The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-16 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
STATE VISIT OF THE QUEEN.-MDLLE.

JENNY LIND'S " NORMA."
Last evening stands pre-eminent as the most distin-
guished in the annals not only of this season, but of her
Majesty's Theatre. Her Majesty was pleased to com-
mand the performance of Mademoiselle Jenny Lind in
the opera of Norma, and, as is usual in cases of a direct
royal command, to visit the theatre in state. Within
twenty-four hours after the gracious intention of her
Majesty became known every place in the theatre
was taken, and some days since it was pub •
licly announced that no money could be taken
at the doors, as every ticket had been disposed
of. Before three o'clock crowds were assembled round
the doors in the Haymarket, end as the evening ad-
vanced the streets leading from Buckingham Palace to
the theatre were filled with persons anxious to get a
sight of the royal procession. Every window and every
balcony along the line of the procession was occupied.
Her Majesty was received with loud cheers as she passed
along, and when the trumpets and kettle-drums of the
Life Guards, a detachment of which regiment preceded
the royal carriage, announced the arrival of her Ma-
jesty at the theatre, the cheering was of the most enthu-
siastic character. Her Majesty reached the theatre at
eight o'clock, and was immediately conducted by Mr.
Lumley to the royal box, which, with the two adjoin-
ing boxes, were fitted up in the most tasteful
manner with canopies of crimson and gold, supported by
light golden shafts, and surmounted with a crown. As
soon as her Majesty and Prince Albert entered the
theatre the whole audience rose, and greeted their So-
vereign with shouts of welcome, which lasted for some
minutes. Her Majesty was attended by the Duchess of
Sutherland, the Duke of Norfolk, the Marchioness of
Douro, the Hon. Miss Kerr, the Earl Fortescue, the Earl
Spencer, the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Hon. Miss Ma-
tilda Paget, Viscountess Combermere, the Marquis of
Abercorn, Lady Caroline Cocks, Lord Byron, Viscount
Falkland, Hon. Miss Macdonald, Hon. Miss Murray,
Lord G. Lennox, Lord Edward Howard, Lady Caroline
Barrington, Lord A. Paget, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps,
Lord Robert Grosvenor, Colonel Bouverie, Mr. Seymour,
Lord Marcus Hill, Colonel Smyth, Sir Edward Godiing
ton, Mr. Byng, Mr. Wortley, Sir W. Martins, Colonel
Green, and Captain Seymour. Her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, who was also present, was accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar and his Serene High-
ness Prince Edward, attended by the Earl and Countess
Howe, Lady Clinton, Baron Beust, and Baron Ziegesar.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, attended by the Baroness Hammerstein and
Baron Knesebeck, likewise occupied a box on the grand
tier; and his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Con-
stantine of Russia, attended by Vice-Admiral Lutke,
Admiral llaurowiz, and Baron Fredeericks, was also
present.
The curtain then rose, and discovered the whole operatic
company assembled, and the national anthem com-
menced. All rose, and the appearance of the house was
dazzling—dazzling, physically dazzling—from the flash
of diamonds innumerable and of price not to be counted
—morally dazzling, from the qualities of the illustrious
personages there assembled ; for within that theatre
England's

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—We perceive that Mr.
Massingham, the indefatigible and obliging box-book keeper
of the Princess's, will take his annual benefit at that theatre
to-morrow evening ;we are surall who value a conste his friends will rallyant aroundand
him on the occasion, and that
unceasing civility, and an anxious desire to render every one
within his department the greatest possible amount of ac-
commodation, will testify their sense of his uniform good
conduct.
HANOYER-SQUARE Rooms.—Mr. Henry Wylde,
one of the most promising members of the Society of British
Musicians, gave his annual concert yesterda mornin
Y g, at
these rooms. Mr. Wylde, who is a pianist of very consider-
able merit, played an introduction and rondo of his own corn-
position. He also performed Hummel'a Retour de Londres
with vigour and brilliancy. In the first part of the concert,
Herr Joachim contributed Mendelssohn's violin concerto with
his usual felicitous skill, and in the second, one of Bach's
fugues, in which he was encored; and vocalisms were sup-
plied by Madame Dorus Gras, the Misses Williams, the
Misses Tyne, Madame Macfarren, rischek, and John Pt rry.
An excellent orchestra gave character and dignity to the en-
tertainment ; and the audience were consequently gratified
with a very good performance of Mozart's Jupiter symphony
and Beethoven's lidelio overture, besides a MS overture by
Mr. Wylde, which again developed his powers of instru-
mental composition very satisfactorily. The rooms were well
attended.
DEATII9 AMONG TEE PRIESTROOD.—The follow-
ing are the names of the six Roman Catholic priests of
Liverpool, and the chapels to which they respectively be-
longed, who died here within the last two months :—the
Rev. Mr. Nightingale, of St. Anthony's ' • the Rev. Mr.
Fisher and the Rev. Mr. Gilbert, both of St. Mary's ; the
Rev. Mr. Parker, of St. Patrick's ; the Rev. Dr. Appleton,
of Seel-street ; and the Rev. Dr. Kelly, of St. Joseph's.
Prior to the influx of pool; aupers, there were, we under-
stand, 24 priests in Liverp now their ranks, which will,
of course, be recruited from other places, have bpvn thinned
to 'S.—Liverpool 41bion,

" Capital had gathered then
Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright
The lamps shone o'er lair women and brave men.
A thousand hearts beat happily."
The national anthem concluded, all was expects,
,ion for the Milt of Jenny Lind in Norma. It
was a great undertaking. Was it possible that
she, who was confessedly the greatest'Alice, the greatest
Amine, the greatest Maria, that had ever trodden the
boards, could be equally great in Norma? The event has
proved' that she can. Her Norma is the greatest that
has ever been seen—so essentially different from that
of Pasta and Grisi, that there will always be room for
the two styles of representing that part, although cer-
tainly the Norma of Jenny Lind is more true to nature,
more exquisitely beautiful, more truly pathetic than
those of her predecessors. The Norma of Grisi is as
the Richard 111. of John Kemble—the Norma of Jenny
Lind is as the Richard 111. of Edmund Kean. There is
nothing tender about the personation of Norma
by Grisi; the feeling excited is one of wonder
at her stupendous powers and of congratulation to Pollio
at having got rid of such a virago, but she never excites
any tender feeling until the last scene, and even then we
feel more for °roves° than for Norma. She is through-
out the haughty, unbending, passionate, but cents not
injured woman. Jenny Lind, on the contrary, infuses a
feeling of feminine tenderness into the whole of the cha-
racter, her wrongs and her sufferings go at once to the
heart, we feel for her, with her, and our indignation is
excited at the baseness of Pollio. On her first entrance
there is none of that imitation of the dignity of high
virtue which, in one situated as Norma is, cannot
be anything but the vilest hyoperisy or the
bravado of hardened guilt. No ! Jenny Lind
enters with the faltering step of one who is con-
science-stricken, and who knows that any moment any
accident may lead to a discovery which will consign her
to death and infamy. She feels and loaths the hypo-
critical seeming which she is forced to assume, and from
the first it is evident that her heart is crushed, and that
death would be to her a mercy. This is the key-note
to the character, and that the conception of Jenny Lind
is the right one, and that which the composer
himself had intended, is evident from the man-
ner in which many of the point, tell accord-
ing to this new version of the character. The
" Casts Diva," for instance, which was sung by
Jenny Lind in the original key of F, but which Grisi
has always transposed, to suit her version of the cha-
racter, to E flat, became, according to this new version,
a hymn in reality. The long drawn notes, dying away
in the distance, and again swelling into a flood of music,
told admirably in this exquisite composition. It was a
hymn of the Magdalen, and as, with upraised arms, and
eyes raised to Heaven, she stood under the old oak in
the attitude of supplication, she seemed an embodiment
of the most pure creation of the imagination of Raphael.
Magnificent, too, was her acting when she hears of the
baseness of Pollio. She stood rigidly fixed, as one petri-
fied by surprise and horror. Her eye alone quivered,
and then the muscles of the face gradually relaxed. In
an agony of passion she covered her face with her
hands, and then raising her arms, with fixed features,
pale as marble, she stands the statue of despair. In the
scene with Pollio and Adalgisa her acting was
superb. Her whole frame seemed to dilate as she
rushed between them and separated them, and her
manner of commanding Pollio to leave them was the
very perfecticn of mingled dignity and scorn. Her act-
ing in the scene in which, wrought up almost to mad-
ness, she contemplates the murder of her children was
superb. Her duet with Pollio, at the conclusion of the
second act, " In mix mano elfin to sei," was exquisitely
given; there was a pathos infused into every note of this
impassioned address which went at once to the heart,
and the final appeal to her father was the very
acme of intense woe. The °roves° of Lablache
was perfection, but there is certainly room for
improvement in the Adalgisa of Madame Barroni, who
made her debtit on the occasion. The choruses were
admirably given, and the orchestra, thanks to the di-
rection of Mr. Balfe, performed the music with exqui-
site precision. At theP fall of the curtain Mademoiselle
Jenny Lind was called for four times, and each time
bouquets innumerable were showered upon her. Her
Norma is her greatest triumph. The national anthem
was again sung. Her Majesty, who was enthusiastically
cheered, left at the end of the divertissement.
The interior of the royal box was lined with white
satin, covered with light blue tulle, and ornamented with
carved gold mouldings. The ante-chamber was lined
with light pink silk, covered with white tulle, and
trimmed with a profusion of splendid deep Valenciennes
laee. In this little temple of taste were several pier CABINET DINNER.--The Right Hon. the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer will entertain the member& of the
glasses, surrounded with wreaths of artificial flowers.
The whole vas designed by Madame Copere. The Cabinet at dinner on Wednesday, the 23d instant, at his
covers of the libretti were of crimson velvet and of gold. official residence in Downing-street.
On the table were several magnificent bouquets, and in CALEDONIAN ASYLUM.—Last night the a nnual
the passage on the left of the royal box were several rare fancy dress ball, in support of this interesting charity, was
exotics. The passages were lined with blue velvet and held at Willis's Rooms, St. James's. There was, as u, sual, a
festoons of artificial flowers, and were lighted with several very distinguished attendance.
splendid lustres. VAUXHALL GARDENS.—A grand gala was given
On state occasions three. boxes are decorated for ber last evening at the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, on tbse occa-
Majesty and her suite. The box usually occupied by sion of the debut of Mademoiselle Caroline, the well- known
her Majesty, her Majesty the Queen Dowager's, and equestrian, who has just returned. fromifitioc:nalienevir:ilettotuhre,
the Baroness Brunnow's, were fitted up in the most h aevai
splendid manner. The draperies outside the boxes con- sl' greatest atcrilui emv e clii inestheectrllnycrlocietieimperial Theat re of St.
sisted of crimson velvet, trimmed with gold lace andand the Russian Court.
retersburgh, 11:hes're she had 'the honour of frequently appear-
ing before the Emperor
broad gold bullion fringe, blue velvet, and silver lace
DEATri or ANOTHER " FIRST OF JUNE" O)!FICER.
and fringe. A rich gold cornice surrounded the frame
of the box, on the front of which was displayed thhe —Commander John Delisnham (1814), another of the heroes
of the late war, died yesterday, in the 76th year of I xis age.
royal arms. A beautiful gilt crown ornamented te This gallant veteran entered the royal navy in 17F sB, and
centre of the top of the box, and on each corner was commenced his career "under fire," midshipman of the
q , inasl793. He I
placed war trophies. The whole was encircled by gilt Duke, at thet attack on M
7a9t4th,•
earnedduocftiotnh eofPlliirni
Glory, in Howe'suaections on the 29thvs aof mid-
pillarslN of beautiful workmanship. On the stage there Shipman of h
nicedul; ' .anay'
was a platformoff Wales
for the Yeomen of the Guard. Mirrors, and
etdbeinlstthilfl.lnuviiine,ciibnle,l
candelabra, exotics of the rarest kind were seen in gor-d in Bndport s affair. Was made a lieutenant in 1-q6 •
genus array. The
interior of the boxes were decorate se
d d th D
a profu- comman e eDevastation and Furious, in engagements
in the same style of elegance and splendour,h. effect. with the enemy's flotilla, in 1805, 1806, and 1807. He con-
sion of artifice' flowers presenting a c
Opera
gin
state
eluded these gallant services with much honour to himself
The last time her Majesty went to the ir. 1814, in which year his name appeared in the Gazette, for
was on Thursday, July 20, 1843. stalls included baying, as agent of transports in the Widcheren expedition,
The general company in the boxes andhe
Louis and on the north coast of Spain, rendered important services,
his Royal Highness Prince George, the Prince Excellency
particularly at passing the Adour.
Napoleon, the Prince Troubetskoi, hi
Belgian M vvey
Minister and Madame Van de er,CORPORATION.—Yesterday, the
his children educated at the Clergy
Orphan Institution under-
Excellency the Russian Minister and the Baroness went their annual examination at the institution, S. John'a
Brunnow, and Madile. Olga de Lechaer, the Sardinian Wood, in the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Chargé d'Affaires and the Count Genova Revel, the Bishops of London, Durham, Lichfield, Sit. David's. and St.
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Blanche Asaph, the Rev. Dr. Russell, the Rev. Messrs.
dßrown.
Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Wharton, Fisk, &c. The examination waa_ co_ndactendbayt the
Duchess (Dowager) of Cleveland, the Duchess of Rev. Dr. Shepherd, the preacher at
congratulated
n,
utheaßev. Dr.
Cleveland, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, close the Venerable Primate %esti); t i
ther children; had made in
the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Sligo, Butler, the master, on the progress
respective
the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis of Douro, their
iketuLdrioesN.,s
HOUSE. Yesterd' ay, Birkin
the Marchioness of Blandford, the Marquis of SA" OF
which is remarkable for having .at one time
rn Noranby, the Marchioness of Westmeath, the Manor-house,.
been the residence of Dutton, was put up to auction by
Marchioness of Aylesbury, the Marchioness of Sligo, Messrs. D. Smith and Son, at the Auction Mart. It is situ.
the Countess of Blessington and the Misses Power, the ated in the village of Horton, Bucks, near the church, in
Earl of Munster, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of which the remains of the poet's mother were deposited, and
Falmouth, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Shel- is about five miles from Windsor Castle and Slough. The
burne, the Earl of Belfast, the Earl and Countess of sum of 2,7001. Nye!, the highest offer for it, which was below
Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Zeeland, the Earl and the reserved price._
Earl CAMBRIDGE U NIV ERSITY.—At the ipongregation
Countess of Powis and Lady Lucy Herbert, the
_is.
held on June 11, the degree of Bachelor in Divinity was con.
and Countess of Granville, Viscount Somertounn, Vand
ferred on Anthony Henry Plow, Queen's. In our university
count Cantalupe, Viscount Ciifden, ViscoLotd a
news of Saturday last we misprinted the =At se " novo."
Viscountess Fairport, Viscount Castlereagh' r 611

THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
WOLVERTON, TUESDAY NIGHT.--The adjourned in-
vestigation into the circumstances attending the above
calamitous accident was resumed here this morning, the
coroner and jury re-assembling at eleven o'clock.
The same officers of the company were in attendance
as upon the last occasion, with the exception of Captain
Iluish, who was unavoidably absent.
The proceedings commenced with the em.kmination of
the medical witnesses, all of whom testified to the fact
that the deceased parties had lost their lives by Buffo_
cation.
The identity of each having been proved, and the evi-
dance of all the witnesses read over,
The CORONER, addressing Fossey, the police-constable,
who was instrumental in causing the accident, and who,
as on the last occasion, occupied a seat by .his legal ad-
viser, said, " Now is the time for you to say anything; in
reference to the accident, if you think proper co to de..
The prisoner's solicitor said he was sure the Coroner
and jury would not consider it disrespectful in him he
advised his client, under existing circumstances, to
remain silent. _ .

There being no other witnesses,
The CORONER addressed the jury at consider:able

length on the evidence.
The Court was then, at half-past three o'clock, cleared,
and the jury remained in deliberation until half-past six
o'clock, when the doors were again opened.
The CORONER then inquired whether they had apTed

upon a verdict; and
The Foreman of the jury read the following a s the
unanimous finding of himself and his brother jurors:—
" Manslaughter against Barnard Fossey; and, in re turn-
ing this verdict, the jury feel it their duty to express
their opinion that the company ought to be more: par-
ticular in their selection of officers for posts of such
importance, for the safety of the public, as the one lately
occupied by Barnard Fossey; that Barnard Ft issey
having turned a train on the same siding on Most ,day,
fay the 31st, contrary to rule, ought to have been dis-
missed immediately; and lastly, that every train st could
have a number of breaks and guards proportioned to o the
size and weight of the train, it appearing quite ©v ident
to the jury that had that precaution been taken the, train
to which the accident occurred might have been stet pped,
and the recent awful and melancholy catastrophe, have
been thus avoided."