The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-05 00:00:00

To the Editor of the Sun.

SIR,—As it would appear from your notice of
the Court .Register of the House of Commons, in
yoar paper of Thursday evening, that the option
of inserting or omitting the " Armorial Bearings"
of Hon. Members rests with the Editor, end that the
" Arms" of Messrs. Bright, Mitchell., and Hodgson,
were left out from some personal feeling, I beg to
say that repeated applications were made to those
gentlemen, but without success, exccipting in the
case of Mr. Bright, who informed me " that his
opinions were too well known to aced repetition iu
our volume, and as for Artnoriat Bearings,' he
knew nothing whatever about them."
As it is possible that your readers may infer from
your remarks that the work is conducted upon party
principles, in justice to myself, I trust you
give insertion to this.—l am,
EDITOR " COURT REGISTER."

London, Feb. 5, 1864.
[The writer of the above, if he will take ti
trouble to look back at the remarks made by the
reviewer in yesterday's Sun upon " The Court
Register of the House of Commons," will perceive
that no sort of allusion was tccre made to party
feeling as having led to the omissions partieulariseci.
The omissions in queAtion were simply pointed of
by the reviewer.—ED. "

NATIONAL CFLORAL SOCIETY,

ALndelEsohn's most popular work was selec;:4al
by the managers of this society to do honnur to his
birthday, Wednesday, the 3d. His bust, adorned
with flowers, was placed above the orchestra, but
the large and attentive audience paid him. a better
compliment by the cordial 'welcome which
accorded to the repetition of Itia noble compcsaioa.
The oratorio was well performed ; the principal
solos were allotted to Madame Rudersdorff, Miss
Heywood, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Santicy.
Madame Rudersdorff is favourably known to the
public, but Miss Heywood, who has not been k 0
often heard, created a very favourable impression.
Her rendering of the beautiful contralto air, "Oh,
rest in the Lord," produced a unanimous encore, a
compliment which was also accorded to the ever
delightful trio, " Lift thine eyes," sung by the
same lady, in conjunction with Madame Itud.ers-
dorff and Mists Aanie Cox. Mr. Sims Reeves,
who has only one solo of any importance, sang Cant
one, " Then shall the righteous," with all that
power and exprcss;cn which makes him so re-
markable an exponent of sacred music. Mr.
Santley's fine bass voice was heard to full advan-
tage, especially in the fine bass solo, " Is not his
word like a fire," which was warmly encored, a
compliment also paid to " Then shall the
righteous," although Mr. Sims Reeves, in accord-
ance with his well established rule, declined to re-
peat it. The choruses went well and steadily, and
show considerable signs of improvement. We mny
particularly mention, "'Thanks too to God," at the
close of the first part. This society deserves in
every way the support of ffe public, and Mr. Mar-
tin's efficient conducting p:oduced the most satis-
factory results.

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