To The Editor Of The Time...
Fir,-I trust to your candour for thle insertion of this siort reply to the Ictter of vour correspondent in this morning's Times, on the :.ubject of Madalne Catalani's absence from the Concert Spirituel on Friday eveniing last. It is admitted on all hands, that no blame whatover Can att,ich to that lady, and a few words of explanation will, I ant confident, rclieve Signor Benelli and his friends from all ilmlputation nf imposition. The fact is, that the notification of AMa- (iame Catalani's llness was niot coomniunicated to the manager until one o'clock, when hand.bill -rere inmiediatel vprinted, and distri- buted to everY applicant for boxes, at the box-office in the Quadrant, besides being placed in the umst conspicuous partsof the theaLtre and its vicinity. In adtlition) to tiis, when the doors were opened, two of thesel handbills were latid on the counter. where the adimission monCy was taken, so that it was next to an impossibility to overlook them. With respect to tihe circunstance of Mladanie CatalaTi's songs being omittecl in the books of the evening, it is only necessary to state, that the songs on concert nights are never sent to the press until five o'clock. The good health and embhipoint of the gentletnan who kindly voltinteered Inis services as a public apologist, (no very enviable character), your correspondent miay be allowed to amutse himself with ; bat he shouldl theroughly acquaint himself with all the facts of a transaction, betbre lie charges any of the parties cot1- cernen' witli the base anid dishonourable iioltives he so coolly attri- butes to Signor Benelli, whose conidict has hitherto met with un. nualified aDprobation fronm his suDnorters. I am, Sir, vour obedient servant. R. A. (ireat (icorg?e-strcet,Anrll 1-1. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIB TIMES.