The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-08 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,

MADLLE. PATTI.

The brilliant and distinctive star of this theatre
rose in its firmament last night and showed no
ibatement of its former radiance, whether vocal or
dramatic. After all her labours, and her triumphs
among the exciting but entirely delighted judges
of the continent, Mademoiselle Patti returns
to us with so little evidence of any exhaustion
that, on the contrary, we could not but
think her powers had been strengthened intu a more
mature completeness. That great change in her,
which we ventured to indicate last season—the
deeper emotion of her singing—consequent on her
approach to womanhood, is still more obvious now,
accompanied by a richer volume in the lower tones
of her voice, which promises to give it one day an
entirely new distinction.

Whilst her embodiment, therefore, of the Son-
nambula sustained to the full last evening the deep
and unrivalled impression which she produced in
it last season, her singing was distinguished it
possible by a union of mere richness with facility
—a nobler quality of tone in support of its superb
expression. This was obvious in the first dozen
ootes of her " Come per me Sereno," and abundantly
displayed throughout the dream music, which we
fancied was never given with such a depth of
pathetic tenderness—found its climax in the Rondo
finale, where the new brilliancies with which she
adorned it in more than her old profusion all testified
to the increased richness of the simple tone itself.
Mdlle. Patti, we need scarcely add, was received
with the utmost enthusiasm, on her first entrance
as Amine, was called for with the same fervour at
the end of the first act, and, in like manner, at the
close of her very admirable exertions. The house
was filled in every portion.

THE LOSS OF THE ORPHEUS.

ADMIRALTY, May 7, 1863,

The following is a return of the names of officers and
men who perished in the wreck of her Majesty's late ship
Orpheus, at the entrance of the Manukau Harbour, New
Zealand, on the 7th February last :

Commissioned and Warrant Officers—Wm. F. Burnett,
C. 8., commodore—Wm. T. F. W. Mudge, lieutenant—
Arthur Jekyll, lieutenant—Wm. D, Strong, master—Robert
H. Burton, commander—Wm. I. Taylor, second master—
Wm. Hudson, gunner—Arthur R. Mallock, Thomas H.
Broughton, and Geo. H. Verner, midshipmen—John J.
Tozer, master's assistant— Rev. C. B. Haslewood, chaplain
and naval instructor; W. H. P. M. Giihatn, secretary (as-
sistant paymaster)—A. D. Johnston, assistant paymaster
—James Clarkson, assistant surgeon—Samuel Stephens,
chief engineer—John H. Adams, engineer—John H. Vic-
kery, Edward J. Miller, and Wm. Adamson, assistant en-
gineers—Geo. F. Gossage, assistant engineer, lent from the
Miranda.

Petty Officers—Henry N. Aylen, clerk—Gao. Townsend,
ship's steward; Geo. Drew, ship's cook—John E. Ernest,
master-at•arms—Thomas Osborne, ship's corporal—Win.
Shepperd and John Hutchins, gunners' mates—Frederick
Kemp, Jesse Bignell, Frederick Allen, and Thomas Lane,
leading stokers—M ichael Mahoney, ropemaker—John Bos-
worthick, blacksmith—John Trentman,carpent.-r's mate—
David Norris, caulker—George Warn and Henry Corps,
quartermasters—Arthur Haggis, captain's coxswain —Thos.
Ambrose, captain, maintop—Abraham Voice, coxswain,
launch—John Pascoe and Wm. Milliard, boatswains' mates
—James W Wilson, captain, hold—John Plowman and
Edwin Lloyd, captains, after guard—George Rodman,
armourer—George Vincent, caulker's mate—and John
Davey, captain, mizentop.

Extra Men—Samuel Marden, musician—Henry Baker,
cooper—Henry Redman, sick berth attendant—Alfred
Brown, Felix Kelley, James Healey, David Lee, John H.
Maud, Charles Davis, Andrew Dorey, Wm. Swain, and
John Moore, stokers—Thomas Smith, sailmaker's crew

Wm. E Baylis, painter—Geurge Hill and Thomas
Kelley, leading seamen—Chas E. Rowe, John Pay, and
Henry Thomas, carpenter's crew—John J. Wealord, ship-
wright—and John Woodrow, tailor.
Able-bodied Seamen— George Anderson, Thomas Parke,
Henry Sheargold, Edwin Pelham, Wm. 51. Hutton, Wm.
Stephenson, James M.'C loud, John Higham, Joseph North-
over, Chas. Whetham, Joseph J. Rockett, Rooert Randall,
Edward Jenner, John Young, Edward Springer, Johu
Hewitt, Harry Mark, George Mark, and William Cowen.
Ordinary Seamen—William Hillier, John Davis, John
Cleary, James Hall, Daniel Hines, Edward Finn, William
Rowland, Alfred Crow, N,,ah Jones, Henry Welstead,
Wm. Gannarwey, Samuel Cole, James Ellis, William H.
Bickle, Henry Weatherstone, Herbert Adams, John Ben-
nett, Wm. Blackwill, Win. Palmer, Wm. Hulson, and
Peter Newman—Win. H Cookery, ward-room steward—
Thomas Stourham, ward-room cook—C. Goldshmidt, cap.
tain's steward—Augustus Holgate, captain's cook—John
Hyder, gun-room steward—George Mitchell, gun-room
cook—Samuel Scutt, engineer's servant—and John Phillips,
engineer's cook.
Boys—James Goodwin, William P. Hunt, Edward W.
Warner, Wm. Jenkins, John P. Broadway, Wm. J, 13, idle,
Win. J. Orchard, John Kingston, Jeremiah Murphy, Denis
Donoughe, George Duffett, Charles Theobald, Geo. Bunce,
John Simmonds, Isaiah Thompson, John Searle, S,muel
F Spencer (ship's steward's boy), John H. Avis, Wm.
Davis, Alfred Early, John Knowlden, Richard White,
Wm, Hartfield, Robt. H. Veal, Thos, Callaghan, and John
Cronin.

Royal Marines—Edward E. Hill, first lieutenant—John
Howard, corporal—Sidney Hoyle, Thos. Ladbrooke, John
Shorthouse, David Horsefield, Daniel Davis, John Green-
wood, Henry Baylam, Francis Staffs, Michael Flanagan.
rhos. Collins, John Durkin, George Gray, Thos. Doven,
I te,s. Littlefield, Stephen Foyle, Henry Gardner, and John
Heard, privates.

Royal Marine Artillery—Wm. Tranter, sergeant—Geo.
Gordon, corporal—John Broadhead, Bradley Starkey, John
Kave, Lewis Cramp, Henry Crabb, Samuel Johnson, Thos.
Brady, Wm. Hobbs, Thos. Tetheby, George King, Wm.
Burge, Charles Heath, and John Vince, gunners; Charles
B 1 field, Thos. Tucker, Henry Pearin, George Trot', Thos.
Gould, John Williams, James Andrews, John R. Masters,
Richard Williams, John Budge, and Peter Pafford, pri-
vates.

A WORD ON THE OPERA BOOK.—We have heard
of persons who maintain that a knowledge of Latin
and French is equivalent to a knowledge of Italian, and
that by their joint means an opera may be thoroughly mas-
tered without the aid of a translation. We confess such a
feat appears to us Herculean. We do not envy the student
who attempts it. He will weave himself a web that will in-
evitably imprison his faculties during the whole perform-
ance of the opera, and go home minus tae music. He will
lose himself in a fable of his own invention, that will be at
loggerheads with the stage-business with the printed
Italian—and with the authorised English translation. He
will be placed in the position of the school-boy between two
.tools, and find neither of them available. Lion cf the pit,
and dandy of the amphitheatre I that book hen holdest to
thy heart of hearts, in blissful reminiscence of thy opera
treats—that book thou porest over in thy solitude, calling
to mind the voices that warbled to thee in the past, the dear
incomprehensible ditties—that boor, with all its English
and talian, is as great a sham as thou thyself art, it thou
pretendest to learn aught from its pe,usal I The opera-
book, quotha! It is a snare and an imposition. It is a
tiaudulent bankrupt's ledger with faults on both sides. It
is English in a fix, and Italian in a passion. It is a con
glomeratioa of Alfred Bunnism and Laden sentimentality,
which those who have an attachment for Italian opera had
better leave in the hands of the publisher, or consign to
the care of the housemaid for domestic purposes,—
Once e Week.

THE SUSPECTED ROBBERY AND MURDER AT
LlMEHOUSE.—Yesterday Mr. Humphreys resumed,
at the Five Bells Tavern, Limehouse, he adjourned inquiry
respecting the death of John Strachan, aged 37, who lost
his life under circumstances which have given rise to a sus-
picion of foul play. It will be remembered that the evi-
dence already taken went to show that r eceased was a con-
tractor in the Victoria Docks. Last Saturday three weeks
he left home to proceed to the docks, and his family never
saw him alive after. His overcoat, .which was torn to
pieces, was brought to them in the evening by a work-
man, who said that he had found it in the docks,
and that when he last saw deceased the latter had £7 in
his possession. Deceased could nowhere be traced for a
week, when his body was found floating in the Limehouse
cut of the River Lea by a bargeman. Only 7s. 9d in money
was found in his pockets. The face and head had roadis
of bruises and cuts, apparently from violence. The banks
of the Limehouse cut were no: in deceased's way home, but
the contrary. Mrs. Strachan said that the deceased lett
home in perfect health. George Connor stated that on the
Saturday is question deceased left him (witness) at the
Marine Hotel, Victoria Docks, at five in the evening. He
had received Bs. 61 from some one, and witness had paid
him ss. 6d. He had to cross the Victoria-bridge of the
Limehouso cut to get on his road home. Deceased had been
drinking. He had that morning fallen into the basin of
the Victoria Docks In getting him out his great coat was
torn. The jury returned a verdict "That decased was
found ?rowned in the waters of the Limehouse cut of the
River Lea, but how he came into the said waters there w s
no evidence to show."

THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A FRENCH GEN-
Rippolyte Linde, the French gentleman who
!hot himself in so determined a manner, in an hotel in
elderagate•stret; oil %b 27th tat.: 15 said to be likely to
recover.