The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-03 00:00:00

SADLEh'S WELLS THEATER.

Verdi's star being now in the ascendant, his trngit
opera of " Luisa Miller" was last night produced
Sadler's Wells Theatre, f the first time in
bs
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coun.ry, and received with well-merited success. mer
plot, which is interesting, and drew forth the e4die
attention of a respectable audience, taxes, like. 56.
music, the whole energies of all concerned in its p„..
velopment ; and as each alike determined upon o`.,{
Con, the result was satisfactory. The approbation :,
the public was warmly elicited in the first act of
tb
opera, by a pleasing air, sting by Luisa (Mies
an effective duett, by Count Rodolfo and the Dachei;
Frederica (Mr. Haigh and Mlle. E. Poma); and II
creased by the finale, which caused the curtain to fa,
amid great applause, and compelled the re-call of 63-
vocalists.
act, an exceedingly pretty q
In the second usrtett
unaccompanied, was much admired ; and a patbet,.l
air, sari, with great taste and feeling by Mr. Haigii;
was loudly encored, and will become assuredll...A
general favourite. The dramatic effects in the' t,1110`;
act, wherein Count Rodolfo and Luisa die by P°l'ib9
at the feet of their parent, excited the audience er
their intensity ; and as Mr. Haigh and Miss 1),/,‘
spared no pains to render the scene as truth/1n
possible, the opera closed amid well-earned deal,
stations of approval. Mr. Tully, whose duty W d
arduous, was unanimously called for at the end,
received with deserved and long-continued plaudits'

The Mieses M'Alpine's annual concert, nuder therfeseS
di tinguiehed patrcaage, is fixed for the evening Of
14th inst., at the Hanover-square Room.. P"
gramme is of a highly attractive character.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN WEST SOMEnor..
Extraordinary progress has been made in the g"Wiell
crops during the past week, vegetation having as'nfee•
v 1
a healthy and luxuriant appearance since the fiall 0:1$
ther set in. Fruit trues are full of promise ; the „—a
and other cereal crops are thriving splentlidlY, 14;
for
good deal of grass West Somerset is already sal
the scythe. An early and capital crop of grass ,133„1 ii
ready been cut at Wellington. The potato P'3" tee
generally strong, and there is reason to hope that
di' ea ein this important esculent has abated. p
DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM YATES
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----We have to announce the demise of the Rig--aob rt
William Yates Peel (next brother of the late Sir t,"ssror
Peel), who died on Tuesday last, at Baginton Saleoe
wickshire. The right Lon. gentleman was seecin,f
of the first baronet by his first wife, daughter €
W. Y,tee, of Bury. He w.ie born in 1789. In b
of
1817, he was returned to Parliament for the born ug foe
itossiney, but on'y ripresented that constituenef
months, for in 1818 he was returned fur his IA
iv 01)
borough of Tam worth, which he sat for continuou' Cl
to 1830. He was then elected for Yarmouth, 16rtie001'
Wight. Ie 1831 he was returned to the House ofilverof
m ins, iu conjunction with the late Right 1100: f„atiog
Goulbure, for the University of Cambridge, cien-ooe"
Viscount Palmerston and the present Duke of ".eie
shire, then Mr. W. Cavendish, In 1835 he WaB ;set
elected for Tainworth, which he continued to reel. 011
up to the general election in 1337. From that 061 woe
to 1847, he remained out of Parliament, when btla tee
again returned fcr Tamworth. That year he bibtedlf
'misfortune to lose his wife, to a hom he was devng„j to
attached, and her death so affected him that he eea'-d hi'
take part in public duties. He consequently reiiline 4,1 0
seat iu the House of Commons, and has since the
secluded