The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-25 00:00:00

ROYAL AMPHFIIIEAT.E-:

ME. D. FISHER AND NATKINS.
Last night Mr. Fisher took his beret, when there
'was a worthy tribute of respect paid to Is high talents.
To-night Mr. Fisher plays Victor in 'The Lancers,"
and ;Tarry Thornton in " Dying . for Ive." Mr. H.
Watkins will also appear in an AinericalDrania,

THE JULLIEN

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A few days ago ptblic sympathy was .emanded—we
can scarcely say demanded, since it was e readily given
—on behalf of the wife and family of theft Brough.
Yesterday, the widow of another ninent public
man—another of those men who are done so
much for the entertainment of the Olio and the
elevation of their tastes,—claimed that ratitude Which
was so justly due. For, after all, it is lit gratitude in
such a case, and an attempt to retogne and -appreci-
ate past favours that prompt the pubri to respond in
the hearty manner it does to such appeal as th'ese. And
the public is sometimes 'aingratettl to=it anes not
always observe the rame strict jatide a ()Veil tiohduct
which it insists upon in hose iehe atthipt to live by
its favour. Btst it is net Orten so, and seeking for our
town, we are proud to record the uneuivocal success
which has attended the two -chariable perform-
ances that have taken place witin the. pre-
sent week. Last night a constellaion of talent
such as is rarely to be found on anysingle occasion,
assembled at the Zoological Gardens ahen-a perform-
ance was given for the benefit of IVliiime Pillion. The
entertainment Was rightly announce' as the Jullien Fes-
tival, for festival it was in every sFriseisf the milli. And
what would a Jullien festival 'have been Wit +At 'not
also a musical one ? Is n'ot tie 'very ruttne of Jullien
inseparable from .that .delighto4l art, for the popularisa-
tion of - ethieh he, of the men of -this century,
has done the most ? " Cheap things are-. not
often g00d,".. is a wry common saying; but- in
Sullien's case, at least, a most untrue one. His music
was always cheap ; his entertainments ware ac'cesoible
to all ; and it was their distinguishing pechliarity, as it
was their superiorly ever others, that they brongtt the
most refined and :lassital .contpositions +AIM. the teach
of the most poor and the Most iliirefined.. -A -taste
for ,classical. =sic \vas ditased among the people,
and the public at eill events were not the losers. Who
that had ever seen Jullien, either upon the platform of
our own Philharmonic or in a less pieteritiOus place,
standing in the midst of his well- disciplined orchestra,
and wielding that mysterious -baton with' such grace
and skill, could fail, last --night to be struck *ilh
a sense of tie lose of him *ho has goat.- keel
different the oecasion Then he ii as leading that
band which Nag now led by dietlket, and which, in tri-
bute of respect to their 'vhilied leader,. attended and per-
'formed seve'al of their old pieces upon this occasion. Every
kind Or tocrelty and attraction was crammed into the
tritertainnent last night; there was the popalar vocalist
Miss Fade ; and the band (Jullien's) ; and the hand of
the 4th Brigade L.A.V. ; and the Campbell's Minstrels.
The programme included te'veral of Jallien's most eele-
brated dances, tegether with others less known ; all
were well received. The attendance was large add
fashionable, and the whole affair was as successful as
could have been desired.