The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-10 00:00:00

ADELPHI i`HEATRE.

A romantic drama, in six tableaux, entitled The Queen of
the Abruzzi was produced here on Monday, with complete
success. It is founded on the popular ballet of La Catarina,
and is written by Mr. Stirling Coyne, who has in some mea-
sure altered the original so as to suit the Adelphi company.
In this he has succeeded a merveille. He has so ma-
naged as to include in his caste Madame Celeste
,who acts the heroine most effectively) ; Mr. 0.
rnith, who takes Perrot's part of the Lieutenant);
Paul Betlford, Boyce, and Mr. Redmond Ryan, and Miss
Ellen Chaplin, who enact the parts of an Irish boy travel-
ing is and his jealous- Italian wife, and he has fitted
each, of his artists to a nicety. Of this most effective inte-
Testing drama, it may be said, that unlike the generality of
waitations, it is superior to the original. The dialogue is
carefully, and in many places, elegantly written. The
ihseription given of his house, for instance, by Salvator
Rosa in the first act, is genuine poetry. The
Irishman, too, which was excellently acted by Ryan, is
really a broth of a boy—not the mere stage Irishman, but a
witty, rollicking, high-spirited fellow—one of whom the
Green Island need not be ashamed. The scenery was ex-
ceedingly beautiful (we could almost fancy we were looking
at some of the chefs d'oeuvre of Eastlake). The dances were
given with spirit, and the music, selected and arranged by
Air. Mellon, was pretty and appropriate. The piece "went"
admirably, and at the conclusion Madame Celeste was called
lb!, and, on being led forward by Mr. Boyce, was received
with enthusiastic applause by a house crowded to excess.
'l:e Queen of the Abruzzi will have a long reign.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS.
Notwithstanding the attraction of operas and concerts,
the Ethiopian Serenaders not only hold their ground,
but are more popular than ever. Night after night is
the St. James's theatre crowded by fashionables, who
seem thoroughly to enjoy the performances of these
transatlanticthe melodists. This is an additional proof of.
progress which musical science has made of
late years in England. Albeit melody is the
P,r2vaiting characteristic of the performances of
km Ethiopian Serenaders, yet melody is not the sole
chary.cteristic. The melodies which they give, us are
beautifully harmonised. There is no attempt "to gild
/refined gold"—the melody is not lost in the harmonious
combinations—not smothered, like the Roman maiden,
beneath the weight of the shields—but elaborated and
supported by the harmony, which, like the string of a
necklace, runs through and combines the pearls of
Melody into one beautiful and perfect whole.
The performance of the Ethiopian Serenaders
are not only delightful to the dilettanti, they
are a study for the musician, who may here learn
novel combinations and the use of instruments (the
hones to wit) which may be of infinite service to him in
2etuposing orchestral accompaniements, but which have
men hitherto unknown to or neglected by the academies
I.and the schools. The dramatic composers more especially,
igstudying the performances of the Ethiopian
.renulers, may learn how to maintain the pathetic
with the comic in music. " There is," said Napoleon,
' but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous."
The Ethiopian serenaders demonstrate the converse of
the proposition, and by their exquisite performance of
that most beautiful combination of humour and pathos,
the melody " Miss Lucy Neal " prove that there is but
one step from the humorous to the pathetic, and that
'miles and tears are nearer akin than the generality of
mankind imagine. We are not, therefore, surprised at
the crowded houses which these delightful melodists draw
every night, and, as lovers of music, we feel we are under
great obligations to Mr. Mitchell for having introduced
the Ethiopian serenaders to the English musical public.

COURT CIRCULAR
Ibrahim Pacha, attended by his suite, and Major
Dickson, paid a visit to his Royal Highness Prince
Prince,
yesterday morning in Buckingham Palace. The
t:rtnce, accompanied by his Highness and suite, went on
horseback to witness the parade of the household troops
• st.
James's Park. Prince Albert was attended by
• _tonel Bouverie, Major-General Wemyss, Major-Gene-
ral Sir Edward Bowater, Colonel Wylde, and the Hon.
Captain Gordon.
The illustrious party returned to the Palace after the
"LaPection.
Duchess
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the
''lLhess of Cambridge visited the Queen yesterday.
~Itteir Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
:tured, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
their usual walks and rides yesterday.
• Captain Carter had the honour of submitting for the
illsPeotion of her Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday
the Copy of his pictorial work on Gibraltar.
Royal Fier Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at
Cambridge House.
The Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household gave
% grand dinner at his residence Fife House yesterday
evening in celebration of her Majesty's birthday, to
Which the following nobility and gentry were invited :
The Earl and Lady Katherine Jermyn, Colonel the
Right Honourable and Mrs Dawson Damer, Colonel
?,9wles, Viscount Templetown, General the Honourable
Sir William Lumley, the Right Honourable Sir William
Ueearpantle, Major-General Sir Robert and Lady
d ~,11')r, Colonel Sir George and Lady Couper, Mr.
e ears T
Lad—• T. Young, Major-General Sir Henry and
Anif 73heatley, the Right Hon. Sir John and Lady
eckett, Major- General Wemyss, Lieutenant •
General the Honourable Arthur Upton, the Honourat;to
William and Mrs. Ashley, Colonel and Lady Cattesrine
13tireourt, Mr. Molineaux Montgomerie, the Coesetes,
Morton Colonel the Honourable Sir Edward Cult, Sir
Augustus Clifford, Major H. S. Stephens, 'Captain Me
!sell, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, General Sir "-
Wil-
loughby Gordon, Viscount and Viscountess Hawarden,
Lord Saltoun, Lord Rivers, Colonel ate.s cob
and Mars. Berkely,
Drummond, Viscount and Visc oun
Mr. Shiffner, Sir Thomas Marrable, Mr, Blackwood,m
ere
Sir James Clark, and Lieutenant-Colonel Diggle. '
The Lord Chamberlain had the honour of entertain-
ing at dinner yesterday the following guests, in celebra-
tion of her Majesty's birthday :—The Marquis of Or-
Monde, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Byron, Major-Gene-
ral Sir Edward Bowater, the Hon. captain Hood, Hon.
and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, Sir Noel Harris, Sir William
Martins, Major Beresford, Mr. Alfred Montgomery,
Colonel Colville (Field Officer in Brigade Waiting),
Captain Green, Colonel Ferguson (Grenadier Guards),
Colonel Smith (Silver Stick in Waiting), the Viscount
Catttalupe, Hon. and Rev. Reginale Sackville West, the
Countess Delawarr, and Lady Mary West.
The banquet was given at his Lordship's mansion in
1,
PPer Grosvenor-street, the exterior of which was
brilliantly illuminated with the royal cypher, surmounted
la3' the
imperial crown, between two stars of the order
of the garter.
honohrie Master of the Horse gave a full dress dirlier in
:_ rof the royal birth- day at his Lordship's residence
4o Berkeley-square.
Sir Robert Peel, as First Lord of th'e Treasury, gave
4 grand dinner in celebration of tte Queen's birth-day,
tat, Ms residence in Whitehall.ga rdens, to her Royal
$i Ms
the Duchess of Carabridge and a select circle.
3 Peel had afterwards a very numerous assembly.
Hoer James Graham-,
rnreesideenp_a_rt,m_ as Secretary of State for the
ga,ve a gand dinner l evenin, at
jestr, 13.7. 'n ilill.street,in celebration ast
g
of her Ma-
invited: 'day' to which the following guests were
(Chief --file Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Lincoln
tSecretary for Ireland), Lord Denman (Chief Jus-
f-4 of the Queen's Bench), Lord Langdale (Master of
Rolls), the Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons, Sir Lancelot Shadwell (Vice-Chancellor of
England), the Lord Chief Justice Tindal, the Lord
Chief Baron, Sir James Wigram (Vice Chancellor),
Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice
Pattison, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice Coltman,
Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice
Qteswell, Mr. Justice Erle, Mr. Baron Platt, the Lord
Mayor, the Recorder of London, the Lord Advocate of
Scotland, the Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. Sheriff
Chaplin, Mr. Sheriff Laurie, Messrs. Masterman, Lyall,
and Patteson, Members for the City of London, Mr.
Phillips, and Captain H. 0. Brien.
The Earl of Aberdeen as the Queen's principal Secre.
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, gave a full-dress din-
ner yesterday to the Corps Diplomatique at his resi-
dence in Argyll-street.
Baron de IMoncorvo was prevented by indisposition
from attesiding the Earl of Aberdeen's dinner in celebra-
tion tit her Majesty's birthday.
The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, as Secre-
'tary of State for War and the Colonies, gave a full-
dress dinner yesterday in celebration of her Majesty's
birthday, at his residence in Carlton House•terrace, to
Which the following were invited:—The Duke of Wel-
lington (Commandersin-Chief). the Right Hon. Sidney
rierbert (Secretary-at War), Sir John Macdonald (Ad-
iontant-General), the Bishop of Barbadoes, Sir Thomas
Hastings, Lord Lyttelton, Lord A. Lennox, Sir Henry
Macleod, Mr. T. F. Elliot, Mr. Bingham Baring, Mr.
Sulivan, Judge Hogerman, Captain Stokes, Mr. T.
Rogers, and Mr. S. Northcote.
The Right Hon. H. Goulburn, as Chanceller of the
Exchequer, gave a grand dinner in celebration of the
Queen's birth-day, at his official residence in Downing
Street,
Yesterday. The following were invited :—The
of Dalhousie (President of the Board of Trade),
Lord Granville Somerset (Chancellor
Lancaster), the Earl(Ci!,ieof the Duchy of
Germans (Postmaster -General), -General),
Viscount Canning
and Forests), Sir George Commissioner of the Woods
Mr. Dean (Chairman), and
(Master of the Mint),
Mr. Hart Davis (Deputy-
Chairman of the Customs), mlir,
.citailickham (Chairman),
p(uGtyovernorrtnan of the Stamps
and Mr. Thornton (De
oft the Bank of Eng-
land), Taxes), Mr. Heath
:s:'irthe Postmaster-
land), Colonel Maberley (Secretary
Greene, M.P.,
General), Sir Thomas Freemantl
Mr. Trotter, M.P., Mr. Crier's, mr:
(Queen's
Young, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Trevelyan, 4,711, Mr.
Gentlemen at
R Baring.
Captain Carnegie, Mr. Vincent
brancer), and Mr. Pemberton. emem-
Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of
Arms gave their full-dress dinner, to celebrate 'the
Queen's birthday.
His Highness Ibrahim Pacha, accompanied by soli-
man Pacha and Nubar Effendi, and attended by Major
Dickson, called yesterday afternoon at Marlborough
House, the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowa-
ger, and at Clarence House, St. James's, the residence
of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. His High-
ness Visited the establishment of Messrs. Hunt and Ros-
kell, in Bond-street.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present
were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord
Chancellor, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Had-
dington, the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, Mr.
Secretary Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Earl of Ellenborough, the Earl of Ripon, Lord
Granville Somerset, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl of
Dalhousie, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and the Earl
St. Germans.
The Council sat two hours.

A young English vocalist, Miss Katherine Noble
(daughter of our well known ballet master), has made a 'very suc-
cessful d,ebut. at Turin, in an opera called Il Sogno Punitore, coin-
Posed by Genii. Miss Noble has been studying in Italy for five
Zeus, tuag pownws requigto Likely to sacure her future ougueuce,