The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-24 00:00:00

GRAND FANCY BALL IN PARIS.

A splendid fancy ball was given on Friday night
by M. Fould, Minister of State, on the occasion of
the Mi-Careme. The saloons were brilliantly illu-
minated, and decorated wi'h the choicest flowers ;
and a long gallery sep troting them from the sup-
per room was hung throughout with sky-blue s;lk.
At about 11 the Emperor and Empress arrived, at-
tired in black dominoes. The Emperor kept his
muck on all the time he stayed; but the Empress,
to whom a small saloon had been reserved, so..n
withdrew 'o it to change her costume, and returned
to the ball-room dressed as a Persian lady, a pic-
turesque c ,stume, consisting of a long garment of
thick silk gauze, striped white and blue, without
crinoline, and covering the whole person from the
neck to the feet. The head-dress consisted of a
kind of white cashmere veil, entirely concealing
the face, with the exception of a square opening
left for the eyes, but protected by silk netting. Tho
Princess Mathilde had her hair powdered, and her
shoulders covered with a short cloak and hood.
Prince Napoleon, Marshals Pelissier, Canroberr,
Miignan,Vaillant, and Bosquet, the minister&ambas-
sadors, and great dignitaries were all in domino. M.
Fould was dressed in black, with an open domino.
Madame Fould was attired in a rich costume as
Mary Stuart ; Lady Cowley had assumed the cha-
racter of Mary Queen of England ; the Countess
de Serrano wore a charming Audalusian black and.
rose-coloured costume, richly embroidered ; the
Countess de Castiglioue was dressed as a Norweg'an
countrywoman ; the Marquis de Brigode had one
of the most splendid costumes at the ball, -being
dressed as Juno, after the fashion of the ballets of
Luis XIV., with peacock feathers on her head,
the bOdy of the dress being blue velvet fringed with
gold, a short frock of cloth of silver, and blue vel-
vet buskins with gold embroidery. Madame Mag-
nan wore a riding-dress copied from a painting of
Lancret's ; Madame de Barachin, her sister, was
dressed as Marie-Antoinette ; the Princess Calli-
maki wore a .cur'ous dress of the middle ages, with
a kind of ruff. covering the back and protrud.ng
over the shoulders. Among the gentlemen the
most remarkable costumes were those of Count de
Nieuwerkerke, dressed as an Ojibbeway Indian ; M.
Olympe Aguado, as a Byzantine prince of the 13111
century ; and of M. de Heckeeren, as a Hungarian.
Prince Dauilo and suite appeared in their rich na-
tional costumes. A gentleman whose name did not
transpire was accoutred in complete armour of the
time of the Crusaders. Supper was served up at
half-past one, and the cotillon was danced after
supper. Their Majesties did not dance, but stayed
until three o'clock.

MONEY-OEDER OFFICES.- GENERLL POST-OFFICE,
March 23. -On the Ist of April the following alterations
will be made :-Englind-1. Money-order offices will
be opened at Abbots Bromley, Staff.,rd, bead office at
Rugeley ; Burwash, Sussex, head office at Hurst Gre n;
Feckenham, Worcester, head office at Bromsgrove ;
Great Haywood, Stafford, head office at Rugeley ;
broJk. Cornwall, head office at Devon port ; Mountsor-
rell, Leicester, bead office at Loughborough ; Shea.
stone, Stafford, head office at Lichfield ; Stalhatri, Nor.
folk, head office at Norwich ; and Street, Somerset,
head office at Bath. Ireland-2 Money-order officos
will bs opened at Coachford, Cork, head office at Cork;
Pomeroy, Tyrone, head office at Dungannon ; and Sir
-utrhelte. Lwaiill Bral:
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John Rogerson's Quay, head office at Dublin. 3. Ths
money-order office at Booterstown, Dublin, Las been
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return,
more, the late member for Herefordshire, shows that the
gross total quantity of cern and grain imported into the
united kingdom in the year 1856 amounted to 8,197,253
quarters, and the total quantity of meal and ff,ur
ported to 3,991,367 cwt. The grain included 4 072.831
quarters of wheat, 731,412 quarters of barley. 1,146 843
quarters of oats, 27,981 quarters of rye, 86,032 quar-
ters of peas, 353,218 quarters of beans, and 1.777.813
quarters of Indian corn. Of th-, wheat 467,617 quar-
tersquarters from Prussia, 137,326
came from the North and 291,342 quarter.airc.m.l
South Russia, 177,216 quarters from Denmark,
im tLe Hansa
tel
uarrers
Towns, 28,129 quarters from Rolland, 24,938 q
from France, 14,809
from Belgium, 10,007 quarters9
49.71 q uarters fi om Spain,
quarters from Portugal,
Papal dominions, 21,600 quar.
47,974 quarters from tie
Sicily, 86,634 gnarters from Ans.
tars from Naples a!?rdeece,
112,825 from Turkey Proper,
quarters
trig, 98,134 from C*
63 f E t 111
'Egypt, 90,9 rom aslndies,Bl9
534,603 from
A erica and 1 279 150 quarters
124,671 from the Prpalities, 36,195 from Syria,
ard .
Hob North ..U1 1
from Bret
h United States. The quantity of grain return.
from " 1856 in England and Wales included 5,046,738
)
s, sold in
quArt-ra of wheat, 2 678,936 of barley, 701,159 of oats,
13,367 0f eve 242 052 cf.
.beans and 71,099 quarters of
.
'peas, The average price of wheat ranged from 31. 19e.
di. to 31. is. id. It further appears that 52.019 oxen
and bulls, 9,843 cows, 21,444 calves, 135,588 sheep,
9,471 lambs, and 9,916 swine and hogs were imported
year--for the most part from Holland, Denmark,
and the Hanseatic Towns.
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TT ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
SEASON 1857.

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 institution, and the counsel which added to
its value was never a, corn )anied by a word to shackle the
discretion or impair ihe 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 awai, ing 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 lie 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 est tblishment.

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 he 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
in 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 au English
audience never refuses to established favourites; and the
direction has been further strengthened by an 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 ALEONI,
Mdle. MARIA SPEZIA
(Of La Scala, Milan ; La
Fenlce, Venice; San Carlos,
Lisbon, &c.—her first ap-
pearance),

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

F ig. ANTONIO GIUGLINI,
(Of La Scala, Milan; Carlo
Felice, Genoa ; San Carlos,
&c.—his first appearance),
Sig. JACOPI,
Sig MERCURIALI,
Sig. LLTIGI BOTTARDI
(Of the Carlo Felice, Genoa,
&c.—his first appearance),
Sig. BELLETTI, _
Sig. BENEVENTANO,
Sig. NAPOLEONE ROSSI,
Sig. GIOVANNI CORSI

Director of the Music and C
Sous-Directeur and Maitre d
Suggeritore—Si;
BAL:

Mdle. CAROLINA
POCCHINI
(Of the Karnther Thor, Vi-
enna ; La Scala, Milan ;
San Carlos, Naples ; Carlo
Felice, Genoa, &e.—her
first appearance).
Mdle. MARIE TAGLIONI,
Mille. BOSCHETTI,
Mdle, KATRINE,
Mdlc. TERESA ROLLA
(Of La Fenice, Venice—her
first appearance).
LUIGIA BRUNETTI
(Of the Carlo Felice, Genoa—
her first appearance),

Mdle. BAILLOU.
Madame FRANCH.
Mdle. BERTI,
Mdle. POMA,

M. PAUL TAGLIONI,
RONZANI,
M. CHARLES,
M. PIERRE MASSOT
(Of the Oriente, Madrid—his
first appearance),
Sig. FILIPO BARATTI
(His first appearance),

Mdle. TRENETA RAMOS
(Of the Teatro Regio, Turin
—her first appearance),

AND
Mdle. PICCOLOMIN

(Of La Scala, Milan, and
Italian Opera, Paris, &c.—
his first appearance),
BAILLOU,
Sig. DE SOIIOS,
Sig. GARIBOLDI,
AND

Sig. FILIPPO VIALETTI
(Of La Scala, Milan ; La Fe.
nice, Venice. ; L'Oriente,
Madrid, &c.—his first ap•
pearance).

BONETTI.
Chant—Sig. VASCHETTI.
'g. FONTANA.
LET.
Mdle. ELISA SALVIONE
(Of La Scala, Milan--her first
appearance),
Mdle. GIUSEPPINA
MORLACCHI
(Of the Teatro Eegio, Turin—
her first appearance),
Mdle. ISABELLA KAIt-
LISKI
(Of the Academie Imperiale,
Paris—her first appearance),
Mdle. CAROLINA PAS-
,
QUALI
(Of the Imperial Theatres of
Vienna and Milan her
first appearance)•
And Madame ROSATI.

Sig. CASARE CIIECCHETTI
(Ilis first appearance),
Signori RAFFAELLE GAM-
BARDELLA, LUIGI VA-
RINI, LUIGI TURBINO,
and PIETRO BUZZIO (of
the Teatro Begio, Turin,
and Carlo Felice, Genoa—
their firg appearance).

Maitres de Ballet—
M. PAUL TAGLIONI, Sig, BONZANI, and M, MASSOT,
Regisseur de la. Dause—M. PETIT.
Master of the School of Instruction—M. MASSOT,

Madlle. PICCOLOMINI
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 appear 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, ia Bellini's Operao
I PURITANI.
Madlle, ORTOLANI.
Signor GIUGLINI.

Elvira.
Arturo

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 distinguished Prime Donne,
Madlle, SPEZIA, Madlle. ORTOLANI, and Madlle. 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 tho great Artistes of the Establishment will join in aiding
the efforts of the Director to do honour to the noble work of
the Shakspearc 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