The period of "last nights" has arrived at Her Majesty's
Theatre, and each evening is designated as the last but x, said x of course varying as time runs on. So close are we pressing to the last night of all, that we begin to consider in what nook or corner of time Le Nozze di Figaro will be placed. Unless some official information to the contrary be given, we shall suspect that Christmas will come before the celebrated nuptials, and that they will form part of the musical festivities of 1848. Perhaps, in- deed, even such a notion will prove too sanguine as far as Mademoiselle Lind's Susanna is concerned; for Saturday the 21st, when the theatre will really and truly close, is calle:d in the advertisements by the ominous ap- pellation of the "farewell night." Is the word "farewell" merely a strong expression to mark the shut-up absolute, as distinguished from the close conventional, which took place last week; or does it mean that Jenny Lind takes her farewell, and will not come back again? Let us hope the former: the latter would be a melancholy farewell indeed. Meanwhile, Jenny Lind ceases not to draw crowds. On Saturday last, ethnologists remarked in the pit a great many faces indicative of the Northern side of the Tweed: in fact, there had been a special arrival of auditios from Edinburgh, who (favoured by the " cheap railway excursion") had Come all the way on purpose to hear "the nightingale." The opera wakRoberto, and Jenny's Alicia retained all its divine power. One of the silvans of the pit, abundantly delighted, but who had been told to expect something "unlike anything else," vindicated the critical character of the Sottish Athens by remarking--" After all, it is only a very pleasing voice, -very fine singing, capital acting, and a charming manner." The last of her Amina was witnessed on Thursday, by an amazing multitude. The Post reminds us that it was "the sixty-ninth night of the season, and the 12th of August "; yet the boxes were crammed to the ceiling, every stall was filled, and the pit might have been filled twice over. Adieu to La Sonnam- bula!
"Since the above was in type," as the phrase is, we have read the Times Of this morning; which unriddles the puzzle of the nuptials by the follow- ing announcement- " Owing to the extraordinary cast and the style in which it is to be given, it has been found impossible to produce Le Nozze di Figaro until Tuesday next. On that night it will be brought out, with Lind as Susanna, supported by Cas- tellan, Lablache, Staudigl, Coletti, &e. The next week is the last of Mademoi- selle Lind's performance. On Monday morning the 23d of this month, she leaves London, to fulfil her immediate engagements at Manchester, Liverpool, Dublin, and Edinburgh."
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