The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-15 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Lucia di Lammermoor was repeatedio7. time
this season on Saturday, and never has this chef d'aiurre
of Donizetti been so perfectly represented, as a whole,
in this country. To equal the performance of Saturday
evening would be exceedingly difficult—to surpass it
would be impossible. Madame Castellan was in excel.
lent voice, and acted exquisitely. She is the very Lucia
of the author—pathetic, gentle, guileless. Her persona-
tion of this character is so true to nature that she sur-
passes all her predecessors, simply because she makes no
apparent effort to do so. She trusts to the impulse of
her own heart, and she is perfect. Fraschini has secured
to himself his position as the first of modern tenors. In
the scene of the malediction he is unapproachable (the
scene was, of course, encored), and the " Tu the a Din"
was given with a tenderness and pathos that left
nothing t,) be desired. Coletti, as Enrico, was very tine.
His voice possesses, in a marvellous degree, that
power which is vouchsafed to but few baritone
voices—the power of expression. Never, until this
season, did we fully appreciate the choruses of
this opera. They are now acted as well as sung,
and this adds greatly to the vraisemblanse of the scene.
The new ballet of Coralia followed. with Mademoiselle
Carolina Rosati as the heroine. Mademoiselle Rosati
is a great acquisition. She is now what Fanny Elssler
was fifteen years ago, and never in the zenith of her
powers did the delightful Fanny surpass the performance
of Caroline Rosati in this ballet. The youthful Marie
Taglioni, too, is worthy of the name she bears. In her
pas in Coralia she is the impersonation of gracefulness.
The house was filled in every part.

WILSON IN PARIS.
(From Galignani's Mes!enger.).

Mr. Wilson, who has long been distinguished among
his vocal brethren of the other side of the Channel, for
the admirable manner in which he gives expression to
Scottish song, whether serious, pathetic, or comic, has
commenced in Paris a series of musical soi. e'er, intended
to illustrate the beauties and peculiarities of the musical
compositions of his native country. The first of these
entertainments was given on Monday evening, in Sax's
Rooms, Rue Neuve St. Georges, when the vocalist fu'ly
supported the high reputation he has long enjoyed in
Great Britain. Mr. Wilson is an accomplished musician,
possessing a tenor.voice of the finest quality and great
range; his style, which is the simplest and least ornate
perhaps of any public singer of the day, is evidently
fashioned on the simple ballads of Scotland, and confers
on these beauteous gems of song a pathos and sweetness
which would in vain be sought in the more elaborate
kinds of vocalisation now generally indulged in. But
what more particularly distinguishes Mr. Wilson from
his brothers in Apollo is, that he is equally at home in
the serious and the comic, the sad and the gay, the
grand and the ridiculous ; so that on Monday evening,
after melting his audience to tears by the touchingly
pathetic " Land o' the Leal" and " The Flowers of the
Forest," he exhibited such a fund of native humour in his

" Home cam our Gudeman at E'en" and " Get up and
bar the Door," as absolutely to keep his brethren of the
North, of whom we noticed a tolerable sprinkling present,
in a roar from beginning to end. It was something new
in this classic laud of song to witness an individual do
the honours of an entire soirée unaided and alone ; and
what was not the least novelty on the occasion was his
prefacing the various specimens of his "native wood-
notes wild" by a variety of anecdotes and explanatory
observations, which largely aided in rendering the
antique specimens of Scottish song intelligible to
modern English ears. The impression created by Mr.
Wilson's debut before a mixed Parisian and British
audience was highly flattering for that gentleman ; and
it is scarcely to bo doubted that he will gain in public
estimation the more generally his taste and talent us a
vocalist become known.

HER MAJESTY'S TIIEATRE.— Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, attended by the Baroness de Speth,Lady
Fanny Howard, Lady Mary Howard, Lady Anna Maria
Dawson, Lord James Murray, and Sir George Couper,
honoured the performances at her Majesty's Theatre on
Saturday evening with her presence, and occupied her Ma-
jesty's box. In the Queen Adelaide's box were the Earl and
Countess of Sheffield, Lady Mary Lindsay and party. There
were also present the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the
Marquis of Aylesbury, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Douro, the Marquis of Sligo, his Excellency the Rii sign
Minister, the Baroness Brunow, and Mademoiselle Olga de
Lechner ; his Excellency the French Ambassador, the Earl
of Falmouth, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of Cardigan, the
Earl of Aboyne, Viscount Maidstone, Lord and Lady Mac-
donald, the Viscount Cantilupe, his Excellency the Hano-
verian Minister, the Count Kensinffsky, Lord A. Fitz-
clarence, Lady Augusta Wentworth, Lady Charles Wellesley,
Lord Warde, Lady Woodford, Hon. G. Byng, Sir G. and
Lady Carroll, Sir P. Brooke' Sir H. Webb, Sir T. Hare, Sir
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W. and Lady Freemantle, Sir G. Wombwell, Bart., Major
Baring, Colonel Wildman, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Brenton
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are happy to find
that every prospect presents itself of this theatre being com-
pletely crammed tonight, in compliment to Mr. Bunn, the
lessee, for whose benefit the entertainments are given. In
addition to all former exertions, it must never be forgotten
that Mr. Bunn is the author of three highly successful
operas, produced within the short space of five months, this
season.
JENNY LIND.—The director of the theatre Ander-
Wien, at Vienna, has had a medal struck in honour of " The
Swedish Nightingale." It contains on the one side her por-
trait, and on the other a star, with the motto "Nescit occa-
sum." (It knows no setting.) The medal is to be presented
to Mdlle. Lind with an address, signed by the elite of the
society of Vienna.
There is a lady residing not a thousand miles from
Brighton, well connected and in independent circumstances,
who purchases at a time four or five pounds' worth of men's
shirts, collars, and other articles of the kind, which she
gives to a poor woman to sell, and, in order to assist the sale,
signed
she gives the woman a letter with her own name,
which she is instructed to take to various persons. The letter
begins thus :—" In the name of Jesus," and it then goes on
to state that the bearer is a person in humble life in distress,
and that any person purchasing the collars which she (the
lady) " has made herself," they will confer a favour upon
her (the said lady.) Thus armed and instructed, the poor
' woman commences her trading and charitable operations,
The collars, &c., which the lady bought at 6d., Bd., or is.
each, she marks a price on herself. The sixpenny ones are
to be sold for 25., the eightpenny ones at 2s. 6d., and so on.
If the woman sell above 30s. worth in a day, she is paid Is.
by her patroness for her day's work; if she sell a less num-
ber she is paid only sixpence a day, and she complains that
she is not sufficiently remunerated; and this is how these
facts became known. In this lady's character there is a
mystery which ought to be cleared up. Are, the profits given
to eorcie chuitabl4inititution?..Brighton Merald,