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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

were, with the Commissioners, objects of a rather too
profuse appropriation of capital; and ecclesiastical leases,
long and notoriously a source of great waste of the pro-
perty available for giving pastors to the people, were no
whit better under the Commission than they had been
under their more ancient and rightful owners. Such were
the allegations; and hence it has been that the " compo-
sition and management" of " the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sion"—as the fops et orioo mali, has been brought under
the scrutiny of a Select Committee of the House of
Commons. The result is a recommendation that their
lordships the Bishops, with the lay State functionaries
who make up the present Church Commission, shall he
left to consider " great principles and important questions
affecting the Church," while the management of the funds
shall be handed over to " three paid Commissioners, two
to be nominated by the Crown and one by the Archbishop
of Canterbury, the
_payment to be made from the funds
of the Commission." Thus we are to have not one Com-
mission, but two ; and while the spoils of the suppressed
canonries and prebends are to be further diverted to the
purpose of supporting three active barrister (or non-bar-
rister) cadets of the great Whig family now in power,
the present machinery of commissionership is, neverthe-
less, to be retained, for the better and more conveniently
disposing of those " great principles and important ques-
tions" which, among the many great innovations of the
coming time, it is felt must inevitably be raised. And
the Church lecse question is to be held in solution till
Parliament, acting under the advice of the three new
Commissioners, can put " the transactions between the
Commission and the lessees" in the way of being " car-
ried generally to a satisfactory issue." The committee,
under the head " Management of the Commission," cen-
sure the mismanae,crement of the Episcopal Fund, showing
that whilst since the formation of that fund up to the end
of 1847, only £93,276 were paid for the more legitimate
purpose of increasing the income of the poorer sees, a sum
amounting in the aggregate to £27,276 was expended on
the builning and repairs of episcopal residences, and paid
out of the fund above mentioned
A

N EVERLASTING OFFERING.—Amongst the signifi-
cant tenures by which landed estates are often held when
of ancient date, that of the Staffords of Eyam is not the
least singular. It is that they shall keep a lamp perpetu-
ally burning on the altar of St. Helen's, at Eyam parish
church.

COURT

AND FASHION.

The Queen, with Prince Albert and the Royal children,
left Windsor Castle, for Osborne, Isle of Wight, on

1 hursday

A marriage will be solemnised in a few days, between
the youthful Earl of Darnley and the Hon Miss Walde-

Viscount Alford, son-in-law of the Marquis of North-
ampton, has been thrown from his horse, while hunting
near Castle Ashby, and suffered fracture of the collar
bone.
The

royal theatricals will begin at Windsor Castle on

the 28th of December. The stage is in the Bubens' room.
The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, The Stranger, Used
Up, Box and Cox, Twice Killed, The Housekeeper, and
Sweethearts and Wives, will be represented. Upon Mr.
Charles Kean devolves the management of these per-
formances. This gentleman, in conjunction with his
accomplished wife, will sustain the principal characters,
supported by Messrs. Diddear, Vandenhoff, Wigan,
rs, Webster, Leigh Murray, W. Farren, Creswick,
Iton, Keeley, Meadows, Howe, and Boyce • Mrs.
ter, Miss E. Montague, Mrs. Keeley, Miss P. Horton,
P Vining, and Mrs. Buckingham.

DEATH OF THE DUCHESS OF MANCHESTER.—The
death of this illustrious lady took place without pain, at
Kimbolton Castle, on Tuesday last. Her Grace was the
only daughter of the late General Sir Robert Bernard
Sparrow and of Lady Olivia B. Sparrow, of Brampton
Park, and was married to the Duke of Manchester on the
Bth of October, 1832.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

On Wednesday, 128 gentlemen, were admitted attorneys
of her majesty's common law courts.

By the 9th and 10th Vic., Cap. 27, it is enacted that no
person under the age of six years shall be allowed to be-
come a member of a friendly society, for money payable
on death ; and that no insurance shall be effected on the

life of any child under six years of age.
LAW of MARRIAGE.—The recent enquiry instituted
by parliament proves most clearly that the all but uni-
sal feeling of the country is against the relaxation of
but with that admirable sang froid which dis-

the laa
tinguis

our august senate in all cases where it is diffi-
cult to raise " a moral agitation" against any measure on
which they are pleased to fix their desires, the legislature
seem to extract from the different grounds on which re-

pugnance is felt against their I
gument in favour of their views

.ures an ar-

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

A stormy meeting was held at Exeter on Tuesday, at
which Mr. Kekewich was introduced to the electors of
South Devon, as the successor of Lord Courtenav, for the
representation of that division of the county. Ile evaded
some home questions that were put to hide about the en-
dowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood. Sir Ralph
Lopes, also a Conservative, and who is exceedingly popu-
lar in West and South Devon, means, it is understood,
to oppose Mr. Kekewich.
A NEW. MINISTRY.—The Sun, of Friday, contained
sundry speculations contingent on the anticipated retire-
ment of Lord John Russell, and gave the following
sketch of the alteration in the holders of office, which
a fusion of parties would involve, as one that would at once
obtain the entire confidence of the country :—'
Lord Clarendon--insteao of Lord John Russell.

Sir J. Graham—Chancellor of the Exchequer

Mr. Gladstone—Board of Trade.
Lord Aberdeen—Privy Seal.
Lord Lincoln—Board of Control,

Lord Hardinge
Mr. Cardwell—

—Lord Lieutenant.
Secretary for Ireland

Lord Mahon and Lord Jocelyn—Secretaries to the Board of

Control

THE CANDIDATES FOR THE WEST RIDING.--Sir Cul-
ling Eardley says, " if government were to bring forward
any scheme for the endowment of the Roman Catholic
clergy, he was prepared to move That there should be no
establishnzent whatever in Ireland." Such is the man
who wants to waive the very question to which, of all
others, he stands deliberately and publicly pledged. We
need not say' that in Mr. Beckett Denison, the Yorkshire
electors will find no such Jesuitical " mental reserva-
tions." On the hustings at Wakefield, on the 7th ;of
August last year, he unequivocally declared, " I voted
against Sir R. Peel on the Maynooth Bill, and I will vote
against any Minister who brings forward a proposition to
endow the Roman Catholic priesthood. 1 will never con-
sent that such a religion should be supported out of funds
raised by a Protestant community."
WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.—Mr. Fitzwilliam com-
menced his canvass at Leeds on Tuesday, when he ad-
dressed the electors. In the course of his speech he made
the following admission as to his intention of voting for
the endowment of Popery in Ireland :—" The excited
state of the country (Ireland) calls for some extraordinary
remedy, and when we observe that two denominations of
religion receive support from the State (' Only one')—
two, I believe ; the Presbyterian Church and the Protes-
tant Church of England (applause)—l think that, perhaps,
some means might be devised of rendering the state
of Ireland better, by in some way paying the Roman
Catholic clergy. Ido not wish to tax England for it, but
some means might be devised to put that unhappy coun-
try in a more prosperous state." The unfavourable man-
ner in which he was received has induced the honourable
candidate to resign. The delegates from various polling
places in the county have met at Normanton, and agreed
to support Sir Culling Eardley Eardley as a candidate.
Sir Culling is a thorough liberal, favourable to free trade,
to economical reform, to the extension of the suffrage,
and opposed to any further endowment of religion by the
state. We are glad to find however that at a meeting in
Leeds, on Friday, it was determined to bring forward the
former representative of the Riding, Mr. Beckett Deni-
son ; and as he will have the support of all the old Whigs,
in addition to the Conservatives, there is no doubt of his
triumphant return.

CONDITION OF THIS COUNTRY AT OUR ENTRANCE
UPON THE THIRD YEAR OF COMPLETE FREE TRADE.—
The winter—and we fear a hard winter—is approaching.
In the manufacturing districts the troubles of the Conti-
nent have seriously lessened demand, employment, wages,
and the resources of our own skilled artisans. The recent
Hilton controversy has afforded a terrible glimpse of the
actual condition of our own rural poor. Thriftless, pots.
toeless Ireland is drifting for a third year heavily, but
surely; to leeward. All circumstances combine to inspire
in us the apprehension, that during the coming winter
we shall not merely have to contend with Penury, with
all her ordinary and afflicting attributes, but to struggle
for existence with the giant Despair. Not only is this
true, but the fund of which the surplus in common times
is devoted to the relief of our unfortunate countrymen,
and to the alleviation of the misery of the English widow
and the English orphan, has been deeply affected by the
circumstances of the last 36 months. The cupidity and
dishonest speculations of 1846 have borne bitter fruits.
There is scarce a private family in the three kingdoms to
which the list of the share market, daily published in the
Times, does not serve as a memento of crippled means,
and of savings vanished into air. They have now to ex-
piate their error—to call it by no graver name. And how
must this expiation be performed ? The annual meeting
of the family at Christmas must be given up. The go-
verness—and what is to be her fate ?—must be dismissed.
" Little Johnny," whose reported mastery of compound
proportion and the decimal system of arithmetic inspired
his parents with the justest expectations that he would,
in due course of time, become senior wrangler, tutor of a
college, and finally bishop of an important diocese, must
be withdrawn from school. Cambridge is out of the
question. A stool in the office of a friendly attorney is
now the widest limits of even his mother's ambition for
her calculating boy. Turn again to West India families,
who have been nurtured and brought up in affluence and
comfort, and you will find them reduced to poverty, and,
except in cases where some one member of the family is
possessed of talent and opportunity, to absolute beggary.
This much, however, is clear—that however the majority
of English families may manage to struggle through the
privations of the winter of 1848.49, many must debar
themselves of the luxury of doing good, and of contri-
buting to the wants of those unfortunates whose lot it is
to wander about the country of their birth houseless,
foodless, and friendless,- and with no other trust or hope
but in that good Providence which uares for the miserable
and forlorn. Happy should we be could we indulge in
the expectation that we had overstated the circumstances
or over-coloured the necessities of the time. We fear
that our words will find too sad a response in the hearts
of all.—
.Times. [The above will be recognised for truth ;
but it is nothing more than the predictions of .a hundred
writers.]
IT DOES'NT RHYME, BUT 'ITS TRUE !-Why is.a wig
like a Whig ?
.Because it's a false .attachment .to tke
gown.

RAILWA y
—4
E very exertion is 13'.;ing made to finish the stupendous
tubular bridge over the Menai Straits by the middle of
next summer.

AFFAIRS.

At the last
Oxford shar. smial meeting of the Birmingham and
elroklers, the directors were empowered to
raise the s, am a £333,000, as authorized by their several
acts.

Cl/ESTEE. AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the
week ending 18th November, 1848 :—Coaching traffic,
£786 13s. 3d. ; parcels, £4O s. sd. ; goods and cattle,
£lBO 3s. sd. ; steam boats, £llB Bs.: Total, £1125 12s. ld.
The Brighton Company have issued an advertisement
pledging themselves that they will not do away with return-
tickets, and offering to grant annual tickets from London
to Brighton, 60 miles, at £5O per annum.

RAILWAY DEPRECIATION.-1n a recent circular,
Messrs. Railton, sharebrokers, of Manchester, estimate
the depreciation of railway stock, about the middle of last
month, at " upwards of £120,000,000 ; that is, nearly
one-sixth of the National Debt !"

An inquiry into the value of the property required by
the London and North-Western Railway Company at
Birmingham, belonging to the governor of the Birming-
ham. Free Grammar School, resulted a few days ago in the
jury finding a verdict for £39,603 10s., and £250 severage.
The claim was £42,000.

DUBLIN AND HOLYHEAD SUBMARINE ELECTRIC
TELEGRAPH.—Mr. Charles Blunt, C.E., has received
from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the
necessary authority to lay down his line of Submarine
Electric Telegraph between Holyhead and Dublin, and
for putting the wires in communication with the existing
lines of railway now terminating at Holyhead on the En-
glish coast, and on the Irish coast at Dublin.
The 117 arches of the Bury Railwey contain
26,187,000 bricks. The large arch over the tunnel and
works of the North Western Railway, which is 99 feet
span, and 64 on the skew, contain 2,281.000 bricks,
48,000 cubic feet of timber, and 23,140 superficial feEt of
3-inch planking. At these arches 34,000 casks of cement
have been used. There is duty of 6s. 11d. on every thou-
sand bricks.
Glancing over our traffic table of last week, says the
Railway Chronicle, it appears that out of the thirty-nine
companies enumerated in it, there are three whose re-
ceipts for the present half-year up to the 11th November,
are already greater than their receipts for the half-year

ending the 31st December, 1847
caster and Carlisle. the Manchester, Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire, and the South Devon.

these being t

From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on 4,205 miles of railway, was
£187,686, thus accounted for:—£B4,l7o for the convey-
ance of passengers only, £55,312 for the carriage of goods.
and a remainder of £48,204 for passengers and goods to-
gether, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of
£27,206 over the corresponding week of last year, when
the mileage was 3,317. The average earnings per mile
were £45, whilst in 1847 they were £4B.
In the Barnsley County Court, the Judge gave a plain-
tiff a verdict of £l3 10s. against the Midland Railway

Company, for the loss of his trunk

The p'

trunk pa on the omnibus that was to convey the pas-
sengers to the Barnsley Railway Station, and also saw
the truck take the luggage from the omnibus to the sta-
tion, and supposed his trunk was `amongst it, but found,
on arriving at his destination, that the train had not con-
veyed his trunk.

PREVENTION OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS—THE ELEC-
TRIC TELEGRAPH.—In a lecalre delivered last week, at
Manchester, by Mr. Cox, the superintendent of the
Electric Telegraph Company's works there, a very good
suggestion was thrown out by that gentleman—viz., that
the guard of every train should be provided with a port.
able telegraph, which, in case of any accident or emer-
gency, he could attach to any of the wires, and signal
any station for assistance.
PROPOSED BRITISH RAILWAY ASSOCTATION.—An
association with this title is in course of formation, for the
purpose of providing for the families of railway officers and
servants • for the prevention of accidents on railways ; for
indemnifying railway travellers more adequately ; and for
mitigating the losses sustained by railway companies from
railway accidents. The subscribed capital is £600,000, in
60,000 shares of £lO each. The objects of this association
will be effected by raising and administering-Ist. A
mutual benefit fund for railway officers and servants.
2d. A casualty compensation fund for railway travellers.
3d. An auxiliary indemnity fund for railway companies.
4th. A mutual insurance fund for railway companies.
STEAM CARRIAGES ON COMMON ROADS.—Mr. Motley,
the engineer, in a communication to the Mining Journal,
gives the result of " a careful examination" made by him-
self, "in conjunction with a thoroughly practical engi-
neer," into the merits of Sir James Anderson's steam-
carriage for common roads. This result is, in Mr. Mot-
ley's words, that " the public will shortly have the op-
portunity of being conveyed, with great ease and perfect
safety, at a speed of from ten to twelve miles per hour, at
the average charge of not exceeding Id. per mile, and yet
afford a large profit to the proprietors—thus doing away
with the necessity of trunk railway companies making
costly and profitless branches."
_ _ _

. .
EASTERN COUNTIES.—From the financial statement
just issued by this company it appears that the total share
and loan capital and liabilities amount to £10,851,593.
and that there is a balance of liabilities beyond assets of
£283,757. The total share capital carrying interest as di-
vidend is £9,717,220. The total receipts for the current
half year are estimated at £400,000, and the income for
the year commencing July, 1849, at £940.000. The di-
rectors calculate on effecting a deduction of £350,000 per
annum in the working expenses. This will, even if no
improvement should take place, fully maintain the amount
of dividend that has been recently paid, and at present
prices yield nearly seven per cent. on the capital invested.
There are, however, many circumstances that will further
improve the value of the stock, and thus add to the bene-
ficial character of the investment. The further capital
required by both companies, (exclusive of £87,070 to be
called up on certain Norfolk shares,) amounts only to
£355,000, which may be reduced by receipts from surplus
property. The total mileage will be 322 miles. The
company has not subscribed to any other lines, but it will
have the benefit of several valuable feeders, without any
responsibility on account thereof. _ _ _

MIDLAND.—From the financial statement of this com-
pany, it appears that the total amount of the stock, share,
and loan capital is £11,421,620, which includes a nominal
addition of £627,463 for shares issued at a discount previ-
ous to the amalgamation of the three companies. The
proportion of capital actually received is £8,191,541, leav-
ing £2,602,615 in arrear, including the Bristol and Birm-
ingham shares. The amount of debentures, loans, &c.,
is £3,766,419. The total cost of 2851 miles of railway
producing revenue up to the 24th of October last was
£11,364,414, leaving £414.245 still to pay, and making a
total of £11,778,659. The expenditure on 27* miles in
course of construction, not producing revenue, has been
£391,796, and there is £321,000 still to pay. On 1854
miles guaranteed and leased, the expenditure has been
£3,134,902 10s. On 921 miles, in which the company is
interested by subscription to the amount of £435,750,
the sum of £201,750 has been paid. The amount autho-
rised for other lines not commenced is £4,630,325, and
for these nothing has been paid. The total amount ex-
pended up to October 24 has been £11,957,960 and there
is £768,245 still to pay, making a total of £12,726,205.
After payment of the balance, the directors calculated on
having £2,194,650 towards the repayment of loans. The
estimated average receipt per mile per annum required to
pay £6 per cent. when the works under contract are com-
pleted and paid for, is about £2850, an increase of £230
per mile per annum on the average mileage of the year
ending June 30, 1848.

...
THE " ECONOMIST " AND THE RAILWAYS,

(From the Manchester Courier.)

It is an axiom constantly acted upon, that an annuity of
10 per cent., with money at its standard of five per cent.,
is double the value of such money. If a £l,OOO were paid
for an annuity, which afterwards yielded in perpetuity £lOO
per annum, it would be of equal value in the market to
one yielding only £lOO per annum, for which £2,000 had
been paid. And £2,000 of the circulating medium,
whether constituted of gold or paper, which circulated at
the interest of five per cent., or £lOO per annum, would
be an equivalent in exchange for an annuity of £lOO, al-
though only £lOOO had been paid by a former purchaser.

The same axiom alone determined the value of railway
property, the price which it will command, and, conse-
quently, the quantity of capital it represents. Every £lOO
of railway s':ock paying 10 per cent. is equivalent to £2OO
of the circulating medium at 5 per cent. interest, and to
only £lOO of money if interest were at 10 per cent.
- Thus the X 198,000,000 already expended, according to
the Economist, would be equivalent to and represent
£392,000,000. had interest remained undisturbed at the
rate of 3 per cent., at which money was available to al-
most any extent in 1845, instead of being now unattainable
even at the rate of 6 and 7 per cent. The rise of interest
from 3 to 6 per cent. itself intrinsically reduces the value
of capital in railways to one-half of its value or quantity at
the former rate. Just precisely as the annuity of the se-
cretary referred to, if made perpetual at £l5OO per annum,
would produce on a sale just half the number of thousand
pounds, were money permanently at 10 per cent., which it
would with money with money at 5 per cent. To per-
sons conversant with such calculations, it will be perfectly
intelligible that doubling the rate of interest for money
reduces to one-half the amount which should be paid in
money for the annuity. Consequently, were there no
other cause for the depreciation of railway property, the
change of the rate of interest from 3 to 6 per cent. on the
renewal of railway loans for long periods, now expiring
(not on discounts, which have no relation to this ques-
tion), would of itself be sufficient.
We are not now, more than the Economist, attempting
to justify any alleged impropriety in the management of
railway property by directors. This is unnecessary. The
point to which we address ourselves is the ability of the
country in ordinary circumstances to pay the required fur-
ther sum of £130,000,006 of railway calls, and to the only
conclusion to be drawn from the simple fact, that money for
railway purposes being now unattainable at 6 and 7 per
cent. involves the loss of capital to the owners of such
property of one-half, compared to its value when money was
plentiful for the same objects at 3 and 3/ per cent. ; a
cause of depreciation arising out of the state of the money
market alone.
After abating everything from the case that can be
urged on the score of profligate expenditure by:the railway
boards, what, we ask, is it all, compared with the depre-
ciation and waste of capital, through the present high
value of money on loans for long periods applicable to
almost every description of fixed property ? Had money
remained at. 3 per cent., as when the bulk of the lines in
progress were ,projected, this fact is clear at least, that
every railway, the cost of which is one million sterling
with money obtained. at 3 per cent., the cost of the same
railway must be doubled by raising the rate to 6 per cent.
That if the profligacy of expenditure had been such, that
by means of extravagant .contracts and gorgeous railway
stations, the cost of the railways, with money at 3 per
cent" had been Absolutely doubled, Vag effect upon the

value of the stock would only have been the same as must
arise had the whole works been more economically com-
pleted, but with money obtained at 6 per cent. interest.
Because, at 3 per cent. the borrowers obtain exactly £2OOO
at the same charge to the company which is made for every
single £lOOO borrowed at 6 per cant. A double rate of
interest doubles the cost of making fixed property of every
kind. _ _

The just remedy for the railway crisis is therekte Some-
thing which shall restore the unnaturally depreciated fixed
property of the country to its average value. And nothing
whatever will contribute to that result so long as the stan-
dard of such property, the rate of interest, is liable to
fluctuate, as it is under the present money laws, between
3 and 12 per cent. within the space of a few months.
Will the Economist undertake to guarantee that the same
fluctuations will not soon occur through similar causes to
those which operated last year, or through the connection
which the present laws enforce between every political
rumour from the Continent, and the rate of interest in
London ? Is not the scare of last year's panic too recent
yet to obliterate from the minds of moneyed men the pos-
sibility of interest being soon again at 10 and 12 per cent. ?
How, then, is it likely that capitalists in their senses will
part with money for long periods, at any but the most ex-
tortionate and ruinous rates of interest ?

That the once wealthy portion of the public, who assumed
from the original subscribers to the present railways, the
whole of their liabilities, at a time when the stocks of the
several companies, under the advance of interest in Octo-
ber, 1845, and February, 1846, had fallen to what was
fairly considered a safe and advantageous price for perma-
nent investment, should now find themselves like the
commercial and industrial public at large, unable to meet
liabilities which then appeared to be perfectly easy, can

surprise none but writers like the Economist, who shut
their eyes to one, and that the most important, side of
this grave question.
Upon what do men of property rely to meet their en-
gagements ? Upon the quantity of such property ? No.
But upon its market and convertible value. To what class

the Economist refer which has not sustained in extent of
depreciation as great or greater than that which has be-
fallen the value of Railway Stocks,—Factories, Machinery,
Warehouses, Dwelling-Houses, Ships, Produce, or In-
surance and Barking Companies' Stocks? There is no
des,ription of property almost, which for conversion into
money for any necessary purpose, will now command

the loss of
eral

fairly equivalent before the April
hundred millions sterling would not cove.
capital the country has sustained through this
depreciation of its industry and weal h. Here, then, is
cause for the difficulty of meeting railway calls, altogether
apart from, and much more palpable than, an organic and
original impossibility of finding capital. And as to the
£1,300,000 of r..llway calls, which the Economist thinl,
will destroy the country, a restoration of one dm,
property alone, CONSOLS, to its former value,
supply a working capital equivalent to the whole sum
required for such completion of the unfinished lines.
The principle which regulates the value of railway
propertyie being once understood, there would be no lac'

would

of efficient plans for meeting the case of the perplexed
and almost bankrupt companies. If a fluctuation in the
rate of interest have such power, as has just been shewn,
to dissolve into nonentity, like snow before the sun, the
immense capital of those companies, their first duty ob-
viously is to unite together for one specific object—viz.,

to deMand such an improvement in the present money
laws as shall admit of a permanent standard of vat

all such property in the shape of (what there is now no
certainty of for a week together) an equable rate of in-

- We know of no work where the whole subject of rail-
ways, from first to last, in connection with this point, is
more clearly and practically handled than in the volume*
to which we have already directed the attention of the
editor of the Economist.

With a Vindicati,
and Co.

Loridor

CIRQUE

NATIONAL DE PARIS.-ROYAL
AMPHITHEATRE.

We have to announce that, at the request of several
parties, Mons. Dejean has determined to give three more
morning
_performances during the remaining time his

arevious

for London. The morning performances will take place
on the Friday of each week. We have to again state our
surprise at not seeing more of our fashionables attend at
the amphitheatre to witness the truly grand and elegant
equestrian performances of this troupe. The respected

director merits the same, and even more, patronage than
he received during the last season; for, in addition to all
the favourites of last year. he has added numerous other
artistes of the highest excellence. In addition to the usual
attractions there have been introduced, during the week,
several novelties. MM. Newsome and Chandler have
acted a comic scene in the circle. The " Drunken Sol-
dier," by Newsome, affords to him a grand op portunity
of showing his expertness on the saddle, and the droll
effect of his combat with Chandler affords much laughter
and amusement. Mdlle. Paul is pleasing and interesting,
and possesses a neat figure, which shows to advantage in
the costume of the modern Greek girl. Little A. Berg
has appeared in the character of a young sailor, and she
rides with uncommon spirit and daring. She will make a
dashing rider as she advances in years. Mons. Bono, the
dancer on the corde elastique, continues to be enthusias-
tically applauded. The feat of extending his person on
the rope, both in the horizontal and perpendicular position,
is his master-piece of equitation. Madame P

appeared, and dances with him a pas de deux, with much
grace and spirit. M. C. Siegrist is a surprising juggler.
He performs some of his feats on the horse with the
same ease which we have been accustomed only to see
done on terra firma. The difficulties he has to encounter
are so great that the wonder is how they can be done at
all. Throwing the apples, and catching them on the point
of a knife, is his masterpiece, if we except his remarkable
performance with the three sticks. The "Academical
Poses," by MM. Siegriest, Guillieme and Braquet, is a
truly excellent display of the power of the human muscles.
Nothing can exceed some of the feats achieved by these
very clever artistes. M. Auriol has repeated his comic
scene, "La Poussah." The " Four Globes," by MM.
Leroy and Henri, is a proof of the extraordinary things
which man may acquire by practice. They use their legs
as if they were arms, and the various feats performed with
the balls are surprising. Mdlle. Ducos has appeared,
leaping the streamers with much spirit and effect ; she is
a dishing rider. Young Loisset's act of horsemanship is
remarkable for its boldness and daring, and his somersets
on the saddle are wonderful. The " Hussars of France,"
a grand cavalry manoeuvre, affords Mdlle. Mathilde a
good opportunity of displaying her skill as a leader, and
the various evolutions are performed with great perfection.
Our notice this week has extended too far to notice the
remaining members of the troupe, further than they have
each displayed their various exciting exercises to the de-
lighted audience, and received hearty applause.