The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-10 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EV
_!4,NING,

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

for first this season
Ernani was performed, the time ,
on Saturday night, Madlle. Cruvelli being the Elvin;
Cale Ernani; Ferlotti, King Carlos.; and Belletti,
Ruy Gomez: The opening air, "M' e deice il vote in-
gentle," was exquisitely warbled by Cruvellie veer,` No,
crudeli," she gave, with the utmost drametic p and
in the concerted music at the close of the act her fresh
pure voice told superbly, the exhortation to Ernani to
fly (" Va, un acceuto tradire ti puo") being delivered
with an intensity 'of- tenderness seldom equalled. The
duet in the second act went deliciously, and in the sube
quent scene of pleading and sorrow, Cruvelli was very
effective. But it is in the last act tbat'she has full scope,
for her power in, the duet " Fine al sospire." interrupted
by the fatal signal, and in the terrible finale; 'here she
magnificently asserted her reputatier. henceforth
Elvira may be racked, among Cruvelli'e trialnPbq
it is a new proof of the resolute will as well
as of the, genius of our young prima donna, who is
nobly sustaining the faounee ot her Idt>jesty'ti Theatre,
and drawing around he: a sueeesSien of audiences, diffi-
cult as they are distinguished. Belletti's Ruy Gem' zis
a master-,piece both of singing and acting. Ile ceni-
pletely identified himself with the character of thole).
vengeful old man, and his - denunciationa told out with
terrible pewor. The " Infelice, e tun okKievi" was
given with exquisite pathos. Calz)l4ri's Ernanis one
of his bestoharacters, tend on Saturday he sang through-
i
out with a ftpirit and energy, and with his habitual
finish and delicacy, and in the pasqies with Elvira he
exerted himself most loyally to give tee fullest cfrnt to
the united effort. , Ferloti's King Carlos is a highly
creditable performance. lle gave the muse with evident
care, and frequently 'evicced real lyrical 'Power, His
" make up" w.se perfect. Marine. Guy Siephan added to
the attractions of the evening by a LOW pas of unusual
brilliancy, and the pretty little divertissement, Le Fete
des Rosicres, was given with as much éclat as on the first
night. Menlo. Cruvelli's appearance: in Non" (Don
Pasquale) has been 4elsyed a few nights longer than
was originally intended, her indisposition haying inter-
fered with the rehearsals, but it is now announced for
1h arsday next.

MR. W. REA.'S FIRST COIVCERT.
The new Beethoven Rooms were completely filleJ at
this gentleman's, first performance of classical Chamber
music, which took
embraced the following selection:—
01" on Friday evening, and which
PART I.—Sonata in F, pianoforte and vio-
lin, Messrs. Rea and Dando, Beethoven.
Song, "Agatha," Mrs. R. Lim
Pus
Fugues inF minor and Major Handel.
Prelude ,and Fugue in flat
minor Bach.
Song. Mr. G. rerren W. Rea.
Seventeen variations sell .uses Mendelssohn.
PART ll.—Sonata in E, pianoforte and vio-
lin, Messrs. Rea and Dando, Bach.
Cavatina, "Di Piacer," Miss
Stabbachßossini.
Pianoforte sonata in A minor Mozart.
Song, "Rose softly blooming,"
Mrs, Limpus ..... ....... Spobr.
Pianoforte sonata, Op. 57, in
F minor ... Beethoven.
The sonatas , for pianoforte 4114 violin were played
with considerable neatness and precision; and the lively
ficherz, to that of Beethoven was encored. The fugues
of Handel and Bach were also beautifully performed by
kir. Rea, and the variations of Mendelssohn displayed
still further his powers of execution and dramatic effect.
The pianoforte sonata of Mozart is quite a gem from
the beginning to the end, and was played with remark-
able brilliance of fingerand with a delicate appreciation
of the delicious phrases with which it abounds. Beeth-
oven's " Sonata appassionata," which concluded the
was a great, performance, and
concert, a worthy climax
to the pianoforte compositions that pzeceded it. This
sonata embodies some of. Beethoven's grandest inspira-
tions, and Mr. Rea, who seemed to be thoroughly im-
bued with the profound sentiments of the wonderful
composer, played it to perfection to a most enthusiastic
audience. The songs received, their due share of ap-
proval. One of them, the composition of Mr. Res, is
of a highly classical and original description, in which
the voice and pianoforte are equally prominent and im-
portent and 'the harmonic combinations exceedingly
graceful. A second concert is announced for Friday
evening, June 4.

PAALIAMENTAU,Y „COMMITTEES.
POSTAGE LABEL ,STIMPS.—This Committee, 'consist-
ing of Mr. Miele, chairman; -Mx. Grogan, Air. Gescb,
Mr. Cornewall Lewis, Mr. Rich, Mr. Mowatt, Sir J.
Tyrell, Marquis Cbandest Lord A. Paget' Mr. J.
Greene, -Hr.' Ormsby gore, and Mr. Hodgson, met on
Friday, and 'again. on Saturday, to further consider their
first report on the subject of a machine for perforating
postage steppe, and aseto whether. it is desirable to
bring, the' sane into publicrtaa; and also with reference
to the present system of guMm- in
ing the postage stamps. or Qtvello•
'eo r ia and print-
h gdav- riwhich some.
Oa F, 0 SO
60,000,090 are annually issued.
.. The Committee have
Mr Cure, the engravers of
examined. Professor Cowper, -•
,
the Bank of England, the aontractors and -printers of:
Secretary of
the evamk the supervisor of them, and .
Inland Revenue. The majority of these gentlemen have
obecurred in the conclusion that the present systemt
the best that can be adopted, and have declared that the
stamp cannot be successfully imitated. • At the close
-of their inquiry the Committee called. for the produc-
tion of successfully imitated specimens, the result of for-
tuitous discovery, not by the metastatic process, and not
issued by the Yost-office, nor bent through it, which
went to negative the assertion of three witnesses. Tb'
witness producing, the specimens stated that devices had
been introduced into the stamps, to meet the result of.'
this discovery, and when the Committee thought fit
to ask for an uncenditional, clisi4osure_ of, the disco-
very, the . witness. respectfully declined. The Cora-.
mittee deezhirig that it Might be done in that
way, then had recourse to the anastatio process
to ascertain whether postage stamps could be
produced by it, tied it appears that postage stamps
printed much ink, by that process, . passed during last
week-through the Post-office without being detected by
the' authorities. • Whether any permission was given for,
thapurpose is uot known, but . the utterance of the same
under the.
offence;. and it ie understood that, availing themselves o
Stamp Act is declared to be a transportable
this information,.the Committee intend to report against-
the present system as
ba& The Committee are at issue
as to whether they shall recommend in their report some
4,000, to the patentee of the *perforating . machine Out-
right, or give him au appointment in the inland revenue
. application of his process. Tta superintend the-
Committee have had their ' attention drawn to some
beautifully simple and inexpensive methods for detaching
postage stamps, . that the progrese of mechanical inge-
nuity since the perforating ,principle in 1847 was first
proposed has preduced, but have not yet gene
LANCASHIRE AND romisHißE kpaLWAY.---On Friday
company's the preamble of this into them.
their
capital was proved. pany's Bill for regulating
The preambles also of the North-Western Railway
(for regulation of capital and power to provide steam-
boats), of the York, Newcastle,d
':Branch), and Frome,
and Berwick Railway
(deviation of Bishop Aucklan
Yeovil, and Weymouth (No. 1) Railway, were declared
proved.
• •
OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLTJERJUIVTON RAIL-
WAT.—The examiners of the House have reported that
in the case of this company's petition for additional pro-
visionin their Bill for, devietions in Kingswinford and:
Dudley, and for eitension of- tithe, the standiegorderx
ought not to be dispensed
wi:h.
ONDON CORpaRA.TION BILL: The examiners also
'report that Ira the a
case of threCompsny of Makers of ,
Playing Cards to be heard against this Bill the stand-
iug orders ought not to be
The petitions of. the Salters' the case of the • not
Company they may :be.
To-
bacco Pipe Makers' Company have been referred to the
examiners. .
,iCsl)6omnp"acloyw:uthd, but
of tthheat in
PRIVATE BILLS.--The
Seaker has directed that in.
all cases in ' which the Queen's consent is necessary
to any Bill, the
-
Parliamentary agents shall give notice
thereof to .the clerks of
the Private 'Bill Office, and a
notice of such consent being required is to be inserted
by' them with the benne of the Bill on the list of private
business for each day.

Under this
ELECTORAL FApCIF;
the author of the ~ title Mr. Doc],
lnable.ziblication, well ada
standard works of a like ads
setntarY Companion,_'!' and other,
,l.re, has just issued a most vii.,.
sent period. It is a work which,
for extensive use at the pre-
pass, ' fornishee a ready meanusleh, within a moderate com-
pass, instituting for s,:qtring doubts,. settling'
•occasional prophecy comparisonsrespectini, -or even making an
to Parliament. - For instance, a,„6 Plume returning Members
forth the local political history eing.- other features it sets.
United Kingdom ; the nature of the Y constituency in the
eholders, payers of scot
whether coasiating'of freemen ,or freeholders,
franchise in each place,
!attic registered electors
and lot, or occupiers of .10/. houses!
are contrasted; both as to stractgurioeaund numbers at present
and in 1832 ; the electioneerin
prevailing in each
place is detailed both
as to the vast files
property and taxation of every constituency
' the present; the
prevailing- trades and occupations areuency is recorded ; the
those politicians who would enfranchise stated for the use of
lation under the pew census is recorded, 'classes; the papa-
who would regulate therepresentation b , for the .use of those
Meinbeig have been set forth, as .Y;
a ser • numbers ;1 the noted
interesting to every. class ; and the' polls for the electoral facts
years are carefully recorded, so as to the last twenty
enable -
judge for himself with respect to,ther esui every man to
ing election.. The whole, says the author, •
te 'of the Impend.
of nearly 100 volumes, and of more than
includes the cream
vats collections.—Morning phronicle. . - 4 twenty years' p ri-
.., v . - ..
• THE . ROYAL INFIRMARY . POE D
CREsT...—The thirty-eighth 'minivans of the
OF THE
may for Asthma, Consumption, andrYat:iDieithe Royal Wu.-
Chest, was celebrated on SaturdaY by a a- 'Diseases of the
don Tavern. The Earl of Shaftesbury inner at the Lon-
supported by nearly 100 of the friends porfeed, and was
Subscriptions—among which appeared the the institution.
Earl of Shaftesbury, 101, and the Earl of Ripon names of the
amount of nearly 400/. were announced. p 20/.—to the
.
COMBINATION. .OF MECIIA NICS AND , L
IxsTrruTs.s.—The committee charged.by LITERARY
the s'
with attemptiug
.the accomplishment of thisociety'of Arts,
received from a large proportion 'of the inn' ' object have
provincial and Metropolitan, inforniation-er tediou both
raging nature in the form of replies to queri • issuedmost encmi.
committee. In orderto define the basis of future
es by the
conference is to be held at' the society's house, . operations, a
on Tueeday, the 18th inst., between the representatives
in the Adelphi,
the institutions and the cOrtricil of the society of
of Lansdowne has consented to preside,
,aect a large The Marquis
of delegates have been formally appointed to attenclaumber.
representatives of the institutions. It us the.
is intended
conference shall be followed by a dinner at the Fie that the
Tavern, at- which the Earl of .Cailiele will take the nasons'
chair.
Mr. Alexander Grey is appointed a member of the
Legislative Council of Trinidad. Mr. W. Bradley and ;qr.-
Edmund Cox are appointed members of the Legislative
Council of New South IVales. .
. .. . .
A woman was sold in Nottingham m
ark'
-et plice, a
few days since, by her husband for a shilling, -
including a
new. ope,yalue sixpence, which Was attuned t 9 ja9r Rock!
A
. .

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
The British and North American Royal Mail
steamer America, Captain Shannon, arrived here this
morning at three o'clock,- bringing the usual mails
and 51 passengers, but no specie. The America Icfc
Boston on the 28th ult., and Halifax on the Both.
During two or three days of her voyage she attained
a very high rate of speed, and the whole voyage has
been accomplished in about ten days ten hours, in-
cluding calling and stay at Halifax. The 'news by
this arrival is three days later from New York than
that brought by, the Hermann, but does not possess
much interest. The proceedings in Congress were
unimportant. There had been no later arrival from:
California, and the quartz mining schemes had been
some what checked. A New York parer says

" We have seen a private letter froM a respectable
grmtlema,n who has been for the past two years in Cali-
fornia, ergaged in testing quartz veins. He says that
not one in ten of theie veins contains any gold whatever;
that of= those that do contain gold, not one in ten con-
tains an average of one quarter of a cent to a pound of
rock, and not one in fifty an average of a cent to the
pound; and short of this few vein* will, he says, pay
more than the expense of working."
It has been ascertained that the damage done to
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal will amount to about
80,000 d 0115.,, and that it will take three months to
repair the injury.
Kessuth was in the state of Massachusetts, and had
addressed large audiences at Springfield and also, at,
Northampton; he is far from being, so popular as on
his first arrival. At Northampton he addressed a
large audience in the old Northampton Church, but
his speech was a very poor one, much of it being the
same as the one delivered at Springfield. A portion
of it was alSo in bad taste, and gave offence to many
citizans. He said that the American people possessed
all the elements of greatness, but that they did not
act as a great nation. He came out virtually against
the Maine liquor law. The people were disappointed
with his eloquence. The admission was by 'Hun-
garian bonds, for which purpose 500 dollars' worth
were sold. Many persons, however, were admitted
free: Jenny Lind (Mrs. Goldschmidt) and her hus-
band were present. She attracted nearly as much
attention as Kossuth.
The death of John Young, late Assistant United
States Treasurer of the port of New, York, and
formerly governor of the state -of New York; is -an—
nounced. - •
x BosTorl, APRIL' 24t—On Wednesday last a piece of
board_was picked up at Seaconnet, Nantucket, from
which it. is supposed that the 'British barque Jane
Dune, Thomaon,lrom Ardrossan, March 9, for Boston,
with 400 tons of pig iron and 35 tons of coal, has been
wrecked near Nantucket during the late gale, and proba-
bly all the crew lost.
IMAIENSE 'ARRIVAL
LOUIS . OF. IMMIGRANTS AT
ST.
•

(From the St. Louis Republican, April 20.)
By the following table it will be seen that from April
20, 1851, to April 1, 1852, there have been counted at
the quarantine ground nearly 14,000 immigrants who
bare passed to our city. The immigration hither is not
at all exaggerated; the figures may, on the contrary,
fall short of the actual facts, as the clerks and com-
manders of certain boats, occasionally fearing to become
amenable to the laws for carrying more passengers, ac-
cording to their tonnage, than is allowed, underrate their
numbers:—

1851—April (from 20M)
May ... ..
June ... •••
July •••
August ..•

Sep—tember
October

November
December
852—January
February
March

Immigrants. Sick. Died.
750 18 0
1,315 39 3
1,990 89 5
574 8 4
233 7 0
38 7 0
361 2 1
2,125 4 2
1,315.:.. G 2
1,139 7 1
1,461 10 2
2,501 9 0

Total ••• 13,802 206 20
Of the above number of immigrants, 4,296 were tem-
porarily detained at quarantine, and 9,506 passed on to
the city.
Those under the head of dead above were corpses
from boats. Dr. Leavenworth is unable to give the
number who have died at Quarantine Station. No list
of sick or deaths, it appears,
.wasi kept until after the
13th of June—only in round numbers those who were
taken from boats. These, it is probable, where the
smaller number of the sick really here. From statements
of attendants during parts of May and June, the morta-
lity at the island must have been exceedingly great.
Since the 13th of June there were but 34 deaths, exclu-
sive of those occurring among the patients who were
sent to the City Hospital while the island was overflowed.
The small number of arrivals during the summer months
spy be attributed to the fear among the emigrants of
landing at New Orleans during the sickly season.

• COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK, APRIL 27.—Ashes—Sales were made of
50 brls. pots, at dolls. 5 to dolls. 5 061, and pearls at
dolls. 6 311 per 100 lbs.
Breadstriffs—Flour moved to Cho extent cf 6,500 brls.
State, Southern, and Western ; ordinary, at former
rates; fancy Genessee, at dolls. 4 814- to dolls. 5 064-;
fancy Ohio, et dolls. 5 0641 to dolls. 5 184; extra Ohio,
at dolls. 5 181 to dolls. 5 561 ; and extra Genessee; at
dolls. 5 184 to'dolls. 5 87i per brl. There were 200
brim Jersey and Brandywine meal taken, at dolls. 3'25
and dolls. 3 50f while in rye flour, wheat, or barley,
nothing additional was done. Domestic oats fell to 37ic.
to 41c., and were in slow request. Rye ruled firm,
2,000 bushels bringing 760.; as did also corn, of which
there were 13,000 bushels mixed and yellow Southern
bought, at 65c. to 65c., and 66c. to 67c.
Coffee—Excepting the disposal of "150 bags St. -Do-
mingo, at eic., we have nothing to report.
'Copper—Yellow metal continued steady, though quiet,
at 18e. per lb.
Cptton—The speculative tendency of the market
continues without• abatement, the sales to-day being
about 3,500 bales, at full and extreme previons prices,
with a reduced amount on sale—exhibiting an advance•
of Ic. to lie. in the week on good qualities. The excess
in receipts now amounts to 385,000 bales. The iocreaae
in exports to Great Britain is 222,000 bales; Prance,
75,000; other foreign ports, 49,000. Total increase in
exports, 346;000 bales.
EXCIIANGES --There has been a large demand for ex-
change on London and Paris, and the rates for both have
advanced. On London the bulk of operations have been
at 93. to 91 per cent., and on Paris, 5 20 to 5.181.

MARKETS REPORTED BY TELEGRAPH.
CHARLESTON, Aram 24.—Cotton is in good de-
mand, and the market firm at full prices. 1,407 bales
have sold.
NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 24.—Cotton—Sales to-day,
5,000 bales, at very fall pricts. The exports to-day have
been 14,000 bales.