HERR JOACHIM has gone to Hanover, by command of the King, to preside over one of the Court Concerts, and will return to London at the end of the week.

MRS. MEREST (so well known as Miss Maria B. Hawes) has announced that the third and last of her soirées will take place next Friday. The success of the previous series has been so great that no doubt Mrs. Merest will shortly announce a second. CRYSTAL PALACE.-The great Flower Show of the season will be held on Saturday next. From the number of entries already received it promises to be the most complete exhibition of flowers which has yet been held at Sydenham. Taking place on the Queen's birthday, a day which this year unhappily will be unattended with the usual military displays, drawing-room, or other rejoicings, a large number of distinguished and official personages will have leisure to attend this one of the most attractive displays of the season. Additional interest is excited from the announcement that the great roof over the Handel Orchestra, so many months in preparation for the Festival in June next, will be completed. Meyerbeer's International Overture and Coronation March, the "Wedding March," from Mendelssohn's Athalie, Prayer from Moise, and other pieces, will be performed by the orchestral band of the Company, considerably strengthened and aided by military bands, and will afford an opportunity for estimating the effect to be produced by the 4,000 performers in training for the Festival. The seats in the Great Orchestra will be thrown open; and as it is intended to erect in the Grand Transept large circular trophies of flowers of considerable height, visitors will be enabled to contemplate the blaze of floral beauty dispersed below, while listening to the musical performances. The show will be open from 12 o'clock till 7 o'clock.

Concerts.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF FEMALE MUSICIANS.-A concert was given in aid of the above Society, on Thursday evening, at the Hanover Square Rooms, under the patronage of the Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge. The following artists assisted :- Misses Augusta Thomson, Agnes Bury, Poole, Steele, Eliza Hughes, and Martin; Mads. Guerrabella and Sainton-Dolby; Messrs. Wilbye Cooper, Allan Irving, and Weiss, solo vocalists; and Mr. Charles Hallé, and Herr Davidoff the new violoncellist, instrumentalists. The Orpheus Glee Union also attended. The audience, composed mostly of the fair sex, were unusually chary of their applause, and three pieces only out of some five-andtwenty seemed to hit their fancy. These were, Mrs. Mounsey Bartholomew's song, "There be none of Beauty's daughters," sung by Miss Steele, with duet accompaniment performed by Messrs. Benedict and Francesco Berger; Grell's song, "Speed the gallant bark," by Miss Agnes Bury; and Mr. Henry Smart's ballad, "The lady of the Lea," by Mad. SaintonDolby-the last being loudly encored. The attendance was large and fashionable.

MR. LINDSAY SLOPER'S FIRST PERFORMANCE OF PIANOFORTE MUSIC was given on Thursday evening at St. James's Hall. The solo pieces played by Mr. Sloper were Weber's sonata in D minor, Op. 49; Allemande and Gavotte, by Sebastian Bach; Passecaille, by Couperin; Scherzo in E minor, Op. 27, and Study in E major, Op. 11, by Sterndale Bennett; two " Thoughts," by Mr. Arthur Sullivan; Valse Pastorale ("A Daisy Chain"), and Toccata ("Joy bells"), of his own composition. In addition he performed, with M. Sainton, his own sonata in A major, Op. 17, for violin and pianoforte, and, with M. Stephen Heller, a new Tarantella in E minor, for two pianofortes, from the pen of that distinguished composer. Mr. Sloper's own contributions naturally commanded most attention. The Sonata for pianoforte and violin, the work of a thorough master, executed to perfection, was received with distinguished favour, and produced a marked impression. The Valse Pastorale, too, was immensely liked, and so were the other pieces. The Tarantella for two pianofortes of M. Stephen Heller was heard with delight. Nothing could be more finished, or indeed more masterly, than the joint performance of Messrs. Lindsay Sloper and Stephen Heller in this extremely effective morceau, We must leave our readers to surmise how so accomplished a pianist as Mr. Sloper gave Weber's brilliant and difficult sonata, Professor Bennett's piquant Scherzo, and his no less charming Study. The vocal music was supplied by Miss Robertine Henderson and Mr. Tennant, the lady singing the Prayer and Barcarole from the Etoile du Nord, and two airs by Schubert, in her best manner;

the gentleman introducing Himmel's "Yarico to her lover," and an air by Sig. Pinsuti, in both of which his agreeable voice and artistic style told with effect.

HERR OBERTHUR'S MORNING CONCERT, on Thursday last, attracted a large and fashionable audience to the Hanover Square Rooms. As a harp player, Herr Oberthür enjoys a high reputation, while his compositions for the instrument are both numerous and interesting. Of these a concertino in G (given for the first time) and grand trio in F minor were the most striking, the concert giver enlisting the co-operation of Herr Jansa and M. Paque in the latter piece, joining Mr. Lazarus in a duet, and also giving another solo, "La Cascade," all of which, it need hardly be observed, were received with considerable favour. M. Paque's violoncello solo must not be passed over without a word of praise for its skilful execution; while the vocal contributions of Misses Stabbach, Steele, Fisher, and Billing, together with Sig. Ciaballa, formed an agreeable variety. Sig. Regondi was prevented from appearing by a sprained wrist. The accompanyists were Messrs. Aguilar, G. Lake, and W. Carter.

MR. HENRY LESLIE'S CHOIR.-The fifth concert was given on Wednesday evening. The selection was admirable, the madrigals and part songs predominating, as they should do, the subscribers and the general public attaching great importance to their performance by Mr. Leslie's choir. The madrigals were, Thomas Morley's" What saith my dainty darling?" John Benet's "Flow, O my tears," John Wilbye's "Flora gave me fairest flowers," and T. A. Walmisley's "Sweet flow'rs." The part songs were Pearsall's "Oh! who will o'er the downs so free ?" (encored), Mr. Walter Macfarren's "Love's Heigho!" (encored), and Mendelssohn's "The deep repose of night." The larger pieces for the choir were Mendelssohn's setting of the 43rd Psalm, "Judge me, O Lord," Meyerbeer's "Pater Noster," and M. Gounod's Motet for double choir. Mendelssohn's Psalm was repeated by universal desire. The choir sang splendidly-indeed, we never heard them in greater force; and Mr. Leslie might have accepted several more encores. Miss Fisher and Miss Grace Barrow sang a duet by Gordigiani, and Miss Annie Walker and Miss Julia Elton, Mendelssohn's "Autumn song." From the pen of Mr. Henry Leslie we had one piece only, his "Song of the flax spinner," which was so good and went so well that the audience would fain have heard it a second time; but the director was inexorable. Mr. Charles Hallé performed Beethoven's Sonata in A flat (Op 25), and two pieces by Stephen Heller, one of which, “Tarantelle in A flat," was redemanded and repeated. The concert, which was in every respect first-rate, was brought to a termination by Mr. Leslie's arrangement of "Rule Britannia" for the choir.

WILLIS'S ROOMS. An amateur concert, in aid of the funds for the suffering families by the late accident at the Cethin colliery, was given in these rooms on the 7th inst. The patronage included H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary Adelaide, together with a long list of nobility and families of distinction, from which, as may be supposed, the concert was looked forward to with great interest in musical circles, and drew a large audience. The direction was under Mr. Frend, an amateur known in the musical world as having a fine tenor voice, and possessing considerable musical ability. The programme included works of Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Rossini, &c., every piece being creditably performed: among the solos, however, the most effective were Rossini's "Carita," "Non piu Mesta," and "Cujus Animam" (Mr. Frend), from the Stabat Mater. Several part songs were well sung by Mr. Frend's "Amateur Musical Union," and elicited warm applause. The band of the Royal Artillery attended by permission of H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, and performed several selections. We believe the funds have been considerably benefitted, and those ladies and gentlemen who so kindly undertook the management have been satisfactorily rewarded for their trouble.

MR. AGUILAR'S Second "Reception" takes place this evening. On the first occasion Mr. Aguilar's Rooms were crowded by a distinguished company. The vocalists who assisted were, Mad. Guerrabella, Miss Augusta Thomson, Miss Wilkinson, Miss Fanny Rowland, Herr Formes, and Sig. Ferrari, and the instrumentalists Mrs. Thomson (Miss Kate Loder), Mad. Pratten, Herr Oberthür, Mr. Heine, Herr Cattermole, Herr Lidel, Mr. T. F. Barnett, and Herr Ganz.

MYUDELTON HALL.-Miss Grace Delafield gave her first concert at the above Hall on the 24th inst. The artists who took part in the con. cert were Miss Delafield, Mrs. Harriette Lee, and Mrs. Helen Percy; Mr. Wilbye Cooper, Mr. Chaplin Henry, and Mr. Frank Murray, vocalists; Mr. George Lake (piano) and Herr Silberberg (violin). Mr Wilbye Cooper was encored in "The long waves come and go," and in the duet "Parigi o cara" with Miss Delafield. Mr. F. Murray sang two songs from the operetta Christine, Mrs. Lee "I'm alone," and Mrs. Perey, Henry Smart's popular ballad the "Lady of the Lea,” and “ My fairy home."

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