Times. There are no mysterious and
sentimental advertisements; no advertisements
for lost objects, individuals, and next of kin.
With these exceptions, every class of
advertiser is represented. Two deaths are
announced; but no marriage or birth. The
Theatre Royal in Drury Lane advertises,
The Natural Sun, and Harlequin Junior:
Covent Garden, A new comedy, The Follies
of the Day, or Marriage of Figaro, and a new
pantomime, called, The Magic Cavern, or
Virtue's Triumph. Four ships, two Nancys,
the Lively, and the Betsey, advertise to sail
for Nice, Genoa, Leghorn, Smyrna, and
Constantinople, average two hundred tons.
Fourteen booksellers' advertisements invite the
reading public to patronise Mr. Walter's new
improvement in printing, applied to a series
of works by eminent authors; first volume:
Watts's Improvement of the Mind; novels,
having the following promising titles: Modern
Times, or the Adventures of Gabriel
Outcast, in imitation of Gil Blas, by the Literary
Society; The Young Widow, or the History
of Mrs. Ledwich; the History of Lord
Belford and Miss Sophia Woodley; St. Ruthven's
Abbey; The Woman of Letters, or History
of Fanny Bolton; A Lesson for Lovers, or
History of Colonel Melville and Lady Richly;
Adventures of a Cavalier, by Daniel Defoe;
a dramatic original, entitled, The Governess,
or the Boarding School Dissected, wherein
are exposed in dramatic order, the errors in
the present mode of female education, and
a method of correcting them, &c., &c.; one
religious book, one medical, a commercial
treatise, a system of short-hand, Mrs. Martyr's
new song, sung by that lady, as the page in
the new comedy, and other music; a work
on the peerage; an illustrated serial on the
antiquities of England and Wales; a little item
or two in the way of a complete Fortune
Teller, and sentimental or conversation
cards; notice of an injunction against the
sale of Cook's Voyages, and an apology for the
life of Mrs. Bellamy, in the same advertisement
with Bell's British Theatre, in twenty-one
volumes. So much for literature and art.

There is a notice of the child of the sun,
exhibiting in Piccadilly, and of the hundred
and sixty-five surprising cures by Buzalo,
opposite Somerset House in the Strand, on
persons of the first distinction. The Moses
of the day advertises gentlemen's great coats
at ten shillings and sixpence, and other
marvels in the way of dress; one draper appeals
to the ladies, and one ironmonger to
housekeepers. Coals, plate, and turtle have each
one advertisement. Mrs. King of Chigwell,
Essex, announces the opening of her school
for the tenth of January. Although the only
advertiser of the scholastic profession, the
good lady thinks it necessary to append a
little puff. As she has always been accustomed
to watch and improve the opening
mind, hopes to give satisfaction to those who
intrust her with so important a charge.
One gentleman wishes to engage a travelling
companion; one printer offers to conduct a
business in his trade; one cook and one footman
want places; two houses are to be let,
and one set of genteelly furnished lodgings.
Thirteen or fourteen sales are advertised,
four "by candle." One advertisement is
headed, Exemption from Parish Offices,
and runs thus: " To be disposed of a
certificate, which will discharge the owner
thereof from all parish offices, in the parish
of Christ-church, Spittal-Fields, in the county
of Middlesex." To all the advertisers, the
editors address the following notice:—

"We would with pleasure have inserted GRATIS all
the advertisements sent to us, had we not received an
intimation from the Stamp-office, that the King's duty
must be paid for every advertisement that should
appear in our first day's paper; we were therefore
obliged to leave out all the favours of our advertising
friends, who, unapprised of this circumstance, did not
send the stamp-duty with each advertisement."

Such, in political information, literary
matter, and advertisements, is the first number
of the Daily Universal Register. On
the anniversary of its third year, the Register
took the title it now bears, having then reached
the nine hundred and fortieth number.

WANDERINGS IN INDIA.

"A COURT MARTIAL! Is it possible?"
exclaimed my friend, on looking into the general
order book, which was put before him on
the breakfast table. " Well, I did not think
it would come to that."

"I did," said the Major of the regiment,who
was sitting opposite to him. "For it strikes
me that the chief is never so happy as when
he is squabbling with the members of the
courts, and publicly reprimanding them for
their inconsistency, or whatever else may
occur to him. This is the seventh court
martial held in this station within the past
two months, and, with the exception of one
case, the whole of them were unnecessary."

"I was tempted to ask, who was to be
tried ?"

"Two boys," replied the Major, "who
thought proper to quarrel at the mess table,
and to make use of a certain little word,
not altogether becoming gentlemen, if
applied to one another. The Senior Captain,
who was the senior officer present, very
properly put them under arrest, and sent them
to their quarters. Our Colonel, who is, I am
very happy to say, extremely particular on
this, as well as on every other point that tends
to preserve the tone and character of the
regiment, wished these lads to receive from
a higher authority than himself, a severe
reprimand. That authority was the General
of the Division; and if the General of the
Division had been Sir Joseph Thackwell,an
officer of sound judgment, or any commander
of Sir Joseph's stamp, all would have been