The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-02-17

Douglas Jerrolds new comedy, entitled st.
Cupid, or Dorothy Fortune has been played be-
fore the Queen and court at Windsor, and afterwards
at the Princess theatre and has been well received
both by the court and public. The plot is laid in
Jerods favorite era, the end Of the Stuart dynasty
and the dialogue sparkes with wit and sentiment
but the construction is not very neat.
We notice that Nine. Jenny Lind Goldschmdt has
lately been extending her charities to two charitable
institutions of Stockolm-the Hospitals OF ST. Mag
dalcn and of the Deaconesses Nine. Goldschmidt Is,
but has promised to visit Stockholm in Holy week.
to take part in two sacred concerts for the benefit OF
the poor.
Rosat is the great object Of attraction at Naples,
and from the enthusiasm with which she has been
received it would appear that she is about to become
as popular there as in London.
We hear that the " Benvenutu Cellini' of NJ. Ber-
lioz will be one among the novelties given at Her
Majesty theatre during the coming season.
Theatricals Of every description appear to be in a
most 1ourshing condition in Australia. Every town
or district has its theatre while the capitals Of the
several musical societies, besides troupe of eques-
tran performers
At the Grand Opera in Paris Lucia d Hammer
moor had been renewed, with Roger, MassO, Ma
dame Laborde and Bremond in the chief characters.
Roger distinguished himself highly as Edgar.
Adolphe Adams popular Roi d Yvetot,r from
Berangers famous song had been brought out at the
Theatre Lyriqne with success
Italian troupes are now performing at Athens and
Constantinople.
Madame Weiss, the chief of the troupe Of dancing
children, has left the large fortune of 100000
forms.
Mr. Harper, the Justly celebrated performer on the
trumpet, who for many years held leading position
in all the principal London orchestras died sudden
ly on the goth ult, shortly after quitting Exeter
Hail. where he had been attending rehearsal of the
second concert of the Harmonic Union.
Va G~;o In, hoe
the season at the Italian Opera in Vienna
Lord Bloomfield recently received the commission
to forward the diploma of "Pianist to the King of
Saxonyn the eminent Scotch German professor, M.
Robert Muller, who has the honor OF instructing her
Royal Highness the Princess Mary Of Cambridge.
The distinction conferred upon the meritorious and
distinguished pianist whose superiority nterpre-
ter, especially Of Beethoven's Inspirations cannot be
better proved than by the fact that he was some
time past selected, in preference to Mendelssohn,
to perform the difficult concerto in "Es dur which
is usually played at this place at the Beethoven COM
memoration festival, and is only entrusted to those
who are regarded as Interpreters Of the I'm
mortal composers most powerful productions. They
say misfortunes rarely come singy. Happy strokes
Of fortune thank God also sometimes arrive in pairs
During Robert Mullers last visit to Germany, he was
enabled to establish his claims to q small hereditary
landed property in Thuringia which had given rise
TO contest in consequence of some trifing mistake
in the spelling Of his fathers name in the parochia
register. M. Robert Muers reception in the artistic
and dudt0nft world in Germany has been most fiat
tering. He left Berlin, confirming all those who
heard him in the opinion that no pianist of the day
excel him in faithfully nfusing life and spirit
into the compositions of classic masters through the
force yet soberness of his execution and through the
fulness and richness OF the tones which he draws
from the submissive instrument. IF Muller meets
with the same encouragement and appreciation
in England that have been accorded TO him in Ger
many where the public are no mean judges, no Sc
lious great Instrumental concert ought TO neglect
his cooperation.
The opera Of the Prophetic" has been produced
at the Pergola Florence, with far greater eLat than
attended the representations either Of Robert lie
Diable" or Les Huguepots.' At the first perform