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Poetry.
I can hear you now no more . ' Ye might as well be dumb , For the drum—Oh , the chum—it rattles so loud ! Oh , the drum—it rattles so loud ! At the corner of the street ,
Where so oft we used to meet , Stands my bride and cries , "Ah , woe ! My bridegroom wilt thou go ?" Dearest bride , the hour is eome , For the drain — Oh , the drum—it rattles so loud ! Oh , the drum—it rattles so loud !
My brother in the fight Bids a last—a long good night ! And the guns , with knell on knell , Their tale of warning tell ; Yet my ear to that is numb , For the drum—Oh , the drum—it rattles so loud . Ohthe drum—it rattles so loud
, , There's no such stirring sound I heard the wide world round As the drum that , with its rattle , Echoes Freedom ' s call to battle ; I fear no martyrdom While the drum—Oh , the drum—it rattles so loud ! i
Notes On Music And The Drama.
NOTES ON MUSIC AND THE DRAMA .
Musical entertainments here ( says the Brighton correspondent of the Queen ) continue to be well attended , and the crowd at the Pavilion to hear the band of the 9 th Lancers , and at St . Paul ' s Church to witness the mummery going on there , seems as great as ever , although everybody says Brighton is thinning . M . Verdi has arrived from Paris on his way from St .
Petersburg to Madrid . The Messiah was given on Monday , at Exeter Hall , by the National Choral Society , with the following cast : —Miss Banks , Miss Palmer , Mr . Sims Reeves , ancl Mr . Lawler ; conductor , Mr . G . W . Martin . The band and chorus consisted of nearly 700 performers , and it was one of the finest performances overheard in Exeter Hall .
At Her Majesty's Theatre , a performance of Handel's oratorio the Messiah is to be given on Christmas Eve . The principal vocalists will be Mdlle . Titiens , Miss Palmer , Mr . Sims Reeves , and Mr . Santley ; and the band and chorus , under the direction of Mr . Benedict , will be 500 strong . Mr . Cocks , of Burlington-street , has issued an album of music
which does credit to his firm , both as regards she beauty of the illustrations and the superiority of the original pieces of music , which have employed the pens of some of the best composers of the day .
Galignani says : — " It ivill be remarked with regret that since the retirement of Mario no other tenor is spoken of to take the lead at the Grand Opera , Paris , and it would hence appear that the public is once more to he thrown back on M . Gueynard , a respectable singer no doubt , for second-rate characters , but wholly without pretensions for anything higher . Strange that
a theatre so nobly supported by the munificence of the state as the Grand Opera of Paris , cannot demand first-rate talent , while the Opera in London , unassisted by any subvention whatever from the government , nevertheless is enabled constantly to engage all the leading singers of " Europe . " Shakspeare's Macbeth , the translation of M . Lacroix , is now in rehearsal at the Odeon .
The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE COURT . —Sunday last being the aniversary of the death of the Prince Consort , the Queen remained in perfect seclusion , and divine service was " performed" in the morning , in her Majesty's apartments . This melancholy anniversary has been most appropriately marked by the publication of a volume , in which our widowed Queen tells a sympathising nation of " the
ever-present , watchful , faithful , invaluable aid whicli she received from the Prince Consort in the conduct of the public business . The new Royal mausoleum at Frogmore was consecrated on AA ' ednesday by the Bishop of Oxford . The Queen , with her family , was present , and a large number of ladies and gentlemen were in attendance . Immediately after the ceremony
her Majesty returned to AVindsor . The mausoleum is not yet completed , but the central portion in which the royal sarcophagus is to be placed is entirely closed . It is reported that Prince-Alfred is about to visit Australia .
GENERAL HOME NEWS . —Under the influence of mor genial weather the mortality in London has greatly decline during the past week . Tbe number of deaths during the last week does not amount to more than 1408 , which is a decline of more than 200 on the previous week , and 340 below the week before that . It is still , however , though very slightly , above the corrected average for the last ten years , which is 1393 .
The births during the week amounted to 1 S 86 , the average number for the ten years being 1903 . It seems that there is to be no public distribution of the Exhibition prizes by the Prince of AVales . The Commissioners have addressed a letter to His Boyal Highness , in which , while thanking him for consenting to distribute the prizes , they intimate that it would be
practically impossible for a single occasion to light and warm , the building . The distribution could not be postponed beyond the end of January , and therefore the Commissioners have come to the conclusion that they would not be justified in inviting His Royal Highness to preside at a ceremony , the success cf which would depend on the doubtful chance of a flue day .
The Observer confirms the rumours which bave for some time been current , that Her Majesty's Ministers have set themselves to work to pare clown the naval and military expenditure . If we inav believe our Sunday contemporary , a " material
retrenchment has been decided upon ; and this , it would seem , is to he accomplished , so far as the army is concerned , not so much by reducing the effective strength of the force as by adminstrative reforms , especially in the staff arrangements . AVith regard to the other service , we are told that the transition state in which our navy still is will require a continued outlay for jrarposes of construction that will , in all probability , neutralise in
a great measure retrenchments made in other directions . " The Liberals of Edinburgh have decided to invite Lord Palmerston to a public banquet in that city . His Lordship is expected to pay an early visit to Scotland in connection with his election to the Lord Rectorship of the University of Glasgow , and it is hoped that it will be convenient for him on that occassion to
accept the profferred hospitality of his friends in the Scottish capital . Mr . Cobden , on Tuesday , addressed a meeting of his neighbours , at Midhurst , on the subject of the distress in Lancashire . Tbe hon . gentlemen was naturally led , iu the course of his speech , to refer to the war in America ; and it is hardly necssary to say , that he strongly deprecated any
interference , on our part , in that disastrous conflict . Dr . Rowland Williams and the Rev . H . B . Wilson , the two writers of L ' ssnys and TRevieu's , who have been prosecuted in the Court of Arches , have been sentenced to one year's suspension ab officio et " bene-
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Poetry.
I can hear you now no more . ' Ye might as well be dumb , For the drum—Oh , the chum—it rattles so loud ! Oh , the drum—it rattles so loud ! At the corner of the street ,
Where so oft we used to meet , Stands my bride and cries , "Ah , woe ! My bridegroom wilt thou go ?" Dearest bride , the hour is eome , For the drain — Oh , the drum—it rattles so loud ! Oh , the drum—it rattles so loud !
My brother in the fight Bids a last—a long good night ! And the guns , with knell on knell , Their tale of warning tell ; Yet my ear to that is numb , For the drum—Oh , the drum—it rattles so loud . Ohthe drum—it rattles so loud
, , There's no such stirring sound I heard the wide world round As the drum that , with its rattle , Echoes Freedom ' s call to battle ; I fear no martyrdom While the drum—Oh , the drum—it rattles so loud ! i
Notes On Music And The Drama.
NOTES ON MUSIC AND THE DRAMA .
Musical entertainments here ( says the Brighton correspondent of the Queen ) continue to be well attended , and the crowd at the Pavilion to hear the band of the 9 th Lancers , and at St . Paul ' s Church to witness the mummery going on there , seems as great as ever , although everybody says Brighton is thinning . M . Verdi has arrived from Paris on his way from St .
Petersburg to Madrid . The Messiah was given on Monday , at Exeter Hall , by the National Choral Society , with the following cast : —Miss Banks , Miss Palmer , Mr . Sims Reeves , ancl Mr . Lawler ; conductor , Mr . G . W . Martin . The band and chorus consisted of nearly 700 performers , and it was one of the finest performances overheard in Exeter Hall .
At Her Majesty's Theatre , a performance of Handel's oratorio the Messiah is to be given on Christmas Eve . The principal vocalists will be Mdlle . Titiens , Miss Palmer , Mr . Sims Reeves , and Mr . Santley ; and the band and chorus , under the direction of Mr . Benedict , will be 500 strong . Mr . Cocks , of Burlington-street , has issued an album of music
which does credit to his firm , both as regards she beauty of the illustrations and the superiority of the original pieces of music , which have employed the pens of some of the best composers of the day .
Galignani says : — " It ivill be remarked with regret that since the retirement of Mario no other tenor is spoken of to take the lead at the Grand Opera , Paris , and it would hence appear that the public is once more to he thrown back on M . Gueynard , a respectable singer no doubt , for second-rate characters , but wholly without pretensions for anything higher . Strange that
a theatre so nobly supported by the munificence of the state as the Grand Opera of Paris , cannot demand first-rate talent , while the Opera in London , unassisted by any subvention whatever from the government , nevertheless is enabled constantly to engage all the leading singers of " Europe . " Shakspeare's Macbeth , the translation of M . Lacroix , is now in rehearsal at the Odeon .
The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE COURT . —Sunday last being the aniversary of the death of the Prince Consort , the Queen remained in perfect seclusion , and divine service was " performed" in the morning , in her Majesty's apartments . This melancholy anniversary has been most appropriately marked by the publication of a volume , in which our widowed Queen tells a sympathising nation of " the
ever-present , watchful , faithful , invaluable aid whicli she received from the Prince Consort in the conduct of the public business . The new Royal mausoleum at Frogmore was consecrated on AA ' ednesday by the Bishop of Oxford . The Queen , with her family , was present , and a large number of ladies and gentlemen were in attendance . Immediately after the ceremony
her Majesty returned to AVindsor . The mausoleum is not yet completed , but the central portion in which the royal sarcophagus is to be placed is entirely closed . It is reported that Prince-Alfred is about to visit Australia .
GENERAL HOME NEWS . —Under the influence of mor genial weather the mortality in London has greatly decline during the past week . Tbe number of deaths during the last week does not amount to more than 1408 , which is a decline of more than 200 on the previous week , and 340 below the week before that . It is still , however , though very slightly , above the corrected average for the last ten years , which is 1393 .
The births during the week amounted to 1 S 86 , the average number for the ten years being 1903 . It seems that there is to be no public distribution of the Exhibition prizes by the Prince of AVales . The Commissioners have addressed a letter to His Boyal Highness , in which , while thanking him for consenting to distribute the prizes , they intimate that it would be
practically impossible for a single occasion to light and warm , the building . The distribution could not be postponed beyond the end of January , and therefore the Commissioners have come to the conclusion that they would not be justified in inviting His Royal Highness to preside at a ceremony , the success cf which would depend on the doubtful chance of a flue day .
The Observer confirms the rumours which bave for some time been current , that Her Majesty's Ministers have set themselves to work to pare clown the naval and military expenditure . If we inav believe our Sunday contemporary , a " material
retrenchment has been decided upon ; and this , it would seem , is to he accomplished , so far as the army is concerned , not so much by reducing the effective strength of the force as by adminstrative reforms , especially in the staff arrangements . AVith regard to the other service , we are told that the transition state in which our navy still is will require a continued outlay for jrarposes of construction that will , in all probability , neutralise in
a great measure retrenchments made in other directions . " The Liberals of Edinburgh have decided to invite Lord Palmerston to a public banquet in that city . His Lordship is expected to pay an early visit to Scotland in connection with his election to the Lord Rectorship of the University of Glasgow , and it is hoped that it will be convenient for him on that occassion to
accept the profferred hospitality of his friends in the Scottish capital . Mr . Cobden , on Tuesday , addressed a meeting of his neighbours , at Midhurst , on the subject of the distress in Lancashire . Tbe hon . gentlemen was naturally led , iu the course of his speech , to refer to the war in America ; and it is hardly necssary to say , that he strongly deprecated any
interference , on our part , in that disastrous conflict . Dr . Rowland Williams and the Rev . H . B . Wilson , the two writers of L ' ssnys and TRevieu's , who have been prosecuted in the Court of Arches , have been sentenced to one year's suspension ab officio et " bene-