The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

lock, was seen

her-Majesty's

Gardoni ; Caliban•, Herr Staudlgl, and Prospero, Signor
Lablache. Verdi has composed a new opera for London,
" Robbers;" a finer sub-

ject for4an opera could not well be found—while it present's
many situations of peculiar effect for the display of a pow-

erful chorus. Rossini's opera, or, rather, as the great
master himself styles it, pasticcio of " Robert Bruce' hag
been secured. ?or the ballet we are to have Carlotta
Grisi, Lucile Grahn, and Cerito, while hopes are enter-
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tained of indUcing Taglioni to combine in once more witch-
ing' the world with the Pas de Quatre and the Pas des
nApsses. together with a new grand pas, which shall unite
these two, to be entitledi
In addition to these well-known

attractions of t

COnstellation

favourites, there will be Mademoiselle Caroline Rosati,
Mademoiselle Wauthier, and Mademoiselle Caroline Ban-
court, all of La Scala, and their first appearances in Eng-

the Academie Royale, Paris, his first appearance ; M.
Gosselin, M. Patti Tag He'll, &c. For novelties in this
department there are promised a new ballet for the open-
ing, by Paul Taglioni, in which Mademoiselle C. Rosati
will annear—an original.grand ballet by the German poet

Heinrich Heine, on a-subject selected from the old legends
of Germany, andd-a " noy.Jl arvt poetical ballet by a " no-

other novelties. likeLnearre dens in the middle ut Fe-
bruary with Donizqtt's opera of "La Favorite," for the
first time at her Majesty's Theatre. Balfe is to be the
conductor.

SINGULAR APPREHENSION OF A GANG OF SUSPECTED
BURGLARS.—During the last six weeks, the family and
domestics of Henry Aiwin Soames, Esq., a gentleman re-
siding in Vanburgh Fields, near Maize Hill, Greenwich
Park, have been subject to sfrange underground noises,
and smoke proceeding in the same direction, generally in
the night_ The servants considc ' '

i,n;t.eniradru.epi=
talking and knocking with soiree heav-
ythe cellar under the parlour of the mansion, facing the
lawn. On Sunday fortnight the family and servants were
all absent- except the cook, and she became so much
alarmed by the noises that she seenred all the doors, and
told her master, on his return, that she would leave her
situation if again left alone, as she believed the house was
haunted. On the afternoon of Tuesday week Mr. Soames
being satisfied that persons were at work underground,
and that smoke frequently found its way into the lower.
-•F the house, where there was neither chimney nor
-t f, a police-officer, who went t-

gardener,aouse
went" on• •
(T.:nce-constable, attended by 'the
coachmaniazri
ge pwi ao cos
The
a large old-fashioned family mansion, overlooking from
the back the Thames, and a very steep and rugged6hang-
qm,yaddoek or lawn, and at the
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bottom of wnicn, 14U yards from the house, in the hang-
ing wood, drew.his attention to an opening of brickwork
into a subterraueous passage, leading to the centre of the
A spaniel dog belonging to Mr. Soames being
, went into the cave, and immediately a voice
was heard at the far end calling upon the dog to quit the
place. The dog returned, followed by a man, who on
seeing the parties, retreated back into the cave, refusing to
was then put into the

mansion

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Two large openings were then made through the lawn to
the brickwork, and more burning straw was employed.
This had the effect of bringing out three fellows, nearly
suffocated, and imploring to be released. They were taken
into custody. The police and others then searched the
cave with' lanterns. They entered the passage in the
hanging wood, on their hands and knees, and, on proceed-

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ing something more than 100 feet, they discoveictian open
space, the bottom of which was boarded, and a quantity
of bricks piled up, and covered with boards for seats or
tables, and on one side another quantity of bricks formed

into a fireplace, and which hail been used for that pur_
pose. On removing the boards from the bottom of this
cell, an immense quantity of feathers was discovered about
a foot and a half deep, plucked from all sorts of game and
poultry, amongst which they found a cash-box, and other.