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g jeet of at C wens). vac ilia Aaditgation of Ma WM
testaut religion; the corollary was to be, the repeal of
the Union; and for these two great purposes the Anti-
Corn-law League is prosecuting its gigantic labours I
Such is the staple of Mr. Ferrand's present philippics
against the manufacturers and the League; and the
2 Imes, and the rest. of the Tory press, are not ashamed
to occupy their columns day after day in retailing their
trash. Verily, the Starveocracy is in a desperate plight
to be reduced to such champions.

NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS
FOR 1844.

In no department of the public revenue have so many
• improvements been made of late years as in that of the
General Pest-office, in consequence of the facilities
afforded by the rapid progress of steam navigation and
railways. To the commerce of this great mercantile
country the introduction of locomotive power since 1820
has proved of the greatest importance. Our well-built
steamers now cross the wide Atlantic to America and
the West Indic:, Portugal, Spain, down the Medi-
teranean to Egypt, and the Indian seas ; up the Baltic
to St. Peter-burgle to Ham burgh, Rotterdam, Antwerp,
Ostend, Calais, Boulogne, Dieppe, and Havre de Grace,
and run daily like a trip tQ Gravesend ; whilst by the
means of r.lways we are conveyed in a few hours to in-
land towns uf.Englund and Scotland, which formerly oc-
cupied days and nights of dreary travelling. The fol.
lowing is the official list of Post-office arrangements for
the present year, which came into operation yesterday,
January 1, and the postage on foreign letters, which no
doubt %%ill be interesting to the public, viz.—Calais daily
(Sunday excepted), due in London daily ; Ostend,
Menday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, due Sun-
day, Monday, Thursday, and Friday, by steam-
packets via Doier ; Holland, Tuesday and Friday,
due Monday and, Thursday ; Hamburg!), Tuesday and
Friday, due Tuesday and Saturday, by steam-packets
from London ; Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and
Gibraltar, every Tuesday morning ; Malta, Greece,
and the lonian Islands on the morning of the Ist and
15th of the month ; Egypt and India on the morning of
the Ist of the- month, by steam-packets via Southamp-
ton, to Malta, Egypt, India, and Hong-Kong, by the
overland closed mail via Marseilles, on the 4th of the
month. British and foreign colonies in the West Indies:
--Madeira, Mexico, Honduras, Havannah, Bahamas,
Chagres, and New Granada, on the morning of the 2d
and 17th of the month ; Bermuda and St. Jago de
Cuba, on the 17th only, by the morning mails via South-
ampton. British North America, Bermuda, and the
United States in the evening of the 3d and 18th of the
month, except.in December, January, February, and •
March, and then only on the 3d by steam-packets via
Liverpool. Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayi'es on the
first Tuesday of the month by sailing packets from Fal-
mouth. Postage on letters by steam-packets from London :
—Helfand, ls.; Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Russia,
Is. 8:1.; Heligoland, Is.; Hamburgh, Cuxhaven, Lubeck,
Bremen, and the Grand Duchy of Oldenburgh, 6d. By
steam-packets from Dover :—France and Algeria (under
quarter of an ounce), 10d. ; Belgium, ls. Gd..; Spain,
Portugal, Sardinia, and Southern Italy, via France, 10d.;
Switzerland, Turkey, the Levant, the Archipelago,
Greece, the lonian Islands, Austria, Venetian Lom-
bardy, Germany, Belgium, and Holland, via France, per
half ounce, 5d.; Baden, Bavaria, certain northern tates
of Europe, forwarded through the post-office of the
Duke of 'four and Taxis, via France, sd. ; Alexandria,
Smyrna, the Dardanelles, and Constantinople; by French
packets, via Marseilles, on the Ist, 11th, and 21st of the
month, a uniform British and foreign rate of ls. 3d.
(under a quarter of an ounce) ; Tuscany and the Two
Sigilies, Is. 9d. ; Botnan States and Greece, is. 7d. ;
Malta,' by the monthly closed mail, via Marseilles,
ls. 3d. ; Alexandria, Is. Bd. ; India, is. 10d. ; Hong-
Kong, ls. 10d. ; and the lonian Islands, Is. Bd.
By the steam-packets from Southampton :—Lisbon,
Is. 9d. ; Spain, 2s. 2d. ; Greece and Egypt, ls. Gd. ;
Gibraltar, Malta, the lonian Islands, India, and Hong-
Kong, ls. ; the British West India Islands, Honduras,
Panama, Chili, and Peru, ls. ; Hayti and the foreign
West India Islands, Is. sd. ; Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba,
and New Granada, 2s. 3d. ; Madeira, ls. 9d. By steam-
packets from Liverpool :—the United States, Bermuda,
Halifax (Nova Scotia), Newfoundland, and British North
America, via Boston, Is. ; Upper and Lower Canada,
Prince Edward's Island, New Brunswick, and Nova
Scotia, Is. 2d. By sailing-packets from Falmouth :
Madeira Is. 101. ; Brazil, 2s. 9d. ; Buenos Ayres, 2s. 7d.
N.B. All foreign letters must be prepaid, except to
France. Holland, Batavia, Baden, Bavaria, certain
northern States of Europe, forwarded through the office
of Tour and Taxis ; Alexandria, Smyrna, the Darda-
nelles, Constantinople, Tuscany. and the Two Sicilies
Roman States, Greece and Malta, via France ; Gibral-
tar,l
Malta, the British \Vest India Islands and Canada,
by their packets. Newspapers can be sent free of post-
age to all the British possessions in the West Indies and
North America, Brazils and South America, France,
Spain, -and Portugal, and India, via Southampton ;
Hatuburgh, Sweden and Norway ; to Holland and coun-
tries through Holland, Id. ; the United States, 2d. ; the
Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, South Australia, New
South Wales, Van Diernen's Land, and New Zealand,
Id. ; India, via France, 2d. ; closed mail, 3d. The next
mails Col- Malta, Egypt, India, and Hong-Kong, by the
closed overland mail via Marseilles, in time on Thurs-
day, the 4th instant. The West Indies, this morning,
the 2d instant, by the Teviot steamer, via. Southanipton.
United States of America, Canada, &c., via Boston, to-
morrow, -the 3d instant, by the Britannia steamer, from
Liverpool. Madeira, the Brazils, and Buena; Ayres,
ditto, by her Majesty's brig Penguin, via Falmouth.
Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, on Thursday
morning, the 4th instant, via Southampton.

MR. WILSON'S ENTERTAINMENT
ON SCOTTISH MUSIC, AT THE MUSIC
HALL, STORE STREET.

Wilson has returned from his provincial tour in good
health at:d in excellent voice, and I.c-commenced his de-
lightful Scottish Entertainments at the Music Hall,
Store-street, where he was enthusiastically welcomed by
a crowded audience. ".Oh, wee! may the Boatie row"
was his opening melody, and this was followed by the
beautiful, plaintive "Logic o' Buchan," which he gave
with most exquisite tenderness and expression; this and
" We're a' Noddin" were the gems of the evening, as far
as sentimental songs were concerned. With regard to
this latter song, all the lovers of Scottish music are
under infinite obligations to Mr. Wilson for having res-
cued this delicious melody from the absurd words to
which it. has hitherto been set, and for having substituted
for them one of the most beautifully pathetic lyrics ever
penned, and which was given by him with the most
touching pathos and feeling. It was, of course, loudly
encored, and we hope that henceforth these words will
be, to the exclusion of all others, the words of " We're a'
Noddin." We have said that these were the gems of
the evening at far as sentimental songs were concerned,
and many of the audience perhaps preferred them to any
of the others : but great as Wilson is in the pathetic, he
is equally great in the humourous and the dramatic, and
we delight to hear him in such songs as "'There cam
a young man to my daddy's door," and " Muirland
Willie.' In these songs he stands alone. How admir-
ably humourous was his acting in this latter song
lust evening—the rough wooer, the cautious father,
the coy and coquettish maiden, were all delineated
to the Then again, what could be better than his
acting in " Come under my Plaidie ?" It was a perfect
drama, the characters of Donald, the old wooer, Marion,
the young maiden, and Johnnie, the rejected suitor,
being sustained, and sustained with the most harmoni-
ously truthful effect, by Mr. Wilson. In " Hooly and
Fairly," too, what can exceed the ludicrously dolorous
manlier in which he gives the line

" 0 gin my wife would drink hooly and fairly,"
Never were the sutleringa of the henpecked husband more
humourously and ruefully represented. The finale was the
excellent old ballad " Get up and bar the door." Mr.
Wilson adds vastly to the humour of this admirable do-
mestic comedy, for such it is, by his manner of giving
it. lie repeats the first line of each stanza, and then
sings the other three—this, he says, was the old way of
giving the ballad, and it is decidedly the most telling
and tfrctive. lle was loudly encored in this song, and
repeated it with, if possible, increased gusto. At the
conclusion of the entertainment he announced that he
should this day week give " Anither nicht wi' Burns."

ROYAL EXCIIANGE.—It is the intention of the
Gresham Committee at once to take into consideration
the possibility of giving the public a direct thoroughfare
through the new area of the Royal Exchange, but as
this cannot he done without materially interfering with
the operations of Mr. Jackson, the contractor, and his
workmen, who have engaged to finish the building in a
specified time under a large penalty, a covered passage
is the only one that can in any shape be acceded to, and
even in this case, it would cut off a direct intercourse
with the western and eastern portions of the buildings,
and prove very inimical to that rapid execution already
exhibited. With an open thoroughfare the attention of
the workmen would naturally be called from their duties,
and that system, of surveillance, so necessary under such
eirctuustances, would be rendered one of increased diffi-
culty, if not altogether impossible. At present the
space afforded to the workmen is unprecedentedly small
----indeed, it is calculated that the loss accruing for the
want of more has been at least 4,0001. Upon the east
,side there arc about eight feet between the hoarding and
the building, and upon the three other sides there are
scarcely ten. There is a fact which has not been com-
mented on during the progress of the works, which, by
reason of its absence at other public buildings, demands
a passing notice. , It is the great unanimity which has
throughout existed between the contractor and the work-
men. This comfortable feeling is, it would now appear,
directly owing to a wise forethought in founding a fund
for the relief of all employed upon the edifice, The
principal source of such fund arose from the permission
of the Committee to exhibit for three days the marquee
under which his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and
other distinguished persons, met to lay the first stone.
From this means alone an exchequer has been furnished,
out of a filch, with some trifling additions, no less a sum
than 5001. has been dispensed to the families of the sick
and maimed. The number of casualties during the
erection has been very small.
DEATII ny FIRE.—On Saturday, a young man,
named James Burrows, aged twenty-one years, expired
in St. George's Hospital, under the following circum-
stances :—lt appears that Burrows, who was a labouring
man, and resided at No. 15, White's-wharf, North-road,
Paddington, arrived home at an early hour on the morn-
ing of the 19th instant, in a state of inebriety, and'
ha% ins proceeded to his room, lit the eandle and placed
it on the table, upon which he laid his head, and f;0611
went to sleep. Subsequently the other inmates of the
house were aroused by loud groans, which were aceora.
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lying under the table in a dreadful state of agony, from
burns he had sustained. He was as speedily as possible
brcoindyovactatikt)oSat.CGoerounrgeer:ss Hospital,
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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2,
Will be repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, calledTHE
ROD ENHAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Borranr; Thaddeus,
Mr. W. Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainferth; Queen of the Gipsies,
Miss Betts.
Atter which, will be repeated a New Grand Comic Christmas
Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND KING PEPIN ; or,
VALENTINE AND ORSON. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Colum-
bine, Miss Carson; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr.
Blanchard.
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55.,
Second I'rice 3s. ; Pit 3s , Second Price 2s. ; Middle Gallery 25.,
Second Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price tid.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
PROGRAMME FOR THIS EVENING.
PART I.
Overture, Midsummer Night's Dream —Mendelsohn.
Valse, Bird of Paradise, received with the greatest favour at the
Nobility's Ball;—Koenig.
Burn's celebrated Song, Auld Lang Syne, performed on the Cornet-
a-Piston, by Herr Koenig.
Grand Symphony (first movement), entitled The Power of Sound—
Saohr.
Valse Le Bouquet Royal (composed expressly fur her Majesty's State
Balls)—Jullien.
Solo, Violin, Master Thirlwall.
The English Quadrille—Jullien.
PART H.
Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, with Solo for Cornet-a-Piston, by
Herr Is cenig— Doniaetti.
. New Quadrille, entitled the Toy Quadrille—Th.lnm
Solo, Bassoon, M. Baumann.
Valse, The Metamorphoses (received with great favour at the Nobi.
lity's Assemblies)—Koenig.
Parade Galop—Lavenu.
Doors Open at Half-past Seven, commence at Eight o'Clock.
Promenade, is , Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Private
Boxes, 11. Is. Tickets to be obtained at the Box-office of the
Theatre; of Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street; Mr. Andrews, New
Bond-street; Mr. Sams, St. James's-street; and M. Jullien's Office,
8, Maddox-street, Bond- street.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBsTER, LESSEE.
THIS EVENING, JA NUARY 2,

Will be performed the Farce Of TOM NOD'HY'S SECRET.
Mr. Thomas Noddy, Mr. Strickland ; Inkpm Mr. ISuckstone ;
Gabrielle. Miss Julia Bennett; Mary, Miss Mattley.
To be followed by THE LITTLE DEVIL. Nieolo Angeli, Ma-
dame Vestris ; Ferdinand of Spain, Mr. Stuart; Vinc.ntio d'Estella,
Mr. Charles Mathews.
After which, the Unparalleled Performances of Professor RISLEY
and his EON.
To conclude with a New Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR
ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCK...! King Lachrymoso, Mr.
J. Bland; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidora,
Miss Julia Bennett

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
The Best Pantomime of the Season—Gorgeous Scenery.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2,
The New Drama, embracing Extraordinary Effbets, Powerful Cast,
and Novel Scenic Display, called
THE BOHEMIANS; or, The Rogues of Faris. Principal
Characters by Messrs. Lyon, O. Smith, Wright, Wieland, Maynard,
Mrs. Yates, Miss E. Stanley, Mrs. F. Matthews.
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After which, a New Grand Christmas Pantomime called HAR-
LEQUIN BLUE BEARD; or, The Fairy of the ilver Crescent.
Produced with Enormous S,,lendour and Wonderful Effects !
Columbine, Miss Bullen ; 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; Panta.
loon, Mr. Johnstone.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery. la. ; Second price at Nine. Doors
open at Six, commences at a Quarter before Seven o'Clock.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY 2,
Will be performed LUCREZIA BORGIA. Don Alphooso, Mr.
Burdini ; Gennarro, Mr. Allen ; Matti° Orsini, Mrs. H. P. Grattan;
Gubetta, Mr. Walton ; Lucrezia Borgia, Madame Eugenia Garcia.
To which will be added the Vaudeville of the SWISS COT-
TAGE. Natz Tieck, Mr. Keeley ; Lisette, Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a New Musical Burlesque 'pectacle, entitled
THE MAGIC MIRROR. Sing-Song, Mrs. H. P. Grattan; Poo.
Poo, Mr. Paul Bedtord ; Sloe-Leaf, Miss R. Isaacs.

DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
As usual, the funniest and most successful Pantomime.
THIS EVENING, JANUARY
Will be repeated THE BOHEMIANS OF PARIS. Supported
by Messrs. Saville Hughes, Hicks, It. Bonner, Johnson, Smith, Mrs.
Vining, and all the Members of the First Company in the World.
After which an entirely new Grand Comic Pantomime, with
Splendid Scenery, Superb Dresses, Inimitable Properties and Tricks,
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; Panta-
loon, Mr. Hawkins ; Columbines (alternately) Miss M. R. Fair_
brother and Miss Sharpe.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box-
office, from Eleven to Fonr.