The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-13 00:00:00

COURT CFRCULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.
Rind their august visitors, the. Kit* ancrweetas to' .
Belgians and also some of the Royal suite walked' 19,:.t
morning in the grounds about the Castle...:'
Colonel Buckley arrived a,t the Castle
succeeded Major-General .Wernyss in •the dt.ttietvlfif: )9
Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty.
The Hon. Miss Hamilton, Ma.id of Honour te
ty, has arrived at the Castle, in place' of the
Miss DeTereux
The Royal Family haTe been taken out .airipej-1, 5 •
carriages to-day. •
In the afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert-J
the Castle for an airinr in an opens carriage, the
driving. Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting'44llllr:,l
Majesty, was in attendance on horseback - •
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of lit tit, bet
Lady in Waiting. Lady Anna Maria Daw,on,•:,.;iij“lll.
the Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening.

The Duke of Cambridge visited 11,r Royal .flighty, SO
the Du.,thess ,loiteester on Thuisdav, at 0( odes et
House. Her R.iy-al flightless afierw.irds weni.'t Ms • •
residence at Kew. . .
Sir Jam. s Graham, and other Cabinet Minister=, had. -
interviews with Sir Robert Peel yesterday.
Count Kielaiunnsegge, the Hanoverian-
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Lord Stanley arrived in town yesterday 'evening, frog
Knowsley Hall, Lancashire.

•
Dispatches were receiveCl yesterday at the Colonii6.
office from the Governor of St. Helena..:. - ,

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE; -
The admirable condition in which Grisi haS returned
~.
to us is the common subject of remark at the-Opera'
The approbation which is awarded her is nor merely
that which is awarded to an established favourite, 'l3lu°
there is in it something of the freshness of the pra.
which is bo-dowed on a successful debutante. se!'"
to acknowledge that she was,'aa it were, behind a cloaa
last season, and that she has now come forvfard with
pristine brilliancy. The mellowness of her voice, th,!!
finished neatness of her passages, the delieac .
y
colouring, are the constant themes_ of edrairetion, and
are lauded as if they were something new,,. How
beautiful did Grisi sing ao-night !" is the general Djaelt;
lation at the close of . the opera, while nut a. few•ada,-
" How beautiful did Grisi look !" • • . • •
Thursday she appeared as Nemorina in /kiePase‘Soki
and quite sustained that position in the estiination of her
hearers, which she gained by her Elvira. on .Tuesdalf,
Charming is the ease and playfulness of her aeting,c
ing the flow of liquid melody with which she.regale4.
the audience. Now the notes come' rushing, forth
in full richness and luxuriance, now they are scattered
with a lightness which would seem scarcely sufficient.to''
convey them to the ear, and yet they fall as.distinct)
and as clearly articulateh as possible. The finale; in wht°°
all the power of her voice was.contrastedwith all the
softness, in which the unimpeded torrebt of sound-was
suddenly followed by the most delicate vocal scintilla-
tions, left the audience in a state of perfect 'delight
Lablache (who can never grow old) treats the Chareoter
of Don Pasquale like a master in his. art. :While bis
superb voice rolls magnificently through the music, he
has a thousand humorous devices to fill tip the goes '
which are left in the piece, and to make an'ageeeabbe
comedy of a most meagre opera.. , If any one, not hiviag
heard Don Pasquale as it is performed, Were Soberly t®.
turn over the music, what an ineffective affair would li
anticipate ! how would' he sigh at haying so-
through psges of unmeaning, dull recitative, to come t°'
the prett► melodies, so few and far between I Yet, ill'
the hands of such artists as Grisi and Lablache,. the'
shadow becomes a substance : humour, life, spirit, awl
vivacity are kept in ceaseless play throughout, sollerfeca
is as the mischievous young widow ;so perfect
Lablache as the amorous and afterwards afflicted .Q
gentleman. Fernasari, who was not quire in Sulk f.'orca.
on Tuesday, had evidently recovered on Thursdavinia cow'
rid' nee atid power, tie had thrown oil a we'igris which
:tightfully,,
seemed to cucumber him, and sang rt:
acted with gr,--ater spirit than ha ever before displayo9* *
Mario was, of course, to hate sung the serenade—the
one piece in the opera which has found its aay to the
ear or the universal public I but- Ike foilowingThp.tice
;Ad the :iudiene, tl'ey were to he disappointe,i. It ,„
remembered that on Tue'sday a slight hottrsebesssioo,
in the .try ul Mario's best endeavours
" The induigence of the nobility, subset ibers, gnd the;
public, is solivited in behalf of Signor Coreili, :whos-ja •
coosequel:ce of the illness of Signor Mario, has, at' a fee hours' :•u: ice co
n,ented to appear this evening Ernesto,' to prevent a total d'sappointinent."
The privation was the more to be endured, as it .vraa
Interesting to surmise how that rising tenor; ()oral!: would sucveed in an air which Mario had eonspletelY.
made his own. He sang it not only .with that goed ma°
whieh has always been observed in hiw, but with au in:,
tensity of feeling which could scarcely have been antic'''.
pated. He received a hearty encore, and well he .de'
served it. As usual, the four principal artists
teal
their appearance before the curtain at the conclusion
the opera.
It was followed by a divertissement, in which .the
" Polka" is danced, by Carlotta and-Perrot, and
course, agreeable, for what pas executed. by Carlotta
could be otherwise ! The lady and gentleman era
tired in that Sclavonic kind of costume in which the
military jacket and neat little .boot cut so prominent a
figure ; and they stamp at one another, and smile al
one another, and the lady lOoks a myriad of coquitrieS
over her shoulder at the gentleman, and then seizes 141
by the arm, and drags him round and round, as if -stei
thought the arm and the socket of the shoulder
should
he divorced. Admirably done this was, and it was 't
co
pretty spectacle, for Carlotta is the most fascoaaames
coquettes. _

Between the divertissement and the ballet of Esor
ralda, the concluding scene of anerentola was oust
which we mention for the sake of observing the rev
great improvement of Mademoiselle Favanti. Of IP
immense compass of her voice and the brilliancy of ?g
execution there never was any doubt ; but now Wel
was an obvious determination to conquer the crudities°
style which are natural to a debutante. The strains 0°-
her voice she avoided with great care and intelligence'.'
and her organ was more at her command than 0n.1317
previous occasion. "Non piu mesta" was very beast -
fully sung, and after it was concluded the curta.in
raised for its repetition, in compliance with the loud de-
mand of the audience.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
Duprez took his farewell last night of the, English
public, in the, same character in which he 4..tst
peered before them, in which he won their firiour, '
kept it to the end of his engagement--Arnold,
William Tell. The house was filled, and the open
was exceedingly well played; the number of times "
has been. repeated having rendered the public familisr
both with the music, of which none can grow weal'
however often heard, and with Dupree.
which we hope to hear again; we are spared W,
necessity of going into any critical' analysis of tn.
performance. It seems almost a pity that, Yost whB
the different actors . are acquiring' smoothness tr,A
finish in the parts, and the choruk,es have
.been
into precision, the engagement of the star should.te Air";
mitlate. He 'was last night encored in. the, .graa"
solo in the last scene, throughout which he both sPlig'
an'i acted with extraordmary fire and enefgP.'
and at the end of the piece -was called
fore the curtain to receive. the flirek'
plaudits of his English audienee, which-
accompanied by a shower of garlands, wreaths,
huuquets. We trust his brief visit has been satisfac'''
tory, both to himself and the manager. The per
formances terminated with the -revived tnelodren?7,,
the Tale of Mystery, which dragged 'through t,w,,;'
acts, frequently interrupted by hisses% it was', otiq'
saved by the Pas Styrien, danced by 'Miss Webstel
and M. Delferier. .The piecels evidently Oppesed''°.
the taste of the clay. . •

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DECREASE OF CRIME IN EAST SUSSEX.—At ,
• East Sussex Easter Sessions on Monday, the goverr;or of
th- Lewes House of Correction reported that in en' e-
three months of .1843, there had been a decrease in
number of committals as compared with. the 0,.
sponding period of the previous year, of 'lO4 peisone`.3 ', • 'y
and that in the first three months of the year 1544;
- heed been a similar decrease) of 70, at the same-tit:ol4
the average daily number of prisoners was 54 lesi tbg
last year.
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DARING BuRGLARY.--Thursday information was
circulated that early in the morning of the 3d instant th•
house of Mr. Thomas Irlam, a farmer at Little Hillton, • ;
cashire, was broken into by four men, who had their fice,71,;,,,.,
blackened and their coats turned, and two of them..e.r.
with pistols. They carried off various property, ineltw-`
a watch and appendages, about twenty shillings in oa,
_1,74,
twelve crooked sixpe.nces, a crooked shilling, and t.),e.croul
penny pieces. •
L. Three
THRRADNEEDLE-STREET.—TnaL portion of ~,,);.
needle-street, in the City, immediately in front "of' Me_
chant Tailors'-hall, is now reduced to a width: of 4
five and a half to six feet of carriage-way, a b,oardil*.
having been temporarily erected for the incleanie•--nr
. space in front of the building, within whiCh a
ntanbier
r
of labourers are now employed in clearing away thertle
bish, eke. When these improvements are completed t.;/,
street will, of course, gain . a large additional width • •
carriage-way, and the. western end having been aro:s:
widened by the concession of ten feet frontage. bY :1
.tan
proprietors of the Hall of Commerce, .this. unian• ,
throughfare will soon -become far more adapted fer
direct approach to the
.new Royal Exchange.
A '
CORONER'S INQUEST.—THE • LATE 'FATAL ir
BRAT' AT HORsLTDOwN.—On Thursday an inquest*Wa4Pri,..
at Guy's Hospital, before Mr. Joseph. Payne, Depot
roner for the City of London, touching the death of
Grubb, aged 26, who,, it was alleged, had lost hi¢ l?•'' •
consequence of injuries he had received in a pueisti2 soelv
counter with a man named James Dean, at- a pOli„,,Cde-
in Horslydown, on the evening. of Tuesday last. °ray
ceased was conveyed to the hospital, where he'clied
afterwards. Dean was taken into custody by, the pollees,
on the. following morning was taken before Mr. Coltens,
the magistrate, at Union-hall, the particulars of wineb-li'c'e
peered in The Sun of yesterday, under the Union-I/sill poll
intelligence. The evidence adduced last evening ws.9
similar character to that taken before Mr..Cotteninhaacre.•,...t.-., •
John Mills Goodinge._ house-Surgeon, said ho.had
mortem examination of the body.: There were no exterfl'i-
marks of violence, either from, blows or a fall, which 'Woe?!
either produce or accelerate death. Deceased was in a still' •
of intoxication when brought to the hospital, Wity..iesei IP;
plied the stomach pump ; but he died in a. .I;nort
afterwards. The brain, lungs, and stomach • were Puck,
congested. Deceased, in -witness's opiniNet" "(lied frorcio;p• ir •
state of collapse, induced by drinking, Ite:-',nervinn3 ter-:
having received a shock which was ieot able to be °cafe,. .1
come. The Coroner-summed . the evideric,lailfr
jury returned a verdict—" That deceased had died of -g__Q,o3e•'"
congestion of the brain and; lungs,. caused ;by. ye ,0.,
drinking."_ •