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London, England, 1849-07-13 00:00:00

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Unuer the M ath4gement of Macitn, Veoriff.
r,ole beam*. Mr. Charles Mathe“a.
THIg EVENING

ItoYAL SURREY ZuOLOGICAL GARDE:4s
Last Week but One of M. JULLIEN'S Engagen.ent.
IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS.
Under the patronsge of her Mss Gracious Majesty, he Majesty the
Queen Dowager. his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c.
The Prude Press has unanimously pronounced the Storming of

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1849.

The dilatory progress of Reform may pass into a
proverb. " The course of true lova never did run
smooth," says the poet, and assuredly the difficulties,
the delays, and the disappointments which check the
advancement of Reform, outrival the uneven course
f any true love upon record. Notwithstanding the
liberal spirit which predominates throughout the
country (of which predominance the hearty response
to our appeal for the Hungarians is a satisfactory
and conclusive evidence), notwithstanding the liberal
feeling of the country, and notwithstanding the fact
that a Liberal Illinistry rules in Downing-street, the
proposal for shortening the duration of Parliament,
was okWednesday rejected by a majority of 132 to 57 !
This result will excite a little surprise (only a little,
for experience has made us wise), some sorrow, and
very much indignation. The sentiments so eloquently
and heartily uttered in the House on Wednes-
day by the truly Liberal Representatives of Lam-
beth, Ludlow, Manchester, Marylebone, and Montrose
are the sentiments of the majority of the Liberals of
the United Kingdom. The people of this country
have an idea—it may he a somewhat extravagant one,
in some quarters perhaps it may be found an incon-
venient one—the people of this country have an
idea that names should represent thing. Our matter-
of-fact "nation of shopkeepers" are not gifted with
that happy power of imagination, more marvellous
than the ;philosopher's stone, by which sorrow and
sin and suffering, are coevE red into glory, and fine
words are valued above fine act?. ; and the names of
truth, and honour, and philanthropy, supersede the
realities themselves. This happy faculty, which in old
times made a wreath of parsley more precious than
life itself, in hardly known in our toggy atmosphere.
JoaN BULL requires substantial evidence before he '
will part with his aflruiratien or his menet%
Those who are acquainted with this national weakness
(which unhappily Lord J. Rustiatz, Sir G. GREY, and
their colleagues are not) will, therefore, not be sur-
prised that an opinion is prevalent that a Liberal
Ministry should be liberal de facto as well as de jars.
Whether or not they are so the debate of Wednesdre.
ay
may demcnstrato. We commend thAt debate to the
attentive perusal of those who have not made up their
minds upon the above-mentioned point, or upon the
advisability of shortening the duration of Parliament.
The most cogent reason adduced in favour of
the alteration is t ► be found in Mr. D.EYNCOURT'S
remark, that " practically we have of late had short
Parliaments, and we have thus had all the evils and
none of the advantages of the system." Without
doubt Sir G. GREY supposed that he was strengthen-
' = ing his cause when he reminded the House that "the
/- overture 'duration of no less than six Parliaments, from
1826 to 1841, was only two years and a hall," but so
far from strengthening the Septennial cause, that ad
Mil Hers: FYl*it s de•iith hl9tv, We have, by this
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Capitat, 2,000,00 C., in 80,000 Shares, of 261. each.
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THE. LATE QUEEN CAROLINE.
Now ready, in 2 vols., wit.i Portrait, 21s. bound,
ADVENTURES of a GIiEEK LADY,
Ihe Adopted Daughter of the
L kTE QUEEN CAROLINE. Writteu by Herself.
" The chief interest of this more than ordinarily interesting book
lies In the notices it furni-hcs of the unf irtunate Queen Caroline.
From the close of 1814 till her Royal Highness's return to land,ngn
the author was never absent from her for a single day. All lEs n,ou ly and artlessly told, and the plain truth finds its way at once to
the readers judgment and eelings."--court Journal.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 3, Great Marlborough-street.

HER MAJESTY'S 'THEATRE.
MADAME SONTAG
'I he Nobility, Patrons of the Opera, and the Public are respectfully
informed that a GRAND EX rItA NIOUT will take place
On TIIUBSDAN EVENING.
on which occasion Madame SONTAG will have the honour to ap-
pear n one of her favourite characters, with various Entertainments
A the Ballet Tiepartirent.
Application for Boles, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the
Sox-odice of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as
usual, price 10s, 6d. each.

iaT. JAMES'S THEATRE.
FREVCII PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE.
Last Week but One of the Season.
Monsieur ARNAL and Mdme. DOCHE in Two Vaudevilles.
The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock with
LES FEMMES D'EMPRUNT.
After which,
LE MARI DE LA DAME DE CIICEURS.
To conclude with
LA MASSARDE DU CRIME.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
MADAME SONTAG,
TO-MORROW EVENING,
Will be presented,
IL BkRBIERE DI SIVIGLIA.
To Conclude with a new grand Ballet, entitled
LES PL.' ISMS DE 1:1-11VEB.
Applications tor Boxes, Stake, and Tickets to be made at the
Stok-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained as
anal, price 10a. 6d. each.

rfiet.IATKE RoYAI, HAYMAKKLZ
Mr. B. Imo-au?, Le.aee and Manaver. Bromptott.
MR. JAMES WALLACK'S BENEFIT.
i-1N Etil
Will b., performed THE SCHOOL. FOR SCANDAL.
After wi:lch an entirely new Farce, called an ALARMING SA.
CRIFICE. Bob Ticket, Mr. Buckstone ; Susan Sweetapple, Mts.
To conc ude with the admired Drama of ERNESTINE.

TON EVENwo,
Will be Tresent‘d a new piece, entitled WEBSTER'S ROYAL
RED BOOK.
Atter which a new grand Extravaganza, entitled THE DEVIL'S
VIOLIN AND THE REVOI.T OF THE FLOWErcS.
To be tbllowed by a novelty in the shape of A Al OST UNWAR
RANTAIII,F, INTRUSION, which will be committed by Mr. Wright
to the annoyance of Mr. Paul Bedford.
To condwie with JOHN JON E.;.

Will be performed GUY MANNERING.
After winch a new Piece entitled GOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cbe.
Meters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, 11,1 Pantile MiS3 li. Gil-
bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Mivlame Yestris.
To conclude with MY FATIIER DID SO BEFORE ME, in which
r. John Reeve will appear.
Dre.- dab:, 54. pima BOVA, 4s. ; Pit, 'la. b/agery. 16.
tilat-pnce to any part of the house.
The Sew Boa-office, No. 2, VrollinEtto:,street, of open to the
publ.c ,ry trArri Ton till qix.

Al TLEY's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor. Mr. W. Batty.
Under the Patronage of her at4jesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince !ahem ?cc.
The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female
equestrian talent ever engaged in this or any other establishment at
one time :
Mdlles. Adelaide Minnie, Valentine, Louise Toulrnaire, La Jeane
Josephine ; Miss Woolford, Barrand, Davidson, Avery, and La Petite
Jeanette.
In addition to the above Mr. Batty has great pleasure in ainounc-
lag that he has engage 1 that peerless equestrian Marie Macarte,
whose brilliant triumphs on the Continent an.l in America have ac-
quired for her the appellation of the Equestrian Enchantress.
THIS EVENING,
The performance will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian
Spectacle, entitled
MOOLTAN and GOOJEKAT; or, the Conquest of the Selkhs.
To be toilowed hr an Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE
CIR('LF.. in which Marie Macarte will appear, supported by the drat
Equestrian talent of the &I'.
To conclude with a favourite Melodrama, entitled THE SOLI-
TARY OF LAMBETH; or, The Muroeri n St. George's-flelds.
r.ox-onice open frotn Eleven tut If our.
two manager, Mr

Badajoz to Ise the most perf .ct ant life-like exhibition.
The Nobility, Gentry, and the Public are respectfully informed
that this favourite place of fashionable resort is open every
MONDAY, T • EsDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND lIIIRADAY.
Danson's gigantic modelled Panorama of the TOWN AND
FORT OF BA DAJOZ, pronounced by the voice of public
opinion to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition ever
presented—Splendid Menagerie—Ju lien's unrivalled liand—Vo-
cal and Instrumental Concert—Several Favourite Songs and
Ballads by Miss Ellen Rowland and Mr. George Tedder—
Solos by Kcenig, Richardson (Flute)—Violin and Violoncello by
Viotti and George Collin, varied alternately—and other at-
tractions, concluding with a vivid representation of the Storming of
BadaJoz, pourtraying the advance of the British army— bombard-
ment and attack—gallant defence—rash to the breach oy real troops
—and final tit'deaux in honour of the " ilero of a hundred lightr."
REFRESHMENTS.—The frequenters of these G .rdens have long
complained that Refreshments from the Conteztionary-rooms only
could b • procured. Arrangements leave been effected, and a distinct
portion of the Gardens set apart, where Refreshments may be had
of the drat quality, and at the usual l'rices.
Doors open at Nine o'Clock, s.at. ; teedii.g of the animals at Five ;
Pelicans and White Bears halt-past ive ; Concert at Lila ; Storming
Ot ilailajoz, at Gusk.—Admission One Shilling.
On Friday, July 2.0. M. Jullleies Grand Concert Monstre ai:d Con-
gres 3lusicale will take place at tite-e Gardens. Tickets before th€
day, 2e. 6e.. ; admission on the day of the Concert, 53.

TO CORiti4.SPONUENTS
J. W. Hopkins. Ego-rton groat., btiatford road, near
Manchester—We ansverrd this gentli man in a notice
to Correspondents inserted in our itnprt ssion of Wed-
nesday evening.
J. 11. N. and J. EL—Nothing has been seen or heard of
our Correspondent's ci mwunication; with( r are we
surprised that such should be the case. considering
the manner in which it is said to have been trans-
m tr. d.