... MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC CHIT-CHAT Me\erbeer is engaged in the composition of a new opera, which is expected to be brought out Berlin about the end October. We are requested to state that there is no foundation whatever for a inmour that Mr. Webster is about ...

... MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC CHIT-CHAT. The theatre at Market Drayton has been turned into a barn, a reversal of the old system. Buckstone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam have been very successful at Manchester, their engagement having been renewed three times. Mr J Knowles ...

... Eastern Institution. Mr. J. Cohan gave a fantasia on the piano-forte on airs from Der Freischutz (cleverly arranged by himself), in a manner which undoubtedly stamps him as a most profound and able musician. He possesses a firm touch, and performs the most ...

... DRAMATIC CHIT-CHAT. The second Italian Opera House —lt is now official that Covent-garden heatre has been leased for three years to eminent capitalists, who will convert the house, which is to be embellished the most costly scale, into a lyrical establishment ...

... £60,397, the engineer’s estimate—a rare occurrence. Harriet Parker, aged 38, was or. Monday executed at ■Vpwirate for the murder of the two children of the man with whom she cohabited. She showed great penitence. aw iB ' a' parliament, and 150 staircases ...

... ted American vaulters, broke his neck the other day, when throwing a double somerset Batty’s circus, in the Island of Jersey. Smith, a great trampoline and vaulter, met his death in a manner precisely similar during tbe management of Messrs. Ducrow anil ...

... years has been an in-tructor in inusu'. v_, resolved to make the stage a source of emolument. * ' .> out the piece the stage was paced with an accuracy tru>. prising. He had no guide (a guide hirnseit ' but the correctness and quickness of his ear. , V were ...

... of Celebrated Vocalists.— Rubini was a tailor; Tamburini, a courier; Naldi, advocate : we believe he had the misfortune to kill a man in a duel, and was obliged to leave the state in which he practised. He was a clever amateur in music, ...

... the public places. The Observer staffs—For several seasons Mr. Macready received and - a week in London ; and ihat lately a minor theatre, he was j aid the ruinous sum a night; that at another theatre it is said that week was, last season, paid to two performers ...

... MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC CHIT CHAT. A peraen was brought up at the Worship-street Policeoffice, London, charged with hissing during the performancs at the City of London Theatre. He was the only one tbs audience who did his«, and stood a seat in the pit to gira ...

... solitiior n, a'/«'d \t‘ar: On the 3(1 in'taut, Hockley, near liinnin UAiii.LV, L.-q. On the insiai.4, years, Mr. JeUN watchmaker, waid-a 44 cct. the ins.ant, aged 3 years a..d im>:i hs, Rolekt, son Mr. Ruderi KlLl*a.TuicK, e:«giiiC-iua..a 0 ...

... succ-.ssful speculation. He has succeeded in effecting a re-engagement with this captivating artiste, who will again appear before a Dublin audience shortly before Christmas next. On Monday n ...