It appears from the _Daily Journal_ that Mademoiselle Sallé took her benefit on the 21st of March (which would be April 1, New Style), when the first piece was _Henry IV., with the humours of Sir John Falstaff_, and the second _Pigmalion_ (with a _Pig_). It was announced that on this occasion "servants would be permitted to keep places on the stage," whereas in most of the Covent Garden play bills of the period the following paragraph appears:--"It is desired that no person will take it ill their not being admitted behind the scenes, it being impossible to perform the entertainment unless these passages are kept clear." [Sidenote: MADEMOISELLE SALLE AND HANDEL.] At this time Handel was at the Queen's Theatre, and it was not until the next year, long after Mademoiselle Sallé had left England, that he moved to Covent Garden. The rival who is represented as having offered such magnificent terms to Mademoiselle Sallé with the view of tempting her from her allegiance to Handel, must have been, if any one, Porpora; though if M. Castil Blaze could have identified him as that celebrated composer he would certainly have mentioned the name. Porpora, who arrived in England in 1733, was in 1734 director of the "Nobility's Theatre" in Lincoln's-Inn Fields. The following is the announcement of Mademoiselle Sallé's first appearance in England:-- "AT THE THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN, On Monday, 11th March, will be performed a Comedy, called "_The_ WAY _of the_ WORLD, by the late Mr. Congreve, with entertainments of dancing, particularly the Scottish dance by Mr. Glover and Mrs. Laguerre, Mr. le Sac, and Miss Boston, M. de la Garde and Mrs. Ogden. "The French Sailor and his Lass, by Mademoiselle Sallé and Mr. Malter. "The Nassau, by Mr. Glover and Miss Rogers, Mr. Pelling and Miss Nona, Mr. Le Sac and Mrs. Ogden, Mr. de la Garde and Miss Batson. "With a new dance, called _Pigmalion_, performed by Mr. Malter and Mademoiselle Sallé, M. Dupré, Mr. Pelling, Mr. Duke, Mr. le Sac, Mr. Newhouse, and M. de la Garde. "No servants will be permitted to keep places on the stage." It appears that at the King's Theatre on the night of Mademoiselle Sallé's benefit, at Covent Garden, there was "an assembly." "Two tickets," says the advertisement, "will be delivered to every subscriber, this day, at White's Chocholate House, in St. James's Street, paying the subscription-money; and if any tickets remain more than are subscribed for, they will be delivered the same day at the Opera office in the Haymarket, at six and twenty shillings each. "Every ticket will admit either one gentleman or two ladies. "N. B.--Five different doors will be opened at twelve for the company to go out, where chairs will easily be had. N. B.--To prevent a crowd there will be but 700 tickets printed."