The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-03-15
Italian Opera.

Ma EofT0s -
Ia your Pspsr Of the 18th inst appeared letter On
The Italian Opera eignod by zone who knowsp calling
upon you cir in vsry seduoiry tone be less ecin.
gent IN your remarks on the general management OF
Al that he respecting the ten or dozen liberal
gentlemen who have had the mana cement OF the con-
csrns OF the opera may be true do not deny 1t. All
that in common with others protest against is that
We the public are bound to believe in the mere asser-
ton Of an individual without his Offering particle of
proof The letter of your correspondent is remarkable
Tor Its total absence Of all proof sustain his various
s.ssem,nt' and yet he signs himself as lone who
He says thss tho committee has advanced several
Thousand doers from parely diaintsrsstsd motives.
NoH This be tbs fto why DO not the members Of the
COMMITTEES make statement, knowing a. they must
Know, Una oprioa which prevails among subscribers
that all is not right Why do they not give to the
disbursement fron the beginning, but also copy OF
ths agreement verbal or written, whichever 1t may be-
Drtmssn'tDs ostcnsble mnragers Mesrrs Sanquirlco
Patti, and "a owners, Aessrs Morgan Foster.
Az ore who does not know, but who like many 9TH
es desires 70 know beg to put the following questions
70 your correspondent Who signs himhef 'One VINO
ksOwsn - $500
Are the ewnsr, of tbs building the real propretors
thst to say If the Opera had been good speculation
would .he profits have gone into the pockets OF the own
efs. or into those Of S&P?
& r are the resi- propristors can you account for
nnapy things taking place without their concurrence
as for instaooe engaging third soprano, when tie COM
pauy already possessed two
Can you tell US what position Mr. Albinos holds Ia
the establishment whether he is employed by the
eopcsrn wss indsbea for bns put to the law expenses
in tho ssir OF aenedet which expenses were tring,
compared to the bad moral elect that such disregard Of
existing contracts had on the community, which de-
ciGed sovrral from subscribing
Who war it, there any one, who agreed to take
Benedict excluded from the coropany, though it
was known that contract for nine months existed bo-
tween p. ard Benedstti!
When you speak Of the committee do you mean lac
owners
Is il true thst the committee you speak Of has the
power to engage artists if what their quail
hcstons Tor suoh duty ,
You aware that $50 gentlemen have subscribed
their for ve years 60 psy the rent of the build
ipg) at SIS sscb making Sl $50 year anddo you be-
sss that the ground and building cost over $50 900 TO
100000? You ssy that the motives which have &C
tusteG these gentlemen hSve been purely dsinterested
and that they maairg heavy sacrifices for the good
Of others Il So do you think 1t co.pors with such
money particularly when IL Is secured for i've years.
would b. $4,000, yet the Ave year subscribers pay
nusl!y ST. $50 do you noe think that tho owners
could vel slId to advance few thonsands when ,hsy
the Sla5o not paid by quarterly as Is usual
with rents but the wbols amount Of is prePsid
building may have cost mors but certainly nothing like
the amount on which they are recsiying interest
Though the Subscribers liable to be done out OF Their
subscription by the bursting OF The concern arising
from bad sgement yet the owne already our
months ago. received their enormous rent, Sll,250
therefore we think that One VINO knows" should have
sympathy for he eubscrbers and not expend all
on the owners, who five are not mistaken ana sna Dc
glad to be corrected it Is not are but ima sinary
Is it true that tho owners besides receiving $ll $50
year. have each Of them box ct tho Opera gratis
The late fancy ball has realized about $4,000 Sup
posing this is appropriated to the paying OF the drsits
for ire Costumes SO to whom will the costumes then
bsore Surely to the subscribers for the benefit OF eny
future opera and aus be taken that they do not
The COMMITTEE Of the Fancy Bali would do wsl to see
this The costumes if paid tor out OF the funds OF the
ba belong no more to properties of the house. than
do tn, which the subscribers put in
their respective boxes-whioh the managers refused
10 DO
things by their result, zee nothing which can
command the public sympathy for the managers where
there is every thing to condemn, ana nothing 10 ap
From fret last it hss been series Of blunders
The first error in the Subscribers themselves in
giving their names FIVE years the rent and
then allowing the owners OF the building they who hsd
got their tor ne Year the
ing would have been put up without any security the
speculation was too good one to let pass. ,,.o
Importance otherwise how you reconcile the fact OF
the managers letting the house 8. r., who we're al
ready in debt, following that they are the real pro-
Did they not the very outset, quarrel with Bsne,
detti And they have quarreed with Vistti and
refuse to pay him his salary So they quarreed with
Aviguone, and bling sued, II rightly informed, by
BsrIii, aud Pco sued them some time ego If s. p
are the real propIieors then say there has been
power behind the throns greater than the throne itself
and when has done ali the mischief Therefore the
sympathy should be for the subscribers not for the
managers. Yours, Sc, One WHO WISHES TO KNOW
APPOINTMENTS BY THE fRkSIDENT -ColiectoIs
of the Observation-Disclosures Willis, re appointed
at Oxford, Md. William C. Bettncourt, at Whining
ton N. Z. vice Murphy V. Jones, resigned Benjamin
Cowel, at Providenes, vice Hezekah willard de.
ceased. Surveyors Charles Garrett re appointed at
Camden, N. j.. Thomas w. Hoye, re-apponted at
Noting ham Md Aloysius Thompson, re.spponted at
Llewellenburg Nd Nicholas Tucker, at Marbehesd
Mass vice Benjamin Wormsiead resigned Treadwell
L. Irelsnd at Greenport, N Y (new office j Jacob c.
Hewlett, at Cold Spring, N. Y. (nsw ofice) land
Oficers-Alanson Saltmash, register at Cahaba, Ala
re-sppointed James NJ Tucker, receiver ct Natchi
tockes vics Andrew j. Ieacks, resigned.
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