The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-23 00:00:00

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
elesino• 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 ho
is indebted to Maddle Piecolomini 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 wou 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 an accession of
new apirants of the highest order, whose merits arc 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
reuice, Venice; San Carlos,
Lisbon, &c.—her first ap-
pearance),

Mdlc. BAILLOIT,
Madame FRANCHI,
Mdle. BERTI,
MiIk.POMA,
MIIe.TRENLTA RAMOS
(Of the Teatro Regio, Turin
—her first appearance),
AND
Mdle. PICCOLOMENI,

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

Sig. ANTONIO MUGLINI,
(Of La Scala, Milan ; Carlo
Felice, Genoa ; San Carlos,
i.e. —his first appearance),

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

Sig. JACOPI,
Sig. MERCUBIALL
Sig. LUIGI BOTTARDI
(Of the Carlo Felice, Genoa,
dtc.—hie first appearance),
Sig. BELLETTI,
Sig. BENEVENTANO,
Sig. NAPOLEONE ROSSI,
Sig. GIOVANNI CORSI
Director of the Music and C
Sous-Directeur and Maitre d
Suggeritorc--.Si
DAL]

El.)nfluctor—Sig. BONETTI.
Eu Chant —Sig. VASCHETTI.
ig. FONTANA.

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

LET,
`ldle. ELISA SALVIONE
(Of La Scala. Milan—her first
appearance),
Mdle. GIUSEPPINA
MORLACCIII

(Of the Teatro Regio, Turin—
her first appearance),
Mdle. ISABELLA KA It-

LISKI

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

(Of the Imperial Theatres of
Vienna and Milan her
first appearance),
And Madame ROSATI.

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

Sig. CASARE CIIECCHETTI
(His first appearance).
Signori RAFFAELLE GAM-
BAMDELLA, LUIGI VA-
RINI, LUIGI TUBBING,
and PIETRO BUZZIO (of
the Teatro Regio, Turin,
' and Carlo Felice, Genoa—
their first appearance).
NTaitres de Ballet—
M. PAUL TAGLIONI, Sig. RONZANI, and M. MASSOT,
Regisseur de la Danse—H. PETIT.
Master of the School of Instruction--31. 3IASSOT.

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 asElvira, in Bellini's Opera of
I PURITAN'.
Madlle. 0 RTOLANI.
Signor GIUGLINI.

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, Madlie. 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 the great Artistes of the Establishment will join in aiding
the efforts of the Director to do honour to the noble work of
the Shakspeare of music.

Sign or G LTGLINI.
This charming Tenor will have the honour of inaugurating
the opening of the Theatre, and will make his first appeu•-
ance as Fernando, in the Opera of

-001 OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, (a new farce, called THIEVES!
THIEVES ! ! Messrs. F. Robson, G. VininT, &c.
The new drama, by Tom Taylor, E 3 q., A SHEEP IN
WOLF'S CLOTHING.
Followed by the new farce, by Bayle Bernard, Esq.,
called A SPLENDID INVESTMENT.
And A BLIGHTED BEING. Mr. F. Robson, &c.
Commence at half-past Seven.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
THIS EVENING (first week) Shakspere's Play of KING
HENRY THE FOURTH Part First), with novel and effec-
tive equestrian illustrations invented by Mr. Wm. Cooke.
Hotspur, Mr. James Holloway.
Alm), a number of amusing Entertainments, concluding
with a Brilliant Display of Equestrian SKILL and SCIENCE,
by first-rate artistes, in the SCENES in the CIRCLE
Commerce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper
'owes, 3s. • Private Boxes, from V., no charge for booking ;
Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, lid.
Cox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager,
%Ir. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
~elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, &c., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunel], Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta; Mr, J.
;7aulfield, Herr V. Jonglinians, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S.
Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor Antonio M.
le Sella, and E. L. Ilime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and
Corti; 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 -
,ciscly. Suppers, etc., until twelve o'clock.

III(111 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCII 22.
THERMOAIgTICII, IN TEM S3ADS.
43 -highest sines noon yesterday
33 -lowest this morning and during the night.
43 —this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 29'81.
WIND, N. to N.E.—Fresh, with fine, frosty weather in
the morning, and heavy showers of snow in the forenoon.
MACCR 23.
43 -highest since noon yesterday.
°west this morning and during the night.
48 —tills day at noon.
BAROMETER, 2912.
WIND, Westerly, with occasional showers of snow.

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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1857

A fortnight from the present date will witness
;he election of a new Parliament. The Fifth
Parliament of VICTORIA—to which Parliament
will be committed nominally for seven years, pro-
bably for five, the destinies of the British Empire,
according to the working of one of the most im-
portant provisions of the Constitution.
Already every one of the preliminary formali-
ties requisite in the carrying out of an Appeal to
the Country has been attended with a more than
ordinary degree of promptitude and scrupulosity.
Scarcely had the Lords and Commons listened to
the announcement of the Prorogation delivered in
the name of Her MAJESTY by the Royal Commis-.
sioners when there appeared in rapid sequence in
an extraordinary Supplement to the Gazette the
formal Proclamation calling for the now
Parliament. Scarcely had impressions of
this important document well issued damp and
reeking from the Press, when the writs were de-
spatched far and wide over the three kingdoms to
each of the various constituencies. All this,
remember, taking place within the compass of a
few hours on Saturday evening—the Prorogation,
the Proclamation, and the Distribution of the new
Writs to the different constituencies ! Those
writs, moreover, being forwarded upon the present
occasion direct to the Returning Officer in each
locality : instead of, as formerly, to the
Sheriff of the county, to be sent out by that. ollis
cial to their several destinations. Au inisovation
in the electioneering arrangements obvi.ousAy calcu-
lated to expedite the course of events, and, by
simplifying the proceedings in the first stage, to
bring us to the last with the utmost possible de-
gree of expedition. And F.. 1 o, the Executives, in the
name of the Crown, havi:Jg performed its share in
the labours of a Gerseral Election, everything
else now rests entirely with the Constituencies
themselves. Upon them devolves the whole Of
the remaining responsibility—a responsibility
affecting for that matter, indeed, eack individual
Elector for the counties, cities, boroughs, univer-
sities, and cinque ports returning Members to
Parliament-. The counties will have to commence
their elections at the lstest after eight days have
elapsed, and they will have to reach the litnit•of
their completion within four days afterwards. The
other elections—those for boroughs, cities, cinque
ports, and universities—have their time yet more
restricted. A minimum of three clear days, and
a maximum of six being at their disposal for the
purposes of selection among the various candi-
dates. So that we are already in a manner
within view of the End at the very time whoa we
can scarcely be said to have realised the inititsl
fact of the Beginning.
A fortnight, therefore, we repeat, will witness
the return of the new members by the several
constituencies. Palmerstonians and Derby ites,
Whigs and Tories, Liberals and Conservatives,
pleading simultaneously to the most "swees
voices" of the possessor.; of the franchise—argu-
mentatively and oratorically at the hustings.
coaxingly and wheedingly at the polling booths.
At the former by themselves in person—at the
latter through their agents and representatives.
Many of the more adventurous candidates, in
truth, have already "talked the matter over"
with sundry of the constituencies, as comfortably
as possible under the very peculiar circumstances
of theoccasion. Adventuring upon this course either
by a Written Address or by a Spoken Address.
Mr. BRIGHT, fur example, sending a letter from
Rome to Manchester. Sir JAMES Or fLt HA AL,
going down boldly ;tad takius~
Horns at Carlisle,the :BULL the
for we don't know
how many hours; as Sir JAMES• GRAIIAAT can,
speak when he likes (0 so speciously !)
at
first amidst considerable hubbub
p
airletty en
and confusion,
::cuctia
iantatlin (of Otherscourse * aagain, nleLt_fi.,li
eotovin
,tve,ntgll
al
lomg wiiiilt
one thing' have
doneb:,,iElectors with t
form printed Appeal to t 1;