The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-08 00:00:00

Signor Vailati's Morning Concert.

Signor Vailati's morning concert took place on
Thursday last, at the Dudley Gallery, Piccadilly,
and was quite a success. Signor Vailati's perform-
ances on the mandoline were very effective. The
Signor is blind, which heightens the interest of the
performances. Signor Rocea's fine bass voice ap-
peared to full advantage on several occasions,
Signor Vailati is under the patronage of the Princess
Mathilde, and has already gained great reputation
in Paris. It is to be hoped that a similar success
awaits him in London, and his talents eminently
merit such a consummation.

Madame Ristori's appearance at Her Majesty's
Theatre will take place during the present month.
Some very good names have been added to the
Shakspeare Committee, including those of Earl Russell,
Lord Talbot de Malahide, the Lord Chief Baron Pollock,
General Sir John Burgoyne, Bart., Sir C. Wentworth
Dilke, Bart., Sir Fitzroy Kelly, William Ewart, M.P., F.
W. Gibbs, David Roberts, R,A., Tom Taylor, and Alfred
Tennyson.

"Lady Audley's Secret," besides having been
dramatised, is now being published as the.fuilleton of ono
of the Copenhagen daily newspapers.
Announcements have actually been made that a
cat show is projected.

Short dresses are said to be coming into fashion,
and that next winter nothing else will be seen in the grads
saloxs of Paris,—Court Journal.
The Court Journul mentions a rumour that Mr.
Tupper, the author of " Proverbial Philosophy," is to be
made a baronet I

LANDSEER AND THE LIONS.—We wish Sir Edwin
Landseer may live for ever, but one-third of his
number of sixty years and onel has passed since he
received the commission to execute the famous African lions
that will some day astonish us in Trafalgar Square. No
man has yet seen even the models for them, nor anything
more solid than a drawing on paper, and it is reported tha
the sculptor's visits to the Zoological Gardens, where he
has dissected several lions, are incessant and so alarming to
those brutes that each one turns tail when the growl is
passed that he has arrived, He will forgive us under these
circumstances, for jogging his memory. It is 20 years since
the granite Nelson was mastheadcd, and yet nothing has
been done towards finishing the National Memorial the
price of blood for which was honourably paid by the great
Admiral more than fifty-eight years ago. 'Why, he might
have lived another life of forty-seven years, gone to the
North Pole for us, been at another Calvi, St. Vincent, or
Santa Cruz, won another Nile and another Trafalgar for
us, and been almost forgotten again, while we are loitering
over the monument. Upon Sir E. Landsecr lies the per-
formance of his duty. If the price of £3,000 for the four
lions be, as may well be, not enough, the nation that has
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