The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-23 00:00:00

THE SUN,, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1868.

at this meeting which could at all disappoint those
present as to the permanent success of their wisi'les.
The opinion of the public has been so often ex-
pressed on the subject of Workhouses that it is not
likely any one would attempt to go counter to its
views ; and the Earl of DEVON seems to appreciate
the importance of the subject, for he spoke out in
a much more independent manner than is often met
with from those in his position, who are too apt to
become entangled in the fatal meshes of precedent
and expediency.

There appears to exist in India a very delightful
uncertainty respecting a matter on which we Eng-
lish folk are generally pretty accurately informed.
The condition of the national exchequer in Calcutta
is a problem with which those whose duty it is to
solve it appears very hopeless to deal. Last year
the Secretary of State prepared Anglo-Indians for
a deficit of some £1,800,000. Last quarter that
unpleasant prospect brightened, and the estimated
deficiency was reduced one-half. Now the news is
better still, and we are told that there is to be no
deficit at all ! Perhaps by the time we get
the financial statement we shall hear that it
has turned into a surplus. There are, how-
ever, some grounds for the change, which,
whatever its origin, must be a welcome one.
Opium has yielded a million more than was expected,
and the license tax a quarter of a million more. On
the other hand, the public works have cost half a
million less than the estimate. As a general rule
this is an unsatisfactory mode of saving, since an
Indian surplus would be dearly bought by any
needless delay in the prosecution of public works.
If these had been pushed on with due vigour twenty
years ago we should notnow be talking about deficits
in the Indian Exchequer ! The country is produc-
tive enough to avoid any such awkward pre-
dicaments, but Indian financiers just now
are doubtful how to act. The system of taxation
calls loudly for revision, since the burdens fall
unequally. The classes who do not hold land pay
very little, while the landowner comes in for a
share of every burden. The salt duties press un-
equally on the poor, and it is held in many quarters
that a modified income tax would be a better and
more equitable means of raising the requisite funds.
When the Budget has fairly shown the real condi-
tion of the Treasury we shall perhaps find some
sensible schemes of financial reforms laid
before the Council. At any rate we may re:
cognise a marvellous change since the days when
wise men doubted whether India would not be too
costly an encumbrance for England to maintain.
The new postal arrangements are occasioning
much dissatisfaction, since the Calcutta correspon-
dents are of opinion that unnecessary time is lost
in the manner of starting the mails. There is some
ground for this complaint, as the weight of corre-
spondence is thrown on the Sunday, and Indian
correspondence with England is no light thing.
The Government of India has suggested to the
Home Government a change of day, which would
make a great difference in the ease and comfort of
letter-writers, without in any way interfering with
the interest, of the service. The constitution
of Bengal under the new regime is just now occupy-
ing a good deal of attention in high quarters. Sir
JOHN LAWRENCE, perhaps from personal experience,
is strongly opposed to the formation of a Council to
assist the Governor. No doubt Sir JOHN has often
found his Council a hindrance rather than a help,
and India is not the place for delay and delibera-
tion, or for any appearance of uncertainty or vacil-
lation in the mind of the governors. Lord CRAN.
BORNE'S opinion on the subject was pretty clearly
expressed not long since in the House of Commons,
and much of what he said carried conviction with it.
The home Government is empowered to give Bengal
a Governor and Council like Madras and Bombay,
but it would be easy obtain the sanction of Par-
liament to a change which was already shown to
be desirable. It is useless to form a constitution
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The arrival of the Australasian, from New York,
on the 11th inst., does not bring us any intelli-
gence of importance. The summons to appear
before the Senate Court has been served on the
',RESIDENT by the Sergeant-at-Arms, and the PRE-
SIDENT has replied that the matter should have his
attention. This is all we hear of the impeachment,
but there are ether matters which have some sig-
nificance. The Conventions of the several States
are making themselves busy with regard to the
coming Presidential contest. Georgia has nomi-
nated General GRANT, who, in spite of his recent
inconsistency of conduct, still claims a good
many suffrages. South Carolina has shown what
its idea of individual liberty is by passing a
resolution requiring all persons voting for the new
Constitution to vote also for the candidates nomi-
nated by the Convention. It is a very different
thing to support a particular Constitution and to
be forced to choose, as popular representatives, per-
sons nominated by others. There is an end in this
case of representation at all, since the real election
lies with the nominators, and the farce of voting
may as well be left out. The object of the Conven-
tion, which is, of course, composed of Radicals, is
to keep the representation of the State entirely in
the bands of their own party. The Radicals
are apparently aiming at this in several places,
since they feel no doubt that it will
not be possible always to exclude the
members for the Southern States. If instead of
the Democrats, of whom they have hitherto been ap-
prehensive they can by a little ingenuity obtain
staunch Radical allies, the representation of the
South will,be a direct gain to them instead of a loss.
It will not, however, be an easy matter to manage,
especially when the Impeachment crisis is passed.
Signs of division between the Houses of Congress
are becoming apparent—the House of Representa-
tives, in fact, becoming intolerant of any superior.
The Reconstruction Committee, always ready to
make war on the world, has recommended the pass-
ing of a bill to admit the Alabama representatives,
on the ground that fraud and violence have
been used to defeat the new constitution in that
State, and that the Senate unwarrantably delayed
the passing of the House Bill, providing that the
majority of votes in each State shall decide the
elections under the Reconstruction laws. This pro-
vision, as we know, however apparently just and
reasonable, is only superficially so, inasmuch as the
registration laws take good care that the majority
should always be on one side ! Financial matters still
perplex both Senators and Representatives, and
although the latter have refused to vote upon a
resolution in favour of the gradual substitution of
currency for bonds, they have referred it to the Com-
mittee of Ways and Means. The ways and means to
escape from the present embarassment are not easy
to find, and, though the ugly word repudiation is
not often heard, we are beginning to catch murmurs
of its more polite imitations. We cannot but hope,
however, that the American people at large have
too much energy, good sense, and right feelingito

consent to any humiliating alternative. Their
country is rich enough, and time is before them.
Their debt is of but few years' standing. Let them
have patience and resolution, and when once the
incubus now weighing on them, in the shape of
civil dissension and political recklessness, is re-
moved, they will soon recover their lost ground, and
show the world that they can clear off a big debt
as fast as they can incur one.

LATEST INTELL LGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.
SUEZ, March 21.

Advices received here from Abyssinia (date not
given) state that King Theodore was entrenched
ou the Talanta plateau, and that he intended giving
battle. The Filts (? Fifth) Brigade was to advance
on Ashangi on the 11th March.
Nearly all the troops are now on the highlands
(received as zighaiands). Large supplies have been
collected in the neighbourhood of Antola.

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, March 23.

The Royal Mail steamer Etna, from Halifax on
the 13th inst., arrived here at 4.45 a.m. to-day.
After landing the mails and passengers she pro-
ceeded for Liverpool at 5 a.m. All well.

SOUTHAMPTON, March 23.

The North German Lloyd steamer Weser, from
New York, passed the Needles at 9 a.m. to-day.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, March 22, 2.15 p.m.
The elections both here and at Oporto are pro-
ceeding with the greatest tranquillity.
March 22, 5.25 p.m.

Accounts received from nearly all the depart-
ments state that everywhere the elections are pro-
ceeding most peaceably. The results, so.far as
they are at present known, are favourable to the
Government, the members of which who were can-
didates for Lisbon baying been elected.
Senor Fontes, formerly Minister of Finance, has
lost his seat.

OUTWARD CAPE MAIL.
FALmotrra, March 23.

The Cape of Good Hope Company's steamer
Asia embarked the mails and 50 passengers at the
Docks Pier and sailed at daybreak yesterday, taking
out £25,000 in specie and a valuable cargo.

SOUTHAMHTON, March 23.

The English bark Grecian Queen, bound from
Shields to Point de Galle, has put in here for re-
pairs, having collided off the Isle of Wight with the
English bark Infanta, of Newcastle.
The Grecian Queen had her jib-boom carried
away, her figurehead slightly damaged, and her
cutwater started.

The Infanta's rigging was slightly damaged.

FRANCE.

PARIS, March 23.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes an Im-
perial decree relative to the contingent of 100,000
men.

Another decree opposes the accession of Turkey
in Asia to the International Telegraph Convention
of the 17th May, 1865.
BOURSE, March 21—Three o'clock. —The market
closed as follows :-
4k per Cent.
End of month... Ital4an Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 69 10 Mexican Loan ... 16 50
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 260 Spanish Threes 38 25
Credit Fonder ...1485 Home Debt 35
End of month... Deferred 34
Account

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Saragossa
Roman 5O

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, SUNDAY, March 22.

4The red flag has been hoisted at Bordeaux." This
news has a startling sound. It is really somewhat serious
though not so alarming as appears at first sight. The
facts are these. According to the semi-official Etendard,
which is not likely to exaggerate the occurrence, at two
o'clock yesterday afternoon a band of men appeared
suddenly on the All4es de Tourny. They bore a
red flag, and some of them were armed with sticks.
Some attempts at disorder took place. The Commissary-
General, at the head of his agents, tore away the flag from
its bearer, and then engaged in a struggle with the dis-
turbers of the peace. The Prdfet of the Gironde marched
to the spot with a picket of honour and gendarmes. They
made some arrests, " and in ten minutes all was over."
One agent was wounded. The account goes on to say that
the behaviour of the people was perfect, and that they
blamed the rioters. A police commissioner, we are in-
formed, endeavoured by paternal words to turn away the
young men from their culpable folly. The Mobile Guard,
who were undergoing revision at the time, took no
part in the disturbance, but remained perfectly calm.
Presuming that this affair is no worse than the Govern.
ment organ has made it out, it is yet somewhat serious, as
indicating a growing unpopularity of the Imperial regime
in the large towns. We are now looking forward with
some anxiety to the enforcement of the Army Bill in Paris.
The Corps Legislatif is expected to vote to-morrow without
any opposition the two millions (280,000) forthe relief of the
distress in Algeria. It will also sanction the prosecution
of M. de Kerveguen for slandering the Paris journals.
The telegraph has already informed you that the editors
of the Situation and the Figaro have been found guilty of
slandering the Chamber. The editor of the second
mentioned paper has to go •to prison as well as to pay a
fine. What would your journalists think if they were
liable to incarceration in Newgate for declaring that the
House of Commons was past its work and ought to be
dissolved ?

The irritation which this trial has produced will not be
lessened by another which came off last Friday. A certain
association, called the Working Men's Intern'ational
Association (Societe Internationale des Trarailleurs) was
lately started, in order to discuss such matters as co-opera-
tion, strikes, the wages paid in different countries—certainly
very legitimate objects of consideration. But the members
omitted to obtain the authorisation of the Government,
which is necessary when a society consists of more than
twenty persons. For this cause fifteen of them have just
been put upon their trial, and, after making an able de-
fence, in the course of which they said that they did not
think of demanding the Government authorisation for such
an association as theirs, they were each sentenced to a fine
of £4 and thirty days' imprisonment.
The report that the Emperor means to go to St. Peters-
burg gains ground, and it is taken for granted that he will
call at Berlin on the way. The Prussian official papers
ace now admitting that Prince Napoleon had a mission,
but that be had no definite instructions.

The Minister of Commerce has just stated, in a speech
delivered to the Corps Legislatif, that 30,000 working men
received hospitality in Path during the Exhibition, and
400,000 free tickets were given.
Baron Haussmann's-street making mania has had the
effect of bringing to light a large number of crimes which
have taken place no one can tell how many years ago.
There is scarcely a street or a boulevard upon the site of
which human remains have not been discovered. During
fifteen years no fewer than 300 skeletons have been found.
If to these we add all the bodies which have probably
been thrown into the Seine, those which have been burnt,
those which still remain buried in the cellars of the houses
that the Emperor of Paris has not yet touched, we have
room for any number of additional chapters to Eu,One
Sue's " Mysteres de Paris."

The Calcutta correspondent of the Times gives several
interesting items of Indian news. Sir John Lawrence
resigns the Viceroyalty on January 11, when his term of
office will expire. He will, says the correspondent, carry
with him the blessings of four classes of the community—
the English soldier, the sailor, the native peasant, and the
third-class railway passenger. One of his latest acts,
which seems to have been the proximate cause of this
eulogy, is the providing of a room in every barrack where
a married scripture-reader will reside, and hold prayer
meetings with the soldiers. The Viceroy is a Presbyterian,
and this arrangement would seem to be intended as a
demonstration against the Bishop of Calcutta, the general
of division, and some of the military chaplains, who are
accused of Ritual tendencies. The other day a Highlander
in one of the regiments grounded arms, and absolutely
refused to enter a church to which he had been marched
on account of objections to the mode of conducting the
service. As a religious controversy of this sort was likely
to endanger the discipline of the army, an order has been
issued permitting the troops to go to any place of worship
they chooSe. As regards secular matters, we learn that
Sir John Lawrence is strongly opposed to granting a
Council to Bengal, being convinced of the importance of
maintaining direct personal government and single respon-
sibility. Mr. Grey, the new Lieutenant-Governor of
Bengal, takes the opposite view. The correspondent
thinks it hard that the 150,000 pure Englishmen in India,
89,000 of whom are English gentlemen chiefly resident in
Calcutta and Bengal, should not be represented if such a
Council is to be appointed. In financial matters the great
event has been the unexpected discovery of a surplus.
Ten months ago the deficit was estimated at £1 ,827,500 ;
it is now said to be non-existent. Opium has, for the first
time during Mr. Massey's n'ginze, yielded a million more
than was anticipated. There have been other circum-
stances tending to the same result. The correspondent,
however, puts no faith in the figures, and pretty broadly
intimates that the accounts have been cooked in order to
prevent the levying cf the unpopular income tax. The
new mail arrangements have caused the greatest possible
dissatisfaction. They have been so fixed that while
Englishmen at home have the whole week between the
arrival of one mail and the departure of the next, Anglo-
Indir.ns will have to work all day Sunday in order to
answer their letters by the return mail.

From the Times of India we glean the following items :--
The rebellious Naikras have been attacked near Baroda,
and their leader has been killed. Sir Seymour Fitzgerald
is in ill health, and was prevented from attending the
opening of the Bombay Art Exhibition. Captain Cun-
ningham, who, it will be remembered, was some time ago
cashiered by court-martial, has been restored to his rank,
and will receive the arrears of the pay which should have
been given to him if he had not been cashiered. A strong
illustration this of the unsatisfactory character of military
courts of justice.

The information respecting the reported murder of
Azim Khan is vague. According to a Peshawur telegram
to the Indian Pubic Opinion, dated February 16, the
Amir had been killed by Muhammad Sharif Khan. Some
travellers who have just arrived deny this, and state that
the Amir who had gone to a feast at Kutsha-Merdom-
Chandol was, on returning, shot down close to the Kutsha-
Chandol gate by a man with a carbine who had hidden
himself there.

The Melbourne Argus of February 14 believed that the
Victoria Government would not obtain so large a majority
at the impending general election as it did at the last.
Opposition candidates had not been chary in exposing the
administrative blunders and offences of the Government.
The financial mess into which the Government had
brought the country has been a fruitful theme for the
speeches of the Constitutional party. A deficiency of
£650,000 on the year—that is to say, the revenue falling
short of the estimated expenditure by that amount—was
felt by the Government to be so damaging a fact, that the
revenue returns were withheld for a fortnight beyond the
usual time of publication, and until the first batch of elections
were over. Nevertheless, the "Constitutional" party—those
who resist the intrusion of the grant to Lady Darling into the
Appropriation Bill—had an uphill battle to fight. The
Ministry were believed to have secured the co-operation of
a large section of the squatters, who are content that the
Constitution should be subverted if only they can retain
their runs on favourable terms after 1870, when their
present tenure expires. The power conferred by so many
millions of acres of land being at the absolute control of
the Ministry is in itself sufficient to secure a majority for
almost any Ministry.
The civil servants in Victoria were compelled to go
without any money, in consequence of the recent decision
of the Supreme Court that it was illegal to pay money
which had not been sanctioned by the Legislature. It
was believed that Government were about to issue promis-
sory notes. The subject of meat-preserving was attracting
much notice, as well it might when mutton was selling
for ld. per lb. Captain Cadell had reported in favour of
the Liverpool River as the site of the capital of North
Australia. The Duke of Edinburgh had received an
address from 800 old colonists of Victoria, some of whom
were the earliest settlers in the colony.
The deficit on the Italian Budget for the year is esti-
mated at 8 millions sterling ; the previously accumulated
deficit is variously stated at from 2-1 to 32 millions ; it is
probably not less than 30 millions. Count Cambray-
Digny's financial proposals—the macinato, or grinding tax,
and the additional income tax, will reduce the first-mentioned
sum to 2 millions. It is hoped that by the sale of the
Church lands he will be able to make a substantial. assault
upon the larger amount. Hitherto, however, these sales
have not brought in. much ready money, in spite of the
heavy discount offered to purchasers for cash. It is sup-
posed that the Government will have to arrange a finan-
cial operation with one of the great houses. The rumour
that such an arrangement had been made with Rothschild
14 &Alec],

THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

Mr. Gye's New Season-1868.

The Prospectus just now issued by Mr. Gye
demands a more than ordinarily cordial welcome.
This we award to it at once, as it deserves. For an-
other year, at any rate, London is to have a couple of
Opera Houses instead of the one grand amalgamated
establishment that was promised to us by arrange-
ments which were but very recently all but com-
pleted, yet which after all fell through, as we now
very clearly understand, through no fault whatever
attaching to either of the two great rival managers,
Mr. Gye or Mr. Mapleson. The former, indeed,
in the preamble of his recently issued Pro-
spectus, gives a very lucid account of the
manner in which these hitherto merely rumoured
arrangements were opened up, carried apparently
to a successful conclusion, and then abruptly, and
(it is impossible that we should not add here at once)
most vexatiously dropped altogether. The expla-
nation runs in effect as follow :—" About the
middle of the month of January," says the Pro-
spectus, " Mr. Gye received an application from
the managing director of one of the financial com-
panies in the City, requesting an interview on the
subject of some contemplated opera arrangements.
The plan, as explained to Mr. Gye at that inter-
view, was the following—The financial company
was about to enter into an agreement to purchase
the interest of the Earl of Dudley in the lease of
the site of her Majesty's Theatre, as well as the in-
terest of the ground landlord of whom that lease is
held. The company also intended to purchase
of Mr. Mapleson the interest which he had
in the remaining term of his lease of the theatre.
These three interests having been bought up, it was
the intention of the Financial Company to sell the
site of Her Majesty's Theatre for the erection of
some public building--probably for a branch of the
Bank of England or for a West-end Post-office.
The managing director of the Financial Company
then proposed to Mr. Gye to sell the Royal Italian
Opera, thus uniting the interests of the two Opera-
houses under one direction." The result of these
negotiations was that, in the course of a few days,
a contract was signed for the sale of Mr. Gye's
Covent-garden property to the Financial Company
in question for the sum of £270,000. This con-
tract, it should be added, was not a provisional or
contingent one, but a contract for a posi-
tive and definite sale, with specified pay-
ments to be made at certain fixed dates.
This was on the 25th of January, and the manner
in which the decision agreed upon between the
contracting parties was arrived at was this—that
Mr. Gye frankly and most honourably "placed at
the disposal of the Financial Company who had
agreed to purchase his property the whole of the
account books, with every account, receipt, and
voucher, appertaining to the receipts and expendi-
ture of the Opera-house for the last ten years—that
is to say, since the building of the new theatre ;
that four professional accountants were engaged
at the theatre during seven days ; . that he gave
instructions to his Treasurer to attend upon
them and to show them every document they
required, and, that in order that they should
be in no way embarrassed, he ,abstained from
being present himself for a single moment
during the whole of their investigation." How
it is that, after all this, the arrangements
have (as they have) entirely fallen through, the
Prospectus now placed in our hands explains clearly
enough by the simple statement that the Financial
Company have not fulfilled their contract with Mr.
Gye, and that therefore the entire arrangement has
fallen to the ground. " Mr. Gye," adds the Prospec-
tus, upon this point, in conclusion, " regrets this for
two reasons—first, that after nineteen years of very
arduous labour he would have been but too glad to
have retired from the direction of the Opera, al-
though the proposed sum which he was to have re-
ceived would only have left him a very moderate
remuneration for all the labour and anxiety which
he has undergone, for notwithstanding the " exor-
bitancy" of the demands before alluded to, the
public have but very little idea of the cost of build-
ing and furnishing such an establishment as the
Royal Italian Opera ; secondly, that as the esta-
blishment has now been formed, and the outlay
made, Mr. Gye feels quite certain that had the pro-
ject been carried out it would, under prvper ma-
nagement, not only have produced an immense
revenue, but, by combining in one establishment
the very few great artistes who are now living, both
the cause of art as well as the interests of the public
would have been better served." However—possibly
—le bon temps viendra ! At present matters are
upon their old footing, for inasmuch as we
have still two great rival opera houses
here in London. With this difference only,
that they are brought into nearer neigh-
bourhood of each other, by reason of the disastrous
fire which destroyed her Majesty's Theatre but a
few months since—a conflagration necessitating the
removal of Mr. Mapleson's noble company of ar-
tistes, both vocal and instrumental, to their tem-
porary home and shelter, in our great national
Theatre Royal Drury-lane.
Reverting now, however, to Mr. Gye's Pro-
spectus, in so far as it relates to the prospects of
the Royal Italian Opera at Covent-garden
during the immediately on-coming season of
1868, we have to congratulate the public
at large, but more especially the subscribers and
habitues of that grand arena of the Lyrical Drama,
upon the radiant promise here set forth by way of
appetiser ! As for the array of great names, hardly
anything is left for us to desire in reason, whether
in reference to the Company, or in reference to the
Repertoire. Again, Mademoiselle Adelina Patti
and Mademoiselle Pauline Lucca, are to be, there,
the rival Queens of Song ! The former (Madlle.
Patti) appearing for the first time in England as
Elvira, in the Puritani! The latter (Madlle.
Lucca) in her turn appearing, for the first time, in
Auber's Domino Noir, now in course of adaptation
to the Italian stage by its illustrious composer. Then,
again—Mario is coming back this season to the
scene of.so many triumphs of his, in finer voice than
he has had for years past. One great name we miss
with regret from the list of Mr. Gye's company—
one of the greatest names connected for years upon
years with the lyrical stage, the name of an artist
and actor of true genius—we mean, Signor Ronconi.
In the ever widening repertoire, again, of the Rcyal
Italian Opera, we look in vain for what we should
have so gladly seen, any, even the faintest promise
of, that is to say, the Premier Jour de Bonheur of the
perennial composer of Fra Diavolo and Masaniello.
However, without saying a word about it in his Pros-
pectus, Mr. Gye may even yet vouchsafe it to us be-
fore the close of the approaching season ! The operatic
version of Hamlet we could spare, or at any rate wait
for, very patiently. But Auber's Last we would
indeed glad.y have welcomed ! As it is, however,
we must not be ungrateful ; for Mr. Gye is suffi-
ciently bounteous with his foreshadowed novelties,
conspicuous among which is the production of
Rossini's grand opera L'Assedio di Corinto. Be-
sides, who would not blush to utter one whisper of
complaint as to the absence from the list of any
opera that could be named, when Mr. Gye can
point, as he now does, to such a magnificent reper-
toire as the subjoined :

L'Africaine —Meyerbeer
L'Etoile du Nord—Moyer-

beer
Les Huguenots-3,leyerbeer
Dinorah—Meyerbeer
Roberto it Diavolo—Meyer-
beer

Le Prophete—Meyerbeer
Dou Giovanni—Mozart

Le Nozzo di Figaro— Mozart
11 Barbiere di Siviglia—ltos-
sioi

G nil iel in° Tell—Rossini
Otello—Rossini
La Gazza Ladra—Rossini

L'Elisir d'Amore—Donizetti
Linda di Chamounix—Doni-

Lucretia Rirgia—Donizetti
Don Pasquale—Donizetti
Maria di Rohan—Donizetti
La Favorita— Donizetti

zetti
Norma— Bellini
La Sonnambula—B3llini
I Puritani—Bellini
La Traviata —Verdi
Il Trovatore —Verdi
itigoletto Verdi
Ballo in Masehera—Verdi
Don Carlos —Verdi
Stradella—Flotow
Nlartba—Flotow
Zampa—llerold
Fra Diavolo -Auber
Masaniello—Auber
Il Giuramento - Mercadanto
FideHo—Beethoven
Orfeo—Gluck
Faust eMarglierita— Gouuod
Romeo e Ulu ietta —Uounod
rispino e la Comare—Ricci

Lucia ciihttmitiormoor— Do-

nizotti
La Figlia del Regginiento—
Donizetti

With a choice from such masterpieces, and with
artistes as peerless as those already named, to in-
terpret them—those artistes supported by instru-
mental performers and choral singers, such as
ara marshalled under the baton of Mr. Costa
on the stage and in the orchestra of Covent-garden

—what true lover of music is there amongst us wh 0
does not look forward with delighted and confi-
dent anticipations to the New Season at the Royal
Italian Opera, as it is here sketched out for us, in
anticipation, in Mr. Gye's brilliant and attractive
Prospectus ?

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 22.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by their Royal Highnesses Princess
Louise and Prince Leopold.
Her Majesty, their Royal Highnesses Prince and
Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur,
Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice attended
Divine service this morning in the Private Chapel.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Capt. Ens,
visited Mr. Leighton's studio on Saturday afternoon.
Tue Princess of Wales drove out, attended by
the Marchioness of Carmarthen, on Saturday.
BERLIN, March 22.—The baptism of the youngest
son of the Crown Prince of Prussia was celebrated at four
o'clock this afternoon. He has received the names
Joachim Frederick Ernest Waldemar. The godfathers
and godmothers present were the King, Queen, and Dow-
ager Queen of Prussia, Princes George and Adalbert, the
Cesarewitcb, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of
Saxony, Prince Augustus of Wurtemberg, Prince Henry
of Hesse, and the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar and
Oldenbui g.