12 OCTOBER 1861, Page 17

Miss Pyne and '.11dr. Harrison have announced the opening of

Covent Garden, in its character of "Royal English Opera-house," on Monday week, with a new opera by Mr. Howard Glover on the subject of Victor Hu„s.o's well-known play, .Ruy Bias. Mr. Glover is reputed a good and experienced musician, but has yet to "win his spurs" on the opera stage. A number of new operas are promised in the course of the season,—among others, The Puritan's Daughter, by Balfe ; operas, not named, by Macfarren, Benedict, and Wallace ; and Faust and Marguerite by Gounod,—this, we presume, being an adaptation to the English stage of an opera already produced in Paris. The company includes all the principal performers of last season : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Thirlwall, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Santley, Mr. Haigh, Mr. St. Albyn, Mr. Conti, Mr. Honey, &c., with several additions, par- ticularly Miss Susan Pyne, and Madame Guerrabella, a young American, who made a remarkably brilliant appearance last season at one of the Philharmonic concerts. Mr. Alfred Mellon, as hereto- fore, is the musical director.