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    " There she is ! " screeches Mr . Barx ; and I saw him by the faint light , scramble on his knees in the bottom of the boat , and waves ragged old handkerchief up at the moon . ¦ . . ' ' . " ¦ ¦ ¦ . - '¦ ¦; , ¦ ' . ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ '¦ " Poll him . down 3 " I called out . " Down with him , and tie liis arms and legs . " Of the men who could still move about , not one paid any attention to me . They ¦ w ere all upon their knees again , looking out in the strengthening moonlight f or a sight of the ship . " Quick , Golden Lucy ! " screams Mr . Rarx , and creeps under the thwarts right forward into the bows of the boat . " Quick ! my darling , my beauty , quick ! The gold is heavy , and the water rises fast . Come down and save me , Golden Lucy ! Let all the rest of the world drown , and save me ! Me ! me ! me ! me !" He shouted these last wotcIs out at the top of his cracked , croaking voice , and got on his feet , as I conjectured , ^ for the coat we had spread for a sail now hid him , from me ) in . the bows of the boat . Not one of the crew so much as looked round at him , so eagerly were theii eyes seeking &r the ship . The man sitting by me was sunk in a deep sleep . If I had left tne helm for a moment in that wind and sea , it would have been the death of every soul of . us . I shouted desperately to the raving wretch to sit down . A screech that seemei to cut the very wind in two answered me . A huge wave tossed the boat ' s head up wildly at the same moment . I looked aside to > leeward as the wash of the great roller swept by us , gleaming of a lurid , bluish white in the moonbeams ; I looked and saw , in one second of time , the face of Mr . Rarx rush past on the "wave , with the foam seething in his hair and the moon shining in his eyes . Befoie I could draw my breath he was a hundied yards astern of us , and the night and the sea had swallowed him up and had hid his secret , which he had kept all tie voyage , from our mortal curiosity , for ever . " He ' s gone ! he ' s drowned ! " I shouted to the meu forwardi Next morning they are rescued . Such , is the outline of the Christmas number . Of the incidental stories we have no space to speak ; and indeed there is no occasion . The public instinct in such matters takes the place of criticism . An announcement at the end of the number will give delight to thousands of readers . With the new volume of Household Words , " commencing ¦ with the first week of January , we are to have a continuous tale by Mr . Wilkie Collins , under the attractive title of the " Dead Secret . "

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    . ; .: ¦' - ¦ '¦¦ ¦ . , - . . : ¦ ¦' ; ¦ '¦ ; ALMANACS . ¦; . ; : ¦ . ' - . ¦ . : . ;¦ ¦ The best is Homehold Words Almanac . It is the most popular , serviceable , varied . The information is well picked , sifted , and classified , and there are many choice fragments of counsel for firesides which will be treasured up ia cottages , not through the year 1857 alone , but through succeeding years , until the accumulated Almanacs make a volume . The British Almanac . v& uptm a more important scale : the contributions in the Companion being solid and useful essays on subjects of present interest . The Crystal Palace Almanachas its peculiar claims , being elegant , and judiciously arranged . The Protestant Dissenters know their excellent Almanac and Political Annual , which only needs a word of announcement . The same may be said of Parker ' s Church Calendar . Vov agriculturists Morton ' s New Farmers ' Almanack is a practical yearly manual of very great utility . Publications of this class will rapidly supersede the trash of' Zadkiel , Raphael , and Old Mcore , with their blazing hieroglyphs of vermilion and yellow , deaths' heads gibbering at crowned heads , old mortalities gaping at monstrous coffins , British grenadiers charging ; against superhuman battlements , ships going down in burning seas , and bloody stars staining with malefic light the abysses of & blackened world ! We await the New Year ' s-day which shall convert a million idolaters of this grotesque abomination to the common sense of that almanac called The Household Words .

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    . . ' " - ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦' . ¦•¦ . " . ——?— : — '' ¦ ' . ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ " ; . ' . THEATRICAI , AND MUSICAL . NOTES . The Surrey has produced another of its ' dramas of breathless interest ' derived , as usual , from the French . It is called Birds of Prey , and has reference to railway schemers , swindling bankers , assassin duellists , and other gentry of the same kind , who weave between them a rather complicated plot , and give Mr . Creswick . and the other members of the company plenty of opportunity for exhibiting all their energy and skill . The play concludes with another repetition of the Corsican Brothers duel scene ( which appears to have grown into one of the settled conventions of the stage , predestined , probably , to a fifty years ' existence ); and there is much crime and remorse for the edification of the ' gods . ' .. ¦ ; ¦ . ; ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦ ' : '¦ - .. ¦ ' . ' ¦¦''¦ . " - ¦ ¦' .:. •¦ ¦¦¦ ' . ' ¦ ' : . ¦ ; Much approval having been expressed by the critics of the "Westminster Bridge Road on the production at Astley ' b , a few months ago , of an equestrian version of Itic 7 iard the Third , in which " white Surrey" was veritably " saddled for the field , " the manager has prodiiced Macbeth in similar -wise . The equine spectacle , or show of horseflesh , however , is confined to the warlike portions at the commencement and end ; and Macbeth himself is not made to ride twelve horses abreast , nor does his wife jump through hoops and over scarfs , to typify her ¦ self-satisfied conception of that ¦ ¦ ' vaulting ambition which o'erlcaps itself , " or to express , mystically and symbolically , the ease with which she flies over the obstacles placed by conscience in the way of her desires . No , there is nothing of this kind ; and we are forced to reflect upon what might have been made of a cavalry Macbeth by the genius of the classic Ducbow . Had he survived , ¦ arid turned his attention . SnAKSVEAiiK-wsirds , we might never have seen the Princess ' s star in the ascendant . Hut such are the decrees of the dramatic Fates . From Astlev ' s to the Lyceum . Mr . Dillon , on Monday , appeared for tlie first time before , a London audience in the character of Othello , and was sufficiently successful to repeat the part on Thursday . We propose to give some critical account of him in this new dramatic phase next week . Beethoven ' s Fidelio was performed , in German , at Dkury Lane , on Tuesday night , with Madame Rudehsdorff in the part of Fidelio , Hecr Reiciiardt as Florestan , and Herr Foumes as Rocco . The Huguenols has since been produced .

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    THE POST-OFFICE DIRECTORY . The Post-office London Directory for 1857 . Kelly a nd C As usual , the Post-office Directory reappears ( for the fifty-seventh time ^ wirt ' material improvements . Important arrangements have been introduced { £ dividing London into ten postal districts , persons addressing letters £ 1 London and its neighbourhood being requested to add to the direction tZ initials of the postal districts in which their correspondents reside Th may be easily done by following a simple plan simply explained by thp Editor . The alterations rendered necessary by the great increase in th number of Post-office Order-offices have also been conspicuously noted as well iis the reduction on French postage , coming into operation on New Year ' s-day . As one instance of the lateness of the corrections , we mar mention ^ that the appointment of the Chairman of the Inland Revenue Boai'd is recorded in the Official Directory . la every way , indeed the reputation of the work is maintained . It is an indispensable volume o £ ' reference for every _ commercial man . Indeed , tlicLoiidoji- Post-office Director !/ is a publication which must be useful to every one , and to which everyone shouLd , at least , have easy and immediate access .

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    1172 ^ JLgJLJJljiAj ^ gjg-,-, _ ¦ [»<>• ¦ 350 , SATOBPAy .

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    FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , Dtctmhor 3--BANKRUPTS . —Thomas l ' BnnY . High-street , Southwark , confectioner—Edwakd Smith , Isloworth , baker—Bdqab . Adams . Brighton , laconmn—XEorouD Rbufax'it ,

    Chester-terrace . Regent ' s Park , and Groat Northern Railway Coinpany ' s-office , King ' s-cross , dealer in scares— Jonn JIckiuY , Great Scotland-yard , coal merchant —Gborgs Octavics MtJNTOii , Bourue , Lincolnshire , surgeon . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . —\ V . Cathrak , Wiltongrove , near Hawick , slate merchant—A . Claiik , Glasgow , tinsmith- J . Howijj , Craigic , Ayrshire , farmer—J . Anieesoar , Stowarton , Ayrshire , draper — J . Young , Carluke , grocer- 'NV . WlUKiK , Kawyards , near Airdric , bnkcr . Friday , December S . BANKRUPTS . —Ka'jfiiAiM Faikubad , Crossing , Essex , cattle dealer and salesman—Chakxes BnowN , Oxford , street , milliner—Jam ; es Smith , Egham Hytho , cattledealer -Dauiel Ghbenaway Porter , Philpot-lano , City , wine merchant—Thomas Banks , Chorley , ironmonger-John Vai-bo , Ripon , linendraper—John Bkkby , IIicha . kd Bekby , and Thomas Beerv , Rochdale , ironfoundors—HenbtEvaws , WedncBbury , Staflbrdshiro , grocer-ABBAmam ConowEL , Minories , cigar manufacturer—Hinex Geob&e JDkaklove , Palace-row , New-road , timber merchant—Thomas Firmston , Shrewsbury , Salop , biulder-WiLiiiAM Uvekton , Leamington Priors , Warwickshire , builder—Brnjamih Linfoot , Mansfield , Nottinghamshire , buildcr-JoaiN Babsoot , North Stonoliam . Hants , attic and sheep salesman—Miles Loud and Geokois Kostron , Cago Mill , Lancashire , woollen manufacturers . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS- — Angus Stkv aiit , Glasgow , tailor and clothier—Geohob . Campbeu . Smith , Baiill ' , land surveyor— R . B . Neiix aud A- ' **^™ Stewart , Glasgow , oil distillers— Mrs . Ann l'tACOCK Bryan or OsBORNE . Tobngo-strcet , Calton , Glasgow , agent -John Dick , Rons , and Co ., Glasgow , thread »>«» turers—Keith and Oo ., Lawnmarkut . Edinburgh , jew oilers , |

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    BIRTHS , MA . RRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . PEEL .-Ontho 28 tli ult ' ., at Goodwick . PcmbroUcBliixo . MrB Augustus Pcol : a son . , . vn . SAN&FOllD .-On tho 29 Lh ult ., Uio wife of'l < ««« % * „ vasour Sandford ., Jiaq ., F . ltCS ., L . S . A ,, Queens own Xight InHuitry : a ton , stillborn . OAKLEY—BIGGS—On tho 13 th of October , at Nynco i ^ i . B ,. H . OaWoy , Esq ., of tho IHth N . 1 ., second son of iiw Oakley , Esq ., of Lydart , Monmonth , toCharlolto , joungw * daughter of tho latoltov . T . II . Biggs , rector ol WlntUorno , Herefordshire . BEEC 1 IEY .-On Saturday ) tho sutli ult ., at \ . ^ f '{ J ^ de-Westbouvne-crcscont , rtydo Park , R « i ir-Ad " | L itoval rick William Beechoy , F . R . S .. Prcaidcut of tlio lwyu GeograpMcal Society , &c . .. iTonor CUMMING .-Ontho 28 th ult .. at his rcslclouco , IB . un Grosvonor-strcot , General hie Henry John Cu « n »»»« K . C . H ., Colonel of tho 12 tji Roy » l LanccrB , aged as .

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    The Case of S ^ VTXFEN v . Swynfen . —Further arguments , to a very great length , have been heard in this appeal case in the Court of Common Pleas , -with xefereace to the alleged misconduct of Sir Frederick Thesiger and other counsel , to which we alluded last T ^ eek . Mr . Kennedy again characterized that conduct in very strong language , and asserted that Sir Frederick , in older to coerce Mrs . Swynfen into accepting the arrangement he had made in her name , but against her consent , had had " the audacity " to assert that he had been inf ormed in high quarters that tlie case -would go against her . Counsel appeared on the other hand in defence of the arrangement that had been come to , and asserted that it ia quite legal for counsel to come to terms on their own authority . Mr . Justice Creaswell said the Court would deliver judgment on the first day of next term . In the course of his several addresses , Mr . Kennedy accused Sir Frederick of being no gentleman , of "bullying everybodj ' , uttering falsehoods , and of being guilty o joining in a foul conspiracy and a contemptible juggle . The judges found it necessary to check this intemperance of language . The Main Drainage Scheme . —The Metropolitan Board of Works , on Tuesday , proceeded to consider the report of the deputation to Sir Benjamin Hall ; also , a report made fcy Mr . Bazalg « tte , the engineer of the Board , upon an extension of the drainage outfalls north and Bouth of the river , and adopted by tho Board on the 22 nd October ; like-wise the points suggested in Captain Burstall ' a letter to the Chief Commissioner , and approved of by him . The engineer described in his report the nature of the works required f or carrying out tho plan approved o by the Chief Commissioner , and slated that the total estimate for tho Metropolitan drainage ,. as thereby designed , would be 2 , 880 , 000 / . It was pro- ' posed by Mr . Leslie , and seconded by Mr . Dennes , that tho report of the engineer should be rejected ; but tho propoaa Was negatived by a . majority of 17 against 4 . Ihe farther consideration of the question was postponed tp next Tacaday . —On Thursday afternoon , at three oclocV , a deputation from the Metropolitan Board of Works waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer Cwho wail accompanied by Sb Benjamin Hall , the First Commiawonor of Worke ) , at his official residence in

    Dovrning-street . Their object > vas to discuss the financial bearings of the drainage scheme . Mr . Thwaites , the chairman , said that he had made a calculation that , if the G overnment enabled them to borrow four millions sterling , to be raised by four annual payments of one million , by spreading the charge over a period of fifty years , then taking the present ratable value of the property in the metropolis , which was increasing annually , at 11 , 450 , 00 OZ ., the rate for the area which was subject to their taxation would be 3 5-8 ths pence in the pound , which would entirely repay the interest and principal of the sum required , for these works in fifty years . The Chancellor of the Exchequer said tlie question was one for Parliament , and that he would consider the matter during the recess . Lord Lucan ani > the u Daily News . " — The threatened action against the proprietors of the Daily News for an alleged libel on Lord Lucan in connexion ¦ with the late war was tried in the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday , and terminated in a verdict for the defe ndants , the announcement of which caused a burst of cheering from the persons present . Sir Frederick Thesiger was the counsel for his lordship ; and , in the midst of his waitings over the liberty of the press , and its alleged ' licence , ' lie observed , apparently with some regret , that " there ia no power to check its progressno public censor . " In tie course of his cross-examination tho Earl was obliged to confess to his discreditable squabblings witli Lord Raglan , his superior , nnd Lord Cardigan , his subordinate ; an < l Mr . Edwin James , Q . C ., who appeared for the Daily News , remarked , in the course o his address , that had Lord Raglan possessed the firmness of l the Iron Duke , ' both Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan would have been broken for their conduct . Sib Richard Bethem .,, tho new Attorney-General , having presented himself to liis Ayleshury constituents , a vote of confldenco in him was passed without a dissentient .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1856, page 1172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2170/page/20/