Show nils Kils sons ans misunderstanding anding with the qu queen een I 1 at drury lane rane bailers opera of the talisman Italiani zed into hito cli cei 11 III Talis tails manoj manol mano has been advertised and has even been rehearsed but now at the last moment is withdrawn some disagreement with ime nilsson is said to bethe bothe bo tile tilo cause of the withdrawal which mr mapleson by a somewhat circuitous process of reasoning attributes in his advertisement to the visit of the tilo shah it is true that the tho departure of ills majesty lias has been followed by a sort of collapse bub hub one can scarcely admit that because things are getting dull a professed entertainer of the public should render them duller by omitting to fulfill fulfil a formal promise on which his own subscribers subscriber shad had certainly counted the fact is mine nilsson Ni Isson has had bad a misunderstanding with the queen which has reacted re acted upon the prima donnar donnals temper rendering her generally dissatisfied with her season in london and anxious fo to get ge away y at the earliest possible date hero r again the inevitable shall shah makes ills his appearance mor ifor when mme ame nilsson was requested or in official acial 1 language commanded to sing at the first of her maje private concerts she declined and a rumor which unfortunately reached the queen attributed her declination to annoyance at not being retained for the second of the court concerts at which and which only the shall shah was to be present nilsson really excused herself on the plea of a previous engagement gager ga nent an excuse not admitted at the palace and though she is mid said to have explained and apologized to her majesty both through the prince of males wales and through h the edinburgh her brea breach ch of etiquette had not been overlooked and no further command has been addressed to her to make matters worse the court party parly at the tho state performance last week after hearin bearin hearing mme asime nilsson in the first lct ket act let of mignon did not nol stay to ilear hear her in the second this was more than the already irritated prima rima donna could bear england en kl land 9 the be english EA court the english were all to blame and the notion of remaining longer in england than she was obliged to do bo by y the terms of her agreement in order to appear in an opera by an english composer was no longer to be entertained for a moment A first r rate rato tc prima donna must possess as rare qualities and receive a thorough a train training as hs a crack r raco race horse an and d wll wil when en both oth have as near nearly lyas lyns as possible attained perfection neither can call be counted on from one day to another ex 0 that very ancient and conservative body the church of england ringland is in sore trouble this time the difficulty is not with the free thinkers but with their theli anti antl antipodes podes the extremely high churchmen quite recently 3 clergymen of the ea established s church letitio petitioned ned parliament to allow measures to bo be taken for the education election and licensing of duly qualified con fes ors 1 these rectors are the more advanced members of the high church party who have gradually been introducing the forms and ceremonies of the catholics into their services in many cases their altars altar sare are lighted during the day some cause incenses incense i to be burned others practice genuflections genuflect ions whenever the name of christ is spoken the clerical petition petitioners ers represent that there is a wide spread and increasing desire for the xesto restoration ration of the confessional and they int intimate 1 that other papist observances would ho be gladly received llord lord cranmore moved the appointment of a committee to consider what legislation is necessary to check the evil this motion was ivas opposed by the bishops present on oil the ground that the lords spiritual wished to take tho the matter in hand the archbishop of york declaring that he would do what lie ho could coul d to prevent the tho church from becoming Romani Bomani zed 4 |