The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-09 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY &SWING, APk I fig d 1860.

MUSIC.

EASTER EVE

AT WINDSOR

CANTLE.
On Saturday evening there vreasgreet pert
deemed mai; given by the Queen and bib BCC* Highnelt
' the Priors Consort to a large party of distinguished gmente.
Our readers will find elsewhere the details of this enter.
tainment contained in the Court Circular; but ite re-
markable character, and its importance in connexion with
the date and progress of music in thin country, call for •
few words of special notice.
The performance =raided of Haydn's Oretedth the Rs&
slowti or tAc lad Wont, of our Saviour on the Oren; A wet
which, notwithstanding its toiniceudentanlihiglity earlbearetry,
and its celebrity throughout the whole unethel world. • bag
remained down to the present time unknown in this emu:
try, unless to a few students and lovers of the art ; ant its
production on this occasion had the effect of almost tote.
Novelty. It is • work of • very singalm kind ; and, though
it may not improperly be called an centorica seeing Mid
tharo is no other class of Musk to rhiCk it samba referred)
yet its form and character are entirely peculiar. It ammonite
posed by Haydn for a great religious solemnity called the Es.
Novo, or7u nem] of the Redeemer, which took place at 'Writ..
A priest preached upon each of the "seven wads" in sae.
crests, &sinter's* being tiled up with appreprimie mod*
Fseh of the " words," or phrases, uttered by the DIA.'
Poem, was rang by the choir in a Gregorian cheat, sad
framed by i ehareeteeiatie indramental movement per.
E.
:...,,,x;i7ihnally an instrumental rurhmental work.rn W
thil
added to the - Instrumental score choral
for %owes in fotii"iti4l.l each movement Bina am
of form a ' ' ee milieu, ennetpeded by
a jimr• instraierlig ..111L4111 belleeettnid in Jane of
Haydn's biographimt=vocal pas
.wary added liy Nye
compose?. Mother, lilncthe greatest
ecclesiastical musician' d hr mof
But though, Itieinel
Haydn was certainly competent to achieve the task, greet
as it was, yet it was actually performed by Joseph Haydi
himself —a fact established by the preface to the Leipsig
edition of the work published in IBM.. This oratorio be-
longs to a late period of the composer's life ; but the powers
el his oda& se we see from his Oesdiers, and tent
hie eragimeeire sad qtasetak, oust on, gas* strewth mid
4041gap4400,..?.. the wits .1* 4 kit **Po
cover, msd there m none of his works in which the firs a
his genius burns more brightly than in the Seven Words
of Christ. The subject was congenial to the deeply reli-
gious tone of his mind ; end the varied passions and emo-
tiosseonveyed by the several movements are expressed and
depicted with a truth, farm and beauty which even Bach
and Handel have not surpassed.
The performance was worthy of the work. The chorus
was large, select, and powerful, and the orchestra consisted
of the Queen's private band, strongly reinforced by a
number of the best instrumental performers. The solo
parts were sung by Mire Louisa Fyne, Miss Lamellas,
Mr. aims Reeves, sad Mr. Bentley. Mr. W. O. Cumin.
was at the organ ; and the whole performance wag
under the direction of Mr. Anderson, to whom must be
merit.] the merit of the complete state of the preparations,
and consequently the precision and effect with which every
, pert of the music was executed.

In ■peaking of this performance we wish especially to
advert (as we have done on former oomisions) to the high,
refined, and classical character of the magical entertain.
menu of the Riiiiii4 Wilt Susie u well known to be Otte oi
bbv sovereign lady's many accomplishment. ; and her royal
consort is more than an amateur—he in an artist,
pouessed of knowledge and skill. It is not surprising, there-
fore, that the muses selected by these august persons fur the
entertainment of those who have the honour of being their
guests should be worthy of their own taste and intelligence ;
and yet the public are probably not aware that many great
weeks of genius have been first made known in this country
by their performance at the concerts of the court. Such •
course is of inestimable benefit in promoting the progress of
good music in England. When royalty, uin our happy
country, is the exemplar of all that Is great and good —of
virtue in monds and of purity in taste—royalty itself may
he justly esteemed one of the greatest of our liplisaiop.

Tun Hums-Townro AT SIM ALB AAAAA .—We
have received hem Nina Asides, who appeared at the
Alhambra Pathos as • bona-tamer, a letter complaining
that the subjects upon which she practised were described
in oar report es ies. Miss Ashton says—" One
was • three-yearnlil colt which had never been
bridled until a few minutes before he was led
into the arena, and he has not been shod ; he
stands 14 bands 3 inches high. The other was also a
three.year-01l colt, very riser 15 hands high, but from the
great depth of straw in the circle they would certainly
appear less to punnet uwocustomed to horses." The id-
eount of the hybrid given in Miss Ashton'. advertisement
WAS furnished by the owner of the animal, a most respectable
mar. Miss Ashton claims the unexcited condition of the
animals under her management as a proof of the superiority
el her system. The lady writes :-" It would have been
easy to excite them to moaned had I wished to be as cruel
and brutal als I hear other professors of the art have been.
Bat there was no necessity for dR Colts are like children,
and the better they are treated the sooner you gain their
electrum and ready obedience to your will ; and a t was not
sy iutentiou during my last, neither will it be in my future,
ezpaition to ill-treat the subjects confided to my charge
far the sake of gratifying a morbid testa." These principle..
We are informed, are also those of Mr. 'leiter, who subdued
the bull on the same occasion, a triumph the honours of
which our reprt, through • misapprehension of what was
al at the beginning of the representation, cave to another
tleman.
Tun KxoomstrincAncot—First, observe the ex-
tent of the cures, the breadth of the Christian world blasted
by his Bulletin. Not sorely are all excommunicated who
have taken part in the sinful insurrection in the lionnin
previews, iu usurping, occupying, or invading them, but
an who have been their warranter., supporters, helpers,
counsellors, follower., as well SA all who have con-
nived at the don* of the mid deeds. There are perhaps
Not three hundred men in Italy who are not included
in this far•reachinc and ell-comprehending underlie-
lion. The Pope, by this darning instrument, expels from
the church nine-tenths of the catholic world, and leaves
himself, indeed, no spiritual subjects beyond the college
of cardinals, some *core of prieda, end perhaps
here and there a handful of servile laymen. The curd
falls upon Naples awl Venetia as heavily and sweep-
ingly as upoe Mardian and the Romagna. As • spi-
ritual monarch, the Pepe may now be said to reign
over a solitude, and one al known creation. Be s a their
herd who ham made away with his dock. In all his
neaten:. he ,an now count only the few black sheep. Re
might almost address his Antimelli as the lover in lihullus
el reuses his mistrese--" Mra herlps is ealie 10641." The
other states Italy expelled their princes. In the Roane
State the Prince expels his people. In both cases the seve•
Trine. is equally complete and formal. His Holiness has
not waited to he tuned out of his dominions ; lee has anti.
cipitri the popular sentence, and turned out or excouthiu-
ruciated his suhjcts. This is the meet tremendous sacrifice
of tie moms that ever priest or pontiff oelebrated.—
Ennatiterr.

LITERAMiIE.

le it net Written? being the Scripture A
a against Romanian. By EDWARD 8. 7171:,
A.B. Smith, rider, and Co.
If the publication of this volume were only
one mops addition to the outbursts of zealotry
ograinat Popery and the the
of which we have
io, many, we should not notice it. it is, however,
we of a class of books which will be not only use-
ful, but indispensable as 'long as Christian men
,held different tlpinions on the very foundations of
their faith. Every Protestant ought to know, not
only why we have thrown a the' ecclesiastical yoke
of Rome, but why we reject the doc-
trines out of which Pail lk.etensiont. grow.
vin There is nothing inconsistent with ' the truest
charity in this inquiry. It is 'not in
paling sincerely and humbly, What is truth I
that men get angry with one another, but in seek-
ing how beat they may justify their separation into
parties and sects. Mr. Pryce has here given us
within a moderate compass a complete Into-mary of
the controversy with Roam, cionfining himself simply
lo its religious bearings. He has done so with ability
and learning, and also with fairness and candour,
tg the inguments on both sides on all the prin-
pal goints *lash Protestants dis&te with mem-.

tea of th•-ypu, and else to the um of *le boo
at rho, te* a front the nteens ,eif •ad-:-:. longer ye
;final study ve ah great an interest es-the wispier
the d wtdeth vitally distinguish Pro
,antison f ' lidg.. •• •

Neikali Ike Nrsanoj Dramatic Poem, in Five
by Gorruomr An Lamm.
froui•the Gersya by Dr. ADOLPHUS Rine.;
W. Bennett, BBi piwte Without.
Criticism, alternately with poetical composition,
exercised the poems= and comprehensive genius of
Leering, whose . soliievemente by doctrine and
example, as • bid reformer of the teste and
scholarship of his coquetry , well earned him the
epithet of the/Luther el German National Litera-
ture." Ina more earnest spirit than Voltaire, and
with an intenie, love of the truth for
its own sake, he also applied to reE-
gious and philosophical subjects the test of
an inquiring rationalism. Perhaps the function
which he chiefly disgliarged, and by which he has
continued greatly le inlinence the German mind
down to our own day, may be defined as that of
humanist. It was remarked of him by Madame de
Steel, that "ia. Criticism was a treatise on the
human heart,":aisithe moral education of humanity
in its highest and ullest purport wan the object he
constantly_kept in view. This aim inspired him,
in the noble &lima of "Nathan the Wise," to in-
culcate by the mutual friendship of • generous
Templar sada worthy Israelite, with the virtues of
Moslem Paladin into the bargain, a lesson of thee.
logical tolerance.
Dr. Reich ham prefaced his translation with
biography of Leming, and an amount of his works,
for which we thank him ; but however correct in
his appreiiition of German things and persons in
the last century, we cannot place much reliance on
his estimate of the general history of modern
opinion in other oountries than his own, seeing that
he spooked-Voltaire as " the French atheist." The
version itself is faithful and exact, but, as English
blank vase, no better than might have been ex-
pected.

The French &volution of 1789, as Viewed in the
Light ofpublican Institutions. By JOB?,
B. C. Asir. New York : Harper Brothers.
London : peon Low.
As an entertaining, graphic narrative of the wild
scenes of passion, crune, and conflict which raged
in Paris seventy years ago, this American work
may do fur popular reading. It is superficial, im-
perfect, and m many details inaccurate enough ;
the style is that of commonplace declamation
and exaggerated sentimentalism, reminding us
utf the romantic tales in a penny weekly journal.
The reflections are neither very critical nor strikingly
original ; and when we have been informed that
the Bastille was "the demon soul of demoniac
despotism," we are not surprised at the impar-
tiality with which the author subeequenty censures
the republicans Carrier and hie accomplices, for
".demons could not have been more infernal in
inereilewinees." This melodramatic tint and light
of blue fire pervades Mr. Abbott's " History"
throughout, and renders its perusal a highly
exciting occupation. The pages are adorned
with a hundred clever woodcut,, illustrating
by very spirited and lively sketches the must inte-
resting localities and incidents of the revolution.
The frootispieoo is a steel engraving, with the
stately figure Of Magi Ar.4oiatte. totted atm the
famous picture by Paul Delaroche. Altogether,
if this fast and flashy production cannot qquite
supersede the work of the "historians earuesod in
regal court, and baronial halls," who are charged
by Mr. Abbott with having misrepresented the
French revolution, it will prove an agreeable sti-
mulant to the feelings and imagination of a large
class of readers.

A Review of the Crimean War, to the Winter of
1864-5. By Bent.-Colonel Jona ADY; C. 8.,
late Assistant Adjutant-General, Royal Artillery.
Hurst and Blaekett.

The gallant officer who here bears his testimony
to the conduct of our generals and army until the
end of 1864 was perfectly well situated and well
qualified to form a correct professional opinion of
all that was done. His notes and comments
on those memorable transactions and those
moving accidents of camp and battle-field will
prove exceedingly serviceable to the military
student, and perhaps to the future histo-
ria.n. He earnestly vindicates Lord Raglan
from the undeserved imputations upon his care and
skill which the uudiscniniusting displeasure of a
disappointed public at home, and the hasty cen-
sures of superficial critics not practically conversant
with the operations of war, impatiently heaped
upon him. There is uo doubt that both our staff
and commissariat were badly organised, and, to
some extent, administered by very incompetent
persona ; but we need not dispute Colonel Adye'a
assertion that the main cause of our losses and
disasters was the lack of previous preparation for
such a campaign. His remarks, however, upon the
newspaper press, and upon the supposed mischiefs
of publicity, we must entirely repudiate.
Dictionary of Christian Churches and tiects from the
Earliest Ages of Christianity. By the Rev. J. B.
MAIIIIDCN. Bentley.
Our very favourable opinion of this work was
expressed when it first appeared. We name it now
to mention that Mr. Bentley is republishing it in
shilling parts. The present pert contains among
many other good papers the beet summary, within
a moderate compass, we have seen of the history
of the great Au 10-catholic movement, the com-
mencement of which was marked by the pub-
lication of the "Tracts for the Times." The
whole work is characterised by great candour,
and deserves the more extended publicity which
the spirit of the publisher is likely to secure for it.
--
Handbook of Dairy Husbandry. By JOHN ORAL-
MORTON. Lungmaus.
This little volume, which, consisting of 120
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new series of cheap handbooks of the several sec-
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plete in itself, while the series will forma handy
library of reference for the farmer, the bailiff ead
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