The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-30 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

Mademoiselle Geuseppina Morra made her Wait hero
on Saturday, in the character' of Adalgisa. Mademoi-
selle Morra possesses every physical requisite for success
on the lyrical stage; her per mui is attractive, her fea-
tures are prepoesies3ing and expressive, and her voice is
a pure soprano, of agreeable quality, and well cultivated,
but she was suffering so severely on Saturday from ner-
vottintss, and we may say more than nervousness, from
absolute stage fright, that iii the earlier scenes she was
totally incapable of doing justice to her powers. The
encouraging applause of one of the kindest of audiences,
however, gave her heart as she proceeded, and she
concluded much more effeeetively than she had com-
menced. Wo are inclined to augur favourably of the
future career of Maelle. Morn, from the very excess of
nervousness ehe exhibited on Saturday. Stage fright
never attacks self-complaceat mediocrity; it is the evil
demon of genius, which, if genius can overcome, it will
accomplish great things. GI risi, who was in magnificent
voice, was the Norma; and Tamberlik made more of
the ungrateful and uphill part of Pullin than any of his
predecessors had done.

FRENCH PLAYS.
bT. JA M ES'S.
The long rand heavy play of Marie Stuart, adapted
by Lebrun from the trig, dy of Schiller, was played for
the first limo this season a; the St. James's un Saturday.
Rachel dressed and looked the character of the Queen of
Scots to the life, • and in the only scene in the play in
which there is scope for acting she was superb. Every
one must recollect the mast nifieent scene (created by
Schiller, and for the sake ut which we forgive him his
talsification of history) between Elizabeth and Mary, in
which the latter pours out upon the head of
the English Queen a torrent of sarcastic in-
vective, such as Juvenal might have written
for the utterance of Broughltm. She did indeed speak
daggers, and all who heard tier felt ;bat her boast—
" J'ai p=:rte le poignurd sin cceur do ma risalo"
was not a mere figure of spLech. The last act, which
iv one lung preparation for death, was beautifully given,
and canto rite d admirably, by its calm resignation,
the paroxysm of fury of the !act which preceded it. Tho
house was well and fsshionabiy atti laded.

ARRIVAL Or THE PRINCE OF SASE COBURG FROM
LISBON—Her Majesty's screw frigate Dauntless, Captain
Halstead, arrived at Spithead at four o'clock on Saturday
morning from Lisbon, having lett that port on the 23d inst.
with his Serene Highness the Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha
and the Princess Clementine his sister, with OA o royal
ch Idren and suite on board. At six o'clock Captain Hal-
stead landed to report their arrival, and make arrangements
for their conveyance by r,dl to London, the Victory firing a
Royal salute in compliment to the Saxe Gotha flag flying on
board the Dauntless. At ten o'clock his highness the Prince
the Pri,cess, and suite, left the ship in the barge of the
Dauntless under salutes from that ship and also from the
Vengeance; and as the barge approached the harbour the
garrison battery, the Victory, and Britannia, also saluted.
His highness landed at the Clarence-yard, and with the
Princess and suite were received by the Port-Admiral, the
Hon. Sir Bladen Cape!, and proceeded via South Western
Railway for London.

A Paouric WIFE.—The wife of Wm. Salsbury,
labourer, of this village has given birth to three girls.—
Coventry Herald.

FATAL ACCIDENT.-011 Friday morning a young
man named Stephen, an assistant to a linendraper in Comp •
ton •street. Soho, went to the Serpentine for the purpos-! of
bathirg. He made an attempt to swim to the model frigate,
but when within a short distance of the vessel, he suddenly
disappeared. He was found in about ten minutes, but life
was extinct.

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1U ELAN CHOLY A CCIDE NT.—FOUR LIVES LOST,—
On Monday morning one of the fishing-boats belonging to
Stranatbro, Aberdeenshire, was upset off that village by a
sudden squall, and of the crew, six in number, four were
drowned. A small sloop happened to be passing at' the time,
and bore down upon the spot, rescuing two of the men, who
were brought ashore alive, but one of them is not expected to
survive. There were on board the boat a father and two
suns; one of the sons was saved, the other son, with the
father, was drowned.—Edinburgh Witness.
There is no truth in the report that Admiral
Dundas is about to succeed Sir William Parker in the Me-
diterranean command. The statement that the St. George,
120, is to be fitted up for the foreign service is also incorrect.
Her Majesty's ship Trafalgar, Can'ain the Hon. Montagu
Stoptoro, has been ordered to fit fur servicein the Mediter-
ranean, to take the place of her Majesty's ship Caledor.ia,
paid off at Devonport.
TUE GREAT TAKES.--The Eastern Counties pas-
' serger traffic' was on Mcnday the largest they ever took; it
was upwards of 2,500/. The. Great Northern traffic keeps
1 up uncommonly well ; it reaches this week 11,6221., equiva-
-1 ltnt to about :50/. par mile per week. The London and
1 North-Western traffic is more than 11,000/. above the colt-
, rekpunding. week last year; end the Great Western is also
Ihigh, about 5,880/. above—she mileage receipts of !nth being
cousideraby higher. —.Eferepath.