The performance of Monday evening should certainly be chronicled in the annals of Hong-kong. The stage decorations were mostly improved, the orchestra was well filed with the string band of the 9th. The forces were ephemeral and absurd, short and well noted, very funny and very rattling. Simonsen's fiddling is magnificent - the applause and "bravos" several times burst out in the very middle of his pieces. He uses no music books, and has a magic hand. His wife is a great attraction. We do not know what to say about her. There has never been any one to compare with her in China. She reminds one of the Grand Opera. Her voice is a deep contralto; she has great execution, and does not shirk her work in the least every word, every note was given. We are mightily pleased with her, and so was the audience. The piano used on the occasion is a very fine instrument and Madame Delingre's performance on it was most excellent.
We never previously spent so pleasant an evening in the Theatre. We have given above a slight and unvarnished idea of what took place. We would not have missed it for the cost of a bench full of tickets.
