The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-16 00:00:00

Betting-7 to 4 ngst Judge, 3to 1 :Tat the Voucher coft,
6 to 1 agst Vintress, 100 to 15 agst Resistance.
Resistance made the cunning, with a slight advantage
of Miss Bigot and Judge, until half the distance had ben
covered, when Victress got.her head iu front of Miss Ba-
got and. Resistance. At the distinoe Miss Bagot retired,
and the Voucher colt coining with a rush got l!vel with
the other pair, but Resistance dropped back slightly at the
Stand, and the Voucher colt and Victresi ran a dead heat.
A length in rear of the pair Resistance was third, a head
only in front of Judge. Miss Begot was fifth, •and Li'lie
last.
Deciding Heat —6 to 5 on the Voucher colt.

The Voucher colt held a slight lead till just outside the
(listancP, when Victross passed him, and won in a canter
by two lengths.

Thu wiuuur was sal to Mr. Sttlph3usou for 100 gnioeag.
Thu Longloat Stakes of 1) sous each, 5 'ft, wit!' 50 adlo:::

Ono mild and a. half.

Mr. Payan's Citron. by Leamin,ston—Lnatonado's dam,
by Urn John, 3 yrs 63t, 111 i.)
M. XV. D,ty', e, by Nrudett..t —.ALI ry Sa.,h.f.e's dam, 3
yrs, ist. 3W - (1.1. Stidler) '2
Mr. E. Bray'ey's Dunro, 5 yuss, bit Jib (CaL.non) 3
13etting-13 10 6 oit Uitroo, S to I asst D .n.tro.

1)ouro held a clear 1-3.1.1 of tho Sun:hMe's dam
ail Livourite, ua waitiag or lers, lying the
rear until a quartm of a mile from huoie, whoa Douro
dropiwil away. aa (Jar j the .I.l,rry Sun.shiue's
dant colt at thd rant a file rite.) home,
the favourite wiauius v.ory clov.rly by a leek; Douro
was a Lai third.

The'Quocu's Plato of 10) guluem. Three miles.
Mr W. aty's Fair Star, by atpo Plya way —L +gord,mit tin,
3 yrs, 74 81b (G. S‘tpii) 1
Mr Bettyley's Prince 11,:zent, 3 yrs, 7st 611) (car. 7st lt1b)
(Cannon) 2
Mr. Hope's Leading Suit, 4 yrs, 9.it 71b (Maidment) 0
B:tting-2 to 1 CW. Prince Regent, 3 to 1 ugst Fair Star.
Fair Star was in front throughout, awl won in a canter by
a length and a half. Loading Suit did not pass the post.

PRIVATE THEAIRICALS AT CORNWALL
ROUSE.

Among the numerous operettas prepared for
chamber uses, suggested by the success of Mr. G.
A. Macfarren's "Jessie Les" at the Gallery of
Illustration, the " Rival Beauties" of M. Alberto
Randegger is one of the most agreeable, and
though performed, if we remember rightly, at the
Crystal Palace some three or four years ago, de-
served a more pennant existence than it then met
with. The present taste for private theatricals
has extended itself to operatic performances of
this cabinet class, and several notable experiments
of the kind have been made by certain leaders of
fashion during the present season, but in hardly
so remarkable a manner as on Wednesday evening,
when the above-mentioned opera by M. Randegger
was given under the auspices of Mts. Freake,
of. South Kensington, whose magnificent mansion
was thrown open to upwards of four hundred of the
beau monde, including many distinguished members
of the world of literature and art. The spacious
music room was fitted up with a prettily-decorated
prescenium and stage, and provided with an orches-
tra of 25 instrumeritalists from the Royal Italian
Opera House. The principal characters of the ope-
retta were undertaken by two ladies well known in
polite circles as skilled amateurs—viz., Miss Harriet
Young and Miss Cordelia Mitchell; while the other
parts were filled by Mr. W. 11. Cummings, Mr.
Lewis Thomas, and Mr. C. Barrand. The plot,
we may remind our readers, turns upon the con-
trivances of a certain lady, Edith Carleton, to escape
marriage with Sir Percy Ringwood, whom she has
not seen, but to whom she has been betrothed. Sir
Percy, however, has been exiled for some political
cause or other; but, with the connivance of one
a smuggler, he comes over clandes-
Tom Deloraine,
tinely to England to claim his bride, and lands at
the same village in Kent where Lady Edith has do-
miciled herself in the house of Stephen Lynn, a
miller. Accidentally made aware of his cowing, she
asks the miller to let his daughter Alice pass for her,
to which the miller is nothing loth, as he hopes, by
judicious manceuvring,to secure Sir Percy for himself
as son-in-law. Thelatter, however, fs more fascinated
with the miller's pretended daughter than with the
pretended lady, who acts her part with due extra-
vagance, and disgusts. him with her airs and vani-
ties. The real Lady Edith, in the meanwhile, dis-
covers that she has wade a mistake in proposing the
exchange of positions, and would willingly reinstate
herself as regards Sir Percy, with whom, having
seen him, she is now in love ; but S.r Percy, natu-
rally enough, hesitates to believe her. Other ex-
pedieuts, therefore, have to be resorted to, and with
the connivance of Tum Deloraine she proposes to
dress herself up as an officer arrived from Lou-
den to arrest Sir Percy, while her confederate,
'Vow, undertakes to pass as a Chancery official
empowered to detain the ficti:ioas Lady Edith.
Meanwhile Sir Percy, in a spirit of honour, has ten-
dered his hand to the miller's daughter, and,of course,
has been accepted ; but the arrangements are in-
terrupted by the execution of Lady Edith's plot,
when an amusing imbroglio is brought about, but
which is presently terminated by the disclosure of
the real facts of the case,. and the restoration of
the " rival beauties" to their respective positions.
Thus Lady Edith, by this means, recovers Sir Percy
—much to his satisfaction—for herself ; and that
Alice, thereupon, is content to marry the smuggler,
may be taken for granted. Of M. Rendegger's
music much may be said in praise. Although light
and fluent it contains repeated evidences of well ap-
plied scholarship, the tunableness of the general
character not being the only appeal that it makes to
the sense of enjoyment, inasmuch as the instrumen-
tation, although unobtrusive, betrays to the attentive
ear a graceful commend over the resources of the
orchestra, and a just and felicitous use of them. M.
Randegger, we believe, is an Italian, but his musical
proclivities are so far German as to induce him,
when suitable opportunities offer, to employ the most
elaborate forms of writing, and to resort to those
colourings which are the aim and the delight of
technical experience. The two acts are diversified
with the usual songs, duets, and concerted pieces.
The first are of more or leis interest, but they are
all, cast in an original mould, while those who are
simply sentimental are as tasteful in design as
they are expressive in effect. The duets are gay
and sprightly, and certain of them are tinctured
with a genuine comic gusto, indicating a buffo
vein, which, under larger circumstances of develop-
ment, might be still more profitably worked. The
two quartets and the quintet —an especially
well constructed morceau—are in each case skilfully
laid out for the voices, while the two finales, brief
as they are, are descriptive, and terminate the acts
with freshness and spirit. Miss Young, the repre-
sentative of Alice, sang thesuprano music with showy
brilliancy, but her special qualifications are histrionic,
and her portrait of the pretty rustic, who is suddenly
converted into a fine lady, and in a spirit of vulgar
assurance aspires to be thought one, was replete
with genuine stage ease and the finesse of
the practised actress. Miss Cordelia Mitchell, who
filled the role of Lady Edith, poSsesses a contralto
voice of rare beauty—rich, sonorous, and exqui-
sitely true in tune. Nothing could be better
adapted than ono or two of the incidental songs of
the operetta to exhibit it, and this, superadded to
au intuitive taste, did everything for the music
that the composer, We apprehend, could desire.
In the duets and concerted pieces the value of a
singer so highly favoured
,by nature was sensibly
felt, and did much for the physical charm of the
ensemble. jr. Barrand, a baritone, embodied the
Miller with considerable humour. Of Mr. W. 11.
Cummings and Mr. Lewis Thomas little need be
said beyond the fact that they sang with all their
well-known ability. We have only to add that the
operetta throughout was nceived with the liveliest
satisfaction by the audience, and that the singers
were called before the curtain, and loudly coatpli-
mented at the end of each act.. M. Randegger
himself conducted, and of course shared largely in
the glory of th: thinonstraio The Standard.

DEATH OF A TRIBUNE: CO:IBESPOND7NT. —We
regret to atinount-4 3 the death of 11....1a5. Ooopot• Warner,
correspondent of the New York Trisurt3, io Patrteil, ui
malignant fever, indoc3.l by exposure. Mr. Warner w.ts
formerly chess editor of the Spirit, acid one of the best
players in the country. lie was out twenty-three years
of age, but had risen to a credit tole profession for one so
young. His residence iu Panama was of brief duration.—
scarcely six months - but in that time he made many warn`
and attached friends. The United StateJ Vice-Con:uf
General Hoff, at whose house ho died, surreauded him
with every comfort and att.ltion, ::n.l his lAst 1119111 3uts
were soothed by the moat unremitting kindness and sytu-
pathy.— Wilkes' Spirit.
During a quarter of a century Ilorniman's Teas have had
an immense sale, and as they arc nowSd per pound Cheaper,
in consequence of the Refaced Duty, the demand will
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