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Kitchen Garden . —As a supply of salading is generally in request during the winter , a stock of nearly full grown lettuce and endive should at once be transferred to pits or frames . Where the protection of glass can be given in frosty or wet weather , the above should be kept in reserve for use in very severe , weather . Endive is blanched for salads and kitchen use by various meana ; but a way we prefer ( after being tied up when perfectly dry ) is , to cover as much as requires blanching at one time with leaves ( procured as dry as possible ) , throwing a long litter over , to prevent them being blown about with the . wind . Sow a crop of radish in a frame , for winter . Celery , cardoons , and leeks should be earthed up in dry weather . BroccoKes , borecoles , &c , may still be hoed between , as should winter ipinach , thinning it out sixteen inches apart . —Gardener s Chronicle .
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GUIDE TO THE LECTURE ROOM . Literary Institution , John-street , Pitzroy-square : —Friday evenings [ 8 ] a Discussion . — Oct . 24 th [ 7 ] , S . JI . Kydd , "Was the Dnke of Wellington a "Teat Statesman' ? " —Oct . 25 th [ 8 ] , Gerald Massey , " Mesmerism and Clairvoyance !" Hall of Science , City Road . —Oct . 24 th [ 7 ] , Thomas Cooper , " Life and Character of the Duke of Wellington . " ^ National Hall , 254 , High Holbom . —Oct . 24 th [ 7 ] , P . W . Perfitt , "Origin and History of the Second Civil War , " South London Hall , Webber-street , BlacMriars-road . —Oct . 24 th [ 71 ] Charles Southwell , "Unity of the Protestant Churches . " Sadler ' s Wells discussion Society , three doors from the Hugh Middleton . — Evevy Thursday evening , a Discussion .
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¦ ' - . ¦ v . ¦ ¦ THE THEATRES . '¦ 'H AY-MARKET . Mr . J . M .. Morton ' s liever-to-be-forgptten farce of " Box and Cox " liayino-fulty instructed the world how a journeyman printer and a journeyman hatter , resident iri one lodging , began by quarrelling abonfc domestic details and ended by vowing eternal friendship , Mr . Stirling Coyne has shown , by a sequel , entitled " Box and Cox , Married and Settled , " how these fast friends were within an ace of
falling back into their original hostile position . In this new piece , brought out at the Haymarket , Box and Cox are provided each with a wife and infant , having successfully paid their addresses to two young ladies rejoicing in . the names of Hawes and Dawes . The ladies , on their first introduction , begin little ominous bickerings , criticising each other ' s grammar , reflecting on each other ' s origin , and so forth , till at last matters really grow serious by a discovery of a flirtation that once took place in a railway-carriage between Mr . Box and Mrs . Cox . The siiid flirtation , it is true , occurred while all parties were in a state of single blessedness , but nevertheless
certain lamentations which are uttered by Mr . Box and Mrs . Cox , aproposoHlm death of a mysterious being named Little Charley \ and which are overheard by Mr . Coos and . Mrs . Box , have the effect of exciting very unpleasant suspicions . A short explanation , however , restores harmony . A . case , purporting to contain the remains of Little Charley , is opened , and the revelation is made that the deceased object of regret was nothing more than a pet lap-dog . Hereupon , Box and Cox have only to rush into each other ' s arms , and to renew their vows of eternal friendship , agreeing that this friendship shall be still farther clinched by the union , some years hence , of the infant Box and the infant Cox , who are fortunately of different sexes .
The piece , like the original " Box and Cox , owes its success not so much to its plot or dialogue , —though the latter is very smart ,- —as to the introduction of numerous visible jokes . The difficnlty that iii * . Cox experiences when he tries to cut a muffin in which | M \ Box . has put a white kid glove , as a tender reminiscence to Mrs . Cox , from whom he received it in the railway days , —the odd figure which the same Mr . Cox makes when he comes in almost knocked to pieces through a conflict in the street about the ownership of a gingham umbrella—with two or three other droll exhibitions , equally striking
and universally intelligible , raise shouts of laughter , which receive an additional impulse from the circumstance that Messrs . Keeiey and Buckstone appear in a couple of characters with which they are almost identified . Sequels , as the history of the drama amply proves , have generall y proved failures ; but Mr . Coyne has been happy enough to produce an exception to the general rule . We will not say that " Chapter the second" in the biography of " Box and Cox" will equal " Chapter the first" in popularity , but we can safely affirm that Mr . Coyne , starting on popular ground , has concerted an exceedingly droll little farce , which is likely to have a considerable " run . '
LYCEUM . An audience numerous enough to fill every nook and corner of this house honoured the reopening of the Lyceum on Monday night . There were several causes of attraction . / Firstly , we should set down the reappearance of Madame Vestris , after a long and serious indisposition ; next , the known elegance of the management generally ; and , thirdly , the fact that two new p ieces were announced in the bills . The first , of-the two novelties has not proved fortunate . Jt is an attempt to treat in the old English style a comedy called "La
Chasse au . Roman , ' * written by MM . Emile Augier and Jules Sandeau , and produced at the Theatre des Varietes in Febuary , 185 , 1 ; the time of action being transferred from modern times to the days of Charles II ., and the dialogue being written in blank verse . A minute description of a plot is , at best , not very pleasant reading , and we may the more conscientiously avoid an infliction of the sort as the success of the piece was less than questionable . If we say that Sir Amaranth Fitzwpe , — -an old beau , acted by Mr . P . Matthewsfrom a mere love of profligacy , is anxious to see his nephew Hector
( Mr . C . Matthews ) run into amorous scrapes , and is constantly disappointed by the timidity of his kinsman , we shall have done all that the occasion requires . There is neither interest in the plot , substance in the characters , nor opportunity for the actors to display their individual qualities . Considerable disapprobation was manifested at the fell of the curtain , and was greatly heightened by a futile attempt to overwhelm it with injudicious applause . The " ayes , " indeed , so far earned their point as to bring Mr . C . Matthews before the curtain , hut their victory must be attributed rather to the respect felt for the
accomplished actor and manager , than interpreted in favour of the "Mysterious Lady , " as the new piece is called . The next entertainment was " Medea and Jason , " a burlesque produced at the Ha 3 - raarkef , about eight years ago , when it was intended as a satire on Mendelssohn ' s " Antigone , " then recently brought out at Coventgarden . The story is divided into two parts—one showing the flight of Medea , from Colchis , with Jason , the other setting forth her vengeance for Jason ' s infidelity , as recorded by Euripides , though the catastrophe is rendered less tragic by the substitution of a birch-rod
tor a dagger when the children become the victims of their mother ' s wrath . Except in the tableaux with which each part conclude !? , and which respectively represent the departure of the Argo from Colchis , and the flight of Medea in her dragon-drawn car , the unchanging " stage of the Greeks is preserved , and the action of the drama is carried on in Hellenic style , the part of Chorus being intrusted to Mr . Charles Mathews , who performs his office by singing those chattering descriptive comic songs which were , we believe , first introduced by his late father , and in which he is now unrivalled . The
dialo gue of Medea and Jason sparkles with puns , and is perhaps the very best that ever proceeded from the pen of Mi ' . Tlaiiehe , though here and there it wants a little touching up , from the circumstance that some of the allusions , which were palpable when it was written , are not so at the present day . Madame Vestris , who was greeted on her entrance with a storm of enthusiasm , looked , acted , and sang admirably as Medea , and Miss Julia St . George made a smart little Jason . Strange to say , some sounds of disapproval were mingled "with the applause which followed the termination of the burlesque . Perhaps the poverty of the first piece had so far spoiled the temper of
the more critical spectators as to render them hard to please ; for , certainly the writing of the burlesque itself , with the ' songs of Madame Vestris and the " patter" of Mr . Charles Mathews , should have been sufficient to check an excess of rigour , which is most uncommon in a modern audience . While we perfectly agree with the disapprobation expressed with regard to the Mysterious Lady , and even rejoice that something of a judging spirit is awakening in our public , we would warn our audiences not to be indiscriminate in their censure , as they will thereby weaken the sffect of their sound demonstrations . The most unequivocally skd : € SSH \ piece was the one-act farce called A
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House out of Windows , with which the whole concluded . This farce which is evidently taken from the French , is so far peculiar that none of the actors tread the stage , but all appear at windows and on balconies . The dialogue is the reverse of brilliant , but the adventures of an ardent lover , who , in pursuit of his beloved , lets himself down from the second floor to a balcony by means of a rope ladder ; next suffers the . infliction of . a heavv shower ; then passes from one balcony
to another by placing a flower-stand as abridg e ; and finally , when Hi peril from a persecuting old gentleman , contrives to clamber down a lamp-post—these adventurers , we say , are sufficiently practical { to reach the universal understanding , and each new embarrassment of the inamorato drew down a peal of laughter . The briskness and activity of Mr . Roxby , whose part demands no little gymnastic skill , and Mr . Basil Baker ' s representation of the testy old gentleman , were conducive to the success of this extravagant but slight production .
SURREY . The purveyors of novelty for the Surrey have not been slow in seizing hold of the emigration mania and its various incidents , but we are sorry we cannot congratulate them as much upon their success as upon their promptitude ; O jf to the Diggings is a dull hash of the police reports and " Frauds upon Emigrants , " trials of the last twelve months , mixed with stale jokes about cheap clothing , " tips , " and fraudulent betting-offices . The piece is in two acts , in the first of which , some " greens , " English and Irish , are swindled by sham , emigration agents several dress-makers become unaccountably mixed up
with the plot . There is a whole ocean of slang talk , then a pantomime row , and after all an universal and amicable arrangement to go off to the diggings . In the second act they are all in Australia , digging , finding nuggets , and getting robbed . The swindlers become the victims of their dupes or are robbed by the savages , and at last every one who deserves it , is made happy according to the Surrey ideas of poetical justice . The piece was listened to with commendable resignation by the audience , one or two old established . jokes received their usual meed of applause , and some surprising gymnastics of Mr . Widdicomb did wonders in keeping the audience in good humour . It became quite evident , however , after a while , that Off to the Diggings is not destined for a very lengthened vitality .
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DUNLOP STREET , GLASGOW . Last week Mr . Glover commenced his first season as lessee of this magnificent theatre , to a house such as has been rarely witnessed of late years in Glasgow . Splendid as was the theatre before , under the new manager ' s hands it has acquired a beauty of decoration , and an elegance of style , such as to place it now at the very head of our British temples of the drama . But Mr . Glover does not intend to trust to the walls aione , splendid as may be their decorations ; fov he has brought together a company which , for general excellence , we believe to be
unequalled out of London . And if the opening night is to be taken as an augury of success , a brilliant prospect is before the manager . Long before the hour for opening of the doors , the place was beseiged by eager candidates for admission . The performance opened wiih the grand overture to Zavipa , performed in capital style by the orchestra , now a most effective one . On the falling of the act-drop—a beautiful representation of the celebrated Lake of Co mo—Mr , Glover was called for , when an appropriate address was delivered by him : —
The performances that followed call for no particular notice . The first piece was The Two Friends , wiiich is made up of a series of misunderstandings between two partners—upon the whole a rather tedious affair . The piece , though entrusted to the acting of Messrs . Davenport , Morgan , and Cockerill , and Misses Fielding and Clifton , went off rather slow . The Painter of Ghent followed , and though but a sketch , it put the audience in better humour ; while the success of John Dobbs , with Mr . D . Fisher as the hero , left nothing to be desired in the way of success . We may further observe , that the ballet corps' for a first night , managed rery well . All the old favourites received a most flattering reception—Mr . David Fisher especially .
On Thursday night Love ' s Sacrifice , with John Dobbs , furnished the entertainments . The pit , stalls , and gallery were again quite filled , with a considerable sprinkling in the boxes . Mr . Davenport was excellent as Mathew Aylmer , but Miss Clifton was evidently not eyual to the part of Margaret . In truth , the only weakneos in Mr . Glover ' s otherwise excellent corps , is the absence of a good leading female actress in the serious walk of the drama . On Friday night the theatre was occupied by Grisi , Mario , Lablaehe , and Mdlle . Bertrandi in a grand concert . There , was an immense attendence , and of course the entertainment went off with great eclat . Shakespeare ' s Othello was performed on Saturday .
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TUBBS , RICHARD THOMAS , Hqlywell-street , Bhoredltdi , haberdasher . AUSTIN , WILLIAM , Grove , Great Guildford-street , Southward and New street , Southwark Bridge-road , iron-founder WALL , ABFATIUR BROWN , Bishop Vroad , Bayswater , apothecary . LEE , CAROLINE , Park-street , Oxford-street , baker . BRIMACOMBE , JOHN , Fahnomh , Cornwall , wine merchant . STOCKS , MON LUMB , Huddersfield , Yorkshire , draper . M'BURNIBi ROBERT , Wetherby , Yorkshire , grocer . ' JSwrnr ^^ T ^^' ^ ^^^ MTerpool » Proviflio » dealers ' 10 WCOOK , WILLIAM , Bootle , Lancashire , butcher . SMITH , GEORGE , Liverpool , tailor .
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION . HORSBUBGH , JAMES GQRDEN , Dundee , com merchant .
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STA J IBTiqB ' OP TH ??^^ Births and Deaths in the Metropolis . —Last week t ! boys and 825 girls , in all 1 , 607 children , were registered in I f ^ ' ° f : $ . j age number in seven corresponding weeks of the years 18 ' 14-n' ° > *' av . deaths in London , which in the previous week we re , Vose \ h ^ l 83 a > % last Saturday to 1 , 093 . In the corresponding weeks of the ten ' ^ Week ° Ii ' ' ' the average number was 928 , which for comparison with last \ 1 ^ ^ -Sl be raised in proportion to increase of population , when it becoi ^ re *" ^ r present mortality , therefore , exceeds the corrected average bv " ^ * ' ^ ' The Tanners in the United States .- —There are G . 263 tanners States , with an invested capital of 18 , 900 , 527 dots ., and which mVi " lile > Ulli W kins yearly valued at 32 , 861 . 126 dols . The number of hides UmTf- hWw r "" l < -kins , 2 , 053 , 865 , The number of hands employed is 20009 n | ^ H females . ~ ' es > "id 102 Emigrants from Londonderry . —From an o fficial return * t the number of emigrants who left tde port of Londonderry for the if ^ n * Itat and British America between the first of January and the 30 th / 'd' 6 ' 1 Sli 1 ( s 1852 , amounted to 5 , 015 ; for the same period last year , 5 795 si 10 . ° | lleill l > ev , this year of 780 . ' ' ' ' Wlng a ^ crease
Prussian Industry . —From a statistical return just ] V , m-, i Prussian government , it appears that there now exist in that count-on ~ y t ! : e ning mills ; 5 , 188 manufactories , dye works , and coUon--n rinMn < ' n ' t ' u 'T ' Sllln " 39 , 253 mills of different kinds ; 12 , 960 large metal works ' ; 17 ^ 5 jj . . ncnls 5 distilleries ; and 4 , 535 other manufactories of different kinds uni ' - !' " eiies ai « l 81 , 808 establishments , occupying 515 , 551 workmen . ' ' " ' tolaI u !' Land Proprietors . —It is a remarkable fact , that of all the cou-n states of Europe or America , Great Britain is the country in w hich " a hold the smallest stake in the soil . France , with a pop illation of 12 'I't ^ 6 10 , 896 , 981 landed proprietors , or one in three . The United Stated 5 th * lation of 29 , 000 , 000 has 5 , 000 , 000 proprietors , or one in four . JH » h ' "' J J ° " population of 5 , 022 , 677 , 1 m 950 , 7 % proprietors , or one in five . Holl-uuJ ^ " mercial and shipping country , with a population of 3 , 500 , 000 , * iwsVoo OOfi " " prietors , or one in nine . Sweden , with a . population of 8 , 874 , 203 la ' s % proprietors , or one in twelve . While Great Britain and Ireland ' with ' tion of 27 , 041 , 050 , have only 633 , 421 , or one in forty out of the ltopulatio eluding freeholders and copyholders , with a direct interest in the so l "''""
Population op the South . —The census for new South Wales ami v Diemen ' s Land , made up to March , 18 ol , shows for Sydney , 100 , 22 !) ni ; iU > 1 81 , 204 femrles ; of that number there were under U years of 115 . ) , " 30 osi * ' T m ! and 86 , 381 . females ; from twenty-one to forty-five and upwtmU 4 l ' n mu and 13 , 875 females . ¦ Van Dieman ' s Land : 43 , 127 males , and 25 482 frm-l under fourteen years , 9 , 625 males , and 9 , 4 SS females . Iu ( he list " menttoS colony , there was also , including women and children , 953 military , —ai ^ - A convicts on public works , —total in all the b efore-mentioned districts , ' 334 , 7 ^ SOUlSi
University Education in Germany . —During the last six months of \ h scholastic year , there were in the 28 uuiversities of Germany and SwitMtlani 18 , 810 students , of whom 1 , 100 were catholic theologians , 1 , 050 protestant theologians , 6 , 761 jurists and political economists , 4 , 182 medical men , and 2 . G 44 pi " . losophers . The universities rank , according to the nnmber of student * ' as lbl " lows : —Vienna , 6 , 930 ; Berlin , 1 , 171 ; Munich , 1 , 901 ; Prague , 1 , 840 ; Bonn " 1 , 912 ; Breslaw , 8 G 4 ; Leipsick , 81 ?; Wurtzburgh , 776 ; Subingen , 774 ; Hehlel berg , 772 ; Gottingen , 677 ; Halle , 672 ; Iena , 433 ; Giessen , 411 ; Estanseli , 400 Graetz , 399 ; Fiiburg , 331 ; Marbourg , 315 ; Munster , 302 ; Ollmutz , 280 ; In ! spruck , 257 ; Greisswald , 51 ) 4 ; Zurich , 200 ; Berne , 119 ; Kiel , 141 ; Rostock 10 6 ; Bale , 65 . The number of 2 > rofessors amount to 1 , 680 ; of whom Sal uve ordinary professors , 348 extraordinary , 40 honorary , and 427 private .
Statistics op Emigration . — " A curious change , " observes an American Journal , "has taken place during the last few months in the clm-actw oftiw emigration to this counsry . In former years Irish emigration alwavs exceeded that of all other countries put together , and was more than double that of ( lie German emigration . In the year 1851 , the whole amount ; of emigration to this port was 289 , 601 , the number from Ireland was 103 , 250 , and from Germany 69 , 883 ; tbus showing that the Irish more than doublu the" German enr . Kratm
and was considerably greater than the aggregate of all countries , including Germany . _ For the present year , up to the 23 d of this month , tlie emigration k < been as follows : —Total , 226 , 976 ; Ireland , 88 , 664 ; Germany , 9 S . 6 F 8 . The incitaa in the German emigration only commenced with , the mouth of Ajwit , Irish migration for March far exceeding it . The number of emigrants from Ireland in March was 13 . 213 ; from Germany only 3 , 816 . The change , therefore , iia « talion place during the last sis months , and it is wholly unprecedented in the history of emigration of the United States . "
The REVENUE . —The Revenue returns for the year and quarter ended lOtt inst ., snow a decrease on tlie tlie year Of 437 , 407 / ., and an increase on theqaarfer of 28 , 9291 . The year's account shows a decrease in the Customs of 8 J , 75 ? J ; Taxes , 1 , 157 , 20 H . ; Imprest and other monies , 46 , 441 ; making together , 853 / J 97 J ., which being deducted from the sum of 1 , 291 , 39 G £ . gives a decrease on the year of 437 , 397 ^ . The quarter's account shows an increase in the Excise of 162 , 901 / .: stamps , 96 , 857 / . ; Property-tax , 45 , 445 / . ; Imprest ami other moneys , 13 , 666 / . ; Repayments of Advances , 68 , 787 / .: making together 388 , 6502 . It shows a decrease in the Customs of 298 , 20-iJ . ; Taxes , 5 , ! slOZ . ; Post-office , 45 , 0001 . ' , Miscellaneous , 10 , 653 / . ; making together 351 , 727 / , which being deducted from the sum of 388 , 656 ., gives an increase on the quarter of 28 . 92 UZ .
Emigration from Liverpool . —The emigration from Liverpool this yea * bids fair to show a very large increase over that of last , or of any preceding year . The following are the monthly returns of the first three quarters of 1 S 51 and 1832 , as made to tlie Custom-house by the government emigration officer :-1851 . 1 S 52 . Ships . Passengers . Ships . Pas sengers Jauuary 38 12 , 120 26 .. .. 774 ! 1 February 39 11 , 986 31 ... 11 ' S 4 i )
March 53 17 , 571 .. .. 53 .. ® A ® April .. .. 12 25 , 447 07 25 , 402 May .. .. GO .. .. 21 , 007 .. .. 70 .. .. 20 . S 37 June 01 17 , 203 .. .. 55 - ' July ., .. 48 ., .. 13 . 77 S .. .. GO .. 21 . - August .. .. 44 .. .. 16 , 717 .. .. 61 .. .. 2 l > ; September .. ., 58 .. .. 20 , 219 .. .. 03 .. 9 : ] --
Total .. .. 513 .. .. 156 , 174 .... 415 .. 179 > l ) Increase in 1852 , 2 ships and 23 , 590 passengers . The total emigration of last year , ending the 31 st of December , was 15 ) 5 , ^ That of nine months of the present year , therefore , is onJy 10 , 190 below i « whole of 1851 . Two other facts my be noted connected with tliese returns . the first place , they do not inclnde cabin passengers , of which there were - •) Sailed from Liverpool last year , composed of the more respectable emigrants tlie retut
Australia . In the second place , it should be borne in mind , that purports to give only the number of adults , not persons ; that Is , it counts as on adult the proportion of children allowed according to the scale laid down , law . We may , therefore , safely add one-fifth to the number returned , ns total number of human beings who have left their country during the P" ^ || months . We have no means of arriving at the precise number of emigrants w have gone to Australia . On very good authority , however , we may state i round numbers at 15 , 000 .
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DEATHS . "William Pitt Adams , Esq ., British Charge d Affairs at Lucia , died on t'ic 1 : inst . of paralysis . . ^ M . Bianco-Luno ,, director of a printing establishment at Copenhagen ) , largest that exists or ever existed in tlie Scandinavian countries ( it cm about 220 workmen ) , has just died . He was a pole by birth , but went to t \ ^ hagen after the unfortunate insurrection in 1830 . He acquired a large i ^ and has left the whole of it to charitable establishments in Poland and vei ^ James Bergen , one of the State Prisoners confined in Newgate in » suddenly a few weeks ago , on his route to California . , rfi The Abbe Pillet , former Vicar-General of the diocess of Chambery , aim j
ceptor of the Prince Royal of Sardinia , lias just died . , . ft . General Bonnet , commandant of the Pyrotechnic School , Paris , tfiei days since . ^ It is with much regret that we announce the sudden death ° J u ' . ffiill Griffiths , Esq ., Assistant Secretary of the Royal Dublin Society . M ' j ^ was a zealous and indefatigable officer , and was greatly respected by ti bero of the Royal Dublin Society . . He died at Lyons , on the 14 th inst .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 23, 1852, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1701/page/14/
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