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COTTON TWIST'S LETTER to the lion.
SIDNEY HERBERT, M.P., SECRETARY to the ADMI-
RALTY, is contained in the WEEKLY CHRONICLE of this day ;
also Ireland, No. 22, the Rebellion of 1798 ; O'Connell's Speech ; the
India and China Mail ; Revolution in Spain ; State of Parties ; Sir R.
Peel and the Agriculturists ; The Free Traders and the Whigs. Mr.
C. Mathews' Insolvency ; and a full Digest of the Parliamentary
Proceedings, and other News of the week.
Office, 337, Strand, and all Newsvenders.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
SEASON 1844.
The following outline of the arrangements for the ensuing' season
is respectfully presented to the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public.
ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA.
Madame Grisi, Madlle. M. Favanti (her first appearance at this
Theatre), Madame Bernal, Madame Dal Fiori, and Madame Persian!.
Signor Mario, Sig. Correlli (his first appearance at this Theatre),
Sig. Dal Fiori, Sig. Felice (his first appearance at this Theatre), Sig.
Fornasari, Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig. Lablache.
Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Sig. Costa.
The Repertoire will consist of a Selection of the most admired
Works, and amongst the Novelties will be presented Persiani's New
Opera "La Fantasma," produced with great success at the Italian
Opera, Paris ; and Ricci's New Opera, " Corado D'Altamura," pro-
duced with great success at the Scala, Milan ; and now in rehearsal
tthe Italian Opera, Paris; and an entirely New Opera, composed
M. Costa, expressly for the company, entitled " Don Carlos."
THE BALLET.
Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, Madlle. Adelaide Frasi, of the Teatro di
Pergola, Florence (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. Guy
Stephan ; 'Madlle. Scheffre, Madlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Planquet,
Madlle. Barville (their first • appearance at this theatre) ; Madlle.
Fanny Elssler, and Madlle. Cerito ; M. St. Leon, M. Montassu (his
first appearance in this country), M. Coulon, M. Gosselin, M.
Gouriet, M. Venafra, and M. Perrot, and a numerous and efficient
Corps de Ballet.
Arrangements are also pending with Madlle. Taglioni, and there is
every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will be se-
cured for a limited number of representations.
The Orchestra will consist of the same combination of talent which
has entitled it to the distinctive merit of being the first in Europe.
The Choruses will be numerous and effective.
Leader of the Orchestra, M. Tolbeque.
Principal Artiste of the Theatre, Mr. W. Grieve.
Maitre de Ballet, M. Perrot.
Sons Maitre de Ballet, M. Gosselin.
Reg,isseur de la Danse, M. Coulon.
Leader of the Ballet, M. Nadaud. ,
Madame Porsiani and Signor Fornasari will appear on the First
Night of the season, in Herold's chef d'oeuvre of "Zampa."
The debut of Madlle. Favanti will be forthwith arranged.
Madame Grisi, Signor Mario, and Signor Lablache, will appear at
the re-opening of the theatre, immediately after Easter.
Madlle. Carlotta Grisi will arrive in town in a few days, and will
appear on the first night of the season, in a New Ballet, founded on
Victor Hugo's celebrated work of " Notre Dame de Paris," entitled
La Esmeralda." The part of Esmeralda, by Madlle. C. Grisi ; the
part of Pierre Gringoire, by M. Perrot.
Madlle. Cerito will arrive in town at the end of April.
Among the novelties in the Ballet Department will be produced a
New Grand Ballet, entitled " Jeanne d'Arc." Jeanne d'Arc, Madlle.
Fanny Elssler.
The Subscription will consist of the same number of Nights as
last Season, comprising every Tuesday and Saturday until the
of August, and a limited number of Thursdays to make up the
number, which will be timely advertised as Subscription Nights.
The Theatre will Open in the first week of March, when will be
produced Herold's celebrated Opera of " Zampa :" Camilla, Madame
Persiani ; Zampa, Sig. Foruasari. To be followed by a New Ballet,
by M. Perrot, with New Scenery, Dresses, &c., entitled " La Esme-
ralda." The Music by Sig. Pugni. The Scenery by W. Grieve. The
Principal Characters by Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, Madlle. Adelaide
Frasi, Madame Guy Stephan, Madlle. Scheffre, Madlle. Planquet,
Madlle. Ferdinand, and 3ladlle. Barville ; H. Perrot, M. Coulon, M.
Gosselin, and M. St. Leon.

THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 10,
Will he repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts. called FHE
BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. BOIT3III ; Thaddeus,
Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainforth; Queen of the Gipsies,
Miss Betts.

After which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas
Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or,
VALENIINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum-
oine, falls= Casson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr.
Blanchard.

THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN.
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY
PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING—PART L
Overture, Oberon—Weber.
New Quadrille, entitled The Chatsworth Quadrille—Coote.
Sol -, Violin, Mr. Case.
Valse, La Valse a Deux Tems=Jullien.
The Destruction of Pompeii —Roch Albert.
PART IL
Grand FantAalla from I Puritani, the Four Cornet-a Pi to-s by
Messrs. Halper, Laurent, Handley, and Herr ricerrig—Bellini.
New Quadrille, The Irish Echoes—Junior).
Solo, Bassoon, M. Baumann.
Valse, Schonnenbrunner—Lanner
the English Quadrille—Jullien.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mgt. BENJAMIN WEBSTER. LESSER
RE-ENGAGEMENT OF MR. JOHN PARRY.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 10,
Will be repeated THE LITTLE DEVIL Niculo Angell, Ma.
dame Vestris Ferdinand of Spain, Mr. Stuart; Vincentio d'Estella,
Mr. Charles Mathews.
After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir
Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonus
Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia
Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby.
To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR
ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr.
J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora,
Miss Julia Bennett.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Unprecedented success of " The Merry Wives of Windsor,"
which will be acted on Monday and Thurs'ay for the last time,
thus east :—Sir John Falstaff: Mr Strickland; Slender, Mr.
Charles Mathews; Evans, Mr. Webster • Ford, Mr. Stuart ; Page,
Mr. Howe; Caius, Mr. J. Bland; Pistol,' Mr. Brindal; Mrs. Page,
Madame Vestris; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Dame Quickly, Mrs.
Glover. The Le see respectfully informs the Patrons of this Esta-
blishment that he has re-engaged Mr. JOHN PARRY for Six
Nights longer, and positively his Last API earances. Last Wtek of
the New Fairy Extravaganza of " The Fair One with the Golden
Locks"-Graceful, Miss P. Horton; Lucidora, Miss Julia Ben-
nett. The New Comic Drama of " Used Up," will be repeated
To-night, Tuesday, Wednesday, Fiiday, and Saturday. The
" Little Devil" to-Night.

1. T. ARCHER, Box-book K

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHT.
• The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 10,
Will be repeated, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE
CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0 Neslth,
Wright, Lyon, Maynard, torman, Miss %Voolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews,
Miss Chaplin, and alias Lee.
After which, a New Play, in Three Acts, entitled JUDITH
OF GENEVA. Principal Characters—Messrs. Lyon, Wright,
0. Smith, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. Yates.
To conclude w;th the Grand Christmas Pantomime, called HAR-
LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the Silver Crescent.
Produced with Enormous Splendour and Wowlertul Effects!
Columbine, Miss Bullets • Harlequin Quicksilver, by the inimitable
Wieland; Clown, by the Grimaldi of the day, Mr. T. Matthews,
from the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury.lane; Pants.
loon, Mr. Johnstone.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 10,
Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE SPIRIT OF THE
FOUNTAIN. Conrad, Mr. Walton; Leoline, Mrs. H. P. Grattan.
After which, the Petite Drama, called THE GREEK SLAVE.
Zaida tthe Greek S'ave), Madame Eugenie Prosper.
T• be followed by a New Farce, called BOUNCE; or, The
Ojibbeway Indians.
Co conclude with the New Musical Burlesque Spectacle, entitled
THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing. Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo.
Poo, Mr. Paul Bedford; Sloe. Leaf, Miss R. Isaacs.

AbTLEI'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Under the Management of Mr. Batty, Proprietor.
Triumphant Success of the Equestrian Novelties and Pantomime.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 10,
Will be parformed the Grand National Spectacle of THE BATTLE
OF WATERLOO. Napoleon Buonaparte, Mr. Gomersal, his ori-
ginal character
New Scenes in the Circle, and Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship..
To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN TAM
O'SHANTER.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAI RE.
Enormous hit of " Stella Rittersdorr—more crowded than ever—
Increased attraction of the best Pantomime in London, overflow.
ing with fun.
THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 10,
Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled STELLA RITTER&
DORF, sup; rated by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, R. Homier,
Neville, Vale, Smith, Johnson, Lewis, estop Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs.
Daly. Mrs. Hughes, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. if Vining.
After which, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by " Iloz," with
splendid Appointments.
To conclude with an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with
Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Trick,s
every thing new and of the most costly description, HARLEQUIN
GRAMMAR, or, Lindley Murray, and AEI 0 U. Harlequin, Mr.
W. H. Harvey; Grotesque, Mr. Stilt; Clown, Mr. Fuller; Pante.
loon, Mr. Hawsins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair.
brother and Miss Sharpe.

ROYAL VICIORIA THEATRE.
EVENING, FEBRUARY 10,
Will be produced THE GNOME OF THE GOLD MINES.
supported by Messrs. Freer, Nantz, Miss Vincent. &c.
After which, THE FAIRY LADY; or, The Cabinet of Bronze.
Ta conclude with HARLEQUIN LINCOLN LUCKY OF LAM.
BETH ; or, The Three Sisters of Witch Willow Dell. Harlequin,
Mr. Chapin° ; Clown, Mr. Scarbrow; Pantaloon, Mr. -Morelli ;
Columbine, Miss M. Schmidt

THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, FEB. 10.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 31; Highest, 42; Noon, 37.
BAROMETER, 29.57.—W1ND, W.
NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
&aiming point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
us sally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning • 46 mluutes after .5 j Evening .. 8 minutes after 6,

tection of Agriculture, to be formed in London. Some
names have been mentioned. of Members of both.
Houses of Parliament; who to take a leading part
in this Association; if anything of the kind be on
foot, it would be well that the honest and zealous
friends of Protection should be on their guard
against the possible construction of a Society
which, under the name of protection for agri-
culture, might, in reality and truth, be merely
a protection for Ministerial policy." In another
part of the same, article our Contemporary
repeats . his warning to the Monopolists in these
terms :—" The agriculturists of England cannot le
too cautious not to fetter themselves in any way.
Those to whom they trusted in 1841 have as yet
done nothing to show that their championship may
be confided in." It is clear from this that, notwith-
standing his late declaration in Parliament that he
contemplated not the slightest alteration in the exist-
ing corn-law, the Monopolists have no great confi-
dence in Sir ROBERT PEEL. They still regard him
with as much distrust as ever, knowing well that
when expediency forces him to alter his views, and
to regard the sliding-scale in a different light to
that in which he now views it, he will not hesitate to
snake a sacrifice of the few tattered shreds of consist-
ency that still remain to him. We deny not—we
never have denied—that the Premier is placed in a
peculiarly difficult position, and that, turn which way
he will, he is beset with obstructions of no ordinary
character; still, it must be borne in mind that his diffi-
culties are in a great degree of his own creation, and
that if he be now hampered at every step of his pro-
gress, it is wholly in consequence of Ms own timid,
tortuous policy. Had he adopted a decided, ener-
getic course of action when he first took the
reins of Government in 1841, instead of flirting—
like a political coquette as he is, now with one party
and now with another, paying unmeaning attentions
to both, and winning the affections of neither, he
would not have been in the situation in which he at
present finds himself. His majorities might have been
less in Parliament, but they would have been more
steady—more worthy to be relied on ; and though he
would have had fiercer enemies, he would have had
warmer and stauncher friends. When ALEXANDER
found, after several strenuous endeavours, that he
could not untie the. Gordian knot, he at once
adopted the bold resolution of cutting it
with his sword ; and in a similar energetic
spirit should Sir ROBERT PEEL have acted with the
Monopolists. When he found that he could not make
them amenable to reason—that they slighted all his
attempts to engage them in an enlightened course of
policy, and would persist in adhering to their own
narrow prejudices, he should at once have cut all
connection with them, and boldly thrown himself into
the arms of the Liberal party. He might possibly
have lost by this conduct for a season, but he would
have gained by it in the long run, for he
would have had an ardent, grateful, and confiding
people at his back, and they would have taken
good care to see him handsomely through his
difficulties. No really honest statesman ever yet
appealed—or ever will appeal—to his countrymen in
vain. CnaTnass did so when the KING and the aris-
tocracy were both leagued against him—and his ap-
peal was triumphantly answered. His far inferior
son did so, when Fox, with his Coalition Ministry,
was all-powerful in the House of Commons, and com-
manded a majority in the Lords—and his appeal, also,
was successful. Earl GREY did so, when a selfish,
dominant aristocracy arrayed itself in des-
perate hostility to the Reform Bill—and his
appeal, too, was triumphantly replied to by
the people. But all these were statesmen of
lofty, energetic character; and the most obsequious
flatterer of our present Premier will scarcely go the
length of stating that he has one single particle of
energy or decision in his nature. No, he is a
pliant, submissive waiter on the chapter of
accidents a methodistical worshipper at the
shrine of expediency, who, even if he see
the right course to pursue, dare not for his
life pursue it. His sole object seems to be, to main-
tain himself in power, and let things take their own
course, without putting himself to the trouble of
directing them. He will not side boldly with the
Monopolists—for his late declaration is a mere feint—
and he will not side boldly with the Free-traders ; but
he stands hesitating between two bundles of motives,
like the long-eared animal in the fable. He is the
Pau/watts of the State-vessel, who, trusting to
the present 'serene aspect of the weather, nods at the
helm, when he should be busy directing her course
into the appointed haven. Well, this state of things
cannot last long, and the instant the winds begin to
roar, and the waves to rise, right overboard will go
the inactive, drowsy pilot, to be cast, helpless and
hopeless, on the bleak, inhospitable coast of Oppisition.
0 nimium pelago et cxlo confine sereno,
Nudus in ignota, Palinurejacebis arena!"

We have little to add to the intelligenee already
published, and the extracts of this day from the
Spain. The liberty of the
French papers respecting
press at Madrid was said to be destroyed, and all
journalists were threatened with prosecution who
should write about the rising at Alicant, but of these
we see no proofs in the journals. The ,Eco del Com-
mercio is more violent than at any former period, and
exhorts all who love their country rather to die in
the cause than submit to oppression. " Threatened
in our personal safety," it says, "and confiding in
their physical strength, they struggle face to face
against devotedness and patriotism. A horrible
struggle, in which the liberty and the fate of Spain
are made the stakes struggle in which we are de-
termined to die, as are all who have at heart the love
of liberty, and who know how to defend to the utter-
most the Constitution which is threatened by the Mus-
sulman sabre of a cursed power. May the curses of
all good Spaniards—may the brand of ignominy fall
on the heads of whoever recedes one pace, or who
giVes way either from weakness or fear before the
persecution of the tyrants. Let us repulse the blows
directed against the sanctity of our institutions, and
if we must perish in the defence of so noble a cause,
we will have avengers and imitators."

Friday the 2d inst. being a holiday at Madrid, no
business was done in the funds. ...

The alarming intelligence from Spain has caused
much excitement in Paris, and furnished topics for
all the papers. Most of them, especially those favour-
able to the Government, comment on the occurrences
at Alicant and St. Sebastian with much caution, and
evidently wait for further news, and possibly also to
ascertain the views of the Court, while those of the
Opposition regard the outbreak as the commencement
of a general rising against the Government of NAR-
VAEZ and GorizApEs BRAVO. The National and the
Siecle are justly most indignant against the ar-
bitrary and violent conduct pursued ever since
the downfal of ESPARTERO. " Whom," it asks,
" have they arrested—Lopaz, CORTINA, and
MADOZ, the most eminent men in Spain,
those who procured the expuliion of ESPARTERO
and through whose good offices ,the majority of the-
QUEEN was declared. The mask has now fallen,
and the counter-revolution is exposed to view. The
Moderado party Ras launched, at all risks, on the.
ocean of violence, and its first act is more violent
than all other despotic Governments have ventured
on doing." " There is this difference," says the
Siecle, " between the conduct of the ex-Regent
ESPARTERO and the present Camarilla, that the

letter, if not the spirit of the Constitution was re-
spected by one, and both are despised and derided by
the other. Spain is again delivered to all the horrors
of civil war, and the whole country cries out against
a dictatorship which is without talent, dignity, or
grandeur." The Commerce and the France malig-
nantly accuse England of instigating the insurgents;
but the opinions of men who can state such wicked,
such ungenerous falsehoods, are utterly unworthy of
notice. The following telegraphic dispatches have
been received by the French Government, one of
which leaves no doubt that NARVAEZ, after having
abiogated the Constitution, and put an end to the
Cortes, is resolved to disarm the National Guards,
and establish a military despotism :

TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES.
" BAYONNE, FEB. 4.

" In the evening of yesterday the disarming of the
National Guard of Irun and St. Sebastian was effected
without opposition. It is said that this is a general
mbasure, taken in virtue of an order of Government
which reached on the 2d."

" BAYONNE, FEB. 6.
3 On the 30th Alicant was still in the power of the

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