The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-06 00:00:00

'LONDON, TUESDAY ',EVENING, MAY 6, 1862,

SUN,

even of Mr. SLEIGH, who had a clear 207 ahead of
him—Mr. WILKINSON, while at the close of the
poll, while nearly 5,000 less than the chosen candi-
date of the constituency, bad himself once upon a
time taken his seat in the House of Commons as
M.P. for that very borough of Lambeth ! A ques-
tionable advantage, however, as it appears, judging
from the result of the voting on Saturday, as but
just now particularised. Upon the whole, we can-
not but feel that the electors of Lambeth have out of
the three candidates who stood before them made
a really judicious selection. But as to the apathy
of the rest of the great mass of 24,000 electors con-
stituting the Lambeth constituency—we feel tole-
rably well persuaded that that illusion (actually
floating just now before the mind's eye of some
observers) would be quickly enough disssipated
whenever any genuine contest should put the Lam-
beth constituency to the test. Let us say, if upon one
of these fine days—when there is another vacancy
in the representation of the borough—a real live
Tory candidate should venture to make his appear-
ance upon the hustings. In that contingency we
warrant we should hear no more about the electoral
apathy now sneered at.

Our readers will observe with gratification that
the loyalty of the Neapolitans to the King of their
choice continues to be demonstrated in the moot
decisive manner. The point of this day's news
we take to be that not only the many, but the
" select classes," if we may use such an invidious
expression, are unanimouily in his favour. These
were indeed the classes whom the Bourbons per-
secuted most. They had education and could think
for themselves—the most undesirable qualifications
possible for the subjects of either vigorous or
feeblo tyrants. If they kept silence, it was supposed
their thoughts were such as a tyrant could not
endure; if they spoke submissively, it was rea-
sonably suspected to be hypocrisy; if they dared
to doubt royal wisdom or the merits of the
police, why, St. Elmo or the island prison was a
certainty. Nothing but a heavy bribe could save
them from months or years of incarceration with-
out trial, or from a trial in which every witness
was perjured. We cannot wonder, therefore, that
the whole middle and upper-class population of
Naples, which did not owe its safety or success to
sycophancy, crowded to the theatre to welcome
their deliverer.

Still, account for it as we may, it is gratifying to
see that the class of whom our Tories cannot pretend
that it has nothing to lose, were as hearty in their
place—the theatre—as the multitude the preceding
day in the streets, and on the housetops. The came
enthusiastic shouts for the King of an United ITALY
were heard there, as in the open air. And what
was received with the greatest enthusiasm of all
was a song, in which the star of Savoy (no jealousy
of a North Italian King) was invoked as the Saviour
of Rome and Venice, and the possessor of the crown
of the OMAR& One of the largest and most beau-
tiful theatres in Europe was crowded with loyal and
enthusiastic attendants from top to bottom, many
of them having purchased admission at exorbitant
prices. There can be no mistake about such a meet-
ing. Let the oppressors of Warsaw, and of Pesth
and Venice contrast this with the receptions which
they could obtain in their outlying capitals. We
should add that the officers of the French and Eng-
lish fleets encouraged the people by their presence.
Let us hope that the former will not report what
they saw in vain.

A most useful and judicious Royal liberality has,
however, been shown towards other classes. All
pledges below two ducats have been redeemed by
the KING. It seems that, expecting a visit from
GARIBALDI, the pawnbrokers had been largely re-
sorted to, but the KING has shown that Royalty
can do what is hardly in the power of the most
justly popular General whom Italy ever had, or is
likely to have. Equally wise was an amnesty, the
appropriate grace of Royal fetes, for all offences of
the Press, and all " contraventions of discipline" by
the National Guard. " Let byegones be byegones"
was the truly English sentiment of his MAJESTY
and his councillors. What a contrast to the vin-
dictive amnesties of the Bourbons and the Haps-
burgs.
The Royal visit to the South must do great
good. It will reassure the Neapolitans, and enable
them to see, as well as to believe, that the KING
is not a mere Piedmontese but an Italian. It will
give the impetus of social confidence to foreign
trade—which, indeed, so far as England is con-
cerned, has more than doubled at Naples, in three or
four years; and with encouragement of agricultural
commercial and social energies for the rale, instead
of repression, as under the Bourbons, we shall soon
see the South of Italy rapidly advancing in wealth.
One of the fairest countries of Europe will soon
become one of the most flourishing. Such is the
blessing of shaking off the paralyzing yoke of
tyranny and priestcraft.

THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND.

BALMORAL, MAY 4.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses
Princess Helena and Princess Louise, drova out yesterday
afternoon.
The Duchess of Athole attended her Majesty.

DEPARTURE OP ThE CROWN PRINCE

OF _ER UASSIA.

The Crown Prince of Prussia visited the International
Exhibition twice yesterday. His royal highness was at-
tended by Count Puckler and Lieut.-Col. the Hon. D. de
Ros. His royal highness paid a visit to Prince Oscar of
Sweden in Stratton-street, and also went to the Houses of
Parliament.

The Crown Prince visited both the Water-colour Exhi-

bitions:

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited and
took leave of his royal highness at Buckingham Palace in
the evening.
The Crown Prince of Prussia left Buckingham Palace at
5 mince.. before r 5 O'CIOCK last evening for the Victoria sta-
tion, and travelled by the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway to Dover, where the prince will embark for Calais,
on his return to the Continent.

Sir Cusack Roney, one of the directors of the company,
and Mr. Forbes, general manager, were in attendance at
the station to receive the Crown Prince, and proceeded to
Dover in attendance upon his royal highness.

His Royal. Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden
paid a visit to the Crown Prince of Prussia, at Bucking-
ham Palace, yesterday morning, to take leave of his royal
highness.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia
and suite visited the International Bazaar yesterday, and
made several purchases.

His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh has
left Claridge's Hotel for Mnlgrave Castle, Yorkshire.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester arrived in
town yesterday from visiting the Earl of Sandwich, at
Hinchinbroke House, Huntingdon.
The Duke of Richmond has taken a house in
Belgrave-square, for a term of years, the residence of the
late Lord Herbert.

The Earl Delawarr passed through town yester-
day from Buelhurst Park for Ruthin Castle, North Wales,
to attend tho funeral of Mr. F. R. West.

The Earl and Countess of Aylesford have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel for the season.

The Earl of Rosslyv n;:dladv Harriet St. Clair
have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from the Continent for the

season.

Viscount and Viscountess Campden have been
entertaining a succession of visitors during the Easter
n Powerscourt, the Hon. J.
re-
cess at Campden House, Gloucestershire. The Marquis
and s
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rnvdi os
cnoduerrt y, Lord Dufferin, Mr. and
Stonor, Mr. Sanford, and Mr. Kennedy Erskine have been
Cochrane, of
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amongst the guests of the noble viscount and viscountess.
Lord and Lady Leconfield have left Grosvenor-
place for Petworth.

Lord and Lady Farnham have arrived at Cla-
ridge's Hotel for the season.

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ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

MADLLE. PATTI.

We live undoubtedly in an age of' wonders.
The world has got electrified within the
last twenty or thirty years, and whether
in science, art, or politics—does nothing now
that is not extraordinary. Every day we have some
great discovery—some fresh surprise, or some strik-
ing change—some revolution in arts or systems
which re-inspires human energy, or re-arranges
the world's map! What is our great Exhibition,
which is both the evidence and triumph of our time,
but a congeries of wonders--industrial and practical
—any one of which a century ago would have sufficed
to empty the inkstands of all the learned bodies of
Europe. It seems in harmony with such an age
that loves to set aside all precedents and perplex
us with fresh surprises—that we should have a
young songstress come from America—the land
of no song—not even with birds, and wholly un-
known to fame or Europe, win a reputation
instantly. One who was so young in look that
she seemed scarcely to have entered girlhood,
and yet so advanced in discipline that
she gave us the impression of maturity. One whose
gifts too, in voice and person, were just as extra-
ordinary as her culture, and who did not fear to
challenge our criticism, whilst she had the right to
demand our sympathies. The result was accord-
ingly a marvel in perfect keeping with the power.
Whilst great singers for the most part have
required a season to win their fame in—a
series of great characters, or at least a night's
performance—Madlle. Patti asked ten minutes,
and the delivery of a single air. Those who wit-
nessed her debut will bear us Out in this encomium.
An entire stranger to the audience when she entered
for the first time as Amina, and believed by many
to be a mere make-shift, caused by some mana-
gerial difficulty, the simple delivery of her first
aria, the " Come per me Serene," settled the question
of her fame. The rapturous encore it elicited
was a decision that the triumph of the night only
variously confirmed. Byron has told us in reference
to Childe Harold, that he went to bed unknown,
and woke in the morning celebrated. Madlle.
Patti achieved her end in probably less time than
it took Byron to pull off his boots ! The only
solution of such a mystery is the theory we set
out with. We live in an age of wonders, and Madlle.
Patti belongs to the age. Her first appearance,
therefore, for the season is necessarily one of its
great events. Though last evening was an off
night, and consequently the mass of the subscribers
were absent, the state of the theatrdwas a sufficient
evidence of her popularity with the world at large,
and even more strikingly was this evinced by the
enthusiastic nature of her reception, which was one
loud and fervent welcome from all parts of the
house. Mr. Gye, with his usual skill, selected the
" Sonnambuia" for her re-appearance, in order to
enable her to renew her labours with the great im-
pression they commenced with. We are happy to
say that that impression was rather ex-
panded than renewed. In the brief in-
terval that has elapsed since her last ap-
pearance in London, Mademoiselle Patti has
gained an increase of physical power, which stamps
a higher character both on her singing and her act-
ing. Her now agreeably rounded form shows she
is rapidly passing into womanhood, and the result
is not only a general improvement in her voice—a
greater richness in her higher tones, and a
greater depth in her lower, but a palpable
increase of feeling which communicates to all her
tones a double influence and significance. Thus,
whilst she retains all her characteristics of last sea-
son unimpaired, her singular brilliancy and truth,
resulting from a voice of the utmost compass, flexi-
bility, and sympathy, united to a discipline so perfect
that her facility was never for an instant at the
cost of her precision—her power of embellishment,
or that of unravelling the most intricate mazes of
sound, being always founded on the sense of the
individual value of each note, she now exhi-
bits, in addition, the higher dramatic ele-
ment of feeling, which will enable her
to interpret adequately the various demands of
character, The improvement in Madlle. Patti is
therefore to be summed up in a word. She is
altogether more passionate. Her brilliancy is pass-
ing into a union with an intensity that, as
her strength increases, must place her claims
in an entirely new light. This was indicated last
evening in her singing from first to last. The
" Come per me Serene" had an increased fervour,
which showed the more le °manly intuitions in its
outpouring of delight; the " Son geloso" was a
warmer acknowledgment of the ardour of her lover,
the whole of the dream music in the presence of
Ridolto, when she pictures her union with Elvino
had a tenderer tone of ecstacy, and the arousing
to a sense of her position under the misconceptions
she has created had a corresponding depth of
anguish which gave a deeper pathos to the
exquisite appeal of the d'un penseiro, d'unaccento,
and reached a truer climax in her final struggle to
retain her lover. And her acting was, of course,
in harmony with this marked improvement in
her singing. Whilst it retained all its
playful naturalness, which is so childlike
in its innocence—it rounded as the action
proceeded like her person and her voice to a true
depth of emotion, and at the close of the Second
Act, in the wild cry with which she flung herself
on the bosom of her lover and defied his efforts to
repel her, it reached a climax not unworthy of the
great Malibran herself. Mdlle. Patti, need we say,
aroused the ui most excitement of her audience
by this exquisite performance, being enthusiasti-
cally called for at the close of every act, and twice
at the fall of the curtain, after her more than
usually wonderful delivery of the rondo. finale.
The Elvino of the evening was Signor Gardoni,
his second appearance for the season, who sung
with his usual grace and feeling, but with a want
of power in the second act, which we must refer to
his recent illness, of which his face, we were pained
to see, bore but too evidently the signs. The re-
mainder of the performance exhibited the usual
perfection of this house.

Sir James Matheson, Bart,, M.P., and Lady
Matheson have arrived at their mansion in Cleveland-row.
THE JAPANESE AMBASSADORS IN THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS.—When Mr. Walpole was speaking on the edu-
cation code the Japanese Ambassadors entered the House
of Commons, and took their seats in front-of the Speaker's
gallery. Their appearance excited but little attention, ex-
traordinary people and costumes being in the present day
no novelties. They aoneared to listen attentiv..ir to Clio
right hon. gentleman's too elaborate criticism on the intri-
cate subjects embraced in theCodo revised and amended, but
it is needless to say that his eloquence was lost on them.
They used their fans occasionally, and made themselves
quite at home, and after a stay of 15 minutes or so took
their departure.

THE GUANO TRADE WITH PERU.—The arrange.
ments are now completed in regard to the agency in this
country for the sale of Peruvian guano, which is in the
hands of Messrs. Thomson, Bonar, and Co., a firm which,
in the person of its premier, some years since gave a Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer to the Government, and subse-
quently a Governor-General to Canada, under the title of
Lord Sydenham. Mr William Gladstone,brother of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Gladstone, is second partner in the firm,
having joined the hcuse when Lord Sydenham went to
Canada. The agents in Liverpool will be Messrs. Gladstone
and Serjeantson, and the standing and character of these
firms is a sufficient guarantee to the agriculturist that every
care and precaution will be taken in keeping the guano free
from adulteration, the same as in the case of the previous
contractors, Messrs. Antony Gibbs and Sons, and their
agents, who were exceedingly careful in this respect, as every
one knows. The vessels have only just left this country
to load at the Chinchas under the new contract, and will
not return for a few months; in the meantime the old stock
in the possession of the late contractors will be brought
within a narrow compass.—Liverpool Albion.

THE HARROW CEP.—Ten members of the Uni-
versity Cempanyof the West Middlesex, having challenged
a like number of the let or A Company of the Victoria Rifles
for the icy ssession of the new Harrow Challenge Cup, the
competition took place on Saturday last, at Harrow. The
result was three points in favour of the Victoria Company,
who consequently still retain the cup. The distances were
300, 500, and 600 yards, five shots at each. The winners in
charge of Ensign Thrupp, acting musketry instructor, made
at 300 yards 50 points, at 500 yards 44 points, and at 400
yards 32 points—in all 126 points. The West Middlesex
Company made at 300 yards 43 points, at 600 yards 42
points, at 600 yards 31 points—in all 123 points. The
highest scores Isere made by Privates Watson (19 points)
and Cobb (16 points), both on the losing side. Privates
1%.1 ills, Carter, and BaTnard, of the Victoria Company, made
16 pinto eaoh.

211 E 2 .7(LEATRES.

ST. JAMES'S.

Another fai,..7 extravaganza was produced last
evening at the above theatre. It is from the pro-
digal pen of Mr. William Brough, and is entitled
Prince Amabel ; or the Fairy Roses." There is
no necessity for a detailed description either of its
plot or its incidents ; they may be guessed almost
by its title. Of course there is a tyrannical father,
admirably represented by Mr. Frank Matthews, two
ugly daughters, whom he is desirous of marrying, and
one pretty daughter, whom he is equally determined
to prevent from getting married. The former object
he accomplishes, but not the latter ; as Prince
Amabel interferes, with the irresistible powers com-
bined of youth, good looks, and a beneficent fairy.
The machinery of the piece turns exclusively upon
the peculiar property possessed by fairy-grown
roses of enabling their owner to make himself in-
visible at the wished-for moment. By the aid of
this charm several laughable and convenient situ-
ations are produced and evolved. The extravaganza
is written with more than usual spirit, and was
received with still more than usual enthusiasm. To
those who have a taste for modern burlesques,
we can recommend " Prince Amabel." Its author
was summoned before the curtain and most demon-
stratively applauded.