The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-20 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 20_ 1857

of Scotland, but—incredible though it may
seem to those unacquainte 1 with northern
impudence in these matters—in the arid wastes
And barren wilds of Caledonia. The brobdigna-
gian maps thus produced, benefitting no one at
all in the wide world save arose same affluent
proprietors. And the money squandered upon
the production of those same ridiculously gigantic
maps—coming, of course, out of the national
treasury! The whole fahtastic project tending
in this way to the completion of one stupendous
plan of Scotland, which as the Times laughably
but most accurately puts it--" if completed on
the same scale, would be 250 yards long by about
200 broad, which would cover the Art Treasures
buildingat Manchester, and if placed upright would
be about twice the height of St. Paul's Cathedral."
However, the folly of the thing was altogether
too monstrous to be any longer endured. And
so—when it was with admirable effrontery pro-
posed to tack on another little item of 36,0001.
to the estimates, for the purpose of extending this
private boon to the lairds of the rugged fast-
nesses of Ross-shire and Caithness--the whole
scheme was quashed, or rather (to call things by
their right names) was literally and indignantly
squashed by the New Parliament. The
" Strong" Cabinet—as Mr. KEELEY might say,
in the farce " Coming it just a little too Strong !"
—finding themselves in an absolute minority of ten;
and the PREMIER wisely promising, thereupon, in a
penitential mood, that he " would never do so
again !"—that no further survey upon the
25-inch scale should be made henceforth in any
part of the United Kingdom.
Good—so far. The matter is done with. But
it was—was it not I—wonderfully significant and
characteristic ! It was characteristic of the whole
of that grand system of ours, epitomised under
one big word by Boz, as the system of Circumlo-
cution ! It was significant of that aggregated
mass of our Imperial " muddle"--a total of
blended parsimony and extravagance.
Here are we squandering huge piles of gold and
banknotes upon a Gigantic Absurdity—and grudg-
ing at the same time the merest trifle spent upon
public works, works illustrative iu their way of the
national character, and intimately affecting to the
world at large, either the meanness or the majesty
of our Imperial reputation.

Let us have an end of this, at last, for once,
and for all. Let us have an end of useless and
expensive "jobs," like this enormous Folly of the
Scotch Survey ! And let us, while we thus
retrench rationally on the one side—let us
we say, upon the other, give freely, give
eagerly, give affluently, out of the abundance
of the .National Wealth, for the adornment
and the general improvement of not merely the
national, but even be it said the Imperial Capital
For the renovation of the national monuments !
For there-budding of the National Gallery.! :For
the further beautifying of our noble Parks—the
pleasure gardens not merely of the Londoners,
but, as such;of the whole population ! The Capital
of the Empire should be worthy of the Crown
and of the People !

" Spurgeonism in the Church" attracted us
lately to Exeter Hall, as it once did to the
" Original SPURGEON" at the Music Hall, in the
Surrey Gardens. Of course journalists cannot
imitate the "Sunday Saints and Monday Sinners."
We must be Sunday journalists and Monday jour-
nalists too, although we may be glad enough to
let our types and printing machine enjoy their
weekly rest. Well, we stepped across the Strand
to see how our Church friends succeeded in their
imitation of the popular young Baptist. It was all
as it ought to be ; the cutting down of the service
to the Litany and a prayer or two, and the spirit id
singing of two or three hymns, occupied little
more than half an hour, and could not have
wearied any one. The Sermon too, was good, of
the Evangelical school. The preacher's doctrinal
creed and the Srur.ortores, we should judge, dif-
fered but little, if at all. In point of style,
voice, and manner, there could be no question
that the youthful Dissenter had greatly the ad-
vantage in regard to the power of interesting au
audience of mechanics and tradesmen. Probably
his vivid fancy and earnestness have as much to
do, as his success with the multitude, in attract-
ing so many of the aristocracy also, whose names
we see reported as frequenting the great religious
levees in the Borough.
We were reminded, however, yesterday, of one
person we saw at Exeter Hall on the occasion re-
ferred to. Close by the preacher sat one of the
avowed promoters of " Church Spurgeonisoa"—
the Earl of StraFrEsuunx. We have already
justified and commended the movement. We
thought it eminently well meant. We know the
Earl to belong to the section of the Church which
rejoiccs in the epithet, Evangelical.; and we
thought no more of it. Yesterday, however, we
had to report the Evangelical Exeter Hall E irl
as heading a Church Rate Deputation to Lord PAL-
MERSTON ! A deputation, of course, of good
honest, Church and King, anti-Maynooth, money-
loving Tories, R. SPOONER, Esq.,' being na-
turally prominent among them. We could not
forget the last time we saw the Earl ; we thought
of the Exeter Hall platform ; we thought of Evan-
gelical clergymen, and Evangelical Members of
Parliament, and Bishops, and E iris ; we remem-
bered the tent too, and we could not help adapt-
ing it to the Exeter Hall Earl, and exclaiming,
"Can a stiff Churchman change his skin, or a
Tory his spots ?"
The truth is that, not professing any peculiar
sanctity ourselves, we participate in the vulgar feel-
ing of looking for "something more" in those who
avow themselves professors of a very spiritual con-
ception of our common faith. We also incline to
the exceedingly vulgar practice of making plain
undeniable virtues, such as fairness, justice, gene-
rosity, and doing to others as we would they should
do unto us, our measure of the value of very
spiritual professions. Now, we have always re-
spected the Earl of SHAFTESBURY as a Ragged
School man and so forth ; but what were we to
think of a hot evangelical Church-rate Lord

With our worldly views of things, we have heartily
opposed Church••rates ever since Dissenters ob-
jected to them; and we have done it just because
we could not look a respectable Dissenter in the
face, and deem ourselves commonly honest or just,
not to say generous, did we not renounce, frankly
and unconditionally, the power of taxing him for
the services of our Church. We should not like
he should do the like thing to us; we could not
think it fair to make him keep up our churches and
services, and his own too ; and our notions of re-

ligion (very carnal ones, perhaps) bid us perform
towards the Dissenter the homely virtues of hu-
manity and fairness.

We saw in some placards that the Earl of
SHAFTESBURY was to take the chair at a Baptist
Missionary Meeting in the Hall, last May—what

can those very decided Non-conformists think of
their Chairman now ? One day praising their

missionaries and recommending voluntary sub-

script;ons for them, a few days after beseeching

;he Premier to keep the Church-rate' saddle on
;he Dissenters backs, and to boot and spur the

Churchmen to ride them i Evangelical Church-

rate summons. Evangelical distress warrants,

Evangelical seizures of goods to pay for Church-
men's churches and worship—all this may be
very spiritual, but if so, we own it is above the
comprehension of us worldly folk. We are apt,
no doubt somewhat profanely, to exclaim, " from
such evangelical spirituality good LORD d liver
us." We have heard of heathens, who, when
told by missionaries that their fathers ware
doubtless in hell, replied, " then we should wish
to go there too ;" and certainly if " we are to be
told that fairness and generosity to Dissenters are
not " evangelical and spiritual"---we should reply,
then leave us without the latter excellencies. We
prefer our old ones.

We put it, however, plainly to Lord SHAFTES-
BURY and his high and dry Tory Churchmen
Do the vast majority of Church-rate payers pay
willingly, or not ? If they do, then they want no
law to compel them t) do it, If they do not,
what becomes of the tale with which the Earl and
his clique went to Lord PAINERSTON ? Only five
per cent, of the parishes, said they, refused
Church-rates, why, then, should not the ninety-
five per cent. be left as they are ? We ask,
rather, why should they, if they really do not
object ? The truth is, that there are no returns
of cases in which the anti-ratepayers were in a
minority ; or of those in which it was hopeless to
contend with the parish magnates, Probably a
very large majority of the Church-ratepayers
would refuse it if they could. If not, we repeat,
they need no law compelling them, and others,
too, to pay. Repeal the misting law, and the
Church will still get all it ought to get, while a
majority of Churchmen, or of votes (not voters)
in a parish will no longer be able to coerce those
who, perhaps, dare not oppose them.
We trust Lord PALMERSTON will not listen to
the Exeter Hall Earl. He has made bishops
enough to please him we hope ; let that satisfy
him. The Premier ought to know better than to
regard " Evangelicals," whose notion of " Gospel
Liberty" pleads for coercion of their neighbours.
If he don't mean to make a clean sweep of Church-
rates he had better never touch them. Let May-
nooth warn him, that if he charge the " compen-
sation " demanded upon any public fund, he will
have some dissenting SPOONER (only with a better
cause) boring the House, session after session, to
get the act repealed. Dissenters, we have no
doubt, would rather continue to fight the parish
battles than accept a degrading compromise. For
Church-rate compensation Lord SHAFTESBURY and
the bigots_ must put their hands in their own
pockets.

"What is protection ?" We do not mean in
the economical, or fiscal, but in the diplomatic,
and political sense. We have seen that it has
been made the pretext for destroying the inde-
pendence of the protected States, for substituting
absolute government for the quasi security afforded.
But what is the consideration given to the weaker
party ? Is it anything of real importance, or
merely a mockery and delusion ? We have, at
length, some means of judging, according to the
views of a British Minister, and can therefore
estimate the value of such a connection to the
weaker party.

We have for centuries " protected" the Mos-
quito territory. Great Britain has flung the
mantle of its protection over the minor State,
and many Englishmen as well as citiz3ns of other
countries depending on its efficacy, have trusted
their persons and property to that which was
universally believed to be an adequate guarantee.
But what has been the result ? In consequence
of a quarrel between competieg companies the
American Government thought proper to send a
Corvette to enforce redress for some alleged or
fancied wrongs. The proceedings were of a very
summary character----" Hight Captain HOLLINGS"
demanded the immediate payment of 24,000 dol-
lars, a sum far beyond the means of the autho-
rities, or of the inhabitants of Greytown ; and,
because that appeared a fabulous amount to the
parties concerned, proceeded first to bombard and
then to burn down the town. Lord PALMERSTON
has justly declared this to be " a very violent and
a very cruel proceeding l" We go further and as-
sert it to be a piratical and sanguinary atrocity,
that should consign the inhuman perpetrator to
the gallows, and the Government, which gave a
pretext therefor, to universal detestation.

It was not, as wo have stated, merely the bombard-
ment, although that was bad enough, but the subse-
quent iucendiarism that was complained of, not
only were grape and canister served out
with diabolical impartiality, but miscreants
clothed in the uniform of the United
States, and chiming t) act under the authority
and direction of the Cabinet at Washington, landed
and set fire to the houses that remained untouched
by the cannonade—even the residence of the Bri-
tish Vice-Consul, over which floated the English
standard—

" The fl ig that braved a thousand years,
The battle and the bretze"

was wantonly destroyed, and the houses of French,
of Germans, and the citizens of other nations were
I,kewise exposed to the torch of the incendiary.
And what has been the result ? Has the Eng-
lish Government boldly claimed compensation for
those who fondly imagined that they were placed
under its protectorate ? Have they demanded
redress for the insult to the British flag ?
Far from ih. " Tho lion has roared you like any
sucking dove !"—Has put forward his complaints
with " bated breath, and deep humility," and on
the contumelious rejection of his demand, or
rather of his humble petition, has retired from
the field like a whipped our.

Lord PALMERSTON last night shirked the ques-
tion. He babbled a little about international law,
which would not justify a claim in such a case.
Then why did he put forward such a demand
and what was the effect or utility of the
quasi protest made. Most assuredly a new
edition of VATTEL is required. English
diplomacy has never been very distinguished, but
at no time has it appeared in so humiliating a
light as in its recent proceedings, in reference to
the infamous bombardment, plunder, and massacre
at Greytown,
under the avowed sanction of the
Cabinet at Washington, and the Government of
President PIERCE.

LATEST NEW

THE PARIS CONFERENCE.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
PARIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 20,
8.30 A. M.
The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Eng-
land, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and Turkey met
yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for

the purpose of signing the treaty for the frontier
settlement in Bessarabia, and for regulating the
question of the Isle of Serpents and of the Delta
of the Danube.
The Moniteur confirms the fact that a treaty of
commerce was signed between France and Russia
on the 14th of the present month.

FRANCE.
THE ELECTIONS.
PARIS, FRIDAY.
The illon,iteur contains the following :
PREFCTURE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE SEINE.
ELECTIONS OF JUNE 21 AND 22.

Rectors of the Department of the Seine,—You
are convoked to name your deputies to the Legis-
lative Corps.

The time exists no longer when, the deputies
representing only a privileged class of electors, the
Government feared to lat its own opinion be openly
expressed on the elections, which were delivered
up to the struggles of parties and the rivalries of
ambition. At the present day the Government, in
frankly adopting universal suffrage, in excluding
from the Legislative Corps every functionary paid
by the State, has desired the Chamber to be the
sincere expression of the general will. It has only
reserved to itself one single means of influence—
that of proclaiming to the country what men have
its confidence, in order that people may not be de-
ceived by professions of faith, which are often de-
ceitful.

In order to govern, the Emperor must have the
support of an elective chamber, independent, but
devoted to his cause as well as to the new institu-
tions. With the deputies who have already given
proof of their sentiments the conduct of the Go-
vernment will be easy ; with deputies belonging to
another order of ideas you would expose yourselves
to create agitation and disquiet. You may be
convinced that the consequences of such agitation
and disquiet will fall especially on those who labour
to produce them.

For the rest, several of the candidates of the op-
position--declared adversaries of the Imperial con-
st.tution—only canvass your votes in order signally
to repudiate them.

The candidates whom the Government points
out to you, in nine of the electoral districts of the
department of the seine, are the late deputies.
Whilst preserving an honourable independence,
they have given proof on every important occasion
of their true patriotism.
For the new electoral district rendered necessary
by the increase of the population, the candidate
presented to you has been mayor and is a member
of the Municipal Council of Paris, whose devotion
to the government of, the Emperor and to the in-
terest of his fellow-citizens has never been at fault.
Like his colleagues, he will be a sure and en-
lightened support.
It is by the co-operation of the great bodies of
the state, and especially of that one which votes
the laws, that the Emperor has been enabled to
pass through five years, during which many and
various calamities have, so to speak, disappeared
beneath the lustre of new glories and new prosperi-
ties. It is owing to this co-operation that the three
years of scarcity have been less disastrous In France
than anywhere else ; that gigantic works have
changed 'the face of Paris and all France ; that
agriculture, industry and trade have been pro-
tected and developed ; that an improve-
ment in the condition of the minor officials
has been enabled to be commenced ; that the
burden of the conscription has been rendered
lighter ; that the army has, notwithstanding this,
received a more solid constitution ; that the insti-
tutions of charity and public assistance have beau
multiplied ; that certain taxes have already been
reduced, notwithstanding the cost of the war ; and,
finally, that France has reconqui,red by arms, as
vroll as by the wisdom of her policy, the rank that
was due to her in Europe.
Thus' the question is clearly put :—To vote for
the candidates designated by the Government is to
ratify their conduct by your suffrage, to approve
' what they have sustained, and to facilitate the
execution of the Eal pe roes great projects.
To vote, on the contrary, for hostile candidates,
is to follow in a course without an object men, who
for the most part have in the main no sympathy
with the people ; who, in the exercise of power,
have already given proofs of their incapacity and
weakness, and who would only be able to raise up
ag tin their party on the misfortunes of their
country.
Your choice cannot be doubtful.
The Prefect of the Seine,
G. E. HAUSSMANN.
Hotel-de-Ville of Paris, June 19, 1837.
[A. list of the official candidates for the metro-
politan department, who names have already b,.:40
published, follows the above address.]
The Presse has the following :

"Opposition tlsctors of the third circumscription of
the department of the 13ouches-du-Rhone, wishing to
give a proof of their gratitude to him who was their
Prefect in the difficult period of 1843 have resolved to
vote for M. Emile Olivier, who is likewise a candidate
in the fourth electoral division in Paris. M. E nile
Olivier has sent them his bulletin signed."
The same journal tells the following anecdote,
apropos of the elections
" 4. Garnier Pages signs the advertisements which
indicate his candidature by the words Candidate of the
Democratic Opposition,' apparently to indicate that he
is more democratic than those who call themseves simply
Candidate of the Opposition.' Now the following is a
coppy of the 1-ttt,r which M. Gamier Pag,s addressed
oa the 24:h of February to M. de Malevitle. It is 'e-
lated 1-y Daniel Stern in his History of the Revolution
of February,' in a note to page 248 The madmen
that you know have proclaimed the Republic. Prevent
the Duchess of (Means from showing herself. The
moment is not propitious. Ever yours, my good friend.'
M. Gamier Pages has a very short memory."
The following privata telegraphic despatches
have been received :

"MARSEILLES, JuNe 18.
"ALGIERS, June 15.—The army is still on the terri-
tory of the Beni-atten. The road of Tlzi-Oz )u is en-
tirely terminated. Not fewer than 13 artesian wells
hare been bored ; that of Gheggo gives 20 litres per
minute."

"TRIESTE, JUNE 19.
" Intelligence has arrived from Constantinople to the
11th. The pretender to the Principality of Montenc-
gr,,, who lived in exile in Turkey, has been asFassinated.
Tne Viceroy of Egypt has arrived at Smyrna. Letters
from Teheran announce the official reception, by the
Shah, of General Eariatinski, the Rue-ian Envoy."
" VIENNA, JUNE 19.
" The Austrian Correspondence contradicts the state-
ment made by the French rlfoniteur respecting the feeling
in the Danubian Principalities. According to the Aus-
trian journal, the great majority of the Moldavian people
are hostile to unionist tendencies, and it declares that
the prudent and impartial conduct of Vogorides gene-
rally admitted."

BOURSE, June 19.—The following were the las
quotations :

Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4i per Cents
3 per Cents 6B 40 68 65
Bank Shares 4,600 Credit Foncier 5OO -
Credit Mobilier 1,167 50 Roman
Do. Account - Austrian -
Belgian 4i .. 9B— Spanish Threes 39?, -
Fiedmontese (5) 9l 25 Home Debt ......... -

THE HANDEL FESTIVAL AT THE
CRYSTAL PALACE.

Yesterday witnessed the last of these great musi-
cal commemorations, though in point of attendance,
splendour, and success, it might well be called the
first. Such of the visit ors as only attended on Mon-
day or daring the occasion of the Royal visit can
form but au inadequate notion of the impressive
scene which the interior of the Palace presented.
Every seat from which one could hear or see, and
many from which it was difficult to do either, had
its occupants, and, notwithstanding the immense
accommodation provided, some hundreds of visitors
were forced to content themselves with. promenad-
ing the nave and surveying from a distance the
massive thousands- which rank in rank filled every
portion of the central space.
Not since the great day when her Majesty and
the Emperor of the French paid a State visit to
Norwood have the roads presented such an appiar-
ance. From Dulwich, Sydenham, and Vauxhall
the stream of carriages was incessant, and as each
separate avenue poured its tide of vehicles into the
one general road up to the building the numbers
became almost unmanageable.
A vast multitude is at all times a grand and
moving spectacle ; but when the concourse is
assembled and ranged in. such a building as the '
Crystal Palace, motionless and almost breath-
less, listening with intense anxiety to solemn hymns
poured forth by two thousand voices, the effect is
too great for description. Such was, in truth, the
case yesterday, when, at the commencement of the
second part of the oratorio, more than 17,000 visi- •
tors were seated before the orchestra, which at a
distance seemed to rise like some colossal bouquet
from out of the garden of colours which spread
around it. The heat was excessive, and to look
down upon the great parterre, where at least 5,000
forms were in perpetual motion, gave to the whole
concourse an aspedt of noiseless activity which was
singular in the extreme. Everything, in fact, was
on a gigantic scale ; the rising of the audience be-
tween the first and second parts .made a noise like
the rush of a mighty wind, and the reverberating
applause of 30,000 hands was in its way as well
worth hearing as the orchestra. Messrs. Neigretti
and Zambra were again busy in the upper galleries
and made a most successful attempt to photograph
the whole orchestra, on a large scale, and so per-
fectly was this difficult feat achieved that even the
individual likenesses of each performer can be
•found.
As on the previous occasions, the management of
the refreshment department was admirable. It
would be ungracious on our part were we to con-
clude our notice of these great fetes without bear-
ing testimony to the courtesy, civility, and atten-
tion of all connected with their menagement.
Both to those who represented the Sacred Har-
monic Society and the immediate members of
the Crystal Palace staff, the highest praise is
due. Never have festivals of such magnitude, and
of which all the arrangements were of so novel
and almost experimental a character, been con-
ducied with more thorough order, propriety, and
actual comfort to the spectators. In the enume-
' ration of those who have rendered essential service
Mr. Ferguson, the able manager of the Palace, of
course stands first, and to him, and to Mr. Grove,
the secretary, every lover of music is deeply indebted
for the months of toil, and often extreme discourage-
ment, which they had to undergo before such tri-
umphant results as those of the past week were
achieved. What we have said of these gentlemen
may, as far as zeal and assiduity in their various
departments is concerned, be said of the entire staff
connected with the building. From first to last
they have never flagged or faltered in efforts to pro-
mote the general success cff the arrangements, and
so far cootribvte to the individual convenience of
each visitor.
" Israel in Egypt " was given yesterday, just as
Handel wrote and as Handel would have loved to
hear it. To describe such d performance is not an
easy task, since, as everything calls for eulogy, the
danger of exhausting the vocabulary of praise be-
' *comes imminent, and a calumn filled with laudatory
epithets would suggeetrather an idea of romance than
of reality.' It is nevertheless true that the execution
of "Israel in Egypt" in the Crystal Palace yester-
day eurpa'sed in excellence that of the " Messiah"
on Monday, and of " Judas Maccabeus" on Wed-
nesday, which, as the difficulties it presents are so
much greater, argued a diligence on the part of the
singers and a determination on that of the conduc-
tor which cannot be too highly recommended.
The first chorus, " And the children of Israel
sighed by reason of their bondage," where Handel
has shown himself as grand a master of pathos of
' of the elaborations of counterpoint, was a foretaste
of what was to come. The conviction that there
would be a performance of unaccustomed excellence
sprung at once from this beginning, and was fully
' warranted by the result. " They loathed to drink
' of the river ; He turned their waters in blook "
' the first of that unexampled chain of choruses by
which the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians,
the miracle of the exodus, the destruction of Pha-
raoh's host, and the religious awe created in the
minds of the favoured people, are rliusttrated—
was delivered with an accuracy and truth of into-
nation the more remarkable since the theme is com-
posed of awkward intervals, chromatic in style and
treated throughout in the strictest and severest
form of fugue. The impression produced by this
most suggestive " toneapicture " was deepenee by
that of the next, " He spake the word," which em-
todies the plague of the flies, the lice, and the locusts
—one of the double-choruses for which "Israel in
Egypt" is renowned—a composition of a very dif-
ferent character from its predecessors, but equally
distinguished by descriptive eloquence. At the end
of this fine piece the audience broke forth in loud
applause, which, after the termination of the suc-
ceeding chorus, f 0 He gave them hailstones," was
renewe in a manner so universal and tumultuous
that, notwithstanding Mr. Cosia's disinclination to
" encores," he was compelled to yield to the desire
of the audience. We cannot remember on any
occasion so grand a performance of this marvellous
piece, which, as a combination of simplicity and
power, is wholly without a parallel. The two next .
choruses, in which the plague of darkness and the
destruction of the first-born are embodied, were,
from another point of view, quite as impressive.
In the first, remarkable for its daring and singul.r
progressions of harmony, we were once mote de-
ligh.el at Vie purity of intonation displayed by
such a multitude of voices, and were not less pleased
to observe that the exaggerated reading of the last
phrase—" even darkness, which might be felt"—
complained of at rehearsal, though not entirely
discarded, was considerably modified. Passing over
the intervening pieces, we came to the prodigiously
fine chorus, in three parts, commencing with "He
rebuked the Red Sea." Here the grandeur of the
opening, which illustrates the Divine decree,
was most admirably contrasted with the passage
by which its accomplishment is so forcibly con-
veyed—" and it was dried up"—delivered in an
undertone than which nothing could be more ex-
pressive. The biases gaire out the slow and mea-
sured theme of "He led them through the deep"
with tremendous effect ; and no words can suggest
a notion of the effect produced by the magnificent
climax, "But the waters overwhelmed their ene-
mies," where Handel, putting forth all his might to
give significance to the catastrophe that involved
the persecutors'of Israel in annihilation, has suc-
ceeded in presenting a musical picture of unequalled
greatness and sublimity. The reiteration of the
words "Not one,"—in the sentence "there was
not one of them left"—was literally appalling.
The second part was in all respects as satisfac-
tory as the first, but we cannot attempt anything
like a detailed accouut. The "Horse and his

rider" was re-demanded by thousands of 7oices;
but Mr. Co3ta, aware that this chorus comes again,
was this time resolute, and proceeded with the
duet, " The Lord is my strength," hftdless of the
obstreperous demand for a repetition. When at
the end of the oratorio, it was repeated in its pro-
per place, the effect was just as striking, and doubt-
less all the more• so from the judicious decision of
of the conductor in the first instance.

The principal solo singers were again successful ;
and once more Mr. Sims Reeves was the hero. He
I had not nearly so arduous a task in "Israel" as in
" Judas Maccabaous ;" but of the one air which
affords occasion for the exhibition of vocal facility
and skill he availed himself with surprising talent.
His execution of this very difficult song, which
abounds in florid divisions after Handel's peculiar
manner, was masterly threoghout, the declamation
beingjust as powerful as tbo vocal enunciation of
the notes was irreproachable, The audience, roused
into enthusiasm, would not 1)6 denied ; and so
unanimously expressed was their desiX
to hear
the Kong again that there was no resitting it. Thus
another encore was added to the incidents of the,
day. Miss Dolby sang both the contralto airs to,
perfection, and made a profound sensation in the
second---." Thou shalt (bring them in." Not less
happy was Madame Novello in " Thou didst blow
with thy wind," which was very finely given, and
but for the misfortune of coming immediately alter
Mr. Sims Reeves in "The enemy said" would
have produced a still greater effect. Where Ma-
dame Novelle was most applauded by the. audience
was in the recitatives of Miriam the Prophetess,
" Sing ye to the Lord," &c., preceding the final
chorus, where, while we admired the clear arid
penetrating qualities of her upper tones, we could
not approve her alteration of the text of Handel.
The spirited and always telling duet for basses,
" The Lord is a man of war," sung with remarkable
power by Herr Formes, and Mr. Weiss, and, as
usual, one of the great features of the performance,
was received with the loudest applause.
.After the Oratoriothe National Anthem was

given, Madame Novcll6 again being intrusted with
the. principal :el!) verses.
The Handel Festival, judged from a musical
point of view, has been an unquestionable success.
It was a bold experiment ; but the result has proved
that musical performanceson a very grand scale are
possible m the Crystal Palace. The committee of
the Sacred Harmonic Society have earned' laurels
of a novel kind, and may fairly regard the projec-
tion and accomplishment of so extraordinary an
enterprise with pride, as the most striking and
memorable incident in the history of their institu
tion, which, in the course of 25 years, from a small
and insignificant knot of amateurs, has grown into
a body sufficiently important to project, and suffi-
ciently strong to carry out an enterprise of such
unprecedented magnitude. How much they owe
to their accomplished conductor, Mr. Costa—whose
exertions during the progress of the Handel Fes-
tival have been as unremitting as his musical ser-
vices have been invaluable—we need not insist.
The cheers, acclamations, and waving of hats that
greeted him yesterday on retiring from the orcliestta
were tokens of how entirely his effects had been
appreciated by the public.