The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-02 00:00:00

FOREIG

ICALS.

Donizettes Don Pasquale appears to have been
well received at Treviso, with M. Fermi ns the Don.
- The otheesingers are passed sub silentio—a bad sign.
At Naples, Otello and Luisa Miller are the lvest
operas mentioned ; in time former Mnme. Penco and
M. Pancani, and in tha latter M. Cresci, are wall
spoken of.

A new tenor, 11. Miriotti, has made a successful
debut at the Argentina at Rome, as Jacopo, in Verdi's
Foscari.

A Hippodrome, on the plan of that outside the
Barrier Ade i'Etoile, is about to comm.nce operatiuus
at Turia.—Galignani.

THE CHURCH ESTATES COMMISSION.
The following is the first report of the commissioners:
4' To THE BIGHT •HMIOURABLE HER MAiESTY'J
trtYNCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE F..)R THE .}IuME
..
...P.LET.IENT, &C.
ho,s:!ii_ , the Church Estates Commissioners, have the
in;rur__,to„rnahe cur first general report of our proceed-
had jeututle tihe. Act passed in the session of Parliament
entitled ,A,:h and lath years of her Majestj's reign,
Improvement oft
to Facilitate the Management and
"England, at Episcopal and Capitular Estates in
Unfler this &ct any ecclesiastical corporation may,
with the approjvahloin2zriting of the Church Estates
Commissioners
pay due: regard to the just
or other
and reasonable claims oil
wts,the
.preot holders of lands
under lease,
I.arising from the long-con-
tinued practice of retie—
incpeest of such c-rporatiwon?
ans,!ll to any lessee the
way of exchange, or e the lessee's interest
copyhold lands, and easy Pqrchtti may enfranchise any
otcherwise as may be
or deal by
between the Parties,
to the
sub-hose es
agreed upon
are to be considered as entitled
it.,..,ct shall
the privileges of
lessees.
" The Act further. provides, than
the s„,. ,
be a.ppros-
20tIOnd wirier this —Pais money
arising from transactions is
Pri4ted to the common fund of the les' •
lastical Coln.
for &glad;
" The short time that has elapsed since the
the Act has aff)rded little opportunity for ctr.,,1:14.7,ing of
the 'xtent to which its powers are likely t7raining
available, but we sea no rea3oa to doubt be made
operation will materially facilitate the settlement of its
Church I t, " - the satisfaction
0439.0... question to .., both r the
o the
lessors and of the lessees.
"Proposals to sell reversions, or to purchase leasehold
interests., have been submitted by end Archbishop of
Canterte"7, and by the Bishops of London and Norwich,
by the Caapter of Durham. and the Vicars-choral ~f
Lich&ld; and W 3 have reason to bpli:::ye that similar
applications will shortly come before us from several
other ecclesiastical corporations.
" We have also received one propoial for the enfran-
ehisemeLt of five copyhold tenements under the see of
Norwich.

No purchase or sale has yet been concluded, but the
several transactions are progvasing satisfactorily towards
conarletion.

" We have the honour :o he,
" Your faithful a❑d obodient saran%
" ancriEsTErt.
"HENRY GouLnunN.
"Joss GEORGE Su_tsv LEFEVBE.
" Mareh

A iId.NAWAY ENGLNE -ON TRIS SELEOPSIIICE UNION
RAtzwalr. --On Satu:daymorning last an accident occurred
on tb,s line which was nearly attended with loss of life, and
by Which seceral persons here been seriously injured. It
- appears that, as usual, the train.* Stafrird left the Shrews-
bury station at six o'clock, and had renehed the Don-
: niagton etation, about three Mika beyond .Wellington,
when it Wag overtaken and ran into by an engine without
an engine:..r, which had escaped from its station, owing, it
is 4ssid, to the negligence of the mad who had Oiled the
mactiinery, and in the fire without tiotacling the working
gear.. The pace at which it proceeded along the rails was
terrific, and in coming in contact with the train it com-
pletely smashed two of the carriageS in which were ten pas-
sengers. Two of them, ladies, were, seriously injured; one
man had his thigh fractured. A telegraphic message was
immediately dispatched to Shrewsbury for assistance, and
was done
.tbat could he done to allay the suf-
eserzthint
Alhatlai4 . injured. In its transit Along the line
i greatest terror to the spectators at the
tey OtatiA, who des2ribs its. speed:at 70.

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FEANCAIS.—Afrer an absence of thirty-nine years
from the stage, Marivaux's Surprise de l' Amour
- has been revived hem; for the purpose of -displaying
Mlle. Brohan's talent under a new aspect. Mlle Made-
leine Brohan acted the part of the Marquise with great
taste, wit, and elegance, and mainly contributed to
the success of this revival. M. Leroux exerted him-
self creditably as Le Chevalier, but his embonpoint
dispels completely the illusion of his being the me-
lancholy swain Marivaux requires him to appear. In
the other parts Madlle. Biron and Monrose acquitted
themselves satisfactorily, but the betise of Got is posi-
tively sublime.
ODEON.—Two little -pieces have been favourably
received here: the first is an unpretending little
affair, La Chasse au Lion; the other a sprightly
bluette, from the pen of M. Caraquel, one of the
smartest "Writers in "Le Ciaariveri," entitled Le
Bougeoir. Ibis trifle is well and tastefully written,
and nicely acted by Madile. Serail Felix and M. Pillion ;
and the name of the author was given out with all the
honours.
PALMS ROYAL.—Who has ever witnessed the de-
molition of an old house without secretly wishing for
an autobiography of any one of the rooms? What a
piquant and surprising s:ory every chamber—nay,
every old table, chair, cr sofa coult furnish to an in-
dustrious feuilletoniste ! A vaudeville just brought
out here gives us a peep into Parisian life, not quite
so complete as this, but something of the same de-
scription. It is called Les Coulisses de la Tie, in
which that supreme farceur Ravel has a part some-
what similar to that of Don Cleophas, in Le _Diable
Boiteux. Possessing like him the agreeable privilege
of penetrating into the arcana of every house, he
enters, and consequently lifts the veil from number-
less reputatione, happy ménages, Ecc., which are in
reality the very reverse of what they appear to be.
One personage is a certain M. Bourlibourg, who lives
in the style of a prince--.splendid fetes, rich equi-
pages, mansion in town., villas in the country—but
who, on admission behind the scenes, is found to be a
gentleman living by his wits, overwhelmed
with debts, and without a sixpence in the
world. We next find a lady of the purest
virtue who lives only on sentiment with poetry
and the muses, a teetotaller par excellence. Looking
hoWever into her boudoir, we find her happy in the
society of a suspioiously well-looking young fellow
over an excellent lunch, not forgetting the cham-
pagne. In the person of Grosset we are intro-
duced to M. St. Martin, a politician pnd orator
of high celebrity, whose speeches are furnished
by his better half, who, in her turn, derives
them from M. Octave—another suspicious-looking
young fellow—and this M. Octave simply purchases
them of a poor old professor, the denizen of a garret
in the suburbs. These and a few other deceptions of
the same kind furnish the materials for Les Coulisses
de la Vie, which, though sinning a little on the score
of length, was entirely and deservedly successful,
being heartily applauded at its close.
VARIETES.—A farcical affair, in which Areal keeps
the house in roars of laughter, has been produced here
under the title of Demenage d' Hier. Arnal repre-
sents a personage, who, forgetting that he has changed
his residence, repairs to his former abode, and, finding
it-occupied by a couple of fair Spaniards, his mistake
gives rise to a series of quid pro quos of the usual
absurd but laugable nature of which Arnal knows so
well to avail himself. Needless to say its success was
complete.
Mdlle. Rachel, whose departure for Berlin to give
readings from Corneille and Racine before the Em-
perors of Austria, Russia, and King of Prussia was
announced for the 18-1), still remains in Paris. It
was expected that the Ministerial authorisation neces•
nary to enable her to anticipate by a few days the
commencement of her conge, which only commences
on the Ist of June, would hive been granted without
diffieulty ; but the Minister havii:g refused it, Mdlle.
Rachel bad no other course left but to decline the
very flattering invitation of the Prussian Monarch,
Which she had already accepted.
Mr. Mitchell, one of the most indefatigable of
'directors, was in Paris for a day or two last week,
with a view to engage Mdlle. Rachel for a series
of representations to close his brilliant season
of. French plays, at the termination of the German
performances, which he has announced to com-
mence on Tuesday next. Fashionable report
,is
loud in praise of a new idea of this actiie im-
presario—namely, a portable theatee, which he has
had constructed with proscenium, scenery, and all the
necessary appendages. It was first tried last week,
at the soiree of the French ambassador, where one
of the large saloons was in a couple of hours trans-
formed into a beautiful little salle de spectacle. It is
likely to be in request not only at the town houses of
the nobility, but at their country seats, private
theatricals being now very fashionable; and by the
present rapidity of railway conveyance it can be
transported to any part of the country in an incre-
dibly short time.
It is stated that Mrs. Forrest (wife of the American
actor of that name), whose separation from her hus-
band was the occasion of so much scandalous expo-
sure in New York, is about to visit Eegland with a
view of appearing CD the stage. Her talentti as an
actress are not :Token hignly of by the critical
jud,ees in America, boa, e'er deeply they may sympa •
tbiao wi:h the Injured wife and women.
Madile. Alboni ie preparing -to embark by one of
the Liverpool pockets for New York. She intends,
it is said, to visit all the principel cities of the Union.
The last opera at Vienna has been Verdi's Rigo-
letto, in which Mtne. Albertini is described as having
achieved a perfect triumph; Graziini and Ferri are
well spoken of in the other virts.
Mme. Corte&, a singer of some note on the other
side of the Alps, is at present singing with success at
. Ravenna, in company with. M. Pons, and M. Viani, a
tenor, whom, contrary to their usual practice, our
...Italian contemporaries mention with anything but
:s favour.

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