SUDDEN TERMINATION TO THE Wednesday Concerts

... SUDDEN TERMWINATION TO TEE I Wedniesday Concerts. The WVernesday Concerts have terminated suddenly, and in a manner that reflects anything but credit ?? those musicians and vocalists wvhlo ' ore engaged for last WFednesday's entertainment, and this we shall attempt to show. Wedtne-sday last was to have given the eleventh con- cert of the springg series, with the second, appearance of Mdlie. ...

Published: Sunday 19 May 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1322 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

COMMEMORATIVE BANQUENT BY THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS

... COMMEMORATME BANQUENT BY THE . ~1: COLDSTREAM GUARDS. i magnificent entertainment in the character of a bi- eentensry festi val was given on Wedneedayevening in the royal hanlqoetting-roomoC St. Janmes's Palace, by the offEi- cers. of the Coldatream Guards, to celebrate the 200th .anniversaryof the enrolmentof that distinguiehed corps by the celebrated General Mtonck, afterwards Duke of ...

Selected Poetry

... `cltctrfrb 19actfp. OLD FrRIENDS 'MET TOGETHER. OiT, time is sweet, when roses iseet, With Spring's sweet breath around them, And sweet the cost, when hearts are lost, If those we love have found then I And sweet the mind that still can find A star in darkvest weather, But nought can be, so sweet to see, As old fiiends met together. 'Tlhose ?? of old, when yonth was bold, Aind tiiue stole ...

SPANISH LITERATURE

... SPA NaIfHf LITERA TURE.* ?? - Three exceedingly handsome volumes, containing some fifteenl hundred Pages of history, biography, anecdote, analysis, and criticisix ; illustrating a I thousand years of a national literature, from the Last of the Goths to the Prince of the Peace, and accounting for thirty years of the life of the eminent Americau whose name is thus magnificently intro- duced to a ...

COME, NAME A GOOD FELLOW!

... COME, NAME A GOOD FELLOW' r- Come, nanie a good fellow Anid drink to his health No matter his rtation- No matter his wealth ! If the heart be but noble, en 'Tis title enough; 16 P Tis the heart makes the Mao no Though his fortune be rough he Theo lamllie a good fello', as And to him we'll driak is And our lip with a blessing, is Shall hallow the brink ! ret Come, aitne a good fellow , ies The ...

THE LEGEND OF MONTE PILATE

... THE LEGEND OF MONTE PILATF. SU*ORSTUD BY A SWISS TRADI5TION GIVEN IN THE 'DERBY a 3ERCUREy OF MlAY THE 8TH, 1850. S 'Tis said 'neath Pilate's rocky heights, Where gloomy storm-clouds keep Their shadowv watch, a spirit walks, r O'er waves that never sleep. a Darkly the mirror'd waters shine, v And rending tempests sigh, Where round the deep blue mountain lake a Dread portents meet the eye. i ...

THEATRICALS, ETC

... SADLER'S WELLS. -The liberality of Messrs. Phelps and Greenwood in appropriating the entire re- .eipts of their theatre in aid of the funds of the Grand 13dutrialExhibition of 1851, they fiefraying the whole of the expenses, was rewarded by as crowded and en- thbsiastic an audience as ever assembled within the walls of a theatre. Immediately after the last bar of the overture was heard, Mr. ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... RErIEqS OF BOoKS. Tnc RIFLE R1 NGIIis.'t -BY CAPT'. MATyNP READ-. Shoberl, Mrirlbo)t-ogh-streeLt-Tho author of this work served in the AnieriqaiiJarlmy durinig the war betwedn that country and Mexico. Thei adventures that befel him while carniaigiinug with the invading tiroops ale narrated in a freslh vigor(us style, and a ehiarming off- hand mitanner. Tile author ?? us that, although rmich ...

EXHIBITION OF 1851

... EXHIBITION OP 1851. A very large and respectable meeting of the inhabitants ofI .3larylebone was held yesterday in the Princess's Concert- room, Castle-street, Oxford-street, for the purpose of taking into conlsideration the proposed Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851. The Right Hon. Lord Portmnan occupied the cheir. Amongst thosc present wereE Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., Sir ...

THE THEATRICAL EXAMINER

... HAYMARKhET TEATRER. The production of a comedy by Mr Douglas Jerrold is an event of no small interest to playgoers; as the appearance of this theatre on Thursday night, as well in the number as the character of its audience, very unequivocally showed. The most flattering compliment which an author can receive was never better deserved or paid. Every one in the house seemed to remember how ...

POETRY

... P OET RY. WILD FLOWERS. BY ANNE PRATT. Why is it that I love the flowers That grow in woods, and lanes, and fields, Better than all the glowing ones The richly-cultured garden yields? Why is it that the daisy has A charm for me all flowers above, Or why the hawthorn's fragrant breath More than the myrtle's do I love? The cuckoo-flower and hyacinth- These blossoms of each woodland wild, The ...

FINE ARTS

... AIR. DOzduNIC COLNAGni denies the statement of lr. Hausser, eaid to have been moade before the authovities at Rome, to the effect that he (My. Colnughi) had offered I 100 guineas f,,r permission to engrave the portrait of Gari- l baldi. Mr. Colnaghi sayi it has never been his desire to publisbthe portrait of the Roman leader. ...