The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-20 00:00:00

LEVANT MAIL.

We have received by the Levant Mail Constanti-
nople journals to the 4th, and Athens papers to the
7th, both inclusive. We learn by the former that
Ismail Pacha, ex-Minister of Commerce and Agri-
culture, has been appointed Director of the Medical
School of Gelata•Serail, in the room of Ziver Effendi.
The Journal de Constantinople says :—" A difference
has htely arisen between the Governor-General of
Adrianople and the Greek Consul in that city, con-
cerning two Turkish girls, who had been taken
from their family. \Ve are convinced that by the
wisdom of the Porte and of the representative of
Greece at Constantinople, this difference will not
have any serious consequences, and that the good
understanding between the Governments will not be
disturbed."

We find the following in the Journal de Constan-
tinople, of the 4th :—" We announced, a few months
since, that the President of the French Republic
had sent to the Sultan a magnificent service of
Sevres porcelain. His Highness is now about to
send in his tur❑ to Louis Napoleon, six thorough
bred Arab horses, with two housings of the richest
kin i ; the one is red, embroidered in silver, and
ornamented with diamonds and turquoises ; the other
is blue, embroidered in gold, and ornamented with
diamonds and rubies. They are estimated at 150,000
piastres (about 40,000 t..) each. The bits and the
stirrups are in gold. The horses were delivered, some
days since, at the French Embassy, and will be soon
shipped for France."

ITALIAN OPERA, PARIS.
AIDLLE. CRUVELLI.

One of the great privileges of true genius is its ex-
traordinary power of creating fresh interest, and
revealing new points of beauty and colouring in
things with which we have been long familiar.
Thus, in Bellini's Norma, one of the most popular
operas of modern times, every phrase of which
the musical public have known and admired for
a series of years, a young artiste suddenly comes
forward, end, though following almost count-
less vocalists, all of high celebrity in the
part, by hvr bold and original conception,
intensity of feeling, and powers of voice and dra-
matic expression, at once annihilates all our recol-
lections of the past, and gives us another and a new
reading of the character, more tender, more impas-
sioned, and more deeply tragic than we had ever
witmosed, or even conceived before. The public
came prepared to admire; for the impression Mdlle.
Cruvelli had produced last season during her brief
stay in Paris, in Verdi's Ernani, was not a thing to
be easily effaced—still her personation of Norms
took them by surprise; they were not prepared for the
splendid display of power, both vocal and dramatic,
which burst upon them, and in her very first scene
their delight broke out into plaudits which seemed
a, taunt without bounds, and, surely, never was this
lov
opining scene given with so much poetry and
profound feeling. Her appearance was indeed that of
the inspired priestess—but it was the priestess who
had forgotten her holy vows,
and who was already
paying the penalty of her crime by the pangs of re-
morse, jealousy, and betrayed affection. Mdlle. Cru-
velli, on her entrance, presented a perfect picture of
the unhappy Ariadne, described by tatullus
deserta in littore quocd
Gnossia Therm flevit perjuria lingear,
The adagio was given sotto voce, and it was not until
the passage in which she implores for
peace that she
ventures to raise her eyes to the Deity, whose
altars
she has profaned. All this was as beautiful as it
was original, and was more than once interrupted
by murmurs of delight. The cabeletta, which
anticipates a return of her lover's affection, was ex-
quisitely rendered ; here she put forth some of the
secrets of her great vocal power. Ina cadence on
the word sereno, she descended from Re above the
lines to Fa below, bringing out the lowest note with
extraordinary force and firmness, containing an ex-
tent of three octaves minus two notes ! This feat
was accomplished with an effortless ease, which
seemed to banish every ides of vocal difficulty. The
applateie3 and bouquets which followed brought the
performance to a stand still for some minutes. In
the grand trio which concludes the first act, in which
the perfidy of Pollione is fully disclosed, her concen-
trated rage and jealously was
only to be compared
to one of the magnificent burrs of Rachel in Phedre
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was given wtdcoofnanteavr, with
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spirit. The delicious duo ~
Deh
Adalgisa was given with soul-touebins pathos and
beauty ; aid here Mdlle. Corbari most
vi.lf),eursteelocytnediliunvdidihneegd
the applause with the new Diva. In t
scenelViniruvlli was equally
sing• 4d tficgkieEttnthusiasm of tho audience
r
bei eitOTIMSt, , weep the vocalist
and the
tr lir, --:--41pcieetz‘‘:*;it the single exception
0 je,- 7A'Aitita,o--;' niii- _ t of the French
s r:--ottpuT• • , we know no equal
to \ _ . ,-: iiii4l.‘ gra.; - actress. The reiterated
PlahklN V4J;titiliUw , e conclusion of the opera,
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and tkoverpiVeWii- call of the eloile de la soirée,
tai
iet the finalLseaSto her triumph. Mlle, Corbari