The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-16 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. '
Madame Fiorentini appeared last night as Donna
Anna in Don Giovanni, nod more than realised the
expectations which had been excited by her Norma.
There can be no doubt about the fact that Madame,
Fiorentini is the legitimate successor to Madame
Grisi, who will find in the new prima donna a rival
who will in the course of next season dispute with
her the throne of lyrical supremacy on her own
ground. The Donna Anna of Madame Fiorentini is,
we have no hesitation in saying, the very best at
present on the stage. Her clear, fresh, and
youthful yoke, and her youthful beauty are
great advantages in the representation of such a
part as that of Donna Anna, and her acting and her
singing were delightful. It was evident that she
reverenced M,zart because she understood him;
and never has MuzarL's music been more finely or

more conscientiously rendered. The scene in which
she recognizes Don Giovanni as the murderer of her
father was magnificently acted, and never have we heard
the beautiful air " Or sai chi" so deliciously rendered
as it was last evening by Madame Fiorentini. One
reason, perhaps, of the immense success which she
achieved in this air was that she snag it in its original
key as it was composed by Mozart, whilst the vocal
exigencies of the majority of her prede-
cessors in this character have compelled its
transposition. I❑ the concerted music her
fine voice and her pure and perfect in-
tonation told with immense effect, but the great
triumph of the evening, was the " Non mi dir bel
idol mit) " It was rendered with a mingled
sweetness and power that left nothing to be
desired, and her full, clear, rich, fresh voice seemed
to revel in the music of Mozart. She was applauded
to the echo, and was called on at the conclusion, as
she had been repeatedly during the course of the
opera. Madame Sontag made the most graceful
and coquettish of Zerlinas, and was, as a matter
of course, encored in the " La ci darem," with
Coletti, the " Batti Batti," and the delightful " Vedrai
Carino," which no one sings like her. Coletti was the
Don, Lablache the Leporello, his son Masetto, and
Madame Giuliani Elvira. The chorus and orchestra
were perfect, and Mozart's chef d'oeuvre was repre-
sented last evening, at her Majesty's Theatre,
in the most complete and perfect manner
imaginable. The house was crammed to
suffocation ; not a stall nor a hoz was unoc-
cupied. A crowd, reminding one almost of a
Jenny Lind night, assembled at the pit and gallery
doors long before they were opened ; the crush was
terrific, and long before the commencement of the
opera even standing roam was at a premium.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royall High-
ness Prince Albert honoured the performances at
the Royal. Italian Opera with their presence last even-
ing. Her Majesty and the Prince were accompanied by
the Count de Mensdorff-Pouilly and Count Alphonse
de Mensdorff-Pouilly. In attendance upon the illus-
trious party were Viscountess Canning, Lord Elphin•
stone, Major-General Wemyss, and Colonel Bouverie.
His Excellency General Jung Bahadoor, General of the
Forces, and Prime Minister to the Raja of Nepaul,
also honoured the theatre with his presence. His Ex-
cellency was accompanied by his two brothers, Colonel
Juggut Shumshere Jung and Colonel Dhere Shumshere
Jung. Major Cavanagh and Mr. M'Leod were in at-
tendance upon their Excellencies. Among the other
fashionable company present in the theatre we re-
marked his Excellency General Prince Castelcicala,
and the Princess Monte Negro, his Excellency the Pe-
ruvian Minister, the Marquis of Stafford, the Mar-
chioness of Conyngham and the Honourable Miss
Chichester, the Marchesa Brancaleonie and Mdlle.
Brancaleonie, the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland
and Lady Rose Fane, the Earl and Countess of Devon,
the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Durham, Viscount and
Lady Blanche Dupplin, Viscount and Viscountess Craw-
ley, Viscountess Seaham and party, Dowager Lady
Blantyre and the Hon. Miss Stuart, Lord de Manley,
Lady Charles Wellesley, Miss Burdett Coutts and Lady
Catherine Loftus, Lady Charles Somerset and Miss
Talbot, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel the Hon.
A. Upton, Hon. John Fortescue, M.P., Hon. H. Pon-
sonby, Hon. Julian Fane, Mr. Rashleigh and the Hon.
Mrs. Rashleigh, Lady Monson and party, Sir Ralph
Howard, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Hubert de Burgh, Sir
Frederick Thesiger, M.P., and Miss Thesiger, Sir
Richard Vyvyan, M.P.. Hon. Francis Stonor. Sir Wm.
Fraser, Sir Henry Mildmay, Mr. Greene, M.P., Mrs.
Greene and the Misses Greene, Hon. 0. F. Toler, Lord
Adolphus Vane, Sir George and Lady Armytage, Lady
Flint and party, Colonel Pearce, Mr. Henry Berkeley,
M.P., Mr. Henry Greville, Captain Wilson, Cc plain
Randall, Captain Steele, Captain Compton, Madame
Lizardi and party, Captain Edgell, Mr. Archibald Camp-
bell, Captain Hotham, Mr. Bulteel, Mr. Courtenay. Mr.
Dawson Darner, Sir John Burgoyne and the Misses
Bur 'no.

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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
FIRST EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF

M.B. 1850. •
FIRST DIVISION.
Hard wich, Thomss.Frederic, King's College.
Headland, Frederick William. King's College.
Hornidge, Thomas King, St. George's Hospital.
Lister, Jueeph, University College.
Pavy, Frederick William, Guy's Hospital.
Rooks, Thomas Morley, Guy's Hospital.
Simpson, Henry, University College.
Smith, Albert Daniel, King's College.
Trouncer, John Henry, University College.
Washbourn, Thomas Buchanan, Guy's Hospital.
Weaver, Joha Davies, University College.
SECOND DIVISION.
Brown, William, King's College.
Burchell, Baer Lod wick, Westminster Hospital.
C Durtenay, Richard Hudson, Ricbmond Hospital, Dub:in'
Jay, Edward, University College.
Maslen, William Edward, King's College.
Rice, Bernard, St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Shillitoe, Buxton, University College.
Stevens, Nicholas Henry, St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Swete, Edward Horatio Walker, Bristol and King's

College.
Tovey, Charles Henry, Guy's Hospital.
Walker, John %Vest, St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Williams, Aldborough Lloyd, University College.

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ECONOMICAL RAILWAY LOCOMOTION.— rid ay
a locomotive engine, only ten tons in weight (the ordinary
locomotive engines weighing 25 tons), arrived at the railway
station, Waverley-bridge, from Glasgow, with a train of six
carriages, having accomplished the journey from that city in
an hour and twenty minutes. The engine is understood to
be on the principle of Adams's patent, which is designed for
short distances, and is only to be attached to a single car-
riage, capable, however, of carrying about 100 passengers.
The experimental trip was understood to have been quite
successful.— Scotsman.

Mr. Furrier, the Judge of our County Court, is
engaged in London, with fuur other Judges of County Courts,
in revising the rubs and form of procedure in the County
Courts. In his absence, Mr. Furner has deputed Mr. Hasler
Ilollist to sit for him during the present circuit. —Brighton
Gazette.
OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON
RAILWAT.—T'ne works on the loop line have at length just
been commenced, so that Worcester, it is expected, will soon
be placed in communication with all the main lines.
CAMBRIAN GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—Tbe
order to wind-up this company has been discharged.
EXPENSES OF QUARANTINE STATIONS.—The total
expense of the several quarantine stations irl Great Bri-
tain for the eight years ending 1847 was 99,944/., and
the expense for 1848 and 1849, 8,431/. ; making the total
expense for ten years, from 1840. 108,3751. The ex-
pense of the station at Malta, from 1838 to 1849, NV6S
53,553/. ; Gibraltar, 7,966/. • Grosse Island and Quebec,
36,5081. ; Prince Edward's Island, 95,143/.; Bermuda, 1.41.;
Jamaica, 10,400/. ; St. Vincent, 14/. • Granada, 137/. ;
St. Kitts', 36/. ; Dominica, 25/. ; Trinidad, 25 i I.; Bahamas,
1,0891. ; Sierra Leone, 350/. ; Gambia, 160/. ; Mauritius,
20,0451.
DEATH OF WOMBWELL'S RHINOCEROS.—A blank
has been created iu Wombwell's splendid collection, now ex-
hibiting in Paisley, by the death of the female rtfnoceros,
which formed so prominent and interesting a feature in the
exhibition. It died on Sabbath morning. It had been in
the possession of the renowned collector for nine years, and
coat him 1,000/. We understand he has negotiated with the
directors of the. Edinburgh Museum for the disposal of the
carcass. The animal had been ill for a week prior to its
death, the cause of which has not been ascertained.
MURDER BY POISON.—A Parliamentary return,
printed at the instance of Mr. Stanford, of the number of
persons tried in. the United Kingdom for murder by the ad-
ministration of poison during the ten years, from 1839 to
1849, both inclusive, raves the following results:—Tried at
the Central Criminal Court, 33 persons, viz., 18 men and 15
women. Of the whole number, 16 were convicted of mur-
der, and 15 of attempts to murder. Tried atHome Circuit, 13
persons, convicted 3 ; Midland Circuit, 17 tried, 4 convicted ;
Norfolk Circuit, 22 tried, 9 convicted; Northern Circuit, 13
tried, convicted 11 ; Oxford Circuit, 23 tried, convicted 8 ;
Western Circuit, 20 tried, convicted 10; North Wales, 10
tried, convicted 6 ; South Wales, 5 tried, convicted 1 ; Scot-
land, 15 tried, convicted 7 ; Ireland, 25 tried, convicted 13:

MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, AUGUST 15.—The
market to-day has been exceedingly quiet, though prices
have remained firm, sellers continuing tolerably steady to the
terms of Tuesday.

MURDERS IN ARMAGH.—According to a recent
return the number of cases of murder and waylaying which
have occurred in the baronies of Upper and Lower Fews,
county of Armagh, during the last six ,years, is 33. The
number of persons arrested was 25. In ten casesthe prisoners
were acquitted or discharged, in three they were sentenced
to imprisonment for periods of from one to twelve months,
and three remain to be tried at quarter-sessions.

CAUTION TO kaUCUMBER EATERS.—A MAD, named
John Watkins, slater and plasterer, of Evesham town, died
early on Saturday morning last, from too freely eating
cucumber the previous night. The silly man ate no less
than three of these unwholesome things with his supper on
Friday night, atter which he went to the Bridge Inn and
called for a pint of ale. He had only one drink of it, how•
ever, when he was seized with a rattling in his throat, and
immediately lost his speech. He was taken home, where he
remained in the same state till about half-past three next
morning, when he died. Au inquest has since been held on
the body before C. Best, Esq., and a verdict in accordance
with the above facts returned.— Worcester Journal.
CRICKET UNDER DIFFICULTIES.—At a return
match between the young cricket club of Burneside and the
junior members of the Kendal Club, one of the most remarom
rk-
able features was the • playing of Walker, a youth f
Burneside, without hands, having been unfortunately de-
prived of those useful members by an accident at the pape
me
mill. Maimed Maimed as he is, he can do anything in the ga
except bowl. He bats very tolerably, and certainly most
extraordinarily for his means; catches a ball upon his
chest, with the assistance of his arms; and throws up a ball
with remarkable precision by means of his foot.-- Westmorc-
L rand Gazette. _ .