23 FEBRUARY 1856, Page 12

The second performance of Costa's Eli took place at Exeter

Hall last night, with the same cast of parts as before. The Sacred Harmonic So- ciety have already made arrangements for the production of this work at Dublin, Liverpool, Bradford, Bristol, and other provincial towns; the Metiopolitan principal singers being everywhere retained. The copy- right of the oratorio has been purchased by Messrs. Addison and Co. of Regent Street, for 500/. The vocal score, with the accompaniments arranged for the pianoforte, has already been published; and the full orchestral score, we understand, will also appear. The entire purchase- money of the copyright has been given by Mr. Costa to the Birmingham Festival Committee, to be applied to the charitable purposes of the Festi- val : he had already made the same generous use of the sum he received for the original production of the oratorio at Birmingham.