Solemn function in the Church of Mercy, in display of gratitude for the favours received of this Virgin among virgins and Mother of Jesus Christ. Barcelona is not the least of towns in showing its gratitude to this so sovereign intercessor, to whom it has turned on the various occasions when it has suffered epidemics of illness. Attendance is no worse than that at matins yesterday. Although not in as good condition as in other times, the boys choir still survives which sang praises to the Virgin at certain hours of the day, and if we say that it has degenerated, we do so because the religious community at whose expense the schools of solfege and singing attended by the choirboys were maintained has ceased to exist. These schools constituted, if we put it in this fashion, the city’s music conservatory, which if it did not produce great singers at least produced great solfegists. The memory of this establishment must be of fond memory to Barcelona’s philharmonics, it being desirable that the Philharmonic-Dramatic Lyceum of Her Majesty Queen Isabel II which has taken over its work have the skill and good management that the course being taken by the art requires, in order to produce results worthy of this country and of the teachers of the said establishment. If so God will reward it and if not he will want to know why.