The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-04 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PROMOTION' S.
Assistant-Surgeon Arthur NV. W. Babington (July,
1841), of the Imaura flag-ship, Port Royal, for services
during the cholera, has been promoted to the rank of surgeon.
Clerk—Richard Brownsdon, (July 1, 1843), late acting
paymaster of the Arab, 12, paid off from the East Indio',
has been promoted to the rank of paymaster.

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APPOINTMENTS.
Second-Masters—Edward M‘lienzie (1845), of the Ocean, t
flag-ship, Sheerness, to the Teazer screw-tender; Samuel.
Assistant-Surgeon --Ahmuty Irwin, acting, to South-
ampton, 50,0h1 flag-ship, Rio.
ci nine r
), of the Victory flag-ship,
Portsmouth, to the Teazer. •
Clerks'-Assistants—Sidney Smith Boxer, to the Brie
t a npnoi at
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m flag-en
Cs hairp; Portsmouth; P. T. Miller, to the
Penelope steam-frigate, Portsmouth.
rigger of Portsmouth.
Dr. James Grant Stewart.
en has been appointed master-
has been appointed deputy
Malta Hospital, vice Lindsay,
Allen deceased. It is generally'
iiathechsanriagavre, Iyd,,oioefees
not
porme.ss a more talented and
excellent officer than Dr. Stewart, his services in tropical
aaindpsmipPoeitcntettoedrdthitatno
il climates, and his thorough devotion to the profesaien richly.
merited the consideration- he has received. It will .be in
the iernenibrance of our readers that Dr. Stewart volunteered
his services to take charge of the plague-atricken steam-sloop,
Eclair, on her arrival; her medical officers 'having , fallen-
vietims to the disease.
Penelope steam-frigate, Captain byster, made an average
speed along the measured mile in Stokes Bay of nine- knots .
six 'fathoms; she has, however, 100 tons additional weight,
to-take on hoard, which may probably reduce that speed-to-
'834 knots. Her engines worked well. The Simonm makie osa
4ilttlidaylsat 8,4. knots, and we understand she will Probably-
Piffled *fn.,. Shelled in, when tried, about liga t?us WI
ballast and coal.
Captain Aslett:and. Second-Lieutenant William Taylor,
of:the Royal Marines, are appointed to the Vengeance, vice.
Captain B. Varlo and Second-Lieutenant F. L. Dowse, II"'
at Haslar Hospital. Captain Varlo, it is said, will retire
on 'half-pa
y, and Lieutenant Dowse join the division st,
Chatham.

Magicienne steam-sloop has her ballast stored at Devon-
port, and has hauled off the dockyard, and will sail on her
trial cruise in charge of Mr. Brown, weather permitting. •
WOOLWICH, APRIL 3. --APPOINTMENT.—Lieutenant John
N. Norman (1842)) to study steam at the factory at Wood-'
wick Dockyard.
The Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Commander Henry
William Allen, is under orders of to convey the re—
mains of General Sir Alexander Duff, G.C.H., to Banff, for
interment in the family vault of the Earls of Fife,- the late
gallant officer. having been the nearest relative of James the
present Earl of Fife. The Lightning will leave Woolwich
at two o'clock P.M. to-morrow on her melancholy errand,
snd on her way home will callat Sunderland with provisions
and stores, from Deptford, for the Hecate steam-vessero
Commander George S. Hand, at present at that port in con-
sequence of the strike of the seamen in the collier trade.
Inquiries having been made by the authorities as tolhe
best mode of admitting to the dockyards the foreign visitors
expected tb arrive in this country during the next three
months, to witness the Exhibition of the Industry of all Na-
tions in Hyde-park, it has been decided that coloured cards
will be supplied to the foreign Ambassadors and Consuls-
General, the representatives cf foreign Powers at the Court
of SL James's, and they will fill up the cards with the names
of the intending visitors. Their rank will be known at the
dockyard by the colour of the card presented. This excel-
lent and simple arrangement will insure every attention to
the respective ranks, which could not have been otherwise
To easily done when the visitors are unacquainted with the
English language.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.

The Royal Italian Opera opened last night for the
season. The management is not, as last year, a re-
public, but a monarchy under the government of Mr
Gye' whose great experience well qualifies him forth e
task of management. The opera chosen for the opening
la:t night was Semiramide, the chef d'attrre alike of
Rossini and of Grisi. In the representation of the character
of the Assyrian Queen, Madame Grisi has always stood un-
approached, 'and when she appeared last night, the same
Grisi that she ever was, the applause with which
she was welcomed was most rapturous ; she rtes
obliged to wait for some minutes for the applause to
subside before she could commence her recitative, "Fre tanti
regi." The voice is as pure and as perfect as ever, and the
"ti el razzio" was brilliantly given. The grand finale to
the first act was magnificent in the rendering; in
this scene Grisi stands, and always has stood alone.
The two great duets in the second act, the first
and the second with Areace, were superbly given, and never
has Madame Grisi been more majestic or more perfect as
Semiramide than she was last evening. Mademoiselle Angri.
who was in excellent voice, was the Arsace, and
gave full effect to the music of the part. Her ren-
dering of the duet with Assur, in the first act, was full
of energy, spirit, and true dramatic point, and in the duet
with Grisi, in the second act, she was equally fine. Her two
arias, the " Ab, qual Giorno," her scene d'intrata in the first
act, and the cavatina, " In si barbara," in the second, were
both rendered with infinite spirit and taste. Signor Salve-
tori, a new baritone, from the operas of Naples and of Bar-
celona, and who has acquired an enduring continental repu-
tation, from his creation of the part of Belisario, in
Donizetti's opera of that name, made his debilt in
the part of Assur. His features are expressive, and his
acting good, and he is evidently used to the stage.
As to his voice, it would be an act of injustice to Signor Sal-
vatori to attempt to give any opinion of it from his
performance of last night. Placards were distributed
about the theatre claiming the indulgence of the
public for him in consequence of his labouring under
hoarseness and influenza, and it was evident from
the commencement of the opera that his voice wan
completely out of order. Signor Tagliafico acted the part of
the High Priest with great dignity, and Signor Mei sus-
tained the little part of Idreno. The choruses were perfect,
and the orchestra, under the direction of Costa, who was
warmly greeted on his first appearance, magnificent. All the
principal artistes were called on at the conclusion of the
opera, and the national anthem was performed, the solo parts
being sustained by Mesdames Castellan, Angri, and Grisi.
The house was crowded to suffocation in every part. The
Queen's box was occupied by, Lady Emily Cavendish and
Miss Bathurst, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Mrs.
Grey and party. Among the company honouring the
theatre with their presence were the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Northampton, the
Marchesa Brancaleoni and Mdlle. Brancaleoni, the Mar-
chioness of Westmeath and Miss Dawson, the Earl of
Wilton, tl e Earl of Falmouth, the Earl of Eilmorey,
Viscount Templetown, Viscountess Exmouth and Viscount
Exmouth, Viscount Cranbourne, Lord George Manners,ole
M P., Lord Henry Gordon Lennox,
Lady
Lord Broughton and the Hon. MisseslL Pdonbli_ Lord
ul
Suffield, Lord Adolphus Vane, Lady Isabella 4. John and
party, Lord Northwick, the Baron and Baroness de Stentz,
Lord Arthur Hay, Colonel the Hon. Cecil. Forester, M
Major the Hon. R. Needham, Hon. Francis Stonor, Hon
John Fortescue, M.P., Honourable George Barrington,
Greville and Miss Grevilie, Sir William and Lady De Bathe,
Sir Henry Webb, honourable h
grsh Rowley,
Sir
George Armytage, all, Miss Bur-
Sir Colonal 13rownlow Knox M P
dett Coutts and Pai
and party, Mr. tlartin Tucker smith, -dapta. in"
Gregory, Captain Ford, Mr. Mac.
Colonel Llano, De Bathe, Mr.
kenzie, Major Gage,Major Maitland,
Captain Cathcart, C apt ain De Horsey, Mr. Woodford, Mr.
v . Lowndes, Mr. William Rose, Honourable George
Barrington, Mr. A. K. Orian Captain the Hon. Strange
Jocelyn, Mr. Lister Kaye, Captain Ellison, Mrs. Hatton
and the Misses Hatton, Mrs. Henry Villebois,
Hon. Henry Howard, Captain Thesiger, Captain Hotham,
Hon. G. W. Mines, Mr. Martineau, Mr. Raymond Barker,
Sir Thomas Hare, Mr. Wigram, Mr. Bulteel, Mr. Arcedeckne,
lion. G. Noel, Captain Robertson, Mrs. Horstman, Madame
Rani and party, Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan, Captain Hawkins,
Captain Phibbs, Sir Seymour Sadler, Mr. De Blaquiere, Mr.
De Pentheney O'Kelly, Mr. Lzielli, M. Lizarde, Colons!
Gough, C. 8., and Mrs. Gough, &c.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—AmoDg the noble and
distinguishing individuals honouring the performances at
her Majesty's Theatre yesterday (Thursday) evening with
their presence, we observed the following :—The Prince and
Princess Czartoritski and the Princes Vitold and Ledialene
Czartoritaki, his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Mar-
quis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Abercorn, the Marquis
of Douro, the Earl of Mountcharles, the Earl of Lonsdale, the
Earl of Malmesbury, Viscount Dupplin, Viscount Ranelagb,
Earl Gifford, Lord Gardner, Lord W. Lennox, Lord F. Bean-
clerk, Sir George and Miss Beaumont, Sir John Bayley and
Lady Bayley, Sir H. Webb, Bart., /ice &a
Accusation is not proof, and committal is not con-
viction, as many a worthy fellow has found reason to know •
—.Eliza Cook's Journal.
Four HORSES DROWNED..:—An accident of a very se-
rious character occurred in the neighbourhood of Melton, on
.we hope that)* ,
appears that a servant of Mr. W.
Tehsuuirtsdoafyimtionranyi morning,
lead to
a better and safer road than this one .
has proved to be. It the 20th instant, and
was Proceeding to Melton to fetch en
ha attempted to cross the -river Wreake,
-
llolaedntoonf,moafniluroeb•y,
made a difference of a few hundred yards, ,
at a place called the Washstones, in the parish of:Ft:My,.
which would have
when the force of the water was such as to sweep the
waggon and horses into the canal. The poor animals
struggled oi.for nearly a mile, and through the arches of
two canal bridges, before they were drowned ; and the man
who was riding upon one of the;fore horses saved himself by .
1 clinging to the branches of a willow tree, as the horses were
floatieg down the stream. ' The team of horses thus lost by
the negligence of the waggoner, who took this road contrary
to orders to save a little trouble, was considered one of the
best in the neighbourhood, and worth at least 1001.=
Leicester Mercury. •
DEATU FROM A WAGER,--011 Tuesday afternoon ia
young man, named Edward Hucker, living in Granbpstreee,
Waterloo-road, undertook, for a wager of IL, to, swim ear Bs
the Thames from Milbank to Lambeth within twelve minutes,
and got in the water tor that pexpose a short distance from
the bridge at three o'clock, 't 4being then high water. The
unfortunate man got about 2001 feet from the shore, when he
gave a loud shriek and instantly sunk. The party with whom
he made the wager were hasterileg over the bridge to meet
him on the opposite :here,,
could render him no
a'n
sistance, sad the poor fellow, who it is supposed wee a _ estk
eir
with cramp, perished. On Fr a similar occurrence we
pi:tile at Milbank, when a
his'life. et, , .
. Rll.
S*AsONADI,E 1,701113 TO;" CANARY BREIDE
tf er ran Ycftg. man, named Darby, loot
All birds of a unifogri;e'olour,'Wh to secure an in-
-en paired toge , P
their (*.tact coutterpart:. In order, the canary, there can
finite variety cf colours, to Whigh!
beinnnited to a mealy hen,
be no objection--if a male grerq a handsomel marked
or vice versa, the issue however.,
will be raor
t_
is . .
ly
h.
Iv carrying out h. primp e.. ee ,c 4. 1
than their parents.
to all who can give their time to'it,
truly Interesting character.
rceosrucliitasilymraeey re
pmreoanteed
.0f a
. .
. ,
tible.— William Kidd in the
Birds of every shade, and every tint, may be reared • in fact,
Gardner's Chronicle.
such combinations are ineallaus