The Press.
London, England, 1854-09-16 00:00:00

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KING MAX OF BAVARIA has granted an allowance
of 500 florins, to be repeated next year, to Melchior
Meyr, a young Bavarian poet. meyr's Duke Albrecht
has been represented with applause in seventeen
chief towns of Germany, and his "Village Histories,"
published in the Morgenblatt, are very popular. The
allowance is granted to enable him to employ his
undivided energies in the completion of a poetic
work of larger scope than he has yet published, and
on which he has long been engaged. Hermann Ling
is another Bavarian poet who receives similar assist-
ance from the King. The young German poets
Geibel, Bodenstedt, and Paul Heyse, who have simi-
lar reason to thank his Majesty, are not Bavarians.
MARIO AND MIS ADMIRERS.—The auction for the
sale of tickets for the first concert of Grisi and Mario
brought out some amusing particulars. The first
tickets, up to No. 56, were reserved for the Governor
of the State of New York—an announcement which
caused some disturbance in the minds of the true
democrats. These were in front of the gallery. The
rest were open to free competition, and the first, so
far, after a long competition, fetched two hundred
and fifty dollars. The purchaser was announced as
a Mr. Coutts. The auctioneer was questioned as to
who Mr. Coutts might be, but on this head he was
obstinately silent, whereupon the New York Tribune
observes :

"As Mr. Leeds did not, however, enlighten the audience
in regard to the purchaser, and as considerable curiosity is
manifested in this unknown personage, we will endeavour
to enlighten the public in regard to her, for she is a
woman, though assuming the name of a man. It appears
that Mario has for s long time past been beset with the
attentions of an English lady of great wealth, who persists
in following him wherever he goes, although he has fre-
quently denied her an interview. While in London she
never was absent a night during his engagement, and
always occupied the most conspicuous place in front of the
stage. When be went to St.. Petersburg she followed him,
and, on his appearance there, one of the first persons he
saw among the brilliant audience of the Russian capital was
his constant and ardent admirer. In her devotion to him
she crossed ocean and continents, and, although he has
always slighted her attentions and refused to listen to her
addresses, her love—if love it can be called—has never
grown cold, but appears to increase with time. As soon
as she heard of his intention to visit this country she kept
a vigilant watch on his movements, till she found that he
was coming in the Bailie, when she immediately engaged
rooms on board that vessel, and accompanied him to this
country. On their arrival Mario *lnd Grisi put up at the
St. Nicholas, and so did Mr. Coutts •, and now at the first
auction of tickets we find him (we beg the lady's pardon—
her) giving two hundred and fifty dollars for the first seat.
The other seats sold at similar premiums. In a leading
article, commenting upon the above scene, it is stated that
the amount realised by the sale of tickets must have been
close upon 25,000 dollars. As a considerable number of
the seats were sold to speculators, who in their turn will
make a large profit upon them, we may set down the
actual amount that will be paid for admissions at little
short of 30,000 dollars. When we add to this the sums
that will be disbursed by the fairer portion of the audience
for new dresses, new coiffures, kid gloves, and eau de
Cologne—to say nothing of carriage hire—we think that
we shall not be overstating the amount which the debut of
Grist and Mario will cost the New York public in fixing it
at 35,000 dollars."

This mode of estimating the exact cost of a concert
to the public is abundantly Yankee. As the sale
proceeded a man went round with a red flag to indi-
cate the position of the seats offered for sale. The
lominal prices were five and three dollars. The auc-
tion was for the privilege of purchasing them.

A CONFERENCE of the friends of tenant right is an-
nounced for the 26th.lin Dublin.

THE PRESS.

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WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 12.
STAFF.—Colonel William Frederick Forster to be Deputy
Adjutant-General in Ireland.
REciturrrwo DISTRICTS —Colonel Thomas Edwin Kelly
to be Inspecting Field Officer; Colonel Arthur Hill Trevor
to be ditto ; Colonel Thomas Armstrong Drought to be
ditto.