The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-11 00:00:00

FOREIGN THEATRICALS.

GRAND OPERA.—Verdi's I Lombardi, but in an
incomplete form, has been revived here under its
Parisian title of Jerusalem. The execution of
Jerusalem was not such as to entitle it to a high
degree of favour. The principal characters were en-
trusted to M. Chapuis, M. Depassio, and Mdlle.
Poinsot : the first a promising young tenor,
but quite unequal to the part of Gaston, formerly
filled by Duprez. The other two are respectable
second-rate singers, and executed their roles quite as
well as could have been expected. The chorusses
were less perfect than usual, and the orchestra alone
can be said to have rendered justice to the composer,
who, on the whole, has some right to complain of the
treatment he experienced, seeing the care and atten-
tion bestowed on works of very inferior merit. On
Monday night M. Roger returned from a highly suc-
cessful German tour, an•i aopeared with Massol, who
has also been absent, in Halevy's Juif Errant.
FILANCAIS.—On Saturday Madile. Raebel made
her rentree here as Monime in Racine's Mithridate,
a tragedy which even ber inimitable powers cannot
render anything but tedious. To such of our readers
as may not have seen her in a classic part, we
would recommend Camilla in Horace, and Phdre, in
which she infuses the spirit of real tragedy. We
have had the revival of Mme. Ancelot's Marie, a
piece produced for Madlle. Mars when in her aphelion.
Marie is a young girl, who, to save her father from im-
pending ruin, gives her hand to a wealty financier,
while her heart belongs to another. Years elapse, and
when she meets once more her former lover, whose
sentiments remain unchanged, she is still young,
but a widow and a mother; and the interest consists
in her struggle between her duty to her daughter,
whose fortune her marriage would seriously impair,
and her own feelings. It is needless to say that duty
comes off the victur in the contest. Mlle. Denain
took the part of the great comedian, and although, in
the opinion of some thorough-going partisans of Mlle.
Mars, a great distance subsists between them, yet
many seem to think that the advantages of youth and
beauty on the part of Mlle. Denain quite compensate
for her comparative deficiences as an actress. As
for the masculine portions of the cast, the balance is
decidedly in favour of the present performers, and on
the whole this revival is satisfactory.
ODeort.—This theatre has opened its doors for
the season with a drama in four acts, by M. Galoppe
d'Oequaire, Marie de Beaumarchais, imitated from
Gi.::he's tragedy of Clavigo." The subject is taken
from one of Beaumarchais Memoirs, in which he
vindicated the reputation of his sister against the as-
persions of a Spaniard, Clavigo, who, having
promised to become her husband, refused, at
the eleventh hour, to fulfil his engagements, and ca-
lumniated hex to justify his conduct. In GsAi,:he's
drama, and the many other pieces written on the
subject, as well as in M. D'Onquaire's, Clavigo is
represented as a monster of treachery, whilst Mdlle.
de Beaumarchais is gifted with every virtue. In
Goiche, the play ends with the death of the parties,
but in Marie, remorse on the one hand and affec-
tion on the other, combine to bring about a far less
tragical denouement the marriage of the calum-
niator with his victim. The success of Tfarie was
any thing but enthusiastic, the malcontents expres-
sing their opinion, at the fall of the curtain, with
i ntnistakeable distinctness. Some modifications have,
a pretty ns
"yeri since taken place, and the piece now goes
on %win:ma.
ingiy,
OpEak NATIONAL —This theatre has also com-
menced °Perstio for the season ; its opening piece
being
n fThe
and written
ir?oiMessrs. Dennery and Breail,
b little opera, composed by M. A. Adam
called Si is ti,
plot is founded upon one
tph:ndo
of those eastern
or fishermen, wishinabler, in which an humble peasant
finds his desires gratilfi!d° be a monarch, suddenly
permitted for a
brief season to enjoy the land is
splendour and revel in the
luxuries of a throne. In
the hero, a young fisherman,
naPre7eent case, however,
Power placed in his hands, and as Shigood use of the
to be implicitly obeyed, he weds the si)rciommands are
life he had previously saved, and wilee", whose
been the secret object of his idolatry. Thnais long
romance, gaily worked up and supported little
Adam in his sprightliest vein, his musics M.
throughout lively, ang
greeable, and ;
n•quant, was
thoroughly and deservedly successful, both
the
librettists and maestro having exactly hit Ithe taste
of the public of the Opera National. By a new
and curious arrangement of the director, th a princi-
pal characters are filled on alternate repres ?ntations
by different performers. Thus,:on the opening night
the chief parts were sung by M. Talen, a meritorious
young tenor, M. Laurent, a baritone of promises and
Mme. Colson, a light soprano, and on the following
evening by M. Carib and Mme, S. Noel, M. Laurent
retainine his part of the preceding et, ening.—
Galignani.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, Sept. 10.
Commission by the Queen.
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July 30.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Merit): lethsbire.
George Casson, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenat ,t; Lewis
Williams, Esq, to be Deputy Lieutenant; Samuel
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THE WATCHERS' REPORT ON-THE

CASE AT SHOTTISHAM.
The committee appointed to investigate into the
case of Elizabeth Squirrell, who for the past five
months is reported to have lived without food or
nourishment of any kind, have just completed the
report of their labours. This voluminous document,
after treating of the facts which have already ap-
peared in The Sun, gives the following additional
particulars :
" From the statement of the various members of
the committee, it appears the girl and her parents
frequently expressed a desire that the watch should
be shortened, on the ground that she might have
the ensuing Sabbath to herself for meditation and
prayer. The watch was commenced by Mr. G.
Tovell and Mr. W. H. B. Webster, a surgeon,
who experienced some little hostile feeling when they
presented themselves at the house, and announced
the errand upon which they had come, their pre-
sence producing agitation and excitement. Even-
tually, they were allowed to remain, but the father
steadily refused to leave them in complete charge, or
to allow the bed upon which the girl lay to be re-
moved from the corner of the room. The room has
two doors, and persons were allowed to have access,
so that the attention of the watchers was liable to
repeated interruptions. Desirous of giving as little
annoyance as possible, the committee suffered the
parents to communicate with their daughter in almost
any way, and with as much frequency as they re-
quested. They even permitted them to raise her up
in bed—an office which was often performed. They
also allowed the girl to have a parasol in use, day and
night, because it was pleaded, notwithstanding her
alleged blindness, that from her exquisite susceptibi-
lity, the light was distressing to her, particularly at
night. The committee state that they failed to
detect the way in which nourishment was ad-
ministered, but they are of opinion that the
indulgences they permitted offered abundant op-
portunities for food being conveyed into bed
u nseen by them. At night the girl would lie for
b
hourswith her face to the wall, screened from obser-
vation
to
b
easily tayke
her parasol, and at these times she could
anything which might have been supplied,
besides sucking
circumstance water from a sponge with which she
was allowed
occurred
her face. Daring the watch a
at the time,
which did not excite sus-
picionbeen since directed in
' but to which attention has
Onco the last morning of
connexion with the other
facts just mentioned,
the girl awoke from an apparent slhitbY
eeapccionmextre.mde
bagi-
j
the watch, when the Itev.
was present,
tate,n, with heaving of the chest
peculiar noise in her throat. She prer.sepdahler lowyeas
jaw, when her father, who was sitting at the foot of
the bed, hastily ruse up, exclaiming, ' Oh, my dear
child, the lock-jaw has come again: He then, appa-
rently
by a violent effort, forced her mouth open, and
placed therein the end of a towel, lest, as he said, the
lock-jaw should return. Tae towel
was very soon
removed, but no symptom 3 of lock-jaw were visible,
nor
allusion made to them.
, was n
In
ay further
addition
to the sta!ements which have already
handkerchief under
just
t. A handkerchief
appeared in reference to the discovery made by the
nurses, they also found a white
the person of the girl we
her band in tile course
like it had been put into