... only sixteen years of age. She is good a musician as she is a dancer. Helen Condell is, observe, a great favourite at Bor deaux. Her performances are continually crowned with floral offerings, or, in other words, a shower of bouquets is ordinary compliment ...

... by competent authority, to give the most unqualified contradiction to a report which has appeared in a Sunday paper of the marriage of Miss Rainforth. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and a numerous retinue, visited Drury-lane Theatre, on Monday evening, to ...

... MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC CHIT-CHAT. A foreign fiddler to whom the Queen presented diamond ring is stated to have sold it to a Jew for £3. The Keans are said to have made it a stipulation with the southern managers in the United States, with whom t y have ...

... trip to the United States. A broad and amusing farce of Morton’s, called The Double-bedded Room, was produced on Saturday night at the Haymarket. A new musical prodigy—a successor to Paganini—made bis debiit at the Italian Opera House last week. Caraillo ...

... 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 ...

... have paid £2,000 a year rent to the tins- ccs ; the dresses, scenery, «£c., added by him to he taken at a valuation the end his tenancy; hut in two years after a change was made, Mr. Calcraft to receive £lO a week salary, unu a benefit, ...

... instant. The directors had under their favourable consideration a proposition on the part of the Caledonian Company for efiecting the opening of that line by the Ist of November next. A resolution was carried, empowering the directors, in conjunction ...

... are certainly Imp rtant true” Bradburne, of Pipe-place, near Lichfaeld, a ynung gentleman farmer, not more than 21 years a » planted six or seven different sorts of potatoes in a held ot about ten acres ; and he top-dressed them abundantly with quicklime ...

... highest efforts of a Rubini, a Duprez, Salvi, and Mario. If you bite a man’s nose off, what are you bound by law to do ? Keep the peace. “ My dear,” said a gentleman to a young lady, to whom he thought to be married, do you wish to make ...

... 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 ...

... made a successful debut in the part of Falstajf. The house was crowded. Miss Maria B. Hawes is now in Paris, and has been heard with pleasure for her fine contralto and excellent method in some high musical circles. Mr. Mainzer has composed a hymn forthe ...