DONIZETTI'S "LUCREZIA
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Weld remind our readers that the Italian Opera Company will perform this evening at the "Theatre Royal, City Hall, Donizettis grand Opera "Lucrezia Borgia." As Signora Silini will make her first appearance this season in the attractive role of the young Venetian gallant Mafis Orsini, a large audience will no doubt he present to give the popular contralts a hearty
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1883.
The Opera of "Lucresia Borgia," composed by Gactans Donizetti, the author of more than sixty high class operas,-and-next to Rossini-Italy's most famous composer, was first performed at Milan nearly fifty years ngo-in 1834, where it achieved a brilliant success. From that time up to the present day "Lucrezia Borgia" has always held a popular place in the affections of opera-form an idea of the difficulty, under present
goers.
The plot is a most tragic one, founded on the comes of the infamous Italian poisoner, "the fair daughter of the accursed Borgias." Lucreria Borgia the wife of Don Alphonse, Duke of Ferrara, has a son, Gennaro, who is brought up, in ignorance of his birth, as the son of a poor fisherman. On him destiny seems to have set her hand with untiring malevolence. His mother follows him with maternal affection, which her husband misconstrues into illicit passion.
Arrived at Ferrara, Gennaro, after a drunken bouf, declares his disgust with Lucrezia, and erases her name from the palace gates. The circumstance is reported to the Duchess by Gubetta, a spy. Rustighello and Astolfo are employed as agents, the former for the Duke, the Intier for
Lucrezia.
has been kept up, by living on borrowed capital, in other words, running into debt. When the ordinary resources of receipts were insufficient
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to square the budget, the deficit was made good by carrying it to the floating debt, which repre- sents three millideds, and that must be redeemed sooner or later by being tagged on to the mother national debt. France must stop her vast | scheme of public works, till the nation has time THEATRE
to economize. If not, the end will be disastrous. Timid people have taken the hint, and are rapidly transferring their fortunes to investments in En. Elish stocks and shares.
The fashion is decidedly in favor of extending the Colonial ambition of France. Thus the de Brazza treaty with Makoko of the Congo has been ratified by the Chamber as gelap. It is tot clearly known what it all means, but Portugal enters a protest against occupying territory held by her by treaty since a century ago. Madachsgar too is to be absorbed; perhaps England agrees to this. But France displays about Annam, and Cochin China an appetite for territory, that watch. It is incomprehensible what this mania Europe, and especially England must closely for seizing territory means; France has no surplus population to colonize, and Algeria, just at her door, is a break-down. Indeed the policy just announced by the Governor of Algeria, must if persisted in lead to an insurrection in that Colony; it simply aims to dispossess the Arabs of their land, and as a compensation, give it to foreigners who will teach them how to make two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before. France is on the road to make an Ire land of Algeria. Yet that Colony has immense natural resources. Tunis appears to be more in the odour of sanctity.
to a certain extent! I am perfectly sure that a little discretion added to their immense muscular ability would improve them personally and be of great benent to the colony generally.
There is one thing I would, most particularly like to say a few words about, as it is probably but little known amongst the Europeans in the colony, or, if it is, it is but little thought af. It is this. In the most populous parts of the town the residences are generally on the second and third floors, and even higher in some buildings, the ground floors being almost invariably used as shops or stores. Now, Sir, as you are probably aware, the stair cases leading to the tenements above the ground floor are usually of a very narrow and steep description. In cases of fire this gdds much to the danger, and, when we consider the number of smali-fected Chinese ladies, the wives of the native merchants, who live these upstair abodes, whose actions on their legs do not re- semble those of the fleet gazelle, you can easily existing circumstances, of getting these ladies and their offspring out of the burning houses in cases of sudden fire occurring in the ground floor section of the building. The fire of Friday evening last is a case in point. The fire engines, were not long in being on the spot, but, had that cumbrous, machine, misnamed a fire escape, which seems to be used solely as an ornament to the Fire Station in Queen's Road, been there as well as the engines, there would probably have been no loss of life. As a general rule when a fire takes place the alarm is given at the station by Chinese, and long before the bell clangs out the engines of the Nam Pak Hong or picce goods firm are under way, and en route to the fire. Might it not be advisable on the part of the Co- vernment to hand over their fire escape to those Gennaro is conducted to the palace by the need, instead of keeping it rotting in the gutter who are likely to make some use of it in case of
It would be very difficult, to say where the Duke's emissary, and Lucrezia, ignorant of the in the Queen's Road? As the Government of Egyptian question is now. The French clamor culprit for whom she has prepared a poisoned this colony is so very rich, and the City has less about their rights" in that country, thus lead. cup, is horror-stricken to recognise her own son suffered so dreadfully, and is always liable to muching to the conclusion, that they have received a The Duke insists on his draining the goblet and danger from fire, if the Fire Brigade were compensation. If the latter means a joint share departs, when the Duchess administers an ani- very considerably augmented and improved, even
in the administration of the country, that will dote, and advises instant flight from Ferrara ifit cost a few extra dollars, it would, I think prove infallibly terminate, in the course of years, in a This course Gennaro does not adopt, but repairs a wise economy in the long run. The remark is Schleswig-Holstein war between the two nations. to the residence of a courtezan, one Negroni. often made that fire is a very terrible thing, and
The sole way out of the imbroglio is to reserve Another scene of dissipation takes place, during so it is; yet our fire brigade in this city with its Egypt for the Egyptians, with England supply- which wine poisoned by Lucrezia is again handed
immense population and favorable structures for ing both the crutches. It is rumored that Eng- round; all drink, when Lucrezia herself appears, being ravaged by fire, is hardly equal to that of land, for the sole occupancy of Egypt, will con- and, discovering her son amongst the number of
sent to France walking round Troy will con- a third rate English town of 10,000 inhabitants, those who have partaken of the deadly draught, We are about to spend what seems a fabulous would leave the coast clear for the struggle to again offers him an antidote. Gennaro, finding amount of money in a gigantic water scheme, Valley. Russia seems to suspect this, as she possess Syria and the region of the Euphrates the quantity insufficient to save his comrades, but I think it would be well if the Government his swung round again to the Platonic alliance
1 determinedly refuses to take it, and dying, sotumed its attention to other matters equally affects his mother and causes her to be con-urgent, especially to this fire question. It musting at the isolated-and so merited-situation of the Three Emperors, while everyone is laugh. science-stricken, that she immediately expires. surely be bad policy to allow one limb of the of Italy. Snubbed by the Emperor of Austria, parent trunk to assume such abnormal propor tions at the expense of all the other members of and given the cold shoulder by Bismarck, Italy. the body. The men of the Fire Brigade are de- ought to remember that nations become big only serving of all praise. They work hard and do by degrees. good service, but we require a more complete and extensive system to enable the firemen and the engines to be on the spot, when a fire breaks out, before a firm hold is, taken of the building, My business takes me to nearly the whole of the fires in the colony and I have seen many defects in our fire extinguishing system. I do not pro- feas to be able to shew clearly how these defects are to be remedied, but, if you will kindly publish this letter you may induce an abler man to cater the field and solve the problem.
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FIRES IN HONGKONG.
To The Epiron of the Janckoxo Telegram," " SIR,The disastrous fire which took place in Queen's Road West, on the evening of Friday last, was one more proof either of the unsatis factory system used by the Government Fire Brigade, or, an imperfect method of using that system. For some considerable time back, the Chinese residents in the business part of this city have looked on the action of the Fire Brigade at fires, so far as life saving has been concerned, with a feeling somewhat of pity, not unmixed with contempt. So strongly has this idea taken root that the leading native firms have provided fire enguishing machines with men to work them, and, it must be admitted by most of the European community who attend fires, either as enlockers or as active members in helping to quell the flames, that these Chinese innovations have been successful in an eminent degree However, that is not exactly the point or
points I wish to bring before your notice, the notice of the public generally, and the Government in particular. I am afraid that, my lack of a complete knowledge of the English language will prevent my making myself as clearly under- stood as I could wish, but, if I can only convey the ideas, however roughly, to the notice of those whose business it is to remedy defects in Go- vernment systems of carrying on their works of public importance, I will not have written in vain, and will have done some service to a large sec- tion of the native community.
It may not be generally known that amongst the business Chinese in this city there exists, In regard to fires, a gigantic and very complete system of self help which, though it may appear peculiar to English notions, is well understood and acted up to, as far as circumstances, and the Hongkong police, will admit of. We, in Hong- kong, are pretty conversant with each other and well acquainted with each other's respective residences, and there exists this mutual under standing between us that if a fire breaks out in district near the residence or shop of any et
our friends, it is our duty, to be quickly on the spot to assist in saving life or property, sa the case may be. This rule is a cominun one, which cuts both ways and applies all round. For instance, a fire breaks out in Jervois Street. We have a friend living there and our shop Resistants and coolies along with ourselves, at once proceed to the spot to render assistance, If, on the other hand, the fire should break out in the street where we reside, our friends in Jervois Street lose no time in coming to our aid with all the men and appliances at their disposal. This what I mean by paying there is a gigantic mutual well help association amongst us. If let alone we could do much more useful and effective work
I would also be glad if you would in some way or other through the medium of your valuable paper, bring to the notice of the proper author. itics the fact that a gentler mode of treatment of the Chinese in general, more especially by the Sikh policemen, would be very congenial to the feelings of the community, I have been frequently asked to memorialize the Govern ment on this subject, but that appears to me to be such a useless proceeding that I would much rather leave it alone and trust to the publicity of the press.
Apologising for trespassing at such length on your valuable space, and hoping the really serious nature of my complaint on behalf of the Chinese community will induce you to publish this letter,
1 am, &c.,
WOO LIN YUEN. 2, Queen's Road West, Hongkong, January 9th, 1883.
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The endemic has set in for revising the con stitution: the physicians allege-what he who runs many read, that the Republic is sick. It seems the parliamentary system is not suited to France, that the règime of the United States is the one thing needful. But not a few, since doctors as usual differ, are, of opinion, that a Constituent Assembly is what is required, where a majority of that body would constitute a pre- sidentship, and Ministers would be merely so inany head clerks. I think the nation gives no attention to these contemplated solutions; it is disappointed at the friends of the Republic des- troying the Republic as at present existing, and is very discouraged about its future prospects The Republic is gaining no new friends, and those that stood by it formerly, feel compelled to remain on the reserve.
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The unsettled state of politics; the endemic; the repulsive weather, drive all who can afford it to sunnier and calmer climes. The principal event of the moment is the revival of Victor Hugo's Le Roi S'Amuse; the first representa- tion took place in 1832; the second, after a lapse of fifty years-only now. The reason is due to Victor Hugo's going into the huffs, because his drama was not well received. The plot turns on the vagaries of Francis the First, who led a Prince Henry-Falstaff life Paris. Hugo is blamed for harping too much on the dissolute- css of that Monarch, who won Mangnan, lost de Vinci, and the Father of Lettera. all but honor at Pavia, was the friend of Leonardi
France is in a brown study what to do with her babitual criminals who swarm in Paris; the new law will enable their being sent to Madagascar, vagabonds, the sturdy beggarmen, and above destined as a new penal settlement. But the all, young men and boys, are a nuisance. The old vagrants are to be sent to the hospice to dies foreign cripples will be re-exported, and be consigned to the Hospital for Incurables, a those fusus nature to the manner born-will- very appropriate asylum. The sturdy boys will be forwarded to agricultural home Colonies: sort of adult reformatory.
first Ladies' College; 280 puptis, from 14 to 20 France has just opened at Montpellier, her years of age, bave entered as boarders; the latter have a very pretty uniform. A few days ago popular mistress was dismissed; the girls, excited meeting the Directress was received with a by her valedictory address; broke out into a at fires than we are able to do at present; but no leaders, no disciplines it votes black at one volley of grammars and dictionaries, and epithets are we let alone? I ask any man of reason if hour and white at the next. No statesmun exists hurled, of a kind not to be found even in a slang the bearing of the police at fires is creditable to to take the destiales of this magnificent country dictionary; then the nymphs sang the Marseil- what is presumed to be an efficiently organised in hand the more eminent a public man belaise, and invited the graduates of the neighbor body of disciplined men. There appear to exist amongst the police a peculiar kind comes, the more he is tabosed and ridiculed. ing male college to come to their aid.
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In about ninety nine out of every hundred cases the crusade that has set into secularise every next English mail, left Singapore on Tuesday A they are certainly wrong. The thieving fraternity thing at express rate; even people not professing the and instant, at 10 am, and may be expected are fairly well known, and would stand a poor Catholicism, did not approve of a current of here on or about the 9th. chance of carrying off anything at all were the materialistic tendencies which involved the owners of the burning house or houses, and their friends, allowed a Útüc more license and liberty vital interests of religion itself on the plea of giving assistance. The fact of the matter is lalcising all things. It was felt religious scruples simply what the general run of European police were delicate matters, and required to be deli men, at fires if they are possessed of common cately respected, even when differed from. Now intelligence do not seem to know how to use that quality, appearing utterly anable to discriminate this feeling has become more intense, by the between respectable Chinese, those who are decision of the authorities to remove the external honestly going to assist at the fire, and the emblems of religion, crosses, &c. from all the lowest scum amongst our naive residents. The public parts of cemeteries. This is painful) in white policeman' has an idea that he is doing a great strokesef business, and his duty to the democracy of the dead these objects offended public and the Government, when he indulges none, but pleased not a few though dissidents, In a a good deal of shoving, hurting, and to on, and Valarian Me the French may be they have. The N. 1. 5. N. Co.'s steamer jah left. Be towards men who are often bli superior in every real wife for the dead, and everything that lavia onthe 1st instant, and may be expected respect, to say nothing of occasionally using bis baton in a rather rough manner. But the can add to the sacredness and solemnity of God's The E. & A. S. S. Co.'s steamer Cafferthun
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