The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-19 00:00:00

THE ENGLISH OPERA ASSOCIATION.

The first general meeting of the shareholders in
the above company was held yesterday (Wednesday)
in the large room, at St. James's Ilall. In the
absence of the Earl of Westmoreland, Col. H. P, de
Bathe took the chair.

Ihe SECRETARY (Mr. Cawood) read the notice
convening the meeting, and also the report of the
executive committee.

The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report,
which was seconded by C. W. HosKYNs, Esq., and
carried unanimously.

G. Woon, Esq. (of the eminent firm of Cramer,
Beale, and Wood), proposed the following gentle-
men to be the executive committee, viz :--

The Right Hon. the Earl of Westmoreland, 0.8.,
8, South Audley-street, W. ; J. H. Arkwright,Esq.,
6, Buckingham-gate, S.W. ; the Hon. F. IL F.
Berkeley, M.P., 1, Victoria-square, Pimlico, S.W. ;
Frederic Davison, Esq., 24, Fitzroy-square, W. ;
Col. H. P. de Bathe, Scots Fusilier Guards, 60, Pic-
cadilly, W.; the Hon. Seymour Egerton, Ist Life
Guards, 7, Grosvenor-square, W.; C. W. Hos-
kyns, Esq., 27, Berkeley-square, W.; Edwd. James,
Esq., Q.C., 24, Upper Wimpole-street, W. ; A. H.
Ross, Esq., 60, Portland-place, W., which T. L.
LEMMENS, Esq., seconded, and it was carried with
acclamation.

Robert Addison, Esq., and George Wood, Esq.,
were elected auditors.

The accounts, up to the 31st of March, were pre
rented.

The chair was then taken by Edward James
Esq., Q.C., and a vote of thanks given to Colonel
H. P. de Bathe, which terminated the proceedings,

MR. J. J. HAITE'S CONCERT.

Last evening Mr. Haite gave a musical enter-
tainment, in the great hall of the Whittington
Club, which was thoroughly filled by a very re-
spectable audience. The programme was extensive,
and sufficiently varied in character to test severely
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formers, several of whom appeared in public for the
first time. The selections, with a few exceptions,
were from the pen of Mr. Barton, and did great
credit to his poetic taste and judgment as a song
writer. There is enough in this programme to make
a reputation 'considerably above mediocrity. The
whole of the collection was set to music by Mr. J.
J. Haite, and as several of the performers were
pupils of Mr. Haite, the entertainment had quite
an original character.

Mr. Carder opened the entertainments by an over-
ture on the pianoforte to Alfred the Great, in which
he displayed wonderful powers of execution, and in
this, as well as in a sonata in C, at a future stage of
the proceedings, he earned and received unmistake-
able marks of approbation. The vocalists were—
Miss Annie Barton (a pupil of Mr. Haite), Miss
Smiles, Mrs. Watson, Messrs. Thomas, Watson, and
Bates. Mr. Watson distinguished himself on seve-
ral occasions, as did also Mr. Thomas, the latter
having a profound bass voice which in the choruses
told wiih powerful effect. Miss Barton and Miss
Scailes were encored several times, and similar com-
pliments were awarded to the male professionals,
both vocal and instrumental.
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performed his duties with great success until the Fem
present, and their high appreciation of the entertain-
ment, we think Mr. Haite and Mr. Barton have
reason to regard the whole performance as a great
success, and to repeat an entertainment which gave
unmixed satisfaction and encouragement for
sthucehfuture•

In the letter which we published yesterday stat-
ing Mrs• Ellen Hope's gift of £340 to the National Life-
boat Institution, in memory of her late husband, it should
have been stated that it was given by her "as the execu-
trix" of her late uusband,