The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-09

The solution Of Tho diaksulty = e.As,ssa ~ a.
hct, that in ~ the ethsr me arts. IN ura,s-.
pies Of beauty. - laid down by the Greeks. sre
exactly confUrmsbe to our own motions. a.d Il n
only in repect to the music that was 20 beautiful -
their cars and taste that have NO sympathy with
the most polished nation of antiquity. What were
their highest efforts compared with the musieaI Sss-
tival in commemoration of Hsndel, in Wessminstsr
Abbey, in 1884 when he instruments numbered 22S.
and the vocal performers 397, in all 60 The Arst
italian lady sung publicly in London N 1892; and
by tho introduction and extension Of the Italian
opera since that time, and the perfection 70 which
music has been carried in the British metropolis it
has been of late the great centre Of musical
taste for the rest Of Europe. Yet EoglAnd has
never proc ced original idea in mnSc. AL
the airs ,hs bas borrowed from the trou-
bsdours, and she has no national melodies
whstever Italy and Germany have given both
England and other modera nations every. hing
in the way Of music. with the exception Of
the beautiful Celtic music of Ireland ssd SCOT
land, from which Hay dn has taken ssms Of his.
brightest thoughts With the Gaelic bards music
seems TO have been the mother Of poetry, Tor they
composed the melody fret, and then adapted words
study for twelve years, before they We're admitted
to the order Nor music confined 70 taem, for
Bede tells US that. at entertainments in ancient
Ireland, the harp vas handed frsm one to another.
and if any ono could Lot play, he felt so ashamed
Of his deacier cy that he took the FIRST oppor-
unity to slink away
The members of che S,ots' church brought sacred
music to great perfection and rendered it celebrated
chn,t In nd v~cI~
many trea,ises ON it. When Neville Abbey, in
France, was founded, the queen Of Pspin sent FOE
Scots musicians and choristers to serve in it
Margret Abbey, now in ruins, Limerick, in
Ireland, is celebrated for its religious melody, hay
ng had, according 10 Archdall, no fewer than five
hundred, who served continually in the choir. Tho
English church ap GEARS to have been contrast TO-
this Prinn, In 1868, compares the music to " tho
bleatirg Of brute be- sts.'' The ancient Irishe
Scotch, and Welsh, all of the sane Celtic origin.
we're, beyoI d all comparison, the most musical poo
pie OF Europe. The harp, the bagpiper, the eymbal,
and horns and flutes the principal instrumentsi
In tho dark ages these nations were alss the dopo-
staries Of learning and civilization.
The first opera ever composed was Daphne, sung
at Florence, the end Of the sixteenth CON
tury, the words by Rinuccini, and the mpsic by
Auc kEoOtost AtluS CompOSoI u Op0Fo ~
Italian The greatest of the dead are Ger
mans The French are no better than the Eag-
lish in the originstion of music and, what 10
stranger STILL the spaniards possess only tive hree
distinct airs It is singular fact, that land 10
favored by the sum- the country Of the Cid, and Of
those martial troubadors who were to 10 found even
in the armies of Charles v, has produced no
distir guished musicians. The same country has
produced but one poet
1t is unnecessary to cay that America, as yet,
has produced no great composer, nor any VOCAL
let, Of high order. But in no country in the
world does the divine art of music at this moment
receive such patronage and support; and New York
is de,t ed in the future to eslipse London, Paris
Milan, Vienna, Berlin and every city in the world.
as the centre of musical abrasion. In the great
cities of Eurcps. unless when supported by sh4
government the opera has failed; in London, not
withstandipg the number and wealth Of the aris-
toOracy, the managers have broken down. princi-
pally by the starring system, which exsots such
high terms from them for prima donnas and other
art.tes Here without any government support,
and without any arts ;0crscy the sovereign people
re not only able bat vii ing to support the opera
better than ic has ever been supported 10 the old
world At the present artstes command higher
pric. 8 in New York, and the houses produce q
larger amount Of money, than anywhere IN the
world Witness the splendid salaries received by
Stefanone ard Bosio. salvi and Bsdali and her
members Of the opera r,upes, in New York, and,
above all the brilliant Of Jenny Lind Csthe-
zine Hayes, Alboni. and Sontag The natuya, result
10 to attract the musical genius and talent Of Eu-
rope to the great metropolis OF the United Sda.sss
and in . short time IL will be dsmonstrasedr
that not only ''sest ward the of Empire takes
lis way" but every star in the musical frmament,
particularly the stars Of the first magnitude Tho
day is not distant when the opera house IN this
city, for nagnitude, for grandeur, for remancra-
ton, and for excellence in music, win be the modeI
for the opera houses Of the rest Of the werld.
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THE PORE AND THE RsruBLrc OF New GRANADA
His Holiness. Pho Mono, seems destined pevcr to
have moments repose He is a good man, and
his aim is to get quietly with his Hock 10 all
parts Of the world, possible; but the heretcs In
one quarter or another are continually getting him
into trouble; indeed, but for the stsunSh support
which he receives from Louis Napoleon, the Holy
Father at one time, was in danger Of being super
seeded by oil sorts of heretica bonar in the very
sanctum sanctorSn of St Peters itself.
The latest rupture with the Pope is With the
government Of New Granada Within the lss. two
or three years the Congress Of that republic has
passed some pretty stringent laws concerning tho
Church; and be 1t VI derstood that from the Rio
Grande all the way down to the Straits of Magel-
Ian, there is but Church. the Catholic, planted
by the early Spanish colonists, and holding from
that day to this, from Mexico to Patagonia sxclu-
sive spiritual control over the people The Bishops
Of New Granada. regarding the s,ts Of Congress-
touching their Church and their spiritual authority.
Is high handed hvasions Of their rights, protested
against these things very decidedly and courageous
~ For their protestations they have lately been
rather forcibly exiled from the republic, and somo
Of them are in this city.
OF course, thess bishops have laid their ease be-
fore the Holy Father a. Rome and he, in allosa-
ton, published in the Lomdcn Tablet, comes down