The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-31 00:00:00

REVOLT IN TURKEY.

FRONTLiRa 9k TURIZEY, MAY 15.—According to ac-
counts from BelgraMtlg preijoga agaria pp repine Ode [Tat of
the .Servian Government to lielgrade, where Piniciltch'ael
!, daily expected, though the inhabitants of Kragujevatz have
yeitVtagrated against it.
Letters troia Nissa ,complain of the scarcity of provisions,
and speak of thd pareiriiity ;if k: famine. 'lhe main road to
Constantinople is indeed free, but'ilotialy ver4r4 to -I.ly
it without a strong escort, at least from Nissa to Alextnezze.
jt is reported that the troubles have now really extended to
Rarae.cilk Ni,el. that in the neighbourhood of Bitognia there
have been-dreadiul sangEioary affrays between the Turks and
Christians, in which the rirmefl:Ok Flariv wv4. 44,-,ofd!-,,„;
to accounts from Camila, receivedethilt.htinople, tie
number of insurgents in that island had increased 'to 16,0t)11
men, and it is feared that the concessions of the Porte would
come too late. 'The mouptaipeers rho cot-tit-40d
so much to re-conquer that countfy, appear 0 fie' rho).'e ''and
more adverse to the Turkish Government. "They had looked
for rewards which they }lad pot received. But how should the
Porte satisfy everybody '? Its iinamisl di?trikis deity inlreases,
and the indemnity to be paid to the Allied Powers for kthe'ert:
penses of the war, have not yet been thought of.
BRUSSELS, MAY 29.—His Majesty [the King arrived the
flay before yesterday. from Ardenne. Iler Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent armed gst the Palace of Laecken yesterday af-
ternoon at three &clock, '

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HER MAJESTY S THEATRE. vonizettl1 s
opera seria, Fausta, was performed on Saturday, 'at her Ma-
jesty's Theatre.—The plot is but ill c:llculated to conciliate
the favour of those who bestow much attention op the libretti
with which the scecessors of ilpta!3tttsio supply their cool-
posers. Like that of Lucrezia Borgzq, its mainfeatures Are
repulsive, whilst its tragic situations have not near so happily
inspired the prolific maestro whom Bergamo has poncerreft
the musical world. A few lines of Gibbon's " Decline and
Fall " have probably afforded Signor Bidera the principal ma-
teiial,z of his two acts. His theme is the murder of Crispus, eldest
son and presumptive he;r of Constantine the Great, by order
of his father—a deed imputed" to the arts of his stoprupthcr,
Fausta, whose implacable hatred, or disappointed love, renewed
in the palace of Constantine the ancient tragedy of Hippolitus
and Piadra. 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 apt is Alt
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
Fondgr it effective. The duet, •• No, sull' altar rammento,"
does more credit to Pnnizetti, and was, we think, entitled to
more approbation, nobly executed As it was by the aCcAM-
plished vocalist we have just named, and Tamburini, who en-
acted the part of Constantine. In the concluding scenes
Grisi won almost the only very loud applat.se that was awarded
tet the opera. Fausta will, perhaps, obtain more favour on a
repetition, hnt it certainly met with a very lukewarm recep-
tion on Saturday; Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived in
the tint :cane, and withdreW as the curtain fell over its
last act.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.—A new drama
—or rather melt.drama—entitled Marie Ducan ye, 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 by loss of sight, and
Marie became the beautiful guiding star of the blind old
officer. Lascelles, a generous young man of fortune, is
yachting about the island, and is charmed and captivated
by Marie. He has an uncle, from whom he derives his
means, and who expects him to marry a cousin at home ;
and he has a friend who persuades him to do everything
for his uncle and his interest, and against his inclination arid
his conscience. Lascelles and his friend Rawdon are perso-
nated by Phelps and Webster. But Marie has another lover
to whom she was early betrothed, and who arrives only in time
to provoke the rivalry of Lascelles, and to fall in a duel by his
hand. Upon the crisis of necessity Marie then leaves Jersey
with Lascelles, whom she madly loves, and who marries her.
He brings her to Southampton, where his uncle (Strickland)
joins them, and makes disinheritance and poverty the condition
of his not deserting Marie ( with whom his Catholic marriage
proves illegal, being:unratified by the Protestant ceremony),
and wedding the cousin to whom he was betrothed. On the
night of the uncle's arrival Lascelles had a party, from whichhis
friend Rawdon lures him, and by plying hun with drink intoxi-
cates him into complying with his uncle's demand. He rushes
half mad amonghisguests, appals pocr Marie, who dismisses them
after Lady Macbeth's fashion, is overtaken by Rawdon, and
hurries to his uncle's carriage, leaving his poor wife in distrae-
thin and dismay. She is reading a letter left to apprise her of his
desertion just as her foster-father arrives from Jersey to forgive
her for her elopement ; but the effect of the letter is such that
he only comes in lime to stand over the inanimate body of poor
Marie. When Marie recovers she is without tense, and her
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
madness, imagining that her husband will return. Even-
tually Lascelles does come back; and, after a series of melo-
dramatic incidents, the alternative is hit upon of layout ing the
delusion of Marie by giving a party in the same rooms of the same
mansion (now left by his uncle to Lascelles) in which he had ori-
gioallylett her deserted and aggrieved. The stratagem succeeds—
the interview with, and apparent return of, her husband realises
her deln,ion, and restores eonscousness, and the curtain fals
upon the melo-dramatie ecstasy of the love-abandoned girl.
The humour that runs through the piece hangs upon tke ec-
centric earnestness of a sort of Jeremy Didler of the Mane of
Prong (Wrench), who is about to make the fortune of every
seacoast town, by establishing it as a watering-place, and who is
exceedingly pressing in making people get and pay up their
shares ; also, as proprietor of mock assembly-rooms, Conducts
a promenade orchestra with infinite energy and humour.
a:
Celeste ggave every effect to the character of the heroine: She
played with a sprightly and earnest devotiest 'so her part, and
took the interest of the audience ,
.rris Phelps gave a
good tone of feeling te, part of ascetics.; and Webster was
pieeedingly good as Rawdon, the cool anti heartioas misleader
of his friend. Wrencla was di v—
"1111'0
o 90d, impudent—self-
ossessed and capital T.—and Wckr4 deserves to be said for
Strickland and bliss P. Herten. Mr. Webster announced
Marie Ducange for repetition every evening until further
notice.
ETON MONTEM.—The preparations, upon a
most eoenslve scale, fol' the celebration of this grand triennial
festival, which will he honoured by the presence of her Majesty
and Prince Albert, are fast approaching completion ; anti should
the weather to-morrow prove favourable for the splendid display
which has lo»g been looked forward to with anxious pleasure
by not only the pupils at the College, but by " children of
larger growth," the scene promises ,o be one of great magnifi-
cence, and the attractions and festivities are expected
equal, if sso,t ati,f(wrler t'doki" van oce' asiona•
VA TA 11 4 R AQVUIINARY ACCIDENT
AT SToF E.—On Tuesday afternoon a child, thirteen months
old, named So ilia Dean, daughter of a labouring couple at
sta•
N'-qOP "that
me by its death in the followingextraordinary
manner
manner appears the mother had left the infant as!eep
on the bed while she had occasion to leave home for a short
time, and on her teturn she was shocked to find the child
hanging lay the lied-side quite dpao, it is suppo.Sed the de-
ceased slipped down theb side of the lied, when the string of her
pinafore was caught yha nail, and thus caused strangu'a-
tion, and consequent deat . An inquest was hell on Wedness
day hefty? J. Charrisiey! Esq„ coroner fop Bucks, at.the
ppmic_heinios attd_a verdict 0 " Accidental death "
was returned.— Windsor Express.
A public meeting will be held this evening at the
Horns Tavern, 1-
Kennington-common, 1.
land fos a ,e purpose 0 ob-
taining a grant of • park or I.ublic walks on the south
side of the metropolis.

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