The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-02 00:00:00

DIRECT OKi.

KENNETT KINGSFORD, Esq., Chairman.
BENJAMIN IFILL, Esq.. Deputy Chairman.
Alexander Anderson, Esq. James Hartley, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq. I John M`Gultle, Esq.
James Bidden, Esq. John Maclean Lee, Esq.
Captain F. Brandrotb. J. Marmaduke Rosseter, Esq.

AUDITORS.
34. 11. Carman, Esq. Hobe!, E. 1' n, r.sq.
MEDICAL ADVlSER—Marshall EAU, F.R.S., L. and E
SEcRETAIIY--JOhn Emerson, Esq.
SOLIC,ITORS—Yessre. l'alrr,r, France. and :er.

To PaRVENT ALL FUTURE QUESTIONS AS ro THE VALIT'ITY OF POLL.
Clam, this Company are prohibited by their deed of constitution from
disputing any claim, unle-s they take upon themselves to prove that
the policy upon which the claim arises was obtained by fraudulent
tlaisrepresentatien.
The Company are further bound to give effect to every policy,
although the debt for which it may have been originally procured,
or at any time held, may have been paid off before the claim arises.
And that the value of policies may not be lessened or destroyed
by parties going beyond the limits usually prescribed, the Company
grant, upon payment of a small extra premium, general or whole
world leave, which subsists during the currency of the policy.
By these means the policies of the London, Edinburgh, and
Zublip Life Company have come to be considered as forming secu.
sties more complete and more easily negotiable than any other
Tdruilar documents.

A.surances are granted either with or without participation in
prefita, and the utmost facility is given in regard to the payment of
the premiums, by the assured having the option of pa, meat by a
progressive ascending scale, or according to the half premium
system, Continued for seven years.
Prospectuses and schedules are forwarded to applicants, tree of
expense, by the Manager and Agents.
ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager.

IT follows from the recent investigations of the
British Association for the Advancement of Science, as
reported In the Athenaeum of October 19, that the quantity of
light furnished by one Pound of PRICE'S PATENT CANDLES
requires for its production flour pounds of ordinary tallow ones ; and,
therefore, that the f,rmer, if at two shillings per lb., would be
exactly as economical as the latter at sixpence per lb. Now,
_PRICE'S PATENT CANDLES are not sold at two shillings per
Fib., but at er under One Shilling per lb.
They may be had of respectable dealers throughout the king-
dom, if care be taken to prevent any imitations being passed off as
the I,,atent Candles ; and the Trade may obtain them wholesale
from Edward Price and co., Belmont, Vauxhall, and Palmer and
to., Cuttou-street, Clerkenwell.

PALMER AND CO.'S DECIMAL PALM
CANDLES (10 to the lb.) give the light of Three ordinary
Tallow Candles, require no sunning, and can be used in any Can-
dlestick. _

Sold by every Oilman, Grocer, &c., at 71d. per ib.
It will be seen by the following statement of Mr. J. Hawkins,
'44 the late Meeting of the British Association, that these Candles
:ate by far the cheapest light at present in use. " With regard to
IPainlet's and the common Dip—when the latter was not snuffed
Wener than about every ten minutes, it took four to be equal to
43ne of the former ; and when unsnufted altogether, it required
eleven
Pounds to be equal to one pound of Palmer's. After al.
lading to further experiments with candles and also with oils, he
'concluded by recommending the self.snuffing candle in preference
Io oil.,,_see « Athenseum," Oct. 19, 1844.
Palmer and Co.'s Mid-size Lamps and Candles of the same de.
st,ription as the above, may be had of all Ironmongers, Lamp
3asinufacturers, &c., in the kingdom.

'BURGESS'S NEW SAUCE, for general pur-
Pose.s, having gained such great approbation, and the demand
1.45 r it continuing to increase, JOIIN BURGESS and SON beg most
reBPec.fully to offer thus their best acknowledgments to the Public
t the, ;r liberal patronage of the same ; its utility and great conveni-
e4ee to ,all climates have recommended L. to the most distinguished
a?,,reigit connections, who have all spoken highly in its recommends-
;". It ,is prepared by them only ; and for preventing disappoint-
Z'ent to families, all possible care has been resorted to, by each
bottle btiii sealed on the cork with their firm and address, as well
tech lakel having their signature, without which it cannot he
genuine.
te„TIN lIVIIGESS and SON'S long-established and much-esteemed
of ANCHOVIES continues to be prepared by them atter
t.„4e *Arun manner that has given the greatest satisfaction for many
Sears.
Warehouse, 107, Strand, corner of Savoy Steps, London.

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Art t'or the PROTEOSCOPE. The PHYSIOSCOPE. The first Ex-
hibition of a Series of beautithl DISSOLVING VIEWS. On the
Evertings of Tuesdays and Thursdays Mr. C. E. HORST lectures on
the MUSIC of DIFFERENT NATIONS. Dr. RYAN'S and Pro-
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also Lectures en tho Evenizgi of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
All these Lectures abound in interesting Experiments. SURMA-
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A New Edition of the CATALOGUE, containing Three Hundred
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price Is.

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this mighty centre of business. It supersedes all other guides and
Directories.

PUBLICATIONS.

Grting, Nov. 16, 1844.
The claims to public patronage of this most elaborate and well.
arranged Directory have been so fully established, as to reader any
notice of it almost an act of supererogation. In addition to the
extensive and varied information by which this work was already
distinguished, we find in the volume for 1845, a considerable quan-
tity of new and appropriate matter, arranged under various heads.
All this has been done—notwithstanding the greatly increased size
of the volume—without any additional charge. The yearly outlay
of capital required to produce the work muNt be immense ; the
reward of the enterprise and labour will, we trust, be in propor.
lion to it.

GENERA L I' 0M T 111 J NIB.
The AMERICAN MAN in MINIATURE has returned
to London and is now holding his PUBLIC LEVEES at the t,..4
lory, in Suffolk-street, Pall-mall. The General has been visiting toe
principal towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and has met
with unprecedented success. Whilst in Edinburgh the General
was presented with a beautiful Highland dress, of the Royal
S.uart Tartan, manufactured by Messrs. Meyers and Mortimer, in
which he will appear at each exhibition, in addition to his Citizen,
Napoleon, and Court dress. Hours of Exhibition from Eleven to
One, Three to Five, and from Seven to Nine. Doors open half
an hour previous. Admission (regardless of age), One Shilling.
The General's Miniature Equipage will be exhibited daily from
Four to Half.past Five, and from Eight to Half-past Nine, P.M.
at 121, Pall-mall, at the trifling charge of Threepence, merely to
defray the rent of the room.

HERCPATE'S RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER,
Nov. 16, 1844.

JMPLOYMENT.—Persons having a little time
to spare are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed in
London, and country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY,
or the sale of their celebrated teas.
Offices, No. 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-stret.l
They are packed in showy leaden canisters, from one ounceto a
pound, with the price and weight marked on each packet, and but
ittle trouble is occasioned by the sale. The license is only lie. per
annam, and many during the last ninoteea years have realised con-
nderable incomes by the agency without one shilling let or loss.

Application to be mad.e (if by letter post-paid) as above.

PUBLICATIONS.

POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for
for 1845 IS NOW PUBLISHING.
TLe following Reviews of the Work have already appeared :
TimF.s, Dec. 4, 1844.

As far as utility is concerned no volume can exceed the claims
of the Directory to universal patronage. Though it is of great
bulk, it contains nothing that is superfluous, and is an exception to
the general rule, that a great book is a great evil. This is the
49th volume of the series. It contains several useful additions to
its immediate predecessor, more particularly in that portion called
the " Postal Directory," and, as compared with the first volume,
published nearly half a century ago, it shows an immense increase
of information, and may be considered as an index of the history of
Vie vast increase of London, Westminster, and the suburbs. A
work of this kind, combining the most extensive and at the same

time the most accurate information of the residences, trades, pro.
fessions, &c., of 500,000 people, the names of hundreds of streets
and squares, arranged with such clearness of order, and so corn.
preheasive as to direct the whole populaticn where to find each
otker, aed in what manner to carry on the intercourse by letters,
messer7-rs, &c., is amongst the benefits which the progress of
printing has editferri., of late years, and ought to be appreciated
in avf ey mrarnuirsurate to itsmerits by the public. It affords a
check to imposture, a f cility to intercourse, and a guide to useful
In a word, the cost at this book can scarcaly be better
laid ou. iTA its purchase.
MORNING CHRONICLE, Nov. 15, 1844.
_ _ .

We have just received a copy of the above work, the nature
and value of which must be well knewn to all our readers. A
very cursory examination of it clearly shows that there has been a
considerable increase in all its various contents or departments,
and, as far as we have been able to test it, it does not appear that
this increase has been made by any sacrifice of accuracy. Besides
all the departments which appeared in the former publications of
this work, we find that in the present volume there are several new
chapters.
All these appear to have been prepared with great care, and
furnish a valuable addition to the Directory, and this has been
done—notwithstanding the greatly-increased size of the volume—
without any additional charge; as the proprietors state that they
rely upon an increased sale to compensate them for the additional
outlay.
We believe that this work, at the present time, has no corn.
petitor, and certainly, considering the evident care with which it
has been prepared, and the high reputation which It so deservedly
bears for accuracy, together with its cheapness, we do not think
that a competitor would have any chance of success, or—contrary
to the general rule—that the public would derive the slightest ad.
vantage from any such competition.
MORNING POST, Nov. 16, 1844.

This work, by far the most valuable of the annual class, has
made its appearance at an earlier period of the year than usual.
Though in advance of time, the compilers and printers have been
so active that all the alterations usually introduced or expected have
been effected. The " Parliamentary" and the " Official Directory"
bear evidence that the latest changes have been noted. The large
Map of London also, prefixed to the volume, has all the new
streets and recent improvements carefully marked; and in the
Railway Tables and " Conveyance Directory," the same attention
to correct the work to the latest possible date is apparent. Every
village, as well as every town in England and Wales, having a
post-office is duly stated, with the time of arrival and departure of
the London letters. No book of reference of the kind cuuld be
more complete.

How such a mass of information was ever brought together,
even in the 1,900 large pages of this volume, it is difficult to
imagine, even though we take into account that to effect it, has
tasked the ample resources of its owners for a series of years. The
result, however, is that a commercial book of reference has been
produced worthy of the commercial capital of the world. The
high character of the Post Office Directory has given it a place in
every house of real business ; indeed, not to possess it is to be
without information to which every man in the United Kingdom
commercially .employed thould have ready access. .

In the " Conveyance Directory" the matter connected with
Railways is full and recent. Within our space enumeration of the
various subjects eannot be attempted, nor can such be requisite.
It can be only necessary of a work so universally known to say,
that the number of the Post Office London Directory for 1845 is
by far the best and mast complete edition of the work which has
ever been produced. Higher praise it would be difficult to bestow.
The Map with which the book is accompanied, entitled " Modern
London and its Environs," is an entirely new one, and one of the
best plans of the Metropolis we have yet seen.
RAILWAY REGISTER, Dec. 1, 1844.

There are few men of business who do not take in the "Post Office
Directory," and to such, an enumeration of its contents is almost
valueless ; but for those who do not, it may be as well to
make some further remarks, and the more so, as it only needs an
acquaintance with that work to be convinced of its intrinsic value
and great utility. There are some offices where the expenditure
for a new Directory is grudged on the ground that it is laying out
money for what they do not want, and they grub on without a
" Pos‘Office Directory." or with only one of Pigot's or Robson's
superannuated Directories. A sharp, acute man of business would,
however, just as soon be persuaded to part with his inkstand as
with his " Post Office Directory," for it not merely saves more
than its cost in time, but it is a valuable instrument for carrying
on business. As a means of ready reference it is valuable, as a
man's name, residence, and occupation are soon found, and a re.
ference to an old Directory will show how long he has been en.
gaged in such pursuits, and furnish prima-facial evidence as to
respectability. This is so v.ell understood in proper quarters, that
on such matters the " Post Office Directory" wi❑ be found quoted
in the leading articles of the Times, in Government and Portia.
mentary reports, and before the police and criminal courts.
Does the Limes, with ready sagacity, detect a swindling
firm trying to prey on the community—the " Post
Office Directory" is immediately appealed to, to show that
the pseudo firm is not to be found enrolled in its columns.
It would appear inexplicable that a day register of this
kind should be found playing such an important part in the com-
mercial community, if it were not well ascertained that its con-
ductors display the greatest energy and accuracy in car-
rying out their undertaking. The return of the circulation of
country banks pTefixed to the "Banking Directory" is the best
which has yet appeared, and the only nigest of the Population
Returns, applying to the metropolis, is the one in the "City Di.
rectory," which gives the population and income-tax of each parish
in the metropolis, and a laborious analysis of the occupations of the
population, deduced from the Census of 1841.
Were this work more carefully looked to in country places, the
swindling bill and other firms would find a little more difficulty in
carrying out their nefarious pursuits.
In conclusion, we say, When you want anything, always look
in the Post Office Directory."
ILLUSTRATED LONDON News, NOT, 23, 1844.

Twenty years have made a strange alteration in the bulk of this
almost indispensable Directory. Well do we remember the mean,
spare volume of other days, with its long lines of large type, and
its shabby sheepskin binding; in place of which we have here a
ponderous large octavo volume, of some 1,900 pages, of two and
three columns each, of small type, comprising " inter alia," direc-
tories, " Official," " Stteet," " Commercial," " Law," " Court,"
" Parliamentary," "Postal," " " Conveyance," " Bank-
ing"--thus combining the advantages of the old " Directory" with
those of the " Court Guide"—the east with the west—and com-
prising all the information which the merchant or trader, or any
other London resident or visitor, can reasonably expect to find ;
and by excellent classification and arrangement, any portion of this
information may be found without difficulty. Among other addi.
tions, we perceive some important and interesting statistics of Lon-
don—as the area In acres, population, and assessment, and a state-
ment from the Occupations' Abstract of the Census of 1841. The
" Directory" is, in fine, as complete as untiring Industry and vi-
gilance can make it ; for they have uniformly kept pace with the
increase of the number and extent of our metropolitan and national
establishments and interests. _ .

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SHIPPERS, OWNERS, CAPTAINa, AND OTHERS
Copies of Testimonials, Grafi, by all Agents.
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~tichess of Kent, aril the Lords of the Treasury, is i.aiversally re_
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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXIII.
was published yesterday.

CONTENTS :
I. LORD BROUGHAM'S POLITICAL PHILO:'.OPHY.
IL TOOKE'S EDITION of CHURCHILL'S POETICAL
,VOA' KS.
111. PROGRESS and PROSPECTS of SCIENTIFIC AGRICUL-
TURE.
IV. LORI) CHANCELT.OR ELDON and the CHANCES of the
BAR.
V. THE CHIMES ; a GOBLIN STORY, by CHARLES DICKENS.
VI. LIFE and CORRESPONDENCE of DR. ARNOLD.
VII. MEDICAL REFO3I.
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NOTICE TO MARINERS.
BEACONS IN THE GULF OF FINLAND.
Cronstadt, Nov. 8, 1844.
Sir,—The Government of this country having pub-
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land, we think it necessary to intrude upon you with
this information for the benefit of the shipping.
We remain, Sir, your most obedient servants,
JOHN BOOKER and SON.
Wm. Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's.
Extract from:a publication made by the Russian Go-
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" On south side of the Gulf of Finland, in the Go-
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shields on the top in the form of a cross. The pyramid
jai painted white, and the cross black. It is 45 feet in
height from its base, and 17 from the level of the water.
It is placed in north latitude 59 deg. 58 min. 30 sec. ;
longitude, east of Greenwich, 29 deg. 9 min.
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INDIAN NEWS.

SUMMARY OF INTELLIGENCE SINCE TEE
DEPARTURE OF THE LAST MAIL.
(From the Bola! Hurkaru, Nov. 16.)

The past month has not been prolific in events of a
very stirring character. The insurrection in the Kola-
pore country, which proved to be of a more serious
character than we supposed when last we wrote, has
been put down, and the disturbed districts seem to be
tolerably quiet ; but, on this subject our readers will
obtain fuller and more recent accounts from our Bombay
contemporaries, who are more nearly situated to the
field of action. In this Presidency nothing of a very
important character has occurred. The Governor-
General is still at the Presidency, and rumour is silent
on the subject of any intended move from the meat of
Government. He appears to be quietly perfecting him.
self in the business of his administration ; and such
indications as have yet been manifested seem to point
to a tranquil and pacific government, pregnant with
good to the people of the soil. There is no talk
of a war in the Punjaub, or any other immediate em-
ployment of our troops. Even the civil war, which
many anticipated in that long-agitated country, seems
to be no longer imminent. There was a deal of va-
pouring between the two chiefs, Heera and Golub Singh,
but, as wo surmised, they were not in earnest, and
nothing came of all their menaces. They have now
come to a pacific understanding, and matters will speedily
be settled, though, probably, only to be disturbed again.
In the meanwhile, Sawun Mull, the Governor of Moul-
tan, one of the most able and energetic, and at the same
time the most moderate and respectable, of the Seikh
chiefs, has been gathered to his fathers. He was shot
by a malefactor, whilst sitting on the judgment-seat, and
after lingering for a few days, died of his wound. He
has been succeeded by his son, Mool Raj. The intelli-
gence from Affghanistan is, as usual, not very clear and
intelligible; but it would seem that the dangers which Dost
Mahommed apprehended from the designs of the Usbegs
and Tartars have blown over ' • that his successes on the
Hindou Koosh have rolled back the tide of invasion, and
that the intrigues of Bekharts have been defeated. From
the latter place Dr. Wolff has emerged in safety, but of
this, in all probability, intelligence will have been re-
ceived in England before the arrival of the present
dispatch.
Within the Presidency two domestic events have occa-
sioned some interest of a painful character. One of these
is the suicide of the Raja of' Berhampore, who having
committed, through his instruments, some acts of cruelty
on the person of a dependent, which occasioned, in the
sequel, the poor man's death, came down to Calcutta,
where 'intelligence of the tragic issue reached him,
coupled with the information that a warrant was out fur
his arrest. Dreading the indignity of falling into the
hands of the nip-widens of the police, the wretched man
blew out his brains. He had previously made a will,
leaving the bulk of his large property to be devoted to
the establishment and support of an university. The
coroner's jury brought in a verdict of fell de se. The
other event is the murder, by Dacoits, of Captain Alcock,
of the Quartermaster-General's department, who was
intercepted, when on a dawk journey, by a band of
notorious Dacoits, of whom the police were in pursuit,
and being taken for Mr. Unwin, the magistrate, was
dragged from his palanquin and cut to pieces. Several
of the wretches concerned in this murderous deed have
been apprehended.
(From the Englishman.)
The past month has abounded with native holidays, so
as very much to interfere with the ordinary course of
business, and as the last of these festivals will not take
place till next week, our commerce has not yet recovered
its usual activity. The arrival of the last mail brought
better accounts than were generally expected of the de-
mand for our staples, and the consequence has been that
the holders of the increasing indigo crop are very firm,
expecting last year's prices or perhaps a shade higher.
This, it must be recollected, is with the full knowledge
that the crop will be little short of 150,000 maunds.
The turn taken by the exchanges, which are now lower
than they have been for the last seven years, greatly fa-
vours the maintenance of a full price. had two such
crops followed each other during the depression of the
past years, it is probable that this important article would
have been nearly unsaleable, and that a very great re-
striction of cultivation would have taken place. The itn-
provement in every branch of manufacture, both in Eng-
land and upon the Continent, now gives confidence here
that the consumption will keep pace with our supply;
and though our planters may be deceived in this expec-
tation they will in general receive a remunerating sum
for their past year's work, so that we look for no very
considerable reduction of cultivation for the coming
year. In a national point of view, the comparatively
low prices which are likely to prevail for some time
are rather advantageous, as taking from our rivals any
,great inducement to extend their cultivation, and at the
same time producing here a wholesome economy which
may yet prove that no other country can successfully
compete with Bengal in this important staple. We have
reason to believe that money is likely to continue
abundant in our market for some time, though the ship-
ment of the bulkeof the indigo crop, aad some thousand
chests of opium in the next three months, together with
other staples, will relieve the place of a sum not far
short of three millions sterling. The company's adver-
tisement declares for sale no less than 21,526 chests, of
which 5,800 will be sold on the 6th of January. The
last advices from China are far from favourable; and our
market will consequently open at lower rates than was
previously anticipated, but the fluctuations in this article
are so great, owing to the extensive time bargains con-
tinually made in it by native capitalists, that it would
not surprise us if last season's prices were to be very
nearly maintained.
The demand for British goods has latterly revived, and
some descriptions are now eagerly sought for, notwith-
standing the immense increase of supply during the past
year. There can be no doubt that a more general and ex-
tensive consumption is gradually taking place, and we ex-
pect very soon to find India at the head of the list of British
ex ports. The House Government will then perhaps become
aware how much it is in their power to do for the pros-
perity of this country, and be furnished with a sufficient
motive for undertaking it. The improvement in our
overland communications, which we have reason to think
will be effected next year, will, we ,hope, be the first
great step to a course of measures on the part of Govern-
ment for the improvement of the most important of the
British possessions. By it they will have brought us
near enough to be heard, and it will he our own faults if
we do not speak.
It is with extreme grief that we announce the death,
by murder, of Captain Alcock, of the Quartermaster-
General's department. It ;appears that he was pro
ceeding to Neemuch from Cawnpore, and that in passing
through the Mynpoore district he was barbarously mur-
dered by villains who were lying in wait to assassinate
the magistrate, for whom they mistook poor Alcock. It
would seem that the magistrate's activity in pursuing the
Dacoits, who had wounded a Mr. Tucker last year, had
rendered him the object of the vengeance which fell upon
Captain Alcock. The body was brought into Myn-
pooree, and there interred with military honours. Hard
to be reserved for a death of this kind after escaping a
more glorious one while displaying his gallantry in the
field:of Maharajpore, for which, by the way, he re-
ceived nothing, while some we could name, who were
not near the scene till all was over, received their brevet
promotion.

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between Garra and Kurachee, had been caught. Some
curiosity has been manifested to know what Sir Charles
may have said on hearing of the escape. We hear an
oth:T very "curious order," as our friend calls it (but
all Sir Charles Napier's orders are curious), has just
been issued regarding the facility with which medical
certificates had been granted to some foiks in Sinde.
From Shikarpoor we learn that the men in Khangur,
who had been attacked by the local fever, were coming
round with great difficulty. The number of the sick was
reported at about 150. Captain M'Kenzie was absent,
sick at Kurachee. Captain Salter, of the 4th Bengal
Infantry, had been appointed to command all the troops
nn the frontier, an arrangement which is considered
judicious, and he was to assume immedinte charge.
Captain L. Smith's battery was to return to Shikarpoor,
to be replaced at Khangur by two of the old mountain
train-guns, drawn by mules, under the command of
Lieutenant Putman. The report of the expedition against
Phoolljee is still abroad, but begins to be discredited in
well informed quarters ; especially as Baja Khan and
his plundering coadjutors now express themselves anxious
to surrender. They had been remarkably quiet of late.
The health of the troops at Shikarpoor itself was mend-
ing in a trifling- degree, the 69th and 7th Cavalry espe-
cially ; but the troop of Horse Artillery is pronounced
hors de combat.

THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN ALCOCK.
(From the Delhi Gazette.)
The murder of Europeans by Dacoits is, as the Friend
of India observes, so unusual that it is calculated to
excite " a great sensation in society." It is, indeed, a
new and bold feature in their proceedings, the more
surprising when we recal the decision of the Thugs
on this very point. Our readers will doubtless recol-
lect that, among that class of robbers and murderers,
the question of the policy of attacking European tra-
vellers was regularly discussed and debated, and de-
cided in the negative, on the ground that the practice
would be too dangerous, on account of the great sen-
sation the murder of a gora would excite, while they
might quietly murder a good many natives without at-
tracting the notice of the authorities ; and this they no
doubt had gone on doing for many years without inter-
ruption, though their traffic in human blood and plunder
is now, thanks to the activity of the Thuggee depart-
ment, nearly terminated, or at least very much checked.
In the murder of Captain Alcock, however, mistaken
for Mr. Unwin it may be observed that the Dacoits
have been evidently influenced by revenge against an
active magistrate. They have let their vindictiveness
get the better of the usual prudence of their professional
practice. But the proceeding is not the less new and
daring, and if these scoundrels escape, and especially
the leader of the gang, Kansuhaee, the Dacoits may be
emboldened to make attacks ou Europeans regularly
part of their system, the more so as it cannot be un-
known to them that our countrymen travel about the
country very commonly altogether unarmed. The un-
fortunate Captain Alcock, it appears, was so travelling,
except as to his sword, which an officer always carries
with him. He appears to have had no fire-arms, and
what could a sword do against a gang of resolute
Dacoits ? If he had had fire-arms, he might have had
a chance for his life, though but a slender one, and, at
least, with the courage he displayed, he would have put
some of the scoundrels hors de combat. We would ad-
vise all our countrymen not, in future, to trust to the
exception which Dacoity policy has hitherto made in
their favour, but to go well armed whenever they travel
by dark. •
Last Wednesday, shortly after the publication of our
paper had closed, we received a private letter confirming
the murder, by the hands of a band of robbers, of Capt.
Alcock, of the 46th Bengal Infantry, on the high road
between Mynpooree and Agra. We have since received
several letters from that station, from its neighbour-
hood, and from the camp of the 11th Light Cavalry,
which was at no great distance from the scene of this
atrocious murder, in progress to Agra, all confirmator
of the first intimation made to us, and have selected the
one amongst our letters giving the clearest account of
the crime ; this will be found under the head of " Myn-
pooree." It will be seen that the ruffians, headed by the
desperate villain Ghunsiah, who has earned notoriety in
the district by the daring manner in which he escaped
from Mr. St. George Tucker, after wounding that gen-
tleman and murdering one of his attendants, were lying
wait for the magistrate, himself proceeding to assist his
police in apprehending the gang. Mr. tinwin escaped
at the expense of Captain Alcock's life, and will, we
hope, leave no stone unturned, no exertion untried, no
expense unincurred; to bring the perpetrators of the foul
deed to the condign punishment they have earned fer
this an their previous numerous acts of violence,
sealed in this instance with the blood oC an officer of
the state.

" MYNPOOREE, Ocr. 28.—This insignificant district
has been put into a state of feverish excitement by an
atrocious murder perpetrated on Saturday night last,
about 20 miles from the Suddar station. Captain
Alcock, of the 46th Regiment of Native Infantry (for-
merly of the Quartermaster-General's Derartrnent),
arrived here by dawk on the 26th inst., from Cawnpore.
en loute to Agra, and put up with the Colonel of tile
gallant 42d, with whom he remained till about four P. M.,
when he started in prosecution of his journey, with
eleven bearers to his train. On reaching Ghurour about
eight or nine P.m., they were relieved by a fresh set, who
had hardly proceeded on about half-a-mile, when within
ZOO yards of a police chowkee they were stopped by
twelve ruffians (four of them mounted), and ordered to
put down the palkee. The bearers (like natives in
general) took to their heels, and left the poor captain to
defend himself as best he could. He immediately
stepped out, sword in hand, and questioned the gang as
to who they were, and what they required ; without,
however, answering him, they commenced an attack
upon the poor defenceless man. Whilst defending
himself against such fearful odds, all armed to the
teeth, he received a wound on the wrist of the
sword hand, which totally disabled him, and forced
him to seek safety by retreat. He had hardly got
away three hundred yards from the scene of action,
when one of the ruffians fired at and brought him to
the ground, when they came up, and inflicted several
deep wounds (I believe eleven), from the effects of which,

two in particular on the forehead and the back of the
neck (nearly severing the windpipe), he must have in-
stantly expired. His remains were brought in on a
charpae yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, and i❑-
terred with military honours this morning. This mur-
der is supposed to have been committed by that notorious
prisoner (still at large) who broke gaol at Muttra, after
murdering the guard in charge, some time back (Ghtm-
siah), for whose apprehension a reward has been pro-
claimed by Government, and who not many mouths
since murdered the Thanader of Kooraoolee, and wounded
the assistant magistrate, who had gone to apprehend
him upon information brought by an approver. You
may guess what a reckless and daring villain the fellow
must be when I tell you, that a night previous to the
murder of Captain Alcock he had been attacked by
the Thanadar and a small portion of the police in the
Shekoabad Pergunnah, where, after having had two
of his followers killed, and several wounded with him-
self, he made off in the darkness of the evening
amongst steep and dense ravines, in which a part
of the Shekoabad Pergunnah abounds. The police
did their duty, though circumstances beyond their
control led to the Dacoits having eluded capture. The
case was immediately reported to the magistrate, and
(energetic as he has always shown himself) he forthwith
made the neccessary arrangements and left the station
to encourage pursuit by his own immediate presence.
It appears, that the ruffiian and his gang got timely in-
timation of the magistrate's movements, and they awaited
his arrival at the very spot where poor Captain Alcock
encountered them, but mistaking their victim they mur-
dered him, as the magistrate, who providentially, by ar-
riving half an hour later than the captain, averted the
awfut fate which awaited him. Does all this not show a
most dreadful and lamentable state of things? Unless,
indeed, a more liberal reward than has already been
offered by Government is held out, I fear some further
serious depredations and less of valuable lives will be the
consequence of injudicious parsimony. The magistrate
is still out in hot pursuit of the offender, and it is
earnestly hoped he may be successful in capturing the
♦iliian. All at the station just now are on the gut nice,
and dawk travellers are already getting scared.

SUICIDE OF A NATIVE PRINCE.
(From the Bengal Hurkarn, Nov. 2.)
Raja Kishennath Roy, of Berhampore, shot himself
on last Thursday. The man whom he was accused of
having caused to be cruelly tortured has died from the
injury he had received, and the young Raja, under ap-
prehension of the consequences to himself, was driven
to the dreadful act of self-murder. He was living at
his mother's house in Chitpore.road, where, on the day
in question, he invited Mr. Strettell and Mr. Herklots,
and asked them to witness the execution of a folded
document, which he himself signed, and told them it was
his last will and testament. Very shortly after these gen-
tleman had left him he locked himself within a room,
and, loading one barrel of a double-barrelled percussion
gun, bent his head over the muzzle and drew the lock
with his foot. Instantly he fell dead to the ground.
The discovery of the
i fact was made by the report at-
tracting some of the inmates of the house to the room.
Not long after the occurrence, the deputy superinten-
dent of police proceeded to the house, and found the
body of the unfortunate young man on the floor in a
sitting posture, with the back leaning against the wall,
and the fatal gun resting over one shoulder. The
osfronts was completely blown away, and fragments of
the brain were observed on different parts of the wall
and ceiling, and a flattened ball lay near the foot of the
corpse. 'the features were not much distorted, beyond
the nose, which appeared much distended. The will
left behind is said to be a very lengthy one, but regularly
drawn up. In it several handsome legacies are men-
toned, while a very munificent portion of the estate has
.been willed away towards the beneficent object of found-
ing a college, or, as the will expresses it, a " university,"
at Berhampore, with an hospital attached. The young
Raja has, likewise, bequeathed a handsome legacy to
one of his favourite domestic servants ; and likewise
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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Calcist'a Overland Price Current.)
Indigo Mazt, Writs N.-buildings, Nov. 16, 1844.
Since the date of our last issue business has been very
considerably impeded by the intervention of numerous
native holidays, the Government Treasury and other
public offices having only been open for the transaction
of business 14 days out of the 31 ; but taking this into
consideration, our market fur the principal staples of
country produce has manifested a fair amount of acti-
Ivity, and, with the exception of one or two articles cf
minor importance, prices generally exhibit a decided
improvement, caused, in a great measure, by the favour-
able accounts we condone to receive from England. the
great abundance of money both at home and here, and
the consequent low ruling of exchange, inducir, parties
in the habit of remitting in bills to prefer the risk of
doing so in produce. The first portion of the overland
mail, with London dates to the 7th September, reached
this on the morning of the 21st ultimo, and the bulk of
the letters came to hand in the course of the two sue-
t ceeding days. Th. (.; overn went express last year did
not arrive till the 24th of this month ; but we hope to
receive our letters either by that conveyance or by the
Ifindostan steamo- (now dai!v expected) in time to en-
able us to reply to the:o the latest dispatch from this,
which is advertised to: tile 23,1 instant, as the letters
looked for will most pr.W44sly bring out extensive orders
for our leading staple et' this season, viz., indigo.
INDIGO.—Ai, the date id our last issue we considered
1,45,000 maunds, to be rigs utmost extent of this season's
outturn, recording to the information we had received
of what had been made, and the expectations of the plan-
tens in the north-weitero provinces. It may he remarked
that for the last ten year, the estimates sent home in
October have generally been at least It) per cent. under
hat the actual figure of the crop has afterwards been
asertained to be, nut we have not the slightest hesita-
tion in saying that ooh will not prove the case this year,
as front letters received a I'm days after the departure
of the last mail we find that in the districts of Ghazee-
pore, &nitres, J oanpore, and Goruekpore, their prospects
were very considerably reduced by a continuation of rain
for 35 days, and some factories will not turn out more
than two-thirds •or three-fourths of the quantity calcu-
lated on ; the exact amount of the crop will, however,
soon be known, when till the invoices have been received.
The few parcels we have been enabled to examine
confirm the opinion we expressed in our last respecting
the superiority of this season's indigo, especially in some
of the fine inarks, We have had an opportunity of see-
ing the only parcel of Tirhoot indigo which has as yet
arrived in Calcutta, and we consider that also to be bet-
ter than last year.
The indigo will now be coining in fast, and after the
holydays we think the marts will have a sufficient supply
to hold a weekly sale until the receipt of accounts of the
result of the October sale, when the market will be re-
gularly open, and prices regulated by the orders and
limits received by that opportunity.
The present rate of exchange being about 6 per cent.
lower than in December last, will necessarily influence
the ruling of prices, but we are of opinion that they will
open about the same as last year.
The next mail will doubtless bring out extensive orders
from Europe and America, but it is said that the Moguls
will act with great caution, as the greater part of their
last year's shipments are still unsold, A public sale of
about 500 chests is advertised to take place on the 2Sth
instant, when the fine mark, H. and Co., Jessore, will be
put up. Not more than 4,500 maunds of last year's crop
remain in the market, and the only large parcel of this
season's which has as yet been shipped is 380 chests of
the J. and H. W., to Great Britain. The total exports
from the Ist to the 15th of November aro only 427
chests, or 1,455 factory maunds, to that part. A
parcel of about 1,200 =unfits has been sold by private
contract to arrive, at about last year's prices, at the open-
ing of the market.
SUGAlL—Ovving to the scarcity of supply of suitable
descriptions for the home market, transactions in this
staple have nut been on so extensive a scale as might
have been expected ; however, any first, or even good
second quality, Benares, which has offered, has readily
been taken at an advance, for really fine qualities, of
nearly eight annas a maund, whilst second sorts only
evinced an improvement of four annas, in consequence
of the late accounts from England being particularly
favourable for the former description.
Exports from the Ist to the 15th inst. inclusive, amount
to 38,120 maunds.
SALTPETRE.—We last month noticed an improvement
in the demand for this article for both Great Britain and
North America, although without enhancing the price ;
since then our market has been in a most active state,
and exhibits an advance on all descriptions o; about four
annas a maund. Shipments to Great Britain go forward
on about the usual scale, but to America they continue
to increase.
Exports from Ist inst. up to data are to the former
25,254 maunds, and to the latter 10,000 maunds.
Rum.—This article seldom changes hands here, being
generally sent forward on manufacturers' account, and
our quotations may therefore be considered nominal.
Exports from Ist instant up to date amount to 48,888
gallons.
RAW SILK.—The native holeers of this :t Tie having
left Calcutta for the interior, in conseqeoiace of thy:
Doergah Poo-leis holidays, which are fullueed by severs 1
others (as before noticed), they have seat cely, even !as
yet, returned and settled to business Fine Oescriptiotas
of Cossimbazar and Jung) pure are much inquired far,
but scarce, and one or two small parcels have changed
hands at about former rates. In Radnasore and Ilu.rri-
peel sorts some transactions have taken place, but the
principal holders of those kinds are disposed to wait the
arrival of the next mail, which they seem to expect will
bring more favourable accounts of the home market;
but, whether this be the ease or not, we think they wilt
then he obliged to realise. Exports to Great Britain
trout the Ist inst. up to date amount to only 427 maunds.
SILK neer.: Goons.—All descriptions of fabrics under
this head have continued in extensive inquiry, and really
first rate goods have brought a very high figure. Com-
mon native descriptions have also sold extensively, at a
slight advance. We may here remark, that, although our;
market continues fairly supplied, the quality has alretuay
decidedly deteriorated, and will, most probably, do so to
a greater extent, as is usually the case when the raw
material maintains its price.
Exports from the Ist ult. up to date have been—to:
Great Britain, 16,339 pieces torahs, and 1,778 pieces
choppas and bandannas.
Orrum.—The price of this drug has for some time past
continued gradually to decline, and our quotations are
now as low as 1,380 Company's rupees per chest for
Patna, and 1,285 for Benares. The Waterwitch, how-
ever, having just cleared out with no less than 988 chests,
leaving in the Company's godowne only 390 chests
against 1,220 at the same period last year, has caused;
holders to show more firmness; and it is probable diva
prices hare now seen their lowest, at all events until She,
next Government sale.

CorroN.—We have not heard of a single tranaietion
in this article throughout the month, nor is there at pre-
sent any vessel loading with it for China.
decline of upwards of ss. having taken pisee
in freights, the demand noticed in our last has continued,,
and as high as 2-3 Company's rupees per maund has hem
paid for the best description of table rice. Broken has
also been much inquired for, and there not being rcitich
offering, shippers have been obliged to pay from. 1-5 to
1-7 Company's rup.es per maund. Moonghy and
13a11um have sold extensively for Bourbon, China, and
the Straits, but for the Mauritius there hag not been a.
great deal doing. Exports from the Ist inst. up to date
are as follows, via.:—To Greatyritair., 34,257 maunds;
to the Mauritius, 30,000.
Sum. LAC AND LAC DYE.---Both these articles have
been in considerable demand during the past month for
Great Britain and America, and transactions would, we
think, have been on a more extensive scale had suitable

qualities been procurable. Two or three sales of fine
shel lac, of European manufacture, have been effected at
14 and 14-8 Company's rupees per inaund ; also of some
low native manufacture, :about 8 to 10. In lac dye
we have aot heard of any transactions in European
marks, but considerable sales are reported of native, of
middling quality, at front 15 to 20. Exports from the
Ist instant up to date have been as follows, viz.:—To
Great Britain, 590 matuttls shel lac, 429 maunds lac
dye ; to North AinA-rica, 193 maunds shel lac, 404 k
maunds lac dye.
COLOURED YARN. —All descriptions have been in fail-
demand, and sales to some extent arc reported at abosit
last month's rates.
COPPER.—We have no alteration to notice in this
metal. Prices of sheathing may be quoted about the
same as last month's sales, having been effected to 9. mo-
derate extent at 34 Conipiny's re., to 34r. 2a. Tile is
not so much inquired for, but 31r. 12a. has been offered.
Holders, however, are not disposed to realise under 3 Ir.
14a., at which a few sales have been effected. Imports
in October were as fo
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mSPELTER.—Tran:ii:C,Itils.
ons have not been very exten-
sive, but prices do not show any variation from the quo-
tations given in our liya, Naz,, 11r. Ba. to 11r. 12a. Ar-
rivals, however, have of late beta very heavy, say, abon;
550 tons. Imports in October were 4,768 maunds.
Inos. -T here has been rather more doing in cornmeal
bar, and the bazaar dealers, having reduced their stocks
are now obliged to con-a: forward to purchase, but as yet
we have not heard of any extensive contracts having
been entered into. I.!'ig is dull of sale and heavy in stock,
as are also sheet wad nail rod, and prices of the latter are
on the decline, Imports in October were as follows,
viz. :—Bar, bolt, and rod, 1,967 maunds; hoop, 297;
sheet, 5;343 ;dltentletlge, 3,000 ; Swedish, 1,284 ; nails,
165,

LEAD AND TIN PLATi:s.—Tin plates have advanced
In ptiee, the last sale reported being 275 boxes at 13r. 4a..
Pig lead has sold to moderate extent at 6r. sa. per
maim]; patent shot at 3r. per bag; red lead at 9r. to
9r. 4a. per maund. In other descriptions no sales re-
ported. Imports in October were as follows, viz.:—Tin
plates, 708 boxes; pig lead, 2,279 maunds; sheet lead,
350 maunds; shot 1,528 bags; white lead, 136
maunds; red lead, 1,225 maunds.

MINERAL WEALTII OF ALGIERS.--A traveller to
Algiers makes an important report of the mineralogical
wealth of the sea-coast lands in the province of Oran.
On the slope of one of the moantains which form the
southern barrier of this portion of the shore, he has
seen, he says, magnificent masses of alabaster, of a
whiteness and beauty excelling those of the Tuscan ala-
baster of Boltera. Not far distant are rich mines of
mineral salt. On the side of Orleanville and Tenez are
deposits of lenticular iron and sulphuretted copper—
while long veins of carbonate of iron and of lead shoAs
themselves in the fissures of the rocks, and appear even
above the soil. Finally, the traveller in question fol•
lowed, for a space of 6,00 u metres, a vein of glance-iron
( ler oligiste) of an extent and regale" Ay almost unex-
ampled in metallangieal annals.—Mirsing journaL

" The happy family we all know so well,
" The still happier family we all love so well."
SCENE 13. A Stene Quarry; A monster meeting, with a tail and
with-ot enie ; How to convert a blockhead into a great 'llan ; Art
and 4 ,r ^ mem lend their assistance to produce
SC it 14. A most extraordinary 'Change, leading to a still more
extrarrt!:tiiry one, viz.,
SCE s 15 Grand embi:matical and national tableau of her
Majesi ..11,-istening the Royal Exchange.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMA.RKET.
Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING
Will be -d a New and Onal in Five Acts,
called OLDiserform HEADS AND YOUNG HEA RTS.Comedy, Colonel Rocket
dlr. S, rickland ; Littleton Coke. Mr. Charles Mathe- s ; Tom Coke
Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren ;
The Countess of i'um-pion. Mrs. W. Clifford ; Lady Alice Hawthorn
Madame Vestris ; Miss Rocket. Miss Julia siennett.
After which, a New Grand Musical Fairy Extravaganza,
entitled GRACIOSA AND PERCINET. King Uxorious, Mr. J.
Bland ; Princess Graciosa, Miss Julia Bennett ; Percinet, Miss P.
Horton ; Duchess Groguon, Mrs. Stanley.
To conclude wi.h a Grand MOVING DIORAMA; or, PIC.
TOItIAL TOUR 1N SWITZERLAND.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each
Ilcket4 and Places to be had of Mr. T. Ar cher, at the Box-office,
trim Ten till Five o'Clock.

•
THEATRE ROYL, ADELPHI.
Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated (by special permission of Charles Dickens, Esq.)
a New Drama, entitled THE CHIMES. A Goblin Story of Some
Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. Toby Veck,
Mr. O. Smith; Alderman Cute, Mr. Wright; Tugby, Mr. Wilkin.
eon Sr Joseph Bowley, Bart , Mr. Paul Bedford ; Will Fern, Mr.
Hudson; Richard, Mr. Selby Meggy Veck, Min Fortescue; Mrs.
Chickenstalker, Mrs. Frank Matthews.
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 a New Grand Military and Comic Christmas
Pantomime, called CAT'S CASTLE; or, Harlequin and the RI g
of the Rats. Harlequin, Mr. T. Ireland; Columbine, Miss Lons.
dale; Clown. Mr C. J. Smith ; Pantaloen, Mr. Sanaers.
Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, kir. Pitt; Leader of the
Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-otlice open from Eleven till Four. Private
Boxes to be had at the Theatre, aad at all the principal Libraries.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated an English Version of the ceebrated Opera
Buffs, in Two Acts, called THE ITALIAN IN ALGIERS. Ihe
Music by Rossini. Mu;tapha, Mr. P. Corti • Lindor, Mr. Allen
Taddeo, Mr Leffler; Haly, Mr. Mattacks' Isabella, Mdlle. Helen
Condell ; Elvira, Miss Grant ; Zulma, Miss Brentnall.
After which, first time, a new Divertissement, called The TALON
DE SAL Principal characters by Mdlle. Caroline Rousset, Miss
Marshall, Mdtle. 1 eresine, M. J. Rou set, Mr. Marshall, and Mr.
Gilbert
After which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic, and rather
eratic Burlesque Extravaganza, called JOE MILLER AND HIS
MEN. Otlndof Mr. Compton ; Lothair, Mr. Oxberry; Kelmar,
Mr. Granby Riber, Mr, Corti, Goleta, Mr. Walton; Claudine,
Miss E. Stanley; Ravina, Mrs. Fosbroke.
Stage Manager, Mr. H. 1. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden,
Machinist, Mr. Edmund BradwelL
Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Galls Is. Half-price at
Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 2e. ; Pit, Is. • Gallery. 6J..
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-tealf ; Prince.
alum Boxes, Two Guineas and a.Half. Doors to be opened at Halt.
oast Six, and the Performances to commence at Seven o'clock.
The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham. •
Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the
eat,e.

IHKATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal
Characters by Messrs. F. Vining Mead Owe, Diddear, r. Y, atthews,
Collier, Emery, Turner, and Keeley ; Miss Walcott, Miss Arden,
Miss Grove, and Sirs. Keeley.
After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO
bl ARR Y. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker
Miss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan.
To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Historical, Romantic
Pantornimical, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled V k LENTINE
AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews;
Meadows, Wigan, Collier, furrter, Kinloch, Yarnold, and Keeley,
Mr*. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs
Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF A OMISSION.—BaIcouy vexes. 41.- Upper
Boxes, ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony BOxes, 2s. ;
Upper P.oxes, is. 6d.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the fish-An Tier
(holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
Fier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half, Private
B•xof on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirea,
Tue Box.o icei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direr.
ti" of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

ut lilt of the Eq,,,,strian Comic Pantomime at
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARP:,
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY.
THIS EVENING
Will r.peated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL t'OX
HUN't ; ov :`he Race-Horse and Life's Ceurse•Of Man and Steed •
intkod, i; 2 unequalled National Fetes. Real Fox-chase on the Stage
and in Circle by living For and real Pack of Hounds, purchased
b4y Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production.
tpsom Races and other Sporting Features.
New Scenes of tho Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse.
Isianship.
To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime, cited HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIIsi'S RIDE; or, the
Black Witch of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. _ Lewis. Columbine,
M. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury.
Acting and stage-rnsnager, Mr. W. 11 Brodfoot.
Box-ofliee open from Eleven till Five. Lessons in the Art of Riding
by mt. R Smith daily.
Mr. BATTY begs to iv:quaint the Nobility, Gentry, and his
Patrons, that, in compliance with numerous requests from the
country, and by special desire, he has formed arrangements to pre-
sent during the Christmas Ho!idays, a S rice of EQUESTRIAN
Ai (A/NINO FETES and FASHIONABLE DAY PERFORM.
A NCES, to commence at Half-past One, and terminate at Half-past
"hreo: consisting of Batty's Splendid Scenes of Equitation in the

OA VIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE
As usual, the best Pantomime of the Season ! A more brilliant
triumph than ever before achieved ! ! Laughter, Wonder, and
Delight !! ! The First Pantomimic Performers of the Age, and
Everything New!!!!

THE SPECTATOR, Next SATURDAY, January 4, f
1845, will devote a whole-sheet SUPPLEMENT, of Twenty- '
four Pages, to the RESULTS of the NEW ZEALAND INQUIRY,
the Materials derived from the House of Commons' Blue lio,k of
1,200 Pages, and other volonaluous official Papers. Principal Topics of
the Supplement :—Some Passages in the History of New Zealand—Ng.- 1
tura! Resources and Advantageous Commercial Position of the Islands, I
(with a Map)—The Aborogines—The Missionaries—The Treaty of '
Wait fugi—Hobson-Shortland Administration—Hobson-Shortland Co-
lonization—Hobson-Shortland Finance—The New Zealand C.mpar.y's
Settlements—Auckland and the Northern Settlements—The Massacre
at Wairau—The Company's Charge against the Government—Pro-
ceedings, Report, and Resolutions of the Select Committee of the
House of Commons--Notioes of Mr. Stephen of the Colonial Office,
Lord Stanley, and Governor Fitzroy.
9, Wellington-street, Strand.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Immense Holiday Attraction.
THIS EVENING will be performed Belle's grand Opera, THE
DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK.
After which will be repeated the Grand Christmas Harlequinade,
called PUCK'S PANTOMIME; or, Harlequin and Robinson Crusoe.
The principal characters by the unrivalled pantomime artistes,
:dawn. W. H. Payne, Wieland, T. Matthews, Howell, and Miss
Carson.
SCENE 1. An " Attic " Story. Author (in distress for many
things, but principally for a pantomime subject), Mr. Hance ;
Puck (Envoy from the Court of King Oberon, with powers to pro-
vide the usual Christmas fun for " Children all, both great and small,"
Miss A. Payne. How Puck gives new life to the author by giving
life to his attic, which occasions an extraordinary stir on the pre-
mises, and introduces an extensive circle of old acquaintances ;
Messrs. Puck and Author form themselves into a Committee of Taste,
and decide in favour of Robinson Crusoe.
SCENE 2. Coast of the island on which Crusoe was wrecked, with
the ship high and dry, the ocean slumbering in the back ground, the
crabs, &c, wide awake in the fore ground. Robinson Crusoe, Mr.
W. H. Payne. How Crusoe pays a morning visit to the wreck; his
private opinion of the useful and the useless ; how he is astonished
by an unceremonious visit from the Caribee Indians, and how he de-
termines in his turn to astonish them.
SCENE 3. Interior of the island. King Paribo (Autocrat of all the
Caribees, having a passion for Princess Tooraloora, and being in a
passion with everybody else), Mr. T. Matthews; Hankipanki (his
club-bearer, an office equivalent to mace-bearer to the Right lion.
the Lord Mayor of London), Mr. Howell ; Prince Parramatta, after-
wards " Friday" (King Pariboo's young brother, and old rival, con-
temned to the cage during her Majesty's pleasure), Mr. Wieland ;
Princess Teoraloora (intended by Pariboo for himself, but intending
ierself for his brother), Mr. Johnson. How, preparations being made
for a Caribee Pic-nic, Crusoe, fired with indignation, fires a volley—
how Pariboo and Hankipanki jump out of the frying-pan into the
fire, i.e., the water.
SCENE 4.—Exterior of Cavern on Sea Shore. San Domingo Billy
(the celebrated Pacific Shark, netted expressly for the occasion, In
hopes of his turning out " a great catch"), Mr. Longswallow. How
Pariboo and Hankipanki bolt from San Domingo Billy, and how
Billy bolts them—how Crusoe and Friday go out fishing—how they
have a" glorious nibble"—and how, the fish being landed, lands Its
two Insides—and how the exterior of the cavern naturally changes to
SCENE s.—lnterior of Cavern, with Bird's-eye View of Robinson
Crusoe's Farm. How Crusoe and Co. give the Caribees the go-by—
how Pariboo and his warriors, to the tune of " Follow, follow over
mountain," set off in pursuit—and how it is supposed they were lost
in fog, which will account for their not arriving earlier at
SCENE 6.—The House that Crusoe built. N.B. The premises
may be viewed nightly with tickets, apply to Mr. Parsons, Box-
office, from ten till six. How Crusoe does the honours of his hut to
the great Princess and her little brothers—how he gives Friday his
first lesson in " Mrs. Glass's Domestic Cookery"—how the jollifica-
tion within is suddenly interrupted by the Indians from without ; in
ehort, how the appearance of Puck leads to the disappearance of the
hut, and then to the change of the Old Wreck to the Jolly Young
Waterman and Crusoe's Departure for London-bridge.
SCENE 7. Exterior of Music Shop and Artificial Arms and Legs
Manufactory ; Duet, in two flats, tune, " Here we go up, up, up, here
we go down, down, down ;" Roman Gladiator versus British Gladia-
tor ; a clear stage and no favour ; patent violoncello, warranted to
play on itself grand discord.
SCENES 8 and 9. Carriers and Fancy Leather-dressers, and Throne-
room in the Palace at Morocco ; how to leather Morocco and how to
dress its leather ; how to hide yourself to avoid hiding by another—
a whole skin is better than a skin in holes.
SCENE 10. Exterior of Insolvent Debtors' Prison ; Rerrember the
poor Debtors ; Knockers ani bells versus thieves ; kietnebody's
coming; Poor debtors and heardhearted creditors; the tables sud-
denly turned by an Act of Parliament ; Change of the Premises to
SCENE 11. Baths and Washhouses for the Labouring Classes ;
" Ladles of the Round Tub :" Soap at a premium ; Mangling done
here; Arrival of " the trades of London, with their respective young.
*nee ;" The bell invites us ; Wives go to dinner ; Husbands go to bath
Boiling water versus cold wa'i- r cure ; The washing-tub in a storm,
and general confusion.
SCENE 12. Lamp and Chandelier Shop and Lodging-honse ;
" Catch him who can," or Harlequin here, Harlequin there, Harle-
quin everywhere ; Bagged at last ; " Off with his head, so much for
Harlequin;" Eight heads better than one; Patient self-lighting
Chandelier.