Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-23 00:00:00

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

The ,seciety gave their ninth subscription concert. last
night, the principal performers beinb.o. the Brousilfamily,
assisted by Miss Messent and Isliss Hiles. As this' Was
an undress concert, and the prices lower than usual, we
presume that the programme was intended to be rather
a popular one, otherwise we should have said that the
Brousil family, clever • as. they ere, 'were rather "small
'deer" for Ai' Philharmonic Concert.. This remark, how-
ever, does rot apply to Madlle. ,Bertha Brousil, whose
playing of Spohr's " Concerto ,Dramatique," which
would have been called -very good even for a first-rate
finished was, for one so young, a really wonder-
. ful performance.
,She.was equallygood in hiendelssohn's-
Andante from the
.violin concerto, and her duet with her
littlebrother.Aloys Was very prettyand very well played
by both, and gained an encore. Theprincipal instrumen-
tal feature or. the evening was Mcaidelssohn's beautiful.
Italian Symphony, in which the composer has einhOdied.
the feelings called forth by a visit to that land of
poetical associations. The programme contained an
analysis of the feelings under which we might slip pose
the symphony to .have been produced& :accompanied. by
'a series of poeticalquotations illustrative of the character
and meaning of the different movements—the' same, if,
we remember aright, which were printed some
.years ago
in the programme ,of.the London Orchestral Union, when ,
that society performed the symphony . here. It would ,
be a very good step .if this kind of analytical programme
were introduced hare as a regular thing, as we believe
it has'been sometime-since at the metropolitan coaceits.
The songs in the ,first part of the concert were
Bishop's " Tell me, my heart," by Miss Messent,
iArne's fine; though old-fashioned, song "Thg soldier''
tired," which was very' well sung by MiSs Hires, arid
;was encored. The second part commenced with itossini's
overture to "Il Barbierei" which was followed by "Home,
sweet Home" from Miss hfcssent, which is, we think, a
',ittie hackneyed by this time. Miss Messent afterwards
sung with Miss Hiles Gloxer's duet ." We come from
fairy bowers." The chorus had, in the first 'part of the
concert, Handel's charming serenade " May no rash
Under ' which went very well. Lithe second part they.
sung a four-part song, "The Cricket," put down to the
account of Hargreaves, but whiel turned out to be our.
old friend ," Harmonious Blacksmith," arranged as a
song--arid .4-very pleasing' one it' makes. The yiarket .1
chorus from " Masaniello" was sung with great spirit,
and the concert concluded with Wagner's March, from
"TaiinhauSer," which, as a specimen of the • " Masic:of'
the Future," does not promise anything 'very extraor- •
dinary, save that the instrumentation appeared, to our
.ears, to be rather bald and noisy.
We.are glad. to see. Mrs. Davison (late Arabella God-
flard), aid Herritenienyi, annonnced-for the next con-
cert, 'which We 'have 'no doubt; with such performers,
will 'wove' .an interesting one, and draw a larger
audience than the somewhat scanty one which occupied
the body of the hall last night. •

The quarantine at Malta on arrivals from Tripoli has
been abolished,. while that against. Bengazi, and Derna:
has been-reduced to an observation 'of seven-clays.
'NCB:EASING OUTWARD OVER. ..ND MAIL.-:—The mail"
packet carried over from Dover .to. Calais, on Friday
night 219 boxes of• mails for India, China, Mauritius,
and Australia, the largest mail ever sent via Marseilles.
Of the number, 149 were large bales Of about liklbs.
each for Australia,%