The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-26 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

La Juice was produced here last evening, if not in its
pristine completeness (for it was uecesaary to cut out a
deal of the music), at lead in more than its pristine splen-
dour. As a spectacle Li Juice, as performed at this theatre
last evening, has never been, we will not say surpassed,
but even approached in magnificance. The grand pro•
cession in the first act, the grand banquet scene in
the • third, and the' concluding scene of the
opera. the execution of Rachele, were perfect
marvels of splendour and picturesque grandeur.
The plot of La Juice is well known to all playgoers, it
is the same as that of The Jewess, produced some years
'since at Drury Lane as a spectacle, in which Mrs. Charles
Kean, then Miss Ellen Tree, app= aced as Rachel the
Jewess, and Vandenhcif acted Eleazar the Jew.
It was the first Gret cl Opera of Halevy and
its success at, the Grand Opera in Paris, in 1835,
when it was first produced, was only surpassed by that
of Robert Le Diable ; for this success it was mainly
indebted to the fine acting of Madame Falcon as the
heroine, but since her retirement from the stage it
has, we believe, never Leen produced. Should the
French directors feel inclined to revive it, however, the
absence of Falcon will no longer be an obstacle, for she
is surpassed in every respect by Madame Viardot,
whose acting •and singing as Rachele were so impas-
sioned and dramatic as to be-the making of the opera; the
trio in the second act, the denunciation of Leopoldo
is the third act and the closing scene of the opera were
histrionic displays of the very highest order. Mario
was to have sustained the part of Lazzaro the
Jew, but he was suddenly indisposed, and
Signor Maralti undertook are part at a short
notice. The audience had no reason to be
dissatisfied at the change. Maralti, who sang in French,
exhibited a force and power which left nothing to be
desired. His burst in the duet at the conclusion of the
first act, completely electrified the audience, and brought
down thunders of applause ; in the second tot, in the trio
with Leupoldo and Rachele, he was equally great, and in
the last scene he was superb. Tamberlik, as Leopoldo,
sung the music most effectively, and did what little he
had to du excellently well. Formes, as the Car-
dinal, was sublime; there was something awe-
inspiring in his tone and manner when be
thunders forth the anathema of the Church, and
his eating in the last scene, when he beseeches the Jew
to tell him where is his long-lost daughter, and when the
Jew, pointing to the cauldron in which Rachele has
plunged herself, exclaims •"There," was soul-harrowing
—it was almost too true to nature. The choruses were
very finely rendered, particularly the drinking chorus in
the first act, and the band did lull justice to the intricate
instrumental complications in which Ha'evy delights.
At the conclusion all the artistes were called before the
curtain. The opera was not over until nearly one
o'clock. The house was very well attended.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, TnuasDAT.

Fier Majesty and his Royal Highness, and the
younger branches of the Royal Family, were pre-
vented by the rain this morning from taking their
usual early walks and drives.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Nemours and his Serene highness the Prince Leopold
~f Saxe-Cobourg•Gotha, touk leave of the Queen and
Prince, and left Osborne this morning at eleven
o'clock.
Colonel Wylde has relieved Colonel the Hon. C.
Grey as Equerry in Waiting to the Prince.
There was no addition yesterday to the Royal dinner
party.

Her Royal Highness the Duchvs3. of Kent, at-
tended by Baroness de Speth, went to Claremont yes-
terday, and visited the Count and Countess de Neuilly.
Their Royal Eighnesses the Duke of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh-
Strelitz visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent y6sterday, at Clarence Howe, St. James's.
Mr. Howel Gwyn, M.P., and Mr. Morris, M P.,
had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at
the Hume-office.

U.'tie Committee on Elocution of her Majesty's
Most Hon. Privy Council held a meeting yesterday,
which was attended by the Lord President of the
C.,uncil, Lord John Russell, the Esrl of pinto, the
Earl of Carlisle, Sir George Grey, and the Chancellor
of the Exchequer.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours arrived at Claremont yesterday afternoon
from Osborne.