The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-08 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL FESTIVAL.

(Abridged from the Morning Post)
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING.—The Amphitheatre
last night presented the most animated appearance. All
the reserved seats were occupied by a brilliant assemblage
of the Nobility and Gentry, and every part of the house
commanding a view of the orchestra was crowded to excess.
The symphony, of which the first movement has been so
long the stock overture in the theatres, was finely performed.
Loder executed the moreeazt assigned in the second move-
ment to the first violin with great purity of tone and finish.
He was deservedly applauded. The last and well-known
movement was most splendidly done, each member of the
band essaying his utmost to develop every motif. Much ap-
probation was bestowed at the end of every movement.
Mrs. A. Shaw did more than justice to Vaccaj's composi-
tion. Carradori Allan sang the opening air of " Amina,"
in the " Sonnambula," in the most finished manner. She
took some distances and executed some prolonged shakes
with faultless intonation and perfect precision. The elegant
variety of her cadences excited the most enthusiastic plaudits,
and she had a very narrow escape of an eneore. The " Dia-
logo Brilliante," for the flute and clarionet, Bochsa's very cle-
ver invention, was as much relished by the Liverpool dilet-
tante as at the Manchester, Norwich, and Worcester Festi-
vals, where it has been done. The two unrivalled perform-
ers, Willman and Nicholson, for whom it was expressly
written, mastered all its difficulties with their usual success.
That classical composition of Beethoven, the overture to
Fidclio, was, strange to say, but coldly received, although
it was played with infinite fire and spirit, and its various
points most skilfully and carefully attended to. Mrs. W.
Knyvett's singing of " Auld Robin Gray" is always ad-
mired. Sale's duet of " The Butterfly" was very well sung
by Braham and H. Phillips. Caradori obtained an en-
thusiastic encore in " Coming through the rye," for she
sang and acted it with delightful naivete. The chief fault
of the concert was its extreme length, but the company
stopped it out.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.—HandeI's oratorio of " The
Messiah" is always a certain attraction at Festivals, and
the attendance this morning at St. Peter's Church was
greater even than that of yesterday. Lord and Lady San-
don, the principal members of the Derby family, Lord
C. Thynne, and many families of distinction connected with
the town and county were present.
The choral singers were quite at home in " The Mes-
siah." Principally chosen from the musical societies of the
chief northern towns, they are in the constant habit of
practising the masterly compositions of Handel and Haydn.
They have evidently bees carefully drilled, under the su-
perintendence of Mr. G. Holder, who had every reason to
be proud of the manner in which they executed the cho-
russes this morning. The two especial favourites, " For
unto us a child is born," and the " Hallelujah," were en-
cored. The sensation which Mrs. 'Wood had created yes-
terday was, if possible, greater this morning. There is an
earnestness and a fire about her style of singing which
completely carry the feelings of her auditory with her. We
must again repeat that, both in quality and point of voice,
we consider her decidedly improved. The scene of the ex-
terior of the church, before and after the performance, was
exceedingly animated. Every window of the houses com-
manding a view of the sacred edifice, was occupied with
spectators, and the streets were densely thronged, to view
the company going in and out of the church.

BAD IS THE BEST.-Mr. Horace Smith, while
lecturing the other night at the Sussex Institution, Brighton,
took occasion to point out the necessity of being content with
one's lot, illustrating the remark with the following bon mot :
—" A friend of mine," he said, " a remarkably cool and phi-
losophic person, was lately travelling to London, at a moment
when he was labouring under a very severe cough, which not
only was extremely distressing to himself, but also proved a
source of great annoyance to his fellow passengers, till, at
last, an old gentleman, ensconced in the corner, observed with
much displeasure, ' Sir, that's a very bad cough you've got.'
—' True, Sir,' replied the other, ' but it is the best I've got I",
Thirty-four porpoises were found on the 19th ult.,
on the strand in the Isle of Batz. The largest, it is said, was
eighteen feet long, and weighed 1,5001bs : the smallest was
seven or eight feet in length, and weighed nearly 4001ba.
Sixteen of these " monsters of the deep," amongst there was
but one male, were transported to the quay of Roscoff, and
to prevent them from escaping with the return of the tide, it
was found necessary to kill them. It the course of this ope-
ration, which was performed with hatchets, one individual
was seriously injured by a blow from the tail of one of the
porpoises.

A RESIDENCE IN FRANCE, &C., BY J. FENIMORE
COOPER, ESQ., AUTHOR OF " THE PILOT," &c.—. This is, in
several respects, a very remarkable book. It embraces a cu-
rious picture of the State of France under Louis Philippe, to
whom the author was personally introduced, and contains an
animated recital of his tour in Belgium, up the Rhine, and
over the glaciers and mountains of Switzerland. In detailing
the particulars connected with his residence in France, Mr.
Cooper, who enjoyed a familiar intimacy with Lafayette, re-
counts many interesting conversations with the old Republican
General, in which are elicited some curious statements relative
to the connection between the Citizen King' and Lafayette.
During the revolt which arose at the funeral of General La-
marque, Mr. Cooper traversed the streets of Paris, and kept a
wary eye on all that was going on ; and accordingly his pages
teem with vivid and graphic sketches of that event.
CAILLOT, THE MURDERER.—In our last num-
ber, we mentioned that a petition, praying for a commutation
of this wretched man's sentence, on the ground of his insanity,
was about to be presented to his Majesty. We have now to
inform our readers that the petition has been despatched to the
Privy Council Office. Another has been signed by the mur-
derer's relatives, and sent to his Majesty. The latter is cer-
tainly the more excusable petition of the two ; but we think
that the concoctors of the former—in arraigning the decision
of thirty-two jurymen on oath, who had all the facts of the case
before them—should have paused a little before they thus re-
flected on Caillot's legally constituted judges.—Jersey Argus.
LORD ELIOT.—On Tuesday the friends of the
Conservative cause met at Bodmin, for the purpose of making
arrangements to secure the return of Lord Eliot for the Eas-
tern Division of Cornwall.

One of the grossest compliments ever paid by man
to man, or woman either, was that of the poet Benserade to
Louis XIV., when that Monarch asked him what o'clock it
was, and he answered " Whatever hour your Majesty pleases."
Extract of a letter from Turin, dated the 27th ult.,
" The cholera, which for twelve months has afflicted Upper
Italy, has now made its appearance in the eastern part of the
Sardinian States. King Charles Albert, who last year went
to Genoa at the period when the disease was at its greatest
height, again left his capital to go through the infected pro-
vinces, not only to visit the hospitals and the great towns, but
even the smallest hamlets,jomitting nothing which can relieve,
encourage, or console the sufferers."
Private letters from Penang mention that produce,
with the exception of tin, was rather scarce. Tin was 14,
pepper 6to 61, and rice 35 dollars per roy.an. Bengal opium
was 620 dollars for cash, and 675 on credit.