The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-30 00:00:00

YORKSHIEZ MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

So great bad been the inv.rest excited by the late York-
shire Musical Festival, the: two gentlemen from New
York, America, were induced t, visit England, for the sole
purpose of being present at the festival, besides numbers
from various parts of the Continent. (udeed it was sal
by some of the professors of music that they would walk
500 miles to witness such another performance. Several
lodgings have already been spoken for in York, in initiclps-
tion that another festival will be held in the Cathedral is
the course of a few years.
We have already stated that the receipts frOnl the Fel'
tival of 1823 were 16,1141. leaving a surplus tt: dist Cha-
rities of 7,2001. and that the receipts from the preson Fes
tival produced upwards of 40,000/. The accoun:,
that it is made up, stands as follows:

From the sale of Tickets - £20,200
The Duke of Devonshire presented the fund with IOU

The Earl of Carlisle, Marg. uis of Aylesbury, and }
130
the Earl of Scarborough, with 601. Nth
Lord Tyrconnel with 23
Lord Al 'Donald and Robert Cracroft, Esq. 101. each 20
Timothy Button, Erg. and the Dean of Rippe!), 51. 10

20,5V5
Expenaca.e(tha band having cost 2,5001. more than
in 1813), - - 12,000

Surplus for the four Charities -
Of which wool. will be paid in equal proportions In
money, and the new Concert Room, which cost 6,000!.
will be invested for the benefit of the charities, which, if
the Festivals should be repeated at stated periods of three,
four, or five years, according to the present intention, will
yield more profit than if the money was invested in the
public funds. It is also to be considered, that the exist-
ence of the Concert Room has rendered the preset festival
more productive, to the amount of from 2,0001. tts S,Ooci.
than it would otherwise have been. The room is to V.e
p'acell in the trust of the Archbishop and the Den of
York, and in the Lord Mayor of that city, for the benefit
of the four charities,

The number of tickets issued daily for the various per-
formances at the Festival is now precisely ascertained, tel
stands thus:—

Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday.
Elinster-1 Guinea 1153 12,17 1449 11q9
15 Shillings 1614 2500 2599 2372
7 shillings 604 1990 1960 I't)
5 Shillings 10 39 154 1.7

Total • 11369 6784 6101 6107
Concerts—Tuesday's 1179—Wellnesday's 1894--Thursday's
Balls-3lontlay (75.), 734—Friday, Fancy, (155.), 2261
- - - -

The Marchioness of Londonderry was said to wear
jewels and other co►tly ornaments to the value of 30,00 A
at the Fancy Ball in York.—Leeds Independent.

All the Princes and Princesses of England, brothers and
sisters of George IV, who ate on the Continent, lately met
at Homburg, the capital of the Landgrave of Aerie.
There were the Queen Dowager of lVirtemburg, the Land-
gravine of Hesse, and the Dukes of Clarence, Cumberland,
and Cambridge, Governor of Hanover.—lsloik.
The Corfu G.azette of August St crates that his Excel.
lency the Lord High Commissioner of his Majesty the
l'rotcctor of the lonion States has received a despatch,
dated the loth June last, from the Right lion. Eul
Bathurst, one of Ws Majesty's principal Secretarica rf
State, announcing, by the King's command, that his
jesty has been pleased to appoint his Royal ifiglincss t!
Duke of Cambridge Grand Master of the illustrious OAr
of St. Michael and St. George.
Yesterday the Earl of Westmorland transacted busiaess
with Mr. Secretary Peel.
Mr. Hutt, the King's Messenger, was sent yestird:!
from the Foreign Office, with despatches for the lung It
the Royal Lodge, Windsor.
The King of France, as a further proof of his gracias
regard for the Duke of Northumberland, has been pleased
to nominate his namesake, Monsieur L'Abbe de Pere!.
to the dignity of a Canon, in the Royal Chapter of Saint
Denis.

On Monday last Visconti Roccafuerte, Charge d'Affaires
for the Republic of Mexico, arrived in this town for the
purpose of inspecting our Gaol, and consulting Mr. Or.
ridge, the Governor, on the subject of prisons about to to
erected in South America.—Bury Gazette.
•

Mr. Owcn. of New Lanark, goes out passenger on boar,{
the packet-ship New York, Captain Bennett, for Not
York, which will sail from Liverpool an Saturday nest.

Mr. Booth has, we understand, just arrived in tor'.
fron America. Ilc is engaged tt the l)rutyl-ane eats-
blishment to sustain all the line of characters hal:oloaq'
ported by Kean.
The Parisian astronomers let strangers and dime cf the
provinces outdo them. M. Deneau, of the department of
the Sarthe. has had inserted in a journal of this &ran-
ment the following notice:—" A new comet has made its
app.arance in our horizon; it is visible to the naked eye
from eleven o'clock in the evening to four in the morning;
it is situated in the constellation of the Bull, a little below
the Pleiades. Its rapid progress from east to west Will ret
allow us to see it long."—Constitutionne/.
FIRST Mar OF ENG LANI).—G FORGE LILLY, thCSOO
the famous grammarian, who lived some time at Bow
Wilt Cardinal Pole, published the first map that ,v .r ens
drawn of this island. It was published in 1599, mew!
years before his death.

An order has been just given by a builder for two and $
half millions of hard stock bricks, to be supplied this
year! They are to be used in the formation of s new
square at the back of Grosienor-place, to be
called Del-
grave-►guare.

LITERARY GLEJNINGS.

No. XXXVIII.

INSTROCTIONS TO MARRIED LADIES IN THE
SCIENCE OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION.
Yet have, probably, hitherto been addressed as angels.
prepare for the time when you shall again become mortal.
'fake the alarm at the first approach of blame ; at the firs
hint of s discovery that you are any thing less than infaK
debate, justify, recriminate, rage, weep,
swoon, do any thing but yield to conviction.
Neil to matters of taste, points of opinion will afford
dm most constant exercise to your talents. Here you will
hay° an opportunity of citing the opinions of all the living
have ever known, besides the dear privilege
and dead you
continually Nay, you must allow that:—
of repeating
Or, You can't deny this, for it s the universal opinion—
..eibody says sal everybody thinks so! I wonder to
hear you express such an opinion ! Nobody but yourself
ts of that way of thinking:* with innumerable other
phrases, with which a slight attention to polite conversa-
tion will furnish you. kilo mode of opposing authority to
argument, and assertion proof, is of such universal
utility, that I pray you to practise it.
" )f the 'Tint in dispute he some opinion relative to
your character or disposition, allow in geserel, that 'you
are sure you have a great many faults ; but to every ape-
edc
charge, reply, well, lam sure I don't know, but I
del not think that was one of my faults I nobody ever se-
emed me of that blore ! Nay, I was always remarkable
fur the contrary ; at least before I was acquainted with
voce—Sir: in my own family I was always remarkable for
the contrary ; ask any of my own friends; ask any of them,
they must know me hest.'
" I come now to the art of reasoning: don't be alarmed
at the name of reasoning. I will explain to you my
meaning.
" If you should fortunately be connected with a man,
who, haying formed a justly high opinion of your sex,
should propose to treat you as his equal, and who in any
little dispute which might arise between you, should desire
no other arbiter than reason : triumph in his mistaken
appeal to the decision of reason at the
sandour, regularly
*inning of every contest, and deny its jurisdiction at the
conclirsi,m. I take it for granted that you will be on the
wrong side of every question, anal, indeed, in general, I
advise you to choose the wrong side of an argument to de-
fend ; whilst you are young in the science it will afford the
best exercise, and, as you improve, the best display of
your talents.
" If. then, you would succeed in argument, attend to
the following instructions.
" Begin by preventing, if possible, the specific state-
ment of any position, or, if reduced to it, use the most ce- '
natal terms, and take advantage of the ambiguity which
all languages, anal which most philosophers allow. Above
all things, shun definitions ; they will prove fatal to you ;
for two persons of sense and candour, who define their
terms, cannot argue long without either convincing, or
being convinced, or parting in equal good humour; to
prevent which, go over and over the same ground, wander
as wide as possible from the point, but always with a view
to return at last precisely to the same spot from which you
set out. I should remark to you, that the choice of your
weapons is a circinnstance much to be attended to: choose
always those which your adversary cannot use. If your
husband is a man of wit, you will of course undervalue a
Went which is never connected with judgment: for your
part, you do not presume to contend with him in wit.
But if he be a sober-minded man, who will go link
by link along the chain of an argument, follow him at
Ant, till he grows so intent that he does not perceive
whether you follow him or not ; then slide back to your
own station, and when with perverse patience he has at last
reached the last link of the chain, with one electric shock
of wit, nake him quit his hold, and strike him to the
ground in an instant. Depend upon the sympathy of the
spectators, fur to one who can understand reason, you will
find ten who admire wit.
" But if you should not be blessed with a ready wit;'
if c;emonstration should in the mean time stare you in the
fees, do not be in the least alarmed , antieipato the hlnw.
mita,• you have it yet in your power, rise with becoming
euroao,mity, and cry, I give it up I I give it up !
La! let its say no more about it; I do so hate disputing
about trigs 1. I give it up!' Before an explanation on the
wordtTig, e in take place, quit the room with flying colours.
" If in yo,'lr debates with your husband, you should
want akquau Te to vex him, the dull prolixity of nar-
ration, joined to' the complaining monotony of voice which
I formerly recom,-oendcd, will supply its place, anal hare
the desired effect ; then, ever and soon, rouse him with
interrogatories, such es, Did not You say so? Dou't you
remember? Oily an neer 59. Chet Q'
o When you have
.nearly exhausted human patience in
elphuoing, justifying. !indicating—when, in spite of all
the pains you have taken, • you have more than half be-
trayed your Own vanity ; have a never-failling re-
source in paying tribute 16 that of your opponent, as
thus:—
" ' I am sure you must be se.nsible that I should never
take so much pains to justify mya elf if I were indifferent
to your opinion. I know that I ou.ght not to disturb my-
self with such trifles ; but nothing is a trifle to me which
concerns you. I confess I am too anxious to please ; I
Slim it's a fault, but I cannot cure my self of it now. Too
quick sensibility, I sun conscious, is ilk' defect of my dis-
position; it would be happier fur me if _I could be more
istlifierent, I know.'
" Who could be so brutal a to blame a amiable, so
candid a creature? Who would not submit to be tor- '
mental with kindness?

" %Phan once your captive tOntlescentle to be Battered
by such arguments as thew, year power is fleet: your
inure triumphs can be boundel only by your own Anode-
ration ; they are at once secured and justided.
" Thus I have esdeavourral to provide precepts Wow('
Is the display of your several talents; be if there shook
be any amongst yea who have no talents, who an neither
ague not persattle, who have neither sediment 90f en-
tbesimm, I must indeed congratulate them; they are Re-
calirly for the science of self justillestion: in-
delgeat nature, often even in the weeklies, provide for
the protection of her creatures; just Providence, as the
guard of stupidity, has enveloped it with the impenetrable
armour of Matins:T.
" Fair idiots! let women of sense, wit, feeling, triumph
in their various arts; yours arc superior. Their empire,
absalute as it sometimes may be, is perpetually subject to
sudden revolutions. IV nit them a Irian has some chance
of equal sway ; with a fool he has none. flare they hearts
and understandings!' Then the one may be touched, or
tie other in some unlucky moment convinced; even in
their very power lies their greatest danger i—not so with
toy. In vain let the most candid of his sex attempt to
reason with you ; let him begin with. Now, my dear,
only listen to reason.' you stop him at once with, No,
my dear, you know 1 do not pretend to reason; I only say
rids my eatiiii,m!
" Lrt loin go on to prove that yours is a mistaken opi-
nion :—you are ready to acknowledge it, long before he
deemsit. ' You acknowledge it may be a wrong opinion;
stel ,' it pur opitsiurt: You do not maintain it in the
kat, either becoum: you believe it to be wrong or riFht,
irerely because it is yours. Exposed as you might
Itlive been to the perpetual humiliation of being convinced,
weave seems kindly to hare denied vou all perception of
tr"h or at least all sentiment of pli.asure from the per-
With an admirable humility, you are as well con-
:•!t1 to he in the wrong as in the right ; you answer all
eau be said to you, with a provoking humility of
cr
I do not doubt but what you say may be very
hut 1 cannot tell; I do not think myself capable of
nog on these subjects , I am sure you must know much
r thin Pilo. I do not pretend to say but what your
n is very just; but I own I am of a contrary way of
R 4,7 ; I always thought so, anal I always shall..
Your adversary, finding you impenetrable to arttu-
:% p 'Jive would try wit :—but, ' On the impassive
the lightnings play.' Ilia eloquence or his kindness
trail less; when in yielding to you after a long ha-
he expects to please you, you will answer un-
':(tlly with the utmost propriety, "fhat you should
'try sorry he yielded his judgment to you; that be is
;tall ; that you aro much obliged to him ; but, that
:he point in dispute, it is a matter of perfect indiffer-

ence to you ; for your part you have no choice at all about
it; you beg that he will do just what he pleases; you
know that it is the duty of a wife to submit; but you bort,
however, you may have an opinion of your own.'
" Remember all such speeches as these will lest above
half their effect, if you cannot accompany them with tl.e
vacant stare, the insipid smile, the passive aspect Of the
humbly perverse.
" Whilst I write, new precepts rush upon my teen,-
lection ; but the subject is inexhaustible. I quit it with
regret, though fully sensible of my presumption in having
attempted to instruct those who, whilst they read, will
smile in the consciousness of superior powers. Adieu then,
my fair readers !—Long may you prosper in the practice of
an art pe:uliar to your sex. Long may you maintain un-
rivalled dominion at home and abroad : and long may
your husbands rue the hoar when first they made you pro-
mise ' to obey.'—Miss Edge:ourtla's Letters fur Literary
Ladies.
The following graceful stanzas are attributed to STIIN•
KAk, of whose history nothing is known:—
With the graceful corn upapringing,
With the birds around me singing,
With the leaf-crown'd forests waving,
Sweet slay.dews the herbage laving,
With the flowers that round me bloom,
To my lady dear I'll come:
All things beautiful and bright,
Sweet in sound and fair to sight,
Nothing, nothing is too rare
For my beauteous lady fair ;
Every thing I'll do and be,
So my lady solace me.
She is one in whom I find
All things fair and bright combined ;
When her beauteous form I see,
Kings themselves might envy me,
Joy with joy is gilded o'er,
Till the heart can hold no more.
She is bright as morning sun,
She my fairest loveliest one;
For the honour of the fair
I will sing her beauty rare,
Every thing I'll do and be,
So my lady solace me.
Solace me, then, sweetest !—be
Such in heart as I to thee;
Ope thy beauteous lips of love,
Call me thine, and then above
Alerrily, merrily I will sail
With the light clouds on the gale.
Dear one, deign my heart to bless,
Steer me on to happiness,
Thou, in whom my soul ennfideth,
Thou, whose love my spirit guided' ;
Every thing I'll du and be,
So my lady solace me.
Lays of German Troubadours.

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