The patrons of the St. James's Theatre must give up
all hope of seeing Mademoiselle Rachel next year. She has obtained a conge for a twelve- month, which she intends to devote to an engagement at St. Petersburg.
Grim and Mario are making a farewell tour in the provinces, which will extend to Scotland. Their intended journey to America has been delayed till next season, when, it is said, it will positively take place : an additional ground for believing that we shall see them no more on our opera stage. The story of their marriage, which has gone the round of the papers, is untrue : Grisi's husband, M. de Melcy, is still alive, and residing in Paris.
One of those grand spectacles which coming out at distant interval; like M. Meyerbeer's operas, infallibly cause a great sensation at Paris,- so that even at this day, people still talk of the glories of the Biche au Bois, and Les Sept Chtiteaux,-one of those surpassingly grand spectacles, we say, has just been brought out at the Porte St. Martin. It is called Les Sept Merveilles du Mends; and all the " wonders " are introduced in succession, each being made the occasion for an elaborate scenic effect. The plot is of the flimsiest, merely turning on the charge imposed on a sort of knight-errant to get all the "seven wonders" into his possession. Hence, more praise is bestowed on the manager and the character artiste than on the authors, MM. Denney and Grange.
Madame Mendelssohn, the widow of the illustrious musician, died last week, at Frankfort, at the age of thirty-five. Since the death of her husband, six years ago, her health gradually declined, and latterly she fell into a rapid consumption. She was the daughter of Herr Renaud, an eminent citizen of Frankfort; and was married to Mendelssohn in the year 1837. She has left four orphans. Madame Mendelssohn was known to her husband's English friends, having accompanied him in a visit to this country soon after their marriage ; when she excited great interest by her modest and engaging appearance and manners.
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