Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-04 00:00:00

IKUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AND
ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP.
It is reported that Mr, David Fisher, the well-known
comedian, will, after the disbanding of the Princess's com-
pany under Mr. Charles Kean, join Mr. Webster's 'company
Ist the Adelphi.
Upwards of £l2O have been subscribed towards erecting
a monument to James Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd. The
Duke of Buccleuch, who was the poet's patron in life, has
subscribed ten guineas.
HAMILTON'S PANORAMA OF IZMIA still attracts crowded
audiences,-and, during the time it has been in Plymouth,
has been visited by at least thirty thousand persons—a thing
unprecedented with any similar .exhibition. Nett week it
is going to the Channel Islands.
Mr. Van Praag, well known in musical circles
most courteous and obliging of functionaries, announces a
concert, on Wednesday evening next, at the St. James's-
hall, at which many of the most distinguished artists at pre-
sent in town have undertaken to assist.
We cannot but hope, says the Literary Gazette, that the
'Crystal Palace Company will ere long give us another fes-
tival. If not a Handel, perhaps a Mendelssohn, or a Haydn
congress. It could not fail to be a source of great attrac-
tion, and produce similar profitabl
Christy's Minstrels will give
Friday next, for the benefiit of
donne,danseuse, and bones.
lins ill introduce his wond

extra representation on.
r. W. p. Collins, _Prima
Air. Col-

Daring the evening in_
ful " Talkinc, and 'Perform-
, L•

.dition to several other attractive

ing Eleph
novelties.
We (Critic) are glad to hear, among the musical on dits
of the day, that one result of the late festival has been to
create such a demand for Schaelcher's " Life of Handel,"
that we may possibly, ere long, have a second edition of that
-work, very considerably enriched and enlarged from re-
searches and discoveries made by its accomplished author
since the publication of the first Issue.
M. Meyerboer is in London, and hie Pardon will be
granted to opera-goers, we (Athenceand apprehend, when
some quarter of them only are left in town. The " caste,"
-we hear, will include Madame Miolan, Carvalho, Signori
Gardoni and Graziani, in the principal parts—and in the
secondary quartott, Mdlle. Marai, Madame Nantier-Diddiee,
Signor Neri-Baraldi, and M. Tagliafico or M. Zelger.
The Royal Surrey Gardens will open for the first time this
season on Monday next, July 11th, with a grand concert
and fete. We are not aware under-whose management the
Gardens now are, and peila s this concert .is but a con-
vulsive death-spasm before the final collapse. Pity that
such fine grounds with tne additional charm of a large
lake, should be delivered over to the tyrannous grasp of
builders.
The Oxford University Galleries are to be closed for re-
painting during .the long vacation
about to be made to Convocation to
pictures to be entrusted for exhibition to. the authorities of
the South Kensington Museum. The long vacation extends
from July to October ; and the pictures to be lent are, we
(Literary Gazette) trust, the Michael Angelo and Raffaelle

and a proposition is

tion of the

drawings.
Piccolomini, Titiens, Guarducci, Giuglini, and a long
string of celebrities in the various branches of the lyric
art, opines the. Crßic, enable the manager of Drury Lane so
to diversify his entertainments that the most dainty may
find something in his -weekly bill of fare amply to repay
the visit. La Figla del .Reggimento, Il Troy atore, Don
Giovanni, and Lecrezia, make sittings scarce and standing
places—considering the • altitude of the thermometer—a
trying ordeal.
Rumour speaks very highly of Henri Ketten, a young
pianist of extraordinary talent who has lately arrived from
Paris. At the early age of eleven years he has attained a
degree of perfection seldom, if ever, witnessed in so vounk a

boy He is a native of. Hungary ; and, in addition to his
great -reputation as &pianist, he has been very successful as
a composer. He has high testimonials from Meyerbeer,
Halevy, Liszt, and Moscheles. The public will have an
opportunity of testing his merits on July 7, when he will
give a concert at the Hanover-rooms.
It is a severe reproof to the book-makers of our day,
that Alexander Von Humboldt at his death left a letter,
written, sealed, and addressed -by himself to his nephew,
General Von Hedemann, desiring that no reproduction
lor
ro •

republication of his earlier wo
private letters, should be may

s, nor any publication of

General

is dea

lemann has aecordin

exi;;;Thi;;onfide;e7tiiratthe last wishes of his illustrious
relative will be complied with in this particular. Such an

example as this has 'been long required, and it comes both
at the right season and from the right quarter.
On Friday evening a grand concert, being the second, by
special desire, was given in St. James's Hall, by Madame
41e Lozano and Senor Don J. F. Gongora, the well-known
pianist. The artistes included Signor Belart, M. de Fon-
tainer, Mr. Allen Irving, Mdlle. Josephine Bondy, Herr
Julius Davidt, Mr. Boleyne Reeves, and the Brousil family.
In the first part of the programme Senor Gongora played
with great ability a fantasia (pianoforte) " Souvemer du
Travatore." Madame de Lozano sang sevgal Spanish
songs with great taste and effect ; also (by particular desire)
Mainard's song, " Always with me." Signor Belart was
deservedly encored. The remaining part of the performances
gave great satisfaction. The concert was numerously at-
tended, chiefly by the elite of the Spanish residents in this
country.

In the Polytechnic, science and reasonable amusement
for the people -are declared bankrupt, and that without
a dividend. A property which cost £35,000, and which
is still thought worth £20,000 for the purposes of
a Polytechnic, may be had. for less than half the
latter sum ; and yet there are no bidders. The
,directors of the old society, who are best acquainted

with its capa

,bilities

of vies

-- r -- --
Ll4OOO in new shares, with a

view to' create a new company, and two liberal gentlemen in
the City offer another 11,000 ; and at this total at present
the enterprise stands. In another week it will be too late
to save from sacrifice and ruin piecemeal the most deservedly

—.lul, and morally unobjectionable place of publi-c
amusement in the metropolis. Shall it be said of London
that its vanity or profligacy can better support a thousand
saloons than one Pnlvfpnl-in;.

33out the authors'

It is time
s Adam Bede

sense a "s

such as a- clever wol
schooled moral natur
quality of any kind.

h an observant
_eye and nn-

might have written
ong ago we hinted our impressioi

aggins, with his poverty

is pretei
as the s

a mystification, got up 13:

lho*man in

a country fair sets up a second learned pig to create a d
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among me penny% _
answers to Mr. Linins ; but who answers for Mr. Nichola
The fun is guttering ,down into broadest farce.. Liggins,

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Gamp, Betsy Prig, and Mrs. Afirris. If you were to roll
the three 'into one we should expect them to turn up a rather
strong-minded lady ; blessed with abundance of showy senti-
profusion of pious moods. but kant for sale rather
..se. VanishlEliot, Nicholas, _
guess) Miss Biggins 1 The world is fa,

meat and
than for i

„ed with the -dron

of this priv

comedy of

lothing. The

elaborai

mpt to mystify
and letters at

many artic

IC with the

xble in all, is itself 'decisive of the
No woman of genius ever condescended to
)ooli was ever permanently helped by such

same Roman hand ob

writer's power

a trick.

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LUNGS NOT TO E

DESCRIBED. —.O nly

can realise the following

—Getting out c

,
an omnibus and

discove;fnz'

rail, and finding an Obstinate creditorin-the s,

,e with you. Breaking your braces when dancing La
It.trsoviana with a partner who never wants to sit down.
minding a leaf of your new book of poems round a

butter, just brow,

ht in by Jane the servant maid.
Adelphi, and sitting next to the
Ition." Travelling for 50 mileE

Taking yonr wife to tht
'first "object of your affei
along_ side of a mild, clergy
with him, and believingbini to
when,-upon exchanging eards,iyoutind he Lo
officially at an execution on the following Tornin,
with an intensity of disgust I'l-4
d a glass of beps. L

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remernbi

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GOWN, AND TOI

Tvice to you, ;