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FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE,
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully tp announce the following ar-
rangements for the ensuing Season of French Performances at the
St. James's Theatre, which will commence on

•MONDAY EVENING NEXT, Jan.
by the production of a new Opera, in Three Acts, entitled
LE VAL D'ANDORRE._ _

Principal characters by 3ladlles. Charton, Guichard ; Messieurs.
Chollet, Lac, Killy Leroy, and Nathan.
ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA.—MdIIe. Charton, 3f dile.
Dehauser (pupil of the Conservatoire, Paris), M. Chollet (of the
Theatre de l'Opera Comique, Paris, his first appeaarnce). M. Lac
(Frei:lller Tenor of the Theatres Bruxelles and Ghent, Lis first ap-
pearance), M. Nathan (Premier Basse of the Opera Comique, Paris,
his tMst appearance), M. Killy Leroy (pupil of the Conservatoire,
Paris, his first appearance), Millie. Guichard, M. Buguet, M.
Chateanfott, M. Soyer, M. Desvaux, Madame Mancini, Mdl e.
Cott", &c.
FOR THE COMEDY AND TAUDVILLE.—M. Samson, of the
The Are Francais, Paris (his first appearance in this country) ;
Mdlle. Denain, M. Regnier, 3fdlle. Nathalte, (artists of the Theatre
Franca's, Paris) ; Mdlle. Dejazet (who has accepted a farewell en-
gagement in this country); M. Latent, Mdlle. Figeac (of the The A' re
Du YaudeviLe) ; Mdlle. Page (of the Theatre du Itarletes) ; Mill e.
Constance (of the Theatre da Gymnase) ; Madlle. Baptiste (of the
Theatre de I'Odeon).
1 An Engagement is also entered into with the eminent Trage-
dienne, Mdlle. Rachel, with whose performances the season will
terminate.

Mr. Mitchell begs further to submit an outline of the general
arrangements:—The Season will commence on Monday, January
7, 18.50, by the production of a New Opera, it three Acts, entitled
"Le Val d'Andorre," produced in Paris at the end of last year,
and since performed at the Opera Cernique, Paris, more than
100 nights, and at the principal Thea'res of France, with the
greatest success. The Music by M. F. Halevy ; the Libretto by M
De St. Georges, With the following distribution of the principal
characters :—Stephan (jeune chassear des Pyrenees), M. Lac ; Le
Joyeux (capitaine de mince Francalse et recruteur), 11. Chollet, who
has obligingly undertaken the part for the more effective production
of the Opera ; Saturnia (garde-peche du Gave), M. Kill, Leroy ;
Jacques Sincere (vieux chewier), M. Nathan (their first appearance
in this country) ; Theresa (fermiere du Val a'Andorre), Mdlle.
Guichard , Georgette (cousine de s,tephan), Mdlle. Cotti; and Rose
de Mal (servants de Theresa), Mdile. Charton. The second pro-
duction will be Harold's celebrated Opera, in Three Acts, " Zampa,"
in which M. Chollet will personate the character of Zampa, as
originally performed by him at the Opera Comique, Paris. Subse-
quently will be given, a new Comic Opera, in Two Acts, entitled
"Le Caid," by the popular composer, Anibroise Thomas. And also,
Auber's last new Opera of " Ilaydee," the character of Haydee by
Charten.

Other productions will be selected from the following :—Jeannet
et Conn, Nicolo ; Le Rol d'Yvetet, Adolphe Adana ; Le Cheval de
Bronze, Amber; Le Macon, Auber ; Le Sirene, Aitber ; Lully et Qui-
salt, Nic le ; La Perruche, Claplssoa ; Le Talet de Chambre, Ca-
rafa ; Use Folle, Mehul ; with an occasional performance of semi of
the most popular operso produced last season.
According to present arrangements the representat!oa of the Opera
Comique will be limited to the months of January, February, and
March, terminating the season before Easter.
At the re-opening of the Theatre, after Easter, on Monday,
April I, M. Samson (of the'Theatre Francais, Paris) will have the
honour of making his first appearance in this country, and will per-
form with Mdlle. Denain (also of the Theatre Francais) in several of
the mast popular Comedies of the French stage; and subsequently
M. Regnier and Mdlle. Nathalie (both artistes of the Theatre Fran-
cais) will appear in several of the most modern and successful Come-
dies recently produced In Paris.
At tke end of May, Mdlle. Dejazet, whose re-appearance at tke
Theatre des Varietes, after a severe and protracted indisposition, bas
bee attended with her accnstomed and unrivalled success, will ap-
pear in several new vaudevilles, as Le Marquis de Lauzun, Le Alen-
lin d Paroles, La Jeunesse de Lully, &c.
The performances of Comedy and Vaudeville trill be supported by
M. Lafcnt (of the Theatre des Varietes), Mdlle. Fige le, Mdlle. Con-
stance, Mdlle. Page, Mdlle. Baptiste, M. Armand, M. Leon, and a
'numerous company.
The engagement of Mdlle. Rachel will commence at the end of
June, by her appearance in M. Scribe's new play of " Adrienne
Lecouvreur," a production which has excited more than ordinary
admiration ; Mdlle. Rachel wi 1 also perform, for the first time,
in Dumas' celebrated play of " Mademoiselle de Berle-Isle ;" and
a new Petite Comedie, in One Act, entitled "Le Moineaa de
Lesble," by Armand Berthet ; and by the occasional representation,
each for oce night only, of the classical Tragedies of " Phedre,"
" Les Ileraces," " Andromaque," and " Bajazet," the season will
terminate.

The ORCHESTRA will be composed of the same eminent pro-
fessors engaged for the opera last season, including M. Tolbeque,
M. Bourotte, M. Deloffre, 31. Newsham, M. Barret, M. Baumann,
M. Pilet, M. Vaudrelaud, M. Remusat, M. Lazarus, M. Nicholson,
31. Larkin, M. C. Harper, Al. T. Harper, M. Campanile, M. T.
\Wright, &c. Di ector of the ma:ie and Chef-d'Orchestra, M. Charles
llanssens.

Arrangements for season subscriptions may be made nt Mr.
Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams's Library,
1, St. James-street; Messrs. Andrews's, New Bond-street; Ebern's
and ilookhatn's, Old Bond-street. _

The flox-efllee of the Theatre Is open daily from Eleven
Five.

wATEIR AT LoNDON

Tim DAY ,orning, 48 rain. after 2 I Evening, 13 min. after 3
To-Mossow —Morning, 40 min. after 3 Eveatrw, 6 min alter 4

IVa'fflEtt.—SON OFFICE, Dzc. 30

THERMOMETER Lowest, 28; ffighezt, 34, :.',;oon, 30.

BAROMETER, 30.22.
WIND, N.N.E.—cold fine weather.
DEC. 31.

TaEnmomETER, Lowest, 2?; Highest. 34 Noon. 32.
BAROMETER. 30.61; still rising.
WIND N.N.W.—fine frosty weather.

inaugurated their government with the sublimest
acts of beneficence, returning the glah'e of revolution
to the scabbard at the first gleam of good fortune,
and marking the era of their propitious des-
tiny by the formal abolition of ccpital punishments.
In the oth:r case, the sovereigns have celebrated
their return to the sway of the sceptre by the scourging
of women, by the imprisonment of children, and by the
destruction of hecatombs of warrior prisoners. The
weapon of their beneficence has been the knout, the
instrument of their magnanimity the guillotine. The
blood of females has been the libation poured out by
them on the scene of their successes in homage to
the GOD of battles. The shrieks of the relicts of
Patriotism have constituted their Te Deum for their
victories. In obedience to their mandate the nations
have been again moulded into subordination by the
bloody hands of the executioner. This has been the
nature of their proceedings on the resumption of
authority, and this it is which has deprived their rule
of vitality. The gore reeking down from the scaffold
and flooding round the foot of the re-erected thrones,
has infused the pricciple of decay into their very
foundations, has infected the very atmosphere respired
by the continental monarchies with corruption
Their demoniacal passions, their lust for slaughter'
their insatiable appetite for vengeance, while clothing
them with the sackcloth of opprobrium, and strewing
their heads with the ashes of infamy, are drawingdow n
upon them inevitably the inexorable blade of their
Nemesis. So confident are we upon this point, that
we feel assured the approaching year will not have
expired without unfolding the horrors of their ulterior
expiation—their expiation for treachery and barbarity,
for women tortured by the lash, and heroes hung
on the gibbet, for the devastation of whole provinces
by invasion, and the desolation of great cities by
bombardment.

Throughout all the principal territories of the Eu-
ropean Continent, these sanguinary battles of the
Counter-Revolution have raged with almost equal fero-
c:ty ; and, alas:! that we should say it, have proved
almost in every case equaly advantageous to the
reactionists. In France, happily for the new-born
Republic, order has in 1849 been re-established
without any infraction of the new Constitution, or
without, indeed, any disloyalty to the Demo-
cratic Government. The honesty and capacity of
the President Louis NAPOLEON, aided on the
29th of January and the 13th of June by the mili-
tary genius and civic audacity, of CHANGARNIER,
preserved Paris from a recurrence of those sanguinary
engagements which, in the preceding summer, had
threatened the revival of infidelity and terrorism. In
Prussia, the royal faith was successively broken with
the Local Legislature of Berlin and the Central Par-
liament of Frankfort-on-the-Maine. In Portugal the
revival of the CABRAL Ministries, and in Spain the
perpetuation of the NARVAEZ Administration,
have threatened the Peninsula with a re-
lapse into the calamitous miseries of in
ternecine battles. In Italy the hopes of
the restoration of Italian independence and of the
accumulation into one concrete nationality of the
various states of that classic peninsula, have
gradually evaporated—owing, we most profoundly
believe, to a lamentable and (in the first instance) a
causeless misunderstanding between the.people and
their patriot princes—out of the general misfortunes
arising such supreme calamities as these, the
flight and exile of Plo Nosto, the abdication and
death of CARLO ALBERTO, the expulsion of FEUDS..
NA ND SECUNDO, the defeat of Sardinia, the conquest of
Sicily, the subjui.,ation of Lombardy, the sorrows
of Leghorn, Purina, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Bologna
and Florence, the panic at Turin and Mantua, and
the terrific bombardments of Rome, Genoa, and
Venice. In Schleswig-Holstein the lawless incur-
sions of Prussia led to the heroic defence of Frede-
ricia, and enabled the " crimson wing" of conquest
again to flutter the royal banners of Denmark. In
Germany, from one extremity to the other, the roar
of war was audible until the revival of a kingly
coalition brought about the investiture of Landau,
the overthrow of Radstadt, the seizure of Baden, and
the simultaneous paralysis of Berlin, Munich,
and Vienna. Nevertheless, horrible and numerous
as are the misfortunes already enumerated as having
befallen the European continent, in consequence of
the daring exploits of the Counter-Revolution, the
chief cause of sorrow to all the lovers of Democracy,
in their remembrance of 1849, yet remains unmen
tioned, namely, the downfal of that illustrious race
whose feats of arms, whose constancy of purpose,
and whose magnanimity of goverment have been the
admiration of the world, not only now-a•days, but
during many bygone generations. ;Crushed
by -an overwhelming superiority of numbers,
and delivered over into the grasp of her adversaries,
by a detestable traitor, Hungary has afforded us
reason to weep for the greatness and the stress of her
national calamities. The siege of Comorn and the
storming of Buda, the attack upon Temeswar and the
bombardment of Peterwardein, were occasions on
which the last blaze of Magyar glory became
visible in all its pristine resplendence before the
treason of GEORG ET had placed the victory in the
hands of the Austrian EMPEROR and the Russian
AUTOCRAT, abandoning the orphans of Hungary to
HA.TN ALT, and her widows to PA SKIEWITCH, driving her
bravest and noblest sons into banishment, and directing
the thunderbolts of the CZAR against the unprotected
Cabinet of the SULTAN-CALIPH. Now that the brute
force of Despotism has temporarily succeeded over
the moral strength of the opinions of Democracy, it is
insinuated by the apologists of the regal terrorists of
the Continent that Hungary was cajoled into her recent
movement by her demagogues. In the name of that
sacred and sublime cause in which KOSSUTH raised
the standard of the Hungarian Revolution, by the
memory of the glorious patriots, their brethren, who
fell in the struggle for the emancipation of the
Magyars, for the sake of BATTHTANNT shot, and of
all his renowned companions butchered on the gib-
bet, we appeal to the survivors of the conflict—
calling upon them to require, from the people of that
great but unfortunate country, a demonstration that
the late rising was no contrivance of a few conspira-
tors, but the general ebullition of a popular yearning
for independence.

Thus, before Milan, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Flo-
rence, and Buda-Pesth has Revolution been overcome
by brute force : thus, in Germany, in Italy, and in
Hungary have the nations been compelled to bow for
a time before the recent hurricane of Counter-Revo-
lution.

The proceedings in the Portarlington case, before

the Commissioners for the Sale of Ineumbered Estates

in Ireland, afford the strongest illustration of the
practical working of the new law, not only as to the
facilities given for the disposal of the estates of the em-
barrassed, but as to its effects on the interests of the

legal profession—barristers and solicitors on the
other side of St. George's Channel. Any person at
all acquainted with the tardy and enormously expensive
nature of Chancery proceedings will be surprised to hear
that an estate producing a clear and well-paid income
of no less than 32,000/. per annum, and charged to the
extent of 700,0001. sterling, has been ordered to be
sold within a period of less than two months from the

time of filing the original petition which brought it
within the jurisdiction of the Court, and at an ex-
pense of less than the one-fourth-hundredth part of
that which would inevitably have been incurred in
obtaining a final decree in the Court of Chancery, and
that on the application of a puisne incurnbrancer,
whose only claim consisted of a judgment debt for
3861. 16s. 6d., with an arrear of interest which in-
creased the claim to 5781.—in other words about
one sixty-fourth part of the annual income of the
property, and about one fourteen-hundreth part of its
actual value.

It is perfectly clear that in the olden times such a
person could never have succeeded in obtaining
a decree for sale without sacrificing many
times the amount of his debt. But, although
all persons having early cburges, those who come
within the first 500,0001, were perfectly willing that
the sale should be postponed until there was a prospect
of better prices being realised, and although Lord
PORTARLINGTOI4 himself, who not only represented the
inheritance, but was himself a creditor to the extent
of more than 220,0001. sterling, opposed the prayer of
the petition, the conditional order was made absolute
at a single sitting, and at an expense not exceeding
the costs of a common motion in the Rolls' Court,
not the one•twentieth part of what a motion respect-
ing
.the same estate cost, before Chief Justice

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