The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-04 00:00:00

HERR lIAUSE'S CLASSICAL CONCERTS.

On Thursday evcnin2, the 21st inst., Herr Ilause, who
is already we'l known to Americans from his performances
in New York and Boston, gavo the first of his intended
series of six concerts at the Qu-en's Concert Rooms,
Hanover-square. The music performed was all classical,
selected from the compositions of Mozart, Hummel, and
Herr Hause himself, whose playing cannot be too highly
praised. He possesses all the qualities which characterise
a great musician, viz., force and brilliancy of execution,
combined with delicacy and softness of touch. His compo-
sitions show that he possesses a theoretical, as well as
practical, knowledge of his art; and ho will doubtless take
a high place among the musical professors of the metro-
polis. The remaining five concerts will take place on
Thursdays, December 19th, 1867 ; January 30th, February
27th, April 23d, and May 14th, 1868.

An American paper says that Mademoiselle Adelina Patti
will return to the United States after fulfilling her engage-
ment at St. Petersburgh.

THEATRE CO3HQUE, NEW YORK. Cotton,
Sharpley, and White evidently possess a fine sense of the
ludicrous; for there is never a night in which they fail to
present one feature or another which fairly convulses their
auditors with laughter, and loaves them gasping for breath
with an aching head, too exhausted to indicate their alo-
proval by applause. The last laughter-mcving absurdity
is the introduction of the African Gorilla and the "White
Elephant of Siam." Their gorilla, like Barnum's, has a
tail which Du Chaillu tells us is not an appendication of
respectable gorillas in the place where the good gorillas
grow. But the " Comique " gorilla is such an irrepress-
ibly mischievous little beast that we pardon his tail and sit
paralysed with laughter at his antics. The White Elephant,
aside from his wonderful resemblance to Nature in his
make-up and manner, is also a very ludicrous anima),
which flaps its ears, swings its trunk, and moves with that
slow precision and dull gravity proverbial to the sure enough
quadruped. It is a pleasing novelty, and provocative of more
genuine fun than anything we have seen since Horace Gree-
ley, with his white hat and benignant countenance, wandered
into the arms of the Grand Duchess, when he meant to
have attended a horticultural and mechanical exhibition.
Sharpley shoots off sharp utterances with the rapidity Of
a repeating rifle, and always hits the bull's-eye. Dobson
and his wonderful banjo playing, Dick Ralph in negro
eccentricities, and the queer, ungainly, dexterous Japanese,
make up the amusing portion of the best bill ever given at
a variety show in this city.— Wilkes's Spirit.
IVilkes' Spirit says :—" We are pleased to hear that
Miss Kellogg has made a brilliant and enthusiastic success
in London at Her Majesty's Theatre, as Marguerite, in
'Faust.' "

Thayer and Noyes' Circus is in Washington,
with Dr. Thayer, the cultivated clown, and the magnifi-
cent lions.

Offenbach's compositions are said to be plagi-
arised from Chinoso music two thousand years old.
Blind Tom, the wonderful pianist, is at Phils"
delphia.

" lake scene " of the new piece which is ?
succeed the " Black Crook " has been rehearsed, au'2
pronounced surpassingly beautiful.

MINING REVIETV.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SUMMARY.
Under this heading the Cornme,A;ial Herald alq
Market Renkw makes the following interesting and
truthful remarks upon the material progress and
growing resources of the racific Coast.
The first three quarters of the year just brought
to a close have been marked by a large average:
degree of prosperity among the people, not only 01
California, but throughout the entire Pacific coast.
Glancing over this period we find that nearly every
branch of industry and field of investment has met
with a fair, and, in many instances, with a munifi-
cent reward. Rarely ever before in the history. of
the country has such great and generally gratifying
progress been made in every department of busi:,
ness as during this time. Labour has been in full
deleand and well requited ; manufacturing has been
active with remunerative prices, and money abun-
dant at moderate rates for all legitimate purposes.
The shipping interest has been specially flourish-
ing, the tonnage of the port having employed the
most of the time to its fullest capacity. Trade all
commerce, without being attended with the liberal
gains of earlier years, have been healthful and oeea"
sionally active, there having been but few failures
or other financial disasters to record. Mining en-
terprise has not only escaped the ruinous losses that
so often befel it a few years since, but has, for the
most part, been attended with satisfactory results,
indicating for this important branch of business
more steady and profitable returns than has ever
yet attended it. Payments by interior dealers have
generally been made with promptness, pointing WU
prosperous trade and an easy state of finances through'
out the country. Ship and boat building has revive"'
not only at this port but at other points along the
coast, it being particularly brisk just now about Page'
Sound, to which locality, because of its advantages,
much of this business will probably be hereafter
transferred. Indeed it seems likely that this nitig:
nificent water will soon become one of the greatest
centres of naval construction in the world, the facia
lities for shipbuilding being greater here than at
any other known point.
As customary, trade at this point has been noire
active during the third quarter of the series uncle,
review than throughout the others, the business
.°1;
the past three months comparing favourably %vit
that done in any former corresponding period.
,
Orders for machinery, both for quartz mills, marine'
railroad, and other purposes, have been large, keep;
ing the most of our fouudries and shops fully engage t_
A new item in this line consists of architectural ells d
ings, a vast amount of which is now being erripkqed..
in the construction of the better class of built-1114r,,
Agricultural implements are also now being largVe
manufactured in this State, those of home Ine,o
being, like our quartz mills, generally preferred 4t
the imported article. It is gratifying to observe
there has been less dispcsitiou manifested ao2ePt's
our inhabitants thus far the present year to emigii raas
to points beyond the limits of the State, as we.u.o,
on the part of our moneyed and business menthe lra
0
vest in foreign and other distant localities,
returns, as experience has amply shown, are by ii
means so large or certain as nearer home. ing
Greater attention is now being turned to farm
tio
and similiar pursuits than to the more precarie_i,
business of mining, and as a consequence good chive
cultural lands, as well as other kinds of prodactiey
real estate, are appreciating in value. The zu°ll
accumulations of the country—greater now ,11
ever before, as the deposits made in the savr 0
r,
banks show—are being utilised more than -oa,
merly in the purchase of lands for cultivatiOcti
or of city property for improvement, oluu,
also being used in efforts to establish manes,
facturing in a small way, or, in some install, be,
through associated capital on a larger scale ; the
speaking a settled confidence in the future et, 00
city and State, and indicating a growing thrift
the part of the labouring classes.