The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-25 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

The third " Festival Entertainment," on Saturday
arming, wee even rase brilliant than sabre of the pre-
weeding. He certainly sever saw a fuller hewn; not only
was awry ilk* el owe in the sal* pit, and pllery, Alai,
c hat the tow' • twice their laud number of oceapents ;so
that whoa the . Haw rose during the perfarannee el " God
are die Qua" ' elate wit am of the nest beighi mad
entmeled vs have aver whitened in • Public, place. The
royal party (the was go 01 the previous sights) arrived mom
after the asenteasessut of the opera, and remained tell the
ad of the calwadaments, which cateleted of La Soonsirs-
twig, a =add Cantata oompoad by Mr. Howard Haar,
sad a Ballet Divertimesemnt.

The Bowsaws/s7•, besides being, as a whole, admirably
performed, had two 'paid Oats of Interest—the brat
Ilepsersace d Iddpe. Piccoloeffini in the obameter
of Amin., and of Signor Giuglini (in this cosstry
at haw) in that of Elvino. To make • Jeer!
in Amin is an arduous task ; not that the part
is difficult to perform—for the character is so OWOII4 sMaral,
and pathetic, that it does not demand • first-rate performer
to please and affect the audience—bat it has pawed through

the beak of snob a number of first-rate perionners that no
new aineaste can mope a trying ordeal d comparison
Since Pasts—by wham the pot was couted—we have seep It
represented (aracag others of no mall eon) by Malibrea,
Hein, Penisak Conelks, Um% ant Theft nth of
them grist performers made It ans of hat nisei heentlfig mad
eaccessfal efforts. It was no small natter for ear ehermhig
little'prieua dogma of Her Majesty's Thant to enter the field
with such formidable rivals, and it is a great matter that
she has maintained her ground with honor. We have seen
and heard the part biter soled and better asses--the ohs-
rooter, that is to say, developed with greeter completeness In
Its nein. Owes, end the music sang with gresterpoweread
ertistio Ankh; hut, taking the acting and singing together,
sad r coosponant parts of one whole, we have never
had the Swiss ocontry girl placed before us, In ell her rustic
thaplinity, hussonee and tiedsenem, more beautifully by
any one Were, save only Jassy Lind, when Amine was the
very perfection of dramatic and cool art. In the two sleep-
walking wear in which the young fiancio apposes, first fall
of west sad happy drone, and then forsaken, desolate, and
heart 'woken, Monotone' was *vainly successful, and the
audience bore non testimony to the impression she made on
their feelings. Her singing, too, though open in various
rayon to seehnien criticism, was characterised throughout
by trothend warmth of feeling, and was often brilliant and ef-
fective. In the famous finale, " Ah, non ginnge," the roulades
and flights to the top of the scale, intended to express the in-
articulate burin of uneennollabis joy, lost this expression by
the effort with which they were delivered ; but, on the
whole, we have never head Piocolomini sing better than in
the Sointanshila.

Himtint wu dsoldedly the best Elvin° we have ever
had. He sang like Rubtni (the original Rlvlne), and
acted much better than &Mini was able to do. He looked
the handsome young peasant perfectly, and gave a lively
picture of the youth's warm heart and parkare jealous
temper. It is worthy of notice that he erg the UMW pm-
chely as Bethel wrote it for Rabbit, without avoiding by
transpositions those very high notes which express the in-
tensity of Elviso's passion. In the acre where he meets
Amine and upbraids her with her falsehood, the powerful
ant of the original notes was strikingly apparent. They
were the my of irrepressible anguish. There can be no
doubt that the Sonnambisla, with Picoolomini and Oinglini,
will be re of the great attractions of the approaching tram.
The effect of the miemelsie was enhanced by the appearance of
Hard r Count Rodolfo, and of Mdlle. Barrier, who gave
(what is very adder done) due importance to the character
ofLisa. . _

The Cantata is honour of the royal nuptials was performed
alter the open. The Mowing is the poem, which is from the
elegant pot of Kr. John Osaaford

CllOlOB.
Babe on high a joyous song,
Let the world your rapture know ;
In a torrent full sod strong
Let the blended voices dow.
Loyalty each bosom fleas,
Tempest love each soul inspires,
Moat aloud ; the exulting sotmd
Will from heart to heart rebound.
Bobo. Signor Giglio!.
The peat Hohenzollern will bar you rejoice,
The Guelph, lion-hearted, will hat to your voice ;
Svanholm'a they look down on their children below,
And poet the broad earth theyedomed long ago.
They view us now, the mighty of the past,
A blaming on our land to cast,
The body palm they wave.
Hail, thou shad* of the hero,
Hail, thou shade of the brave I

CHORUS.
Ye people of England, all sorrows forget,
This day not au eye must with grieving be wet,
This day we devote to the holiest joy,
Nor trouble nor care meat the fading alloy.
When future years are numbed with the past,
Eushrin'd in memory still shall last
The happy day that gave
To the daughter of heroes tie KG of the brave.

Bow—Mlle. Mooload,
Now in gentle mormurines
Let as breaths a beerthit prem.;
Goadlea angels, spread your wings
Oe'r the royal youthful par.
Brightly hes their life begun,
May It still unruffled flow,
Happiness, a spode= sun,
O'er them shed its softest glow.
SECOND `anal—Mdlle. Spezia.
Boon the parting hour will ooms,
Joy is mingled with regret
Royal Bride, thy native home,
Old by ocean, near forget.
Gentle be the gales that bear
Britain's child to foreign lands;
Angels guard the treasure fair,
Trusted to your fain'ting hands.

Raise on high • joyous song,
Let the world your rapture know,
In • torrent full and strong
Let the blended voices flow.

/INA LS.
Ball to the Qom of the white-00'4 hie.
Still zany she beak beseeth foetuses mile;
Blamed by the tevota of Breen *Wye,
Blared in her children'e—ber eubjeolJ lovw"

The main of this Canton, la sa far sa we could judge from
a wretched perkwents, penmen eenelderable vigour, end
the sirs wen Geisha& sad issiedions. But the the, notwith-
standing the amnion of the engem wen very little better
executed than the eboreese. The Italian did not seem to
andantes& a word they were unless, and they mur-
dered " the Chmen's English" most ridiculously. Ai to the
chorine, they wen a mere hubbub of nobs Wood,
In shat, the performance wee got up with meet dismodibbis
cienissesses, sad was ansequently a failure. "God save the
QOM" followed, and a wares wanks Ina probably never
heard in any theatre. The solo augers fairly broke down in
on place, sod owe to a dead stop amid pawl WOW, in
which the Queen herself was observed to join. VII= it ceased,
however, the loyal feelings of the sadism burst !halt is
all their vehmumos. The Prince= Royal we belled with
load aceliamtione. At drat she mewl to draw beet ; but
weeraged apparently by a gesture from the Qom, she
nme leeward, end made her acknowledgments with the wet
sagegiss grace mad may. At the ekes of the twig
the royal party retired amid the gal awn of the hew.

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beef, end °WOW V. dag the page 'Nona is Theann.
le Ayer( is the Damn lab =he which We airmen
owe else etionneil swim In the paseis•l
theetresel Day.