The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-02 00:00:00

MORI AND LINDLEY'S CONCERTS.-

The Third Concert of the series of " Classical Quartett Concerts,'
established by the above mentioned eminent professors,- took place last
night, at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James'. A crowded assem-
blage of fashionable company evinced the increasing popularity of the
undertaking, and the presence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, showed that his patronage at least was not merely nominal. The
performancecommeneel with a 2nintett of Onslow, in B flat, for two
violins, tenor, violincello, and double bass, pl'yed by Messrs. Mori,
Tuibecque, Moralt, Lindley, and Dragonctti. Beautiful as this com-
position is, the effect of the commencement, before so numerous an audi-
tory, was mean and insignificant, and we would sup;gest to the managers
the propriety of„beginning the concert with a full piece. The quintetts
and qumtetts would follow more naturally, and in our opinion be more
effective. • As a select orchestra is always in attendance, for the accom-
paniment of the vocal portion of the selection, there would be no
difficulty in such an arrangement. The first movement of the'quartett
is characterized by some playful passages between the first violin and
the violincello, which veto tastefully executed by Messrs. Mori•and
Lindley, and the slow movement was exceedingly beautiful. The
cavatina of Mozart, from the Zauberflole "Cara imagine," by Signor
Castellon, followed. The Signor, who was one of the singers at the
late Opera Buffo, is'not altogether to our taste. His execution of this
fine piece was rough and boistrous, and evinced but slight acquaintance
with the delicacies and graces of vocal performance, or he miscalculated
the size of the room, for the whole was much too loud. The quality of
tone of his voice, however, is good, and he ascends very high in the
scale without resorting to the falsetto. Beethoven's Quartett in C.
(dedicated to Count Bazamoffsky), for two violins, tenor and violencello,
followed. This was altogether a rich treat. 'The performers all ap-
peared to exert themselves con amcsrc. Cherubini's splendid
Aria " 0 sa!utaris hostia" was one of the gems of the even-

ing. It was sung by the lady, who, of all others, was
calculated to impart the most delicious effect to a composi-
tion of this chaste and classical character—we mean Mrs. Alfred
Shaw. The pure, clear, and deep tones of her unrivalled voice, im-
parted an effect to the composition in the highest degree characteristic.
The firmness of her execution in the long-sustained notes of the aria,
and her perfect shake, were much admired, and the audience evinced
their judgment by an unanimous encore. The propriety of introducing
a composition of so sacred a character, in a miscellaneous concert, may
be doubted. The 10th sonata of Cerelli, by Messrs. Lindley and Dra-
gonetti, and also encored, concluded the First Part of the Concert.
With all our admiration for the immense powers and capabilities of
Mr. Lindley, which we are happy to say still maintain all their fresh-
ness, we wish, in playing this sonata, he would lot us hear the ster.
ling old master in a pure and unadulterated state. He introduced a
number of runs and other fancies entirely out of character, and treated
the audience to a cadenza of his own, of which the being wholly out of
place was its least fault. The second part of the Concert, with a con-
certo on the pianoforte, by Madame Dulcken, the composition of
Mendelsohn, with orchestal accompaniments. The facility with which
Madame II executed the mast rapid and brilliant passages, and

the utter allence of all appearance of effort, would have in-
duced an ordinary hearer to suppose the composer hud placed
no ditEcuhies in her way. This was not, however, the case, for the
piece was most elaborate, and the accompaniments of the instruments
interwoven with an ingenuity and intricacy sutlicient to render even a
good player somewhat nervous. Madame Duicken, however, seemed to
be not in the least embarrassed either by difficulty or intricacy, and
went through the whole with graceful ease and animation. The last
movement, in particular, was a splendid effort. " Hence vain deluding
jlys," from " L'Allegro," was next sung by Mrs. 11. R. Bishop. This
is, in our opinion, not the best of the compositions of Handel, and
went off rather flatly. The solo violoncello accompaniment sounded

in our ears marvellously stifF and old-fashioned. Mrs. Bishop,
however, we are bound to say, sang with remarkable good taste,
and with thet impaFsioned feeling which forms the characteristic
of her performance. In Haydn's quartett which folLwed, the air
" God save the Emperor," was splendidly played, but in several
parts of the composition the upper notes of the violins were not
quite so accurately in tune as they might have been. The duetto,
from Winter's " Proserpina," " Ti Veggo," was charming sung
by Mrs. Bishop and Mrs. Alfred Shaw, and a selection of three move.
mcnts, from Beethoven's well-known and admired Septett terminated
the Concert, which was admitted to be the best of this series hitherto, if

not the best Concert of the season. His Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, whom we have already stated to have been present, ap-
peared to he highly gratified, and repeatedly testified his admiration by
" bravos" and other expressions of approval. The fourth and last
Concert takes place on Thursday, March 1,5.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We never consider our columns better employed than in the
suppression of any monopoly, whatever it may be, and we
consider ourselves particularly fortunate in being able to call
the attention of the readers of the Morning Advertiser to the
report of the meeting held yesterday at the London Tavern.
The holiest and plain statements made by the Chairman
(James Goidle, Esq.), and the proceedings of the meeting
generally, arc such as to warrant us in calling the attention of
all concerned in the suppression of monopoly to the subject.
We feel assured, -from the well-known character of the Di-
rectors, many of whom are personally known to ourselves,
and the plain statements of the parties resident in the Tower
Hamlets, that this Company trust, on the broad basis of justice
and fair dealing, succeed. The Company, in fact, will to a
great extent, be its own customers, and at a much less ex-
pense than its Directors and Shareholders at present incur.
—Morning Advertiser.

The Bishop of Exetbr, pursuant to notice, presented last
night a petition from certain inhabitants of the city of Cork,
praying for measures to render effectual the sworn engage-
ments of Roman Catholics " not to subvert the present
Church Establishment," and not to weaken the Protestant
religion or Protestant Government, and toed: occasion in the
course of his address to their Lordships to repeat his charge
of perjury against the Catholic Members of the House of
Commons) more cspechlly Mr. O'Connell and Mr SJiel. Of
Mr. Sheil in particular the Right Rev. Prelate said, " he
had no hesitation in declaring it to be his perfect convictior',
a conviction as sincere as any which he had upon any subject
in the course of his life, that any individual hying taken the
oath prescribed to a Roman Catholic Member of Parliament,
who afterwards uttered such words, or an) thing like such words,
as those winch he had read from the reported speech of the
and Learned Member for Tipperary (the 23d July 1835 ),
had grossly departed front the obligations which the oath um.
posed upon hint." The feeling of the country will, we sus-
Feet, be that we now have had quite enough of the Bishop of
Exeter. The Right Rev. Prelate is a brawler of the first
magnitude, and nothing would more delight him, then that
some Member of the House of Commons should follow the
example of Lord Maidstone with regard to his Lordship. He
was quite indignant that Lord John Rusiell did not coma for-
' ward and sustain his charge. It was observed by Lord Mel-
bourne, that he was sure his Noble Friend, the Secretary for
the Home Department, had no other motive in giving his con-
ditional notice, than to show the exceeding inconvenience that
must arise from the indulging in accusations and recrimina-
tions of this nature. Ills Lordship, however,.pledged himself
that the Right Rev. Prelate should either hear no more of the
charge, or that it should be investigated to his satisfaction. We
trust the Bishop will not obtain the satisfaction of the no-
toriety of which he is so covetous. The opinion of his Lord-
ship is not such a great matter, God wot, as to render it ne-
c,ssary to suspend the business of Parliament, in order to give
him an opportunity of delivering his reasons for believing that
all Catholics who support any, measures for regulating the
temporalities of the English or Irish Church have committed
perjury. These charges of perjury brought by Bishops
against Members of the House of Commons, by Bishops
against the Bishops, by dignitaries against dignitaries, are
really unworthy of serious notice. Besides, after all, when the
Bishop of Exeter calls for oaths to prevent Roman Ca-
tholks from weakening the Protestant Establishment, he
forgets that it must be left to the conscience of indi-
viduals to determine what they think calculated to
strengthen or weaken an Establishment. Thus, for in-
stance, the Earl of Shrewsbury, as a ;cod Cathoic, had
scruples in giving his sanction to the very measure
for supporting which the Bishop of Exeter considers the
Catholic members of the Legislature to have perjured them-
selves, "because he felt he was thereby aiding and abetting
the improvement and stability of institutions in the truth and
utility of which he did not believe." If the utility of a Church
be impaired by its temporalities, it is as absurd to say that a
measure for the better regulating them is subverting it, as it
would be to say to prevent a man from indulging in excess in
eating or drinking is to starve him. But why waste words on
such a subject ? The chief end served by oaths, if we may
judge from their inefficiency at all times as a restraint, would
seem to be to enable parties to accuse each other of violating
them. Th'B very men whom_ Henry VIII. made to swear
to oppose the Protestant Reformation were, as Lord
Melbourne observed, the principal abettors of that
great revolution. But we need not go back to the
time of the Reformation, when the exposure of the last
few days has exhibited in so striking a manner how in-
efficacious oaths are to restrain men from the perpetration of
the most flagrant injustice to serve their party. There is not
one man in the House of Commons who would now have the
hardihood to affirm, " I believe that the oath of a member of
an election Committee affords even the slightest guarantee

for the justice of his decision." If our opinion were to have
any weight, we should say to the Catholic Members of both
Houses, discharge your duty fairly as legislators honestly and
conscientiously, supporting or opposing measures as you deem
them calculated to promote cr injure the interests of your
country ; and treat the abuse of brawling Bishops, and the
silly fools who are deluded by them, with the contempt it me-
rits We have had quite enough of the Bishop of Exeter.—
Morning Chronicle.

DIARY' OF THE TIMES OF GEORGE IV.—A
thousand pounds for the- copyright of this diary is a sum which
shows the confidence with which the publisher calculated on
the result of public curiosity. Few works have had such a
rapid sale, still fewer have been-read with such an eager im-
patience, and there are none, we believe, upon which the
public judgment has been so speedily formed into the opinion,
that whilst its details are authentic, searching, piquante, and
curious in an uncommon degree, they might better have been
reserved for a more distant period, when time, and the chances
of this mortal life, might have deprived many of them of the
unpleasant feelings which they must create in the survivors and
the friends of the dead, whose names and circumstances are
involved in the transactions recorded. Be that as it may—
the Diary has been read, and will be read:---and will further
rank high hereafter amongst those Memoires pour servir a
l'histoirc which all agree in condemning for the moment, and
at the same time devouring their contents.—Dublin Evening
Mail.
At the Newcastle Assizes Thomas Errington,
Henry Brown, and Thomas IVardnzan, wtre i d
ndicte for the
wilful murder of William Lee, by setting firc to his clothes
while he lay drunk and asleep near the
.furnaces in Price's
glass house. The Jury found the prisoners guilty of man-
slaughter. The Learned Judge ( Patteson) sentenced Er-
iington to 10 years transportation, and the others to two years
imprisonment and hard labour.
We understand that the Hon. Fox Maulc has
transmitted to the Provost of Elgin the sum of 201., to the
Provost of Banff 201., Provost of Peterhead 20/., Chief
Magistrate of Inverury 10/., Chief Magistrate of Kintore 10/.,
Chief Magistrate of Cullen 10/., to be distributed by thent
among the poor of their different burghs. —,Scotsman.