The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-12 00:00:00

Her Majesty's Theatre.

M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
The admirable concerts at this theatre are fast draw-
ing to a close, in consequence of the stage being required
very shortly for operatic performances. Last night there
was a very full attendance, the great attraction being the
performance of the Danish Guards, the Danish vocalists,
and M. Lotto. Irrespective of the beforementioned artists,
we had a very excellent selection of music, both classical
and modern, so judiciously arranged that the peculiar
taste of nearly every person present was gratified, and that
in a very high degree. The concert opened with Weber's
magnificent overture to " Der Freischutz,"which was given
with great precision and effect by the band ; and then fol-
lowed one of those light and pretty valses identical with the
name of Jullien, viz., " Rosita," Benedict's brilliant fan-
tasia for the pianoforte, "The Prince of Wales," was ex.
ceedingly well played by Mdlle. Mariot de Beauvoisin ;
and M. Lotto, as usual, astonished the audience by his
execution of Paganini's solo ft)r the violin, on the theme,
" Di Tanti Palpiti." This accomplished musician produced
all the original variations, notwithstanding the extreme
difficulty of the composition, his tones being full,
round, and resonant. The prestissimo passages
perhaps created the greatest effect ; but, as a
whole, the performance was one of .great merit.
Mdlle. Liebhart sang Verdi's " Caro nomo the it mio core,"
from " Rigoletto," which, with the performance of the
Danish Guards, and a selection, by the orchestra, from
Mozart's graad opera " Don Giovanni," concluded the first
portion of the concert. The Danish vocalists, during the
first and second part of the concert, sang one of their
national songs " Et Bondebryllup," a melody invariably
sung in chorus by the peasants of Zealand to welcome a
bride to her future home ; which with their other perform-
ances, created the usual enthusiasm. In the concluding
part of the concert a Danish fantasia, arranged by M.
Jullien, entitled " Danske Toner," was admirably per-
formed. All the peculiarities of tho Danish Guards' Band
were fully brought out, and the concluding theme, the air
sung by the vocalists and before adverted to, performed
with the aid of Jullien's band, brought the evening's enter-
tainment to a successful conclusion.

COVERED WITH BEES.—It is a peculiarity of
bees that they will suffer some men to handle them
with impunity, Wildman was a man who seems to have
had an unusual attraction for them, or command over
them, as he termed it, though it is not easy to comprehend
how a man could have command over four thousand or five
thousand insects. On one occasion he paid a visit to Dr
Templeton, the then Secretary of the Society for
the Encouragement of Arts, to prove to him how com-
pletely bees submitted to his influence. He we. brought
through the city in a sedan-chair, and, it is to be pre.
sutned, into the doctor's room, for when he presented
himself his head and face were covered with bees,
and a huge cluster cf them hung down like a
beard from his chin. Notwithstanding this novel appen-
dage, he conversed with the ladies and gentlemen who were
present for a considerable timewithout disturbing the insects,
and finally dismissed them to their hive without anybody
being stung. The fame of his performances reaching Lcrd
Spencer, he invited him to Wimbledon to meet a large party
of his friends. The countess had provided three stocks for
the occasion. He took One of the hives and emptied the
living occupants into his hat to show that it was not neces-
sary to destroy the bees in order to deprive them of their
honey. He next presented himself with a colony hanging
about his head and from his chin, and then stepping out of
a window on to the lawn, whore he had directed a table
covered with a clean cloth to be placed, he put them back
into the hive. He then made them come out again and
swarm about in the air, after which he caused them to settle
on the table, and from thence he took them up by handfuls,
and poured them out of his hand, as if they had no more
feeling than pebbles, and finally concluded this portion of
his entertainment by causing them to re-enter that hive.
His lordship was too unwell to be present at these experi-
ments, so, later in th© afternoon, he was taken into his
lordship's room with all three of the stocks hanging about
him at one time, one on his head, one on his breast, and
the other on his arm, from which places he afterwards
trans'erred them to his head and face, so that he was quite
blinded, and was led in this condition to the lawn in front
of his lordship's window. He next requested that a horse
might be brought round, which was done, the horse having
been first well clothed to guard against accidents. First
taking the bees out of his eyes that he might see what he
was about, he mounted the horse with the bees hanging
about Ilan, and rode backwards and forwards repeatedly,
until the company had seen enough of his performance,
when he dismounted and placed the bees on the table,
from whence he dismissed them to their respective hives. It
is worthy of remark, that though there were a great many
persons present on this, as on the previous occasion, yet
nobody was stung.—.Dickens' "All the Year Round,"
The Indian telegraphs which connect together
Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Delhi, and all the grin•
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Rangoon, and the routes thence to China and to Australia,
by way of Singapore, Java, and Timor, are almost entirely
in comparatively shallow water so far as the submarine
part of the line is concerned, "and do not otherwise,"
writes Sir Charles Bright, " offer any difficulty which
should prevent our having daily telegrams from Hong
Kong, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Brisbane within
three years from this day."

•
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entire proceedings passed off without disturbance or acci-
dent of any kind, and were totally devoid of any sectarian
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