The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-02 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Lucia de Lammermoor was represented lust evening
for the purpose of introducing Madame Anaide Castellan
for the first time to an opera audience in the character of
Lucia. Although last night was the first appearance
cif Madame Castellan on these boards, she is not altoge-
ther unknown to the English musical public. She ran
a very brilliant career here last season as a singer at
concerts. Her success at the Ancient. Concerts was
complete, and a singer who can succeed there must be in
every sense of the word an accomplished artiste.—She
has, moreover, achieved great triumph's in Russia and in
America ; and to these, she may add the crowning suc-
cess of a triumphant debut before confessedly the most
fastidious musical audience in the world in the audience
of her Majesty's Theatre. Her voice is a pure soprano,
beautifully clear, and of considerable compass.
Her musical education is perfect—not the most
critical ear can detect a fault in her intonation,
not the most fastidious taste can discover anything
whereat to be offended. The opening cavatina was
beautifully given ; it was a beautiful exhibition of power
refined and chastened by exquisite taste and judgment,
and was rapturously applauded. At the conclusion of
the first act she was called for, and received with en-
thusiastic applause. The duet, "Se tradismi to potrai,"
in the second act, was superbly given by Fornasari and
Madame Castellan. It was a perfect triumph of art,
both as regarded singing and acting. It is seldom that
an opera audience is worked up to such a pitch of en-
thusiasm as they were by this magnificent duet. The
applause was long and loud, and both actors were called
for at the conclusion of the duet. The marriage scene
followed, and was beautifully acted by Madame
Castellan, who, at the fall of the act drop,
was again called for. The mad scene was
very fine, and the concluding aria was given with
the most thrilling pathos. The success of Madame
Castellat was complete, and, what is more, it was well
deserved. She is a delightful actress and an accom-
plished musician. It is as unnecessary to praise the
Enrico of Fornasari as it is to write an eulogium on the
Richard of Edmund Kean, or the Coriolanus of John
Kemble. It stands alone as a perfect piece of acting.
Moriani was the Edgardo. It was in this character that
he made his debut before an English audience last season,
and his Edgardo stamped him as the p 7 imo tenor e of the
world. The last scene, whether considered as a piece of
acting or as a vocal effort, is unrivalled. It is the finest
thing of the sort on the stage. So delighted
were the audience that at the conclusion of
the opera they called Moriani twice before the curtain.
Thera was a third call for Moriani and Castellan, and,
after a short interval, he appeared leading forward the
prima donna, enveloped in a large silk cloak, preparatory
to quitting the theatre. The audience seemed mightily
pleased at thus seeing a prima donna en pas tieufiere, and
there was some good-humoured laughter mingled with
the shouts of applause with which they were greeted.
The ballet of Eoline concluded the evening's entertain-
ments. The House was crowded to excess. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who honoured the
performances with his presence; arrived at the theatre
before the commencement of the opera.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prin-
cess Royal, arrived at Buckingham Palace at five minutes
before seven o'clock yesterday evening, in a carriage and four,
escorted by a party of Lancers, from the terminus of the
South-Western Railwa at Nine Elms. The Countess of
Charlemont, Lady in Waiting; Major-General Wemyss,
Equerry in Waiting; and Major-General Sir Edward Bo-
water, Equerry to Prince Albert, followed in a carriage
and four.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were received at the
Palace by the Hon. Misses Stanley and Hamilton, the Earl
of Hardwicke, the Vice-Chamberlain, Lord George Lennox,
Captain Meynell, Sir Robert Otway, Captain Francis Sey-
mour, and Colonel Arbuthnot.
The royal party quitted Osborne House, Isle of Wight, at
a quarter past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, embarked in
the royal steam-yacht, and crossed over to Gosport. Her
Majesty and Prince Albert, and the royal suite, left Gosport
at twenty-five minutes past four, and were conveyed to town
by a special train, on the South Western Railway, in two
hours and ten minutes.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess
Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were
taken a carriage drive yesterday morning in the vicinity of
Windsor Castle. At three o'clock in the afternoon the Royal
Family left Windsor Castle for the station of the
Great Western Railway at Slough, and were conveyed
to town by a special train. Their Royal Highnesses arrived
at Buckingham Palace, at a quarter past four o'clock, ac-
companied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton and Admiral Sir
Robert Otway.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House.
The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden.—Her Royal High-
ness, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and
attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder and Baron Roth de
Schreckenstein, visited the Polytechnic Institution in Re-
gent-street yesterday.
His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal
visited the Grand Duchess yesterday at the Duke of Hamil-
ton's residence in Portman-square. Ilis Excellency Count de
St. Aulaire paid his respects to her Royal Highness.
In the evening the Grand Duchess, attended by the Ba-
roness de Strumfeder and Baron de Schreckenstein, honoured
the Italian Opera with her presence.
Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippstahl visited the Duke of
Cambridge yesterday.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the
Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aber-
deen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Earl of Ripon, Lord Granville Somerset, and the
Earl of Lincoln.

The Council sat two hours.
Mr. John Davies, and a deputation of Sugar Refiners, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day, at his official residence in Downing-street.

COURSE OF EXCHAI
Amsterdam CF. 12 81
Ditto, at sight l2 61
Rotterdam 2U. 12 9
Antwerp 26 20
Ramburgh M.B. 14 0
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 95
Ditto, 3 months 26 15
Marseilles 26 20
Bourdeaux 26 20
Frankfort on Maine 123
Petersburgh, 3Us —
Berlin
Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M lO 4
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36i

I GE.—(YESTERDAY .)
Gibraltar..... ..
Leghorn
Genoa 26 20
Milan ..... .....

Naples ..... 39
Palermo, per oz llBf
Lisbon s2f
Oporto 53
Rio Janeiro .. 23*
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York .2 2dyssight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign +lrold, bars. £3 17 9
Portuga! Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons.-- 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9;
Silver in Bars 0 4 10,

......___
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona
Sevilla —

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR-
LIAMENT.
TUESDAY, APRIL 1.
Neweastle-upon-Tyne and North Shields Railway (Tyne-
mouth Extension, &c.) Bill,—Read a second time, and com •
mitted, and referred to the Committee of Selection.
Brighton and Chichester Railway (Portsmouth Exten-
sion),—Petition for Bill reported; report referred to the
Select Committee on Standing Orders.
Greenwich Colliery Railway,—Report from Select Corn •
mittee on Petitions fur Private Bills read ; Bill to be read a
second time on Monday next.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
Bristol and Gloucester and Birmingham and Gloucester
Railway,—postponed from Monday 7th till Wednesday,
April 16.