The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-19 00:00:00

ITALY.

CREAIORNE GARDENS.
These extensive grounds, the most delightful place of
recreation within the confines of the metropolis, to those
who aspire to the economical enjoyment of a summer's
evening alfresco, with luxurious variety, re-open to-day
for the season of 1851. Mr. Simpson, who so liberally
catered to the public entertainment last year as director
of this popular resort, has, during the recess, evidently
devoted his utmost energies to the production of novel-
ties of a highly attractive character, and to the develop-
ment of arrangements calculated to meet the demand for
amusement, so increased by the influx of visitors to the
Great Exhibition. Extensive improvements have been
effected for the accommodation and enjoyment of the
public. Much will be found that will suit the admirer
of the picturesque, and amuse those who seek the more
exciting pastimes, while, for the mere sight-seer there
are the Bushmen of South Africa and other objects of
curiosity, enough no doubt to satisfy his taste. A
circus is in course of erection on the grounds, and M.
Franconi, of the Cirque Nationale, is understood to be
engaged during the season. The brothers Elliott, of
gymnastic fame, are to exhibit feats of summersault,
barrel-dancing, aphere•vaulting, &c., and the Ethiopians
and other popular favourites are to exercise their vocal
and instrumental powers. The entertainments to-night
open with a " grand gala," called the Feast of Roses,
illustrative of Moore's " Lelia Rookh," a concert, and
a new fairy ballet, entitled the Star of Beauty. A band
of 80 instrumentalists, conducted by Borini, is engaged
for the lovers of dancing, and a pyrotechnic display is
to conclude the amusements of the day. Those familiar
with these grounds will find that the maze has been re-
moved, in order to make room for the circus, to the
other side of the bridge, where a new and larger one has
been planted.
A private view of these preparations was afforded on
Saturday to a party of about fifty gentlemen, whom Mr.
Simpson entertained at seven o'clock to a sumptuous
dinner, worthy the renown of the celebrated host of the
Albion. Universal admiration was bestowed upon a turbot
of extraordinary magnitude, which rivalled in size that
famous fish of Ancona, the "spatiumalmirabile Rhombi,"
immortalised by the Roman satirist as having been pre-
sented with senatorial solemnity to the last of the Twelve
Camara. Grouped near the host were Messrs. Richard-
son, O'Dowd, Martin, Greene, Foster, Sterling Coyne,
Denison, Timms' Swift, B. Hughes, &c.; and the vice-
chair was amply filled by the Lord Chief Baron
Nicholson.
Grace h aving been said, and the usual loyal toasts
drunk with affectionate enthusiasm,
Dr. RxcuanDsoN proposed the health of the esteemed
chairman, observing that, although the Crystal Palace
was almost monopolising public attention, be felt con-
fident that Cremorne Gardens would not fail to attract a
large amount of popular patronage. Prince Albert and
Mr. Paxton were levying contributions with extraor-
dinary skill and facility, but he would predict that Mr.
Simpson would come in for a fair proportion of the
" ready."
Drunk with loud cheers.

Mr. SIXP3ON returned thanks in an able as well as a
spirited and feeling speech, which was interrupted by
frequent applause, and concluded amidst hearty cheers
and congratulations.

The VICE-PRESIDENT, in felicitous terms, proposed
" The Press."
Mr. MARTIN, being unanimously called upon, re-
sponded to the toast. It was always a pleasing duty for
the journalist to give legitimate encouragement to meri-
torious exertions, and Mr. Simpson's antecedents
afforded fair promise of his deserving the support of the
organs of public opinion.—(Applause.)
Mr. 0. Down rose to give the health of the extensive
Vice, so widely known as the talented and learned dig-
nitary who presides with unqualified applause on the
great Vespertine Tribunal.—(Cheers.)
Chief Baron Nrclionsorr expressed his acknowledg-
ments in a discourse replete with pathos and dignity.
He took occasion to comment in a strain of great luci-
dity on the several features of attraction presented in
the Cremorne Gardens' programme. He modestly al-
luded to the increasing success of Nicholson's Newspaper,
the enly journal that foretold Nancy the winner of the
Chester Cup and subsequently winner of the York and
Ainsty Hunt Cup; and trusted that he might see many
of the faces around him on Wednesday next in his mag-
nificent booth opposite the grand stand.—(Lively marks
of adhesion.)
About ten o'clock the pagoda and concert-room were
lit up to give an idea of the effect produced by the rose.
lamps, which is one of a most pleasing novelty; after
which several of the guests returned to pass the re-
maining hours of the week in harmonious divan, enjoy-
ing the fragrance of the Indian weed and the union of
the tears of Cognac) with the frigid lymph. At midnight,
or thereabouts, the party broke up, much impressed by
the tasteful and liberal hospitality of Mr. Simpson, by
whose provident care vehicles were in waiting to deposit
them at their respective homes.

CAPTAIN SOMERSET IN THE HOUSE 01? CORREC-
TION.- Since Captain Somerset's committal for assaulting
a police-constable in the park he has been visited, per favour
of the Middlesex magistrates, by a great number of the nobi-
lity and gentry, and by his lady, Mrs. Somerset. Among the
visitors on the first day was the Duke of Buccleuch, the Mar-
quis of Stafford, Lord Mulgrave, and ;several officers of the
regiment to which Captain Somerset belongs. Strenuous
efforts have been made by the friends of Captain Somerset
to obtain a remission of the punishment, and a petition was
forwarded to the Home-office on his behalf; in fact, every
possible influence was used to relieve the prisoner, from in-
carceration in a gaol. On Thursday evening Sir George
Grey's private secretary waited upon the prisoner, and in-
formed him that, upon a careful review of all the facts
of the case, and after reading the evidence at the Marlbo-
rough-street Police-court, Sir George ,Grey was of opinion
that he could not, consistently with his duty, advise her
Majesty to remit any portion of the sentence. Captain
Somerset, who had hoped from the powerful influence of
his titled friends that his imprisonment would have been
commuted into a money fine, was very downcast on hearing
the decision. On Friday and Saturday the visitors were
very numerous, and comprised peers, M.P.'s, colonels, cap-
tains, and others of wealth and station. There were six
carriages at one time outside the House of Correction with
visitors for Captain Somerset. All the visiting orders were
marked upon the corner " special," and were issued by Mr.
Whisk* one of the visiting justices. By the regulations of
the gaol, no person under sentence of imprisonment can be
visited by any friend or relative until he has been incar-
created for three months, except by a special order from a
magistrate, and they are very rarely issued, and only in zases
of great emergency, such as the illness of a prisoner or the
death of a relative without the walls. Captain Somerset's
visitors during four days amounted to upwards of 100. He
wears the prison clothes, and subsists on the prison diet, and
so fares in that respect the same as any other inmate of the
gaol.

" Penny Reading Rooms" have, within the last
few days, been opened in Cheapside. They present a supply
of newspapers, including the London daily journals, the
leading Parisian and German, as well as the English, Scotch,
and Irish provincial newspapers. This extensive selection
the visitor is entitled to peruse on payment of the ♦ery
tridiug charge of one penny

The Risorginzento of Turin states from Rome,
under date of the 6th :—" The day before yesterday
was the anniversary of the French Republic. The
Pontifical Government had begged General GEMEALT
not to celebrate it with too much magnificence; there
was, consequently, only a review. Some quarrels
took place in the evening between the French and
Pontifical soldiers, in which there were some killed
and wounded. Several arrests have taken place. It
is said that all the French troops are to be sent from
Rome."

The Risorgimento of Turin of the 13th, states
from Ferrara that several detachments of Austrian
troops have lately arrived in that town from the Ve-
netian states.

Letters from Florence of the 9th, in the Risorgi-
mento of Turin, state that several persons, among
whom was Count PIETRO GUICCIARDINS, have been
arrested at Florence by the police.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Beethoven's great work, Fidelio, is announced for to-
morrow. The lovers of the highest school of dramatic
music can thus no longer complain that their
tastes are continually postponed to the more
popular claims of the modern French and Italian
composers. It will introduce to our amateurs, in
Malibran's great part, a new talent, which seems to have
taken the critical public of Paris by storm—that of
Sophie Cravelli. She made her debut there in Verdi's
opera of Ernani, and it is thus that one of their leading
journals speaks of this rising star:—" Never did
debut excite more sympathy and more interest. There
was at first an agitation mingled with surprise. People
wondered by what strange hazard so fine a talent as a
singer, so great power as a tragedian, had been pro-
duced almost unlooked for—at the last moment—and
without any of those announcements which precede the
most ordinary celebrities. The affiche had been of a
rare modesty, the press had maintained a prudent re-
serve. At first the audience accordingly hardly ven-
tured to give themselves up to all the enthusiasm which
they felt gaining on them. But the doubt was not of
long duration, and before the debutante had finished her
cabaletta frantic applause burst from every quarter of
the house."

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.
Der Freischutz was given on Saturday evening with
no less than three novelties in the cast. Tamberlik re-
placed Maralti as the Giulio, Tagliafico took Massol's
old part of Chiliano, while Madlle. Bertrandi was sub-
stituted for Madlle. Vera in the Annetta. Madlle. Ber-
trandi acted with great archness and a degree of naive
coquetting which told well with the house, while she
sang the music of the score conscientiously and
textually. Altogether her debiit was a decided suc.
cess. Agata is one of Madame Castellan's
best parts, and she sang it with her usual faci-
lity of attack and brilliancy of execution. Tamberlik's
voice, which was in the opening scenes somewhat un-
steady, speedily worked up and mellowed out, and he
gave the music with a fervour, and energy, and an evi-
dent appreciation of its beauties, which is not always
evident in Italian renderings of German composition.
The immortal aria " Par i boschi "—" Through the
forest "—was sung with intense feeling, and was loudly
redemanded. Tagliafico gave the music of Chiliano
with his usual vigorous certainty of intonation and in-
terest. Formes aas the Caspar, and played and sang
the character as he alone can do. His dying scene was
a startling bit of semi-demoniac acting. The opera
went, chorally and orchestrally, without a hitch. Her
Majesty was present throughout the performance.