The Press.
London, England, 1857-04-04 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-
Spezia, Giuglini, Vialetti, Benevent.ino, Pocchini.
OPENING NIGHT, TUESDAY, April 14.
OPERA.—LA FAVORITA.
BALLET.—LA ESMERALDA.
For particulars see Bills.
All the boxes and stalls having been disposed of for the sub.
seription or opening night, the same Opera and Ballet will be
repeated on Thursday, April 16, it being an extra night not
included in the subscription.
A limited number of boxes in the half-circle tier have been
specially reserved for the public, and may be had at the Box-
office, at the Theatre, Colonnade, Haymarket. Price One Guinea
and One Guinea and a Half each.
The doors will open at Half-past Seven; the Opera commence
at Eight.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, LYCEUM.-
Mr. GYE begs most respectfully to announce that the
Itoyal Italian Opera will during the season of 1817 be given at
the THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. The opening will take
place on Tuesday. April 14. The Performances during the pre-
sent season will commence at Half-past Eight o'clock on each
evening. The Prospectus. with full particulars, to be had at the
Dos-otlace of the Theatre, in Wellington-street.
The Engagements for the present Season are:—
Madame ORISI, and Madame 110S10.
Madame ROSA DP VRIES Mademoiselle MARAT
Madame TAGLIAVICO Mademoiselle DIDIEE

ALSO
Mademoiselle PAREPA,
(From the Royal Theatre at Lisbon, her first appearance in
England.)
AND
Mademoiselle VIC MIRE BAT.FF.,
(tier first appearance on the stage.)
TENOR!. _ _ _

Signor MARIO I Signor NERI BARAIDI, and
Signor SOLDI Signor GA HDON I
An engagement will be offered to Signor TAMBERLIK on
ills arrival from the Brazils.

•
BASSI BARITONt.
Signor RONCONI I Signor GRAZIANI
BASSI PROFUNDI.
Signor LABLACH E, Signor POLONINI
(His first appearance these two Monseiur ZELGER
)ears.) AND
Signor TAGLIAFICO Herr FORMES
The Orchestra and Chorus will be as last year.
Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Mr. COSTA.

The engagements for the Ballet are:—
Mademoiselle Ch:RITO.
Mademoiselle DELFT /1 AUX,
(Her first appearance)
AND

Mademoiselle PLUNKETT.
Mademoiselle ESP ER and Mademoiselle BATTALINI,
Mademoiselle LP:BLOND, Mademoiselle ENIMA,
Mademoiselle MARIE, and Mademoise'le ELISE.
Maitre de Ballet, .. .. Monsieur DES PLACES.
Stage Manager, .. Mr. A. HARRIS
Scenic Artiste Mr. W BEVERLEY.
Leader of the Ballet, .. Mr. A. MELLON.
Application for Boxes and Stalls to be made to Mr. PARSONS,
at the Box-oMce of the Theatre in Wellington street; and to
the Principal Music sellers and Librarians.

MADAME RISTORI.-LYCEUM
THEATRE.—Mr. GYE begs most respectfully to an.
flounce that he has entered into an engagement with the cele•
braced Italian Tragedienne. Madame RISTORI, together with
ber ITALIAN DPAMATIC COMPANY. Madame RISTORI
will give FIFTEEN Performances in London, commencing the
First Week in June. Full particulars will be duly announced.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. ALFRED WIGAN.
Wu Enter Monday, and during the Week, the Drama, called
DADDY HA RDACRE. Mews. F. Robson, Cooke, and G.
Vining; Misses Stephens and Hughes. After which, A SHEEP
IN WOLF'S CLOTHING. To conclude with the New Farce,
entitled THIEVE! THIEVES!
Commence at Haltpast Seven.

CORDON CUMMING, the Lion Hunter,
wiill give hie popular ENTERTAINMENT EVERY
EVENING during PASSION WEEK (Friday and Saturday ex-
cepted), at Eight p.m. A Morning Representation on Saturday,
at Three o'clock.-2:12, PICCADILLY.

FXHIBI TIO N.—Messrs. DICKINSON'S
GALLERIES of PORTRAITS NOW OPEN, 114, NEW
BoND STREET. Admission, One Shilling.

THE GREAT TOBACCO CONTROVERSY,
Dr. SEXTON will LECTURE on this imoortant Topic
DAILY. at Three and Half-past Seven p.m., at Dr. KAll N'S
MUSEUM, No. 4, Coventry-stieet, Leicester-square. The
Museum, which now stands wholly unrivalled in the world. and
the rarity and completeness of whose contents have already ac-
quired for it a European reputation, and obtained the warm
commendation of the press in this and other countries, is opeu
daily, for Gentlemen only, from Ten till Ten. A new I.ecture is
delivered by Ur. Kahn, at Half-past Eight p.m. precisely.—
Admission, Is. Descriptive catalogues of the Museum, con-
taining Lectures as deltverel by Dr. Kahn, gratis to the visitors.

PATENT CONCERTINA for XI 165., of
superior make, six.abled, with the double action, to play in
five keys. To play in all keys, from 21. 128. 6d. Concertinas
having the full compass of notes (4t keys), from 4 to 12
guineas ; the latter as used by Signor Hegondi. Manufactured
by the inventors and patentees, WHEATSTONE and Co.,
where may be had their new Patent Duet Concertina, at
11 lls. ltd. and 21. 25.; also a Tutor and eight books of Ai
for ditto, 2s. each. Messrs. W. and Cc. having a large manu-
factory, and confining their business solely to concertinas and
harmoniums, are enabled to supply them not only cheaper
but better made than elsewhere. 20, Conduit.atrect, Ilegent•
street.

OSLEIVS CRYSTAL GLASS CHANDE-
LIERS for GAS and CANDLES.—A great variety of the
newest and richest designs always on view ; also a large assort-
ment of glass luetres, decanters, wine glasses, dessert services
and every description of table glass at very moderate prices.
ORNAMENTAL GLASS of the newest and most beautiful de.
soription. Export and furnishing orders executed with despatch
—44, Oxford-street. Manufactory, Broad-street, Birmingham
Established 1807.

THE PRESS.

/1,000 IN CASE OF DEATH,
A FIXED ALLOWANCE OF kfl PER WEEK,
In the event of INJURY by ACCIDENTS of every description,
may be secured by an Annual Payment of Y 1 for a Policy in
THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS'
ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Smaller Amounts may be secured by proportionate payments.
No Charge for Stamp Duty.
Railway Accidents alone may he insured against by the
Journey or by the Year at all the principal Railway Stations,
where also Forms of Proposal and Prospectuses may be had;
and of the Provincial Agents; and at the Head Office, London.
N. 13. The usefulness of this Company is shown by the sum
paid as Compensation for Accidents, ,C 22,722.
WILLIAM J. VIAN, Secretary.
Railway Passengers' Assurance company
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament,
Office, 3, Old Broad street, E.S.

SPECIAL AGENCY.—TheiCONSTITUTION
LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION Issues Policies upon
the principle of SUSTENTATION, by which the Assured are
by right entitled to an absolute provision, under circumstances
of inability to continue the payment of their premiums, against
the prevention of their Policies from lapse or forfeiture.
Applications from persons of respectability and active busi-
ness habits for Agencies In Town or Country are requested to
be made at the Office.
FRANCIS NORTON FRITH, Manager.
', New Coventry.street, Leicester-square, London, W.C.

IMPORTANT SALE of MUSLIN and LACE
CURTAINS.—SEWMILL anti CO., having purchased the
Stock of an Insolvent Manufacturer and Importer, beg to sub-
mit it to the Public at extraordinary LOW PRICES.
Nottingham Net and Harness Curtains from 2s. Ild.
The best Patterns in Scotch Leno and Harness, including the
beautiful Rose-tinted Curtains.
Swiss Embroidered Muslin and Lace Curtains, from the eim-
pleat to the most elaborate and magnificent designs, 4 yards
41 yards, and 5 yards long.
Compton-house, FRITH-STREET, SOHO, W.

DEAFNESS —A retired Surgeon, from the
Crimea, having been restored to perfect bearing by a
Native Physician in Turkey, after fourteen years of great suffer-
ing from Noises in the Ears and extreme Deafness, without
being able to obtain the least relief from any Aurist in England,
is anxious to communicate to others the particulars for the cure
of the same. A Book sent to any part of the world on receipt of
six stamps, or the Author will apply the treatment himself, at
his residence. Few sufferers willleave his house withoutbeing
able to hear distinctly and permanently so. Surgeon SAMUEL
COLSTON, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London,
at home from 11 till 4 daily. 6, Leicester-place, Leicester-
square, London, where thousands of letters may be seen from
persons cured.

DEANES TABLE CUTLERY, celebrated
for more than I'O years, maintains an unrivalled reputa-
tion for cheapness and tirst.rate quality. The stock is most ex.
tensive and complete, including the finest transparent Ivory
Handles at 325. per dozen ; choice ditto Balance Handles from
225. per dozen ; medium ditto Balance Handles (an exceedingly
cheap and serviceable family article), 114. per dozen ; also Bone,
Horn, Stag, and every vsriety of mounting, all warrarted. Plated
Dessert Knives and Folks, with Silver, Pearl, Ivory. and Plated
Handles, in cases of 12. 13, or 24 pairs ; also plated Fish-eating
Knives, from 425. per dozen. Silver and Plated Fish Carvers,
of the newest and most elegant designs, always in stock.
London Agents for Messrs. Joseph Rodgers and Sons' cele-
brated Cutlery. DEAN)", DRAY, and CO.'S General Fur-
nishing Ironmongery Warehouses (opening to the Monument),
London Bridge. Established A.D. 1701.

The Best Food for Children, Invalids, and Others.
DOBINSON'S PATENT BARLEY,
It for making superior Barley-Water in Fifteen Minutes. has
not only obtained the Patronage of her Majesty and the Royal
Family, but has become of general use to every class of the
community, and is acknowledged to stand unrivalled as an emi-
nently pure, nutritious, and light food for infants, children, and
invalids. Much approved for making a delicious custard-pudding
and excellent (or thickening broths or soups.
DOBINSON'S PATENT GROATS
I. for more than thirty years have been held in constant and
Increaiing public estimation as the purest farina] of the oat,
and as the best and most valuable preparation for making a pure
and delicate gruel, which forms a light and nutritious suppei
for the aged, is a popular cure for colds and influenza, is of
general use in the sick-chamber, and, alteruatelywith the Patent
Barley, is an excellent food for infants and children.
Prepared only by the Patentees, ROBINSON, BELLVILLE,
and CO., Purveyors to the Queen, 64, Red Llon-street,liolborn,
London. bold by all respectable grocers, druggists, and others,
In town and country, in packets of Cd.and Is., and in family
canisters at la.. 68.. and lfis. each.

RETTS'S PATENT BRANDY has ever since
JJ its introduction to the public been recognised, both by
scientific men and the trade, as the best article ever menu.
fectured in this country. lie claims to such pre-eminence are
based upon its unrivalled rutty, and its closer assimilation than
any other to the flavour of the finest Champagne Brandy.

There has been no Brandy made from wine In France. either
in the present year or in the preceding one. Owing to the suc-
cessive failures in their vintages, the French wine-grower gets
a higher price for his wine, consumed as such, than he can
realise by its being distilled into Brandy; and forasmuch as the
foreign Brandy of recent importations is but the product of
British grain and beetroot spirits, the prestige hitherto ex-
clusively enjoyed by French Brandy as having been distilled
from a particular French wine no longer exists, ami is no longer
worthily assignable to it now that it is bunglingly made from
other materials. The supply of wine for distillation into
Brandy having failed, the French distiller is constrained to
recur to a manufacture in which he needs the quarter of •
century's experience which has been exercised upon that of
BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY. to render his article respectably
competitive, and he has not had it. Under these circumstances
the Messrs. Betts challenge that their PATENT BRANDY is
superior to any now made abroad.

It is to the interest of the public and the Messrs. Betts that
these facts should be widely spread, for recent imp(.rtations are
of a quality so inferior as to disgrace the same they bear, and
are twice the price of BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, which is
supplied in capsuled bottles by the trade to private lamilies in
any quantity down to the single bottle. Excise regulations
prevent its sale from the DISTILLERY, 7, SMITHFIELD-
BARS, ST. JOHN•STREET in any leas quantity than two
gallons.

SATURDAY,

BRITISH EMPIRE MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
32, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS.
EXTRACTS 'wig THE TENTH ANNUAL REPORT.
There were received during the year—

s. d.
1,199 Proposals to Assure
And ti ere were Issued-
-1,113 Policies, Assuring
45 Proposals were declined, for 10,1'75 0 0
41 Ditto were under consideration, for 6,308 0 r,
8 Immediate Annuities were granted, for 255 13 4
The Annual Income is now

The Claims arising from Deaths during the Year,
including Bonuses, amount to OM IS
The Total Amount paid to the Widows or other
Representatives of Members Deceased since
the Commencein_ent is

The Accumulated Fund, lifter deducting the Cash
Bonus paid on the last Division of Profits,
amounts to .

The appropriation of the g 1 ,000 profits, declared at the last
division, has been completed during the >ear, as follows :
Ji a. d.
Cash Bonus (27j per cent. on premiums paid) 9,:95 o
Applied in Reduction of Premiums
Ditto iu Retersionary Bonuses

19,000 0 0
Progress of the Company from its Commencement :

Policies Issued. Amount.
A
From Jan., 1847, to end of 1851 .. 3,150 .... 553,303
From Jan., 1R52, to end of 1854 .. 3,257 .... 679,351
From Jan., 18:.5, to end of 1856 .. 2,605 .... 579,011

Ten Years .
6,968 Policies are now in force, assuring t 1,419,868.
.1.1.51 ES INGLIS, Secretary.

THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON FIRE
and LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Offices: 37, Castle•street, Liverpool; 20 and 21, Poultry. London;
63, lentstreet, Manchester; 128, Ingram-street, Glasgow.
1855. BUSINESS. 1858.
£14,271.
x',559
11,137
63,1109 ...... Life Insurance Total Premiums
14,758
J 1,3913
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Persons whose Fire Policies will this Company expire at
Ladyday are reminded that receipts for the renewal of the same
will be found at the Head °dices in Liverpool and London, and
in the hands of the agents.
SWINTON I.IOULT, Secretary to the Company.
I3ENJ. HENDERSON, Resident Secretary, London.
March, 1857.

DEAFNESS.—The only medal awarded at
the Great Exhibition of 1851 (for Acoustic Instruments)
was to F. C. REIN, for his new ACOUSTIC I NSTRUM EN I 8
for the DEAF. They are made of different power. to suit ex
Verne and every degree of Deafness. To ho procuredonly of the
tole inventor and maker, F. C. Rein ,108,Suand, nearly opposite
Voieter-hall, where the Instrument can be tried and numerous
testimotiale seen, amongst many one from the Right Hon. Sir
John Patteson. one of her Nikinstv'ePrivyCounciliorp.

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"THE MEDICAL CIRCULAR"

ON DR. DE JONGH'S

LIGHT BROWN COD LIVER OIL.

Much of the Pale Oil sold in the market is found to be
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the experimental researches of Dr. de Jongh, who is one of the
most eminent of European chemists; the Oil procured by hint
enjoys also the additional sanction of the opinion of Baron
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