The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-26 00:00:00

MR. JOSEPH PARKER'S CONCERT.

This concert took place at the New Beethoven Rooms
on Wednesday evening. The chief instrumental per-
formers were Madame Goffrie and Mr. Joseph Parker
on the piano, Mr. Joseph Case on the concertina, and
Mr. Frederick Chatterton on the harp. The principal
vocalists were Madame Lemaire and ,Mr. Swift. The
concert commenced with a trio on the piano, violin, and
violoncello, performed by Mr. Joseph Parker, Herr
Goffrie, and Herr Lutgen, which was well received. Mr.
Swift sung the pretty ballad of " 'Tis only thee I love,"
with his usual good taste. Mr. Frederick Chat.
terton's solo on the harp deserves great praise, and
Mr. Joseph Case's talents were well displayed in the
variations on the beautiful air of "Ye banks and
braes." The sonata on the piano was well performed
by Mr. Joseph Parker, who gives promise of much fu-
ture excellence. Madame Lemaire sang two songs with
grace and expression, and a duet of Beethoven's was
brilliantly executed by Madame and Herr Goffrie on
the pianoforte and violin. Miss Messent was absent,
a circumstance the more to be regretted as both Madlle.
Magner and Miss Ellen Rowland are capable of much
improvement. The concert was well attended, and the
audience seemed perfectly satisfied with the entertain-
ment provided.

HERR JOACHIM'S CONCERT.
A large company, containing many distinguished
amateurs, filled the Hanover-square Rooms last night,
upon the occasion of the orchestral concert given by
Herr Joachim, the young but already famed Bohemian
violinist. The programme included not only several of
the most difficult morceaux of violin music existing, but
a fantasia on Hungarian airs composed as well as played
by Herr Joachim, and a concert-stuck, also his own
inspiration. Cleverly scored as these pieces were, with
a fine appreciation of instrumental effects, and very
brilliant as were the violin solos and principal passages,
there was a lack both of melody and coherent conti-
nuity of design which could not but make itself ap-
parent in both instances. Herr Joachim's playing,
however, was superb. His tone has gained in richness
and in force. His very high notes are wonderfully
free from over-attenuation, and his bowing is full of vi-
gour and variety. The remaining portions of the pro-
gramme ware hardly less interesting than the speciali-
ties of the beneficiare. A brilliant duo by Hiller, played
by Mdlle. Clauss and Herr Pauer, was a great treat.
The mingled decision and airy lightness of touch of
Mdlle. Clause's playing become more apparent with
every time of hearing. She performed last evening with
an entrain and a verve which were irrisistible; while in
Herr Pauer, one of the manliest and steadiest of pianists,
she had an excellent collaborateur. Madlle. Clauss has
obtained in an unprecedentedly short time a reputation
which only musical genius in its truest phase can
achieve, and which every successive display . tends to
confirm and enlarge. The vocalists were Miss Dolby
and Herr Reichert; and an excellent orchestra was led
by M. Sainton. Herr Pauer, we ought to note, was so
kind as to play the accompaniments.

GOUGH-.STREET THEATRE.—Romeo and Juliet was
performed here last evening, the principal parts being very
ably filled by Mr. Wilde and Miss Mortimer. Mr. Power
sustained Mercutio effectively, and was especially applauded
in the famous "Queen blab" speech. Nevertheless comedies
are better suited for amateurs than tragedies, wherein it
frequently happens that from want of proper drilling and
attention the audience are irresistibly provoked to laughter.

CAPTAIN MAHER'S BULLET.—On Thursday last
another trial of Captain Maher's bullet took place at the
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, under the direction of Colonel
Chalmer, Royal Artillery, which proved highly satisfactory.
The practice with the light dragoon carbine commenced at
100 yards and extended to 200 yards. Shooting at the lat-
ter distance, the weight of powder being reduced one-fifth,
was far superior to the spherical bullet in common use at 80.
The range and accuracy of the " Mars bullet " having been
satisfactorily tested with the carbine, further trial with the
ordinary musket will shortly take place, and the most san-
guine expectations are entertained that the result will prove
most satisfactory. Should such be the case, it is presumed
that a supply of these projectiles will be furnished to the army
in general.
ANOTHER ARCTIC Ex.PLORATION.—We are glad
to announce the speedy departure of the screw schooner
Isabel, under Commander Inglefield, R.N., F.R.G S.' in search
of Sir John Franklin. This vessel, fitted out by Lady
Franklin, assisted by the Royal Geographical Society (of
which Sir John was a Vice-President), has been presented
to Commander Inglefield, who purposes sailing in the first
week of July, with the intention, if the weather permit, of
first visiting Jones and Smith's Sound, and then of prose-
cuting the great object of the voyage, namely, the examina-
tion of the western coast of Baffin's Bay and Labrador.
This expedition, combined with the exertions of such men
as Belcher, Kellett, and Pullen, in the direction of Welling-
ton Channel ; and of Collinson, M'Lure, and M‘Guire,
through Behring Strait, supported by the newly-determined
expedition of the Hudson's Bay Company, under that
indefatigable Arctic explorer, Dr. Rae, will go far to lay bare
every portion of those frozen regions of the north, as yet
unexplored.
CHOOSE THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET.--A
free exposure to the light, and the sun's influence, has a
great effect in diminishing the tendency to disease. The
sunny side of the street should always be chosen as a resi-
dence, for its supericr healthiness. It has been found in
public buildings, &c., that those are always the most healthy
which are the lightest and sunniest. In some barracks in
Russia, it was found, that in a wing where no sun pene •
trated, there occurred three cases of sickness for every single
case which occurred on that side of the building exposed to
the sun's rays. All other circumstances were equal—such
as ventilation, size of apartments, number of inmates, diet,
&c., so that no other cause for this disproportion seemed to
exist. In the Italian cities this practical hint is well known.
Malaria seldom attacks the set of apartments or houses
which are freely open to the sun, while, on the opposite side
of the street, the summer and autumn are very unhealthy,
and even dangerous.

STRENGTH OF IRON SHIPS.—DOCKING ALL STAND'
ING.—The General Screw Steam Company's ship Queen of
the South was taken into dock at her Majesty's dockyard,
Devonport, all standing, with some 1,400 tons of coals, cargo,
and water in her, at the sole risk and responsibility of Mr.
Mare, who when told he was a " bold man," replied that if
the ship could not stand such a test, sha was not At for the
General Screw Steatu Company's service.