The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-01 00:00:00

MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The English Opera House will be opened early in
March, by an operatic company, consisting of Messrs.
Balfe, Wilson, Barker, Stretton, Phillips, Madame
flilfe, Miss Macmahon, &c. Leader of the orchestra,
Mr. T. Cooke.

Liszt has met with a splendid reception at Edinburgh
and Glasgow, where his performances on the pianoforte
have been applauded with enthusiasm. His coadjutors,
Miss Steele, Miss Bassano, Richardson, Lavenu, and
John Parry, have succeeded in affording the highest
gratification to numerous and brilliant audiences. The
party were to have given a concert at Newcastle on
Monday, and on Wednesday atDurham and Sunderland ;
then at Darlington, Richmond, and Halifax ; after which
they will return to London.
The Glee Club had an excellent meeting lately
John Capel, Esq., in the chair, supported by Sir J.
L. Rogers, and a number of amateurs and professors of
music. Among the latter were Messrs. Hawes, Hors-
Icy, Sale, Fitzwilliam, Bishop, Elliott, Collyer, T. Cooke,
J. 0. Atkins, Walmisley, Evans, Hawkins, Bradbury,
Spencer, Blackbourne, Hobbs, Ike. Several fine com-
positions of the o'd masters were excellently sung, and
among those of modern date were Horsley's fine glee,
" Awake, my lyre ;" T. Cooke's " Fill me, boy ;" Evans'
" Shall I be wasting ;" Elliott's " Bee ;" and Bishop's
charming round, " When the wind blows," accompanied
by the composer, which was loudly encored.
The Melodists' Club met on Wednesday for the first
time this season, on which occasion the following artists
were invited—Willy (violin), Carte (flute), and
W. H. Holmes (pianoforte).
THE MADRIGAL SOCIETY.—John Immyns, who
founded this Society, in 1741, was an attorney, but his
vocal coadjutors consisted of Spitalfield weavers. Their
first meeting used to be held at the Twelve Bells, in
Bride-lane. The Society at present has a library of
upwards of two thousand madrigals, from the earliest
period, which is, perhaps, the finest collection in the
world.

Drury-lane and Covent-garden have been crowded
every evening by the admirers of music at one house,
and the lovers of Shakespeare and splendid spectacles
at the other.

RAILWAYS IN FRANCE.—New efforts are
making to raise France from its sad inferiority in rail-
road enterprise. A considerable number of Deputies of
the departments of the north, east, and south. east, pro-
pose to have a meeting, in order to concert definitively in
favour of a system of railways, respecting which the
Chamber will be called upon by some of its members to
declare itself. It is proposed to form several lines, com-
posing by their junction, or by the aid of riven connected
with them, a grand line from one extremity of France to
the other. This would be the realization, as perfect as
could be desired, at once, of the junction of the Mediter-
ranean and the North Sea. The railways which are par-
ticularly talked of are three—Paris to Lisle, Paris to
Chalons, and Chalons to M ulhause, with branches on the
line of Alsace, and leading t nus from Paris, Lyons, or Mar-
seilles, to Basle and Strasburg. To these we have to add
the railway from Rouen to Havre, and that from Lisle to
Dunkirk._ Gulignani.
CALITION.—An order was received at the Post-
office on Tuesday, which we trust will be frequently
repeated, to search every newspaper in order to see if the
laws relative to the sending letters in this way was evaded.
We arc sorry to hear that au instance was discovered of
its being so, and that a letter was found enclosed to a re-
spectable firm in this town. Now this is really too bad,
after the Legislature has reduced the postage to an almost
nominal amount, and given the greatest boon ever known
to the mercantile classes, to endeavour to evade the pay-
mint of such a trifle by such a sl-.abby manoeuvre. The
penalties attached to a detection at •e heavy, and most pro-
per, and we can have no pity up. )n those who choose to
• risk the diseovery,—Hampshire In dependent.