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    PARLIAMENT.

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    the assem bled eighteen , judges . Thenames of these chosen bands and the pieces they played are as follows : — Saltaire ¦ ¦ ' ,. ... ... ... Selection from " Iaicrezia Borgia . " Cyfarthfa ... " " Tlio Bondsman . " Delgbton ... ... ... ... "Erna » i . " "VVitnoy " Trovatore . " < Stanhope-., ... " "Trcciosa : " . '¦'¦¦ Chesterfield ... " Trovatore . " Staleybridgo ... ... ... Overture to" William Tell . " Dewsbury ... " Preciosa , " Blackdyke ... " Preciosa " Ackririgtoh " Kino . " Ilolmflrth . " Trovatore . " Darlington ... ... — " ' Kyrio" and "Gloria , " from Haydn ' s 2 nd Mass . The first selection of the hands occupied from tea o ' clock till three , the final process of choosing from four until half-past seven ; and the intermediate time was occup ied by the performance , in the Handel orchestra , by the combined forces , of the following programme : — 1 ! Rule Britannia ¦ _ 2 . Chorus—Hallelujah Handel . 3 . Wedding March Mendelssohn , 4 . Chorus—The Heavens arc telling : i Haydn . 5 . God save the Queen . -

    by a highly respectable audience , who appeared to be highly gratified and interested . ' Julxeen Festival . —It is with much pleasure we learn that a grand Jullien festival will take place at the Surrey Gardens on the 31 st of the present month . The objeit of the entertainment is to add to the funds already collected for the family of the deceased composer , and there seems every probability that it will be fulfilled in the iribst satisfactory manner . Selections from the works of M . Jullien are to constitute the programme of the festival , which will embrace the talents of a large number of the leading members of the musical profession , all of whom give their services gratuitously . At their head is Mr . Sims Beeves , who , in that sympathetic spirit which does him so much honour , has kindly come forward to aid in the work of benevolence . The proprietors of the Surrey Gardens , too , have most generously placed their establishment at the disposal of Madame Jullien free of charge of any description . It is only necessary , we feel assured , to draw attention to these circumstances in order to secure for the festival that amount of extended public support to which it puts forth so many and such high claims .

    The " " Wedding March " of Mendelssohn' was encored , and the National Anthem was also repeated . Mr . E . Jackson conducted with remarkable vigour and ability . At eight o ' clock the decision of the judges was announced , and the following were declared to be the successful competitors : —1 st prize , £ 4 . 0 , together with a splendid silver cup for the bandmaster , also a magnificent champion contre-bass in E flat , value 35 guineas , presented by Mr . Henry Distin , 9 , Great Newport-street , St . Martin ' s-lane , London ; Blaekdyke Band ; 2 d , 25 / ., Saltaire Band ; 3 d , 157 ., Cyfarthfa Band ; 4 th , 10 ? ., Darlington Band ; 5 th , 5 ? ., Dewsbury Band . The attendance on Wednesday at the Crystal Palace , at the second and final contest , was far more numerous thanat the first , the numbers present being over 22 , 000 . At three o ' clock the whole force assembled in the Handel orchestra to exhibit their united strength in a select programme . Three encores were demanded , namely , *' Bu ! e Britannia , " Mendelssohn ' s " Wedding March , " the National Anthem , all of which were executed with surprising brilliancy and precision , ¦ .- . ¦ ; ¦

    The bands selected by the judges as worthiest to contend for the prizes—again 12 in number—then successfully exhibited their strength in the Handel Orchestra . The first prize- —i 830 in money , with a silver cup for the band inaster , and a complete set of Boosey ' s Bras ? Band Journal , in ' . lB volumes , presented by the publisliei's- ^ was awarded to the Cyfarthfa band , ( conductor , Mr . R . - Livesey ) , frolin Messrs . Crawshay ' Ironworks , South Wales . The piece selected for this band was Verdi ' s overture to N ' abKcco . The second prize— £ 20 in money—fell to the I > ewsbery band ( conductor , Mr . John Peel ) , who played a selection from the same composer ' s Ernani ; the third prizej— £ 15 to the Saxhorn band of Mr . James BngnalTs Ironworks ; Goldshill , Staf 7 " fbrdshire ( conductor Mr .- J . Blandford ) for a sceitd and polacca b y -perry ; the fourth prize—r £ 10—to the Chesterfield band ( conductor , Mr . H . Slack ) , who ( in the costxime of the Derbyshire 7 Rilles ) gave a selection of Lncrezia Borgia ; the 5 th prize— £ 5—to fhe band from Meltham Hills , Yorkshire ( conductor , Mr . H . Hartley ) , for the

    performance of the " Hallelujah" Chorus of Handel . The Blaekdyke arid Saltaire bands , who had won the first and second prizes on Tuesday , were prohibited from contending on this occasion . Two extra prizes —an electro-plated cornet-a-pistons by Cour . tois ( presented by Messrs ; Chappell and Hammond ) , and an electro-plated euphonion inB flat ( preyeiit ^^ by ^ essrer-Booaey-fo ^ theUbeat ^ olQ-corjiet and ., bjasjLglay ^ g ) , were consigned by W . Blandford ( Goldshill band ) and Mr . John Walker ( Cyfarthfa band . ) The prizes were delivered to the successful competitors to Mr . Bowley , general manager of the Crystal Palace , who addressed them in brief and appropriate terms * expressed his belief in the good results that must accrue from the movement , acknowledged the liberality of the donors of prizes , and paid a well-deserved compliment to Mr . Enderby Jackson for the ability with which he had organized and directed the performances . A great deal of enthusiasm was elicited , and it was nearly 9 o ' olock betoro the proceedings had come to an end . For a first experiment of this kind the success was

    quite extraordinary . On Tuesday night , at the Olympic , was brought out a new piece entitled , " Duohess or Nothing . " The '' chief , object of this lively piece is to exhibit Mrs . Stirling in one of those spirited characters for which she is so admirably suited ; and never , perhaps , did she look or play better than on this occasion . The other characters were well sustained by Mr . Addison , Mr . G Cook , Mr , Walter Gordon , and Mrs . Stephens . Signor Boecalossi gave his llfatinQe JLfusicale on Tuesday , at Messrs . Collard and Collard ' s New C oncert-room , Grosvonor-street , Grosvenorsquare . Theprogrammo included selections from the eminent pianist ' s new English opera , " The Subterfuge . Judging from the specimens to which the composer treated his audience , we should say that this is a work of more than avorago merit . The music is brilliant , » nd frequently evinces muoh sympathy and tenderness . The vocalists were Miss Augusta Thompson and Mdlle . Donti ( pupil of Signor

    Bocoalossi ) , Mr . Tonnant , and Signor Ctabatti . There was also an efficient chorus , seleoted from those of the Italian operas . The opening chorus from " The Subterfuge " was admirably done , and highly applauded . Mdllo . Donti sang a charming ballad with much taste and expression , aad . oxoitMja _ goo , q dealof syjipathy and applause . This young singer possesses a voice of unoommon purityof "Conerand ; oompasBrand will wo doubt hot , take a prominent place among our rieing aingere . A duot from thq same opera characterised by the utmost harmony , was rendered sweetly and forcibly by Miss Augusta Thompson and Mr . Tonnant . " Then smiling hopo " was next given by Mr . Tonnant , with his acoustomod taste and finish . In the second part , Miss Augusta Thompson sang finely an aria from " The Subterfuge , " which must bo pronounoed a masterpiece of its kind , and a fair speoimen of the music of tho new opera . " Homage to Garibaldi—Triumphal March , " by P . BoecalosBi , is a noble and spirited composition , and was exceedingly well done by tho chorus . Tho playing of Signor Bopcaloasi was of tho finest kind , and elicited the utmost admiration . Tho concert-room was well filled

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    IN the House of Lords on Thursday night , Lord Wojxeuovbe , in answer to Lord Norjianby , said that he had received no information in regard to the accrediting of a- Sicilian representative to the Court of St . James . He also took occasion to deny that Mr . Elliot , our minister at Naples , had interfered to bring about the restitution of the two captured steam vessels . He was glad , however , to inform the House that they were to be restored . After some remarks from Lords BnovaHAM and ExiJENBOBOuaH highly eulogising General Gabibaldi , Lord Normanby said be had seen in foreign newspapers accounts of atroeities , said to have been committed by those under the control of Garibai . pi . Lord Wodehqitse thought it only just to state that the conduct of Garibaldi had been characterised in the ofiicial reports as

    marked by the greatest generosity and humanity . The Bubjeet then dropped . The Highland Roads arid Bridges Bill was read a third time and passed . In the House of Commons Lord Paxmehston , in rising to more the resolutions of which he had given notice , observed that the question at issue involved considerations of the almost constitutional importance , and that the occasion was one which would have taken a prominent rank among our Parliamentary proceedings . He gave a slight historical sketch of the growth of the British Legislature . He advised the House , as the most dignified course , to be satisfied with W declaration of their constitutional privileges ; and he- concluded a speech of great length by-moving the first resolution : — " That the right of granting aids and supplies to the Crown is in the Common * alone , as an essential part of their

    constitution ; and the limitation of such grants , as the matter , manner , . measure , and time , is only in tliem . "_ Mr . Collier contended that the vpT ; e of tKe House of Lords was opposed to constitutional usage , and to the tabit understanding which regulated the proceedings of the two Houses , without which the Constitution could not work . He argued this position upon principle and authority ; and , after a minute examination of the precedents reported by the Select Committee , he contended that riot one of them was at all applicable to the present case ; that it did not appear that the House of Lords had ever : rejected any bill imposing or repealing a tax on purely financial grounds . Mr . Conynoham said the passing this resolution would not dispose of the question , while it would provoke an agitation out of doors which had not been seen for many years . Mr : Scully observed that the reaolutionB were riot final and conclusive ; it was open to any member to take a bolder course . Mr . LEATlCATSrwnfretrded ^ hairnofra ^

    in point had been discovered by tho committee that could justify the act of the Lords , which was , he said , an attempt at taxation without representation . Mr . Osborne observed , that as far as common sense went the act of the Lords was right ; but it was against the Constitution . Mr . JaSies complained of the lame and impotent conclusion of Lord Paxmerston , who ought , he said , to have come forward to support the dignity of the House of Commons . The House of Lords had p aralyzed the financial policy of the Government , and the resolution proposed was a poor and paltry compromise of opinions in the cabinet . — The Chancellor of the Exchequer , after reproaching the Opposition with being silent partisans of a gigantic innovation , said he could not refuse his assent to the Resolutions , because they contained a mild and temperate , but a firm , declara + ion of the rights of and sound

    the House of Commons . The vindication was a good a vindication ; but the House had a right to vindicate its privileges by action , and ho reserved to himself an entire freedom so to vindicate them . Mr . Collier had gone through the list of pretended precedents , and had shown that there was not a rag or shred of authority for the olaim put forth by the House of Lords . The course of the precedents was entiroly udvorgo to the pretension of that House to interfere with the taxing function of the Commons , none of whoso privileges were not essentially violated by the act of the Lords . He wanted to know whether the power of review exercised by the House of Lords in other matters of legislation was to be extended to finance ; whether the finanoial errors of the Commons wore liable to bo corrected by the Lords . He justified the Government in choosing the best in preference to the most popular finanoial policy , and asked what was to be the

    influonoe of the conduct of tho Lords upon those who were horealter to frame financial measures . Mr . Whiteside , in reply to the Ohan-OKXLOtt of tho Exohequem , obflorved that tho speech of Lord Paxmbbbton -ma suoh-as became the flrat minister , of-Uiooo , untrj l » a " 4 admitting , as it did , distinctly mid emphatically , the right of the House of Lords to resist tho repeal of a tax , the epeeoh was satisfactory to tho Opposition side of the Houso . Xord Fermoy eaid tho Liberal party , reserving to themselves the right to tako . otlior steps , thought thoy were not abandoning their prinoiplos in allowing these Resolutions to pass . -He denied that there was a single oaae in whioh the Lords had rejected a bill purely financial sent to , them by the Commons . , Mr . Pilxwyn believed that the object of the Lords in what they had done was to diotato to the country who ahould govern it , Sir J . Thklawnby said he would not support the resolutions . If there had boon an invasion of their prmlogos , the

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    662 The ' Saturdayy AnalystandLeader . [ Jtrxy 14 , 1860 .

    Parliament.

    PARLIAMENT .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 14, 1860, page 662, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2356/page/14/