The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-01 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

*(Fctin the British Gazette-)
Btu NAY :19 —The Duchess of Kent arrived at four
o'clock on Friday morning at Ostend, on board a Royal yacht
from Oigland, dUring a violent thunder storm. Tht flashes
of lightning weie so vivid ,and, incessant that the heavens
seemed one' blize'Of.'ligkit. Her' Miyil flighne4 left Ostend
at twerido'Cloiik;•i•eacbed.the station at Bruiseli between three
mid fon'. •o'dici.t.k;•and wars-escotfed by a gn,rd of honour to the
place. •'I Duchess was recrived at .oStend-by Baron Dies-
kau and other gentlemen attached to the Be!gian,Court. In
the evening the Dttches< accompanied their 3hjeStivs to Laeeken.
It is statetWa'BrUgsels journal, that the Duke of Welling-
* has ovrettql tvelauSe to be ifitkodticed into An new leases
gtanted.iin hi's-estates, near Nivelrei; fhe'effect that if tithes
are ag*Vestablislied in Belgium The 'iia.yinent of thenn shall be
uiDon•llie without claim' itideninification from his
Graee as lindlord. '- • ' •"••• ..... • • •
The praincial newspapers speak very gencralliof the awful
thunder stnrin tin the `l3d instant.; but, up to the present time,
We do not learn that it-
was accompanied with any tionsititrable
Calamity, is we except Mira the church of St. Jean Sart, in
the commune of Aube!, where the electric fluid did eonsider-
,
able injury to the plate on the altar, and broke every
_square of
glass in the building. The damage is estimated at 1,500 f.
The church is insuicd:

REVOLT IN TURKEY..
',rltONTlEliS,tor, TURKEY, -15.—According to Re.
atUlltS Belgrarie it is proposed'again to rengwe the swag
Set.% Government to Belgrade; where Prince Michael
daily
.expected, 'though the inhaldtants of Kragujesatz have
remonstrated against it. '
Letters 'front Nissa. enruplain of, the scarcity of pAisions,
and speak of th 6 rtobabiltty ** marl to
F.:Constantinople is ludeoci fcrc. ' bi'Wo.W`iF...tt_sit.e.i,te-stritirel by
it without a strong escort, at least- front Nissa to Alexinezzel
It is reported that the troubles have now really extended to
Rumelia, and that in the neighbourhood of Bitognia 'they*.
have been dreadful sanguinary affrays . between the 'lurks and
Christians, in which the former lost many men. According
to accounts from Cand:a, received in Corrstautinople, the
number of insurgents in that island had increased to 16,000
nit n, anal it is feared that the concessions of the Porte would
come too late. The mountaineers of -Syria, who contributed
so much to re-conquer that country, appear to be more and
snore adverse to the Turkish Government. They had looked
for retsards which they had not received. But how should the
Porte satisfy everybody ? Its financial distress daily increases,
and the indemnity to be paid to the Allied Powers for the ex-
penses of the war, have not yet been thought of.
BRUSSELS, MAY 29.—His Majesty !the King arrived the
day before yesterday from Ardcnne. Her Royal Highness the
Ducl.ess of Keut arrived at the Palace of Laecken yesterday af-
teinocn at three o'clock.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Danizetti's
opera sena, Fausta, was performed on Saturday, at her Ma-
jesty's Theatre.—The clot is but ill c.ilculated to conciliate
the favour of those who bestow much attention on the libretti
with which the successors of Metastasio supply their com-
posers. Like that of Lucrezia Borgia, its main features are
repulsive, whilst its tragic situations have not near so happily
inspired the prolific maestro whom Bergamo has conferred on
the musical world. A few lines of Gibbon's " Decline and
Fall " have probably afforded Signor Bidera the principal ma-
terials of his two acts. His theme is the murder of Crispus, eldest
son and presumptive heir of Constantine the Great, by order
of his father—a deed imputed tt► the arts of his stepmother,
Fausta, whose implacable hatred, or disappointed love, renewed
in the palace of Constantine the ancient tragedy of Hippolitus
and Phtedra. The opera has an overture which is too colour-
less a composition to merit the inquiry whether it belong to it
or not. The first morceau worth noticing in the first act is an
air of Fausta, which she sings in the third scene, after dis-
missing her attendant Licinia. It is far from presenting any
original feature, and required the great exertions of Grisi to
render it effective. The duet, '• No, sull' altar rammento,"
does more credit to Donizetti, and was, we think, entitled to
more approbation, nobly executed as it was by the accom-
plished vocalist we have just named, and Tambunni, who en-
acted the part of Constantine. In the concluding scenes
Grisi won almost the only very loud applause that was awarded
to the opera. Fausta will, perhaps, obtain more favour on a
repetition, bnt it certainly met with a very lukewarm recep-
tion on Saturday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived in
the first scene, and withdrew as the curtain fell over its
last act.

1 . HAYMARKET TIIEATRE.—A new drama
—or rather inel drama—entitled Marie Dacanye, was
produced on Saturday night last at the Haymarket
Theatre with very triumphant success. It is from the pen of
Mr. Bernard. Marie Ducange (Celeste) is a Jersey girl, the
foster child 'of a Major Audley (Bennett), who has reared
her until old age was overtaken
Marie became the beautiful ,guiding star of the blind old
officer. Lascelles, a generous young man of fortune,.at n!
,by loss of sight. and
yachting abut the island, and is charmed ande derivescafu hise
by Marie. He has an uncle, from whom i'.
and he has a friend who persuades him to do every thin
Weans, and who expects him to marry a cousin at home ;
for his uncle and his interest, and against his inclination and
his conscience. Lascelles and his friend Rawdon are perso-
nated by Phelps and 'iVebster. But Marie
to whom she was early betrothed, and onlynotll ei
r lover
to
l‘h l
n time
,naiiv
to provoke the rivalry of Lascelles, and to fearirl has
in es
a a
duel by his
with Lascelles, whom she madly
hand. Upon the crisis of necessity
whothen
marriesleaves Jersey
her.
loves,herehis uncle (Strickland)
He brings her to Southampton,
hs C povertyah thel
ic conditionria g
d the Protestant ceremony),
proves illegal, being.unratifl
jotoi ns
histhneomt
d,
easnedrtmi n agkite
isarie disinheritance
(with
b'w‘.hntn and
night of the uncle's b
, plying him with drink intoxi.
friend Ras don lures him, and y•
ills uncle ' demand. H
and wedding the cousin to whom he was betrothed. On the
into ar.rivalwLitahscieilllsesunhcadeas.party,from wehricuhshheiss
cafes him complying
laertrtetvrelsefftrototnaseprseriseyhteorohis
after Lady Macbeth's fashion, is
leaving his
wife in
d.
carriage,
half mad among his guests, IsconrveArltaarkiee,nwhhyodßiSamwidsosens,thaenmd
desertion just as her
the effect of the letter is such that
;to stand over the inanimate body
but'" forgive
tion and dismay. Shefoisstreera-dfamtlfear
of poor
When Marie recovers she is without sense, and her
Marie.
foster-father dies of his child's affliction. She herself is taken
under the roof a faithful servant, and lives in a kind of delusive
di . s imacining that her husband will return. ma ILS ,
hheero for
her elopement
n tinic
Even-
tually Lascelles does come back ; and, after a series of melo-
dramatic incidents, the alternative is hit upon of favouring the
delusion of Marie by giving a party in the same rooms of the ante
mansion (now left by his uncle, to Lascelles) IV which he had ori-
givally le tt her deserted and aggriev ed. The stratagem succeeds—
the interview with, and apparent return of, her busband realises
her delrninn, and restores consciousness, and the curtain faith
upon the.melo-dramatic ecstasy of the love-abandoned girl.
'I he humour that runs through the piece hangs upon the ec-
centric earnestness of a sort of Jeremy Didler of the name of
Prong•( Wrench), who is about to make the fortune of every
seacoast town, by establishing it as a watering-place, andmho is
ekceedingly pressing in making people get and pay up their
shares ; also, as prpprietor of mock assembly-Tooms, conducts
a promenade orchestra with infinite energy and humour.
Celeste gave every effect to the character of the heroine. She
played with a sprightly and earnest devotion to her part, and
took the interest of the audience by storm. Phelps gave a
good tone of feeling to the part of Lascelles; and Weisster was
es'eeedingly'guad as Rawdon, the cool and heartless misleader
of hit friend. Wrench was dry—cornpOied, impudent—self-
tiossessed and capital !—and a word aeseives to be said for
Strickland 'And Miss P. Horton. Mr. Webster announced
Marie Dlleauge for repetition every evening until further
notice. • '

FRANcE.—The Minister of the laerior has
issued a decree likely to have the most beneficial influence on
the prisoners in female penitentiaries. All the interior ma-
nagement of these houses is placed in the hands of Sisters of
chirity. Thus, for the igrtorinee and hrutality which with
few exceptions characterise the mercenary guardians and keepers
of such establishments, will be substituted the mild and
die.
interested authority of this religious sisterhood.