The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-04 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL THE KING'S MOST E. The High Sheriff of the County, The Lord Lieut. of the County, The Chancellor of the Duchy, The Worshipful the Mayor of Li verpool, His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, Ms Grace the Duke of Buccleugh, His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, The Marquis of Salisbury, The Marquis of Westminster, The Marquis of Douglas, The Earl of Lincoln, The Earl of Stamford and War rington, The Earl of Liverpool. The Earl of Sefton, The Earl of Wilton, The Earl of Burlington, The Visconnt Combennere, The Lord Stanley, The Lord Grey of Groby, The Viscount Molyneux, M.P., The Viscount Sandon, M.P., The Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. The Lord Suffield, The Lord Lilford, The Lord Skelmersdale, The Lord Mostyn, The Right Hon. Edward G. S. Stanley, M.P., The Hon. R. B. Will-zaham The Right lion. Sir Robert Peel, Bart, M.P., The Right Hon. C. Poulett Thom son, M.P., The Hon. Henry Stanley, M.P„ Sir Henry Philip Hoghton, Bart., Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Eger ton, B:ra., M.P. Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart, M.P., Sir Thomas Stanley Massey Stan ley, Bart., Sir R. Williams Balkeley, Bart., M.P., Mr Richard Brooke, Bart., KCELLENT MAJESTY. AREi. Sir Edward Mostvn, Bart., Sir T. Dalrymple'llesketh , Bart., Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., M.P., Sir Robert Holt Leigh, Bart., Col. Plumbe Tempest, Ist Royal Lancashire, The Very Rev the Dean of Ches*r The Rev. the Warden of Man chester, William Bolling, Esq.. M.P.. W. Brocklehurst, Esq., M.P.. W. Brotherton, Esq., M.P.,. William Ewart, Esq., M.P., Wm. Feilden, Esq., M.P., R. Hesketh Fleetwood, Esq. M.P.. J. Fort, Esq., M.P., Thomas Greene, Esq.. M.P., J. 11. Lloyd, Esq.. M.P., J. Marsland, Esq., M.P, J, Wilson Patten, Esq. M. P. , Mark Phillips, Esq., R. Potter, Esq., v. P. , J. Ryle, Esq., M.P., P. M. Stewart, Esq., R. Thicknesse, Esq., M.P., Wm. Turner, Esq., M.P., George W. Wood, Esq„ M.P., The Rev. the Rectors of Liver pool. The Recorder of Liverpool, Nicholas Ashton, Esq., William Earle, Esq., William Brown, Esq.. Charles Lawrence, Lsq., George Case, Esq., Peter Whitfield Brancker, Esq. Thomas Molyneux, Esq.. John Bourne, Esq., CHAIRMAN OP THE COMMITTER. Rev. Jonathan Brooks, A.M., DEPUTY CIIAIRAIAX, William Earle, jun., Esq., PRINCIPAL VOCAL PIRFORMSR9. MADAME MALIBRAN, 'MISS MASSON, MISS CLAR.4. NOVELLO. AND MRS. W. KNYVETT ; MR. HOItNCASTLE, MR. SAPID, MR. E. TAYLOR, MR. MACHIN, AND MR. H. PHILLIPS. THE CHORUS, ruder the stmerintendence of Mr. G. Holden, will be complete. ac lacted from the Members of the Liverpool Festival Choral Society. with other efficient -Performers. INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMERS. LEADER OF THE BA. Principal Second Violins. Mows. C. Reeve and Anderson Aldridge, Aldridge, jun- Abbott, Barns, Bolton, Clough, Cramer, jun. Cummins, Ey ton. lLill, Jones, Kearns, Loder, juts. Marshall. Nicks, Pigott, Pigott, G. Stubbs, Slephenson. w, E. Thomas, Walker, White, Wright. LTencra. Mews. Mille and Daniels, Andrews. Cooper, Davis, Napier, Tailor, Wilton. Violoncellos. Mossrs. Lindley and Jackson, Beale, Davies, Serll tO7l, James. Sudlow. CONDUCTOR, SIR Who will presk lb which a Lcig Moveyrtent has ND, MR. F. CRAMER. folin, Mr. LODER. Double Basses. Messrs. Dragonetti and C. Smart. /1111, Tayleure. Flute.. Messrs. Nicholson and Brown. Octave Flute. Mr. Adams. Oki. Messrs. G. Cook and Hughes, Scruton, Smith. Clarioneto. Messrs. Willman and Tnakwell Bauoona. Messrs. Mackintosh and Tully, liallwood, Jones. Horns. Messrs. Platt and Rae. Schmidt, Thompson. Trumpets. Messrs. Harper and Hyde, Pretty.. Tromboni. Messrs. Smithies, Smithies, Jun. Edgar. Double Drum,. Mr. Chipp. GEORGE SMART, .e at the Organ, rn added by Mr. Gray, qf Landon' In redeeming our pledge to spare neither labour nor expense in giving the fullest possible account of the proceedings of this week of festivity and intellectual enjoyment, we cannot with hold our congratulations to the humane directors of the several charitable institutions of the town, upon the fact that the very heavy expenses attendant on the concentration of so much ta lent as the committee have brought together for the occasion, has every appearance, in the outset, of being compensated by a support which, in a pecuniary sense, will leave something con siderable for appropriation to the relief of the several classes of our suffering and destitute fellow-creatures, the amelioration of whose hard lot is the primary object of the establishment of these periodical festivals in this and other parts of the country. If anything can give a real zest to the pleasure derived by each class of visitors, according to their respective tastes, from the varied modes in which the committee have laboured to meet their wishes, it must be the conviction that each, by his contri bution of money for the immediate object of personal enjoy ment, is also contributing to the direct relief of his less fortu nate brethren; in administering relief from the depressing consequences of sickness and disease—in alleviating the mis fortunes of those who, from their birth, or by accident, are deprived of those faculties essential to their successful prosucu lion of the avocations of life—and in protecting the orphan and the helpless from the snares and dangers of the world, by sup. port i❑ their younger days; and by the inculcation of those sound principles of morality and religion, without which their after life would promise but little advantage to themselves or to society at large. With such direct objects, and the probable cttendant results upon the proceedings of the week, he must be over-scrupulous who, whatever the natural bent of his mind, should find fault with any part of those proceedings,—various though they be in their character, but all of them strictly inno cent—which the committee have arranged for the gratification of the public taste. . _ _ With this our sincere view of the question, we have not re garded without interest the preparations which have been making, for some time past, for the accommodation of the influx of visiters who are disposed to grace by their presence the assemblage, and aid by their liberality the objects which have induced the managers to provide a series of musical enter tainments of the highest order that taste and money can com mand, and by which the pleasures of the rich are, as we have in effect just observed, rendered subservient to the necessities of the poor. Nor are we disappointed in our expectations that, whilst the inhabitants of the town of Liverpool are contributing freely and liberally to the expenditure, it is supported by all that is noble and wealthy in the neighbourhood, whether of this or the adjoining counties. As might be expected, the trades men connected wide fashion have made great exertions to supply the possible, or probable wants of their customers, ample evidence of which is to be seen in all the shops from the Town hall through Castle-street, Lord-street, and Church-street, to the upper extremity of Bold-street—which may be designated as the Piccadilly, Regent-street, Oxford-street, and Bond-street of Liverpool—most of them displaying rich assortments of ma terials for making new court, ball, or fancy dresses, or those articles ready-made to arm the brave and the fair for mutual destruction. The shops thus profusely filled called out daily a host of pedestrians, some 4 to purchase and others to admire those death-dealing instruments—those adjuncts of beauty, flowers, feathers, gauzes, laces, ribbons, and jewellery,—giving to the, streets an unusual degree of bustle and activity. We should not be doing justice to the indefatigable exertions of the committee, if we did not notice the success which has at tended as well their endeavours to cater for the taste of the pub lic, in the assemblage of high musical talent which has been brought together, as the judicious arrangements which have been made in the important requisite of enabling that public to avail themselves of the enjoyment with the least possible degree of inconvenience. Having, in our former publication, added to the publicity wnich was necessary to give effect to those arrange ments, we may now proceed to notice, in the order of their oc currence, the various entertainments. MONDAY. We are limited, under this title, to the mentiott of the ball at the Wellington-rooms, which was initiatory to the other festivi ties of the week. At niac o'clock the company began to as semble, and from that hour until eleven, parties of from two to six followed each other in rapid succession, when the rooms were supposed to contain about six hundred persons, chiefly of the beauty and fashion of Liverpool and its environs. At this time the ball-room, illuminated by its brilliant chandeliers, to. gether with the other rooms of this fine suite, presented a scene of gaiety and animation that we have seldom seen exceeded. Here " the witches" shone forth in all the splendour of their charms ; and, as if nature had not done her part to make them irresistible, " the foreign aid of ornament" was not forgotten. We could not help feeling, in some instances, a strong inclina tion to remind them of the folly of attempting " to paint the lily or perfume the violet." About ten o'clock, what we should call the business of the night,—were not pleisure the object of All present,—was commenced by a set of quadrilles, followed by waltzes, and succeeded by quadrille parties throughout• the ,room. The dancing was kept up, in all its spirit and variety, until a late hour on Tuesday morning. The music was under the direction of Messrs. Litolff and Adanb, of London; and the refreshments wero provided by Ilcsurs. Lynn and Radley. Among the company present we noticed the Hon. My. and Miss Stanley; Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Patten ; and other famaies resident in the town and neighbour- TUESDAY The neighbourhood of St. Peter's Church was, at an early hour of this day, crowded with those who had obtained tickets of admission, and with others who contented themselves with a sight of the company going to and from it, and with hearing the sounds that could not be confined within the walls of that sacred edifice: The upper rooms of the houses immediately adjacent to the church were also crowded with well dressed vi sitors;—these had, perhaps, in some reFpects, an advantage over those who -were on the inside of that building, in hearing the magnificent swells of the organ and the vocal choir, when ac companied by the trumpets, trombones, and drums, softened, by the distance, into a more perfect harmony. The doors were opened at half-past nine o'clock, and shortly after ten the church was nearly filled. At eleven the Mayor, preceded by his official servants bearing the insignia of his ma gisterial dignity, and accompanied by Mr. Bailiff Gladstone and other members of the body corporate, entered the church, when the service commenced . with Battishal's anthem, "Behold, how good and joyful a thing it is, brethren, to dwell together in unity," which was snug by Mrs. Knyvctt, Miss Clara No , vello, Miss Masson, Messrs. Horncastle and Taylor, and cho rus. The execution of this piece did not strike us as peculiarly excellent. The "Venite" and Psalms for the day were beauti fully chaunted; and the effect produced by the introduction of the trumpets, trombones, and drums, as an accompaniment to the Doxologies, equalled in grandeur any thing of the kind that we have ever listened to. After the third collect, Croft's an them, "0 Lord, thou hast searched me out," was given by Miss Masson, Ilorncastle and Machin—the solo Whither shall I go then from thy spirit, Or whither shall Igo then from thy presence ; If I climb up into heaven thou art there, If I go down intdhell thou art there also ; ICI take the wings of the morning And remain in the uttermost parts of the sea"— was sweetly executed by Norucastle, and the concluding verse " Ev'n there also shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me," sung as a trio, is entitled to the same remark. Before the sermon Green's anthem " God is our hope," was performed by Mrs. W. Knyvett, the Misses Novelle. and Masson, and Messrs. Horpcastle s H. Phillips and Taylor, and chorus. This composition opens with a grand chorus "God is our hope andstrength, A very present help in trouble ; Therefore we will not fear, Tho' the earth tremble, Tho' the mountains shake, And the waters rage and swell." The music of which finely describes the three last lines Tho' the earth tremble, Tho' the mountains shake, And the waters rage and swell." The service for the day was read by the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, one of the rectors of Liverpool, and at twenty-five mi nutes past twelve the Rev. H. I. Gunning, A.M., Rector of Wigan, ascended the pulpit. The reverend gentleman's text was from St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians, Bth chapter, and 2d and 3d verses,—" For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power, they were willing of themselves, pray ing us, with much intreaty, that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering unto the saints." After directing the attention of his auditors to the example set them by the church of Corinth, in the exercise of charity, in his exordium, and in enforcing the duty incumbent upon each member of Christ's church to be zealous in the exercise of charity, as conducing to the glory of God, he proceeded to notice, more particularly, some of the charities they were then assembled to support. First, the Infirmary, as bringing within the reach of the poor all the advantages of medical skill and prompt attention to their accidental misfortunes or bodily dis eases that the rich could command ; secondly, .the Dispensaries, as affording to the poor a ready access to good professional ad vice and assistance at their own dwellings; thirdly, the Ladies' Charity, for assisting poor married women during the period of their confinement, which, while it diminished some of their agony, restored them more speedily to health and to the exer cise of those active duties which the support of their families required. In speaking of the School for the Blind, the reverend divine observed, that the Saviour of the world had, during his mission on earth, made, on many occasions, the blind especial objects of his compassion and bounty; and though it was not permitted them to restore their bodily, still they possessed the means of illuminating their mental vision, by teaching them to discover the light of truth. In supporting the Deaf and Dumb, we were also following the precepts of the Au thor of our religion, who had made " the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak." The reverend gentleman next proceeded to notice the Blue-coat School, and made some excellent general remarks on the great and primary importance of watching, with great care and vigilance, the education of our infant popu lation, as affecting, both in a religious and moral point of view, the most important interests of the state. Surely, he observed, those wk are blessed with children of their own, who know, as parents, the wants of children, needed no appeal from him on their behalf. On the subject of charity generally he said, that it was not his.wish or intention to excite their feelings to a temporary exercise of this most truly Christian virtue, but the best grounds that he could advance for a steady continuance in it was, thatit conveyed to the throne of mercy the gratitude of the rich for the blessings they enjoyed. Ile would say, "If thou bast much, give p lenteously; if thou host little, give of that little ;" for God compares what has been given with what is left behind. If God has given us the means of providing for our little ones, it is snore imperative upon us to provide for other little ones. To the poorer of his hearers he would say, that the widow's mite was accounted in the treasury of Heaven a more splendid bequest than the donations of the rich; and to all—to both rich and poor, he would say, " give as you may wish to give when the power of giving is about to be taken from you;" " give in faith, and thou shalt be justified;" and he humbly trusted that, on this occasion, an abler—a more than human advocate would plead within their bosoms. At the close of the sermon, Mozart's requiem, " Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini," was sung by Madam Malibran, Miss Masson, Signor Danzclli, and Mr. H. Phillips. A collec tion was made at the doors of the church, the plates being held by the Hon. Mrs. Fraser, the Hon. Miss Stanley, the Mayoress of Liverpool, Mrs. 'William Patten, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Earle. Among the strangers present at the church, we observed Lord and Lady Lilford, Sir Thomas and Lady Nlostyn, Sir Francis Vincent, Mr. Ewart, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Patten, the Hon. Miss Stanley, the Hon. Mrs. Fraser, Miss Hopwood, Mr. Henry Stanley, Mr. Hulton, Mr. Entwistle, &c. &c. The amount collected at the doors exceeded £l3O, in addition to the price of the tickets of admission, which were charged half-a-crown each ; and we should observe that no person was permitted to enter the church without having first paid for one of these passports. THE FIRST CONCERT. The Amphitheatre was the ground on which the great Music Marshal, Sir George Smart, arranged his forces, vocal and in strumental, for the purpose of subduing our souls by the " con cord of sweet sounds," and easing our pockets of all and sundry superfluous half-guineas that might have found a temporary abiding place therein. Of all his contemporaries, the fame of Sir George has been built upon the most extraordinary founda tion; for, destitute of any eminence either as a composer or in strumental performer, he has raised himself to perhaps the head of his profession by his admirable tact in selecting and arranging musical entertainments, and by his great success as a teacher of vocal and instrumental music. With Sir George Smart then as the presiding genius, and such choice spirits as Madame Malibran, Mrs. W. Knyvett, Horncastle, Sapio, H. Phillips, and Donzelli in the vocal, and Lindley, P. Cramer, De Beriot, Nicholson, Harper, and Dragonetti as performers in the in strumental band, we were prepared to expect great things from -their suited efforts. How -far oar hopes have been or- will be realized, be patient, reader, and thou shalt know. An orchestra was formed on the stage, " neat in conception," and brilliantly illuminated with handsome gas chandeliers. — By adding the lobby under the boxes to the pit, an extended range of seats was prepared ; these were all covered with red baize, and the space allotted to each visitor was indicated by numbers attached to the benches. The whole of this part of the house was reserved, and the right of admission to it was acquired by the infallible " Vote by ballot system," which, however it may operate in elections of graver importance, suc ceeded on the present occasion in giving satisfaction to all parties. A short time before the commencement of the Con cert, the company began to assemble, and continued to arrive, until the greatest number that the pit would contain had taken their allotted places. At this period it presented to the eye an animating and beautiful picture. The fo..vls of the air, the flower garden, and the mines of Golconda, severally con tributed plumes of feathers, wreaths of flowers, (for imita tion) and precious stones, to decorate the fair, who far out numbered, perhaps quadrupled, the other sex. We think it necessary to qualify this statement, because it may have arisen from our inability to pay much attention to any other object than woman in all her loveliness; and who so stoical as to con demn us, with such an array of youth and beauty before our eyes ? Turn we now to the Concert, which opened with " Mo zart's Grand Sinfonia," (Jupiter;) a piece full of beauties, and brilliantly executed, but so intolerably lengthy that it almost exhausted our patience. We question much whether the atten tion of any, but an exclusively professional audience can be kept alive by an instrumental piece of music that consumes twenty-five minutes of " precious time." When this affair was brought to a conclusion, the members of " The Liverpool Fes tival Choral Society," amounting to twenty-two or three in number, advanced to the front of the orchestra and gang— •' All creatures now are merry -minded. The shepherds' daughters playing.) The nymphs are fa-la-laing. Yon bugle was well winded. At Oriana's presence each thing smileth-: The flowers themselves discover, Birds over her do hover. Music the time beguileth. See where she comes with flowery garlands crowned, Queen of all queens renowned Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana, ' Lang live fair Onana t ' " This tine madrigal, from " The Triumphs of Oriana," was com posed by John Beget, and ia as ancient as the year 15! , 8. We regret that we are obliged to say that cur Liverpool choristers were somewhat out of tune, and did not execute, perhaps we ought to say, that they did execute the author's composition. 'ro make amends for this disappointment, for we hoped for better things from the musical talent of the town, Taylor gave Der .ilpeu Jager with great spirit—the accompaniment to this air 'is exceedingly beautiful. Miss Clara Novello's air (a la Tyrolienue), " w'er hill and dale," composed expressly for Ler, was encored. Now this species of compliment is not always th e best test of excellence—all that we can say of the thing is, that it is a pretty little thing, sung prettily, by a pretty little girl. Donzelli's Aria, "Ah ! si per voi," from Rossini's Otello, was, as it deserved to be, loudly applauded: and the same meed of praise was as deservedly decreed to Horneastle in Blewitt's prize composition " When crown'd with summer roar's, Hope and pleasure lead along, Through meads of sun-lit beauty, All that's bright and sweet in song: Though others may he fairer, Thou alone art dear to me ; As to the lark is sun-rise, Or the blossom to the bee. When crown'd, &c. Does sorrow o'er thy pathway Its darkling shadow fling? Has cold neglect to winter Turn'd thy bosom's leafy spring l In sorrow, as in gladness, Thou alone art dear to me ; As sunshine to the swallow, Or the blossom to the bee. When crown'd, &c." This piece was followed by Madame Malibran in " Recit. ed Aria," " Non pin di flori'' (La Clemenza di Tito), Mozart, with a Basetto Obligato ou the clarionet, by Mr. Willman, the rich tones of whose instrument in the accompaniment produced a fine effect. We imagine this will be considered as the best of the Italian pieces at this night's performance. Mr. IL Phillips, who may perhaps be considered as the best English singer of his day—for Braham has past the meridian of his fame—introduced one of his own compositions : 77 - • My heatt's in the highlands, my heart is not here, - My heart's in the Highlands, a chasing the deer! • Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go. All hail to the Highlands, all hail to the north l The birth-place of valour, the country of worth t- Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love. My heart's in the Highlands, &e. Farewell to the mountains, high cover'd with snow. Farewell to the smiths and green valleys below ; Adieu to the forests and high-hanging woods, Adieu to the torrents and loud-pouring floods. Adieu for a while, I can ne'er forget thee ! The land of my fathers, the soil of the free ! I sigh for the hour,that shall bid me retrace The path of my childhood, my own native place. Aly heart's in the Highlands, &c. The deep, full-toned, noble voice of Phillips is too well known to the lovers of music to require any thing like a description from our pen. Suffice it to say that he has been very success ful in this composition, and that his execution of it was so happy that an encore was called for by the audience, and obeyed. In the second act, Mrs. W. Knyvett sang the Recitative, " First and Chief, on Golden Wing," and the air " Sweet bird ! that shunn'st the noise of fully, Most musical, most melancholy Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song," from " I 1 Penseroso," by Handel, accompanied on the flute by Nicholson. No one with ears or souls in the slightest degree attuned to music could have heard unmoved this combination of excellence, containing at once the poetry of Milton, the mu sic of Handel, the flute of Nicholson, and the sweet warblings of Mrs. Knyvett's voice. In listening to this melodious strain, we could not help exclaiming—this is music ! Sapio's " 0! 'tis a glorions sight to see !" was a decided failure; and Miss Masson, in " Che Faro," was equally unfor tunate. She may be more successful in the other work that is cut out for her, but at present we do not think much of her pre tensions to stand in the foremost rank of her profession. Madame Malibran's " Provencal airs," accompanied by her self on the piano, were sang with such a delightful playfulness and pathos that we were almost tempted to wish that she would sing nothing else. We shall dismiss the other vocal pieces by simply observing that they do not require any particular or lengthened commentary from us. In the course of the first part the veteran Lindley gave us one of his solos on his violoncello, an instrument that he has so completely made his own, that any thing like competition with hires is quite out of the question. His full, rich, and melo dious strains, and graceful and delicate execution, convey to the mind .the most pleasing sensations, unallolt ed by any thing like surprise or wonder : and we are inclined to think that these are calculated to convey more lasting impressions than the im passioned efforts of the almost super-human Paganini. We apply the same observations to the solo of De Baia an the violin;—had we never heard or seen Paganini, we should have thought it almost impossible for any one to excel him on that instrument. _ . The arrangements fur the arrival and departure of the com pany were exceedingly good. Constables were in attendance at the outside of the house to preserve order, and that this might be more effectually done, a strong wooden barrier in the front of the theatre was erected so as to preserve an easy access for the carriages, and keep the by-standers out of the way, and out of danger from them. WEDNESDAY. The portion of the week's festivities allotted to this day was restricted to the first of three oratorios, which was given at St. Luke's Church, one of the finest specimens of modern archi tecture in the county. The splendour of the day, one of the most delightful which this usually fine month could give us, added much to the gaiety of the scene externally, and contributed doubtless to the pleasure of those more immediately engaged within the walls of the sacred edifice. The western extremity was appropriated to the orchestra, with the aid of the beautiful organ of the church, under the hand of Sir George Smart. The side galleries were arranged for the occasion; and these last, as well as a considerable portion of the eastern part of the body of the church, were appropriated to those who had taken tickets for reserved seats, the occupation of which was decided by ballot, in the manner already spoken of with reference to the ar rangements for the concert. The extreme part of the church, ex tending to the east window, over the communion table, was fitted up with a temporary gallery, sufficiently graduated in its elevation to command a good view of the body, the orchestra, and a consi derable portion of the galleries. This particular part of the ar rangement was designatedthe " Stewards' gallery," filled, doubt less, by their families and immediate friends. The unreserved seats occupied something less than half the body of the church, at the west-end, under, and immediately in front of the or chestra and the western extremities of the side-galleries. At the period of the commencement of the Oratorio (eleven o'clock,) the tout ensemble was very striking, filled, as the church was, by the elite. of Liverpool and its vicinity. The performance consisted of three parts, embracing a good selec tion from the works of Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Frederick Schneider, Rossini, Haydn, and other composers. The Ora torio was opened by the first, chorus of " The Dcttingen Te Deum," the solo by Miss Masson. After a recitation and air from Handel's " Redemption," by Mr. Machin, which does not call for any particular notice, Miss Clara Novello sang " The Infant's Prayer," composed by her father, Mr. Vincent Novello, a man of whom it is only justice to say, that he has done more to arrange and perfect sacred music than almost any man of modern days. No better evidence can heafforded . of the purity of his taste for sacred melody than the' piece to which we now allude ; a compound of beauty and simplicity, which has not been often excelled. Nor was the execution at all inferior to the composition; and we think it would hare been difficult to have given the piece in a more chaste and ap propriate manner. We subjoin the whole, as a specimen of fine psalmody, for such it must be considered : RIICIT. "At early (lawn an infant's voice • Broke sweetly on the breeze ; Its beating heart with fervour glowed. Its hands were join't, its eyes were ratio& And bent were its little knees. " Father above, my anxious prayer Would fain to thee, 0 Lord, ascend ; Oh, deign to hear my feeble voice, My Father, God, and Friend. •• 0 thou who suffered little ones To approach thy sacred knee, Look down on those whose tender ears. Are imitating thee. Maylength of days, with honour erowu'd. On earth their happy portion be ; And smiling cherubs whisper peace, When death their souls sets free." We pass over two pieces of minor moment to reach a Scene from Dr. Callcott, the poetry by Thomas Campbell, which is evidently founded upon that extraordinary production of Mrs. Shelley, "The Last Man ;" and was given by Mr. Phillips with great spirit. Into the concluding portion which follows, he especially infused every thing which could have boon hoped for when it was written : " Go, Sun, while mercy holds me up On nature's awful waste To drink this last and bitter cup Of grief that man shall taste— Go, tell the night that hides thy face. Thou saw'st the last of Adam's race. On earth's sepulchral clod. The dark'ning universe defy To quench his immortality, Or shake his trust in God !" To this succeeded one of those beautiful morsels of Handel, which, as long as a taste for music exists, must be listened "to with - admiration. when given with propr effett--:-" Let the Bright Seraphim," by Mrs. W. Knyvett, with _an obligato accompaniment on the trumpet by Mr. Harper. When we remember the pleasure with which we have listened to this air ia "years gone past," from the mouth of this charming song stress, we may be excused if, trusting to the more vivid recol lections of former days, we say that we think we have heard her execute it better. Far be it from us, however, to speak of the present as any other than a superlative Performance ; in which opinion we are convinced we shall be joined by a great majority of those who heard it. At this period a momentary alarm took place in one of the galleries, in consequence of a slight cracking proceeding from one or two of the supports which were carried up against the wall to sustain the upper part of the gallery. A flooring was constructed three or four inches above the regular pavement of the church, upon' which the supports in question rested. The pressure above forced the lower extremities of these supports through the raised flooring, and they sunk an inch or two ; but not the slightest accident occurred. A disposition to quit the gallery was manifested for a momgnt; bet a considerable num ber of the persons who were there remained, on the assurance of the remaining part of the company that there was no danger. It is a proper compliment to the fair sex to observe, that they stood their ground—shall we say manfully ?—whilst some of the other sex, who ought to have set a better example, were making a precipitate flight. If our eyes did not deceive us, and we wish they bad, we saw one gentleman with hurried strides going in the direction of the staircase—forgetting, perhaps, that the fe male members of his family were at his side when the alarm was given, and still coolly retained their places. The Rev. Jonathan Brooks, Chairman of the Committee, with a coolness and judg ment highly creditable to him, explained in a few words the cause of the alarm, and assured the company that there was not any ground for fear; but in order perfectly to restore confidence, he proposed that the interval to be allowed after the first part should be taken at that time ; during which period the carpen ters placed additional supports under the gallery; and after a lapse of three-quarters of an hour the performance was renewed; the remaining portion of the first part and the whole of the se cond being given in continuation. Mr. Horneastle sang the following air from the " Athalia" of Handel:— "'Gentle airs, melodious strains, Call for raptures out of woe ; Lull the regal mourner's pains, Sweetly soothe her as yOu tiow." To which ho did every possible justice. Its effect was greatly heightened by Mr. Lindley's accompaniment on the violon cello, of which it must be needless for us to speak. Madame Malibran followed with a recitation and air from "11 sacrificio d'Abramo." Into the air, • " Deh parlate, che forge tacendo Men pietwi, piu barbari Ah r'intendo ; tacete tacete, Non mi dite che it figlio mori. So che spira quell' ostia si cara; Veggo it sangue che tingue quell' ara ; Sento ii ferro che it sen lo feri." she threw all the spirit of the author, Cimarosa. The second part consisted chiefly of selections from Fre derick Schneider's Oratorio of " The Deluge," translated from the German by Mr. E. Taylor, who opened it in a solo of some merit. Mr. Phillips followed in a recitation and air, which, with the exception of the second and third verses of the latter, " Uncontroll'd, the angry billows Of the swelling, mighty deep Overleap the lofty forests, Climb the mountain's topmost steep. " Heaven's vast cisterns are outpouring. Day is changed to midnight gloom: Sons of earth, your race is ended I Death has swept you to the tomb!" was deficient in what we might have expected from him. The chorus to this was very well done. The words, it will be seen, were susceptible,of good choral effect. " Sing Jehovah, our Redeemer, Him extol, Lord most high ; Roll ye mighty waves around us, Vain your fury—God is nigh." The next piece was a quintet by Madame Malibran, - Mrs. W. Knyvett, Miss C. Novello, Miss Masson, and Mr. Horncastle. Its execution was defective, from the absence of that perfect harmonizing in the voices, which, from the individual talent of the several singers, we should have expected. This was reme died in the succeeding trio by Miss C. Novelle), Mr. Horn castle, and Mr. E. Maylor, beginning, " O'er, the mighty waters Speeds the welcome dove ; See the branch she beareth, Pledge of grace and love." This was the last of the selections from Schneider's "Deluge," and was followed by Madame illalibrau in a beautiful air from Haydn: _ . _ "Lo arrayed in beauty, With verdure smiling, How nature rears her lovely head t Blooming around us, Earth's sweetest flowers Their lovely hues and balmy odours spread which was given with - a delicacy and expression that drew forth the silent admiration of the listeners, most suitable to the place in which they were assembled. The remaining pieces of the second part consisted of a prayer from Rossini's " Moses in Egypt," in solos and quartets, the latter of which were in per fect harmony ;—a recitative and air from Handel's " Samson," where Miss Masson gave evidence of the adaptation of her voice to sacred music, in the two lines composing the air, " Return, 0 God of Hosts ! Behold thy servant in distress." Attwood's coronation anthem closed this part. The third part was opened by a chorus from Handel's " Solomon;" and an air by Madame Malibran from his " Re demption," consisting of those two beautiful verses, the first of them taken from the 4th chapter of Revelation : " Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty I who was, and is, and is to come. " Who shall not glorify thy name ? for TIIOU art holy 1 THOU only art the Lord." We may say without reserve, that the merit of superior singing through the whole of this Oratorio belongs to these two verses. We should think that it would be almost impossible for the hunian voice to give greater effect to words than Malibran did to these ; and such, we believe, was the universal opinion. If, i❑ some of our remarks above, we have inclined to think Mr. Sapio had failed in his efforts, we are equally ready to say that he redeemed his character, even immediately after Madame Malibran's last mentioned splendid morceau, in the following recitation and air from llaydn's "Creation :" SUPPLEMENT LIVERPOOL STANI)ARD. RECITATION. " And God created man in his own image. In the image of God cre ated he him ; male and female created he them. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. AIR. •' In native worth and honour clad, With beauty, courage, strength adorn'd, To heaven erect and tall he stands A man, The Lord and King of nature all. The large and arched front sublime Of wisdom deep declares the scat, And in his eyes with brightness shines The soul, The breath and image of his God, With fondness leans upon his breast, The partner for him form'd, A woman, fair and graceful spouse, Her softly smiling virgin looks, Of flow'ry spring the mirror, Bespeak him love, and joy, and bliss." It was sung with Much taste and spirit throughout. The same may be said of the following duetto from Marcello, which was beautifully harmonized by Madame Malibran and Mrs. W. Kuyvettz-- Qual andante cervo che fusge Da Seri veltri, e cerca it fonte In cui s'estingua sua sete ardente ; Tali son io, che da' crudeli nemici inlet Sempre inseguito, vo sospirando, Per mio ristoro Prig() soccorso di to mio Dio ! I loro piedi mai muoren passo, Veloce tanto, the quando trattasi, sangue spargersi deg,Pinnocenti." The conclusion of this part, and of the Oratorio, was a selection from Handers " Israel in Egypt," opening with a double chorus and chorus taken from the 9th and 10th chapters of Exodus : " He gave them hailstones for rain ; Fire mingled with hail Ran along the ground. cnours. He sent a thick darkness over all the land, Even darkness that might be felt." These were given with all the effect. that Handel himself could have desired, both vocally and instrumentally. The only por tions remaining to be noticed from this selection are the follow ing duet by Mr. H. Phillips and Mr. Machin,—which, if not superior, was far above mediocrity as a piece of harmony,— " The Lord is a man of war, The Lord is his name ; Pharaoh's chariots and his host Hath he cast into the sea; His chosen captains also Are drowned in the Red Sea ;" and the solo by Madame Malibran, " Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously, The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea ;" which afforded an opportunity for a display of the flue powers of voice possessed by that lady, of which she availed herself most fully. The attendant chorus, " The Lord shall reign for ever and ever." DOUBLE moans. " I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously, The horse and his rider 'lath he thrown into the sea ;" into which was thrown the whole power of the orchestra, termi nating the first Oratotio of the Festival. We will not say that the musical talent displayed on this occasion was the highest to which we have ever listened. Much of it was of that character • and all was respectable. Other opportunities remain during the week" for correcting our opinions, and doing justice to merit, which we shall not fail to do, whenever it may present itself. THURSDAY The performances at St. Luke's Church on the morning of this day, were exclusively confined to Handel's sacred oratorio of "The Messiah," with additional accompaniments by Mozart. Any critical remarks on a work So well known and so justly popular would be a task of supererogation, and it is therefore our intention to confine our observations to the manner in which this oratorio was executed on the present occasion. The Overture requires no other observation than that it a•as " passably good," by which phrase we mean, that we found nothing particularly striking either for praise or condemnation. The opening recitative, " Comfort ye my People," and the air, " Every valley shall be exalted," by Sapio, painfully reminded us that we have heard those beautiful pieces sung by Brabant, and we are,—in the, we had almost said, bitterness of our disap pointment,—querulous enough to ask, why was he not there ? If first-rate talent could be procured, why - has - a festival so liberally supported as this, been deprived of the assistance of this first-rate singer of Handel's music 9 Sapio's performance of this piece was, to say the best of it, ordinary and feeble. The recitative, " Behold ! a virgin shall conceive and bear a son," and the air " 0 thou that tellest glad tidings to Zion," were sweetly sung by Miss Masson; and the chorus was ex ceedingly good. The well-known chorus, " For unto us a child is born," was admirably performed. In this piece we have the language of the prophetic poet almost graphically described by the sublime strains of Handel; who, were his works confined to this piece, the Pastoral Symphony, and the Hallelujah Chorus, would have done sufficient to have rendered his name immortal. In the first of these pieces we discover the consummate art of the com poser, who has caused the congratulatory strain, " For unto us a child is born," to proceed as it were from groups of angels, whom the author has imagined to be hovering in the air to an- nounce the " glad tidings" to fallen man. These remarks are, we admit, a departure from our original intention of confining our observations to the performances, rather than to Handel as the author; and, to return to this part of our duty we have only to add, that our readers have to thank the orchestra for leading us into this digression. Suffice it to say in conclusion, that we were delighted, ancrfhat we do not think that Handel himself would have been displeased. The air " Rejoice greatly," by Madame Malibran, was altogether a failure. She did not, at least so it appeared to us, understand her author, in this particular instance, and her voice and style of singing are not calculated for this species of music. " Come unto nie, all ye that labour,"—by - Mrs. W: Knyvett, was sung beautifully. Her clear melodious voice and delicate execution appeal to the feelings—she neitherrequires nor resorts to meretricious ornaments, she relies entirely upon the simple melody of her author, in this, as well as in " But thou didst not leave his soul in hell." The semi-chorus by the principal performers, followed by the full chorus, in that inspir ing piece Lift up your heads, oye gates," was among the best performances of the day, aml we must not omit to notice Miss Clara Novello's " How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things," as being very chastely and delicately sang. At a more mature age we expect better things from this young lady. Mr. H. Phillips gave that splendid air " Why do the nations so furiously rage together? " in his usual style of excellence ; in this as well as in "The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light," the deep and rich tones of his voice were heard to great advantage, as also in "Behold! I tell you a mystery." In the air "The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed," he was accompanied by Mr. Harper, on the trum pet, whose clear and full-sounding notes admirably corres ponded with those of the singer. Perhaps the best solo by either of the female vocalists was "I know that my redeemer liveth," by Mrs. W. Knyvett; in the concluding words of the last passage, " For now is Christ risen from the dead, and be come the first fruits of them that sleep," her voice is softened down to the most delicate cadence, and the word " sleep " is uttered at once so distinctly and yet so softly, as to sound like the breathing of music in its sweetest lullaby. • The choruses were all finely executed and harmoniously ar ranged. The " Hallelujah" was repeated on a signal from the Steward's gallery, in obedience to the wishes of the audience— as was also the concluding grand chorus, " Worthy is the Lamb that was slain." These are truly sublime strains, that elevate the mind to a temporary forgetfulness of all terra's' things—they contain a rich strain of melody that convey to the mind an idea, however faint, of the homage due to the Saviour of the human race. In the last, more especially, the vocal and. instrumental bands were so admirably harmonized, that they sounded like one mighty instrument sending forth a rich stream of melodious sounds in praise of him whose mission on earth was to proclaim " peace and good will to mankind." From an early hour to the conclusion of the Oratorio all the approaches to St. Luke's Church were crowded with bystanders, and the houses with well-dressed women, attracted thither to see the company, and to the credit of the police be it spoken that up to the present hour no accident has occurred or robbery taken place that we have heard of. The interior of the church pre sented an appearance equally gay with that of the former days, and we have every reason to believe that the performances have given general satisfaction. Fortunately the weather has con tinued most propitious and has no doubt added considerably to the number of strangers who are temporarily congregated in this town. The evening's entertainment was a Concert, which gave a promise that was not disappointed. The house was crowded to excess in all its parts, and the coup-d'ceil was as beautiful as an assemblage of handsome and elegantly dressed women, — who, as at the former Concert, constituted the majority of the whole number—could make it. The Concert was opened by a Grand Sinfonia in D, by Beethoven, in which we were in some respects disappointed, particularly in the early part of it, which wanted the energy that we have heard thrown into the same piece elsewhere. We are not sure that the roof over the stage was constructed in the man ner best calculated to convey the sound into the house, or it may be, our position was not the most favourable; of force, in the orchestral arrangement of instruments, we are convinced there was sufficient. Bishop's Glee, " Blow Gentle Gales," was the first vocal piece, moderately executed by Miss C. Novello, Miss Masson, and Messrs. Sapio, Horneastle, and E. Taylor. Of the next, "The Tempest," sung by Mr. Machin, we would rather not speak ; but we have no hesitation iu express ing a most favourable opinion of its successor, " Le songe de Tartini," by Madame Malibran, accompanied by her self on the piano forte, with violini obligato by M. De Beriot. This singular production, which is elsewhere known as the Devil's Fugue, requires considerable powers of execution both in the air and the accompaniment. The latter is at the will of the performer, and the discretion was safely vested in the hands of M. De Beriot. The singer also well executed her part, in tastefully seizing and dwelling upon the ca dences. The idea and presumed effect of the strain on the fancy of the sleeper is well sustained in the three verses of which it consists.— " Je crois encore et le voir et Pentendre, Ii etait la debout a mon chevet ; Co n'est qu'un songe, et pourtact je roux rendre Les sons hardite de l'infernal archet. Antis, faites silence ! J'ai retenu ehaque cadence, Voila comme le Diable prelude— C'est vela, c'est vela, c'est vela. Pour l'ecouter respirais a peine, Car it peignait au are de Ines desire Ces feux d'amour qtal cause tent de peine. Et ces tourmens qui sont taut de plaisirs. Arnie, faites silence ! J'ai retenu chaque cadence, Voila comme le Diable module— C'est eels, &c. Puis tout-a-coup deployant son geni#. Il Mehra la gloire des vainqucure ; Et de sea chants la sublime harmonic .Doit entlammer tons les ernurs. Antis, faites silence ! • • J'ai retenu cfiaque cadetiak • Voilacomme is Diable termina-- C'est vela, &e. An air in the ballad style, by Mr. Sapio, " Annot Lyle," i f no t a failure, was sufficiently unequal and tatne to excite but little interest. It might, in some other hands, have produced more effect. The Fantasia coneertante which succeeded, *as, like all pieces of the kind, calculated to display the powers of the seven instruments brought to its support, without, in any of them, affording an opportunity of making that display to parti cular advantage. It was respectable. We must say more of Mr. H. Phillips's execution of the Bacchanalian song composed by himself to the words of Barry Cornwall. To a good air, there are words well suited to, the subject; and the concluding portion of each verse is in an agreable trippiug light style. The song is a good cue of its class, and is likely to be a standard among jovial fellows. As we are not disposed to melancholy, we will facilitate its circulation by publishing the entire song; which was rnerally encored, and cheerfully repeated. Sing, sing, sin; : who sings To her who weareth a hundred` rings.? Ah ! who is this lady fine ? The Vine ! boys, the Vine ! The mother of mighty wine ! A roamer is she O'er wall and tree, And sometimes very good company. Drink, drink, drink : who drinks To her who bluslieth but never thinks ? Ah ! who is this maid of thine ? The Grape ! boys, the Grape! Oh ! never let her escape Until she be turn'd to wine : For better is she Than vine can be, And very, very good company. Dream, dream, dream : who dreams Of the God who governs a thousand streams r Ah ! who is this spirit fine ? 'Tie Wine ! boys, 'tie Wine! God Bacchus, a friend of min e , Who maketh a man divine. Ah ! better is he Than vine or tree, And the best of all good company. We must again award the palm of excellence, for softness and delicacy, to Mrs. Knyvett's style, which was favourably die_ played in "The Nightingale's Death Song," composed by Mr. Lodge, to the words of one whose every line is poetry —we f ez % Mrs. Hereans. We cannot say that the air was faultless. ' was not all that the subject admitted of. But all that could be made of it we heard from lies. Knyvett. Donzelli next appeared in one of the airs from Bell tssi'. " Pirate," well adapted to the power and compass 0 I s a l voice ; and he did not fail to give it very full effect. II is we never before heard him, his execution of th is single piece would have established him, in our judgment, a 112. ger ,pf the highest class. Indications of the pleasure with which it was listened to were by no means equivocal.• ` ll ,e/ were as marked as merited. The first act was concluded by Martini's laughing-Terzetto, "Vadazia via di qua," by 1 0: 1 4 Malibran, Donzelli, and Phillips; and as the audience did is° think they had joined sufficiently in the laugh, they called f or it a second time, to keep them in good humour -during the ifs• terval that succeeded. The second act opened with Von Weber's grand overture to , Euryanthe, which was executed in a style that would - M ake doubt the accuracy of the opinion we expressed on Beeth oven i s Sinfonia in the opening. We could not throughout the wb° discover a single defect in execution, or a failing insta nce 1;4 communicating to the intention of the author its fullest effeft. 'We are tempted, by the softness and taste with which 10118 Masson gave the first air of the second part, to says the would excuse defects discoverable in some of her other p erform ances, upon which we have passed less favourable eoinulea; The music was well adapted by Knapton to Lord BYf a i l t words, "There be none of beauty's daughters;" anci It nothing of the effect that could be desired by either its su e — or poetical author. A well-harmonized Quintetto from Mozart, by Mrs. ikill i dl ett ; Miss C. Novello, Messrs, Sapio, 1 - lorncastle, and E. TaYl ar '_,: o pleasantly executed. But in the succeeding air, "The deep, '-""` Sea," we did not listen to Madame Malibran with the same p. sure with which we have heard some of her other perforuse ll i - r She diiplayed, what it is well known she is master of, --4 V - fer compass and power of voice; but in the pathos, which wi g be sought for in public singers, she was manifestly, on this ; r casion, deficient. We had heard it much better givens as as taste is concerned, by private singers. The next performance was a treat, a Concerto on the IM by M. De Beriot. We cannot so early forget the impre ss° , left on our minds by that knight of the catgut, whose power° 11. 0 , at the present hour, unrivalled—Paganini. But, atlin itti h :" ' as we do, the extent of those powers, and listening, as we "f t : done, with unalloyed pleasure to his notes, we are inclin e " ofsay, that as far depends on tasteful execution, and on "cfril ° f delicacy of expression, we derived au almost equal deg ree pleasure from M. De Beriot's concerto. by We must pass over a scene from the "Faust" of spoh r, Mr. Horncastle, to repeat the expression of our favourabl e °P :: nion of Miss C. Novello's talents, which were clearly n ' t° : fested iu her execution of the air from Handers " vAllegv °l Let me wander, not unseen, By hedge-row elms on hillocks g reen ; Where the ploughman near at hand Whistles o'er the furrow'd land ; • And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe;. And ev'ry shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Or let the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound, • To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequer'd shade." Words so well known and so poetic, and moreover with ns ail da so appropriate, need not our praise. To the whole seas' glAtv much, if not all, that the author could have desired. I t Z e s sweet and delicate ; perhaps, in parts, somewhat too wee, only so in a trifling degree; and we much mistake if, 14 0 1: has strengthened her frame, and with it her power of voie e ';i o modulation of which it is evidently susceptible will pu t this young lady's power to place herself very high in the sical profession. Of Mr. Phillips's talents we have more than once, in the e °1151 :;,„ of these observations, expressed ourselves, as we think ; fe f " - a s ably. In giving utterance to opposite sentiments with refer e ; lo to his execution of the next air, we are really di/11)00;0 attribute the failure more to the character of tim f a n than to any defect in his powers: It was, :however/ so considerable extent, a failure, and passed off tamely : n at s the Duetto from " II Tancredi" by Rossini, which ea' of forth and exhibited in a favourable point of view the pow er ; p Malibran and Donzelli, as Tancredi and Agirio. sfs- j-4 morsel calculated to please the fastidious in 'music; and it ]id in fact'afford, as we should judge, much pleasure to an audien° t: of whom we will not say that they were fastidious, but t1 ;1, with the power of judging, they passed their judgmen t *5 equal discretion and lenity. We now come once more to the efforts of the Liv.ef°L - tr , Choral Society, in one of the madrigals of our ancient Pee le We are not disposed to do other than the most An s r o t. justice to Sir George Smart for all his arrangements; it was rather hard in him to place a matter of this b l u e , to be sung by those who are doubtless musicians coil to c , but cannot be all scientific musicians, after the beautiful d u- it of which we have just spoken, executed by two of the ! r f , artists in the country. Making this allowance, and cons iee r , ing that the air is adapted to the quaintness of stele which 11 0 vades the language, wo are :not afraid to say that it di d t society credit. tb s And now we take our leave of the concert, by stating t hat s good old fashion of singing our favourite national antheM t , not forgotten ; the three verses were severally given as a alie tte b i a quintet, and a solo, by the different performers—the lat ter w Madame Malibran—the audience standing, who, at its cOn° 4 sion, took their departure, in our judgment, as we certaiu l Y' well satisfied with the evening's entertainment. WWIIOIII v g WHY THE OURANG OUTANG DOES NOT SA I have been asked by men of the first education sch t b e ; ther anything really deficient had been discovered organs of the ourang-outang to prevent him from Me l ing. The reader will give me leave to place this loth correctly before him. In speaking there is first retitle,: a certain force of expired air, or an action of the DA L 01; of respiration ; in the second place the vocal chor, o cti the top of the windpipe must be drawn into accorn by their muscles, else no vibration will take place, a,l ro st sound issue ; thirdly, the open passages of the rot', mnst be 'expanded, contracted, or extended by the q . merous muscles, in correspondence with the conditl is o• the vocal chords or glottis; and these must all symP aL v t• before even a simple sound is produced. But to ar.ticoo. late that sound, so that it 'may become a part of a ' OP ventional language, there must be. added an action P' pharynx, of the palate, of the tongue and . lips. Ti l ' eor q.uistte organization for.all this is not visible in td in gans of the voice, as they are called; it is to be fo ul ' s i• the nerves which combine all the various parts in ° 9 t he multaneous act. The meshes of the spider's web, °r o d cordage of a man-of•war, are few and simple eorqi, e s o with the concealed filaments of nerves which move l ion parts ; and if but one be wanting, or its tone or a c bo v( disturbed in the slightest degree, every body.know o o! a man will stand with his mouth open, twisting his t o tt and lips in vain attempts to utter a word. It wili. st io appear that there must. be distinct lines of assoo!;110) suited to the organs of voice—different to coibt°' t he in the bark of a dog, in the neighing of a horse, or 4 , 1 0 15 shrill whistle of the ape. That there are wide disti -1 % 3 05t in the structure of the different classes of animals'' r ob certain ; but independently of those which are aPIT t iog there are secret and minute varieties in the a ssoola be' cords. The ape, therefore, does not articulate—fir st 'dlf , cause the organs Ale not perfect to this end ; seoon t bit because the nerves do not associate these organs variety of action which is necessary to spe:tiOts; and 1- o 'ito" were all the exterior apparatus perfect, there is ' l ,ol' pulse to that act of speaking.—Bell's Bridgewater • Ilse. (let t \cry MELANCHOLY.--A few days ago, one of the too passengers "of a steamboat fell over-board Tietween New ° r sf and Natchez, and as his wife saw him sink-f o r th e last ti r o br ad cried, "Oh, me ! There goes my poor Johnie, with a pe" new vest on, and three dollars in Biller in his pocket!" 1)% 6 , Allan. cig EXTRAtIEDINAILY ESCAPE.--01:1 Tuesday last a re'r e bei‘ i lad, on a visit at a house iu. Svdnev-parade, Bathwie/ ; ' thr e suddenly awoke with some fancied alarm iii the houseiyardeti open the sash. and springing out, fell do wn i n to the t be i4 beneath, a depth of upwards of thirty feet T' groiln ( ! TO' . ot. • soft below, he fortunately escaped without the slightest ' —Bath Journal. lt 1 1 '4 , Strange and startling statements are sometimes,mad e lic dinners ; for example, the memory of a deceased alt",; ; , respected individual having been proposed and drunk, v,0, 1 15 the chief magistrate of the city, albeit unused to the I. l ‘ e t ) ; mood, felt hrmself imperatively called on to reply, whico lo s in the following pithy speech :—" Gentlemen, n iy father 0 0, man." "I am I ani . "—You deevil what next ?--" A n l, s s lot top mither," whispered I am—" and so w a s my m ithcr, te cet, ed the delighted Provost.—A respectable distiller; on occasion, when speaking of our exte n ded co mmerce, -• 3e g°' l , proof of it, gentlemen, I may mention that my spirit Il e io it , • to Africa, India, and Mecca. It has found its way t ° ,, t ariLi penal city of Rome, and, for aught I know to the co l 'i f it has cheered the heart of his H o li ness th e P o pe. I‘ l 3, - animated the King of Spain, and been hailed as a i 5 the autocrat of all the Russian ." . of ti ll Itynitornoata.—On Tuesday last Thomas Loraine' do town, glass-man, was bitten in s e v era l pl aces of both Il o ittv his dog. The bitten parts were afterwards repeatedly g l r p, o s to the action of th e ai r -p um p, i n th e S un d er l an d Infir ifi- a lso which not only the saliva of the dog was extracted, butj e a p a , arterial and venal blood; so that each bitten place b`„ fusels. These wound s are t o b e k ep t open f or so me ti t t.'3 s ' e f', mercurial course has been already entered upon, not nu'j n ottal most certain alterative, but also because of the w ell- 1,11 ;01 0 k fects of preparations of quicksilver, as regards th e w o lo glands. It is known that the canine species never pe,tne in lieu, have an increase of saliva when heated or irri r '''iloebi we learn from a conununicatiqn of Mr. Parkinson, c",,, e cieL e ti that hydrophobia has been produced in the human ' b riels the infusion of vitiated saliva into the bites of dogs w": ii irt e bet excessively irritated, though these animals shelved lin";teti i l s of the disease. We understand that the plan just de ta ic sf h eitt i t been adopted successfully at our Infirmary, in sel'ell,"teks9 which dogs affected with hydrophobia bad actually Mol i , - 1 0 0 0 ., upon both males and feinales. A good an alysis of the7' flu ids of hydrophobic 'patients 'would undoubtedly, !- light upon the pathology of this most distressing doriltAd Herald; OCT. 4,