The opening-day of Her Majesty's Theatre, next week, is not
yet for- mally announced. The opening-day of Her Majesty's Theatre, next week, is not yet for- mally announced.
Mr. Lumley has been enjoying eclat in Paris by a series of concerts, at which the great star was Sontag. The concert-room of the Con- servatoire has been crowded by the very elite of the fashionable circles, including the" Legitimist" aristocracy of the Faubourg Saint-Germain,— drawn from their haughty retirement by the reappearance of one whose youthful triumphs are associated in their memory with the days of their own prosperity and splendour. In getting up these concerts, Mr. Lumley had to encounter the illiberal opposition of the Societe des Concerts ; who, with Auber at their head, presented a memorial to the Minister of the Interior, claiming a right to the concert-room of the Conservatoire, and
complaining i of Mr. Lumley's concerts as an interference with that right. But the Minister's reply was a rejection of their complaint, accompanied by a stinging reprimand.
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