The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-20 00:00:00

NEW ROYALTY THEATRE.

Mr. Caldwell, who has superseded Mdlle. Albina
di Rhona in the management of the elegant little
theatre in Dean-street, has made an attempt, which
may be called felicitous, to introduce regular musical
performances to the inhabitants of Soho and the
neighbourhood. On Saturday M. Offenbach's ex-
tremely pretty operetta "Le Marriage aux Lan-
ternes," was produced with undeniable success. The
vocalists were Miss Mira Stanley, Miss Payne, and
Mr. John Morgan, the tenor whose name has
figured recently and occasionally in the concert
room. Miss Stanley's vocal abilities, too, are by
no means to be despised; she is just the artiste foe
a small theatre like the Royalty and a small comic
piece like the ";Marriage aux Lanternes." The
music of the two widows who quarrel about the
young farmer was sung excellently, and the duetts
applauded to the echo and encored. This pretty
little threatre is well worth a visit.

THE " CREATION."—Haydn's oratorio the " Crea-
tion" is announced for performance by the National Choral
Society on Wednesday evening next at Exeter hall. The
principal parts will be sustained by Mademoiselle Florence
Lancia and Messrs. Perrin and Lewis Thomas,with a chorus
and band of nearly 800. Conductor, Mr. G. W. Martin.

Mr. Gye has been in Paris for some time, com-
pleting his preparations for the forthcoming Royal Italian
t.pera campaign at Covent-garden, but has now returned to
town. It is by no means certain that her Majesty's Thea-
tre will open under M. Bagier, acting for Mdlle. Sarolta.
Lord Ward's conditions for the lesseeship are so onerous that
the Spanish speculator is still fighting them. Madlle•
Tietiens denies that'she is engaged to sing at Drury Lane
in Italian opera. Mr. Lumley holds Giuglini engaged to
him, together with a Signor .t Galetti.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (says
the Cambridge Independent), with great consideration for
the wants of his labourers and the poor of the village of
Madingley, has, through General Bruce, generously for-
warded to his steward £l2 to be distributed to those em-
ployed at the hall, and £2O to the vicar, the Rev. T. Field,
for distribution, among the poor of the parish.

THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.—On Saturday even-
ing the fund now being raised tt the Mansion-house for the
erection of a memorial of his late Royal Highness the Prince
Consort had increased to £7,620. Viscount Palmerston
sent a donation of £lOO in the course of the day, Miss
Burdett Coutts £lOO, the Fishmongers' Company £2lO, the
Sacred Harmonic Society £lO5, Messrs. Drummond £lOO,
Messrs. George Peabody and Co. £lO5, the Marquis of Clan-
ricarde £5O, and Lady Catherine Buckley .00.
It was only after the decease of the Prince
Consort, (says the Court Journal), that it could be known
how great was the amount of business performed by his
Royal Highness. No one can be more painfuly acquainted
with tho'fact now than our bereaved Queen herself; for
the Prince, it seems, really performed the duties that
would devolve on the most confidential secretary to her
Majesty. Few,people have an idea of the enormous quantity
of documents that is incessantly being sent from the Foreign,
Home, Indian, and Colonial Offices, and the Army and
Navy Departments, for the Queen's perusal and signature,
and the Prince made it his duty to inspect all these papers
so as to give her Majesty the least trouble. None are better
aware of how much the Prince Consort did in this way
than the thinisters themselves, and there has been a very
general order. from •the Cabinet, through all the depart-
ments of-State, not to intrude anything on the Queen ex-
cept what is absolutely necessary for carrying on the busi-
ness of the country. The Duke of Newcastle and Earl
Granville have bothbeen to Osborne to see that these in-
structions are practically carried into effect, by giving a
general superintendence to the matters to be submitted to
the Queen, and thus lightening as much as possible the
additional labour thrown on her Majesty by the lamented
death of her beloved Consort.

ACCIDENT TO SIR JOHN PAKINGTON,
DROITWICH, Saturday.—An accident has befallen the Right
Hon. Sir John Pakington, which for the present confines
him to the house. The right hon. baronet, whose seat,
Westwood-park, is adjacent to this town, was riding along
one of the roads in the vicinity of Westwood on Wednesday
afternoon last. when his horse, it is supposed, trod upon a
stone, and falling, threw his rider heavily on the road. Sir
John was of course much bruised by the violence of the
fall, and in addition to these injuries he received a kick in
the back as he lay on the ground from the horse in its
struggles to rise again. We are glad to add, however. that
beyond these bruises the right hon. baronet has received no
serious injury, and to• day was reported as recovering
rapidly. Sir John is an expert horseman, and we believe
the horse which threw him was a favourite one.

COLONEL TAYLOR, M.P.--We are plEased to learn
that Colonel Taylor, M.P., is recovering from the severe
accident he recently net with while shooting at Emo-park,
Lord Portarlington's seat, by the accidental discharge of
his gun. The gallant colonel has lost the first joint of the
thumb of his right hand. After the accident Colonel Tay-
lot' removed to the Seckville-street Club for the best surgi-
cal skill Dublin could afford, and was so far recovered on
Friday last as to leave for his own residence, Ardgillan
Castle.

Colonel C. W. D. Staveley, C. 8., of the 44th
Regiment, will succeed to the command of the troops in
China, in the room of Major-General Sir John Michel,who
returns home, we believe from ill-health. Colonel the Hon.
Francis Colborne, C. 8., of 6th Foot, will in all likelihood
be appointed Deputy-Quartermaster-General at the Mauri-
tius, in succession to Colonel Sir Henry Johnson, whose
period of service on the Staff expired some months since.—
Army and Navy Gazette.

A prospectus has been issued for establishing a
new steam line to India, to be called the British and Eastern
Steam Navigation Company, with a capital of £750,000 in
£lO shares. The intention is to construct a fleet with
extensive accommodation for passengers, such as will ad-
mit of facilities for those of second-class as well as first, and
also for the conveyance of troops, railway operatives, and
the large number of persons who are likely henceforth to be
brought into that line of travel by the rapid development of
India, and who are at present compelled by the necessarily
high scale of existing fares to take the long sea route.

MR. SAM COWELL'S CONCERT.—On Saturday
evening, this celebrated comic vocalist made his first visit
to Manchester since his return from America, and the an-
nouncement of his concert drew together an audience which
fairly filled the Free-trade Hall. He sang two new songs
—his " Return from the United States," and " The
House that Jack Built ;" three of the best of his eli ones
—"
Clean your Boots," " Lord Lovel," and " Billy
Barlow ;" and three others; including " The Cork Leg,"
consequent upon encores. There are very few vocalists
in the same line from whom eight songs during e.,ne
evening would not be too many to be agreeable. But
Mr. Cowell is so consummate an actor that he gives to
each thing he undertakes a marked specialty; and what
there is of pure Cowellism in the singing or acting is so
racy and so well-timed, that it is always acceptable, and
see ms at least necessary, if not new. The humour is
unmistakeably of the broadest, but it is wholly free from
coarseness or vulgarity; and we know not how a lover of
laughter could more !pleasantly spend a couple of hours
than at one of Mr. Cowell's concerts.—Mr. Cowell was i
assisted on Saturday by Miss Agnes Sutherland, who has
a good clear voice and a pleasant manner, and who at
once made herself a favourite with the audience, being
twice encored ; by Mr. C, Chaple, a baritone, who did not
make a very favourable impression, but who seemed to be
suffering from cold; and by Mr. Hicks, who, in addition
to presiding at the piano, played two concertina solos very
skillfully. Mr. Cowell's announcement that he hoped soon
again to visit Manchester, was received with hearty aP-
plause,—Manchester Guardian,