to secure the assistance of Mr Hullah, who was known to have given much attention to the subject, and to have been already engaged in making trials of the method.  The system of Wilhelm has, therefore, acquired the ascendency, and Mr Hullah has been invested with the character or office of national instructor, in which capacity he is said to realize upwards of L.5000 per annum—­almost as many pounds, according to Mr Barnett, as Wilhelm, the inventor of the system, received francs.  The prominent station and the large income realized by a junior in the profession, has naturally roused the jealousy and excited the envy of his elder brethren, many of whom, perhaps, found “their occupation” almost “gone.”  The vast amount of the bitterness thus engendered, may be conceived, when the reader is informed, that, in London alone, it has been computed that music affords a livelihood to more than 5000 persons.  In the midst of such a host of bitter rivals, the imperfections and defects of this all-engrossing system are sure of exposure.  Many grave and serious charges have been advanced against the mode in which a superficial and deceptive success has been made to appear real, sound, and healthy.  These charges have been reiterated in a pamphlet, recently published by one who is, perhaps, the first of our native living masters—­Mr Barnett.  Those great exhibitions at Exeter Hall, in the presence of the magnates of the land, at which none but the pupils of Mr Hullah were stated to be allowed to attend, have been declared to be “packed” meetings.  There is an equivoque in the terms pupil and classes; with the public they would naturally be taken to mean those persons, and those only, who had commenced their musical career in the classes taught by Mr Hullah:  but according to the official interpretation of the terms, they appear to mean, all who now are or ever have been receiving instruction in Wilhelm’s method.  Now, it must be remembered, that Mr Hullah has instructed in Wilhelm’s method many who had, for years, gained their bread by teaching music; who, having been induced to abandon their old system, and to adopt the new method from the superior remuneration it affords, were probably all able to take as efficient a part in the performance, when they commenced the nine lessons which entitle them to the certificate of competency, as when their course of instruction was concluded.  Hundreds of such pupils may, for aught we know, have been judiciously disposed among the remainder of the 1700 who performed on the grand occasions to which we allude.  But to enable us to judge of the efficiency of a system of instruction, we must not only witness the performance of the pupil, but we must also know the point from which he started.  Now, these demonstrations having been got up expressly for the purpose of exhibiting the skill and progress of Mr Hullah’s classes, all, therefore, that was necessary in order to form a judgment upon the question thus submitted to the