12 OCTOBER 1861, page 17

The Italian Opera At Berlin Opened For The Season On

the first of this month. The company, under the management of Signor Morelli, comprises some distinguished names, among others that of our fa- vourite of last season, Adelina......

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......

Sim 2rto,

CRYSTAL PALACE PICTURE GALLERY. THERE are upwards of a thousand oil and water-colour paintings in the Crystal Palace Picture Gallery, but few of them have the power of arresting......

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MR. ALFRED Mzrzon brings his promenade concerts in Covent Garden Theatre to a close this evening. They have been well at- tended, and consequently, we presume, successful in a......

Science Of Weather.

THERE are some scientific problems which are so closely connected with daily life that every practical man thinks himself qualified to theorize on the subject, and the worst of......

Music Flourishes At The Antipodes. The Melbourne Papers,...

musical doings, describe a concert on a great scale, given by the Musical Union in aid of the fund for the families of the soldiers who have fallen in New Zealand. The programme......

Verdi Is Writing A New Opera For The Imperial Theatre

of St. Peters- burg ; the subject taken from the Spanish drama of Martinez de la Rosa, La Fuerza del Destines — The Power of Destiny.......