The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-05 00:00:00

GOOD PAY,

our singers at the top of the ladder get well paid.
For instance, we are told that the Marquise De Caux
(Adelina. Patti) is to receive £B,OOO for singing at St.
15
Peters burg during the season commencing on March
an ending on November J. The Orchestra,
which supplies this information, hopes that the
rumoured withdrawal of Patti from the united Operas
is not founded on fact; but if she is engaged to sing
in St. Petersburg, how can she be amusing a London
audience ? Our contemporary further informs us
that Madame A lboni has consented to sing in London,
in Rossini's Mass, for the modest sum of £l2O a
night.

EASTER AMITSInIENTS.
All London is flocking just
now, and paying its
shillings readily, to a combination of all the talents.
There are first, a lady who professes to be eight feet
high, next, the poor Siamese twins, and lastly, a Circas-
sian lady, whose hair (either by nature or by training)
stands on end. Puritans,
who would be horrified
at a concert, as being one of the pomps and vanities
tf this wicked world, take their children to see these
most edifying shows. Art's success is thought to be
wickedness. but Nature's failures are elevating.
DISRAELI V. HARDY.
'There are rumours of revolt in the Conser-
vative camp. The John Bull does not confirm them,
but to a certain extent justifies them. Our contem-
porary complains that Mr. Disraeli knows nothing of
Church matters, and makes such blunders in his
Church appointments that he alienates those who would
otherwise be his warmest supporters. Lord Derby
acted very differently. " When the time comes for
his letters to Bishops
Claughton and Selwyn to
be published, the world will be surprised at the
knowledge and earnest convictions which the late
Tory Premier had on Chorch matters. But when
Mr. Disraeli came into office what happened ? His
acquaintance with the clergy
was a limited and a
local one. He might well have consulted Mr.
Hardy. But no. The appointments to bishoprics
and deaneries were
openl canvassed in political
salons • and though Mr.y Disraeli's good sense
prevented his falling completely into the trap laid
for him by a peer and a Tor,agent, the Protestant
interest was supposed to have been secured by some
recent Church appointments. Is it or is it not true
that political agents said that if the Bishop of Oxford
was made Primate the battle at the hustings was
hopeless ?" Of course the peer referred to is the
present Earl of Abergavenny, and the agent is
Mr. Spofforth. It is not for us to defend Mr.
Disraeli against his own party ; but it should be
remembered that he made one of the best episcopal
appointments of late
YeArs that of Dr. Magee to the
see of Peterborough.
However, thereby hangs
a tale : the appointment was made in the belief
that Dr. Magee was a Low Churchman. He
certainly is not that. The Spectator calls Mr. Hardy
the Spencer Perceval of his time, and considers
that ho has retrograded, inasmuch as lie did
once admit that to establish the Church of a small
minority of the people in any land was a great
" anomaly." The Saturday Review thinks that the
Conservatives generally are very glad that they are
out of office, because they can now shout "No Sur-
render" in accordance with their true principles, and
are very glad that the liajority against them is so
overwhelming, because they will not be obliged to do
anything more than shout.

CHINESE REMEDY FOR TIIE VINE DISEASE.—The
Chinese—it is said—use a thick paste made of flowers of
sulphur and aluruinous clay; as a remedy for the vine
disease. The paste is laid upon the ground about tho
vine.