The famous Italian buffo singer, Sebastiano Naldi, here mentioned, was a prominent member of the company at the King's Theatre, when Madame Catalani was prima donna. He was accidentally killed at Paris, in 1819, by the explosion of an apparatus which had been invented for cooking by steam. a singer. She made her first appearance in Lon- | are still black and blue from the squeeze on the don in December, 1806, on the opening of the first night of the lady's appearance in trousers." King's Theatre, in Portagallo's grand serious opera of "Semiramide." The great fame she had acquired attracted a crowded audience, who received her with the utmost enthusiasm. Her voice was extremely rich and powerful, and of great compass and flexibility. She sang with astonishing ease, and in rapidity of execution she was only exceeded by her most celebrated predeHer second benefit for the season of 1808 took cessor, Mrs. Billington. She appeared for the place on the 25th June, when in “Il Fanatico per second time on the 3d of January, 1807, in the la Musica," she introduced, for the first time, the same opera, with increased effect. Her first ben- popular English air of "Hope told a flattering efit took place on the 15th of the following April, tale," composed upwards of thirty years before, when she performed in "La Morte di Mitridate," expressly for Madame Mara, by Mazzinghi. with extraordinary success. Her acting was as On the opening of the King's Theatre, in Jandistinguished as her singing, At her second ben-uary, 1809, Madame Catalani was found not to efit, on the 16th of July, to show the diversity of have been reëngaged, owing to disagreement as her talents, she gave the first act of "Semira- to terms, her demands being so exorbitant that the mide," and the first act of the comic opera "Il management could not accede to them. She gave Fanatico per la Musico," in both of which she six concerts by subscription at the Hanover Square proved herself unequalled. During the whole of Rooms, commencing on the 26th of March. In this her first season in London, she experienced announcing these concerts, she intimated that she the public patronage to an unprecedented degree. was about to leave England for the continent. The She also sang at the subscription concerts which | ruse had its effect, for she was engaged for the enwere given at the houses of the nobility. suing season for the opera, and her concerts were On the opening of the King's Theatre in Jan- well attended. On the 11th of March, 1810, she uary, 1808, she appeared in the comic opera of made her first appearance, for two years, at the "La Freschetana," and in a favorite song in the King's Theatre. She continued there during the second act she was twice encored. Parke, in his three following seasons; but in 1814 she was not "Musical Memoirs," to which we are mainly in- engaged, owing to the extravagance of her dedebted for these particulars of Catalani's appear-mands-namely, three thousand pounds for the ance in London, says: "This double encore af-season, with two benefits. In 1809, she had been terwards became fashionable with regard to the singers, particularly at the English theatres; and as none of the great singers who preceded Catalani, namely, Mara, Banti, Grassini, and Billington, had ever received a similar compliment, the fact that Catalani was called forward to sing the same song three times, appeared extraordinary, until it came out that, as part of her engagement, she had stipulated to have the privilege of fifty orders nightly!" engaged by Mr. Harris, the proprietor of the new Covent Garden Theatre, to perform there in Italian operas, in opposition to the King's Theatre, but the public would not permit her to appear; nevertheless, she exacted the terms of her engagement, three thousand pounds. At the York grand musical festival, which took place in September, 1823, she sang with great effect. Indeed, wherever she appeared in the provinces, as was the case in London, she was re On the 21st of the following April, her first ben-ceived with the most tumultuous applause. efit for the season took place; when, in Nasolini's serious opera of "Le Feste di Iside," she appeared in male attire, as Sesostris, King of Egypt. The receipts of the house on this occasion exceeded one thousand pounds. Byron has commemorated her appearance in trousers in the following lines, in his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers Degenerate Britons! are ye dead to shame. In 1824 she was engaged with Madame Pasta, at the King's Theatre, for a limited number of nights. She had, on several occasions, visited the continent, and wherever she sang in public, she was hailed with the most enthusiastic acclamations of her audiences. She preferred England, however, to any other country, for she used frequently to say that she could get more money by singing in an English barn than in a continental palace. Her farewell appearance in public took place in Dublin, in 1827; but, being engaged at the musical festival at York, in September, 1828, she came purposely from Paris to attend it, and for her services received six hundred guineas. She also sang at the Manchester musical festival, which commenced on the 30th of the same month. In a note he says, "Naldi and Catalani re- Madame Catalani afterwards went to reside in quire little notice; for the visage of the one and a villa in the neighborhood of Florence, where, the salary of the other will enable us long to for many years, she lived in happy and hospitable recollect these amusing vagabonds. Beside, we retirement, honored for her virtues, and beloved Like Jenny Bath. He became colonel of the 51st foot in 1829, The following and a lieutenant general in 1837. for her gentle and amiable manners. Lind, her charity was unbounded. instance of her beneficence while at St. Petersburg has been related. Wishing to leave behind her some marks of gratitude for the reception she had met with in that capital, Madame Catalani advertised a concert to be given for the poor of St. Petersburg, at the great theatre, the very night before her departure. In consequence of the number of tickets sold, the theatre was found to be too small for the company, and the public exchange of the city was, by the emperor's orders, fitted up for the ceremony. The concert realized the enormous sum of £4,000 sterling, every farthing of which was generously given by the singer to the various hospitals of the place. The emperor himself waited on Catalani the next day with thanks for her generous assistance. He found her in the very act of departure, being already seated in the carriage which was to bear her away. He knelt on one knee upon the lower step, and begged permission to kiss her hand; she withdrew her glove for the purpose, and while he bent over the small fingers, he clasped round her wrist a diamond bracelet, of the same value as the sum which had been realized by her efforts in favor of the poor of his beloved city. Besides being elected member of fourteen different academies, Madame Catalani had bestowed upon her eight gold medals by various sovereigns and city corporations. As a woman, a wife, and a mother, her conduct was throughout life irre proachable. SIR BENJAMIN D'URBAN. AT Montreal, suddenly, on the 25th May, Lieut.-General Sir BENJAMIN D'URBAN, K. C. H. and G. C. B., commander of her majesty's forces in Canada, aged 72. His death is said to have been accelerated by his recent fatigues, in consequence of the disturbances in Montreal. This gallant officer entered the army in 1793, as cornet in the 2d dragoon guards. In the following year he obtained a troop, and in 1795, he accompanied Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedition to the West Indies, and served in the 29th dragoons in St. Domingo. In 1803, he was appointed superintendent of instruction in the military college at Marlow; and, in 1805, he served as lieutenant-colonel of the 89th foot, in the expedition under Lord Cathcart. In 1808, he went to Spain as assistant quarter-master-general with Sir David Baird, and served with the corps of Sir Robert Wilson, in Castile. In 1809, he was appointed quarter-master-general of the Portuguese army; and for his services, as brigadier-general, at Busaco, Albuhera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, and Toulouse, he received a cross and five clasps; and, in 1814, he was nominated a commander of the Tower and Sword. In 1818, he was made a knight commander of the order of the Guelphs of Hanover; and, in 1840, a military knight grand cross of the SIR CHARLES R. VAUGHAN. VAUGHAN, G. C. H. He was the sixth son of the AT London, the Right Hon. Sir CHARLES R. late John Vaughan, M. D., of Leicester, by the daughter of Alderman John Smalley, of the same city. His brother, the late Sir Henry Halford, baroIV., and Queen Victoria, assumed the name of Halnet, physician to George III., George IV., William ford, in lieu of his patronymic, on the extinction of the baronet's family of that name, to whom he was brother was the late Sir John Vaughan, one of distantly related through his mother. Charles was educated at the Rugby School, which the justices of the Court of Common Pleas. Sir he entered in 1788. He was originally designed for the medical profession, and took the degree of Another bachelor of medicine at Oxford. He entered All Soul's College, and obtained a travelling fellowship on the Ratcliffe foundation. In 1809 he was appointed by Earl Bathurst private secretary in the foreign office. In 1810, he became, under the administration of the Marquis Wellesley, secretary of legation and of embassy, in Spain, and was minister plenipotentiary in that country during the absence of the ambassador, from August, 1815, to December, 1816. In 1820, he was appointed secretary of embassy to France; in 1823, minister plenipotentiary to the confederated states of Switzerland; and in March, 1825, envoy extraordinary to the United States of America, having been sworn a member of the Privy Council. In 1837, he was called upon to undertake a special mission to Constantinople, as envoy, to supply the place of Lord Ponsonby, during his absence on leave obtained. He proceeded no further on his way, however, than Malta, where, after a delay of some weeks, he learned that Lord Ponsonby had decided upon remaining at Constantinople. In 1833, Sir Charles was made a knight of the grand cross of the order of the Guelphs of Hanover. M. KALKBRENNER. CHRISTIAN FREDERIC KALKBRENNER. He was the AT Paris, of cholera, the well-known pianist, M. son of a musician, and was born at Cassel in 1784. About 1806, when residing in Paris, he acquired a high reputation as a brilliant performer on the piano-forte, and subsequently made frequent EuIn 1814, he removed to ropean concert tours. London, where he remained for nine years. On his return to the French capital, in 1823, in connection with M. Pleyel, he became a manufacturer of keyed instruments. Till his decease he occupied a prominent position in the musical society of Paris. MR. WILLIAM RAE WILSON. AT London, on the 2d June, WILLIAM RAR WILSON, Esq., of Kelvin Bank, LL. D., in the 76th year of his age. He was the author of or, meditating on a Saviour's passion, find utter"Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land," pub-ance in that pensive strain, lished in 1823, a work which was for a long time very popular. WILLIAM B. TAPPAN. We are pained to announce that our excellent friend and fellow-citizen, Rev. Wм. B. TAPPAN, departed this life, at his residence in Grantville, 'Tis midnight-and on Olive's brow The star is dimmed that lately shone; or, when assembled to pray for the coming of Christ's kingdom, they raise the triumphant anthem, Wake! isles of the South, your redemption is near; the lay of comfort and hope, or when in the midst of storms and trials they seize There is an hour of hallowed peace, Where purity with love appears, And bliss without alloy; N. Y. Independent. From the Examiner, 7th July. THE FRENCH IN ROME. this morning at 3 o'clock, after a sickness of about 11 hours. He preached last Sabbath at Mattapoisett, returned to the city yesterday morning, and or, rise exultingly towards that world of" hallowed spent the forenoon at his office, and returned home peace," in the cars at 2 P. M. At four o'clock, he complained of slight indisposition, and took some medicine. Soon after he was seized with spasms, accompanied with clammy sweat, cold extremities, and feeble pulse, which continued with increasing violence, baffling all remedies, till, at 3 this morning, his frame, constitutionally feeble, sunk under it. He was sensible of his situation, from the first, and expressed quiet resignation. During the spasms, his sufferings were very great; but when an involuntary groan escaped him, he would say, "Understand, I don't complain; it's all right." His sight and hearing were affected, and he complained of burning thirst, and when his attendants touched his flesh, cold as marble, he would say, "O, you burn me!" His end was peace; and "the memory of the just shall be blessed." The attending physicians pronounced the case one of spasmodic cholera.-Boston Traveller, 19 June. M. MAZZINI has saved not merely the reputation of Rome and of Italians, but of democracy itself. After the miserable and impracticable conduct of the Struves, of the Ledru-Rollins, and the Guerazzis, one might have considered it as an axiom that a modern European republican was a visionary and a dolt, not even a match for the dull veterans of court and aristocracy which he pretended to replace. But Mazzini has displayed skill, courage, and conduct. He and Kossuth have alike resisted the most powerful armies of the most powerful nations, and not only Mr. Tappan was truly a good man, humble, their armies, but their influence and their inaffectionate, sincere, benevolent, devoted. He loved trigues. Kossuth wielded an enthusiastic popuChrist, his people, and his cause. He was partic-lation. Mazzini had to put the enthusiasm of warularly interested in Sabbath schools, to which he like resistance into a people altogether unused to consecrated, not his time only, but some of the it, and had to direct that enthusiasm in a sensible This he has done. He has choicest productions of his genius. At the time and efficient way. of his death he was a general agent of the A. S. S. resisted the French long enough; and has beaten Union, which office he had held for several years. them soundly enough, to redeem the Roman character, to make a great compliment of final submission, and to show that, in surrendering to the French, the Roman chiefs do not give up mere walls and a mere spiritless flock, but a population of rights and claims, with arms to defend them and to resent invasion. Nothing is more evident than that the Romans could have defied the Pope, and whatever aid the Italians could have brought to The impression which Mr. Tappan made upon all who knew him was that of quiet, unassuming, but deep and fervent piety. He breathed much of the spirit of Christ and heaven. a As a poet he did not hold the first rank even among the poets of his own country and time. His reputation would have been better if he had written .ess. A ready faculty of improving incidents, nints, allusions and affections, betrayed him into passion of turning everything into rhyme, so that instead of clothing the passing event, however trivial, with a rich and shining garb of spiritual philosophy, he sometimes gave only a jingling narration of the event itself. Yet he had in his heart the well-spring of poetry, which ever and anon bubbled up and sparkled in the sunlight, and poured forth life and sweetest melody. Enough that his memory will be embalmed in the affections of the church, when at the opening of public worship they sing, Holy be this, as was the place his assistance. The French, therefore, are bound not to render the Romans worse off in the way of freedom and independence, than Roman efforts, but for French intervention, would have secured. And should the French fail of their word, should Louis Napoleon, as people accuse him, show himself in league with Austria, and making common cause with Russia, look more to an archduchess for himself than to honor for France or freedom for Europe, then the Italians will know where to look for redemption. It is no longer to foreign aid or to native princes that either Italians or Germans can henceforth turn, if they are now deceived and oppressed. It will be no longer to the Charles Alberts, or the Frederick Williams, heart and courage. Whether discernment may if both these monarchs should fail; neither is it still provide him good counsellors, and fortune to the Gagerns or the Vinckes, the Giobertis or good opportunities, remains to be seen. We feel, the Mamianis, that Germans and Italians will however, that the president is on his trial, and that turn. They must depend upon such men as Maz-Italy will be the first witness for or against him. zini and Garibaldi. They at least have shown energy, and achieved a purpose. They have added the last and brightest page to Roman history, which for heroism has been a blank since the days of Rienzi. They have shown what Italians would and could have done, had the French not overwhelmed them; and on France they have completely flung either the obloquy of Rome's oppression, or the task of its liberation. Amidst all the difficulties which the French have encountered from the Romans, they have, however, also reaped some facilities and advantages. One of these, if advantage it can be called, is, that the French have been enabled to send a large army to Italy. Had the Romans made no resistance, there would have been no excuse for sending more than a corps of 15,000 men; but now, by the time all the reinforcements arrive, France will have an army of 50,000 men in Central Italy. This is sufficient at once to defy Austria, and to make Neapolitans and Spaniards sink into insignificance. The French general in Rome can assume a high tone, not merely to the Romans, but to the absolutists who threaten Italy. The idea of M. Barrot is no doubt to erect a juste milieu government in Rome, something like what Rossi meditated, and what Martinez de la Rosa tried in Madrid. This is all very well, if the Pope can be got to agree to it; but his holiness is in the hands of the Philistines of Gaeta, past, it is to be feared, all the powers of the Duc d'Harcourt to extricate him. He has refused to promise any institution of a liberal color. He wishes to come into Rome as a conqueror, through the breach. But this is no longer possible; for the French, of all appellations, dislike the most that of Soldats du Pape. No less an important consideration than the state and feelings of the French army in Paris will be the state and feelings of the French army in Rome. They will be there in contact with the Roman population and the Roman priesthood. And it is easy to conceive to which the French soldier will incline. If the region of Vienna and Presburg be dangerous to the Russian soldier, that of Rome, or of any part of Italy, is inimical to every plan for making French soldiers the prætorians of the Pope, or the allies of Austria. The French general and the French president have much to redeem in their Italian as in their domestic policy. They have hitherto continued to manage both by the army; but the army itself requires management; nor will French soldiers consent to sink into the mere police of foreign as well as domestic tyrants. Louis Napoleon has done nothing yet for either honor or éclat in a popular or liberal sense. He is but a roi faincant, and not a successful one. But he has time to redeem his position, if he has the THE FALLEN STAR. KNOW ye what it meaneth, The regions of the sky? They mark with watchful eye. Looks up And prays unto the Father, In agony of woe, Who glides with beam so cheering, And soothes to gentle slumber The mourner's heavy gloom. When looking up on high, The region of the sky.-Lit. World. NEW BOOKS. The Democracy of Christianity; or an Analysis of the Bible and its Doctrines in their relation to the principle of Democracy. Vol. I. Cady & Burgess: New York. History of England, by DAVID HUME. Vol. I. Messrs. Phillips, Sampson & Co. of Boston have begun a new and good edition. Mr. Sumner's Peace Oration has had the unusual distinction of a new edition. We have now more reason for hoping the early success of these doctrines, (their final triumph is a portion of divine revelation,) than thirty years ago we had for looking for emancipation from the domination of bank directors over the currency-or than twenty years ago we had for deliverance from the "Protective System." Dr. Bethune's Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, will soon be published. 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