The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-29 00:00:00

explore the river Amazon. 3,000 seamen are required
to man those ships, but 18 MAI it is d.ffieult to procure." •
Mr. O'CONNELL arrived in Paris on 'Wednesday,
en route for Italy. He was accompanied by one of
his sons.

The Bourse of Paris was animated on Thursday.
Securities of nearly every species rose io price. The
Three per Cents. closed at 79f. 25c. ; the fire per
Cents. at 117 f. 25c. Shares were also much in de-
mand, those of the Northern line in prticular, it
having become known in the course of the day that
the receipts for the last week had risen to 255,0001.
and upwards, being, as compared with those of the
preceding week, an increase of nearly 20,0001.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Tburstfay, at 79f. 25e.; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 25e. ;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2781. Mc.; Roni,n, 872 f. 50e.;
' Havre 675 f.; Great Northern, 631 f. 25e.; Avignon, 813 f.
75e. ; Vierzon, 570 f. ; Bordeaux, 52Cf.; Dailogne, 407 f.
50c. ; Basle, 206 f. 25c.; Paris and Strasburg, 445 f.; Nantes,
4301. ; Paris and Lyons, 450 f.; Lyons and Avignon, 4801.;
Cette, 450 f.; Spanish Three per Cents., 34k.

BUSINESS DONE. IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE,IIImicu 26.

Boulogne and -Amiens, 1614 —Bordeaux, Tou!ouse, and Cette
(Constituted), 1%-Luxembourg, 11,4 —Northern of France, WL
Paris and Lyons, 5% —West Flanders, 2%.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Saturday evening was a glorious evening; for her Ma-
jesty's theatre. It was the evening of the day of the
Drawing Room, and her Majesty heraelf, with Prince
Albert hanoured the theatre with her presence. Around
her were grouped the elite of the most glorious Court in
the world. The coup &ail was magnificent, ant on Sa-
turday was realised the imagining of him to ,A hose taste
we are indebted for the bouton d.a decorations of the
boxes. Every box was occupied, and each box looked like
a framed picture. The Opera presented was worthy the
occasion. It was Ernani with Fraschini as the hero. The
part was originally composed by Verdi, for Fraschini,
and whether we consider him as
.ati actor or as a singer, his
performance was perfect. Opel-ring air, " Come
rugiada alcespite," was exquisitely given ; there was a
tenderness and pathos about it that quite carried the
House by storm. It was evident that
interpretation English au-
dience—albeit Moriani's of the character
was, in parts, beautiful—had never before heard Er -
nani. Fraschini went on from triumph to triumph, and
secured tot only his Own fame, but made the opera.
Madame Castellan was the Elvira, and she, too, was as
superior to her
.predecessor, Madame Rita Bonita as
was Fraschini to all who have pr. ceded him
in the part. There was a grace and a pa-
thos about her interpretation of the character cf
which left nothing to be desired. Superchi, as
Carlos, was very fine, his " Alec° Vierti," in the second
act, was most deservedly encored. Lrnani is an opera
which, perhaps, depends more upon in, cheruses, its con-
certed, and its orchastral music than any other. It is one
which tests to a superlative degree the powers of the
chorus and the orchestra, and never was it performed
better than on Saturday evening. The choruses were
given in a manner infinitely superior to that in which they
were either last season or the season before. Musically
they were magnificently executed, and they were acted as
nail as sung—a vast improvement upon the imps, sable,
immoveable. semicircular arrangement of the old chorus
singers. The orchestral accompaniments were superbly
given. There was a feeling, an intelligence, aheut the
rendering of Verdi's music by the orchestra on Saturday
night, which imparted to it a vitality and a spirit for
which mere mechanical band_organry cold correctness is
a very poor substitute; not but that musical correctness
was also present. It was impossible to have the music
performed more correctly; but there was spirit superadded
to correctness. It was, taken for all in ail, perhaps, the
most perfact performance ever heard within the sval!s of
her Majesty's 1 heatre.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were attended by the
Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis of Ormende, the
Hon. Miss Murray, the Hon. Miss Napier, Lord Clilden,
Colonel Grey, Caloael Bouverie, and Captain :--4.yrnour.
Amongst the other diatiaguished visitors ware the Duke
of Wellington, Dowager Duchess of Bedfard, and Lady
Rachel Russell, the Marquis of Aylesbury. the Duchess
of Victory and Madlle. Espartero, the Duchess of I lunt-
ley, the Marquis af Clanricardo, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Douro, the Marchioness of Orneonde,
Earl of Falmouth, Earl of Lousdale, Earl of Belfast,
Earl Cardigan, Earl and Countess of Sheffield and Lady
Susan Holroyd, Countess of Jersey and Lady Clem.. retina
Villiers, Baroness Brunnow and Mademoiselle Olga
Lechner, Countess of Blessing ton and the Misses Power,
Viscount Drurnlanrig; 11,,,rds Ernest Bruce, Saltonn, W.
Lennox, IL Lennox, A. Fitzclarence, Gardner, Sandy s,
the Lord Mayor, Mrs. Carral and the Misses Cam),
Lady Charles Wellesley, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Count
Koudriaffsky Conde de Mantemolin, Sir Richard Vivian,
Sir John Lowther, Col. Upton, Sir George Wombwell,
Mrs. Parke Heating, Mr. and Mrs. E. Phillips, Capt.
and the Hon. Mrs. It; der Burton, Hon. Mrs. Norton,
Capt. Greville. Hon. F. Chichester, Captain Meynell,
Hon. George Byne, Major Thirkley, Mr. and Lady
Augusta Wentworth, Sir H. Webb, Captain Reynolds,
Mr. Tollemache, Major Baring, &c.

ARRIVAL OF THE MONSTER
TROUPE OF HORSES, ELEPHANTS, &c.

On Saturday, at half past two o'clock, the grand
equestrian company engaged by Mr. Bunn to perform at
Drury-lane, arrived at the Euston-square terminus.
Some hundreds of persona were collected outside the
railway station pefore the period named. The two ele-
phants, who were obliged to perform the journey from
Birmingham on foot, owing to there being no railway
convenience sufficiently large to contain them, arrived
first, drawing after them a huge and richly ornamented
carriage, in the shape of a fiery dragon, twenty-one feet
in height. These noble animals were first led off, to a
spacious yard adjoining the terminus, and there lodged
in a place of safety. Soon after the elephants were
housed the two o'clock train arrived, consisting of forty-
five carriages, with trucks, horse-boxes, &c., and the de-
barkation of the biped and quadruped performers
commenced. The entire company, of male and
female artists, musicians, painters, and auxiliaries,
were next landed. Fifty- tour horses. ten camels,
ten ponies, and a great number of new and curiously
fashioned carriages of ancient and modern architecture
with emblematical devices, formed a p)rtion of the cor-
tege, which occupied two hours in unpacking. The quad-
rupeds were all taken off to some adjoining stables, and
the bipeds were then conveyed away in cabs to the va•
rious lodgings prepared for them, under the immediate
surerititendenee of Mr. Bunn, who appeared highly gra
tified with their safe arrival.

The grand entrance into the metropolis of this nume-
rous company will take place to-day, when they will be
all removed in precession to Farringdon-street, where
every accommodation has been prepared. It is un-
derstood that they will start at eleven o'clock, arc] if
we may judge from the c,!ncourse of people who
latrly followed the removal of a certain gigantic
equestrian statue, the crowd, of spectators will cer-
tainly be immense to view thin procession, combining all
the attraction of elephants, camels, horses, carriages,
&c. Mr. Hughes, the proprietor of this establishment,
was formerly the head manager of Mr. Batty's Amphi-
theatre, and was the superintendent of his various en-
gagements throughout the country. After this Mr.
Hughes commenced the formation of a company upon
his own responsibility, which has now b-come the largest
of the kind that has ever appeared upon any stage. The
day announced for the first exhibition of this grand
equestrian troupe upon the board of Drury-lane is faster
Monday, when will be performed a spectacle entitled
Lallah Rookh, dramatised by Mr. Fitzball, and every
possible effo:t will be used to render it me of the most
superb displays ever witnessed upon the stage. No
expense whatever has been spared by Mr. Bunn in form-
ing the arrangements, and we
trust that so enterprising
an undertaking will meet with its just reward from the
public.

ROYAL ARSENAL.—The works in this great naval
and military depot, at Woolwich, are carried on at rresent
with great vigour, the number of guns of modern construc-
tion to replace those previously mounted on the various for-
tifications at home and abroad in the colonial possessions of
this country being considerable; and the additional number
of large pieces of ordnance for the new fortifications at home
stations has required a "number of workmen to complete
them within the time they were ordered to be ready for use.
The contractors for timber have recently supplied a large
quantity, and have upwards of 4,500 loads to deliver for
making ship and gun carriages, and carriages and limbers
for field ordnance. The works i the boring and carriage de-
partments are now effected with steam power, instead of
horses, the former laborious plan ; the horses are now em-
ployed in the open air in carting timber and moving large
pieces of ordnance to and from the proof butt and to the de-
partments where the various works are carried on to make
them perfect. About 100 horses are required every da.‘,
with 50 gunners and drivers of the Royal Artillery for the
work in the Royal Arsenal, and upwards of 100 men of the
Royal Artillery are daily employed in assisting to unload the
timber from the barges which convey it by canal from
Ycrkshire.

SUDDEN DEATH AT THY TOWEL—A young man,
named Houghton, while on Thursday engaged in the works
going on at the Tower, was seized with 21 fit and fell to the
ground. He was immediately conveyed to the regimental
hospital, and was
attended by the surgeon, but death ensued
almost immediately. The body now awaits an inquest at the
canteen.

TIIE ROYAL STABLES AT WINDSOR.—Since the
discovery of the dry-rot throughout the extensive boarding
around the riding sek:ol at the royal mews, at Windsor (the
whole of which has recently been entirely removed, and the
kamptulicon substituted), is has been found that the wooden
divisions of the stalls and other portions of the wood-work in
the royal stables are similarly affected. In several of the
stables the stalls have been newly constructed, and it is
feared, in consequence of the inroals made by the rot, that the
whole will have to be removed and undergo a similar process.
ALARMING FIRE ATTIMLICO.—Friday night, be-
tween ten and eleven o'el ;:k, a fire, that caused considerable
alarm, broke out upon the premises in the occupancy of Mr.
Gumbleton, boot and shoemaker, Grosvenor-row, Pimlico.
The flames originated from some unknown cause in the front
shop, and were first perceived by a police-constable. An
immediate alarm was raised, and messengers were sent to
give intelligence of the outbreak to the engine-stations;
meanwhile the fire continued to spread, so that in a very
brief space of time the whole of the stock in the shop be-
came wrapped in one broad sheet of flame. With all possible
expedition, one of the escapes of the Royal Society for the
Protection of Life from Fire arrived. as well as several engines
of the London Brigade, parish, and West of England office.
Plenty of water was obtained, from which the firemen set to
work most rigorously, but before they could get the mastery
over the flumes, the whole of the stock in trade was reduced
to ashes. Fortunately, Mr. Gumbleton was insured in the
Sun Fire-office.

GOING SNACKS !—A fortnight ago, during the
first day's fishing, this season, of the Stockton Anglers' Club,
Captain Stoker Was trying his luck in the Leven, and "got a
bite." Ile " pulled up" insranter. But 10 ! instead of a
whole 11,h, the head and shoulders alone came to light. An
ottfzr, th-r •- '• 1.• 1 '4 ~^
member 01 the SLockton Angie's' Club, The tish—a trout—
bad been afoot long.—.Gateshead Observer.