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    applies almost exclusively to the newly-raised regiments . THE REBELS IN NEPAUI ,. The cold weather is to usher in an expedition against , the Nana and the rebels on the Oiioe frontier . The Hurkaru says : — " The fugitive rebels m the Nepaul Terai and in Bundlekund are to be hunted down as soon as the cold weather commences , for which purpose flying columns will be organised . The Nana and Beguin are still in the Nepaul territories , and the Maharanee of Lahore , who fled from the Chunar Fort to Catmandoo many years agowhere she was allowed to remain , as she could do no harmand her pension was saved—has joined the

    , latter . According to a recent communication from Bunklekund , Feroze Shah , with a small party of his men , was at a place 21 miles south-west of Shahgurh . These rebels are said to be making for a tract of jungly country to the west of Jubbulpore , in hopes of being able eventually to reach the Nepaul hills . A letter from Roy Bareilly , dated the 7 th inst ., mentions that there had been an engagement with the rebels within the last few days near Tulsipore , and that they had suffered considerable loss . The rebel chief , Rambuksh Sing , talookdar of

    Doomdiah Khereh , has been captured at Benares , and is on Ins way to Roy Bareilly for trial , " for aiding and abetting in the murder of Miss Jackson , Mrs . Green , and others , and being a leader of rebellion . " Another chief , Rajah Jyegall , has also been caught , and , is about to be triedfor the murder of the few survivors of the Cawnpore massacre who sought refuge in the temple , from which Captain . Thompson and Lieutenant Delafosse managed to effect their escape . It is to be hoped that both these chiefs will be hanged , although we should not be surprised to hear of their acquittal through some loophole or other . "

    Lieutenant Beadeh , of the 4 th Cavalry , has been appointed Aide-de-camp to Sir Charles Outram . This gallant young officer will , of course , hot now return to England in charge of troops who declined to re-enlist , as at first arranged .

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    1 *> Royal Opera , Covent Garden . —The entertainments -at ' this admirably-managed house are about to be varied by the production of the " Trovatore , " with a new cast , on Monday evening next . The part of Leonora will , of course , remain with Miss Louisa Pyne , whose admirable success in it is fresh in the memory of all who observed the progress of this enterprise during its last season . The Manrico will be Mr . Henry Haigh , a tenor , gifted with a voice , in parts , of extreme richness . The " Satanella " of Mr , Balfe will also be revived on Tuesday and Thursday next , while " Dinorah , " in which the troupe , including its recent acquisitions , continue to merit and receive the same degree of favour as was shown them on their first essay in this elegant

    work . The absence of booking , box-keeping-, and playbill extortions , too often cause us silently to bless the management of Covent Garden , for us to neglect each opportunity that offers of reminding our readers that here , aa at the Adclphi also , the middle-class playgoers may take his or her seat , and a bill of the performance to boot , withont the inevitably-ruffled temper that still attends the experiment in some other first-class establishments . The fact , too , that a private box for two persons may bo . . at Covent Garden for half a guinea , is one that many of our friends may nob yet have learned , but may like to prove by experiment , The fact is , wo fancy , worth knowing , and thq one triul necessary to the proof is , at the price , decidedly worfch making .

    DniritY Lank Theatre . —Yot more adicux before the exotic song-birds leave us for their winter quarters in more sunny or less foggy climos ! Mr . Smith announces a few more farewell nights , beginning on Tuesday the 8 th inst ., with Jflotow ' s " Martha . " The vocal troupe , comprising Madllo : Titions and Vaneri , and the 'Signors Giugllai , Aldighiori , is a strong one . Lot us hope that the band and cliorus will bo strong enough to give adequate support to the principals wo have named . If such turn out to bo tUo caso tho lessee may hope for a brilliant little season : if otherwise , ho must only look for odious

    comparisons between his eilbrts and those of our English Qpera friends at Covent-gardon . CoimtART to a law that souno philosophers liavo endeavoured to sot up and to maintain , civilisation is , as fur as London is concerned , marching eastward and not westward . Mr . and Mrs . Sims ltcevos , the latter fairly convalescent , are , singing for enormous remuneration to vast audiences , and we need hardly add , with eminent success , at the National Standard Theatre in Bishopsgato East , late Shoreditch . The operas selected by Mr , Douglass , tho manager , are " Lucia do Lammermoor " and " Tho Bohemian Girl . " The Edgardo Is Mr . Sims Reeves ,

    Lucia , Mrs . Reeves ; Enrico , Mr . Durand ; Arturo , Mr . Manvers . At the Pavilion Theatre , still farther down east , Mademoiselle Lancia , a pure- soprano , young and very promising , is singing in the " Sonnambula" with a Mr . Parkinson as Elvitio , and Mr . Rosenthal as the Count Rodolpho . ' ' . PRESENTATION OF AN ADDRESS TO JENNY XIND . At half-past three o ' clock on Friday afternoon last Madame Lind-Goldschrhidt and her husband , M . Otto Goldschmidt , paid a visit to Mercers' Charitable HospitalDublinfor the benefit of which institution she

    , , had so generously given her gratuitous professional services in connexion with the performance of Handel ' s sublime oratorio of " The Messiah , " on Thursday evening . His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant having kindly consented to be present at the interesting ceremony , shortly before , half-past three o ' clock arrived , accompanied by Mr . Hatchell , private secretary , and Captain Buller , aide-de-camp in waiting . On the arrival of Madame Goldschmidt , she was conducted by his Excellency to the board-room , where there was a large and distinguished party in attendance to meet her .

    Horatio Townsend , Esq ., one of the governors of the hospital , read the following address : —

    "To Madame Otto Goldschmidt . " Mercers' Hospital , Dublin , October , 1859 . " Madame , —The Governors of Mercers' Hospital , and the Trustees of the . Irish Musical Fund Society for the Relief of Distressed Musicians , beg to address you in grateful acknowledgment of yottr truly generous conduct in giving gratuitously the aid of your unrivalled talent in a performance of the ' Messiah ' for the benefit of these institutions . "In their several departments of doing good , both of these institutions liave been instruments of unspeakable blessing and comfort to many individuals and to many families , each institution working according to its several ability .

    " feel that you need no higher present reward than the consciousness of having promoted the usefulness of two such institutions , not only by your noble munificence , "but by making them both more extensively known to the public . " But the interest of your good action will be increased to yourself by the reflection that the hospital that you have so generously befriended was one of the early charities of this city , for whose benefit the illustrious Handel gav « the first performance of that sublime oratorio in which you have just taken so distinguished apart . That grand monument of Handel ' s piety and genius was inaugurated in the cause of suffering humanity . And afterwards during his life , and since his death ( of which the present yeans the centenary ) , it has , in frequent performances , contributed more to the relief of human suffering than any other production of genius .

    «• You , Madame Goldschmidt , have laboured in the same sacred cause , and our trust and hope is , that when you shall rest from your labours your , works may follow you ; and that you may be found among those to whom the Messiah , ' the Divine Saviour , who himself , while on earth , went about doing good , shall say : ' Come , ye blessed of my Father , inherit the kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world . ' , . We beg , Madame , that you will accept this sincere expression of our respect and esteem , and that you will rest assured that we shall always retain a cordial and grateful recollection of your benevolence and generosity to our institutions . —Wo have the honour to subscribe ourselves , Madam , your obliged and gratoful friends . "

    The address was signed by his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin , tho Right Hon . the Lord Chancellor , his Gnvco the DuTco of Loinster , tho Lord Chief Baron , the Lord Justice of Appeal , Lord William Fitzgerald , tho Archdeacon of Dublin , Peter Diggos La Touche , Esq .. William DiggesLaToucho , Esq ., Edmund Diggos La Toucho , Esq ., Dr , Osbornc , and the surgeons of tho hospital , On the conclusion of the address , Madame Goldschmidt expressed her tlianks with peculiar warmth , and with an evident siocerity of manner . Having intimated a desire to go through tho wards , liis Excellency , with characteristic courtesy , offered his

    arm , and conducted Madame Goldschmidt through the different departments of the hous " e , accompanied by tho other distinguished persons already mimed . On returning , to tho board-room , Madame Goldschmidt was presontod with tho visitors' book , in winch she made the following entry . " With every good wish for tho welfare of this charitable hospital , and vory , much pleased , with nil that I have soon to-day , — Jenny Lino-Goldsohiuidt . " Aftor a stay of something more than an hour Madame Goldsohnudt , again expressing tho gratification afforded by lior visit , loft , accompanied by her husband , and as sl » o entered nor carriage she was loudly cheered by a largo crowd which had assembled boforo the hospital .

    Pbincess ' s Theatre . —We are in hopes , on account of both manager and author , that the success which atteuded the production on Wednesday night of the new drama , called " The Master Passion : or , the Outlaws of the Adriatic , " may not prove an ephemeral one . The latter gentleman ( Mr . Falconer ) , already known as the author of the Lyceum comedy " Extremes , " has here used , by way of foundation , the French melodrame , "Les Noces Venitienhes , " and the former ( Mr . Harris ) has been lavish of his ingenuity and resources to secure a permanent position for the work of his collaborateur . . .. .

    The scene is laid in Venice , the city of song and stilettos and the principal characters are members of the Orseoli and Falieri families , who cherished an hereditary hatred for one another of the deepest and deadliest Italian dye ; but the hero , Galieno Faliero , a successful young soldier ( Mr . George Melville ) and the nominal heroine , Olympia Orseolo ( Miss C . Leclercq ) , like their prototypes of the Montagu and Capulet houses , are violent exceptions to the general rule , and the storms that agitate the waters of their affection furnish the grand incidents

    of the play . * ,.. '¦ . ;' -,-Having deserved well of the republic in his military career , the young Faliero craves , as a boon of the Doge and his council , the whitewashing of the memory of his ancestor , the famous Marino ; but this being denied him through the interference of Gtovanni Orseolo , head of the rival clan , and also member of the dread Council of Ten , he throws up his commission , ' exchanges the sword of the national warrior for the dagger of the brigand , and shaking the little dust he might collect in Venice from his feet , leaves her watery ways and cool colonnades for an outlaw ' s life on the mainland . He is not uncared for , however , in his retreat , for a spy who had in the of the fair

    been attached to his person shape Morosina ( Mrs , Charles Young ) , but who had failed in her duty by falling in love with him in earnest , now abandons home a , nd fame , attends him to his retreat on the Black Mountain , and succeeds in weaning him from the memory of the fair Olympia , But her felicity is not of long duration , for in the course of time chance brings Olymp ia as a captive to the robber-nest , and Galieno returns , like many an honester gentleman , to his premiers amours . Roused to patriotism by his old love , Galieno now seeks Venice again with his following , but they fall into the power of old Orseolo who by threatening the captive Morosina with the rack , forces Galieno to

    disclose himself . He is at once sentenced to death , but the feelings of the wicked councillor yield to the certainty that his daughter will not survive her lover , and he permits the impending fate of the hero to be arrested . But so strong within him is the master passion of revenge that his tongue refuses to perform the office of forgiveness . He dies of t he struggle between paternal love and thirsting hatred ; the ill-fated Morosina goes to a nunnery ; and the ground being cleared of obstacles , the lovers are left in peace . As Galieno , Mr . Melville displayed , on Wednesday , considerable ability . Though it must be insisted upon that ho has not reached par sultum the secondary heights of dramatic , excellence , he may still be

    felicitated on the early possession of a sound fcotmg , with youth and power to scale them by the good old track , safe though laborious , of labour . The Orseolo of Mr . Ryder was a chequered performance , and the SpuhUro of Mr . Graham a commendable one . Miss Leclercq , of course , pretty , and so . fin- effective as Olympia , made tho most of the'little iipld for display open to her ; but to the talented Mrs . Charles Young wore duo , and warmly accorded , tho . urineipal honours of tho evening ,- Her change from the unprincipled and vindictive intrigante of Venice to tlio idolising , then jealous , and ultimately self-sacrificing- woman , is very powerfully worked out . _ Her ?^ ¦ cone w thtorture rather than betray

    which she welcomes o the fickle GuUcno to a flito which many of' the audience thought he riol . ly deserved s lull of true genius , and , to say the truth , painfully rcaJ . Iho Slay though not of unifornVstrength throughoutwere It so It were too harrowing-mid here and there ovoructeu , is full of situation , and contains much well finished ami poetical lttritfuaao . Its tow defects have boon so well indicated , and the roniody lor them is so simple , that boforo this they may havei ceased to pxisfc . The beautiful sconory and incidental dancing contribute their fair share to the gonoral intprest , and fltvouV tho desirable probability that tho hopos nvnroasod in our opening sentence will bo realised .

    bV . Jambs ' s Ti »« A *« JB .- ^ An airy nothing , enuuou Cupid ' s Ladder , " composed and produced tor tho illustration of the enterprising and interesting young Bullorina , Miss Lydia Thompson , was produced , here on Saturday evening . Tho fair Lydla appear , first , by way of beginning at the ladder ' s foqt , as . a country boy , not of the earth , earthy , but of a lluhtor order , that may prevail in Borne delightful valley yot undiscovered , where olmwingoff bacon affiio , and rheumatics aro unknown . This Jleuben livujdovo next upp « ar » la pursuit of ft country girl ,

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    MUSIC AND THE DRAMA .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 5, 1859, page 1223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2319/page/11/