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London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

Another officer of the society recognised the prisoners
as old hands, who prospered exceedingly by pretending
to be the victims of every sort of awful calamity.
The LORD MAYOR said the list of pretenaed contri-
butions contained internal and unmistakeable evidence, in
more than one instance, of rank falsehood.--(A laugh.)
Sir J. PIRIE negatived the signature of his name, and
Mr. G. Magnay stated that the name of " W. Magnay "
was not in his brother's handwriting.
The female prisoner said she certainly bad been guilty
of the deception, but disavowed atny knowledge of the
man. She assured his Lordship that her exertions to
support herself deserved any name but that of idleness.
On the contrary, mendicancy, as she practised it, re-
quired great labour, ingenuity, and memory, and the
least slip exposed her to de ection, of the consequences
of which she was perfectly aware.
The male prisoner said that the fact of his having
spoken to the woman in the street did not prove that he
knew anything of the papers with which she had pro-
videl herself.
The Loan MAYOR said it was quite obvious that the
prisoners turned their peculiar talents to profitable ac-
count, and sentenced each of them to imprisonment in
Bridewell for two months, with the addition, in case of
the man, to hard labour.

William- Johnson and John Hounslow were charged
with having robbed Messrs. Chambers, of Bishopsgate-
street, ironmongers, of 16,000 wills. The latter pri-
soner, who was coachman to Messrs. Chambers, had a
few days ago, in consequence of the suspicion enter-
tained that he.had been concerned in the robbery, swal-
lowed so large a quantity of poison that his stomach
vomited it at once, and the sickness saved his life.
John Spittle, 671, observed Johnson with a heavy bag
on his shoulder, and judging from his manner that he
had become improperly possessed of it, tock him into
custody, and soon ascertained that he and Hounslow had
contrived to pack tcgether a large quantity of nails in
parcels which bore the marks of the prosecutors. John-
son said! Hounslow bad suggested to him to take the
nails, and that they went together to the warehouse in
which the property was deposited, and were to be part-
ners in the produce of the sale.

Hounslovir, who had acknowledged to one of the police
that he knew something of the robbery, now positively
denied any knowledge at all of the matter.
The prisoners were committed for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
John Lawrence and Ernest Sultz, two well-dressed
young men, were charged with having picked the pocket
of Miss Julia Hammond, in an omnibus.

Miss Julia Hammond:, of Elizabeth•place, New•road,
said she got into an omnibus at Hungerford-market
with her sister on Thursday, about 6 o'clock in the even-
ing. The prisoner Lawrence shortly afterwards got in
and placed himself by her side. Sultz followed, and
placed himself by the side of her sister. When near
the Quadrant, in Regent street, her sister asked her to
lend her some money. She immediately put her hand
in her pocket and drew out her purse, in which she had
seen a sovereign just before she entered the omnibus.
The sovereign was, however, missing, and she told her
sister of the loss.

Miss Martha Hammond said she was with her sister
on Thursday last. As they rode in the omnibus towards
Reeent.street she felt that some one was trying to take
something out of her reticule. She watched, and she
observed that the prisoner Sultz, who sat by her side,
was acting in a suspicious way. The prisoner saw that
he was noticed, and he desisted from his attempt. Wit-
ness then looked at the other prisoner, who sat by the
side of her sister, and she saw him with his band by her
sister's pocket. Sultz, who appeared to notice that she
was observing his companion, touched Lawrence's toe
with his foot. Lawrence drew up his hand quietly, and
put something into his waistcoat pocket. Sultz touched
Lawrence's foot a second time, and then witness, who
suspected that an attempt had been made to rob her
sister, asked her sister to lend ht r some money. As soon
as her sister produced her purse and stated that she
missed a sovereign from it, witness turned to Lawrence
and said, " Sir, you have extracted a sovereign from my
sister's purse." The prisoner Lawrence replied that the
charge was not true, as he had two or three sovereigns
of his own in his pocket. Witness replied that she saw
him place something in his waistcoat pocket, which she
had no doubt was the sovereign stolen from her sister.
Witness then turned to Sultz, and told him that he had
made an attempt to steal something from her bag. The
prisoner denied the charge rudely; and, the attention of
the passengers having been by this time attracted to-
wards them, one of the gentlemen inside said-the charge
had better be investigated at the station-house.
Police-constable Jones, D 37, said he was at the
Mar3lebone station at the time when the charge was
brought. The prisoner Lawrence, when he got out of
the omnibus, walked into the station, but went back im-
mediattly, saying he wanted to pay the omnibus. Hav-
ing paid the conductor, he was brought into the station-
house and searched. In his waistcoat pocket were found
a sovereign and a half in gold. On his person were
found some keys and two diamond rings, one of some
value. On Sultz were found several sovereigns.
Police-constable, D 37, stated that the prisoners were
both known to the police. Sultz had a certificate on him
from the surgeon of the Penitentiary, to the effE.ct that
the prisoner had a bad leg, and could not be put to hard
lalscur.

Mr. BINGHAM asked Miss Julia Hammond if she was
sure she had a sovereign in her purse when she got into
the omnibus? Miss Hammond said, she was positive
she placed a sovereign in her purse just before she left
home.

The prisoners, who had a professional adviser, de-
clined to say anything in defence, and were fully corn-
mitted.

WORSHIP-STR EET.

Mr. John Johnson, a licensed victualler in the City-
road, appeared before Mr. Arnold upon a warrant,
charged with having, in conjunction with another person
not in custody, committed the following violent assault
upon Mr. Thomas Watson, a tradesman residing in the
same neighbourhood:—
The complainant, who, notwithstanding about a week
had elapsed since the occurrence, had one of his eyes
terribly cut and contused, stated, that having occasion to
enter the parlour of the defendant's house for the pur-
pose of procuring refreshment on the evening of the 3d
instant, an altercati.m arose between them regarding a
document he had taken off the table, and momentarily
held possession of in satisfaction of a sovereign due to
him, in the course of which tle defendant attempted to
wrest the paper from him, and, having failed in so doing,
was immediately succeeded in the attempt by a friend
of his, who rushed at him, and seizing him by the
throat, thrust his fingers into his mouth with such
brutal roughness, that not only was the back of his
mouth seriously lacerated, hut one of the strings of his
tongue was actually snapped in two. Not satisfied with
this degree of violence, he (the complainant) was then
seized round the body and forced back over a table,
with which his arm came into such violent contact that
it was Cruised most painfully from the elbow to the
wrist, and had been so seriously injured he had almost
lost the use of it for several days; and he was finally
struck such a terrible blow upon one of his eyes that he
instantly dropped to the ground in a state of total insen•
sibility, in which he remained for a considerable time,
and his ftr.t notion of recovery from which was finding
himself seated in a chair, and being roughly shaken by
some of the persons present ; upon which the defendant,
on seeing he had regained his senses, renewed the attack
by striking him a violent blow on the side of his head,
and was proceeding to further ill-treatment, when he was
rescued from his violence by a gentleman in the room,
who interposed in his behalf, and facilitated his escape
from the premises.

Mr. lli7ritage, who attended for the defence, addressed
the magistrate on behalf of his client, contending that the
plaintiff had brought the whole of the injuries he had
received upon himself by his own misconduct, and called
a person named Crawford, from whom it appeared that
the defendant had some time since advanced a consider-
able sup of money to an acquaintance of the cona-
plainan4.or which the latter engaged to be answerable,
and gave the defendant an I 0 U for the amount. It was
this 1 O U which was the cause of the contention
between them, and on the complainant entering the
parlour on the night in question, and the defendant
adverting t 9 the value of his acceptance, the. former
positively denied that any such document was in exist-
ence, and dared him to produce it ; upon which the
defendant did so, and laid it upon the table, but it was
instantly snatched up by the complainant, who retreated
with it to the end of the room, and attempted to
swallow it ; that a friend of the defendant, upon wit-
nessing this action, immediately seized Mr. Watson
by the throat to prevent it, and that a violent struggle
thereupon ensued between them for the possession of the
acceptance, in which the defendant took no part what-
ever, but which resulted in the complainant and his anta-
gonist being thrown several times to the ground together-, and, a table having been upset in the contest, the com-
plainant had fallen heavily upen and against it, and
received all the injuries he complained of ; no blow
whatever having been struck by either of them, and the
force used towards Mr. Watson being no more than was
absolutely necessary to prevent his swallowing the I 0 U,
which he was sworn positively to be apparently doing at
the time.

The complainant energetically declared that there was
not the slightest foundation for the insinuation conveyed
in the defence set up ; but
Mr. ARNOLD said, that it was impossible for him to
come to a satisfactoly adjudication on a case in which
such serious ill- usuge was sworn to on one side and so
totally denied on the other, and, as it was manifestly a
matter on which a jury alone could determine, he should
send the case to the sessions, and order the defendant to
put in bail to the extent of 501. to answer the charge.
The bail was immediately found, and the defendant
thereupon liberated.
THAMES.

George Allison Overton, a tall, well-dressed man, about
35 years of age, a linendraper, was charged with inter-
marrying with Anna Louisa Foster, while his first wife
was alive.
Pearse J. Dixon, clerk of St. John's district church,
Itr:yl bannsphi
the Bethnal-een, produced the register-book of marriages,
.al ry Ives stated
bachelor, and Harriet Ann Ives, spinster, were married
eap3dpeoafrejdul3t,haltB3G9e.orge Allison Overton,
satisfy herself of the If'
first wife, and that that s
her niece in 183 'he is aunt to the prisoner's
43 when she heard of the marriage of
went to St. John's Church to
by the name of Orertonraladalan and
wife,
afterwards lived togetZeet. The prisoner and her niece
prisonnereaerried on the business of a
parated from his wife
and he wont
linendraper. The
On Monday last
three years and eight month:
ahe received
witness went to the resideneerh
d
then from home, but on the folio
a letter from her stating thatintends sheF: niece:hewhhao
will:
to present herself at the police-court' but11"I if Pr'ssibl°
done so.
In cross-examination by Mr. Pelham, the witness $ -ald
the prisoner and her niece quarrelled in the street,
and
he returned to his dwelling in Litnehouse eauseway,Dnud.
his goods in a cart, and left the neighbourhood. He're.:
re-
fused to allow his wife to accompany him, and used

threatening language towards her. She (witness) had
no doubt her niece left the prisoner in consequence of
his ill-usage. her niece was afterwards reduced to
great distress, and she sent her to Yarmouth, where her
friends resided. She never heard that her niece was
unfaithful to her husband, but he had been very unfaith-
ful to her. She never heard the prisoner was a man of
unsound mind. Witness heard of the second marriage
some time ago. The mother of the prisoner married his
wife's father.

Mr. Pelham—l see—it was a family compact.
Anna Lonisa Foster stated that she was married to the
prisoner at Whitechapel Church on the 22d of July last.
He married her in the name of George Hoshaiah Allison,
and she never knew him by any other. When she first
became acquainted with him he was in business as a
linendraper, and she was in the habit of making pur-
chases at the shop. He paid his addresses to her for 12
months previously to their marriage. On or about Christ-
mas last he told her that he was married to another wo-
man, and that he did not like to mention it before, ai he
feared the news would distress her. She continued to
live with him until the 23d of February last, when they
had a few words, and, after kissing her, he said she
would never see him again, and left home. She had not
seen him since the 23d of February until that day.
The witness fainted away when she had given her evi-
dence, anti was carried out of court.

Robert Sheffield produced the certificate of the regster
of the last marriage at Whitcchapel Church.
Mr. YARD&EY said, the case must go before a jury, and
there was not a single extenuating circumstance in the
case to justify him in taking bail. He committed the
priconer for trial.

LAMBETH.
John Phillips, the son of a gentleman of respectability,
was charged with exposing his person in Coldharbour-
lane, Camberwell, on the preceding evening.
The case was clearly proved, and when the prisoner
was called on for his defence, his father, who seemed
very much affected, rose and said that for many years
his son had been the source of the greatest possible un-
happiness to him, and after dissipating a very handsome
property, had enlisted in the 45th Regiment. Soon after
he accompanied his regiment to India, and had been in
all the desperate battles during the last two years. The
awful description of the carnage he had witnessed, which
he had sent home, induced him (the father) to send out
a suco of money to purchase his discharge, and he con-
sequently came home. On his arrival, a short.titne since,
his head was one mass of blister, and it was his im
pression that this must have affected his mind. During
the whole of his former pmfligacy he had never known
his wretched son to be guilty of any such offence as the
present, and if it was his Worship's opinion that he had
been really guilty of the charge he should be the last to
screen him.

Mr. ELLIOTT felt perfectly satisfied of the prisoner's
guilt, and c•brumittal him to the House of Correction for
three months.

ST. STEPHEN'S, %VALBROOK.
On Tuesday morning, at 11 o'clock, a meeting of the
parishioners of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, was held in the
vestry of the parish church for the election of church.
wardens for the ensuing year. The chair was taken by
the Rev. Dr. Croly, the vicar. Not more than 20 per-
sons were present.
The minutes of the last meeting of the vestry having
been read and confirmed,
Mr. W. Rocs, churchwarden, observed, that it was
now twelve months since the last vestry meeting was
held in this parish. The reason of this was, that in
the intervening time several questions relating to paro-
chial affairs had been under the cognizance of courts of
law ; and it was therefore felt unnecessary to continue
the meetings which they had been accustomed to hold
in that place. The litigated questions to which he re-
ferred had, however, now been decided, and he was
happy to say that in every instance the decision had
been in favour of the parishioners, and against the select
vestry. The Judges of the Court of Common Pleas had
unanimously declared the election of Alderman Gibbs
to the office of churchwarden to be illegal and void.
Those with whom he (Mr. Rock) acted had been ad
vised, by the legal authorities they had consulted, that
the effect of this decision was to put an end entirely to
the select vestry in the parish of 'Walbrook. There
could be no doubt that there had originally been a select
vestry in the parish ; but in order to preserve a custom
it was necessary, when that custom was at variance
with the common law, that it should be strictly adhered
to. In this case the custom had been departed from,
and the result was that the vestry of St. Stephen's. Wal-
brook, would henceforth be an open vestry.—(Hear,
hear.) It was true that Alderman Gibbs had inti-
mated his intention to appeal against the unanimous de-
ci,ion of the Judges of the Common Plea-, but it was of
course open to him to take any measure that he might
choose to adopt. The meeting was aware that during
the last four years a Chancery suit had been carried on
between Alderman Gibbs and himself (Mr. Rock), in
which the p irish was not immediately concerned. He
(Mr. Rock) had pledged himself several years ago that
he would extract some account from Alderman Gibbs,
and that pledge he had now fulfilled.—(llear, hear.)
It was necessary, in the course of the suit to carry the
accounts into the office of one of the Masters in Chan-
cery, and at that time Alderman Gibbs' accounts ex-
hibited a balance of upwards of 1,800/, which he claimed
from the parish of Walbrook, The Master, however,
after investigating the accounts, struck off 1,3001. of
the 1,8001. ; and the Vice-Chancellor subsequently
,1
decided that the remaining 500/. -could not be
recovered by Alderman Gibbs. This claim of
1,500/. was, therefore, annulled, and all the money
that Alderman Gibbs had received since the commence-
ment of these proceedings would go to the credit of the
parish. As the income of the parish wns above 7001.
a year, and as upwards of three years had elapsed since
legal prw:e-dings were commenced, it fellowed that
Alderman Gibbs had now in hand from 2,0001. to 2,3001.
or 2,4001. to the credit of the parish ; for during the
three years he (Alderman Gibbs) could not have ex-
pended more than 180/. or 2001. The parishioners had
achieved in this strugele all that they had desired to
obtain; and they now demanded payment from Alder-
man Gibbs of the amount which had accumulated in his
hands during the last three years. He hoped the pa-
rishioners would take care that the accounts of the
parish were more regularly kept by their future church-
wardeme

After a few words from Mr. FLIGHT, expressing his
concurrence in the observations of the previous speaker,
Mr. CUNLIFFE observed, that he was sure the meeting
would admit that the late chureliwardtms, Messrs. Rock
and Flight, deserved the thanks of the parishioners for
the trouble they had taken with regard to the matters
which had been referred to, and he begged to move their
re-election to office for the ensuing year.
The motion was seconded by Mr. KENDRICK, and was
unanimously adopted.

The Rev. CHAIRMAN cAled the attention of the
meeting to the state of the parish church, which, he
observed, was most scandalous. He had said three years
ago that the church was not in a fit state for the per-
formance of divine service, and he might now repeat the
statement with much greater force. His only surprise
was, that any congregation assembled in the edifice, for,
independently of the possible casualty of the roortalling
clown, the cold during the recent inclement weather had
been almost insupportable. The church was in a state
of utter insolvency. There was a sum of 140 guineas
due to the organist; the sextoness had a claim for up-
wards of 27:3/ ; and four years' stipend, about 160/., was
due to himself (Dr. Croly) as lecturer.
Mr. Roca observed, that a notice had been published,
signed by Mr. Alexander and Mr. Ramsay, convening a
parish meeting for Friday next. He considered, there-
fore, that they ought to ascertain the names of all the
select vestrymen, that they might know nith whom they
were fighting—whether with men of substance or with
men of straw. As Mr. Might and himself had been
chosen churchwardens of the parish, he wished to tell
any gentlemen who might claim to act as churchwardens
that his colleague and himself were ready to declare war
to the knife. If any other persons took any step as
churchwardens, he could assure them that actions would
be commenced the next day.
Dr. CROLY intimated his intention to attend the
meeting on Friday.
A vote of thanks was then given to the Roy. Chairman
and Messrs. Rock and Flight, and the proceedings
terminated.

EDUCATION IN ROME.
THE EVENING SCHOOLS.
(From the Roman Advertiser.)
There are many elementary schools for the benefit
or the children of the people, diffused throughout
the regions of Rome, and collecting so large a num-
ber of the young as to be able to stand in competi-
tion with those of Paris, London, and other capitals.
We shall here limit ourselves to giving some account
of the nocturnal schools, which, coming to the aid of
the diurnal ones, complete the system of popular
education, in supplying instruction for those children
who are obliged to work during the day, and have no
time to pass in school except the early hours of the
evening. The nocturnal schools of Rome had their
origin in 1819, by means of Giacomo Casoglio, a
carver in wood, who, from love towards his fellow-1
artizans, conceived the design of collecting their
children in the evening, in a large chamber in the
Via Guile, where, besides the catechism, he taught
them reading and a little writing, attracting his
youngc, pupils •by presents. This labour, so much of
love, but so imperfect in the hand of an artizan,
was assisted the very same year by the Nocturnal
Oratory, which Monsignor Giannoli opened near the
school, in the Church of St. Nicola degli Incoronati.
The oratory asssisted the school during the life of
Casoglio, and afterwards the good priests oontinued
the work commenced by the artisan. But this seed
soon bore much greater fruit, when the Advocate Gigli,
full of benevolence towards the people, opened, in 1830,
a school at his own expense, in St. Maria de Marche.
giani' which locale being too small, it was afterwards
transferred to St. Simone e Guide. He founded an-
other in Borgo, in 1833, and desiring to extend these
benefits over the whole city, transferred that of St.
Simone e Giuda to a more suitable place at the Mar.
chera d'Oro, so appointing it that it might be taken
as a model for all the rest. But, whilst bent on these
charitable designs, death cut him off in the time of
general mourning, 1837, when, having converted
his school into a house of relief, and going every
day with the others who recruited in the task of
nursing, to the houses of cholera patients, he was
seized by the disease, and perished the victim of his
singular charity. But though he was dead, his work
did not die with him, as the two schools, although
interrupted by this calamity, and deprived of their
ordinary succours, passed into the hands of the Abate
model of benevolence, who not only re- ,
stored them
to their pristine state, but remitted the

funds in the amount of the deficit sustained in the
interval, exerted himself so much that the aids
augmented, and prevailed upon his parishioners,
who were subsidiaries of the Cassa di benefeenza,
to contribute two scudi a month in those places
where the schools had been opened. By such pious
industry, he increased the revenue to 500 scudi,
with which he was enabled to open a new school
in the Via dell'Arancio. When he was obliged
to leave Rome on account of his health, the Cardinal
della Porta, then vicar, perceiving the utility
of these schools, took their interest greatly to
heart, and confirmed the pious society by the decree,
" Delle scuole notturnß di religiose,'' under the in-
vocation of the Vergine Addolorato, some being de-
sired to contribute by money, others by labour. In
order to increase the benefits resulting, he desired
to place them under the guidance of a man who
might be their voluntary director and promoter,
as was found in llonsignor Morichini, who having
already assumed the direction on the instance of
Pallotta, retained it with hearty willingness, accord-
ing to the wish of the Cardinal. It was not possible
that the choice could have fallen better than on this
individual, in respect for whose genuine modesty
we shall only say, that his ability of mind and
benevolence of heart are known to all. If the uni-
versal interests of the Church, and the recompense
of merit in such a prelate, ought not to be par:mount
to particular advantages, the loss that Rome has
sustained in so energetic an ecclesiastic would be
too severe. [He has been elevated to the dignity
of Nuncio at the Court of Bavaria.] It was then
that an established order was given to this institution,
the administration set on a firm basis, the regulations
compiled, and the instruction determined. Then
(1829) its course became continually more progres-
sive, and its benefits gradually extended over the
principal centres of the city, The truly apostolic
zeal of the good pri▪
ests, and the assistance of charitable
and distinguished persons, gave increment to the
pious work, and si▪
nce 1841 the regulations in regard
to the institution, the worship, and instruction, have
been in print. In respect of the first, all is confided
to a directive council, composed of president, vice-
president, directors of. the schools, secretary, and
accomptant. The president is chosen by the council,
and the members of this by the general session of
the society, this last being composed of associates,
some exercitants, some contributors. The council
meets once a month, the society on the occasion of the
annual balancing of accounts, and for the election of
the members of the council, who are in office two
years. The evenings of vigils and festivals are dedi-
cated to religious exercises, when all the schools
assemble in their respective oratories, for catechetical
instruction, and prayers are given, and two feasts
especially celebrated, those of the Mater dolorosa and
St. Luiga Gonzago. On the afternoons of festivals,
the pupils are conducted to some gardens, where
they pass their time in amusements till the evening.
The schools are opened at the hour of 24, and the in-
struction begins at a half an hour later, lasting till
1 o'clock, and three-quarters of the night (24 is now
6 o'clock, the first hour of the night 7). Every
school is divided into three classes, in which are suc-
cessively taught, reading, writing, and arithmetic,
and catechism for the last quarter of an hour. In
the third class are taught the elements of linear
design, and of geometry applied to the arts. Choral
music is also taught to some extent, enabling the
children to sing at their devotions, and on returning
home at night. It certainly awakens pculiar emo-
tions when, at the second hour of the night (8
o'clock), one meets bands of these children, Or hear
them as they pass under our windows, singing the
praises of Mary, and going to the homes where their
mothers receive them with blessings, whilst they
bless also the pious care of those who thus train their
children in the paths of virtue.

CHRISTOPHER COLOMB.
True genius is seldom to be put down by clamour,
though, unfortunately, instances of this kind do
sometimes occur, and unquestionably had not Felicien
David been possessed of strength of mind ,as well
high talent, he would have sunk under the storm of
abuse $o ungenerously raised against him last year,
on the occasion of his " Moise, whieh, because the
public was disappointed in not finding it another
"Desert," was universally cried down as a worthless
rhapsody, and its author as something like an im-
postor. Some of your men of genius would have
taken this sorry treatment—and sorry and shabby
enough it certainly was—in dudgeon, and forsworn
Apollo in a huff—nay, some of our acquaintance
would infallibly in such a strait have blown out the
small portion of brains appertaining to them ;
but M. David did far better—he betook himself, not
to Avernus, but to Auteuil, where he avenged him-
self on his detractors by writing a symphony,
which not only restores him to celebrity, but places
him beyond the reach of all future cavil among the
first composers of his time. The subject is a grand
one, the conception of a man of genius—the discovery
of the new world; the title Christophe Colomb, ou, la
Discouverie du Nouveau Monde. It was produced at
the Theatre of the Conservatoire, for such was the
' effect of the clamour to which we have alluded that
not a lyric theatre would open its doors to the corn
poser, and it was to the generous interference of one
of the Princes that this smile, which belongs to the
Crown, was placed at the disposal of M. David. The
symphony is divided into four parts—" The Depar.
ture, ' " A Night at the Tropics," " The Revo!t,"
and " The New World." These are all described
with an imitative power really wondrous, though
the auditor is no doubt largely indebted to a re-
citative well delivered by M. Henry, of the Opera
Comique, who, by a kind of running commen
tary on the events described, keeps the audience
au courant of the intenticns of the author, like
the chorus in the old Greek tragedy. The sub-
ject opens with the preparations for the departure Of
the expedition, the undulation of the waves, and the
ships riding at anchor being expressed with singular
felicity. The embarkation amid the prayers of the
people, the signal for sailing, and the departure of the
fleet, with the various feelings of regret and alarm at
such a moment experienced by the adventurers and
those who remain behind, were admirably depicted,
and this part concluded amid loud and long plaudits.
The composer subsequently describes the features of a
the langour of the
of home, a revolt on
the new world ; the
sailors at the prospect,
rapture
longaotropics,pa trudnavigation—the
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and the dances and choruses of the natives ; all were
received with applause, which, as the beauties un-
folded themselves to the audience, rose at length to
enthusiastic demonstrations of delight. The sym-
phony, we should mention, is not wholly instru-
mental, the subject being developed by several
choruses and other vocal rnorceaux, all of considerable
merit, but we must add that the execution seemed on
the whole inferior to the work. The composition is
of colossal grandeur, and it would demand all the
resources of a first-rate theatre to do justice to such
a production.

MUSICAL MEMORANDA.
Mr. Braham has kindly consented to sing at the festi-
val of the Royal Society of Musicians, on the 19th inst.,
L.rd Saltoun in the chair. Miss Rainforth, the Misses
Williams, MISS Maria B. Hawes, Signor F. Lablache,
and a host of other eminent vocalists have promised to
attend on the occasion.

ANCIENT CONCERTS.—FieId Marshal the Duke of
Wellington will give a grand banquet on the 21st instant
to the directors of the Ancient Coneerts and a select
party, previous to the performance. Mdile. Lutzer, the
celebrated German cantatrice, will make her debut at
these concerts on the occasion.

Jullien gives a concert this evening at Manchester, at
which Herr Pischek will sing. He will also sing at
several places in the provinces previous to his appear-
ance in London, which will be at the concert of ancient
music.

Mr. John Wilson, accompanied by Mr. Land, has
given his Scottish entertainments at Aberdeen, and
several other places, with his, wonted success ; he will
resume his performances at the Music Hall, in Store-
street, next Monday.
AMATEUR SOCIETY.—The programme fer next Fri-
day's performance by the Amateur Society in Store-
street., will consist of the overture to Rossini's L'ltaliani :
Haydn's symphony, the Letter Q; selection of Donizetti's
Lucrezia ; a symphony by Rousselot, and Beethoven's
overture to Fidelio.—Conductor, Mr. B ilfe.
The Western Madrigal Society will celebrate its eighth
anniversary on Thursday next, at the Freemasons' Ta-
vern, when several fine compositions by the old English
'.s
and Italian writers will be performed by nearly a hun-
dred voices. Mend ls ohn will arrive iu London on the
13th inst., and his oratorio, Elijah, will be performed at
Exeter Hall, on the 16th, under his direction.
Vieuxtemps
will arrive in L•indon on the 19th inst.
from St. Petersburgh, where he has been sojourning for
some time, and creating quite a furore by his violin
Playing. There is a doubt about young Joachim's
paying us a visit this season; nor is Parish Atvers likoly
to come; but Godefroid, the eminent harpist, will be here
shortly, for the season.
The Glee Club will meet on Saturday next at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern; and the rehearsal of the
third Philharmonic Concert will take place in the morn-
ing of the same day.
It is confidently reported that the installation of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert will take place at Cain-
bridge early in July. According to ancient custom, the
commencement will begin on Saturday, the 3d of July;
mid the performance of the Ode on the 6th. As usual,
there will be a musical festival, but as yet nothing has
been definitively settled.

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