The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. l71;1 R
15, 1849.

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SUCCESSION. _ RAILWAY- MEWING.
W. have been mutated to gin publicity to the SOUTH WALLIS.
following docemonte•
A ad this ormiss. inlinthol from the Tad
To tho Marmon, Deputy Chairmen, and the Coat of =allaiVolgetial st 0611 mat WNW= BMW*,
Director. of the East India Casper]. MairnnWO I. the akar.
HotweabM The emotionalising(' that the mnamittell Miterekohlers
Biggf4 I"Teettelt7 bit ism :::Gina L'Bls4' ballitloB9l it that then amid be a farther ad-
mit to pa for yaw information, tranalation of kwywowal the I December, b 7. Feria 06117
mahratta atm., taaather with a statement, es the WWI he salty wish whatever repoit may may essoldw
right of enoseation byli.indoo Prison, which I have thak*it=
to Wednesday, the 19th Dessisher, Hewwid tkenthee move that sink
Written ocd sent to the native pantie and chide of tw=edi.,
Wig, is cossequanoe of the unprecedented proceed- Tee modest lining been seconded, was carried swat-
imp which have been adopted towascio my to and moiety.
Cestirtaj Sovereign Pertaub Shaul and Mao° Kr. Naas (a propastar) stated that metal shareholdme
, Rojas of getters.
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Your most obedient hatable &mot, the board of directors of the Booth Welts Company!
RUNOO BePOJEE, The Citelltateli replied that the r time foe desessiag
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the Princes and Chins of India.
Farm Bungs Bspojet, Preach caked of his Highness Titistrotion for an adjournment having been again put,
Shallot Maims, Raja et Salters, who is now melding is the the meeting "vacated.
holy city of Begone, written on the 17th September,
A.D. 1849, in London, the capital of Wiled:
On the 26th September, 1819, a treaty was entered into
on the one part by the Beet-India Company, and oa the
other part by the flirter Of his Highness Pertaub Sittig
blaharej Clamtraputtee, of Batters, and the said treaty was
in full lone and operettas. In the year 1886 the Bombay ,
gevenweat, in order to appropriate to itself the
territory of Setters, commenced all ems of plots
and intrigues, by raising false aid unfounded reports
swinge his highnees tee raja aforesaid, bat withheld from
his Highs's, copies of all evidence taken secretly again
I hies and deeded Mr justices Ultimately, on the 6th of
Sepimaire, 1899, the ewe government rowed him Wm
the throw of Saran, bandied him to Benue, mired his
private property, miscue' him to much straits ter his
eapeners, infifeted on his an sorts of distress and injury, and
kept him a prisoner. Meanwhile, elloweernment Wind •
new treaty on the 4tk September, 1868, with his
brother, Appa Sahib Manors) (reteidejg la form rit-c
motels of the former teeny), sad Magi Ans Sahib oa Me
throne. Ia this the wood treaty, Me Wadi* the eel
the tales accusations against the WINN Raja, end In a pee.
alienation issued at the time. it Is dhiattly stated that the
Boglish giverawent had no latentionwhatear of
taking
the country, or of eneretsieg its elms efassessions by this
measure. 'Whereas the same goverment{ lee sow taken the
territory fate their oval hands.
Having experienced this injwtin at the hands of the said
'overman, his highness Bomb Elitg limbered Cotter*
puttee deputed me to bring his cause baton the Honourable
Ent India Company, and the Right Honourable the Booed
f Control, is England, where thin humble individual, sap.
jorted by several it finential friends, endeavoured to obtW
stles, but withcut the least effect.
Toe answer always has been, " We have not taken the
raja's e notry, but have tranafirred it to his leucite
brother." They thus put us off with sixth like fake
pretences.
Tots government pretends to be ter the bent fit of the
people of India, but I will now proceed to show how far this
assertion is correct.
Eventually the case was submitted to parliament, and at
last the whole of the documents appertaining to it, that hail
been laid before the awe amen in India, were printed, and
became accessible to the Rajah's friends. By these it eppeend
that false papers, with kap d seals, together with a paper of
hints from the Governor of Bombay to the Resident at Sa-
tan, how to ensnare the Rajah .nd to obtain proofs of the
Itsjah's criminality, had been received, and been accepted a
evidence ; besides which money was offered in the shape of
rewards and bribes to induce bad and wined subjects of his
Highness to come forward as enthuses against him; and la
order to prevent their being punished, measures were takes
to protect them. There seems abundant proof, in the dam-
ments alluded to, to show that all this was for the purpose
or taking tLe Rajah's country. Application was being made
to parliament for the purpoos of obtaining an Impartial
esounittes of inquiry when his Highness died. Then the
teal object of these intrigues became apparent.
The father of both the Rajas, Pertaub Sirs and Appa
Sahib, was likewise the paternal uncle of Bella Sahib Sees
putty, who wee consequently their first cousin. The son of
Bella Sahib, Trimbultjee Rye, therefore, is squally related
M both Rajas; and wording to the treaty is their heir and
successor. Fur this reason his Highness Pertaub Sing, OS
the 10th October, 1845, adopted the sail Trimbukjes as his
sea, in contormity with the practice of the Hindu law, under
the name of Shaba, Maharaj, and conferred on him, as his
heir and successor, all the rights of the Raja of Sawa. La
*Deformity with the forms of fr.endship, due infirmities of
this
Govenior General at Bererre, through when it was
transmitted to the Right lion. the Goveraor General, and
by him to the Court of Darectors in Ragland. This document
was subsequently printed by order of parliament two years
afterwards. The Rajah Pertaub Sing departed this life en
the 14th October, 1817, and in the followine year, on the Mk
April, 1849, his brother, and successor, Aopa Sahib, else
died. On this occasion two general courts of proprietors eel
It tat India Stock were held an the maths of July and De-
cember, when it WAS mooted that the nephew of the two Me
Rajas, adopted by Rojeh Pertaub Sing, should be recognised
as heir to the Raj. The chairman of the Court of Direckes
mated to the Court of Prof Astor, that the directors had re-
solved no information from the Governor. General Utile
an the subject to enable them to mow to a decision, but that
the directors, ea the arrival of such information, would be
prepared to take the matter into their favourable
onsideration. This was, however, a mere trick to
deceive the Court of Pm rietors and the public.
lieu it afterwards appeared that on the 30th of
August, the Governor-General had communicated his senti-
ments and advice to the Court of Directors, recommending
that no adopting shothd be recognised, and that the Seam
territory should be resumed by the British government.
Accordingly, on the 24th January, 1849, the Court of Direc-
tion sett an order to the Governor4ieneral to attach the ter-
ritory of Satter& to the British dominion,. On the 12th of
May, 1849, the Bombs! Rover= at, in conformity with th
above iastrn tions issued a proclamation stating falsely, and
in violation of existing treader, that there being no heir to
the late 11.-jsb, the territory had lepard to the British govern-
ment. Now what ie the eery wording of the treaty ?
In the treaty of the 26th September, 1819, it is written that
the territory assigned ti the tiepin is to descend in perpetufty
to his Fursamdum (sons), Werra'. (heirs), and Kyain
Mookaum (successors in perpetuity.)
The Rust India Company's government, protesting to be
the friend, the supporter, and the adviser of the Rajah, thus
solemnly pledged itself to continue for ever, in eon I
sideration of the antiquity of the family, this dominion to
the house of Sateen.; but now, in violation of this most
sacred pledge, it proclaims itself lord paramount over all the
sovereigns of India ; and in virtue of such title has appro.
witted to itself the said territory, because the adoption did
am receive the sanction of the lord paramount. Did the
lord paramount reject the adoption, when made ? No—he
said not we word against is.
This Bast India Company entered India originally as
machines. Oa the seal allied to their treaty they style
themselves the devoted servants of the Mustulman King of
Delhi ; but now they proclaim themselves lords paramount
over all the sovereign winces of India. They have disre-
garded the compact entered into by themselves with the
ancient house of &awn, and appropriated its dominions is
violation of the same, as lords paramount. Bat this treaty
is in strict accordance with the treaties they have entered
into with the natal other primal of India.
The Governor-General (Lord D supparted by
trandry of the East India directors, having abadoned the
usual practice and form of adhering to treatise, has resolved
for the future not to recognise the right of adoption to any
Bindoo prince, but on all similar ememisas to annex the ter-
ritory of such princes to the British dominion.
This is the manner in which they have acted towards the
&tura family, and they have openly declared they will act
so on an :hada occasions.
I This declared= is probably not known to your highness ;
it behoves you, therefore, to look into your treaty, and
im-
mediately to salmi the puma-genera, to /snow If you
are to understand whether by the treaty, according to whit&
you: heir is entitled to seemed. you are to he permitted to
lexcrete the right of adeptioa in conformity with the law
and custom of the Hendee., or whether such law is to be
I violated and to be henceforward set at naught.
In this inquiry there is so treason nor conspiracy. It is
Ithe ordinary ware that every palace is bond to snit for
his own and his family's security.
la case yen simnel doubt the statemast abowsiade. I
have caned extracts from the men laid balers the English
parliament to be translated, and I menden. herewith.
Though I am the Valued of his Highness the Rajah of
Satan do sot Imagine I address yes now on his part or in
that enmity. If it becomes you to regard your ewe Ow
ratter and assist as, well and rood ; if not, it must be left as
I a matter not of thaw Bat lam a Hindus, and I address
yes. whether Hindoo or Massabwe, with a view te pew
ogee advantage, to prevent the Mare violate,* of tessilits
end the nth of pour tantifisa. You, as an ally of the BMA
=t , are boned to edhere to the treaty yes bees oito.
end yea an entitled to inquire whether they dm
mew to adhere to it in letter and spirit.
My wish Is to ferewer• you, and to prevent your heist
reined. Look to your risen as • Hendee, and require chef:
nagnition, bat without say breech of loyalty or good faith. I
I am in the midst of dA^Mtise, sad a foreigner in a I
strange land, and have been induced to nines you from my
own condition and despair.
Do hat reject this appeal, bat Ist me Wrest you to seed
an GOMM to it.
It is sew two years since the elder Rajah of Satan died.
hut has been paid to his family, not even to die
charge ral expects,. He was coalised without haw
Mg eammillsd any crime, and now the gmensient refuse
to nmegoise the adoption of his sea, and starves his family.
To jest* this fruity they staked* that the late rajah lett
'bananas ('money, *Met Is wholly false. Bat this is the
manner is whin the rajah's family hos beta treated, and in
which the Batt India Company have sated, whoa they have
the power of dole awe_tLtieepealte.

WATIII7OIO, WICILLO. AND &hectare of
the oompaay are proesedini to parliament to legalise this
proposal of Momenta/ the line, sa4 redeems the shares,
which is opposed by the Mani:olden, who seek a dhooln-
doa. Tbe eserstary's salary has bees reduced. The share-
holder's atoomittas, midribs eadetasee of Kr. C. Noah, ham
ban allowed to plead to the attics' for all timpseatilag the
promedings for fraud, sint tie Comm of Itzahrquer has
pealed a nib to azsaalaa ulaanos abroad and in Inland
for the shareholders.

GMAT WIST3III OF BlNOAL.—Yesterday the wind-
tog up of this comiony'• affairs, ander the provisions of
W Joist *kook Companies Act, dud on for hewing before
the Masts, in Chancery, Dowdmwell, at his ohasaben, In
Bonthampionibuildinas, Chancery-Lae. Tins petition in
support of tits proposed preemie, verified by siliddit from
Raja. Cl-aersi hi'Ltiod, ofCl Ron- plaos, Hyda Park Gardena,
the chairman, and Robert Wolealey, of Guildhall-chum-
bus, lissingleallitetzost, the secretary to the ounruiy, sets
forth, that the undertaking was projected and provision.
ally registered in April, 1845, for sarrying oat railway dam
mutilation fres the river Hoogloy, near Calcutta, to Raja&
hal, on the Odm, with a branch to Bardwan, propmed
..pits! 4,000,0001., In 80,000 shares, al 501. each, deposit 51.
per share. Shame was allotted to a lugs number of
parsoas who paid the deposit, which wore applied in
the affairs of the company, sad in August, 1845, •
subscribers' deed was executed, to which Major li•Leed
sabecribed to the extent of 1,0001. The directors deferred
making any spplicaiion to parliament for an Act of 'now-
poratioa, not finding it practicable, and on the 30th
of July last, at • meeting of the Gideon, at which the
chairman presided, a resolution was passed to the effect that
the company be wound up under the provisioas of the
Joint Stock Cetopanies Ad, and the solicitor was authorised
to present a petition to the court and employ connect for the
purpose. Yesterday the martens parties were in attendance
ror the appointment of an °EMU manager to superintend
the winding-up of the affain of the estate. There were
lone propoutier • Hours. Frestfield, who appeared for a
number of shareholders in the Rant India Railway Company,
with which the G. eat Western of Bengal has been audits.
Mated, nommen d Mr. Coleman, accountant ; Mr. Wo.
Galswerthy, on behalf of several allotted, proposed Mr.
Quitter, accountant. Mr. James, for the petitioners, pro
posed Mr. J. H. Norris ; and Heeds. Fry and Loxlsy, Mr.
Ernest. After a dtsconsiou, tile, master adjourned his dui-
non as to a selection.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE LANCA•
BRIER AND YOIIIEBOI/01 RAILWAY.

Yesterday morning an inquest was held before W,
S. Ratter, Req , of Mancauter, county coroner fur the
hundred of Salford, on the body of a young man named
Thomas W , who had been killed en the railway be.
twetn B &au and Manchester on Monday afternoon. The
foil :wing are the eircuostanceo of the shocking fatality :
The Bolton Railway, as it is generally called, was con-
cruired about ten or twelve years since, and though the
works are generally of a substantial character, there is one
feature about the bridges which tarty the various turnpike
aid other roads over it which has often raised apoteloensious
in the minds of thoughtful persons Lae tie safety of pas-
sincere. These bridges consisted of stra'ght horizontal
beams of iron Faeroes the line, supported upon cast iron
pillars. Rows of these pillars, at ach bridge, were flied
between the various bee, of rails, and were so near
to the carriages as they pasted that any person
leaning thoughtlessly out of • carriage-window was
liable to bale has skull fractured by coming in contact with
them. Strange as it may appear, however, with this danger
in the wa on one of the railways haying the greatest
amount o passenger traMe of any in the kingdom, for flu
or siz years there were fewer accidents on this line than any
other. A few years ago the line came into the possession
of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, who have
sought to remedy this objection to their line, sod commenc-
ing atthe Bolton end they have removed bridge alter bridge
to sitheiitute others of a hatter construction till the work of
nesonstruction had reached Pendleton, near to Manchester,
where this atcideLt took place.
Thomas Thornley, • companion of the deceased, and a
witness at the inquest, descrised bow the accident took
place. He said Weaver lived at 72, Chapel-street, London-
road, Manchester, ar.d on Sunday he and deceased went by
the railway t Bolton. They took tickets at the Pendle-
ton scrims, and deceased had a gun with him of a novel con-
struction which he showed is the railway porter at the station
before they started. They returned to Manchester by the
train which left Bolton at three o'clock, on Monday after-
noon, in • third-class close carriage, and as the train did
not stop at Pendleton, deceased (who was anxious to let the
railway potter know they were returning) said to witness—
" Jem, I'll pop (point) the gun st the porter." Deceased
got his gun out of the window, and then put his head and
shoulders out also, to do what he had stated. In a few mo-
ments they passed the station•house, and in another moment
—for the bridge at Pendleton is not many yards from the
station—the unfortunate man's head came in contact with
one of the pillars supporting the bridge. Wastes said
W 's head rebounded from the pillar against the *pro
site side of the carriage window, and he then sank back upon
his coat in the corner of the railway curiae*. In a few
minutes the train arrived at the Salford-station, white is
the Manchester terminus of the railway, and witness per-
ceiving thst his companion was insensible, and that his heed
was dreadfully fractured and his brains scat& red about the
carriage, ealle I for the assistance of the railway servants,
and Weaver was carried to the Salford Dispensary.
The surgeon of the dispensary said, though Weaver was
insensible when brought to the hens*, about 4 o'clock, he
continued to breathe till about half-past 10 o'clock the same
night, when he died.
The porter at the Pendleton station was ermined, and
said he saw the heads of two men out of one of the carriages
as they approached the station, but the motion of the train
was too rapid for him to recognise them. lie waved Lis
hand and gesticulated with a view to warning these parties
to draw their beads into the carriage. He looked after them
as the train passed under the bridge, and no longer perceiv-
ing them supposed all was right. He did not hear of the
arkiderat sill afterwards.
The jury found a verdict (after bearing a statement from
the coca any's servants similar to that above given of the
gradual removal of the pillars) to the effect that the fatality
was accidental, but expressed an opinion that there had been
imatousary delay In completing the work.

FORTUNATZ ESCAPL—Abont eleven o'clock

Thursday night last, as James Wa!Wen and his wife, who
()envy Mass about the middle of the row of beams in
Nibs- ant, Blackbura, were sitting at the fire, with a lodes
named William Cowburn and his wife, the whole floor,
eluding the fire pima, tastantaneemdy gave way, and fell
ieto the cellar beneath. Of the fear occupants of the room,
who fell with it, the first to extricate Wawa wes Walkdes,
who immediately got out of the cellar window ; and, having
procured emistanee, the three others were dragged oat of the
memo( rubbish. The parties who have sustain ed the greatest
Warne am Umber's end Walkden's wife, the former Wic-
ket had one or two of his ribs broke', and his right arm
below the elbow merely scorched; the latter has beta
finedfally burned. The two others have received some
severe scratehes and contusions, which are not, however, of
sack corpequoos.
MODEL 118'L

THE EXPELLED WeBLETAIt hillteirturui—R pub-
lic meeting wu held on Tuesday evenina, at Bristol,
for the Impose of rectiving fru' lite Rev. Messrs.
Dann, Everett, and Griffiths, en account of their ezpalsion
by the Wesleyan Conference, and of queasier sympathy
with them. VOI &Deadest*
gee very numerous, tie large
rublis which is capal of accommedating between
3000 and 4, persons, bei, g crowded almost to sufseetion.
The sodium MOH d unanimous in the •:prsadea of feeling
against the proceedings a the Conferanoe, and is &NOW of
the expelled Walston.

quest lizaitaticia a the number of mientisements ageravetes
the evil of the stamp day, they being the most profitable
setae of newspeper income. The advertisement duty is
else
more widely felt than Oa stamp day, not bean un-
fined to sowspapen, bat effecting al periedissis. It has
been eammeed that is 1847 there appeared is the United
States, where there Lao MI, as many as !Inn millions et
advertisements, whisk is fire times as many as are published
in England and Sudan& The number of adesetisentents
—suing in the United Kingdom, wtfcb, bikes the ream-
fler-•
tion of the duty (in (}teat Brae: from 3:: 15;"
61°,,,f-:, is , and
in Ireland from 2s 6d. to le " "11' ), w .'„
i,"31•18, i•
1848, 2,109,179; and it cannot be doubted tru:7 t•°sailiotts
especially in ouptaction with the stamp, would tea..:. to a
farther and very large inereme.
Beast and dearly-bought repeats's has proved that the
establishaent of low-pawl newspapers cm runasseating
terms b, ander present guinnatenoes, all but tesposeibk. '
Is any cue, capital toe oonsidenble amount is required to
be .tank to mat the Semi cautious. At the Meet the pro-
beton of a newspaper are required to give security to the
government in a large amount. If the paper Ins • circula-
tion of 12,600 par diem, there must be pad a advance, for a
month's stock of paper and stamps, 2,6601., 3464 of which Is
for the duty, and 1,2001. for the stamps ; while the expense
of printing the paper be that time probably would not
amount to more than 6001.9 The result is, that the supply
of newspapen, instead of increasing with the increase of po-
paellas, remains sbaost stationary. When the stamp duty
wu reduced in 1836 from fourpenee to we peony, the un-
stamped journals which were published in defiance of the
law bad a weekly drealetion .1'200,800. These were all
&emitted, tad sow Ise have, not mil more daily London
newspaper than we had theist
In Paris tier* are upwards of thirty daily newerpors,
nee of thataread at aft 101 l a peke is two sow. In London
thew are but eines, all, with exception, b.ing published
et
atls The teal somber of tawegapers in the United
Kingdom is about GOO ; but in the United &Tata there are
eippeeed to be published 200 daily, 1,400 weekly, and leo at
ediseitterrals. • la thoOktrenel lain* also, nearer home,
gooey, thneekat peony, and tweepenny no-trumps's are
aphid, aten„largely %escalated. la Ragland, she most
Ftoment pertumed le newspaper pew is a the bards of
, ur capialists, and be as devoted se the interests of the
pained iliotioneLLs ?alloyed to uphold a domestic
why fled antelem
1 is menifyi lia=7pai li lalle n Iseation likely to be
led to aeaarials/A at en opportune time by the recently
it Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee. The origi-
Aston of the movement belong ro the art lan class, but it is
we which involves the interests of the whole community.
The immediate audition of the bnowledge taxes ought robe
quenially denuded by-1, the kinds of popular eduettion.
If ignoramus is to be successfully grappled with, and what
are sidled the lower orders are to be elevated in the metal
scale, the full power of the press must be employed. If tkey
are to to supplied with weoles, me knead of ebbe. litera-
tare, the press must be as free from taxation as it Is from
musonhip. Our rulers are I Mot boldly hypoereerel or
miserably shoresighte el, when they veal 226,0001. a year for
teaching ti • people to read. and at the same time limit the
supply of books and paper by taxing them to neatly fly times
that amount. 2. The trade g classes should demand it.
The intro numerous the ehunels et communieetiAl be-
tween the manefeetwer or shopkeeper and the public, the
ouster will be the facilities, afforded for the tweaction of
business. Buyers are likely to be multiplied when sellers
can put forth two advertisements at the price they now
pay for one. The printing butane, in putteuler, would
profit largely by the increase of peablications which would
tellow.e 3. Reformers should demand it on political no
less than on other grounds. It is too bad that tax,s im-
posed to carry en war in the days of Que.', Anne should re-
main unrepealed in the peaceful reign of Victoria. All re-
, forms have to be wrung from our legislators by ',glaner,
end the prus is the great agitator. We cannot afford to
tlht with one had tied. The unenfrenchised cla-aes are
now, to a large extent, denied representation by the press
es well as in the legislature.
Three apologies are eflered ter the continuance of these
taxes. They resent, it is said, our being inundated by a
" licentious prem.." This, however, is an assumption only ;
and, even if It were not, society can protect itself be other
and leas questionable means than financial restrictions,
which fail to suppress immoral while they limit the supply
of a healthful literature. The newepaper stamp is drien,ted
on the plea that the public 'setae an equivalent by their
exemption from postage But a large number of newspapers
are not polled at all, and A is unj.ist to make the penile pay
for abenefit which is not sop) eu.i It would be as easy to
have stamped copies for posting as it now is to have stamped
editions of periodicals foe the same purpose. But then the
amount derived fum these ears cannot possi ly be spared
from the revenue. T is obj, ction, hitherto all sufficient,
wilt not i--re much boaster. The time is coming when
chancellors, of the exchequer will have to di'pense with
taxes, the injurious effects of which they are compelled to
ad. dr. Wren •' of the six millions which our navy costs us,
one million and a quarter is wasted " ( Times), it is sheer
pretence to say that the taxes on knowledge which yield
just that sum "cannot possibly be repealed
With almost equal praise we could speak of the
Farmers' Almanac and Calendar, so indispensable to
those to whom it is addressed.

• Speech of Kr. Edward Edwards, Secretary to the Laudon Society
of Competitors, ate meettna fur advocating the removal of the dunce.
t When the alinanak duty was repealed, 210 new ammonite ap.
pared. •
It appears that W tree trimentimaimt of papas by the post le erit
In all come a full equivalent for the stamp, memo& as they can be
sent by rail to Liverpool at the rate of tte-qdrd of a Lathing each !

MUSIC.

LONDON WEDNESDAY CONCERI S.

Having already given some accounts of the plan
and management ot these concerts, we shall continue
to notice them when they present features worthy of
reticular remark. The chief attraction ot last even-
ing was the appearance of the celebrated violinist,
Herr Ernst, who has been brought to En‘lend at this
season solely by an engagement to Fvferm at
these concerts. He played two pieces ; the first was
a fantasia on themes from " Otello ;" the second was
the famous " Carnival of Venice." The fantasia
from " Otello • was a performance of the most ex-
quis to description. It was the very poetry of music;
the utmost beauty of tone and the most perfect exe-
cution being employed to speak the language of ima-
gination and feeling. The romance, "Amin al pid
d'un salice," was literally sung with a pathos and
sentiment which could not be excer ded by any vocal
performer on the opera stage. The "Carnival of
Venice" had all the grotesque quaintness that used
to be given to it by Paganini, end all the surp-ising
feats of execution which he used to achieve. Ernst 's
reception, it is hardly necessary to add, was enthu-
siastic, and, if he continue to perform at there con-
certs, he will materially contribute to their success.
The concert, on the whole, was agreeable, though
most of its mat, rigs were of a familiar description.
An overture, by Macfarren, entitled "Chevy Cosse,"
was a novelty. It is intended, of coarse, to describe
the famous battle commemorated in the old ballad;
and it accomplishes its object as well as such things
generally do—that is, not at all. With the title to
serve as a key, some relation may be discovered
between the sounds of the orchestra end the din and
contusion of battle ; but the sounds themselves, with-
out this aid, would never call up any such idea. The
overture, however, is an able composition, and ex-
hibits Mr. Macfarree's skill and ingenuity in orches-
tral writing.
The hall was full; and the applause was as vehe-
ment, and the encores as frequent as usual. These
encores are a positive infliction; three-fourths, et
least, of the concert being performed twioe over.
The calls for repetition ought not to be complied with,
unless they are evidently made by the unanimous
voice of the audience; but, at these concerts, things
of no remarkable merit are constantly crated, in
consequence of very partial calls, and in spite of
strongly.expreseed oppositon. The practice, indeed,
is becoming more and more prevalent in our theatres
and concert-rooms; and it is really time that it was
pot down as a nuisance.