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London, England, 1844-03-08 00:00:00

THE BIOGRAPIIICAL

TREASURY. 4th Edition, Ss. 6d

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must long seek in vain by any other course."—Atlas.
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THE UNIVERSAL CLASS BOOK. 12m0., ss. bound.
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fE T R MAJESTY'S THEATRE,
_x_ SEASON 1844.

The following outline of the arrangements for the ensuing season
Ls respectfully presented to the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public.

ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA.

Madame Grist, Madlle. M. Favanti (her first appearance at this
Theatre), Madame Bellini, Madame Dai Fiori, and Madame Persian!.
Signor Mario, Sig. Correll (his first appearance at this Theatre),
Dai nor', Sig. Felice (his first appearance at this Theatre), gig.
Fornasari, Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig. Lablache,

Director of the Music, eompoZ, and Conductor, Sig. Costa.
TETE BALLET.

Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, Madlle. Adelaide Frasi, of the Teatro di
Pergola, Florence (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. Guy
Stephan ; Madlle. Scheft're, Madlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Planquet,
Madlle. Barville (their first appearance at this theatre) ; Madlle.
Fanny Elssler, and MAdlle. Cerito ; M. St. Leon, M. Montassu (his
first appearance in this country), M. Coulon, M. Gosselin, M.
Gouda, M. Venafra, M. Bertram, and M. Perrot, and a numerous
and efficient Corps de Ballet.

Arrangements are also pending with 3facrne. Taglioni, and there is.
every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will be se-
cured for a limited number of representations.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, ;MARCH 8,
Will be performed Shakspeare's Play (as altered by Cibber) of
RICHARD 111. Richard, Duke of Gloster, Mr. Charles Kean;
Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Cooper; Duke of Norfolk, Mr. G.
Horncastle; Earl of Richmond, Mr. Hudson ; Elizabeth, Mrs.
Warner ; Duchess of York, Mrs. Selby; Lady Anne, Mrs. Stirling.
After which,
Will be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY
OF GHEN I'. Marquis de San Luca'', M. Albert ; Bene-ict, M.
Hoguet Vestris; Beatrix, Mdlle. Fleury ; Agnes, Mdlle Clara
Webster; Julia, ~:adame Petit Stephan; Diana, Mdlle. O'Brian.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 8,
Will be produced a New Petite Musical Drama, called DER
NECHT TEUFEL. Baron Gillestern, Mr. Strickland ; Oscar, Mr.
Howe; Baroness, Mrs. Glover; Matilda, Miss P. Horton Ca-
roline, Mist Julia Bennett.
At.er which (by desire), VICTOR AND HORTENSE.
After the Drama Mr. John Parry will sing his New Song, entitled
"The Accomplished Young Lady and her Mamma," accompanying
himself on the Grand Pianoforte.
After which will be repeated JOSEPHINE; or, The Fortune of
War. Guillot, Mr. Buckstone; Josephine, Mrs. Fitzwilliam
To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. Mr. Salim
Pettibone Mr. Buckstone; The Unknown Female, Miss Connor;
Mrs. Pettibone, Mrs. W Clifford.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 8,
Will be performed the Comic Opera of LOVE IN A VILLAGE.
Ustice Woodcock, Mr. Granby ; Young Meadows, Mr. Allen ;
Hawthorn, Mr. W ood ; Hodge, Mr. Keeley; Rosetta, Mrs. Wood;
After which, a New Petite Comedy, called AGED FORTY. Sir
Harry Wilder, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Mr, Dapper, Mr. Oxberry ; Lady
Clifton, Miss Fortescue.
To conclude with THE QUAKER. Steady, Mr. Wood ; Gillian,
Mrs. Wood; Floretta, Miss Grant.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 8,
Will be repeated, by permission, of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE
CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith,
Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews,
Miss Chaplin, and miss Lee.
To be followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA MARRIED
AND SETTLED. An:ony, Mr. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Woolgar.
After which, ULRICA ; or, The Prisoner of State. Principal
.Characters—Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Maynard, Forman, Wieland,
and Hamilton ; Mesdames Yates, D. Lee. and Chaplin.
To conclude with the Tragedy of RICHARD THE I'HI BD. Ri-
chard, Mr. Wright; Lady Anne, Miss E. Stanley.
DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 8,
Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE LAST SHIL-
LING, supported by all the Company.
which, .
To conclude with After A
TALE OFMONOMANIA MYSTERY, in which Messrs.
Saville, Hicks, Neville, Johnson, Heslop, Mrs. Daly, and Mrs.
Hughes will perform.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 5 minutes after 4 j Evening .. 23 minutes after 4

open meeting, because anti-monopolist resolutions 1
' would have have been moved, the " tenant-farmers
and land landowners of North Cheshire" adjourned
to the large room of the Crown Hotel.
Those of our readers who have ever had the felicity
of seeing the large room at the Crown Hotel at North-
wich, will know—and those who never had the plea-
sure, ought to know—that this said large room covers
a space of about 17 feet by 12, and contains just as
many square feet as rooms of that size usually con-
tain. In this large room a number of persons were
crammed, who having retreated from the Market Hall,
where they were out-numbered, out-voted, and argu-
mentatively ejected, found an asylum, where monopo-
list doctrines might be freely talked, because nobody
could, by any possibility, get in to contradict them.
And in the large room, resolutions were passed, and
speeches made, which, high-sounding and magnilo-
quent as they appear on paper, existed only in the
imagination of the parties reporting them. The
meeting was a failure and a humbug—the resolutions
and the speeches a mere fancy and a delusion.
It is quite true that they were intended to be made
and passed at a meeting intended to be held ; but the
good sense of the people of Northwich prevented the
passing of any such resolutions at a public meeting,
and therefore a hole and corner private affair was re-
sorted to.

Is this the conduct of the Anti-Leaguers ? Is this
the best fight that they can make ? The Duke of
RICHMOND'S " National Anti-League Association,"
got nearly smothered, at Freemason's Hall, a few
evenings ago ; and the same fate seems to await all
such Anti-League meetings, whether held in town or
country. The Anti-Leaguers dare not hold a public
meeting ; or, if they do, it is turned against
them. Look at the Richmond meeting the
Somerset County meeting—and all the other
open meetings, down to this very one at
Northwich, which they have attempted to
hold. All have been free trade meeting-, and so
they will and must be. The tenant-farmers may be
drilled and schooled; they may be put to say, in har-
mony, the words of "rent, sweet rent ;" but, when they
feel the knuckles of the landlords in their backs, though
they may repeat the words by mouth, they will, in
their hearts, in place of "rent, sweet rent," as set to
music by their landlords, ejaculate " rent, cursed
rent," with their very sincerest feelings.

Enthusiastic as was Mr. O'ComiELL's reception
by the people during his late visit to the metropolis,
it was equalled, if not surpassed, by the welcome he
received on Wednsday at Birmingham, all classes of
whOse population vied with each other in their en-
deavours to do him honour. No sooner did he make
his appearance in the Town-hall, which was crammed
to suffocation, than shout after shout of acclamation
arose from the immense assembly ; and it was full
ten minutes before anything like order could be re-
stored. The same enthusiastic applause was repeated
when the Honourable and Learned Gentleman
rose to speak, but no sooner had the first few words
dropped from his lips, than the most profound
silence prevailed, and he was listened to, through-
out his animated appeal on behalf of Ireland, with a
respectful attention that must have been more flatter-
ing to his feelings than even the deafening storm of
approbation with which he had been previously greeted.
His speech was well worthy of this marked and sig-
nificant attention, for though by no means deficient
in vigour, where vigour was requisite, its chief cha-
racteristics were its moderation—its manly, unaffected
candour—its firm, but courteous and conciliator),
tone—and, above all, its force, clearness, and preci-
sion of argument. There was no display of rhe-
torical artifice--no attempt at exaggeration—
the reasoning was in no instance pushed
beyond the limits of good sense—nothing was
omitted that was necessary to make out a strong case
of Irish misgovernment by the Tories—and the con-
sequence of this uniform harmony and evenness of
tone was, that the speaker made as many proselytes
to the cause of his country, as there were listeners in
the Hall. Henceforth, he will never again be com-
pelled to lament the indifference of the " Saxons" to-
wards the wrongs of Ireland. London, and Birming-
ham, and Liverpool have triumphantly demonstrated
the fact that the English people are alive—fully, keenly
alive—to the sufferings of the sister-country, and
though they may be reluctant to join Mr. O'CoN-
NELL in his crusade against the Union, yet
they will readily second him in all his efforts to pro-

cure for Ireland equal justice with England. Thus
encouraged and strengthened by popular opinion here,
as well as in his own country, the " convicted con-
spirator" may well laugh t 6 scorn the fiercest threats
~f the Tory Ministry. Even should they venture to
imprison him—of which we entertain great doubts—
they will still find him as potent an enemy as ever.
Indeed, he will be more influential within the
four walls of a gaol, than when allowed to remain
at large ; and greatly shall we be mistaken
if his incarceration do not tend to in-
crease the agitation and precipitate the crisis which
it was intended to avert. If Government he sincerely
desirous of extinguishing Mr. O'CoNNELL's influence?
they must put an end to the grievances in which that

influence originates. They must crush the great
agitator, who for years past has been their " chief
difficulty," by doing prompt and enlightened
justice to Ireland. A petty, coddling system
of legislation, such as they now have in
view, as regards the sister-country, will not
have the slightest effect on the " convicted
conspirator's" popularity ; but, on the contrary, will
leave him just as great a bug-bear to Ministers as
ever. The growth of Tory oppression, Mr. O'CoN-
'ELL, is only to be effectually put down by the deter-
mination of the Tories to act equitably by that coun-
try, of whose many wrongs he is the chosen mouth-

piece. Dare to do justice, and, from that moment,
the giant dwindles to the dimensions of the dwarf.
Alluding to his extraordinary influence over the Irish
masses, the "convicted conspirator" touchingly re-
marked;—" Oh ! ifyou saw how their eyes glisten on me
as Igo along—if you saw how the aged women raise
their hands and eyes to Heaven for a blessing on me
—if you could see the stalwart youths leaving their
toil in the fields, and standing by the roadside with

their hats in their hands, and tears in their eyes,
and crying, Oh ! long life to you, O'CONNELL, for
the sake of Ireland !'—Oh, if you heard the praises
spokcn by the sweet voices of girls, and even the

lisping babes, as I go along, praying for prosperity
to DANIEL O'CONNELL !—you would think me the
most hardened of human beings, if all the thoughts
and feelings of my soul did not concentrate in
one determination to devote all my efforts to
obtaining justice for Ireland !" How is a man
exercising such an extraordinary influence as
this over the hearts of his countrymen, to be
put down, otherwise than by the determination
of Ministers to redress in into the wrongs of which
he, as the national representative, complains ? Will
his imprisonment, think you, produce such a result ?
Far otherwise. It will arm him, if possible, with in-
creased authority, and render him a still more terrible
opponent to the enemies of Ireland than he has yet
been.

Madrid journals, of the 28th ult., have been received;
but they are still barren of intelligence. A Royal
decree appears in the Gazette, appointinc, the Queen
Dowager CHRISTINA, Colonel of the Reinalbobernadora
Chasseurs. Great preparations were making, in all
quarters, to celebrate her return.
'The Three per Cents. were done at 291 for cash, and
30 1-16 at sixty days, and the Five per Cents. at 22 for
cash, and 221 at sixty days.

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