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Public Amusements.
on boxing-day , a daily series of amusements suitable to tbe season will be given , under the direction of Mr . Nelson Lee . Blondin still performs alternately on the high and the low rope . POLYTECHNIC . —Tho novelties here are an optical harlequinade on Cinderella , " sung and said" by Mr . George Bucklaud ; and a philosophical entertainment by Mr . J . H . Pepper ; besides specimens of ventriloquism and conjuring . A giant Christmastree and a distribution of toys are also among the attractions .
COLOSSEUM . —The Christmas arrangements made hy Dr . Bachhoffner include a pantomime founded on the story of the Forty Thieves , nigger minstrelsy , wizard illusions , dissolving views , musical and pictorial entertainments , & c , besides the usual attractions ofthe place . Juvenile / istes are also promised , with periodical distributions of toys from a Christinas-tree . NEW THEATKE ROYAL , AA ^ STXINSTEE . —Under the new and rather unaccountable designation of " The Theatre
RoyalAVest-, minster , " the edifice which for many generations past has been known as "Astley ' s Royal Amphitheatre , " was opened on Monday for a class of entertainments very different from that which was contemplated by the original founders of that favourite place of public , amusement . The building has been so thoroughly transformed that Londoners will find some difficulty in recognising in Mi-. Boncicault ' s commodious and finely-proportioned
theatre the bouse in ivhich they were for so many years accustomed to witness " deeds of noble horsemanship . " A magician ' s wand could scarcely have produced changes more complete in design , or more brilliant in effect . A few of the more important
of these attractive alterations have been summarised by the manager himself , with a terse accuracy that can scarcely be improved npon . The auditorium has been entirely reconstructed , the stage machinery has heen wholly altered , the line of sight corrected , a new acoustic form given to the proscenium , ancl the old method of li ght been superseded . Allien it is added that this revolution , involving other changes in matter of detail too numerous to mentionhas been brought about within
, the brief period of four weeks , it will be admitted that Mr . Boucicault has effected a pictorial and architectural coup d ' etat of no common magnitude , and that he deserves all the praise fairly clue to so remarkable an achievement . There was no feature of novelty in the entertainments , which consisted merely of Mr . Tom Taylor ' s comedietta of Parents and Guardians , ancl the manager ' s own Scotch drama and warlike
spectacle of The Relief of Luchnow . Both pieces , however , were performed very spiritedly . In the former Mr . Boucicault played Tom-billon with excellent effect , and Mrs . Boucicault was equally successful as Bob Nettles , a part in which her powers of fun and pathos are displayed to great advantage . The military melodrama is decked out in the full splendour of new dresses , appointmentsancl " spectacular effects / ' and the bMr
, scenery y . Beverley is very-beautiful . Box-keepers' fees are abolished , seats in all parts of the house may be reserved throughout the evening for 6 d . extra on the charge for admission , and what will recommend the house to the notice of parents and guardians more especially , the performances are to be brought to a close at or before eleven o'clock .
The Week.
THE WEEK .
TUB COURT . — The Queen and Royal Family have left AVindsor for Osborne . GENEKAL HOME NEWS . —A somewhat important circular was issued from the AVar Office on Saturday . Sir G . C . Lewis , having deemed it necessary to give instructions for a revision of the regulations which have been issued for the guidance of the volunteer force , considers it expedient to place a limit to the formation of a new volunteer and he has therefore inti
corps , - mated to the Lord Lieutenant of each county that no offer of service which may reach him after the 1 st of January will be accepted . -A county meeting was held at Stockoort , on Saturday ^ -tbe High Sheriff of Cheshire in the chair—for the purpose of taking further measures for the relief of the distress in the cotton districts . Among the speakers were the Marquis of AVestminsterLord Stanley of Aldeiley ( Postmaster General )
, - , Bishop of Chester , ancl Lord Grosvenor . In the course of his speech , the Postmaster General referred to the capabilities of India as a cotton producing country , and urged that if "British manufacturers , capitalists , ancl merchants , would do that with cotton which had been done with indigo , before many years were past India would produce as good an article as the United . States , and at prices infinitely lower . The Government was
improving the modes of transit ancl navigation , ancl he believed that shortly access would be had to all parts of the country . Before the meeting closed a subscription list was opened , ancl donations to the amount of £ 13 , 400 were announced . The Gazelle of Tuesday contains the appointment of the commission promised by Sir George Grey to inquire into the working of the present system of penal servitude . Among the members of the commission are Earl GreyLord NaasLord
, , Cranworth , Lord Chelmsford , Sir John Pakington , Mr . AA ' alpole , Mr . Henley , the Lord Chief Justice , the Recorder , Mr . Waddington , Under Secretary for the Home Department , Mr . Bowrie , Mr . Russell Gurney , the O'Conor Don , ancl Mr . Chilcler . Mr . Layard , the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs and one of the members for Southwark , addressed a meeting of his constituents on Monday night . The hon . gentleman , after
glancing at the principal domestic measures of the past session , referred at considerable length to the foreign policy of the Government . He defended the course adopted with regard to China , ancl gave the cheering assurance that there is not the smallest prospect of another war with that empire . AVith respect to the American war , the policy of non-intervention would be strictly adhered to , and he felt confident that the time would come when the people of the United States would
admit the injustice of the feeling of irritation with which the conduct of England is regarded at the present moment . The hon . gentleman spoke with hope of the future of Italy ; announced the willingness of England to hand over the Ionian Islands to Greece , "provided we have security for their good and ftee government ; ancl finally paid a liigh tribute to the noble conduct of the operatives of Lancashire . Admiral Fitzroy has once more proved a correct weather
prophet . On Thursday week he telegraphed to the outports , ordering warning signals to be hoisted . A heavy gale began to blow the same evening , and , as we are informed by a telegram , it continued to rage yesterday along the whole coast . The hurricane was felt with great severity in this city , and other inland districts . In the neighbourhood of AVigan , a singular and fatal accident occurred . A tub of coal was blown from the bank of a pit clown the shaft , ancl falling upon a miner who was about to ascend , crushed the poor fellow to death .
A military Court of Inquiry has declared that Colonel Buruabv has " vindicated his honour" in the matter of the famous " Reindeer bet . " The Court hacl previously fully acquitted hoth Colonel Burnaby and Captain Annesley on the Tarrasrona charge . -The First Division of the Scottish Court of Session has reversed the decision of Lord Ardmillan in the Yelverton marriage case . Two ofthe Judges—Lord Deas and Lord Curriehill—gave judgment yesterday in favour of MrsYelverton
. , while the Lord President adhered to the view taken of the case by the Lord Ordinary , who decided that no valid marriage hacl been contracted . Mrs . Yelverton has so far , therefore , established her claim to be the lawful wife of the heir to the Avonrnore peerage ; but there can be ¦ little doubt that the case will be carried to the House of Lords . A very singular case of the recovery of lost property has been
brought before the AVestminster police-court . A young lady lost a brooch , and asked the servant in the house to look for it . It was not found , but a short time afterwards the servant was seen wearing the identical brooch openly in her shawl . She was given into custody , but she said she had received it from a female acquaintance of hers who was employed in riddling dust-heaps . The dust irl was called as a witnessaud told such a lain
g , p , straightforward tale of having found the brooch among the ashes , that the magistrate honourably acquitted the servant , though ha remarked it was one of the most singular instances of the return of lost property to the house it had gone from that was probably ever heard of . Nearl y two months ago a man wapprehended on the charge of having cut his wife's throat in a coffee-house in the Edgware-roadwhere they v / ere lodging
, . It was then the decided opinion of the surgeons that the woman could not survive above a day or two , but through their unremitting exertions she has recovered , and was brought into Marylebone Police-court on Monday , very weak , and obliged to answer the questions put to her in writing . She distinctly charged her husband with the crime , while he ' persisted that she did it herself . The husband was committed for trial both on
this charge , and on the additional charge of bigamy . An inquest has been held on the body of a young man , aged 19 , who hacl come home from Belize , on hoard the Martha Pope , a vessel , laden with mahogany , and who was said to have met with his death from ill usage . The captain , who
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Public Amusements.
on boxing-day , a daily series of amusements suitable to tbe season will be given , under the direction of Mr . Nelson Lee . Blondin still performs alternately on the high and the low rope . POLYTECHNIC . —Tho novelties here are an optical harlequinade on Cinderella , " sung and said" by Mr . George Bucklaud ; and a philosophical entertainment by Mr . J . H . Pepper ; besides specimens of ventriloquism and conjuring . A giant Christmastree and a distribution of toys are also among the attractions .
COLOSSEUM . —The Christmas arrangements made hy Dr . Bachhoffner include a pantomime founded on the story of the Forty Thieves , nigger minstrelsy , wizard illusions , dissolving views , musical and pictorial entertainments , & c , besides the usual attractions ofthe place . Juvenile / istes are also promised , with periodical distributions of toys from a Christinas-tree . NEW THEATKE ROYAL , AA ^ STXINSTEE . —Under the new and rather unaccountable designation of " The Theatre
RoyalAVest-, minster , " the edifice which for many generations past has been known as "Astley ' s Royal Amphitheatre , " was opened on Monday for a class of entertainments very different from that which was contemplated by the original founders of that favourite place of public , amusement . The building has been so thoroughly transformed that Londoners will find some difficulty in recognising in Mi-. Boncicault ' s commodious and finely-proportioned
theatre the bouse in ivhich they were for so many years accustomed to witness " deeds of noble horsemanship . " A magician ' s wand could scarcely have produced changes more complete in design , or more brilliant in effect . A few of the more important
of these attractive alterations have been summarised by the manager himself , with a terse accuracy that can scarcely be improved npon . The auditorium has been entirely reconstructed , the stage machinery has heen wholly altered , the line of sight corrected , a new acoustic form given to the proscenium , ancl the old method of li ght been superseded . Allien it is added that this revolution , involving other changes in matter of detail too numerous to mentionhas been brought about within
, the brief period of four weeks , it will be admitted that Mr . Boucicault has effected a pictorial and architectural coup d ' etat of no common magnitude , and that he deserves all the praise fairly clue to so remarkable an achievement . There was no feature of novelty in the entertainments , which consisted merely of Mr . Tom Taylor ' s comedietta of Parents and Guardians , ancl the manager ' s own Scotch drama and warlike
spectacle of The Relief of Luchnow . Both pieces , however , were performed very spiritedly . In the former Mr . Boucicault played Tom-billon with excellent effect , and Mrs . Boucicault was equally successful as Bob Nettles , a part in which her powers of fun and pathos are displayed to great advantage . The military melodrama is decked out in the full splendour of new dresses , appointmentsancl " spectacular effects / ' and the bMr
, scenery y . Beverley is very-beautiful . Box-keepers' fees are abolished , seats in all parts of the house may be reserved throughout the evening for 6 d . extra on the charge for admission , and what will recommend the house to the notice of parents and guardians more especially , the performances are to be brought to a close at or before eleven o'clock .
The Week.
THE WEEK .
TUB COURT . — The Queen and Royal Family have left AVindsor for Osborne . GENEKAL HOME NEWS . —A somewhat important circular was issued from the AVar Office on Saturday . Sir G . C . Lewis , having deemed it necessary to give instructions for a revision of the regulations which have been issued for the guidance of the volunteer force , considers it expedient to place a limit to the formation of a new volunteer and he has therefore inti
corps , - mated to the Lord Lieutenant of each county that no offer of service which may reach him after the 1 st of January will be accepted . -A county meeting was held at Stockoort , on Saturday ^ -tbe High Sheriff of Cheshire in the chair—for the purpose of taking further measures for the relief of the distress in the cotton districts . Among the speakers were the Marquis of AVestminsterLord Stanley of Aldeiley ( Postmaster General )
, - , Bishop of Chester , ancl Lord Grosvenor . In the course of his speech , the Postmaster General referred to the capabilities of India as a cotton producing country , and urged that if "British manufacturers , capitalists , ancl merchants , would do that with cotton which had been done with indigo , before many years were past India would produce as good an article as the United . States , and at prices infinitely lower . The Government was
improving the modes of transit ancl navigation , ancl he believed that shortly access would be had to all parts of the country . Before the meeting closed a subscription list was opened , ancl donations to the amount of £ 13 , 400 were announced . The Gazelle of Tuesday contains the appointment of the commission promised by Sir George Grey to inquire into the working of the present system of penal servitude . Among the members of the commission are Earl GreyLord NaasLord
, , Cranworth , Lord Chelmsford , Sir John Pakington , Mr . AA ' alpole , Mr . Henley , the Lord Chief Justice , the Recorder , Mr . Waddington , Under Secretary for the Home Department , Mr . Bowrie , Mr . Russell Gurney , the O'Conor Don , ancl Mr . Chilcler . Mr . Layard , the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs and one of the members for Southwark , addressed a meeting of his constituents on Monday night . The hon . gentleman , after
glancing at the principal domestic measures of the past session , referred at considerable length to the foreign policy of the Government . He defended the course adopted with regard to China , ancl gave the cheering assurance that there is not the smallest prospect of another war with that empire . AVith respect to the American war , the policy of non-intervention would be strictly adhered to , and he felt confident that the time would come when the people of the United States would
admit the injustice of the feeling of irritation with which the conduct of England is regarded at the present moment . The hon . gentleman spoke with hope of the future of Italy ; announced the willingness of England to hand over the Ionian Islands to Greece , "provided we have security for their good and ftee government ; ancl finally paid a liigh tribute to the noble conduct of the operatives of Lancashire . Admiral Fitzroy has once more proved a correct weather
prophet . On Thursday week he telegraphed to the outports , ordering warning signals to be hoisted . A heavy gale began to blow the same evening , and , as we are informed by a telegram , it continued to rage yesterday along the whole coast . The hurricane was felt with great severity in this city , and other inland districts . In the neighbourhood of AVigan , a singular and fatal accident occurred . A tub of coal was blown from the bank of a pit clown the shaft , ancl falling upon a miner who was about to ascend , crushed the poor fellow to death .
A military Court of Inquiry has declared that Colonel Buruabv has " vindicated his honour" in the matter of the famous " Reindeer bet . " The Court hacl previously fully acquitted hoth Colonel Burnaby and Captain Annesley on the Tarrasrona charge . -The First Division of the Scottish Court of Session has reversed the decision of Lord Ardmillan in the Yelverton marriage case . Two ofthe Judges—Lord Deas and Lord Curriehill—gave judgment yesterday in favour of MrsYelverton
. , while the Lord President adhered to the view taken of the case by the Lord Ordinary , who decided that no valid marriage hacl been contracted . Mrs . Yelverton has so far , therefore , established her claim to be the lawful wife of the heir to the Avonrnore peerage ; but there can be ¦ little doubt that the case will be carried to the House of Lords . A very singular case of the recovery of lost property has been
brought before the AVestminster police-court . A young lady lost a brooch , and asked the servant in the house to look for it . It was not found , but a short time afterwards the servant was seen wearing the identical brooch openly in her shawl . She was given into custody , but she said she had received it from a female acquaintance of hers who was employed in riddling dust-heaps . The dust irl was called as a witnessaud told such a lain
g , p , straightforward tale of having found the brooch among the ashes , that the magistrate honourably acquitted the servant , though ha remarked it was one of the most singular instances of the return of lost property to the house it had gone from that was probably ever heard of . Nearl y two months ago a man wapprehended on the charge of having cut his wife's throat in a coffee-house in the Edgware-roadwhere they v / ere lodging
, . It was then the decided opinion of the surgeons that the woman could not survive above a day or two , but through their unremitting exertions she has recovered , and was brought into Marylebone Police-court on Monday , very weak , and obliged to answer the questions put to her in writing . She distinctly charged her husband with the crime , while he ' persisted that she did it herself . The husband was committed for trial both on
this charge , and on the additional charge of bigamy . An inquest has been held on the body of a young man , aged 19 , who hacl come home from Belize , on hoard the Martha Pope , a vessel , laden with mahogany , and who was said to have met with his death from ill usage . The captain , who