PA GANINI
HAS come again with his enchantments. He commenced a series of Morning and Evening Concerts this week, on alternate days; the even- ing at the Adelphi Theatre, and the morning at the Hanover Square Rooms. By this arrangement, it is obvious that no one who could hear his performance at the theatre price would go likewise to the costlier place, more especially as the bill of fare was the same at both. And this is not the time to expect the folks at the West End, jaded with the midnight rout, to leave their warm couches for the chilly at- mosphere of a morning concert-room. It was a novel sight, on Mon- day, to see gentlemen sitting among the ladies with their hats on ; yet it was necessary, on account of the extreme cold. Eloquence has long been exhausted on the subject of PAGANINI'S playing. He is the first instrumental singer the world ever heard. Passion and pathos, tenderness and anguish, joy and grief, are expressed in his performance. His conception of humour and even burlesque is admirable: witness his " St. Patrick's Day." Miss WATSON has a charming voice, and sings with great purity, but with sad inanimation. In " Di Placer," she seems to have studied the GRIM'S ornaments with success. Miss SOMERVILLE has great rapidity of execution ; but this is not the end of singing.
The Overtures were admirably played, because admirably conducted by Mr. EiaAsosi, who made use of his bow only, and properly, in beating time.
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