Mademoiselle Piccolomini preserves the favour of the Americans. She is
followed by multitudes, and lauded a l'outrance by the journals. At New York the other day, two performances of Den Pasquale, in which she was indifferently supported, drew 6500 dollars.
The celebrated Schroder Devrient, who charmed the London public in Beethoven's Fidelio nearly thirty years ago, still excites the enthusiasm of her countrymen. At Hanover the other day, she appeared at a great con- cert for a public charity, and threw the audience into transports by singing several German lieder and a Scotch air. " Her singing," says a critique of the concert, "possesses all the triumphant force of that potent nature which entranced our fathers half a century ago."
Meyerbeer's new opera, the production of which at the Opera Comique is daily expected, is now, it seems, to be called Le Pardon de Notre-Dame d' A uvray, its former title of Dinorals having been abandoned. The Pari- sian public are highly excited on the subject of this musical novelty.
A new Ace Maria by Rossini was performed on Sunday week, in the mu- sical mass at the chapel of the Tuileries under the direction of Auber.
The members of the Imperial Commission to regulate the pitch of the musical scale have received from the Minister of the Household portraits of the Emperor and Empress, engraved after Winterhalter and magnificently framed.
A public meeting of the inhabitants of Bradford was held on Monday last, to Uke measures for promoting the success of the musical festival next au- tumn in aid of the Bradford Infirmary. It is intended to dispense with a guarantee fund, and to secure the sale of as many tickets as will cover the expenses, before the doors are opened on the first day of the festival.
Madame Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind) and her husband will, it is said, visit Leeds in the autumn, and give their services gratuitously at a grand con- cert in aid of the Leeds Mechanics' Institution.
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