The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-12 00:00:00

MESMERIC, INFIRMARY.

A meeting of noblemen, Members of Parliament,
clergymen, physicians, surgeons, and gentlemen distin-
guished for their services in the advancement of science
and philanthropy, was recently held at the mansion of
the Earl of Ducie, No. 23, Belgrave-square, for the
purpose of taking measures to establish an institution,
by means of which the benefit of mesmerism, in the cure
of diseases, and the prevention of pain under surgical
operations, should be more'widely extended to the poorer
classes, than they could be by individual exertion. The
meeting, " being convinced of the vast benefits derived
from mesmerism," came to the following resolutions:—
" 1. That a Mesmeric Infirmary shall be established
by voluntary contribution, for the cure of diseases, and
;he prevention of pain in surgical operations.
"2. That this infirmary shall be under the manage-
ment of a president, vice-presidents, trustees, a treasurer,
secretary, and committee."
The Right Hon. the Earl of Ducie was elected presi •
dent; the Baron de Goldsmid. Viscount Morpeth, M.P.,
R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., M P , J. H. Langston, Esq.,
M.P., the Rev. J. Sanbv, jun., and the Rev. T. Robert-
son, vice-presidents ; Mr. Briggs, treasurer; and Dr,.
Ashburner, Buxton, and Elliotson; Surgeons Clarke,
Chandler, Flintoff, J. Hands, D. Hands, F. G. Johnston,
and Symes ; the Rev. Dr. Dickson, War Buckley,
Captain James, Messrs. Blyth, Fradelle, Kingdom, and
Topham, were appointed as the committee.
A sum, amcunting to several hundred pounds, was
subscribed ; to which the Earl of Ducie. the Baron de
Goldsmid, Lord Morpeth, and Mr. Langston con-
tributed 100/. each ; Mr. T. Lamie Murray, George-
street, Hanover-square, and Dr. Elliotson, 501. each ;
Mr. Kingdom, Wrstbourne terrace, Hyde Park, 211.,
with 5/. ss. annual subscription. The other donations
and subscriptions varied from ten guineas to one.
The immediate cause of this infirmary being founded
under such high patronage, may perhaps be found in
the letter addressettin April last, by the Treasurer of the
new charity, Mr. Briggs, to the S..?cretary of the Mid-
dlesex Hospital, and published in the last number o' the
" Zoist," with a narrative of the cases referred to, and of
the subsequent treatment experienced by that benevolent
gentleman, at the hands of the pseudo-magnates of' the
medical profession, who, in his instance, surpassed their
ordinary displays of presuming ignorance and dogmatic
insolence. Mr. Briggs having received, as a governor
of the Middlesex Hospital, the usual invitation to attend
the annual dinner, declined to do so in a courteous, but
very earnest letter, in which he referred to particular
c'lses of happy cure effected through mesmeric agency at
his expense, and evidently with the knowledge of the
anti-mesmeric savans in that hospital, in whose hands
the patients so rescued by his zeal and charity
had lingered for years in torture and despair,
under the severest physicing administered, and
amputation executed (as the event proved) without
cause. He recommended that mesmerism, which had
effected so much in those cases, should be tried upon
some others which he proposed. He was answered that
" mesmerism was not orthodox." He referred to the
many undoubted operations lately performed without
pain. (Those performed at Cherbourg, Leicester, Not-
tingham, and various places in America and the West
Indies, are too well authenticated for any reasonable
man to doubt.) He referred especially to the cases of
Dr. Esdale, of the East India Government's civil staff,
which have occurred, and been presented to the world
under such circumstances and with such authority, that Dr.
Esdaile, on his departure from Hooghley, left after him
a MESMERIC STAFF, paid by the Government. When
the engagements with the Sikhs threw 3,000 men on the
army surgeons, the civil surgeons were ordered to join
the army, and Dr. Esdaile was called away. But he
had in the previous eight months performed seventy-three
severe operations without pain, and with healing results;
such as rarely (if ever) are found to follow similar opera-
tions performed in a non-mesmeric state. This success
was rightly viewed by the authorities of India as too
important and encouraging not to be followed up. Life
is too valuable in their service to be sported with for the
sneers of a fashionable, but unbred and unread " doctor,"
or the jests of a witty surgeon, who tests the sensibility
of a patient by tearing the skin from her hand with his
nails. The example of India will shortly be followed
up at home. One of Dr. Esdaile's cases was the re-
moval of a scrotal tumour, weighing forty pounds.
During the operation the man remained as motionless
as a corpse !

Mr. BRIGGS bad evinced his good will to the Middle-
sex Hospital by subscribing to it for many years, and
inserting in his will a handsome legacy to it ; but as he
could not afford to subscribe to that, and, at the same
time, pay for mesmerising the poor, be was compelled
to make a choice between the two.

It was the conduct of the managers of the public hos-
pitals on this and similar occasions, which seems to have
convinced the founders of the Mesmeric Infirmary, that
it was necessary to delay no longer the establishment of
such an institution.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
GENERAL ORDER.

WOOLWICH, AUGUST 8, 1846.—" His Lordship the Master-
General has been pleased to select the following individuals
in the Royal Regiment of Artillery as worthy of an annuity
and silver medal, under the provisions of items 2,3, and 4, of
the good conduct regulations:—
" Quarter-Master-sergeant J. Bowman, Royal Horse Ar-
tillery.

" sergeant William Rudd, 7th battalion.
" H. D. ROSS, Deputy Adjutant-General."
The above non-commissioned officers are the first who
have been selected by the Master-General, in virtue of the
powers conferred upon him by the 4th item of the good con-
duct warrant, to grant an annuity of 201. per annum, allowed
by the 2d item to be conferred upon meritorious non-
commissioned officers, in addition to their pay while nerving,
and pensions on being disehargtd from the service.
Quarter-Master-Sergeant Bowman has been upwards of 40
years in the service, and Sergeant Radd for a very long
period, and still perform the duties of their respective Stalolls.

PETERSDURGH AND Moscow; A Visit to the Court
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6. Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George the
Second, edited by the late Lord Holland, now printed for the
first time in the Bvo. form, in 3 vols., with Portraits, 365.
bound. _ _ _

• GROUSE SHOOTING.—AIready large parties of noble.
men and gentlemen have passed through this too n to the Highlands,
and good sport is expected, as. from the long continuance of fine
weather, the birds are large and in prime condition. It is said that
on the moors of Northumberland both red and black game are aburi-
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Eqpt, and Syria.

}laving now offered such observations as appear re-
quisite in respect to the report of the referees, Dr.
Reid considers it incumbent on him to present the fol-
lowing summary.
The Select Committee of 1835, appointed to consider
the best mode c. f warming and ventilating the new
Houses of Parliameot, and of rendering the same favour-
able to the transmission of sound, recommended, in the
first place, the experiment made in the House of Com-
mons, and also specially recommended that some plan
for warming and ventilating should be systematically
adopted, before the commencement of the new buildings,
stating that provision should be made for it in the first
instance by the architect, so as not only to'.insure its
succees, but to prevent needless expense and incon-
venience.

Mr. Barry not only commenced the work, but built
the vaults of the river front from end to end, under
all the libraries and committee rooms, without any
plan for ventilation being either considered or
adopted ; and although he agreed at the earlier pro-
ceedings with Dr. Reid, that the necessary channels
and chambers should be provided there, successive
alteralions in plans he at first agreed to were made at
his request (of which the evidence may be seen in the
works, as well as in recorded investigations), and these
contemplated everything required there. Dr. Reid's
attendance in I.ondon commenced in May, 1840. State-
ments and questions by Mr. Barry, in 1845, would lead
any one to believe that the appointment was given to
him in consequence of undue-influence exerted in his
favour, and in opposition to Mr. Barry's views.
This is no the fact, as is proved by a letter from the
Hon. C. Gore, one of the Commissioners of her Majesty's
Woods, &c.

A minute inspection of the site of the new Houses,
and of the obstacles to the introduction and supply of
fresh air, led Dr. Reid to propose a peculiar series of
arrangements, in addition to those required for the venti-
lation of all principal apartments. It was in the option
of the architect to enter into these new arrange-
ments, or to decline them, when each House would
have been treated as if no other existed in the
building. He entered into the views proposed ;he
stated in a letter that he saw no practical nor other ob-
stacle to their application. He was then the architect,
as now, responsible for the construction of the building.
He now objects to plans he was the means of authoris-
ing, at the very time when he still records his anxiety
that the central tower proposed by Dr. Reid should be
retained for architectural purposes.
Dr. Reid's plans were presented to the architect in
April, 1841, but were not finally adopted till August,
1842. Mr. Barry could have objected to these plans at
any time between his first application to Government
for Dr. Reid's assistance, and the final decision of
I the Committee of both Houses in 1842. But though
examined repeatedly before Committees of both
Houses both in 1841, 1842, 1843, and in 1844, when he
never said one word either against him personally or
against his plans, he tried to impress his witnesses and
Mr. Gwilt, the referee in 1845, with the idea that Dr.
Reid's services had been thrown upon him without his
knowledge and against his consent.
In the following year, 1842, great difficulties, which
had occurred from the commencement in procuring sa-
tisfactory information from the architect, led Dr. Reid
to address two letters to him, which have been re-
corded in evidence before a Committee of the House of
Commons.

In 1844 it was represented by Dr. Reid to the Com-
mittee of the House of Commons, of which the Earl of
Lincoln was Chairman (at that time Chief Commis.
sioner of Woods and Forests), that the architect was
proceeding in opposition to the report of the Committee
in 1835, and to his own evidence of a more recent date
before the Parliamentary Committees.
In the beginning of 1345, Dr. Reid reported to the
office of Woods the differences that had occurred with
the architect at the temporary committee-rooms ; the
progress of the session proved prscticilly the extent to
which imperfectly closed drains below (and open gas-
pipes), and tarry roofs above, destroyed the ventilati n.
He appeals to Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Card-
well, and other Members of the House of Commons, who
are aware of the effect produced by some of these causes,
as to their influence on the atmosphere of the com-
mittee-rooms.

In the same year the atmosphere supplied to both
Houses was severely affected by circumstances not under
Dr. Reid's control, some of which are detailed in a
lithographic print referring to this matter.
In April of the same year Mr. Barry opened a corres-
pondence on a point connected with the fire-proofing,
founding his observations on a reported conversation be-
tween two gentlemen in his office and Dr. Reid. The
evidence subsequently laid before Mr. Gwilt, proved that
Mr. Barry and one of the parties in question bad dis-
cussed, and were perfectly aware, two years previously,
of a difficulty of construction which they now for the
first time attempted to fix on him.
Dr. Reid then recommended that the system of com-
munication between the architect and himself should be
made the subject of inquiry.
Since that period. May, 1845, the works have ad-
vanced without any intermediate party to adjust dif-
ferences, or to arrange temporarily any plan for the
re•noval of immediate difficulties ; passive and active
resistance in every shape and form has interfered with
the advantageous application of the plans for warming
and ventilating. A document both unjust and most
inaccurate was transmitted by the architect to the of-
fice of Woods, of which Dr. Reid was ignorant, and
which must have seriously injured his position. And
while inquiries have been conducted in a manner which
have deprived him of the opportunity of bringing out
the essential features of the case, the course taken has
tended to injure the ventillation of both Houses, and to
multiply difficulties that ought never to have existed.
In addition to those that have arisen from the course
adopted by some of the parties, the architect has thought
proper to place between himself and Dr. Reid, fifteen
months have now elapsed since Mr. Barry and Dr. Reid
have had any meeting for any useful or practical pur-
pose, and the determination of numerous points on warm-
ing, lighting, and ventilating have been accordingly re-
tarded or suspended. Thus facilities have not been
eiv4.n, on the faith of which, as recorded in the official
letters of 1840, Dr. Reid undertook his present engage-
ment. The works, as well as official documents, prove
the endless alterations made by the architect, with which
he has had to contend ; and, in short, the business of
the works, for the last eighteen months more especially,
have been conducted practically, in a manner hostile to
his plans, and destructive of any fair opportunity of
satisfactorily adjusting his arrangements.
(Signed) D. B. REID.
Ventilating-office, House of Commons,
July 20, 1846.

THE LATE CASE OF MILIT kRY FLOGGING.—A
correspondent of the Northampton Mercury gives the follow-
ing particulars of the late unfortunate soldier, Frederick
White, of the 7th Hussars :—" I knew him when a boy; and
we grew up together, and continued friends and companions till
his father Wa3 compelled to leave his situation as postmaster at
Nottingham. After leaving the academy in Toll-street, Not-
tingham, still conducted by Mr. Roper (where he met with
some of the most respectable families of the town, and one
who is now an aisle barrister,) he was apprenticed to Messrs.
Barker and Adams, wholesale hosiers. I believe he con-
tinued es ith them about two or three years ; and about
the same time that his parents had to give up all they
possessed, the above house either stopped or decreased
its hands ; poor White was then out of employ-
ment, and he tried in vain to obtain a situation in the
town. He stayed however about Nottingham some
time, and was supported by his friends who knew him
in better times. I recollect the night before he left the
town ; he was then going to London, where he expected
he should find friends who knew his parents, and who, he
confidently said, would get him a good berth—a situa-
tion under Government, or in the East India Company's
service. He went, and met with repeated disappoint-
ments, till he was driven to enlist in the 2d Life
Guards. He did not remain long in this regiment. He
met with an accident—put his arm or his shoulder out,
and was divherged as being unfit for service. After
this he was in the London police, and was one of that body
which was sent to Birmingham to quell the riots there in
1840. At this town, be tells me in a letter, that he enli,ted
had
letters the 7th Hussars, being in liquor at the time. I
letters after this from Nottingham, Leeds,
Bir-
mingham, extracts from which I beg to give.
and
e,
e t er s
As an apology for not answering one o
sooner, he states, •'I intended to have written tt ne
ny to lt
you
as soon as I arrived at Birmingham, but almost
directly after I came here I was taken ill and poked into
the hospital, and to obtain money or paper there was
out of the question " Is not this an answer with respect to
what the adjutant said on the inquest ?
His friends
had not been written to, nor did they know where to
write ; at least so it appears to me. In another part of
the
pleasure that my wild oats have f letter,
showing h e syaoyus ,
pro-
duced a good crop after all' I have not heard from
him since February, 1845. He was a tall, rather slender
young man ; and rremember when he was about seventeen
years of age, he stood nearly six feet high. He was of
a kind, affable disposition, gentlemanly in hia deport-
ment, and respected by all who knew him. In conclu-
sion, Sir, I beg to deny that he was destitute of friends;
there are gentlemen now filling high stations in so-
ciety, in Nottingham, London, and Sussex, who were his
friends and companions, and would, like myself, have served
h:rn to the utmost of their ability, had they but known.
Sir, I cannot, as a friend and companion in boyhood and man-
hood of the deceased, refrain from raising my voice against
the brutal use of the lash to any of her Majesty's subjects,
more particularly to those brave men who defend our land."
[ADVERTISEMENT.] The following extraordinary
case, as connected with HOLLOWAY'S PILLS, cannot be made too
pablic :—George Wright, of high-street, Vauxhall, well known at
11111's Potteries, Vauxhall-walk, where he formerly worked during
ten years, but for the last five his health had been so bad that he
could do nothing, being greatly emaciated, suffering from a diseased
kver, and also the dropsy, besides an affection of the spine. He was
n the hospital at Winchester for five months, and afterwards in
Westminster Hospital for three months knger. To sum up, from
almost a dying state he has been restoreel to such comparative healtk
and vigour, in the short space of five weeks, as to astonish al who
know him, and this by Holloway's Pills, which may be had at l'ro-
fessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand; and of all respect-
able medicine 'vendors throughout the civilised world.

AQUATICS.
ST. MARGARET'S AND ST. JOHN'S, WESTMINSTER,
REGATTA.
The annual contest amongst the waternlit; plying at
Horseferry and the Middlesex side of Vauxhall-bridge for is
purse of sovereigns, subscribed by the residentiCef St. Mar-
garet's and St. John's, Wesbninster, came offtitailOndaY; and
was very numerously and respectably attettlleil. 'The rem
was in three heats, with sixteen pairs of sciAls: (two pakin
each boat). • •
First Heat.
D. Coembes, Vauxhall-bridge, and R. Gartiner;,4loravi
ferry •.•
T. Goodrum, Vauxhall-bridge, and S. Chalk 'AIfPrM
ee
ferry (Mack)
A. Bray, Vauxhall-bridge, and D. Davis, ditto (Green) "2
J. Piper, Vauxliall-bridge, and E. Gardner, Horseferry
(Yellow) 0
The distance was from the Horaeferry down, round a boat
off the Houses of Parliament, up round a boat off Smith's
Thames Bank, and back to the Horseferry.
Won easily.
Second Heat.
Joseph Royal, Vauxhall- bridge, and James Coombe-91
ditto.., (Blue) 1
Evans, Horseferry, and T. Davis, Vauxhall-
bridge ...(Stripes) 2
n'eoombes, Vauxhall-bridge, and S. Bloomfield, Horse-
ferry (Red) 3
B. Cuenis, Vauxhall-bridge, and S. Rush, ditto ...(Pink) 0
It was a good heat, the men hung all very close together
for some distance; the winners then went well in advance,
and kept it ; it was a smart struggle for the second place.
Grand Heat.
They all went away together at a rattling pace, white with
a slight lead. Blue shortly showed in advance, and came up
against the tide, off Chandler's, about a clean length ahead ;
white being second and stripes third, about the same distance
astern. White regained the lead and won cleverly. Blue
second. Black were disabled.

PAUL'S WHARF REGATTA.—LAMENTABLE
OCCURRENCE.
This regatta, on Monday, amongst landsmen, in four-oared
cutters, was unfortunately put an end to by a very lament-
able occurrence. The competitors in the first heat had
rowed, and the three boats engaged in the second were in
the heat of the race. when, in rounding at Southwark-bridge,
blue, manned by Peacock, J. Hawkins, K. Morris, R. fiel-
loway, and J. Adams, touched another boat in advance of
them, and went athwart one of the piers of the bridge. The
boat immediately upset, and the whole party were immersed
in the water. Every assistance was immediately afforded,
and four of the rowers were rescued, but Hawkins met a
watery grave. The managers immediately stopped the
race, and discharged the band of musicians, and it was ar-
ranged, with one accord, that the whole of the money which
had been subscribed to be rowed for should be given to the
widow of the unfortunate deceased, who has two, young
children, and bears strong indications of being eliciente. The
lamentable occurrence created a very considerable sensation
in the neighbourhood.
LAMBETH REGATTA.
The annual contest amongst the watermen of Lambeth for
the liberal subscription of the residents of the vicinity, took
place on Monday, and was very attractive. It waa.an oars
wager, in three heats. •

First Heat.
Edward Perry, jun., and Henry Maynard (White) 1
James Kitley and John Maynard (Pink) 2
James Maynard and William Wilson (Blue) 0
The distance was from Westmiester-bridge up round a boat
moored off Burnett's distillery, return down the Surrey shore
round a boat off King's Arms-stairs, and back to Lambeth-
stairs. It was a capital start, all together of a cluster for
some strokes, when White drew out, pressed by pink; white
then gradually got further in advance, and a smart race
occurred between the other two for second. Won by two
lengths.

e(Green)rleo
Second Heat.
Lewis Richards and Edward Perry, sen.
Richard Wilson and Joseph Arthur
George Idelsom and William Richards (Yellow) 0
Green took the lead, and kept it. Won by three lengths.
Grand Heat.
White
In this the men started from Vauxhall-bridge down, to
King's Arms-stairs, up the Surrey shore to Burnett's, and
back to Lambeth-stairs. They went off at a great pace, pink
with a good lead after a few strokes, and white rowing des-
perately to overtake them. Off the Horseferry pink rowed
into a wager boat, by which means white got a good lead
and kept it, winning by three lengths. Pink did their best
to retrieve their accident.

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previous to their being of4ered ; and advices of results will • be
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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The Last Night but Two of the Segsou.

The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully informed
that there will be an EXTRA PERFORMANCE
TO. MORROW EVENING
When will be performed (for the last time this season) Mozart's

Chef d'oeuvre, entitled,
IL DON GIOVANNI.

Donna Anna, Madame Grisl ; Donna Elvira, Mdile. Sarichioli ; Zer-
linl, Madame Castellan ; Don klievanni, Signor Fornasarl; Masetto,
Signor F. Lablache ; Leoporello, Sgnor Lablache; 11 Commendatore,
Signor Botelli ; Don Ottavio, Signor Mario.
In the course of the Evening, the highly successful new and
original Ballet Divertissement, by M. Perrot, the Music by Signor
Pugni, entitled

LE JUGEMENT DE PARIS.
Comprising a new Pas—" Le Pas de Deesses." By Mdlle. Taglioni,
Mdlle. Louise Taglioni, Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlie. Lucile Grahn, Mdlle.
Demoßase, Mae. Cassan, and MM. St. Leon and Perrot.
The Divertissement of
UN BAL SOUS LOUIS XIV.
In which Mdlles. L. Grahn and Cerito will dance the celebrated
?Linnet de la Cour and Gavotte, in the Costume of the Court.
Quadrille, by Eight Ladies of the corps de ballet, La Castililana
Bolero, by Mdlle. L. Grahn and M. Perrot; and the Redowa ; or,
Original Polka of Bohemia, by Mille. Cerito and M. St. Leon.
To conclude with the Second Act of the admired Ballet of
LA SYLPHIDE.
La Sylphide, Mdlle. Taglloni ; James, M. Perrot.
Appligatlons for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box
office, .Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com-
mence at half-past Seven o'clock.

FRENCH PLAYS—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Positively the Last Performance but One.
Mr. MITCHELL has the honour to announce, that the eminent
Tragedienne, Mdlle. RACHEL, whose appearances at this Theatre
have been hailed with the highest degree of enthusiasm, will make
her last appearance but one
THIS EVENING. _ _

The Performances will commence with Racine's Petite Comedy,
entitled LES PLAIDEURS. Dandin, M. Cartigny ; Chicaneau, M.
Dorgebret ; L'lntime, M. Dumery ; Isabella. Mdlle. Heloise.
To conclude with Racine's celebrated Tragedy of PtiEDRE.
Thesee, M. Marius ; Ilippolite, M. Felix ; T .eramene, M. Quelus ;
Panope. M. Pagenler ; Aricie, adlle. Derouet ; Oenone, Mediae.
Martelleur ; Ismene, Madame Marius ; Phedre. Madlle. Rachel.
Prices of Admission—Reserved Seats in the Dress Boxes, 75. 6d. ;

Admission to the Pit, ss. ; Reserved Seats in the Amphitheatre, ss. ;
Gallery, 3s.
Doors will be opened at Half•past Seven o'clock, and the Perfor-
mances commence at Eight. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, may be
secured at Mr. 31Itchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. SalngS
Library, 1, St. James's-street ; Mr. Andrews's Library, New Bend-
street; of Messrs. Hookliam, Ebers, Alleroft, and 011ivier, Bond-
street; Bailey, 12, Regent-street ; and at the Box•offce of the
Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
The last four Nights of the Brusse:s Opera Company.
In consequence of the immense applause with which the flat
representation of " Le Domino Noir" was received on Monday. by
a brilliant land fashionable audience, th,.t Opera will be repeated
THIS EVENING.
TO-MORROW (positively for the last time this Season), Meyer-
Veer's Opera of " Itobet t le Diable."
n FRIDAY (for the last time this Season), " Le Domino Noir,"
with one Act of " La Favorite," and one Act of " Le Muette."
On SATURDAY (being the last Night the Company can possibly
perform this Season), Meyerbeer's celebrated grand Opera of " Les
Huguenots" will be performed, for the BENEFIT of Mr. CHARLES
BANSSENS.
The Free List (except the public press) is suspended; and early
application is necessary to secure places.
J. PARSON;, Box Book-keeper.

THEATRE KU} AL, DitITRY.LA

LAST FOUR NIGHTS OF THE BRUSSELS OPERA COMPANY,

THIS EVENING.

Will be performed Scribe's Com c Opera, entitled LE DOMINO
NOIR. Principal characters by MM. Ci.uderc, rtarielle, Delanoy ;
Charton, Madame Guichard. and Madame Biacabe.

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After which Scribe's Comic Opera, entitled LE PHIL FRE. In
which MM. Massoi, Boulo, Zelger ; Madame Laborde, and Madame
Guichard will appear.
Doors open at Seven, performance to commence at half-past Seven.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.
It is respectfully announced that this Theatre will RE-OPEN on
the 17th instant, for a limited Season, under the management of Mr.
DAVIDSON', who has the honour to inform the public that he has
entered into engagements with many of the principal artistes of this
and the Princess's Theatres, and also with Mr. GREGORY (whom
the late EDMUND KEAN pronounced would beceme his legitimate
successor), who will appear on MONDAY Neal in HAMLET.
A NEW and ORIGINAL TRA ;EDY is in rehearsal, and will be
immediately produced, with new scenery, dresses, and decorations.

TII;..ATRE LOYAL, LYCEUM.
UNDER TILE MANAGEMENT OF MES. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed the successful Drama of THE DUSTMAN'S
BELLE. Ned Windfall. Mr. Keeley; Sally, Mrs. Keeley.
After which a new and Original Farce, entitled THE END OF
JUNE. Principal characters by Messrs. Diddear, Turner, Keeley,
and Miss Howard.
To be followed by the interesting Drama of THE MISER'S
WELL. Principal characters by Messrs. Keeley, Turner, Emery,
and Kinloch ; Miss Keeley, Miss Turner, Mrs. Woollidge, and Mrs.
Keeley.
To conclude with the now Farce, entitled LOAN OF A
WIFE. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan,
Meadows, Kinloch, and Yarnold ; Mrs. Woollidge and Miss Howard.

THEATtE ROYAL, ADELPIIL
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE.
THIS EVENING

Will he perfoi.ned the Comedy ut PAUL PRY. Colonel Hardy,
Mr. Lambert ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; Somers,
Mr. Worrell ; Mr. Stanley, Mr. Thomas; Harry Stanley, Mr. Boyce,
Frank Hardy, Mr. Braid ; Witherton, Mr. Selby ; Mrs. Subtle,
Mrs Laws; Marian, Miss E. Harding; Phoebe, 3liss Ellen Chaplin
(first time).
After which an entirely new and original Comic Sketch, called
ABRAHAM PARK Elt . Abraham Parker, Mr. Wright.
To be followed by the popular Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER
SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield 'Loney-
bun, Mr. Wright ; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F.
Matthews ; Mrs. Honeybun. Miss Emma tia-ding.
To conclude with the Farce of A NABOB FOR AN HOUR.
Characters by Messrs Worrell, Lambert, Munyard, Miss Harding,
and Mrs. Frank Matthews.

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RD-STItEET.
EVENIN

Rill be performed THE WELSH GIRL. Julia, Madame
Veetris.
After which a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled TIIE SLEEP-
ING BEAUTY INT THE WOOD. Baron Factotum, Mr. Charles
Mathews ; Princess Isabelle, Madame Vestris.
To he followed by an entirely New Comic Drama, entitled THE
BARBER BRAVO ; or, "i he Inventor of Powder. In which Mr.
Charles Mathews, Mr. Granby, Mr. Wynn, Miss E. Stanley, and
3liss 31.irshall will perform.
To conclude wiih the Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir
Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. C. Mathews ; Sir Adonis Leech,
Mr. Granby; Lady Clutterbuck, Miss E. Honner.

A6TLEY'* ItoYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
Patronised by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince
Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Pripicess Royal. Great
and glorious success of our Military Achievements in India.
THIS EVENING
Wlll he performed the Grand Military Spectacle. called THE
SIKHS' INVASION ; or, England's Victolies of 1846. Intro-
ducing the wc,ole resources of the Este lishment. Double Stud, Mi-
litary Brass Bands, &c.
Alter winch, New and Popular SCENES of the CIRCLE, by
the British and Foreign i'rofeasots, Male and Female.
The whole concluding with the legendary Spectacle of the
; or, The Fatal Ries.
On THURSDAY, Aucust 20, a vatic), of Novelties; for the BE-
NEFIT of Mr. THONIPSO N, stage Director.
Rol( •oftlce open trom eleven till Ova o'clock.—Doors open at six
and commence at seven o'clock.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessee, Mrs. Frances DivLige.
Open every Evening. Powerful attraction ! Popular Operas !- New
Pieces, and Double
THISEVvENINGrmeratIe and Dramatic.
Will be performed Till. isAnistit. OF SEVILLE. Supported
by the whole of the Operatic Company.
After which. an affecting Drains, entitled MILITARY PUNISH-
3IENT ; or, The Fate of the Widow's Son
To conclude with THE FIELD OF FORTY FOOTSTEPS. In
which Messrs. E. F. Saville, Fredericks, J. T. Johnson, Neville,
Lewis, Wood ; Mrs. Daly, Miss Richardson, Miss Terry, Mrs. E. I'.
Saville, and Miss Martin will appear.
Box Office open from eleven till four o'clock.

MONSTER FETE.
GRAND NEAPOLITAN CARNIVAL AND FETE TVETE !
ROYAL SURicEY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THIS DAY, and TO-MORROW, Aug. 13.
Bands of the Coldstream, Horse Guards Blue, Royal Artillery,
and Lewis's Brass Hand, toring a Monstre Band of One Hundred ;
National Anthem and Salute of Twenty-one Guns.
The DISTINS the Original Performers on the Saxe Horns.
HERR CHARLES KIST, the Modern Hercules, Flight on the
Sails of a Windmill.
NEAPOI.ITAN BAZAAR, Attendants in Neapolitan Costume.
The TIGHT ROPE, by Madame Hieken, Mr. Ryan, and Muter
Ryan.
FAIRY-LIKE EXPLOITS, A-la-Risley, by the Messrs. Candler.
The TARANTELLA, by .paddle and Mon. Fontaine.
LA TRANCA HISPANIOLA, by Mr. Candler.
FEATS on the CORDS VOLANTE, by Monsieur Bradbury.
An ENCAMPMENT of GIPSIES.
ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS, with new and indescribable effects.
On THURSDAY, the Anniversary of her Majesty the Queen Dow-
ager's Birthday, a Grand Display of Fireworks.
Doors open at Two o'clock. Admission Two Shillings; Children,
tinier Twelve ysars of age, halfprice.

WEATHER.—Sim OFFICE, AUGUST 11.
Tuzamestwrims, Lowest, 59; Highect. 71 : Noon, 70.

BARONZTEIt, 30.1L---WIIM W.; fine.

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