The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-25 00:00:00

SOUTH-EASTERN.

The traffic receipts on this line for the four weeks end.
ing Feb. 28 amounted—for passengers, parcels, mails,
and steam-boats, to 44,3011.11 s 3d; and for goods, cattle,
minerals, rents, and sundries (less collection and delivery),
to 12,833/. 3s 3d—total, 57,1341. 14s ad. The expenses
during the same period, inclusive of steam-boats, rates,
taxes, tolls, and dtity, amounted to 38,043/, 7s, 2d,

TTER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
SEASON 1837.
In announcing the arrangements for another season, the
Director of her Maje-ty's Theatre cannot but refer, with sin-
cere gratitude, to the success which attended his efforts, un-
der very trying circumstances, in the season of 1856.
Dramatic Opera, which in every foreign State is fostered by
Government aid, is, in this country, denied the support which
is extended to other departments of art ; and it is to the
patronage of the upper classes, who have rallied round the
establishment, that the country owes the prosperity of a
noble lyrical institution, which no unsupported individual
efforts could maintain in a manner worthy of its old renown.
In acknowledging the munificent assistance which enabled
him to conquer the unprecedented difficulties of last year, the
Director cannot sufficiently express his grateful appreciation
of the delicacy with which it was bestowed. Support was
freely and nobly accorded for the sole purpose of insuring the
prosperity of the institutioa, and the counsel which added to
its value was never accompanied by a word to shackle the
die retion or impair the authority of the direction. To this
the success of the past season is greatly owing ; and from the
generous confidence w_th which the subscribers have renewed
their subscriptions for the present year, without awaiting the
publication of the annual programme, the Director derives
the assurance that he has not altogether disappointed the
patrons of the theatre, and that he may rely on the continu-
ance of the cordial encouragement by which he has been
hitherto upheld, and under which it is hoped still higher
triumphs may be achieved than were immediately attainable
on the restoration of the establishment.
The enthusiasm which welcomed the re-opening of her Ma-
jesty's Theatre was not confined to the subscribers. The
hearty interest and genuine appreciation displayed by the
audiences who thronged the house from the first night to the
closing farewell demand the warmest thanks of the Director,
which ho will endeavour practically to express by renewed
efforts in the service of the public.
The Director is most anxious to acknowledge how much he
is indebted to Maddle Piccolomini and all the artistes whose
talents contributed to the success of last year, not merely f)r
those efforts of genius which won the sympathy and admira-
tion of the subscribers and the public, but for that high
artistic feeling and honourable fidelity which secured the
audience from disappointment, and enabled the Direction to
produce the entertainments promised for each evening with-
out a single change of performance—a fact without precedent
irt Operatic history.
The advantages peculiar to her Majesty's Theatre—its cen-
tral position, and associations now more than a century old
—give to it, a natural pre-eminence of which no occasional
circumstances can ever permanently deprive it. These ad-
vantages will be turned to account by a Company combining
the prestige of acknowledged genius with the attraction of
new candidates for the highest rank of their profession. Those
who last year won favour at the hands of strangers will re-
appear to claim the cordial recognition which an English
audience never refuses to established favourites ; and the
direction has been further strengthened by au accession of
new aspirants of the highest order, whose merits are already
acknowledged on the stages of Italy, and who only await the
verdict of the subscribers and frequenters of her Majesty's
Theatre to confirm their fame.
Although, in an Establishment especially devoted to Italian
Opera, the compositions of Italy will naturally predominate,
the gems of other schools will not be neglected.
Ballet will continue to be supported by the most famous of
established Artistes and the most promising of those who are
ambitious of the same distinction.
It is hoped that the organisation of every department will
prove completely worthy of that state of renewed prosperity
to which her Majesty's Theatre has now attained.
The following are the arrangements already completed :
OPERA.

Madame ALBONI,
Mdle. MARIA SPEZIA

(Of La Scala, Milan ; La
Fenice, Venice ; San Carlos,
Lisbon, &c.—her first ap-
pearance).

Male. ANGIOLA ORTOLANI
(Of La Scala, Milan ; L'Ori-
ente, Madrid, &c.—her first
appearance),

Fig. ANTONIO GIUGLINI,
(Of La Scala, Milau ; Carlo
Felice, Genoa ; Sau Carlos,
&c.—his first appearance),

Mdle. BAILLOU,
Madame FRANCHI,
Mdle. BERTI,
Mdle. POMA,

111dle. TRiNETA RAMOS
(Of the Tentro Regio, Turin
—her first appcarauce),

Mdle. PICCOLOMI NI.

(Of La Scala, Milan, and
Italian Opera, Paris, &c.—
his first appearance),
Sig. BAILLOU,
Sig. DE SOROS,
Sig. GARIBOLDI,
AND
Sig. FILIPPO VIALETTI
(Of La Scala, Milan ; La Fe-
n'ce, Venice ; L'Oriente,
Madrid, SLc. —his first ap-
pearance).

JACOPI,
Sig MERCURIALI,
Sig. LUIGI BOTTARDI
(Of the Carlo Felice, Genoa,
citc.—his first appearance),
BELLETTI,
Sig. rENEVENTANO,
Sig. NAPOLEONE ROSSI,
Sig. GIOVANNI CORSI
Director of the Music and Conductor—Sig. BONETTI.
Sons-Directeur and Maitre du Chant—Sig. VASCHETTI.
Suggeritore—Sig. FONTANA.
BALLET.
Mdle. ELISA SALVIONE
(Of La Scala, Milan—her first
appearance),
Mdle. GIUSEPPINA.
MORLACCHI
(Of the Teatro Regio, Turin—
her first appearance),
Mdle. ISABELLA KAR-
LISKI

Mdle. CAROLINA
POCCHINI
(Of the Karnther Thor, Vi-
enna ; La Scala, Milan ;

San Carlos, Naples ; Carlo
Felice, Genoa, &c.—her
first appearance).
Mille. MARIE TAGLIONI,
Mdle. BOSCHEITI,
Mdle. KATRINE,
Mdle. TERESA ROLLA
(Of La Fenice, Venice—her
first appearance).
Mdle. LUIGIA BRUNETTI
(Of the Carlo Felice, Genoa--
her first appearance),

M. PAUL TAGLIONI,
Sig. RON ZANI,
M. CHARLES,
M. PIERRE MASSOT
(Of the Oriente, MaJritl—his
first appearance),
Sig. FILIPO BARA TTI
(His first appearance),

Maitres de
M. PAUL TAGLIONI, R
Regisseur de la D.
Master of the School of In

(Of the Academie Imperiale,
Paris—her first appearance),
Mdle. CAROLINA PAS-
QUALI

(Of the Imperial Theatres of
Vienna and Milan her
first appearance).

And. Madamo ROSATI.

Sig. CASARE CHECCHETTI
(His first appearance),
Signori RAFFAELLE GAM-
BAR DELLA, LUIGI VA-
RINI, LVIGI TURBINO,
and PIETRO BUZZIO (of
the Teatro Regio, Turin,
and Carlo Felice, Genoa—
their first appearance).

Ballet—
tONZANI, and M. MASSOT.
anse—M. PETIT.
istruction—M. MASSOT.

Madlle. PICCOLO:ITM

Will arrive early in April, and, in addition to the characters
which last season she made her own, will appear in a varied
and attractive repertoire.

Madlle. SPEZIA
Will have the honour to anpear for the First Time at the
Opening of the Season in Donizetti's Opera of
LA. FAVORITA.

Immediately after
Madlle. ORTOLAN'
Will make her first appearance as Elvira, in Bellini's Opera of

Elvira.
Arturo

I PURITAN'.
Madllc. O RTOLANI.
Signor GIUGLINI.

Madame ALBONI
Will arrive before the Ist of May, and will make her first ap-
pearance this Season as Azucena, in Verdi's Opera of
IL TROVATORE.

The Union of Three of these distincruished Prime Donne,
Madlle. SPEZIA, Madlle. ORTOLAN', and Madlie. PIC-

COLOMINI,
Will be effected in Mozart's Opera of
IL DON GIOVANNI,

Which will be produced with the perfection of ensemble and
details necessary to realise the intentions of its great author.
All the great Artistes of the Establishment wi!l join in aiding
the efforts of the Director to do honour to the noble work of
the Shakspeare of music.

Signor GIUGLINI.

This charming Tenor will have the honour of inaugurating
the opening of the Theatre, and will make his first appear-
ance as Fernando, in the Opera of
LA FAVORITA.

The distinguished Basso Profondo,
Signor VIAL ETTI,
Will also make his first appearance at the opening of the
Theatre.

The admired Tenor,
Signor BOTAR DI,
Will make his first appearane early in the season.

Besides the principal executants of last year, the Orchestra
has been strengthened by the engagement of, amongst others,
Signor PEZZE,
First Violoncello of La Scala, and
Signor GI RALDON
First Contrebasso of Bergamo, LA Scala, &c.
The Chorus will be numerous and effective.

In addition to the union cf operatic talent at the opening
of the season, the inauguration of the Ballet portion will be
Jnado by the fascinating. Artiste,

Madlle. POCCIIIM.
The most successful Ballet,
LA ESMERALDA,
Will bo revived expressly for her debut.

Early in tho season, Madlle. BOSCHETTI and Madlle.
KATRINE will appear.

Madlle. MARIE TAGLIONI
Will arrive early in May, and wail shortly afterwards appear
in a New Ballet, composed expressly for her by M. Paul
Taglion!.

Madame ROSATI
Will appear in a Ballet Divertissement from Auber and Scribe's

New Ballet of
MARCO SPADA,
Now preparing for her at the Academic Imperille, Paris.
Princi Artist t the E tablisbment—
Mr. CHARLES M RSIT AL L.
Tbe Costume Department -ender the sole direction of
Mme. COPERE. •
r Executed by M. LAUREYS And Mrs. MASTERMAN.
Principal Machinist—Mr. D. SLOMAN.
Head of the Property Department—Mr. BRADWELL.

The Subscription wi'l consist of Thirty Nights, and the
terms will be :is fol ow:—
Pit boxes ~
Grand Tier
One Pair
Tvir,. Pair
Pit Stalls

••• 150 gttine ts.
`.'sfl

150
100 "

Tho THEATRE will OPEN on TUESDAY, April 14, when
will be presented DonizettPs Opera of
LA FAVORITA.
Leonora
Baldassare
Fernando Signor GI UGLIN
I.
To be followed (first time these 10 yens) by the favourite
Ballet of LA ESMERALDA.
Founded on Victor If tvo's ''Notre Dame de Paris."
La Esmeralda biadlle. POCCHINI.
C!ande Frollo.

Pierre Gringoire M MASSOT.
Applications for Boxes and Stalls to be male at the Opera
Box-o+qce, Colonnade, Haymarket.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL
Lesgee—Mr. Ben. Waster.

THIS EVENING, will he performed TRIS ASSURANCE
AND YANKEE MODESTY. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams.
After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which
.51r. Wright and Pasl Bedford will appear.
BARNEY THE BARON. Barney O'Toole, Mr. Barney
Williams.
Followed by a new Piece de Caractere, entitled IN AND
OUT OF PLACE. Mrs Barney Williams.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ng company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
'elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Ducts, dic., viz, : Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J.
Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S.
Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor Antonio M.
de Soils, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and
(Joni; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins.
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
lirector, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre-
cisely. Suppers, &c.,until twelve o'clock.

RIGEL WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE.
PHIS DAY—Morn. 23 min. aft. I—Evening 46 min. aft. 1
'.',l-M.6PBOti.—Morn. 6 min. aft. 2—Evening 26 cain.aft. 2

TaE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 25.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
50 -highest since noon yesterday
42 --lowest this morning and during the night.
47 —this day at noon.

BA aom MICR, 29'48.
WlND—Southerly, veering from S.E. to S.S.W. —Rather
fresh, with dull weather and occasional rain. It began to
rain last evening.

,t.,:f:
( 4'14714),_ .-,
..,----- l
, . 1 7 ir:;-,AC-.):':,(2'2;.= ,-)-W-:,...t.,1 ,4•,....., , •
'..}lAln
,__. • -,\
i