The Express. — 1866-04-23 (London, England)

SUICIDE BY A LAD.— A youth of 17, named Thomas Lord Webster, residing with his sister at Pudsey, in the West Riding, had on Friday some domestic difference, and aubsequently,after making an ineffectual attempt to cut his throat, drowned himself in the mill-dam of Messrs. C`rayshard, of Pudsey. Music AT IiAMBUR(I.—A letter from Hamburg says :—" Like the whole of the German race, the good people of Hamburg love music, and know how to distinguish good from bad. Theresa Titiens, our London favourite, born here of very humble parents, but now admitted into the very d it" of society gave a few representations here on the boards of the Stsdt Theatre, previous to leaving for England. Although the prices were much higher than usually charged, every seat was taken long before the doors opened, and the whole town and country are still ringing with her praise, al though her place at the theatre is at the present moment disputed by two of Gerniany'e moat celebrated tenors, Messrs. Nieman and Theodor Wachtel. The former, besides being the possessor of a most beautiful voice, is the envied husband of the celebrated tragedian, e. Seebaeli, of whom Germany is so justly proud, and who has been tempered by many of our old play-goers to the celebrated Mrs. Siddons. Ilerr Theodor Wachtel you had an opportunity of hearing last summer in London, where he was engaged at Covent Garden, and I well recollect the favourable impression he made on our English public. Nut many years since this gentleman was the driver of a public vehicle here in Hamburg, hot his voice having been heard by some connoisseurs, he was advised to leave the road and take to the boards. He is now one of the German stars, and ' engaged at a great salary at the Hof Theatre, at Berlin, with permission to travel at certain periods of the year to recruit his health and overfill his pockets. The next celebrity expected here is Jenny Lind-Gohlochmidt, for whose arrival great preparations are being made in the musical world. This great songstress has kindly consented to assist at a great fete, which, beginning on the 31st of next month, is to last three days, and of which Mr. Otto Goldschmidt is to be the conductor. kiandel's Afes4ah is to be sung on the opening night, Madame Lind-Goldochieidt taking the soprano part, the choruses being sung by amateurs under the leadership of M. Stockhausen, who has just returned from St. Petersburg, where he has earned not only golden opinions, but many roubles and ducats, and who on this occasion has himself undertaken the arduous tenor part. On the two successive days Madame Lind-oohlschmitit is to delight the public with some other pieces of her celebrated repertoire not yet fixed upon, with the exception of Hands 's celebrated but seldom executed ode, " Cecelia." Madame Lind-Goldachmidt, who has spent the winter in the south of France, is to sing, previous to her arrival here, at the Dusseldorf festival, fixed to take place about Whitsuntide. Should any of your fair readers intend to be present there, I would strongly advise an early application for room, as lodgings are already very dear in that usually cheap town, whooe inhabitants, however, now seem determined to reap a golden harvest, and to take advantage of this occasion to show their neighbours how much can be got out of a music-loving public. By her marriage, Jenny Lind has become connected with some greatly respected families here, and her mother-in-law, Madame Goldechmidt, senior, is not only an authoress of unoponniean.ooreepootte thintedpurcatinciiopneall.m.dateter:sin, but she Frobelis looed movement, now so widely spread throughout Germany, and so inireerfectly understood in England."