The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-30 00:00:00

IRELAND•

DUBLIN. JUNI 28.
The testimony. of the country journals received to-
day is enccuragiag as to the health and promising
state of the crops, and especially of the potatoes.
I have compared the southern with the northern and
western papers, and, as Puff says, "their unanimity
is wonderful."
The Benchers are contemplating a course of legal
education of a more searching and comprehensive
character thanprevalisamong yourlnnsof Court. They
hare been sitting in secret council on the subject since
the appearance of Mr. Joy's stimulative pamphlet ;
but nothing definitive, or indeed auy.thing approach-
ing thereto, has been settled. It ill, however, under-
stood that the curriculum will be full and adequate.
A noble wing has lately been added to the splendid
pile in Henrietta-street, containing lecture-rooms ;
and the society is in a pecuniary condition to carry
out any scheme of instruction without the aid of the
state, the fended and annual income being very eon- ,
orderable.
The Royal Dublin Society has just received a pre-
sent, uniqee, I believe, in the history of literature.
It is a book entitled "The Traveller in the East,"
by tee of the society's members, Godfrey Levinge,
Esq. He comprised in his own person, traveller,
author, and printer.

11.81ITEST PROOPECTS.---POTATO CI:OP.—COUNTY OF
WISSPORD.—A friend, who has bad opportunities of oh-
serving the appearance of the crops generally through the
baronies of Forth, Barry, and West Shilmaller, has just
rifled to inform no -that all afford promise of extreme
abandon*. The accounts which reach no from other quar-
ters are ovally cheering.— We4ord I
COUNTY OF Down.—The crops ofnalileLta,lipotatoes not
excepted, have made rapid progress under the genial in-
fluence of the weather—Doserspotrich Recorder.
Comm' OF Itzesy.—The Trades Chronicle of Saturday
contains the following "We have mede the examination of
the potato crops one of our principal ditties of performance,
and we have found that they are equally promising. We
are not content with 'dewing the potato's surface, but we tut
them through in leveret place', and all were perfectly keg Leon
anything like disease. As regards the other crops, barley,
wheat, &e., they have a eery cheering appearance.
THE WYNTIMN COUNTIEN.—We saw no indication of •
failure in the potato, nor did we hear any complaints—in-
deed, we never remember wing that crop looking better at
this season of the year.—S4o Champion.
We have visited Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon, and a great
portion of this county within the week. From our own ob-
servation and inquiri,s, we are enabled to report most
favourably of the appearance of the crops, particularly the
potato. Wheat is fully in ear, and requires but little ten-
shine to bleach the straw.—Galway Vindicator,
COUNTY or Conn.—The accounts which we are daily
receiving from the country with respect to the crops con-
tinue to be most cheering ; and, in particular, those relating
to the potato crop go far to convince every person in this
locality that the effects of the late fearful calamity, in
regard to this root, will be retrieved in much less time than
was at first contemplated. The finest new potatoes have
been selling for the lest few days in our markets at 2d. per
lb. ; but, in the course of the newt week, it 10 expected they
will be as low as le. 4d. a weight of 2111*. All the other
crops are in the most flourishing condition, and the immense
quantities of oats which have been sown in the early part of
the season promises a most abundant crop. All apprehension
of a seare;ty of food has completely subsided in this quarter.
—Cork Reporter.
The Londonderry Standard, speaking of the potato crops
in the north ; the Rallinaeloe Star, for the raidlandewatiem
and the Cork Reporter, for the south—say, that no well-
authenticated ow of disease had, up to Saturday lam, been
discovered ; while the former paper tells us where " 40 eat-
able potatoes" were found at the stem of a tingle plant!
The Reporter mentions some remarkable facts to prove the
luxuriance of the any, ; and the Ballinalloe Star exhorts the
farmers to realise while the markets are high; cautions
them against the rumours of potato disease, and decline
that even if it should destroy the crop this year, the corn
'nuke* must recede from the immense harvest that may be
fairly calculated upon.
CNILLOW.—We continue to receive accounts of the potato
crop, both from the landed proprietary and extensive farmers
who concur in the opinion that the crop never looked so
healthy at this season, and that the fields which were sup-
sed to be effected with the blight, are actually improving.
This intelligence will prove gratifying to the country.—
Carlow Sentinel.

WATIRPORD.—The potato-crop is in a very healthy and
forward state. Last week we travelled over twenty miles
of the several districts surrounding this town, and took some
pains, both by inquiry and personal observation, to ascertain
the condition of the potato crop, and we have much gratifiat•
tion in being enabled tones that weber° not seen or learned
a single potato-garden to be affected with the disease. --
Waterford Chronicle.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The amount of rent for the
week ending on Monday was declared t) be 771.
SCOTLAND•

EDINBURGH, 3.VNE 28.
It does not seem to have been without reason that
the bill for the incorporation of Trinity College,
Perth, has been narrowly watched. Wherever en-
dowments could be laid hold of, much scruple has not
been shown in the attempt to secure them. Amongst
other proposed appropnati.ons is the following :—ln
1830 a party left 5001., the interest of which was,
under the patronage of 'ate bishops of Aberdeen, to be
applied to the literary education, at Nfarischal College,
of that city, of young men intended for the ministry
of the Scotch episcopal church. The bill says, with
great simplicity, that the "interests of the College of
the 1101!? and Undivided Trinity would be greatly
promoted" by the transference of the bequest; and
it is farther added, that " the present Bishop of
Aberdeen is willing to consent to the arrange-
ment ;" but it does not appear to have occurred to
the framers of the bill that the consent of the Senates
Academicus of Marischal College is quite as necessary
as the acquiescence of the ordinary of Aberdeen.
Glasgow University has ten exhibitions at Baliol Col-
lege, Oxford, each tenable for ten years ; also an
endowment for four Scotch students at same college.
Are they to be conveyed too? or is Oxford too heavy
metal to be meddled with? The Bell Lecture, on the

Madras system of education, is also to be transferred
from Edinburgh to Glenalmond ; but as this course
never excited much public attention, its absence from
the metropolis is of no great moment.
A meeting is this evening to be held in Glasgow for
the purpose of raising funds for the defence of the
crew of the barque James Campbell, to be tried at
the approaching Exeter assize for piracy. About 301.
has already been collected.

IMPORT OF GRAIN.—On7u-rs .—tlay, Wednesday, and Thar,-
day last no less than 12,881 quarters of grain were imported
into Leith, namely :-1,143 quarters of wheat, 10,793 quarters
of oats, and 825 quarters of barley. The vessels in which
the groin was brought were asfollow --The Oerbruder, with
373 quarters of wheat ; the Margarets, with 270 ditto ; the
Agnes with 500 ditto ; the South Ehk, with 1,670 quarters
of oats; the Enterprise, with 1,380 ditto; the Arethuaa,
with 980 ditto; the Sprays+, with 1,600 ditto; the Maga-
rsta, with 1,051 ditto; the Inverness, with 367 ditto; the
Norval, with 1,770 ditto, the Elizabeth, with 1,152 ditto;
the Agues, with 823 ditto; the Arethttsa, with 445 quarters
of barley; and the Inverness with 480 ditto. We learn that
on the 14th of June twenty six vessels passed the Sound for
different British porta; and that on the 15th seventy-six
vessels passed—making a total of onehundred and two vessels
in two days. The Union Grove, which arrived at Aberdeen
on the 19th instant from the Baltic, reports that she left at
Riga 1,200 vessels leading. These facts must be highly gra-
tifying.—Scotanown.
GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAND ASSOCIATION FOP.
PROMOTION Or THE FINE ARTS.—On Monday a meeting of
the members of this association was held in Carrick's lintel,
James Lumsden, Esq., in the chair. C. Hamilton, Esq., the
secretary, read an interim report of the committee of manage-
ment. It proposed that the name of the association
should henceforth be " The Glasgow Art Union," and
that the system of money pricers should be adopted. The
prize picture of last veer—" Prince Charles Edward"—
had been engraved, and was in course of distribution to each
member. A gentleman in Edinburgh had placed at the use
of the committee a picture, " The Harvest Field," for en-
graving for next year's distribution, without charge. The
rules and regulations, drawn up from those of the London
Art-Union, were then submitted, as also the draft of a pe-
tition to the Privy Council, applying for license. The re-
' poet, the regulations, with a few verbal alterations, and the
petition were agreed to; as also a recommendation by Mr.
Hutchinson that the committee of management take the
earliest opportunity of appointing two honorary secretaries
and a treasurer, with powers to appoint a paid secretary and
assistants to promote the intere,ta of the institution.—Scot-
Ur* Guardian.
ATRSIIIRE.—Under the influence of continued genial
weather, the crops around Ayr are making rapid progress.
Several fields in the vicinity of the town and along the Doon
are now in the shot-blade. Two fine stalks of oats, in ear,
have been sent to our office, pulled on Tuesday last, trom a
field on the farm of Herelaw Mains, in the parish of Ste-
venston, possessed by Mr. James Smith. If the weather
keeps favourable a few days, we are told, the field will be
wholly in ear. There are some oat fields in ear in the parish
of Ardroasan ; and Mr. Thomas Chambers, farmer in Muir-
side, Kilwilling, has a quantity of wheat in ear.—Ayr
Adv.:rimer.
HERILING TRADE. Ts usulo, JUNE 17.—Therehas not been
much doing in the trade since our last report. Only a few
boats have got ready for sea yet. Last night there was nine
boats out, the highest had nearly two mans. The fishermen
state that the bay was quite full of fish, and they were only
prevented from having some good hauls by the dearness of
the night. By next week all our boats will be ready for sae.
—Wick, June 10.—We have had 486 barrels of Lews' her-
rings landed here •ince our last report, making a total of
1,459 barrels imported this season. A few prime herrings
were caught on the hooks early in the week. They were all
used for bait. Several unsucceeaful attempts have been made
since. An effort will be made with nets very soon.—Latest
accounts from Stettin are a shade more favourable. The
potato blight had not made its appearance, which had a
natural tendency to raise prices. No decided reaction will,
however, take place until the season is so far advanced as to
enable parties to know definitely the result of that crop.
Everywhere along the east coast preparations for the ap-
proaching fishing are being made, both by fish-curers and
fishermen. From present appearances, the number of boats
fishing at the various stations will be under that of previous
yeah.—John &Graaf Jourvia/.

PROVINCIAL.
CHESHIRE.
CLONING or BIRKENHEAD DOCKA AND DOCK WORKS.
_ .

Aearne;truiof the Birk-¢bead Commissioners, herdYes-
terday, Mr. Mallaby entered into an important official state-
' meat, from which it appears that at the present moment the
commissioners have no money. The Woods and Forests
were disposed to lend them 50,01:10/. ; they could not, how-
ever, take the money out of the Exchequer, but they could
borrow it on security of the property. It appears, however,
that there is a disputed title. The corporation of Liverpool
:Jaime a riglt to a portion of the Strand ; the lords of the
manor the saute ; the crown also : and till that is settled, it
will be seen, from the following resolution, which was
adopted, the commiaaioners are disposed to suspend all the
works till the title is made good, on the understanding that
government will support their bill in the House of Lords :
Resolved.—That the Commissioners of Woods and Foredo be
applied to for the &anent of the crown to the new dock bill, and a
pudge be given that the trust [boot expend any further aunts on the
works, or for the one of the duck works, till the title is secured; that
they proceed to recover the money due to them from ail debtor., and
take seeps to ascertain and settle the title of all claimants.

ATTEMPTED REMOVAL OF AN ALTAH-PIECE.—The vicar
of St. Mary's, Nottingham, has calmed much discussion in
the town by an attempt to remove, or rather to prevent the
future exhibition of, a picture pressuted to his church u an
altar-piece. The picture is said to haw iced 8001. In a
letter to the load tom the rev. endows stir:
IVlten I become Inseoinst et the whit at IL leery, in 1844, I
heard that sneh • pietas Was la sileasses, but I hod least : it had
been sot but by the eltureinordos
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my doge et audit.. ,[ll dime. It me says
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Users. Oat *too et Mel@ ant set Intel owenente
In namebso end Set the =Yen (a The Tlege Int CORM kilo-
tientne synionnt ears esinO, sad be Ors
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may hoc gnus segeseden is thst dOnelielse-thet ft row
sand/ be robeed k shwa dein ay Inseolneey. there.
tooth ike helm MOWOs the gielens Bre to noon lint It might
be rammed boo a well qt the overrn* mama ap, and
plated In anethee Illasnes throb. wines It see net Obisiet=ry ;
Oda wee siseringly dean hal a Otarbt of It
Eros the Ono Ono see Oa lisping on the Mb of
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hewed Is the news; nisi am me sod sonseed his wub that the
druid be londireed be lii.Cred wooeeldende leeal twine. Handbills appeared
upon the was, and a hot controversy was cosseeneed in the
load newsroom The subjoined letter displays the feelings
of the enlistment to the affiir :
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[one 1127.-Osstferstsa.-1 hen only jest boa OM a genes Ira
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picture glom sari yens
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nor of the ardsh. at that kiss. I beg le lama yes thse the The-
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meaty, are min ary guerdiraint es oiler" and ihst ao Pro-
perty of the done Is at the dewed of arty wary sessalg wherwer,
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thuds on k was bite the tenet anseethr led ryas task ylso.
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freshet cannier qpiiim
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DROPORDOEIRL
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PROPOSED New BISHOPRIC FOR BRDPOR.D.—fIe serious
attention both of the clergy and laity in tTtis diatriet has long
been directed to the establishment of a bishopric for the
surrounding counties, Bedford being the centre. A few days
ago a meeting was held at Bedford, at which the arch
deacon attended, and it was then resolved that a memorial
should be forwarded to her Majesty's Ecclesiastical Com
atisiooers upon the subject; and a form of memorial was
thereupon adopted. For sonic time subsequent to the
Reformation Bedford possessed • auffragsa bishop ;
and it is recorded that Dr. John Hodgskio, Bishop
of Bedford, assisted at the consecration of Arch-
bishop Parker, and of other bishops immediately

on the 'cornice of Queen Elisabeth. With regard
to the claims of modern Bedford to be the seat and
title of the proposed see, the memorial states that Bedford
is the seat of an ancient arehdeacenry ; that at the present
time there are thirteen resident clergy, including the masters
of the grammar-school; that Bedford, with Biggleswade,
Leighton Buzzard, and other places, supplies prebendaries
attached to Lincoln Cathedral, which might be available as
honorary canonries in the new cathedral. As far as a build-
ing is concerned, the difficulty, says the Bedford Times,
is trifling, the old collesriate church of St. Paul being of
large extent and oonveruendy situated. Other claims are
set forth, as the geese eshelessin and charitable endowments,
the geographicel pasition et Bedford, and the great popula-
tion of the district.

LAND THAT HIGHT HE MADE UNISPUL.—Mr. Trelawny,
M.P., has obtained a return respecting the administration
and management of the Now Forest, which contains many
curious and Important particulars. It appears the forest
consists of 65,992 acres. Of these, 6,600 are inclosed for the
growth of timber, and -2;507, Including New Park, which
consists of 230 acres, are under cultivation. The income of
the forest in the year 1846-7, amounted to 9,0361., and the
expenditure to 10,495/. ; the excess of expenditure for
the year being 1,4691., and the average excess of expen-
diture beyond the income Ir. ing, for the host five years,
8471. For the lost eight years no timber has been sup-
plied from the forest for any public purposes. The
number of deer kept in the year 1846 was 4,683, the
number of deer killed in 1846 was 969, leavlig, it is
said, 3,552 in the year 1846, so that the actual increase in
one year of 4,000 deer was only 72. The officers of the
forest are entitled to 36 bucks annually. The buck fen s of
the groomkeepers, or gamekeeper, amount to about 2361. a
year-102 bucks only being killed in 1846. The officers of
the forest entitled to a salary are—the rangers, who receive
eive
21. 13s. ; the bow-bearer, who receives 21. ; o
Thorahill, the deputy surveyor, who receives 3501. a
year ; his assistant, Mr. Reed, who receives a year;
Mr. White, the Lord Warden's steward, who occupies the
Great House at Lyndhurst and has seven acres of land,
who receives 1101. a year ; three regarders get about 241.
each ; four regarders get nothing ; and four less than the
sum of 101 though at au election of regarder, in May last,
nearly 2,000 freeholders were polled at Winchester by the
sheriff of the county in a contest for this office. The
gamekeepers, 15 in number, each receive from 1101. to
1301. a year, with a residence, and the occupation of from
8 to 26 acres of land each. Such is the report of the ad-
ministration of the forest. It supports a few public officers,
it is maintained at a loss to the country, it affords no timber
for public purposes, 64 gentlemen have a right to shoot over
it, and some 3,000 or 4,400 deer range over 68,000 unenclosed
acres of land, The Hampshire Telegraph says : The great
evil of the extensive waste of the New Forest is that it
separates a populous and rich district of the north of
Ham hire from the coast, depriving it of facilities et sp-
to the harbours of Lymington and Christchurch.
C.Why at this time it should be allowed to exist is in-
explicable. Supposing it were enclosed, the capital
it would constantly employ would not be less than
51. an acre, or upwards of 300,000/. a year. Instead
of having an expenditure of 10,0001. a year, ax at
present, this greater • sum would circulate over the dis-
trict. Extensive rights of common exist, but they do
not differ from similar rights of common which the legis-
lature has frequently extinguished, and even if in the
division of the forest the share of the government !should
be small, the increased income it would obtain from the
expenditure resulting from its being brought into cultiva-
tion, from the villages and towns it would bring into
existence, and from the augmented trade of the coast,
would be far larger than the total annual sum, exclusive
of its expenditure, which it now obtains. It would also
Rut an end to many very grave and serious evils. The in-
jury which farmers living on the borders of the forest sustain
from the encroachment of the deer is very serious. Many
instances could be mentioned of crops of wheat, oats, and
fields of turnips being ravaged by them, and commeinta
made to the officers et the forest merely met with a formal
notice. The labour and expenditure of months are some-
times destroyed in a night from the ravages of those animsh,
which are preserved in a wild state for no public purpose
whatever. If property has its duties as well as its rights,
such duties are not performed by the government. It is the
duty of him who owns lands to cultivate it, to aid the insti-
tution of schools for the children of labourers, and to contri-
bute to their religious instruction ; but over nearly 60,000
acres there is no cultivation, there are no schools aided by
the government, and there is no assistance given for the reli-
gious education of poor people who live nasty miles from a
parish church.
nvroßastithE.

ML.1.M410.2.2.nr.•
Tug CHARTIST LAND AND BUILDING COMPANY.—A free-
hold estate, consisting of about 300 acres, late the property
of John Walker, Esq. (deceased), situated at Minster Lovell,
near Witney, was sold by auction at the latter place, on
Thursday last. The purchaser wan Faugus O'Connor,tsq.
of chartist celebrity.. Some commotion took place immedi-
ately after the termination of the sale, when it was known
who had become the purchaser. The estate is bought for the
Chartist Land and Building Company, who intend dividing
it into small freeholds, and build cottages, by which a
vote for the county of Oxford will be conferred on each occu-
pant. The solicitors to the trustees, Messrs. Lee and Payne,
considered that the estate had made a fair market price—
viz., 9,0001.
COMMISSIONS RY TRE LORD LIETTENANT.—Comet W.
Evetts to be lieut.. vice Lord A. S. Churchill, resigned . • 11.
Barnett, Gent, to be cornet, vice Butts, promoted, of the
Queen's Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

ifint arts.
EARLY ITALIAN NIASTERS.—A very interesting col-
lection of pictures by the early Italian masters, will be mold
this day by Messrs. Foster and Son, of 54, Pall-mall. The
collection was formed by the well-known William Young
Ottley, and is quite a study in its way—rich in the history
of art and in materials for the proper elucidation of the
principles of oil•paintiag. Mr. Eutlalte, in his new book
about oil-painting, makes very particular mention of this
collection. Some of the faces are exquisitely beautiful—as
if the painter had wrought and always wrought just Irish
from his devotions. The student in art should make a wry
careful examination of this collection.

HE7.EKIAII.—This is the title of an oratorio, com-
posed by Mr. George Petry, the leader of the Sacred Har-
monic Society's orchestra, and performed on Monday even-
ing at the Hanover-square Rooms. Mr. Perry is au ortho-
dox karmoniet of the old school, well read in Handel, the
English ecclesiastical composers, and in the sacred works of
Haydn, bluest, and the other German masters of the last
century, with whose ideas and phraseology he has made him-
self so familiar that he is constantly mistaking them for his
own. He seems, in short, to have done all that labour and
study can do to make a composer ; but he unfortunately
wants that, without which labour and study are useless--the
" mens divinior "—the power of creating new forms of
grandeur and beauty. His music is merely a tissue of remi-
niscences. We are constantly reminded of Handel, Croft,
Boyce, Haydn, and Mozart. All the scholastic, worn-out
forms of oratorio writing are retained. E' cry chorus is a fugue,
worked out with as much elaboration and attention to rule as
if it were an exercise in counterpoint ; and the recitatives
and airs are made up of phrases of melody which have been
used a thousand times. Everything, it is true, is put to-
gether in a musician-like style. The subjects of fugue in
the choruses are correctly and skilfully treated, and the
masses of harmony are well distributed among the different
parts The vocal solos ere smooth, and " lie well"
for the voice ; and the instrument. are often in-
geniously and effectively eombined. Indeed, it was the
instrumentation only which gave anything like freshness to
the music. These being the general impressions made upon
us by the whole work, it is unuecesoary to make remarks on
its parts. The subject of the oratorio is the return of the
Israelites to the worship of the true God in the reign of
Hesekiah. and the destruction of the Assyrian army who
invaded Judea under Sennacherib. The piece was wen per-
formed. The principal singers were Miss Birch, Miss Dolby,
Mr. Lockey, and Mr. Phillips; sod the orchestra and chorus
were very good. But no ability or care on the part of the
performers could give vitality to such a compilation.
MADAME AND HERR GOFFRIE'S CONCERT.—A Ma-
tinee musicale was given by these artiste yesterday in the
Beethoven Rums in Harley-street. M. Goffrie is well
known as an excellent violinist, whose talents as • quartet
player have been in great request for several seasons at the
best entertainment, of classical chamber music. Madam
Goffrie is a young English lady who has not previously cap
peered in public, but who, on this occasion, showed herself
to be an accomplished pianist. Yesterday's matmee was
quite a concert de salon, composed chiefly of instrumental
music of the first clam. Beethoven's famous " Kreutser
Sonata " for the pianoforte and violin was ex, cuted
by Madame Goffrie and young Joachim in a manner
which gave us greater pleasure than we ever re
ceived from it before. The pure text of the author was
given with the utmost beauty, energy, and expremioa,
with-
out ostentatious display, and unadulterated b' the affected
readings and extraneous ornaments which we have too often
heard introduced into it by performers of very high name.
Beethoven's quartet in E minor (the second of the cele-
brated Ruoumoffsky set), was performed by Joachim,
Goffrie, Hill, sod lisuareann, in a manner which lett no-
thing to be desired. The other instrumental pieces were,
Mendelssohn's Caprice for the pianoforte, with double quar-
tet accompaniment., and Muyuder's gerund pianoforte
Trio, in which the " principal part was sustained by
Madame Goffrie, whose whole performance pleased us,
net more by her power of hand than by her excellent
taste and unaffected simplicity of style. There were
several vocal pieces, of which the most interesting were
two German songs, composed by Macfarrtn, and sung by
Madame Macfarren. The first was Margaret's song from
" Faust," "Der Khnig von Thuhle," a wild romantic
bared of much beauty and expression ; the other was a
graceful causonet, called " Ala ich von dim Oeliebte." They
are not published, we believe, but deserve to beeline po-
pular. Madame Macfarren's voice is a contralto of fine
quality and uncommon depth, and she sings with much Is
and feeling. She has yet to acquire greater firmness and
finish, but she is young, and evidently making rapid pro-
grass. Miss Messeut made the mistake, common among our
oung English singers, of doing imperfectly what is done
sonaitely by the great singers of Italian '
bravura air from Verdi's " Er -
ble, like Castellau, to impart "
darns of her execution.

THE BEETHOVEN QUARTET
and last sassing fee this
Harley-street, on Meaday
Haydn's in D raiser, No.
thoven's in C, No. 9 ; and
They were executed by the
being taken alternately by
with enthusiastic applause by
the room but the passage and

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' doing imperfectly what is dame
;gen of the Italian stage. She sang
; " Ernani " to which she Nita us-
part beauties not ito own by the
AILTET SOCIZTY hill itii eighth
season in the Beethoven Rooms,
I evening. The quartets wen,
o. 22 ; Mozart's in F, No. 8.
id Beethoven's in B fiat 44 NT a
, venal performers, the ' ..., It.t„o Mg
Joachim and Sainton, an i-, , „•-•
by an audience who fill • - :-;!. 'oc
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and ante-rAm.—The dirry: - ,e li.
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