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» 3 > atmx iLaxe Theatke . —The large attendances oi the middle classes , on . the evenings Thursday and yesterday certainly ; prove- ^ if the previous successes both of Mr . Smith and Mr . Harrison had not already done so—that opera can flourish in lipndon independently of the cpuntenanance of the tipper or even the second ; third ; fourth , or fifth , ten thousand . Madame Piccolomini ; too ; though she has long been acknowledged by the warmest partisans to owe her success less to her singing than to her agaceries continues—we take , it on the same evidence—to " draw " well as ever . The "Xucia di Lamtoermoor >? was the opera on Thursday , that of last night tfie " Traviata . " The part of the heroine
in the former work was sustained by the gif ted little prima donna in a manner entirely her own and that petrified the enthusiasts , who believed that af ter the inspired Bosio and the florid Persian ! nev ^ readings were impossible' to accomplish if not sacrilegious to attempt . The Edgardo was Signer Belarfc , a Spanish artist of feeling and considerable accomplishments . His " Fra Ppqo" was warmly . applauded * , and ; the c / isemftle secured by the exertions of his colleagues ^ Borsi , Aldigheri , to cariali , Ponti , and Annoni , was altogether satififactpry : The same , can . hardly bVsaid pf . the ' cliotuS , but the schemers of ihese spasmodiclittle
seasons , not the poor singers sliould be Warned for . ahy shortcomings in this department . Jt were , indeed , 3 £ fttesslHg : - | iVid < ricerof ^ n ^ v ^ H ^^^^ clipral -market if " a corps d ' elite were found at liberty whenever some . great singer or opera troupe may happen to flatter through town and be arrested for a while by the glided novelty trap of that vigilant amusement caterer * Mr ; B . T Smithy Last ? night ' s perforhiajice of the . * ' Traviata , "; by the same artists was no less successful . The house was crow . dedand enthusiastic . Tbi ^ Piccolomini jjiarig ; " 4 h lbr ^ e lui , '' > f Iribiamo , " andVfvSeropre X . ibera , ' , ' . iji -her , rC ^ ptiyating vandeyillistic style , while Sigri ' ori Belart arid Aldighieri may "be . » et down as real acquisitions for next season .
.. Vocal Association ;—; The ; Jlfusical World , a contemporary-not apt to be misled in such matters , fca * given currency to the r uriiour . that the above iianaed , progressive society at inany of whose pleasing sprieepive had the pleasure to , assist during the lust '•( ntasitiajl . season , is about to fee reinforced by the addition of an instrumental . department , and will henceforth abopt the style ' and , title of " The "Vocal and instrumental Association , " . M . Benedict , whose former ; exertipn . s as conductor , until his ^ ryicesi . werp demanded in . , th $ more -responsible coqduct of the Drury Lane , Operatic band ,, vexe ,. the theme of many a commendatory
paragr ^ h » w < has undertakei } . . , the new : organisation in . cpjajuncjic ^ with Dr . J ^ meS ; . PescH the ' , balidi is to coD ( 8 ist '; inainly , of amateur ? ; and ,, the selection of mwic ^ comprising . overtures , symphonies , ¦ with can-. tf $$ g , jnasses , anthems ,, and other , music . suitable for b £ nd ( and chorus conjointly , iwijUt of course be at , flrjafc uoamliitipus of difficulty ^ The step is , ' aa- pur contemporary suggejs ^ in , the right " direction * and . a ; ¦ y ' tyBfr amount o % )^ lent ,: at pre ^ at ^ ut fragmentary , will ^ j we , haye no doubt , be . % un 4 $ p fliaas , itself round , the jtwo accomplished ni , usic ^ na in ^ hora , t , tie e ^ ist-i jLpg society propose ^ 'vest : tihe : muscat direction of the § 7 q > erimeiati , r . y •• ; , :- ¦ ; v , ; . u :, ,. ..- ¦ ¦ , . '
Tte ^ fbeiss ' s THB ' AtRB . ^ M'r ' / ttatrisj the lessee , ' lias iipWThauguratedhMseayoriy in stfferas foot' tforisis * ih'ih ' appeal'tdlhy ^ uWlic at ^ rge . * ' W producing "Ny W" J «» d " C 6 Ve ! and * Kortii ^ " we" &honia &a $ he matte a dashing a $ df perMps cbstW 1 blidi'for ¦ ppwe ' tflit ^ eas ' Buppbrtmd clWtie fn ^ re ^ ''b ' bth of w , icl » KffiMni'dXlieSvoVltf kft' 6 ^^ Pi ^ ide rftbtii pohs'f queace to his predecessor . BUt . 'Vs we vea £ 5 it ( iti To WSfelh our'ttMlfcg pf ith ^^^ mn ^ liigh't , thodeTitj ^ at ^ Hcea vrere tpp' iiha of'Vefd 6 ap fp rally to J >^ - dHfoft ' eVeh atf ^' mTliHtf an'fl ' gleherany'' 8 ucce | sftiV as •« pxenfi > rd , and Planch 6 .. " .. The attendnnce ^ pfttlit ? tti ^ ftm&faWMd mii » oUsryVattd had W&ra rinaent been prolonged , Mrs . Young and Mr . jBlfincl might have in tune pJayed theh' | rue-loyers' game of cross v&W *< 2 * && t » HeTM'Ivelf&n ^>^ EktremQs "
to ft deserted pit and-a-gallery with elbow-room ; JTjjcmiJthlfe point iof view , then , the revival on Mondd ^ evepln g ' oft a p ^ 6 ttyfcomicidram » , ^ f ^ ove f s TdlC" - grasfjftt / h may < be J cansilder « jd / > « n < Opportune « move i o \\ tl « Jt « iianagarteipftrtv '* frWl «! Jt is j cortmnly « relief i to tJleorttic workVeaffe ^ jto ifludvcome >/ pogiwhereon to Jianwrcencpuragemonti'l ^«<< X > 3 fvw' «> 'Telegraph /'» w « p produc ) 8 d ) heTe ! JuW fvrJJthitk tihp niehiory Otixthe ^ lOer v \ m ^ g ^ ete ^ sayiaovdc Jtwdh'p or ^ hiWeon ) yoaT ) s < eintia . Stbwie <» nge » t telias tha ^ Madana ^/ Vfostril ^ 'MnipiAurlcs M * fti < Sw $ t lahdi CMis * ElhiixiavlStdnley ! Uhenn sUBtain ^ d iihdil ^ vdJnr ^ 'parta } atidilthatrrtlw pjocc' wasurery snch % tpMlol ( p 'Wn < b i owonrt ^ 'lioi ^ Veiv'JtUati ojpouda its fc ^ knTpet ' lo ^ and'lwhiieh ' taolMlCTJ tma tyat dieiijRatfea ^ Wdlttnwjlpildj p \» ybUti * mTorltlqMo ^ I'Vinafwa ' tits aifthiti W * ju ««?« Ibthe'Wniple"p lot ^»« iii' » B 0 in <* minor Germaii vo \ urt t untrammelled , pf course , by Sallo la , vr , the
Princess Blanc " he \ ttttB . Charles Young ) finds herself called suddenly from the seclusion of a . convent to thp care ' of a state . Her confidants are Arthur de Solberg , het secretary , and son of her father ' s favourite minister ( Mr . Harcourt Bland ) , and Alice , sometime tier -fellow novice ( Miss Kate Saville ) : These are affianced Iover 9 , but the fear of court scandal compels them to adopt a clandestine system of telegraphy , to which the drama owes its title . In the council chamber and the ? ball room alike , they discourse on , everything and nothing with the assembled cpurtrbut the sentences intended for one another—the soft reproach , the burning ¦ . protestation , the covert , assighation- ^ -are . acepmpahied , though
uttered with apparent indiflference , by the flutter of a fan or the wave of a glove , and thus are endowed with ( to lo . vers ) intense importance . This scheme is successful enough to blind , the Princess Blanche , who > cherishes : a deep-seated passion for her secreia . T-y ,. and only , waits a dispensation from the Holy See to declare herself marriageable and make him an offer . But while she reposes in fancied security the sly arid timeworn old Baron Pumpernickel ( Mr . ' T ?' . Matthews ) , who would fain be Prince Consort himself , and a maid Of honour , Marguerite ( Miss Emma "WTadham ) , who has views of her own upon De Solberg , discover the lovers' secret , and aim at their ruku Hardly , in fact , has the dispensation arrived
from Rome , and- Princess Blanche thrown / herself at the head of the impenetrable Arthur , when the PumpetmicJtel party explode their grenade among ^ the apparatus and ; the engineers with effect . Banishment for the secretary and a cloister for the maid of honour are tlie first ideas of the outraged Grand Duchess ; but being well lectured by the former , in his capacity of execute ^ and ' ' . trustee ^ upon the evils of unequal matclies , she commutes the sentence * may be with refined cruelty , into matrimony , and puts up , herself ; with the Gros-herzog of an adjacent principality , w ^ ho , " having loved her , also in secret , had been sunning himself in her smiles , and watcliirig his opportunity while visiting her court - under
an assumed name . The acting on Monday night may be fairly praised . Mrs . Young invested the slight part of the Princess with all the interest of which it is susceptible , and threw due emotion into the eclairoissement scene , wherein she represented AVOTindeii pride and disappointed love with ability and to the delight of the audience . If the part of De Solherg is new to Mr . Bland he has , beyond doubt , ably arid rayidly jumpuU at ti suaecasf . il conception . If , on tlie contrary , it be an old favourite with him , he still retains thd merit of having mas ^ tered and retained its minutest details . And—though this , is somewhat delicate : ground—could he condescend , to aid his other gifts at ; the expense of arbitrary
stage costume enactments , he * might obliterate , we fancy , tlie sole But potent mark , that time has set against his assumption of youthful characters . As the young ladies of the German v * iresideniz ,, " Misses Saville and Wadham looked extfenjfely pretty in patches ; powder , and appropriate hoops ; arid Mr . ri-ank MathewS , as the stilted' Pumpernickel , riot addressing himself , ' inthe manner of rt barren , to the selects but-loyally launching intp senile ' ' grotesq . uery to plea 8 e ; the , million and secure ithepieco ,-gained boththjeendsandcooaiderableapplausetoboot ,. The nx > untiug of the , pie , ce was ^ as elegant as might be expected i from the ,, ]^ nown , taste of the . manager and , the large resources pf , th . e thqatjre . , ?* LoVe and
For-. tju , n 9 was , still cpntmuing ^ at the beginning of the week to drag but nightly its length ' of , gentle dtili ^ ss : * h pugii ' the jilaygolng ^ 6 ria iindihe riews'r iapei 1 feporte ' rs" ale pretty iiriarihribus' in' Ascribing the wit ; of' the ' plecb'to' the mute persoflage Pierrot ( fit . Petit ) it ^ mla ' y be yet ' upon'thd bills fop some * timo . J' But « TheTwoPolta ; "'a Surrey force , in iwhichr / Mr . ivHenry Widdioomb is extremely clever / arid amU 8 ingv is an excellent- reinforuement ; and whatever the verdictofs the town on tjlio pieces that precede ity yirm secure fpr , Mr , Horristhat cpi ^ solation under , tfoe res , qrdu < $ of manag ^ moi ^ t , " a , good half i » ji | ] ce " ,, . ,.. f ' , ' .. ' ^ , ; ,, ' .,, , ' ¦ . ' . \ " MV ,. andMrS . 'Kban havebqen playing at Exeter ' to etioiririb \ is ho ' nseft ' Tn '•« tli ' e Gariiester , " *• JLouia XL " ah ' d ' ther"AV ' ifeffSetjro't . ''; / nVo'tirowd was / so groat that the tnahftgenitf . it worn able to dispense with the serviced of woreh ' eatnvand allot the spnee so gained th to in
A 9 ^ OIL am -Part-of e"atngei ' the public the shape- of stalls awd [ boxes . . On thto 20 th inat . the playiof * f H » imlet " i is announced , by special request pf nianyrleadjin ^ iohaViitaatis . On Wednesday'these ftHiMf « p » nnaQnc « 4 ia short engagement atPiyinauth , yfh © r ^( they .,, ^ iU . glye , . in aadfftioh to . the abpve namedpl » ys , tlm ^ . M ^ U ridpabp ^ t Notihinigf . " Tlie will , It Is , unttQjrstoPd , bo Sontrfniraptipn , « ^ '•'' WtimftW AMfaqA-b' ' M'i ^ sxR ^ s . —This nbw comptih ^ of'EJthhittikiibrotUQrB ; flfteeri strOhg , under ^ We ttM * rtttfe 0 itt ^ t / of Mr . < D . ' 'I ^ . 'Jfo *; Wh 6 UaVe , dttrittg 1 Mtef last riioritliVb ^ oii 'ttnhpunced as cpmingj' * through the mediniri'of a ' sMsihgulttD postirig bill oseveb graced thb'walls ' of lionddn , halve atJerigth landed in J ^ anibeth . The habitue * of the Surrey Theatre are In a
state > of jEthippiam tremens , of . nigger fever such as has not been experienced in any postal district within the ken of the registrars general of public amusements since the days of the founder of = the order « Jim Crow , " " Sweeny the Banjoist ; " or , the <> Reno irned Bones" of the glorious company of serenadeTs ^ whor reigned from 1844 to 1850 The Vwi ^^ k j uch Oaey jj , | st on ternjiilg | henfeelveJB , a % lfkn ^ tej of ijjceier Hall and Its canbns ) of recenthllgger importations have relied rather upon choral-neatness and sweet melody than upon > - ^ % broadly > fa r e | al cayiQatJHres of their predecessors ; a ~ na Cafri |) bell * s cbftjpa ^ i ' y ; though not abandoning" the former , have yet , by givirio- considerable to the lafeter
prominence , struck upon what after so long a lapse of time , is almost equal to a new vein . Mr . Fox ( the Charley * Fox of the yellow posters ) is a clever low cocaedian ; Mr . Mert Sexton is a boneless posttirist , or contortionist , of physiological as well as gyinuastia , interest ; and Mr . Theodore Donaldson seems to have a mission to elevate the banjo to a place which misconception of its capabilities , or the ujlfoiinded jealousy of Costa and Mellon , may have denied it in tlie grand or ^ chesti "' as . Some of the choral music is of the pathetic sfehool , so widely popularised by the Christy brethren , and the comic songs no more and no less than up to the average in point of both words and music .
Crystal Palack . —The appearance of Madame Catherine Hayes , who sang tlie plaintive and delicious ; 'VCorne per me sereno , " from the ?• Soniiambula , " in her best style , was the principal feature of last Saturday ' s concert . This gifted artisV also gave the Irish ballad , " Savourneen Deelish" ( which was vivaciously encored ) and Mr . Macfarren ' s " Wlien we two parted . " The other novelty , of the day was -the pianoforte playing of Mr . E . Silas , an excellent musician and instrumentalist , whom we took occitsion to notice during the last musical season at St . James ' s Hall . His
performance of Beethoven s concerto in E flat was appreciated by one of those select audiences th * at seem to assemble by consent , or even appointment , at the Crystal Palace Saturday Concerts , particularly in autumn , when the short days do not attract the million , and the fashionable world is for the most part touring or lounging at the sea side . On Thursday , the fine weather permitted a nuuiber . of visitors to enjoy- the display of the Upper Fountains . This afternoon ' s instrumental concert will present anew attraction in the shape pf the Yorkshire Hand-bell Ringers , of whom tyro " companies will perform a selection of operatic pieces , &c . In our next impression we shall have some opinion to offer iipbri their quality , and some arrangements to announce of the . interesting concqUrsqi bird fanciers , projected for the 19 th of November , and three following days .
.. . „ We had almost forgotten to notice that on Tuesday next , the 18 th , Mr . Coxwell , the well-known aeronaut , editor of the Aerostatic Magazine , projector , of aerial strategy ,. aud > in fact , a scientific member of his dangerous profession , is , on the occasion of , a grand auturiinal gala . Jo he , held on that day ,, to ascend from the grounds w his large balloon the Que , en , This ascent will be Mr . Coxwell s 307 tji : one of his most celebrated preceding trips having been from WoolwichtoTavistock , a distance of 250 miles—as the balloon flew—in five hours . The jPaim : Piubotoii anp Entb 'Acte , an interesting daily print , devoted to dramatic critielam and cossin . has an interesting budget , of news from
i ' Aris , ' The . «• Italiens " has opened with JWnaame Peruo arid the Signori Graziani and Gardoni , in the " Traviata . " The former , whom wo narrowly missdd seeing at Covent Gai ; don last season , ^ . J superb VPice , and bids fair to be a-greater W v 0 « n ^ this season than even last . Gardoni ia to rcpiaco Mario on thd stage of the ItaHops , . and . tlrougn perhaps hardly , as a gemiral rule , impassiopeu enough , 4 s , deficient i > e » th . cr in voice or gruw-Madame Albonl has appeared i » i V V Ittt , J }^ at i 0 Algleti . " with Gaftloiii and Zucchini . Mrtdame Miolan 0 arv « ll » o was delighting large audiences in " ILqs Noces de Fiiraro " at tlie livrique . The
nniedUuVian Dojaiethas assumed the management w brie of thb group of little phvyliouaes in the , ^" i fl vard du Temple ; arid % o \ m goodnatured f ane critics aver she haa cither forgtton t . > grow oW or has eluded the keen eye of old tempus too * - iMAdomd . V ^ stiali in the novr famous suit oi aiuroiwtlum pU » te , armour ( that o ?» t , wo beliuve , » W " fnioca ) , continuea to , gather laurels as ltomeo . *»« yra ^ 9 aia lias glvan a , first respreseptntion ot a ow , < vcf comedy iu vocso , said to bo a bucccbs . South KuNaiNaro * Mo »» UM .--On . Tll 0 " jJJo A . v « mln <«> ATn Tirililam . KMIU . dAUverad a lecture C »
flrat Q ? : »« eff ! e « , pA « lx ) M ; South jlfivniMngtpn Mojown , in connQctiou with , the . S lencq and Art Pepartmeni qC the . cWufctqo of Cuu ^ oil on BducU on . on " Social Science ao a Brauch of School Instruction .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 15, 1859, page 1160, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2316/page/20/
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