The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-18 00:00:00

MER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Verdi's opera of Ernani, was represented last evening
for the purpose of introducing three new aspirants for
public favour to an English audience. They were
Madame Pasini, who took the part of Elvira ; Signor
Castigliano, who appeared as Ernani ; and Signor Ben-
chich, who was the Don Carlos. Madame Pasini is a
pure soprano, with a voice of somewhat high register,
and rather thin in quality. It has, however, been
well regulated, and her acting is impassioned. She is
moreover, a good musician; and in theconeerted piecesshe
was very good, her upper notes telling with great effect.
Signor Castigliano is a tenor, a pure tenor, a voce di
petto. Throughout the opera he never uttered a falsetto
note. He possesses considerable power ; and if he did
not occasionally sing in his throat, he might take the
highest rank in his profession. This throaty-singing,
however, is perhaps attributable to the nervousness in
separable from a first appearance. It was most con-
spicuous in the first act, but he gained con-
fidence as be went on ; and it was not
at all perceptible towards the conclusion of
the opera. The splendid concluding trio, "Fermi
crudele estinguere," was magnificently given by
Pasini, Signor Castiglione, and Fornasari, and was en
thusiastically encored. Signor Benchich is a barytone
or great purity and power; his singing left nothing to
be desired, and if his action were a little less exuberant,
and his poses not quite so angular, he would be
as good an actor as he is a singer. As
it is, he is a great acquisition to the company.
Fornasari's Ruy Gomez was superb; that tremulousness
of voice, of which some hypercritics have (in our
opinion most unjustly) complained was in this character
a help towards pPrf:ction; it was the tremulousness of
a strongly-excited, madly-impassioned old man ; and
never has the union of old age with intense passion
been more brilliantly exhibited than it was by Fornasari
last evening. His Ruy Gomez is a perfect triumph of
art—it is equal to the Lear of John Kemble.
The fine chorusses were beautifully given, and full jus-
tice was done to the fine accompaniments by the or-
chestra, under the judicious superintendence of Balfe,
who entered thoroughly into the spirit of the music, and
who supported the singers, and worked in the lights and
shadows (as it were) of the picture, by means of the in-
strumental accompaniments, as only one can do who has
himself been a dramatic singer, and, therefore, practically
understands where the accompaniment is to be subdued
and were brought out in full force, so as to produce the
greatest effect as a whole. Nothing could be more
musician-like than the manner in which Balfe conducted
this opera. Pasini, Castiglione, and Fornasari were
called for at the fall of the curtain, and received the
usual homage. The delightful ballet of Catarina, with
Lucile Grahn as the heroine, and Louise Taglioni as the
modele concluded the performances. The house was
crowded with the elite of the beau monde.

FIRST CONCERT OF THE
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
The first Concert for the season took place on Monday, at
the Hanover-square Rooms. The following was the Pro•
gramme:—

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Sinfonia in B flat (No. 9) Haydn.
Aria, " 0 cara, immigine," Mr. Lockey (II
Flauto Magico) Mozart.
Concerto violin, M. Sainton (No. 11 in G) Spohr.
Terzetto, " Ti prego, 0 madre Pia." Miss
A. Williams, Miss M. 'Williams, and Mr.
Lockey
OTerture, Oberon C. M. von Weber.
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Sinfenia Eroica
1 Duetto, " Quis est home," Miss A. Wil-
liams and Miss M. Williams (Stabat
Mater)
Overture, Lea Deux Journees
Conductor, Signor Costa.
This was Costa's first appearanee as conductor at these
concerts, and never have the powers of the unrivalled
orchestra o; the Philharmonic been so fully developed as
they were that evening. His manner of directing and sub-
duing the orchestral accompaniments to the vocal pieces
was admirable, supporting, but not drowning, the
voice. On his appearance in the orchestra he was
greeted with a most cordial welcome by all present,
The gem of the evening was Haydn's Symphony of B flat.
This, one of a set of twelve, composed by Haydn,
when he was is England, for Salaman's Concerts, is, per-
haps, the chef d'oeuvre of the composer and it was
performed last night in a manner worthy of him.
In consequence of the illness of Mr. Lockey, the air, 0 cora
immagine was sung by Mr. Rafter, a pupil of Signor Crevelli.
Mr. Rafter's voice and style are both excellent; and we
doubt not but that ere long Mr. Rafter's will be
a name well known in the musical world. He
was, as might have been expected, rather nervous
last evening, and scarcely did himself justice. Spohr's con-
certo on the violin was admirably given by Sainton, who, as
a violinist, is no unworthy rival of Sivori and Vieuxtemps.
It was the first time of its performance in this country; we
are under obligations to Mr. Sainton for introducing
it. The other pieces have been so often repeated
that they must be familiar to our readers. We
cannot, however, emit noticing the admirable manner in
which Beethoven's Eroica was given. Never before has the
meaning of this magnificent composition been so fully brought
out. The room was crowded to excess. The Duke ef Cam-
bridge and el the distinguished dilettanti in town were present.

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EMIGRATION AND COLONI-
ZATION.
A meeting was held yesterday at the Egyptian Hall,
Mansion House, " for the purpose of adopting resolu-
tions for providing the ministrations of religion and the
means of education for our emigrant countrymen in the
British colonies." The ball was crowded to excess with
ladies.
The LORD MAYOR took the chair shortly after one
o'clock. After which the platform also became imme-
diately crowded.
Amongst the gentlemen assembled were the Bishop
of London, Lord John Russell, Monckton Milnes,
Lord John Manners, the Bishop of Landaff, the Bishop
of Jamaica, Archdeacon Manning, Alderman Copeland,
&c.
The proceedings of the day were commenced by the
Lord Bishop of LONDON reading prayers, at the con-
clusion of which
The LORD MAYOR said it was very gratifying to him
to see so large an assemblage for the purpose stated in
the advertisement. They would have the pleasure of
hearing some of the greatest men in the City upon the
subject, and it was a sense of great gratification to him or
the chief magistrate of the greatest city in the world to
have it in his power to place this hall at their disposal for useful a purpose, and he had no doubt that the use
they would make of it would be creditable and satisfac-
tory to all parties.—(Hear, hear.)
The Lord Bishop of LONDON then rose, and having
spoken in terms of high eulogium of the active interest
taken in this society by the Lord Mayor and Corporation
of London from a very early period, he proceeded to
read the first resolution, which was :—" That, while a
greet present deficiency of the means of public worship
end religious instruction exists throughout the British
Colonies, about 40,000 persons, for the most part of the
?oorest class, annually go out as Emigrants, to settle in
those countries." That resolution he thought might be
objtcted to by some, and it might appear rather singular
that he should call upon the meeting to vote in the
effirmative of a mere statistical fact. He would rather.
transpose the wording, and say, that " while 40,000 emi-
grants went out annually to their colonies, they were
deficient in the means of public worship and instruction,"
a statement which certainly admitted of proof ; bet he
was willing to take the resolution as it stood, and in that
'orm it involved elements of an argument the most im-
portant. If it were true, then, that 40,000 of he people
.t this country were compelled annually to leave their
homes for an uncivilised land, the question suggested
itself, what provision was made for their spiritual wel
'are ?—(Hear, hear.) And when he remembered that
the national income of this vast empire amounted to the
enormous sum of nearly two hundred millions ; when
he looked around at this, the greatest metropolis in the
world ; when he saw this meeting attended by the great
merchants and bank: re of the usetropoii e me: chants
which had well been called the prince mercht nts of
the earth ; when he remembered that the
crest Creator had blessed the prowess of the British
truly and navy in every part of the globe with con-
quest and success ; when he remembered all this, he
was naturally led to ask himself, to what end bad the
Almighty permitted all these blessings to fall upon this
happy land? When so many of his fellow countrymen
were compelled to forego the blessings f pa, e and re-
egion in their native soil for a distant colony, he wished
he oould say that t'hey always carried out with them even
:he necessary domestic comforts, but they certainly were
totally bereft of the blessings of religious consolation.
He wished he could say of this country what Spain
boasted of in the early days of her power. He wished
ate could say that. this great nation, whose dominions
were so vast that the sun never sets upon them, that it
had used, and was using, its power to secure to her
henished children full and ample religious institutions.
But it should be confessed with shame and sorrow, that in
this particular they had as yet been sadly deficient. No
joght reasons *night be given for this; it might be said
that the troubles of the (,:lhurch were many, that it had
received many interruption to I:: usefulness by fie in
to the
terterenee of monarchical governmen: ;
these reasons
-night be assigned for the negleet attributed
Church, Brit let them not be teo teietej but rattle.
'aka into ctonsideretiem the great amount Of feepen-
;Nifty which had o 1 late detioited nott the Church, by
'Which she wip prevented from sending thu liAhted torch
of truth to the utmost limits of the earth, which she
could easily hate (tette but for those difficulties and in-
terruptions: However; saeietied seal as the present,
which might well lie dulled the Mane of the Church,
were well calealeted to remotes ell those Clista§leita hed
spread the ,light of th9gospel all over the *Md.
He would t. 4.111; aseiet Those so-
cieties ; and, in doing they would be agaiiig the
r--',41 of which they were members, The Right Rev,
,
Prelate then read an extraue recent eommunica-

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tion received from the Bishop of Montreal, showing the
great deficiency of missionaries in that BiThopric. Ile
then went ou to say, that as yet they had been able to
send out to all their colonies only 300 missionaries,
which was by no means adequate to the wants of the
emigrants in their colonies. In Newfoundland the num-

ber was greatly deficient, and it was only within the
last three years that a Bishop had been appointed there,
whom he had now the pleasure of seeing at this
meeting, and who bore with him proofs of the happy
fruits reaped from the seeds he had sown in that
colony.—(Hear.) He would not further enter into details,
but he would observe, that though the subscriptions of this

Society amounted to 50,000/. a year, still, when he
remembered that the national revenues of this kingdom
amounted to 200,000,0001, their subscriptions bore no
adequate proportion to that vast revenue. If but one
millionth part of the private incomes of the people of
this country were but contributed, they would have a
fund more than sufficient for nil their purposes. With
these observations he would conclude, by moving the
adoption of the resolution in the form he had suggested.
Mr. E. BARING, M.P., seconded the resolution. In
doing so, he said he feared it would be presumptuous in
him to add anything to what had fallen from the Right
Rev. Prelate upon this subject, even if he could do so ;
but he had not, he regretted to say, acquired as much
information upon the subject as he could Nish, and there
fore he would content himself with seconding the reso-
lution.

The resolution was then carried unanimously.
The Right Rev. the Bishop of JAMAICA proposed the
next resolution. He said he felt happy at the honour
that bad thus been conferred upon him ; but he feared
he should appear to great disadvantage before this
meeting after the admirable addresses they had heard,
not only by reason of the physical disability under
which he laboured, but also from the fact of his natural
inability to do justice to the subject. But he would ob-
serve, that he had travelled over hundreds of miles of
the Canadas, over which were scattered, thinly and dis-
tantly to be sure, the population, who knew nothing of
the presence of either church, ministers, or teachers. In
the great district of Nova Scotia also there were only 47
missionaries. In New Brunswick, a country as large as
Ireland. there were but thirty ; and in Newfoundland,
with a population of 100,000, there were but twenty-
seven missionaries. In fact, they had altogether but
three hundred, while they required at least double that
number. He hoped then that Englishmen would never
let it be said that their countrymen in distant lands were
lost by a spiritual famine.—(Hear.) The Right Rev.
Prelate concluded by proposing the following resolu-
tion :—" That the poor labourers and workmen, who
are compelled to seek an independent subsistence for
themselves and their families in the colonies, and are
thus deprived of the advantages provided for them at
home, in their own parish church and school, have a
strong claim on their countrymen for help, in providing
themselves and their children with the ministrations of
religion and the means of education."
Lord joint RUSSELL came forward to second the
resolution, and wns received with loud cheering. He
said, he rose to address this meeting, not only as being
connected with the city of London as one of its re-
presentatives in Parliament, but likewise as one who
recently held a situation under the Crown, which gave
him many opportunities of knowing the situation of their
colonies ; and that position also afforded him the means
of learning how valuable were the efforts that had been
made by this society for the diffusion of the Christian
religion in those colonies.--(Hear,) It was, therefore,
with great pleasure that he rose to second a resolution
which spoke of the advantages of givivg to the poor la-
bourers and workmen, who were compelled to seek an
independent subsistence for themselves and their fami-
lies in the colonies, and were then deprived of the ad-
vantages provided for them at home in their own parish
church and school. The Right Rev. Prelate, who had
just addressed the meeting, had spoken most truly of
those advantages, while the labourers of this country;
who were compelled to seek employment in a
distant land would be driven from religious
instruction ; and he (Lord J. Russell) had recently
received from the Bishop of New Zealand a communi •
cation to the effect that that Right Rev. Prelate had
heard a report to the effect that the labourers and others
who had gone out to that colony from Devonshire, were
calling loudly for religious assistance and instruction.—
(Hear, hear.) Those men, when at home, were accus-
tomed to hear the sound of the bell of their village
church on the Lord's-day, and to hear the Gospel from
their village pastor ; and in the hour of sickness and
distress, to receive religious instruction and consolation
from their parish clergyman.—(Hear, hear.) And in
the event of any temporal accident or misfortune, they
were accustomed, in the first instance, to have recourse
to their clergyman for such temporal aid as he had it in
his power to give.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Was
it wonderful, then, that such men should feel, in
going out to a distant foreign land, desirous to
have these comforts of their spiritual welfare continued
to them ?—(Hear, hear.) Was it wonderful that they
should wish to see their clergy and their church esta-
blished in that land, and have the same instruction, and
receive the same assistance, which in their homes in
their native land they had been accustomed to and re-
membered with so much affection.—(lie r, hear.) He
hoped he would be permitted, in speaking upon this
subject, to allude to the state of the people of other
nations, who had not had the blessing of knowing what
the revealed gospel was; and of other nations, which
though having the revealed gospel, had not the means of
receiving instruction upon it. There were some Hues in
Homo-, describing the foundation of a colony by a
Pagan, who built houses and surrounded the town with
walls, and dried up the fields, and built a temple.—
(Hear, hear.) Was it not plain from this that the
founder of that heathen colony, though mistaken in his
worship, yet felt that worship was duo somewhere ?
(Hear, hear.) Then let them look at what had been
done by their own ancestors in the time which they
called "barbarous," a time when even the gentry of that
day knew not the simple arts of reading and writing.
Even in those days the landowners took care that in their
demesnes and villages, where dwelt those tenants
who wielded the spear and the shield to
be prepared to fight the enemy, that they should
have their village churches, and their clergymen to in-
struct the minds of those poor men in the adoration of
God.—(Hear, hear.) If such, then, were the feelings of
the Pagan founders of the barbarous chiefs, how much
more anxious should they not be who, in the present
enlightened age of the world, enjoJel so many of the
blessings conferred by a thorough• knowledge of the
divine religion.--(Hear.) The position to which he bad
alluded as having held under the Crown, made him
aware of the fact, that every other religious denomina-
tion had endeavoured to establish Christianity in the
colonies. The Roman Catholics had their bishops in
them ; and the Baptists, and the Churches of
Scotland, and many other forms of faith,
had made great efforts in this behalf ; and he rejoiced,
that as regarded the Church of England, the efforts of
the missionaries of that church had so far been most fruit-
ful.—(Hear, hear.) Time was, and that not far distant,
when colonies, which then had only five missionaries,
now had fifty, and in a very short time had that advance
been made, and all by the aid of such societies as this.—
(Hear.) And this was the only way in which it could
be done. What in former times was the work of the
State and the Parliament was now the result of the la-
bours of associations such as this.—(Hear, hear.) The
Noble Lord concluded by seconding the resolution.
Mr. R. Mammas, a New Zealand director, spoke to
the resolution, which was carried unanimously.
The third resolution was proposed by Mr. Archdeacon
MANNING, and seconded by Sir G. LARPENT, and was
in-these words :—" That the merchants, bankers, and
traders of the city of London, whose commercial inte-
rests are so closely interwoven with the prosperity of
the colonies, are specially called upon to promote their
moral and spiritual welfare."
The fourth resolution was as follows :—" That a sub-
scription, in behalf of the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel be now opened ; and that, with a view of
carrying the foregoing resolutions into fuller effect, a
Central Committee of the Society be formed, for the
purpose of soliciting subscriptions and donations from
all classes in the city of London ; that Special Com-
mittees be formed in each parish or district ; and that
the clergy and churchwardens be invited to act on the
Committees, in their several parishes."
Mr. Alderman COPELAND proposed the resolution,
which having been carried, the usual vote of thanks was
passed to the Lord Mayor, and the meeting separated.

There were present at her rliskiesti's theatre last night
His Royal Highness Prince George; the Duke and Duchess
of Beaufort; the Marquisses of Huntley, Clanricarde, Tich-
field, and Palacino ; the Marchionesses of Douro, Worcester,
and Clanricarde; the Earls of Wilton, Falmouth, Liverpool,
Lonsdale, March, Chesterfield, Munster, and Cawdor ; Counts
Koudraffsky, Esterhazy, and D'Astorg; the Countesses of
Essex, March, Westmeath, and Clare; his Excellency the
Russian Ambassador and Baroness Brunnow, and Baron
Rehausen ; Lords W. Lennox, Monteagle, De Lisle, Dufferin.
Canterbury, Beresford, G. Lennox, and Cantalupe ; Ladies
Charles Wellesley, Monteagle, E. Drummond, Willeck, F.
Kelly, Curry, Emlin, Middleton, W. Lennox, Anstruther,
Abinger, Cartwright, the Ladies Adela and Rosa Somerset;
Honourables B. Baring and R. Curzon ' • Sirs H. Webb, F.
Hare, H. Willoughby, C. E. Smith W. Middleton, J. Low-
ther, and W. Stanley; General M'Cloud and Mejor
Buckley, &c. &c.
HOP, SKIP. AND JUMP LEGISLATION.—The public
have good reason to be dissatisfied with the eagerness exhi-
bited by the Government to pass the ne-v Metropolitan Bui4
ings Bill into a law. No good can possibly result from such
unwise haste, and evils which might be anticipated and
avoided, will most probably be produced. On Saturday last,
the Bill was first published, on Wednesday it was read a third
time and passed the House of Commons without the
slightest discussion. A copy of it in extenso will be
found in our present number, but we fear we shall
fail in our object, which was to call the attention of the
public to its several features, and to elicit suggestions. We
are foiled in this, at all events so far as the House of Com-
mons is concerned. Let us hope that the Upper House will
give the measure a more calm consideration, and allow of its
points being discussed out of doors before it pas.ai into a law.
It is greatly to be feared, that passing the Bill in question
will have the serious effect of postponing the much called for
evision of the existing Act.--Builder.
WATCHET.—HUMANE .INTREPIDITY.---A noble in-
stance of intrepidity in the rescue of life and property has
been lately performed by five sailors belonging to this port,
viz. :—Wm. Allen, Robt. Hole, Thos. Bale, Benj. Woodman,
and Robt. Short. During the late gales a schooner appeared
off Watchel, with a signal flying for assistance. The gale at
this time was blowing with great violence, and it was evi-
dent that if assistance was not soon rendered, a flood tide
would Inevitably drive her on the rocks above the port,
+he Gore Sands, then immediately wider her lee,
-el destruction both to life and property
and that -sense. It was in this extremity that
would be the MINN- characteristic of British sailors
the five meaf with the u5ra.,.... 'l,e cheers and fears of
lsundiled their' heat amid •
to cross the surf,
those present. Aftet repeated trials
in which the boat filled several t•hegallant
h proved
crew succeeded in reaching the Few],
rd's
tO be the schooner Hydra, from Prince E
botinti to Bristol. After putting a mart
bin a Vatter
to take-Charge; the boat returned, and when wit
of
,;t
.elite 6Y the shore; a violent sea struck anddcapsizedelwrtiorits
inr
and the eft -if thiii preserved their lives by great on boom,
shore by the vio-
lence to the boat, which was driven
stance, awarded the
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men IV. in addition to the sum ivr_so._
Somerset County
the vessel, John Jones, Esq., of i
Gazette.
to the above excellent
extra escapes. belonging
mom FIZE.—Two
e on Monday in the city: one in
ROYAL SOCIETY YOE TUE PROTECTION 01 LIFE
scsfety, were placed for the first thin
Watling-street.
opposite the chief station of fire-brigade, the other in
New itridge.street.
The Doke of Wellington will give a grand entertain-
mem oki the 25tii at Apsky to their Royal 11.4,not,ses
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Duchess of Gloucester,
when a distinguished party is Invited to meet the royal party. The
Roble and Gallant Duke bas t 1 disOlt party *day; 1),1 it 4
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