2 JULY 1859, Page 20

The rehearsals of Meyerbeer's new opera, Il Pelerinagio (Le Pardon

ifs Planned) are going on with great activity at Covent Garden, under the personal superintendence of the composer. Its production is ex- pected in eight or ten days. Mademoiselle Piccolomini, just returned from America, has appeared at Drury Lane, where the whole of Mr. Lumley's last year's company seem now to be congregated. She is performing her most favourite parts—Violetta in the Traviata, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Maria in the Figlia del Reggimento,—and capti- vates the public as much as ever.