The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-22 00:00:00

ROYAL ACADEMY OF rk.IUSIC, AT THE

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE

AMRIVAIS.

'The -third performance by the pupils of this In-
stitution took plaee on Stiturth6- night. In
respect its success was ever► more determinate than
at the previous repre;entations. The audience
wise was of the most brilliant description; and'the
Theatre Was crowded by nn assemblage of the'mtt:.
sical portion of our 'community, a circumstance
highly favottrable to so singularly 'an .excellent dis-
play of talent, which, though juvenile, has left an'
impression upon our minds which no comparison
with riper professional ability can ever eradicate.
The rapturous tokens of approval from such. an audi-
ence as that we now allude to, might briefly
serve to express our own feelings upon this truly
interesting and very surprizing exhibition ; but
gratitude for the unqualified delight we received
from the exertions of'the pupils, forbids that we
Shotild pass over in's° cursory a way the numerous
beauties that occurred during the evening's per..
formance.:r

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Lord and Laxly no:land, yesterday; at Holland House, from
Ripley, in Surrey ; of Lisburne, ficirn Vieriee, at Rich-
mond; Captain trancis Atkinson, of the 73c1 Regiment, in Pit.
cadllly; from Gibraltar ; Captain 'B. Walrond, in Chapel-greet;
May-fair; Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, in Grosvenor-place, from
Cheltenham; Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley, in Park-street, from
Ramegitte; Ceptain Sewell, of the ?2d Reziment, in Albemarle-
street, from Dorsetshira; Hon. General Taylor,
,in Hyde-park
lace; Captain Weyland, in Albeinaile-street, from Rochester;
Sir John Coxe Hippesley,Ratt. in 'Stratford-place; Captain Ga-
hagan, in .Seymour-street, from Rochester; Mr, and Mrs.
Tooke, in Burlington-street, from Paris ; Mrs. and Miss Hu,sey,
in Gloneeater-place, front Lyme 'Regis; in Dorsettiliiret'Major
Hall in Regent-street, from the Netherlands ; Mr. R. Rothery,
in• bomerset-street, from Brighteft ; Captain Delme, of the
14th Light Dragoons, at. the Si. John's Wood Barracks; Capt..
and Madame de .in Pali.rnall, frem -Paris ;
Captain "Donaldson, in Berkeley-square ; Colonel Houston,
in Piccadilly, from Croydon ; Major • and Mrs. Graham, in
Clarges-street, from Brighton ; Mrs and Miss Grainger, in
Somerset-street,: from Cheltenham; Mr. J. Tonnier, in Upper
Berkeley-street, from Derby ; -Mr. and Mrs. Vander Hoyden, iu
Pall-mall, from the Hague; .Major and Mrs. Day, in Brook-
street, from Brussels.
CHANGES.

Sir Charles Harding and Captain Harding, from the Royal
Arsenal, Woolwich, for Tunbridge Wells ; Captain Adeane and
Lieutenant Sloper, from Brighton for Canteibury ; Reverend
James Austin, for Sevenoaks,,. Kent ; Captain Agar. for Bath ,•'
Mr. James Daly, M.P. from Dublin, for Loughrea ; Captain and
Mrs. Clement, ftom Brighton, for Paris ; Honourable Colonel
Wood, from Littleton, in Statlbrelshire; Major Eden smith,
from Brighton, fox Bath ; Mr. James Norreys, for Hulme Hall;
Mr. and Mrs. Knight, for Litdlow ; Honourable IS: nrey, of the
Stb Htissars, for Paris ; Mrs., and Miss Preston, from Newport,
in the Isle- of Wight, for Brighton ; Major Robert-Carr, from
Rochester, for Northumberland.

Mach as we are disposed to admire the curious
instances of ease of deportment, uncommon facility
of 'utterance in the recitatives, and practical know-
ledge of that which is supposed. to imply a previous
study of Many yelrii, viz. stage bvAiness, we must
be insensible indeed were we silent upon the still
more astonishing result of the systematic tuition of
the Royal Academy of Music, as exemplified by the
orchestral illustrations to the beautiful opera again
selected for the execution of its pupils. The per-
formance of an elaborate symphony by the great
masters is supposed to require a more than ordinary
proportion of skill and experience. blended. But
we conceive that those qualifications are demanded
in a two-fold ratio, when applied to the accompani-
ment of such an opera as RO6SINI'S Barbierc di
Siviglia. The utmost experience in a director can-
not foresee the contingencies that so frequently hap-
pen in actual performance before the public, to dis-
tinguish it from a rehearsal,--a circumstance which
alone requires a large share of acuteness and steadi-
ness combined. The indispensible attention to the
little changes of time;that are so essential to more
perfect effect and good feeling in the vocalist, like-
wise creates a serious difficulty to numerous accom-
panyists, such as the orchestra presented upon the
present occasion. Nevertheless, we may safely
venture to assert that this Opera never was accom-
panied with greater judgment, or nicer discrimina-
tion, considering every circumstance attendant
upon its formation and composition. The leader
himself, little more than a boy—every individual in
it very young, and many of them absolute children !
yet the " en semble" presenting to the car that
which the mind would induce the eye to think was
utterly impossible. Our astonishment does not arise
so much from the individual excellence which the
pupils have attained, being well aware how much a
systematic organization can accomplish in all things
appertaining to. science. Soldiers may be admirably
drilled, and present to the mind a most imposing
spectacle to the beholder, of numerous persons
acting as if by one exclusive impulse when upon
the parade; bring them into the field of battle for
the first time, and we apprehend that men in the
possession of an inferior modicum even of theory,but
who have he ti the advantage of being engaged in a
greater number of actions, will carry off the palm of
victory from their more polished, yet less experienced
competitors. This analogy, however, so easily com-
prehensible, as well as of such frequent occurrence,
does not apply to the combinations or results.of the
Royal Academy of MuSic's discipline. It is this
that is so very remarkable in our estimation, and it
may well furnish matter of. serious reflection to the
more experienced musician. The long and difficult'
finale to the first act, " EM de Casa," was in every
respect as near perfection as possible. Some of the
Forzandos were given with magical effect.—
The Crescendos, too, were - managed with con-
aurnmata skill, and must have charmed even
the composer himself, whose partiality to that de-
scription of musical effect is so well known. In
short, we have never witnessed an orchestra under
_greater. CORtl'ol4l, and that too with less apparent
effort uponAho past of its leader—a circumstance of
itself Sufficiently remarkable, when we reflect upon
the enthusiasm that so frequently hurries young
artists into the commission of irretrievable fiascos in
musical execution. Miss CRILIA has extended her
reputation as a finkned and, very feeling singer, by
her clever illustration of RosINA. The duet, "Dun qua
n) Sono," was again most rapturously applauded and
encored. 'limn acquitted himself to the great
and manifest satisfaction of his auditory in the ar-
duous character of Alutaviva. The same may be said of
SEGUIN in. Basilio. And little BROMLEY, in the
burlesque song introduced into the Second act, called
forth an unanimous burst of admiration and risible
approbation of her quizzical efforts. The song was
loudly encored. *.APIO was infinitely more at home
in Bartolo; we wish he could infuse a little more
humour into his portrait. It, is quite impossible to
witness the dramatic efforts of DE BEGNIS, and not
to be satisfied he is an artist of the first description,
and his practical knowledge of stage effect has never
been more tangible to the senses, than in the curi-
ous results his dramatic pupils have now evinced in
so singularly a remarkable manner—we congratu-
late the Signor at its . triumphant success, the
noble directors of the Academy upon their choice
of so able an adjunct in the great cause; and we now
naturally look forward, not only to a second series
of Academic Opera, but to the more honourable
circumstance of their permanent establishment, us
also that of an independent BRITISH OPERA HOUSE.

Divine service was performed yesterday before
the Duchess of Kept and tke 'Princess Victoria in the pri.
vete chapel attached to the Doctietr3's apartraents.in Kett-
eington Palace. _

Prince Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, had
a long conference with the Earl af'Aberdeen on Saturday,
at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
In the evening the Noble Earl sent- off despatches from the
Foreign-o:ffice by an'ltalian messenger for the Right Hon.,
Stratford Canning. The messenger also took deep itches
for Sir.Fretlerick Adam, the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands, and it Was expected would proceed to
Ancona.

Lord Ellenkorough and Mr. Vesey Fitzge-
rald transacted business with l%lr. Croker on Saturday.
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Mr. Sef7etary Peel arrived in town on Satur-
,
day night from a visit to the Marquis of Chandos, at his
seat at Wootton, Buckinghamshire, where the Right Hon
Gentleman has been staying some days, in company with
the Duke of Si'cLington and a select party of the nobility
and gents y.
The Wyndham Club have taken possessior. of
the mansion of the Earl of Blesinton, in St. James's-
square, with its superb furniture and tine library of mo-
dern hook•, which the Committee of Management have
hired from his Lordship for three years, when he wil re-
turn to England.
Henry Brandreth, jun., Esq., has left town
for Brighton.
Mr. O'Connell has announced to the Catholic
Association his intention- of taking his Feat the first night
that Parliament meets. He expects to be accompanied to
England by about 300 Catholics.
A fine specimen of that rare bird, the Colum-
bus Immer, was killed near Topsham, on Thursday .se'n-
night by Mr. George Luke, of High-street, in this city.—
Exeter Weekly Times.

NEWPORT, DEC. 20.—0 n Tuesday the
Right Hon. Lord Yarborough arrived at his seat, Apple-
durcornbe Park, where he intends holding Christmas in
true Baronial style, and in full accordance to the " olden
days" usual on that festival.
MR. DE CRESPIGNY.—On Saturday last a
writ of habeas, for the removal of the Rev. Heaton Cham-
pion de Creapigny from Leicester to London, arrived at the
county gaol of Leicester. The Rev. Gentleman's friends
had been with him on the Friday and Saturday anxiously
awaiting the arrival of the document. He has nearly re-
covered from the dreadful cold with which he has been
laid up daring his stay in the prison, and preparations are
made for his departure on Sunday night (yesterday.) Im-
mediately after the Rev. Gentleman arrives in the metro-
polis, be will be conveyed in the custody of the Leicester
officers before the Judges of the Court of King's Bench at
Guildhall, when he will be admitted to bail till the next
Leicester assizes, unless he meets with an opposition on
the part of Lord Plymouth, which is not known. Some
allege that the noble Earl is, in London for the purpose.
The Rev. Gentleman has not the lettat appearance of ined-
nity about him at present, neither bad be at his first ap-
prehension, as be entered into conversation with the officer
both freely and rationally, but on his re-apprehension on
the ws' to Melton Mowbray his spirits were greatly de-
pressed. In re-apprehending him, the officer went a cir-
cuit of npwards of 50 miles, and on taking hint into cus-
tody, Mr. De Creepigny, who seemed' excessively fad-
gued, remarked that he had got hint at last, after a long
chase, and that he had tasted no refreshment since they
parted. The officer advised him to take some brandy
and water, which having done, they proceeded towards
Melton as already stated. Mr. Owston would have suc-
ceeded in recapturing the Rev. Gentleman a short timo
after his escape, bad he not chosen a bye-road, contrary to
his expectations.

POLITICAL CONCLAVE.—II is quite true,
we are given upon good Orange authority to understand,
that Mr. George Memo, Mr. William Holmes, and Mr.
Charles Boyton, are selected to meet the Duke of Welling-
ton, at Wotton, the seat of the Duke of Buckingham,
where his Grace's, son, the Marquis of Ckandos, will do
the honours to his noble, his reverend, end his Orange
guests. Of two of these persons we need not speak. Mr.
Holmes is well known to he what is called, with more
coarseness than ceremony, the Whipper-:r of the Mini-
sterial pack. He has been over in this country taking a
view of the state of parti, and lie brings with him for
the Duke of Wellington's iospection, two specimens.
Through Mr. Holmes' optics then, and thiough the optics
of the Rev. Charles Boyton, Brunswicker of Trinity Col-
lege, and of Mr. George Moare, Brunswick Representative
of the Corporation of Dublin, the Duke of Wellington
will be enabled to look upon Irish affaire. We congratu-
late the Noble Duke upon the selection which Mr. Holmes
has made—and yet, we should think that the despatches of
the Marquis of Anglesea are quite as trustworthy as those
of Mr. Ilohnes'it letters, and that he might in Sir J.
Newport, in Mr. S. Rice, or in Mr. G. Dawson, be able
to find witnesses quite as intelligent, quite as candid, quite
At Covent-garden Theatre, on Friday, is to
as honest as Messre. Holmes, Moore, and Bo ton. We
he performed Jane Shore, in which Mr. Charles Kemble state this fact, as it has. reached us, not trenching for its
is to play the part of Lord Hastings, a character in which authenticity, and in astonishment, we confess, at its im-
his brother, Mr. John Kemble, had used to be eo pre- port. We state " that it is believed," and this is all, that
eminently successful; Miss Jarman, Jane Shore; arid M iss at present, we shall say upon the eubjeet—Dublin Even-
Lacy, Alicia.
ing Post of 'Thursday.
SURREY T:iEATRE.—ELLISTON'B RETURN William Phillips, Esq., who (lied a few days
TO THE STAGE.-The lovers and patrons of the Drama ago, at his house in Cavendish-square, aged 77 years, ex-
must be delighted to hear of the return of this veteran to perienced very extraordinary vicissittu6 during his long
the profession. The hills of Ssturday announced that he
life. His origin was obscure, and his education, come-
would appear in the character of Sherd, in Cumberland's
quently, extremely defective ; but his energies, seen in his
excellent Comedy of the Jew, and the annunciation at-
youth, induced him to commit follies, which, however, a
traded a numerous and an elegant auditory. Elliston,
Jury of his country did not visit with penal consequences.
upon his entrance, was received with plaudits, so fervent He was the inventor of illegal insurance in the lottery, and
and incessant, as almost to overwhelm hint; hat the ap-
to such an extent was this nefarious traffic carried on, that
planets having subsided, lie rallied, and completely identify-
between Temple-bar and the Royal Exchange nearly twenty
Mg himself with the character, pourtrayed it throughout
branch illegal lottery offices were established in holes and
with much lorce, feeling, and fidelity. corners, where poor and miserable wretches gave their
Lazary was a celebrated Harlequin in Paris; single shilling to insure the receipt of one guinea, en the
hence the name sf the entertainment at the Argyll-rooms, event of a particular number being drawn either a blank or
entitled the °' Petit Latary." a prize on the following day. The managers of all these
offices were his servants, and at the close of each day's, or
Sixtus V.'s Bible, Suppressed by order of
rather night's husineeta for the proceedings being even at
Gregory -XlV.—the first Edition, printed by Aldus, at that time illegal, were managed in the dark, the books
Rome, in la9o—was sold last week, by Evans, in Lord were taken to his private residence, in the neighbourhood
Guilford's Library, to an eminent collector for sixty of Pall-mall, and ways and means given to his servants
guineas. A copy of the same book, produced, in Watson to pay such few of the deluded victims,. after next
Taylor's sale, thirty-six guineas, and another in the library day'sdrawing, as might chance to have a pittance
of the late Sir M. M. Sykes, to receive. In these times, it was no nnusnal thing
CLERICAL PUN.--At the ordination of a to see beggarly and reduced paupers carrying their beds
shoulders to the pawnbroker's, to raise the
conveniently clergyman, one of the members who could not get
.upontvind, theirand venture their last stake, by which in the end
sold for thirty-one guineas.
conveniently forward for the crowd to he present at the
they were always ruined.. Notwithstanding the odds were
laying on of hands, extended his cane, and imposed it
the insured in these transactions,•
me fearfully against trades_
of his hand,
beur who stood near him, " timmer to tirnmer COM- men, and even persons of rank, were the dupes of the de-
ception to a large amount, and when Parliament put an
pliment to his young frhind's intellect. Glasgow Free
Press. observing at the same time to a neigh-
end to the system, Mr. Phillips had realized a large for-
tune, to which mighty additions were made by the stul-
A new line of road is in contemplation, cesses which attended in-door play, at No. 40, Pall-Mall.
through the town of Cruditon. A meeting Ares recently in his house expenditure and entertainments he was pro-
held to consider of the propriety of its passing through the fuse and prodigal in the extreme, and his money transao-
whole town, and Mr. Bailey, surveyor and civil engineer, tinns and loans to a very large amount were furnished to
was appointed to report on the probable expence,
and a , princes of the highest rank. His gallantries were exten-
liberal subscription entered into for the purpose of carry-1 sire ; butt, as some worthy individuals who survive might
ing it into effect. We know of no town in the West of have their, feelings wounded by a recital of them, we shall
England where an improved. thoroughfare would be at- not allude to them. He married a third time late in life,
tended with mere advantages than at Crediton. Its sitna- and has left a young family, every branch of which is
thin, notwithstanding its disadvantages of approach, has amply provided for. Mr. Phillips for teeny yeras assn-
hitherto rendered it a point where much commercial busi- eiatea with the Contractors of the Lottery, until its final
ness has been transacted, and every difficulty that can he dissolution, and by its profits added magnificent
removed, will prove a benefit to the trading community his .wealth. He lived long enough to expiate, by his
generally; as well as highly beneficial to the town itself.—.. . extensive charities and deeds of benevolence', the errors of
Exeter WCekly Times. early life, heaps to
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At Drury-lane, this evening, Mr. beau's son
is to perform the part of Romeo, Miss Phillips, Juliet, and
Mrs. C. Jones, •the Nurse, in Shakspeare's beautiful play ef
Romeo and Juliet,