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When we add that in the prestissimo Tarantella of the ' third ' movement the orchestra showed a clue to the storm of intricate bizarreries , where the least deviation from truth would have involved audience aid themselves in hopeless entanglement , we award the htehest praise in our power , and we think it iustlv deserved . Another fine performance of a superb work was that of the Beethoven pianoforte coSto in C minor , played by Mr . Charles Halle , with orchestral accompaniment . The two firstjmovements are dreams of melody , the last a mechanical marvel both in playing and composition . Ihe soloist and the band so aply assisted each other that the warmest applause of the evening was awarded to tneir exertions . Signer BcUetti ' s solo Was cut out in consequence of the inordinate length of the works audience retained enthusiasm
iust named , but the enouffli to enjoy his fine voice in Rossmi s duet , " Bell' Immago , " from " Semiramide ; " and we of the back rows wondered that the Signor was figuring on no playbill Then followed Wieniawski again : for the ears of the fashionables want some ; tickling at lip m ., ^ vitll the prospect beforie them of a chorus from Spohr and Beethoven ' s overture to " Prometheus" And if such were the end , it was doubtless answered : for in his " Preghiera" he produced the most awfully doleful sounds ever extracted from a violin , and in the antithetical Polonaise winch followed seemed literally bent on whipping his fiddlestrings into a froth . The elegantly-dressed society began to disperse after the latter curiosity , and none , we apprehend , but the most ardent stayed through the Jessonda " chorus and the " Prometheans " too . MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS . It is a fact worth noting that the classical series of these entertainments is a success beyond the fondest anticipations of its projectors . Thanks to the excellence of the entertainment provided , the spirited manner in which the directors have given publicity to their doings , and the Cordiality shown by the press in enlightening the music-loving public upon the true merit of the undertaking , they are now as truly popular as those of our well-beloved Mons . . Tulien , though their clienielle is of a mightily different description . In the programme of the seventh concert appeared the following- announcement : —
"In answer to a great number of inquiries , the Directors of the Monday Popular Concerts beg to say that a selection from the vocal and instrumental compositions of Louis Spohr—a selection from the ancient and modern music ( vocal and instrumental ) of Italy—and a selection from the compositions of living English composers , will be included in the forthcoming arrangements . The directors have also the honour of stating that , in consequence of the success which has attended them , the concerts oh the new plan will be continued every Monday until further notice . "
But so thick and fast do throng the admirers of Mozart , Beethoven and Mendelssohn to the selections from those composers , that we may yet , we foresee , have to wait awhile for the Spohr , Palestrina , Rossini , Sterndalo Bennett , and Macfarren " evenings . " But sotheroisno falling off , we will not quarrel with the directors , because their public are not yet satiated with the delicacies already presented . " They have now no choice , " as our contemporary , The Musical World , has it , " and probably no wish but to proceed . They are helping to refine and elevate the public taste , while they put money in their pockets , and , at the same tinio , win for St . James ' s Hall the honour and consideration due to a classic temple of art . " On Monday next , at the ninth concert of the new series , there will bo given an entirely now selection from ihe works of Mendelssohn . ST . JAMKS ' S HALT * . —CHUISXY'S MINSTRELS . While Dr . Wylde and the sons of harmony were revelling in the glories of Glilck , BeethoYen , Spohr , and Rossini in the upper chamber of this temple of the muses , those children of night , or sable harmonists , thoChriaty ' s Minstrels , of whom , by a witty way of being in perfect keeping , their employers call themselves " proprietors , " were enjoying tho welcome of the fanatics who have missed them now somo months from London . Time lms . neither thinned their woolly hair , blanched their obony cheeks , taken mollownoss from their banjos , nor robbed their roportory of its mild and pleasing mixture of pathos and bathos . Tho programme of the evening included a number of the piccos that have delighted hosts of provincials in England , and oven tho state circlo at tho Tuilorios ; and , as usual , was productive of Intonso delight to tho many dieoiples of tho school who wero present . cnvsxAL rALAOia . Tho . revival oflhu wisely-abridged version of tho Antiyone ( i / 1 HnjihocUn , to which Mendelssohn applied ^ Bome of his .. happiest liifpiniftions , culls for a special report , To begin then : —The entertainment directors , whoever they i . iuy bo , of tho Crystal Palace , deserve considerable ) ihauks from their season
sviband imitator of his lordly master ' s elegancies . The ladies , of course , contribute their quota to aid the success of the piece , and swell the triumph of the principal performer , whose clever resuscitation of the poor Bean deserves more than a transient season of popularity , and will probably enjoy one .
scribers , and indeed from all Saturday , for having recognised the absurdity of univocal dramatic readings . Mr . JNJicholls , a gentleman of ability and cultivated taste , made a great impression * it is true , a while ago , by his reading of the . " GEdipus , " for all that , the allotment of the female characters to an actress , instead of an actor , seems , to our mind , a change for the better . Its popularity was at once attested by the large concourse of amateurs that overflowed the concert-room on Saturday , and hailed the performance with loud , repeated and genuine applause . With Mr . Nicholls , whose reading of his parts was characterised by the qualities we have attributed to him , was associated Miss Edith Heraud , a young tragedian of great and . now admitted talent ; and we never witnessed more genuine sensation than she created by her fine voice and beautifully impassioned delivery . Mendelssohn ' s nobly . simple choruses , expressing the emotions of the citizens , were impressively given by well-drilled vocalists ,. arid most ably accompanied by the Company ' s band . A degree of gratification was expressed by all persons of taste who were present , which , cannot fail to be cheering to the members of the direction , who as they are always abundantly censured for their shortcomings , certainly deserve public recognition of their successful efforts to amuse and instruct .
We are glad to learn that the issue of iickets for the Handel Festival goes on merrily . The subscription list fbr the commemoration of 1857 amounted , on the 17 th of June in that year to . £ 12 , 000 ; whereas on the 7 th of the present month , the sum received for admission to this year ' s jfete had reached the large sum of £ 1 , 300 . There is clearly , then , no time to be lost by those who would have seats in anything like an eligible position . OLYMPIC THEATRE . . Ose more has been added to the list of " real propertv " dramas by the complete success , on Monday evening , of Mr . Tom Taylor ' s ' " Nine Points of the Law , " a new and original comedietta , written with all the well-known polish of that accomplished author . The main incident is the subjugation and ultimate marriage by one 31 rs . Smylie ( Mrs . Stirling ) , a widow , Whom the opening of the piece finds "in possession . " ef a nice little property , of a capitalist , Air . Ironside ( Mr . Addison ) , who sets up a claim to it , in virtue of the usual codicil . To the personation of the interesting heroine of this simple plot Mrs . Stirling brings all the talent and grace for which she is renowned . By the humility of her submission to the blow , she first touches the
manufacturer , Who , with a stern exterior , has a tender heart , and is no man of the world . After a few rounds of female artillery , Mr . Addison , whose Ironside will long- be remembered in connexion with his name , yiefds not only his heart , but his estate . Mr , H . Wigan makes an admirable morgeau of Mr . Cuwiingame . ( Ironside ' s ^ attorney ) , who abandons his legal colours before the vivacious sallies of the fair defendant , nnd exposes tho weak parts of his client ' s attack . Miss Cottrell , as Kate Mapleson , the widow ' s niece , heightens the aspect of an unimportant part by her pretty face and singing ; and Mr . George Vining throws himself with such unnecessary ardour into the character of Rollinystone , a returned colonial adventurer , that instead of adding to the ensemble , he somewhat dislocates it . LYCEUM THEATRE ) . A histrionic commonwealth , if we are rightly informed , has been conducting tho management of this house during the last few days , and-to judge from , appearances in front , got on better behind the curtain than miglit bo imagined . They nave ployed , to the full approbations of good houses , " The Icing ' s Gardener , " a now and amusing piece dc circoiistancc , called "Household Words all tho Year Round , " in which Mr . Charles Young , aud Mr . Vimdenhoff take tlie lending parts with effect ; Mrs . Plancho ' s musical farce of tho " Welsh Girl , " the faroo of " Fortune ' s Prolic , " , lastly , a two net drama by Mr . Blnuoluvrd Jorrold , entitled " Beau Brumniel ; or , tho King of Calais , " being an adaptation of sonic passages in the well-known memoirs pi ' that famous individual , The period chosen for
illustration is the decline and lull of tho Benu . The scene is laid at Calais ' , during the passage of George IV . " when they were not on speaking terms j" and at Caen , were tlte curtain fell upon tho miserable wreck of fashion and form . As Brummol MY . Emory displayed to the best advantage that talent for " make up , " and tho delicate appreciation of refined touches of character , for which ho is sometimes so remarkable ; and was no loss warmly encouraged in tho first , or comic act , than during the strongly serious passages of the second . Mr . Ellorton played faidoro , tho " gentleman ' s gentleman , " with quiet taste and judgment . Messrs . G > Murray and JflUjamoa wore Kontlomanlikeall that tlioir purts demanded . Mr . ltogors was rathor comic and anaelironieally dressed , as Smalls , a May fair valet , whom he made look more like an attache to a modern racing stablo . than an inheritor
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The New Peers and Bauoxets . —( From the Gazette . ') The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passe . I unler the Great Seal , granting the : dignity of a baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the undermentioned gentlemen , and the : respective heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten : Colonel George Wyn & ham , of Petworth , in the county of Sussex , by the title of Bm-on Leconfield , of LcconflelJ , in the county of York ; William Tatton Egerton , Esq ., by the title of Baron Egerton , of Tatton , in the county of Chester ; Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan ,. Bart ., by the title of Baron Tredegar , of Tredegar , in the county of Monmouth . leased to direct
The Queen has also been p letters patent to be passad under the Great Seal , granting the dignity of a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the undermentioned gentlemen . ' and the respective heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten , viz . : — William Miles , of Leigh Court , in the county of Somerset , Esq . ; Edward Grogan , of Moyvore , in the county of Westmeath , Esq . ; John Neeld , of Grittleton , in the county of Wilts , Esq . ; John Henry Greville Smith , of Ashton Court , in the county of Somerset , Esq . ; George Stueley Stucley , of AfFeton Castle and Hartland Abbey , in the county of L > evon , Esq . ; Philip Duncpmbe Pauncefort Duncombe , of Great Brickhill Manor , in the county of
Bucks , Esq . The Sahibs and the People . —The Times correspondent says : — " With all our good intentions , with the best purposes , and the noblest aims , we ¦ have been continually offending the prejudices of the races of India by' honest though absurd attempts to rule them as if they were freeholders of Kent or yeonien of Lincoln . We have public works which thev- do not appreciate , while we . let their monuments , their tanks , their fountains , and their temples fall into decay . Our schools are regarded with suspicion , railways are yet unintelligible except within-a few miles of Bombay , Calcutta , and Cawnpore . We have seized upon a half-reducated , superstitious , haughty , anil sensual Norman of the 12 th century , and have insisted on dressing him in have Front de
the clothes , of the 19 th . We stopped Bcsuf from roasting his Jew ; we have sent him to school , taken away his armour , pulled down his castle , put an Albert coat , Wellington boots , and Dalhousic waistcoat on him , and then have wondered that the ' ungrateful' monster has sought to tear his garments , to beat his schoolmaster , and to kill his generous benefactor . He , in fact , does not believe we mean him well , because he lias observed that while we were saying it was all for his goodthat we wero just and equitable—that his castle was merelv removed as a nuisance , and that his armour was taken because it hurt him , certain understrap-i pors of ours were making faces at him , calling him names , stealing , his jewels , searching his wardrobes , and plundering'his Jow , Strangest of all , tho serfs of Front do Boouf whom we have emancipated do
not thank us , and side with him whenever they can Graves at Cawkpohe . — -I visited once more the scene of tlte terrible massacre whitoh will ever render the name of this city infamous . Of tho house ; not a vestige remains , except tho lines of the foundation walls . The well is surrounded by a rude strong paling of wood , the top being covered in with masonry . The simple , graceful , and affecting memorial rnlsed by some men of Her Majesty ' s S 2 d near the spot where the women and children of the regiment wero murdered is enclosed in the sumo way . The only addition to tho nmto records of the great crime which wns perpetrated here is a very handsome monumental slab of red stone , which
bears tho following inscription : —•• Sacred to the memory o'f t'ho womon und children of tho Into illfated 1 st Company , Cth Battalion Bengal Artillery , who were slaughtered near this spot by tho mutineers on tho lGth of July , 1837 . TJiis monument is ereotc-d by a non-commissioned officer who lonuoriy bolongodto tho 1 st Company , Oth Battalion—' fcnare thy people , & e .-Joel ii ., 17 . ' " The execution and design are most oreditablo to tho excellent soldier , whoever ho may be , who has thus marked the rustlnir-nluooof the wives mul ohlldron ot his hapless eomradS TUo grave of Blr William Peel lies far away from this spot , hi the little cometcry where his remain * . I trust , find but a temporary resting-place , if tho country would do honour to itself— tor never did braver sailor trend dock , nevox- did bolder soldier draw sword , never did loftier spirit live for honour , duty , and England , than William Peel . " — fimoa , .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 16, 1859, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16041859/page/21/
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