The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-15 00:00:00

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The attendance and support of all who appreciate the in-
crease of Church Accommodation is earnestly requested.
N.B.—Attendance will be given in the Vestry from Eleven
to One o'clock, daily, for Letting of Pews ; or application
may be made to the Wardens, Thomas ALSTON, Esq.,
Falkner-terrace, EDWARD CLARK, Esq., Windsor; or at
Mr. Wunn's, Bookseller, Castle-street, where a Plan of the
Church may be seen.
December 2, 1840.

LIVERPOOL GRAND SUBSCRIPTION CONCER
THEATRE-ROYAL.

The Second Concert of the Season wi
TUESDAY EVENING, Dec

29th, 18-1 Q

PRINCIPAL VOCAL PE
MISS BIRCH
MISS MARIA B. HAWL
MR. BENNETT,
MR. H. PHILLIPS
(Horn) Mr. JARRI

,FORMER

AND
Solo Performer

THE ORCHESTRA WILL BE COMPLETE IN EVERY

DEPARTMENT.
Mr. HERRMAN

Leader.

Subscriptions for the three remaining Concer
ceived at all the principal Music Shops.
The Programme will be published in a few days
Single Tickets for the Upper Boxes, 5s
Gallery, 2s, may be had as usual.
As the Lottery for this Concert will be drawn on Saturd
the 26th, all Orders for Tickets should be given on or befe
the 24th instant.

ill be r

ach, and fo

MISCELLANEOUS CONCERT.
THE MISSES SWAIN respectfully inform their Friends
and the Public that they intend giving- a CONCERT of
VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, on the I
of TUESDAY, the 22d instant, at Mr. Lassell's
Great Richmond-street, opposite St. Anne's Church

PRINCIPAL VOCALISTS.
Miss SWAIN, Miss MAY SWAIN, Mr. WALTON (1
the Manchester Concerts,) Messrs. DUNN, WEARIN(
and DUKE, with the assistance of an efficient Chorus.

INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMERS

Mr. HERRMANN, '.lr. C. HERRMANN, Mr. EYTO,

an.l Mr. R. DAVIES,
Mr. G. EYTON will preside at the Piano-forte.
Tickets, Four Shillings each, to be had at the prin
Music Shops ; Mr. G. EYTON, 36, Crown-street ; an
the Misses SWAIN'S Residence, 15, Sidney-place, E
hill.

Doors open at Seven, the Concert to commence
past Seven.

CONCERT.
WARRINGTON.
MRS. ST. ALBIN most respectfully announces to tlle
Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants of WARRINGTON
and its Vicinity, that her CONCERT takes place, at th,
LION HOTEL, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th instant.
MISS MARIA B. HAWES,
(From the Philharmonic and Nobilitees Concerts, Londc
MISS J. CLOUGH,
(From Manchester ; her first appearance ;) and
Mr. FRANCIS.
Mrs. ST. ALBIN, and Miss ST. ALBIN,
(Her first appearance.)
In the course of the Selection, Miss Hawes v
" He was despised," by Handel ; " The Mern,-•
by Horn ; and her own Ballad of " I'll
Miss CLOUGH will sing the Recitativ
Sonno."—And Mr. FRANCIS will sing
and the Seasons," as sung by him at the
June last, and which gained the Prize prest
Soultoun, by Blewitt; also "Adelaide," by P
" Black-ey'd Susan."

the Ballad

Mrs. Sr. ALBIN will perform Hummers RI
with Band Accompaniments ; also, Thalbe
Prayer, from " Mose in Egitto."

Single Tickets, ss. each. To be had of the
and at the Lion Hotel, Warrington.

FIRST APPEARANCE OF AN EXTRAORDII`
AND NOVEL INSTRUMENT,
AT MISS KNIBB'S COMMERCIAL [IOU
No. 15, 13OLD-STREET.
THE ROCK HARMONICON,
found in the neighbourhood of the Si,.
This remarkable instrument is played upon by
three Sons. The following articles, al
in the Cumberland Packet and TVhitehaven
" The Rock Harmonicon has, during the past We
well attended, the visitors having been both mune
respectable, and all who have heard this astonishm
meet have expressed their surprise at the power a 1
ness of the music it sends forth. Indeed severs
who paid the ingenious inventor a visit were so e
with its music and so astonished at the strang-
nished by the rude sin-plicity of its appearance, that tht.
the room and sought their friends to hear its enliv
tones."—Cumberland Pacquet.
" The inventor of this strange work of art is a plain
berland yeoman, from near Keswick, and the rude ni
from which he contrives to extract the most enchant'
mony are nothing more than a collection of slates c
from the more unfrequented parts of the mighty
These are arranged in such a manner as to enab'
sons to beat upon them at the same time with six.
mallets, and this is accomplished with so much de.
skill as to distil from the rudest possible material,
rich and delightful melody of sweet sounds that
heard or imagination can conceive. The effect is
magical, and the listener stands entranced and
struck. Men of undoubted musical science have i
this. novel instrument, and have given a most flatte
mon of the work which the inventor has achieved
of its vast capabilities."-- Whitehaven Herat,'

composed c

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