The earliest announcement of the late Covent Garden management, was a piece entitled ‘Trafalgar Square, or the Nelson Monument.’ We have obtained the following slight information respecting it. The drama is described as ‘a grand architectural and historical burletta,’ in two acts; and the prologue was to have been spoken by Mr. Widdicomb, as _Time_. The two acts comprise the commencement and completion, and a lapse of twenty years is supposed to take place between them, in which time ‘the boy,’ who is the principal character, becomes a middle-aged man. The following speech is very fine. The boy enquires of the mason when the column will be finished, who replies, in an interval of the steak banquet, which they are enjoying together: _Mason_.—I’ve asked that fearful question of the stars, Who wink responding—of the Board of Works, Whose works have bored us—of the misty moon, Towards whose lodgings, after years of toil, We rise no nearer. All were still, but now, Whilst gazing on that steak of beef, Sent up to form our capital repast, And cheer us in our lonely solitude, I hope the best—the best can hope no more. ’Twill rise, like College honours, by degrees, And to our limbs a pillar be, of ease: Our hearts are warm—although upon the frieze. The following duet is also introduced by the man and the boy in the second act: BOY. I remember, I remember, When I was a little boy, On the column, in November, I was given some employ. I helped the man to build it, And we labour’d hard and long, But the granite came up slowly, For we were not very strong. I remember, I remember, How we raised its form on high, With one block in December, And another in July. BOTH. We remember, we remember, When St. Martin’s bells were rung, In the laying of the first stone, for We both were very young. But weary years have past, now, Since we our work begun; We fear we shall not last now, To see our labour done. We remember, we remember, But we heard it on the sly, ’Twon’t be finished next November, Nor the subsequent July.” Very early in November, a War Office circular (dated 31 Oct.) was issued, to regulate and establish regimental savings banks, which have done so much to encourage thrift among our soldiers. The maximum of each soldier’s deposit was limited to £30 in any one year, and to £200 in the whole. The rate of interest on deposits was fixed at £3 15 s. per cent per annum, but no interest was to be allowed upon less than 6s. 8d. and 13s. 4d., nor upon any sums that had not remained on deposit for at least one month, to be reckoned from the last monthly muster day.