The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-29 00:00:00

CANADA.

The dissolution of the Provincial Parliament took
place on the 12th inst. The Governor-General
made the following speech upon the occasion :-
1, Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Coun-
cil, Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,—The
course of events has shown that it is not possible to
conduct in a satisfactory manner the public busi-
ness of the province under the existing conditions
of the legislative body. Within the last year two
successive administrations have failed to secure the
confidence of the Legislative Assembly. I have
therefore determined to prorogue this Parliament
with a view to its immediate dissolution, in order
that I may ascertain in the most constitutional
manner the sense of the people upon the present
state of public affairs. The pressing importance of
various questions connected with the trade and in-
dustry of the province, and with its internal im-
provement and defence, demands that no time shall
be lost in convening a new Parliament.

"In bidding you farewell I desire to express my
earnest prayer that the constituencies of this pro-
vince may be guided by an all-wise Providence to
the selection of representatives whose judgment,
forbearance, and patriotism may enable them to Co-
operate with me in my efforts to maintain the
honour of our Sovereign, and to prpmote the pro-
sperity and happiness of the people of Canada."
Electioneering had actively commenced through-
out Canada. Nothing certain was known as to the
new Ministry. The displacement of the Postmaster-
General was considered certain, Mr. Mowat being
his successor. The latest reports were that the
following gentlemen would comprise the new Cabi-
net :—For Lower Canada : Dorion, Tessier, Le
Tellior, Huet, Holton, Bureau. For Upper Canada :
Macdonald, Blair, M'Dougall, Mowat, Howland,
Wallbridge.

The Quebec Morning Chronicle says that the re-
constructed Ministry, as far as known, is likely to
be more averse than the last to any means calcu-
lated to preserve the provincial nationality, to per-
petuate the British connexion.

THE LONDON AND PROVINCIAL TURKISH
BATA COMPANY.—The half-yearly meeting of this
company took place on Saturday last, the 23d inst., at the
Hammatn, Jermyn• street, when the report of the Board of
Directors was unanimously adopted, and a dividend was
declared upon all the paid•up capital at the rate of £6 per
cent. per annum.

FATAL DUEL.—A fatal duel took place three
days ago betwen two privates of the 7th Lancers,
named Juilart and Cribier, quartered at Haguenau (Bas-
Rhin). They fought with sabres in the riding school in
presence of the fencing master and other witnesses, when
Cribier received a wound in the region of the heart, which
caused instant death,—Galignani.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, May 27.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,
and attended by the Duchess of Athole, drove out
yesterday, and honoured Mr. Farquharson, of In-
vercauld, by a visit.
Princess Louise went out riding.


The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Tees-
dale, rode on horseback yesterday morning. The
Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of
Macclesfield, took a carriage drive.

The Princo and Princess of Wales, attended by
the Countess of Macclesfield and Major Teesdale,
honoured the French Gallery in Pall-mall with a
visit in the afternoon, when they were received by
Mr. Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., Mr. Frederick
Goodall, A.R.A., and Mr. F. Gambart, members of
the committee. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards
took a drive in an open carriage.
Madlle. Emile Kupsch had the honour of playing
on the pianoforte before her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales at Marlborough House.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales hon-
oured Mr. Marshall Wood with a sitting for the
bust which Mr. Wood is executing of her Royal
Highness.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales honoured with their presence last evening
the Wandering Minstrels' conc3rt at the Queen's
Concert Rooms, Hanover-square. Their Royal
Highnesses were attended by the Countess of
Macclesfield, Lord Alfred Hervey, and Major Tees-
dale.

FOREIGN COURTS.
PARIS, May 27.
A brilliant ball was given at the Tuileries' the
night before last, 800 persons being present. It will
probably be the last at court this season.

The departure of the court for the imperial resi-
dence of Fontainebleau is advanced, being now fixed
for June 1. Tne Emperor's carriages and horses
leave on Friday.
The Emperor will pass in review, at four o'clock
on Thursday afternoon, in the Bois de Boulogne,
the battalion of Turcos and the squadron of Spahis
recently arrived from Algeria.
M. Rouher, Minister of Public Works, has re-
t arned to Paris from a short journey he has been
making in the provinces.
The Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse are still
at Brussels. Their royal highnesses again visited
the King at Laeken on Tuesday, and in the after-
noon were present at the Brussels races.

The Manheim journals announce that Prince
William, brother to the Grand Duke of Baden, and
married lately to the Grand Duchess Maria of
Leuchtenberg, has left the military service of Prus-
sia, where he commanded the Brigade of Artillery
of the Guard. His royal highness is about to be
invested with the command of the Baden troops.

The Duchess Dowager of Sutherland returned to
her grace's villa at Chiswick yesterday, from visiting Lord
and Lady Taunton, at their seat in Somersetshire.

The Marquis of Salisbury, as Lord Lieutenant of
Middlesex, has issued cards for his annual entertainment to
the officers of the county militia and the magistrates of the
county, the 6th proximo.

The Earl and Countess of Lincoln have left the
St. George's Hotel.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield returned to
town yesterday from visiting the Earl and Countess of Car-
narvon, at Highelere Park.
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The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon come to
town to-day from }Tighelere Park, where they have been
receiving company during the holidays.
The Countess of Dunraven's second dance takes
place on Monday, the 15th of June.

The Earl and Countess de Grey and Ripon have
arrived at the Portland Hotel, Southsea, from the Isle of
Wight.

Lord and Lady Wodehouse came to town yester.
day from passing the recess with the Earl and Countess o.
Carnarvon at Highclere Park, Wilts.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has issued in-
vitations for a full-dress dinner party, in celebration of the
Queen's birthday, on Saturday, June 6, at his residence in
Carlton-house- terrace,

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
yesterday, from a visit to Lord Taunton, at Overstewey,
Bridgewater.

Adelaide Countess of Yarborough, accompanied
by the Hon. Evelyn Anderson Pelham, left London this
morning (Friday) for her ladyship's marine residence, St.
Laurence, Isle of Wight.

We understand that Messrs. Robert Cocks and
Co., of New Burlington-street, London, have been appointed
music publishers to the Prince of Wales.

THE INTERNATIONAL DOG SHOW.

The fourth day of the International Dog Show
has, in point of the number of visitors, nearly, if not
quite, equalled in that respect the three preceding
days put together, for up to 7 o'clock last evening
it was computed that considerably over 30,000 per-
sons had passed into the Agricultural Hall, and at
that hour the crush was so great that it might almost
he compared to that of the last day at the late In-
ternational Exhibition. Nor was the exhibition
this day confined to the general public, but the
show was again visited by large bodies of the aris-
tocracy, chiefly ladies, and even by Royalty.
Shortly before 2 o'clock the directors and Mr.
Sidney, the secretary, had an intimation that her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was on
the way to pay the Dog Show a visit, and shortly
atter herßoyal Highness and suite arrived at Liver-
pool-road entrance, and were received by Mr. Sidney
and a committee of the board, and conducted through
the various avenues, the visit lasting nearly a couple
of hours.

The unprecedented, and, indeed, unexpected suc-
cess which has attended the Show, and the patron-
age which has been bestowed upon it by the upper
and middle classes of society, thus ensuring its esta-
blishment as a permanent annual exhibition, like
the Smithfield Cattle Show, has induced the direc-
tors to act with a corresponding amount of liberality,
with a view to afford an opportunity to the humbler
classes of witnessing this interesting and truly na-
tional display of animals, so pre-eminently useful
for sporting and domestic purposes. At a meeting
of the board held yesterday, with the foregoing ob-
ject in view, the directors resolved *o reduce the
charge of admission, after 1 p.m. on Saturday next,
the last day of the Show, from ls. to 6d. This will
afford thousands of employies who are favoured with
the Saturday half-holiday an opportunity of wit-
nessing the Show, which would otherwise have
been a blank to them.

Ic is to be regretted that yesterday afternoon the
portion of the splendid pack of foxhounds exhibited,
though not fur competition, in the kennel erected
for their accommodation in the central avenue by
his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, had to be removed,
in consequence of his Grace requiring their services
with the remainder of his hounds in another en-
gagement he had entered into. There are, however,
other equally beautiful specimens, which will attract
great attention.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT GREENWICH PlER.—Yee-
terday afternoon a fatal accident occurred to a
young man named William Forrest, at the Greenwich
steamboat pier. It appears that at five o'clock the Dryad
passenger steam. vessel arrived at the pier, from Woolwich,
and having landed several persons was again in motion to
proceed up the river, when the deceased incautiously shook
hands with n e mate of the vessel, which caused him to fall
from the edge of the pier into the river, and as he did not
again appear on the surface it is supposed that he was
carried under the floating dummy. The deceased was a
watchman in the employ of the Greenwich Steamboat
Company.

GREAT MEETING IN LEEDS ON SUNDAY LEGIS-
LATION.—A meeting of between 3,000 and 4,000
persons took place in the Victoria]-hall, Leeds, on Wednes-
day evening, the mayor in the chair, when by overwhelm-
ing majorities, several resolutions were passed in opposition
to tha present facilities for Sunday intoxication, and peti-
tions to both Houses of Parliament adopted in support of
Mr, Soma's

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

SIGNOR FRICCA.

In the present state of our Italian stage, the
advent of a new and superior bass is become one of
the desiderata that the musical world is most aware
of. Since the retirement of Lablache we have had
but one artist of this Glass who has attained to any
eminence, and the last year or two has attested that
his power is declining. However we may regret,
it is perfectly useless to disguise the fact that Herr
Formes is not the singer he was some six seasons
ago, and just as idle is it to suppose that his place
is to bo supplied by executants of such limited range
as Herr Zelger or Signor Vialetti. The need of a
duly endowed successor is becoming daily more
apparent, and more especially when we consider
the important station that the bass occupies in
modern opera, serious and comic. Of " Der
Freischutz," " Robert the Devil," "Fidelio,"
and other important works, he almost forms
the central feature ; and not inferior is his
position in "The Barber of Seville," "Don
Pasquale," and several kindred illustrations of the
gayer side of the lyric drama. A new bass, there-
fore, who would justify the revival of some of these
operas which, for want of him, have been lying on
the shelf for so many seasons, could not fail to be
regarded in the light of a great acquisition. We
are inclined to think that such a gain in a tragic
respect, at least, was presented to us last evening
on the boards of the above theatre,

Signor Fricca, who made his debut as the Puri-
tan soldier of the Huguenots, won, on a variety of
grounds, a very marked and deserved success.
Whether in respect to the demands of history, or
the conception of the author and composer, we have
never seen this important character so entirely em-
bodied. It is one of those impersonations which
stand apart in one's experience. To this end Signor
Fricca is endowed with unusual qualifications. To
a voice of remarkable depth and fullness, and a style
of the justest taste and feeling, he unites a dramatic
fervour which has been most artistically developed ;
and he adds the advantage of a person which is to the
last degree commanding. Singularly tall, for he
stands at least some six feet three inches high, and
broad and well made in proportion, he towers
above his associates like Saul among his brethern,
and yet such is his artistic feeling that all his move-
ments have an ease and naturalness that never for
an instant attract the eye from the central figures
of the scene. The marking distinction of his
Marcel, in a dramatic point of view, is the
deeper devotion it exhibits to the welfare
of his master, which both morally and
bodily to puritan eyes, is so much endangered by
its surroundings. To the more obvious eharacteris-
tics of a mingled hatred and contempt for the
pleasures as well as dogmas of his Catholic an-
tagonists, he adds the stronger feeling of the peril
they embrace and threaten to the being of all
others that he loves and respects the most. Through-
out the opera accordingly, and more especially in
the second act, we see him with his eye never
diverted from his master and his tall form glid-
ing about him like some gigantic guardian genius.
In all musical respects his merits are quite as emi-
nent. The religious fervour, the martial vigour,
and the personal devotion that we have referred to,
and which rises in the last act to such a height of
paternal tenderness, we need not say, obtain in the
opera the most masterly expression, and in
every instance are responded to by the powers
of Signor Fricca. Whether in the bluff vigour
of his " Piff-paff," the stern anxiety of his
share in the noble duet with Valentine, or the pa-
thetic dignity of his sanction to the union of the
lovers—it was hard to say—that Signor Fricca was
most successful and impressive. We can only re-
peat our conviction, that he has every claim to be
regarded as a great gain to our lyric stage.
As a whole we have never seen this opera more
admirably performed.
M
un-
usual voice and spirits on
than confirmed the evidence of her wholly un-
adthiliessi. Titiens was in
rivalled claims to the position oeschaeno andon:Oecumpoieres
as the queen of prima donnas. Voice, person, pas-
sion, knowledge, were here combined to a degree
which made us feel how little capable was the best
praise we could utter to do justice to her merito'
Her noble music with Marcel was never more fieelf
given. But still grander and more delightful WO
the effect of her great duet with Raoul, which'
whether in respect to force or tenderness, we have
never heard so sung as on this occasion.
Signor Ginglini is fully entitled to share
her honours in this effert, every phase of
which he marked with the utmost power as well as
delicacy. Of the merits of Madlle. Trebelli in the
Page, of Mr. Santley in the Count de Nevers, and
M. Gassier in St. Bris, and of the noble delivery Of
the choruses, from the first scene to the last, we can
only repeat our old eulogia.
The house was very full, and the audience marked
their satisfaction by the loudest demonstrations—
recalling Madlle. Titiens and Signor Giuglini twice
on the conclusion of their great scene.