The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-04 00:00:00

THURSDAY

The performances at St. Luke's Church on the morning of
this day, were exclusively confined to Handel's sacred oratorio
of "The Messiah," with additional accompaniments by Mozart.
Any critical remarks on a work So well known and so justly
popular would be a task of supererogation, and it is therefore
our intention to confine our observations to the manner in
which this oratorio was executed on the present occasion.
The Overture requires no other observation than that it a•as
" passably good," by which phrase we mean, that we found
nothing particularly striking either for praise or condemnation.
The opening recitative, " Comfort ye my People," and the air,
" Every valley shall be exalted," by Sapio, painfully reminded
us that we have heard those beautiful pieces sung by Brabant,
and we are,—in the, we had almost said, bitterness of our disap-
pointment,—querulous enough to ask, why was he not there ? If
first-rate talent could be procured, why - has - a festival so
liberally supported as this, been deprived of the assistance of
this first-rate singer of Handel's music 9 Sapio's performance
of this piece was, to say the best of it, ordinary and feeble.
The recitative, " Behold ! a virgin shall conceive and bear a
son," and the air " 0 thou that tellest glad tidings to Zion,"
were sweetly sung by Miss Masson; and the chorus was ex-
ceedingly good.
The well-known chorus, " For unto us a child is born," was
admirably performed. In this piece we have the language of
the prophetic poet almost graphically described by the sublime
strains of Handel; who, were his works confined to this piece,
the Pastoral Symphony, and the Hallelujah Chorus, would have
done sufficient to have rendered his name immortal. In the
first of these pieces we discover the consummate art of the com-
poser, who has caused the congratulatory strain, " For unto us
a child is born," to proceed as it were from groups of angels,
whom the author has imagined to be hovering in the air to an-
nounce the " glad tidings" to fallen man. These remarks are,
we admit, a departure from our original intention of confining
our observations to the performances, rather than to Handel as
the author; and, to return to this part of our duty we have only
to add, that our readers have to thank the orchestra for leading
us into this digression. Suffice it to say in conclusion, that we
were delighted, ancrfhat we do not think that Handel himself
would have been displeased.
The air " Rejoice greatly," by Madame Malibran, was
altogether a failure. She did not, at least so it appeared to
us, understand her author, in this particular instance, and her
voice and style of singing are not calculated for this species of
music. " Come unto nie, all ye that labour,"—by -Mrs. W:
Knyvett, was sung beautifully. Her clear melodious voice and
delicate execution appeal to the feelings—she neitherrequires nor
resorts to meretricious ornaments, she relies entirely upon the
simple melody of her author, in this, as well as in " But thou
didst not leave his soul in hell." The semi-chorus by the
principal performers, followed by the full chorus, in that inspir-
ing piece Lift up your heads, oye gates," was among the
best performances of the day, aml we must not omit to notice
Miss Clara Novello's " How beautiful are the feet of them
that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good
things," as being very chastely and delicately sang. At a
more mature age we expect better things from this young
lady. Mr. H. Phillips gave that splendid air " Why do
the nations so furiously rage together? " in his usual style of
excellence ; in this as well as in "The people who walked in
darkness have seen a great light," the deep and rich tones of
his voice were heard to great advantage, as also in "Behold!
I tell you a mystery." In the air "The trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed," he was accompanied by Mr. Harper, on the trum-
pet, whose clear and full-sounding notes admirably corres-
ponded with those of the singer. Perhaps the best solo by
either of the female vocalists was "I know that my redeemer
liveth," by Mrs. W. Knyvett; in the concluding words of the
last passage, " For now is Christ risen from the dead, and be-
come the first fruits of them that sleep," her voice is softened
down to the most delicate cadence, and the word " sleep " is
uttered at once so distinctly and yet so softly, as to sound like
the breathing of music in its sweetest lullaby.
• The choruses were all finely executed and harmoniously ar-
ranged. The " Hallelujah" was repeated on a signal from the
Steward's gallery, in obedience to the wishes of the audience—
as was also the concluding grand chorus, " Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain." These are truly sublime strains, that
elevate the mind to a temporary forgetfulness of all terra's'
things—they contain a rich strain of melody that convey to the
mind an idea, however faint, of the homage due to the Saviour
of the human race. In the last, more especially, the vocal and.
instrumental bands were so admirably harmonized, that they
sounded like one mighty instrument sending forth a rich stream
of melodious sounds in praise of him whose mission on earth
was to proclaim " peace and good will to mankind."
From an early hour to the conclusion of the Oratorio all the
approaches to St. Luke's Church were crowded with bystanders,
and the houses with well-dressed women, attracted thither to see
the company, and to the credit of the police be it spoken that up
to the present hour no accident has occurred or robbery taken
place that we have heard of. The interior of the church pre-
sented an appearance equally gay with that of the former days,
and we have every reason to believe that the performances have
given general satisfaction. Fortunately the weather has con-
tinued most propitious and has no doubt added considerably to
the number of strangers who are temporarily congregated in
this town.

The evening's entertainment was a Concert, which gave a
promise that was not disappointed. The house was crowded to
excess in all its parts, and the coup-d'ceil was as beautiful
as an assemblage of handsome and elegantly dressed women,—
who, as at the former Concert, constituted the majority of
the whole number—could make it. The Concert was opened
by a Grand Sinfonia in D, by Beethoven, in which we
were in some respects disappointed, particularly in the
early part of it, which wanted the energy that we have
heard thrown into the same piece elsewhere. We are not
sure that the roof over the stage was constructed in the man-
ner best calculated to convey the sound into the house, or it may
be, our position was not the most favourable; of force, in the
orchestral arrangement of instruments, we are convinced there
was sufficient. Bishop's Glee, " Blow Gentle Gales," was the
first vocal piece, moderately executed by Miss C. Novello,
Miss Masson, and Messrs. Sapio, Horneastle, and E. Taylor.
Of the next, "The Tempest," sung by Mr. Machin, we would
rather not speak ; but we have no hesitation iu express-
ing a most favourable opinion of its successor, " Le
songe de Tartini," by Madame Malibran, accompanied by her-
self on the piano forte, with violini obligato by M. De Beriot.
This singular production, which is elsewhere known as the
Devil's Fugue, requires considerable powers of execution both
in the air and the accompaniment. The latter is at the will of
the performer, and the discretion was safely vested in the
hands of M. De Beriot. The singer also well executed
her part, in tastefully seizing and dwelling upon the ca-
dences. The idea and presumed effect of the strain on
the fancy of the sleeper is well sustained in the three
verses of which it consists.—

" Je crois encore et le voir et Pentendre,
Ii etait la debout a mon chevet ;
Co n'est qu'un songe, et pourtact je roux rendre
Les sons hardite de l'infernal archet.
Antis, faites silence !
J'ai retenu ehaque cadence,
Voila comme le Diable prelude—
C'est vela, c'est vela, c'est vela.
Pour l'ecouter respirais a peine,
Car it peignait au are de Ines desire
Ces feux d'amour qtal cause tent de peine.
Et ces tourmens qui sont taut de plaisirs.
Arnie, faites silence !
J'ai retenu chaque cadence,
Voila comme le Diable module—
C'est eels, &c.
Puis tout-a-coup deployant son geni#.
Il Mehra la gloire des vainqucure ;
Et de sea chants la sublime harmonic
.Doit entlammer tons les ernurs.
Antis, faites silence ! •
• J'ai retenu cfiaque cadetiak
• Voilacomme is Diable termina--
C'est vela, &e.
An air in the ballad style, by Mr. Sapio, " Annot Lyle," if not
a failure, was sufficiently unequal and tatne to excite but little
interest. It might, in some other hands, have produced more
effect. The Fantasia coneertante which succeeded, *as, like
all pieces of the kind, calculated to display the powers of the
seven instruments brought to its support, without, in any of
them, affording an opportunity of making that display to parti-
cular advantage. It was respectable. We must say more
of Mr. H. Phillips's execution of the Bacchanalian song
composed by himself to the words of Barry Cornwall. To
a good air, there are words well suited to, the subject;
and the concluding portion of each verse is in an agreable
trippiug light style. The song is a good cue of its class, and
is likely to be a standard among jovial fellows. As we are not
disposed to melancholy, we will facilitate its circulation by
publishing the entire song; which was rnerally encored, and
cheerfully repeated.
Sing, sing, sin; : who sings
To her who weareth a hundred` rings.?
Ah ! who is this lady fine ?
The Vine ! boys, the Vine !
The mother of mighty wine !
A roamer is she
O'er wall and tree,
And sometimes very good company.
Drink, drink, drink : who drinks
To her who bluslieth but never thinks ?
Ah ! who is this maid of thine ?
The Grape ! boys, the Grape!
Oh ! never let her escape
Until she be turn'd to wine :
For better is she
Than vine can be,
And very, very good company.
Dream, dream, dream : who dreams
Of the God who governs a thousand streams r
Ah ! who is this spirit fine ?
'Tie Wine ! boys, 'tie Wine!
God Bacchus, a friend of mine,
Who maketh a man divine.
Ah ! better is he
Than vine or tree,
And the best of all good company.
We must again award the palm of excellence, for softness and
delicacy, to Mrs. Knyvett's style, which was favourably die_
played in "The Nightingale's Death Song," composed by Mr.

Lodge, to the words of one whose every line is poetry—we fez%
Mrs. Hereans. We cannot say that the air was faultless. '
was not all that the subject admitted of. But all that could be
made of it we heard from lies. Knyvett.
Donzelli next appeared in one of the airs from Belltssi'.
" Pirate," well adapted to the power and compass 0 Isal
voice ; and he did not fail to give it very full effect. II is
we never before heard him, his execution of this single
piece would have established him, in our judgment, a 112.
ger ,pf the highest class. Indications of the pleasure with
which it was listened to were by no means equivocal.• `ll,e/
were as marked as merited. The first act was concluded by
Martini's laughing-Terzetto, "Vadazia via di qua," by 10:14
Malibran, Donzelli, and Phillips; and as the audience did is°
think they had joined sufficiently in the laugh, they called for
it a second time, to keep them in good humour -during the ifs•
terval that succeeded.
The second act opened with Von Weber's grand overture to,
Euryanthe, which was executed in a style that would-Make
doubt the accuracy of the opinion we expressed on Beethoven
is
Sinfonia in the opening. We could not throughout the wb°
discover a single defect in execution, or a failing instance 1;4
communicating to the intention of the author its fullest effeft.
'We are tempted, by the softness and taste with which 10118
Masson gave the first air of the second part, to says the
would excuse defects discoverable in some of her other perform
ances, upon which we have passed less favourable eoinulea;
The music was well adapted by Knapton to Lord BYfailt
words, "There be none of beauty's daughters;" anci It
nothing of the effect that could be desired by either its sue—
or poetical author.
A well-harmonized Quintetto from Mozart, by Mrs. ikillidlett;
Miss C. Novello, Messrs, Sapio, 1-lorncastle, and E. TaYlar'_,:o
pleasantly executed. But in the succeeding air, "The deep, '-""`
Sea," we did not listen to Madame Malibran with the same p.
sure with which we have heard some of her other perforuselli-r
She diiplayed, what it is well known she is master of,--4 V-fer
compass and power of voice; but in the pathos, which wig
be sought for in public singers, she was manifestly, on this ;r
casion, deficient. We had heard it much better givens as
as taste is concerned, by private singers.
The next performance was a treat, a Concerto on the
IM by M. De Beriot. We cannot so early forget the impress°,
left on our minds by that knight of the catgut, whose power° 11.0,
at the present hour, unrivalled—Paganini. But, atlinittih:"'
as we do, the extent of those powers, and listening, as we "ft:
done, with unalloyed pleasure to his notes, we are incline"
ofsay, that as far depends on tasteful execution, and on "cfril ° f
delicacy of expression, we derived au almost equal degree
pleasure from M. De Beriot's concerto. by
We must pass over a scene from the "Faust" of spohr,
Mr. Horncastle, to repeat the expression of our favourable °P::
nion of Miss C. Novello's talents, which were clearly n't°:
fested iu her execution of the air from Handers " vAllegv°l
Let me wander, not unseen,
By hedge-row elms on hillocks green ;
Where the ploughman near at hand
Whistles o'er the furrow'd land ; •
And the milkmaid singeth blithe,
And the mower whets his scythe;.
And ev'ry shepherd tells his tale
Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Or let the merry bells ring round,
And the jocund rebecks sound, •
To many a youth and many a maid
Dancing in the chequer'd shade."
Words so well known and so poetic, and moreover with nsailda
so appropriate, need not our praise. To the whole seas' glAtv-
much, if not all, that the author could have desired. It Zes
sweet and delicate ; perhaps, in parts, somewhat too wee,
only so in a trifling degree; and we much mistake if, 1401:
has strengthened her frame, and with it her power of voiee';io
modulation of which it is evidently susceptible will put
this young lady's power to place herself very high in the
sical profession.
Of Mr. Phillips's talents we have more than once, in the e°1151:;,„
of these observations, expressed ourselves, as we think; fef"-as
ably. In giving utterance to opposite sentiments with refere;lo
to his execution of the next air, we are really di/11)00;0
attribute the failure more to the character of tim fan
than to any defect in his powers: It was, :however/ so
considerable extent, a failure, and passed off tamely : nats
the Duetto from " II Tancredi" by Rossini, which ea'
of
forth and exhibited in a favourable point of view the power; p
Malibran and Donzelli, as Tancredi and Agirio. sfs-j-4
morsel calculated to please the fastidious in 'music; and it ]id
in fact'afford, as we should judge, much pleasure to an audien° t:
of whom we will not say that they were fastidious, but t1;1,
with the power of judging, they passed their judgment *5
equal discretion and lenity.
We now come once more to the efforts of the Liv.ef°L -tr,
Choral Society, in one of the madrigals of our ancient Pee le
We are not disposed to do other than the most Ansrot.
justice to Sir George Smart for all his arrangements;
it was rather hard in him to place a matter of this blue,
to be sung by those who are doubtless musicians coil toc,
but cannot be all scientific musicians, after the beautiful du-it
of which we have just spoken, executed by two of the !rf,
artists in the country. Making this allowance, and consieer,
ing that the air is adapted to the quaintness of stele which 110
vades the language, wo are :not afraid to say that it did t
society credit.
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And now we take our leave of the concert, by stating thats
good old fashion of singing our favourite national antheM t,
not forgotten ; the three verses were severally given as a aliettebi
a quintet, and a solo, by the different performers—the latterw
Madame Malibran—the audience standing, who, at its cOn° 4
sion, took their departure, in our judgment, as we certaiulY'
well satisfied with the evening's entertainment.

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WHY THE OURANG OUTANG DOES NOT SA

I have been asked by men of the first education schtbe;
ther anything really deficient had been discovered
organs of the ourang-outang to prevent him from Mel
ing. The reader will give me leave to place this loth
correctly before him. In speaking there is first retitle,:
a certain force of expired air, or an action of the DAL 01;
of respiration ; in the second place the vocal chor,octi
the top of the windpipe must be drawn into accorn
by their muscles, else no vibration will take place, a,lrost
sound issue ; thirdly, the open passages of the rot',
mnst be 'expanded, contracted, or extended by the
q.
merous muscles, in correspondence with the conditliso•
the vocal chords or glottis; and these must all symPaLvt•
before even a simple sound is produced. But to ar.ticoo.
late that sound, so that it 'may become a part of a 'OP
ventional language, there must be. added an action P'
pharynx, of the palate, of the tongue and. lips. Ti l' eor
q.uistte organization for.all this is not visible in td in
gans of the voice, as they are called; it is to be foul' si•
the nerves which combine all the various parts in °9 the
multaneous act. The meshes of the spider's web, °rod
cordage of a man-of•war, are few and simple eorqi,eso
with the concealed filaments of nerves which move lion
parts ; and if but one be wanting, or its tone or acbov(
disturbed in the slightest degree, every body.knowoo!
a man will stand with his mouth open, twisting his tott
and lips in vain attempts to utter a word. It wili.stio
appear that there must. be distinct lines of assoo!;110)
suited to the organs of voice—different to coibt°' the
in the bark of a dog, in the neighing of a horse, or 4,1015
shrill whistle of the ape. That there are wide disti-1%305t
in the structure of the different classes of animals'' rob
certain ; but independently of those which are aPIT tiog
there are secret and minute varieties in the assoola be'
cords. The ape, therefore, does not articulate—first'dlf,
cause the organs Ale not perfect to this end ; seoontbit
because the nerves do not associate these organs
variety of action which is necessary to spe:tiOts; and 1-o'ito"
were all the exterior apparatus perfect, there is 'l,ol'
pulse to that act of speaking.—Bell's Bridgewater •
Ilse.
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\cry MELANCHOLY.--A few days ago, one of the too
passengers "of a steamboat fell over-board Tietween New °r sf
and Natchez, and as his wife saw him sink-for the last tiro brad
cried, "Oh, me ! There goes my poor Johnie, with ape"
new vest on, and three dollars in Biller in his pocket!"
1)%6,
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EXTRAtIEDINAILY ESCAPE.--01:1 Tuesday last a re'rebei‘i
lad, on a visit at a house iu. Svdnev-parade, Bathwie/;' thre
suddenly awoke with some fancied alarm iii the houseiyardeti
open the sash. and springing out, fell down into the tbei4
beneath, a depth of upwards of thirty feet T' groiln(! TO'
. ot. •
soft below, he fortunately escaped without the slightest '
—Bath Journal. lt 11'4,
Strange and startling statements are sometimes,made
lic dinners ; for example, the memory of a deceased alt",;;,
respected individual having been proposed and drunk, v,0,115
the chief magistrate of the city, albeit unused to the I.l‘ et);
mood, felt hrmself imperatively called on to reply, whico
los
in the following pithy speech :—" Gentlemen, niy father 0 0,
man." "I am I ani."—You deevil what next ?--" Anl,sslot
top mither," whispered I am—" and so was my mithcr, tecet,
ed the delighted Provost.—A respectable distiller; on
occasion, when speaking of our extended commerce, -• 3e g°'l,
proof of it, gentlemen, I may mention that my spirit Ile ioit,
•
to Africa, India, and Mecca. It has found its way t°,,tariLi
penal city of Rome, and, for aught I know to the col'ifit
has cheered the heart of his Holiness the Pope. I‘l3,-
animated the King of Spain, and been hailed as a i 5
the autocrat of all the Russian." . of till
Itynitornoata.—On Tuesday last Thomas Loraine' do
town, glass-man, was bitten in several places of both Iloittv
his dog. The bitten parts were afterwards repeatedly glrp,os
to the action of the air-pump, in the Sunderland Infirifi-also
which not only the saliva of the dog was extracted, butjea pa,
arterial and venal blood; so that each bitten place b`„
fusels. These wounds are to be kept open for some titt.'3s'ef',
mercurial course has been already entered upon, not nu'jnottal
most certain alterative, but also because of the well-1,11;010k
fects of preparations of quicksilver, as regards the wolo
glands. It is known that the canine species never pe,tne-
in lieu, have an increase of saliva when heated or irrir'''iloebi
we learn from a conununicatiqn of Mr. Parkinson, c",,,ecieLeti
that hydrophobia has been produced in the human 'briels
the infusion of vitiated saliva into the bites of dogs w":iiirtebet
excessively irritated, though these animals shelved lin";teti ils
of the disease. We understand that the plan just detaicsfheittit
been adopted successfully at our Infirmary, in sel'ell,"teks9
which dogs affected with hydrophobia bad actually Moli,-1000.,
upon both males and feinales. A good analysis of the7'
fluids of hydrophobic 'patients 'would undoubtedly, !-
light upon the pathology of this most distressing
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