The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-04 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

Last evening Fidelio was performed for the third time
this season. Madlle. Jenny Ney has now become ac-
quainted with her audience, and she last night dis-
played capabilities both as a singer and actress which
must have surprised her most ardent admirers. The
music allotted to the part of Leonora is not that which
exactly suits such a voice as Madlle, Ney'e, but she
gave it with extraordinary effect. To Madlle. Marai's
version we can again award the highest praise. Last
night her Majesty honoured the performance of
Beethoven's immortal work with her presence. It must
be gratifying to the lovers of art to find classic music thus
specially patronised by her Majesty, and we trust that E 0
ihustrious an example may be followed, as it ought to
be, by all who have any pretension to good taste.
The house was crowded.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert also honoured the
performance with his presence last evening. The Queen
and the Prince were accompanied by her Royal High-
ness the Princess Royal, and their Serene Highnesses the
Princesses Adelaide and Feodore and Princess Victor
of Hohenlohe. The Royal suite consisted of the
Countess of Desart, Lord Dufferin, General Buckley,
and Captain Du Plat. Among the fashionable company
attending the theatre we remarked the Duchess of Wel-
lington and Lady Emily Hay, the Duchess of Montrose,
the MarcLionessof Ailesbury, the Marquis of Bath, the
Countess of Clarendon, Frances Countess Waldegrave,
the Eari of Cardigan, the Earl of Beauchamp and Lady
Georgiana Lygon, Earl Cowper,- the Earl of Gifford,
Viscount and Viscounts a Malden, Viscount Castle-
rosse, M.P., Viscountess oderich and Miss Vyne,
Viscount and Lady Emily Dringarvon, Viscount Chelsea,
M.P., Lady Suffield, Lady Maria Coventry, Lady Laura
Meyrick and the Misses Meyrick, Lord Mitford, Lady
Dufferin, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lady Hall, Hon. Mr.
Liddell ant the Hon. Miss Liddell, Lord Edward
Thynne, Major-General the Hon. H. Cavendish, Hon.
Mrs. Rowley, Hon. G. W. Miller, Sir George Womb-
well, Sir Kingston and Lady James, Sir Henry Mein,
M.P., Captain De Horsey, Captain Nicholson, Mr.
Baring, Miss Burdett Coutts. Mr. Hubert de Bergh,
Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Norman Macdonald, Mr. Craven,
Mr. J. Claslon, Mr. A. K. Oom, Mrs. Ogle Hunt, Mr.
Antrobus,

LITERARY ASSOCIATION OF THE
FRIENDS OF POLAND.

The annual meeting of this association was held, yes-
terday afternoon at the Sussex-chambers, in Duke street,
St. James's. The chair was filled by the Marquis of
Breadalbane, and among the company present were oh-
served the. Earl of Harrington, Lord Kinnaird, the Earl
of Zetland, Mr. M. Milnes, M.P., Mr. J. Abel Smith,
M P., Prince Ladislas Czartoryski, Captain Towns-
bend, R.N., M.P., Mr. D. Urquhart, &c. The busi-
ness of the meeting commenced with the reading of the
report for the past year ; from which it appears that
lectures have been delivered in various parts of the
kingdom proposing the re-establishment of a Polish
kingdom, with the view of enlisting public
feeling m favour of the scheme, the effect of
which lectures has already been made ma,nife'st by
the presentation of numerous petitions to the House
of Commons for the restoration of Poland. The report
then alluded to the formation of a Polish legion, and
the great aid which the Poles have rendered to the cause
of Turkey and the all es. The council have the pleasure
to state that considerable assistance has been afforded
by the English Government in sending out Poles to
serve in the Cossack cavalry regiments in the Turkish
service, and it appears that 250 Polish prisoners of
war -confined in England have lately been de'patched
to Shumla, at their own request, to enter the second
regiment of Turkish Cossacks. The report went on
to lament the decease of their tried friends, the late
Lord 'Dudley Stuart, Lord Beaumont, Lord Jocelyn,
and Sir R. Heron, entering into many details with
regard to the last journey of Lord Dudley to Sweden
and the north of Europe. The number of Polish
refugees new in this country is stated to amount to
753, whose conduct, undeiesevere privations, is report&
to have been most exemplary. The total expenditure of
the past year amounted to 1,7451., including the sum of
1,1531. for relief alone, arid the balance in hand amounts
to 3691. Lord Kinnaird then rose and moved the
adoption of the report in a short but appropriate speech,
in which he commented upon its various paragraphs,
and bore testimony to the excellent conduct of the
Poles, and their disinterested attachment to their be-
I.,ved country. The noble lord expressed a very decided
opinion as regards the necessity 'of establishing the
Polish kingdom, as a barrier against Russian aggression
necesity which was being felt daily more and more
by the peuple of England, and in which Austria, if she
knew her own interests, would be the first to concur.
Time motion was seconded by the Rev. Dr. Worthington,
and carried nem di& The Earl of Harrington then
ineved a resolution expressive of the profound sorrow
felt by the meeting, and the friends of Poland generally,
at the irreparable lose of Lord Dudley Stuart, which was
seconded by Mr. Monde ton Milnes, M.P., and supported,
in short speeches, by Prince Ladislas Czirtoryski and
M. Pulzsky. The 'resolution was carried by acclama-
tion. A third resolution, ar.lvtcating the necessity.of re-
establishing Poland as an independent State, and a bar-
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Turkish army. We also noticed an "Elegy on the
Death of Lord D. Stuart," from the pen of Mr. J. C.
Ferguson.

THE EMPEROR'S VISIT TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE.--11i4
Excellency the French Ambassador in the name of hl4
Majesty the Emperor Napoleon 111., has presented Sir
Joseph Paxt.ya with a gold snuff-box, beautifully mounted
aad ba.ving the Imperial cipher set in brilliants.

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BERLIN, THURSDAY, MAY 3.

The session of the Prussian Chambers was closed
to-day by a speech from Baron Manteuffel. After
enumerating the various legislative enactments
passed this session, the Ministerial speech pro-
mises that the credits granted will be used as eco-
nomically as consistent with ditty in the presence
of an army prepared for war, during the actual
Unsettled state of affairs, so as to vindicate the
independence and position of Prussia as a great
Power.

TURIN, MAY 3.

General Durando has just announced to the
Senate that, an agreement with the Bishops not
having been come to, the former Ministry rtsumes
office.

The discussion on the Convents Suppression
Bill will be resumed on Saturday.

KIEL, MAY 3.

The fleet, under the command in chief of Rear-
Admiral the Hon. It. S. Dundas, C. 8., left at
eight o'clock this morning for the Baltic Sea.

WARSAW, 2D.

32,000 Grenadiers are on their march from
Poland into Lithuanie. The Emperor and Gene-
ral Rudiger are expected. The amnesty has ar-

rived.

RUSSIA.
We have received the St. Petersburg journals of
the 25th and 26th April.

The Invalide Busse publishes the continuation of
Prince Gortschakoff's despatches. It says :
" A report from Aide-de-Camp General Prince Gort-
.
schakoff contains the following details, which complete
his telegraphic despatch concerning the operations before
Sebastopol from the 3d to the 7th (15th to 19th) April.
"On the 3d (15th) April, at 7 in the evening, the
enemy fired three mines (globes de compression) at 30 or
40 sagenes from the point of Bastion 4, and during the
night pushed their approaches to within 15 sagenes of
the nearest cavity (entonnoir) formed by the explosion.
"On the 4th, sth, and 6th (16th, 17th, and 18th)
April, the besiegers continued their cannonade and bom-
bardment, with less violence, howeVer, than on the pre-
ceding days. On our side the firing was also not so
brisk, with the exception of ground situate in advance of
Bastion 4, against which a most active cannonade is
kept up day and night, to prevent the enemy making a
stand in the cavities caused by the explosions mentioned
above.

" The damage done to our batteries is repaired during
the night with the greatest activity, and the dismounted
guns replaced by new ones.
"The skilful play of the artillery of the town has pre-
vented the enemy from acting with vigour against Bas-
tion No. 4, and has provided our volunteers with an
opporturity for displaying their intrepidity ; from the
nearest loop-holes they observed the explosion of our
bombs and gren►des which often compelled the French
to abandon the entonnoirs, and then they opened a well-
directed fire against the runaways.
"In the night between the 6th and 7th (18th and
19th) of April one hundred volunteers and three com-
panies of the Tobolsk Infantry Regiment, commanded
by the brave and intelligent Major Prikota, made a
sortie, which was crowned with the most complete suc-
cess ; a section of the detachment rushed upon the
nearest entonnoir caused by the explosion, another on the
approaches to it, and the others remained in reserve.
The first two sections shot down and put to the bayonet
the enemy, who, three companies strong, occupied the
entonnoir and the approaches leading to it, and destroyed
the works erected ; when the enemy's reserve came up
they left the entonnoir, joined their reserves, and drew
the French under a very heavy fire of grape from
Bastian 4.

" The loss of the enemy on this occasion was very
considerable ; our loss, on the contrary, was compara-
tively unimportant.
"In 'tins sortie officers and men fought like heroes,
the bravest of them Captain Stolhine, Captain Zagrellea,
and Lieutenant Pissareff were wounded. Major Prikotv,
to whose talent and intrpidity the success of this affair
must be attributer), is deserving of particular notice.

" Altogether since the 3d (15th) Of April the losses of
the garrison of Sebastopol are less than on the preceding
days. Its indefatigable activity and excellent spirit, are
above all praise.
" Nothing remarkable has occurred on the other points
of the peninsula."