Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-02 00:00:00

the trebles it

,ancasi

COMMe-

Ls, at the first GI
moration of Handel, held in London in 1784, was
Mr. John Mather, a Sheffield lad, who was

engaged

a -small army of Lai

teashire

choristers, who, after perfOrniing,ihe.then tedious
journey to London, bore no light part in that
day's performance, and earned• no inconsiderable
share of the honour.

Mather after-

wards took up his residence in Edinburgh,
*where he enjoyed the friendship of many of
the most eminent musical artists of his time
The practice 'of glee and a
and the study of part m
amongst the. people of Lance
neighbouring ,counties from

nthem _ singing,

flout rshed

hire and the

an early period
and many excellent compositions of the great old
English masters were preserved and sung in these
districts, when they had been forgotten in 'the
metropolis: Even to this day, when music is

becoming inore and more a necessary part of
education, the tleolile in the -districts. we have
referred to cherish their old taste for music,
and are in advance of all their fellow-country-
men. Choral societies exist in all the towns;
and in some of these—as for instance, Manches-
tek, Sheffield, and Birmingham—there are several
In the first named city (Manchester)
were lately , three or four such socie-
ties; and to . one of these a very handsome sum

of them

there are, or

Mr. Hey

ART AND LITERARY GOSSIP

Mr. Smith is aunputie:ing yet another Drury
Lane Italian _opera _seassm as about to begin on
the Bth of next month. Mdile, .Titiens will be
in " Martha,"

the prima donna; -
among other operas..
- It has been determined to found -a gallery in
Paris for conies of famous works,- of art not in.
France, and it is thong,ht that this has become all
the more desirable from the Tapid decay of the
best frescoes in Italy. •
Mr., Tom Taylor

ems to have been ds sue-

eessrui in nis drainat
rupeds as for 4

.e bine

drawing large audien

scenes for the quad-
. ..

es tow

Astle-Vs

Theatre is

of
-I%‘:vG,arg putto learn
r that eta ge
author of " Still Waters Run Dee,._
our intelligent
English musician, Henry Leslie, has been fortu-
nate enough to secure the acceptance of an
operetta at Covent Garden. The text of this
little work by Mr. Leslie is from the able pen of
Mr. Palgrave Simpson. Wallace's long-expected
.f‘ Lurline," at the same theatre, is in rehearsal.
We now understand that Miss Dobson's tem-
porary farewell to the public will not remove
her from the care of her original instructress
Mw. Wood; on the contrary, that she is to con-
tinue as befOre, Under her sole charge, prepara
toly to her debut in hilly, which will take place
under the immediate superintendence of Mrs.
Wood.

cress the life story
by the gifted

The Standard says : The .announcement of
a work
.under the title of Adam Bede, jun. ; a
Sequel,' will- probably lead to the settlement of
this much-controverted question.. It will appear,
we believe, that in relation to a recent correspon-
dence there has been a mistake of identity in the
alleged author, who was said to be resident in
one of the midland counties.".

'A new Aspirant for histrionic fame, Mr. G.
Melville, has made his appearance in London, at'
the Pritcess's Theatre, as licinkt. He is prii-
e.d.graccal..and.intelligent by some of the
critical gentlemen, and this appears 'the
Rhest-eulogium- bestowed' by any, though the
considers" there was something
ial• in his general conception and

and or

manner, '
Sir--Edward Bulwer Lytton's

'ye!, " What

will he do with. it ?"
tively at the Surrey

has bee

drirnatised. effee-
,. Mr. Shepherd

stration of

Lc

izo

ploy sh

he cast in-
mtralia, Mr.

Hefaud

rising young
taocthreasyse,
Missrecord
Ed itlthe•deatk_af

nember of the old

estee

Covent qarden C
the theatrical px

)anv,

on with
a period

early period of

lanchestei

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