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      Thk Mysterious power of the Magnet is most beautifully developed by Mr , F . JlnnaiNG , of 32 , Btisinghall Street , in his Patent Magnetic Brushes and combs , which are the -Remedy for Grey Hair , Wea k or Falling Hair , Neuralgia , Nervous Headache , Rheumatism , Stiff Joints j &c , His Teazle Brushes for Cloth , Velvet , &c , arc admirable ; they not only cleanse , but preserve the fabric in a remarkable manner . The Public are cautioned against Counterfeits . [ Advertisement . '] The Postmaster has decided that the Society of Arts' Prize Writing-case , for which they awarded the prize pf twenty guineas and their silver medal to Paukxns and Gottq , can be sent through the post for -It ? ., so that tin ' s extremely useful and durable waterproof case , fitted with writing-paper , envelopes , blotting-book , metal penouse , with reoeryo-of pens , ^ c , &c , can be sent free through the post to any part of the kingdom , on sending twenty-eight stamps to Parkins and Gotto , 24 and 25 , Oxford Sneof , London . It forms a most appropriate present . Selling price at their stationary warehouse , 2 s . each . Their Sample Packet of Writing Pnpor and Envelopes can be had free by post for four stomps .

      Parking and Gotto make no charges for plain stamping writing-paper and envelopes , nnd undertake to pay the carriage to any part of England , on orders over twenty shillings . Twenty thousand envelopes , of any size or quality , at a minute ' s notice . Office stationary ami housohold papers . Institutions , colleges , and Bchools supplied . Price ; list , post free . A saving of full Cs . in the pound . 1 ' arkihs and Gotto , paper and envelope makers , 24 and 25 , Osford Street , [ dclvf . ] " IJewark of Countnhfiuts " is a caution which , however old and unheeded , loses nothing of its necessity at the present dny , whou scarcely any article of domestic use , possessing more than common merit , is exempt from c / teajt and trashy imitations , the mukcra of which , by tempting shopkeepers with larger profits , induce thorn to paluiott' Hie spurious articles for the genuine . Aa an example of this we may instance

      tho following : Three ladies culled lately at a respectable grocery establishment , and inquired nt the proprietor his reason for not sending them tho Glisnpiisu ) Pathnt Stahcii as before j upon which , ho made sonic frivolous excuse ; bn , t the Indies administered to him n bovoro rebuke , and requested him to send at once and remove flic trashy imitation which lie had sent , them j remarking , that , if ho hud no Gijcn ^ uo mj they would proeuro it olsowhere . This shopkeeper , no doubt , felt too keenly the humilintion of having such a well-merited robuke oponly administered to him in his own shop to attempt a repetition of such deception , and it would bo woil if nil shopkeepers who nro guilty of eiinilur praotloca would thereby tali © warning . When wo hear of such practices wo can more fully realize tho importance of the advice , " When you nsk for Gi . KNi < Mti . n Patknv Stakcm , see that you get it . " K . \ yotUersnaon js on ench jJncket .

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      sanctity among the votaries of fashion and imisic alike ; , has positively opened its portals once niore , and apparently under conditions that can hardly fail to command success . The inscrutable Napoleon of entrepreneurs , Mr . E . T . Smith , must be so much better quali-# ed than ourselves to decide whether there be room for two Italian operas in London ( for we should hope he never di-eams of extinguishing Mr . Gye ' s ) that we cannot pretend to a contrary opinion He has at all events started with an apparent abvindance of the sinews of war and a determinationto exert them . That capital has been iavishly laid out in securing a superb operatic troupe , bur last week's notice-of . the season's programme will have already apprised our readers ; and we may now report that in beautifying the theatre itself , a startling amount of money and taste has been just as liberally expended . As regards the interior of the salle , there is no great change . It has been thoroughly cleaned ; the well-known ambereoloured drapery is retained ; " Fops' alley" is no more ; and for the old stalls newfduteuils have been substituted ; but the greatest change will be observed by visitors in the approaches and saloon . For the dingy maze of lobbies arid the cheerless crush-room which all may recollect , we now have a superbly-decorated thoroughfare from the-Haymarket . to ' the ope ra arcade , and an elegantly-carpeted and decorated staircase , leading to a grand saloon with ceiling of azure , studded with silver stars , and walls of white and gold with crystal panels . Hm-eisa figure of Autumn bearing fruits , and bending over a brightly illuminated fountain . The wand of an enchanter seems , in fact , to have been waved over the edifice that ; a Tew-short weeks , since , was the picture of desolation , so rapidly has the transformation been effected . The season was inaugurated on Tuesday night with Flptow ' s " Martha . " The able company of artists who so well illustrated that winning work last year at Drury Lane , were of couise warmly received . Giuglini was , we apprehend , labouring under a cold , but divided the honours with Mdlle . . Titiens , who was in the greatest force , and was enthusiastically i-eeeived . Her " Last Rose of Summer" created the customary sensation ; the " Spinnhigwheel " quartette was vivaciously encored ; and Giiiglini g-ave the " M'Appari" magnificently . His passionate delivery of the " Marta ! MartaI" renders this mor $ eau one of his greatest achievements . Sisrnor Vialetti remains the best representative , within pur ken , of TPZunlcet , and was encored , of course , in the drinking song . The " IFleur des Champs , " in which La Pocchini , a very accomplished young danseuse , sustained the'principal part ,. brought to a close the reopening night of Her Majesty ' s Theatre . The selection of " Dinorah" for the opening of the campaign at Cqvisnt Gaedex Opera on Tuesday , enabled us to renew our acquaintance with Madame Miolan-Carvalho , who , it will be remembered , was the heroine of that opera for the seven nights of its production during Mr . Gye ' s season last year . We are glad now to recognise in this artist an important accession to our list of prime donne . As an actress she is excellent , and is remarkable for an organ of exquisite truth , tone , and flexibility . Her vocalization in the " Shadow song" produced an immense sensation , and secured tier ' the honour of a rapturous" encore . " M . Faure , of the " Opera Comique , " assumed on Tuesday , for the first time in London , his original character of JECoel . While certainly not equal in quality of voice to the capricious Graziani , he is infinitely in advance of him in every other of the sundry qualifications of a lyric . artist . Notwithstanding all difficulties , and they are not few , of his first appearance in Italian Opera and on the London stage , M . Faure may be said with truth to have made an extremely favourable impression * The able Gardoni made , as befpre , an excellent Corrcnlhw , and Signors Tagliaficp and Keri-Bernldi contributed loyally to the completeness of the cast as The Jluntbr and The J&eaper . Mr . Costa still directs the superb band . And behold another Richmond in tho field in the shape of Dr . Pech , the new Gtfrant at Dhury Lane , who introduced Wallace ' s beautiful "Mnritnna" to a crowded house there on Mpnday last , and has mot with tho greatest euccesH throughout the week . Th « Don Cesar de Baxan of the present cast is MivH . aiglt , with whose beautiful voice yet constrained action wo are by turns charmed and disappointed . Mr . Durnud is competent to tho Don Jbsb , so is M . Borrnni to Tho King . Miss Dyer and Miss E . Hey wood are the Wari ' tananwA Lazarillo , . Tho ensemhle , in which wo must include band and chorus ( both to our surprise , considering the demands of . the two Italian Operas ) , has been hitherto extremely satisfactory , A neat biOlcfc , arranged by Mr . Flexmoro , follows tho opern , and has Been found an attraction to Easier audiences . Instead of the usual classical burlesque of tho Benson from Mr . IVnncis Talfourd ' s pen , we have at the Ha . yma . rkrt a very elegantly written adaptation from one of Washington living ' s "Tales of tho Alhanvbra , " by Mr . H . J . Byron . Wo can no more afford space for a ray » m < $ of the story of " The Pilgrim ot Love , " than we can for that of tho whole pitiless storm of novelties that lius pelted uh for the last week . Tho piece , ns wo have ulroady intimated , is very Cleverly nnd plonflnntly written . Mr . Compton aa Tho King of Toledo , Bliss M , Toriwin ns tho ftiir JPrinocss of , that nncicnt city , nnd Mi's . Buckingham White ns JPrinvo Ahmed , the hero of tho tale , ure the principal figures of interest , nnd by intelligently seconding" the author have secured nn excellent reception , of the romnnoo . At tho PjiiNOiTCSs ' s Tlionfcro « i » ivinusinp burlcsquo upon Barnofct ' s famous opera " Tho Mo \ intujn Sylph" has boon supplied by Mr . Willinin JJrough , tvnd nfibrds opportunity for the displny of tlip utmost ? grace by 3 Vli « fl C Leclercq nvul hev aister Rose , nnd tho greatest vivacity nnd jntolligonce by Mjsh K ! eeloy . A great deal of px-etty music , renlly jyood si ^ hiff , nnd extroinely efl'oQtive scenery , in addition to the uttvnetions wo hnvo montioneu , complete a

      tviumphant success . Bat the one real theatrical event of the week took place here , when , on Monday last , Mr . Plielps . appeared as Sir Pertinax MacSgcophant , in Macklin ' a admirably written five act Comedy , " The -Man of the World-. " Mr . Phelps ' s interpretation of this powerful character is one pf his qfreatest iichieveinents , and we regret to observe that the inferior " ¦ Fool ' s Revenue" is announced to interfere with such a run of the imposing and legitimate comedy under notice , as Mr . Phelps ' s fine performance of Sir JPertinax would surely , if permitted , obtain for it . If this eminent actor fancy himself more as the hero of Mr . Taylor ' s production , he has fallen into an error into which ,. we apprehend , the west end public are little likely to follow him . At the St . James ' s , " Lucrezia . Borgia , " ingeniously travestied by Mr . Buckingham , affords Mr . Charles Young and Miss Wyndham ample employment , for they have to carry the whole weight of the piece between them . Fortunately to this they are competent . Mr Edmond Falconer , author of " Extremes , " has been , as successful in his " Next of Kin , " winch the new management of the Lyceum produced on Easter Monday . The hero , Timothy Ghump , is well acted by Mr . Calhaem . Mr . Emery is capital as one . Lawyer G-rubton , and Miss E . " Travers and Miss Iv . Saxon are the ladies of the cast . Miss C . St . Casse ( late afc the St . James ' s ) is a great acquisition to this company . She is the Ganem of .- '• ' The Forty Thieves "—the burlesque lately played by the " Savages , " aiid how revived here . Miss Lydia Thomson takes the part of Uctvry Halcyon in the last piece , " The Middy Ashore , " and that of the robber captain pf " The Forty . '' This now famous piece loses , to our mind , almost as considerably by being confided to the " professionals" as the " School for Scandal" gained by a ? imiiar change . The amateurs are decidedly the better hands at mailing their extravaganza hits tell and their lines scan , and their '• make itp " as the gang of thieves was infinitely more artistic than that of the supernumerary artists who succeed them . At the Strand , least and last of piny houses , is the best of all the Easter pieces ,. ' / namely ; the " Miller , and . his Men , " very cleverly- written by Messrs . Byron and Talfourd-, and . as cleverly acted by alf the talents of this capital eompany . The joint authors have done their work with reverence for our old friends of tlie " penny-p lain-and-twopence-coloured" character sheets , and have discarded neither Grindo ^ KarULoth air ^ GoimtFnhergyKelmar , JRavina , nor Ctaudine from their old positions . The piece is saturated with comicality and free from vulgarity . Misses Biifton , Saunders , Simpson , and Wilton are the ladies engaged , playingexcept in Miss Buftorrs case—the niale parts ; and Messrs . Bland , Clark , and Rogers are the gentlemen . The JRavina of the latter is an able piece of burlesque acting , and nightly creates a furore . The Strand troupe is renowned for the musical ability of its members , and the result is , of course , that the extravaganza is immensely assisted by the introduction of much pleasing vocal music . We should not omit to notice one more great attraction , to wit , the fascinating pas of Miss Rosina Wright . This " JYIealy-drama '' as its facetious authoi-s are pleased to term it , is certainly the hit pf hits this Easter-tide .

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      362 The Leader and Saturday Analyst . [ April 14 , 1860 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 14, 1860, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2342/page/22/