The Archive · 1940

Seventy Wears Hgo

From THE "Nortu~Cutna Darry News,"

or Marcu 26, 1870

(Continued from yesterday)

Five hundred men were dispatched by land towards Shanghai and marched through the country which is now the favourite walk of energetic pedestrians, and which will perhaps, before many Years, be covered with the villas, lodges, and cottages of foreign merchants. Meantime, the little army at Woosuny had been reinforced by the arrival of eight transports with the 2nd Madras native infantry, and other troops. On the morning of the 19th, under the hot June sun the men embarked, and nine ships proceeded up the river. Amongst the officers was a captain Who bore the well-known name of Keppel and who, seven years from the date Was destined to display such exceptional Vigour as to be rebuked by the Admiralty and eulogized by Palmerston, and, 28 years later, to be pulled. on board his flagship in 'a boat Of which the second son of the Queen held the stroke oar. The fleet had no difficulty worth naming, in navigating mud Which The orchestral contribution throughout three movements of the Ninth Symphony fulfilled the major requirements of this difficult and exacting work. Particularly comrenale was anner in which long and intrì slow movement was made to satind clear.

"Uneastness fire. òf, some of the rhythms in the first get. Slightly "upsetting the eer Spedoumess and fatness of scherzo, may be men-marines The ita Stewart, Slóbodskoy moment k of the our soloists, Ruth is nearly at the same y that had marched and liras beyond reproach, massed voices, excellent. former occasions, however, the male

take their appointed place the tenors, failed in th: zein Beesoenie scheme of the whole in of the more extended passages.

Maestro Paci and the performers received a prolonged ovation at the end of the concert.—u. paddy L'A proof as "however, even at that early that the foreigner was not dreaded by the mass of the people so much as by the official op. for ihe Admirars despatch notes that the pect bit ants wh. easy to the anchor: was Shanghai opped down the river jost and won at Woosung and thus pause at the end of the concert at-to the pleasure of the listeners.

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