The Amateur Musical Society had their first concert of the
season on Monday &ening, at the Hanover Square Rooms. This society, the members of which belong chiefly to the aristocracy, has for its object the cultivation of orchestral music, and pursues it with considerable success. The orchestra consists of amateurs with a sprinkling of professional players it is large and complete in all its parts ; and its achievements show the zeal and good-will with which gentlemen (not having the fear of Lord Chesterfield before their eyes) submit to the necessary discipline and practice. Their performance of two masterpieces—Haydn's Symphony in B flat, and Beethoven's in A—had precision and spirit enough to give pleasure to very critical listeners. The audience was more numerous than we have seen at any former concert of this society ; and its proceed- ings are a proof of the real progress of music, in its highest forms, in fashionable society.
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