The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-18 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE ROYAL.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. SMITH.
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CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.

URAND MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PAN-
TOMIME every WEDNESDAY, at Two o'Clock.
THIS EVENING (18th January) her Majesty's Ser-
vants will perform the popular Farce, by J. B. Buckstone,
Esq., en'itled AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. Bob
Ticket, Mr. Atkins ; Pugwash, Mr. Barsby ; Mr. Skinner,
Mr. Hope ; Susan Sweelapple, Mirts Keeley ; Miss Wadd,
Miss Stuart; Miss Tibbit, Miss Bland; Miss Gimp, Miss
Harfleur ;_Deborah, Mrs. Dowton.

After which will be produced, with that attention to com-
pleteness in every department by which the Christmas
Annuals of this Theatre have been so pie-eminently dis-
tinguished, the New Grand Comic Pantomime, entitled
HARLEQUIN and the HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT;
or, Old Mother Hubbard and hex R onderful Dog.

"If a man do build a dwelling upon common land fr.,m
sunset to sunrise, and enclose a piece of ground, wherein
there shall be a tree, a br.ast feeding, a fire kindled, a chim-
ney smoking, and provisions in the pot, such dwelling shall
be freely held by the builder, anything herein to the con-
trary nevertheless notwithstanding."—Old Forest Charter.
The Novel Effects and Splendid Scenery by
WILLIAM BEVERLEY.

Assisted by Messrs. C. Pitt, Craven, Brow, &c., &c.
Masks, Symbolic Devices, Personal Appointments, and
Designs for the Costumes, by the celebrated Dykwynkyn.
The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr.
J. H. TULLY. The Machinery by Mr. Tucker and As-
sistants. The Tricks, Properties, Changes, and Transfor-
mations, by Mr. Needham, assisted by Messrs Glindon, H.
Adams, H. Langham, &c. The Costumes by Miss Dickin-
son, Mr. Lauri, and Mr. Palmer. The Gas Appointments
by Mr. E inckley. The Choregrathic Arrangements by
Mr. Cormack. The Harlequinade and Comic Scenes by
Messrs. Cormack and B. Jones. The Perfume of the
Flowers supplied by Rimmel's process.
The Grotesque Burlesque Opening invented and written
by E. L. BLANCHARD.
And the whole arranged and produced under the imme-
diate superintendence of Mr. ROBERT ROXBY.

Synopsis of Scenery, Incidents, and Characters,
OLD MOTHER HUBBARD'S COTTAGE,

With Rural Landscape, and Rookwood Manor Hall in the
Distance (Daylight).

" Old Mother Hubbard, she wens to.the cupboard. to get
her poor Dog a bone; when she got there, the cupboard
was bare, and so the poor Dog had none."—Ancient Nur-
sery Legend.
Old Mother Hubbard, Mr. Atkins ; Her Dog, Signor
Lorenzo ; Jack (the " Man all tattered and torn"), Miss
F. Hunt; the Squire, Mr. Tom Matthews; Dame Wiggins
of Lee, Mr. Dixon ; Dame Trot, Mr. Barsby ; Her Won-
derful Cat, Master Waggles ; the Great Goose, Master
Sageaninguns ; Constables, Messrs. Grib and Grab ; Parish
Beadle, Mr. Bumble; Villagers, Messrs. Yokel, Pumpkin,
Whackstraw, Chawbacon, &c., &c. ; Rosetta (the " Maiden
all Forlorn"), Miss Stuart. How Mother Hubbard has a
certain " party" to tea and turn out, and of the remarkable
pranks played by her comical Dog—The Head, the Hat,
and the Hose—The Dog's Tale and Mrs. H.'s Narrative—
Arrival of the Squire—Proclamation of Witch Burning—
Threatened incremation of Mother Hubbard on her own
hearth, and her Mystic Flight upon a Broomstick.

THE WITCHES' GLEN AND WATERFALL,
in the Valley of Perfumed Flowers, by Moonlight.
Will-o'-the-Wisp

Ines Fatui—Mdlles. Sidney, Travers, Barnes, A. Barnes,
Livermore; Webb, Taylor, Braithwaite,Hammi ton, Stap •
ley, Harris, Candy, Copeland, Archer, Hawkins, Delaney,
Wilson, Williams, Robinson, Wood, Watson, and Hamel-
ton.

Grand Ballet, Chagne-a-Lanterne, by the Misses GUN
NISS and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet.

The Invocation! The Incantation I I and the Evapora,
ton I I I

THE VILLAGE GREEN AND ROADSIDE ALE

HOUSE.

Old Grype (the Steward), Mr. Glindon ; Old Scratche
(his Clerk), Mr. Tanner ; Tenantry, Messrs. Cringe,
Scrape, Shaine, Cut, Packoff, Moonraker, and Runaway ;
Tailor, Mr. Snipshears ; Bootmaker, Mr. Tightfit ; Mum-
mies, Messrs. Grinner, Joker, Magger, Cracksides,
O'Reilly, M'Phun, &c. ; St. George, Mr. E. Roe ; the
Dragon, Mr. Scalyfellow ; Valentine, Mr. Febbyerry ;
Orson, Mr. Wildman; Still-Walker, Mr. Longlegs; Bear-
Warden, Mr. Smuggins ; the Bear, Mr. Huggins; Land-
lord, Mr. Trebles ; Morris-Dancers, Messrs. Trip, Tap,
Flip, Flap, &c., &c. ; Jack Padding, Mr. Merryman.
How the Squire celebrates his birthday, and the Village
Revel that follows—Coming of Age in the Olden Time
How the Tenantry treated in one way and how Jack is
reated in another—the Dog's instinct and Mother Hub -
bard's reason.

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ROYAL PRINCE S S'S THEATRE...—
Lessee, Mr A. Barrie.

THIS EVENING, PLAYING WITH FIRE. Mr. John
Brougham.
After which a Comic Christmas Pantomime, WHITTING-
TON AND HIS CAT; or, Harlequin King Kollywobbol
and the Genius of Good Humour. The grotesque opening
invented and written by Henry J. Byron, Esq., author of the
Princess's Pantomime of "Jack the Giant Killer." The
Scenery by Mr. James Gates, Mr. H. Cuthbert, and numerous
assistants. Good Humour, Miss Helen Howard ; Princess
Popsiwopsi, Miss Rose Leclercq ; Alice, Miss Pauline Le-
clercq ; Messrs. Garden, Cathcart, Morland, Collett, Hast-
ings, Raymond; Dick Whittington, Miss Maria Harris;
Robin Goodfellow and the Cat, Master John Haslem, ;pupil
of the celebrated Gabriel Ravel; Clown, Mr. Hildyard ;
Harlequin, Mr. John Lauri; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Colum-
bine, Miss Caroline Adams. Morning Performances will
take place at Two o'clock every Monday till further notice.

EW THEATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHL-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, and during the week the great Drama,
entitled THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA :
Messrs. Grace, Billington, Emery, Phillip Jamison, Smith,
Stephenson, Romer. Lewis • Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Mar-
ston, Miss C. Denvil, Miss Latimer, and Mrs. H. Lewis.

After which, at 20 minutes past 9, the great Irish Drama
of THE COLLEEN HAWN. Mr.D. Bouc.cault, Missßanoe,
Mr. Fisher, Miss Woolgar, &c.
Box Office open from 10 till 5.

NEW ROYALTY THEATRE
Dean-street, Oxford-street.

THIS EVENING, A NICE QUIET DAY.
After which (first time) Offenbach's Opera Buffo, entitled
LE MARIA GE AUX LANTERNES. Mr. John Morgan,
Mesdames Stanley, Payne, and Mason.
To conclude with THE EARLIEST EDITION OF IL
TROVATORE. .