The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-29 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
Professor ANDERSON'S GREAT CARNI-
VAL BENEFIT, MONDAY and TUESDAY, March 3 and
4, 1856.
Professor ANDERSON most respectfully begs to inform his
friends and the public, that his GRAND CARNIVAL COM-
PLIMENTARY BENEFIT and DRAMATIC GALA will Q :!•
CIF on MONDAY and TUESDAY, 3d and 4th of March. It
will comprise Opera, Drama, Pantomime, Burletta, Melo-
Bram; and a Bal Masque, thus constituting a round of amuse-
ment more copious, attractive, and varied than has ever oc-
curred in London. In fact, it will he the first time in the his-
tory of entertainments in England that any such thing has
been even attempted. In America on benefit occasions, awl
when it is desired by professionals to pay a mark of respect
to a deserving benefieiaire, a Dramatic Carnival has been
organised and attended with the most profitable results. The
Carnival at Covent garden will be an effort to realise on Eng-
lish ground that which American ingenuity and enterprise
has already accomplished with success in the Trans►tlantic
Theatres. The Carnival will commence on Monday, March 3,
at one o'clock, with the performance (the last in London for
ever) of the great Pantomime of 1856, in which Miss Harriet
Gordon, Miss Emma Horne, Mr. Harry Pearson, Mr. W.
Shalders, Mr. C. Brown, Mr. W. A. Barnes, and Mr. Flex-
more will sustain their several characters. To be followed
by the most popular Burletta of the day. After which, a two-
act Drama. Then a three-act Opera. To be succeeded by
the greatest Farce of modern times. That to be followed by
the New Squib. And the whole to conclude with an amusing
Ballet. The whole of the various Artistes who are to appear,
and among them are these who take highest rank in the
Theatrical world, have most kindly, and without reserve,
♦olunteered their services. Every employe in the Theatre
has, with similar good. feeling, expressed a wish to serve
without fee or reward.
The performances commencing on Monday, at 1 p m., with
he Great Comic Pantomime of 1856, entitled
YE BELLE ALLIANCE; or,

HARLEQUIN GOOD HUMOUR AND 'I PIE FIELD

OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD.

leing a LEGEND of the MEETING of the MONARCHS.
" It was a marvellous sweet° and goodly© sight to see those
two Princes, in the flowere of their age, in the height of their
strengths and in the diguitie of their manly° beautyo, cora-
Inanding two great Nations, that bade been so long rivals and
elemies, instead of leading hostile armies to desolate and
destroye, meet in that peaceful valley°. and embrace like
• 'brothers, in the sighte of the choice uobilitie of either land."
e--The Chroniclers.
The Pantomime invented, arranged, and produced by Mr.
A. Harris, with the same attention to Scenery, Costumes,
and Effects, which has characterised the productions of " Ri-
• goletto," "Il Trovatore," " L'Etoile du Nord," and the
' Various Operas lately produced at this, the recognised chief
Theatre in Europe for Spectacular Display. The entirely New
mid most elaborate Scenery Painted by and under the Super-
latendenee of Mr. WILLIAM BEVERLEY, assisted by
Mm's, Cuthbert, C. Adams, W. Shalders, W. 'Glover, and
namerons Assistants. The Opera I,g written by Mr. George
Augustus Sala. The Music composed Loder (who has
obligingly lent his aid on account of the Pantomime being
PrOduced at this Theatre). The Ballet and Incidental
Dances arranged by Mr. Benjamin Barnett. The Com-c Tricks
invented by the Brothers Brong,h, Mr. A. Harris, and
Mr. William Dorrington. The New Spectacular Designs by
M. Guerin, of Paris. The Extensive and Complicated Machi-
-2417 by Mr. H. Sloman and numerous Assistants The Ori-
ginal and Ultra-Grotesque Masks by Mr. G. Ewing. The
Novel and Costly Properties by Mr. Prescott, assisted by M
Moreland. The Ladies' Costumes by Mrs. James assisted by
lifr. Beauchamp. Tho Gentlemen's Costumes by Mr. Smithers,
assisted by Mr. Lawrence. The Armoury Department by
Mr. Hogg. The Chappellerie by Mrs. Walker. Copyist,
Dir, Horton. Prompter, Mr. Rance. Perruquier, Mr. Rick-
ards, of Brydges-street. Covent-garden. The Novel Gas
Arrangements by Mr. Palmer and Assistants. The Whole
Production being ander the Immediate Superintendence of
Mr, A, HARRIS.

Scene I.
'ME CAVERNS OF THE GNOME BRITANNICUS IN

SUBTERRANEA.NUSSIA.

Gnomes—ltritannicus (a fine old English Gnome), ono of
the olden time, bearing a close resemblance to the " Old
Gentleman," fully answering to his co-Gnome-en ; a pure un-
adulterated British Spirit, strongly opposed to anything in the
shape of Foreign Wines, French Brandy, and great in his be-
lief in Beer, 'Baccy, Beef, and Boxing—Mr. John Neville.
Ballabile des Diablotines, by Mesdemoiselles E. Honey,
Ricks, Arlington, Cleveland, Granville, Losh, Brown, Page,
uvegory, Rose, Kendall, Martinez, Gosselin, Turtle, Ford,
Stewart, Ranoe, and Clare.
Assistant Gnomes—Blue Fire, Mr. Williams ; Phosphorus-
ton, Mr. Samuels ; Candescentington, Mr. A. Smith ; Match-
Well, Mr. Saunders ; Ignisfatty, Mr. P. A. James ;
blazes, Mr. Yeller; Craters-omit, Mr. Spindle; Torchlight,
fir. Jaffer ; Blazeton, Mr. Parkes ; Sulphurite, Mr. Topham ;
Plamington, Mr. Pa.xman ; Gassington, Mr. B. Brown ; Crater-
vomit, Mr. Simkins ; llotspark, Mr. J. Jones; Illuminoso,
Elockey; Nitrebauk, Mr. Pratt.

scene 11.
TBE LAND'S END, CORN Vir.A.LL, WITH THE CAR

OF THE DRAGONS.

Good Humour—(a familiar spirit, whose familiarity is • con-
dueive to the very reverse of contempt. The prettiest page in
the whole volume of the Pantomime)—Miss Harriet Gordon.

Diorama—No. 1.

MR EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S ARRIVAL IN
LONDON,
And his Enthusiastic Rocop,tion.
Diorama—No. 2.

QUEEN VICTORIWirriii TO NAPOLEON'S
TOMB,
In the Hotel des Invalidos at Paris.
" And o'er that shrine the last Rememt ranee quench
Of Malice 'twixt the English and the French 1"
Seeno 111.
THE DECK OF "THE GREAT HARRY," FOUR