The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-17 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE.

The interesting and thoroughly artistic Saturday
concerts have been regularly continued under the
able direction of Mr. Manns. On Saturday last a
violinist, Her Grun, previously unknown here,
played Lipinski's " Concerto Militaire," and a rondo
by Vieuxtemps, with so large an amount of skill
and expression as to elicit hearty and unanimous
applause. On the same occasion also two young
English vocalists, Miss Julia Elton and Miss Emily
Soldene, were enabled to add materially to their
fame. Miss Julia Elton was most fortunate in
Gluck's fine aria " J'ai perdu mon Euridice," which
she gave with remarkable purity of style, unaffected
earnestness, and evident appreciation of the spirit
and meaning of the composition.
Miss Emily Soldene, whose brilliantly-successful
debut at Drury-lane, as Azucena in " Il Trovatore,"
last winter brought her very prominently into notice,
further increased her artistic merit by a most genial
and dramatic rendering of Meyerbeer's courtly and
sportive " Nobil Signor" (the page's song from
" Les Huguenots") which served to display the un-
common compass and flexibility of her fresh and
beautiful voice to the best advantage ; and a6in by
an utterance of " Home, sweet home," which for
simple, immediate, heartfelt expression may be
praised without reserve.

Other important features in this interesting con-
cert were vocal performances by Mr. G. Patey,
one of our best native basses, and Madame Ene-
quist. The former sustained his reputation by a
musicianly and spirited interpretation of Haydn's
" With joy the impatient husbandman," and the
execution, equally good in its way, of Donizetti's
duet, " Io resto fra le lagrime," in which Miss Julia
Elton also distinguished herself honourably. Madame
Enequist, who ranks with the " established celebri-
ties," and really, as regards her own national
Swedish songs, deserves a niche in the temple of
art, sang Bellini's " Son vergin vezzosa," if not with
a quality of tone either quite virgin or entirely
" vezzosa," still, with so much dash, applomb, and
knowledge of " effect" as to win an encore for the
favourite " polacca," which, by the way, is one of
the most attractive melodies ever written by the
gifted composer of "La Sonnambula." In some
Swedish songs, which terminated the concert,
Madame Enequist was nevertheless much more
engaging and praiseworthy.
Mr. Manns, we are happy to find, still makes the
classic symphony inaugurate each concert. A better
means of popularising the greatest works of the
greatest masters could not be found, for the people,
taking that term in its widest sense, have a chance
of constantly improving their taste at the Crystal
Palace which could not possibly be met with else-
where. There is no other institution in the world
where noble orchestral compositions played by a
first-rate band can be heard every week in the year.
On this occasion we had Haydn's symphony in D
(No. 5). Last week it was Beethoven's stupendous
" Eroica " upon which Mr. Mann's skill was exer-
cised. For next Saturday (the last of the series)
Beethoven's choral symphony is announced. A fine
performance of this immensely difficult work will
indeed make a worthy•termination to the Saturday
concert season.

Mr. Woolmer has been commissioned to execute
a bust of Richard Cobden ; a cast of the face of the deceased
was taken for this purpose.
NEW BRUNSWICK AND CONFEDERATION.—The
entire vote polled in New Brunswick at the late
election was about 31,250. Of these nearly 16,000 were
against Confederation, and nearly 15,300 for it. The ma-
jority against it among the electors of the whole province
is thus only about 700, although the numbers in the house
will be pro 13, contra 28, or a majority of more than two to
one against. Such are the accidents of party warfare and
elections.—.lfontreal Gazette.

It is with feelings of sincere regret that we an-
nounce the death of Mr. Samuel Lucas, the manag-
ing proprietor of the Morning Star. Earnest in conviction,
no man was a more ardent disciple of the political school to
which he belonged ; thoroughly versed in the knowledge
of public affairs, that party possessed in him an able and
untiring champion ; and at the same time his catholicspirit
and amiable temper rendered him appreciated and beloved
by all who knew him. He had, we believe, been for some
time suffering from the same malady as that which carried
off the late Richard Cobden. Mr. Lucas, who was aged
fifty-four, was the son of Mr. S. H. Lucas, of Brighton, and
was a brother-in-law of Mr. John Bright.
POOR LITTLE Miss FLIGHT, the eccentric little
lady (pensioned by the. Middle and Inner Temple)
whom tradition asserts to have lost her wits inconsequence
of losing a law-suit, is dead. She constantly frequented
the Chancery Courts, interposing occasionally in the pro-
ceedings up to the last day of her life. She is well known
to the readers of Dickens, having appeared in "Bleak
House," and been known in person to all dwellers in the
Inns of Court. She fell down dead this week in the
Middle Temple, and will never cry out for her "manda-
mus" or her "habeas corpus" again before a human bench.
Let us hope that the justice of a higher world will restore
the mind which the justice of this world shattered.