The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-09 00:00:00

French Theatricals.

ITALIAN OPERA.—The management has dis-
played commendable activity since our last notice,
and the frequenters of this aristocratic house cane
not fairly complain that their pleasures are not
varied. First, we have had Mozart's chef d'ceuvre
"Don Giovanni"—but this masterpiece to be really
enjoyed requires a perfection in every branch and
in the ensemble of its execution which at the pre.
sent day it is simply chimerical to hope for. Since

the time—more years ago than we care to specify
—when Lablache, Tamburini, Mario, Grisi, Per-
siani, Sontag, and Curbari, all united their efforts
to render th© great master's inspirations—we can-
not say we have heard Dan Giovanni" given to our

satisfaction, or bear witness to its having produced
on the public an impression commensurate with
merits. Tho " star system," which answers well
enough in more modern compositions, will not
do for Mezart. Therefore, though Mlle. Patti is
a charming Serlina, though D4lle-Sedie is a per-
feet artiste, we cannot but think that with the
present troupe the revival of " Don Giovanni" was
a mistake. Flotow's "Marta" has also been given
—the soprano part is admirably adapted to Patti's
style, and she alone would have ensured success.
Brignoli who appeared here some twelve years ago
with indifferent success, and who more recently ex
perienc,3d a somewhat rough reception in Madrid,
renewed his acqaaintance with the Parisian public
in the part of Lionel.. He labours under two great
faults, nervousness, and a slavish imitation of Mario
—a little judgment ought to convince him of his
error; he is only a bad copy when he might be a
good original. Under these reserves, it may be
said that he was not unfavourably received, and
that his fine voice, and evidently perfect com-
mand over it, render him an acquisition. We have
_nothing but praise to bestow on the performance of
the " Ballo in Maschera." The music grows upon
one at every successive hearing, and nothing more
perfect can be imagined than the singing of Frets.
chini,Delle Sedie, Mmes. Charton, Meric-Lablache,
and Vanderbeck. The sisters Marchisio made their
rentree last week in " Norma," but the performance
was interrupted by an untoward indisposition of
Mile. Carlotta (the soprano). From the moment
of her appearing it was obvious that she was suffer.
ing gem sore throat; she struggled bravely against it

for a time, but, after attempting a few notes, had to
be removed in a half-tainting state—the audience,
it is gratifying to note, evincing the deepest sym%
pathy with that most deserving artiste. A con-
cert was extemporized, to which Barbara Mar-
Delle•Sedie, Mme. Charton, and Anto-
nucci contributed their aid, and the public left the
theatre pleased with the makeshift thus speedily
improvised.
THEATRE ST. GERMAIN.—This is a new house, built on
the Boulevard Sebastopol (south bide), near tha Cluny Mu-
seum, in apparent disregard of the law of supply and de-
mand. It was inaugurated labt week with three insignifi-
cant little pieces—" La Libra Echange," "La Bouqueti-
ere da Trianon," and "Le Lion de St Marc," the two last
baing operettas. they are none of them either very good
or very bad—mediocrity (we fear, alas I not aurea) is their
chief characteristic. The theatre on the first night was
very fully attended.

BEAUMARCHAIS.—This little theatre has undergone a
transformation as complete as many quarters of Paris. A
new salle has been erected in the place of the dingy, dirty,
inconvenient one which formerly stood there. The seats
are roomy and comfortable, and to reach one's stall it is
unnecessary to perform those gymnastic feats which render
locomotion so painful in many houses of greater pretensions.
A. new piece was brought out called " Surcouf "—a series of
episodes in the life of that celebrated rover strung together
by the experienced pen of Bernard Lopez. The audience
of the Beaumarehais is not remarkably fastidious, and
" Surcouf" may be pronounced a succeEs,

"Roland a Roncevaux" continues to fill the Grand
Opera. Meanwhile, a great deal of gossip finds its way
into print respecting "L'Africainc," which amounts to this

—that the first acts aro by far the host, Competent judges,
however, who have seen the whole partition, and gone over
it carefully, assure us that this last work of Meyerbeer's is
also his greatest—Madle. Beaugrand, who has formed part
of the corps de ballet since her childhood, has now emerged
a full• blown danseuse, and taken the part of La Mouraview
in " Diavolina,” with almost as much success as her exotic
predecessor.

M. Sejour's sensational melodrama, "Le Fils de la Nuit"
.the chief features being a naval fight and a storm at sea

—has been revived at the Gait e, where it was originally
produced in 1356. It was then played every night for six
months running, and there is really no reason why its
second career should be less pr)9sperous.
An important innovation has been introduced at the Vau-
deville—ladies are now admitted to the orchestra stalle.

The Bahia Outrage;::

It is with undescribable repugnance that we write of the
outrage effected in the harbour of Bahia by the North Ame-
rican man of war the Wachusetts. It is, indeed, with re-
luctance that we bring before the country so grave an accu-
sation against our Government as that which we proceed to
make. In the United States very high prizes have been
offered for whoever should take or destroy the Florida. An
association declared that it would give 500,000 dole. The
Government of Washington also offered prizes for the same
end. The Washington Government, hearing that the Florida
pursued her career by preference on the coast of Brazil, took
the necessary measures for her capture or destruction. En-
ergetic precautions were taken, and our ports were more
visited by Federal ships of war. The American Minister at
this Court had orders, as we aro assured, to come to an un •
derstanding with the Imperial Government as regards the
necessity of capturing or destroying the Florida in whatever
port of Brazil she might be found. Gen. Webb spoke with
frankness to the Marquis of Abrantes, ex-Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and formally declared that the Florida would
be captured or destroyed in whatever Brazilian port she
might enter, though the Government of the Union might
afterwards have to give all the satisfaction which Brazil
should require. Persons of great discretion inform us that
they have heard Gen. Webb himself in Petropolis mention
this fact, that his Excellency had declared to the Brazilian
Minister the resolution taken by the Washington Govern-
ment, and the orders given for the taking of the Florida in
any Brazilian port whatever. We cannot, and must not,
mention names. We did not hear Gen. Webb's statement,
but the persons who have communicated to us his words are
above all suspicion of levity or falseheld ; they deserve full
coedit and the greatest respect, and they go so far even as to
assert that Gen. Webb made no secret of his resolutions in
reaped to the Florida and the Brazilian Government. On
the arrival here of the news of the proceeding of the Wa-
chusetts the Brazilian Minister immediately had an inter-
view with Gat, Webb ; they conferred, conversed, and ar-
ranged those curhms notes which were exchanged and have
been already published' This fact also has been related to
us by a person worthy of the highest credit. It was necessary
to mystify the Brazilian nht;on, and the two Ministers ar-
ranged this magnificent comedy. The inaction of the Presi-
dent
of Bahia, the state of desertion in which the forts of
the port were found, the easy escape of the Wachusetts, the
tardy pursuit by our vessels of war, are motives for the most
serious reflection. The terms of the Webb note about the
outrage, declaring that if it had occurred in an English port
or in one of any other powerful nation, satisfaction wolud
not have been given so promptly and effectively as it will be
given to Brazil—the giving of the satisfaction being gua-
ranteed by the Minister of the Union at this Court—all this
indicates connivance of the Brazilian Government in the
deed, and combination with the Minister Webb. In Brazil
there are Ministers capable of this extreme misconduct—
capable of concurring i 4 the taking of the Florida, capable
of not dismissing Mr 'Webb from the Brazilian Court with
24 hours' notice; and in France and in England there are
Ministers to whom no American Minister would dare to ex-
press, even in conversation, the rash desires of his Govern•
meat, still less accepting arrangements so insulting to the
national honour and to the honour also of those charged
with the supreme authority. Here Mr Webb has found with
facility Ministers of a sort who, in those countries, would be
visited with infamy. In England Mr Webb knows well
that he would have to deal with a statesman like Lord Pal-
merston, who towers far above the plenipotentiaries and the
Generals of the North American Republie.—From the
Voila* sem Rebueo (Truth without Disguise) of Nov. 7.

Course of Exchange,—This Day,

1 1G

Amsterdam .. Short. 11 15 1
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 1:4 12 19i
Antwerp — 25 55 25 621
25 55 25 621
Brussels
Hamburg,— 13 8 13 81
Paris . .
Ditto
Marseilles — 26 65
1201 25 60
Frankfort on Maine
Vienna
'Trieste
Petereburgh
Madrid Berlin .
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474761
461
Cadiz 44
Leghorn — 26 72/ . 25 771
Milan. •. • - 25 721 • 25 771
Genoa —. .25 721 25 77i
Naples
Palermo —l 26 72i 25 771
Messina — 26 721 25 771
Lisbon .... ...... , . —61 i
Oporto
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)„ ....per oz., £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars , 0 0 0
Si4er in 3ue (6tten(iard), ............ ~„, „ Q 0 11

THIRD EDITION,

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

LONDON GAZETTE---This Evening,

FOREIGN OFFICE, DEc. 7.
Earl Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, has received information from her
Majesty's Minister at Stuttgardt to the effect that it has
been notified in the Official Gazette of Wurtemburg, that
the necessity for travellers being provided with passports
at the frontier or within the Kingdom of Wurtemburg is
abolished. Foreigners travelling within the Kingdom
must, however, be prepared to furnish proof of their id au_
tity and their nationality, if called upon by the police au-
thorities to do so.
FOREIGN OFFICE, Dnc. 3.
The Queen bas been graciously pleased to appoint
Charles Livingstone, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at
Fernando Po, to be also her Majesty's Consul in the terri-
tories on the Western Coast of Attica, comprised within the
Bight of Biafra, and lying between Cape Formosa and
Cape St John.

DECEMBER 6.
The Qieen has been pleased to approve of M. Armand
Ranniger as Consul at Brisbane fur his Majesty the King
of Prussia.

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don Joa-
quin Marcos do Satrustegui as Consul at Newcastle for her
Majesty the Queen of Spain.
The Queeu has. also been placed to approve of Mr George
Tudor Pemberton as Consul at Quebec for the Free Iran_
seatic city of Ilamburgh. _

The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Se.nor
James L. Hart as Vicc-Consul in London for the United
States of Colombia.

WAR OFFICE, DEC. 9

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Lientenant-Coloael Charles George
Gordon of the Royal Engineers, some time employed in the
service of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, to
be an Honorary Member of the Military Division of tho
Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order
of the Bath.

CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 9.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PLR-
LIA.MENT.

County of Suffolk—Western Division—Augustus Henry
Charles Hervey (commonly called Lord Augustus Harry
Charles Hervey), in the room of Frederick William John
Harvey (commonly called Earl Jermyn), now Marquis of
Bristol, summoned to the House of Peers.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 9.
3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Frederickyitzwilliam
Trench Hobbs, Esq , late Captain 55th Foot, to bo Pay-
master, vice Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Cap-
tain, Thomas Marshal Cockerill, deceased.
4th Dragoon Guards—Frederick William Gosselin, Gent.,
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice John Warren Roberto;
transferred to the 14th Hussars.
14th Hussars—Cornet jobn Warren Roberton, from the
4th Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice James Logan White,
promoted,
20th Hussars—Major Charles Campbell Hook has retired
upon a pensiln equivalent to the half-pay of a Major,
and not that of a Captain, as stated in the Gazette of the
15th of November, 1864.
Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Colonel Edward Wray, C. 8.,
from the Supernumerary List, to be Lieutenant Colonel,
vice William David Aitken, removed to the Supernu-
merary List—Gentleman Cadet Augustus Browne, from
the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant, v ico
Dodgson, who resigns—Sergeant Major Charles Clarke
to be Riding Master, to complete the establishment.
The surname of the Gentleman Cadet appointed to a
Lieutenantcy, vice Leishman, is Domvile, and not
Domville, as stated in the Gazette of the 16th August
last.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant Colonel Harry Rivera to be
Colonel, vice North, who retires upon full pay—Cap-
tain John William Playfair to be Lieutenant
Colonel, vice Rivers—Second Captain Julius George
Thomas Griffith to be Captain, vice Playfair—
Second Captain George Philips, on the Supernumerary
List, to be Captain—Second Captain Charles Nassau
Martin to be Captain, vice Lochner, who retires on tem-
porary half-pay—Lieutenant Brownlow Hugh Mathew
to be second Captain, vice Griffith—Lieutenant Daniel
Corrie Walker to be Second Captain, vice Martin—Lieu.
tenant Robert Home to be Second Captain, vice Mon-
crieff, who resigns—Gentleman Cadet John Thomas
Weight, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieu.
tenant with temporary rank, vice Mathew—Gentleman
Cadet Ambrose Awdry, from the Royal Military
Academy, to be Lieutenant, with temporary
rank, vice Swiney, deceased—Gentleman Cadet
Wm. Brunel Hurst, from the Royal Military Academy,
to be Lieutenant, with temporary rank, vice Walker—
Gentleman Cadet Stanier Waller, from the Royal Mili-
tary Academy, to be Lieutenant with temporary rank,
vice Home.
3d Regiment of Foot—Lieut.-Colonel William M'Call, from
halt pay Unattached, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Brevet
Colonel John Neptune Sargent, C 8., who retires upon
temporary half pay—Major Thomas George Gardiner to
be Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice M'Call, who retires
—Captain Charles Moore B. Siree to be Major, by par.
chase, vice Gardiner—Lieut. Robert Burdett Morny to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Siree—Ensign George
Agar Alexander to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Morony—Ashby Pochin, Gent, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Alexander.
7th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Albert Vercoe Pope,
from the 39th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hill, who ex-
changes.
9th Foot—Quartermaster Serjeant John Casey, to be
Quartermaster, vice William Banbury, appointed Pay,
master to the 60th Foot.
11th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Herbert Skill to be Adjutant,
vice Lieutenant William Joseph Tibbs, who has resigned
that appointment.
29th Foot—Fletcher Castel! Hungerford Littledale, Gent..
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Edmund Carrington,
promoted.
36th Foot—Ensign William Verner Ellis to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice William Edwin Price, who retires—
Frederic Lloyd Harford, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Ellis.
39th Foot—Lieutenant Rowland Hill, from the 7th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Pope, who exchanges.
10th Foot—Staff-Surgeon John Eldon Young, M.D., to bo
Surgeon, vice Henry Frederick Robertson, appointed to
the Staff.
44th Foot—Lieutenant George Egerton Hodgson to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Captain and Brevet-Major
the Hon. Robert Baillie-Hamilton, who retires—Ensign
Thomas Thompson Irvine to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vine Hedgson—Bryan Hesleden Foster, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Irvine.
60th Foot—Thomas Bench° Powys-Keck, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Cecil John Shepherd, pro-
moted.
62d Foot—Lieut. John Henry Pagan to be Instructor o f
Musketry, vice Captain Joseph Sanderson, who has rc-
.

signed that appointment.
73c1Foot—Joseph Carrie Ross, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Richard John Airey, promoted.
75th Foot—Major/ and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Charles
E. P. Gordon to be Lieutenant Colonel, without pur.
chase, vice Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel Wm.
Radcliff, who retires upon full pay—Captain and Brevet
Major Thomas Clement Dunbar to be Major, without
purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Gordon—
Lieutenant Richard Wadeaun to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Brevet Major Dunbar—Ensign Charles
Heileman Heycock, to be Lieutenant, without purchase,

vice Wadeson.
92d Foot— Lieut. Robert Alexander Emmet to be Instructor

of Musketry, vice Lieut. Alexander Forbes Mackay, ap-

pointed AdjUtant.
4th West India Regiment—Sergeant Major .Tosiah Gerard
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice George Henry
Cary, promoted.
STAFF.—Major Alexander Abercrombie Nelson (from Fort
Major, Guernsey;, half pay, late of a Depot Battalion, to
b 3 Deputy Adjutant General to the Forces serving in
Jamaica, vice Brevet Colonel J. W. Reynolds, Captain,
halt pay, Unattached, whose period of service on the
Staff has expired.
MEDICILD EP ARTME NT.—Surgeon Henry Frederic Robert-
son, from the 40th Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon, vice John
Eldon Young, M.D., appointed to the 40th Foot.
BREVET.
Colonel Charles Frederick North, retired full-pay, Royal
Engineers, to be Major General, the rank being honorary
only.
Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Rad-
cliff, retired full-pay, 7th Foot, to have the honorary rank
of Major General.
Major Alexander Abercrombie Nelson, half-pay, late of
tao beDe Battalion,iepLotutenantio
DeputyooneLn
Adjutant General eral Jamaica,

Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, Robert
Smyth, 69th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major.
Paymaster Terence Rowan, 34th Foot, to have the hono-
rary rank of Captain. . . _

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Colonel of the 58th Foot, on Nov. 21, 1864 :
Lieutenant General Charles George James Arbuthnot,
Colonel of the 91st Foot, to be General.
Major General Charles Gascoigne, Colonel of the 89111
Foot, to be Lieutenant General.
Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel Frederiek Paul
Haines, from half pay late Bth Foot, serving with the rank
of Brigadier General, to be Major General.
Captain and Brevet Major Francis William Hastings,
Royal Artillery, to be Lieutenant Colonel.
Captain George Thompson, 85th Foot, to be Major.
The following Lieutenant-Colonels of the Royal Engi-
neers having completed the qualifying service in their pre.
sent rank, to be Colonels, under the provisions of the Royal
Warrant of the 14th October, 1658, v
iz.:—Robert Michael
Laffan, Arthur Henry Freeling, Harry St George Ord, and
Hampden Clement B. Moody.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 6.

The following promotions have been made :—Mr
Thomas Bray to be First Class Assistant Engineer, with,
seniority of 30th November, 1864—Mr Henry Vatcher to
be First Class Assistant Engineer, with seniority of 29,h
November, 1661.