The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-31 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Between the parts of M.
Jullien's concert on Monday night, a troupe of vocalists
were introduced, called the " Chanteurs Montagnards,"
a recent importation, we believe, from Paris. The exact
and delicate singing of the Cologne Union has made the
public critical as regards exhibitions of this kind ; and
the new batch failed in comparison with their German
contemporaries. Neither in precision nor intonation
were they unexceptionable, and although they were en-
cored in their second attempt it was not by universal
consent, or without dissonant resistance. Their music,
too, was unmelodious, and not at all of au attractive
character. The " chanteurs" were dressed in dark tunics,
white trousers, and red caps, and were preceded in the
orchestra by a banner, embellished with an inscription,
the purport of which we were unable to discover.
STRAND THEATRE. On Monday evening Miss
Rebecca Isaacs resumed the management of this minia-
ture theatre, and a goodly number of admirers greeted
the reAlration. Our Nelly, a musical burletta by Mr.
Craven, introduced Messrs. Halford, Kinloch, J.
Howard, Rogerson, and Mesdames Laws, Forrest,
Somers, Bennett, and the fair manageress, who, as
Nelly, acted and sang very prettily. An apropos ad-
dress, or speech from the throne, God save the Queen,
a new extravaganza, Alonzo the Brave and the Fair
Imogene, and a farce, wound up the night's entertain-
ment. In the extravaganza, Miss R. Isaacs as Alonzo,
Miss F. Beaumont as the fair Imogene, and Mr. Hal-
ford as the Baron of high degree, each acted with their
usual excellence. The dresses are all new, and the
scenery is appropriate.

I'Aißs.—The following members paired on Mr. Roe-
buck's motion
:
For.
Lord Lovaine
Mr. Forbes
Captain Bunbury
Mr. Irton
Lord E. Hill

Against.
Mr. Willcox
Mr. Beaumont
Mr. Grace
Sir R. Ferguson
Lord E. Howard.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The reservoirs and lakes in the
grounds of the Crystal Palace are now completely
frozen, and have during the last few days been well at-
tended by skaters. The Skating Club have obtained
permission to appropriate to their special use a piece of
water, known as the intermediate reservoir, upon which
a number of the members have been daily practising.
Nov CATTLE MARKET, COPENHAGEN-FIELDS.—It was
reported yesterday at Guildhall, that while the Markets'
Improvement Committee was sitting, a letter was re-
ceived by their chairman from Lord Palmerston, to the
effect that his lordship disapproved some of the rules
framed by the committee for the regulation of the mar-
ket, cn the grouid of their not being sufficiently strin-
gent ; and further, that his lordship approved of Tues-
day for holding the market, instead of Monday, as de-
termined by the committee.

AMERICAN INTILLIGENCE.—The telegraphic summary
of the intelligence brought by the American steamer this
week is moee favourable than for some time past as re-
gards the stock and money markets. The failure, how-
ever, which is announced of Page and Bacon at St. Louis
must be a heavy one. Their business consisted chiefly
of large banking and general financial transactions, and,
as they were understood at the departure of the last
packet to hold 60,000/. of the bills of Belcher, Brothers,
whose stoppage had just taken place, apprehensions then
prevailed that they would break down, their paper being
offered in New York at a discount of 5 per cent, per
month.

Ben SILVER.—The bar silver brought by the last
West India steamer has been sold at 618 d. per mince,
being an advance of Id.
SYDNEY.—The accounts from Sydney by the Calcutta
state that the declared value of the imports into New
South Wales for the half-year ending the 10th of October
was 3,223,7411., while the exports were only about
1,500,0001. The weekly average of gold f;om the mines
in that district continued steady at 3,000 ounces, •r at
the rate of about 650,0001. per annum, with a tendency
rather to increase than diminish. The belief reported
by the last overland mail of the possible existence of
Mr. Boyd, who was supposed to have been murdered a
few years ago by the natives of the Solomon Islands, ap-
pears to have arisen from news brought by a cutter called
the Oberon that the crew of an American whaler had
found the name of Benjamin Boyd carved on many of
the trees of the island of Guadalcanar, while the natives
of another island, 60 miles distant, bad reported having
lately seen a white man and a boy in a canoe from that
place. The Oberon had accordingly been despatched to
that place to institute a search, and would be followed
by a Government vessel, the Governor and the people
of New South Wales having readily offered all needful
subscriptions. The Psyche, the Emma, and the Plan-
tagenet had left Sydney for London, and are expected to
bring gold. The Edward had also sailed from Mel-
bourne for London.
LOLA MODITES IN THIS WILDS OF CALIFORNIA.—
Grass-valley, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1854.—1 visited to-
day the countess (Madame Lola Montes). She lives a
quiet and apparently cosy life, surrounded by her pet
birds, dogs, goats, sheep, bens, turkeys, pigs, and her
pony. The 'latter seems to be a favourite with Lola,
and he is her companion in all her mountain rambles.
Surely, it is a strange metamorphosis to find the woman
who has gained so world-renowned a notoriety, and who
has played her part upon the stage of life with powerful
potentates, and with whose name Europe and the world
is familiar, finally settled down at home in the mountain
wilds of California.—Correspondent of the San Francisco
Journal.