The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-05 00:00:00

EPSOM SPRING MEETING.

ARRlVALS.—Ssgacity, Vampire, Gannett, Marquis of
Conyngham, Farthingale, Glen Saddel, Maid of Lyme,
Lady Wildair, Rattrap, Walrngate-barWithout, Jericho,
Titbit, Chatham, Tufthunter, Cashier, and Remem-
brancer. The ground is in better order than it has
been for many years.
EPSOM, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, TWO O'CLOCK.
In addition to the above, the following have also
arrived :—lnheritress, Snuff box, Gannet, Maid of Lyme,
Bacchanalian, Senga, Headley, Black Bull, &c. &c.

_tirt ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.
COVENT-GARDEN.
Grisi, Tamburini, Tagliafico, and Lavia appeared
here last evening for the first time this season, in the
opera of Sernirantide. Grisi, the perennial, is the same
Grisi that she ever was. She was in superb voice, and
sung and acted Semiramide as she alone can sing and
act. She was received with enthusiastic shouts of wel-
come. Tamburini Albert, not the Tamburini of former
years, is still the best Assur on the stage. Tagliafico
and Lavia were both in good voice, and went through their
parts with care and precision. Alboni was the Arsace,
and seemed as if the presence of Grisi inspired her with
new life. There was nothing of that listlessness about
her of which we have of late had to complain. Her
Arsace was full of energy and spirit. The " Giomo
d'Arore" was splendidly given by Alboni and Grisi.
0 opera was performed so frequently last season with
the same cast, that it would be a work of supererogation
now to dwell on its excellencies. The performance of
last night was the most perfect ever listened to since the
original production of the opera.
Her Majesty's box was occupied by the Marquis and
Marchioness of Douro and Lady Mallet. Their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baron Knesebeck, Baroness Bosse, and Mr.
Mildmey; the Princess Mary, and his Serene Highness
Prince Frederick of Hesse, were also present. Among
the miscellaneous company were the Marquis of Tich-
field, the Marquis of Clanricarde, their Excellencies the
Turkish and Brazilian Ministers, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Ailesbury, Marchioness of Blandford,
Viscountess Castlereagh, &c.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Last evening a performance by the gentlemen of the
St. James's Dramatic Club took place at this theatre,
for the benefit of Mr. T. a'Beekett. The pieces selected
for the occasion were Money, Barnbastes Furioso, end the
Rent Day. his a well-known fact that gentlemen ama-
teurs have the most profound aversion to learning their
parts. This was beautifully apparent last evening, the
prompter having to deliver, and very audibly too, some
of the most touching portions of the play, while the gen-
tlemen amateurs who should have said them, were thinking
about them. But these remarks will not apply to the
ladies. It is as strange as it is true, that the ladies inva-
riably carry off the laurels at performances of gentlemen
amateurs, and last evening they richly deserved the
honours and the applause they received. The part of
Clara Douglas was beautifully sustained by Miss Bew,
and Lady Franklin found an able representative in Miss
A. Mercer. The two best sustained male characters
were Graves and Sir Frederick Blount; Evelyn was
done in quite an original style, the peculiarity of the
performance being one studied position, and a kind of
postman's double-knock laugh. Lord Glossmoro said
but little, Sir John Vesey said too much. Bonabastes
Furioso followed, in which Master Beckett sustained the
hero remarkably well. We had a very beautiful pa;
from the ballet of Coralia'
ore by Madame.L. Blanche, which
was honoured by an encore, and Master Beckett de-
lighted the audience with a sailor's hornpipe. At the
time we left the theatre (midnight) the Rent Day had to
be performed. The house was crowded.

HER MAJESTY'S
the Duchess of Kent and his Highness the Prince
of Royal
of Prussia honoured th
THEATRE.--Her Royal Highness
Theatre yesterday
evening with their presence. In at-
tendance upon her R
—oyal Highness were Lady Augusta
Bruce, Lady Fanny Howard, Mary Howard, Lord
James Marraand Mr. Bruce.
His His Royal Highness
-- was attended by Major Oelrichs.
There were also present the Duke and Duchess of Mon-
trose, the Duchess of Leeds,_Prince Koutchonbey, the
Bareness de Brunnow and Mdlle. Olga de Lechner, the
Count and Count K: • • his Excellency the
Countess temsfels
Swedish 2,linister, his the Hanoverian
Excellency
Minister, M
---• Roudriaffsky Earl Granville,
Earl Bruce, the Earl of nsdale, the Earl
of Falmouth, the Earl of Besborough, the Earl of
Aboyne, the Countess of J Lord C. Wellesley,
ersey,
Lord Set ton, Lady and Miss
Fitzroy Somerset
Somerset, the Duke and Duchess de Meltfort, the
Viscountess Glentworth, the Viscountess Villiers,
Viscount Ingestre, Viscount C e Viscount Clif-
den, Viscount S an p
George e
performance
Cooper,
Ernest omerton, Lord and Ladyßruce,
Lord Sandys, Lord and Lady Colborne, Lady Clemen-
tine Villiers Lady
'Wetherell, Lady Elizabeth Hope
Vere, Baron Nicola
Y, Lord Beauvale, Lord Ossulston,
the Count de Berke, Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., Sir John
Lowther, Bart., Sir John Wile •, Bart., Lady Howard,
M. de Cotta, Lady Bailey, Lady Jervis, Sir George
Wombwell, Bart., Sir Alexander Spearman, Bart., and
Lady Spearman, General the Hon. IL Cavendish, the
Hon. Mrs. Grey, Colonel Fludyer, Major Buckley,
Mrs. C. W. Packs Reading, Mrs. Hubert de Burgh,
Mrs. Askew, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Williams and Miss
Williams, Mrs. Grote, Mr. Barry Baldwin, M.P., Mr.
Broadley, M.P., Mr. Parnther, Mr. 11. Wigram, Mr.
G. Cornwall, Mr. 0. Morgan, M. de Berg, Mr. Frank,
Mills, Mr. Tudor, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Arabin, &c.
THEATRE ROYAL, EDYNEURGII.--The new play,
The Wife's Secret, was repeated for the fourth time on
Saturday evening, and before a highly-fashionable and
crowded audience, being one of the most brilliant of
the season. Throughout the play was followed with
the most eager interest by the delighted audience, and
the splendid efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Kean as Sir Walter
and Lady Amyott, at the most interesting points of the
story, literally thrilled through the house. This play
has been acted every evening during the engagement of
these distinguished performers, with the exception of
Thursday, when Kean once more appeared in his
master-piece, Hamlet, Mrs. Kean giving an exquisite
portraiture of the fair Ophelia. In those painful scenes
where Ophelia disports amidst her insane visions, the
acting of Mrs. Kean was touching in the extreme; we
have never seen these wild and plaintive emanations of
the disordered fancy rendered with equal truth and
dramatic skill. Mr. Kean has been long celebrated for
his representation of Hamlet. At his first entrance
there is a something so intellectual and expressive in his
mein—so full of grace, dignity, and 'withal so o'ersha-
dowed by that deep seated woe, which has overcome the
Prince of Denmark—that one imagines some of the
striking figures of Vandyke bas stepped forth from the
canvass.—Caledonian Mercury, April 3.
THE LIVERPOOL BANKING COMPANY.--OTI Mon-
day afternoon, the adjourned annual_ meeting of the
shareholders in this concern was held in Liverpool. A
report from the two proprietors appointed at the last
meeting to investigate the accounts was submitted, and a
very stormy discussion ensued. The character of the
management was, we believe, strongly impugned ; but,
as reporters were excluded from the meeting, we are
unable to furnish details.
DEATH OF BISHOP RUSSELL.--Our readers will
learn with deep regret of the death of this excellent man
and eminent divine of the Scottish ..... :
p.scopal Church.
He was, as in the case of the late Dr. Chalmers, found
dead in his bed early on Monday morning. On Sabbath
afternoon he conducted the services in the chapel at
Leith, and thereafter the devotional exercises in his own
family. His death will cause a blank in the Church
which will not be easily supplied. His _
writings, also,
will cause his death to be widely and generally felt. In
his private life be was most benevolent and charitable,
and the tidings of his death will be a Pang to the hearts
b •
of many a family who have benefited y his activ
e charity
and Christian benevolence.
DEVONPORT ELECTION.—MP. J. Romilly, the
newly-appointed Solicitor-General, was re-elected on
Monday last, without opposition, one of the represen-
tatives for the borough of Devonport.]
THOM, THE INVERARY POET.---The directors of
the Caledonian Society of London have commenced a
subscription for the family of the deceased bard, and
have headed it with fire guinea's from the funds of the
society.