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    Wo. 502. Nov. 5. 1859.1 THELIADBB. 1323

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    MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

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    - ?¦— ——Koyax Opera, Covent Gajroen.—The...

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    Latest Indian Intelligence. The Overland...

    applies almost exclusively to the newly-raised regiments . . THE BEBELS IN NEPATJI * . . . The cold weather is to usher in an expedition against the Nana and the rebels on the Oude frontier . The Hurharu says : — " The fugitive rebels in the Nepaul Terai and in Bundlekund are to be hunted down as soon as the cold weather commences for which purpose flying columns will be organised The Nana and Begum are still in the Nepaul _ territories , and the Maharanee of Lahore , who fled from the Chimar Fort to Catmandoo many years agowhere she was allowed to remain , as she could dono harmand her pension was saved—^ -has joined tne

    , latter . According to ' a recent communication from Bunklekund , Feroze Shah , with a small party of his men , was at a place 21 miles south-west of Shahgurh . These rebels are said to be making for a tract of jungly country to the west of Jubbulpore , in hopes of being able eventually to reach the Nepaul hills . A letter from Eoy Bareilly , dated the 7 th inst ., mentions that there had been an engagement with the rebels within the last few days near Tulsippre , and that they had suffered considerable loss . The rebel chief , Rambuksh Sing , talobkdar of Doomdiah Khereh , has been captured at Benares ,

    and is on his way to Roy Bareilly for trial , " for aiding and abetting in the murder of Miss Jackson , Mrs . Green , and others , and being a leader of rebellion . " Another chief , Bajah Jyegall , has also been caught , and is about to be tried for the murder of the few survivors of the Cawnpore massacre who sought refnge in the temple , from which Captain Thompson and Lieutenant Delafosse managed to effect their escape . It is to be hoped that both these chiefs will be hanged , although we should not be surprised to hear of their acquittal through some loophole or other "

    . v / vut ^^ .- . Lieutenant Beaden , of the 4 th Cavalry , has been appointed Aide-de-camp to Sir Charles Outram . This ' gallant young officer will , of course , not now return to England in . charge of troops who declined to re-enlist , as at first arranged .

    Wo. 502. Nov. 5. 1859.1 Theliadbb. 1323

    Wo . 502 . Nov . 5 . 1859 . 1 THELIADBB . 1323

    Music And The Drama.

    MUSIC AND THE DRAMA .

    - ?¦— ——Koyax Opera, Covent Gajroen.—The...

    - ?¦— ——Koyax Opera , Covent Gajroen . —The entertainments at this admirably-managed house are about to be varied by the production of the " Trovatore , " with a new cast , on Monday evening next . The part of Leonora will , of course , remain with Miss Louisa Pyne , whose admirable success in it is fresh in ' memory of all who observed the progress of this enterprise during its last season . . The Manrico will be Mr . Henry Haigh , a tenor , gifted with a voice , in parts , of extreme richness . The " Satanella " of Mr . Balfe will also be revived on Tuesday and Thursday next , while "Dinorah , " in which the troupe , including its recent acquisitions , continue to merit and receive the same degree of favour as was shown them on their first essay in this elegant work . The absence of booking , box-keeping , and playbill extortions , too often cause us silently to bless the management of Co vent Garden , for us to neglect each opportunity that offers of reminding our readers that here , as at the Adelphi also , the middle-clojs playgoers may take his or her seat , and a bill of the performance to boot , without the inevitably-ruffled temper that still attends the experiment in some other first-class establishments . The fact , too , that a private box for two persons may be had at Covent Garden for half a guinea , is one that many of bur friends may not yet have learned , but may like to prove by experiment . The fact is , we fancy , worth knowing , and the one trial necessary to tho proof is , at the price , decidedly worth making . Ditunv- Lank Tiieatkk , —Yet moro adieux boforo the exotic song-birds leave us for their win tar . quarters in nioro sunny or lesefog-gy climes ! Mr . Smith announces a fow more farewell nights , beginning on Tuesday tho 8 th inst ., with . Flotow ' s " Martha . " The vocu . 1 troupe , comprising Madllo . Titiens and ¦ Van eri , and tlio Signors GHuglini , Aldighieri , is a strong ono . Let us hope that tho band and chorus will bo strong enough to give adequate support to tho principals we have named . If such turn out to bo tho cuso tho lessee may hope for a brilliant little season ; if otherwise , he must only look for odious comparisons between his efforts and thoae of our English Opora friends at Govent-gardon . OoNTitAiir to a law that some philosophers have endeavoured to sot up and to maintain , civilisation is , as far as London is concerned , inarching oastward and not westward . Mr . and Mrs . Sims Hooves , the latter fairly convalescent , are ringing for enormous remuneration to vast audiences , and we nood hardly add , with eminent success , at the National Standard Thoatre in Blahopagato Bast , lato Shoroditch . The operas selected by Mr . Douglass , tho manager , aro " Luoia do Lammormoor " and " Tho Bohemian Girl . " The Edgardo is Mr . Sims Reeves , - ?¦— ——Koyax Opera , Covent Garden . —The entertainments at this admirably-managed house are about to be varied by the production of the " Trovatore , " with a new cast , on Monday evening next . The part of Leonora will , of course , remain with Miss Louisa Pyne , whose admirable success in it is fresh in ' memory of air who observed the progress of this enterprise during its last season . . The Manrico will be Mr . Henry Haigh , a tenor , gifted with a voice , in parts , of extreme richness . The " Satanella " of Mr . Balfe will also be revived on Tuesday and Thursday next , while "Dinorah , " in which the troupe , including its recent acquisitions , continue to merit and receive the same degree of favour as was shown them on their first essay in this elegant work . The absence of booking , box-keeping , and playbill extortions , too often cause us silently to bless the management of Covent Garden , for us to neglect each opportunity that offers of reminding our readers that hero , as at the Adelphi also , the middle-clojs playgoers may take his or her seat , and a bill of the performance to boot , without the inevitably-ruffled temper that still attends the experiment in some other first-class establishments . The fact , too , that a private box for two persons may be had at Covent Garden for half a guinea , is one that many of bur friends may not yet have learned , but may like to prove by experiment . The fact is , wo fancy , worth knowing , and tho one trial necessary to tho proof is , at tho price , decidedly worth making . Ditunv- Lank Tiieatkk , —Yot moro adieux boforo the exotic song-birds leave us for their win tor . quarters in nioro sunny or lesefog-gy climes ! Mr . Smith announces a fow more farewell nights , beginning on Tuesday tho 8 th inst ., with . Flotow ' s " Martha . " Tho vocu . 1 troupe , comprising Madllo . Titiens and Vaneri , and tlio Signors GHuglini , Aldighieri , is a strong one Lot us hope that tho band and chorus will bo strong enough to give adequate support to tho principals wo have named . If such turn out to bo tho cuso tho lessee may hope for a brilliant little season ; if otherwise , ho must only look for odious comparisons between his efforts and thoae of our English Opora friends at Oovent-gardon . OoNTitAJir to a law that some philosophers have endeavoured to sot up and to maintain , civilisation is , as far as London is concerned , inarching oastward and not westward . Mr . and Mrs . Sims Hooves , the latter fairly convalescent , are ringing for enormous remuneration to vast audiences , and we nood hardly add , with eminent success , at the National Standard Thoatre in Blshopagato Bast , late Shoroditch . The operas selected by Mr . Douglass , the manager , aro " Luoia de Lammormoor " and " The Bohemian Girl . " The Edgardo is Mr . Sims Reeves , - ?¦— ——Koyal Opera , Covent Garden . —The entertainments at this admirably-managed house are about to be varied by the production of the " Trovatore , " with a new cast , on Monday evening next . The part of Leonora will , of course , remain with Miss Louisa Pyne , whose admirable success in it is fresh in ' memory of air who observed the progress of this enterprise during its last season . . The Manrico will be Mr . Henry Haigh , a tenor , gifted with a voice , in parts , of extreme richness . The " Satanella " of Mr . Balfe will also be revived on Tuesday and Thursday next , while "Dinorah , " in which the troupe , including its recent acquisitions , continue to merit and receive the same degree of favour as was shown them on their first essay in this elegant work . The absence of booking , box-keeping , and playbill extortions , too often cause us silently to bless the management of Covent Garden , for us to neglect each opportunity that offers of reminding our readers that hero , as at the Adelphi also , the middle-clojs playgoers may take his or her seat , and a bill of the performance to boot , without the inevitably-ruffled temper that still attends the experiment in some other first-class establishments . The fact , too , that a private box for two persons may be had at Covent Garden for half a guinea , is one that many of bur friends may not yet have learned , but may like to prove by experiment . The fact is , wo fancy , worth knowing , and tho one trial necessary to tho proof is , at tho price , decidedly worth making . Ditunv- Lanio Tiieatkk , —Yot moro adieux boforo the exotic song-birds leave us for their win tor . quarters in nioro sunny or lesefog-gy climes ! Mr . Smith announces a fow more farewell nights , beginning on Tuesday tho 8 th inst ., with . Flotow ' s " Martha . " The vocu . 1 troupe , comprising Madllo . Titions and Vaneri , and tlio Signors GHuglini , Aldighieri , is a strong one Lot us hope that tho band and chorus will bo strong enough to give adequate support to tho principals wo have named . If such turn out to bo tho cuso tho lessee may hope for a brilliant little season ; if otherwise , ho must only look for odious comparisons between his efforts and thoae of our English Opora friends at Oovent-gardon . OoNTitAJir to a law that some philosophers have endeavoured to sot up and to maintain , civilisation is , as far as London is concerned , inarching oastward and not westward . Mr . and Mrs . Sims Hooves , the latter fairly convalescent , are ringing for enormous remuneration to vast audiences , and we nood hardly add , with eminent success , at the National Standard Thoatre in Blshopagato Bast , late Shoroditch . The operas selected by Mr . Douglass , the manager , aro " Luoia de Lammermoor " and " The Bohemian Girl . " The Edgardo is Mr . Sims Reeves , - ?¦— ——Koyal Opera , Covent Gajrjoen . —The entertainments at this admirably-managed house are about to be varied by the production of the " Trovatore , " with a new cast , on Monday evening next . The part of Leonora will , of course , remain with Miss Louisa Pyne , whose admirable success in it is fresh in ' memory of air who observed the progress of this enterprise during its last season . . The Manrico will be Mr . Henry Haigh , a tenor , gifted with a voice , in parts , of extreme richness . The " Satanella " of Mr . Balfe will also be revived on Tuesday and Thursday next , while "Dinorah , " in which the troupe , including its recent acquisitions , continue to merit and receive the same degree of favour as was shown them on their first essay in this elegant work . The absence of booking , box-keeping , and playbill extortions , too often cause us silently to bless the management of Covent Garden , for us to neglect each opportunity that offers of reminding our readers that here , as at the Adelphi also , the middlo-clajs playgoers may take his or her seat , and a bill of the performance to boot , without the inevitably-ruffled temper that still attends the experiment in some other first-class establishments . The fact , too , that a private box for two persons may be had at Covent Garden for half a guinea , is one that many of bur friends may not yet have learned , but may like to prove by experiment . The fact is , wo fancy , worth knowing , and tho one trial necessary to tho proof is , at tho price , decidedly worth making . Ditunv- Lanio Tiieatkk , —Yot moro adieux boforo the exotic song-birds leave us for their win tor . quarters in more sunny or lesefog-gy climes ! Mr . Smith announces a fow more farewell nights , beginning on Tuesday the 8 th inst ., with . Flotow . ' s " Martha . " The vocu . 1 troupe , comprising Madllo . Titions and Vaneri , and tlio Signors GHuglini , Aldighieri , is a strong ono . Lot us hope that tho band and chorus will bo strong enough to give adequate support to tho principals wo have named . If such turn out to bo tho cuso tho lessee may hope for a brilliant little season ; if otherwise , ho must only look for odious comparisons between his efforts and thoae of our English Opora friends at Oovent-gardon . OoNTitAJir to a law that some philosophers have endeavoured to sot up and to maintain , civilisation is , as far as London is concerned , marching oastward and not westward . Mr . and Mrs . Sims Hooves , the latter fairly convalescent , are ringing for enormous remuneration to vast audiences , and we nood hardly add , with eminent success , at the National Standard Thoatre in Blshopagato Bast , late Shoroditch . The operas selected by Mr , Douglass , the manager , aro " Luoia de Lammermoor " and " The Bohemian Girl . " The Edgardo is Mr . Sims Reeves ,

    , . I Lucia , Mrs . Beeves ; Enrico , Mr . Durand ; Arluro , Mr . Manvers . At the Pavilion Theatre , still farther down east , Mademoiselle Lancia , a pure soprano , i young and very promising , is singing in the " Son-- nambula" with a Mr . Parkinson as Elvino , and Mr . i Bosenthal as the Count JRodolpho . i PRESENTATION OF AN ADDRESS TO JENNT tKB . \ At half-past three o ' clock on Friday afternoon last . Madame Lind-Goldschmidt and her husband , M . Otto i Goldschmidt , paid a visit to Mercers' Charitable Hos-. pitalDublinfor the benefit of which institution she

    , , » had so generously given her gratuitous professional services in connexion with the performance of Handel ' s sublime oratorio of " The Messiah , " on Thursday eveni ing . His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant having kindly consented to be present at the interesting , ceremony , shortly before half-past three o ' clock arrived , accompanied by Mr . Hatehell , private secretary , and Captain Buller , aide-de-camp in waiting . On the arrival of Madame Goldschmidt , she was conducted by his Excellency to the board-room , where there was a large and distinguished party in attendance to meet her .

    Horatio Townseiid , Esq ., one of the governors of the hospital , read the following address : — " To Madame Otto Goldschmidt . " Mercers' Hospital , Dublin , October , 1859 . " Madame , —The Governors of Mercers' Hospital , and the Trustees of the Irish Musical Fund Society for the Relief of Distressed Musicians , beg to address you . in grateful acknowledgment of your truly generous conduct in . giving gratuitously the aid of your unrivalled talent in a performance of the < Messiah ' for the benefit of these institutions . "In their several departments of doing good , both of these institutions have been instruments of -unspeakable blessing and comfort to many individaals and to many families , each institution working according to its several ability . ard

    " We feel that you need no higher present rew than the consciousness of having promoted the usefulness of two such institutions , not only by your noble munificence , but by making them both more extensively known to the public . "But the interest of your good- action will be increased to yourself by the reflection that the hospital that you have so generously befriended was one of the early charities of this city , for whose benefit the illustrious Handel gave the first performance of that sublime oratorio in which you have just taken so distinguished apart . That grand monument of Handel ' s piety and genius was inaugurated in the cause of suffering humanity . And afterwards during his life , and since his death Cof -which the present year is the centenary ) , it has , in frequent performances , con- tributed more to the relief of human suffering than other production of genius ^

    any ., s _ __ " , Madame Goldschmidt , have laboured in the same sacred cause , and our trust and hope is , tliat when you shall rest from your labours your works may follow you ; and that you may be found among those to whom tho ' Messiah , ' the Divine Saviour , who himself , while on earth , went about doing good , shall say : ' Come , ye blessed of my Father , inherit the kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world . ' . . We beg , Madame , that you will accept this sin- cere expression of our respect and esteem , and that you will rest assured that we shall always retain a cordial and grateful recollection of your benevolence and generosity to our institutions . —Wo have tlio honour to subscribo ourselves , Madam , your obliged and grateful friends . "

    j Princess s Theatre . —We are in hopes , on account , of both manager and author , that the suceesswhich attended the production on Wednesday night of the new drama , called " The Master Passion : or , the Outlaws of the Adriatic , " may not prove an ephemeral one . The latter gentleman ( Mr . Falconer ) , already known as the author of the Lyceum comedy "Extremes , " has here used , by way of foundation , the French melodrame , " Noces Venitiennes , " and the former ( Mr . Harris ) has been lavish of his ingenuity and resources to secure a permanent position * for the work of his collaborateur . ¦ _

    The scene is laid in Venice , the city of song and stilettos , and the principal characters are members ot the Orseoli and Falieri families , who cherished an hereditary hatred for one another of the deepest and deadliest Italian dye . ; but the hero , Galieno Faliero , a successful young soldier ( Mr . George Melville ) and the nominal heroine , Olympia Orseolo ( Miss C . Leclercq ) , like their prototypes of the Montagu and Capulet houses , are violent exceptions to the general rule , and the storms that agitate the waters of their affection furnish the grand incidents

    of the play . ,,.., •!• Having deserved well of the republic in his military career , the young Faliero craves , as a boon of the Doge and his council , the whitewashing of the memory of his ancestor , the famous Marino j but this being denied him through the interference of G-zovanni Orseolo , head of the rival clan , and also member of the dread Council of Ten , he throws up his commission , exchanges the sword of the national warrior for the dagger of the brigand , and shaking the little dust he might collect in Venice from his feet , leaves her watery ways and cool colonnades for an outlaw ' s life on the mainland . He is not un-r cared forhoweverin his retreat , for a spy who had

    , , been attached to his person in the shape of the fair Morosina ( Mrs . Charles Yoiing ) ,. but who had failed in her duty by falling in love with him in earnest , now abandons home and fame , attends him to his retreat on the Black Mountain , and succeeds in weaning him from the memory of the fair Olympia . But her . felicity is not of long duration , for in the course of time chance brings Olympia as a captive to the robber-nest , and Galieno returns , like many an hones ter gentleinan , to his premiers amours . Boused to patriotism by his old love , Galieno now seeks Venice again with his following , but they fall into the power of old Orseolo who by threatening the Morosinwith the rackforces lieno to

    ( i , j 1 j t { ( t captive a , Ga disclose himself . He is at once sentenced to death , but the feelings of the wicked councillor yield to the certainty that his daughter will not survive her lover , and lie permits the impending fare of the hero to be arrested . But so strong within him is the master passion of revenge that his tongue refuses to perform the office of forgiveness . He dies of the struggle . between paternal love and thirsting hatred ; the ill-fated Morosina goes to a nunnery , and the ground being cleared of obstacles , the lovers are left in peace . As Galieno , Mr . Melville displayed , on Wednesday , considerable ability . Though it must be insisted upon that he has not reached pur saltum the secondary stillbe

    ] ^ , 1 ( 4 ] , heights of dramatic excellence , he may y felicitated on the early possession of a sound footing , with youth and power to scale them by the good old track , safe though laborious , of labour . The Orseolo of Mr . Byder was a chequered performance , and the Spalatro of Mr . Graham a commendable owe . Jliss Ledorcq , of course , pretty , and so far effbetivo as Olymnia , mado the most of the little field for display open to her ; but to the talented Mrs ., Clmrlco Young were due , and Avannly accorded , tho principal honours of the evening , Her change from the unprinc ^ led and vindictive intrigante of Venico to tho idolising , then jealous , and ultimately scll ' -sacriiicing woman , is very powerfully worked out . Hor great scono , m which she welcomes' tho torture rather than betray tho flcklo Galieno to a fnto which maiiy ot tho is lull ot t

    audience thought he richly deserved , rue gonius , and , to say the trutli , paintully- real . . play , though not of uniform strength throughout-. wore it so it wore too harrowing—mid here and there overacted , is full of sit \ x » tion , aml contains much woU finished uud poetical language . Its fow delects have bucn so wall indicated , and tlio remedy for them is so simple , that Ijcsfbro this they may have coasoil to exist . The beautiful scenory and inoldontal dancing con-Lributo tjioir fair share to tlio general interest , ana tUvouv tho dosirablo probability that the hopes ^ pressed in o ur opening sentence will bo realised . St . James ' s Tuhaxbm . — An airy nothing , entitled . n . mi . i ' s Laddor . " composed and produced for the o £ 1 > c f I s ' ti o

    HuBtratlonof the enterprising and interesting young Ballerina . Miss Lydia Thompson , was produced , lore on Saturday evening . Tho fair Lydia . appears , Ust by wuy of beginning at the ladder ' s foot , as a , ountrv boy , not of the earth , oarthy , but of a ighter order , that may prevail in some aelJgUtifuX ralley yet undiscovered , whore chawing of bacon iguo , and rheumatics aro unknown . This Jteulien 'llnydova next appears in pursuit of a country girl , W E n n '

    The address was signed by his Grace tho . Lord c Archbishop of Dublin , tho Right Hon . tho Lord t Chancellor , his Grace the Dulco of Loinster , the i Lord Chief Baron , tho Lord Justice of Appeal , Lord i William Fitzgerald , tlio Archdeacon of Dublin , Potor t Digges La Touche , Esq ., William Digges La Touclie , Esq ., Edmund Diggos La Toucho , Esq ., Dr . Osborno , and the surgeons of the hospital . ¦ On tho conclusion of tho address , Madame Gold- Schmidt expressed her thanks with peculiar warmth , and with an evident sincerity of mannor . Having intimated a dosire to go through tho wards , his Ex- colloncy , with characteristic opurtesy , offered liis arm , and conducted Madame Goldschmidt through )

    the different departments of the house , accompanied , by the other distinguished persons already named . On returning to the board-room , Madame Goldschmidt was presented with the visitors' book , in which she made tho following entry : " With every good " wish for tho welfare of this charitable hospital , atid very much ploasod with all that I have seen to-day , —JWny Lind-Goldsoumijox . " After a stay of something moro than an hour Madame Goldschniklt , again expressing tljo gratification afforded by hor C visit , left , accompanied by hor husband , and as slio n entered her carriage she was loudly cheered by v a largo crowd wliloh had assembled before the ai hospital , lIi

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 5, 1859, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05111859/page/11/