The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-11 00:00:00

THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,

On Saturday Donizetti's lovely opera of "La
Favorita " was given with superb effect at the
Rval Italian—the new Prima Donna (in Opera
Seria) Mademoiselle Lagrua, sustaining the charac-
ter of Leonora, is such a manner as fully to con-
firm the reputation already secured to
to herself here in England by her magnificent im-
personation of Norma. Ferdinand°, on Saturday,
reverted (after an interval, in his career, of no less
than eight years) to Signor Mario—that, still, in
many respects, incomparable artist vieing with
Lagrua in bringing all the subtlest beauties
of the exquisite love-music shared between them, to
view, or rather it should be said, to the hearing of
the audience on Saturday. Our comments, how-
ever, upon the performance generally, Inuit be post•
poned to-day unavoidably: it being remarked, how-
ever, at once, that the house on Saturday was, es
usual, very fully attended.

To-morrow, the first extra night of the season—
Mondays henceforth being continued thus systema-
tically, as the weekly extra night at the Royal
Italian—the great German Tenor, Herr Theodore
Wachtel, the hero of that sudden, and un-
premeditated, and wholly unmistakeable, ova-
tion on Thursday, an ovation already
fully recorded in the columns of The Sun,
will again appear as and in "Il Trovatore." On
Tuesday "La Favorite" is to be repeated. On
Thursday, Garibaldi's appearance in the Duke of
Sutherland's box will lead to "Norma" being fol-
lowed by the two great acts (the second and
third) of Auber's grand opera of " Masaniello.',
A. selection most appropriately made as a source of
entertainment to—the MODERN MASSANIELLO !
Among others, the following have attended the perform-
ances at the Royal Italian Opera during this past week:—
His Excellency the Ambassador of France, the Duke of
Wellinwon, the Duke of Sutherland, the Marchioness of
Downehire and Lady Alice Hill, the Marquis of Hastings,
the Duchess of St. Albans, and LadY Oiana Beauclerk, the
Marchioness of Ely, the Marchioness of Sligo, the Marquis
of Hartington, the Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia
Molyneux, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl of Coventry, the
Earl of Listowel, the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland,
the Earl of Annesley, the Countess of Charlemont, the Earl
of Sefton, the Countess of Courtown, Count Moerkerke,
Viscount Sydney, Viscountes Mountgarrett, Viscount Hin •
chinbroke, Viscount Sudley, Viscount Malden, Lord Truro,
Lady Sondes and the Hon. Miss Milles, Lord and Lady
Abinger, Lady Delamere, Lord A. Poulett, Lord Ernest
Bruce, Lord Cout tenay, Lord Rendlesham, Lord Colville,
Lady E. Repton, Lord and Lady Dufferin, Lady Atonally
and the Hon. Miss White, Lady Emily Peel, Lady Mary
Hope Vere, Lady Gooch and Miss Gooch, Lady Hamilton
r
Seymour and the Misses Seymour. (2), Lady Trowbridge,
Colonel and Lady Emily Kingscote, Mr. and Lady Char-
lotte Russell,
Sherson, Baron Ferdinand Do Rothschild, Hon. Frederick
Lady Wentworth, Captain and Lady Ann
J. Calthorp, Hon. Frederick Leveson Gower, lion.
Lucy Kerr, Hon. Miss Bothell, lion. Henry Phipps, Mr,
Phipps,
Van de Weyer, Hon. Mr.
Butler and Miss Butler, lion. Henry Eliot, Hon.
Nis,
j Albert Mr.
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Gage, General Sir William
Gomm, Sir Henry Cotterell, Admiral Ryder Burton, Colonel
Farquharson (of Invercauld), Colonel Napier Sturt, M.P.,
and Mr. Gerard Sturt, M.P., Captain Wigram, Captain
Turnour, Captain Fludyer, Captain Williams, Colonel
Minchin, Colonel Grant, Captain O'Connell, Colonel
Baring, Colonel Martin, Colonel A. Meyrick, Captain Ber-
keley, Mrs. Knollys and Miss Knollys, Mr. Leigh and Miss
Leigh, Mrs. Jones of Pautglass and Mies Jones and the
Hon, Mies Campbell, &c.

COLLEGE OF PRECEPTOILS. At a meeting of the
council of this corporation, on the 9th inst., the
diploma of associate was granted to Mr W. 0. Chambers,
of Wrington, near Bristol. The following gentlemen were
elected
Kensington
—Mr J. Tetbury--Mr W.
the college :—Mr W. 0. Chambers,
School,s, near Wigan—Mr C.
Islington—Rev. Wrington, near Bristol—Mr F. Farsmegr,toßl:—RA., Devonshire-
terrace,
A.
pG G.
Newcombe,Mason,
sGb
tir
yr Grammar
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M.A.,wic_Nir C. h TraininiNgi. T College,
yle r
M.A., Delamore-terrace, Bays•
Chester—Mr C. Searles, Free
School, Calcutta—Mr T. Turner, Park-place, East Green-
water—Rev. Dr. Wrigley, Clapham Grammar School.
COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS. Lieut Governor
Eyre has been appointed lieut general, governor in chief,
and vice admiral of Jamaica. The Hon Manners Sutton,
formerly lieut governor of New Brunswick, has been ap-
pointed governor of Trinidad. Sir Richard G. M'Donnell,
lat 9 governor of South Australia, has been appointed lieut
governor of Nova Scotia. Anthony Musgrave, Esq., go-
vernor of Newfoundland, in the room of Sir A, Bannerman,
who ogres, Mr H. Rawson, C. 8., colonial secretary at
the Cape of Good -lops, is appointed governor of the Baha-
mas, Lieut Governor Col. Maclean proceeds from British
Kaffraria to be governor of Natal. Geerge Berkeley, Esq,,
colonial secretary of British Honduras, is appointed lieut
governor of St. Vincent's, in the room of Mr Musgrave,
promoted to Newfoundland.—Observer.

THE ILLUSTRIOUS CHEMIST LIEBIG has just ex-
pressed, on the subject of the oidiunl in vines and
the potato disease, the, opinion that it is not in the atmos-
phere, as many people suppose, but in a want of vigour and
an exhausion of the soil, which defect may be remedied by
the usa of bone powder and ashes.
MB. SPURGEON is said to ba still very ill, though
he writes and publishes.