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

ADELPHI THEATRE.

A romantic drama, in six tableaux, entitled The Queen of
the Abruzzi was produced hare on Monday, with complete
success. It is flunided on the popular ballet of Let 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 her ine most effectively) ; Mr 0.
Smith, who takes Parrot's part of the Lieutenant);
Paul Bedford, Boyce, and Mr. Redmond Ryan, and Miss
Ellen Chaplin, who enact the parts of an Irish boy travel-
ling in Italy and his jealous Italian wife, and he has fitted
each of ins artists to a nicety. Of this most effective inte-
resting drama, it may be said, that unlike the generality of
imitations, it is superior to the original. The dialogue is
carefully, and in many places, elegantly written. The
description 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 nicre 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'ceuvre of Eastlake). The dances were
giventr with spirit. and the music, selected and arranged by
r. Mellon, was pretty and appropriate. The piece "went"
admirauly, and at the conclusion Madame Celeste was called
for, and, on being led forward by Mr. Boyce, was received
with enthusiastic applause by a house crowded to excess.
The 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,
hut are mote popular than ever. Night after night is
the St. James's theatre crowded by fashionables, who
seem thoroughly to enjoy the performances of these
transatlantic melodists. This is an additional proof of
the progress which musical science has made of
late years in England. Albeit melody is the
prevaiiing characteristic of the performances of
the Etiiiepian Serenaders, yet melody is not the sole
characteristic. The melodi, s 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 Serenade rs
are not only delightful to the dilettanti, they
'ALI', 11, the „.„„_;-:.„
novel combinations and the use of instruments (the
bones to wit) which may be of infinite service to him in
composing orcl- estral nerompaniernents, but which have
be, n hitherto unknown to or ni glected by thi.. academies
and the schools. The dramatic composers more especially,
by studying the per'ormances of the Ethiopian
Serenaders, 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 hursour and pathos,
the melody " Miss Lucy Neal " prove that there is but
one step from the humorous to the pathetic, and that
smiles 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 musie, we feel we are under
great obligations to Mr. Mitchell for having introduced
the Ethiopian serenaders to the English musical public.

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER-

TAINMENTS.

On Monday Mr. Wilson gave an entertainment, of which
the first part Was fortned from the songs and writings of the
fArncus Scotch poet, Allan Ramsay. There was .a due ad-
mixture of sentiment and humour, and the melodies, which
are all old, rivalled each other in beauty. We can scarcely
conceive anything more exqui-,ite than Wilson's delivery of
the old air, " An thou wert mine ain thing;" the melody is
one of the most elegant and be,utiful of all the old airs, and
Wilson does it full justice. He also sang Dr. Arne's fine
melody, which he composed to Ramsay's song or " The High-
land Lassie " It was needless to enumerate songs where all
were so good, but 'we cannot help mentioning the marked
delight which " The last time I cant ower the Muir" seemed
to give. The quaint, old song of " The Carle_he cam ower
the craft" called forth a be.rrty and unanimous encore. At
the commencement Mr. Wilsun gave a short, but interesting
sketch of Allan Ramsay and his Times, and at the end
of the first part he recited, with g eat effect,
the first scene of Ramsay's famous comedy of
the Gentle &Vier 1. The scene consists of a conversation
between the two shepherds, Paris and Roger, and is full of
poetic beauty. Mr. Wilson is very effective in his readings,
and on this occasion was as successful as ever he was. He
has a happy knack of inakin..,.• an English audience compre-
hend the meaning of the Scotch phrases; he gave every
point with effect, and made the two shepherds, the blythe-
some I'atie and the sorrowful Roger, stand out in bold relief.
This part of his performance was hailed with genuine and
hearty applause. The second part of the Programme was
made up of old favourite songs, which Mr. Wilson has ren-
dered popular. He introduced, by request, thevery humorous
song of " The Married Man's Lament," which brought
the risible faculties of the audience into full play. It is
strong proof of the power of Mr. Wilson that his entertain.
ments continue to be as attractive as ever they were, he still
remains in statu gum We beg to suggest that he may soon
give another scene from the Gentle Shepherd—the scene that
follows the one he gave, fur instance, between Peggy and
Jenny. His readings afford a delightful variety in his per-
formances.

RAMSGATE, JUNE B.—Among the pass.ngers from
Ostend this day, by the South-Eastern and Continental Steam Packet
Company's vessel Princess Maud, were the Hon.\Ralph AbercrombY,
her Majesty's Minister at the Court'of Turin, al,o Captain M'Naughten
and 31r. Cohen, with dLipatclu s from the Sutlej. Notwithstanding
the boasting of the Dover press that the p •ckets on that station can
make the voya,:e from Ostend in 3 hours 54 min,(?), travellers seem
to prefer coming to Ramsgate, where they can make sure of landing
on terra firma, to going six miles further on, and ending their voyage
with an excursion in an open boat, for which they sometimes have
the privilege of paying very dearly. A comparative statement of
the traffic between Dover and Ostend, and Ramsgate and Ostend,
during the last week, shows a decided surplus in favour of the latter
port; especially when it is taken into consideration that the trade
has oily been opened within the last two months, the number being
from and to Dover, passengers 196, carriages 0, horses 0 ; and from
and to itamsgate, passengers 379, carriages 11, horses 6. It is ex-
pected that her Majesty the Queen Dowager will embark Irom here
on Tuesday next, at noon, the Admiralty yacht Black Eagle having
been ordered round for her use ; and that his Majesty King Leopold
will land here about the latter part of the month. The Princess Cle-
mentine, a new boat belonging to the south-Eastern Company, is
looked for here daily, and there will be time (should the owners feel
inclined) to tee` the merits of the mall boats on the Dover statlioiai,;
which clam for themselves the title of being the fastest seagoing
from°the
vessels afloat, because one of them, the Garland,
engineers' hands, managed to cross the bows of
which vessel has
Belgians on her passage from Ostend last week, w
years:
and it is
been running without intermi3sion for nearly two
their orders
are
' i crew to state that
only justice to her cap!am and hour, nor to
thirteen miles an
" never to exceed an average rate of thhefr"uheen of the
•
put themselves out of their course to race with ieteheatnriontgheenrt,bothatewohairllwo
eon
their passage." Had hot their orders been
wrol-1 not have come off with su -di flying colours.
ToNS VISIT Ti) MR. BUB,
'1 HE DUKE OF
of Sobraon on Saturday last, it was
ROYAL,
b"B'EeL;Ltlieri LEICESTER-SQUARE.—On Ex- SQUARE. —On the ocliegahstieodn
up
were fortunate enough to be present that his
on his retirement from
observed by those who vc
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countenance ev;need the deepest interest, and, was lighted
We beg to
vivid enthusiasm : so remarkable was this,thamtraittenlby
has suggested that the beantifin lines gent le-
lienible,
would, with the 1 the Edinburgh stage, following trifling alteration in the latter iines, be applicable to his Grace's feelings
with
Grace'sw the
hom:asst there
man Sir ssr . . Scott,.be t
heamndasspa(p*plicable to the subject : transcribe
.. As the worn war-horse, at the trumpet's sound
Ei,etans histhe a
ene m, and net hs, and paws th '
Drisdai e ground,
ase Ins gene, ous tord a .
And longs to rash on the emi)att cli 1 • linssigns,
es,
So I, this glorioes action in me view,
Can ;;carte sustain to bid each fi,dd adieu._..
To think my warlike deeds ahead '
Tho' Waterloo itself has been
Y )'''''t'
een the last."
The original lines are—
" So I, your plaudits ringing In mine ear,
Can scarce
sustain to think our parting near,
To think
my scent hour already past,
And that those valued plaudits are my last."
CITY OF LONDON GENERAL. PENSION SOCIETY,—
The directors of this charity are, it appears, enabled by the result
of the anniversary festival, which was presided over by the Marquis
of Breadalbane, :o resolve upon a further increase of the monthly
payments to the pensioners. The Grocers' Company have, we learn,
presented the donation of 501. to the institution, and the Drapers' •
Company 59 guineas. .
The Tweed steamer brought 52,276 dollars on an '
count of the Mexican dividend,.