Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-18 00:00:00

This is the gentleman and the Railway Company ahead,'
alluded to as having been sa vilely calumniated in the
article which appeared in the Liverpool Chronicle of
September sth. .
" Leopold Lorenz sworn : Live at 95, Greenwich.
street. I am agent for the Pensylvania Central
Railway Company. I forward emigrants and second
class passengers. I was willing to make arrange-
ments with the commissioners, but they refused to allow
me in the depot. (this witness states that he went with
Mr. Howe, an officer of this company, to make arrange_
ments with the commissioners.) The Pennsylvania Rail-
'Toad charges twelve dollars and fifty cents to St. Louis
the commissioners charge for thelsame tickets fifteen dollars
bought from witness on one occasion, they took thirty-two
tickets, but afterwards the passengers went by Erie Rail-
road ; I have received ticke's from Castle garden charged
two or three dollars more than the price. I pay runners
one dollar commission on each passenger. Mr. Newton
does the same ; in Castle garden emigrants are charged
sixteen dollars and fifty cents if they go by the Eri a
Railroad to St. Louis, and they do not go faster by Erie
Railroad than by Pennsylvania Central Rai road. All
emigrants are not treated alike in regard to prices. The
establishment of the depot has been a loss to the Penns3l.-
vania Central Railroad, on account of restriction being
put on emigrants, in not allow;ng them to come out of the
gat den and choose their route, (theirs being the cheapest) ;
went to the Astor House to make arrangements with
Thurlow Weed and where. Mr. Howe was with me, but
they would not come to any conclusion, on account of Mr•
ThurlowWeed, who would not send passengers on our route,
only those who could not travel by any other route. They
could not agree on the twenty par cant. they wanted to
Charge upon emigrants. L. L.

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NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

Noßwlca, Sept. 15.7;

Although several unpropitious circumstances threatened
to militate against the 12th triennial music meetings in
aid of the Norfolk and Norwich charities, its success,
we have reason to believe, is now placed beyond a doubt.
The exertions of the general committee and of their inde-
fatigab!e hon. secretary, Mr. Roger Kerrison, who has for
many years borne the chief weight of the official responsi
bilities with credit to himself and benefit to the festival,
have been unremitting. All obstacles are surmounted, and
it is confidently anticipated that a very different balance-
sheet will be presented at the termination of the proceea-
lugs from that of 1854, which shoved an excess of
expenditure over receipts, amounting to £lO3 93. sde
thus leaving a small deficiency to be made up by the
vice-presidents, and 'waling at all for the charities. Hew
large is the outlay attendant upon these festivals, and what
degree of public support is indispensable to insure a profit,
may be gathered from the table of salaries paid to singers
and players at the 11th meeting. F:ona this it appears
that £2,110 16s. fell to the principal singers and chorus,
£1,117 14s 6d to the band, and £lO5 to the conductor—
making a total of £3,333 lOs 61 for musicians alone.
The other liabilities raised the gross amount to
£4,347 143 7d, and, the receipts being only
£-1,244 53 21, the above-mentioned loss was incurred.
The Norwich Festival, like that at Birmingham, depends
entirely on the sale of tickets for any servile it may be
able to confer upon the charities. There are no collections
after performance as at the celebrations of the " Three
Choirs," and no donations unless there is a deficiency to
provide for. Nevertheless, that the undertaking can be
made to pay is proved by the fact that out of eleven
meetings only two (those of 1836 and 1854) were unsuc-
cessful. The largest receipts ever obtained were at the
first and second meetings (1824 and 1827). The outlay
has invariably averaged between -e4,000 and .t'5,000. In
keeping the expenditure within bounds, in varying the
attractions as much as possible, in endeavouring to inspire
the inhabitants of the county with a personal interest in
the welfare of their music meeting, and a sense of humi-
liation at the prospect of a failure, lie the chances of
future and permanent triumph. As no lees than eleven
useful and excellent charities look to the triennal festival
for very necessary contributions to their funds, it would
be sad indeed to witness its decay for want of that local
patronage on which it has so just a right to count. But
the nobility and gentry of Norfolk will never permit such
a disgrace, and the brightening aspect of the present anni-
versary shows that a new sympathy has been raised from
which the most favourable re3ult3 may be expected:
Besides, charity apart, the Norwich Festival can lay
Claire to a chapter in the future history of music—since
what Birmingham has done for Mendelssohn Norwich has
effected for Sophr. " The Fall of Babylon and Calvary"
may not be comparable, as work'S of the highest genius,
to " St. Paul and Elijah ;" but they are the productions
of the only man of the day at all able to compete with
Mendelssohn in the composition of sacred oratories. The
liet of noblemen and gentlemen who countenance the
present meeting with their inflaence, and the majority
of whom will probably attend, is long and imposing.
President, the Earl of Leicester ; Vice-Presidents, the
High Sheriff and Mayor of Norwich, the Duke of
Wellington, Nlarquis of Lothian, Marquis Towashend,
Earl of Albemarle, Earl of Rosebery, Earl of Gosford
Earl: of Orford,, Earl Jermyn, Viscount Maynard'

Viscount Ranelagh, Viscount Riyuham, Viscount Bury,
Lord Stanley, Lord Hastings, Lord Stafford, Lord Sondes,
Lord Walsingham, Lord Suffield, Lord 13ayning, Lord
Wodehowe, Right Hon. Sir John Patteson, the Dan of
Norwich, Sir Edmund Bacon, sir W. R. Kemp, Sir Henry
Bedingfeld, Sir W. J. H. B. Fiolkes, Sir W. F. Middlet ou
Sir R. P. Jodrell, Sir E. H. K• L icon, Sir Henry J:
Stracey, Sir Willoughby Jones, Sir J. P. Boileau, Sir R,
Shafto Adair, Sir E. N. Buxton, Sir S• Morton Peto,
Rear-Admiral Sir E, Travers, Sir Henry Robinson, Sir

Samuel
.Bighold, Mij Gmeral Windham, Messrs. B,
Garden, G. P. Bentinek, H. W. Schneider, J. H. Gurney,
J. C. Cabbold, and E. Fellowes, the Mayors of Yarmouth

Lynn, and Thetford, and the Sheriff of Norwich. The

Lord-Lieutenant :of ithe county seldom appe tits except
in name; but hi plac.t is to be occupied by the Earl of
Alb ermarle (ehairtnan of the general committee), who will
officiate as president at the concerts. The Bishop of Nor.
with, on Wing, applied to far his p ttronage, declined to
give it, we are informed, on the plea that, " with every
desire to promote the inerest of the charities to which it
is proposed to devote the profits of the musical festival,
he could not concur with the committee in seeking to
advance thorn by such means." The present Bishop of
Norwich wonld seem to maintain very different opinions
on such matters from those of his immediate predecessors
—Bishops Bathurst, Stanley, an I Ilinds—tvho were all
laver; of music, and stanch supporters of the festival,
keeping open house in muniti:tient style during the entire
week. Bishop Stanley even went so far as to entertain a
songstress—Jenny Lind, herself not an apathetic labourer
in the field of charity—at his residence. Tais only shows,

however, that prelates may indulge in wholly opposite
opinions on other points than those of pure theology. The
performances at the Norwich Festival, morning and
evening, sacred and secular,take place in St Andrews-hall,
rine of the most splendid edifices of its kind in England.
Here used to be held the Mayor's annual feasts, which
sometimes as many as 1,000 persons attended. When
the Municipal Reform Act passed these costly and im-
posing ceremonies were abolished, and the building
is now chiefly devoted to public meetings and musical
performances. St. Andrew's-hall having more than once
manifest been described, it is enough to add that a
improvement has been effected by lowering the
orchestra at the west end, by means of which contrivance
the performers may both be seen and heard to greater
advantage. A new arrangement of the raised seats in the
aisles (intersected by the pillars supporting pointed
arches which sustain the root) has also exposed to view
the portraits and historical pictures, which being formerly
concealed altogether, deprived the spectator of one of the
chief attractions of the interior. At the,east end, on the
partition which divides the choir from the nave, is a por-
trait of Nelson, taken by SirW. Beechey in 1801, and said
to be the last for which the hero of Trafalgar ever lat.
Mr. Benedict, whose personal popularity with every one
in Norwich, high and low, is as great as his musical
reputation, is (for the fifth time) conductor of the musical
performances. and as usual has provided a magnificent tn.
strumental force of 90 players, the flower of the raetrowli.
tan oxoliestras. Norfolk is famed for its vitoral singers,