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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully
Informed that this THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN

Tins EVENING
When will be repeated (fourth time In this country;
Verdi's new Opera,
ERNANI.

In Four Parts—let., The Bandit; 2d., The finest; 3d., The
Pardon ; 4th., The Mask.
With new scenery by Mr. Marshall.

Elvira, Madame Rita Boric); Giovanna, Mdlle. Benin ; Buy
Gomez, Signor Fornasari ; Don Carlos, Signor Botelli ; Ernanl,
Signor Moriani.

It is respectfully announced that in consequence of other novelties
the highly successful Opera of ERNANI cannot be repeated antil
later in the Season.

To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled
EOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE.

The Music by Signor Pug ii,

The Scenery by Mr. Marshal

"rmcipal Characters—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard), Mddle,
Lucite Gratin ; Rubczahl (le Gnome), M. Perrot ; Count Edgard,
M. Toussaint; Prince of Silesia (brother of Eoline), M. Gosselin.
In the course of the Ballet the following Dances will he introduced :
Waltze Selesknne, by the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet.

Pas de la Fiancee—Mdlle. Lucile Gratin and M. Toussaint,
Pas de Cinq (composed br M. Gosselin)—Mdllcs. Louise Weiss, For.
dinand, Detnelisse, Cassan, and Moncelet.
Maeourka D'Extase—Mdlle. Lucile Gr ,hn and M. Perrot,
Fourth Tableau.

Grand Pas des Dryades by 3ldlle. L. Jirahn and the Ladies of the

Corps de Bailer,
Madame Anaide Castellan, of the Imperial Theatre St. Petersburgh
is daily expected in town, and will make her first appearance forth.
with in Donizetti's Opera of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR.
tpplications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box.
office, Opera Colonnade.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
It is respecthilly announced that
A GRAND MUSICAL FETE,'
Comprising the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated
FELICIEN DAVID,
Will be executed, for the first time in this country,
ON THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27,
With the original Melodies and Choruses.
Grand Descriptive Symphonic Ode of
THE DESERT,
_ . _

produced for the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the
Conservatoire Royal, Paris.

LE DESERT.

Ode Svmuhonie, Orientate—divided in three parts with arena
Nigs..Mornini and Corelll.

PROGRAMME.
Part I.—Entranco to tho Desert.
Glorification of Allah ; grand chorus and orchestra —Arrival of
the Caravan—Departure of the Caravan—Tempest in the Desert—
Return of the Calm—The Caravan resumes Its march.

Part I I.— Night.
The Evening Star—Halt of the Caravan—Hymn to the Night :
air sung by Signor 31oriani—Arabian Fantasia—The Dance of the
Alines—The Liberty of the Desert: grand chorus with orchestra—
Evening reverie : melody sung by Signor Morlani, with chorus and
orchestral accompaniments—Sieep L

.
Part II I .—Sun-rise.
Call of the Muezzin; original Arabian melody, with the Arabic
words—The Caravan starts once more on its journey—The Cara-
van gradually disappears in the distance ; grand chorus and orchei-
tra—Silence in the Desert—The Song of Thanksgiving—Allah.
Grand chorus final.

Introductory Part-Ist. Fragmmt of Grand Symphony in E
flat-2d. Melodic imitative a Grand Orchestre : Les ilirondolles,
sung by Signor Moriani-3d. Melodic Orientale : Le Chibothine-
4th. Soiree du Printetnps Fragmant tire des quartre Saissons do
Felleien David, executed by all the string instruments.
Boxes, Two, Three, and Four Guineas each.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the
Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket.
Doors open at Eight o'clock ;to commence at Half-past Eight.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.
Tllia EVENING
Will be performed THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Maddens, Mr. W.
Harrison; Arline, Miss Rainforth.
After which will be repented, a New Comic Ballet, entitled
BORER r AND BERTRAND.
Dances in the course of the Ballet :--
Pas de Deux, by Mdlles. Adele and Louise.
Pas de Deux, by Mdlle. O'Bryan and Mr. A. Webster. • '
Grand Pas de Caractere, by Mane. I'olin and M. Gasperini.
A New Polka, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini.
Bolero, by Mesdames Louise and Adele.
La Esmeralda, by Mdlle. Pont], and
A MAZURKA, by the Principal Ballet Performers.
The Eminent Tenor, M. DUPRVZ is engaged here for Twelve
Nights only, and will shortly make his appearance In his-cele-
brated character of ARNOLD, in GUILLAUME TELL ; and is
also preparing hhip,ell for his unrivalled personation of EDGAR,
in Donizettrs popular Opera, THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOO:I,
for the Peffmnanee of which, an Engagement has also been ex-
pressly enter,d into with Mille. ELT•LENIL GARCI I.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING
Will be repe'ted a New and Oridnal Comedy, entitled THE
SHERIFF OF TIIE COUNTY.. Principal Characters by Messrs.
W. Farrell, Strickland, lluckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W.
Clifford, Mrs. Ilumby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c.
After which, a Now (fraud Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE
GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews,
J. Bland, Madame Vcstris, and Miss P. Horton.
To conclude with THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY.

LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1545,

We have no desire to disparage the services of the
Metropolitan Police force, which we believe to have
secured for the inhabitants of the capital and its ad-
joining districts a much more extensive degree of
protection for person ani property than had been
attained under the best administration of that system
which it superseded. But we can neither be blind to
its occasional glaring deficiencies, nor insensible to
the enormously-increased expense of its organisation
ani service, as compared with the charge upon the
public for the former establishment. We have a
right to expect, in consideration of the somewhat
lavish scale upon which its pay and appointments
have been fixed, that all its members shall be held to
the strict discharge of their duties, and that the surer-
vision of their conduct shall he conducted with a de-
gree of vigilance bordering even on severity. The
interests of the public clearly demand that the discip-
line of this " force"—(as it is the custom to term it,
with that unwholesome propensity for military
identification which seems to connect itself
with the management, aspect, and details of
the body in all its associations) —should
be rigidly maintainei ; that its efficiency throughout
every one of its districts should be beyond question ;
that its character and integrity should be above all
suspicion of collusion with those whose actions they
are appointed to watch, and whose depredations on
the property of individuals they are expressly en-
trusted with the duty, not only of searching out and
bringing under the cognizance of the magistracy, but
also, in all cases where prevention may be practicable,
to defeat. We are sorry to confess that the "play-
at-soldiers" business seems to be much more carefully
attended to than the actual discipline of the men.
The criminal assizes both in town and country, the
very police-courts reports, and the incidental notices
of the acts of police-constables, which are scattered
through the proceedings in various charges comi g
under magisterial cognizance, have furnished but too
many instances, during the last twelve month's,
of:criminal offences, or of gross misconduct on the
'part of individuals who either had been—or at the
time of such exposures still were—members of the
" New Police," to allow of our saying that we have
no misgivings as to the laxity of the discipline which
is enforced by their superior authorities. That the
military style of equitation affected by the "Mounted
Police," as they are called, is a failure sufficiently
absurd, every one who looks upon their extraordinary
figures will acknowledge. Their figures suggest the
notion of perpendiculars in blue, raised on horizontal
lines of chesnut, brown, or black, or grey. Their
faces bear an expression of divided anguish at. having
to undergo, in their years of stiff and- impracticable
maturity, the rack-like extension of the riding-school
manege ; and of a self. enamoured complacency with
their equestrian graces, the bosses of their cavalry
bits, bridles, and stirrups, that seems to soothe the
personal distress and the sensation of insecure seat,
which they evidently endure both from " riding
long," and from long riding. They are too amusing
to be quarrelled with, but still we find that they are
the source of a very large item in the enormous
annual charge for this constabulary.
A Parliamentary paper which was ordered to be
ua% e, -men - issuea, nes at once enlightened and as-
tonished us upon many matters touching the Metro-
politan Police. Paper, No. 114 (11. C.), entitled
" Accounts showing the sums received and expended
for the purposes of the Metropolitan Police, Police
Superannuation Fund, and Police-courts, in
the year ended December, 1844," shows that the total
expenditure for the year on account of " Office ex-
penses," including salaries of two Commissioners and
their allowances (2,5261.), and their four clerks
(9801.); and salaries and allowances in the "Re-
ceiver's Department Office," for "rent, books, print-
ing, and stationery" (3,2650 ; " Pay, clothing, and
equipment of the police force—salaries of superintend-
ents included," (271,5021.); "Horses, forage, &c.,"
(6,8391.) ; that this " total," in short, was 317,500/.,
exclusive of superannuation and police-courts. Now,
however good an establishment may be, it may cost
prodigiously too much. Ip determining this question
—" whether the quantum of charge is excessive or
not, it is no unfair test to consider what is the quan-
tum of effective service rendered by such an establish-
ment. Making allowance for the increase of popula-
tion and pauperism, has there been such a decrease in
the number and character of the graver crimes, of the
higher misdemeanours, and of lesser offences, within
the circuit of the Metropolitan Police, and
through their exertions and vigilance since
their establishment, as to afford the public
a commensurate benefit for this immense expenditure
of the public m )1-ley ? We are disposed—mournfully
recurring to the accumulating horrors of our criminal
returns, and police magistrate commitments—to
answer in the negative. Between the annual amount
of property plundered within the Metropolitan
Police Distfiet prior to the establishment of this
force, and that which has been annually plundered
since, is there any such difference, in favour of the
protection afforded to property, as to countervail the
burden of such an immensely increased cost of
establishment? We answer, unhesitatingly, "No."
But we tare bound to add that we perceive, in very
recent cases, strong presumptions against the existence
both of this vigilant and strict discipline, and against
even this freedom of the reputation of the "force"
from all impeachment of negligence and collusion.
One of the frightfully numerous cases of metropolitan
murders that have written the annals of the last six
months in blood, at present, wears an aspect that
connects the police with grave liability to the former
of these impeachments. The strange affair of
Mr. Vuemaxy's stolen dog, a few weeks back—its
recovery—its location with the police, in the super-
intending custody of Mr. Inspector BLwess--and its
second abstraction from the green-yard behind the Bow-
street office, on the very premises of one of the Chief
Offices of this boasted constabulary, on the night
before the animal was to be identified by its owner--
righteously subjects, not the inspector, but some of
the subordinates, to the latter of these suspicions. It
is high time that the chief authorities should be
bestirring themselves t remove, as far as this may be
done, by a stricter management and discipline of their
constabulary in future, the prejudicial impressions to
which too many circumstances have latelygiven birth

The Madrid mail of the 17th had not arrived a
Paris on Sunday.

Two of the Paris papers contain articles on free
trade, evidently written in reference to the extensive
changes proposed by Sir ROBERT PEEL, and we
regret to find that little disposition is shown by them
to follow the example. The Commerce, which is re-
garded as the organ of the manufacturing and coml.
mercial classes, admits the evils of Prohibitions, but
cannot consent to any important modifications. The
prohibition system, it says, would isolate France and
put an end to commerce. Free trade, however, is
inadmissible in the present state of Europe, which is
regulated now not from choice, but tormented for ages
by a mass of laws more or less restrictive, and under
the protection of which, so many vast interests have
sprung up. The Constitefieuve/ takes nearly the same
view. Englaudi, it -says, has adopted a system
different from pat of -nearly all other .nations,
Sheliga.re4tioed the feata cp foreign produce, espe-
oitlik.on those artidatx*ltiro necessary for the
encOuragement of indu7l4*llthe,state of her manu-
factures and the wants or -emilnierce, justify these in-
noratiens, but England ale /weep afford to take such
a step, and France, Belgiiim,Attetia, and Austria, are