7 APRIL 1832, Page 12

The Centenary of the birth of JOSEPH HAYDN was celebrated

at the s Albion Tavern this evening. About ninety gentlemen, including many musicians, of the highest yank, sat down to dinner; and after the vulgar ceremony of eating was over, no fewer than fifty of the fair sex were ushered in to grace the occasion with their presence. Mr. HORSLEY acquitted himself in the chair with his well-known ability. After "the memory of Haydn" was drunk in respectful silence, the following Ode, written for the occasion by BARRY CORNWALL, and adapted, with much ingenuity, by the Chevalier NEUKOMM, ( HAYDN'S favourite pupil) to many of his popular subjects, was performed with much applause. Come forth, victorious Sounds,—from harp, and horn, From viol, and trump, and echoing instruments ! A Hundred Years! A Hundred Years— Of toil and strife, of joys and tears, Have risen to life, and died 'midst vain laments, Since that harmonious Morn,

Whereon the Muse's mighty Son was born!

Sound—immortal Music, sound! Bid thy golden Words go 'round ! Every heart and tongue proclaim, HAYDN'S power, and HAymes fame: Sing, how well he earned his glory ! Sing, how he shall live in story ! Sing, how he (loth live in Shining, like a star, above us, Bending down, to cheer and love us, Crowned with his own divine delight ! Suund—immortal Music, sound ! Bid thy golden Words go mound!

Every grand and gentle tone, Every truth he made his own ; Gathering, nom the human Mind, All the bloom that Poets find,— Gathering, from the winds and ocean, Dreams, to feed his high emotion, When the Muse was past contr04—

Gathering, from all things that roll

• Within Time's vast and starry round, The thoughts that give a soul to sound !

The great musical treats of .the evening, however, were the suc- cessive performances of CRAMER, MOSCHELES, and FIELD ; who each played a selection from HAYDN's Pianoforte music, which, though not quite of the Herz order of merit, yet came upon all who heard it with the freshness of novelty, and roused them to enthusiasm. Various appropriate toasts were given in the course of the even- ; and the Chairman, in proposing the health of the ladies present, observed that HAYDN was well known for his partiality to the sex, and that it was not therefore wonderful that he should speak so strongly to the affections through the medium of his music. Messrs. CRAMER and MOSCHELES delighted us with HAYDN'S Symphony in G, (the same as played at the second Philharmonic Concert), arranged as a Pianoforte duet by a talented lady, whose name was not mentioned by the Chairman. And Mr. BOBBER led a quartett of the very highest order in an admi- rable manner. In short, we may say that we have never been more highly gratified with any meeting of the kind. We understand that the nobler tribute to the memory of HAYDN-- the performance, namely, in 'Westminster Abbey, of his great Vocal and Instrumental Works—is still in contemplation ; and that this would have been given on the centenary of his birth, had it not been considered much too early in the season for the charitable purposes it is meant to serve.