The New York herald., 1874-09-10

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prisoners, setting them at liberty, depending
on their gratitude and sense of honor not
again to take up arms against the cause OF
Cuba. Spain can we'll afford to be magnani-
nous. She holds in her hands one OF her
most dangerous enemies, and by adopting
toward him policy of mercy and forgiveness
she might be able to lay the foundation OF
a restoration of peace contrary
policy must result to her disadvantage
by convincing the men in the insurgent camp
that their only hope of safety lies in resist
ance. If this mistake be made the war Will
continue to drag on for years with the result
of bringing ruin and bankruptcy on Cuba.
On the other hand, to extend mercy to General
Garcia would be to the insurgents an
unmistakable announcement. of amnesty to all
who should lay down their arms. The adj
vantages to be gained by adopting this policy
are SO many that we should be astonished If
the authorities at Havana should neglect to
make use of the opportunity it affords them
to weaken the instruction.
what tho Musical Season VIII Bring
FOrth.
The arrangements of the musical managers
for the coming season are now complete
enough to be alie to give prospect OF the
entire season. And here it may be said, the
feeling of difidence which has pervaded other
business circles since the terrible time of the
panic, year ago, has taken hold in musical
circles with like tenacity With the excep-
tions Of Italian and English opera, the inevi-
table opera boute and a few concert troupes,
the musical outlook is poor indeed. Concerts
and grand choral combinations almost
unknown. The Italian opera company Of
the Strakosch Brothers aims to be
in accordance with the desired stan
dard of perfect ensemble, in which artists,
chorus, orchestra, mise e,, scene and appoint
ments will be in harmony rather than the
triumph of single star. Six prime donne-
Alban, Heilbron, nonadio,. Potentini, Maresi
and Cary-must be sufficient in point OF num-
bers to satisfy the most exacting. Three tenors-
Carpi, Debassini and Benfratelii-will be pre-
sented for the first time, and the two BARI
tones, Tagliapetra and Del Puente, and the
bassos, Fiorini and Scolara will make up a
good assemblage OF the solo artists. The CO.
operation of one of the best conductors Of the
present day, Signor Muzio with fine chorus
and orchestra, and the promise of new scenes
and effects in each OPERA must raise high ex-
pectations Of the success of the season.
Then the repertoire is rich in novelties.
Marchetti's ''Ruy Bias" Gounod's ''Romeo
and Juliet and Wagner's ''Flying Dutch
man" will be genuine novelties, and the re-
vivals of 'sThe North STAR" ''Dinorah,'
"Othello" and 'sHamlet'' may be considered
also in the light of novelties, as they will be
brought out for the first time in complete
form.
English opera season at Chicago instead o1
New York. The metropolis should be bel
starting point, considering the fact that she
has with her fine company, comprising such
well known artists as Nine. Van Zandt, Miss
Beaumont, Mrs. Seguin, and Messrs. Castle
Campbell, Mas, Carleton and Peakes. Miss
Kellogg proposes this season to introduce to
the American public the posthumous work o.
the lamented Balfe, s'The Talisman," which
has had already an Italian rendering during
the summer at Drury Lane, London. This
company will visit New York probably during
the holidays.
Mr.. Theodore Thomas and his orchestra
close their concerts at Central Park Garden
in week or two and start on tour through
the provinces. 1t is too bad that the regular
patrons of music in this city on their return
from the summer resorts should be in time
terpreters Of classical music in America
and there is no reason, with suitable winter
garden, why Mr. Thomas should not continue
those interesting concerts all the year round
There is talk Of a reform in the Philharm onit
| Society, and Boston quintet club of sole
instrumentalists promise us a aTisit. Frencl
and English opera boufe will be the leading
features at the Lyceum Theatre (the forme
has made very bad beginning), and Mile
Di Murska proposes to appear in two concerts
at Steinway Hall. There seems to be an un
accountable apathy among concert managers
which at this period of the season will tent
to concentrate all attention upon the opera
We hear no more also of the great oratorit
society that last season promised SO much ant
accomplished nothing. few public spirited
lovers Of music, with the necessary means o
their disposal, could do much toward giving
the people of New York regular musical en-
tertainments beyond these furnished by tn
opera. The concert field is boundless one
but it is comparatively deserted this year.
The Manifesto Of the British SOien
lists at Belfast.
The grand gathering of the clans of scienc
at Belfast, which has just adjourned, vii
| mark q momentous era in the history of tb