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Just ready, in 3 vols. tiro, with Portraits,
MEMOIRS of the COURT of ENGLAND,
from the REVOLUTION in 1688 to the DEATH
of GEORGE 11.
By JOHN HENEAGE JESSE, Esq.,
uthor of" Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reign
of the Stuarts."
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty).

THE NEW NOVEL.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
COLLEGE LIFE
By J. HEWLETT, M.A.
Late of Worcester Collr"e, Oxford.
Author of " Peter Priggins," "The Parish Clerk," &c.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

MA ST ERMAN READY—COMPLETE.
Published this Day, Part 3, foolscap Bvo., 7s. 6d. cloth,
ATASTERMAN. READY; or, THE WRECK
LT& OF THE PACIFIC. Written for Young People.
By Captain MARRYAT, C.B. With numerous Wood
Engravings.
*.' This Third Volume completes the work. Vols. I and 2
separately, 7s. 6d. each, cloth.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

BETTS' PATENT BRANDY.—The unparal-
leled and still increasing sale of this favourite beverage,
has been attended by its natural consequence—the excitement
of envy in every branch of the Spirit trade. Hence, each suc-
ceeding year brings to notice competitors, whose announce-
ments, under fallacious pretences and high sounding titles, urge
upon the public notieeiarticles, whose only distinguishing fea-
ture is their vast inferiotity to the Patent Brandy.
It is to guard purchasers against the consequences of such
attempts, and for that reason only, that J. T. Betts and Ce. are
again induced to state, that the Patent Brandy is manufactured
only at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-bars, leading to St.
John-street ; where it may be obtained, pale or coloured, at
Eighteen Shillings per Gallon, of the highest legal strength.

MHE NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY
DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED
by HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains
MONEY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO,
£llO, £l2O, £l5O, £2OO, £4OO, £6OO, £BOO, £l,OOO,
£1,500, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together
to m:72,170 sterling.
Direct for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH-
OUT DELAY, to
HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH,
Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK.

ITEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a
very short time very large amounts of Money Divi-
dends to their Correspondents in Great Britain and Ireland.
Dividends of 25,000/., 18,000/., 9,000/., 5,000/., and 3,6001.
to London; 3,600/., 800/., and 7001. to Edinburgh; 3,600/.
to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley ; 3,6001. to Halifax ; 1,2001.
to Porthleaven Harbour ; 900/.' 700/., and 6001. to Liver-
pool ; 9901. to Hull ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900/.
and 600/. to Manchester ; 700/. to East Retford, Nottingham-
shire; 700/. to Colne, Lancashire; 700!. to Ryde, Isle of
Wight ; 600/. to Cork ; 6001. to Bideford ; and 600/. to
Bradford, &c.. &c., they beg to call the attention of those
desirous to obtain large Money Dividends to the approaching
EIGHTEENTH DISTRIBUTION of LUBECK, gua-
ranteed by the Government.
This Distribution offers the possibility of obtaining more
than 25,000/. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain
Money Dividends of 11. and upwards.
Price of One Share, 11. ; two Shares, 2/. ; three Shares, 3/.;
four Shares, 4/. ; five Shares, 5/. ; six Shares, 61.; seven
Shares, 71. ; eight Shares, 8/. ;- nine Shares, 9/. ; ten
Shares, 101.

Direct for Shares, without delay, to HEINE BROTHERS
at Lubeck.

The full Prospectus, with all particulars, may be had gratis,
upon addressing a line to Heine Brothers.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
ON MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 26,
Will be presented Shakspeare's Comedy of THE MERRY
WIVES OF WINDSOR. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley;
Master Slender, Mr. Harley ; Mr. Ford, Mr. Cooper ; Mrs.
Ford, Mrs. Walter Lacy; Mrs. Page, Miss Rainforth ; Anne
Page, Miss Poole; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. Orger.
After which, a New Historical Comicality, called PUNCH'S
PANTOMIME ; or, HARLEQUIN KING JOHN, and
MAGNA CHARTA. By theyriters of " Punch." King
John, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Harlequin, Mr. J. Ridgway; Pan-
taloon Mr. Garden ; Columbine, Mrs. J. Ridgway ; Clown,
Mr. T. Ridgway.
Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com-
mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :is. ;
First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s;
Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is.
Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season
Tickets may be had.
Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An-
drews, 167, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street;
and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET.
ON MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 26,
Will be repeated the New Drama, called GRAND-
FATHER WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr.
W. Farren ; Drayton, (a Builder), Mr. Tilbury ; Langley, (a
Retired Trader), Mr. Stuart ; Driver, (a Lawyer), Mr.
Strickland; Bob Lincoln, (his Clerk), Mr. Webster; Snap,
Mr. Clark; Edward Drayton (Drayton's Son), Master George
Webster ; Louisa Dray.ton, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold ; Susan,
(Servant to Langley), Sirs. Stanley.
After which Mr. C. Mathews' Burletta of PATTER versus
CLATTER. Captain Patter, Mr. Charles Mathews.
To be followed by the Drama of THE BASTILE. Louis
Quatorge, Mr. H. loll; Fricandeau, Mr. Webster; the
Duchess de Montbazon, Miss Charles; Ninon Labatte, Ma-
dame Celeste.

After which will be produced a Grand Comical Burlesque
Burletta, called RIQUET, WITH THE TUFT. Prince
Riquet, with the Tuft, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Green-horn
the Great, Mr. James Bland; Prince Finikin, Miss Charles;
The Princess Emeralda, Madame Vestris.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
This Neve and Elegant Theatre, fitted up in astyle of splendour
hitherto unequalled in this country,
Will OPEN on MONDAY, DECEMBER 26,
With an ADDRESS, to be delivered by Mr. J. H. Wallach.
After which, LA SONNAMBULA. Count Rodolph, Mr.
W. H. Weiss ; Alessio, Mr. Walton ; Liza, Mrs. T. H. Se-
vern ; Amina, Madame Eugenia Garcia (her first appearance
on the English stage); Elvino, Mr. Templeton.
To conclude with a New Fairy burlesque burletta, entitled
THE YELLOW DWARF. Principal characters by Mr.
Oxberry, Mrs. Anderson, Miss Noel, Madle. Melanie Duval,
and M. Deneze, who will make their first appearance in this
country in the incidental ballet.
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Pladei and Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all
the principal Libraries.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEc. 23.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 48 ; Highest, 57 : Noon, 49,
BAROMETER, 29.07.—W1ND, S.W.

HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
‘lerilinil 29 minutes after 5 I Evening 55 minutes after 5.

LONDON :
SATURDAY MOANING. DECEMBER 24, 1842.

Some of our Contemporaries are extremely
unreasonable in requiring day after day that Sir
ROBERT PEEL should give some formal intima-
tion of his intentions with regard to the
Corn-law. He can have no other intention than
to maintain the law of last session if he can. His
character as a statesman, his honour as a gentle-
man, legislative decorum, respect for the Parlia-
ment, all the fudges and fictions which serve at
all times as pretexts for not promoting the public
welfare, imperatively command him to preserve
intact the law of last session. The real question
is, not will he preserve it, but can he ? Is he
master of his own actions on that point ? Is he
as free to take his own course, to consult his own
character, to study his own honour, to hearken
to what decorum recommends, as he is to walk
or ride in Tamworth Park as he chooses ? He
is not; What he may be obliged to do depends
on the progress of opinion, which is very rapid,
and the success of the League, which is unex-
ampled. It is quite impossible for him to comply
with the wishes of his admirers, or the demands
of his opponents, by any declaration at present
of what he means to do.

Suppose. he were to inform the public by an
official triple leaded communication in the Post,
that he is resolved firmly to adhere to the law
of last session, can any man believe that agita-
tion would immediately cease? Such a declaration
would only inform the League that it must
make redoubled exertions to overcome the ob-
stinacy of Sir ROBERT PEEL, in opposition to his
own better judgment of what is for the national
good. Would such a declaration make one farmer
satisfied with present prices, or make one landlord
more determined, in spite of the ruin which the
law is bringing on himself; by ruining the towns,
to maintain it ? What, then, would be its utility ?
None whatever; and we. can save Sir ROBERT
PEEL the trouble of making any such declara-
tion, by, assuting the public that he will stand
IoY his foolish law of last session if he can.
StippOse he were to state that he means to
proposi: a moderate fixed duty, would that ap-
pease the League, and preserve his own charac-
ter'? It vioulenot. The League would continue
their eNertions for the total repeal. A great
number of farmers and landlords would rather
have perfectly free trade at once than a fixed
duty. To make such a declaration, therefore,
would only exhibit vacillation and weakness;
it would betray himself, and separate him from
a ()Teat number of his present supporters, with-
out gaining the confidence of the Whig advocates
of a fixed duty. The public, may be assured
no informatiou to that Sir ROBERT PEEL .has

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