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Notes On Music And The Drama.

NOTES ON MUSIC AND THE DRAMA .

Miss Louisa Pyne ancl Mr . Harrison open the Royal English Opera on the 21 st of October , with a new opera by Mr . Howard Glover , entitled "Ruy Bias- " Miss Louisa Keeley will secede next season from the Olympic company . The Adelphi re-opened on Monday with the undying " Colleen Bawn , " but Mr . Boucicault ' s next card , " The Octoroon , " with its slave trade " sensation" hits , is in rehearsal .

It is uncertain , says the Theatrical Lounger when Drury-lane will open ; some say with Mr . Brooke in tragedy , on the 10 th of October , but Mr . Brooke is reported to be ill in Dublin , and moreover , to have quarrelled with the Drury-lane proprietor . Mr . ancl Mrs . Kean are engaged in February , and the pantomime is sure to float the great " impresario" over the winter .

The Princess ' s is about to re-open with a new comedy by Mr . John Brougham ( who makes his first appearance at this theatre ) called " Playing with Fire . " " Othello , " with Mr . Feebler as the Moor , will be one of the earliest novelties . Madlle . Di Rhona , the celebrated and fascinating danseuse , has , we ( Sunday Times ) understand , taken the Soho Theatre , which is

undergoing extensive alterations and re-decorations , in anticipation of a brilliant season under her management-. By order of the Minister of State , the fauteuille d'orcheslre , in the Theatre Italien , are to be reserved for the male sex exclusively . A letter from Biarritz states that at one of the Emperor's evening parties lately , a young tragedienne ( 12 years of age ) was heard ,

whose precocious talent is considered by her friends to promise another Rachel . The Minister of State was so much struck with the ability which she displayed , thafc he has admitted her to the Conservatoire at Paris , with a pension of lOOf . a month .

The director of the Imperial Theatre at Sfc . Petersburg has just left Paris for that capital . He lias added Madame Gassier to his list of engagements for the season . The Academy of Music of Vienna has adopted the normal diapason of Paris . The orchestra of the Court Theatre is also about to take the same step .

M . Offenbach , after a highly successful tour with ills troupe through Austria , Hungary , Prussia , and Belgium , has re-opened the Bouffes Parisiens . The operas chosen for the occasion were " La Chanson do Fortunio , " an operetta in one act by MM . Saint Remy ancl Offenbach , with the whimsical title , " M . Chonfleury restera chez lui le . . . /' and "Los E . mx d'Knis , " by Delibes .

The Paris papers contain the following announcement : — " By special authorisation , an extraordinary performance will take place at the Hippodrome , on Thursday next , for the benefit of Madame Saqui , now 83 years of age . This justly celebrated lady , who for 50 years was the admiration of Europe , will dance on the tight rope . "

ELECTRIC POSTAGE . —AVhen the Post Oflice closed its account with the public revenue in the year 1837—previous to the first alteration of the postage to 4 d ., as preliminary to the adoption of a general rate of a penny—the number of letters transmitted , at varying rates of 6 d \ , 9 d ., ancl Is . each , was more than 1 , 000 , 000 weekly . This has been regarded as furnishing a fair basis for calculating what may be clone by an uniform rate of message by telegraph at One Shilling ; and the United Kingdom Electric

Telegraph Company are about to carry out this system upon their lines , which are fast spreading throughout the country northwards , and will , within a few days , be opened as far as Manchester and Liverpool , for messages , at one uniform rate of a Shilling each .

The Week.

THE WEEK .

Tim COURT . —Her Majesty , the Prince Consort and other Members of the Royal Family are still at Balmoral . On Friday the 20 th , his Royal Highess Prince Alfred , who is to sail for America by the Cunard steamer from Liverpool , arrived in that town at an early hour , and in the forenoon was waited upon hy the Mayor , under whoso conduct , and accompanied by Major Cowell , ho was

taken to see the "lions . " These included the Conway training ship , Akbar reformatory hulk , Messrs . Ilorsfall ' s ironworks—where His Royal Highness , to his astonishment , was shown a gun constructed to throw a 700 ih . shot—the Il ' uskisson and Sandon Docks , the Great Britain steamship , and of coarse , St . George ' s Hall . The town was decorated with ( lags , and every place where a glimpse

of the royal sailor could he expected was crowded . The weather , too , was all thafc could be desired ; in fact , as the penny-a-liners have it , regular Queen ' s weather . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The Registrar General reports the London mortality for the week to be 1126 , which is as nearly as possible an average of the last ten years . 'The births were 1830 , which is

about 200 above the average of the preceding ten years . An influential deputation having waited on the Lord Mayor to urge upon him the desirability of his filling the oflice for another year . His Lordship expressed his willingness to accept the honour if it be awarded to him . A very interesting meeting has been held at Manchester , for the purpose of enabling the Hon . Samuel Laing ,

financial secretary of India , to confer with the three associations principally interested in tho prosperity and trade of India , the Chamber of Commerce , the Cotton Supply Association , and the Manchester Cotton Company . After addresses from these three bodies had been presented to the hon . gentleman , he addressed the meeting at great length . He reviewed the state of financial affairs

in India at the time when he first went out , and dwelt on the great importance of reducing public expenditure in that part of our empire . He thought that taxation had reached its limit , and that therefore , the only fund available for public works was to be found in the savings which could be effected . The hon . gentleman dwelt witli emphasis on the necessity of governing India on the spot ,.

aud not from home . Noticing the complaints against the existing land tenure in many parts of India , he exrjressed an opinion that the want of rapid communication with groat centres , was a more effectual barrier to the settlement of Europeans in the country . To promote the growth of cotton , Mr . Laing thought capital advanced to the growers was especially necessary ; and to enable this to be done with safety , a proper law of contracts was essential . Ho described what had been enacted on this questionandafter

, , alluding to an early prospect of the reduction of important dutieson cotton , wound up by appealing to his hearers to take , with him a view of these matters higher than their merely commercial aspect .. The Gloucestershire county rifle meeting was held at Gloucester during last week , and that interesting competition was followed , and brought to a close by a banquet , at which the Earl of Ellenborough was present . It fell to his Lordship's lot to propose" The Volunteers , " and he improved the occasion by

addressinghimself in tones of advice and warning to the volunteer bod y at large . He trusted that , as the force of volunteers existed now unimpaired , so it would continue , and that the people who had initiated the system , would maintain it with that perseverancewhich is the first of military virtues . "Without that perseverance in its support , " said his Lordship , if there be any lukewarmness or falling back , depend upon it we shall make things worse than they were when that force was established , and bring on apace the

very evils it was intended to avert . " Lord Eilenborough then , proceeded to dwell on the importance of discipline , without which ,, no amount of accuracy in shooting , no courage or enthusiasm in in the field , is of much avail . His Lordship concluded h y a spirited appeal to both officers and mon , to persevere in the course they had adopted , and to perfect themselves in the duties of a military life , which he regarded as the first of all professions . A new minute of Council on Education has excited the opposition of schoolmasters hout the

throug country . An aggregate meeting of the metropolitan teachers was held on Saturday at the AVhittington Club , when churchmen and dissenters were , for once , of one mind in holding that , for the sake of a paltry saving , Mr . Lowe

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THE ADVANTAGES OF FREEMASONRY. Article 1
CLASSICAL THEOLOGY.—XLVLIII. Article 3
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 4
THE ORIGINAL FREEMASONS. Article 5
GENERAL ARCHITECTURAL INTELLIGENCE. Article 7
NOTES ON LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ART. Article 7
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 9
THE GRAND SECRETARY'S IMPRIMATAUR. Article 9
MASONIC CHARITY. Article 10
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 11
PROVINCIAL. Article 11
ROYAL ARCH, Article 16
Poetry. Article 17
LINES TO KATE. Article 17
NOTES ON MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. Article 18
THE WEEK. Article 18
SPECIAL NOTICE. Article 20
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 20
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Notes On Music And The Drama.

NOTES ON MUSIC AND THE DRAMA .

Miss Louisa Pyne ancl Mr . Harrison open the Royal English Opera on the 21 st of October , with a new opera by Mr . Howard Glover , entitled "Ruy Bias- " Miss Louisa Keeley will secede next season from the Olympic company . The Adelphi re-opened on Monday with the undying " Colleen Bawn , " but Mr . Boucicault ' s next card , " The Octoroon , " with its slave trade " sensation" hits , is in rehearsal .

It is uncertain , says the Theatrical Lounger when Drury-lane will open ; some say with Mr . Brooke in tragedy , on the 10 th of October , but Mr . Brooke is reported to be ill in Dublin , and moreover , to have quarrelled with the Drury-lane proprietor . Mr . ancl Mrs . Kean are engaged in February , and the pantomime is sure to float the great " impresario" over the winter .

The Princess ' s is about to re-open with a new comedy by Mr . John Brougham ( who makes his first appearance at this theatre ) called " Playing with Fire . " " Othello , " with Mr . Feebler as the Moor , will be one of the earliest novelties . Madlle . Di Rhona , the celebrated and fascinating danseuse , has , we ( Sunday Times ) understand , taken the Soho Theatre , which is

undergoing extensive alterations and re-decorations , in anticipation of a brilliant season under her management-. By order of the Minister of State , the fauteuille d'orcheslre , in the Theatre Italien , are to be reserved for the male sex exclusively . A letter from Biarritz states that at one of the Emperor's evening parties lately , a young tragedienne ( 12 years of age ) was heard ,

whose precocious talent is considered by her friends to promise another Rachel . The Minister of State was so much struck with the ability which she displayed , thafc he has admitted her to the Conservatoire at Paris , with a pension of lOOf . a month .

The director of the Imperial Theatre at Sfc . Petersburg has just left Paris for that capital . He lias added Madame Gassier to his list of engagements for the season . The Academy of Music of Vienna has adopted the normal diapason of Paris . The orchestra of the Court Theatre is also about to take the same step .

M . Offenbach , after a highly successful tour with ills troupe through Austria , Hungary , Prussia , and Belgium , has re-opened the Bouffes Parisiens . The operas chosen for the occasion were " La Chanson do Fortunio , " an operetta in one act by MM . Saint Remy ancl Offenbach , with the whimsical title , " M . Chonfleury restera chez lui le . . . /' and "Los E . mx d'Knis , " by Delibes .

The Paris papers contain the following announcement : — " By special authorisation , an extraordinary performance will take place at the Hippodrome , on Thursday next , for the benefit of Madame Saqui , now 83 years of age . This justly celebrated lady , who for 50 years was the admiration of Europe , will dance on the tight rope . "

ELECTRIC POSTAGE . —AVhen the Post Oflice closed its account with the public revenue in the year 1837—previous to the first alteration of the postage to 4 d ., as preliminary to the adoption of a general rate of a penny—the number of letters transmitted , at varying rates of 6 d \ , 9 d ., ancl Is . each , was more than 1 , 000 , 000 weekly . This has been regarded as furnishing a fair basis for calculating what may be clone by an uniform rate of message by telegraph at One Shilling ; and the United Kingdom Electric

Telegraph Company are about to carry out this system upon their lines , which are fast spreading throughout the country northwards , and will , within a few days , be opened as far as Manchester and Liverpool , for messages , at one uniform rate of a Shilling each .

The Week.

THE WEEK .

Tim COURT . —Her Majesty , the Prince Consort and other Members of the Royal Family are still at Balmoral . On Friday the 20 th , his Royal Highess Prince Alfred , who is to sail for America by the Cunard steamer from Liverpool , arrived in that town at an early hour , and in the forenoon was waited upon hy the Mayor , under whoso conduct , and accompanied by Major Cowell , ho was

taken to see the "lions . " These included the Conway training ship , Akbar reformatory hulk , Messrs . Ilorsfall ' s ironworks—where His Royal Highness , to his astonishment , was shown a gun constructed to throw a 700 ih . shot—the Il ' uskisson and Sandon Docks , the Great Britain steamship , and of coarse , St . George ' s Hall . The town was decorated with ( lags , and every place where a glimpse

of the royal sailor could he expected was crowded . The weather , too , was all thafc could be desired ; in fact , as the penny-a-liners have it , regular Queen ' s weather . GENERAL HOME NEWS . —The Registrar General reports the London mortality for the week to be 1126 , which is as nearly as possible an average of the last ten years . 'The births were 1830 , which is

about 200 above the average of the preceding ten years . An influential deputation having waited on the Lord Mayor to urge upon him the desirability of his filling the oflice for another year . His Lordship expressed his willingness to accept the honour if it be awarded to him . A very interesting meeting has been held at Manchester , for the purpose of enabling the Hon . Samuel Laing ,

financial secretary of India , to confer with the three associations principally interested in tho prosperity and trade of India , the Chamber of Commerce , the Cotton Supply Association , and the Manchester Cotton Company . After addresses from these three bodies had been presented to the hon . gentleman , he addressed the meeting at great length . He reviewed the state of financial affairs

in India at the time when he first went out , and dwelt on the great importance of reducing public expenditure in that part of our empire . He thought that taxation had reached its limit , and that therefore , the only fund available for public works was to be found in the savings which could be effected . The hon . gentleman dwelt witli emphasis on the necessity of governing India on the spot ,.

aud not from home . Noticing the complaints against the existing land tenure in many parts of India , he exrjressed an opinion that the want of rapid communication with groat centres , was a more effectual barrier to the settlement of Europeans in the country . To promote the growth of cotton , Mr . Laing thought capital advanced to the growers was especially necessary ; and to enable this to be done with safety , a proper law of contracts was essential . Ho described what had been enacted on this questionandafter

, , alluding to an early prospect of the reduction of important dutieson cotton , wound up by appealing to his hearers to take , with him a view of these matters higher than their merely commercial aspect .. The Gloucestershire county rifle meeting was held at Gloucester during last week , and that interesting competition was followed , and brought to a close by a banquet , at which the Earl of Ellenborough was present . It fell to his Lordship's lot to propose" The Volunteers , " and he improved the occasion by

addressinghimself in tones of advice and warning to the volunteer bod y at large . He trusted that , as the force of volunteers existed now unimpaired , so it would continue , and that the people who had initiated the system , would maintain it with that perseverancewhich is the first of military virtues . "Without that perseverance in its support , " said his Lordship , if there be any lukewarmness or falling back , depend upon it we shall make things worse than they were when that force was established , and bring on apace the

very evils it was intended to avert . " Lord Eilenborough then , proceeded to dwell on the importance of discipline , without which ,, no amount of accuracy in shooting , no courage or enthusiasm in in the field , is of much avail . His Lordship concluded h y a spirited appeal to both officers and mon , to persevere in the course they had adopted , and to perfect themselves in the duties of a military life , which he regarded as the first of all professions . A new minute of Council on Education has excited the opposition of schoolmasters hout the

throug country . An aggregate meeting of the metropolitan teachers was held on Saturday at the AVhittington Club , when churchmen and dissenters were , for once , of one mind in holding that , for the sake of a paltry saving , Mr . Lowe

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