The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-04 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

The Lyceum Italian Opera Company closed on Saturday
evening with "La Favorita." The cast, we need hardly
say, was that which so long rendered Donizetti's opera a
favourite in nature as in name at Covent-garden, Grisi
being the erring and severely-punished Leonora, and Mario
the chivalrous Fernando. The house was exceedingly full
and loudly demonstrative in its expressions of approbation.
The opera was followed by "God Save the Queen," Ma-
dame Grisi taking the first and last solo verses. The sea-
son, considering the unpropitious circumstanees under
which it originated and has been carried on, has been a
brilliant one, and reflects the highest credit on the spirited,
entrepreneur.

DETERMINED SUICIDE.--About a quarter past twelve
o'clock on Saturday night, a man named Cambridge
threw himself off the bridge in the York 'road (Maiden-
lane), into the Regent's Canal. An alarm was instantly
given by some witnesses, and a boat was quickly at the
spot, but not before the unfortunate man had sunk, after
having, apparently, made some desperate struggles to
recover himself. After the lapse of upwards of an
hour the body was found by Police-constable 206 S.
Mr. G. Pickess, surgeon, of 13, Caledonian-place, was
anon after in attendance, but life was of course extinct.
the police subsequently conveyed the body upon a
stretcher to the dead-house of St. Pancras, there to
await a coroner's inquest. Rumours are rife'as to the
cause which prompted the commission of the rash act,
but, pending an inquest, it would be imprudent to give
them publicity. Deceased resided at 32, Sidney-street,
Caledonian•road, and had been absent from home on the
previous night.
OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Lord Chancellor has
appointed Mr. E. J. Cobby to the vacant clerkship in
the Registrar's office. The Lord Chancellor has, under
the provisions of the County Courts Act of last session,
appointed Mr. Serjeant Manning, Mr. Koe, Mr. Cook,
Mr. Worlledge, and Mr. Ferner, five of the judges of
the County Courts, a standing committee for the fram-
ing of rules of practice and for regulating the costs of
attorneys in these courts, and has appointed Mr. Henry
Nicol their secretary. Mr. Serjeant Dowling, member
of the late committee, under 15 and 16 Vict., c. 54,
being abroad for his health, and the duties of the com-
mittee ,requiring to be commenced immediately, could
not be appointed a member of the present committee.
Mr. James Beeby is appointed chief clerk ; Mr. Oliver
H. Davis, first class clerk, first section ; Mr. Charles
Spence, first class clerk, second section ; Mr. Henry
Butler, acting first class clerk ; Mr. G. H. Johnson,
second class clerk, in the Accountant-General's Depart.
ment of the Admiralty, Somerset House.
JENNY LIND'S GAINS.--A London correspondent of
the Manchester Guardian says :--" The friends of
Madame Jenny Lind have been computing how much
she has amassed during the present season. Madame
Lind has thus, I am assured, netted a sum of eighty
thousand pounds during her farewell London and pro-
vincial season. The only musician whose concerts at
all approached those of Jenny Lind, in point of popu-
larity and profit, was Paganini. The great Italian
violinist made 15,0001. in one short season. The-mid-
dlemen stepped in between the public and the singer,
and have netted thousands of pounds by buying up
wholesale the tickets, and retailing them to the public
at prices varying according to the demand. After the
music-houses had bought up the tickets, the public pre-
sented themselves pretty early in the morning, as they
thought, at Mr. Mitchell's, and were told the tickets
were all sold. John Bull grumbled loudly at being re-
ferred to the middlemen, and said be did not mind how
much profit the artiste made, but said he did not see
why he should pay Cramer and Beale three guineas for a
ticket which Mr. Mitchell professed to sell for one guinea.
But grumbling was useless. The sums made by the music-
ships may be conceived when I state that seven and eight
guineas were paid for tickets to some of',Madame Lind's
farewell concerts. I think I shall be within the mark if
I assert that the sum paid by the public for the privilege
of hearing the Lind during the season just terminated
is little short of 200,0001."
THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND THE TORRINGTON
BURIAL BOARD.—It will be probably recollected that
shortly before the prorogation of Parliament the conduct
of the Bishop of Exeter, with reference to the non-can-
secretion of the Torrington burial ground, was brought
under the consideration of the House of Lords by the
-Earl of Portsmouth. The burial ground has been pro-
vided, in accordance with the provisions of the lath acts
of Parliament to abolish intramural burials, and is pro-
perly fenced and protected against trespassers. The
Bishop of Exeter refuses to consecrate that part intended
for the members of the established church, on the ground
that one end--that which comes close to the dissenters,
although the whole ground is surrounded with a high
substantial wall—is open, and that the burial ground is
not fenced according to the canon., and under that
technical objection, without any regard to the altered
times and circumstances, his lordship refuses to conse-
crate that portion of it. A few days since the bishop's
secretary informed the burial board that the bishop
would consecrate the ground in accordance with the re-
port of tae select committee of the House of Lords on
the Burial Act, and dated the 4th lilt., recommending
a railing as a line of demarcation, but the board, with
one dissentient, declined the terms, and prefer waiting
till next session in the hopes that an effectual and gene-
ral alteration will be made in the law, rendering the con •
sent of the'bishops as to the finished state .of the ground
before consecration unnecessary.