The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-26 00:00:00

_ACCIDENT TO " BIG BEN."

Our readers will hear with regret that an accident
has occurred to " Big Ben" which has deprived him
of that voice and tone to which they had already
become familiar, and which it was hoped would be
heard for many years from the lofty clock tower of
the new Palace at Westminster. For some time past
it has been the custom to toll the bell a short time at
1 o'clock on Saturdays. On Saturday the proceedings
were commenced as usual, and after the hammer
struck the third time it was found that the sound
was not the old familiar E natural, but a cracked
and uncertain sound. The superintendent of
the works immediately gave orders for the suspen-
sion of the performance, and a close examination of
the bell took place. No place could, however, be
discovered in the first instance. The search was
renewed, and a lighted candle was taken inside the
bell, and while being moved slowly round the out-
side was carefully watched; at. length, to the dis-
may of all the persons present, light shone through
the thick metal, and there was no further room for
doubt that the bell was cracked. The " crack" in
the bell rises perpendicularly from the rim, or
lower lip to about half way up the side, and it is
directly opposite to the spot on which the bell was
struck by the large hammer. For some time past
grave doubts have • been expressed as to the pro-
priety of continuing the Saturday performances on
the bell in the position in which it was hung.
Situated at the foot of the clock tower, and sur-
rounded by a close hoarding, the friends of " Big
Ben" complained strongly of the unfair treatment
to which he was subjected by being struck in a po-
sition-where he had no room to develope his power,
and not a few have considered that he was not
struck fairly by the blows of the huge square and
clumsy hammer which fell upon his metal side.
Whether it be true or not that "Big Ben" was
hung unfairly, or struck unfairly, the fact unfortu-
nately is that his ♦oice is for ever silenced, and not
until he has been broken up, aga'n melted and
cast, nay we expect to hear " his once familiar
voice." The accident occurring at the present mo-
ment is the more to be regretted inasmuch
as it was expected that a short time only would
elapse before he would be placed in the
belfry for which he was destined. Every-
thing had been prepared for his reception in the
lofty eminence of the "Clock Tower," the
" cradle" for carrying him up and the chains for
hanging him were all ready, and Sir C. Barry waited
only the arrival of the four small bells for striking
the quarter hours, when the clock, which in the
factory of Mr. Dent has for months past been
keeping the most exact time, would be put in its
place, and " Big Ben " would be elevated to these
regions where the boom of his mighty voice could
be heard over the whole metropolis to proper ad-
vantage. The quarter bells are cast, and it was
expected that by the meeting of Parliament the
whole arrangements would have been completed.
Several months must now elapse before the bell can
be recast and placed in its position,

ROYAL BRITISH BANK.

The following address has been circulated by the
assignees amongst the shareholders of the Royal'
British Bank :
" The undersigned assignees having been constituted
by the recent act of Parliament, the representatives of
the creditors for the purposes of that act feel it their duty
to address the shareholders upon the subject of the pro.
posed general compromise. The assignees much regret
that all their efforts have been hitherto unsuccess-
ful in persuading the shareholders to subscribe
the amount necessary for completing the compro-
mise suggested by themselves and by their authorised
agents, and that they have not appreciated the exertions
of the assignees, nor met them in the liberal spirit which
the sacrifice of their time entitled the assignees to claim
at the bands of the shareholders. Many of the share.
holders have taken every advantage both of time and of
legal delay to interpose obstacles to the completion and
carryicg out of the proposition which emanated from
the committee appointed by themselves.
*The proposal to pay to all the creditors a composi-
tion of 6+. 6d. in the pound, in addition to the dividend
to be realised from the estate, was deemed by the assig-
nees and the committee of shareholders a fair and reason-
able proposition. The assignees, as members of the
committee of depositors, relied upon the good faith of
the shareholders, and the pledge given by their commit-
tee,and it was upon that assurance that thearrangement
would be completed, and that the 12,0001. deposited
towards the agreed guarantee of 20,1,00./., would, within
a reasonable period, be increased by the contributions of
the shareholders to the sum required for the completion
of the arrangement, that the assignees need shtheir in-
Hoene, to stop and avert costly and ruinous litigation,
which must have terminated in the utter run of every
shareholder in the bank,
"Many months have, however, elapsed, and no addi-
tion has been made to the fund, nor has any movement
been made by the shareholders either to discharge the
debts of the bank or to complete the compromise. The
assignees indeed know that acting upon an unfair and
dishonourable policy several of the shareholders have
applied their funds, which should in justice have been
appropriated to their promised arrangement in the pur-
chase of the debts of the bank, and that unfair attempts
have been made to induce the creditors to sell their debts
at a low price. It may be said that as the law formerly
stood the shareholders had no guarantee that their con-
tributions would free 'them from further liabilities, but
the Act of Parliament obtained during the last session
empowers the representatives of the creditors to give
discharges from all further liability to creditors.
Want of protection to the shareholders no longer exists,
and they have, therefore, no excuse for not coming
forward an I uniting in this common object, in which it
is due not only to the creditors but to their fellow-
shareholders, and, indeed, to themselves, that they
should all earnestly assist. The only hope the share•
holders can have of averting their common ruin is by
the subscription of such an amount as will satisfy the
claims of the creditors, and thus prevent the otherwise
inevitable necessity of putting in force an organised
scheme, by which the creditors will be able to compel
payment of their debts in full, and invalidate those dis-
positions of property which have been made in the hope
of placing it beyond their reach. The shareholders in-
dividually must feel the force of this appeal. If properly
responded to, the desired object may be attained ; but if
each shareholder should still withhold his contribution
from the apprehension that it will weigh little in the
scale, it is manifest that the compromise cannot be
effected. It is because shareholders have hitherto hesi-
tated to come forward according to their means that so
much misery has been caused. Each shareholder should
feel that by now advancing more than he would be re-
quired to pay if all the shareholders were able to con-
tribute according to the number of their shares, he is in
fact saving the remainder of his property, which other-
wise must be wrested from him. It is therefore merely
a question how much less than his entire means each
shareholderewill offer, to avert certain and immediate
ruin. Shareholders should not delude themselves by the
vain hope that residence abroad will enable „them to
escape the reach of creditors, or:that their property will
not be ultimately made available for payment of the
debts. The previous offers of contribution were insuffi-
cient to effect the object, and the offers of many were
far below their well-known available means. The past
shareholders are now more immediately interested in
aiding the general compromise, because the recent law,
amongst other advantages in favour of the creditors,
enables the assignees to make such arrangements with
the present shareholders as will entitle creditors to
proceed against former members. It is admitted by the
shareholders that the temporary protection given to
them by the recent act would not have been obtained
but for the exertions of the assignees and the committee
of depositors.
" It is for the shareholders to acknowledge those exer •
tions by taking advantage of the protection afforded
them, and giving, while that protection continues, their
active and energetic assistance in carrying out the com-
promise. If the shareholders continue passive that
compromise must fail, their temporary protection will be withheld, and a well-organised and vigorous plan will
be resorted to for the purpose of enforoing payment of
the debts in full. The unsuccessful attempts hitherto
made to bring about the compromise induce the assig-
nees to believe that the only mode likely to lead to a
successful result is to hold a meeting of all the share-
holders past and present, and this letter will therefore
be accompanied by an official circular convening a meet-
ing at which all are earnestly invited to atteed, at which
the assignees will be present.
(Signed) " JAMES WILD, JNO. MAXWELL, H. J.
MITCHELL, ROBERT TAILOR, P. T.
BURKE."
Accompanying this address is the following circular :
" London, Oct. 21.
" Re the Royal British Bank.
" Sir,--We are requested to forward the enclosed
circular expressing the views of the assignees of this
estate upon the subject of the proposed general compro-
Rise. By the recent act of Parliament temporary pro-
tection had been given to the shareholders against pro-
ceedings of creditors. The opportunity is, therefore,
now afforded to the shareholders of assisting without
molestation in such arrangements as may be necessary
for the purpose of carrying out the compromise. It roust
be evident that if the shareholders do not avail them•
selves of this opportunity for the purpose, it will be im-
possible to prevent the consequences which must inevit-
ably follow. We have, therefore, earnestly to invite 3 our
attendance at a general meeting of the shareholders to be
held at the Guildhall Coffee House, King-street, Cheap.
side, on Wednesday, the 11th day of November nest, at
halt-pact six o'clock in the evening precisely.
" It is desirable that you should fill up and return the
enclosed form as early as possible, and that if you can-
not be present at the meeting you should depute some
person to attend for you, with authority to act as may
be necessary. We feel convinced that compromise can
be effected if the shareholders will unite together for that
purpose. The assignees on behalf of the creditors will
lend all the assistance in their power to carry out the
compromise, and no exertion shall be wanting on our
part to ensure its success.—We remain, sir, your obe-
dient servants,
(Signed)
" I. and I. 11. LINKLATER and HAOLWOOD,
Solicitors for the Ass'gnees, No. 17, Sise-lane.
"R. P. HARDINO, Official Manager, No. 4, Luthbury."
Annexed is the form referred to—
" R. P. Harding, Esq.
" In re Royal British Bank.
" Sir,—l am willing to contribute the sum of
towards the fund required to effect a compromise with
the creditors of the Royal British Bank in addition to
the following amounts, for which I claim to have credit
in account : £ s. d.
"Amount of my (deposit or current) ac-
count with the bank
~ ~ ~
"Amount paid by me to individual creditors
~ ~ ~" Amount paid to the official manager
"Amount paid to the official assignee
"Amount paid towards the depositfund „

" Amount offered as abovo l9 /9 If

Total

" I am, &o."

JAMES SPOLLiNT-I-It is not supposed by the Crown
lawyers that they will be able to get a verdict against
this notorious character, whose trial comes on before
Baron Richards next week at the Dublin Commission.
There has been no new evidence obtained ; and it is not
believed that a strong case can be constructed on the old
testimony. However, should Spolien escape from the
clutches of his gaolers once more, the executive will be
able to say that it has done its duty to the utmost in his
case. His health is hardly so good as when he trod the
stage of Fishamble.street, but he is not di,pirited, and
states that his acquittal is certain.
FLOODS IN ESSNX AND Loss OF LIFB.—On Thursday
night a great part of Essex was visited by a fearful
storm, or rather a succession of storms, of thunder and
lightning, and as the rain had fallen heavily through.
out the whole of the day the rivers were soon swelled
to torrents, which committed terrible devastation in
their course. Large tracts of land were speedily
flooded, and in the direction towards Maldon and
Crouch whole flocks of sheep were drowned in the
field& Mr. Kemp, an extensive farmer in that dis-
trict, lost 50 shelip besides some cattle ; and on the
farm of Mr. Hart, a neighbouring gentleman, whole
fields may be said to have been carried away, as the
cultivated soil over many acres has been swept off by
the n
sf r
werece foifn
ut hue dated waters
to the;
depth
he
of fa r slue v ebuildingsseveral
fret.
dll
the farms and villages in a
direction, towards the coast
for miles bear traces of the havoc
committed many houses
having been inundated and much property injured. At
Burnham a sad catastrophe occurred. A. wedding in the
town that day had been attended by a party of young
farmers from the neighbouring district, and two of them
were on their way home at night in a horse and gig when
they wt ra met by the flood and of one them, Mr. J.
Rha •
Ins jumping out to secure the horse, was swept away
by the torrent and drowned. His body was found next
day some distance from the spot. At Colchester Camp
the storm was severely felt, and a high wall next the
military road was carried down by the' wind and 4he
flood. •

6e
e British public, if
would for anything
One rather unique foreign contribution, and a
pleasant one too, to our stock of knowledge, or at
they
leastl
aio:
eft
Ii tivai
ecs
def a
tcihtnieoiltirh,
ein sconcerning
twrourcltdo rtsh India comes from
,
of the sort. Bomba, whom we so lately threatened
to bombard, has permitted an active canvass in his
dominions for subscriptions for British subjects in
India suffering from excesses such as he and his
subjects have been menaced with any time these
dozen years if the behests, not even of native, but
of alien Sepoys were not acted upon. It appears,
from the published lists, that both in Sicily and
/f apl es collections has been made, not only among
British subjects, of whom large numbers reside
there in peace and ease, notwithstanding our with-
drawal of all diplomatic representatives, b among
the natives; and we read of Il Duct and Duchessa,
di Santo Appino, 11 Marcheso Biquano, Mine.
Maritlli D'Ascoll, the Princess of Monthvago, &c.,
handing in their ducats, as though the calamity had
resulted from an eruption .zEtna or Vesuvius, at
their own doors. What is probably more re-
markable still, considering the surious bigotry at-
tributed to the King, we read of handsome subscrip-
tions collected at the " Protestant Church in Paler-
mo," in which locality, according to current report
here, if a gentleman believing in the 39 Articles
were caught he would be elfopped into maccaroni.
Add to this, that all the British journals abuqine.
his Majesty, and a few British journals do any-
thing else, are permitted to be openly "sold to whom-
soever pleases to buy, and the correspondents who
furnish the material are allowed to pursue their
avocations with what satisfaction to themseles they
can command, and it must be admitted that Beel-
zebub Bourbon isn't altogether so nigeriferously
black as he is painted. Besides, his Majesty has
given another sample of magnanimity which some
of his crowned satirists would do well to imitate.
Although the Emperor of the French, in common
, withour own executive,-"has treated him with every
I possible indignity, that has not prevented him
permitting such of his subjects as are eligible from
receiving the new-fangled order of St. Helena—
perhaps by way of a joke at the Muratist itiase.rie
wherewith the deadly-lively gentlemen of the Paris
press try to frighten him. Bomba, with all his
solemnity, is said to be a wag ; and there is no
reason why he shouldn't have a laugh in his royal
sleeve, at the way mankind are hoodwinked with
their eyes open, as well as the noble employer of
the Chevalier Vikoff, paid 5001. a year by the
British Treasury for keeping the peace of Europe
through the medium of Philadelphia newspapers !
Well for Gilbert A'Beckett he's dead. The real

Comic History is the grave history enacted by the
Comic OH Gentleman all over the globe—a his-
tory whereat one hardly knows whether to grin or
groan, and perhaps it doesn't much matter which :
—at least it won't 100 years hence, and that is all
the same as regards the British lion.—Liverpool
Albion.

THE INDIAN MUTINY BELIEF FrND.

The Lord Mayor has addressed the following
letter to the editor of the Morning Post :
Sir,—The very judicious and thoughtful obser-
vations which you gave to the public in your lead-
ing article of to-day with reference to this subject
appear to me to require and to deserve a prompt
explanatory reply. Such a reply naturally divides
itself into two parts—first, a delineation of the
scheme and principles on which it is intended to
administer this fund ; and next, a statement, if pos-
sible, of the nature and extent of the distress which
will require relief, and the probable amount which
will be necessary for the purpose.
The first of these topics I enter upon with the
more willingness, because the committee are speci-
ally desirous that the strongest light of publicity
should be thrown on every part of their proceed-
ings. With relation to the general principles by
which they have resolved to be guided in the dis-
tribution of relief, I may be p?rmitted to present a
series of resolutions which has already been adver-
tised in your columns
The object of this committee is to relieve, as far
as may be practicable and necessary, the distress caused
by the mutinies in India.
" 2. In doing so, care should be taken not to superseda
the assistance which ought to be given by the Govern-
ment, by the established Widows' and Orphans' Funds,
or by the relations of the sufferers ; but to supplement it
to the extent to which it falls short of a just measure of
relief.

" 3. Compensation for losses, as such, will in no case
be given.

"- 4. Subject to the preceding conditions, efforts of
the committee will be specially directed—
" First. To enable the sufferers to live with frugality
in their respective states of life until other mans of sub-
sistence are available.
" Second. To provide for the maintenance and educa-
tion of children in oases in which it has been interrupted
or prevented by casualties arising out of the mutiny, and
in which it cannot be provided for from other sources.
"Third. To assist the sufferers to came to this coun-
try or to go to India, when the circumstances render it
proper that they should do so, and the means of paying
for their passage cannot be obtained from any
source. other

" Fourth. To afford reasonable aid, by loan or other-
wise, to officers and others who have lost their equip-
raenti, furniture, or other property, by the necessity of
sudden flight from their at aloes or the destruction of
their dwellings, when, without such aid, they would be
involved in pecuniary embarrassments.
"5. That relief according to these principles be given,
without distinction of religion or nationality, to every
person of whatever rank who has a just claim upon the
sympathy and assistance of the British people."
These resolutions have been transmitted to the
Relief Committee at Calcutta, and although the Cen-
tral Committee have not yet received a reply to
their communication ; still, from documents in
their possession, they have reason to believe that
the principles on which they have agreed for their
own regulation will substantially form the basis of
the administration of the fund in India.
With respect to the more detailed arrangements
of the committee Sin the administration of relief,
the information which they desire to afford to the
public should be distributed under two heads—that
which refers to the sufferers in India, and that
which has respect tothose at home, and under their
own eyes, who have been reduced to distress by the
suspension of remittances and other disastrous con-
sequences of the mutinies.
As to the first the committee have already con-
signed to the case of the Governor-General at Cal-
cutta the sum of 40,0001., remitted in company's
bills and specie, to be placed at the disposal of the
relief committee there. They have further con-
signed to Lord Elphinstone 3,0001. for the tem-
porary relief of sufferers in his presidency, and have
sent 6,0001. to Sir John Lawrence, the Chief Com-
missioner at Lahore,. for similar application in that
district, and have entrusted to him 1,0001. in aid
of the funds of the Lawrence Asylum.
The applications for relief which have been made
to the committee durinc, the brief period of its
existence have necessarily been few in number, and
confined to cases of distress in our own country.
The bulk of the funds already expended by the
committee leave been applied to the relief of
sufferers in the East. But, in dletioipation of the
influx of cases which must necessarily be expected
on the arrival in England of persons reduced to
destitution abroad, the committee have requested
the transmission to them, by every mail, of the
most precise information from, their co -operators
in Calcutta embracing a com rehensive record of
their proceedings—an account of their receipts and
expenditure, and a minute detail of all the par-
ticulars of cases to which they have supplied relief,
including the name and condition in life of the
applicant, the nature and extent of his loss or dis-
tress, and the mode and degree to which that
distress has been relieved.

Prior to. any grant to cases, whether domestic or
foreign, the most rigid investigation is prosecuted
by a system of interrogatory forms addressed to the
applicant, and embracing every material circum-
stance that the case can iuvolve, and by a similar
system of inquiry addressed to referees, and bearing
not only ou the particular nature and extent of the
applicant's necessities, but also upon the condition of
his relatives and connections, and upon everything
which can throw light on his future
prospects of
independence
the
ndenceseocfond topic
fortun©.
mooted in your article of
to-day no such precise and detailed information
can be afforded to the public. Sufficient time has
not yet elapsed since
cala-
mitous events in Indiathteo oaulltobwreoakf
tohfe
othomeeme citttleae-
having acquired the data for any calculation, how-
ever vague, as to the extent which these disasters
may reach, or of the loss of life and property which
they may entail. Probably at th.s moment the
Governor in Council and the Relief Committee at
Calcutta would profess no more ab.lity tott. faorrnelliaalblyle-
thing which would deserve the name of
may
rest
' estimate. Of thi-i, however, the public_which the com.
assured, that all the informa
proceedingstelieoleirt f
el
which they take upon slducas
rnittee receives from fridi
to themselves, and that
fully known to the. world
shall, wi....
the British public a
Tarter
of this
globe .+ll
la2todirbomlnelalnt io D , shall be as
11 cation of this fund, be supplied
respect to the a-0
workers in
with information as ample as the beneficence that
raised it.
The committee are most deeply sensible of the
magnitude of that responsibility which has been
every q
devolved upon them, and their chief resource under
that pressure is that entire publicity which shall at
once constitute the guarantee of their own integrity
and the solicitation of the suggestions of public
opiuion.

HER MA.TESTY'S THEA.TRE.
RILL [EN'S CONCERTS.
:MLLE. JETTY TIIEFFZ.
M. Jullien has the honour to announce that his ANNUAL
SERIES of CONCERTS will commence on FRIDAY, the
30th of October, and that he has secured the services of the
celebrated Leider Sangerinn,lle. Jetty Treffs.
Prospectuses may be had at the Box-office at the Theatre,
add of M. Juilien, 214, Regent-street.
Frees of Admission—Promcnacla, is ; Upper Boxes, Is. ;
Gallery, Is. ; Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Private Boxes, 10s.
tire. and upwards.
Private Boxes to be secured at the Box-office of the Thea-
tre t the principal libraries and music sellers ; and at Jul-
lien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street.

OPERA BUFFA. —St. JAMES'S THEATRE
(Enti ly Re-decorite,i).—Signor RONZANI
has the honou to announce that the '`,e son wll comm nee
on TUESDAY, the 31 of November next 1857. Full particulars
will be duly announced. Prospectuses may be had, an t
Subscriptions arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33,
Old Bond street.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakspere's Play of
THE TEMPEST.
Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST.

THEATRE ROYAL, AD EL Pill.
LeA4ec—Mr. Ben Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the home-made
piece, called URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS.
After which, will be revived th' celebrated nautical drama,
of MY POLL AND NY PARTNER JOE. Harry Hallyard
(his original -haracter), Mr. T. P. Cooke.
To conclude with the now sketch of WELCOME, LITTLE
STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, dm

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMA.RICET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
rHIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with
THE LADY OF LYONS Pauline, Mss Amy Sedgwick ;
Claude Melnotte, Mr. Howe.
After which, the new and successful Comedy, entitled
VICTIMS. in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. William
Farrell, Mrs. B. White, &e., will appear.
To conclude with THE GALICIAN FETE.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
evening), 6s. each, (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d. Second price s. d
Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes...
it .
ower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.
THIS EVENING, will be performed AMBITION : or,
The Throne and the Tomb. Messrs. Creswick, W. Smith,
Vollaire, B. Potter, Jackson, Belmore ; Miss Webster, Miss
M. Ehurne, Miss ohnstene.
After which, a new Petite Comedy, UP IN THE WORLD.
To conclude with AVARICE.

-ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr.
Dillon.—Under the joint manai.rement of
Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON.—Open for
an OPERA SEASON of THREE MONTHS, with the fol.
lowing Distioguished Artistes :—Madame Caradori, Miss Co-
relli, Miss Susan Pyno, Miss Marian Prescott, Miss Cuthbert,
Mrs. H. Manley, and Miss Louisa Pyne ; Mr. Augustus
Braham, Mr. A St. Albyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton
Braham, Mr. Ferdit,and Glover, Mr. Bernard, Mr. Kerby,
Mr. Wal lvror th, Mr. G. Honey. Mr. Weiss, and Mr. W. Harrison.
Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon. The Orchestra selected
from the Royal Italian Opera, Jullien's Hind, and the Orches-
tral ITnioa The Chorus selected entirely from the Royal
Italian Opera. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. Assistant
Actlzg Maaao•'er, Mr. William Brongh. Ballet Master, Mr.
Frampton. Chorus Master, Mr, G. Staythson.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Verdi's opera of
TROTATORE. _

After which: GOOD FOR NOTHING.
Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 2s„ and El lls. 6d. ;
Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.;
Gallery, ls.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to
-5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun.

S TRAND THE ATRE. —THIS EVENING,
will be performed
IS HE JEALOUS ? Mr. Shore, Miss Gower, Miss Herbert,
and Miss M. A. Victor.
Followed by JOHN OF PARIS. Mr. Kinlech, Mr. Oliver
ummers, Miss Harriet Gordon.
To be followed by THE PHANTOM WIVES, in which
Miss Craven will sustain four characters. Reginald Rattle•
cap, Mr. Leicester Buckingham.
After which, the highly-successful and original burlesque,
written by Leicester Buckingham, entitled LA TEA VIATA;
or, THE LADY CAMELEON. Miss Craven, Mis; Victor,
Mr. F. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr. J.
Clarke.

Commence at Seven. Stalls. 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, 14.;
Gallery 6d. ; Private Boxes, 1/. le.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
113AReeS, Mesctrss. Robson and Emden.
THDI EVENING, will be nerforrned (7th time) a now
comedy, called LEADING STRINGS. Messrs. Addison, G.
Vining, H. Cooper ; Mrs. Stirling, Misses Wyndham and
Swanborough.
Followed by (for the first time) a new comedietta, entitled
DEADLY REPORTS,
After which, the comedietta, entitled A SUBTERFUGE,
Mrs. Stirling, Mr. G. Vining, and Mr. G Murray.
Commence at half-past Seven.

CIANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.-
11_..) OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
*-4elections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES DUETS, dre., viz. :—Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badzey, 'Marllle. Manetta, Mrs. Palmyre, Miss E. Scott
Miss Brunel', Mrs. Le Jenne, and Madame Marietta;
Herr F. Jongbinans, Mr. Renshaw, R. Grover, T. Farrant,
S. Toner, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor An,onio, E. L.
Rime, and Mr. St. Allyn ; Messrs. S. Collins and E. Hack-
ney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hi3ks; harmonium, Master
Williams ; F'irector, Herr F. Jonghmars. Commence at
Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clectk.
—Signor PICCO still perform, at half-past Eight and half.
past Ten, every Evening.