3 AUGUST 1861, Page 17

The Emperor of Russia has commissioned Tamberlik to form a

powerful Italian company—himself, of course, included—for next season. He has made a number of engagements here, and, with his recruits, is to depart for Warsaw at the end of our opera season— that is to say, immediately.

At Stockholm, a police order has been issued prohibiting peramba- lating singers and players from exercising their calling in the streets. Mr. Babbage will do well to take up his abode in the Swed sh capital; he will find no organ-grinders or brass bands to "put him out" in the midst of his profound calculations.