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

PROMOTIONS.

Assistant-Surgeon Arthur W. W. Babington
1841), of the Imaum flagship, Port Royal, for •servicas
during the cholera, has been promoted to the rank of surgeon.
Clerk—Richard I3rownsdon, (Jul} 1, 1843), late acting
paymaster of the Arab, 12, paid off from the East Indies,
has been promoted to the rank of paymaster.

APPOINI'3IENTS.

Second-Masters-111%yard M‘lienzie (1845), of the Oct
flag-ship, Sheerness, to the Teazer screw-tenter; Samuel
IV innecott (1850) to the Ocean.
Assistant-Surgeon Ahmuty Irwin, acting, to South-
ampton, 50, flag-ship, Rio.
Clerk --John Fre-1111dd (1847), of the Victory ti g-ship,
Portsmouth, to the Teazer.
Clerks'-Assistants— Sidney Smith Boxer, to the Bri-
tannia, ordinary flag-ship, Portsmouth; F. T. Miller, to the
Penelope steam-frigate, Portsmouth.
Dockyard—James Carden has been appointed master-
rigger of Portsmouth.
Dr. James Grant Stewart, has been appointed deputy.
inspector in charge of Malta Hospital, vice Lindsay,
appointed to llaslar, vice Allen deceased. It is generally
admitted that the navy does not possess a more talented and
excellent officer than Dr. Stewart. His services in tropical
climates, and his thorough devotion to the profession richly
merited the consideration he has received. It will be is
the remembrance of our readers that Dr. Stewart volunteered
his services to take charge of the plague-stricken steam-sloop
Eclair, on her arrival ; her medical officers having fallea
victims to the disease.

Penelope steam-frigate, Captain Lyster, made an average
speed along the measured mile in Stokes Bay of nine knots
six fathoms; she has, however, 100 tons additional weight
to take on board, which may probably reduce that speed to
es knots. Her engines worked welL The Simonetmade on
Friday last 8% knots, and we understand she will probably
be tried again. She had in, when tried, about 1,300 tone of
ballast and coal.

Captain Aslett and Second-Lieutenant William Taylor,
of the Royal Marines, are appointed to the Vengeance, vies
Captain B. Varlo and Second-Lieutenant F. L. Dowse, sick
at Haslar Hospital. Captain Varlo, it is said, will retire
on half-pay, and Lieutenant Dowse join the division at
Chatham.
Magicienne steam-sloop has her ballast stored at Devon-
port, and has hauled off the dockyard, and will sail on her
trial cruise in charge of Mr. Brown, weather permitting.
WooLwicir, APRIL 3.—APPOINTMEXT.—Lieutenant John
N. Norman (1542), to study steam at the factory at Wool-
wich Dockyard.
The Lightning steam-vessel, Pilaster-Commander Henry
William Allen, is under orders of readiness to convey the re-
mains of General Sir Alexander Duff, G.C.H., to Banff, for
interment in the family vault of the Earls of Fife, the late
gallant officer having been the nearest relative of James the
present Earl of Fife. The Lightning will leave Woolwich
at tv,o o'clock P.M. to-morrow on her melancholy errand.
and on her way home will call at Sunderland with provisions
and stores, from Deptford, for the Hecate steam-vessel,
Commander George S. Hand, at present at that port in con-
sequence of the strike of the seamen in the collier trade.
Inquiries having been made by the authorities as to the
best mode of admitting to the dockyards the foreign visitors
expected to arrive in this country during the next three
months, to witness the Exhibition of the Industry of all 37a-
ns in Hyde-park, it has been decided that coloured cards
will be supplied to the foreign Ambassadors and Consuls-
General, the representatives t f foreign Powers at the Court
of St. James's, and they will fill up the cards with the names
of the intending visitors. Their rank will be known at the
dockyard by the colour of the card presented. This excel-
lent and simple arrangement will insure every attention to
the respective ranks, which could not have been otherwise
so easily done when the visitors are unacquainted with the
English language.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.

The Royal Italian Opera opened last night for the
season. The management is not, as last year, a re-
public, but a monarchy under the government of Mr
Gye, whose great experience well qualities him forthe
task of management. The opera chosen for the opening
last night was Semiramide, the chef d'aurre alike of
Rossini and of Grisi. In the representation of the character
of the Assyrian Queen, Madame Grisi has always stood un-
approached, and when she appeared last night, the same
Grisi that she ever was, the applause with which
she was welcomed was most rapturous ; she was
obliged to wait for some minutes for the applause to
subside before she could commence her recitative, "Fra tanti
regi." The voice is as pure and as perfect as ever, and the
"iiol razzio" was brilliantly given. The grand finale to
the first act was magnificent in the rendering; in
this scene Grisi stands, and always has stood alone.
The two great duets in the second act, the first
and the second with Arsace, were superbly given, and never
has Madame Grisi been more majestic or more perfect as
Semiramide than she was last evening. Mademoiselle Angri,
who was in excellent voice, was the Arsace, and
gave full effect to the music of the part. Her ren-
dering of the duet with Assur, in the first act, was full
of energy, spirit, and true dramatic point, and in the duet
with Grisi, in the second act, she was equally fine. Her two
arias, the " Ab, qual Giorno," her scena d'intrata in the first
act, and the cavatisa, " In si barbara," in the second, were
both rendered with infinite spirit and taste. Signor Salva-
tori, a new baritone, from the operas of Naples and of Bar-
celona, and who has acquired an enduring continental repu-
tation, from his creation of the part of Belisario, in
Donizetti's opera of that name, made his debit in
the part of Assur. His features are expressive, and his
acting good, and he is evidently used to the stage.
As to his voice, it would be an act of injustice to Signor Sal-
vatori to attempt to give any opinion of it from his
performance of last night. Placards were distributed
about the theatre claiming the indulgence of the
public for him in consequence of his labouring under
hoarseness and influenza, and it was evident from
the commencement of the opera that his voice was
completely out of order. Signor Tagliafico acted the part of
the High Priest with great dignity, and Signor Mei suss,
tained the little part of Idreno. The choruses were perfect,
and the orchestra, under the direction of Costa, who was
warmly greeted on his first appearance, magnificent. All the
principal artistes were called on at the conclusion of the
opera, and the national anthem was performed, the solo parts
being sustained by Mesdames Castellan, Angri, and Grisi.
The house was crowded to suffocation in every part. The
Queea's box was occupied by Lady Emily Cavendish arc),
Miss Bathurst, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Mn.
Grey and party. Among the company honouring the
theatre with their presence were the Marquis and Mar-'
chioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Northampton, the
Marchesa Brancaleoni and Mdlle. Brancaleoni, the Mar- "
ahioness of Westmeath and Miss Dawson, the Earl of
Wilton, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl of Bilmorey.
Viscount Templetown, Viscountess Exmouth and Viscount
Exmouth, Viscount Cranbourne, Lord George Maunero,
M.P., Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., Lord Colville,
Lord Broughton and the Hon. Misses Hobhouse, Lady
Suffield, Lord Adolphus Vane. Lady Isabella St.dTolgtn
nant d
party, Lord Northwick, the Baron and Baroness
ter
1;1
Lord Arthur Hay, Colonel the Host. Cecil
.sFor
Stoner, Hou"
Major the Hon. R. Needham, Hon.
Greville and Miss Grevilie, Sir William Lah
dy De Bathe,
John Fortescue, M.P., Honourab.le. GFeoranrgeclß:dr_or_witnAil9ist
as'
yr Mr.
HMuagrsh
Tucker
Sir Colonel)arles Brownloa hnos,
GSierorgieienZmyWtnegbbe: Honourable
Bur-
dett Coutts and party,
Martin
Blanc, Major and party, Mr. Mar Captain Smith, Captain
De Bathe, Mr. Gregory,
,Ford, Mr. Mac-
kenzie,or Maitland,
Gage,
Ktioloriiel )
Horsey,ltose,
Honourable George
De Mr. Woodford, Mr.
Captain Aclaajtobrcart,
Captain
MAr.• William•
Orm, Captain the Hon. Strange
JNBVoac.rerliLjn.:g:tvontdnd'ers'.lllrister Kaye, Captain Ellison, Mrs. Hatton
and the Misses Hatton, Mrs. Henry Villeboie,
lion. Henry Howard, Captain Thesiger, Captain liotham,
lion. G. W. Males, Mr. Martineau, Mr. Raymond Barker,
Sir Thomas Hare, Mr. Wigram, Mr. Bulteel, Mr. Arcedeckne,
lion. G. Noel, Captain Robertson, Mrs. Horstman, Madame
Belli and party, Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan, Captain Hawkins,
Captain Phibbs, Sir Seymour Sadler, Mr. De Blaquiere, Mr.
De Pentheney O'Kelly, Mr. Uzielli, BS. Lizarde, Colonel
Gough, C. 8., and Mrs. Gough, &c.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Among the noble and
distinguishing individuals honouring the performances at
her Majesty's Theatre yesterday (Thursday) evening with
their presence, we observed the following :—The Prince and
Princess Czartoritski and the Princes Vitold and Ladislaus
Czartoritski, his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Mar-
quis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Abercorn, the Moguls
of Douro, the Earl of Mountcharles, the Earl of Lonsdale, the
Earl of Malmesbury, Viscount Dupplin, Viscount Ranelagh,
Earl Gifford, Lord Gardner, Lord W. Lennox, Lord F. Bean-
clerk, Sir George and Miss Beaumont, Sir John Bayley and
Lady Bayley, Sir IL Webb, Bart., &c., &c.
Accusation is not proof, and committal is not con-
viction, as many a worthy fellow has found reason to know.
—Eliza Cook's Journal.

FOUR HORSES DROWNED.—An accident of a very se-
rious character occurred in the neighbourhood of Melton, on
Thursday morning, the 20th instant, and we hope that the
that a servant of Mr. W.
result of it may lead to a better and safer road than this one
has proved to be. It appears
Henton, of Iloby, was proceeding to Melton to fetch a
load of manure; he attempted to cross the river Wreaks,
at a place called the waslitones, in the parish of Frisby,
which would have made a difference of a few hundred yards,
when the force of the, water was such as to sweep the
waggon and 13000 into the canal. The poor animals
struggled on for nearly a mile, and through the arches of
two canal bridges, before they were drowned ; and the man
who was riding upon one of the fore horses saved himself by
clinging to the branches of a willow tree, as the horses were
negligence of the waggoner,
floating down the stream. The team of horses thus lost by
who took this road contrary
ttoheorndeegrs to save a little trouble, was considered one of the
best in the neighbourhood, and worth at least 1001.—
Leicester Mercury.

DEATH FROM A WAGER.—On Tuesday afternoon 111
young man, named Edward Hucker, living in Granby-street.
Waterloo-road, undertook, for a wager of IL, to swim sorra,
the '1 hames from Milbank to Lambeth within twelve minutes,
and got in the water ior that purpose a short distance from
the bridge at three o'clock, it being then high water. The
unfortunate man got about 200 feet from the shore, when he
gave a loud shriek and instantly sunk. The party with whom
he made the wager were hastening over the bndge to meet
him on the opposite shore, and could render him no as-
sistance, and the poor fellow, who it is supposed was seized
with cramp, perished. On Friday a similar occurrence took
place at Milbank, when a young man, named Darby, lost
his life.

SEASONABLE HINTS TO CANARY BREEDERO.--•
All birds of a uniform colour, when paired together, produce
their exact counterpart. In order, however, to secure an in-
finite variety of colours, to which, in the canary, there can
be no objection—if a male grey be united to a mealy hen,
or vice versa, the issue will be more handsomely marked
than their parents. By carrying out this principle, which I
cordially recommend to all who can give their time to it,
results may be produced of a truly interesting character.
Birds of every shade, and every tint, may be reared • in fact,
such combinations are inexhaustible.— William
Gardner's Chronicle. liat'd in the
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FRANCE.

. The, jloiiileur contains the promotion of M. La-
•-:oss,• ex-Minister of Public Works, and of M.
Larabit,Tepresentaiive of the people, to the rank of
:dicers in the Legion of Honour. The official journal
rllso contains a decree from the President of the
_Republic, and countersi:oled by M. Giraucl, the
Minister of-Public Instruction, declaring that in case
hi hops of a diocese should take premises to open
private schools, as allowed by the law now in force,
ttklease and other papers must be drawn up in their
private name, and not under their diocesan title, " the
faculty allowed them," says the decree, " of founding
such establishments, not by any means extending to
the length of directing them, according to their own
will, and independently of the superintendence allowed
in the matter to the fitting authority."

SWITZERLAND.

A.letter from Friburg, of the 30th ult., says :

" Public tranquillity has not been disturbed in the
slightest degree since the deplorable affair of the
22d ult., and the false alarm of the 231. Two dus ago
cert%in houses were ser.xched, to ascertain whether, as
reported, insurg,,nts wore secreted in them; but none
were discovered."

The same journal states that M. Carrard, parish
priest
of Lentigny, brother of the famous chief of in-
surgents, and M. BersiEr, chaplain at Rue, have been
arrested.