging itself through
the mass of broken carriages.
In the carriage next the engine, which had gone from
Shields with twenty-four or twenty-five passengers, there
yet remained five or six persons, whose escape under
such circumstances was miraculous. John Brown, who
lost his life, was in the division of the carriage next the
engine, and his head was crushed to atoms by the revo
lotion of the wheels, and his body was otherwise much
bruised, he being jammed in between the engine and one
portion of the carriage. In the second division of the
carriage there remained at this time three passengers ;
one of whom, Mr. A. Thompson, says he sat on his seat
incapable of moving, within a few inches of the engine,
and the mangled body of Brown just below and in front
of him, the engine tearing and pressing forward with
furious energy, and gaining ground at every stroke. The
roof of the division was crushed in, and all was a com-
plete wreck. By a desperate effort he got his legs
liberated, and contrived to clear himself of the carriage,
when just at the moment he heard a voice call to him
for assistance; it was that of a strange man, a potter,
belonging to Sunderland, but he returned instantly,
seized him by the collar, and dragged him out. On
raising this man from the mass of mutilated fragments,
Thompson found his own son had been thrown undermost,
and he was thus providentially rescued from premature
death. By this time some one had got water and thrown
in on the engine fire, which was soon extinguished, and
the steam having been blowing off from the first, its
force was spent, and the engines came to a stand. Brown
was taken out alive, but died very shortly afterwards.
The following is a list of the sufferers, and the nature of
the injury they received:—
John Brown, killed in the way described. He was a
cattle-driver, had been long in the trade, and was much
respected.
Joseph Burrell, butcher, Thames-street, South Shields
Very much bruised internally; face cut, and arm much
injured. Not expected to live.
George Gamble, Church-row, South Shields. Head
and face much bruised; his nose broken, from which a
niece of bone was taken this afternoon. Not expected
to recover. He had jumped out before the train reached
the station.
William Batey, wounded in the face and head ; com
plains of his back.
William Greenwell, got on the step outside the car-
riage, and was preparing to jump when he came violently
in contact with the battlement of one of the bridges; has
had his hip dislocated, his ankle joint put out, and is
much bruised and cut.
John Douthwaite, injured in the shoulder, and other-
wise much bruised.
John Tindle, his collar-bone broken, and much cut
and bruised.
Anthony Brown, head and face much cut.
John Young. much cut and bruised.
William Wetherill, ankle sprained by jumping out,
and otherwise slightly injured.
These cases had been reported to the superintendent
of the station to-night, when application was made for
information on the subject, but further inquiries have
supplied the following in addition
Thomas Forest, hurt in the arm.
William Lawson, severely crushed and bruised.
Thomas Gallon, slightly bruised.
Matthew Davidson, injured in the leg and arm.
Anthony Thompson and Robert Thompson, his son,
both injured but slightly, considering the perilous
situation which they occupied during the whole trans-
action.
Frederick Moore, cut and bruised.
Michael Middleton, one of his eyes much injured, and
otherwise bruised and cut.
Samuel Osborne, slightly cut.
Wilkinson, the guard, bruised on the head and breast.
Indeed, out of the entire number of passengers, not
more more than five or six escaped without injury more
or less. Many will be laid up for weeks, and two are
not expected to recover.
As to the cause of the accident, I am sorry to have to
impute it to gross mismanagement. Indeed, a more
glaring case, or one more proper for investigation by the
Board of Trade, perhaps never yet occurred. It appears
the engine, named the Mountain, had been drawing the
Shields trains to and from Brockley Whins, the junction
station between Gateshead and Sunderland, where the line
also joins the Great North of England Railway from
Darlington to Newcastle on the preceding day, and up
to the afternoon of yesterday, when it was disabled from
an accident, and one of the engines used in drawing the
coal-waggon trains, named the Nelson, was substituted
for it, and the Mountain sent up to the station at Gates-
head to be repaired. The five o'clock train from Shields
on Tuesday morning is a special one, put on for the ac-
commodation of butchers attending the Newcastle cattle
market of that day; and an order was given overnight
at the Gateshead station for an engine to go down to
Shields at four o'clock, purposely to bring away the
butchers' train at five. For some reason yet to be ex-
plained, this engine, the Leopard, did not leave Gates-
head till ten minutes or a quarter before five, and instead
of going on the "down rail," as it ought to have done,
it went along the " up rail." The Shields train being
ready to start at five, and the passengers waiting, the
Nelson coal engine was put to, and started with the
train, and about two miles from Shields the engines met.
The engineman of the Nelson, who has been appre-
hended, and is now in custody, says, naturally enough,
he never expected to meet an engine on that rail, and
when he did see it coming, he did all he could by re-
versing the steam, and as he saw a collision was
unavoidable, he endeavoured to save himself by jumping
off, and the stoker followed his example. The tender
being in front of the engine, was knocked to pieces by
the blow, and thrown off the line, and the platform on
which the engineer and stoker stand was also carried
away, so that when they attempted to get upon the en-
gine after the collision had taken place, they could not,
as there was no place left for them to stand on. The
engineman and stoker of the Leopard engine had also
jumped off, but after turning off the steam, so that their
engine was brought to a stand after the collision they
got on again, and brought it back to Gateshead. If the
blame rest upon the engineman, then he who had charge
of the Leopard. who had been too late in setting out
from Gateshead, and who in running down to Shields
went upon the wrong rail, is surely the more culpable
of the two, and yet, strange to say, he is still at large,
whilst the other unfortunate man is in the watch-house.
Had the engineman and stoker remained upon the Nel-
son, they would have been inevitably killed by the colli-
sion, jammed in between the engine and the tender.
They saved themselves by jumping off, and the platform
in order to draw the five o'clock train from heiewas,
ought to have been there before that time n
geeraotrianigtnhdetohwesame spot the for lost time,
they had occupied was crushed to atoms. The Nelson,lds
brought down at rapid speed to makeline, up
time required to alter the swi.tache
from Shields in such a
to another, and met the 00
app
roached within but a
part of the line that they had
rlainfetllo
iSnhiwelidths tahcisommmorenricnigal,
before the danger of colli-
sionshort distance of each otherengineman of the Leopard either
brought up, too, upon the wrongs
.d
was apparent. The aglosofrotomsoanvee 1111 ee
evening before. He had
authority were not sufficiently specific in their instruc-
itinons. Blame rests somewhere.
grossly neglected his orders and general duty, or those
reasons, wishes his name
withhe'd, and he, it seems, had a narrow escape for
withrar
toi
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obvious
for his
come from Darlington, having booked through
to
Sh'elds, but on arriving at Brockley
Whins there was
to train to take him forward. He complained of the
delay, and the station-keeper offered
him a passage on
ltiofe:asnnc
the pilot engine, kept at
the station. He accepted the
efler, and placed his luggage
accordingly on the tender.
On their way down they met the Mountain engine com-
ing up on the same line • a collision was inevitable, and,
0 save himself, the gentleman jumped offjust before the

The Sun, a few days since, stated that it bad received
several complaining letters touching the plain dress-
ing of the Queen. The writers were astounded that her
Majesty should wear a simple straw bonnet and a plain
shawl. Their notions of royalty w!-re, doubtless, that
royalty should always appear with the crown on its
head, the sceptre in one hand, and the ball in the other.
That this notion is the right one is evident from the
subjoined letter which the Marquis of I.4,ndonderry—
assuming his privilege as Peer—has addressed to the
Queen. It has all the marks of the Quern's easy style.
" Madam,—Deeply attached as I am—like my lute
lamented relative—to the institutions of my country, I
approach you with an earnest anxiety respecting your
simple straw bonnet and a plain shawl. Being second
to none in my attachment to the crown, and devotion to
your royal person, may I therefore humbly suggest that
the true dignity of the crown is in danger when so fre•
quentiv supplanted by plain chip or Dunstable ; and that
the royal purple cannot but be in peril when so often
covered by a Paisley or shepherd's plaid.
" The people, may it please your Majesty, confound
simplicity with want of power. Use them to nothing
but the bonnet and the shawl, and the diadem and the
imperial robes will be to them a fiction of the law. In
a brief time they will cease to believe even in the exist-
ence of such things ; and then—but I tremble to think
of the revolutionary consequences. The people are a
vulgar, sight-seeing mob_; their eyes are, in fact, the
greatest part of them. The late lamented George the
Fourth knew this, and fed their eyes, and nothing but
their eyes, accordingly.
" Hoping, Madam, that you will not misconstrue my
loyalty in this lowly remonstrance, and further, that in
all future journeys the plain bonnet and the very plain
shawl may give place to something more likely to awe
the swinish multitude, I remain,

" Your Majesty's dutiful and most devoted subject,
"LONDONDERRY.

" P.S. Prince Albert's white hat and black band—
forgive the expression, I can't ;help it—are positively
vulgar. Why does'nt he always wear his coronet ? No-
body can look better in it."—Punch.

VAUXHALL-GARDENS.—These gardens were enli-
vened on Wednesday by a masquerade, or, as the bills ex-
pressed, " a carnival ball." The resuscitation of the
ancient amusements at this once popular place of enter-
tainment has been for the last month patronised by the
public in a way that shows, if proper management be
adopted, and a proper price charged for what is to be
seen, and for what is afforded, there are plenty of people
who will visit the gardens and make it worth the while
of the proprietors to behave with liberality and make the
" royal property" what it was in the days of the celebrated
Mr. Simpson. The masquerade was well attended ; there
were many hundreds of persons, and amongst them the
usual quantity and quality of maskers. There was
plenty of music, and all the usual appliances for fun
and frolic. The dancing was confined to the Rotunda
and the adjoining room, in which it was kept
up with great spirit till a late hour. The arrangements,
under the management of Mr. Lewis, were of a character
to insure the gratification of all who visited the gardens.
On this occasion he made his bow to the company as the
successor of the gentleman above mentioned, and though
but a temporary successor to that original, he evinced
sufficient originality to make himself the most con-
spicuous person present. It is but right to say his bene-
fit "is fixed" for this day (Friday). The commis-
sariat department was well managed. Rack-punch,
champagne, and other wines,- were drank in great quan-
tities, and there was the ancient demand for cold fowls,
hams, &c. In a word, those who remembered Vauxhall
in its old days recognised this fete as the best imitation
of its glories that has been given for some seasons.
DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF DONEGAL.—We
have to record the demise of this distinguished Noble-
man, who expired at Ormeau at an early hour on Satur-
day morning. His Lordship had been for some time
past suffering from indisposition, but his medical advisers
entertained strong hopes that the invigorating bracing
sea air might enable his constitution to make head against
his growing infirmities. His Lordship accordingly took
up his residence during the summer at a cottage near
Cultra, which was recently occupied by the Dowager
Countess of Dufferin. Towards the middle of last month,
however, it became painfully obvious that his Lordship
could not survive many weeks, and three weeks past he
was removed to Ormeau, where, as has been stated, he
expired on Saturday last. The deceased, George Au-
gustus Chichester, Marquis of Donegal, Viscount Chi-
chester, and Baron Belfast (Viscount Fisherwick, in
England), Lieutenant of the county Donegal, Knight of
St. Patrick, &c., was born in 1769, and was, conse-
quently in the 76th year of his age. He is succeeded in
his titles and estates by his eldest son, the Earl of Belfast,
Lieutenant of the county Antrim, now Marquis of
Donegal. The mortal remains of the late Marquis will
be removed for interment in the family vault at Carrick-
fergus Church, on Monday next.
We have received a report of an application made
yesterday to Mr. Rawlinson, at Marylebone Police-office
by a Frenchman, who has previously figured in certain
crack-brained exploits, to forward certain ridiculous
statements of claims against Louis Philippe to her Ma-
jesty. The same individual applied, about a fortnight
ago, to one of the City police-courts for a warrant to de.
tcin his Majesty on his arrival in this country. The
letter to the Queen was printed in French and English,
and betrays so obviously that species of insanity (accord-
ing to the modern acceptation of the term) which is apt
to take a mischievous form, that we are rather surprised
the magistrate, instead of promising the applicant to
peruse it at his leisure, did not at once take steps to pre-
vent even the possibility of any annoyance to our illus •
trious guest from a person of this description. We pur-
posely abstain from publishing the report.—Post.
OPENING OF THE LOCK AT DIGLIS.—This morning
(Wednesday), at eleven o'clock, the ceremony of opening
the lock at Diglis took place in the presence of a consi-
derable number of the citizens, J. Bailey, Esq., M.P.,
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., and several of the gentle-
men forming the Committee of Management. The first
vessel that passed through the cutting and the large lock
(having on board the gentlemen above-named) was the
Sarah, belonging to Mr. L. Maybury, of the Wherry ; two
others afterwards entered the lock (the Richard of
Droitwich, and a smaller barge) a-breast; there was
ample space for both, and the length between the gates
is sufficient to admit two others of the same size.
The spectators frequently cheered, and during the
proceedings three pieces of cannon stationed on Mr.
Maybury's barge were fired at intervals. The length of
the lock is 150 feet by 30 feet, and 34 feet deep. The
lower gates weigh 32 tons the pair, and may be worked
with ease by one man. This is, we understand, the first
attempt that has been made to work gates of this mag-
nitude by means of balance beams, and, as far as can at
present be seen, it is likely to be most successful. At
this hour we have no time for more than this brief notice;
we must, however, congratulate the citizens on the near
completion of an undertaking which cannot fail to lx
attended with the most beneficial results. Mr. Leader
Williams was frequently congratulated by gentlemei.
present, on the approaching termination of a project it
which he has taken so much interest, and to whose ever
tions its being carried out may, in a great measure, be
attributed.— Worcestershire Chronicle.
EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On the
evening of Saturday last the following set ions accident
accurred on the West London Railway, Shepherd's-bush,
by which two horses were killed and frightfully muti-
lated. From the inquiries made into this matter,
it appears that, about ten minutes past six o'clock on the
evening in question, as a groom in the service of Mr.
John Tollitt, of Oxford-street, who had been to High
Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, to fetch four valuable
horses belonging to his master, which had been
there at grass, was returning home, riding one of the
horses and leading the other three, when close to
the bridge crossing the West London Railway, at Shep-
herd's bush, the led horses were frightened by the lamps
of a carriage which suddenly turned the cornero of_ theo
road, and broke away from the groom. Two of %that_
took the direction of the railway station, which bI
short distance north of the Uxbridge-road. and
just entering
train returning from the It was then
them.
Railway was advancing towards
_
k at the station hearing a
the gates of the station,
dark, and on the c
note
h t was the matter,
ruling to see w a
noise, and running
on horseback on the line in
he found the groom to the liunireromghasama
f following the horses. The clerk im-
mediatelythe act c
that a train was approaching, and
tel him
the groom said wherever his horses had gone he
but
force
hToahrses
etos clerk
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passedl
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over
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crow-bars
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would
.o would
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as well
awtetelimpbetedkitlolefdoasowlose them,
his
,egaownd he did not care what became of him, as he
t
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stopped
epfeoudus
found
dn to
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signal,
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ahf
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enginehthise
chtohoursalscliedhsnot go home to his master ; and force was obliged
w
raLonndonon
stop the train, and on reaching the train, which had
hietehl was
ssu, et shhaav that
odt the
One appeared to have been struck by the fender, and the
extricatew
w
the oor animals,iit.
On
other by the left buffer, and the head of one of the horses
search
one
was
a s beingfoun made aidne a for the
dreadfullyre a remains of
muti-
lated state, at no great distance behind the train, and
the other about 200 yards further off, with the hind legs
completely cut off. The state of the groom, when he
found that both the horses were killed, was most pitiable,
and there is no doubt he would have destroyed himself,
had not the greatest care been taken of him. The two
horses were, it is said, valued at 1001., and in addition
to that loss, the damage done to the train amounts to
101., yet, strange to say, the engine-driver and the
guard declare that they felt no jerk in passing over the
horses, and that they were unconscious of any accident
having occurred, until they saw the signal to stop the
train,

rENV 'I.O3IAIICE,BT
AL N E TEN
I-t:l4 1.,U1101R 0R OF " THE&c. KtiZZILBASII,"
" all!: 0,"
Nov ready at all the Lib arks, in 4 vols., post Bvo.,
E D I:, K FALCO N.
A TALE OF THE ATTRUCK.
By J. B. PRATER, Esq.
Author of " The Kuzzilbash," " Mee Neemroo,"
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

THEATRE ROY k ' , DRURY.I.ANE.
PHIS EVE,ING, ToBEi: 11,
Will per'orm2d a New Grand Opera, in Three Act,. elated
rr E B, HEMIAN GIRL. t ount Arnhtim, Mr. Borrari;
Tha deus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Dev.liboof, Mr Stretton ; Arline,
Ramforth ; Queen of :he Gipsies, Mis- Butts.
To conclude with the Ballet of Actiot.,enttled T E DESERTER
AtF ?•,; A S. Henry, Sir. W. H. Payne; Sk mush. T.
Mtth w>; Simpk in, Mr. W.eland ; Louise, Mi s Clara Webster;
An cote Madame Giubiler.
It is respectfully Announced that no one can, on any account, be
druyt d in future, either to the D ess Circle or Stalls, unless in
Evening Costus .
T,e Box o ce is o en daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six
n th^ Ev ring, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places,
and Ticket. may I.)e had on application to Mr. John Parsons

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THEATRE HOY AL. HAYMARKET.
Less. p, Mr. B. WEB,T ER.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 11,
Will be repeated Vanbrugh's t omedy of THE CONFEDERACY.
Adapted to the present Period.
The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farren,
Puckatone, and C. Mathews, Maame Vestris, Miss P. Horton,
Mrs. E. Yarnold, Julia,
Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs.
/hover.
After which, a New Farce, by Mr. Buckstone, entitled THE
,11,,8LE RIG. J din Ginger, M,. Buck:Acme , Sam Shindy,
Mr. Strickle.rid ; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Cbtford.
To conclude with THE MILLINE ;'S HOLIDAY.
Orche,t .a Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the Even-
rng), ss. each. First Prize—Boxes s ; Pit, 3s. ; Gall, ry, uls.;
Upper Gallery, Is. Second Price at Nine o'Clock-B xes, 3s. ; Pit,
2s. ; Gallery. Is. ; Upper Galle,y, N. Doors opened at Half past
Six, Pe, formance commence at even.
Private Boxes, T.. o ouineas and One Guinea and a.Half each.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box.office,
from l'en till F.ve o'Clock.
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THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Order the Direction of Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 11,
Will be perrirmed FOREIGN AFFAIRS ; or. The Court of
Quern Anne St Louis, Madame Celeste ; Courtall, Mr. Hudson
Baron, Mr. Wright; Baroness, Mrs Yates; Lady Bell, Miss
Woolgar.
To be 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 DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE.
Prompter, Mr. Gall3t ; Principal Painter, bir Pitt ; Leader of the
Band, Mr. Mellon.-13ox-c.-3, e open from Eleven till Four. Private
Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries.
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PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-ST tiEhT.
LVSSEE. Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 11,
po'formanees will commence with Donizetti's celebrated
Opera of LUCIA DI LA MMERMOoIt. Lucy Ashton, Hdlle.
Neu; IN,7tglas A,hton, Hr. Leffler; Edgar of Ravenswood, Mr.
Allen. Alew Farce, called TAKING THE PLEDGE.
To be fAlow,clll
Augustus Larkidel, oll!ertv ; Alexander Paps, Mr. Walter
yiss Einma St alley.
Lacy ; Emily Gus,,ett,
,sith '1 HE LOST LETTER.
Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden.
S age M.Analg'oerc,ollnlcr
Machinist. air. Edmund Bra 'lt'd'.
Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, Is, Pit, 25.; Gallery. ls. Half-price at
Nine o'c:ock—Dress Circle, 2s. t;d. e,oxes, 25. ; Fit, Is.; Gallery, &i.
Private Bores. two Guineas ,nd tine Guinea and a-Half ;
at PrHal f.osce-
nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-H Doors to be opened
p'ist Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock.
The Box. °tee, uir'er the direction of Mr. W. Massingh am.
Private Boxes and 1-rce Admissions for the Season to be had at the
Theatre

II'HEATItE KOYAL LYCEUM, LAIE ENGLISH OPERA-
HOUSE.
Un,'er the Management of Mts. KEELEY.
Last Night but One of " Martin chnzilewit."
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER IL
Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZ LE.
VIM Pl'llCipal characters by Messrs. IL Youngs, Craven, emery,
F. qathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, qanton,
J. Coliier, Yarnnld, and Keeley; Miss ortescue, Mrs. A.
Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. ITsher, Miss Turner, and
Mrs t eeley.
After wnich, a New Comic Scene, called OUTGENERALED;
cr, a Hint to Bachelors. Charles Stanley, Mr. F. Vining; Mrs.
ilartley, Miss Walcott.
To conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than
New, Oland Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesqre Dare.
-.avanza, founded on the celebrated Eastern Cale, in the Arab; in
fights' i:ntertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON-
'ERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With rely
4:x•ensive ge Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha
meters by Lira Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, Turner, A. Wigan,
J iV. collier, and Keeley; Misr Fairbrothei, Mrs. Weelli •ge,
Miss Way Miss Arden, Miss Turner, Slr s James, &c., &c.
PRICES OF A. : Ult.SlON.—liatcony oxen. 4., Upper
:coxes, Pit, 2s. ; Caller y, Second Price—Balcony Bves, 2.. ;
AJpper B.'xes. 13 lid. , P. Private Boxes on the ri •.c.my Tier
•lioiding eight poisons). Tao Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
bear (holding eight persons), )ne Guinea and a-Half. Private
tox.es on the 'Tier (holding six persons), One Gulf
I Boa. axe is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc-
iNi of Mr. 4;rf,gan, late of Covent-garden Theatre

O VIrOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
MOM successful than ever—Another New Piece, and Novelties
beyon.l concep.ion.
THIS EVE,IING OCTOBER. 11,
Wll tie repeate. a NTew Military Drama. entitled THE EVE OF
BATTLE. ,up orte Iby the whGle C. mpany, with New Scen,ry
au:: SVendiii App ,ntment4.
After wlaicti, a New BALLET LES TROIS FETES DE BO irS,
undor the direction of Mr. T. Ridgway.
To conclude with THE PROTECTOR; or, THE REBEL'S
GAUNTLET. Characters be Messrs. E. F. Saville, H. Hughes.
Hicks, U.'s. 11. Hughes, Mrs. R. Hcnner, &c.
places ,11-1 Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, a' the Box_
office, fio, aveti to Four

STRAND THEATttF'.
TOIS EVENING, OCTOBER. 11,
Will be performed MA RTIN CHUZZLEWIT. Young Martin
i'huzziewit. Mr. R inti 3; Old Martin Chuzzletit, Mr. Ayliff.;
Chuzzlewit. Mr Attwood, Montague l'igg, Mr. Roberts;
Tom Pinch, Mr. Bidilles; Mr. Pecksniff, and Mrs. Sairey Gamp,
U. Flail; M try Grar; am. Mrs. Coleman Pope.
After w Uch.THE i ER i;!ONT WOOL DEALER, in which Mr.
arl•le, the celabra'ed AmerL'an Comedian, will make his First
Apty:arance in England, supporta: by Messrs. Ayliffa, Searle, Dean,
G Maynare, Mrs mont,ion.erie, a d !Kiss Stephens
To roaclude with YANKEE LA 143, id which Mr. Macble will
pet ions.

ROYAL VICTORI % THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 11,
1)2 revived Shak peme's Play of CORIOLANUS; or, tie
Roma, Matto,. cor'olmus, Ntr. ttr.,hsrr ; Comintus, Mr. Vale;
Volunmia, W \Vest ; Virgilia, Miss
Afar whi,h, THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. Niccdnnus,
D.ste ; Geo gi.na, Mss Louisa Lyors.
To concl ,sie with THE BAFFLE OF ft USTERLITZ Chs-
rac'ers uy Messrs. Daie, C. J. Bird, John Herbert, James, Mrs. W.
West, Mi.s Hamilton. Mrs Garrick, &c.
Privat,!" amity Boxes, £1 Is. Od. and LI Ils. 6d.

THE WEATEEII.—Stni OFFICE, OCT. 10
T ..:.;11.,i0AILT-r-7.^., Lowest, 51; Highest, 53; Noon, 60
BAI«).AETEII, 29.33.—W1ND, S.W.

NCITZ.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
fr .ering point, and 55 temperate. In BarornAters fair is
u 1::1117 plued oppf.,site 30. and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
56 mlnutes after 0 I Evening ... 16 minutes after 1

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