The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-10 00:00:00

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AYLESBURY ELECTION.
AYLESBURY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9.—The town during
the day has been r.markably quiet, and but for the ap •
?earance of a number of boys bearing placards, inscribed
Bethel: for ever," and "Ferrand and Protection," &C., no
person would imagine th a great contest was about to take
place between the supporters of Free-trade and the friends of
Protection.
Notwithstanding the apparent want of excitement, there
can be no doubt that a severe struggle is expected, and both
parties appear confident of success. The general impression,
l'ovever, appears to be that the principles of Free-trade will
us triumphant, notwithstanding the strenuous exertions
made by the Protectionists.
In the course of the day Mr. Bethell has visited the dis-
tricts of Hartwell, Stone, Denton, and HaddeTham, where
We believe his canvass has been very successful.
Mr: Ferrand has been employed in canvassing the voters in
the districts of Risborough and Haddenham.
The nomination will take place at elei•en o'clock to-mor-
row, at the County-hall.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
BIN—My attention has been drawn to a paragraph in
your paper of last night, copied from the Honolulu Times, to
the effect that five white men had been seen by the Russians
150 miles south-east of Point Barrow; will you allow me to
suggest the probability of these being the exploring party
now employed in the neighbourh•od of the Mackenzie,
under the command of Commodore Pullen, R.N. ?
I am, Sir, &c.,
W. E. P. H.

April 8.

111ADLLE. MONTI.
The Fenella, whose debit at her Majesty's Theatre to-
ght is 'coked for with such interest, presents in the story
?t her life a curious and touchin chapter of that strange his-
tory, the Trials of Genius. For,g to the rare attribute of
tirue genius and that of the highest order, Madlle. Monti
as an incontestable claim. She is an artist in the widest
sense
of the word. Endowed by nature with a deep and
Passionate sense of the beautiful, she has cultivated its
develo
[Aleut not in ones narrow sphere only, but wherever
has been able to command the instruments of creative
1,1"- Sculpture and painting, studied with a close applica-
?ion, have enabled her to base on the highest principles that
Which
for the Ideal of Grace, and that gift of expression,
b, 'eh seem intuitive in her organisation. Neapolitan by
Monti
daughter of a sculptor-of eminence—Madlle.
was surrounded from earliest youth by im-
pressions of all that was most beautiful in form
colour. Her years of childhood were scarcely
Past
tat, when the heaviest misfortune that can over-
isjee the children of art fell on her father, and so on her-
_ ' The successful sculptor lost his sight. His future
Oa darkened for ever. Failure, poverty, despair frowned
dolt the
er
alone The energy and genius of the artist's
saved him. Young as he was, her utmost
niter father, or in
801."°'131 could not be expected at once to command very
id returns either in the profession so mournfully lost to
painting, to which her own natural talent
atronc.i-
-6 Y pointed. But the young Monti felt that she had
another talent, and one of a kind which had sometimes led
▪ most at a bound to greatness. They were now settled at
Zile; and at the magnificent Scala she had watched the
"t 8 'action and had said to herself when some noted
Chefasor
of mute eloquence draw down the thunders of
-°llBe,ancor Io son Mima.s She obtained a
In ualtern engagement, sorely against the wish of the old
sculptor, to whom the pursuit of such an art seemed a de-
lased
5•
...ion.for his child. Scarcely more. than half a year had
in apprenticeship to her difficult vocation, when
111„e_4* those opportunities offered itself, which Providence
i're sometimes to place specially as stepping-stones for
to ge,nins on its hard road to Fame. Masaniello was
taken Plyed. The Fenella— the celebrity of that day—
ell suddenly ill, was utterly unable to appear. The
Zmanager was in despair the audience impatient. The
,9eng Monti, with a just self-confidence, declared her con-
e!!tion that she could take the part. But just fifteen, with
1114,8 ix months' study in the most difficult of professions,
The new" a deat was a bold venture, but it won a full success.
Fenella took the house by storm. The bound was
a_aue, the highest pinnacle reached at once, and thencefor-
-75 the young Monti was famous as the first Mims in
IVY, and therefore in the world. The first success at
an was followed by successive triumphs at Venice, at
b_l' native Naples, at Rome, at Turin, and at Vienna. To
iecr original character of Fenella, Madlle. Monti adds the
441inff parts in the balkts d'action of " Merope," " Niobe,"
edaa," and " L'Assedio di Corinto," as bein her master
Pieces. g
Is •
Chi interesting to know that her continued success in
Otii profession has not led Madlle. Monti to sacrifice all
er art. with continues to constancy ting with rare di-
. -eellee) and the passionate of a real talent.

MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen's box at
Zteir Majesty's Theatre was on Tuesday evening; occupied by
..,(3 Earl and Countess of Cawdor, the Viscount and
liscotintess Emlyn and party. Amongst the noble and
itininguished individuals also honouring the theatre with
"air Presence oa this occasion were the following :—His
Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Prince Demidoff, his
Excellency the Russian Mininter, the Baroness Brunnow
and parts, their Excellencies the Swedish and Norwegian
Ministers, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury. the
Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marchioness of Conyngharn,
the Marquis of Douglas and the Princess Mary of Baden,
the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl Mountcharles, the Earl of
Falmouth,
the Countess of Glengall, and Miss de Horsey,
the Earl Gifford, Earl Bruce, the Right Hon. Lord Stanley,
the Viscount and Viscountess Dupplin, and the Ladies
Henrietta and Geraldine Somerset, the Viscount Can-
terbury, Lady Hope Purvis, Viscount Ranelagh, Lord
Sandys, Lord Templemore, Lord William Lennox, Lord
Ernest Bruce, Lady Blanche Dunlop, Lord Curzon, the
Mon. 0. F. Toler, the Hon. R. C. Neville, Colonel the
Hon. G. Upton and the Hon. Mrs. Upton, Hon. A. D.
Willoughby, Hon. Mr. Byng, Hon. F. Cadogan, Hon. Mr.
Stuart Wortley, Hon. Mrs. Somerset and Miss Somerset,
Hon. Mrs. Gore and Miss Gore, Hon. Mr. Norton, Miss
Chichester, Hon. Spencer Otway, Hon. Capt. Carew, Hon.
Arthur Cunningham, Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander
Woodford, Bart., Lady and the Misses Woodford, Sir John
Bayley, Bart., and Lady Bayley, Sir Thomas Barrett Len-
nard Bart., and Lady Barrett Lennard, Col. Dixon, Major
Drummond, Col. Harcourt, Major Loftus, Col. Thornton,
Col. and Mrs. Reid, Mrs. Dennistoun, , Col. Wildman, the
Russian Consul-General, Sir H. Webb, Bart., Sir Charles
Ibbotson, Bart., &e.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty the Queen
and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the per-
formance at the Royal Italian Opera with th•-ir psesence on
Tuesday evening. Her Majesty and the Prince were accom-
Panied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal. In the ros al suite were the Marchio-
ness of Douro, the Hon. Miss Seymour, Colonel Buckley,
and Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon. Among the
fashionable company ;present in the theatre we remarked
kllls Grace the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Ayles-
r', the Marquis of Douro, tis Excellency the Sardinian
Minister (Marquis D'Azeglio', the Countess of Malmesbury,
the Earl and Countess of Besborough, the Earl and Countess
.BVforh, and the Ladies Bridgeman and Miss Moncrieffe,
viscount Exmouth, Lord Colville, Lady Stanley of Alderley
!Ind the Hon. Misses Stanley, Viscount Cranbourne, the
Hop'
and Baroness Von Stentz, Lady Bateman and the
--fs°ll' Miss Hanbury and Hon. Mrs. White Melville,
Ord
Ward and Miss de Burgh, Lord Arthur Hay,
Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., Lady Adelaide Paget,
and
Lady Alfred Paget, Lady Stanley, Baron de Sternberg,
son.
Mrs. Dyce Sombre and party, Lord Adolphus Vane,
Hon.
Hugh Rowley, Hon. John Fortescue, M.P., Major the
Needham. Hon. E. Lascelles, Mr. Erskine, Mr.
buuert de Burgh, Lord Broughton and the Hon. Misses
itonbohouse, Miss Burdett Coutts and party, Col. Brownlow
M Hon. Orlando Bridgeman, Dowager Lady
°.essvorth and party, Sir John and Lady Burgoyne. Capt.
in, Mr. Buckley, Captain Steele, Mr. Raymond Barker,
-"r• Makenzie, Madame Ralli and party, Mr. De Bias
tore, Major Horace Pitt, Sir William and Lady de Bathe,
dt George Armytage Mr. De Lizardi, Capt. De Bathe
1117.4. Chewtnn, Sir 'Henry Webb, Mr. Orm, Col. Blaine,,
J°r Gage, Lieut.-Colonel Crombie, Mr. Lister Kaye, Mr.
taarrtineau, Sir John Lowther, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Gesrge
rington. Mr. William Rose, Sir Charles Marshall, Col.
gram, &c..
)1, LID: AMA. OF THE HOLY LAND.—The following
s,erabers of the aristocracy and gentry have recently visited
.',4e above beautiful painting :—Her Royal Highness the
•sraincess he
of Cambridge and suite, the Archbishop of
Lshil;terburY the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, accom-
'eAl by Lord Albert, Lord Ronald, and Lady Constance
Isisvesson Gower and party ; the Duke of Northumberland, the
seargnis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis and
I,Thrchioness of Douglas, the Marquis and Marchioness of
sf dare, the Earl and Countess of Ducie, the Earl of St.
iiiealans, Earl Jermyn and party, the Bishop of St. Asaph,
40Bisholl of Sodor and Man, Lady John Russell and family,
s,. Radstock and party, Lady Stanley , the Hon. Niss
"Tie,' and party, the Chevalier Bunsen, Lady Goulburn
tParty, Sir Gardner Wilkinson Colonel Fielding and
Irasyer,t3D,iEgbsgy.,Wyatt, Esq , Eliot Warburton, Esq., Dr. Pet-
bew• Fs W. Lane, Esqßartlett, Esq., David,
Francis Ainsworth, Esq., itsc.
FISTULA INFIRMARY.—The annual meeting of the
hatibscribers and patrons of this institution took place yes-
aaY, at the London Tavern ; Mr. Alderman Hooper in
:chair. The report stated that the past year had been
ne of unexampled prosperity; within the last three months
jle individual had
dona-
tionpresented them with the munificent of 3,000 i., accompanied by no restrictions, but merely a
suggestion that the donation should be applied towards pur-
F.hasing a site for erecting the intended new hospital, and
that all unnecessary expenditure should be avoided for the
external part of the building in order the better to provide
comforts for the sufferers destined to become inmates within
its walls, a d that no part of the funded property of the in-
stitution should be applied for the purpose of the building;
also one condition, that the name of the donor should be
lefWithheld. A leg* of 1,0001., free of duty, had also been
t t the institution by the late Jeremiah Olive; and one
aT 100!.
from the late Mr. J. Jones. The) had obtained a
Slte upon which they would be enabled to' erect an hospital
capable of accommodating 50 inmates; but the committee
lees:in:mended that the building should not be commenced
until the amount of subscriptions towards that fund had
reached 5,C0.1., independent of the coat of the site. They
nad now in hand for that purpose, including the 3,000/ ,
itt3bove alluded to, 4,300/. During the past fourteen years.
13'3 patients had been relieved by this institution, 2,500
°' whom had been under cure by operative surgery. An
auxiliary society, consisting of the poor patients who had
Been relieved b this institution, had been formed, and pre-
aented this charity annually with between 401. and 50/. ;
ene patient stNewmarket had during the past year
this institution.
in small sums 211., which he had sent as a donation to
is institution. The total receipts for the past year, includ-
Ing a balance left, and 6601. belonging to the building fund,
riloonted to 2,505/. 13s. lld ; and the expenditure to 1,206.
_..ng the
du ; 7d. The surgeon's report stated, that of the 537 patients.
rregularry ;
year, '246 had been discharged cured; 173 maten-
ilkte_l3'yelieved; 5 incurable ; 33 discharged for
of;ivetag 80 still under treatment. The report was adopted,
_ores for the ensuing year elected, and after a vote of thanks
'" In chairman, the meeting separated.
sskirric l)17 Ta OF TAB OCEAN IN THE SOUTH AT-
fouo •—•Letters dated Washington, March 10, publish the
berou mg passage from a letter of Lieutenant John
in R. Golds-
au__ gh, United States navy, formerly assistant the coast
Tu.:7._ It is dated United States ship Saratoga, Cape
iss.,7l_°•eUttpe of Good Hope, Lim ::6, 1850 :—" During our
A 71, f:rom. Rio de Janeiro to Saldanha Bay, Cape of Good
4:d obtained in let. 28 21 S., and long. 29.17 W., wesounded
unei a
,Ained bottom at the depth of 3,100 fathoms, or three
g nay. muss.
ss Our sounding apparatus was a 321 b. shot,
itt`Tionawth wire, awl attached to a small line of 5,000
%is Iva wire,
and sufficiently strong to bear a weight of
„ • The soundings were as good and fair as any I have
'Yet. Been
Sul obtained,e the line and down and as taut as it
tin, and
wsoundingn , attempting
about
atboht st aul. it on board, after
Lir
tojettd uoe g
sit parted fathoms from the
4i • The time occupied in sounding was one hour and
ne Minutes.
5t121121.114,
.oncrieff, the present Solicitor- General for
e must be
4" le to be the new Lord-Advocate As the Lord-
erZti 4 Member of Parliament, a vacanc will
litencrieff in Kinross-shire.— Glay sgow