The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-02 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1862.

upon wheels drawn by the leanest " moke" of a
used-up donkey—just one of those assinine anato-
mies that SAM WELLER speaks of as rid& n out of
the world so very mysteriously by the race that appa-
rently never dies—that of the old postboys ! Here
the fast dog-cart with its four oustide back to back,
and a giant hamper between them—there the lum-
bering omnibus, carrying far more in and out than
it has any right to do by leave or license : to
say nothing of that collective defiance at once of
Martin's Act, of axles, and of linchpins that occa-
sionally—at almost the sharpest turning in the
narrowest part of the road—brings the whole con-
veyance to grief together with all the
chopfallen freight of unfair fares, who
thus find out to their cost upon
what false principles of economy they have rashly
chartered it ! Onward there will stream that varie-
gated and fantastic procession ofsightthsee uterosasnkdirhta foloi-
day makers along the highway from
London—to the neighbourhood of the Grand Stand
at Epsom—to the wonder at heat (however well
concealed under the mask of their nil admirari
visages) of their observant excellencies the Japanese
Ambassadors. Everything that is most familiar
to us being strangest of course to them : even the
very means of transit used by the multitude—
Whisky, buggy, gig, or go-cart, curriele or tandem."
Through the crush of the turnpike gates, on
among the pretty suburban villas, with their way-
side gardens full of lilacs and laburnams, to say
nothing of the children and the nurserymaids, on
between the country hedgerows of hawthorn, with
the green landscapes beyond them to the right and
to the left—on through the little straggling town
sacred to salts and racing—on to the soft-turfed
and wheel-cut downs themselves—to the back en-
trance of the Grand Stand, from which ' coign of
vantage' the race is to be seen upon the issue of which
each year more is dependent than upon the issue
of any other sport in the wide world by land or by
water. Even in getting to the Grand Stand through
the motley crowd huddled around it, the Japanese
will have reasons enow to look about them ! Inca-
pable, we may be sure, of getting any adequate ex-
planation from their interpreter, even though Mr.
MACDONALD were as glibly voluble of tongue as
Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS in Patter versus Clatter—
whilst gazing around upon that oddest medley any-
where to be found within an equal space upon a
given day. Bands playing, niggers singing,
prize fighters having their rounds, Punch and Judy
in full swing, conjurers juggling, organ-grinders
playing different tunes (excruciatingly) within a few
paces of each other, card-sellers bawling (each a sore-
throated Stentor) the names, weights, and colours
of the riders; betting men here and there, both
in and out of the Ring, note-book and pencil in
hand, shouting still more loudly the odds given
or taken ! Aunt Sally having her nose broken,
gipsies telling fortunes, people on foot and in
carriages, on horseback and in merry-go-round,
cigar-smoking, talking, laughing, everything
but crying gentlemen with blue veils and
green, ladies with dresses and parasols all
the colours of the rainbow ! From the
little white-washed weighing-room under the
Grand Stand, to the freshly verdant paddock to
the right of it, where the racers are saddled—
each of the mere preliminaries of the Race may
be said, with truth, to have its special
attraction for the eager throng of spectators
there assembled. Until the bell clangs and the course
is cleared—of all, that is, but the inevitable dog
and the nearly equally inevitable stout gentleman.
Then, off !—hidden behind the hill fronting the chief
mass of the beholders—emerging after a few seconds
upon what seems almost the rim of the horizon—
the parti-coloured silk jackets of the jockeys, like a
flying bed of tulips in the distance—round Totten-
ham Corner, and then home, fluctuating as they
run, but flying all the while like the wind, and
so, almost with a flash, past the winning post !
A number run up, there—telling the winner !
almost before the ruck, which is nowhere, has
swept past the umpire's chair ! It is a scene we
have all witnessed—a scene with which we are all
of us familiar—but one that will be viewed on
Wednesday next for the first time in their lives,
and, we may be certain, with a very novel sensa-
tion, by our quick-witted and observant visitors
from the far-off empire of Japan. It gives one a
new kind of anticipative relish of the coming
Derby merely to think of how it will appear to
those unaccustomed eyes of the Japanese,

Not only men of business, but every one of us, on
the ground of humanity alone, must inquire with
deep interest respecting the cotton question. No-
thing in the American war touches us as does its in-
terference with our cotton supply. The Americans
know this so well, that both North and South equally
expected it would cause an armed intervention on
the part of both England and France. The South
hoped for it so confidently that it may well be
doubted if it would have commenced the rebellion
had it not felt certain that France and England
could not, and would not, do without its cotton.
Its Commissioners came over and began speaking
at the Fishmonger's-hall for the slaveholders' in-
surrection against free-territories and a free-soil
President, as if assured that the offer of free-trade
and cotton would make us forget international ob-
ligations, and compel us to fraternise with men
who separated avowedly to build up a new republic
with the Divine Right of Slavery as its corner-
stone. France would have listened for the sake of
her operatives. England, however, stood firmly by
liberty and law; and the poor Commissioners re-
turned home telling a sad tale of the anti-slavery
feeling of England.

But the North feared our intervention as much
as the South hoped it. It did so in two respects,
with the best reason. It knew that in a similar
position of things, in regard to itself, the United
States would have declared that international law
must give way, like the Habeas Corpus Act and the
Freedom of the Press, to the national safety; and
it knew that if we
thought so, nothing could have
prevented England and,
of course, ever-willing
France, from scattering
the blockading ships, and
supplying the South
freely
cotton.
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North, that Mr. LINCOLN, in
appointing a solemn day of thanksgiving,
madektand
non-intervention one of the chief reasons of our I
thank-
fulness to Heaven. And, we must confess
while we have never suggested that the blo, at
e
should be broken, we have yet always felt that the
moral rights of some five millions of persons in
England and France, to a free supply of the article
of commerce by which they lived, quite balanced
the international rights, of one-half of a Federation
Sovereign States, to close to the world the ports
of the other half. We are only thankful that
the painful decision between the rights of starv-
ing operatives, and the rights of President LIN-
COLN did not rest with us. We much fear
that our verdict would have been, that,
as for forty years and more, the
North had nurtured and helped Southern
slavery in exchange for commercial tariffs hostile
to this country and 014 world, it must take the
consequences of its own complicity in crime; and
that we could not allow our people to staffer because

the elar ?holder •s, so long and criminally petted by
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the Nor th, at length turned against her.

But \ what is the present prospect ? At first, per-
haps, most thought the South would never go to
war—then that the North would soon crush it.
Fort Sumter soon dispelled the first illusion, and
Bull's Rvin the second. Then, as the spring came
on, confident prophecies of sixty and ninety days
as the period of the war were talked of. Even Lord
RUSSELL Taticinated in this style in the Lords, sent
down thereby the price of cotton at Liverpool, and
caused countermanding and discouraging orders to
be sent to India ! Alas ! the ninety days for the
end of the war are now contemplated by the noble
prophet, much as Dr. CUMMING must contemplate
his outlived predictions of the end of the world.
We can hardly say, perhaps, that the war makes no
sign of an end, but it at least makes quite as many
of long continuance. A succession of Federal suc-
cesses seems at first sight as if the end was near.
We have little doubt that all the Confederate
seaports, including Charleston and Fort Sumter,
will soon be in the hands of the Federals. Indeed,
by this time Charleston may well be the only one
outstanding; Mobile and Savannah having pro-
bably fallen. At the same time, two mighty armies,
one in Virginia, and one in Tennessee, confront the
two of the Confederates. Yet it may well be that the
Confederate strength is condensed, not broken. We
should not be surprised, any day, to hear that
BEAUREGARD had beaten HALLECK, able soldiers,
as both of them are, or that he had retreated to an-
other ilia.; southerly position which he is reported
to be making very strong, leading HALLECK a
Fabian dance after him, till yellow fever will do
more than his artillery. In Virginia, we should
conjecture the chances of victory in a pitched battle
to be greatest in favour of M'CLELLAN. But if
they are visibly so, we may be almost certain that
Richmond will be left as a barren conquest to the
North ; that prestige will not weigh with the South
against strategy; and that the Confederate army
of the North-East will retire yet further south, and
inland, where it will bid defiance to the North
till the semi-tropical heat makes fighting impossible
for the Northerns.

Not expecting, therefore, as more than a mere
possibility an early termination of the war, what
may we expect from the occupation of all the Con-
federate ports by the Federals ? Two of them have
already been opened under not unreasonable restric-
tions. No contraband of war can of course be
admitted ; but it is likely that, to insure the gcod
will of Europe, and to render the Confederates
unpopular there, the export of cotton will be
encouraged. Cotton, the property of individuals,
and all bought by foreign agents, will, we may
assume, so far as the Federals are concerned, be quite
safe, and the payment for it in money, or in ordinary
commercial articles, subject to the Northern duties
of the Morrill tariff, will not be obstructed. Will

the Confederates sell their cotton thus P That they

would destroy it rather than the North should seize
it, is certain ; but if families which, for nearly
twelve months, have been deprived of almost all
imported comforts, should gain a safe opportunity of

obtaining them again, the temptation will be strong
to sell the cotton and take the comforts. Public
feeling is, however, a mighty master, and it may
be deemed unpatriotic. Besides, the Morrill Tariff,
as a badge of Northern domination, is justly more
odious to the South than to civilisation generally,
and we should not be surprised to find the South
resolute to purchase nothing which has paid tri-
bute under that disgracefully selfish Act. In the
stories of cotton burning, we have not much faith.
None will be burnt which can be sold to Europe,
though all will be, which it is feared the Federala
would seize_ Even, however, under the most fa-

vourable circumstances, it will be slow work to get
the crop of 1861, all unginned and unpacked as it is,
fit for the market, and then to get it to market.
As to the actual stock of cotton in England it
was probably never so low at the present time of
year. We gather from "Neill Brothers' Circular"

that the stock in hand in March, 1862, amounting
to 190,000 bales, is but slightly above a tenth of
what we had in hand at the same time last year,
and consequently a e price is already doubled. At
Havre a similar state of things exists—lndia, we are

informed, appears to have been cleared out by the
shipments of last year ; and the stocks of
Indian cotton, both in England and afloat,
are smaller than last year; the shipments this year
being a hundred thousand bales less, since the first
of January, than they were last year. The real
cause of all the difficulty we take to be the uncer-
tainty whether the American crop of 1861 may not
reach us unexpectedly soon. But for, this greater
efforts would be made not only in India but in
other parts of the world. But surely the certainty of
its reaching us but slowly even were preliminaries
of Union or Separation arranged to-morrow, might
encourage those most interested to push their
energies in every direction ; the far greater pro-
bability being that it will be years before the old
trade can be le-organized with the cotton States of
A merica.

Two or three points of considerable interest at-
tract attention in the American papers this morning.
Foremost of them we must place the engagement of
the gunboats with the battery on what we now
learn is termed Ward's or Drury's Bluff, eight miles
below Richmond, on the St. James River. It will
be remembered that we assigned strong reasons for
thinking it impossible that the Federal less'in five
gunboats, none of them even large boats, could be
1,100 men. Our contemporaries, however, seemed
to take for granted the correctness of the telegram.
But to-day we have the official reports of the Com-
mander of the Galena, the largest boat, the Nanga-
tuck, whose 100-pounder burst, and of the famous
little Monitor. From two only, the Aroostook and
the Portßoyal, we have no particulars. The Galena,
which bore the brunt of the fire, and received
eighteen shots, lost 13 killed and 11 wounded. The
Nangatuck, notwithstanding the accident, had but
two wounded ; and the Monitor lost none. Of course,
the whole crews of the other two would not
have come near to 1,100 men. From one to two
hundred would have been their greatest number.
The Monitor's iron casing, though she could not
invulnerableelevate her g
to three guns
sufficientlyteto touch the fort, proved
shots which hit her—the
Galena's coating being pierced by eighteen shots
must therefore be due to the inferiority cf her mail.
On the whole, seeing this was an engagement of
four hours' duration, that the boats had to anchor,
and could not avail themselves of their grand ad-
vantage, relatively to fixed forts, that of keeping
in motion ; that the mail coating of one was ob-
viously of very inferior quality; that the battery
two hundred feet above the water could maintain
a plunging fire,
thus hitting the deck, the least
protected part ; and, lastly, that the loss was after
all so inconsiderable—taking all this into
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more than all the forts, placed as those at Spit-
head would be, on a level with the shore.
The zoports from the Federal army in Virginia
reach to the 20th ult. They show the advance of
M'CLELLAN to about ten miles from Richmond, and

the general preparing for "operations in the front
of Richmond." The opinion there was that Rich-
mond would be defended to the uttermost. Congress
men and representatives from Southern States are
said to be present encouraging the chivalry of
the South, and JEFFERSON DAVIS asserts in print
that he never intended to abandon the capital, and
and that should it fall, which he sees no reason to
expect, the war might yet be prolonged in Vir-
ginia for twenty years! It would seem that the
engagement of the boats and the battery, only
seven miles below the city, produced quite a panic
in the city. This is very natural. We can all
imagine what our citizens would feel with a large
French Army encamped on Blackheath, and French
gunboats attacking old Tilbury Fort. Old General
WOOL is not inactive; he has moved on to Suffolk,
an important town on account of its command of
railways.

From the Western army we have, of course, only
Northern accounts. According to them, as might
be expected, though nothing is done, yet HAL•
LECK'S quietness is described as a " masterly
inaction." He is starving and exhausting BEAURE-
GARD and uniting his own forces, while FARRAGUT,
the naval hero of New Orleitns and the Mississippi,
is moving on to Memphis, the only large town to
which BEAUREGARD can look. The questionable
reports of the destruction ofprivate property—cotton
and sugar—still continue. We do not credit them
without confirmation, since the Federals have shown
no disposition to appropriate such property, but
rather the contrary; and we can hardly think the
Confederates so reckless as to destroy property
which they would be permitted to turn into money,
an article they must greatly need. Indeed, accord-
ing to the last accounts, a silver dollar is now almost
a curiosity in the South.

The PRESIDENT has, as was expected, annulled the
proclamation of General HUNTER, giving liberty in
three States to the negroes, and, so oddly,
proclaiming slavery to be incompatible
with martial law. The PRESIDENT'S pro-
clamation is, however, very strongly worded. He
addresses the Border States with the language
of entreaty—of religious remonstrance—of appeal
to the opportunity afforded them to do more good
by one effort than has been done in all past time.
He asks them to rise above the range of personal
and partizan politics, and to see to it that the
" vast future have not to lament their neglect." He
takes care, while repudiating General HUNTER'S
unauthmised proclamation, to reserve his own right
to deal with slavery as circumstances may require,
and places side by side with this the opportunity
afforded by Congress to emancipate their slaves, in
a mode by which, says the poetical PRESIDENT,
"the change would come gently as the dews of
heaven, not receding or wreckinganwyethminiggh.:
May his appeal be successful! We could not hope
it of the hearts of the slaveholders, but
hope it of their prudence.

RECEPTION OF THE BISHOP OF 2ILILTA
AT lIIALIA.

A correspondent of the Malta Observer, writing
from Messina, under date May 21, says :
" The Catholic Bishop of Malta arrived here on
Sunday, attended by a staff of priests, who were all
warned not to attempt to come on shore, and they
wisely listened to good advice; for had they landed
I fear the Pope would have had to include the
Bishop of Malta amongst the martyrs that are to
be canonised, as the Messinese were prepared to
receive his excellency and staff with a discharge of
rotten eggs, potatoes, cabbage stalks, old brooms,
&c. As the bishop did not land, on Monday,
shortly before the steamer left, hundreds of people
(of respectable appearance), and amongst them
priests, went off in boats alongside and commenced
shouting, ' Viva la Francis, Abasso it Papa Re,
Abasso i Codini r and hooted your poor bishop in
such a manner that the captain of the steamer got
up steam and left the port followed by the boats,
the people continuing to hoot the bishop. The
steamer remained outside the port for the mails.
The French consul and captain have made a great
fuss about it, insisting that the French flag had
been insulted (such was not the case, unless they
consider shouting ' Viva la Francis' as an insult).
The former wanted our prefect to arrest the leaders,
but he refused to do so unless the consul demanded
it in writing, which, however, he has not done. The
bishop, on his return, will be able to inform the
Maltese papers of the sentiments of the Messinese
towards the Holy Father, and if his fright did not
prevent him hearing distinctly, he will also be able
to let them know that from the cries raised of
' Viva Vittorio Emanuele," Viva 'ltalia,' the Mes-
sinese are not very anxious to abandon the iron rule
of Victor Emanuel for the tender one ' del giusto,
populaire, magnanimo sovrano, legittimo e per vo-
lunta nazionale, Francesco 11."Ilese deplorable
occurrences are consequent on the offences given in
Malta to Italians and the cause of Italy, and are
much to be regretted,"
Trie bishop is the bearer of an address from the
Maltese to the Pope, in favour of temporal power,
and vehemently hostile to the unity of Italy.

A SUNKEN ROCK.—The following has been posted
n the Underwriters' Rooms, Liverpool :—" Admiralty,
29th May, 1862.—Thomas Court. Esq.—Sir,—l am corn.
mended by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
acquaint you, for the information of the underwriters at
Liverpool, that, on the notice respecting the sunken rock,
reported by Captain NV. Hall, of the ship Ethel, appearing
in the !hipping Gazette, 19th inst., their lordships ordered
her Majesty's ship Asp, Commander Aldridge, to proceed
immediately to the spot and search for the rock in question.
I hat officer has this day reported that a rock, having only
19 feet over it at low water spring tides, does exist with the
following bearings:--Coal Rock Buoy, S.E, S,; Skerries
Lighthouse, NV. S., magnetic. I transmit two charts of
Holyhead Bay and the coast of Anglesea, on which the
Ethel Rock has been laid down. The clearing mark for the
Coal Rock also chars the Ethel Rock, but leads rather too
close to it.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, C. PAGET."

An interesting incident marked the representa-
tion of the " Jaive" at the Paris Opera on Wednesday
evening. After the second act, on the audience recalling
the performers, they appeared bringing on the stage the
bust of Halevy, which the widow of the composer had just
presented to the theatre. Flowers were immediately thrown
from different parts of the house, and the whole audience
rose, and with the loudest acclamations paid a just tribute
to the illustrious deceased.

AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS IN THE EAST.—
Within the memory of the oldest inhabitants of the
Eastern district, a finer spring, or weather more conducive
to the growth and development of all kinds of agri-
cultural produce has not bean experienced. The
warm showers have stimulated the corn crops in
the most marvellous manner, so that in some dis-
tricts in Essex the wheat has already broken into ear,
and the spring corn wears the most promising appearance.
There will this year be an abundance of straw, and from
the general appearance of the wheat crops, should no unfore-
seen casualty arise, a full average crop is anticipated. Beans
and peas never looked in finer condition, the former being,
happily, free from the black fly so prevalent at this season
of the year, and the latter strong on the bine and well
covered with blossom. Upon the whole, the prospects of
farmers have not for many years been so encouraging.
THE SECOND READING OF THE BALLOT BILL.—
Mr. Berkeley's Ballot Bill was brought in on Friday after-
noon, and read a first time. The second reading is fixed for
Wednesday, July 2d. By the vote of Tuesday night, the
question is removed from its usual condition of a discussion
on secret voting, in the abstract, and the house will have
before it the exact plan proposed by Mr. Berkeley, and be
able to compare its provisions with those of the Government
Corrupt Practices Prevention Act. Liberal members will,
no doubt, muster strongly on the second reading in order to
secure a fair consideration for the question of the ballot.
PRESSURE OF WATER.—M. Guibal, professor at
the School of 111ines at Mons, has recently applied the
compression of water very successfully to the detaching of
rocks from their beds, and especially to the extraction of
coal. At a recent meeting of the society formed by the old
pupils of that scbcol, he produced a cast iron cylinder
divided in two by a partition parallel to its axis, and pre-
senting the appearance of the shaft of a mine. By the
application of the pressure of water he broke the two cast •
iron hoops, which bound the two parts of the cylinder to-
gether, and the transversal sections of which presented a
surface of 100 square millimetres. By calculation it was
found that the pressure applied was equal to 75 atmospheres
—a pressure amply sutilo.ent to detach coal, but far within
the limits of the pressure which might, if necessary, be
obtained.

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, JUNE 2.

The Moniteur of this morning announces that
Count Bismark &hoc ahausen, the Prussian Ambas-
sador to the Court of the Tuilleries, presented his
credentials to the Emperor yesterday.

TURIN, JUNE 2.

Public festivities in commemoration of the esta-
blishment of the Constitution took place here
yesterday, notwithstanding the rain.

Much enthusiasm was manifested by the people

NAPLES, JUNE 1.

Prince Napoleon did not leave Naples this
evening, as was expected, He drove through the
Strada di Toledo, and was received with cheers
by the people;

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

SIGNORA FRICCI.

The French journalists now in London in connec-
tion with the Exhibition—who are enlightening
the Parisians day by day in regard to the barbarism
of England, and who, from the point of view that
they adopt, may be called the Philosophers of Lei-
cester-square !—have got to explain how it is that
London, at this moment, has five times as many art
exhibitions open as Paris, and almost twenty times
as many permanent musical institutions. Setting
aside our sacred harmonic societies—which are
wholly unknown across the water—we have asso-
ciations, vocal and instrumental, which illustrate
every field of music, and are yearly filling the me-
tropolis with some of the most accomplished ama-
teurs and skiLfulexecutants in Europe. In addition
to this, we have two operas, presenting, with the
sole exception of Alboni, the highest lyrical talent
known to an .d accepted by the world, which, amply
as they are stored already, are week by week drawing
to their centres all the rising musical power, whether
of Europe or America. At each theatre on Satur-
day night there was a highly successful first appear.
ance, and, if we may rely on their respective pro-
grammes, this is an incident that will soon become to
us just as familiar as it is agreeable. Another im-
portant circumstance is, that singers all but un-
known, or who have won only the most moderate
recognition in their own lands, come to Lon-
don, and leap at once into a European re-
putation. This was the case with Mdlle.
Patti, and may be it is very possible with the
new singer at Covent Garden. If these
facts, among a thousand others, are to be
considered as evidences of our barbarism;

tl-.en, in the profound bliss of our ignorance, we

may safely conclude, with Gray, " That 'tis folly to
be wise ;" and be quite content, with Dogberry,
that our Leicester••square philosopher should
" write us down an ass !" Signora Fricci, who
made her debut at the Royal Italian Opera on Sa-
turday evening, in one respect at least is a decided
acquisition—she bas a very superior voice.
Making every allowance for her nervousness
in such a character as Valentine, and with

the knowledge that she was displacing in
it such an artisrlis Mdlle. Csillag,„to whom Mr.
Gye assigned it in his programme at the opening of
' the season—we could see no evidence of dramatic
power in her to place her on a level with that lady,
nor of dramatic and vocal power combined which
entitled her for one moment to be named with Mdme.
Titiens. Nature has bestowed on her neither the
mental or physical gifts to such an end. Never-
theless, in voice itselt, nature has been liberal
enough to her. She has a very clear and sympathetic,
if not full or resonant organ, of great range and flexi-
bility, and a very even amount of tone. She has also
thorough cultivation, and, in the various and arduous
music assigned to the heroine of the "Huguenots,'
executed the chromatic passages as ably as those of
earnest feeling. Her first good impression was
made in the solo of the duet with Marcel, "Ah

l'ingrato d'offesa mortale," in which the beauty of
her tones, combined with her depth of feeling, ob-
tained an instant and decisive recognition from
the audience, the whole duet being so effective as
to obtain her a recall. Her execution, however, of
the still finer, and more important duet
with Raoul, which almost stands alone in the•
modern lyrical drama, was scarcely so meritorious,
though obtaining her in like manner the honour
of a summons. It wanted the volume both of
voice and heart to which we have been so much
accustomed in it. Nevertheless Signora Fricci,
like Mdlle. Patti, has the great advantage of
being young, and it is impossible to say what a
few years may do in the way of strengthening
emotion as well as tone, seeing that she sets out
with an organ that is just as fresh as it is ex-
cellent. Another enjoyment of the evening
was the admirable condition of Signor Mario,
who was never in better voice, and sang
and acted with all the vigour of a dozen years ago.
His Belta Di civa had all the sweetness, and his share
in the septett all the chivalric spirit which have
made their delivery so much his own. His share
also in the great duet was no slight source of its
effect. Of the Marguerite of Madame Miolan, the
Urbain of Madam© Didiee, the St. Bris of Monsieur
Faure, or the Marcel of Mcnsieur Zelger, the merit
is too well known to require a moment's eulogy.
The band and chorus were quite as faultless, and
the entire production of the opera exhibited all the
perfection that distinguishes this house.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

MONS. NAUDIN.

The continued illness of Signor Gliuglini, and the
in:Ability of Signor Armandi to replace him in any
fashion, gave peculiar zest to the success of the
new tenor at this theatre, who made his debut on
Saturday evening in the character of Mantic°.
Mons. Naudin, who, we believe, sang in London a
few years since, has a very clear and agreeable, if
not very powerful, voice, which he manages for
the most part with great tenderness and skill. His
delivery of the finale to the third act roused the
audience to enthusiasm, and his "A the morte"
had a pathos which sensibly affected them.
During the course and at the close of the Opera he
received a very hearty demonstration. Another
attraction of the night was the " Conte De Luna"
of Mr. Santley, who, much to.the strengthening of
its ranks,has carried his talents to this theatre. He
was received with great cordiality, and sang with
all his usual excellence. His "Il balen" especially
roused the transports of the house. Of the Leonora
of Mdlle. Titiens, we have only lately discoursed
in full, and have only to add that on this occasion
she renewed her claim to all our eulogies. The
band and chorus were in excellent order. The
house was very full.