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To the Editor of the Inquirer and
Commercial News.
Sib, — Tour report of tbe recant Wesleyan Tea
Meeting, veracious though it bs, .evidently has
provoked the choler, and, I fear, raised the
' green-eyed monster** in ' Harmonious,** and *,
tempted him, unaccustomed a3 he tells us he is,
to rush, with a bubble laden, into the columns of
your contemporary. Bash man ! for the bubble
bath bursted, and laved his back with its sur
charge of tincture of folly,— a wiser man pre
scribed ' stripes for the back of a fooL'
Facts are stubborn things, complains Harmo
nious, albeit what he advances doth even make
them more so; and hard for belief tbat fact that
Harmonious doth quarrel with the small meed of
praise which hath been awarded -where dae. I
will not challenge his very important correction
of your number of persons present — rather give
him credit for precision and accuracy, the while
regretting that the twenty persons he would ex
clude were not with the others partakers and
hearers of the gcod things there provided— the
loss was certainly theirs. The choir could not
boast that its members, who acquitted themselves
so well, were mere strangers collected together
for the occasion, the contrary being the fact— 6 of
the 9 singers, viz., tbe Misses Hardey and Wal
deck, and Messrs, E. Birch, A. Birch, TT Halliday,
and Tom Stroud, belonging to the usual choral
strength, the three others being ladies, two of
whom were formerly connected with the same
choir, and one a member of the Church of Eng
land choir, all of whom, with Miss Oogden at the
harmonium (I will go further than did you, and
I am not singular, to remark) performed, vocally ^
and instrumentally, with correctness and har
mony not a whit behind— perhaps surpassing^
the performance at the opening of the New Sun
day School, the renowned (P) solo sang on -that
occasion ; and this — to their credit be it written—
notwithstanding the withdrawal of the two so
called leaders of their choir, In short; had the
initial letter of the musician's surname been not
so advanced in the alphabetical arrangement by '
two letters, the cloven foot of Harmonious would
not have thrust forth, the tea-meeting would have
been a very pleasant one; the voices divine rind
the novice who spoke of a ski|fnl tonch would
have become, as if by fenchantment, a proficient,
with ear for music most refined ; and Harmonious
had pot been made to panse-^-awful interval! ?
for an echo to ring in his ear.
Apologising .to those ladies . and - gentlemen
whose name* I hare wed 'withbuV permission.

B^tad to you. Sir, for thus trespassing rat your time
^^*&d space with much ado about nothing,
r^ X remain. Your very obedient servant,
TEUTH.
Perth, September 28, 1860.
[It is with great reluctance that ve publish
p the above letter, and only do so after argent soli
citation. It is apon a matter which does not
concern the public generally. Musical people
seem to. have a genius for discord. There is sel
dom a meeting without some disagreement —
- some absence of harmony. No other letters on
the subject can be published in this journal.— Ed.]

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