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

THE ROYAL ITALIAR OPERA,

Favorita" was given with superb effect at the
On Saturday Donizetti's lovely opera of "La
Royal Italian—the r.ew Prima Donna (in Opera
Seria) Mademoisr,ile Lagrua, sustaining the charac-
ter of Leono-a, in 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 vioing with
Lagrua in bringing all the subtlest beauties
of the exquisite love-music shared between them, to
view, or r:,ther it should be said, to the hearing of
the audience on Saturday. Our comments, how-
ever, upon the performance generally, must be post-
poned to-day unavoidably: it being remarked, how-
ever, at once, that the house on Saturday was, as
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 "II Trovatore." On
Tuesday "La Favorita" is to be repeated. On
Thursday, Garibaldi's appearance in the Duke of
Sutherland's box will lead to "Norma" being fol-
towed by the two great acts (the second and
third) of Auber'a 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
Wellington, the Duke of Sutherland, the Marchioness of
Downshire and Lady Alice Hill, the Marquis of Hastings,
the Duchess of St. Albans, and Lady Diana Beauclerk, the
Marchioness of Ely, the Marchioness of Sligo, the Marquis
of Hartington, the Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia
Molyneux, the Earl of ITibridge, 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 •
chinbroks, Viscount Sndley, Viscount Malden, Lord Truro,
Lady Sondes and the lion. Miss Mulles, 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 Annally
and the Hon. Miss White, Lady Emily
Peel, Lady Mary
Hope Vere, Lady Gooch and Miss Gooch, Lady Hamilton
Seymour and the Misses Seymour (2), Lady Troubridge,
Colonel aid Lady Emily Kingscote, Mr. and Lady Char-
lotte Russell, Lady Wentworth,
Captain and Lady Ann
Sherson, Baron Ferdinand De Rothschild, Hon. Frederick
J. Calthorp, Hon. Frederick Leveson Gower, Hon.
Lucy Kerr, Hon. Miss Bothell, lion. Henry Phipps, Mr.
Phipps, and Mr. Albeit Van do Weyer, lion. Mr.
Butler and Miss Butler,
Hon. Henry Eliot, Hon.
Mrs. Norton, Hon. Major Gage, General Sir William
Gomm, Sir Henry Cotterell, Admiral Ryder Burton, Colonel
Farquharson (of Invercauld), Colonel Napier Sturt, M.P,,
and Mr. Gerard Sturt, DI. t'., Captain Wigram, Captain
,
Tarnow-, Captain Fludyer, Captain Williams, Colonel
t'linchin, Colonel Grant
Captain O'Connell, Colonel
Baring, Colonel Martin, Colonel A. Moyrick, Captain Bor.
keley, Mrs, Knollys and Miss linollys, Mr. Leigh and Miss
Leigh, Mrs. Jones of Pantglass and Miss Jones and the
lion. Miss Campbell, &c.

COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.—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 members of the college:—Mr W. 0. Chambers,
Wrington, near Bristol—hlr, F. Farmer, 8.A., Devonshire-
terrace, Kensington—Mr J. w. Keiller, Tetbury—Mr W.
G. Mason, Standish Grammar School, near Wigan—Mr C.
P Newcombe, Barnsbury-villas, Islington—Rev. A. Rigg,
ALA., Training College, Chester—Mr C. Searles, Free
School, Calcutta—Mr T. Turner, Pirkllace, East Green-
wieb—MrC. M. Tyler, M.A., Delamere-terrace, Bays•
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. Al'Donnell,
late 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 retires, Mr R. Rawson, C. 8,, colonial secretary at
the Cape of Good Hope, is appointed governor of the Baha-
mas. Lieut Gove,aor Cal. Maclean proceeds from British
Kaffraria to be governor of Natal. George 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 oidiunx 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 use of bone powder and ashes.

MR. SPURGEON is said to be still very ill, though
he writes and publishes,