With the close of the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden,
this even- ing, the London musical season comes to an end. Since the production of Dinorah, it has been repeated every opera night, to great houses, and with undiminished éclat.
Its run having been so soon cut abort, it will, doubtless, be resumed at the beginning of next season. Meyerbeer left London for Berlin on Sunday.
Drury Lane closed on Saturday last. Mr. Smith took occasion to ad- dress the, audience, and, after thanking them for the support he had received, said that had been "no loser" by the season, and that he was determined to persevere in the course of low prices which he had adopted. He did not distinctly say whether he meant the moderately low prices which he had established at the beginning of the season, or the excessively low prices which he had introduced towards its dose. We presume he meant the former ; for it is simply absurd to suppose that a great Italian opera-house can be carried on at the lowest rates of a London minor theatre.
Music will now forsake the metropolis for the provinces. The two great Festivals of the autumn season are that of Bradford, which begins on the 23d of this month, and that of Gloucester (the " Meeting of the Three Choirs") which begins on the 13th of September. No remarkable novelty is announced at either.
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