The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-13 00:00:00

NEW MUSIC.

Tuts MERSEY QUADRILLES, Composed by JosnuA
Liverpool, Palmer Brothers.
An old but somewhat eccentric musician, Saml. Wesley, once
asserted, that no new music was worth—what we must not say,
that was not new, and, therefore, all new music was bad, because
it is seldom new or original. How far he is borne out .by the
fact we cannot take upon us to decide; however, with reference
to the Mersey Quadrilles, we have heard them performed, and
were we some score or two years younger, and some five or six
stone lighter, we should like to dance to their pleasing and
lively melody. They are inscribed by the author to Mrs. Case,
of Summer Hill.
THE LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOClETY.—Possessing, as
we do, a greater number and variety of institutions for the pro-
' motion of literature, science, and the fine arts generally, than
any other town in the ewipire can boast of, it is rather-an ex-
traordinary circumstance that the goddess of music should.bo
the only one of the " Heavenly Nine" that is unhonoured by a
temple in, Liverpool. As we have neither time uor space to
inquire into the cause of this defect, we will merely observe,
en passant, that the concerts, whether good, bad, or indifferent,
that have been got up in this place, have always been so well
attended as to lead us to the inference, that the neglect of mu-
sic does not proceed so much from the want of souls among us
attuned to harmony, as from the want of enterprise in those
who should be leaders in this as well as the otherarts that tend to
refine and enlighten the human tnirrd. To remove this reproach;
the gentlemen of the Philharmonic Society are endeavouring
to establish a series of concerts on something like a scale com-
mensurate with the importance of theii native town—that is, so
far as their present means and appliances will admit of it—and
it should be distinctly understood that "the lucre 'of gain"
forms no part of their plan of operations. Under the auspices
of this society, and conducted by Mr. Eyton, three Grand
Concerts are in preparation,-the filet of which will be given on
this day week (Ii riday the 20th) at the Templars' Hall, Great
George-street. The greater part of the instrumental performers
will be amateurs, of whom Mr. Evton will be the leader; The
principal vocal performers will be Misses Leach and Potts,
Messrs. E. Stott, J. Stott, Dodd, Collinson, and Davies. The
receipts, after paying the expenses incidental to the undertak-
ing, will be appropriated to the purchase of new music, and
the furtherance of the ultimate objects of the society—the
establishment of a better school of music in Liverpool. ''

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF. LIMERICK.—Died, on lidonday
last, at East Hill, Wandsworth, in. the 59th year of his age,
after a long, illness, the Rev. John Jebb, D.D.-F.R.S., Lord
Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert, and Aghador. For nearly seven
":,:ears he had suffered under the effects a violent pam,y-tic
seizure, which compelled him to withdraw front the more 'ye
duties of his see, and to reside in this county.; for met'', al
advice. But his mind survived his body; and,•while an inv.•lid
scarcely able to move about his room, even with wisistance, he
continued an anxious and watchful care over his diocese ; and
employed the hours of languor and sicknesz in the preparation
and publication. of narks, original,. _or: those of, 0f,f7.,
divines, for the benefit of the church of Christ. 3
he was among the most amiable and beloved of xvic.. :,
singular faculty of attaching all of everv,age to WO;
tura he was among the most ilistingiiisl,ol.l3iblie4l
the ale; and in personal humility and 1,44 y,, be ',111.y of
his office as a christian Bishop.