DOI issue:
September 5, 1857
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16620#0108
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TOO BAD I
Bertha. " Now, really Charles, you are very provoking. I've been looking for my Hat everywhere—and I declare
you are sitting upon it ! "
A BAD ACCOUVP OF A GOOD MUSICIAN.
Every friend of M. Jullien will regret with us to hear that the
poor Mons. has been again in labour-labouring, that is, under severe
indisposition. In answer to a vote of sympathy which was passed
"with acclamation" at a recent meeting of the Surrey Gardens Com-
pany, M. Jullien is reported to have made this touching statement:
" For himself, he had been called to the bosom of his family to rest, but he could
not; he had commenced with this and he would sink with it as the last man of a
ship should do. (Cheers.) He had many times gone into the orchestra when told
by his doctor that he would die, but he said it would be an honour to die in his
orchestra. (Cheers.)"
Now, we say emphatically [italics please, and capitals] THIS
WON'T DO. We cannot have our Mons. look forward thus lugu-
briously to the, as he fancies, not far distant playing of his own dead
march. However great the honour of his dying in his oichestra, it
would be but small consolation for his loss. London cannot spare its
Jullien at present. How dark would be November without the shine
of his white waistcoat!
We are unaware precisely what complaint it is that our poor Mons.
is suffering; but from words he has let fall, we incline to fear that he
is not so strong as we could wish him in his pocket. It would appear
that he is much reduced by his connection with the Gardens, which have
proved to him the reverse, it seems, of Edens. We also fear that his
economy, however much we may, and do, commend it, has been carried
to excess. When he tells us that " the cost of himself and family at
home is not £2 a-week," we almost apprehend that he has tried too
low a diet. We should prescribe him better living, and to try a change
of air, if he finds he can afford it. Being a composer, he must do his
best in trying to compose himself, and not give way to such excitement
as his words appear to indicate. Perhaps a draught for his last six
months' salary would, if duly honoured, prove the best composing
draught, and we sincerely hope to hear that this has been made up for
him. Eminent as a conductor, M. Jullien is excelled by no one in
the art of conducting himself: and if he has not won success, he has
" done more—deserved it." Rich as she may be in musical celebrities,
England can't afford to lose her Mons. if she can help it; and there
are few but would be sad to have to join with other mourners in singing
as a dirge their " Farewell to the Mountain" We have little doubt
ourselves the Maestro's health would soon improve with the improve-
ment of his prospects, and that when in better plight he would be
restored to better spirits. Wishing him well—both in person and in
purse - it distresses us to hear him speak so ill as he has done lately of
himself; and at all hazard we beg of him, Never to say Die—even in
his orchestra—however swan-like it might seem to do it.
THE MIDDLESEX PEER.
About the elevation of Lord Robert Grosvenor to the House of
Lords, there appears to be but one opinion. Everybody seems to con-
sider that the honour of a peerage has been very well bestowed upon
the noble late member for Middlesex; but some of his lordship's former
constituents would have been better pleased than they are if the noble
lord had been called to the Upper House by a title somewhat
suggestive of his local connection with themselves. Earl op Brent-
ford, Duke of Acton, Viscount Hammersmith, are some of the
titles by which it has been suggested that Lord Robert Grosvenor
should have been created a Peer; and there are those who think that he
might have been gracefully and appropriately styled Marquis of
Brook Green ; whilst others wish that he had been called Lord
Wormwood Scrubbs. To this last title, however, there is an objection.
Wormwood is suggestive of bitterness, which has never existed
between Lord Robert Grosvenor and his constituents, except for a
brief period, when a rather bitter beer question divided the Middlesex
electors from their representative.
Dirt Cheap.—It is computed that the effective drainage of Londou
would cost five milhons. What are five millions, to be expended on
drainage purposes, to the many millionnaires of London who have
drained the world of millions ?
TOO BAD I
Bertha. " Now, really Charles, you are very provoking. I've been looking for my Hat everywhere—and I declare
you are sitting upon it ! "
A BAD ACCOUVP OF A GOOD MUSICIAN.
Every friend of M. Jullien will regret with us to hear that the
poor Mons. has been again in labour-labouring, that is, under severe
indisposition. In answer to a vote of sympathy which was passed
"with acclamation" at a recent meeting of the Surrey Gardens Com-
pany, M. Jullien is reported to have made this touching statement:
" For himself, he had been called to the bosom of his family to rest, but he could
not; he had commenced with this and he would sink with it as the last man of a
ship should do. (Cheers.) He had many times gone into the orchestra when told
by his doctor that he would die, but he said it would be an honour to die in his
orchestra. (Cheers.)"
Now, we say emphatically [italics please, and capitals] THIS
WON'T DO. We cannot have our Mons. look forward thus lugu-
briously to the, as he fancies, not far distant playing of his own dead
march. However great the honour of his dying in his oichestra, it
would be but small consolation for his loss. London cannot spare its
Jullien at present. How dark would be November without the shine
of his white waistcoat!
We are unaware precisely what complaint it is that our poor Mons.
is suffering; but from words he has let fall, we incline to fear that he
is not so strong as we could wish him in his pocket. It would appear
that he is much reduced by his connection with the Gardens, which have
proved to him the reverse, it seems, of Edens. We also fear that his
economy, however much we may, and do, commend it, has been carried
to excess. When he tells us that " the cost of himself and family at
home is not £2 a-week," we almost apprehend that he has tried too
low a diet. We should prescribe him better living, and to try a change
of air, if he finds he can afford it. Being a composer, he must do his
best in trying to compose himself, and not give way to such excitement
as his words appear to indicate. Perhaps a draught for his last six
months' salary would, if duly honoured, prove the best composing
draught, and we sincerely hope to hear that this has been made up for
him. Eminent as a conductor, M. Jullien is excelled by no one in
the art of conducting himself: and if he has not won success, he has
" done more—deserved it." Rich as she may be in musical celebrities,
England can't afford to lose her Mons. if she can help it; and there
are few but would be sad to have to join with other mourners in singing
as a dirge their " Farewell to the Mountain" We have little doubt
ourselves the Maestro's health would soon improve with the improve-
ment of his prospects, and that when in better plight he would be
restored to better spirits. Wishing him well—both in person and in
purse - it distresses us to hear him speak so ill as he has done lately of
himself; and at all hazard we beg of him, Never to say Die—even in
his orchestra—however swan-like it might seem to do it.
THE MIDDLESEX PEER.
About the elevation of Lord Robert Grosvenor to the House of
Lords, there appears to be but one opinion. Everybody seems to con-
sider that the honour of a peerage has been very well bestowed upon
the noble late member for Middlesex; but some of his lordship's former
constituents would have been better pleased than they are if the noble
lord had been called to the Upper House by a title somewhat
suggestive of his local connection with themselves. Earl op Brent-
ford, Duke of Acton, Viscount Hammersmith, are some of the
titles by which it has been suggested that Lord Robert Grosvenor
should have been created a Peer; and there are those who think that he
might have been gracefully and appropriately styled Marquis of
Brook Green ; whilst others wish that he had been called Lord
Wormwood Scrubbs. To this last title, however, there is an objection.
Wormwood is suggestive of bitterness, which has never existed
between Lord Robert Grosvenor and his constituents, except for a
brief period, when a rather bitter beer question divided the Middlesex
electors from their representative.
Dirt Cheap.—It is computed that the effective drainage of Londou
would cost five milhons. What are five millions, to be expended on
drainage purposes, to the many millionnaires of London who have
drained the world of millions ?