The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-16 00:00:00

CHURCH MUSIC.

Consisting of Original .Anthems, Services, Psalms, Hymns,
Chants, Responses, Src., with a Selection of the most ad-
mired Standard Compositions of Handel, Haydn, Mozart,
Himmel, Winter, Dr. Crotch, V. Novello, &c., newly
adapted and arranged; with an accompaniment for the
Organ or Piano Forte. •By George Holden. London : J.
Alfred Novello.

The well known professional celebrity of our townsman,
Mr. Holden, (Organist of St. George's Church, conductor of
the Liverpool Festival Choral Society, and author of several
Prize Compositions), is a sufficient guarantee for the taste
and accuracy displayed in this invaluable collection of sacred
music. It contains seven full anthems by Haydn, Mozart,
Dr. Crotch, and J. Richardson ; a verse anthem, by R. B.
Taylor ; Nunc Dimittis, in C, by V. Novello ; Venite Ex-
uHltyemmn for
inus D,
Advent,b by
KGy.riHe aErigireoesavne,
and Sanctus, Hargreaves Glory be
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lime, G. Holden, and W. Shore ; twenty-three Psalm and
Hymn tunes, by G. Holden, H. Aldridge, W. Shore, J.
Amott, H. Entwistle, S. Henshall, Rossini, Avison, Haydn,
Tallis, J. Richardson, Cherubini, Neiikomm, and Winter;
double and single Chants, by W. Shore, M. Maybrick, G.
Holden, Rev. J. Eaton, H. Entwistle, W. Knyvett, Spohr,
Handel, and Bailey, Jun. A very great proportion of these
compositions are original, and have been expressly furnished
for this publication. The whole are arranged for four voices,
with an accompaniment for the organ or piano-forte. We
have met with few works in which the compositions arc
altogether of so select a description. They constitute a com-
plete course of church music, strictly congregational in its
character.

We wish to see sacred music more extensively cultivated
than it is at present. Would it not•be desirable that all the
congregations attached to our churches should have a separ-
ate choral society tin- the encouragement of this sublime and
heart-thrilling study? We think that the most pleasing re-
sults would follow from the establishment of such societies.
They would materially tend to elevate the character of our
congregational psalmody. To such societies we can cordially
recommend• Mr. Holden's collection, as one of the best that
can be procured.
It is also admirably adapted for devotional
use in families. We have only to add that the work is very
neatly and clearly engraved, and is printed on excellent paper.

The next meeting of the British Association of Science will
take place at Devonport.
WHY SIT I BY THE LONELY STREAM. BALLAD.—A
very pretty ballad, bearing this title, has just appeared, the
composition of Mr. E. L. Hime. It is easy and graceful, and
cannot fail to become a verj great favourite amongst the
ladies.i tThe words, we believe, are written by Mrs. Edwin
Forrest, late Miss Sinclair.
A CURIOUS FACT..—At a meeting of the Finsbury Ope-
rative Protestant Association, held on Wednesday last, Mr.
Dalton, the secretary to the parent institution, delivered an
address occupying one hour and twenty minutes, which was
entirely of words of one syllable. The subject was, "No
peace with Rome."—[One of the Wesleys performed a simi-
lar feat on one occasion, as an example to his preachers of
simplicity of style. We have also heard that a clergyman of
the church of Scotland preached a sermon to the sabbath
school children of his parish in words of one syllable. No-
thing is'inore obvious than that the want of simplicity, the
same in kind as this, though in a more moderate degree, is
the reason why pulpit addresses to the young (of larger as
well of lesser growth) secure so little of their attention. We
have often heard sabbath school teachers express their regret
that their children were so frequently writhdrawn from their
own simple and familiar instructions, to be present at (cer-
tainly not to listen to) discourses, which from the first sen-
tence to the last, were charged with big words, and shot
over then heads, rather than at them.]
THE LATE LORD ARDEN.—The will of the Right Hon.
Charles George Baron Arden, of Arden, deceased, has just
been proved in the Prerogative Court, by the Right Hon.
Margaretta Elizabeth, Dowager Baroness Arden, the relict
of tne deceased, and the Right Hon. George James Baron
Arden, (now Lord Arden,) heretofore James Percival, the
executors. The personal property alone has been sworn under
the value of £BOO,OOO. The stamp or probate duty alone was
£10,500, independent of the legacy duty, which will amount
to £70,000 or £BO,OOO more. The whole of his property,
with the exception of a few trifling legacies to servants, has
been bequeathed to his widow and children. The will is
dated in March, 1826, (the first codicil in 1834, and the last
codicil in 1840.) The deceased baron lived to attain the
great age of 84 years. He was brother to the late Mr. Per-
cival, who was shot by Bellingham, in the lobby of the House
of Commons, when prime minister. The registership of the
High Court of Admiralty became vacant-when his lordship
was an infant of some few months old ; and it was actually
given to and retained for him until he was capable of officiat-
ing, the office being performed by deputy. In time of war
the emoluments arising from his situation amounted to be-
tween £20,000 and £30,000 a year. He held the same for
upwards of eighty years. He was appointed Master of the
Mint in 1801, and a lord of the Bedchamber to George 111.
in 1804.—Britannia.