25 FEBRUARY 1854, Page 12

Mr. Ella has begun his " Musical Winter Evenings" ;

an annual series of concerts which precede those of the Musical 'Union, and are on exactly the same plan. On Thursday evening a large and fashionable audience assembled to listen to several fine quartets, and concerted pianoforte pieces, of Haydn, Beethoven, Spohr, and Mendelssohn •' the performers being of Manchester, Molique, Hill, and Piatti. How they were performed by such hands, may easily be imagined.