The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-23 00:00:00

On the question being put for the passing of the bill,
Sir C. O'LOGHLEN moved the insertion of the follow-
ing words in the 2d clause :—" Provided that the purchaser
or purchasers shall maintain and keep open the railway, so
that the same may be used for public traffic."
Capt. STACKPOLE said the object of inseriing the
words was to prevent either the Great Southern aild Wes-
tern Railway or the Dublin, Wexford, and Waterford Rail-
way from. purchasing the line and closing it altogether
against the public, in order to benefit one or other of these
railways.
Ultimately the amendment was altered to the effect that
the purchasers should be under the same obligations as the
Bagenalstown Railway Company were at present.
The.motiou of the hon. and learned membsr (Sir C.
O'Loghlen) was then wrreed to, and the bill was read a
third time. _ _

The Consolidation (Appropriation) Bill passed throm;ll
committee after some remarks from Mr. AUGUSTUS
SMITH. • ' _ _ .

The Comptroller of the Exchequer. and. Public Audit
Bill was read a third time and pal..sed.
The amendments. to the rim Brigade (Metropolis) Bill
were considered, -and- it was ordered for second reading
on Monday.

iam and York, from Dublin and Edinburgh, from

Exeter and Aberdeen, from Oxford and Cambridge,

from Gloucester and Limerick:

At a quarter-past 1 p.m. the performance of to-
day commenced—a performance exceptionally inte-

resting, even as compared by anticipation with the
three grand days of the " Handel Festival" proper,
for inasmuch as its Programme may be said to em-

brace within it the very pick of all the rarer choruses
and solos of the Monday, and Wednesday, and Fri-
day—of the Day of the Messiah, of the Day of the
" Israel in Egypt," and of the intermediate Day set

apart for the Selections. The semi-chorus from
Saul, " Along the Monster Atheist Strode !" :lave
the first taste •of the qUality of the performers
grouped together in that vast concavity of the

Grand Orchestra. Afterwards the full choral cl'ant

'rem the same great masterpiece, " how Excellent

_ .
Thy Name !" evidenced in a remarkable manner the
majestic concordance of sounds that in all the

grander choruses of these Handel Festivities seem,

so to speak, to fill, to satisfy, to satiate the sense of
hearing—sounds that so entranced the soul of the
great composer, Meyerbcer, when, upon the occa-
sion of the last festival, he then for the first time -
listened to them with an eager avowal of grateful
and wondering admiration. Madame Sainton Dolby
led the way among the soloists by her sympathetic
and refined rendering of the air in Saul " 0 Lord,
whose 'mercies !" Chorus after chorus then fol-
lowed, in no way, however, according to the
sequence marked4flown in the Programme—which
same printed form, by the way, was expressly
entitled, as if from a consciousness that no pre-
scribed order could very well be attended to upon a
preliminary occasion so purely and essentially that
of a REHEARSAL—" Probable Programme." After
the fairy-like sinfonia of chiming bells, preluding
the Recitative " Already see the Daughters of the
Land," given with brilliant effect by Madame
Parepa, came the deliciously-harmonious semi-
chorus of " Welcome, welcome, Mighty King !"
woven about, or intertwined, so to express it, by a
continuation of the delicate accompaniment of those
chiming bells ! The momentary sound of the brief
and almost interjectional recitative, by Saul,
" What do I hear ?" introduced Mr. Santley to the ,
recognition and applause of the enor-
ntous audience. Their applause, however, the
great English baritone, had immediately
afterwards a better opportunity of earning
by his delivery of the pathetic air of Manoah,
" How willing my Paternal Love !" from Samson.
From the same stupendous oratorio we had the de-
light of listening to, in sequence, the aria " Let
the Bright Seraphim," sung most exquisitely by
Mdlle. Adelina Patti—deliciously accompanied by
Harper's wonderful trumpet obligato. The triumph •
thereby achieved was complete and instantaneous,
signalised by a crashing round of plaudits, plaudits
so sustained in enthusiasm as to necessitate an
encore. Completing the selections from the Samson,
there came next the intricately-linked and winding
chorus, " Let their celestial concerts all unite,"
terminating with a giant flood of har-
monies A burst of applause, after a brief
interval, signalled the appearance in the
foreground of the platform of the great Eng-
lish Tenor, Mr. Sims Reeves, who sang, as no one
but himself could sing, so tenderly, so deliciously,
with such pathetic warblings of the master-passion,
" Love in her Eyes sits Playing," from Acis and
Galatea. Surely, never was there such a choral
lullaby as the dulcifluous one that followed, in-
stantly upon the close of that delectable love-song
—" May no rash intruder"—with its whispering
zephyrs, and bursting flowers, and melodious
nightingales ! Afterwards, from Judas Maccabeus,
Madlle. Adelina Patti gave the " linked sweetness
long drawn out"—drawn out at last into a pro-
longed trill—" From mighty Kings he took the
spoil !" Then came that mignificent protest
against idolatry, "We never, never will bow
down !" pealed forth almost, it seemed, at
times simultaneously from every pipe in the
grand organ, from every trumpet in the huge
orchestra of 500 instrumentalists, from the throats
of all those 4,000 choristers singing together, as
with one voice at the beck of Costa's magic baton.
As a fitting close to the selections from " Judas
Maccabeus," came the grandest paean of triumph
ever conceived by the imperial imagination of a
Composer—" See the Conquering Hero Comes !"
given this afternoon with a pomp of sound on
drums, trumpets, and choral voices as it, surely,
never was given before ! In presiding over the
terminal passion and fervour of it, Mr. Costa must
have felt, as he waved his baton over that storm of
harmonious clangour, almost as though he were the
leader of an army ! It was nearly enough one might
have fancied to have summoned the soul of Handel
back to earth ! Part Two began at about a quarter-
past four p.m., with a Cyclopcean rendering of the
National Anthem, followed by the two sublimest
choruses ever composed by the sublimest of all
composers :—" For unto us a child is born," and
the immortal " Hallelujah !" In the former we
cannot, for one moment, imagine that those adoring
cries of love, and veneration, and awe, have ever
before this day been so majestically raised by
human voices and hands to Heaven—those impas-
sioned apostrophes addressed to the Redeemer of
the World, whose name was called as though
through an angelic trumpet by Handel—" Emanuel !
Wonderful ! Counsellor ! The Mighty God ! The
Everlasting Father ! The Prince of Peace !" After
the " Hallelujah " came no less than
six of the majestic choruses from the
mighty masterpiece of " Israel in Egypt,"
with the selections from which most wonderful
Oratorio the Grand Full Rehearsal was brought to
a glorious and affecting conclusion. Beyond the
reverent, almost exultant, chorus, "He spake the
words"—beyond even the impressive "He gave
them hailstones"—far beyond them all, to our mind,
was the sombre, muttered, terror-stricken, "He
sent a thick darkness !" Altogether this day at the
Crystal Palace has been a noble and more than
simply auspicious, as it has been a signally trium-
phant, inauguration of the Handel Festival of 1865
—a Festival marking, we will hope, an epoch of in-
creased and still increasing prosperity to the grand-
est Home of the Arts in England.

MARKETS--This Day

MARK-LANE.

A very moderato supply of English wheat was received
fresh up to our market to-day. The condition of the pro-
duce was good, and the trade for all qualities ruled steady
at full prices.
With most descriptions of foreign wheat the market was
fairly supplied. The demand, generally speaking, was far
from active, nevertheless previous quotations were sup-
pnrted.
Floating cargoes of grain were in fair request at full
currencies.
Only a moderate supply of barley was on the stands.
The trade was firm at quite previous rates.
Only a moderate business was transacted in malt at
previous quotations.
The supply of oats on sale was tolerably large. Most
descriptions were in fair average request at full prices.
Beans and peas were very firm at extreme rates.
Flour was in fair demand at full currencies.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. M alt.- Oats. Flour.
English and S cotch. 820 '2,570 190 680
Irish .................. -
F0reign...............

10,540 620 sks.
brls