The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-10 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.
no SIXTY-Noni ANNUAL SHOW of FAT STOCK,
Sheep, Pigs, Rents, Seeds, and AricaNatal Implements, at the
AGSICULTURAL•HALL, London.—AthaNellon One tetthing.

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW,
AGRICCIATIAL-HALL, Loadon.—THlS DAY.—Admision
one MUD&

Q MITHF I ELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW,
5.7 AGILICHLTDRALMALL, London, THIS DAT (Tweedy),
Wednooday, Thonday, sad /*Msg.—Admission One Shilling.

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.
Admission One Shilling.

QMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.
13 Doors open at 9 morning, dos, at 9 ovsning.—Ona Miffing.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.--GRAND
DAL D'OPULA, MONDAY, Dec. 16, 1867. Open till
Three a.m. (by permission). Usual entertainments suspended
for this night only. Orchestra of 100 performers. Conductor,
RIVIIO.I. Nolo Cornet, Mr. Reynohis. Twelve Masters of
Cerensordes, under the direction of Mr. Birch. Doors open at
9 110 ; dancing to begin at 10. The whole of the vast building
and antevuoms thrown open to the dancers. Gentlemen's
tickets, 16e.: ladles' tickets, 10s. balcony tickets to view the
" Bal," !a 6d. To be had at the Alhambra Box-oence, the Alham-
bra Dais, and at all the chief Libraries. Refreshments at axed
sharps. ♦ few private bones to be bad on application.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE,
(Managing Director. Mr. Y. Strange.) Three Ballets, 000
Dan 60 Instrumentalists, gingen, /korai:Mx Mimics; Pic-
tures, Latest Tel Saloons, Supper-roo_ms, Lavatories,
Sllioklng-rooms, Evening Paper; 10 ...besOul Pieces Every
Night. Open at hall-peat Seven, begin at Eight. Prices-lu,
Is., and 6d. ; Itmerved Seats, sa : Private Boxes, from AI la.
Bozo es open trots Eleven to Pour.

HANOVER-SQUARK—The New Magazine of
Made. Edited by Lower Stoma. Price is. The
DECEMBER NUMBER Is now to be had of every musicaciler
and bookseller, and at every railway station to Great Britain and
Ireland. _ . _

London: Ashdown and Pany, Hanover-square.

HANOVER-SQUARE for DECEMBER con-
tains a new place for the piano. I.y E. SILAY.
"A Dolton°, sraoafalli wagon, full of molodles."—Morning
Post.

AANOVER-SQUARE for DECEMBER con-
tains a new song by Miss Vntoinia 011111.111., the words
hy.ICLIZMIRTH BARRETT BlLOVinnia—'• Change upon Change."
'An untesually attractive song, not only well written and
panty vocal, twit highly melodloasand imparioned." —The yueen.

HANOVER-SQUARE for DECEMBER. con-
tains a new pie ,e for the piano, by W. Liam entitled
" The Gipsies Revel."
"The name sufficiently indicates its character. light and
pleasing. liar Kuhe's contribution will haven host of admirers."
—Sunday Times.

H ANOVER-SQUARE for DECEMBER con-
tain a new song by M. W. BALM The words by Camp-
bell Clarke.—" Though Age be like December."
":simple and unpretending la character, but toll of genuine
feeling end abounding In artistic touches."--Bunday Timm.

HANOVER-SQUARE. —The EXTRA CHRIST-
MAS I.4IIILBEIL, oeselsting entirely of New Dance Moak,
will be ready next SATURDAY.

CONTZITS :

Kellogg Valise. Ardhl ; 14;11eioici Mazurka Cane ; L'anclen
rtglrse, quathille on old French airs, Henry W. Ooodhan Blush-
rose Walla, Charles Godfrey ; Thatanlarre Ualop, Charles de
Maslen& Price la.
Ashdown and Parry, llanorerequare.

THE BURNING OF HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Up to a late hour last night the fire had not
been entirely extinguished, and there was unmistakable
evidence that there must be a good deal still smouldering
beneath the surface of the debris which water does not
reach. It is stated that there are jewels and other
valuables worth some 10,0001. under the part of the rains
near the wardrobe and dressing-rooms. A search for these
would be fraught with great danger, for the lofty walla
which overhang this portion of the property are in a totter-
ing condition, and Mr. Flaxmore, one of the officers of the
Metropolitan Fire Brigade, who has been left in charge,
prevents any one who has lost property in the fire from
disturbing the debris, lest these these walls should topple
and fall. The large water tank still remains attached to
the top of the southern wall, but the wall itself
near the foundation is rent in several places. During
the day coils of rope ware passed over the top
of tholes walls for the purpose of pulling them
inside the ruins, the fear being that if a sharp
north-easterly wind sprang up, they might fall upon the
houses in the Piazza in Pall•mall. During yesterday the
Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sutherland were
among those who visited the ruins. Great distress is
likely to follow amongst the subordinates of the theatre,
the choristers, the stage carpenter,, supernumeraries, and
others, engaged at small salaries, and it is understood
that a public meeting will be held to devise means for
their temporary relief. Mr. Jennings, secretary to the
theatre, gives the following account of the calamity :
He was, as usual, all day in the theatre, and
was the only person in the house with the three firemen,
Drown, Easton, and Maynard, and the hallkeeper,
and general custodian of the building, Mr. Sprules,
and his wife, when the fire broke out. Mr.
Jennings was forced from the theatre by the
building being filled with smoke and the roof flaming
with fire at exactly a quarter past eleven, as he had an
instant before made reference to his watch. Noticing the
intensely red illumination of his room, which unnatural
and fearful light totally overcame the white brightness of
1 two gas globes and the fire which was burning in the
grate, Mr. Jennings looked out into the Haymarket and
saw the facade of buildings, and, at the end of Suffolk.
place, all the large windows of the Union Club, blazing
with strong, flickering light, exactly like the effect of a
splendid golden sunset, deepening into red, on a clear
summer evening. A passage of some length, opening at
right angles to another long passage, which is the usual
thoroughfare between the hall and the staircase leading up
to the stags, was, when he opened his doer and entered
it, full of smoke. From the absence of the usual
gas-burners, which for the sake of economy on a day of
i non-performance, as Fridivas, were not lit—Mr. Jen-
nings ni gm had difficulty in making his way through this long,
dark passage ; but from his intimate knowledge of the
ramifications of the theatre he succeeded, by feeling his
way along the wall, until he discovered the ball to the
right and the egress into the Opera Colonnade. The hall
he could with difficulty see across, from its being filled
with black, rolling smoke, which was at that moment
pouring before the force of the raging flames at the
north-western and western sides of the theatre, which
were confined, without windows, by brick walls and
buildings. At this time the hall was vacant. Not a
soul was to be seen or heard, and on forcing the street
door back, and emerging into the street, Mr. Jennings en-
countered the first policeman, who was giving the alarm
right and left, and forcibly opposed Mr. Jennings' desire
and intention to return into the theatre and rescue his
books and papers and property. At this time scattered
policemen and a miscellaneous group of people were run-
ning towards the building, and the audience then quitting
the Haymarket Theatre were congregating in the vacant
roadway in front of the burning building, where the
cloud of smoke was rolling. At this time not an engine
was to be seen, and only policemen and scattered vehicles,
end the usual crowd which ovittpies the Haymarket ; even
fewer persons were about than usual. Idiulante Titiens
alone has, it is said, lost jewellery worth from 1,000/. to
1,2001., in addition to all her magnificent stage dresses.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.