The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-15 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE•

1 Due FoNcuri 'was rt-po-tt- o h..re on Tuesday evening
'with, if possible, greater effect than on its first pre'
ductitn. Madame Montenegro, who ass in excellent •`.
voice, having completely got rid of the nervousness Mei'
dent to a first appearance, sang the music with greeter ;
smoothness and mellowness than on Saturday, while her
acting was full of enthusiasm. Fraschini was in exe+
lent voice, and sang and acted" admirably ; and Colette, .
as the old Doge, was sublime- Nothing could exceed -
the enthusiastic cheering which his last scene eliciteo•
It is, indeed, the very perfe,:tion of histrionic art. The
house was crowded with fashionable and dilettanti.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert •
honoured the performances with their presence.
The Royal suite comprised the COuntess of Mount-
Edgecumbe, the Honourable Miss Kerr, the Honourable
Miss Cavendish, Lord Byron, Major-General Weals!'
and the Hon. Captain Gordon. Toe Queen DOsiagete
box was occupied by the Earl and Countess Cawdor and
party. There wera also present her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeeltt
the Prince Lowenstein, the Duke of Wellington, dike
Duke and Duchess of Montrose, his Excellency the
Russian Minister, Baroness Brunow and Mademoiselle
Olga de Lechuner, his Excellency the Baron Hugel, the,
Marchioness of Douro, the Earl of Falmouth, the Ear'
of Munster, the Earl of Chesterfield, the Countess of
Blessington and the Misses Power, Lord Willoughbf
d'Eresby, Lord William Lennox, Lord and Lidl
Templemore, the Hon. Misses Chichester, Lady MILO!
and the Hon. Miffs. Dillon, Lady Freemantle, Low
Poltimore, Viscount Duncan non, Viscountess fie'
warrden, Count de Barko, Count de Courcy, the Hon.
Miss Fitzroy Somerset, Baron and Baroness Dimsdalet
Baron Nicholai, Count d'Orsy, Sir 'T. ..are, Sir,RalPh
and Lady Howard, Sir J. Bayley, Mr. Justice Erle, the
Hon. A. Liddell, the Hon. S. Ponsonby, the Hon. Gi*
Byng, Colonel Wildman, Count Koudriaffsky, Mr. and
Mrs. Hubert De Burgh, Mrs. Sandford, Mrs. Hodgson'
Mr. Ewen, Mrs. Charlei Mills and Miss Mills, Mr. C.
Arbuthnot, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Parke Read-
ing, Captain Meynell, Captain Lyons, Sir Georg'
Wombwell, &c.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. •• )
• COVENT-GA It DEN.
OnTuesday night, Lucia Di Lammermoor was prOdgeedf
with Madame Persiani as Lucia, Salvi as Edgard°,
Ronconi as Ernie°. Madame Persiani was received
_Aw' 4
her appearance with immense applause, which
for some minutes, and which she
.gracefully acknnvi:
'edged. She is looking very well, and was in excelleo.7"'
voice. Her fioriture was marvellous for its richness, an
her powers of execution are as great as ever. Her WIZ,'
d'intrata was equisitely given, and wan deserTew
encored, as was the duet with Seidl, at the COW
elusion of the first act. The mad scene t4)° -
was finely given. Salves Edgardo is remarkable,;,
rather for pathos than for impassioned energy',:
Hence he was greatest in the more tender passage°;l
His finale was exceedingly beautiful. The "Fra Pte'
was deliciously given. 01 Ronconi it would be unfair'-„
offer an opinion, as an apology was made for him °.,1/•,,
account of hoarseness under which he was evident', •?-1
labouring._ Signor Polonini appeared as Bide-the Del l
and made much of a small character. The prinniPat
artistes were called for at the end of each act, and
the conclusion of the opera Salvi was called on, nn
t"
loucLy applauded. The house was crowded in every VIE'
Among the company present were Lord Foley and
Hon. Miss Foley, Lord Henry Lennox, Lord Alexantl"
Lennox, Countess of Essex, Lady Eleanor Grahsolf
Viscount Duncannon, Marquis of Granby, Sir lielbng
ham and Lady Graham, Sir John H. Lowther, Lori.,-,2
George Paget, Sir Wiliam de Bathe, Sir Henry WeirL
Sir William Abdy, Lord Grey, Lady judre,'F
Marquis of Douro, Lord Carrington, Sir Charli,
Des Vceax, Henry Greville, Esq., the Earl
Munster, Captain Duffield, Count D'Avigdor, -
Sandy s, Earl of Clare, Lurd Ernest Bruce, Earl of y
dogan, Viscount Chelsea, Hon. A. Upton, General oh
A. F. Barnard, Hon. Mr. Hope, Henry Thomas 1111
E-q., Lady Lilford, Viscount Templetown, Earl
Darnley, Hon. G. Anson, Viscount Ossulston, Vis-
countess Newport, Hon. Mrs. Anson, Count Istunt*„
Lord Georg, Manners, Hon. Mr. Mulles, Captain Wn°°'
Lane Fox, Esq., Marquis of Donegal, Lady Atkinson,
&c., &c. •

PATENT GALVANISED IRON COMPANY.—Tuesday
the halt-yearly meeting of this company was held at the,;
London Tavern. The chair was taken by Mr. Malin! -;
when the secretary read the report, from which it an
peared that the defendants in the late suit had admitted
the validity of the patent of this company, and had agreed s
to refer the question as to compensation for the past
_fAct-'
eminent counsel on both sides. The directors referre".„
to the great advantages to be expected to this compsni
from the amalgamation of the Lynvi and the Porth u.n.
Railways, and the co operation of the South Wales Ball_
way Company, by the aid of which their great resources
in South Wales, both as to coal and iron, would be fell
developed, and they would be brought into comnitleic:;
tion with their works in Staffordshire, to which new fit
many local difficulties were opposed. The balance of Pr,
was 6,913/. 13s. led., out of which the directors rece!!‘„
mended a dividend of 2 per cent, for the halt-year, oleo
of income tax The working capital having new
comes so insufficient to the demands of the increati7l
trade of the company, the directors had been ncg°"o7l
ing for a loan of 30,000/. ; but from the tetij
)of the deed, it could not be completed, which ei°`,.
render it necessary for them to propose an 80271;
lion in the deed, which limited them to raise dots
only when the capital was paid up. In the event of ttile
negotiation going off the directors thouht it advisable
to make a further call of 1/. per share, so that the eeilie
pany might not be any longer inconvenienced bY_bo
want of sufficient capital. The cash account showed
balance of bills and cash in hand to be 5,236/. 89..,,"0
From the statement of the Chairman it appeared
the produce of pig iron at the works in Wales PllO
doubled, an.l the average produce of' coal was about.
tons per week. They hiid from thirty to forty et! v
engines at work, and from 2,000 to 3,000 men eo3l"°Jits
in Wales and Staffordshire. The whole of their affab
at present, and for some time past, had been in a W 54.9
state of productiveness. Up to the sth of March til .;
t
had been producing about 600 tons of pig iron per we
and when all the additional furnaces were couipletes
said it would average 1,000 tons per week. By La ef r
of the railways he had mentioned, they would have tßeo
priduce brought tt, ports from which they were nowAir
but excluded, and would be nearer the port of Car""t_
than were the works of Merthyr Tydvil. The repers.; •
after some discussion, was adopted unanimously.
meeting was then made special for the amendment of tb
deed, and the consideration of the subject of a further
ctill of 11. per share on the new capital. The resolutieol
for this purpose were agreed to unanimously, and a 1144
of Yanks was passed to the Chairman, when the meet" -
adjourned,
DISTRESSING SUICIDE FROM REVERSE OF FORTIIOI
—oli Tuesday morning an inquest was held before Zdr.
Charlestons
ew,i sr,
ecsporeocrtiei
ng r, at th thee
d elied
th
ofl Mr.pr u
Alexander
1 lice -xhaonuleeo
L
M`Dougal, aged forty years, of N 0.3, atton-street,
ree,
Bethnal
nutter
appeared the fol-
lowing. t 0
r
s st
au ni eid
cese.
from the evidence that the deceased
was formerly 3
very G r ee Green,
distressing wh oCI /lllll3ciirictuei
m
p, sse sion of very large estates in Scotland, but in cod: •
sequence of his very intemperate habits he was compelled.
to mortgage them. He became very much reduced all
embarrassed, and his wife and children were on sever*:
ocatsions unable to procure the common necessaries 4,1.
life. He was considered very imbecile, and for Or;
time past had been very low and desponding.
CV
Saturday morning last he left home, apparently in
usual state of mind, and on the afternoon of the salt
day he was discovered lying on his face in a ditch,
quits
Church-lane, 14,ytoustone, with his throat cut and ger
dead. He was immediately removed to the above public
house, where he was examined by Mr. Mackenziela
surgeon, who found three v. ry extensive cuts on
throat, the head almost being severed from the 13°.L.
On the ground where the deceased was discovered was
found a razor covered with blood, and also a razor el."'
The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanityou. •
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—On Saturdayi Mr. Lew:i
Coroner for Rochester, applied to the magstrates for •
warrdnt for the apprehension of Elizabeth Mitehebt •
servant in the family of Captain Jenkins, of Man9i°l
row, Brompton, who had do livered herself of It P3,sgr
chilli on Thursday morning last, and concealed the bu"'
in a box in her bed-room. On Monday a jury assembled
in the council chamber of the Guildhall to investiga'
the case, when Captain Jenkins and Susannah Array
cook in the employ of that gentleman, were examitoud
atter which the inquiry was adjourned for the purpose.
obtaining the evidence of the surgeon and other w!
nesses. The most extraordinary feature in the case 111;
pears to be, that when the medical man had elicited fll)d
the woman that she had been delivered of a child, tr.„ •
the place of concealment had been pointed out to biro'
the conclusion come to was that the child was
Some time afterwards, on the arrival of a police our'
the box was unlocked, and an apparently fine heimYs
child was found wrapped in an old dress, and &file..a
was then given to Susannah Armen, who washed -
dressed it, and it lived for two days afterwards, but 70
fused to take any kind of sustenance. The wow
having been removed to the house of a relation in ..7.0
chester, the matter has thus come under the jurisdic•—
of the coroner for that city.
A fire broke out on the 4th instant in the irsiliwre
terminus at Munich, and in a short time consurneoibe
wooden sheds erected round the carriage yard*, of
property lying about was all saved, with the excepu°ll
300 bushels of wheat intended for Manheim. The ',.
vice underwent no interruption.
LAURENCEKIRIC.—The engrossing subjEct of con,
versation throughout the county is the insolvent of -=a
of the largest proprietors ; an event which will cll."— •
both lamentation and suffering at many a hearthe'dif....°W.
trose Review. [We d .eply regret to add that the pm-v.
here alluded to is the Viscount Arbuthnott, Lotd Lite?
tenant of the county of Kincardine, and who was deeply
esteemed by all classes from the highest to the lowest*
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Caledonian Mercury.]