New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-15

A. Dali a, the Grand Opera we nearo fia"a'"0 ~
Co.. snr TO very small and very cold audiences nor
s,e We able 70 perceive any reason why ney sooa'a
4. YARN II was the fair singing OF worn voice bu'
.rre h. talk IN London Of "a blaze Of triumph, &C,
,.b IVA. Incredible, until by the Baltic came The Lon
don L<edev IN which our Incompatible Vsr'aH, VINO Is
true In his instincts and Is blinded BY any
o,erpoweripg "blase oftrumph" records bic opinion
sh,s which mskesus content 10 consider our own i'm
precision Of Madame La Grange the true one;
"a more uDpromsibg debsit than that OF Madame De
La GraDae at Her Msjestys on Saturday, nave no.
seen for some time. IL was blaze OF tlumpni Su'
call upon the reader 10 watch the ouranon OF un
yor The opera was Lucia the detEsaak created sucn
aFsensstiOa' AZ genius alone could justly stAh1,
therefore In minority but am not tne ieast cOn-
cerned as 10 the result As far as undersSu acIpg,
Madame De La Grange u one o. tne &C. &c sss
the sfsge, as far understand singing sne the least
..resa6le prina donna we have. The sentence Is Sc
~ere. let as swat the verdict Of few weeks Her
voice Il orp uns ympathe:e, and in its high screams,
nsipfuy resembles the sound Of whistllng through
lev As off against this, let Qe add that her exc
cutioa IL often marvellous especially in staccao passa
yea which she accomplished with precision and deli
cscy that deserved the applause that s4luted them But
although 10 deny her great ski would be TO deny ey'
denee return TO my position, that her singing Is de-
cidedly not agreeable because un~s'cdt Tor the de
cscy and intensity of expression demanded by music
can accept no substitute In the way OF Torture
Farther on,the same critic says OF Mario,
who has been inert this season;
.Ms,io was not dead but sleeping. His yoice-that
sweet and tender voice so delicate volupuous-tha
voice which we all thought had lost It's bouquet, made
ei felt the other night In Purdnt with all IT. pristine
beauty and q crammed audience rejoiced in the dis
covery. That pds blaze OF tiumph-that was
stnsfrg"
M. Berlioz continues to distinguish
himself as the conductor of the new Philharmonic
Concerts The two Societies in full career OF COM
petition The old Society comes forward the last time,
with Beethoyen's C Minor, and Herr stsndegl, the
best of Dassos The Society hurries into the field
with MeDdelssohns Symphony In A, and signer svor,
the violini Each achieves victory, but we see that
the new Society is truly triumphant.
1t is the high tide of the London sea-
son, and all the musical celebrities are there Among
the rest NJ Emile Prudent one of the promnet panstS
of the day has gone over from Paris and entirely sue
cessful.
A "Finale" to MendelssOhn's unfinished
Opera LOrley has been published In London. Chorley
In The Atheneu, praises it in exalted terms. He de-
seribes the closing Allegro tremendous, and says,
eve could not name the primo donna to whom II could
be intrusted with the exception Of Madame Otto Gold
schmidt for whose remarkable voice it was obviously
written"
Now that Mr.. Lumley's trump for the
game Of this season practically lost to him. since 1t is
very doubtful whether the public would allow Mile
Wagner to sing, after the letter of her Fathers saying
that the English were only valuable for their money
the nobility and gentry who support Her Msjestys,"
have held meeting and have resolved to keep it up,
and send deputaon Of mobiles and others entreat
Madame Gcldschmidt to sing. The same request
20 be made to her the part of the Birmingham Mds
cal Festival Committee
The celebrated German geographer,
Karl Ritter proposes to revisit England in June for the
purpose OF studying the physical conformation and struc
ture of England and Wales. The veteran Professor
has more than once visited Great Britain but hitherto
for The purpose of studying the physical peculare OF
Scotland He will remain about three months, return
ing to resume bis winter lectures at Berlin.
MIR. r. II. Horne, the author of ''Ori
on and other works of merit, is among those who
about try their fortune in the world of Australia
The gold medal, given annually by
his Royal Higbness the Prince Chancellor to the resi-
dent undergraduate who shall compos' in English the
best ode poem In heroic verse has been sdldged for
The present year TO Mr. Fred William Farrar Scholar
Of Trinity College. Subject The Arctic Expeditions,
and the hopes ofrecoverng the lost adventurous"
The Comtesse D'Orsay, who lived
unhsppily with her dandy husband, has published
novel in French entitled LOmbre du BORhear, The
Shadow of Happiness she fated than Peter
Schemh, who lost only his shadow, has now lost
even that Of happiness. The work appears to be
genuinely French In conception and treatment and Of
no remarkable briiancy orpower.
Alfred De Musset has just been re-
eeived into the French Academy He early known
-.
school, but occasionally musical and fresh as some OF
the happies efforts Of Heinrich Heine. The specta
Gle dams un fauteuip was brilliant assemblage of
dramatic sketches distinguished by power which gave
promise of 40 ordinary genins But the latter prodac
lions Of NJ Alfred de Musset never fully realized the
hopes which were formed by the admirers of these
early works. The discourse pronounced by NJ de Nus
Get was, as s customary, the euogy of NJ NJ. Dupsty
his predecessor. His reception took place before nu-
nerous auditory alike literary and fashionable. Among
the scademcians present were 10 be seen NJ Duchate
and N. Mole. Only three members wore the official
costume, viz NJ Nisard, the President NJ. Vlemain
the Secretary and H. de Montalembert, the last mem
Der received.
= The Italian correspondent of The
London Builder writes:
"There Is bu, little moving In the Continent except
politics and, owing to their mis- ;hievous influence art
10 a good deal neglected AT Rome Gbson's statue OF
OH hooett feel was JUST cast from the clay model II
Ia for Westminster Abbey, and Is fine colossal statue
The likeness Is very COED, 50 far the face is con.
cerned but the figure has unhappiy crdisenbiaaee
IL Is merely an immense muscular gadstor wrapped
up In blanket with bis stockings on, but no shoes
Gibson refused 10 undertake It, II be compelled 20
adopt the modern costume but still could not but re-
gret, thai Tor man 30 peculiarly Of time as
Sir Robert Peel, we could not see him little more as
you and recolect him. Gibson's statue Of Stephen.
son, for ST. Georges ual at Liverpool contributed by
the Directors of the Northwestern Railway or rather
by their propretors Is magnificent work and striking
likeness OF the old man. ana as the figure is sitting the
rsculiares of the no costume are not 50 as in
the great erect figure OF Sir Robert Peel Gibson has
also finished most exquisite bust OF the Qaeen from
tings given him at Osborne last year. neVer saw
agrt cable hkeness, finer work of art He is also
preparing he great sitting statue of the Qdcon and its
stieadsnt group, for the Palace at Westminster The
eompesa,cn appeared simple and good Her Majesty is