The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-04 00:00:00

Madame Puzzi's Matinee d'lnvitation.

With her usual skill, taste, and success, Madame
Puzzi assembled together yesterday morning, at the
St. George's Hall, Langham-place, a gathering of
the elite of London society, numerous enough to fill
to overflowing one of the largest halls in the metro-
polis. It was Madame Puzzi's graceful task, and a
task worthily executed, to inaugurate with the
bright month of May the noble hall of St. George
by holding there the first matinee of the season, and
we cannot but hail the auspicious omen, and hope
the walls may long retain the echoes of sweet tones
which resounded within them on the occasion.
As usual Madame Puzzi had catered well for her
friends and 1 atrons, and dvery choice little selec-
tion was prepared for them, in which Mdllo. Fanny
Puzzi, Mdlle. Enequist, Miss L. Pyne, and one or
two other lady singets, touk part, supported by M.
Jules Lefort, Signor Ciabatta, Herr Reichardt, and
Mr. Pa•ey, as vocalists, :Aid Mr. Aptommas, M.
Paque, and Mr. Blumenthal, as instrumentalists.
The hall, we were told, was in the occupation of
workmen till past twelve on the previous night, and
even now neither entrance is finished, while only
the one in Mortimer-street was available. The
hall will, no doubt, be more agreeable to the olfac-
tories, when the smell of very new paint, new
boards, wet plaister, escaping gas, &c., have disap-
peared. Unusual regard has been paid to the com-
fort of the occupants ; the seats in the body of the
hall are all fauteuils of roomy construction, and re-
markably easy ; liberal space has been allowed be-
tween the "rows," and as there is no middle " aisle"
(as it is so often erroneously called) it is almost ne-
cessary to substitute an arrangement which admits
of free circulation from one end to the other of each
bench. The ball appeared to us remarkably well
adapted for sound, and the ventilation is admirably
contrived.

Some little time before the concert began every
seat was filled, and a number of those present had
to be accommodated with chairs.

Mdlle. Fanny Puzzi delighted the audience with
the perfection of her style, and amply compensates
in taste and finish for what she wants in power. No
rendering of " Voi the Sapete" could be more ex-
quisite, and it was gratifying to see it,was appre-
ciated. In the concerted pieces with Mdlle.
Lascelles, Signor Ciabatta and Mr. Patey, Mdlle.
Puzzi was equally excellent ; indeed, under all cir-
cumstances, she is mistress of her part no less than
of her voice. Miss Ryan's performance on the
piano was highly creditable to a young aspirant,
and promises well. Mr. Trelawny Cobham, a
cidevant amateur, was much applauded in a romanza
from " Faust," and Mr. Patey acquitted himself ad-
mirably, whether in his English or Italian niorceaux.
In the latter his pronunciation is much more felici-
tous than is usual with our countrymen. Mr.
Blumenthal's " Message"—a clever and brilliant
performance—was succeeded by a spirited "March,"
which was received with merited applause.
Of M. Jules Lefort, whose first appearance this
season was welcomed by Madame Puzzi's invites.
What can we say more laudatory than that he was
himself ; and we may add that the deafening
plaudits which vainly strove to encore the dulcet
strains of Gounod's bewitching serenade eloquently
expressed this conviction.

We must not omit mention of Mdfle. Enequist,
whose magnificent organ and commanding style are
so well suited to the spirited and characteristic na-
tional airs with which she delighted the audience,
nor may we pass over llerr Reichardt's effective
rendering of Goldberg's arch little " Romance," fol-
lowed by his own graceful composition, "1 long for
the violets of Spring." NIL Aptommas's fantasim
from " Lucrezia Borgia" was a masterpiece at once
of expression and execution—a raro example of
a tour de force, as pleasing as it was surprising, and
M. Paque's masterly performances on the violon-
c,.;110 were a valuable addition. We may pronounce
the matinee a decided success.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—This Day

Market opens steady. Sales probably 10,000 o.
12,000 bales.

SHIPPING INfELLIGEINCE.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, May 3. —Talio, from Leranger ;. Dolphin, from
Wismar ; Eine], from Prelerickstadt ; Nord Star, from
Sannesund ; Heaton Hall, steamer, from Uddewalla ;
Germania, steamer, from Hamburg; Franz von Mathies,
and Restless from Stettin; Star of Peace, from Dantsic ;
Amieitia, from Malmo ; Martha, from Sarpsborg ; Bazaleel
from Patras; John Duncan, from Dantsic ; Hebe, from
fielsingborg ; Eider, steamer, from Geestemunde ; Taurus,
from Hamburg.

Arrived, May 4.—Tonning, steamer, form Gerstemunde;
Maas and Moselle, steamers, from Antwerp; Mowe,
steamer, from Bremen; Concordia, steamer, from Bou-
logne; Belgium, steamer, from Ostend; Adela, from
Buenos Ayres.

Sailed.— Seine, steamer, for Boulogae ; Vo lun teer
steamer, for Bordeaux; Norma, steamer, for Stettin.

Mr. J. Pope Hennessy, late M.P. for the King's
County, has been offered the Governorship of Labuan and
Consul-General of Borneo. The salary of the joint offices
is £l,lOO per annum.

Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart, M.P., and Lady
Mordaunt have arrived at 15, Chesham-street for the
season.

Lady Williams Bulkeley has arrived at the Alex-
andria Hotel, Hyde-park-corner.
KILLED BY TIIE KICK OF A lIORSE.—A child
named Richardson, four years of age, was kicked in the
face by a horse, in the stables of the Ship-yard Inn, Selby,
and died in consequence of the injury.
RESIGNATION OF A POOR-LAW INSPECTOR.—Mr.
Hurst, who has held the appointment of Poor Law In-
spector in the northern district 17 years, has resigned.
His successor has not been announced.
GOVERNOR HINCKS.—On Wednesday the West
India Committee entertained Governor Hincks, on the
occasion of his return to British Guiana, at dinner in the
Clarendon Hotel, the chair being occupied by the Right
Hon. Stephen Cave, ALP., supported by Mr. Crum Ewing,
M.P., and a largo number of the principal proprietors of
estates in that colony.

EUGENIE, Empress of the French, has lately in-
timated her intention of restoring Trianon—the once
favourite retreat of Queen Marie Antoinette—and Mal-
maison, the refuge of the Empress Josephine, after her
divorce from Napoleon I. By the restoration of these
long-deserted palaces to what they were when !he ill-fated
liana Antoinette last smiled on the ono, and the unfortu-
nate Josephine fat wept on the other, her Imperial Ma-
jesty challenges the sympathetic remembrance of the
" whole world about to flock to the Exposition of the
triumphs of Peace on the Champs de Mars," in bahalf of
her predecessors above-named, whose misfortunes were
partly due to stormy scenes enacted in past times on that
very spot.—The Gentleman's Magazine.
TIIE SUGAR DUTlES.—Yesterday the New Sugar
Duties took effect. The highest duty for refined sugar
is 12s. per cwt., and the lowest on sugar imported is 8s
The duty on sugar used by a brewer in making beer is
3s. Bd. the cwt.

CLOSING OF TILE BRADFORD CANAL.—The waters
of this canal, which unites with the Leeds and Liverpool
in the valley of the Aire, about four miles from Bradford,
have been run off, and yesterday the canal was closed to
traffic. An injunction from the Court of Queen's Bench,
involving penalties of £lO,OOO, against the continuance of
the canal in a polluted condition, for its waters had long
formed an intolerable nuisance, has led to this result. The
proprietors, finding no mode of purifying the polluted
waters of the canal, received as they were from the Brad-
ford brook, have put an end to further difficulty, so far as
the nuisance is concerned, by ceasing to take water froni
that the only source, and have closed the canal.
STRANDING OF A MAIL STEAMER.—HOLYHEAD,
9sst o passengers,
Holyheadsselliger struck on the rocks called
Mountain, during a dense
e
Friday. - A few minutes after twelve a.m. the Royal Mail
steamer Leinster, bound from Kingstown to this port, with
thoer nub' moils
th isannd
, East
fog, and remained fast. The lifeboat Princess of Wales,
belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, was imme-
diately launched and proceeded to the steamer, and ren-
dered every-possible assistance. The mails and passengers
were lauded, but the crew remained on board, and at high
water the steamer floated, and is now safo alongside the
Government jetty.
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.—SORIe
time back a gentleman residing at IVortham, In No;fo k,
named Balls, on returning from Harleaton Market, fell from
his horse, and sustained eo serious au illness in co :au:pence
that all his hair came off. He was perfectly bald. His
friend, the Rev. Mr. Daniel, offered him a wig as a tempo-
rary substitute; and in the meantime he tried very fortu-
nately the- effects of Rowli.nds' Macassar Oil. What was
the consequence? Part of a bottle produced the re-growth
of a thick and luxuriant head of hair, with (what the first or
original growth had NOT) a beautiful tendency to curl. This
is a very striking instatue of effrmey front the fan; of the
debility ~Zit4 precp4o the refitoratiout
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

EXCHEQUER CHAMBER.

(Before the Lord Chief Baron, Baron Martin
and Justices Byles, Keating, and Shee.)
THE QUEEN V. CHAL3IERS.

In this case the prisoner, whose conviction it was
now sought to quash, had been in the employment of
a draper at Devizes, who set him up in business for
himself on the occasion of his getting married.- It
appeared that the prisoner entertained a delusion that
his wife hal had criminal intercourse with her former
employer, and that he was the father of a child
which the prisoner had believed to be his own.
Acting under a morbid state of mind be wrote two
letters to the prosecutor, accusing him of having
debauched _his wife, although a married man him-
self, threatening to send the child in question to
him, accusing him 'of being a systematic seducer
of " maid, widow, and wife," demanded a snuff of
money, and threatening in case of r, fusal to send a
bullet through him. He was tried b,2fore the Lord
Chief Baron and convicted, and sentenced to a term
of imprisonMent.

The application to the Court to quash the
finding of the jury was grounded on the argil-
ment that if the prisoner honestly believed that he
was right in his suspicions he was not legally
culpable, and that the letters in question did not
really contain a menace.
The Lord Chief Baron—What, not a menace,
threatening to shoot a man through the head ?
(Laughter.)
The Court approved the finding of the jury.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Harriet Peckham, a young wo-
man, was charged before Mr. Knox, with attempting to
commit suicide by drowning herself in the Serpentine.
Joseph Bolton, a young man residing at No.lo, Market-
street, Edgware-road, deposed to seeing the prisoner deli-
berately walk into the Serpentine. He went in after her
and pulled her out, and she was taken into custody.
A person stepped forward and said the prisoner had kept
company with a man and been seduced by him, and after-
wards she found out that he was a married man, and she
had been labouring under despondency for some days past.
Mr. Knox asked the prisoner where her father lived,
but she refused to answer.

Police-constable Joslin, 363 A, said that on taking the
prisoner into custody she stated that she wished she had
done it, as she would then have been better off, and if she
had a chance she would do it yet.

The young woman's father stopped forward, and Mr.
Knox told him that he thought the best thing he could do
would be to remand the young woman for a few days till
her mind became calm, and told the father that he could
speak to his daughter.
The young woman, who declined to speak to her father,
was remanded.