7 NOVEMBER 1840, Page 10

YATES, ever on the alert to gratify the popular craving

for novelty, not only takes Time by the forelock, but anticipates the decrees of' Fate; he has stolen "tush hour front ilumphrey's Clock" before its chimes have struck, or the hand indicates its close ; in plain words, it stage- yersion of 7he Old Cariosity-Slap, one of Buz's best-sustained stories, is announced at the Adelphi for Monday next.