The Drama. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.-La Favorita was performed on Saturday evening to one of the most crowded houses of the season, and never were the inimitable Mario and Grisi in finer voice. The house listened with hushed enthusiasm, every now and then breaking out into a cordiality of applause that it was delightful to witness. In the divertissement there was some excellent dancing; the zeal, finish, and exquisite abandon of Mdlle. Plunkett carrying the hearts of the habitués along with her. Tuesday was the "farewell" performance of the illustrious artistes we have named above, when the Lucrezia was given to a densely crowded house. They were called for at the conclusion of the first act once; after the second twice; and, at the final fall of the curtain, three times, and greeted with bouquets innumerable. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, accompanied by her consort, the Crown Prince of Wurtemburg, honoured the performance at this theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The illustrious party occupied the Queen's box, and were attended by the Baroness Sturmfeder, Count Zepplin, and Lord Charles Fitzroy. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Catherine of Russia, with her consort, the Duke George of Mecklenberg Strelitz, also honoured the Opera with their presence, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of their household. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenberg-Strelitz, were also present on this occasion. SADLER'S WELLL.- PELL'S ENTERTAINMENT.-A few nights since, Mr. Pell commenced his entertainments at this theatre, in company with five of his celoured colleagues, whose performances some time since met with much success. Their transfer to Sadler's Wells proved to be not out of place, as a numerous audience testified. Grhibition. TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.-The admirable likeness of the Emperor and Empress of the French, which here forms one of the groups, must at this time be highly interesting by the fact of the Fete Napoleon having taken place recently, with unexampled splendour and effect. Napoleon III. is represented in the costum of a Lieutenant-General, and the Empress in a fac simile of her brid dress, with the magnificent ornaments as worn on that occasion. Various Things from Various Sources. JULLIEN. HIS EXTRAORDINARY DUEL.-Jullien was first noticed by the public as leader of the concerts at the Jardin Turc, at Paris, since built over. A five-story house now stands where he once stood, as we have also so often seen him in London, with primrose gloves and shirt-cuffs turned up to the elbow, wielding the sceptre of king of the orchestra. It was during his reign at the Jardin Turc that, according to M. Lecomte, the following accident happened to him" He had an extraordinary duel, unprecedented save amongst Ariosto's fabulous heroes. One of his musicians, who had been a fencing-master in a regiment, had a dispute with him, and sent him a challenge. Jullien asked a week to prepare for a duel, and his request was granted. At the end of that time the encounter took place with swords and he received a furious thrust, which ran him right through the body, the hilt of the weapon actually resting upon the wound, and his antagonist having naturally let go his sword, Jullien rushed upon him, and in his turn dealt him a desperate blow; after which, having thus revenged himself, he remained erect, with a sword sticking out of his back! Nobody daring to withdraw it, he himself had the energy to pluck it from the wound. It had made itself a passage which, wonderful to relate, interfered with none of the organs essential to life. A month afterwards, Jullien had resumed his baton and his primrose gloves, and, pallid and in elegiac attitudes, he once more presided over those concerts to which the fame of his adventure now attracted all Paris. The circumstances which decided him to quit Paris were, like everything in his life, singular and out of the common way. Having some cause of complaint against the authorities, he revenged himself by the composition of an odd posting-bill, in which a combination of letters, put in larger type than the others, formed, when seen at a distance, a word offensive to the police. He had to run for it, and then it was he went to England. The celebrated Russian black currant trees will be delivered from the growers to the agents on the 1st of November, of whom they may be had at 4s. per dozen. The trees will be in fine bearing order, and will produce plenty of fruit the first year. Agents, Mr. Clark, Seedsman, 25, Bishopsgate-street Within, Mr. Chartres, Seedsman, 74, King William-street, City and Messrs. Browning and Co., Moorgate street. REMOVAL. Mr. and Mrs. Waghorn, of the Governess's Institution, 8, Soho-square, have removed to more convenient premises, No. 34, on the same side of the square. WILLOUGHBY'S INVALID CARRIAGE, 1, John-street, Oxford-street, -An inspection of this carriage afforded us much pleasure and interest. It is the most complete invention of the day, and deserves our special notice. The bed, which is suspended on springs within the carriage, is taken to the chamber, on which any invalid may be removed from their bed into the carriage without change of position, and conveyed together with attendants to any distance, without fatigue. Many invalids whose removal was considered impossible, have been conveyed to Italy and other parts, with the happiest results. "Ma, see that fly in the milk-jug? He has found a watery grave, hasn't he?" Mrs. Wrigglesworth says, "There is one redeeming trait about termagants, and that is, they are always tidy. The more a woman scolds the harder she scrubs." Young ladies are requested to say, "What is the difference between a butterfly and flutterby?" A Persian philosopher being asked by what method he acquired so much knowledge, he answered, "By not being prevented by shame from asking questions when I was ignorant." SCENE IN A FREE SCHOOL.-Master.-How many states of Turkey are there? First Scholar,-Turkey in Europe, Turkey in Aisa Minor, and Roasted Turkey! Master (flourishing his rod).—Take your seat, sir, and wait there till I can attend to you. Next.-What are the principal cities of Greece? Second Scholar.-I d'nor, sir. Master. Put on your thinking cap and try to recollect. Third Scholar.--I can tell, sir. Master. Well, out with it. Third Scholar-Brummagem and Stoke-Pogis. Master (bristling).—I—I'll thrash the whole of you twice over! School's dismissed! Thomas Moore, mentioning a dinner party at which he was present at Holland House, says that the conversation turned on the disadvantage of people being brought up to wealth and rank. Lady Holland observed, that if she were a fairy wishing to inflict the greatest mischief upon a child, she would make him abundantly rich, very handsome, with high rank, and have all those advantages to encircle him from his very cradle. This she pronounced to be an infallible remedy for producing perfect misery; "and in the meantime," she added, "I should have the gratitude of the child's relations for the precious gifts I had endowed him with." This produced discussion and dissent. Lord Holland said it depended upon the natural disposition of the child. There were some that would be happy in all situations. "There's Moore," he said, "you could not make him miserable even by inflicting a dukedom on him." The Hindoo law says, "Strike not, even with a blossom, thy wife, though she be guilty of a thousand faults." A person once sent a note to a waggish friend for the loan of his noosepaper, and received in return his marriage certificate! 66 'My German friend, how long have you been married?" "Vel, dat is a ting vat I seldom don't like to talk apout, put ven I does, it seems to be so long as it never vas." SONG.* WITH bright eyes round us beaming, Few are the hours unclouded In sorrow unenshrouded, Which we on earth can share But oh! they flee away, Like mist-wreathes from the mountain tops Upon a summer's day! Like mist-wreathes from the mountain tops It may be that to-morrow Shall dim these eyes with tears, WALTER WELDON. For music: tune, "Trab! Trab! Trab!" 120 Almanac.-Births, Marriages, and Deaths. Births. On the 12th ult., at 3, Upper Brook-street, the Lady Frances Lloyd, of a son.-3rd ult., the wife of William Casson, Esq., of Crouch-end, of a son.-10th ult., at Rock-ferry, near Liverpool, the wife of John Startin, Esq., of a daughter.- 10th ult., at Merton-road, Wandsworth, Mrs. Francis Playford, of a daughter.-10th ult., at No. 7, Curzon - street, Mayfair, Mrs. Dickinson, of a daughter.-10th ult., at Duntesbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Hayes, of a son.10th ult, at Leyton - Grange, the wife of Edward Charrington, Esq., of a son.-At Stockport, on Wednesday, the 10th inst., the wife of Captain H. M. Smyth, Staff Officer of Pensioners, of a son.-10th ult., at St. Peters, Ryde, Isle of Wight, the wife of G. R. Griffiths, Esq., of a son.-11th ult., the wife of J. B. Mawer, Esq., surgeon, Abbey-road, St. John's-wood, of a son.11th ult., at Eltham, Kent, Mrs. Thomas Charrington, of a daughter. Marriages.-On the 18th of May last, at St. James's Church, Westbourne-terrace, Paddington, by the Rev, T. Marsland Hopkins, W. T. Best, Esq., to Mademoiselle Linarini Bellini, of Florence.-On Saturday, the 6th ult.. at St. Mark's, Myddeltonsquare, by the Rev. Richard Neale, George Gray, Esq., eldest son of David Gray, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn-fields, and Upper Holloway, to Martha, only daughter of James Siggers, Esq.,of Guildford-street.-8th ult., at the British Consulate, Geneva, by the Rev. B. O. Deane, resident chaplain, Joseph Askew Turner, Esq., of Lincoln's - inn, eldest son of Joseph Holden Turner, Esq., of Montague-place, Russell- square, to Margaret Anna Maria, only child of the Rev, J. S. Pons, of La Servette, Geneva.-10th ult., at St. Paul's, Hammersmith, Edward Hall, Esq. of Cranmer-road, Brixton, to Amelia Caroline, only daughter of Mr. Thomas Apps, of Canterbury-road, Brixton. - 10th ult., at St. Andrew's Church, Plymouth, Charles Arthur Aylmer, Esq., to the Hon. Mackay, daughter of the Right Hon. Lord and Lady Reay. Deaths.-On Saturday, the 6th ult., Mr. Robert Main, of Kensington, aged seventysix.-7th ult., at Kensington. Charlotte Ella, wife of James Radford, Esq.-9th ult., at Ryde, Isle of Wight, after a short illness, Algernon Mortimer, second son of J. B. Norris, of Brixton-hill.-9th ult., at Akely, Bucks, William Britten, Esq., in his seventyfourth year.-11th ult., at Tavistock-street, Mrs. Charlotte Hairs, née Gerard, aged sixty-eight years.-12th ult., Sophia the beloved wife of Mr. Mr. J. Edgar Williams, of 38, Markham-square, Chelsea. |