... TH:EI A1IEiRIC;AN STAGE. ^BOSTON, SiTURDA:, DEC. 1-Mr.' Forrest closed a most successful engagement--here yesterday evening,' having-pliyed oat his series of-ascore nights Spartacus is spoken: of as his leading performance: .it certainly- is- an excellent one. -The twenty nights have. brought in an; average of eight hundred dollars on each occasion. Being calld- before the curtain, before a ...

... THEi CHRISTMAS, I- BURLESQUES AND PANTOMIMES. p ~ . Christmas once again I! -'and with it all the pantomimical. and spectacular devieas With which managers delight to grace the festive period-. The present season promises to be unusually well provided; every theatre in the metro- polio appears to' be intent --upon outvying its neighbour, and at the present time of writing the interior of each ...

... SPORTING CFANCIES ROi, E PUNC'S 1 , Alanac NjAunae Hrsrosr.-On the 9th of -January- 1844,' a y Eng English traveller in Amnerica ?? taken his gunr arid strayed into the baekwoods in quest of sport. After some houms of wandering, he came upon s beaver pond, and beheld the sagacious animals that hnd reared the danaf swim- mng inl all direetion s. tic prep ea to fire, but-they in'stautly ...

... DISBGRACEFUL COWND;UCT OF Al I_ : ,~ -Clergyman. _ l THE OF-ICE OP JUDGE PROasOTED BY JoUNso'n AGAINsT WEsT. This Seas ac'sit brought on Friday in the Arches Court by letters of request tom, the Diocese of Chichester against the Rev. Robert West, Rector of'Pett, in the County of Sussex, for habitual drunken- ness, and for 'brawling, smiting, using profane and irreverent language, and other ...

... : 11,11--l. .11 -.11, Icahn,-., .- , --v ., ?? ?? cel ? NAV AL- a - - MILt ARV M'Pl9]GU[OkX ADMIRALTY, jDc. 17.-- Ar !EtTs..Lietitenant- Lord E. H. Cecil (1855) has been ?? Lieutenant to Admiral Dundas, in the Duke of Wellington. : Paymaster T; Ellard (1854)'to the NIle,' 91 crew steam f 60Whorse power, at Devonp-ort. . of ADMIRALTY, DEc. 19.-ApPPOIetT3-Listtenant His Serene Highness Prince ...

... I :,I} TOWN E DITION. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23;.1855. . ~ ~ ~ 1 . .VI A T U XBTRIY CHRISTMAS To !YOU ALL!I Well, here we are at Christmas once again. Turkeys and oysters, roast beef and mince pies, are garnishing our larders; the good housewife has mixed the punch, and is letting it nicely mellow on the hob; children are at home for the holidays; fathers have shut up their ledgers, and- are ready ...

... LONDON:GAZETTES Tuesday, December 18. WAR-OFFICE, Dso. 18. DBEVET..-The'undermentioned promotions to takeplace consequen, upon the death of the following ?? Sir John Brown, died 2Nov. 16; Major.General F. Markham -died Nov. 21; Lieutenant. General James 'Lindsay, died Dec. 5; Colonel. John. Co% half-pay unat- tached, to be major-general; Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Paul lamaos, halfpay ...

... | Ri1vI1F. OF HE R ACINGu ,SEASON. | : E ~~~ffloncludedJ -- ' 'By 'TOUCHSTO T . : BrIGHTOoN the agreeable appendinm .to Goodwood, was marred of its chieftcharnii.by the frightful'iatsireofthe weather; on the first day, theiwind'blowinuas it can only bkiw at Brightonan dthe Coarse being fetlock deep mn nud, fromnthe rain that had prevailed for some few days previously. Still, the Lessee spoke - ...

... PEACE: RUXOURBS AND THJEi SWEDISE i . 1- SI.. Alliance. Although we have no official authority for the rumours of peace; which. have now for several weeks been circulated with so much industry, and we have hitherto refused to .give credence to them, we are led at last to admit that some steps have been taken with a view of terminating the war. At the same time, we are very far from accept- ing ...

... TI f NEWlBPAPER PRESS AT THE CLOSE of 1855.~ What a ?? thing is one'-6!these penny newspapers ?? Jc BazaTr's .Spegecht l week C Ilfaraden. Half a year, has elapsedis'icef the favourite and long-cherished scheme of Mr. COiBDine and 'Mr. BRIGsT, for abolishing the Newspaper Stamp, was accomplished, and the time has arrived when we may at least estimate 'a portion of, th 'result. -How have the ...

... XETROPOLITAN FANCY RABBIT CLUB. The twenty-seventh half-yearly. exhibitionof variounsbreeds of English rabbits, took place at Andertons Hotel, Fleet-street, on Wednes- day evenlng;and was attended by nearly 100 members and friends. The hew was a decided improvement upon the one held six months pre- viously not only, as regarded tbe stock exhibited, bat in the numerical strength of those ...

... A DISGiRAC:F1UL THEATRICAL Manager. I The -Church has its black sheep, and so has each of the liberal 'professions. The conduct of a single member cannot, however, itarnish the high character of the whole body. Mr. NAsHs, the late manager of the Windsor Theatre, is a specimen of his class whom -ve may fairly consider as exceptional. N'o theatre could keep open its treasury, or attract on its ...