... SAYOY THEATBE. WHEN so gifted a composer as Sir Arthur Sullivan and a librettist so witty and accomplished as Mr. W. S. Gilbert collaborate in the production of a comic opera their joint handiwork is awaited with interest by all classes of society, and the Savoy Theatre was filled by a brilliant audience on Wednesday last, when The Yeomen of the Guard; or, The Merryman and his Maid, was for ...

... . IT would be pleasant to congratulate Mr. Richard Mans field, a young actor of abundant capacity and strong individual ity, upon having confirmed in his second venture here the good opinion tentatively won by his treatment of the inartistic horrors which he chose for his first important experiment in England. Whatever he had not accomplished by his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-- at the best ...

... CHARLES WOOLHOUSE.-- There is decided originality in both words and music of A Diss, a Diss of Green Grass, a provincial ditty, written by Caroline Beaumont, composed by Alex. S. Beau mont. We learn ...

... AT this season of the year amateurs are on the look-out for acceptable additions to their musical repertories, and music publishers are busy. The following are amongst the publica tions we have recently received. CiiAprELii and Co., 50, New Bond-street.- Tis for the best, words by C. Bridgman, music by Franijois Cellier. This is a well-written song, and does credit both to librettist and ...

... COYENT GARDEN CONCERTS. The programme of the Promenade Concert given last Satur day at Covent Garden was mainly composed of repetitions of orchestral works produced earlier in the season, hut included one novelty a new waltz for choir and orchestra, entitled Home, and composed by Mr. Crowe. It contains some melodious passages, and was well executed by the orchestra and Mr. Stcdmau's choir, ...

... . Carina, a new comic opera, libretto by E. L. Blanchard and Cunningham Bridgman, music by Mme. Julia Woolf, was produced last week at the Opera Comique Theatre, and met with a favourable reception, although its success was frequently imperilled by the exuberant zeal of a most energetic claque. The plot is founded on that of Damaniant's play, Guerre ouverte; ou, Ruse contre Ruse, which was ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE COURT THEATRE. THERE are some theatres which it is the fashion to look up to as very superior indeed. We approach them with reverence, we criticise them with awe. Now it is to the one actor or the one author there that we so humbly bend now it is the prestige of the site which overpowers us now we prostrate ourselves in dreadful adoration before the tremendous ...

... THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD.-- Very few operas have been awaited with greater impatience and interest than The Yeomen of the Guard; or, the Merry man and His Maid, by Mr. W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Su ...

... THE great renown in the United States of Mr. Richard Mans field's impersonation of the Baron de Chevrial in A Parisian Romance had undoubtedly led the audience at the Lyceum on Monday evening to expec ...

... . With the exeeiition of Mr. Freeman Thomas's Promenade Concerts at Covent Garden, there have been for the last two months few musical topics for the consideration of metropoli tan amateurs, and there was nothing in the programmes of this week's Promenade Concerts to call for special comment. We must, however, say that the high reputation of these con certs has been maintained to the end of ...

... THE RUSSIAN OPERA COMPANY.-- A lengthy notice of the semi-concert performances which the Russian Opera Company began at the Albert Hall on Monday evening would simply be waste of valuable space. Alrea ...

... SIR CHARLES GREY having had the misfortune to shoot an antagonist in a duel takes to flight in alarm for the consequences, and with his charming young wife seeks shelter in a roadside inn. Fresh cause ...