The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-06 00:00:00

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PIIOGII %DIME OF TIIa COTE NT-GARDEN ITALI.ts
OYRUA.—WO have just obt.ined the programme put forth
by Mr. Beale, the au ever c-f the " Royal Italinn Open,"
(tiring a complete last of the company, *clad indicating the
line of in 't eaomeot to be pursued. The purr.so in T.CIV,
we ore told, is that cf " delivering a more perfect perform-
ance of the Irie drama than has hitherto been rateiaod in
this country;" and we are ?rambled, in addition to ths more
popular works of B llini, Monizetti, Metradante, end Verdi,
" some of the eshiblishei work.; of CO:mewls, Mozart, Ros-
sini, and Moverbezr." This, it moot be admitted, is a high
purpose; anti the forty, vocal and °minstrel, placed under
the admirable eonductorship of Signor Costa, give every
promi•eof it. fulfi:ment. Among the principal art:stes en-
caw d are—Prime Donne: Mad. Grisi, Mad. Persian!,
Md. Roneini, and Mad. Stetfanoni. Contralti: Signore.
AP-mill and lldllr. CorSari. Tenori Signor Mario, Signor
Lelia, Signor Tulli, and Signor Ssld. Baritoni : Signor
Tum!atrini and Sign it G. Roneoni. Bassi Prolonili': Signor
Marini, Signor Angelo Alba, and Signor Poloniiii. Muni
Comiei : Signor Pietro Lcy, and Signor Agoetina Rovere.
The nouns of some of tit, se are as (tallier to all opera fre-
quenter. as " household words;" others Ming with them a
foreLLn repatation which to be conSrmed or sever ed
by a London audience. We are glad to perceive that
"no din:alinement will be suffered between the acts of
operas" (an arrangement deserving of especial commenda-
tion) "but a ballet of a brilliant and costly character will cline
the performance of the evening.- This department will be
uudor the direction of Messieurs Aloert and Blois, and will
comprise Dumilatre, Pluukett, Bertin, Nco.lot, Ba-
derno, and Fuoco; Messieurs Petipa, Gentle, Croce, Delf:eier
and Mabille. Engagements are also saidto be pending with
kidlll.3. Airianopoli and Fanny Elssler. The list of orches-
tral performers, selected and orgaaised by Signor Costa,
preseuts a series of well-known names. All this protein, s
well • but we leave the comparative merits of the rival estab-
lialunents to be decided by the results.

'Ube Drama.
FRENrII Pure.—A highly interesting drama,
entitled '• Le Doctcur Noir," was played at this theatre for
the first time last ttiaht. It is of the school of all the
drama and novels of Alexander Dumas—interminable in
length (it numbers seven acts), yet not flagging in interest;
very startiing, very omitting, very powerful, very odd;
highly impracticable, yet with just enough of probability to
rivet the attention of the audience. In short, it to a
drama with which a critic might have considerahle
reason to find fault, without being, for all that,
able to preserve himself from being carried away by the
Im.y:serial current of admiration. The play opens in the I.le
of Bourbon, in the house of a noble planter's family—a gover-
nor, too. 'the characters are a proud mother, with a land-
some daughter, who ha, fallen in love with en emancipated
mulatto, raised, by his own efforts and studies, to the rank
and practice of a physician. There are other suitor!, of touts..
The Counters would drive away th• midattn doctor or
Doeleur Noir, who take.. refuge in a lone cabin, indulges
in quiet sadness, till he learns the prohabie marriage of his
beloved. This roux,. him; and, under some pretest, he draws
her to a ro.:ky bay, whence, as in the atehe of Eddy °chit-
tree, there is no escape, and where both cannot apparently
fail to be drowned by the rising tide. In such an emer-
gency, the heroine avows her lore to the black physician,
as a prelude to death. But it turns out they both
are saved. The mother of Pauline, the heroine, in the
mean time, sails for France, is reported to have perished ; and
the heiress espouse s, tl tough in see ret, the I kxleur Noir. This is
scarcely done, when themother Coltrane. is found to be alive,
and Pauline returns ts France. The nest act opens in a
Parisian hotel, where Fabian, the black doctor, enacts the
part of valet, for the sake of being near his wife. We should
premise that Lemaitre played the part of Fabian, the
mulatto doctor, and Mademoiselle Clarirae that of
AMUR!. Few scene, are more interesting on the stage, or
better acted, than that in which Fabien is insulted and
threatened to be sent back to Bourbon, when his wife bursts
forth and avows the secret to her mother. The secret, how-
ever, still mt. between the Countess. Pauline, and Fallen.
The latter promiace to bury it in oblivion, and waive his
i right. For this the Cows/ear rewards him by having
I him and' his secret immur d in the Bastille. Then comes
the revolution of 1708. Two storks of the Bastille form the
scenery of the Penultimate act. The dungeon of Fabian is
one; he is rescued from it by the mots, hut his reason has fled.
The Meet set is the Terror. Pauline has found refuge in
country cAtiteres, whither Fabian, a lunatic, has also
wandered. The chateau is besieged by the mob,
and the life of l'auline demanded, as that of a
woman who hal betrayed her husband to the
Bastille. The mob breek in. If Feehien owns her
for his wife, and denies the accusation of her immuring
him, she is reeved : if not, she must perish. The idiot hus-
band refuses, but is recalled to his Feuer. by a pietist shot
mortally wounding him, and which is fired by no one knows
whom fur wl..at purpose no ens knows. And
this ekes the melodrama sot..ething of tile tragedy.
The es tin; of Madlle. Clarinee was perfect, and, indeed, in
m:nv p. ints, was as rowerful as anything we ever witnessed
on the stage. Admirable as Lemaitre is as an meter, we
have seen hint in Farts better suited to him than Fabien. He
was too sedate, solemn, and Mende, for the fiery malatro.
There was something even of the tragi-comic inbiasolemnity.
In hysteria, too, he ie not at all equal to Clarime. Cartigny
was admirable as ever, and the female parts were well sus-
tained ; so was that of Andre by M. Pascal. The " Doe-
tear Noir" sweainial fully the welt-merited reputation it had
already earned in Ihuis.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.
Nan .o.—The following degree. vivre eonferred on Tuesday :
M.. 1. : 11. P. Ihr.,nris, Rev. J. Itolwrt•oo, A. Reanlanda, lion. 11.4.:
nev.T. W. Johns; Ad euwelena, 11. A. W. Douglas LL John's, Camb.;
11..1.: J. D. Anderson, A. Greenwell, J. E. C. J0:111111.111, P. nmitlL C.
11,0,4 N, urn:ewer: 'tweed for permitting W. D. Fierce to ...vial
latZ, 10-pt by Mtn as a Rudest in engineering, towards a
degree to aria; snd to grant 1001. for the completion of the adaptation
of the Grammar School to the Immo,. of the University. The
Univenity accounts were laid on the Restintrtr's table.

or MA. E.. I.—The Right Rev. Walter
Angtutne, lArdAhon of So or end Men, •rho arrived on Wednee.
day, wee to-day tweet:eel and cntbrooed in St. Mary'', Chapcl,
town, by the yen. the arthdesoaex is presence of Me excellency the