The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-24 00:00:00

ROYAL ACADEMY OF MI:SIC.

The first concert of this season, for the exhibition
of the pupils, took place on Tuesday at the Institution in Ten-
terden-street. As usual in time of Lent, the vocal portion
connoted of anent' mune; and it wsa in coon queer° of this,
we pp resume, that no specimens ware brought forward of the
cy of the pupil. in composition, the highest branch
of the art, and that which ought to bold the chief place in a
great national school of music.
The concert was an azoallent selection from the weeks of
the great masters. Several movements of Beethoven's Mass
in C —the " &actin.," Besedietus," "Agana Del," and
" Dona nobis pacem "—were extremely sell performed, the
solo pasta being sung by Miss Boweroft, Kiss Laura Baner,
Ociodban, and Mr. %diverge. Miss Wyatt and Mies
Bromley, two young ladies of promising taknts, sang the
duet, "I waited for the Lord," trim Mendelandan's Loh*.
mop. Miss Laura Baxter gang the air, Return, 0
Ood of Hoots," from &mem. This was a very
nalarkabie perbmance. Mies Baxter lose a deep
and ;powerful contralto voice, and sang Swedes pathe-
tic =Body with an expression and execution that would have
done besour to • 'calla of established name. Mies Emlly
Beelines performance of " I know that my Redeemer
'Nett" did her l,keweo great honour. She has a clear
oweet soprano voice, and evidently much feeling; her
method is pure, and her style his delicacy and refinement.
There wee a ghost selection from Coete's EN consisting of
the Morning and Evening Prayer, sung by Mils
Bromley and MN Kate Shepherd, with the Chortle
of Angela, accompanied on the harp by Mime
Fanny Baikal/7; and than wee Ruesinee cherusee for
female voice., "Fed.," " fiperanu," and " Cog. ;" the
principal parts sung by Mies Wyatt end Mies Spiller. In
all these vocal perti.nnaircem it will be °Nerved, the Talents
of the young ladies only wen exhibited; the male pupils
bad nothing to do but to take part in two or three diorama.
We hope they will have their turn next time, trusting that
they are competent to take It. The principal instrumental per-
formances were Mosobelee's pianoforte fastens, " Au chin
de la Inns,- 'very nicely. played by Miss Johnstone, and
Mozart's quartet in 0 minor for the pin)°, violin, viola, and
violoncello, played by Mr. O. H. Thomas, Mr. F. J. Amor,
Mr. F. Westlake, end Hr. W. H. Aylward. The young
pianist (wbo is a Kiag's scholar) is evidently a buy of ex-
traordinary talent. He bas yet to acquire greater strength
uf hand ; but his execution was clear and Brie, and hi. read-
ing of the awhor excelleet. He wag well accumpenied, and
the whole performance of this beautiful work was very M.
tweeting.
The conomt•mom of the inetitutios was erowde I

°Nerved the Earl of Wisdom, hod, &raj orge C 1417111;
John Campbell, ea a ambrogue sesames,
tinguished mamma, smog The sweet we
oonductad by Mr. Loom

PaCTURE 84LII AT MEM& CHRISM AND

JI4IOOIVB.
Ths collator of pictures by modern English
MOM will have an opportunity on Saturday next, each as
but @Mon occurs, for increasing his art-treraures. On that
day a selection will De brought under the hammer from the
inpatient collection of the well-known amateur, bir.Windas,
of Tottenham. Than pictures prove the large-hearted libe-
rality of this honoured patron of the fine arta, a cotoi !treble
proportion of them having been priroband.we believe, directly
from the !artiste' easels. They will probably fetch at the sale
a much higher price than Mr. Windas gate for them,
for he bought with knowledge and ommirthned
with judgment. But the entire collection proved
no lass the catholicity of this gentleman's taste. The solec-
tlos, together with other works from different sourcer, will
be on view to-day sad to-morrow, and the mere toapertlon of
Ana will affeed a rich treit to asy lover of art. Thera me
eeveralpicturee which have never been cab Intel. One in
particaW, by Sir. Yillsla, struck us se in tome respects
more Tameable than any of the better known works of this
artist. It is untitled "Pot Polar'," and represents two
children who bare fantastically dressed and decked them-
selves, and are plonking the petals of various flowers in a
bowl, to compose their pot poerri. The colouring of this
picture and the boy's head are beyond all praise. A picture,
not exhibited in Landon, but certainly the moat
extraordinary work with h Yr. F. Y. Brown has painted,
"The Lott of Eaglind," has been described at length in
oar pages, and is sloe here. There are two important oil
planes by TUMID', one in a warm key, and the other in an
unusually cold key, of chromatic harrooniee, and fiscally, if
not poetically, entitled "The Dawn of Christiani_ty," and
" Gloom:km aad Scylla." "The Harem Life," by bk. John
Lewis, wee nee of the principal gems of the Water Colour
Society in 1857. Sir Joshua Reynolds wan never more happy
is seizing the subtle grace of lonians* ioneernee than in the
portrait of " Penelope Bootheby." For our part, and cow-
them in niemory, we would as swot be the p/011.1107
:rim as of the beet, i e., Lord Hertford's "Strawberry
Oirl." There is another Sir Johns—" A Portrait of a
Leidy and Child," very solidly aid admirably painted, and,
like the loot, in good presetratioe. Betedes these there are
other era-Pent specimen, of Etty, Oainsborough, Calcote,
and m my other of the principal masters of our sturdy young
- school.