5 FEBRUARY 1859, page 13

At The Scala At Milan A Ballet Has Been Brought

out under the title of The Passage of the Beresina. Only think of the horrors of that fearful day being depicted by a series of pirouettes and entrechats, pas genie, pas de......

The Purcell Club Had Their Annual Dinner At The Albion,

in Aldersgate Street, on Tuesday. Professor Taylor of Gresham College, the Presi- dent of the Club, occupied the chair; and the company, about fifty in number, included several......

Musical Publications.

The Principles of Musical Analysis. By Seams Crams, M A This work forms a volume of the useful collection of treatises now in the course of publication at Edinburgh, under the......

The Indefatigable Verdi Is On The Point Of Producing A

new opera. It is called Ca Ballo di Maschera (a masked Ball), and the subject is the assas- sination of Gustavus the Third of Sweden. It will be produced at Rome, at the Theatre......

The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Birth Of Mendelssohn Was...

rated" (according to the fashion of the day) on Thursday by two musical performances; the one given by Mr. Mullah at St. Martin's Hall, and the other at Exeter Hall by the......

Topics Of The Day.

DAYLIGHT THROUGH THE THUNDER-CLOUDS. Taz opening night of the Session is calculated far more to cheer those who are anxious for peace, than those who are eager to see Italy......