... MUSICJ CONCERTS, &c. Herr Wilhelm Randfa Soiree Musicale. This Concert-the last of a series of three-took place at the above gentlemuan's residence, in Queen Aune-street, on Monday evening, and was attended by a full and fashionable audience. In addition to Beethoven's Sonata in F Major, Herr Ganz played several of his own well-known and popular compositions, all of which were received with ...

... THEATRICALS IN IN1DIA. CAlOUTTA, 15TT JIJNR, 1861--Nothing in the way of public amusement here at present. The Amateur Dramatic Corps is greatly in want of reinforcements, and this has been notified through the press, so that wre ?? volunteers may not be wanting. The sulb- s3cription list, we bear, is in a healthy state. Professor Risley has, somehow, droppoed oult ot sight. An advertisement ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE EBRA. Sir,-Tbe pages of your valuable Journal haviog always vindi- cated the cause of the Actor, and, believiug as I do, that persecution cannot long exist in the present day towards any particular class, if properly brought before those who have the Power to crush it, I wish to call your attention to a crying evil which besets the actor at every turn in provincial ...

... ]ENGLISH OPERA-ITS PROSPECTS. POs8essing, al we unquestionably do, both composers and musicians of the highest merit, there is no obviousereasonwhY an English Opera should not be firmly established in London. Nevertheless every attempt has been accompanied by difficalties which have hitherto proved insurmoun table. Why is this ? The fact is that London will not support more than one Opera ...

... THE LATE DRAMATIC FETEI and FANCY ?? Fair. WVe have received a number of letters, during the week, in reference to the late Theatrical Fete at the Crystal Palace, in aid of the Royal Dramatic College. By far the greater number of these letters have been highly complimentary, thanking as for the view we have taken of these proceedings, and the opinions we have given expression to in connexion ...

... There seems just now a sort of craze after Amateur Theatricals, if we may judge from the frequent performances of this class of the genus Actor. Unfortunately for those who take part in these afiairs, they are too commonly below the standard of mediocrity, and sometrimes (as we have instanced ere now in our notices) even scarcely tolerable. Acting on the principle- Though pleased to praise ...

... Sir William and Lady Don in Australia, (From the Sydney alMail, April 27.) Sir William aud Lady Don still continue to attract large and fashionable audiences at the Vistorio Theatre, notwithstanding the portieularli unfavonrsble state of the weather during the lest week or more; and it must be admitted that the pieces performed-the sparkling Comedietta, the light musical Drama, the Farer, ...

... THE DURAMlATIC FANCY PAIR AND ITS Eleemosynary Representativea. We last year made some pertinent remarks on rtain parties and proceedings in connexion with the RoyalDramnatic College, and though some of those individuials then censured mi-ht have done this Journal (whichhas been their friend and advocate through all circum- stances) the courtesy to attribute other than malevolent and personal ...

... OSBORNE, SUNDAY..Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal High. nese the Prince Consort,their Royal Highuesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Helena, and Princess Louisa attended Divine service this morning. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and the domestic household were also present. MosDAY.-PHis Royal Highness the Crown Prince ...

... I I T E R A T U IR AK THE ENGxisrwomAI I* ITAiy. By Mrs. G. GRETTON. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. The writer of this pleasing volume, gives her impressions of life in the Roman States and Sardinia, derived from a residence of ten years in those portions of Italy. The work does not aspire to be a deeply political essay on the past, present, and fitore, of the most ...

... MUSIC, CONCERTS, &c. -I Mr. Charles Halle's Beethoven Recitals Seem, as they progress, to cresite more and more marked attrac- tion. The Sixth Recital comprised the Sonata in F Major, op. 54; the Grand Sonata in F Minor, op, 57, called the Sonata ApBs- sionata; that in F sharp Major, op. 78i and that in G Major, op. 79, the latter called, and justly go, The Queen of Sonatinas. All these, ...

... - -W Royal Italian Opera.-On Saturday evening, Plotow's popular Opera of Martha was performed at the above Theatre, with Mdlle. Adelina Patti, for the first time, in the character of Lady Henrietta; the other principal parts-viz, Lionel, Plunkett, the Sheriff of Richmond, Sir Tristano, and Nanmy-being filled, as on former occasions, respectively by Signori Mario, Graziani, Zelger, Tagliaflco, ...