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London, England, 1844-05-11 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, MAY 11.
Wilt be performed Herold's Chef d'oeuvre,
ZAMPA.
Camilli, Madame Persiani; Rita, Madame Eellini ; Zampa, Sig-
nor • F inartri; Alfonso, Signor Corelli; Daniel Capussi, Signor
Lablache; and Dandola, Signor Lablache.
To conclude with the Grand Ballot,, in Six Tableaux, by M.
Perrot, ent k led
ONDINE, on, LA NAIAD&
The Scenery b W. Grieve. The music composed by Signor
Pugni.
Principal el aracts.rs by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Scheffer, Mille. Fer-
dinand, Mdlle. Plunket, Mdlle. Ravine, and Mdlle. Adelaide
Frassi; M. Perot, M. Montassu, and ‘l. St. Leon.
Applicationa for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Otticq, Operis Colonnade. Doors open at Seven. The Opera will
commence at Halt past Seven.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The Nobility, Subicribers to the Opera, and the Public, are re-
spectfully informed that there will be an extra Night (not included
In the Subscription) on THURSDAY NEXT, May lb, when will
be performed Mozart's chef dceuvre
IL DON GIOVANNI.
Donna Anna, Madame Grist ; Donna Elvira, Mdlle. Favanti ;
Zrrlina. Madame Persiani ; Don Giovanni, iig. Fornasari ; Le.
poi ello, Sig. lAblache • Masetto, Sig. F Lablache ; II Comtism-
datore, Sig. Felice; and Don Ottavio, Sig. Mario.
To conclude with ALMA. Alma. Madame Cerito.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box.
office, Opera-colonnade.

THEATRE ROYAL, DgURY-LANE.
EVENING, MAY 11,
Will be repeated A New Grand Opera, entitled THE BRIDES
OF VENICE. Coynt A‘berto, Mr. W. Harrison ,• Count Ono
Soranzo, Mr. doirani; Nfilrui, Mrs. Alfred Shaw; Geraldo, Mdlle.
Albertaszi ; Francesca, Miss Romer.
To eonclude with the revived Grand Fairy Ballet, entitled THE
REVOLF OF THE HAREM. Mahomet, Mr. Howell; Ismael,
M. Silvain ; Myssouf, Mr. W. H. Payne, Zulma, Mdlle. Lucile
Grahn • Zeldca, Mdlle. Clara Webster ; The Genius of the Harem,
Madame Giubilei.
Dress Boxes 75., Second [rice Ss. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55..
Second Price Is. • Pit 38 , .',econd "'flee Ms.idle Gallery 518.,
Second Price Is. ;lUpper Gallery Is., Second Price lid.

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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
• MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE.
THIS EVENING, MAY 11,
Will be performed Shakspeare's Coniedy of THE TAMING OF
THE SHREW. Petrucio, Mr. Webster; Grumio, Mr. Buckstone;
Christopher Sly, Mr. Strickland; Katharina, Mrs. Nisbett; Bianca,
Miss Julia Rennett.
To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra.
vaganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or,
An Evening with Putt: Principal Characters by Mr. C. Maisie/vs,
Mr. J. bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and
Miss Lee.
To conclude with a New Farce. entitled LOVE IN A SACK.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, fie. ' • Pit, its. ; Gallery, 13.; Upper
flallery,. Is. Half-price—Boxes, as.; Pit 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Half-past Six, and the I'erformances
eOmmeAce at Seven - -
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Boz—
o:office, from Ten till Five.

PgiNCESS's IHEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
• -
THIS EVI:NING, MAY 11.
Will be. repeated a New Comic Optra. entitled CROWN
DIAMONDS. Count tie Campo Mayor, Mr. Weiss; Don lien-
riquez de Sandorai, Mr. Allen; Rebolleio, Mr. Paul Bedford ; La
Caterina Madame Anna Thillon ; Diana, Mi;s Grant.
To which will be added, the Farce of the SPITALFIELDS
WEAVER.
After which, BOMBASTES FURIOSO.
THEArRE ROY

LYCEUM, LAKE ENGLISH OPERA.
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
" Open Sesame; Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to
be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and
fashionable. audi ces
• THIS EVENING, MAY 11, •
Will be repeated an Original Comic Drama, entitled_ THE
THREE WIVES OF . A DRID. Principal Characters by Messrs.
Keeley, Diddear, F .patthews, Emery, Wigan. Craven, Turner,
Yarnold. Miss \Yaeger, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Miss Turner,
Mrs. Wqgan, and Mr Keeley.
After which, will pioduced a new Comic Drama, called THE
LOVE BIRDS. l'sratipal Charcters by Messrs. F. Mathews,
Young.e, Mrs. V 4 oad,ge, Mrs. Ushera, Miss kairbrother, Miss Chaplin,
Miss Grove, and Miss volt s.nre.
To be followed by in Apropos Bagatelle. called POLKAMANI A
Characters by Mr. F. Mat.lrews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss
Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a Clan I Burle-que Fairy Extravaganza, called
OPEN SESAME; or. a Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha-
esetersbv Miss Wieilger, Miss K Chaplin, Mrs. iNoellidge, Miss
Turner, -Miss Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother,
and Mrs. Keeley, 51cssre F. Mathews, Turner, Younge, Wigan,
Yarnold, and Chaplin.
PRICES OF A DMISFION.—BaIcony, Poxes, es. • Upper
Boxes, ;
Up Pit, 2s. • Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony fkixes, 2s. ;
er Boxes, Is tid.; l'it, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony 'Fier
he ding eight persons). '1 wo inineas Private Boxes on the Second
ZSer (ho oing eight persons), One Guinea and a.Half. Private
Boxes on the Pit 11cr (holding six persons), One Guinea.
. .
• ASTLEY'S ROY Al. AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
Wand Attraction.
11118 EVENII,G, MAY 11„
Will be repeated the tia.tot'cal Spectacle of the INVASION OF
ENGLAND BY WILLIA M fHE CONQUEROR ; or, the Battle
of H: stings. With all the aelects of the Norman Conquest, Death
of Harold &c.
. • Entire Change et the Splendid Scenes of the Circle.
To conclude with U.S Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET
MINE; or, the H nitre); o' the Ruby Cults.
The doors will open nighey at six o'clock, and the performances
commence at seven. Box othce opened daily from ten till four.- The
private boxes have been re'en,structed and decorated with care and
splendour.
Acting and stage-in i.rager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

iArWOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAT ftE
Wonderful Attraction—The celebrated General Tom Thumb, Twelve
years of Age, weighing but Fifteen Poun 's and only Twenty-five
inches in Height, who has twice performed betere her Majesty
the Queen, and tee entire Court, is engaged, at an enormous
expense to appear This Evening; his immediate departu:e for
Paris will preventTHl S his be
EVing
ENTING seen on aMAY 10,ny S age again.
Will be repeated a New Tragedy, entitled OCTAVIA BR A.-
GALDI ; or, The Confession. Supported by the Entire Company,
aid Miss Charlotte Barnes, from New York.
• After which, a New Piece for the Million, entitled LA POLKA.
To concluae with an • entirely New Drama, embracing all the
strong effects of the celebrated work, eutitled WHITEFRIARS,
in which the entire Company will perform.
Paces and Pfrvate Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box-
&lice, from Eleven so Four.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADEI.PtiI.
OPEN EVERY EVENING. -
The GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH is getting more
and more mysterious. He nightly introduces new wonders:
His Mystic Temple is thronged with most brilliant audiences,
who. proclaini him to be the only legitimate Professor -of
Modern Magic, the very " ne plus ultra" of Cabalistic
Phenomena. lie performs more wonders in one night, than all
other Professors could accomplish in a month. The "Great Wizard
of the North" has no rival, no equal in Europe or the world. He
will be' fouhd nightly " at Home," Plucking from his Mystic Caul-
drcin NEW MAGICCOPICAL EX ERIMENTS of Natural Phi.
nautili)+, bringing from any Gentleman's Hat a Feather Bed and the
Gifts ot. Flora.
Between the parts of the Wizard's Performances, Mr. SMITH
will perform on his new instrument, the CRYSTALOPHION,
Mr PriILIPS, the Banjoist, will nightly appear. The THREE
INFANT ARABS, Seven, Nino, and Twelve years of Age, go
. through a new and original Performance.
Dress Circle, ;
3s. Pit. Is. fid.; Gallery, ed. Reserved Seats, and
Priv.ate Boxes can be secured at the -theatze, and of all the Agents.
Second Price at Nine o'clock.
Aims open at Half-past Seven—the Wizard appears at Eight.

EGYPTIAN ILtLL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
ONE SIIILLING Admission to " THE NAPOLEON MU-
SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo-
-teal Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed
Dy One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a
cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in-
atractive and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro-
pean history, viz--CHARLES OLIVER CROMWELL, and
LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR
NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited ellen,
during the last arid present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of j
Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, aad their Ladies,
also many thousands of the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro-
prietor has recently been able to increase, by several very fine
pictures, ice., his previous almost incredible number and variety of
MSS:, Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other
curiosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it
ought to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have Inspected it,
and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS
have stated thlt it ought to beseen by every one. The price of admis-
lion is reduced to ONE SHILLING.
The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the " Egyptian
Hall," Piccadilly-, daily from Ten till Dusk.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning ... 8 minute" after 9 I Evening ♦I minutes after 9.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 10.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 52 ; Highest, 71; Noon, 58.
BAROMETER, 30.—WIND, N.E.
Norn.—The number 82 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

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