The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-28 00:00:00

Vie Court.

BALMORAL, SIPS. 23.
Her Majesty and Prim* Albert went yesterday to the top
of Morren, • high hill in the neighbourhood of Balmoral.
The Prints of Wales and Prince Alfred left Balmoral
yesterday for the Shut of Allt na Wu:heath, attended by
Mr. (libbe.

The Princes. Royal, the Prineese Alice, and the Princeaa
Helena drove yesterday afternoon to locercauld, and palmed
the afternoon with the daughter, of Mr. and Mr.. Far-
quharson.
The Earl of Aberdeen left Balmoral yesterday.
Barr. 26
Yesterday afternoon her Majesty rode towards Oairn
Bhiel, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn.
Prince Albert want out deer .taking.
The dinner party yesterday inelwled the Duchess of Kent,
the Princeu llohenlohe Langenbourg, and Lstly ♦ugusta
Bruce.

Viscount Hardinge left town ststerday for Balmoral.
Lieut.• Col. Waldo Sibthorp, M.P. had an interview with
Mr. Secretary IValpole yestei day at the Home Odin.
The Rt. Hun. J. W. Honky left town yesterday.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial Office yesterday
from the Governor-General of Canada and the Governors of
the other North American Privinces. Dispatches were re-
ceived on Sunday from the Governor of Victoria.

MUSIC.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
The novel announcement of an orchestral per-
formance without instruments drew a considerable &mini:me
to this theatre last night. Many, doubtless, went inen du
loos asto the prasibility of so instructing the human voice
—flexible as it is—as to imitate, with proximate fidelity, a
variety of wind and stringed instruments in harmonious
concert; sad such persons were not disappointed. It
seems that nature will only submit to a certain amount of
torture, beyond which she vindicates her rights. This was
very much the case last night ve:th the " Organoptionic
Band"—a company of twelve German performer., who,
without any mechanical aid, executed, by the yoke, seri nil
pieces of music, same of them of no son.l difficulty. The
programme consisted of three parts, commencing with
" Rule Britannia," which was executed by the whole band.
A 'screen, who only heard and did not see what was going
on, would certainly say that he listened to music, 01111 to
the music of well.kuowu instruments, but of such Under
stop and weak volume, that he would remark that they
were instruments that had lost tkeir wind—in fact,
instruments in the last stage of consumption. That
three new visitants are ingenious and surprising, that
they must have undergone considerable and laborious
raining, in order to giro such wonderful intona-
tion and modulation to the human organ, is an
acknowledgment to which they are justly entitled ;
bat as is the case with almost all exhibitions of this kind,
from which action and variety are ►bsent, they are not cal-
culated to afford an evening of sustained and continuous
amusement. The " Huntsman' Chorus," from " Der
Freischutz," with an echo, in imitation of the musical box,
was, perhaps, the best executed piece is the entire pro-
gramme, the echo being wonderfully true. A solo, imita-
tive of the piccolo, was likewise admirably done; full of
energy and action, but necessarily deficient in the sharp
piercing tones of that instrument. Both of these perfor-
mances were encored, though there was a very just and
considerate feeling against repetitions from the evident
effort and strain which these displays occasioned to the per-
formers. Polkas, marches, waltzes, fantasias, were all exe-
cuted with equal facility, and there seems scarcely an
instrument, from the cymbal and drum to the Scotch bag-
pipes, which they are not capable of imitating with more
or less fidelity and exactness. Some of them can imitate
three or four instruments almost without a pause. Perhaps
there are few who will not be pleased to hear these new
comers, if it were only for the strangeness of the thing, but
they must not expect that the music, though sometimes
sweet, will wrap them in Elysium. We may say of these
sorts of amusement what Georges Dandin says of the rack,
—"et eels fait toujour passer one hews."