The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-16 00:00:00

8MAT.17,73, TO THE STUDENTS.

(Translated from the origin .d Preach.)
By WILLIAM CHARLES KENT.
Poor children ! what ! you still believe
Wo yet may cry " Live, Freedom, live !"
And 'neath the gloi ions Tricolor
Hail him who lifts it high once more !
My wicked lines you love so well—
Forget them :—Fame not now belongs
To truths my tongue no more may tell—
Forgive the Singer and the Songs !
Aro these the visions of my rhymes,
The day-dreams of the grand old times ?
The hope of one who taunts could fling
Alike at Emperor, Lacquev, King ?
If I have sung the Great Mlles Name
'Twas when he sank beneath his wrongs,
While clouds were darkening 'round his Fame.—
Forgive the Bard, Forget the Songs !
Shall Nisard captivate mine ears?
Leverrier track for me the spheres?
Friend of dread silence and of night—
Shall Belmontet entrance my sight?
My Type of Power, so mild, so good,
Is it the sway of pikes and thongs?
Is it what awes th' Aventine brood ?
Forgive the Bard, Forget the Songs !
Yes ! sang I through th' heroic horn
The old blue garb by Victory worn—
, Yet 'twas for democratic sons
O'erthrowing barriers of thrones !
But are these fops with jingling spur,
Who'd stab us to crush past our thron gs,
My braves ! hobnobbing at the bar ? --
Forgive the Bard, Forget the Songs !
To Poland's Right, Italia's Good
France owes a holy debt of blood :
The cannon roars —on.! on ! !
Too near us grows their blood-stained grass.
Away—to other climes removed
Glories for which the helot longs :
Nations, behold your bends beloved !
Forgive the Bard, Forget the Sings !
Kensington, April 15,1856.

[The following are the OriAinal verses, recently written
by Beranger, and said to be now circulating in manuscript
in Paris.]

"AUX ETTIDIA.NT3.
Pauvres enfants ! quoi ! vous croyez encore
Won pout crier, Vivo la liberte !'
Et sous les plis du drape= fricolore -
Fetal. celui qui l'a rensusciie !
lies mechants Vera dont vows g%rdez memoirs,
Oubliez-les ! je viens les renier :
Si j'y crovais, je maudirais ma gloire,
Ah ! pardonnez an pauvre chansonnier !
"Par quels cotes ce temps qtfon fait revivre
Ressemble-t-il aux jours revel par moi ?
Moi qui jamais n'ai cease de ponrsuivre
• Laquais, fiatteurs, Empereur,. Pape, et Roi.
Si j'eus des chants pour un.graud oapitaine,
C'est qu'il etait sans sceptre et prisonnier
Brumaire etait puni par Sainte Helene.
Ah ! pardonnez au pauvre chansonnier !
"Pour moi Nisard sera-t-il l'eloquence ?
Et Leverrier un sewn 1 Arago ?
Suis-je l'ami de la, nuit, du silence ?
Et Belmontet me tient-il lieu ?
Ehfin, mon Dieu si clement, si bonhomme,
le Dien d u sbire et ?
Est-il celui que Pon protege a It une
Ah ! pardonnez au pauvra chansonnier !
" Oui ! j'ai chants l'epopea herolque
Des habits bleus par la victoire uses ;
C'efaient les fils de notre Republique
Battant vingt tars leg Rois-coatises.
Main le soldat bisn bros 4 qni nous guette,
Qui nous tuerait pour passer otfici!r,
Est-il le mien Wnquant a la guinguette ?
Ah ! pardonnez an pauvre chansonnier !
"A la Pologne, a, la noitle Italie,
La France doit tie dette de gang ;
Le canon gronde—en avant !—Nlais, folie !
Si pies de nous le terrain est glissant ;
Allons porter pins loin l'independance
Au Tare, dut-il se faire un pea prier. •
Peuples, votre salute alliance !
Ah ! pardonnez as panvre chansonnier !
" Passy, Mars 20, 1856."

_ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

The Lyceum opened last night in its capacity of the
Royal Italian Opera house. The theatre has undergone
a great internal change, and has indeed assumed quite a
new aspect. There are tw,) tiers of boxes, besides pit-
boxes on each side. The pit is thrown almost entirely
into stalls, each stall heing• a separate chair, as at the
St. James's during the French pays ; and what is pro.
perly the pit is limited to two or three rows et the back
—these and the gallery being the only unreserved seats
bathe house.. The draperies of the boxes ar3 dark red,
like those of Covent-garden ; and indeed the whole
theatre loOks like Covent garden in miniature. It is
exceedingly elegant, briiliaat, and cheerful, and wants
only siz, t, be as complete and pretty as opera-house as
one could desire to see. The orchestra, to be c.mform-
able t 3 the size of the home. is ri.ducei from its former
number of between CO and 90, to about 50. The dimi-
nution, of course, is male in 03 ripieno stringed instru-
ments ; the wind instruments necessarily remaining as
before. Costa was at his poAt as conductor, and ail the
eminent men, to whnn we have been accustomed, Were
in th,ir usual places. Ia truth, the orchestra is much
improved by its numerical reduction. It has lost none
of its real strength, while it is more smooth and quiet,
and pays greater atbution to the delicacies of accompa-
ninent.

The opera was the " Trovatore," cast in the same
manner as last season, with only one difference of
any. importance. The character of Azuc.ina, the
gipsy, so admirably sustained last year by Madame
Viardot, was now perf,raied by Maille. Didids. It
demands greater tragc powers than this very agree-
able performer possesses ; but she exerted herself to
the utmAst, and with no small success. She seemed
t i have taken Maclaine Viardot for her model, and to
have copied her reading of the.part. Her singing was
beautiful throughout, SM.' fine contralto voice is im-
proved in strength anti quality, and she showed much
taste and feeling: Madame Ney's' Leonora was it all
respects a magnificent performance ; splendid in voice,
brilliant in execution, and full of impassioned expression.
Her acting, too, was that of a most accomplished tra-
gedian. Tamberlik's performance, both dramatic and
vocal, in the character of Manrno, was not Lie striking.
The part of the Count de tuna was excellently sung (it
affords small room for acting) by Signor Graziani. ilis
principal air, "II balen del suo sorriso," was beautiful,
and obtained the only encore of the evening. The opera,
notwithstanding. the comparative sinallness of the stage,
was superbly got up. Some of the scenes, particularly
the gipsy retreat in the mountain, 'and the Count de
Luna camp, with the stage covered with animated
groups of gipsies, peasants, and soldiers, were extremely
picturesque and beautiful. As to the opera itself'
though. it contains (especially in the last act) some of
Verdi's. best music, it is nit calcu!ated. to give much
pleasure. The libretto is poorly written, confused, and
sometimes scarcely intelligible, and the subject IR gloomy
and revolting without creating interest. You are roused
now and-then to applaud particular passages, and then
the applause is directed to the actor or singer, not to
the piece itself. Hence we should think this opera must
be generally performed to a cold audience, as was the
case last night.
The house 'was filled, but not crowded. The Queen
arid Prince Albert occupied the royal box. The royal
suite consisted of the Countess of Desert, the Hon. Miss
Stanley, the Hon. Miss Kerr, Lord de Tabley, Lord
Alfred Paget, and Colonel Francis Seymour.
The Duke of Cambridge also honoured the per-
forinances with hls presence.

MEETING OF Tag CREDITORS OF MR.
W. 0. YOUNG.

•
At an adjourned meeting yesterday of the creditors of
Mr. W. 0. Young, ship and insurance broker, who
failed on the sth-inst., it was agreed to take the neces-
sary steps for placing the estate under „the adrninistra.
Con of bankruptcy—a course stated to be requisite in
consequence of the liabilities arising from the under-
writing branch, which it is alleged involve risk to the
extent of nearly 2,000,0001. The ontstandieg pre-
miutnq of insurance average from 15,000/. to 20,0001.,
but allowance will have to -13 e ample for bad debts, while
there is already from 3,000/, to 4,0001. owing on the ac-
count. Under these circumstances, no estimate 'cmild
be given of the probable result, even presuming that the
transactions of the late Mr. Beckwith, of Newcastle,
may canstitute a partnership, as indicated by the fol-
lowing com:nunication received by the chairman from
Messy. Pitcairn and Stephens, who were appointed to
investigate the question :
"Sir,—ln conformity with the request made at the
meeting of Mr. W. 0. Young's creditors on the 10th inst.,
over which yon presided, we have examined the letters re-
lating to the alleged partnership between Mr. Young and
the late Mr. Beckwith in the underwriting account, and
we are of opinion, as mercantile men, that such partner-
ship is established by Mr. Beckwith's letters of the Ist of
April, 1853, 2d of May, 1351, rind 4th of May, 1854.—We
are, sir, your obedient servants,
" JOHN
THOMAS STEPHENS.

" To Mr. D. Dunbar. Szc."
In the course oldie afternoon a petition in bankruptcy
was issued against the estate, which will.be wound up
before Mr. Cormnis3ioner Holroyd, Mr. Lee being the
official assignee. -

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FIRE IN ALBANY-STREET.—Yesterday (Tuenday).fore
noon, about 11 o'clock, the inhabitants of Albany-street,
Regent's-park, were alarmed in consequence of the out-
break of an extensive fire on the premises of Mr. Samuel
Clarke, wax.chandler and oil merchant.. In the spaCe
of .10 minutes after the fir 4 &artn .was given the flames
bad entered the front wareh, use, which contained an
immense amount of loft annnable matter, and proved to
be such a po?,,erful auxiliary. to the flames that they
broke through the front windows .and stretched across
the road, almost as far as the opposite houses. By dint,
however, of peat exertion on the part of the firemen
they at length had the gratification of seeing the flames
diminish' and finally yield to the great quantity of water
throciti Upon' them, but nit Until. Mr. Clarke's premises
and Ofthey conWbed.wfre.deAroyed and the folloWing
pt rmiaea sevf re;y dAmaged by watcr and heat-viz.,
Messrs. Bell and CO., hairdressers, No. 54 ;. insured in
the Westthinster Fire•office. Mr. Francis, sculptor, No.
56, not insuredLirnebeer, the proprietor of Dorset
Hone', N0..108, insurance unknown ; No. 109, known
as Berlin. Rouse,
_in. the occupation. of Mr. Capon ; No.
110, Mr. Pittman, fruiter r, atul belonging to
• Mr Jones;. confectioner. The last five or six are severely
scorched, but oerytlittle: tititafigOlt6o Jasesdnvi to :.the
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