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      CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS , ST . JAMES S IIALL . Our old friends continuo to attract crowds—we were suprised on Monday night to see how large a one—by their minstrelsy , which , they have latterly divested of a good deal of its negro character . The entertainment is now a medley of burlesque character songs , sentimental ballads , serious and comic orchestral performances , with a thread of Ethiopianism woven through it . The first part includes a pleasing chorus " We come from the Hills ;" " Kiss me quick and go > " " Wo are coming-, Sister Mary ; " with the well-known and

      amus-DKURY fcANH BALLET . In our notice last week wo omitted very laudably

      indeed to speak of the ballet , for in truth we had not seen it . We can now speak to the beauty of the scene in which Mesdames Bochuetti Pasquali , Morlachbi and Savanaki vie with each other in feats that we are too old or too young to enj oy . We hare seen the three first of these ladies on other occasions , and can certify their evolutions to be fantastical , not quite indecorous , and occasionally graceful . " There , however , the ballet is , for its amateurs and others who deem it a necessary sequel to an opera ; and as we have been reminded that we do short justice to the management if we suppress all mention of their efforts in this direction , we have all the pleasure fri life in announcing the fact of its nig htl y periormance . The illumination of the house has been skilfully managed by Deffries — the great theatrical gas engineer . The light of the dingyold central chandelier is now superfluous : so is that of the branches round the dress circle . The massive chandelier in the lobby and others in the house are as far richer in design as they are more massive , more artfully cut , and more lustrous , and more easily cleaned than their antique predecessors .

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      JENNY LIND ( MME . OTTO GQLDSCHMIDT ) . On Thursday afternoon a private concert was held at the rooms of the Society of Female Artists , for the purpose of relieving that body from the pressure of a debt . This , concert originated in a benevolent proposal from Mme . Otto Goldschmidt ( better known as Jenny Lind ) to sing in aid of this object , Two guineas was the price named for the tickets , and no difficulty was experienced in securing the required audience . The programme was divided into two parts ; the first opened with an andante from Beethoven ' s sonata for piano and violin ( Op . 47 ) , played by MM . Otto Goldschmidt and Joachim , To this followed the aria " Qui la voce , " from VI Puritani , " sung by Mme . Goldschmidt , and the romance from Buononcini ' s " Griselda , " " Per la g loria d ' adorarvi . " Then an aria , with a violin accompany ment , by Mozart (" II re Pastore" ) , executed by Mme . Goldschmidt arid Herr Joachim , and a solo on the violin from " Tartini" by the latter . The second part opened with a duet on Styrian melodies , arran ge d by Mr . Benedict , by Mine . Goldschmidt and Sig . Belletti ; a piano sOlo , the first part by Otto Goldschmid " t and the latter by Chopin , played by Otto Goldschmidt ; two Scotch songs ,. " The land o' the leal , " and " Auld lang syne , " by Mme . Goldschmidt ; a bolero by Sig . Marras , executed by Sig . Belletti ; two songs , " The Mission of Songs , " by O . Goldschmidt , and " Spring Time / ' by Mendelssohn , sung by Mme . Goldschmidt . We need hardly say that no one who had the good fortune to be present at this concert ( in every sense of the word unique ) regretted the opportunity for enjoying one of the greatest musical treats possible , and at the same time of doing a good action . —The Critic . —

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      MUSICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON " . The constitution . of this Society insures the success of its concerts , which have more the character of social gatherings—frequented by both audience and orchestra for their pleasure—than that of entertainments designed to allure the great public , and secure its indiscriminate applause . Enthusiastic and distinguished professionals form the staple of the band , and regard each performance as an homage to their divine art and a compliment to their friends and patrons among the lay members , while the latter recognise this sentiment , and the consequent imposing results , with intense gratification . The last concert fo ? the present season took place on Wednesday evening at St . James ' s Hal } . Mr . Mellon leaving for the time the Pyno and Harrison troupe , who are in the north , conducted with his usual ability . Some fifteen hundred ladies and gentlemen , in evening dress , were in their places in good time , and the following programme was carried out , we need hardly say , to the delight of all present : — Part I . —Overture , ? ' Joseph" ( C . E , Horsloy ) : aria , " Deh per questo istante , " " La Clemonza di Tito " ( Mozart ) : Madame Lemmcns Sherrington . Recitative , " O qual trjsto parla : " aria , " Fin da ) la prhna infanzia , " "Iphigeniii inTauride" ( Gluck ) : Mr . Sims Reeves . Concerto in E minor , No . 7 , violin ( Spohr ) , Herr Joachim . Part It— -Symphony in A , No . 7 ( Beethoven ) : 1 . Poco sostenuto— -Vivaco ; 2 , Allegretto j 3 . Presto — assai meno Presto ; 4 . Allegro con Brio . Air du Page , " LosNonnos do Robert" ( Benedict ); Madame Lemmons Sherrington , Air , " Soft airs around mo play , " Euryanth © " ( C . M . von . Weber ) : Mr . Sims Reeves . Overture , " Masaniollo " ( Aubor ) . Tho great faots of the evening wore Spohr ' s Concerto , Horr Joaohim , and tho Beothovon Symphony . Tho superb facility , and no loss wonderful memory of the former wore fully equal to the demands of the third movement of this singular work , while tho splendid tones of his violin wore prominent through tho beautiful orchestral harmonies with which tho

      second is so profusely adorned . The seventh Symphony , with its now majestic / now Render , firtefc movement ^ and its other three inscrutable ones , was played as might be expected of the finest band in . Europe ; full y appreciated by experts ; and duly wondered at by the uninitiated . Madame Lenimens Sherrington and Mr . Sims Reeves fully sustained the renown- they have so fairly won ; and the energetic and accomplished conductor met also with his now usual honours at the hands of his brethren and the company . ~

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      NEW PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS . The first of modern violinists ; Joachim , Whom many of us remember as an awkward and uninteresting , though wonderful , boy player , and who , contrary- to custom , has more than fulfilled the promise of his youth , was the star of stars at Dr . Wylde ' s concert on Monday , at St . James ' s Hall . The conductor and Mr . Blagrove have wisely resolved , like the spirited managers of the Monday Popular Qoncerts , upon attracting by producing the works of the great masters , and hence the necessity for such instrumentalists as Joachim and Wieniawski . The violin and pianoforte concertos of Beethoven , and Bach ' s fugue , the p ieces of greatest mark given on Monday , demand such interpreters as the first of these ( or either of them ) ,, and of Signor Andreoli , who were selected , and assisted b y an admirably composed and drilled band . They gave the greatest delight to an auditory of hig h taste , as well as sound standing . The performance of the great violinist was above all praise . Madame Catherine Hayes sang " Sombres fortes , " from Rossini ' s " Guillaume Tell , " and a numerous chorus did justice to one of Weber ' s choruses from " Preciosa . "

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      CRYSTAL PALACE OPERA CONCERTS . The first of the new series was given on Wednesday , in that portion of the building known as the Winter Concert-room , and comprised a new feature . Instead of a miscellaneous selection , as heretofore , the first part was devoted to the recitation of some entire scenes ( each including air , recitative , and chprus ) from "La Gazza Ladra . " Nothing wa 3 wanting , in fact , but stage appliances , and the want of . these of course considerably tamed the ensemble . The Royal Italian Opera Company , directed by Mr . Gye , took tlie same parts at fcVydenhasn as at Covent Garden ; and the band , under Mr . Costa , played the overture admirably . The second part , arranged on the old princip le , which we recommend for a continuance , found infinitely more favour . It opened with Weber ' s overture to " Euryanthe . " The beautiful duet " Dolce conforto , " from Mercadante ' s " Giuramento , " was sung , by Madame Grisi and Madame Didice with such exquisite taste and feeling as to gain an encore . The former also gave the air , "O mio Fernando , " from the " Favorita , " Signor Neri-Baraldi the " Bella adorata / ' from the " Giuramento . " Pear sail ' s well-known madrigal , " O who will o ' er the downs "—a beautiful composition—so charmed the audience that they justly and vigorously redemanded it .

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      GYE V . GltAZIANI AND ANOTIIim . Thjs Vice-chancellor Pago Wood ( Wiverod judgment in this caee on Wednesday , as followf ) : — ° J . ho promjr course would bo to restrain Signor Grasmnf , until further orders , from singing at any opera or concert in London , other than the Royal Italian Opera , CoVent Garden , during . 185 ft ( except at private or ffratis concerts ) without the written permission ^ of tho plaintiff , and especially from , singing at the Theatre Royal , Orury Lano ; and to restrain a * r 7 Smith from permitting him to sing at tho Theatre Royal , Drury Lano , or elsewhere In London , other

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      ing Sleigh Polka . " The second part opened with a dance by Messrs . Pierce and Collins , in which one of those gentlemen was dressed and strutted about as a black Perea Nena . Mr . Howard then danced a jig in a style that would have delighted a Yorkshire or an Irish audience beyond all measure . Then an Irish lilt was succeeded by a violin solo on plaintive national airs ; a very comic burlosqao Shaker dance ; and a horridly burlesque concert on vast horns and drums , tho function and charm of which seemed to bo the frustration of ovory attempt to extract from thorn either tune or harmony .

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      DUURY LANB OPERA . On Tuesday evening another of Mr . Smith ' s stars made her appearance as Violetta in " La Traviata Madlle . Sarolta , a very young Hungarian prima donna , the eulogies on whom , extracted from the Parisian press , form a pamphlet by themselves , was found by a London audience fully to answer tho expectations

      raised among the musical profession . She is on clit but eighteen years of age , and lias studied for the « tago for but two years . Her debAt , at the Italians in Paris , took place on tho 30 th of January , as Leonora in tho " Trovatore , " and she was at once admitted to be a true prima donna . Tall , handsome , graceful and unaffected , she has all the qualifications for a lyric actress . Her voice , pure , sweet and flexible , seoms to demand yet moro training ; but , to bo brief , the general impression , was , that she was for tho present oafe and sure of tho highest future distinction .

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      On Thursday , the 5 th , took place the fourth conversazione for the season of the Artists' and Amateurs Society , at Willis ' s Rooms . The company was no less distinguished in rank or talent than that gathered at previous meetings , and the attendance was perhaps fuller , from the fact of its being the last meeting . Of the treasures exhibited we cannot say so much as on former occasions . Every , or nearly every artist of repute is now showing the works of his last twelvemonth on the wall of some exhibition ; so in that

      important respect the show of Thursday was , of course , weak . There were two large and warm drawings by Turner , in his early manner , and the famous picture of " Solomon Eag le , " painted by P . F . Poole , we believe in 1843 , and contrasting singularly with recent works by the same hand , a hand that has indeed , lost its pristine force , if it have not lost its cunning . Like the Holy Family of Millais painted in his days of promise , the " Solomon Eag le" the foundation st one for a real fame — an edifice which we fancy stands no chance of being finished in either case . Mr . Carl Haag , noAv painting abroad , was represented by the fine Tyrolese Cottage-door scene exhibited last year in Pall-mall . Mr , Sant , by

      a , female head with a garland of poppies ,, the latter splendidly painted , the former so much" so , in parts , -as to remind the observer of Sir Joshua , but fitted with a hideous pair of eyes protruding from the eye balls . Mr . Dawson , too , has nowise improved since he painted the noble landscape that was shown here . While such resurrections of the old work of important men sometimes give us room [ to congratulate , how often do they not force the iiian of truth to dep lore ! A vi gorous Wood scene and a stud y of rather blue green ferns , by Mr . Collingwood Smith , were admirable ; so was a grand charcoal study of Harding ' s , large enough for two , and . in fact cut into two separate landscapes , by a ; central group of trees .

      There was a capitally painted and hot over-drawn " Speed and Launcelbt , " by Gilbert ; a Turk , and A rab , by Mr . Lewis ; a curious old water-colour , by Glover , arid a fine female head , by Walter Severn . Mr . Top ham ' s " Deserted Village" shows how much he has since progressed ; and the miracle of the room was a water-colour Cottage Door , by Birket Foster , in the ultra Pr £ e-Raphaelite style . In our last impression we talked of the < f Kings Orchard , " by Mr . Hughes , jn the Royal Academy , as something ultra , but we are fain to confess that Mr . Foster has gone to the plus ultra and 1 prater plus , too . lie has g iven and has shown their

      every leaf of trees a furlong off , anatomy as minutely as that of the nasturtium leaves « nd fuchsias in the foreground . The result , as that of everything carried too far , is waste of power by the workman , dissatisfaction to the spectator . A fine picture of Hastings Cliff was shown by Mr . T . M , Richardson ; and sundry owners exliibited fine portfolios , by S . Cooke , Cattermole , James Price , and Mitchell . One or two things of power , by David Cox , were also there , and by David Cox , jun ; , who presumes upon the singular popularity of his parent's name—a world too many impertinences .

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      * n «* esting means by which Government might bene-SSEe art of music , as by calling it in , as was done irith painting , to take its part in the celebration of national events .

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      The fifteenth anniversary of the Artists' Benevolent Fund was celebrated at the Freemasons' Tavern on Saturday . Mr . A . J . Beresford Hope , the chairman , announced a donation of 105 Z . by her Majesty , and proposed the principal toast of the evening , viz . : " Prosperity to the institution , " in a graceful and not overlengthy speech .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 14, 1859, page 611, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2294/page/7/