The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-14 00:00:00

E V ENING, APRIL 14, 1858,

L &TEST NEWS.

F ALL

LUCKNOW.

The following telegram, from her Majesty's
Acting Consul-General in Egypt, was received at
the Foreign Office via Malta on the 13th April,
at 5 p.m.:—

The steamer Ganges arrived at Suez yesterday
evening from Bombay.
The following intelligence has been telegraphed
from Suez :

BOMBAY, MARCH 24, 3 P. 31.

Lucknow fell on the 19th ; 117 guns captured:
about 2,000 of the enemy were slain during the

siege.
Mrs. Orr and Miss Jackson rescued.
Eight officers killed.
The townspeople and the villagers being pro-
tected, are resuming their occupation.
The submission of the principal landholders has
been accepted.
About 50,000 of the enemy have escaped,
making for Rohilcund and Bundelcund. The
army is in pursuit of the rebels.
The delay of Sir H. Rose's force for 3 weeks at
Saugor prevented the line of troops, intended to
intercept the enemy, from being closed up.
Sir H. Rose, with the 2d division of the Raj-
pootana Field Force, was within 25 miles of
Jhansi on the 21st of March. Thirty thousand
rebels are said to be in his front.
General Roberts' force marched from Nusseera-
bad to Kotah on the 10th and 11th. The dis-
tance is 120 miles.
The Calpee mutineers have taken the fort of
Churhard, and made the Rajah prisoner.
Whitlock's force remains in charge of Saugor ;
the cavalry only having pushed on to Allahabad.
Stewart's brigade captured Chunderee on the
17th.
This telegram arrived at Malta from Alexan-
dria by merchant-steamer at noon on the 13th of
April.

LYONS, Admiral.

MALTA, APRIL 13, 12.30 P.M.

The Rhone has arrived from Alexandria, bring-
ing tidings of
the arrival at Suez on the 7th of the
Bombary mails, with dates to the 24th of March.
The whole of Lucknow was in our possession on
the 19th, but large numbers of the enemy had
escaped, and were making for Rohilcund and Bun.
delcu nd .

The submission of the principal landholders had
been accepted.

The townspeople and villagers were protected.
On the 21st Sir Hugh Rose was within 25 miles
of Jhansi ; 30,000 rebels were said to be in his
front.

The Calpee mutineers bad taken the fort of
Chundaree, and made the Rajah prisoner.
The rebels had crossed the Etwah, but had been
driven back.
General Roberts marched on the 10th from Nus-
seerabad for Kotah. Whitlock's force remains at
Saugor. The cavalry alone pushed on to Allaha.
bad.

The Bombay money market wasbecoming tighter,
Imports of all descriptions in good demand.
Cotton rising. Freights steady.
The dates from Alexandria are to the Bth April.

THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.
MALTA, TUESDAY.
The fleet under Lord Lyons sails for Tunis to.

THE KROO3IEN QUESTION.

The great Kroomen question came on in the
House of Commons last night, and Mr. Lowe
brought forward the motion, of which notice had
been given (in the Times) three weeks ago. The
right honourable gentleman must have been rather
disappointed at the result of his onslaught. He
had probably anticipated a full house, loud cheers,
and a sally from the chiefs of the Ministerial pha-
lanx. If such was the expectation of Mr. Lowe he
must have been sadly mortified by the event.
When he rose to speak, the house, which had been
full, was nearly empty, and in the delivery of his
prepared attack, he was not encouraged by a single
cheer. Instead of being answered by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, as he had
probably anticipated, Mr. Disraeli left him
in the hands of Mr. Baillie, from whom he received
a well-deserved rebuke for his ignorance of Par-
liamentary practice. Lord Palmerston, seeing the
mistake of his lieutenant, came to his rescue, and
gave the motion a friendly character. Negroes
would be very useful in India, said his lordship ;
and all that Mr. Lowe hid in view was to prevent
a renewal of the slave trade. This explanation the
right hon. gentleman thought it prudent to accept,
although it was in direct contradiction to the
speech which he had just delivered.
It is with great satisfaction that we observe that
the opinion, which we, in the first instance, expres-
sed in favour of the enlistment of Kroomen is now
confirmed by the authority of Lord Palmerston,
and also, as was stated last night, by the Governor-
General of India.

gorgeous pageantry, quaint architecture, and picturesque
costumes of the 16th century, and the ear delighted by some
of the most throroughly dramatic and beautiful music which
the modern composite school has produced. We nee -I scarcely
add, however, that there is a great difficulty in put-
ting such au opera properly upon the stage, or that great
credit is duo to the management which succeeds in the at-
tempt. With respect to the performance of last night, which
did not terminate until long past midnight, we must neces-
s^rily be very brief, and shall therefore devote-our critical re-
marks c'iefly to the efforts of the new prima donna, Madlle.
Titiens, who made her debut as Valentina, and Signor Gin-
glini, who appeared for the first time iu London as Raul. The
lady's success was complete. She was enthusiastically ap-
plauded throughout the opera, and unanimously called for
several times at the end of each act ; and what is better still,
the applause and " ov diens " were thoroughly deserved, for
Madlle. Titiens is a true artiste of the highest order; and
although slightly embarrassed when sho first came upon the
stave last night was soon able to make her extraordinary
powers, whether as singer or actress, manifest in all their
force and fulness to the audience.
Madlle. Titiens possesses a rich and beautiful soprano
voice, extensive in compass, and unusually equal in quality
through all the registers, It has also a voluminous and at
the same time penetrating and brilliant force, which, when
exercised to its fullest capability, as it was, for instance, last
night in the finale to the first act of " Les Huguenots,"
where Valentina sustains C in alt during some bars,
can predominate very distinctly over the immense body
of sound produced by a mass of i ,struments and voices.
She " produces " her voice in the best possible manner,
phrases admirably, and executes fl rid passsges with all
desirable clearness and nrillianlv. Her singing is also full of
dramatic accent and energy, which at the right moment can
rise to the loftiest and noblest heights of tragic passion.
Madlle. Titiens is, in short, a very great artiste of the
gusto grande order, andan immense acquisition to the Anglo-
I tal ian stage.

For Signor Giuglini's wonderfury fine delineation of Raul
we have likewise nothing but praise of the warmest kind.
The great Italian to❑or, who was evidently " on his mettle,"
as the phrase goes, exerted himself most strenuously from
first to last, and with the best possible success. His magni-
ficent singing in the septet occurring in the second act, " Per
tutti ii ciel" (in which he took a B natural in his chest voice
with a marvellous power which made the house ring), elicited
a rapturous encore, and the only one demanded during the
evening.
• (From the Morning Advertiser.)
The first impression made by Madlle. Titiens was favour-
able, though the few snatches of dialogue allotted to her pre-
paratory to the ballet are unimportant. Her beautiful do•
lineation of the passages wherein she discloses her fears for
the life of Ranl, menaced by the conspiracy of her father, St.
Bris, and Maurevert, stamped her as an artist capable of the
grandest efforts of tragic opera. The duet with Marcel,
" Nella uotte," and the tenderness and power of her " Ah !
l'ingrato," when Marcel departs to warn his master of the
contrived assassination, created an enthusiastic burst of ad-
miration from the house. Vialetti sang " Non pentirti" in
an artistic manner. The whole of this scene on the part of
Madlle.Titiens was a triumph. The burst wherein she tells tile
honest soldier that she is " une donna cho Fedora, a chi
morra ma per salvar suoi di," electrified the listening hun-
dreds, and success, brilliant success, was assured.
The culminating point of Madhe. Titiens' performance was
reached in the grand duet with Giuglini, " Tu mio sospiri,"
and the agonising scene that follows. The harrowing appeal,
" Che, Raul, it mio dolor," and her death like swoon, pro-
duced great effect, vocally and dramatically. One univer•al
call followed the exit of the maddened Raul from the window,
amid the cries of the slaughtered Huguenots. A shower of
bouquets greeted the gifted cautatrice when, led on by
Giuglini, she quitted the stage to be again called, and again
bowed her gratitude amidst descending flowers.
(Front the Morning Chronicle.)
The main attraction of the night's performance lay in
the debut of the new prima donna, Mademoiselle
Titiens. It was triumphantly successful, and deservedly
se. The voice of this lady is the most perfect soprano we
have ever heard—and we speak with a tolerably long me-
mory. For richness of tone and quality it is xnsurpassed by
any voice known in our times, while its extensive compass
and capability of sustentation, even up to the very highest
notes in the scale, render it an instrument of no ordinary
power in the hands of aconsumtnate artist likeMdlle. Titiens.
Her voice, however, is but a part of her attractions as a dra-
matic artist. The new prima donna possesses tragic power
such as is rarely met with in these days ; not the noisy, ob-
trusive demonstrative development of the dramatic art, but
something of a higher order, dependent on the impulses* f
her own nature. This was first indicated in the interview
with Marcel, before the duel between Raoul and St. Bris ;
but it reached its culminating point in the duo of the third
act, in which Mdlle. Titiens achieved a triumph which places
her at the present time in indisputable possession of the throne
of the lyrical drama. The talent of the new prima donna is
precisely of that order on which criticism is really thrown
away. As an actress, she is distinguished by impassioned fer-
vour, and dignity and grace of carriage—as a singer, she has
acquired an entire mastery over the mysteries of her art.
Sighor Giuglini s not new to the part of Raoul. He has
sung it elsewhere, and always with success. Last night, he
was able so to preposses 3 his audience, as to make th en for-
get a predecessor in the part who was supposed to have ful-
filled all the conditions of perfection. The exquisite quality of
this artist's voice, and the classical purity of his style, are his
least reaomMendations, if we may judge from his performance
last o coning, in the course of which, more especially in the
celebrated duo with Valentin in the third act, he showed him-
self capable of rising to the height of the most intense tragic
passion.

(Front the Daily News)
Mademoiselle Titiens is indeed a star of the very first
magnitude. Nothing that has been said in her praise
has been sufficient to give an idea of her powers as au actress
and a singer. She must be seen and heard in order to be
fully appreciated. She is, in the first place, a very fine
woman, with a beautifully formed figure, a noble air,
singular grace and elegance in every movement, and a face
full of intelligence and expression. She has a voice of mar-
vellous power and beauty, perfect in its tones in whatever
way it is used, whether breathed in the softest whisper or
uttered with all the strength and volume of which it is capa-
ble. Her execution is most finishe I, and she is evidently a
complete mistress of all the mechanism of her art. Her voice,
too, has the charm of youthful freshness the greatest, as it
is the most fleeting, of charms. Iu her acting she shows deep
earnestness. She identified herself in every tone, look, and
gesture, with the hapless heroine f the drama, and her re-
presentation of the character was one of the most pathetic, as
well as one of the most beautiful, that we have ever witnessed.
She found in Giuglini a worthy partner. The part o Raoul,
we think, is the most successful of all his efforts. He looked
to the life the young French gentleman of the 16th century,
bringing ent most felicitously the noble and chivalrous fea-
tires of the character; and he sang Meyerbeor's music, so
foreign to the school in which he has been educated, as purely
and effectively as if he had been "to the manner born" and
inured to it all his life. The impression m ,cle on the house
by the joint efforts of two such performers may be readily
imagined. During the great scene between Raoul and Valen-
tine—that exquisite yet terrible picture of love and despair—
which ends the third act, the audience seemed enchained in
breathless interest and suspense, till, at its close, that
deep silence was broken by thunders of applause and accla.
mations, prolonged and reiterated for several minutes. When
the curtain fell the same expressions of enthusiasm were re-
peated.

(Prom the Morning Herald.)
Of the principal singers we cannot speak at length at this
late hour. The new prima donna, however, can hardly be
passed off with scant notice. Her claims, indeed, are those
of a first-rate artiste, since it may confidently be asserted that,
with the exception of Jenny Lind—with whom, by the way,
she possesses not one quality in common, unless it be
genius—no singer since the earliest days of Grisi has
betokened the same amount of talent, and none ce tainly
created the same sensation on a first appearance. Madlle.
Titiens' voice is a pure soprano, of exquisite quality, in
its tone clear and liquid as a silver bell, of exquisite bril-
liancy, and far more than ordinary compass. Her upper
notes have an openness of sound which we do not remember
to have heard in any other singer. If we add to these quali-
ties unusual fluency and facility, and unorrieg intonation, an
admirable method, and a largeness of style which belonged to
Pasta alone of all preceding singers, our readers will enter-
tain some idea of the vocal powers and attainments of Mr.
Lumley's new prints donna. As an actress, ju igin; from
her performance in Valentine, said to be her greatest part,
she is hardly less entitled to our admiration. Tall, erect and
commanding in figure, she walks the boards with consum-
mate grace and ease, and impresses the beholder at a glance,
Her features, if not remarkable for beauty, are singula.ly
expressive, and her whole appearance letokens innate gran-
deur and dignity of mind, as befitting the empress of the lyric
drama. In Valentine's first scene with Marguerila, she has
only a few notes to sing ; but even these few notes declared
the beautiful quality and firmness of Madlle. Titiens' voice.
In the finale to the first act (the second according to these are)
its resonance and penetrating power were first manifested
The upper notes sounded clear and bright above the band,
chorus, and principals, and the curtain fell amid enthusiastic
cheers from all parts of the house, and a recall for all the
principals. As yet, however, Mademoiselle Titiens had quly
bee,. heard in concerted music, and opinion was held in
abeyance. In the scene in the P. e-aux-Ciercs, where Valen-
tine overhears the 'lot for assns inating Raoul, and having
met Marcel communicates it to him, which Involves the air
" 0 terror ! n3i spavanta," and the grand duet ' Nella notte
io col," Madl e. Titiens created au immense sensation, bo.h
by her acting aLd sin.,ing, and thenceforward arrested the
earnest attention of the enti,e-audienee. The lovely t ua-
lity of the voice and the pathos of the singer combined
the passionate phrase "Ali ! ingrate d'offesa mortale tone hed
every heart. The scene of the conspiration is a still more
trying ordeal for the artist who sustains the part of Va en-
tine; Madlle. Titiens, nevertheless, rose with the occasion,
and sang and acted with even greater effect throughout the
whole of the terrible scene. Not in the sin,g ng and acting
alone, however, will a real artist declare herself on such
occasions. Madlle. Titiens' by-play was inimitable. Her
terror, expressed in uneasy motions and hurried actions, lest
Raoul should overhear the details of the projected massacre
from his place of concealment behind the tapestry ; her a
eager
glances towards the place; her stealthy steps in
Raoul c thes
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with
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Hood, and Capt. Du Plat. Amongst the company honouring
the theatre with their presence were their Royal Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, his Excellency the Russian
Minister, the Duke of Leeds, the Marchion ss of Stafford,
Frances Countess Waldegrave' the Earl and Count° s of
Hardwicke, and Lady Elie. Yorke, the Countess Dowager of
Harrington, the Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warring.
ton, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Lincoln, Earl Granville,
Viscount G, ey de Wilton, Viscount Chels a, Baroness Lionel
de Rothschild, Viscountess Newark, Lord Ashburton, Lady
Harry Vane, Captain the Hon. George Mills, Hon. Otway
Toler, Hon. Seymour Egerton, Colonel the Hon. James Mac-
donald, C. 8., Sir Ralph Howard, Sir John Lowther, Sir Geo.
Wombwell, Madame Hut-iota, Alderman Salomons, Lieut.-
General Sir George Bowles, K.C.8., Sir Proby CautleY,
K. C. 8., Mr. Hubert do Burgh, Colonel Henry Damill, Col.
Mrs. Horace Twiss, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs. RoUpell,
Major Pule, Mr. C. P. Leslie, Captain Leyland, die.

The Gazette of last night contains some further de-
spatches irc mlndia, which have been rec-Avel at the East
India House. They are all of a remote date, and refer
to tratters concerning which the London papers have
given the necessary particulars.
Sir W. Fraser, M.P., suggests that the bridge about
to he erected over the amen, next above Wsterloo-
bridge, be called Sebastopol-bridge, and will put a que•
tien to the Chief Commissioner of Works on the subject
in the House of Commons to-morrow.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—{This Day)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY AT HER MAJESTY'S TBEATRE.-3 AMOS Dun•
can Grant, 45, and Charles Murray, 38, the former de-
scribed on the charge-sheet as a tobacconist, of Crown•
street, were charged before Mr. Bingham with stealing,
at Her Majesty's Theatre, a pocket-book containing a
cheque for 1501., the property of Capt. Durant, of Dover
street, Piccadilly
Capt. George Durant said—l was last night at Her
Majesty's Theatre, and on leaving was going to the
cloak-room for my coat, and while doing so a young man
came up and asked me if I had lost anything. I wit my
hand in my pocket and found my pocket book gone, con-
taining a cheque on Messrs. Cox for 1501. The young
man said it was the prisoner Grant. I followed and laid
hold of him. He said he knew nothing about it, and
that he was respectable. I held hire until the young
man came up with the other prisoner. We all pro-
ceeded upstairs to get out of the crowd, and while doing
so the pocket book fell on the stairs at the feet of the
prisoners, and be felt certain they dropped it.
Sir George Wombwell, of 18, George-street, Hanover-
square, said--I was coming out of the Opera-house last
night, and when at the foot of the stairs I heard .i.pme-
thing fall and picked up the book which was owned ,by
Captain Durant. I feel quite certain it dropped frOn
one of the prisoners, but I can't say which.
Jo3eph Bawn, of 19, Tichborne-street, said—l was at
Her Majesty's Theatre on the previous night, and ob-
serving the prisoners going about mysteriously, I kept
a watch on them. I saw them follow Captain Durant,
and saw the prisoner Grant push up against him. I
then asked the Captain whether he had lost anything,
and finding he had, I went off after Murray, and left
the other prisoner with the captain. I asked a gentle-
man to look out, and having done so, picked-up the
pocketbook.

An inspector said as the prisoners were being brought
out Murray threw away an opera-glass.
Murray said be never had the glass in his possession.
He was a gentleman living on an annuity.
Mr. Bingham said they bad heard the evidence, and
did they wish the matter settled there ?

The prisoner said they did, they were both guilty.
Mr. Bingham said he should remand them till to•
morrow week.

The prisoners said they wished he would settle it' at
once.

Mr. Bingham—No ; some more inquiries shall b
made first.

MARMT NEWB.—(rius Day.)