Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

they were e•cpressly intended ? Mademoiselle Leonhard.
was more a.'t her ease in this than in ." Mi tradi" The
familiar b ercarore from " Maeaniello" is not precisely that
sort of thing in which Signor Gardoni shines to most
advantage ; he give it chastely, however, if not with
sufficient energy. Signor Belletti gave the lachrymose
outpouring of Germont senior to perfection, and the duet
between the Countess and Susanna, one of the melodious
gems" of Figaro, delighted everybody from the lips of
Madame Novello and Mademoiselle Piccolomini. Mr
Frank Mori's " Battle King" is very spirited, and was
admirably sung by Mr. Weiss. The band, under Mr
13enediet's experienced guidance, l.layed the three
overtures—all master pieces, and yet with nothing what-
ever in common, in first-rate style. Mr. Blagrove's violin
solo was admirably executed and loudly applauded. The
National Anthem was sung at the commencement of the
concert. There were about 1,403 present in the hall.
To-day another very full audience was attracted by the
first morning performance. At these concerts applause
is forbidden; or at least refrained from—according to an
etiquette not altogether intelligible. The Earl of Alber
marle who sits in the president's chair, and his immediat-
circle enjoy the monopoly of encores, and are by no
means disinclined to take advantage of their privilege.
In Mozart's " Requiem," the last of the three compositions
of which the programme consisted—for example, the three
quartets, " Tuba mirum," " Recordare," and Bene-
dictus," were all repeated at a signal from the officiating
president. True, these marvels of vocal writing were
executed to the highest degreee of perfection by Madame
Novelle, Mrs. Lockey, Signor Gardoni and Belletti, and
well merited the honour conferred upon them ; but it was
rather hard for an audience of 1,200 persons to listen to
three long pieces twice over in succession without
a voice in the matter. T'aey might pos'ibly have desired
to hear one of the magnificent choruses in which this
glorious masterpiece abounds repeated instead of three
pieces however beautiful, en the same pattern. At the
" Sanctus" the audience rose and remained standing till
the end. The increasing popularity of the "Requiem" is
to be rejoiced at. The result is due to the Sacred Har
monic Society, who, set the example of constantly pro-
ducing it; and the members of that institution have reason
to be proud of their work.
Thelother pieces—Spohr's "Christian Prayer" and Men.
delssoha's Lobgesang—were for the most part admirably
given. In the Lobgesang Mr. Benedict took the three
preliminary movements for the orchestra in the exact time
intended by the composer, and the style of their execution
conferred infinite credit upon the band The duet with
chorus "I waited for the Lard" was finely sung by
Madams Novello and Madame Weiss, and would have
been " encored," but luckily the president was too late,
and the Mayor of Norwich, who was asked to make the
signal, declined to arrest the progress of the chorus, " Oh
blessed are they that hope," which Mr. Benedict very
judiciously began the instant the two ladies were seated.
Thus Mendelssohn's great work was heard to the end
without interruption. We think it was wrong to divide
the tenor part in the Lobgesang, since—although
Mr. Lockey gave the air, "He connteth all our
sorrows," i❑ a highly chaste and expressive mnnner, and
Mr. Miranda again won favourable notice in the graphic
scene of the repentence—(" Watchman, will the night
soon pass ?") there is not enough for two singers. Besides,
the music fur 'the tenor voice is all of one character, and
cannot be thus aistributed without injury to its effect. In
the smooth melodious, and beautiful instrumental hymn of
Spohr, the solos for soprano, contralto, tenor, and bass
were allotted to Madame Weiss, Mrs. Lockey, Messrs
Lockey and Weiss, who were perfectly at home in the
music, and left absolutely not'aing to wish. In all three
pieces were remarked the vigour and freshness of the
treble voices, which bore away the palm from the rest in
almost every chorus, and were just as remarkable for
purity of intonation and precision of " attack" as for the
desirable qualities:_ already named. In the "Night is
departed," and "Sing ye the Lord' ( Lobgesang), the effect
of. the female voices was as wonderful as it was agreeable ;
the passage leading up to the high B flat in the latter was
never more perfectly taken. siThe whole concert was
interesting, and the more so from the agreeable contrast
in the sty les of the three great masters, who resemble
each other in nothing but excellence. Nor would the
performance have been a bit too long had it not been for
the encores.

To-night at the second miscellaneous concert the pro.
gramme contains a symphony for the orchestra (Spohr's
Seasons), and in this respect alone is entitled to more
respect than its predecessor. Mademoiselle Piccolomini
and her companions make their last appearance.

At LFWI &CO d PANY'S, Rane:agh-street.
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Awis of Six to Twenty Years,

A HASTY MARRIAGZ.—A Texas paper tells of a young
couple who eloped on horseback, accompanied by the
clergyman who was to marry them. The lady's father
gave chase, and was overtaking the party, when the
maiden called out to her clerical friend, " Can t you marry
us as we run ?" The i !ea took, and he conamonced the
ritual ; and just as the bride's tither clutched her bridle
rein, the clergyman pronounced the lovers man and wife.
The father was so pleasad with the dashing action that, as
the story goes, he give them his blessing.

„
JUSTICZ NOT REVENGE.—Do not believe in the perma-
nence of this desire of vengeance, which has expressed
itself with such shocking violence. It will subside, as all
overwrought passions do and muss. Meanwhile we counsel
our fellow countrymen to beware how they are diverted
by this cry for revenge from hunting out the sleeker, and
perhaps comelier depravity which, lurking in the precincts
of Leadenhall-street, has done fouler wrong to the children
of India than it were politic in us to let pass unexposed or
unredress.d. Let stern justice be done to the mutinous
Sepoy wherever he is found—but let justice, also, be meted
out to the millions wh's have come beneath our sway.
Justice, we say, in both cases, not revenge. It will award
punishment to the treacherous and taitless soldier—it
will diffuse contentment and j:y amolgst a fleeced and
impoverished peasantry, and it will consign to their proper
places the company who have misruled one of the fairest
and most populous regions of the Ear. —Nonconforonise
A- Map TIME-PIECE.—As botanists have constructed a
flower clock, so (we read in the fork ign journas) a Ger-
mai wcodsrnan has tecon-ly invented an ornithologicl
clock, by making the hours of the waking and the first
Loies of the little singers. The si;nal is given by rho
chaffinch, the earlit st riser among all the feathery
tribes. Its song precede s the dawn, trnd is heard in sum-
mer fr)ra half past oae to tiro o'cl ck a.m. rexi:, from
two to half-past th ee o'clock, comes the black-cap
atricapill.), whose warblings wou'd equal those of the
nightirgale if they were not so very short. From half-
past tv.o to three o'rloek the quail is heard. From three
to half-Fast three the he Then from hale-past
three to four o'clock we have the blackb;ro, the zu cki ng-
bird of our (Alma es, which imitates all tunes so well, Ciat
M. D sreau de La Melle made all the hlickbirds of a
Fre sch canton sing the Marsr.il:eise hymn, by letting lootie
a blackbird which had been taught that tine. From four
to h df-past four o'ul..ck the laik pours forth Lis melodies;
from half-past fruit to five o'c'oek the blackheaded titmouse
is heard. Lastly, fro:n five to h elf--past five o'clock, the
soarrow, the gamin of the skies, awakes and tegins to
_

LIR LATE MURDER NEAR Raterot.—The clue which
was suppose I to have been discovered to the ilentity of
'he murdered woman, turrs out to be of no avail for that
purpose. The head Cre,s in which the card referrel to
was 'our.d, prlve3 not to hive heloige I tu the dec•ased,
but to a ne ce of George Dutis, the man wh)se naae
appear. don the card, an who was apprehended in ems--
Tot:ca. '1 lfs young w min, it vems, w.ie among the
crowd who v;ewed the bodf cn Sunday, an'l while she was

there she lost her hea I dres.t. It became much trampled
about, and -vas found among the hair cut from the
dezelsed before the pose mortem eximilation was made,
and being so ditcuvered, scat thought t have belonged to
the d ceased. These facts being satisfactorily proved,
Dlv:s was or curse liberated ; and the idea that the
deceased had been so fir identified as to render it almost
certain that she h‘l.inged to Bristol is abandoned. An
exatnination of the stays w by the deceisel has shown

that they be r the tract! mark " R," an that they have
only rece ,tly purehtsed. Irqui iet instituted among
all the stay manufacturers of Bristol have sto.vn that none
of them use the-e initFals in making th,ir gods so that
the police are of opihion that the v.o:nan doss not belong
to Bristol or the neighbour:lo.A Information of the
mrrler has been forwarded to the Home-office, and it is
expected ti at a reward will be uffered for the appreher-
Edon of the murder,e, and that the poll( e will be assisted
and guided by the experience and intelligence of a metro
poliran eeteet.ve offi3er in endeavouring to trace the
perpetrator of this mysterious murder. A minute
deperirion of the dress and appearance of the murdered
woman has been extensively circulated.

At LEWIR & COMPANY'S, Rene Ugh-street,
BOYS eta LOI MID from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years.