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Wellington Independent, Volume XV, Issue 1403, 3 February 1860, Page 3

Mus. Bkechuy's C'onoeiit.— Of the many public iimusements that are from time to time liei.-ig offered for our acceptance, none are so popular »s Musical Entertainments, and such is the earnestness with which [\m beautiful science is pursued by nearly all our fellow citizens, that the dictum of a Wellington audience is no mean authority in deciding on pretensions of those who in this respect solicit p.ttronage and- support. List evening Mrs. Beechey gave her first Uonee.-tin this town at the Lyceum .Theatre, aud which from the rumours that bad proceeded the Lady from Canterbury, where she was received with" considerable favor, we attended her performance last evening with no little interest and anxiety, and fully'drlermined to he most critically severe but Mrs. Beechey is beyond our criticism. Her voice is a Me. Soprano of great sweetness and power, and over such an organ the fair cantatriee has full command. The programme was a judiciously selected one, and we need hardly say each piece was most effectively rendered. But beautifully and efficiently as were given the selections from the operas, still Mrs. Beechey captivated her audience most in her Ballad singing, and in tho^e two gems the Treasures of the Deep, and Jessie of Lucknnw, she was rapturously, as she was deservedly, encored, in short Mrs. Baechey has obtained' a well merited triumph, and we trust she will even in these hard times, meet wit'i sufHcieutjinducement to prolong her stay amongst us. We must not omit most favourably to mention, the orchestral department where Messrs. Cuiry, Pagon, and Gough by their skill and execution 'on their various instruments elicited the warmest econituns of a delighted audience. The house was fashionably though not so fully attended as we could have wished, and we perhaps may be pardoned if we suggest that in our present depressed monetary condition the price of admission is fixed so/newhat high for the public at large. Verbum sat Supieati.