27 APRIL 1861, page 16

A Burlesque Parody Of Taxidauser, Under The Title Of...

has been brought out at the Varietes, and makes the public, it seems, "laugh consumedly." This is of a piece with the whole treatment which Wagner and his opera have met with......

Mr. Milt, On Double Chambers.

T REdaYs are past, we imagine, when a Republic could send to a thinker like Bentham and order a constitution, as it would have ordered a new rifle. It is a hopeful sign in the......

A Comic Opera In Three Acts, Called La Statue, Composed

by M. Ernest Reyer, has been produced with success at the Opera Conuque. The libretto is the joint work of the popular playwrights, Messrs. Michael Carre and Jules Barbier.......

Onsir.

Tasso are few musical occurrences of interest in London to chronicle this week. Drury-lane Theatre—whither, as our readers know, Mr. E. T. Smith carried his English Opera......

Meyerbeer's Long-expected Opera, L'africaine, Is...

at the Grand Opera this year ; and, in anticipation of the event, M. Faure, now at Covent Garden, has been engaged for three years. M. Castil-Blaze's play, arthe, for which......

Fin Arts.

NEW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS TN WATER COLOURS. Tun twenty-seventh exhibition of this society may be described as eminently pleasing. Though out of the three hundred and thirty- nine......

The Principal Concerts Of The Week Have Been : The

New Philhar- monic Concert on Monday evening; the Matinee of the Musical Union on Tuesday; Mr. Walter Macfarren's performance of piano- forte music, at the Hanover-square Rooms,......

We Regret To Observe That Madame Borghi-mauro Will Not Be

in England this season. This charming singer has just left Paris for Naples, where she is engaged at the San Carlo Theatre. Louis Niedermeyer, one of the musical celebrities of......