The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-17 00:00:00

MUSIC.

H. JULLIEN'II COZWEILTB.
Lem night, M. Junin gave what be Cat e
" Beethoven Festival ;" a mese, that is to say, of whist
the Int pet was sinned entirely from the was if
Blethers ; rensindee beteg of a minellasesse sod
awn popular deoerlpties. The Beetling. wine of
sited of the overture to Linter.*; the pieseforts essesse
le C minor, performed by Madame Pion; the alit i
"La
• quests tombs crews," nag by Mies Dolby; the nolisees-1
sato D, B retherren's angle somposities Mission played
by Hen Farm; sad the eelemal symphsay in C stain
Mines. pines were given lathe ; and (setting aside all
the ether matter) they formed a onion sub is we baldly
=pet to bear *gala darlag the nurse of the oppeenkleg
gooses. The whole of then works an well knows to nu
swim' readers, sad it would be esperinne to'
dentin Of eulogies them; but we may remark
that the performing wee in leery reopen worthy
of the music. Modem. Playa never appeared to
greater silently. As an interpreter of the greed
and beautiful coneeptions of the clanked neaten she has so
superior. In neestiag Beithowto's dent commie eke
seemed =halted by the soul of the oomposer : her tail•
relied power and brilliancy of emendos were essabised
with the utmost deliesey, wen, and 'sonnies. End was
mot lees successful is the accomplishment of a still men
wagons task—the performance of the violin coseerto, a
seek of the most exquisite beauty, but bristling with
eseneous dialsoltias. Both these superb performances
were applauded with enthusiasm. Him Dolby's sir,
a strain of proforma and gloomy melancholy, sad
sot at all calculated, we should have thinght, to
sank the popular ear, produced an offset for which we were
scarcely prepared. It was given by the fair singer with
usassessa simplicity, embellished cnly by the beauty of
ber nisi sad the truth of her expend= ; and it was re-
solved with a bent of applause from every part of the
theatre, sad load calla for its repetition. We ewer were
so nun streak as we were last sight with the growing ap-
prodatka by the pablie of the grand sad the bentihl is
kinds of mimic whisk a few years ago would sot
have seen obtained a hewn, by • ponder ace-
wahine. Every pen if the theatre Will crowded
from the besieging of the tensing, sad meth's, wail el-
ated the attendee gives to the music by *very ponies of
the audience. Eves among the multitudes who filled the
promenade not a whisper was heard, or a movement made,
from the beginning to the end of a pion. The Philhar-
monic audience in the Hanover-square Rooms weld sot
have listened better, or have applauded with greater
warmth or more discrimination. For al this we are in-
debted to the labours of H. Jain.

ROYAL

Yesterday Dr. Tyndall commenced a entree of
lectures at the anal Institution on magnetism and felo-
nies' electricity. He confined himself in this introduc-
tory lecture to a description and illustration of the elemen-
tary phenomena, it being his object, as he said, first to
take a superficial view of the subject and to point out the
landmarks which would serve as guides when he entered
into deeper iavertigatione. In noticing and exhibiting in
different ways the phenomena of magnetic attraction he
dwelt perticalarly upon the attraction at a distance, and
observed that this remarkable action of two bodies on each
other is a never-ending source of admiration to a philosophic
mind, and its c ins. remains es inexplicable now as when
first discovered. Dr. Tyndall at the same time indi-
cated that that =nettleus action, though it appears
so extraordinary on account of then being no
seeming connexion between the bodies, only exceeds
in degree the ordinary circumstance of • cart following a
horse when it pull at the traces. In the latter case, Indeed,
then is an apparently continuous cocainea between the
body of the moving horse and the cart, though whim the
molecules which compose the traces are separately mai.
dared, it is found that they are detached from one another,
and that the traction is really effected through invisible
span. Thus every action of one body on another may be
regarded as taking place at a distance, and the alleged
turning of tables by the touch of the fingers is not therefore
theoretically absurd, though it may be physically impossible.
The origin and progress of electricity was traced from the
discovery of the attractive properties of amber to the du.
*every of the Leyden jar ; and Dr. Tyndall remarked on
the circumstance that the excitement of attractive properties
in amber by friction nmaintd a barren fact for two
tkonsand years as evidence of the stagnant state
of mimes during that long period. It was not till
the beginning of the 17th century, when Gilbert added
(featly to the number of known electric., and the pheno-
mena of electricity were exhibited in • more striking man.
net, that the subject attracted any attention. Dr. Tyndall
exhibited the attractive power of various electric. wheel
rubbed. In one experiment a soap bubble formed the object
attracted, and was kept suspended in the air and woad:awe
about in different directions by en excited glass rod. Dr.
Tyndall was anxious to imprimis his audience with the eon.
elation that all forces emanating from a centre diminish la
intensity according to the square of the distance; and to
ilhustrate this fact more clearly, he cast the shadow of a
amen by electric light at measured distance. apart. Tide
law, discovered by Newton, applies equally to gravitation,
light, electricity, and to all forces emanating from points; I
and Dr. Tyndall wished that it should be thus clearly
shown, as it would form en important consideration in
subsequent lavoetig•tlons.