MR. HULLAH'S EXHIBITION.
ON Monday evening we attended another class-meeting of Mr. HULLAH'S Pupils at Exeter Hall. It was gratifying to see this building crowded with persons of all ranks, most of whom we must presume to have been Congregated by the interest they felt in the extension of musical education, or in the particular system which it was the object of the meeting to display : but beyond this we have little to add. A num- ber of persons were assembled, with Mr. HULLAH'S books in their bands; and those persons, or the majority of them, sang. Beyond this we know nothing. The singers might be what they were stated to be—Mr. HULLAH'S first class of working men—or they might not. We neither know how long they had learned nor whether they were the persons announced ; we know not whether they sang from notes or from memory. No means of forming any opinions were before us, and therefore we give none. The whole affair might be a fair and honest exhibition, or it might be a cheat and a delusion : we have no test by which to try it. Mr. Htris.sa must be aware that these suspicions are raised by the facts which Mr. BARNETT has recently brought before the public in a pamphlet. That gentleman's opinions may or may not be Correct; his epithets may be deserved or otherwise ; but to his statement of facts no answer has been made. We have hitherto.spoken of these exhibitions at Exeter Hall as realities—as being what they were affirmed to be. This is no longer possible. If Mr. Human has any real con- fidence in his "system," he will eagerly seek a real scrutiny into its merits: hitherto there has been none. The presentation of a richly- ornamented music-stand to Mr. Humaar, to witness which the audience were ostensibly assembled—the long address which was read by one of the pupils, and the speech of Lord' WHARNCLIFFE—might all be pre- concerted moves in a game, in which the players themselves were but Puppets. They were intended for effect, and probably succeeded in Producing it. But upon the question at issue—" what is the practical result of Mr. Hullah's system? "—they have no bearing, and therefore, With US, not the slightest interest.
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