The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-29 00:00:00

PART 11.

Triple Concerto, for Planoofo;ie, Vie;lin. and Vio-
loncello, Mr. Charles Halle. Herr Joachim,
and Kignnt Plattl
Duet, "How swert the moonlight sleeps" ;Kenil-
worth , Miss Edith Wynne and Mr. Cummings Sullivan.
Overture tOberon
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The orchestra was that of the Crystal Pekoe, as enlarged
for the excellent Saturday Concerts of that establishment,
conducted by the permanent conductor of those per
Mr. Maims. By such an orchestra, under
such direction, Schubert's great symphony was heard in
all its exquisite beauty and refined poetical imaginative.
ness. Thie work is a prolonged dream of the most luxu-
riant fancy ; occasionally diffuse, and offering frequent
instances of reiteration—but the did usenees of genius and
the repetitions of charming and striking passages are
never wearisome or unwelcome. To such a musical rhapso-
dist u Schubert, oisuch a talker as Coleridge, however dis-
cursive, all intelligent and cultivated hearers would gladly
allow free and unfettered scope ; yet this very symphony
of Schubert has only during recent years made its way in
England, and chiefly through the performances at the con-
eerie of the Crystal Palace, the Musical Society, and the New
Philharmonic. Of Herr Joachim's violin playing we have so
frequently spoken in terms of the highest eulogy that it
is difficult to find fresh phrases by which to characterise
hie combination of all that is great in executive art with
those higher faculties of intelligence and perception which
are requisite to give life, passion, and poetry to the music
of the great masters.

MR. YOUNG'S POEMS AND PENSION.

We (Daily News) have received the following
appeal from Lord Derby's Irish poet. We print the letter,
and leave the author to the judgment of the public.

TO THE EDITOR DV THIS DAILY NEWPI.
SIR,—As you have through misrepresentation been led
to animadvert severely on my conduct, I trust in that
spirit of fair play which is said to be the peculiar cha-
racteristic of every Englishman you will permit me to
say a few words in self defence. And here I have in the
first place to state distinctly, that the selections from my
poetry quoted by Mr. O'Reilly, M.Y., in the House of
Commons, were written by rue in early life, sonic of them
nearly 40 years ago, at a time when party politics in Ire-
land ran extremely high. and as they were among my first
efforts at song-writing, they are not to be taken as a fair
sample of my subsequent poetry. Indeed, it is very
doubtful if the first productions of any one of our
most eminent authors would pass unscathed through the
ordeal of adverse criticism. But to proceed : the verses
quoted by Mr. O'Reilly, I freely adroit I published in the
year 1840, in a volume of Constitutional Songs, Original
and Selected ; but since that time I have confined my-
self to the writing of historical, miscellaneous, and
agricultural poems and soup, so that for more than a
quarter of • century I have not written so much as a
single verse calculated to hurt the feelings of my Romani
catholic fellow countrymen, all of whom who are ac-
quainted with me I have the gratification of knowing
hold me in great respect, so much so, that
several of them (including the Right Rev. Dr.
Kelly, their bishop, and the four Roman catholic
curates of Derry) signed the memorial to the
Premier praying his lordship to kindly grant me a
literary pension. Now, sir, you must know that if I was
the violent party writer I sin represented to be this would
not have been the case.
The larger edition of my works (252 pages, 12mo), pub-
lished in 1863, which comprises historical, miscellaneous,
and agricultural poems and songs, contains but few pieces
that can be said to be of a party complexion. In the
spirit of fair plaii,t4is is the volume by which my writings
should be , and not by one of my early
works, publiah 27 years ago, and long sines out of
print. With regard to my position in life, I have been
for upwards of 33 years in connection with the newspaper
press of Derry, holding the multifarious situation of col-
lecting clerk, reporter, and paragraphiat. True it is that I
was • !mike in early life, hut I educated myself while in
that capacity, so as to be able to fill the position I have so
long occupied. To say, however, that I wee at any time of
my life a waiter, and attended Orange lodges in that capa-
city, is about as true as to state that I had once been a
ltomisb cardinal. As I have been grossly calumniated, and
as you have under an erroneous impression written strongly
against me in the Daily News of the With inst., I hops in
the spirit of fair play you will publish the foregoing brief
communication.—l am, Re. ROBERT YOUNG.
30, Strand, Londonderry, March 27.