The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, June 19.—The market has Lost the
little firmness it acquired 3 esterday, and Stock
Paving been again offered, prices have receded.

Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f. 50c.
Italian Loan has receded to 72f. 70c. Up to the
present time there has been absolutely nothing
doing in Railway Shares. The market closed as
follows:

It per Cent 5....... 97 20
Do. end month....

3 per Cents -
68 50
Do. end month.... 68 55
Credit Mobilier....l2lo

Do. end month 1208 75
Bank Shares 3470
Credit 1 pricier 1365

BAIL'

Orleans

Italian Loan 72 95
- Do. end month 73
) New ditto
i Do. end month.... 74 05
• Russian
i Austrian .. —
• Spanish Threes 53 50
• Home Debt
--
:WAYS.

Cash.
992 N

Account.
995

_ .
Northern
New ditto ..
..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1038 75 lO4l 25
Geneva 452 50 .. 460
Southern 727 50 .. 732 50
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian

Lombard
577 •• 577 50
North of Spain
Saragossa 725 -- .. 722 50
Ditto to Barcelona

AUSTRALIA.

PLYMOUTH, JUNE 20.

The ship Tiptree, from Sydney, April 1, has
passed this port. Eight of her passengers landed
here to-day, and they report sighting, on Thursday
last, at the entrance of the Channel, one of Messrs.
Green's ships, supposed to be the Dover Castle,
that left Melbourne on the 20th March, with 19,000
ounces of gold.
She brings in all 34 cabin and 32 steerage passen-
gers, among whom are Mrs. Lockhart, Mrs. Rae,
Mrs. Brett, and Mesdames Cruickshank, Oliver, and
Bowton, Miss Creasy, Miss Mahony, Mr. and Mrs.
Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Baines, Rev. Father Murphy,
Mr. Proven, and Mr. Weir.

Her cargo includes about 3,000 bales of woo', some
hides, atd a quantity of bark, copper ore, &c.

After departure the Tiptree experieneed strong
southerly and south-west gales, which drove her so
far east as to prevent her from going seuth of New
Zealand. She went through Cook's Straits, April
12, 68 days, passed Chatham Island on the 14th,
and had strong westerly gales, during which, on
the 17th, in 55 S., three large icebergs were ob-
served, and the Tiptree rounded Cape Horn May 1,
entered the Southern Tropics on the 17th, crossed
the Line on the 25th, and at 9 p in. yesterday was
off the Start under all sail, wind N. by E., fine.
She spoke, May 18, in long. 20.0 S., lat. 26.46
the French bark Hamburg, 43 days from Mar-
seilles, for Mauritius; 21st, in lat. 10.29 S., long
29.5 W., the British ship Atala, from London,
bound south ; 23d, in lat. 55 S., long. 28.55 .W.,
the bark Ann and Lucy, bound south; and June
12, in lat. 44.49, long. 37.34 W., the French ship
Malabar, from Havannah, for Havre. Her
Majesty's screw steam gun-vessel Renard, from
China, arrived in Plymouth Sound last night.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

MADAME RISTORI AS QUEEN ELIZABETH.

If the Medea may be said to embody the passion
and grace of Madame Ristori—not less distinctive is
the Elizabeth of her extraordinary art and variety.
These two characters which contrast so strongly in
almost every point of view—which one might call the
respective types of ancient and modern civilisation
—of the free vehement child of nature—who re-
strains and conceals nothing, but loves or hates,
guards or destroys, as her passions chance to impell
her—and of the refined woman, the child of society,
who masks and plays with her emotions—who desires
with doubt and sophistry, and indulges to endure
remorse—are not more striking in the varying
aspects which they present of a common nature,
than in the fact of their adaptation to the gifts and
genius of Made. Ristori. Whilst a type, however,
the renowned Queen is even more an indivi-
dual—that history presents to us as distinguished
by her own variety of traits, and to an extent that
seems to exhaust the most opposite qualities of her
sex. Brave, cultured, thoughtful, generous, vain,
capricious, and revengeful—a lioness in respect to
her country—too often a serpent in respect to her-
self, she seems to epitomise all the power and the
weakness of a woman. Obviously, therefore, she is
a subject that only an artist of the greatest range
as well as depth could hope to embody ; and if
Signor Giacometti, in his desire to identify that
artist with his illustrious compatriot, somewhat
exaggerates the original in order to give more scope
to the transcriber, we must not be blind to the
merits which he offers as an offset. To the oppos-
ing traits of Elizabeth he gives a unity and sequence
by means of her passion for Essex, which prompts
or colours her whole conduct—whilst he imparts an
interest to her story, that is both dramatic and
historical in her gradual transition from strength to
infirmity, and from her playful to her tragic aspects.
Thus every act is made to present a distinct phase
of her career, whilst each deepens as it advances
both in its lesson and its attraction. There is
something more than this, however. Whilst giving
the needed prominence to all her lower qualities,
her vanity, personal and mental—her jealousy and
ambition—the author tempers them as faithfully
with her courage and decision, and in deepening
her sensibilities, both as respects love and remorse,
he makes their larger trial serve to purify and re-
deem her, and thus subjects the known realities of
her character and history to an ideal aim and in-
fluence, that are essentially artistic. Thus she un-
folds before us gradually her gayer features first—
her heroic and tragic ultimately, and this by no
means mechanically—an aspect to an act, but certain
qualities being assumed as tho cohering principle
of her nature—such as her love, will, and ambi-
tion ; and these being kept in view—the woman pro-
gresses with the action, and is completed at its
close.

Accordingly the play opens about 1587, when
Elizabeth was past fifty, and terminates with her
death, which was some sixteen years ensuing ; and
the first act presents her in a literary and diploma-
tic light, surrounded by a bevy of learned doctors
and grave damsels, with whom she discusses the
claims of authors, and shows her acquaintance with
the classics. Here a letter arrives from Leicester,
then her envoy to the Netherlands, which stating
that he has been ffered the crown, rouses her
regal jealousy—which is as great as her personal or
mental—and she resolves to crush her aspir-
ing favourite—whilst Sir Francis Bacon pre-
sents a petition from Shakespear, who is
represented as very poor, praying that
his Henry the VIII. may be played be-
fore the Court at Windsor. The read-
ing of its concluding lines—which are a pro-
phecy of her own fortunes—restores her ruffled
composure, and leads to her dictating a letter,
alternately to the Chief Justice, ordering him to pay
the poet's debts, and another to the unlucky Leices-
ter bidding him resign his command to Raleigh.
The news arriving of the Commons being engaged
upon what she considers a question of prerogativ e
the spirit of the Queen is aroused again, and, aban-
doning her gaieties, she rushes off to crush their
insolence. With the second act commences the
central interest of the play—her love for her new
favourite Essex, and its daring but doubtful recipro-
cation. He has displaced his rival Leicester,
but hardly dares congratulate himself on a
triumph so full of risk, for he reads the
Queen's caprico and jealousy of power. A scene
ensues between them, in which, strugg.ang between
pride and passirn, she at last reveals her feeling,
and gives him the ring (according to tradition)
which he was to send her when in danger, as an
herself.
No means of deliverance, even from
No sooner is she alone than she shows that her love
for him is not so much as for her prized authority,
which she never can consent to share, and then, as
if in punishment, her ambition tempts her into
crime. There comes the death warrant of Mary,
which she hesitates to sign till handed a letter from
the latter, in which she is so unfortunate as to say
the Second,
she bestows her crown on Philip