THE NEW YEAR.

Dobble, Mr. A clerk in a public office, who gives a quadrille party

on New Year's eve.

Dobble, Mr., jun. His son.

Dobble, Miss Julia. His eldest daughter.

Dobble, Mrs. His wife.

Tupple, Mr. A junior clerk in the same office with Mr. Dobble; a young man with a tendency to cold and corns, but "a charming person," and "a perfect ladies' man.”

MISS EVANS AND THE EAGLE.

Evans, Miss Jemima (called "J'mima Ivins" by her acquaintances). A shoe-binder and straw-bonnet-maker, affianced to Mr. Samuel Wilkins.

Evans, Miss Tilly. One of her sisters.

Wilkins, Mr. Samuel. A journeyman carpenter of small dimensions, "keeping company" with Miss Jemima Evans.

THE PARLOR ORATOR.

Ellis, Mr. A sharp-nosed man with a very slow and soft voice, who considers Mr. Rogers "such improving company."

Rogers, Mr. A stoutish man of about forty, with a red face and a confident oracular air, which marks him as a leading politician, general authority, and universal anecdote-relater. Proof is what he requires proof, not assertions in regard to any thing and every thing whatsoever.

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Tommy. A little chubby-faced green-grocer, of great good sense, who opposes Mr. Rogers, and is denounced by him, in consequence, as a willing slave."

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Jack. A young fellow who treats his paramour so brutally as to cause her death, and yet is so loved by her, even to the last, that she cannot be persuaded to swear his life away, but dies praying God to bless him.

THE MISPLACED ATTACHMENT OF MR. JOHN DOUNCE. Dounce, Mr. John. A fat, red-faced, white-headed old boy, a retired glove and braces maker, and a widower. He falls in love

with a bewitching bar-maid, who trifles with his affections, and at last tells him plainly that she "wouldn't have him at no price;" whereupon he offers himself successively to a school-mistress, a landlady, a feminine tobacconist, a housekeeper, and his own cook, by the last of whom he is accepted, married, - and thoroughly henpecked.

Harris, Mr. A law-stationer and a jolly old fellow; a friend of Mr. Dounce.

Jennings, Mr. A robe-maker; also a friend of Mr. Dounce, and a sad dog in his time.

Jones, Mr. Another friend, a barrister's clerk, and a rum fellow, — capital company, — full of anecdote.

THE MISTAKEN

MILLINER.

Martin, Miss Amelia. A milliner and dressmaker who has an ambition to "come out as a public singer, and tries it, but fails miserably.

Rodolph, Mr. and Mrs. Jennings. Her friends and counsellors.

THE DANCING ACADEMY.

Billsmethi, Signor. A popular dancing-master.

Billsmethi, Master. His son.

Billsmethi, Miss. His daughter, a young lady with her hair curled in a crop all over her head, and her shoes tied in sandals all over her ankles. She sets her cap for Mr. Cooper, and, not succeeding in securing him for a husband, brings a suit for breach of promise, but finally compromises the matter for twenty pounds, four shillings, and sixpence.

Cooper, Mr. Augustus. A young gentleman of Fetter Lane, in the oil-and-color business, just of age, with a little money, a little business, and a little mother.

MAKING A NIGHT OF IT.

Potter, Mr. Thomas. A clerk in the city, with a limited income, and an unbounded friendship for Mr. Smithers.

Smithers, Mr. Robert. Also a clerk in the city, knit by the closest ties of intimacy and friendship to Mr. Potter. On the receipt of their quarter's salary, these two "thick-and-thin pals,” as they style themselves, spend an evening together, and proceeding by degrees from simple hilarity to drunkenness, commit various

breaches of the peace; are locked up in the station-house for the night; brought before the police court in the morning, and each fined five shillings for being drunk, and thirty-four pounds for seventeen assaults at forty shillings a head.

THE PRISONERS' VAN.

Bella. A young girl, not fourteen, forced by a sordid and rapacious mother to a life of vice and crime, which she loathes, but cannot escape from.

Emily. Her sister, hardened in depravity by two additional years' experience of the debauchery of London street-life, and priding herself on being "game."

TALES.

THE BOARDING-HOUSE.

Agnes. Mrs. Bloss's maid.

Bloss, Mrs. The wealthy widow of a cork-cutter, whose cook she had been. Having nothing to do, she imagines she must be ill, but eats amazingly, and has the appearance of being remarkably well. She makes the acquaintance of Mr. Gobler, and marries him. Calton, Mr. A superannuated beau, exceedingly vain, inordinately selfish, and the very pink of politeness. He makes himself agreeable to Mrs. Maplesone, and agrees to marry her; but, failing to do so, she sues him for breach of promise, and recovers a thousand pounds. Evenson, Mr. John. A stern, morose, and discontented man, a thorough radical, and a universal fault-finder.

Gobler, Mr. A lazy, selfish hypochondriac, whose digestion is so much impaired, and whose interior so deranged, that his stomach is not of the least use to him.

Hicks, Mr. Septimus. A tallish, white-faced, spectacled young man, who has the reputation of being very talented. He falls in love with Miss Matilda Maplesone, whom he marries, but afterwards deserts.

James. A servant to Mrs. Tibbs.

Maplesone, Mrs. An enterprising widow of fifty, shrewd, schem

ing, and good-looking, with no objection to marrying again, if it would benefit her dear girls.

Maplesone, Miss Julia. Her younger daughter; married to Mr. Septimus Hicks.

Maplesone, Miss Matilda. Her elder daughter; married to Mr. Simpson.

O'Bleary, Mr. Frederick. A patriotic Irishman recently imported in a perfectly wild state; in search of employment, and ready to do or be any thing that might turn up.

Robinson. A female servant to Mrs. Tibbs.

Simpson, Mr. One of the " walking gentlemen" of society; an empty-headed young man, always dressed according to the caricatures published in the monthly fashions.

Tibbs, Mr. A short man, with very short legs, but a face peculiarly long, by way of indemnification. He is to his wife what the 0 is in 90,- of some importance with her, but nothing without her. Tibbs, Mrs. His wife, mistress of the boarding-house; the most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little person that ever inhaled the smoke of London.

Tomkins, Mr. Alfred. Clerk in a wine-house; a connoisseur in paintings, and with a wonderful eye for the picturesque.

Wisbottle, Mr. A clerk in the Woods and Forests office, and a high Tory; addicted to whistling, and having a great idea of his singing powers.

Wosky, Doctor. Mrs. Bloss's medical attendant, who has amassed a fortune by invariably humoring the worst fancies of his female patients.

MR. MINNS AND HIS COUSIN.

Brogson, Mr. An elderly gentleman visiting at Mr. Budden's. Budden, Mr. Octavius. A retired corn-chandler, residing at Amelia Cottage, Poplar Walk, Stamford Hill. He is a cousin to Mr. Minns.

Budden, Mrs. Amelia. His wife.

Budden, Master Alexander Augustus. Their son, a precocious child, and the pride of his parents.

Jones, Mr. A little man with red whiskers, a visitor at Mr. Budden's, and a “devilish sharp fellow," who talks equally well on any subject.

Minns, Mr. Augustus. A clerk in Somerset House, and a precise, tidy, retiring old bachelor, who is always getting into trouble when he leaves his own snug and well-ordered apartments,

and who is thoroughly disgusted with a visit which he is compelled to make to his cousin, Mr. Octavius Budden.

SENTIMENT.

Butler, Mr. Theodosius. A very wonderful genius, author of a pamphlet entitled "Considerations on the Policy of Removing the Duty on Beeswax." This he presents to Cornelius Brook Dingwall, Esq., M.P., under the assumed name of Edward M'Neville Walter, and thus gains admission to his house, and an opportunity of winning the heart of his supersentimental daughter. Crumpton, Miss Amelia. A very tall, thin, skinny, upright, yellow, and precise maiden lady, with the strictest possible idea of propriety.

Crumpton, Miss Maria. The exact counterpart of her sister, in conjunction with whom she carries on a finishing-school for young ladies, called "Minerva House."

Dadson, Mr. Writing-master at the Miss Crumptons' school.
Dadson, Mrs. His wife.

Dingwall, Cornelius Brook, Esq., M.P. A very haughty, solemn, and portentous man, having a great opinion of his own abilities, and wonderfully proud of being a member of parliament. Dingwall, Mrs. Brook. His wife.

Dingwall, Frederick. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Brook Dingwall; one of those public nuisances, a spoiled child. Dingwall, Miss Lavinia Brook. Their daughter, the most romantic of all romantic young ladies; in love with Edward M'Neville Walter (otherwise Mr. Theodosius Butler), a young man much her inferior in life. She is therefore sent to the Miss Crumptons' educational establishment, to eradicate the sentimental attachment from her young mind, on the supposition that she can have no opportunity of meeting him there. She does meet him, however, and runs away with and marries him in haste, only to repent at leisure. Hilton, Mr. Master of ceremonies at a ball at Minerva House. James. Servant to Mr. Brook Dingwall.

Lobskini, Signor. A singing-master, with a splendid tenor voice.

Parsons, Miss Lætitia. A brilliant musical performer.

Smithers, Miss Emily. The belle of Minerva House.

Wilson, Miss Caroline. Her bosom-friend, and the ugliest girl in Hammersmith, or out of it.